The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Chapter 1897 Satoran

In the universe, those cosmic civilizations have discovered through various researches that on every non-reformed natural ecological planet, there will be some special plants that cannot be transplanted outside the star no matter what method is used. These plants are called root plants. And the abyss vines that appear in this world right now are the root plants that belong exclusively to the abyss.

This plant is called red tide vine, and it is a plant that grows on the surface of the abyss. This plant is like a weed on the grassland, growing everywhere, covering almost all the surface of the abyss, even some so-called forbidden areas of the abyss. This kind of abyssal plant grows everywhere.

If the abyssal creatures are arranged into a power list, then the abyss superior race is definitely the top area on the list. I just want to list the most powerful abyss race or abyss creature from the abyss superior race. It can't be done, because once the abyss master reaches old age and the body has fully evolved, then the difference in strength they only see is very small, and it is impossible to distinguish between strong and weak.

However, if one were to choose the weakest and lowest-level abyssal creature among all the abyssal creatures, then the red tide vine must be the undisputed lowest-level one.

Because although the red tide vine is an abyssal creature, it does not have the aggression that an abyssal creature should have. It just keeps growing and will not attack any abyssal creatures that approach it. Moreover, it is also a kind of food. Almost all abyssal creatures Everyone can eat it, and it is also a very effective abyss environment regulating plant. It only needs to plant some red tide vines in proportion in certain locations, and then the environment in that location will become very suitable for the growers to live in.

It is precisely because of the characteristics of red tide vines that change the environment that at the beginning, many abyssal upper races wore a large number of red tide vines when they invaded other worlds, intending to transplant them to the invaded world, so as to quickly corrupt the invaded world .

However, these attempts all failed in the end without exception. All the red tide vines that left the abyss were all withered and corrupted without exception. It was determined that it was impossible for the red tide vine to reach beyond the abyss, and then gave up such ideas.

In Leo's information about the abyss, the reason why he didn't remember any content about the red tide vine is because the red tide vine is too low-level for the abyss snake and the abyss dragon. Think about what this is, just as ordinary people don't have the idea of ​​​​studying the dust that can be seen everywhere.

It is precisely because after Leo figured out that these abyss vines are red tide vines, the doubts in his heart not only did not decrease but increased. First of all, why red tide vines can grow in this world, we must know that in the past, countless powerful abyss masters have used There is no way to transplant the red tide vine to other worlds, but now the red tide vine has appeared in this world, which is obviously counterintuitive. The only thing that can explain this question is that this world is in the abyss.

The explanation that this world is in the abyss coincides with Leo's inferences from other fragments of information, but there are still many questions to be answered, such as why the world looks so normal, even if it is stripped. Without the power of disguising the laws of this world, this world is still very different from the world that has fallen into the abyss. These are questions that cannot be answered for the time being.

Secondly, there is a huge difference between the red tide vines growing here and the red tide vines in the abyss. The most obvious difference is the body shape. The red tide vines in the abyss are very small and similar to ordinary vines, but the red tide vines growing in this world now are It is very huge, and the greatest ability of red tide vines is to change the environment, but the red tide vines in this world have been growing for decades, but the impact on the surrounding environment is minimal, which obviously does not meet the characteristics that red tide vines should have.

However, at this moment, Leo can be completely sure that these are red tide vines, because the abyss knowledge he obtained through the demigod vines shows that the origin of this vine is beyond doubt.

The last is the evolution of red tide vines. In Leo's memory, there has never been a red tide vine in the abyss that can evolve to the level of a demigod, let alone a demigod. The red tide vine recovered by Leo is actually a demigod life form, and it only took a few decades to evolve from an ordinary abyss vine to a demigod level. This evolution rate is completely inconsistent with the evolution law of abyssal creatures .

The only thing Leo can be sure of now is that the red tidal vine will appear in this world, and grow so unusually, there must be an unknown force behind it, and this unknown force must be very powerful, not even an ordinary abyss superior, and this It also reminded Leo of the nine demon gods mentioned in the creation theory.

Because of the origin of the abyss vines, there are a lot of questions in his heart, but he can't find the answers. Leo can only keep these questions in his heart for the time being, and when he has more clues to answer in the future, obviously what he has to do is Travel to Satoran, City of Knowledge.

The abyss crater created by the abyss vines when he was a child may be an insurmountable abyss for ordinary people, but it is not a big problem for Leo. After shaking the psionic wings twice, he flew to the opposite side, and then urgently needed to move towards the center. Satoran flew away.

Although according to the information obtained by the priestess of the Holy Lady of Civilization, a large number of people lived in the City of Knowledge before the disaster struck, and there are self-sufficient farms, water storage lakes and other necessary equipment for life here, as long as there is With planned use, all kinds of comprehensive facilities in the city are enough to allow people living here to live normally for a long time.

But even so, Leo is still not optimistic about Satoran's situation now, because a large number of similar experiments have been done in the Earth Federation, and a large number of experimenters were sent to a place that was completely isolated but had abundant supplies and supplies by using various accidents. In a utopian city with a perfect physique, see if the city can complete the evolution of civilization, and in the end, without exception, the city is destroyed due to civil strife. It seems that a factor called chaos is written in human genes. No matter how peaceful Neither the environment nor the human race can stop it from going into chaos.

In addition to human beings' own reasons, there are also external reasons that will destroy this city. After the abyss vines surrounding the entire city have evolved into the life form of a demigod, their weak instinctive consciousness cannot control the abyssal power in their bodies at all. , so that the power of the abyss continues to radiate outwards, forming an abyssal energy field.

The abyssal energy field around the abyss vines is not bad, it will be greatly weakened by the laws of the world until it disappears completely, but Satoran, who is wrapped in the middle, is always immersed in the abyssal energy field comparable to the abyss environment , no matter what creatures exist here, they will eventually be completely abyssed under the action of the energy field.

During the flight, Leo had already thought of the possible appearance of Satoran in his mind, so when he passed through a high mountain and saw Satoran surrounded by high mountains, he was not surprised or had any doubts. The only thing that interests him is whether the books in the city are well preserved.

Just like most cities in this world, Satoran also uses a high mountain as the foundation of the city, and then builds it layer by layer according to the mountain. However, in order to show its image as a city of knowledge, Satoran, whether it is an urban area or an urban area, The buildings inside are all built in the form of books, layer by layer from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, which looks like a huge conical bookcase from a distance, and on the top of the mountain stands a The lighthouse, the top of the lighthouse is lit with a flame that is said to never go out, but now the fire has long been extinguished, and even the lighthouse has collapsed.

Now, although most of the buildings in Satoran and the urban area are still intact, there is no life at all. All the buildings or streets are covered with a layer of moss-like objects, but if you look carefully If you look at it, you will find that these moss-like objects are actually composed of biological muscles, and these muscle mosses are still very fresh, constantly wriggling and shrinking, and Leo can clearly feel the energy emanating from these muscle mosses. The breath of the abyss, and when he flew near Satoran, he could also feel a sense of consciousness emanating from the muscle moss in the city and falling on him.

"Degenerate, violent, greedy, chaotic!" Leo felt the emotions contained in this consciousness, and he was completely sure in his heart that the muscular moss covering the entire Satoran in front of him was the mutation of the residents of Satoran under the influence of the power of the abyss. Abyss family members, this kind of muscle moss also has a name called meat blanket, almost every world invaded by the abyss will appear this kind of abyss family members, it can also be regarded as one of the important characteristics of the world invaded by the abyss.

The reason for the formation of this kind of meat blanket is very simple. After the death of those creatures infected by the abyss, their remains mutated and became flesh and blood creatures that devoured all life. This flesh and blood creature can also produce a kind of spiritual energy that assimilates other creatures All living things within the range of action, let those living beings automatically blend into the meat blanket, and eventually grow up gradually, and the function of this meat blanket is not only to pollute the earth, but also to serve as food for low-level or some medium-sized abyssal creatures.

Although the blanket of meat covering the entire city looked terrifying, Leo didn't feel any trouble, let alone doing it himself, even with the newly recovered demigod abyss vines, he could easily get rid of it. meat blanket.

However, Leo did not do that, because judging from the current situation in Satoran, if the meat blanket is removed, the entire city of Satoran may completely collapse, and the books stored in Satoran may also be destroyed. Destroyed once.

Satoran was built to preserve the fire of human civilization. The books sent here have undergone three layers of protection. The first layer of protection is the protection of the original books. All the books sent here have undergone special anti-corrosion treatment and are classified into categories. The books were stored in special bookcases, and then collected in the library at the outermost part of the city.

However, these outermost libraries collapsed regardless of the ground part or the underground part. Judging from the damage pattern, it should be caused by some kind of explosives, and the explosives erupted in almost every library, so it should be It is some kind of self-destruction device that existed at the time of construction. Although Leo did not understand why a contradictory device such as a self-destruction system was installed in a place to preserve the fire of civilization, it is certain that the books in this area must Most of them have been destroyed. Even if some books survived, after so many years of natural corrosion, the books should have been tattered, and there is no search value.

The second level of protection is what Leo pays attention to now, because this level of protection is to store books in some kind of storage equipment, and these storage equipment are placed in the middle of the urban area. Judging from the current situation of those buildings, Apart from a blanket of meat covering the surface, nothing has been damaged, and the equipment inside may be relatively well preserved.

Leo has already recorded from the library of the Holy City of Redemption the usage methods and working principles of various technological equipment in this world. By analogy, he can quickly master the technology, and also through the existing equipment in the Holy City of Redemption. , Make sure that the port of the universal recorder can be connected to the equipment here, so as long as the equipment here is intact, he can extract all the data stored there from the equipment.

As for the third level of protection, it was not mentioned in the books about Satoran that Leo read, but only mentioned that the third level of protection is the ultimate protection for the fire of civilization, even if there is a problem with the first and second level of protection, Latecomers can also regain the fire of civilization through the third level of protection, allowing civilization to continue, but from the beginning to the end, the materials did not describe what the third level of protection is, and the priestess of the goddess of civilization also does not know.

However, the priestess of the Holy Lady of Civilization found several families whose grandfather or grandmother had lived and worked in Satoran in the Holy City, and learned some information about the third level of protection from them, such as the third level of protection and It is not a certain device made by the technology of this world, but it comes from outside the sky. For example, storing the fire of civilization is only a function of the third protection. Satoran has the top scientists studying the principle of the third protection. In addition, the third level of protection is strictly protected by the army, and ordinary people have almost no way to understand the mystery. Only the heads of governments of the world who participated in Satoran at that time knew some relevant information.

It's just that Melina mentioned something about Satoran's third protection, because she participated in the rescue of the Salvation Expeditionary Army back then. At that time, she knew from the survivors that the Redemption Expeditionary Army failed. The attack on the lighthouse at the top of Satoran, and the third protection is under the lighthouse, so she suspects that the third protection may also be some kind of weapon.

The mystery of the third level of protection also made Leo a little interested in exploring, but he still had a clear understanding of the priorities. Before recording all the books in Satoran’s collection, he was not going to be distracted to explore the third level of protection. .