The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

In the hotel, Leo washed up a bit, then picked up the information collected by Sylvia and looked through it carefully.

Sylvia knew exactly what Leo wanted to know, and the collected information focused on the grievances between werewolves and vampires, and also recorded the situation inside the Wesve Forest, and of course, the territory of Asha County Among them are the foundations of White Swan Castle.

All the information about White Swan Castle comes from the Society of Odd Studies, and this information has extremely detailed research on the foundation of White Swan Castle, and the earliest research report was at the beginning of the construction of White Swan Castle. It has not yet appeared, and was written by an antiquarian of the Kingdom of Marris.

Judging from the above content, the blood race also discovered the unusualness of this foundation at the beginning, worried that there was something weird in it, and originally planned to abandon the construction of the White Swan Castle here. After all, there are countless evil methods in the world. Surely no one has tampered with the odd foundation.

However, it wasn't long before Yinyue Lake disappeared, and the surrounding land was still a semi-marsh land. Apart from the location of the foundation of this ancient ruin and its surrounding area, there was no suitable place to build a castle here.

So the blood race at that time specially recruited the most famous antiquities scholars and stonemasons in the Kingdom of Maris, the Kingdom of Deliyat, and those large and small city-states to study this foundation.

According to the description of the author of this material, at that time, it was not researched what the foundation was used for and who built it. The only thing that can be determined is that the foundation and the stone materials that the blood race is going to use to build the White Swan Castle are The same type, and it contains an unknown power.

This power does not make people strong, nor does it cause harm to people. After repeated research, some people found that its only function is to reduce the blood addiction of the blood race.

Just like its name, the blood race has a strong dependence on blood, almost every once in a while needs to suck some fresh blood, otherwise, their life characteristics will gradually weaken, various functions will slow down, and eventually into a state of near-hibernation.

In this state, the vampires can survive for a long time, until fresh blood falls on them again and they are absorbed before they can wake up from hibernation.

Although sucking blood can solve the problem of slowing down of body functions, if you suck blood for a long time, it will cause a psychological disease called blood addiction. The blood race will become more and more bloodthirsty, and the sanity will quickly disappear , and eventually turned into a bloodthirsty monster.

Therefore, the blood race has been using various methods to suppress blood addiction, such as drugs, beliefs, etc., but the effect is not very good. Now that there is a power that can weaken the blood addiction, the blood race will naturally not give up. Power, even if the details of this power have not been studied clearly.

In the end, the blood race built White Swan Castle on this foundation before they figured out the details of the foundation.

Although the situation of the foundation was not clarified at that time, and there was no abnormality after the construction of the White Swan Castle. On the contrary, because of the weakening of the blood addiction, the development of the blood race became smooth, but the blood race did not study the details of the ground. Forget about it.

For a long time, they have invited some people to study this foundation, among them there are many famous scholars who have left history, and even a high tower wizard has come here to study this foundation, and it is this high tower wizard It was only after he arrived that he confirmed that this foundation was not the wizard tower of the tower wizard at all, but the same foundation was the foundation of a wizard tower.

Scholars from the Abnormal Society are naturally invited, just like Yilan who Leo met in the car, their research is more inclined to the patterns on the walls of the basement inside the foundation.

According to the description, those patterns are disorderly and chaotic, as if they were scribbled by some children, but some of the patterns can be transformed into Marisi script after reorganization, and the transformed Marisi text has a clear meaning, this meaning It is the first tallest tower.

After reading the information here, Leo was also surprised by the name, because this name naturally reminded Leo of the top ten chiefs of the Wizarding Association of Silvermoon City, and the tower of the first chief was called the first. High tower, he still remembers that the first high tower is mainly based on the study of ancient witchcraft, and ancient witchcraft seems to be the witchcraft of the tower wizards.

After reading the information here, Leo also became interested in the foundation of White Swan Castle.

On the next day, Robert sent someone to send an invitation letter to participate in the auction, but this invitation letter was not needed because Sylvia had already prepared his invitation letter.

On the contrary, it was the invitation letter sent by White Swan Castle that surprised Leo. He thought that even if Yilan mentioned him to the owner of White Swan Castle, the blood clan would have to investigate him repeatedly to make sure that he would not be interested in White Swan Castle. The invitation letter will be sent only after causing no harm to the blood race.

But I didn't expect that in just one night, maybe even just one morning, the blood race had already made a decision. If it weren't for the blood race being open-minded enough not to suspect people, then it meant that the blood race might encounter a really difficult problem That's why they went to the doctor in a hurry, inviting not only a not-so-famous scholar like Yilan who only had a library status, but also a stranger like Leo who came with unknown motives.

However, for Leo, no matter what is going on inside the White Swan Castle, it has nothing to do with him. He just wants to study the foundation.

The auction will be held two days later, and the time on the invitation letter of White Swan Castle is one day after the auction. It can be seen that the blood clan attaches great importance to the auction held in Moonlight City.

In one night, Leo had read all the materials prepared by Sylvia, and he wandered the streets of Moonlight City alone when he had nothing to do.

It has to be said that the blood clan has managed the city very well. The spacious and clean access to the plants on both sides, the sidewalks specially prepared for pedestrians, the neat and beautiful houses, and the orderly carriage rules make the entire city The level of civilization is much higher than other cities.

In addition, the residents in the city seem to be very happy. They don't know that the city they live in is full of all kinds of aliens, and unless those aliens can maintain their human form, during the day, under the ban of the blood race, they only Can stay in your own house, or in the sewer.

The Kingdom of Marris has a very special attachment to sewers. Even an ordinary small town will have to build a spacious and complete set of sewers. In a big city like Moonlight City, the sewers are more like an underground city. , while Leo was walking on the ground, the spirit net also penetrated to the bottom, perceived the situation of the sewer, and figured out the route of the sewer.

In the sewer, in addition to those family members who have completely mutated and are far from human appearance, there are cultists, wanted superhumans, etc., but the most people living here are actually those young newborn blood races, And those animal blood races who were imprisoned because of blood addiction.

The physical strength of the newborn blood race is not yet perfect, and the mutation of internal organs has not been completely completed. Under the sun's exposure, the body will rapidly fail and eventually die. Only adult blood races can resist the sun's rays, although they still feel very uncomfortable , but it is no longer enough to cause harm to them, and the older the blood race, the less negative impact sunlight will have on them, and they will eventually lose their lease completely.

However, in order to prevent the newborn blood from accidents, and to prevent the newborn blood from getting out of control due to sucking blood, these newborn blood will stay in the sewers of Moonlight City until they reach adulthood.

Although they are both sewers, the sewer that discharges sewage is at the bottom, about 20 meters above the ground, and the sewer above is a small city, which can accommodate any strange life that is not suitable for appearing in the sun. You can get it from some traces Look, there used to be a lot of people living here. These people should all come from the alien species in the Wesve forest, but now these people seem to have been driven away by the blood race, so the sewers seem empty and extremely deserted.

In addition, there are a large number of blood therapy clinics in this city. People here also believe in bloodletting therapy. It is not difficult to hear from some conversations that they believe that regular blood injection every month can make themselves younger, so These blood clinics can see many people waiting for bloodletting every day.

Leo didn't need to think too much when he saw these blood therapy clinics. He knew that the function of these blood therapy clinics was probably to provide fresh blood to the blood clan in Yasha County. Take it easy, it should be caused by some drugs, this is just to create a false impression that regular bloodletting every month will be healthy.

Although, seeing through the intentions of the blood race, Leo didn't have that much sense of justice to expose them. In fact, even the Orthodox Court would not expose this matter. Apart from the power the blood race had in Asha County, It's more because it's better to keep those civilians ignorant.

Although it is difficult for the civilians living here to donate some blood every month under the influence of lies, but with the donated blood they can live in this land very safely, not only have stable jobs Income, and will not be involved in any war inexplicably. You must know that Yasha County has not had a war for hundreds of years. The place where people from other counties and provinces of the Reese Kingdom most want to emigrate.

There are many interesting places in Moonlight City, but Leo is not interested in those places. The only thing he is interested in is the Museum of Ancient Species in Moonlight City.

It is said that during the construction of Moonlight City, a large number of animal bones were dug out from the silt at the bottom of Yinyue Lake at that time, and most of the bones were very weird, completely different from any existing species in Velen World.

White Swan Castle had people collect these bones, and then invited many paleontologists from the medical school to restore these bones, and finally restored these bones to their pre-life appearances, and these restored animals are all extremely weird , the law of growth is completely against common sense, and for a long time, those paleontologists who are responsible for repairing bones wondered if their deduction was wrong.

The blood race thought that these bones were those of some mutated family members, but after careful comparison, it was found that they were not. These bones were all naturally grown, not caused by mutations.

Because there are more and more restored monsters, it is troublesome to maintain them together and take up more space, so White Swan Castle simply built a paleontology museum in the urban area of ​​Moonlight City, and named these naturally growing monsters as "disappeared" monsters. ancient creatures.

And with the passage of time, the reputation of the Museum of Paleontology began to spread throughout the Velen Continent with the spread of scholars who returned to the medical school, attracting a large number of people to visit, and Moonlight City also gained some benefits because of this. Even the vampires have benefited a lot from it.

Therefore, the Blood Race decided to expand the Museum of Paleontology, and purchased fossils or bones of various creatures from the Dark World and the nearby Vesvi Forest. Therefore, the name of the museum changed from Paleontology to Paleontology.

Leo had already known about this Museum of Ancient Species when he was in Miria, but he just thought that the so-called inhuman and distorted monster bones were just because the locals were rare and weird. There should be quite a few creatures.

But now Leo doesn't think so. He has some doubts that the so-called ancient creatures in the mud at the bottom of Yinyue Lake are actually fog monsters from the world in the fog, and may even be creatures from the abyss, because in almost all the books that mention these bones, They all used the word distortion in unison, which seems to be the most suitable word for those disorderly and chaotic monsters in the abyss.

In a guessing state of mind, Leo walked into this ancient species museum located in the center of Moonlight City.

This museum is very large, almost three times the size of White Swan Castle. It is divided into four halls and a square. Go straight from the square and you will enter the main hall, where the bones dug from Yinyue Lake are stored. The restored monster skeleton model.

Because it is not a rest day, there are not many people here. When you walk into the museum, you can clearly hear the echoing footsteps, and the first thing you see is a huge spherical skeleton about 20 meters high. This skeleton is also among all the skeletons. The biggest one, but also the strangest one.

This skeleton grows in all directions like some kind of vine tree, overlaps and merges with each other, and grows to the outermost to form a nearly perfect bone ball.

As the treasure of the town hall, everyone who comes here will stop under this skeleton for a long time. Many people are discussing what the skeleton looked like before it was alive, but Leo was stunned when he saw this skeleton For a moment he knew what the creature the skeleton represented.