The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After closing the door, the merchant ignored the books he had bought, but picked up one of the four books he had just bought from Boris on the table.

The pages of this book are not much different from other books, and the content only introduces some methods to deal with the dream spirit called Strange, and he has collected no less than thirty books of this type in a few days. What is really special about this book is the unknown animal skin that wraps the cover of the book, which is also the main reason why the merchant bought this book.

I saw that the merchant carefully took off the animal skin, spread it out in his hands, then walked to the bedroom of the room, took out another animal skin with almost the same color from the backpack next to the bed, and stacked them together.

When the two pieces of animal skins touched together, the two pieces of animal skins fused together like two drops of water touching each other, turning into a gray animal skin with a larger size and darker color.

"Sure enough, it's from the same Omega-level advanced creature!" After seeing the changed animal skin, the merchant smiled, and then said to the air in front of him, "The sub-brain system collects data and analyzes the material composition. "

The out-of-town businessman who caused a little commotion in the family market in District 33 was Leo who sneaked into this lake town.

Four days ago, Leo had successfully blended into this town on the lake, but just after he entered the residential area of ​​this town, he encountered a little trouble. skin tone.

Because of long-term exposure to the sun, Leo's skin color is light brown. Anyone who sees it in the Vinylon world will think it is a healthy skin color, but here this light brown color has become a disease called black skin disease. Skin disease, and is considered untouchable by the people here.

Leo, who didn't know anything about this situation, accidentally touched an ordinary person, which caused a commotion and even the guards in the town. Fortunately, his accent solved this trouble for him, because the Maris language he learned from Rembrandt turned out to be a very pure Silvermoon City accent here, and he was also regarded as the residents.

For the people of Ten Towns, the residents of Silvermoon City, even those who suffer from black skin disease, are much more noble, especially when Leo mentioned that he would sell a batch of wizard healing potions and help someone When scholars bought a batch of books, they all mistakenly thought that Leo was under the command of a certain figure in the Wizarding Association, which also made things that Leo had to do in the future much smoother.

In the past few days, through browsing through a large number of purchased books and talking with some book sellers, Leo has a very detailed and complete understanding of the world in a very short period of time.

This world does not have a unified name, and ordinary people in Ten Towns are used to calling this world Moon Lake World, because this world is centered on Yinyue Lake. But the Night Watchman Organization and the Fog District Guard Castle are more accustomed to calling it the Fog World, because they know very well that the periphery of this world is full of fog, and Silver Moon Lake probably only occupies a small part of the entire world.

However, compared to these two names with some grounds, the name defined by the Wizarding Association for this world makes everyone feel a little absurd. Wizards call this world the original dream world.

As for why the Wizarding Association called this world in this way, the members of the Wizarding Association couldn't explain it themselves. They just knew that this name had been passed down for a long time, and the relevant information had long been lost. Therefore, in the absence of mandatory requirements, the name defined by the Wizarding Association for this world is only seen in some official documents within the Wizarding Association, and has not been circulated in Ten Towns or other regions.

However, in the eyes of an outsider like Leo, the name of the original dream world should be the most correct name for this nightmare world. This also proves from one aspect that the sages of the Wizarding Association are very clear about the essence of this world, and now On the contrary, the understanding of the nature of the world by the wizards of the Wizarding Association has degenerated.

However, after Leo knew the name of the original dream world, what he cared about was not the issue of the wizard association, but more concerned about the hidden secrets in this name. Since this dream world has the word original, it means that there are other dream worlds of the same kind, and they should have been discovered by the sages of the Wizarding Association, otherwise they would not have used the word original in the name.

It's just that before getting other more detailed information, Leo's guess about this name can only stop here.

In addition to learning the three different names of this world from the conversation, Leo also learned about the structure of the Wizarding Association, the situation of the Night Watchman Organization, and some mysteries that have disappeared or still exist in Ten Towns from a large number of books recently acquired. organize.

It's just that the content recorded in these materials is either vague or vague, and there is not much really useful content. Only a diary of a veteran guarding the castle in the fog zone gave him a little understanding of some real conditions in this world a little bit.

According to the records in that diary, Leo learned about the real function of those cemeteries in the forest, and learned about the purpose of setting up foggy guard castles in Silvermoon City and Ten Towns.

More than one place in the diary mentioned that the castle guarding the foggy area was specially set up for the border foggy area, and it was also vaguely mentioned in the text that this castle can be moved, and there are as many as ten such castles. Association and the mechanics of Ten Towns jointly manufactured.

The cemetery was built to disperse the foggy area as Leo guessed outside the forest, because the wizard discovered that by burying the corpses of the dead in a specific place and letting them dissolve naturally in the soil, the dense fog in the surrounding area would disappear. It will dissipate, but this process will be very slow, and it usually takes more than ten years to complete the final dissolution.

In addition, this diary also uses a very small paragraph of text, less than 300 words, and mentions two important pieces of information. If it hadn't been highlighted when the secondary brain system analyzed the records, maybe Leo would have ignored this The paragraph is not too long text.

The first important information in this text is that it is very clear that there was no fog area here before, and the second important information uses relatively vague vocabulary, mentioning that the appearance of the fog area may be related to Silvermoon City hundreds of years ago. There is no written record of what happened, only the legend of the riot.

From some special books, Leo knew that the monsters in the dense fog, or the spirit of the dream, originated from the fog area, that is to say, after the fog area appeared, these monsters representing chaos and disorder appeared. Before this, the world was a regular and orderly world.

This made Leo think of Night God's consciousness. According to what he and Frightened Hooves had speculated before, this world was formed because of Night God's dream, and the dream world can change from chaos and disorder to the present one. The orderly state is due to the awakening of Night God's consciousness, and now the world seems to be trying to return to a chaotic state, so does this mean that there is something wrong with Night God's consciousness? Is it sleeping? Still closed?

It is precisely because of this simple diary of veterans that Leo obtained a lot of useful information, so that the focus of subsequent book acquisitions is on this type of diary.

In fact, his method is also very effective. In two days, besides those books, he bought a total of more than one hundred diaries. Weavers, from members of an underground organization in Ten Towns to the handwriting of a noble mistress in Silvermoon City more than a hundred years ago, gave him a deep understanding of the real situation of all classes in Ten Towns and Silvermoon City.

What surprised him the most was that he even received two life diaries of the apprentices of the Silvermoon City Wizards Association more than two hundred years ago. Knowing about the internal organization of the Wizarding Association is more useful to Leo than any knowledge of witchcraft.

Originally, Leo was going to spend all the money he got from the wizard potion, and then find an opportunity to go to Silvermoon City, but this time the book he accidentally bought made him discover that there might be something in the Seventh Lake Town that he hadn't discovered. useful stuff.

When he saw the book just now, he recognized at a glance that the animal skin used to wrap the book seemed to be the same as the animal skin he got from Valentin. After that, he confirmed it again and decided to buy it. down.

Although he only wanted this book, in order to avoid revealing his thoughts, he still chose three more books and bought them together. Then when he held it in his hand, the analysis results and suggestions given to him by the sub-brain system were Omega-level Creature debris and wreck fusion.

So, he had the next move.

But now after the fusion of the two pieces of animal skins, the fur color of the animal skins has actually changed, turning gray, and the sub-brain system also issued a new reminder.

This hint means that this piece of animal skin is emitting a new wave of psionic energy, and this wavelength is somewhat different from the previous wave of psionic energy of the animal skin. For this reason, Leo asked the sub-brain system to carefully collect and analyze the relevant animal skin. of various data.

"The wreckage of an unknown omega-level advanced creature, the source quality is slightly damaged and cannot be absorbed." After Leo saw the analysis results fed back by the sub-brain system on his retina, his face showed a slightly serious expression.

He remembered that when he got the first piece of animal skin from Valentin, it reminded him of a wizard's strange item, the remains of an unknown omega-level high-level creature, the source quality was damaged, and it could not be absorbed, but now, the reminder of the wizard's strange item disappeared. And the source quality damage turned into a slight damage. Obviously, some changes occurred after the fusion of the two animal skins just now.

These changes indicate that the remains of the Omega-level advanced organisms represented by the animal skins are recovering, and depending on the situation, as long as more animal skins of the same kind are found and allowed to be fused and absorbed, then sooner or later, the remains of the Omega-level advanced organisms will recover to an unpredictable level. To such an extent, a new omega-level advanced creature might even be produced.

At the time of the Earth Federation, there were also some Omega-level creatures in the universe that would split themselves to reproduce. Sometimes a piece of ordinary body remains of an Omega-level creature could evolve into a new Omega-level creature after being supplemented with certain conditions. Creatures, and the animal skin in Leo's hand seems to be the same.

After obtaining the desired analysis results, Leo has not yet considered what to do with this piece of animal skin, but he is sure that before he finds out how to prevent the animal skin from degenerating in an unexpected direction, even if he finds other animal skin fragments , and will not allow them to merge again.

After making a decision, Leo folded the animal skin, wrapped it up and put it in his backpack, then sorted out the books purchased today, and recorded the books he hadn't read in the database.

The whole recording process went very smoothly, and it only took more than an hour to read more than one hundred new books. At this time, when I saw the clock tower of the town from the window, the time mark also passed a frame, and the light on the mark went from The dull gold turned to silver, indicating that the day had entered a period of rest.

Because the residents working in the nearby manufacturing factories returned to District 33 one after another, this relatively quiet town area became noisy.

At this time, there was a knock on the door of the room where Leo lived temporarily, which surprised Leo a little.

Although he has been buying books in the small room of this family market for the past few days, he has not had much warm communication with the merchants in other small workshops around him, or more correctly, it is other merchants who saw him as a patient. Most people with black skin disease are unwilling to contact them unless they are doing business.

Curious, Leo stepped forward and opened the door, only to see a middle-aged man in a classical dress standing outside the door. After seeing Leo, this middle-aged man couldn't help flashing a hint of disgust in his eyes, but he still Suppressing his loathing, he took out an invitation card and said in a tone that could not be refused: "Lord Count Andrei XIII, we are holding a banquet in the Moonlight Garden tonight. I hope your Excellency will be able to attend."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Leo to agree, he directly stuffed the invitation into Leo's hands, then took out a handkerchief and wiped his hand holding the invitation as if it was stained with something dirty, then turned and left the floor with a blank expression .

For this servant's rude behavior, Leo didn't have any negative emotions. To him, this servant is like an ant with teeth and claws at a giant, which is ridiculous and not worthy of any attention. He wants to know more now Why did he get the invitation.

Andre XIII is the real ruler of Seventh Lake Town, and he is also a direct descendant of Andrew Alcott. According to their words, he is the heir with the purest bloodline. In order to ensure the purity of the blood, the Alcott family who ruled the ten towns all married within the clan, and what is even more incredible is that they not only married between cousins, but even between brothers and sisters. It is so absurd that there will be intermarriage between father and daughter, mother and son.

For example, the parents of Andre XIII were his own father and daughter, and what surprised Leo even more was that the mother of Andre XIII became his wife now, and gave birth to three boys and one girl for him.

Although Leo also knew from some records that there had been intermarriages between blood relatives in the ancient dynasties of the Old Earth Era, it was the first time he had seen intermarriages between relatives like the Alcott family. So it's natural to be surprised.