The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Just now, Leo suddenly wanted to understand something. He found that while his body and soul had changed, it also caused a change in his personality, which affected some of his ways of doing things. In fact, the matter he is facing right now is very simple, he just needs to deal with it according to the previous method of doing things.

His purpose is to find the ring of plague. As for whether Ljungberg is related to the experiment of the medical school, what kind of taboo experiment the medical school is doing, and what plans does the blood wizard plan to make in it? The attitude of Lia City has nothing to do with him. He doesn't need to pay attention to these things at all, as long as he finds the ring of plague.

Having figured this out, Leo didn't even think about finding other external assistance, and went directly to the old mine in the northern suburbs of Miria City. Although there is no evidence to directly prove that the ring of plague is really in the hands of the medical school, it is speculated from various circumstantial evidence that it is most likely in the hands of the medical school.

Now, the members of the medical school who are in charge of all the experimental work may have left the city of Miria, but it is impossible to take away the places where they were provided for the experiments, and they left in a hurry, and they will definitely leave some in these experimental locations. As a clue, it is the most appropriate course of action to investigate these test sites directly.

The old mine mentioned by Wild Dog Roger is not very far from the urban area of ​​Miria City. At first, it was just a quarry, which specially provided building materials for the construction of Miria City. However, some precious metal mines were discovered here later, so its function has also changed.

It's just that the most easily mined ore in the mine has been mined. If you want to continue digging, you need to go deeper into the ground. Under the circumstances at that time, the excavation depth of the old mine had reached the limit, so continue to dig. The possibility of accidents is also much greater.

Therefore, the mine owner has to stop mining, and cannot start quarrying again. In addition to the fact that the urban construction has found a new and better quarry, the more important thing is that the urban area has expanded to this area, so continue to dig. Mining and quarrying will affect the lives of the people in the city. In the end, the mine owner can only buy the old mine into the Miria City Municipal Council, and the mine is completely abandoned.

Although the mines became a public resource and were abandoned by the city council, the mining movement did not end there. Many people living in difficult situations in Miria City would come to the depths of the mine to dig out some precious metal raw ore and sell them to the city to make jewelry or blacksmiths in exchange for some money needed for survival.

The ore that is the easiest to dig out in this mine has been exhausted, and most of the remaining ore are scattered. It is almost impossible to find a complete ore vein with great value in the mine, and then fill your stomach overnight. . The harvest of a miner in a day, if you are lucky, you can get a little rich, and if you are unlucky, you can get enough food and clothing.

Because most of the miners are not professional miners, the mining process is very rough and there are not many protective measures, which makes frequent accidents deep in the mine.

I don’t know if it’s because too many people died in the mine, which changed the environment there. All in all, when many miners enter the depths of the mine, they will always see ghosts of dead miners , They will be mixed among the miners and mine together. The miners would not have any abnormal feeling about this at the time, and they would not find anything wrong until they left the mine tunnel and returned to the ground. Most of these people who encountered miner ghosts would suffer serious illness afterwards. It can't be the same as before.

After this incident spread, a rumor quickly emerged in Miria City. This rumor said that those miners who encountered ghosts were actually sucked away by ghosts. Even though they seem to have been cured now, in fact The loss has not been made up at all, and the loss of vitality will not only affect the health of the body, but also affect the life span.

Perhaps to prove this rumor, all the people who encountered the ghosts of the miners in the mine were suffering from illness without exception, and died of illness within a few years, and the oldest among them was only thirty-six years old.

It was precisely because of this incident that the mine was completely abandoned, and it was not used again until the imperial army entered Miria City this time.

The French Imperial Army chose the area around the old mine pit as the camp site not only because of a large train transfer station built to transport stones back then, but with mastery of this place, it is easy to control most of the railway lines at both ends of the north and south .

The more important point is that there are still barracks built in the former quarry. At that time, it was still a dense virgin forest, and there were many ferocious beasts wandering around, so the walls of the barracks at that time were all made of the best and strongest It is made of stone, and even after so many years, it has been well preserved and can be used directly.

It took about four hours before Leo walked from the urban area to the urban area where the old mine pit was located. The reason why it took so long was because he sent some spies who followed him along the way.

It's a pity that these spies sent by him are just some low-level eyes and ears. They were just ordinary residents of Miria City a few months ago, but now they have to be hired by some people as eyes and ears for a bite to eat, so They can't help but wonder who the faction they belong to is, and even the person who assigned them the task is not clear.

Leo knew from their mouths that those who hired them all concealed their appearance, body shape and voice, and it was impossible to judge the identity or even gender of the other party from their appearance. The only thing that was certain was that these eyes and ears that were used as consumables should be employed separately At least two different forces.

Leo didn't intend to find out what forces were watching him, because he knew very well that the moment he showed up at the medical aid clinic of the medical school, he would definitely be watched by some interested people. In addition, he had contact with the blood wizard There is no cover, so it is not surprising that people pay attention to it.

These eyes and ears were not killed by Leo, but let them go, not because Leo was kind, but because he felt that killing these people was useless.

However, when these people were let go, these escaped people gave him some surprises, and the biggest surprise was that the blood wizard's guess might be true, because there was a person in the ears and eyes of the let go not long ago. An aid doctor who had seen him turn up on the black market. Although he did not directly see the doctor being sent to the smuggling ship on the black market, judging from that time, it is very likely that the doctor left on the smuggling ship.

After arriving at the old mine, Leo did not immediately enter the mine to search for various clues left by the medical school, because someone had already done so for him.

I saw that the old mine at this moment has been strictly guarded by the imperial army, and a large tent is covered with the entire bottom of the mine. Some people dressed as scientists and scholars come and go in and out of the tent. The garrison recruited by Miria City acted as coolies, moving boxes, large and small, into tents one by one.

Leo used the shadow cloak to hide in a tree not far from the camp, and then used his vision skills and spiritual net to observe the situation inside the camp, and soon he discovered several interesting things.

First of all, those big tents that look ordinary in the camp at the bottom of the mine are actually not simple at all. The fabric used in those tents should have added the interference metal that Leo got from the clinic before, because Leo's spirit The net can't penetrate these fabrics, and when the psionic energy of the spiritual net approaches, the reaction is the same as the reaction of approaching the metal plate.

In addition, Leo found a large number of family members among the guards inside the camp, which accounted for almost two-thirds of all guards, more than sixty, and most of them had obvious family members, such as There are extra organs, some organs are changed, and so on.

And among these family members, nearly half of them have the same spiritual energy fluctuations, and the mutated organs in this half of the family members are also similar. Obviously, if divided according to the types of family members, these general family members should be of the same family. Leo had seen these same kind of family members before, when he just returned to the world of Velen, he saw the two family members chasing and killing soldiers from the United Kingdom.

In addition, the relationship between these family members also gave Leo some ideas, because those family members with different mutated organs showed obvious contempt and disdain for those family members who should be of the same type. Like looking at something disgusting.

Several family members clashed in a camp not far from where Leo was hiding. One of the family members called another family member an artificial freak, which made Leo feel that his guess might be right. Families with similar mutations are the family groups created by the Faran Empire.

Because of his experience in the dream world and spending so long with the ancestral residents of Hushang Town, Leo at this moment has a certain understanding of the special ethnic group of the Familia.

According to his understanding, a family member is a person whose blood or certain organs have higher life body genes. For some reason, the gene changes from recessive to dominant, and merges with the original human gene, and eventually family members and ancestors appear. state.

However, judging from these artificial families now, Leo is obviously too one-sided and too scientific in the creation of the family. After all, with the current technology and medical level of the empire, it is absolutely impossible to involve genetic modification, and it is still advanced. Fusion technology of genes and lower genes.

"I'm afraid that the manufacturing technology of these family members should still be derived from the technology of the alien god cells, but this technology is more mature, safer, and has a higher success rate." After watching the disputes between the family members, Leo fought During the process, he muttered in his heart: "I just don't know if this artificial family has the potential to evolve again?"

By watching the fights of these Familia, Leo found that the strength of those artificial Familia was almost the same as that of normal Familia, but this was only in terms of physical strength, and the gap between the two became obvious in terms of spiritual power. Can't use his psychic power normally.

If it is said that confirming that the French Empire does have the ability to create family members is a big achievement, then what is the experiment conducted by the medical school here and the whereabouts of the Eye of Reality is another big achievement for Leo.

However, after repeatedly confirming that he did not make a mistake with the medical school's experimental plan, Leo couldn't help but be surprised by the medical school's arrogance, because the medical school's experimental plan was to create gods, and the materials they used in Miria City were Bodily tissue derived from the body of the Eye of Truth.

Although the spirit net and spirit vision cannot detect the situation inside the tents, those tents cannot block Leo's hearing. Through the extended control of the auditory organs, the range of Leo's hearing coverage can easily cover the entire mine camp. in.

By eavesdropping on the casual conversations between the people in each tent, Leo easily grasped a lot of information that even the blood wizards could not grasp.

The secret experiment of the medical school in the God-making Project was heard by Leo from an undercover agent sent by the Empire to the medical school, and this undercover is currently in a tightly guarded tent, reporting to the person in charge of the camp that he collected during this period. received information.

It's just that this undercover agent is obviously not valued by the medical school. He spent a lot of energy and material resources, but he still can only wander around the periphery, unable to enter the core of the experimental group of the God-making Project. Even the name of the God-making project is He heard it at the cost of the lives of two of his colleagues.

As for the fact that the body tissue of the Eye of Reality was part of the experimental materials, he was just hearing about it, without any substantive witness or physical evidence. On the contrary, after he said it, the person in charge of the camp did not reprimand such people. Talking is nonsense, but he hummed softly to express his agreement with this statement.

The attitude of the person in charge of this camp is also Leo's affirmation that the body of the real eye is in the hands of the medical school.

The reason why Leo affirmed this guess based on his attitude alone was mainly because the identity of the person in charge of the camp was different.

At the beginning, when chatting with the old man Rembrandt, he mentioned the few people he admired the most in his life, and he also took out the portraits cut out of newspapers for Leo to see, and the camp leaders were just a few One of the men Rembrandt Old Man really admired was Sir Barsac Darwin.

This jazz used to be the editor-in-chief of medical classics and various medical books of the medical school, and he was also the most heinous heretic at the top of the heresy list of the Orthodox Church.

The reason why Sir Darwin became the first heresy was not because he did any evil things and killed many people, but because he published a book that he had been planning for many years when he was the editor-in-chief of the medical school.

This book should be said to be an expanded version of Kruko's The Long River of Life. It not only describes in detail the various life changes, but also believes that human beings are originally marine creatures, and they are very weak. Food for other sea monsters.