The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Where are people?" Leo and Vaschi both stopped after arriving at the outermost sentry post of the old mine, looking at the surrounding situation vigilantly, and asked almost in unison.

I saw that there was no one at the camp sentry that was supposed to be heavily guarded by soldiers, not only the sentry, but also the soldier camp inside the wall and the camp at the bottom of the mine pit.

Compared with Vashj who can only use his eyes to check the surrounding situation, Leo's mental network checks more carefully. From some details, he found that almost everyone in the entire camp disappeared at the same time, and not only disappeared. People, even the things those people wore and held in their hands disappeared together, such as weapons.

In addition, he also found that the time when these people disappeared should be the time when the psionic tide erupted just now. It was only because of the vacuum phenomenon caused by the eruption. Although the scattered psionic energy fluctuations could be felt outside the camp, there was no psionic energy fluctuation inside the camp. exist.

"Let's go, let's go and have a look inside." With a serious expression on his face, Vaschi took out a metal glove-shaped wizard wonder from his pocket, put it in his hand, and said to Leo.

"There's no need to go to the camp at the bottom of the pit." Leo shook his head, then pointed to the entrance of the mine, and said, "Go there directly! That's where the incident started."

Vaschi was stunned for a moment, and asked: "Do you know something?"

Leo explained a little bit, and said: "Not long ago, the people of the French Imperial Research Institute seemed to have discovered something important. Sir Darwin was very excited and led people into the mine tunnel. Judging from the time, They should have been researching that thing in the depths of the mine, and it is likely that they have touched some restrictions."

After hearing this, Vaschi agreed to Leo's suggestion, and the two rushed towards the entrance of the mine together.

Soon the two came to the entrance and exit of the mine tunnel. The difference from the camp outside was that the vicinity of the mine tunnel entrance was filled with that kind of spiritual energy fluctuation, and the state of this spiritual energy fluctuation was not emanating. Instead, it surrounds the entrance of the mine like an air current.

"This is, this is the secret realm?" After approaching the entrance of the mine, the scales on Vaschi's forehead flickered with various lights like a signal light, and the expression on her face changed from vigilance to surprise, even It can be said to be a surprise.

"Secret realm? Is this the secret realm that the ancient wizards said?" Leo who was at the side was also stunned after hearing the words, and carefully looked at the scene in front of him with his eyes with the spirit vision skill activated.

Leo has seen the explanation of the secret realm in the books provided by the expeditioners. The secret realm originated from the ancient wizards. It is a geographical concept proposed by the ancient wizards. Usually, there are very special powers in the secret realm. The wizard will build the wizard tower in such a place, and then dig a mana pool underground to absorb the power of the secret realm. Therefore, there is a world of difference between a wizard tower with a secret realm and a wizard tower without a secret realm in terms of defense and attack power. Almost no one can break through a wizard tower with a secret realm from the outside.

"This is not a wizard's secret realm, it's another kind of secret realm." Vaschi shook her head, and then explained what the secret realm she was talking about meant.

Unlike wizards who believe that the secret realm is only a unique phenomenon formed by the special geographical environment, the forces related to the gods such as the family and the church all believe that the secret realm is actually a fragment of the broken kingdom of God.

For example, the Black Forest is a secret realm recognized by the dark world, but the secret realm of the Black Forest is not a fragment of the Kingdom of God, but a complete Kingdom of God.

In addition, the headquarters of the Orthodox Church also has a secret realm that has been made public. There is a fragment of the Kingdom of God of the fallen Lord of Light.

For any force in the dark world, having a secret realm of its own is equivalent to having a foundation that allows the organization to last for thousands of years. The organization can rely on the particularity of the secret realm to continuously cultivate enough talents to maintain the organization's strength. expansion.

But not all secret realms can be used by these dark world organizations. For example, if it comes from a secret realm of an evil god, it is impossible for the Orthodox Church to use it even if it gets it. For the family members, secret realms that conflict with their blood are also Impossible to take advantage of.

"Is this secret realm compatible with your bloodline?" Leo noticed Vashki's expression and said.

"It fits very well, it's almost like..." Vaschi, who was full of joy, responded, but he didn't finish speaking, and stopped when he was speaking.

Leo knew very well that the following words might be related to Vashj's ethnic group, so he didn't ask, but focused on the secret realm in front of him, and said: "According to the wizard, the secret realm is the result of geographical changes, and it takes a long time. Only time can gradually form, is there any kind of sudden formation of your family's secret realm?"

"Of course not..." Vaschi shook his head, and soon realized what Leo wanted to express, the joy on his face also quickly receded, and his gaze towards the secret realm in front of him gradually became full of vigilance.

As Leo said, this secret realm did not exist before, and it appeared suddenly with the tide of psionic energy, and such sudden extraordinary things are often not a good thing, and most of the accompanying All disasters.

Vaschi walked to the edge of the secret realm, stretched her hand into the range of the spiritual energy, and tried to use her method to perceive the situation inside, but the result was not satisfactory.

Just when Vaschi was about to try to let more body parts enter this secret realm, Leo suddenly asked: "Do you know what experiment the medical school did here?"

Vaschi withdrew his hand and said, "What else can we experiment with? It's that crazy god-making plan."

"You said before that the cooperation with the medical school was just an accident, then..." Leo thought for a while, and confirmed: "Then the medical school came to Miria City actually for the god-making plan, for this old mine, just Because I accidentally discovered your plan and thought it would be beneficial to them, so I got involved, am I right?"

Vaschi hesitated for a moment, and said: "I don't know if they came to Miria City for the god-making plan, but after they participated in the middle, in addition to asking the medical center in Miria City to cooperate with us in making some plans Except for the business, the rest of the people are all here."

Leo was silent for a moment, then asked again: "Do you know how many of those members of the medical school suddenly left the city of Miria by boat? How many members of the medical school are still in the city of Miria?"

"This..." Vaschi was stunned for a while, and didn't answer for a while, because she just knew that the members of the medical school gave up everything here because of certain things, and left suddenly. Investigate the number of people leaving medical school. But now, after Leo's reminder, she thought of the information that told the medical school that a large number of people had left, and at the same time found something wrong, because those people only left on two black market smuggling ships.

Although the black market has already arranged for the French Empire army along the river, this kind of thing cannot be made public after all, so the smuggling boats used are just ordinary inland river cargo ships. It can only accommodate forty or fifty people. If it is squeezed, it can accommodate hundreds of people.

But the problem is that the two smuggling ships on which members of the medical school boarded still have a large number of goods to be shipped out on the black market, and Vaschi even has a list of the goods in his hand. According to the area occupied by these goods, each smuggling ship can only take up to three Ten people, and the thirty people also included the guards and crew of the black market. Calculated in this way, there may be only about 20 members of the medical school who have reached two ships to leave, or even less.

But Vaschi knows very well that aside from the members of the medical school of the medical team, there are more than 300 members of the medical school in the old mine camp alone, and this does not include other forces and organizations affiliated to the medical school. In terms of people, there are about 5,000 people who belong to the medical school here.

But now these people have all disappeared, just like the soldiers of the Imperial Army and the researchers of the Academy of Sciences in this old mine camp.

Thinking of this, Vaschi couldn't help backing back again and again, until she got to a position behind Leo before stopping, and there was a trace of fear in the vigilant look on her face.

"I'm curious what the God-making plan of the medical school is?" Contrary to Vaschi, Leo walked to the edge of this psychic energy flow with a look of interest, and put his hand deep into the psyche just like Vaschi just now. In the energy flow, I also want to feel the mystery.

It's just that, unlike Vaschi's gaining nothing just now, Leo immediately gained something when he came into contact with this psionic energy flow, and he recovered a lot, and even had an extremely obvious expression of surprise on his face. His back was facing Vaschi, so the expression on his face was not seen by Vaschi.

Leo quickly withdrew his hand, put away the expression on his face, and turned to Vaschi, asking, "I'm curious about one thing, and I want to ask you to verify it."

"What's the matter?" Vaschi was also a little at a loss for Leo's sudden diversion of attention, but she still managed to recover and said.

Leo asked in a deep voice: "How did you confirm that the banned Real Eye in the outer suburbs fell into the hands of the medical school?"

Vaschi didn't understand why Leo suddenly brought the topic up to the Eye of Reality, but he still replied truthfully: "They admitted this, and at the same time they also took out some organs and tissues of the Eye of Reality, and promised that the timing is right." When we are together, we will study the body structure of the Eye of Reality with other dark world organizations."

"Then how did they transport the Eye of Reality away?" Leo asked again.

Vaschi was stunned for a while, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

"The Eye of Reality is huge, and the hole left after it is dug out is enough to form an artificial lake, so in my opinion, it is impossible to dig it out and carry it away with the existing mechanical tools." Leo Shen Sheng said: "If you use supernatural powers such as witchcraft and divine magic, let alone who else in this world can possess such powerful power, just the stone shell that seals the Eye of Reality is enough to wipe it out." Any otherworldly forces that approach are dispelled."

"According to what you said, it is impossible for someone to poach the eye of truth." Vaschi frowned, and argued: "But the fact now is that the eye of truth has indeed been poached, and the medical school It also provided the organs and tissues of the real eye, a complete eyeball, I was there at the time, and I could feel the powerful divine power contained in the eyeball, and I couldn’t bear it just by looking at it for a while, and wanted to worship it.”

"Don't you find it strange?" Leo asked in a deep voice: "Even a powerful family like you will be affected by the Eye of Reality, an eye organ, and most of the people in the medical school are just ordinary people , How could they bear this kind of influence?"

Vaschi was stunned for a moment, and realized that something was wrong with this matter, and she also found that this abnormal phenomenon was so obvious, logically, even if Leo hadn't reminded her now, she should have noticed it at that time, but in fact she made this abnormal phenomenon The matter was ignored, and it wasn't for Leo's reminder, she couldn't remember it at all.

Vaschi's expression immediately became extremely serious, and he asked in a deep voice, "You mean those people in the medical school are all controlled by the Eye of Reality?"

"I don't know." Leo shook his head, and then said: "But I'm sure, the address you gave me should be useless, and it's best not to use the plague virus that the medical school gave you."

Hearing Leo's words, Vaschi immediately showed a look of obvious panic.

"Have you already used those plague viruses?" Leo asked immediately when he saw Vaschi's expression.

Vaschi's face was extremely ugly, and he said: "I used some of the ones in my hand, but it seems that Ljungberg has used all of them."

Leo looked at Vaschi in disbelief, and said, "Don't you doubt the effectiveness of this virus?"

Vaschi immediately explained: "People from the medical school have covered up this virus in front of us..."

Leo said with a smile: "If I'm right, the doctor in charge of the experiment is from the medical school, the person who is the test subject is from the medical school, and even the location is provided by the medical school, right?"

Vaschi's complexion has become more and more gloomy following Leo's words, and the light emitted by the scales on her forehead is no longer flickering, but emitting bursts of red light. Like a hot soldering iron.

Leo didn't say anything more, turned around and walked out of the camp, Vaschi hesitated for a moment, followed immediately, and hurriedly asked: "Are you going to leave?"

"If you don't leave, what else can you do?" Leo didn't stop walking, just turned his head to look at Vaschi, and asked back.

"But here..." Vaschi was about to say something.

Leo interrupted Vaschi's speech, and said coldly: "Compared to the things here, what the medical school wants to do is what you should pay attention to. If I were you, you should tell the news here as soon as possible. Rembrandt, he should give you some correct advice, if I guess right, you should have not contacted Rembrandt for a long time, right? Even the cooperation with the medical school did not tell Rembrandt, Is it right?"

When Vaschi heard this, she stopped in her tracks, her face was cloudy and cloudy, and she did not continue to chase Leo who was gradually moving away.