The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The fleeing team continued to pack up the inexplicable sadness, put the packed bags on their backs, led by Barak, walked half a circle along the foot of a high mountain, and walked into a rough road. On the mountain road, slowly climb towards the halfway up the mountain.

When approaching the mountainside, Barak led the crowd around a huge rock, and saw a large cave on the other side of the rock.

Before leading everyone into the cave, Barak explained the situation of the cave, saying that the cave passes directly through the middle of the mountain and can lead them to the other side of the mountain. Then he lit the torch he had prepared long ago and entered the cave among.

Seeing Barak leading the way into the cave, the others also lit the torches in their hands one after another and followed. The fire light inside the torch quickly illuminated the cave. The dark karst cave became colorful and colorful, looking mysterious and beautiful, which calmed down the uneasiness in everyone's hearts a little, and made their footsteps a lot lighter.

The web weavers also walked outside the cave, and were about to enter the cave, but they stopped suddenly, and each circled to the front from the big rocks covering the entrance of the cave. The Giant Sequoia Forest looked over, and there was a hint of worry on the face that had always remained indifferent and flat.

At this time, Leo, who was far behind the fleeing team, also came up. Seeing the strangeness of the web weavers, he couldn't help but followed their sights and looked towards the giant redwood forest, but he didn't see anything unusual. , so he asked: "What's the matter? Is there something wrong over there?"

The Web Weaver didn't answer, but pointed to the spider tattoo on the back of Leo's hand.

Since the web weaver inspired the spider tattoo again yesterday, the spider tattoo on the back of Leo's hand has not disappeared or hidden, just like a real tattoo, it has always appeared on the back of the hand, even ordinary people can see it. In addition, Leo can also inject spiritual energy to stimulate the power in the tattoo, so that his sight can once again gain the ability to see anyone's soul and soul line.

After getting the prompt, Leo didn't think too much, and directly inspired the spider tattoo on the back of his hand, changing the visual mode of the eyes into the vision of the soul, and saw another scene in the giant redwood forest.

I saw that, since I don’t know when, the Giant Sequoia Forest has almost been covered by a giant mud-like monster, and this giant slime monster is still wriggling its black oil-like body, towards the Giant Sequoia Forest. Diffusion to other areas not covered.

At the same time, a large number of spider-like web spinners piled up in the sky above the slime monster. They flew down from the air one by one without fear, and landed on the slime monster below like raindrops. Frantically biting the slime monster's body.

However, the fearless attacks of these web weavers obviously have no effect on the giant slime monster. It still squirms and expands around in its own way. Can't stop its expansion.

"This is..." After seeing this giant slime monster, Leo's mind immediately recalled the almost invisible Black Forest monster or family that covered the surface a few days ago, although the shapes of the two are very different at this moment. , but Leo immediately thought of it the moment he saw the slime monster.

When Leo eliminated the monsters and family members around the fleeing team, he had encountered such monsters many times and tried various methods to deal with it, but no matter what method he used, he could not completely eliminate this monster. For example, using techniques such as explosion and beheading will only explode the monster's body, blow its body into countless small pieces, and split it into countless individuals, but it cannot kill it. Just turning it into a charred state, putting it into a state of slumber or sealing, also can't kill it completely.

Because this monster could not be killed, and this monster did not seem to have any aggressiveness, even if Leo encountered this monster on the road, he did not try to eliminate it.

However, Leo never expected that this seemingly harmless Black Forest monster would become so powerful once it grew up.

Although Leo couldn't feel any spiritual energy fluctuations from the monster, he could clearly see the opponent's huge soul light group through the soul vision given by the web weaver.

In addition, after using the skill of spiritual vision, he can also use the effect of farsightedness to see various relief-like forms constantly emerging from the surface of the giant slime monster. Among these forms are the refugees who walked back before, There are also Black Forest monsters and family members who have been killed by him in the past few days.

Obviously, this slime monster has swallowed those refugees who were going back, and it is more likely that it will take advantage of Leo's opportunity to hunt and clear those Black Forest monsters and their families, and follow along all the way to eat those who were killed by Leo. The souls and body remains of the Black Forest monsters and family members killed by Ou finally grew to the current state that anyone would be shocked to see.

"What is this?" Leo couldn't help asking the web weaver beside him after being shocked.

And the web weaver didn't hesitate to answer, saying: "Creep... tapir..."

Hearing this term, Leo immediately found the corresponding content in the materials in his mind, and at the same time couldn't help cursing a few words at the compiler of this material.

The information about the creeping tapir comes from a collection of folk fairy tales compiled by the Abnormal Academy. In the legend, the creeping tapir was originally a human child. Because he was too greedy, he ate the sacrifices dedicated to the gods and angered him. In the end, the gods turned him into a monster who was always hungry but could never get enough to eat. Behind this story, there are pictures specially drawn by the editor, and the image of the creeping tapir on the way is more like a pig, which is completely different from the real creeping tapir in front of you.

When he first saw the stories in this collection of fairy tales, Leo didn't care about the content at all, and just let his sub-brain memorize them as a routine. After all, most of the stories like pillow fairy tales are compiled by humans. But now it seems that those fairy tales may not be false.

"Do you need my help?" Although there are only a handful of exchanges with the web weaver these days, they get along very well. Leo also likes to get along with this kind of quiet existence, so seeing the weaver The reader seemed to be in trouble, so he took the initiative to ask.

The web weavers beside Leo shook their heads slightly, their eyes always paying attention to the situation of the Giant Sequoia Forest, but soon the worried expressions on their faces quickly faded away, and they returned to their original calm state.

Leo also saw a clue of the battle situation in the distance from the change in the web weaver's expression. Although it seems that the web weaver has no effect on the creeping tapir's attack, this is only on the surface. In fact, the web weaver has already Found the weakness of the creeping tapir.

Because the creeping tapir devoured the bodies and souls of a large number of people, monsters, and family members, its body expanded rapidly like a balloon in a short period of time, but it is also as vain and fragile as a balloon because of this unrestrained and purposeless devouring. Unbearable.

Before, because the soul radiance displayed by the creeping tapir was too shocking, Leo could not observe carefully for a while, but now after the shock, he found that although the soul light emitted from the creeping tapir was dazzling and huge, it was actually messy , each ray of soul light seems to repel all surrounding soul rays, which keeps its body in an extremely fragile state of balance.

Obviously, the web spinners also discovered the weakness of the creeping tapir, so regardless of the devouring power of the unknown force in the creeping tapir, they continuously fell from the air and penetrated into the creeping tapir, guiding the soul rays of humans, monsters and family members to impact the creeping tapir. The balance of the tapir's body is fragile.

After a few minutes, Leo saw that the creeping tapir's body suddenly stopped wriggling around, and then shook rapidly like a cramp. As the shaking frequency accelerated, its huge body suddenly swelled nearly twice, and then It melted as quickly as butter on a red-hot iron plate, and bursts of soul light waves spread out to the surroundings like the ripples of a pool, and quickly advanced in front of Leo.

At the same time as the light wave of the soul pushed over, the web weavers beside Leo suddenly revealed their original spider-figure form, and opened a very ferocious-looking big mouth, protruding from the mouth a huge web, The soul light waves that will be pushed over are netted in it.

At the same time, Leo also felt the spider tattoo on the back of his hand faintly heating up, and uncontrollably flew a large web similar to the web weaver from the spider tattoo, capturing the soul light waves that those web weavers missed in it.

When the light wave was captured by the soul net, Leo immediately felt a strange force that could not be described in words poured into his body. However, before Leo could feel the details of this power carefully, this power disappeared instantly. However, this kind of disappearance does not really disappear. It should be transformed into other powers by the power contained in the unknown high blood of the body, such as psionic energy and nightmare power. , or the amount has been significantly improved.

There were only three waves of soul light, which lasted for a very short time, and ended in less than ten seconds. After the light waves disappeared, Leo saw threads hanging down from the world net, covering the entire Giant Sequoia Immediately after the forest, some light clusters of souls rose up with the silk thread and merged into the world net.

What surprised Leo was that in those soul light groups, not only the souls of humans, but also the souls of some monsters and family members were captured by the silk thread. It seems that the collapse of the creeping tapir just now should have also caused damage to the surrounding space. Some unpredictable influences broke the barrier between the Black Forest fairyland and the real world, allowing the web spinners to take away the souls belonging to the Black Forest.

Seeing that things had basically calmed down, the web spinners did not stay in place to observe the follow-up development, turned around and returned to the entrance of the cave, walked quickly into the cave, and chased after the fleeing team that had gone a long distance.

Leo was also about to move on, but after taking two steps, he stopped again and looked down at the spider tattoo that was retracting the soul web.

Although the spider tattoo given to him by the Web Weaver is not harmful to him at all from now on, but has given him some abilities, such as seeing souls, capturing souls, etc., but this is the power given by others after all, and from the just now Judging from the situation, this power can easily escape his control.

Leo didn't think that the web weaver had any malice towards him, nor did he think that the spider tattoo was tampered with by the web weaver, but he felt almost instinctive anxiety and rejection of any power beyond his complete control . So when he saw the spider tattoo returning to normal, he secretly decided in his heart that if he could not fully grasp the power contained in the spider tattoo and integrate it into his own power system, he would strip the spider tattoo off his body and give up completely. This kind of power is completely aimed at the soul.

After making the decision, Leo felt a little more relaxed. While checking the changes in his psionic energy and nightmare power, he quickly followed and walked into the cave.

As Barak explained at the entrance of the cave, although the cave is winding, it is not very long, and there are no forks. After walking for about half an hour, we reached the other side of the cave.

It's just that after reaching the other side of the cave, everyone didn't feel relaxed after seeing the light again. On the contrary, because of the scene in front of them, everyone showed fear, and even the hunter, who had been walking in the mountains all year round, turned pale.

I saw that the ground outside the cave has completely collapsed and turned into a huge abyss winding among the mountains. Standing on the edge of the abyss, you can't see the bottom at all. Even if you throw a stone down, you can't hear it. To any echo, the only way to pass through the abyss is a mountain path formed from the edge of the abyss.

To be honest, this mountain path is not very narrow, the road is wide enough for three people to walk side by side, but the location of the mountain path is too special, one side is a high mountain cliff that cannot be seen from the top, and the other side is the endless mountain cliff that cannot be seen from the bottom. The bottom of the abyss, coupled with the strong mountain wind blowing over the abyss, even if you walk close to the mountain wall, you will never fall into the abyss if there are no accidents. These ordinary people will feel scared because of the surrounding environment and scared.

Barack knew very well that the longer these ordinary people were allowed to stand in place, the greater the fear in their hearts would be, and the less they dared to walk up the mountain wall.

So, he ordered the hunters under his command to tie the ropes that he had prepared for everyone, and said in a very relaxed tone that with the protection of the ropes, even if someone falls off the road, there will be no danger, and walking through this A section of the abyss trail, the road after that will be much easier to walk, and there will be no more dangerous mountain roads like now.

I don't know whether it was Barak's consolation that really worked, or those who decided to move on knew that there was no turning back. The uneasy mood in the team quickly stabilized, and everyone tied the rope around their waists, and then Under the leadership of Barak, he walked on this seemingly extremely dangerous abyss trail.