The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After placing the boxes on the table one by one, the old man turned around and closed the door, and took out a string of very old-looking hanging ornaments from the metal cabinet next to the door, and hung them on the door.

This string of ornaments is similar to the bone ornaments made by some primitive tribes, and there is nothing special about it, but when the ornaments are hung on the door, Leo opened his spiritual vision and saw a wave of golden light shining from the ornaments , covering the whole room, and what surprised Leo even more was that he could feel the unique power breath of the golden giant deer in the Black Forest from the golden light waves.

"This string of ornaments..." Leo pointed to the ornaments curiously and asked.

The old man replied truthfully: "This is a gift from an old friend. Master Crow said that this thing is made from the remains of a certain divine heir, and it can block some bad forces." After finishing speaking, he walked to the table , opened the three boxes one by one, and said: "These three things were all found from an ancient tribal ruins by a treasure hunting team that has been walking in the wilderness of the Mozambique continent all year round. There are obvious early tribal civilizations of Wakanha on them. It is just that the tribal ruins existed much earlier than the Wakhanha civilization, so these three objects should be the products of ancient civilizations."

When the old man opened the box, took out the three items in the box one by one, and put them in front of Leo, Leo could no longer listen to what the old man said, because the moment the box was opened, he felt A strong sense of hunger came from the stomach.

This hunger was so strong that it even affected Leo's mind, so that he had no other thoughts in his mind, only the idea of ​​getting these three things always lingered in his brain, driving out all other thoughts.

However, Leo's willpower played a very strong role at this time, allowing him to control the distracting thoughts in his mind, not be affected by the reaction of the chaotic stomach, and keep a calm state to check the three items in front of him.

These three items are three very common skull bowls. After a war, tribes in the Mosang continent will sacrifice the bravest warriors of their tribes to the gods, and then make the skull bowls of the warriors, which are specially enshrined in In the temple of the tribe.

Skull bowls like this one were considered evil by the pioneers during the pioneering period of the Mozambique continent in the early days, and they were burned immediately after they were found. However, the skull bowls of the Wakanha civilization that were first destroyed by the pioneers were rarely preserved. down.

It’s just that with the archaeological theories about various civilizations in the Mozambique continent, coupled with the enthusiasm for collecting by the rich and nobles, the skull bowl, which is considered to be an evil item, has become a popular collection, and almost most of them are related to the civilization of the Mozambique continent. At the auctions, you can see similar items, but these skull bowls are the skull bowls of some small tribes, and their preciousness is much lower.

It is precisely because of the high profit of this thing that some lawless people began to focus on imitation. They used real skulls and asked experts to carve out symbols with the characteristics of Wakhanha civilization, and then made them old and sent them to other places sell.

At the beginning, this thing was very popular, no one would tell the real thing from the fake, and it would be bought at a high price almost when it went to the auction. It’s just that as a large number of such counterfeit products spread out, some people soon realized that something was wrong. In addition, no one could identify the skull bowls of the Wakanha civilization 100%. There is no market, and more are sent to general handicraft stores for sale as handicrafts.

The skull bowl in front of me is naturally impossible to compare with those fakes, not even the real Wakhanha skull bowl, because these three skulls made into bowls are not ordinary, they all come from the evolution of life levels From powerful existences close to Omega-level advanced creatures, in a sense, they can all be regarded as gods.

In the Mozambique continent, the skull bowls of different tribes have different craftsmanship, the most common of which is to engrave the entire skull with patterns, inlaid with gems and gold, making it look extremely luxurious. The three skull bowls that Leo sees now are obviously different. The maker only took the top cover of the skull, and did not engrave anything on the skull, but just wrapped a layer of gold on the outside. Inlaid some patterns with the characteristics of the early civilization of Wakhanha.

These characteristic patterns of the Wakhanha civilization, which look more like decorations, are actually not simple. According to the analysis method given by Dio, Leo can easily see that this is a variant of the Gamore language, and it is also Not a variant script of the basic root, but a variant script of a complete Turing root.

This is the first time that Leo has seen the variant text of the Turing radical. The Turing magic circles he has seen before are all variants of the basic radical. Even the stone ball that banned the Eye of Reality, the three-dimensional Radicals are also just the basic radicals used.

It's a pity that the gold inlaid items on the outside of the three skull bowls were all damaged for unknown reasons, and the damage was very serious. Except for a few places where traces of Gamore language variant characters could be barely discerned, the rest of the parts were completely damaged. Has been completely damaged.

Although Leo couldn't restore the surviving variant characters to Turing's root in a short time, and it was impossible to infer the original appearance of this layer of gold and gemstone shell from so few clues, he was still able to guess at that time. Humans should not make this layer of shell for decoration, but to confine the power of the skull bowl or the three skulls themselves.

The power of these three skulls is not very powerful, but they are very strange. The moment they were taken out of the box, Leo felt someone whispering some incomprehensible words in his ear.

It is not correct to say that it is in the ears, because even if the ears are plugged, this sound will not disappear, but will always surround the heart, as if the sound is directly transmitted to the soul.

For ordinary people, this kind of voice has an inexplicable appeal, and people can't help but immerse themselves in it. Even if they can't hear what the voice is saying, they can still feel a kind of inexplicable madness. Among them, people can't help but fall into madness.

It's a pity that this crazy whisper, which is extremely fatal to ordinary people and even weak-willed psykers, is just some boring noise to Leo who has the will of a ninth-level psyker, and it won't bring him any trouble. Come any trouble and harm.

The shop owner doesn't know this. He has seen people who went crazy because of this thing. That kind of madness is irreversible, and after going crazy, there will be some mutations. Even if there is no mutation, the power will become great, so he The moment he took out the bowl, he was ready to subdue Leo at any time.

However, Leo's performance was a bit beyond the old man's expectation. Except for the moment when he first saw the skull bowl, he didn't show any abnormal behavior. On the contrary, he was like an ordinary collector. Pick up the three bowls and put them in front of your eyes to appreciate them repeatedly.

"It's a good thing." Leo put down the skull bowl in his hand, and asked the old man, "But how do you know that this thing is an Outer God?"

"I don't know about these things, but when this thing was put into storage, Lord Crow came to see it. It said that it was a skull bowl specially used for offering sacrifices to the Outer Gods, and the skulls used to make the bowl were not ordinary. After the power of the gods eroded, a mutated human skull was produced, and some powers of the outer gods remained in the skull."

"Did Master Crow say which Outer God this bowl belongs to?" Leo couldn't help asking again.

"I said, this foreign god is..." The old man just wanted to tell Leo, but he didn't say anything. He just opened his mouth, and then he said with a embarrassed expression on his face, "I may be too old I can't seem to remember the name of this Outer God?"

"Can't remember?" Leo frowned, looked at the old man thoughtfully, and said, "Is it just that I don't remember the name of the Outer God, or I can't remember everything related to this Outer God?" gone."

The old man is also an experienced person, and he quickly understood the meaning of Leo's words, with a slightly flustered look on his face, he replied truthfully: "I can't remember anything related to this outer god, I just remember this The three bowls are related to an Outer God."

"Interesting phenomenon!" Leo showed interest on his face, picked up the skull bowl again, looked at it in front of his eyes, and tentatively stimulated the power of foreign gods contained in the bowl with spiritual energy.

Leo knew very well that there were two reasons why the old man's memory disappeared. One reason was that the power of the bowl itself was erasing the old man's memory, but judging from the old man's performance, he seemed to have a kind of ability to deal with the supernormal. The ability to force insulation, so the possibility of this cause is not very great.

And Leo believes that the most likely reason is that the world of Velen rejects the Outer God, and the power of the entire world is erasing the traces left by the Outer God in the world of Velen, including the memory of the Outer God. Although this reason sounds absurd, Leo knows that similar things have never happened. In the knowledge of the web weavers, there have been examples of the world's rejection of foreign gods, and there are also things like erasing memories. It's a pity that the relevant content is too little to be used as analytical data.

At this moment, Leo tried to stimulate the power of the foreign gods contained in the skull with psychic power, power of nightmares, etc., but there was no response in the end, as if this power had become a pool of stagnant water and could not be regenerated. Any waves and ripples.

However, when he used the power of gluttony produced by the chaotic stomach to test his skull, the hunger in his stomach increased a bit, so he couldn't help but want to crush these skull bowls and swallow them immediately. in.

Leo controlled the greedy desire, calmly put the bowls back into the box one by one, closed the box again, and asked the old man, "I like this thing very much, how much is it?"

The old man smiled and said, "Since you were introduced by Mr. Brown, naturally you can't sell it to you at the original price. I think one hundred thousand Vinaya coins should be a suitable price."

"Only 100,000? It's so cheap." Leo was stunned when he heard the price. According to his estimate, this thing would cost at least a million, and it was a golden flange. He never thought that it would be as cheap as 100,000 Venaya coins.

"These three skull bowls may be priceless treasures for you, but they are just three troubles for me," the old man explained, "This thing is placed here with me, not only occupying three inventory positions, but also every once in a while. I also need to invest an additional storage fee, and I can sell it as soon as possible, not only to solve my troubles, but also to reduce my losses, so 100,000 Venaya coins are a very suitable price in my opinion."

Leo smiled and said, "You don't seem like a businessman."

The old man shrugged indifferently, and said, "I'm not a businessman in the first place."

"I want something." Leo took out the cash checkbook and was about to write the numbers.

"Wait a minute." The old man suddenly stopped and said, "We only accept Vinaya coins here. If it is a large transaction, you need to go to the bank of the General Chamber of Commerce to exchange an equivalent transaction certificate."

"Don't you think this is troublesome?" Leo frowned, closed the checkbook, and said.

"It's not very troublesome. In fact, you can directly exchange cash checks for Vinaya currency at the port, and you can also exchange equivalent transaction vouchers. It's just that you may be here for the first time and you are not used to it." The old man explained: "If you find it troublesome, I can ask the people in the store to take you to exchange it. There are several banks of the General Chamber of Commerce in the underground city, and you can exchange it there."

Leo knew very well that this was related to the belief of the Goddess of Commerce, so he didn't say much. He got up and asked the old man to call the waiter in the store and lead him to a nearby bank to exchange the check.

As the old man said, the General Chamber of Commerce opened a bank with a very simple set of procedures for the exchange of Vinaya coins, and the exchange amount of 100,000 gold flanges was completed in less than three minutes.

However, when Leo returned to the antique shop, the fainted people in the shop made him feel a little uncomfortable. He followed him into the inner room and found that the shop owner had also passed out on the ground, and the three people on the table had The skull bowl box has disappeared.

The sudden change made the waiter who led Leo to exchange currency panicked. He was stunned for a long time, not knowing what to do.

"Shouldn't you find someone to come?" Leo reminded when he saw this situation.

"Looking, looking for someone?" The waiter didn't react for a while, and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Leo looked at the completely panicked waiter and said, "Of course I'm looking for the Holy Blood Society. Isn't the power behind this shop the Holy Blood Society?"

"Ah! That's right!" The waiter ran out in panic after hearing the suggestion, regardless of whether it was appropriate to leave a stranger in the store.

Leo ignored the waiter's behavior. He turned his head to look at the shop owner lying on the ground, squatted down and checked the other's injuries briefly.

Just after he finished the inspection, the waiter brought Brown and a few people from the Holy Blood back to the shop, and when Brown saw Leo, his face immediately became a little weird, and he joked with a wry smile: "Leo Mr. Dodd, you really are a big trouble, I really shouldn't introduce you here."