The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Seeing Leon Belmont suddenly hurt himself with a knife, Leo was stunned, but he didn't stop it. He believed that Leon Belmont was not a lunatic, and there must be his intentions in doing so.

All I saw was that the sharp blade easily sliced ​​through Leon Belmont's arm, and a deep bone-deep wound appeared in front of Leo. Blood gushed out of the blood vessels and quickly flowed down the arm.

However, just when the blood flowed to Leon Belmont's fingertips and was about to drip down, the blood suddenly retracted from the fingertips as if receiving some invisible suction force, and spread to other parts around The blood also began to gather towards the wound again, and it retreated into the wound in the blink of an eye, and when all the blood was withdrawn, the wound gradually closed, and finally disappeared, as if it had never existed.

Leo, who saw this scene, couldn't help being shocked, and looked at Leon Belmont with an incredible look.

"What's the matter?" Leon Belmont felt a little nervous when he saw it, so he asked, "Do you know what happened to my body?"

Leo nodded, did not answer directly, but signaled Leon Belmont to be calm, then fell into deep thought, and began to search for information in his memory.

If it is an ordinary person, seeing Leon Belmont's situation, he might think that Leon Belmont's self-healing ability is amazing, and the wound healed quickly as soon as it appeared.

But Leo is very clear that the situation just now has nothing to do with self-healing. It is completely another reason that makes Leon Belmont's wound heal. This reason is called the freeze-frame effect in the Earth Federation, and it is also called time by some people. Freeze.

As to whether the phenomenon of the freeze effect is related to time, even before Leo came to the world of Velen, the civilizations of the universe have not yet concluded, but it is certain that this ability is very powerful.

As the name suggests, time freeze means that within a certain area, all objects there are in an absolute static state from the time level. Some scientists prefer to call this situation photo effect for the convenience of ordinary people to understand this situation.

For example, when a person is in a state of frozen time, all organic and inorganic substances on his body will be in a state of absolute pause just like the images in a photo.

If there is an injury on his body at this time, the wound will neither worsen nor heal, and the same is true for other states of the body, neither getting better nor getting worse.

Freezing effects often appear in the universe, and most of the places where they appear are near the nodes of the subspace plane. Sometimes they appear on certain objects, and sometimes they affect people, and the scope of their effects is different.

Just like the freeze effect on Leon Belmont's body now is to freeze his physical state, that is to say, no matter what kind of injury his body encounters, even if his neck is cut, as long as there is still a layer of skin attached, he will They can all return to normal. From a certain point of view, this ability is more powerful than self-healing.

However, not everyone is as lucky as Leon Belmont and can obtain this almost perfect self-healing freeze effect. No matter how much food is swallowed, it will be spit out because of this effect, and the only way to survive is to rely on infusion.

Although this effect often occurs in living organisms, most of the time it acts in space, and if a spaceship encounters the freeze-frame effect of space, it will definitely be a catastrophic event for that spaceship . Because part of the spaceship is within the scope of the space freeze effect, while the other part is within the normal space, the final result will only cause the hull to tear and cause a near-destructive shipwreck.

Therefore, in order to ensure the normal navigation of the spaceship, the Supreme Council of the Cosmic Civilization Race began to study the various mysteries contained in this effect from a long time ago, before the Earth Federation entered the cosmic age.

After thousands of years of research, some civilizations have gained a certain understanding of the freeze-frame effect on the space level, and even developed some observation tools to discover the hidden freeze-frame effects, and most of these tools are Added to the spacecraft's navigator to help the spacecraft avoid those invisible and undetectable freeze-frame effects.

But they have no idea about the various strange freeze-frame effects that appear on the human body, because the process of this effect is almost random, without any reference value, and why the freeze-frame effect is only a function when it acts on the human body. In a certain organ, or a certain ability, all this is still an unsolved mystery.

The reason why Leo was able to recognize Leon Belmont's situation at a glance was the freeze-frame effect, because one of his fighters also had a similar body state freeze-frame when passing through the subspace. The comrade-in-arms was sent to the Federal Academy of Sciences, and never came out again.

"How did you acquire this ability?" Leo, who recovered from his contemplation, did not explain the freeze effect to Leon Belmont, but asked directly.

"After killing the parasitic bug in my body, I will have it," Leon Belmont stroked the wound on his neck, and said, "Although I left this scar, I got a good one." The ability, but also cost-effective."

"You should have acquired the ability to be invisible from the parasite before?" Leo said in a deep voice.

"Yes." Leon Belmont looked at Leo meaningfully, and said, "Do you also want to gain abilities by killing holy bugs like me? I advise you not to learn from me, because even It's me, and I don't know why I was able to acquire these abilities, if you follow me, the end result is very likely to be death."

"Don't worry, I will never be the same as you." Leo replied very positively.

As he said, obtaining so-called abilities from parasites would only be a small loss, and he didn't like turning himself into a humanoid Zerg.

Now Leon Belmont is no longer tender and can be regarded as a human being. Although Leo does not know how the other party did it, he is very sure that after the parasite is killed, its core gene cells neither die nor leave Leon Belmont Monte's body, but fused with Leon Belmont, allowing him to gain the power in his genes, and inadvertently triggered the freeze effect.

One thing Leon Belmont got wrong, this almost self-healing ability did not come from the obsidian parasite, invisibility was the spell-like ability produced after the obsidian parasite was integrated into his body.

"What are you going to discuss with me?" Leo did not deviate from the topic, but asked straightforwardly.

"Get out of this damn place." Leon Belmont said in a deep voice, also unambiguously.

Leo was silent for a moment, and said, "Why do you think I want to leave here?"

Leon Belmont smiled and said: "Up to now you haven't received the first ceremony of the holy insect, you ran out on the first day you came, and it was a blood moon, and you didn't come back until dawn the next day, you should have seen it too Something interesting. Don't tell me you love this place."

"Did you pay attention to me from the beginning?" Leo frowned and asked.

"No, I pay attention to every newcomer who comes here, but there are very few people worthy of my contact," Leon Belmont paused here, as if there was something in his words, and said: "After all, here, contact with people must be There's a wall, and you risk hurting yourself if you get too close."

"Why do you think I'm trustworthy?" Leo asked, as if he hadn't completely relieved his vigilance.

Leon Belmont responded without thinking: "I feel, I feel that you are trustworthy, and that is enough."

Leo stared at Leon Belmont without saying anything, as if he was thinking about something.

Although Leo didn't show any doubts on his face, he didn't believe what Leon Belmont said in his heart, not only because there were many loopholes in Leon Belmont's words, but also because in the world of Vinylon, Leon Belmont But with the title of a lying tongue, it is common sense to deceive women with clever words and tricks, and there are quite a few kings and nobles who have been tricked by his tricks.

Just now, Leon Belmont deliberately told some truths to make Leo relax his vigilance, thinking that he is a trustworthy person, and when it is time to discuss things, he can use this trust to do something beneficial to himself Things, this may be why when he was outside, the big man would say that Leon Belmont killed some people.

Although Leon Belmont hid it well and didn't show any flaws, Leo could still feel that Leon Belmont definitely didn't leave the island because of boredom, but because of other things, and he seemed to be in a hurry, It is necessary to leave the island in the shortest possible time, otherwise, they will not suddenly find Leo, a stranger who has not had much contact with him, as a partner. contact.

However, even though he knew that Leon Belmont was not a suitable collaborator and that the other party had evil intentions, Leo still decided to cooperate with Leon Belmont. Not because of anything else, just because Leon Belmont, who has been trapped here for many years, is definitely the local snake here. If he wants to understand this weird island thoroughly in a short period of time, he cannot do without the guidance of this local snake. introduce.

"I've thought it through and agreed to leave here together with you." Leo pretended to be out of contemplation, and gave an answer that pleased Leon Belmont, but then he added: "But not now. To be honest, I don't trust you very much. I don't know much about this island, this giant city, the Yam people here, or even the monsters that appeared on the night of the blood moon. If there are any loopholes in your leaving plan, I will I can't see it, and I'm at a loss when I encounter danger, so I must first understand the situation here, and then discuss with you about the specific cooperation and departure."

Leon Belmont is a smart man, how can he fail to understand Leo's subtext, but Leo's request is not what he wants to see, because only Leo knows less about the situation here, the less he uses Leo. capable of the most.

Seeing that Leon Belmont frowned, Leo added: "Besides me, can you find other useful collaborators now? I don't think you can find any collaborators."

Leon Belmont hesitated for a moment and said, "What do you know?"

Leo directly pointed out the situation of Leon Belmont, and said: "I just know that you took the initiative to talk to someone like me who has never been in contact with me about leaving here for cooperation. It can be seen that you have no other choice."

"No, I still have another choice, and that is to do it alone." Leon Belmont said in a deep voice, his face turned cold after hearing Leo's words.

"It's impossible for you to make this choice." Leo didn't change his words because of Leon Belmont's attitude. He still looked at him with great confidence and said, "If this matter can be done alone, You will not actively seek a collaborator. If my guess is correct, those people who were killed by you mentioned above should be the collaborators you found before! The immortality you got, you can survive in times of crisis, but the collaborators you found don’t have the ability like you.”

Leon Belmont was silent for a while, then said in a deep voice, "I hate smart people."

"Me too." Leo responded.

Leon Belmont's tense expression relaxed, walked to the chair opposite Leo and sat down, and said, "Ask! Ask everything you want to know. If you know, I will answer. If you don't know Don't blame me."

"Yes." Leo nodded, and then said very seriously: "Where is this island?"

"I'm not very clear about this either." The first question received a vague answer. Perhaps Leon Belmonte felt that such an answer was too much, so he added: "I used to think that this island was also a British island. It is an undiscovered island in the surrounding seas of the Kingdom of Grid, but later I found out that I was wrong, because there is no winter, no summer on this island, only spring and autumn, and I know that this is not any known island in the ocean."

"Have you heard of the Sea of ​​Abyss?" Leo asked a little abruptly, a question that seemed to have nothing to do with the previous question.

However, after Leon Belmont heard this question, he looked at Leo in surprise, obviously he didn't expect Leo to say this.

Surprised, he said to Leo angrily: "Since you already know everything, why are you asking me?"

"I'm just guessing, I'm not sure." Leo looked at the other party calmly, and asked again: "How do you know about the Sea of ​​Abyss? Don't you believe in wizards and gods? Sea of ​​Abyss , but things in mythology, and if I remember correctly, there is no legend about the sea of ​​the abyss in Velen."