The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Soon Leo found a complete animal skin in a piece of rotten soil covered by rotten wood. Although it had been covered by rotten soil for a long time, the animal skin still didn't have too many signs of decay. Overall it seems to be well preserved.

Leo put this piece of animal skin directly on his body, and the pungent stench made him unbearable, but he still resisted the stench and did not use spiritual power to dispel it, but let it gather in his body Around, intensify the concentration of the smell.

When the concentration of the stench reached a certain level, Leo walked towards the forest full of ancient war trees ahead.

Like other ordinary forests, there are various shrubs and vines growing at the bottom of the tall trees, which do not look dangerous.

But in fact, these shrubs and vines are companion species of ancient war trees, and they are not plants, but a special species between plants and animals.

When Leo walked past these plant-like creatures, these plant-like plants would extract some smell from Leo's body like a police dog and analyze it. If the smell was not right, they would warn the ancient tree of war, and These plants will also break out of the harmless state in an instant, and either spew out acid, or produce venom, and what's more, they will directly draw away all the surrounding gas, creating a short vacuum in a short time, allowing the attacker to enter suffocation state.

However, under Leo's deliberate control, the stench around his body was very strong, causing the surrounding plants to misjudge, not only not attacking him, but also deliberately eating some animal skins that the owner liked to eat. The fruit moves on the way in the direction he is heading, for easy feeding.

The fruits that can grow in the small garden are definitely not ordinary fruits, not to mention the fruits that are specially cultivated by the companion organisms of the ancient war tree to provide nutrition for the ancient war tree, which is naturally more special.

Leo can easily feel strong energy fluctuations from these fruits. Obviously, these are somewhat similar to the energy food specially provided by the Earth Federation for psykers, so he is not polite to these high-energy fruits delivered to his door. , Pick these fruits one by one and store them in the storage space.

When picking the fruit, Leo also observed the reactions of the companion creatures around him, and from the fact that the companion creatures did not make any abnormal actions, he judged that these companion creatures only had some physiological instinctive actions and did not have any intelligence.

This also made him relax a little bit, and began to selectively collect some high-energy substances and psionic creatures found by the spirit net.

Compared with other places in the small garden, it is obvious that the grove of ancient war trees should be preserved in a better way. Coupled with the role of the complete internal ecological cycle system, it is many times marked in the information provided by the fire prevention girl. Many extinct species can also be found here, most of which can be used by Leo as the medicine of the wizard's potion, of course, the premise is that he can analyze the medicinal properties of these substances.

Although this forest is now completely open to Leo, allowing him to get whatever he wants, he has not done too much. Every psionic creature and high-energy substance picked by him has been carefully selected. It is precisely because of his cautious behavior that it affects any kind of ecological balance around him, so that his picking action does not arouse the ecological response mechanism of forest species, allowing him to go deep into the depths of the forest safely.

However, the forest itself did not attack Leo, which does not mean that the interior of the forest is safe. In fact, there is not only one kind of companion beast attached to the forest of ancient war trees, and there are also some ferocious companion beasts that will exclusively feed on the original owner of the animal skin. , and Leo's use of spiritual energy to lock the smell of animal skin around his body is as eye-catching as a light in the dark in the eyes of those predators.

When Leo had gone deep into the forest and was about to reach the forest in the forest as the target, he stopped, and turned the twins into the cross sword mode, looked around vigilantly, concentrated The spirit perceives everything around it through the five senses of the body.

Just now, Leo's spiritual network sensed a dozen malicious creatures appearing around, but the next moment these creatures all disappeared. It is obvious that these creatures have ways to evade the scanning of spiritual energy such as the spiritual network. After the net lost its function, he had to rely on his body's senses to cooperate with the surrounding environment data scanned by the mental net to find out the location of these predators.

Soon Leo discovered that the almost invisible predators in the mental net had moved to a place less than five meters away from his body, and a rough calculation showed that there were more than a dozen of these predators, Should be a group.

Leo didn't wait for these predators to attack, and he had the idea of ​​passively counterattacking. After confirming the positions of these predators, he immediately cast a psychic energy, imprinting a psychic mark on these predators almost at the same time, and then Holding the crossed long sword, he performed shadow witchcraft, got into the shadow under his feet, and moved directly behind the predator who was farthest away from him on the trunk of an ancient war tree. The long sword flew from the hunter without hesitation. The back of the predator's neck was painted, and the ugly head of the predator was cut off.

In the forest, there are shadows everywhere, which can be said to be Leo's natural battlefield. Coupled with the sharp twins, these predators didn't realize that something was wrong until they were down to single digits. Hunters who came out of the middle to kill with one blow, and then immediately burrowed into the shadows, these predators couldn't find the ability to resist at all, and when the last predator was beheaded, they didn't see the hunter's figure clearly.

Although Leo easily dealt with these predators, he didn't show a relaxed expression on his face, because his action just now really hit him, so that the smell on the animal skin lost a lot. A few more fights like this, and the smell on the hides would fade away enough to provide him with the camouflage he needed.

After discovering the problem, Leo was no longer as relaxed as before, as if he was visiting his own back garden. He didn't even harvest some useful materials from the corpses on the ground. Instead, he set off immediately, speeding up his pace and rushing towards the forest. And along the way, we will deliberately avoid some places that may cause fighting.

After more than ten minutes like this, Leo finally came to the very abrupt low jungle that he found. The so-called low jungle is only compared to the surrounding ancient war trees. For ordinary humans, the adjective low is a big word. After all, tall trees over two hundred meters can't be called low.

Although the trees here are still growing vigorously for Leo, compared with other ancient war trees around, the trees here are obviously less lively, and even the leaves on the trees are a little gray.

In the information provided by Huofangnv, there is a method to find the tree heart, but that method takes a lot of time, and the success rate is less than half, so Leo decided to follow his own method. If you don't want to use it, just leave for the time being, go outside the ancient war tree forest, find a few animal skins for camouflage, and then come back and search slowly.

The way for Leo to find the heart of the tree is very simple. It is to find the slowest and worst growing tree among these trees through the spiritual network. After all, all the nutrients are provided to the heart of the tree, and of course the tree cannot grow vigorously.

A large number of trees were screened out by Leo's mental net, and soon he locked on three trees, and the positions of these three trees were all together, obviously this was not a coincidence.

These three trees are not the shortest among the many trees around, but these three trees are definitely the worst growing state of these trees, and two of them have lost all their leaves, leaving only bare trunks. , and the condition of the remaining tree was not much better, the leaves all turned gray and white, like ashes floating in the air outside, lifeless.

Not only the trees, but even the accompanying organisms around the trees are lifeless, making it easy to feel that the situation here is completely different from other places around.

After Leo entered this withered area, he immediately felt a wonderful suction force around him. This suction force was so magical that it was not affected by any force and directly acted on him, drawing the vitality from his body, making him feel a little bit of suction. Tired, and at the same time, the idea of ​​lying down and rest suddenly appeared in my mind.

However, Leo knew very well that if he really followed this idea, he would only end up becoming the support of this forest just like the bones covered by vines and shrubs on the surrounding ground.

Leo suppressed the strong urge to rest, and quickly walked to the side of the three eye-catching trees. At the moment, he could not perceive the internal conditions of the three trees with his mental network. Like other ancient war trees around him, his When the spirit net gets close to here, it will collapse involuntarily. Although he was able to forcibly stop this collapse and infiltrate the spiritual network, he knew better that the consequences of doing so would inevitably provoke the entire forest of ancient war trees to counterattack.

After losing the scanning tool of the spirit net, Leo could only confirm the position of the tree heart in the three trees by observing and judging with the naked eye.

According to the records, the shape of the heart of the tree is like a gem, and it only grows inside the trunk, and its position is not fixed. It is very difficult to find the heart of the tree from the outside. Only by cutting down the tree and splitting it thoroughly can we find the tree Heart. It's just that after the trees are cut down, they will have a resistance mechanism, which consumes a lot of energy in the heart of the tree to provide what they need. Under the action of this back-feeding effect, it will be completely absorbed by the trees and disappear in the trees.

Although the data clearly stated that there is no way to see the location of the heart of the tree from the outside, this conclusion does not apply to Leo, because when Leo activated the spiritual vision skill and blessed the imprint of the eye of truth to the When he was in the eyes, the situation inside the three trees was clear in his eyes, and the position of the tree's heart was also fully displayed in his eyes.

However, even though he found the heart of the three trees, Leo didn't take out the heart immediately, but walked around the three trees a few times, with a troubled look on his face.

Through the eyes of blessing the eyes of reality and spiritual vision skills, Leo not only saw through the shell of the tree and found the location of the heart of the tree, but also saw through the above-ground parts of the three trees and saw the root conditions of the trees. He found that These three trees do not exist in isolation, or the entire forest does not exist independently. Their roots are connected to each other. Once one of the trees is touched, other trees will inevitably be disturbed, and eventually the entire ancient war tree will be destroyed. The forest was alarmed.

"This is really a troublesome thing!" Leo now knows why the Fire Defense Women's Association entrusted him with this task. I am afraid that this task cannot be completed by ordinary people.

Leo frowned, walked up to one of the trees, put his hand on the trunk, and then injected a weak spiritual energy into the trunk, arousing some reactions in the trunk itself, while carefully paying attention to the trunk's actions. The length of time to react.

About two or three minutes after he injected the spiritual energy, a vine associated with the Ancient War Tree suddenly rose up and swung towards Leo soundlessly. At the same time, the vines under Leo's feet also quickly entangled his feet, causing He cannot escape.

However, Leo didn't intend to dodge at all. At the moment when the attack appeared, he had already cast the Demon Hunter's Quen Seal, and built a protective barrier around his body, easily blocking the attack of the vines, and at the same time Cast shadow witchcraft to escape from the shackles of the vines, restrain his breath, and stand not far away like a stone.

The companion vine that lost its target swept the air a few times like a tentacle, and then twisted a few times on the ground. After finding no prey, it retracted back to the original bush, entangled on the ground, as if it had never moved .

After the surroundings regained calm, Leo also released the restraint of the breath on his body, and stood in front of the three big trees again, but at this time, his brows were no longer wrinkled, and a little smile appeared on his face.

Through the test just now, Leo found that the reaction mechanism of the trees was more sluggish than he expected. He didn't need to worry about what kind of trouble would be caused after the ancient war tree was disturbed. He only needed to It's fine to leave this forest, and it's none of his business as to what adverse effects the forest will cause in the future.

Thinking of this, Leo quickly found out in his mind the fastest route to leave the forest or even the small garden based on the place he had just walked and the three-dimensional map provided by Mia. At the same time, he also simulated several times in his mind to take out the heart Plan, find out the fastest way to take the tree heart.

After he decided on the method, Gemini also changed into a glove mode following his mind, followed him to the best position in the plan, took a deep breath, and rushed to the nearest tree at a very fast speed At the location of the heart of the big tree, he grasped his strength and raised his fist to hit the trunk on the side of the heart of the tree.