The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

It was almost noon when we returned to the hotel on Skull Island. This was the result of Leo urging Old Belen. In fact, Old Belen was very unwilling to give up the investigation like this. On Nose Island, Leo was also involved by the way, but was resolved by Leo.

For Leo, there is no need to be troublesome, especially now that his main destination is the Minsk mainland, if the trip is delayed due to other things, it will be a small loss.

Although Old Belem paid the remuneration, the remuneration he paid was discounted, and Leo's assistance was naturally also discounted. In his opinion, he brought the old Belem out of Big Nose Island smoothly, and allowed him to bring the people here smoothly. Spreading the information is already worthy of the reward, at least he thinks so.

However, Leo did not do nothing. Before he left Big Nose Island, he secretly captured a treasure hunter who had been planted with seeds and local residents. He checked the bodies of the two from the inside out.

Through inspection, he found that in the treasure hunter's brain, the seeds had penetrated into the pineal gland and integrated with the brain nerves, which was very similar to the holy insects on Yam Island.

But on the island residents, Leo found a completely different situation. There was no trace of the seeds in the brains of the island residents, as if they had been digested. A set of nervous systems.

There are not a few creatures in the universe that have more than one set of nervous systems. The Earth Federation has also studied this and applied the relevant results to biochemicals. When Leo was a biochemical, his body had five different sets of nerves. Systems and organs, the main function of these nervous systems and organs is to enable them to exert their due power on the battlefield in different environments.

However, the residents on the island obviously have an extra nervous system than ordinary people, and judging from the cause and effect of the incident, it is obvious that this nervous system should be derived from the one implanted by the big tree. seed.

Although Leo doesn't understand what role this nervous system can play, judging from the toughness of this nervous system, it is much stronger than the nervous system of ordinary people, and they are also compatible with the various organs of those residents. The organs are linked together, and once the nervous system is replaced, the new nervous system may be able to enhance those ordinary human organs, even temporarily.

According to Leo's estimate, if the extra nervous system can fully exert all its power, it can probably exert the physical strength equivalent to that of a third-level psyker. No abnormal energy fluctuations were felt inside.

However, based on the nearly 7,000 permanent residents of the town on Big Nose Island, they are equivalent to 7,000 berserkers with the physical strength of third-level psykers. A scary thing.

After discovering these circumstances, Leo told Old Beren the news in order to compensate the old Beren for his reward.

Old Beren naturally attached great importance to this matter, so he even used the last few pages of the book. As for the final result, Leo was not very clear, and he could only see it from the relaxed look that Old Beren showed at night. It can be seen that a desired answer has been obtained.

Leo spent the second night on Skull Island resting in the hotel room, and took advantage of this time to sort out the research notes. As he sorted out more and more content, he paid more and more attention to this note. , and even regard it as equally precious as those mysterious items in his storage space that he didn't understand.

Because Leo has never done any systematic study of witchcraft, his understanding of the bottom layer of witchcraft is very superficial. Most of them use psionic methods to analyze witchcraft and use witchcraft. He can clearly understand that witchcraft is not only a derivative power of cosmic psychic power, but also possesses other unique mysterious powers. This kind of power has never existed even among those Omega-level advanced life forms in the universe.

Such as curse power. In this witchcraft study, a low-level curse power is recorded in detail. The method of using this power is a bit like a religious ceremony, which makes Leo feel a little absurd, but he still tests according to the above method, and The subject of the test was a certain gambler who lived on the same floor as him and lived next door.

The result was a little surprising. Under the influence of the curse power, the gambler would win every gamble for a period of time, but at the same time, bad luck seemed to accompany him, no matter what he did, he would be injured, and the injury became more and more serious. The more serious it was, for example, drinking water would cause the cup to burst, scratch his cheek, and almost blind his glasses.

What's more important is that this power is silent, even Leo, the user, only vaguely feels that he has succeeded, like some kind of illusion, and can't seem to feel the energy fluctuations. That way, feel the power of the curse.

Although this curse witchcraft is very magical, as if it can bestow luck and bad luck on others, it is not practical for Leo, and it is even a bit outweighed by the gain.

First of all, this kind of curse witchcraft can only be used on ordinary people, and the effect on people with extraordinary power will be greatly weakened, and eventually it will fail completely.

Secondly, the fate-changing power produced by this curse witchcraft is not created out of thin air, it needs to pay a price, and this price is the luck of the caster.

While the curse witchcraft had an effect on the gambler, it also had an effect on Leo. Although this effect was not as obvious and harmful as that on the gambler, it still brought it more or less Some inconveniences, for example, when he was walking, a piece of the ceiling above his head would inexplicably fall off and hit him.

This kind of blow won't hurt him, but it makes him extremely surprised, because normally he can easily avoid such an accident, but the strange thing is that he has no way to dodge at all, even if he is aware of it, his Thinking and reflex nerves will suddenly degenerate into ordinary people, unable to respond effectively.

This unpredictable and irresistible power made him surprised and amazed, but he was more curious because he could see the potential of this mysterious curse power.

Just imagine, there is almost no need to meet the target directly, and you can easily kill the target with only a little of the target's belongings. This is simply an excellent method for assassination.

Of course, the premise is to be able to find the real way to use this power, instead of performing those seemingly crazy mysterious rituals. In addition, getting rid of this kind of power defect is also the key. some loss outweighs the gain

In the early morning, the old captain of the Ice Queen knocked on the door of the hotel room where the passengers on the ship were staying, and told everyone the departure time. The passengers on the ship also went to Skeleton Town to buy it while there was still some time left. Some local specialties and souvenirs.

Leo didn't have anything to buy, so he picked up his luggage, checked out of the hotel room, and went to the small restaurant near the pier alone, eating breakfast while waiting for the departure time.

The cursing force acting on his body had disappeared in the early morning, otherwise, he would not have left the hotel room, so as not to encounter some accidents inexplicably while walking on the street, and become the joke and talk of others after dinner.

He had just ordered an early breakfast in the small restaurant, when there was a loud noise coming from the counter of the restaurant, and the owner of the restaurant looked at the newspaper in his hand that had just been ironed by his staff, with a look of shock on his face, as if I saw something horrible.

Not only Leo was curious about the reason why the boss made such a reaction, but also the guests in other restaurants around. One of the guests who looked like he was working on the dock and should be a regular customer asked questions for everyone. .

"The unsinkable Miracle Star has sunk?" The boss handed over the newspaper in his hand, took out a bottle of wine under the counter, and after taking a sip, he still hadn't recovered from the shock, and murmured.

When everyone heard the boss's words, they didn't react from the news at first, but soon they realized the meaning of the words, and all of them showed the most obvious shocked expressions.

The Miracle Star can be said to be the highest achievement of the shipbuilding industry in the Kingdom of England. It has always been the focus of attention of the whole world since its construction. When the Miracle Star successfully completed the launching ceremony, left the shipyard, and docked on the dock, the world All eyes were focused there, and even the division of the French Empire at that time was squeezed out of the front page by it.

Afterwards, the internal transformation of the ship, the steam machinery used, and various decoration details were the first choice for the headlines of every newspaper. Almost as long as it was a topic related to the Miracle Star, it would become the hottest topic at that time. The title of the Sunken Miracle Star was also given by everyone who participated in the naming discussion, and it was also recognized by the shipbuilding experts of the entire Vinylon World, because in the eyes of these professionals, it is indeed impossible for this ship to sink.

However, something that surprised everyone now happened. This unsinkable ship sank on its maiden voyage. This accident is completely unacceptable to people who are still immersed in the fantasy of the highest masterpiece in the shipbuilding industry, and even more unacceptable. In the end, more than 5,000 passengers and more than 1,000 staff members on the ship were all buried in the sea. The reason turned out to be that the ship owner thought that the ship would never sink and would never be equipped with lifeboats, so four ships were used as a show , and even unpainted lifeboats, there were no other lifeboats.

It is conceivable that when the Miracle Star sank, everyone was in despair facing the sea with nowhere to escape. These details made people feel extremely angry while being shocked by the sinking of the Miracle Star.

All of a sudden, in the small restaurant, all kinds of insults came one after another. All the insults were directed at the owner, the designer and everyone related to the ship. Not only in the small restaurant, but even on the pier outside the restaurant, rumors There were all kinds of exclamations and curses. Obviously, the news had already spread on Skull Island.

Leo was not too surprised by the sinking of the Miracle Star, because when he first saw the Miracle Star, he had a feeling that something might happen to the ship, and now it just confirmed his thoughts. .

He took the newspaper from a woman, and quickly looked at the content on it. He found that perhaps because of communication difficulties, the newspaper was three days ago, and the time when Miracle Star sank was in their The day before entering Skeleton Bay.

Leo didn't pay too much attention to the matter of Miracle Star. He was more concerned about the follow-up of this matter. There is no doubt that this matter had a great impact on the shipbuilding industry of the entire Kingdom of England. All industries will be greatly affected, including Leo's United Group. After all, some of the mechanical parts they produce are mainly supplied to the local shipyards in the Kingdom of England.

On the surface, the shipyards of the Kingdom of England and the entire shipbuilding industry will be affected, and many related industries will definitely go bankrupt or struggle to maintain, but the political impact of this incident is actually greater.

The construction of the Miracle Star was promoted by most members of Congress, and even for this reason, many related policies were implemented for the construction of the Miracle Star, which is mainly aimed at supporting the shipbuilding industry. Because these congressmen have large and small shipbuilding industries and related industries under their hands, supporting the shipbuilding industry is equivalent to supporting their industries.

The royal family and the traditional landed nobles were naturally dissatisfied with this, but the members of Congress followed the rules and could not find any fault.

Now, something happened to the Miracle Star, and the properties of these members of Congress will inevitably be affected. At the same time, some people need to be kicked out to take responsibility for the Miracle Star. At that time, there will inevitably be some political turmoil within the Kingdom of England because of these parliamentary seats.

When Leo was thinking about what he should do on this matter, on the pier outside the restaurant, the sailors of the Snow Queen had already started trimming the sails, preparing for the upcoming sailing.

Seeing this, Leo put down the newspaper in his hand, picked up his luggage and walked towards the boat.

At this moment, on the pier, all the conversations seemed to be about the same thing. While everyone was shocked by this incident, they also felt inexplicable panic. After all, even the unsinkable Miracle Star would sink, so And what kind of ship is safe?

In these conversations, there are many anti-intellectual remarks, such as thinking that the Miracle Star sank because it was an all-steel ship and was powered by all steam, and that it would be safer to go back to the era of sailing ships.

This emotion even affected the crew of the Ice Queen, until the Ice Queen set sail and left Skull Island, their spirits were still in a trance.