The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

As a local snake, Katie would naturally not arrange for Leo and the others to rest in the sewer. After she handed over the matter of the black market to her deputy, she led Leo and the others back to the ground, and came to the most upscale hotel in Tranquility City. , arranged the three of them in the hotel.

It was nothing at first, but when he learned that the hotel was actually owned by Cartier, Robert's face became a little ugly.

Before Cartier said that the blood clan and werewolves had forced the black market in Asa County to change its business content and model. Robert thought that the black market here might be very bad, even though Cartier mentioned that they are now making a lot more than before. And there is no need to risk his life to fight and fight, he just thinks that Kajie is being stubborn.

However, after seeing this luxurious hotel now, he realized that what Katie said before was indeed correct. After the black market in Yasha County changed its model, it actually made a lot more money than before. Only the black market in a small border town like Katie The person in charge can already have such a big industry, so what about the heads of the black market in other big cities?

With this kind of envy and jealousy, Robert's face was very ugly for most of the next day, muttering from time to time about abandoning the tradition of the black market.

Compared with the change in the business model of the black market in Yasha County, Leo is more concerned about what happened in the recent period.

He didn't look for the newspaper, because the content recorded in the newspaper was not complete, but asked Kajie directly.

Although Tranquility City is a small town on the edge of Yasha County, but because it relies on Yasha County, the news here is also very fast, especially the news from the black market, most of which have not spread to the northwest region, and it has become old news here .

From Katie's mouth, Leo learned that the situation in the Kingdom of Maris was really bad. The civil war in the Kingdom had already left the prosperous counties in the central, western and southern parts in dire straits, and the people were in dire straits. All kinds of monsters were like the last straw that broke the camel's back, completely crushing the people's livelihood in the already overwhelmed central, western and southern regions.

Now the outskirts of these places have almost become deserted, and all the people have hid in the city protected by high walls and soldiers, further disrupting the order of the city.

The west is grassland and desert, with vast land and few people. Even if the people's livelihood is destroyed, it doesn't matter to the Maris Kingdom. In the northwest, the government army and the rebel army are fighting there, but both sides are restraining their destructive power. The cities in the northwest The villages and towns on the outskirts of the city are still intact, and the impact on people's livelihood is not too great.

As for Yasha County in the north, although there was a monster wave here, it quickly subsided, and the rebel army and the government army did not enter this area very tacitly, making this area the only one in the Maris Kingdom. Peaceful land, which also caused a large number of southerners who escaped the war to flee to Yasha County, and most of these people were rich people. The arrival of these people made Yasha County the entire Maris Kingdom in a short time. The busiest place.

Take Tranquility City as an example. Among the many people Leo saw in the black market, most of them are children of the rich and powerful who fled here in the south. They have seen the power and danger of monsters, so they are also curious about the mysterious power. , Knowing that there is a black market, it will naturally generate curiosity, and then go to investigate.

The government army and the rebel army also noticed that the situation has become very bad. If the fight continues like this, the Marris Kingdom may really be over, so both sides have the idea of ​​​​negotiations. Except for the accident in the west, the battlefields in other places are temporarily suspended. During the war, each of them was dealing with various things in the area under their control, mainly dealing with the monsters who had already occupied the suburbs.

Because the army needs to protect the city, the job of hunting monsters in the suburbs is handed over to bounty hunters. Now the main task of cleaning up monsters is divided into three forces at the same time. One is the special bureau recruited by the government army and the rebel army, and the other is In the black market, the last one is naturally the Church of the Hill King.

Although the cleanup of the monsters in the outskirts was not smooth for the time being, at least it did not make the current situation worse. It will not take long for various forces to sort out a set of methods to deal with monsters, and the monsters entrenched in the outskirts will no longer be is the problem.

Leo didn't care about those family members who were out of control due to the changes in the world. Among the various news provided by Katie, he was most concerned about the fog on the sea, because news came that the fog entrenched on the sea has not weakened and dissipated these days. , on the contrary, it is getting thicker and thicker, and it is spreading towards the land. Three coastal cities have already been engulfed in dense fog, and news has been lost.

"Don't the government army and the rebel army care about those cities?" Leo frowned and asked.

"They can't manage it if they want to. Now they are busy enough with the things in the area they control, and there is no extra manpower to deal with these things." Katie shook his head and said, "However, they all take care of those who have been shunting the car." The city’s loss of contact was listed on the black market as a bounty task. The bounty is extremely rich and has attracted many people and forces. In addition, they also asked the Church of the Hill King for help. As far as I know, the Church of the Hill King A team of knights led by three paladins has been sent into the foggy area, but there is no news from there yet.”

"Didn't you send someone there?" Leo asked.

"No." Katie first gave an affirmative answer, but soon said with some uncertainty: "Maybe."

The news that the dense fog is spreading is not only bad news for the world of Velen, but also bad news for Leo, because this dense fog is likely to come from the abyss, which means that with the return of the gods, The abyss has also descended, and the whole world is sliding into the abyss.

However, Leo thought about it calmly, and felt that it was not very possible, because if the world really slipped into the abyss, then the most worried thing must be these returning true gods. They must use the shortest time to take countermeasures to prevent the abyss from falling, Instead of issuing an oracle such as the formation of a knight order.

Judging from the reaction of the church after accepting the entrustment, it is clear that the Church of the Hill King did not get any inspiration from their gods, and they did not know what was in the thick fog, so they only sent a few paladins and ordinary soldiers so boldly. The knight entered the thick fog.

"Where are those cities located?" Leo suddenly asked again.

Katie quickly fetched a map, and then only showed it to Leo. The cities covered by dense fog are all in the southwest corner of the Kingdom of Marris, and one of them is an offshore island city, all of which are seaside cities. If you look at the map, you will find that they are not very far from the Sea of ​​Falling Stars.

"Is there a thick fog in the north?" Leo suddenly asked again.

"I don't know about this," Katie shook his head, thought for a while, and said, "But I heard that there are ships in Deliyat that can sail along the coastline, and the intensity of the dense fog should not be comparable to that in the south. "

After hearing these words, Leo breathed a sigh of relief, because according to his understanding, if the world slips into the abyss, the dense fog in the abyss will appear at the same time, and the concentration is about the same, which cannot be the case where the south is strong and the north is weak. .

However, this is just Leo's speculation, and he needs to see the thick fog on the sea to make a judgment on the specific situation.

After nightfall, everyone went back to their rooms to rest. After Leo returned to the room, he did not fall asleep, but opened his mental net, but he slightly changed the perception accuracy of the mental net and expanded it. With a look at the coverage area, the entire Tranquility City is shrouded in his own mental network perception.

Although Tranquility City appears to be as calm as its name on the surface, in fact there are still some out-of-control family members who can control their own power but can't control their mentality. After one night, he sensed at least five battles. The one exception is the battle with the werewolf officers of the garrison stationed here.

Even if Leo adjusted the sensing accuracy of the spirit net, he was able to clearly sense the details of the strength of the two sides after watching the five battles.

As he had guessed before, those werewolves whose energy fluctuation level reached the third-level psyker were even more unable to control their own power. Not only did they not have corresponding fighting skills, they also could not control their own power very well. , all destruction in the battlegrounds is at the hands of these werewolves whose power is beyond their control.

Compared with those werewolves, those out-of-control family members who have lost most of their sanity control their own power more delicately. Using their own power is like using their own arms, although the energy level is lower than that of werewolves. More than one level, but still able to fight back and forth with the werewolf, and finally even used a little trick to escape the werewolf's pursuit.

After several battles, the out-of-control family finally escaped from Tranquility City, and those werewolf officers gained rare combat experience.

It's just that their battles have suffered for those ordinary people around the battle zone. When most of these ordinary people saw the twisted and weird figures of the out-of-control family members, their own will encountered these out-of-control family members. The impact of some unknown spiritual energy, a few of them survived, but most of them passed out from the impact, and almost all of them went crazy when they woke up.

Those who are crazy, and those who are sober, have good luck, and those who happen to be in the middle of the battle field are even more unlucky. The attack was torn apart, and all in all just a few people who were right in the center of the battle zone were still alive, and those few were insane without exception.

The two ethnic groups in Yasha County seem to have a quick and effective process to deal with this situation. Not long after the battle ended, an army immediately went to block the area, and then divided the survivors into two groups.

After witnessing the battle, those who can still stay awake will be recruited by the special department, because this means that those people have the potential to become bounty hunters, or even extraordinary people.

As for the rest of the lunatics who had collapsed, they were taken away and sent to a public sanatorium outside the city for treatment.

The destroyed buildings in that area were also quickly cleaned up, and a construction team rebuilt the land early the next morning, transforming a residential area into a public square in less than half a day .

When the local government and military were dealing with post-war affairs, Leo had already taken back the Spirit Net.

After this incident, he already has a preliminary understanding of the werewolf in Yasha County, and through the strength of the werewolf, it is not difficult for him to deduce the strength of the blood clan that has fought against it for many years, if there is no big deviation in his deduction , then no matter what kind of accidents occur during the process of going to Moonlight City to participate in the auction, he will not be in any danger.

This inference also made him relax a little bit, and in this state of mind, he quickly entered a state of rest.

At noon the next day, Katie came to the hotel and informed Leo and others that the rail car had arrived. She handed over three afternoon tickets to Leo and the others, and then asked Leo if it was still possible. Sells some rune traps.

It turned out that the battle in the city last night did not end because the out-of-control family members fled. One of the out-of-control family members got into the sewer to avoid the pursuit of the werewolves, and by chance, they entered the area where the black market was located.

But before the out-of-control family was besieged by the guards of the black market, a rune trap that Katie had randomly set up during the day was activated, and the psionic energy stored in the rune trap was attached to dozens of blades protruding from the trap after activation. In the process, the out-of-control family member who looked like some kind of mollusk was cut into pieces in an instant, killing him on the spot.

Kajie was shocked by the powerful power of the rune trap combined with the mechanical blade. At that time, she asked the craftsmen in the black market to carefully study the manufacturing method of this rune trap.

Then not only did she not figure out why those Turing radicals in the rune trap, even the ejection blades of those purely mechanical devices did not understand the reason, because they imitated the installation of a blade but ejected it. The blade used to play the rune trap is not ten times weaker, so the craftsmen in the black market attributed the exaggerated power of the blade to those incomprehensible runes, thinking that the unique technique of the tower wizard at this time could not be imitated.

During the day, Katie focused on wizard potions, bought some rune traps and mechanical traps incidentally, and wanted to take the opportunity to build a good relationship with Leo.

However, she never thought that the rune traps and mechanical traps that she ignored during the day would have the power to easily kill an out-of-control family member. But it is undeniable that the power of rune traps far exceeds all the weapons that can be used to deal with family members or extraordinary people. More importantly, these rune traps can be used even by ordinary people. Kajie naturally Want to get more of this trap.