The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Your agility growth will continue for a while. During this period of time, you will not be able to adapt to the changes in your body, and there will be many problems." Leo looked at Joey who was completely immersed in ecstasy, reminded him, and then said : "Your current situation is no longer suitable for me to continue to the upper level of Wangcheng, let's break up here."

"Ah?" Joey was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that his situation was indeed not suitable for following Leo, or even staying here any longer, and he couldn't help showing regret on his face.

I don't know why he feels that if he continues to follow Leo to the upper level of the royal city, he may be able to gain more and see more magical things, but he may also encounter greater dangers, and may even die in the real world. here.

"Thank you." Joey suppressed the regret in his heart, and said sincerely to Leo.

Leo nodded, turned around and looked at the bonfire again, remembering the abnormal situation that happened in the space-time over there just now, he couldn't help frowning, for some reason, he felt that something might have happened in the prayer hall over there.

He sorted out his emotions a bit, and didn't think about the time and space over there. In his opinion, even if something happened there, he couldn't help, and he wasn't even qualified to help, so it's better to focus on his own affairs Some.

After feeling that the bonfire would no longer reflect the scene of another time and space, Leo got up decisively and left the prayer hall, and walked towards a place called the chapel marked on the data map. According to the data, there There is a shortcut to the upper ancient city, avoiding the upper passages full of Roderick knights guarding.

Although judging from the various situations seen before, it seems that the Roderick knights all died in the civil war, but everything is not absolute. Maybe some Roderick knights survived, and they may even be polluted by the abyss and become monsters. Although Leo He is confident that these Roderick knights can be dealt with, but he is worried that he will encounter more dangerous existences in the upper ancient city, so saving his strength as much as possible is the best choice.

When Leo left the prayer hall, Joey didn't intend to stay here any longer. He seemed to have figured out a way to solve the various changes that might be caused by his appearance returning to normal. He directly activated the ring, and his body gradually disappeared. A pile of vigorous bonfires remained burning in the dilapidated prayer hall.

After Leo left the prayer hall, he detoured a secret path, walked among a bunch of houses, and came to the temple area near the city wall.

This is the only religious city in the lower urban area. This urban area is not open to the public. Only clergy are allowed to enter and exit. If ordinary people in the lower urban area want to pray to the gods, they can only do it in the prayer hall. According to the Church of the Gods at that time, this is the land of the gods, a holy place, and should not be trampled or defiled by ordinary mortals.

But in the information that Leo saw, the author added a sub-name to the urban area with the name of the filthy land, and added some notes, in which he mentioned some things about the clergy. Some evil and cruel things, and also question whether the gods are really as great as the classics say, because how can they have the ability to protect the world if they can't even find the evil things under their noses?

It is not difficult to see that the person who explored the royal city was very disdainful and even hostile to the gods of Anor Londo. Arrived, there are a lot of unknown hidden places recorded in his information, judging from the names he marked, those hidden places are definitely not good places.

Just like the shortcut that Leo was going to now, the outsider from the Dragon Academy named it the Corrupted Path, and mentioned the function of this path in the comment.

According to the laws and regulations of the divine religion, the clergy need to be abstinent, and they must be virtuous and orderly. However, the clergy are also very good at finding loopholes. They discovered from the regulations that as long as they are not in a place blessed by God, then There is no need to believe in any laws and regulations, and the lower urban area of ​​the royal city, except for the small garden and prayer hall, is not a place blessed by the gods, so they built an additional temple area in the lower urban area, dedicated to the priesthood in the upper urban area Personnel provide some so-called entertainment that is not permitted by the laws of the gods.

Leo didn't know what entertainment these priests were getting, but he could understand the mood of the Dragon Academy person exploring here, because under his spiritual network perception, he found that there was a big cave under these temples. Space, there are a lot of rooms in this space, and almost every room has one or more living corpses.

From the clothes of these living corpses, it is not difficult to see that these are ordinary people in the lower urban areas, and each of them has more or less scars on their bodies. These scars did not appear after becoming living corpses, but before becoming living corpses. Yes, it seems that he was tortured during his lifetime.

Leo was not in the mood to pay attention to the dirty things of these clergy, and there was no need to bother, because most of these clergy died in the civil war, and even if they did not die, they were all corroded by human pus and turned into strange shapes monster.

Now Leo has to think about how to bypass these monsters and go to the trail.

Although the hunger from the chaotic stomach sac gave him the urge to devour all the monsters transformed by the priests in front of him, his strong will can still suppress this physiological instinct, allowing him to maintain a calm mind. Thinking, judging the situation at hand.

Soon Leo discovered that these monsters, like other living corpses in the city, had fixed patrol routes and patrol areas, and it was not difficult to see from their patrol routes that they were all connected to each other. Other monsters in the area will also be alarmed.

The same mechanical way of movement also naturally has some blind spots. Leo explored all the patrol routes and areas of these monsters through the spiritual network, and formed a complete three-dimensional road map in his mind, and found these with ease. The monster's patrol route has dead ends, and these dead ends are connected into a line that can use shadow jumps.

It's just that Leo didn't use this route immediately. Instead, he stood there, thinking about other things, thinking about how the Dragon Academy member passed the patrol of these monsters.

Obviously, from the records in that book, it is not difficult to infer that the person from the Dragon Academy can use some powers similar to witchcraft, but he is not strong, and he will choose to avoid it in many cases, and he is not as capable as Leo. Using space movement methods such as shadow jumps, and without a body like Leo, he can climb various buildings and use himself to avoid obstacles. He can only choose the streets that have been opened up like ordinary people.

However, in that book, he described everything about this place in detail, even the dungeon space under the temple, which vaguely implied that he would not understand these monsters and underground living corpses. Attack, you can come and go here freely.

This question is not random, because he feels that the people from the Dragon Academy may have mastered a way to avoid being attacked by these monsters infected by the abyss. If he can find out this way, then the road ahead will be easy. Not much, after all, it is recorded in that book that there are still a large number of powerful monsters in the upper ancient city. These monsters were already very powerful warriors before they were alive, and they became even more powerful when they became monsters. With the strength of his fifth-level psyker , does not necessarily guarantee that he can defeat these monsters.

Leo carefully recalled every detail of the books he saw, and analyzed and compared them. After about half an hour, he found a clue.

At first glance, the people of the Dragon Academy recorded the Wangcheng exploration materials in the same way, but if you look closely, you will find some subtle changes in the way of writing, and this change divides the contents of this book into two parts. period.

One period was when he had just arrived in Wangcheng, and the exploration targets were very messy, and the recorded content was very simple. Most of the maps were drawn based on topography and streets.

But after that, his way of writing quickly changed, becoming a selective exploration target, and the exploration of the target was very in-depth, and there were even a lot of hand-drawn drawings related to the exploration target, but the drawing of the map was much simpler , It is no longer carefully marking the terrain and streets, but just recording a route, and judging from previous encounters, most of the routes drawn later have living corpses blocking the way.

Soon Leo found the turning point of the two writings. This turning point was the exploration of an ancient library in the lower urban area by the people of Dragon Academy. During this exploration, he was injured, and the monster who injured him was a monster who was killed A monster corrupted by human pus.

The people from the Dragon Academy did not record his injury in the subsequent text, nor did they mention the monster's ending, but after three days he was able to continue to explore the lower city of Wangcheng, and the writing method changed.

The injury recorded here is itself a suspicious point, because it is not difficult to see from the previous words of this person, unless he suffered an injury that would take ten and a half months to recover, otherwise he would never write about his injury. in the booklet.

But this time, he recorded his injury in a complete way, which has never been done before. That is to say, when he recorded these words, he thought that his injury was too serious, and he wanted to save himself. The Wangcheng Exploration Notes will come to an end. But for some reason, his injury suddenly healed, and he was able to move freely in just two or three days. This was completely inconsistent with his previous record of the injury. It was obvious that something happened when he was injured, which allowed him to quickly recover from the injury. , and will no longer be attacked by zombies and monsters.

"Human pus!" Leo quickly thought of the monster in the hands of the Dragon Academy and the key things that formed it, which also gave him an answer to the doubts in his heart.

Although there is no substantive evidence, Leo speculates through various abnormalities that the person from the Dragon Academy may have been infected by human pus after being injured. It's just that the person from the Dragon Academy contained the erosion of the human pus, and stopped the further erosion of the human pus, and made his body also carry the breath of the human pus, so that he would not be infected by the same abyss. Attacks from zombies and monsters.

Thinking of this, Leo immediately had an idea in his heart, and immediately acted on it. He retreated back to the main street, and soon found a monster made of human pus.

It was effortless for Leo to deal with such a single monster, and soon Leo dismembered the monster, and took out the human pus from the monster and let it invade Dao's body.

It's just that this time, Leo didn't use his gluttonous power to swallow the human pus that had penetrated the entire palm, but built a protection around the wrist to prevent the human pus from continuing to penetrate into the arm, completely burying his body. The human pus was confined in the palm of his hand, and it was innately suppressed by the power of gluttony. However, even if the human pus had been integrated into his palm, it still would not harm him or cause his palm to mutate.

The only difference from before is that the palm of his hand has now turned light black, and it also emits bursts of oily shine.

After completely controlling the human pus in the palm of his hand, Leo did not restrain the weak energy fluctuations emitted by the human pus, then looked around and found a walking corpse that was staggering, and entered the attack range of the living corpse within.

As he expected before, under the influence of the breath of human pus, the living corpse seemed to regard Leo as a barrel, and instead of attacking Leo, staggered past Leo, Leo seemed to be air.

But Leo didn't finish the test, and then he used his strength to restrain the breath of human pus from leaking out. The living corpse that just walked by Leo's side immediately changed back to its original appearance, and rushed towards Leo crazily , to launch an attack on Leo.

Naturally, such an attack could not pose any threat to Leo. He easily avoided the attack and solved the living corpse.

After this trial, Leo has determined how the person in the Dragon Academy will not be attacked by living corpses and monsters. The next step is to test the monsters.

Just when Leo was looking for a suitable monster to test the human pus, a building in the distance suddenly collapsed, and there were bursts of loud noises, breaking the silence of the dead city.

"Is it the prayer hall?" Leo looked towards the place where the sound came from, and judged the location from the raised dust, he couldn't help but feel surprised, because according to his estimation, the collapsed building should be the prayer hall he just left .

Seeing this situation, Leo immediately set off and rushed towards the prayer hall.

It didn't take long for him to return to the small square where the prayer hall was located. In the distance of his sight, the prayer hall, which was relatively intact before, had turned into a pile of rubble. If you look carefully, the rubble is covered with weathering. The traces, as if tens of millions of years have passed at that moment just now.

However, Leo's sight at this moment was not on the ruined prayer hall, but on another secret room that was exposed due to the collapse of the prayer hall.

At this moment, part of the secret room has collapsed, revealing the situation inside, and what surprised Leo was that there were all corpses in the secret room, the corpses of the Fire Defense Girl.