The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After leaving the room, Leo was about to leave the house the same way, only halfway down the hallway, he stopped suddenly, turned his head and looked at a picture hanging on the wall.

This picture is a family portrait. If it’s just a normal family portrait, the problem is that this family portrait is the last owner’s family portrait at 9 Golden Oak Street. What’s even more strange is that I walked through this aisle just now. In the hall room, this painting is just a sunflower that does not exist in the dream world.

In order to confirm that he was not mistaken, Leo called up the data in the auxiliary brain system and compared it. He quickly got the answer. He did not read it wrong. In the previous picture, it was indeed a sunflower.

Feeling weird in his heart, Leo is preparing to ask the old housekeeper beside him, but he unexpectedly found that the old housekeeper who was still with him a moment ago has disappeared, and he also found that the sound of discussion from the hall at the end of the corridor is also now. Disappeared, everything around was extremely quiet, as if silenced, and even my heartbeat could not be heard.

Although he somehow fell into an unknown danger, Leo did not show any consternation and surprise. Instead, his eyes were full of excitement and joy, because for him this unexpected change occurred more than nothing happened. It is much better. Only when you have more experience will you have a more detailed understanding of the world.

"Come on! Let me see what you are." Leo thought, and inspired the sight skills.

As the psionic energy of Lingshi skills blessed his eyes, the house in front of him began to change rapidly, from a new house that was built less than two years quickly became obsolete, the wood began to decay, and the roof of the overwhelmed roof began. When it collapsed, many places collapsed and collapsed, and eventually turned into a piece of broken tiles, and the only thing that didn't change was this portrait of the family portrait.

Leo looked around, his eyes through the broken holes in the house, and saw the outside scene, and the glare of the snowstorm outside and the sun shining on the snow made him wonder.

Immediately afterwards, a sound of rapid footsteps stepping on the snow came from not far away, and a figure flew over the broken window and fell into the house, quickly hiding behind a wall that could block the snow.

It’s okay if a monster ran in, but Leo found that the man who broke in to hide the snow was a woman. Or maybe a girl is more suitable, it seems that her grade should be shortly after adulthood.

I saw that the girl had thick white long hair, a rope tied it casually behind her head, and a pair of bright eyes on her pale face, her eyes were deliberately painted with a circle of dark black Eye shadow. Originally, this circle of eyeshadow gave her a more feminine gesture, but a scar on her left face destroyed this femininity, but instead made her whole temperament more manly than a man.

The girl wore a thin cloth that couldn't cover any chill, and her lower body was a pair of tight leather pants and sleeved boots. The wide waist belt was inlaid with several huge sapphires and a few bottles of potions. In addition, she carried a long sword with a red scabbard, and under Leo’s psionic gaze, she could see the strong psionic energy exuded from the long sword and even turned into a swallow fantasy, flying around the girl. .

While Leo was observing the girl who suddenly broke in, the girl was also surprised that Leo appeared here, and looked at Leo vigilantly, while also instinctively putting her hand on the long sword behind her, body Maintain an attitude of offensive or defensive at any time.

From the girl's reflection, Leo can see that the other party has undergone very strict training, and the movements and reactions have been perfect, and there is no fault. In order to dispel the hostility of the girl, Leo raised his hands first and took two steps back to show his kindness, and the other party's alert look relaxed a little, but the long sword on his back still did not loosen.

"%&Amp;￥&..." At this time, the girl said a few words to Leo, like asking about Leo's origin, but she had not heard the language she used, and did not understand the meaning of the other party.

The girl was also aware of the problem, so she was prepared to ask in another language, but the dog bark suddenly heard from outside the house destroyed the now slightly relaxed atmosphere.

At this time, the girl immediately pulled out the long sword, followed by taking a bottle of medicine from the medicine hanging on the waist belt, and poured it on the long sword. In Leo's spirit vision, the psionic energy on the long sword also changed into the shape of flame after contacting the potion.

At this time, Leo saw several monsters covered in frost leaping from behind a snowy hill and fell outside the house. They each looked up to smell the remaining scent in the air, and quickly found the girl’s hiding place according to the smell. .

These monsters didn't hesitate at all, they rushed directly towards the wall and knocked down a wall. The girl quickly moved away from the falling bricks. When she was hiding, she deliberately chose to stay away from Leo in order to Avoid Leo being affected.

It's just that the girl's idea is good, but the monster will not act as she wishes. The first monster to break in just happened to be not far from Leo.

The moment the monster recovered from the vertigo caused by hitting the wall, it saw Leo, but it was slightly wise. It didn't understand why there was one more person, but this did not prevent it from attacking any living creatures.

While other monsters besieged the girl, the monster leaped towards Leo and opened his toothy mouth to bite at Leo’s point. Before it had hit Leo, from The smell of cold air erupting from his mouth had already covered Leo's body, making him a layer of frost.

In the face of the attacking monster, Leo didn’t even plan to move his body. When the distance was right, he directly raised his fist and hit the monster’s open mouth. The double punch gloves’ impact was extremely obvious. The monster's jaw, brain, and skull were broken together, and Leo's arm passed through.

Such a heavy injury even killed the monster immediately, and the monster hanging on the arm did not wait for Leo to throw it on the ground, just like a broken snowman turned into countless flying snowflakes, and at the same time around The scene was transformed into an instant, and there was no warning from the icy ruins to the front of a painting in the corridor of Peter Alcott Court.

"Sir, are you okay?" The old butler of the seventh Alcott family, who had disappeared before, stood beside Leo again and asked with a look of vigilance and doubt.

Leo looked around, Shen Sheng asked: "What happened to me just now?"

The old housekeeper pointed to the painting in front of Leo and said, "You have been watching this painting just now. No matter what I call you, you have no response."

Leo's eyes also fell on the paintings with the fingers of the old housekeeper, and I saw that the painting of the family portrait had returned to the Sunflower.

"Sir, is there anything wrong with this painting?" The old housekeeper was confused by Leo's move and asked again.

"No, it's fine." Leo replied perfunctoryly, turning around and continuing to walk outward.

The old housekeeper looked at Leo’s back, frowned, and turned to look at the painting. Although he felt Leo must have discovered something just now, he was not very good to ask, so he could only Keep things in mind, and later tell his master.

"Are you going to the ball?" after leaving the villa, he asked after the old butler who had caught Leo.

Leo didn't answer, just shook his head and chose to leave the Alcott family's estate directly. He never thought of going to the party in the main hall, because he had more important things to deal with than to eavesdrop on the bizarre language full of secret words at the party, which analyzed some intrigues between nobles.

Under the guarded **** of the old housekeeper, Leo left the manor. Outside the manor, he immediately took a steam car of the Alcott family from the original road and returned to the outer city.

It's just that he didn't plan to return to the house he rented in the 33rd district. As for the books in the house, he has recorded them in the database, and he has brought important books to him. This town on the lake The useful books that could be collected were almost all collected, so he didn't need to go back to the dealer where he bought books.

After descending from the suspension bridge, Leo casually entered a nearby urban area, from the top floor to the ground floor vine platform where no one except the poor would choose to live, crossed a slum, walked to a relatively remote place, and then The right hand that had been clenched open wide, revealing an irregular ice crystal in the palm.

"It's not an illusion!" Leo whispered as he looked at the ice crystals exuding cold air in his hands.

Just before that painting, Leo did not move in the eyes of the old housekeeper, but actually Leo had inadvertently entered another world shrouded in ice and snow, and encountered some things there. The ice crystal in his hand was The best evidence.

This ice crystal was formed after he killed the snow monster, and when the monster dispersed, the dissipated energy in the monster's body condensed in his hands.

"A high-energy substance can be absorbed and taken." The side brain system gives a simple analysis of this ice crystal.

Leo did not swallow the ice crystal, but unwrapped his backpack and took out the box containing the wreckage of omega-class advanced creatures, and included the ice crystal in it.

After collecting the ice crystals, Leo asked the secondary brain system to replay the impact and recorded data just now.

"Family portrait!" Leo soon discovered that he had encountered that weird situation, which was related to the family portrait.

After finding the source, Leo immediately retrieved the information related to this family portrait in the auxiliary brain system.

In the past, Leo has seen this family portrait three times in total, once in the information about 9 Golden Oak Street, and another time in the house at 9 Golden Oak Street, the last time just now.

If it wasn’t what happened just now, Leo might not have doubts about this seemingly ordinary family portrait. Because no matter how you look at it, this family portrait is not much different from the family portrait of ordinary aristocratic families looking for artists. The owner sits in the center, his wife sits next to him, and the children are surrounded.

However, when the para-brain system compares the three family portraits that Leo has seen, Leo finds that one of them is not easy to detect, but it is a very important difference. This difference is held by his wife. The expression of the child in his arms.

In the information file at No. 9 Golden Oak Street, the child's expression in the family portrait was smiling, while at the painting at No. 9 Golden Oak Street, the child's expression appeared very indifferent. The child's expression in the painting is sad.

In addition to discovering the expression changes of the child in the painting, it is more important that Leo recognized the child and determined that he had seen the child before.

When Leo first went to the black market in the fish area of ​​Miria City, he found a local child to lead himself. Although he only got along for a short time, this kid left Leo with a particularly deep impression, because this kid seemed to be able to see the future, so he began to remind him.

Afterwards, Leo also went to search for this kid a few times, but he didn't find it. What's more weird is that other kids who used to play with this kid didn't remember the kid.

In addition to this, Leo also discovered a very important thing. When he saw Peter Alcott, he felt that he had seen each other before, but after comparing the human brain system with the portrait, He didn't find a portrait that matched it. Now he knows where his familiar feeling came from.

"Vice Brain~www.wuxiahere.com~ conducts character growth simulation, 20 years old." Leo, who was suspicious, immediately gave orders to the Vice Brain and began to simulate the growth of the child's appearance on the family portrait.

With the sorting, comparison, and adjustment of the simulation data, a picture of a 20-year-old young man soon appeared in his eyes. The appearance of this young man is more than 90% similar to that of Peter Alcott before. The rest of the dissimilarities are due to some local differences in facial features caused by the thin body. Within the accepted deviation.

Although Leo doesn’t know how this Peter Alcott made it, he can be sure that this Peter Alcott should use some method to enter the Velon world, and even more other unknown worlds, from those Acquiring knowledge in the world, and inventing a lot of things that people in the dream world cannot invent.

It’s just that Leo was puzzled by the time. The last owner of No. 9 Golden Oak Street had an accident sixty years ago, when Peter Alcott appeared as a child in the world of Velon and became that person. The villa owner's family, but sixty years later, he appeared in Yucheng District with the same appearance. This time loophole is difficult to explain.

"Can he control the time?" Leo could not help but a thought emerged.

The reason why he has this idea is not illusory, untargeted, but really grounded. In the Earth Federation, the psionicist inadvertently entered a certain unknown subspace. Although he only stayed in that subspace for a while, the time of the outside world has passed for decades.

These kinds of things often happen to alien psionicists on other planets, so when thinking of controlling time, Leo’s mind quickly emerged with these cases. After all, in his view, this dream world should also be some kind of unknown Subspace.