The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Who are you?" Leo asked directly in French.

"A peddler." The man replied simply.

Leo looked at the other party, took a serious look at the other party, and couldn't help frowning. If he was attracted to the other party just because of his French language, then after looking at the other party carefully now, the other party's temperament has turned to attract him. main factor.

It's not that the other party's temperament is so special. In fact, the other party's figure and appearance are very ordinary, and his temperament is not very outstanding, but I don't know why Leo always feels familiar to this person in front of him, as if somewhere Met each other, even more than once, like a familiar person.

"Businessman?" Leo didn't hesitate for too long, and soon came back to his senses, his face returned to normal, and asked in a deep voice: "What do you sell? Can I take a look? Maybe there is something I need in it." of."

Leo's reaction obviously also surprised the merchant, because in his expectation, Leo's reaction should not be like this. In his opinion, Leo should ask himself what is the situation in the city right now, instead of Want to buy something from him.

However, after being stunned for a while, he quickly came back to his senses, and then followed Leo's words, and said: "Of course you can see, it is very rare to meet a guest, I hope the guest can find what you like."

After speaking, he led Leo to an open lawn next to him, and spread a piece of cloth on the lawn.

What makes Leo interesting is that if according to his guess just now, he is now in a time superposition state similar to being caught in the cracks of time, then neither the people here nor the lawn here should belong to his time dimension. When he touched the lawn, he should pass through it just like when he touched a person just now, but now standing on this lawn, he can clearly feel the softness of the lawn, and even smell the unique vegetation on the lawn. Smell, this obviously contradicted his previous guess.

Just when Leo was puzzled, he saw a large number of items appear out of thin air on the cloth spread out by the merchant. There are many types of these items, ranging from daily utensils to weapons and equipment, as well as various unknown animal bones and Ores, etc., and what's more interesting is that these items all come from different civilizations, and maybe even different worlds.

For example, those daily necessities, judging from the production methods and materials, do not belong to the same civilization. Another example is weapons and equipment. In addition to cold weapons, there are also energy weapons. He even saw a small nuclear bomb in an inactive state. As for those animal bones and ores, he can feel different energy fluctuations on them. This energy fluctuation contains the unique law atmosphere of the world that produced these animal bones and ores. With Leo's current ability, he can easily Make it out.

Looking at the products displayed, Leo was a little surprised, then walked to the pile of products like a normal buyer, and then asked the merchant, "Can you pick it up and have a look?"

The merchant smiled and said, "Of course you can. If you don't pick it up and look at it carefully, how will the customer know if it's good or bad?"

Hearing this, Leo glanced at the pile of goods, then reached out and picked up the small nuclear bomb.

As a destructive weapon developed during the Old Earth period, the nuclear bomb was still one of the main strategic offensive weapons on the ground battlefield until the Earth Federation period in Leo's memory. Of course, the nuclear bombs used by the Earth Federation and the nuclear bombs used by the Old Earth have been improved several times. As many as ten generations, it can be said that it is no longer the same type of weapon.

For example, the miniaturization of nuclear bombs has reached the size of a bird's egg, and its power is more than five times that of the strongest nuclear bombs in the old earth. The penetrating bomb directly penetrates the shell armor of the war fortress, penetrates into the inside of the fortress, and detonates the nuclear bomb, which can completely destroy the ground war fortress in an instant.

However, the small nuclear bomb that Leo is holding in his hand now looks like some kind of grenade and is about the size of a fist. Small nuclear bombs of this style and model were often Use, and the function of this kind of nuclear bomb is not to kill the enemy, but to die with the enemy when there is no retreat. Only the commander of the legion will be equipped.

However, later, with the strengthening of the Earth Federation and the improvement of various weapon technologies, it is no longer necessary to rely on methods such as mutual annihilation to fight against alien civilizations, and this small nuclear bomb has also been eliminated.

There is information about this small nuclear bomb in Leo's memory, so after picking up the small nuclear bomb, he immediately opened the activation port at the tail end of the small nuclear bomb, and checked the code next to the activation port. This string of thirty The four-digit code represents the production place, factory name, production date and user army number of the small nuclear bomb.

Leo quickly compared the serial numbers and determined that this small nuclear bomb was produced in the 1354th year of the Earth Federation. The planet, the name of the factory is Ares, a large-scale weapons manufacturer in the early days of the Earth Federation, but later went bankrupt and was annexed by another weapons manufacturing group, and the user army is the Kraken Legion that has become a mysterious legend of the Earth Federation.

The reason why it is said that the Kraken Legion is a mysterious legend of the Earth Federation is because it is the only legion that has disappeared as an organization. The entire legion has 30 companies, 750,000 formal soldiers, and 140 logistics departments. 160,000, a total of 2.16 million, disappeared without a trace overnight on Siren, the stationed planet of the Kraken Legion, along with some weapons and equipment.

At that time, the military investigation team sent by the Earth Federation believed that the Siren Legion collectively mutinied, but it was quickly refuted by the military, because the planet where the Siren Legion was stationed was surrounded by more than a dozen stars of other legions. The stationed stars are equipped with complete space monitoring satellites to monitor the movement of the surrounding space at all times, and on the day when the Kraken Legion disappeared, no spacecraft had sailed in this space at all.

What's more, the Kraken Legion is a ground warfare legion. Apart from a few conventional material transport ships that do not have any subspace navigation capabilities and can only accommodate tens of thousands of people, there are no other spaceships on the stationed planet. It is impossible to transport so many people away with a transport ship, let alone so many weapons.

Because there are too many doubts that cannot be explained, the final investigation result given by the investigation team is that the disappearance of the Kraken Legion is the work of a higher-level cosmic civilization.

Seeing the small nuclear bomb in his hand now, the first thought in Leo's mind was the mysteriously missing Kraken Legion, because the production date of this small nuclear bomb was the year when the Kraken Legion disappeared.

"Where did you get this?" Leo asked holding a small nuclear bomb.

"This thing? I'll check it out," the merchant hesitated for a moment, then he took out a notebook and quickly flipped through it. Although the book didn't look thick and didn't have many pages, the merchant turned over hundreds of pages without turning it to the end. There are always pages that have been turned over and disappear, and new pages are constantly being created.

"I found it." After turning through hundreds of pages, the merchant immediately pointed to one of the pages, and said in surprise, "So it's here, no wonder it's so hard to find, did you find this thing from the ruins of the end of the world?"

"The ruins of the doomsday?" Leo was stunned, and a place immediately came to mind.

The merchant explained: "It is the place where all the doomsday worlds will eventually go. There are countless ruins left in the world. Although they are all ruins, there are also many good things in there."

"The place where everything ends." Leo muttered.

The merchant smiled and nodded, and said, "The Land where Everything Ends is a very appropriate name. It's as good as my Doomsday Ruins."

Leo put down the small nuclear bomb in his hand, then picked up several other things, and asked about their origins one by one. The merchant didn't show any impatience, and answered Leo's inquiries seriously.

"Have you been to all the worlds you mentioned?" Leo asked.

The merchant smiled and replied, "Of course I have been there, otherwise how could there be so many products?"

Leo asked, "What about the world of Velen? Do you have any items from the world of Velen?"

"The world of Velen?" The merchant was stunned for a while, then thought about it seriously, shook his head, and said, "I don't seem to have been to any world of Velen?"

Leo watched the other party's expression, and said in a deep voice: "Since you have never been to the world of Velen, why do you speak the French language of the world of Velen? And you still speak this language to me, if you didn't know it from the beginning I know this language, so the language you speak to me should be the language of the Crack Plains tribe, not Francois?"

"So that's the case." The merchant always had a smile on his face, and explained: "The reason why I can speak the French in your mouth is because of the knowledge that the special aura on your body conveyed to me. Since that aura If you can pass this language to me, then you must also know this language, so I will speak this language, in fact, there is a breath in you that has also passed on another language to me." Said, He used the common language of the Earth Federation and said, "This is the language, you should also understand this language, right?"

After listening to the merchant's explanation, Leo immediately understood why the aura of the merchant in front of him gave him a familiar feeling, because the aura of the other party was very similar to that of Rupert Fitz, and the aura he mentioned should be the one he touched. Rupert Fitz and Mimidor's consciousness remains from the Earth Federation period, which means that the merchant in front of him is also a consciousness awakened from the Earth Federation period.

It's just that, unlike the Rupert Fitz that Leo came into contact with, and the awakened consciousness before him, this conscious awakened person in front of him has extraordinary power, and he seems to be able to stay in touch with other awakened people directly The aura on the contact person, obtaining the language belonging to those awakened persons, is like directly obtaining the French that Rupert Fitz understands, and the common language of the Earth Federation of that conscious body.

In addition, this also reveals a piece of information from the side, that is, the consciousness-awakened person in front of him has not acquired much knowledge about the past. A small nuclear bomb came out for sale, and he watched him open the activation port of the small nuclear bomb. You must know that if such a cup of small nuclear bomb exploded at close range, even Leo himself might not be able to escape unscathed.

"This, this, this..., I want all of these." After learning about the other party's situation, Leo picked out several items he had selected, including small nuclear bombs, and asked: "What do I need?" What kind of deal? Money?"

"Of course it's not money. This thing is useless to me, and it's useless to believe in you." The merchant smiled and said, "We exchange things, and you also take out some things you think are valuable, and we exchange them."

Hearing this, Leo thought for a while, took out a bottle of medicine for healing wizards, placed it in front of the merchant, and said, "How about this?"

The merchant picked up the potion, looked at it, recognized that it was some kind of potion, and asked, "What effect does this potion have?"

Leo introduced: "It can treat serious injuries, as long as it is not dead, it can be cured, but it does not include mental and soul injuries. Of course, injuries caused by some special forces to the body will also weaken the healing effect."

The merchant's eyes lit up when he heard Leo's introduction. For him, this potion is undoubtedly a life-saving potion. Although there are flaws in it, as long as the effect of treating physical injuries is not compromised, then such a bottle of potion is definitely of extraordinary value.

Thinking of this, the merchant couldn't help clenching the potion in his hand, and asked, "Can I try it?"

"Of course, this bottle is just for trial use." Leo nodded and said.

After hearing this, the merchant directly took out a cold weapon from the products in front of him, scratched his palm, opened the potion, took a sip carefully, then immediately closed the lid, followed I saw that the wound that was not very deep healed and disappeared quickly.

Feeling the effect of the potion personally, the smile on the merchant's face was so big that his facial features were squeezed together, and he put the bottle of potion that he hadn't finished drinking into his pocket, and said to Leo: "You How many bottles of medicine do you plan to exchange for these things?"

"You are the seller, you ask the price." Leo gestured.

The merchant thought for a while, and tentatively said, "Twenty bottles."

"Yes." Leo did not counter-offer, and directly agreed to the price, then took out twenty bottles of medicine and placed them in front of the merchant, and took back the items he selected into the storage space. Ten bottles of wizard healing potion can be easily produced, not to mention its value compared with that small nuclear bomb, even those animal bones and ores that contain mysterious energy are not comparable.

Seeing that Leo readily agreed to his asking price, the merchant immediately realized that his asking price was too low, but now that the deal has been concluded, he has no choice but to accept it. In his opinion, this deal is not a loss , at least he has twenty more bottles of life-saving medicine.