Chapter 245: Expulsion and Hunting
Leo has always believed in equivalent exchange, even if there are unknown changes in his body and mind, and he has greatly departed from the rational thinking of cyborgs, the value of equivalent exchange is still his core concept, but the value of this equivalent exchange is no longer the absolute value generated by reason, but the elastic value that can be generated with his emotions and likes and dislikes.
In Leo's view, the Black Forest is an independent world located in the world of Veron, just like a country of China, and this country is also very powerful and mysterious, and has its own set of strict rules to operate, and Louis X must have paid a great price to make hundreds of thousands of soldiers pass through such a place safely and maintain this passage for a long time.
Prior to this, Leo had always believed that the price paid by Louis X was for the benefit of the French Empire itself, but now it seemed that things were not as simple as he thought, and even the atrocities of the French Empire's complete destruction of the city of Miria now seemed to have a hint of sacrifice, after all, what sacrifice could compare to the greatest city on the continent.
It's just that Leo is a little puzzled by the time when Louis X entered the Black Forest, when the Sierra de Ribia was still completely in the hands of the United Kingdom, and as Louis X, was he qualified to make the Sierra de Ribia one of the conditions of the covenant of sacrifice to the gods and men?
There were more and more doubts in his heart, so that Leo failed to configure the potion several times, but fortunately, this potion was just an ordinary wound potion, not a wizard potion, until he began to refine the relatively important Paicui's elixir, a demon hunter potion, that he stopped thinking about other things and concentrated on refining the potion in his hand.
Paitsu's elixir is the most advanced potion of the witcher potion given to him by Professor Ciri, and the biggest effect of this potion is to enhance the power of the witcher's magic seal.
He found that this potion could not only increase the power of the magic seal, but also increase the effectiveness of psionic energy in witchcraft, reduce unnecessary psionic energy consumption, and be a battle potion that could determine victory or defeat for anyone who cast psionic energy.
It was a pity that the bottles of Paicui's elixir that he had refined in Hushang Town had lost along with his memories and some other things that had been put into the storage space when he returned to Velon.
However, on the way to Miria City, Leo also collected some herbs and tried to find some replacement herbs from these herbs, but he never completed the replacement herbs. It wasn't until today, when he stumbled upon several poisoned ores that hunters used as poison bait, that he was able to complete all the alchemical materials.
Leo skillfully grinded, proportioned, boiled, and then purified, injected the power of nightmare to make the potion undergo a fundamental transformation, the refining of the potion was very smooth, as the color of the potion changed color in the test tube, and emitted a familiar smell, he stopped injecting the power of nightmares, put the small bottle containing the potion aside to cool, and began to refine the next potion.
The effect of the cat potion also began to weaken after more than an hour in the past, and finally disappeared, in terms of the duration of the medicine alone, it was much worse than the cat potion refined in the dream world, and the cat potion refined in the dream world could last for more than three hours, but in terms of the effect itself, the current cat potion was much stronger.
Leo's process of refining potions was not disguised, and even though it was on the edge of the camp and no one came, he was still seen. Several of the last of the people who escaped from Miria City and joined the fleeing team immediately turned pale when they saw the medical test tubes, stents and other tools used to refine the medicine in Leo's hands, as well as the alchemy potions that had been refined on the side, and they immediately turned pale and ran away screaming, as if they had seen something terrifying.
Leo sensed that there would be trouble, but now he was in the process of making a potion of key steps, so he ignored the people who were screaming and ran away, and instead calmly completed the final refining process, and then used the melted snow water to clean the entire refining tool.
At this moment, a group of people hurried towards Leo's side, the leader of these people was Barak, next to some mercenaries and gangsters who had escaped from Miria City. A group of people rushed to Leo with great vigour, staring angrily at the refining tools that had just been cleaned on the ground and had not yet been put away, as well as the potions, and extreme hatred appeared on everyone's faces, as if they would tear Leo apart at any time.
"Damn it, you lunatics are doing ...... in Miria City" One of the mercenaries, who was particularly excited, couldn't hold back his anger and rushed out and cursed at Leo.
The others also stood up and denounced Leo, but they didn't dare to get too close to Leo, but they looked very afraid, and their eyes fell on those potions from time to time, as if those potions were something terrifying.
Barak looked at Leo with a flat expression who was not affected by the outside world at all, and methodically packed up the refining tools and potions, and couldn't help but feel a trace of fear in his heart, subconsciously thinking that this was a terrible guy, and also felt that what the residents of Miria City who had finally fled might be true.
"Don't talk about it, y'all. Barak walked out and suppressed the excited crowd, then walked up to Leo and said very directly, "I'm sorry, I hope Your Excellency can leave our camp to avoid any unnecessary conflicts." ”
"Okay. Instead of putting things in the storage space in plain sight, Leo put them in his pockets and backpacks, then stood up and nodded at Barak.
After speaking, he walked towards the specially opened entrance and exit of the camp in the distance.
Obviously, Leo happily agreed to Barak's request, which surprised everyone, and everyone was stunned for a while, and when everyone reacted, Leo had already walked out of the camp through the entrance and entered the dark forest.
"I think I should send someone to get rid of that guy?" suddenly suggested a strong man from a gangster.
Many of the people around agreed that they had already been frightened by the plague in Miria City, and Leo's behavior had made them feel abnormal, so they thought it was best to deal with any danger that might arise, whether it existed or not.
"That's enough! What you are saying is only a rumor, and has not been confirmed by anything, and because of this rumor and your request, I have driven out a fugitive like yours, and this fugitive is probably a doctor who is very important to us. Barak glared at the people around him dissatisfied, and said coldly: "Now you still want me to send someone to hunt him down, you are too much." If you want to hunt down, go yourself, I won't send my men, but don't blame me for not warning you, there are countless dangers in the forest in the night, even experienced hunters may not be able to survive in this environment, and once you go out of the camp, you will probably never come back. ”
With that, he glared fiercely at the fugitives around him, turned around and walked back towards the tent in the center of the camp. He had a good opinion of the doctors at the medical school, but today he was forced by some people to drive away a possible doctor because of some unconfirmed rumors, which made him very angry.
After Barak showed his attitude, the other unwilling refugees did not say anything, although they all looked like they were eager to rush out of the camp immediately, but when they really let them leave the camp, they all stopped, and after whispering for a while, they dispersed on their own.
Leo, who left the camp, didn't go too far, found a slightly clean rock in a slightly empty clearing and sat down, followed him to put the backpack and other items that would hinder the battle into the storage space, and put the potions that he had refined before into the belt slot specially used to put the potions on his body, so that he could take them out and drink them at any time.
As the time passed, the last rays of light piercing through the dense foliage of the giant redwoods disappeared completely, and the night came, and the noise coming from the direction of the camp gradually subsided, and it seemed that they should have prepared to return to their respective tents to rest and prepare for tomorrow's trip.
Because of the silence of the night, some subtle sounds that could not be heard during the day also became clear, and Leo's supernormal body senses also began to come into play, recording these sounds that were too small for ordinary people to hear, and turning them into clues in his brain to construct the surrounding situation.
Without the assistance of the vice-brain, Leo struggled to complete the sorting of these sound data, but fortunately, the ability of the vice-brain's own was integrated into his brain, allowing him to quickly get started, complete the data sorting work, and quickly understand the various conditions of the surrounding environment, such as those invisible monsters that cannot be detected by psionic energy.
From the moment he left the camp, Leo restrained all the spiritual energy fluctuations in his body, only used the various sensory organs on his body to feel the movements around him, and discovered many things that he had not been able to find before, such as the sight of those monsters with bad intentions, such as the subtle sounds made by those monsters when they moved, and so on.
Through the various data clues discovered, Leo realized that the way monsters such as Morgani and others from the Black Forest hid was not limited to invisibility, they were more jumping back and forth between subspace and reality, which was the main reason why Leo's spiritual network and spiritual vision were not able to discover the existence of these monsters.
Leo has some understanding of the current state of these monsters, and there have been some similar things in the Earth Federation that overlap between subspace and the real world, and in the overlapping zone, the unknown species of subspace will be in a strange state between fantasy and reality, which is very similar to the current state of these monsters.
It's a pity that the research on this kind of subspace overlap is a very high-level secret in the Earth Federation, and Leo can only see some very vague public information, as for other information, it is not qualified for a cyborg like him to see.
However, he remembered mentioning in that document that it was very difficult to kill a subspace species in this state, and that it was only possible to do so at certain times. It's a pity that the information is a public information, and the content is too detailed to be recorded, so the so-called specific time is not written in the information.
After a while, the sound on the other side of the camp was quiet, and Leo felt that the eyes of the malicious predators around him fell on him more and more frequently, and the feelings that made him more and more intense, and it seemed that the monsters had begun to want to hunt him as a lone prey.
Leo took out a bottle of cat potion, removed the stopper, and drank the potion inside, and his brow furrowed the moment the potion was entered.
Although the taste of the freshly refined potion is not good, it is still acceptable, but after the potion cools, the taste becomes extremely fishy, like rotten eggs that have been left for several months. Just like Leo's other organs were strengthened, Leo's sense of taste also became much stronger, and the stench was strengthened several times, making him feel very uncomfortable.
However, as the potion was absorbed by the body, the stench quickly disappeared, as if the stench just now was just an illusion.
Leo's vision entered the state of power given by the cat's potion, and the darkness around him that could not be seen turned into a silver-gray color, and all objects could be clearly displayed in his eyes, and the monsters in between the virtual and the real were also seen by Leo.
As Leo felt, more than a dozen monsters, including Mogandy, surrounded him, and the nearest one was a lizardmonster with two snake heads only about two meters away from him, with a slightly open mouth that could clearly see the sharp fangs.
In the face of the threat, Leo did not hesitate for the moment, and slammed his right foot on the ground, and a cracked crater with footprints immediately appeared on the ground, and at the same time, his whole body rushed towards the two-headed lizardmonster that was opening its mouth and baring its teeth at him like a cannonball.
Leo was moving so fast that when he rushed to the two-headed lizard, the other party didn't react, and Leo didn't hesitate to shoot at the monster's head. He didn't use any witchcraft, just used some small enchantment techniques to attach psionic energy around the twin fists, and directly hit this unknown psionic creature with his own power.
However, an unexpected situation occurred, Leo's powerful fist pierced directly through the target's skull and smashed into the ground behind him, like a falling meteorite, directly smashing the ground into a large crater, and all the rotten on the ground flew out.
The unexpected situation did not make Leo panic, his state of mind was still very calm, and when he passed through the illusion-like two-headed lizard monster, he also felt an unknown danger appear behind him.
Therefore, even if the attack failed, he did not let his body stop, but rushed straight forward for more than ten meters, before turning horizontally, relying on the instinct of his body to cast an Alpha Seal fused with a witchcraft air hammer behind him, forming a powerful spiritual energy impact, directly knocking the attacker behind him away.