Chapter 136: Lake Town on the Vines

As the name suggests, the town Leo saw was built entirely on the surface of the lake, and instead of driving stone stakes into the water and building houses on stone stakes as usual, all the houses were built on a vine-like aquatic plant.

This vine plant seems to possess a magical power, which makes the vine itself have an extraordinary ability to grow, and the buoyancy is so strong that even if a seventeen or eighteen story high wooden house is built on it, the vine will not sink into the water.

Although the town's houses were built on vines on the water's surface, it felt like they would sink into the water at any moment, but the town's original planners and builders did not build the houses sloppily, but all the houses were built in a very regular manner.

Moreover, each house has a different style and pattern of architecture according to the different people who live in it, the work, and the style and mode of construction, after seeing the house, Leo can clearly say the function of each area of the whole town without any thought.

For example, the outermost part of the town, near the lake, is ten small districts, each consisting of dozens of twelve-storey attics connected to each other. The top of each attic area is planked to form a large playground with weapons racks visible above it, and several drawbridges are drawn from it to connect to the outer walls, the other loft areas, and the tops of the inner town area.

Obviously, these ten small attic areas should be garrison areas, and the garrison forces of this lake town should all live in these ten small areas, and their responsibility is nothing more than to guard and maintain the city walls, and if necessary, block the invasion of dream spirits.

After passing through the outermost ten garrison areas, the houses in the inner form a fan-shape, extending out to the depths of the String Moon Lake, and about every ten attics will be separated from a city area, until more than a hundred urban areas are divided, and then the expansion will be stopped.

The houses in these urban areas are high and low, some of them are brightly lit inside and outside, and the houses are luxurious and noble, some can only see the stars and lights from the windows of some houses, the houses are simple and single, some have towering chimneys, you can see the huge forging furnaces, and some are composed of dense small houses, and you can see a lot of manual machinery from the windows.

All in all, all urban districts can easily see their function in their architectural form, and the identity of the people who inhabit or use them.

The chaos outside the walls and the uniformity inside the walls made Leo a little uncomfortable from the beginning, feeling that he was not in the dream world now, but outside a small industrial town in the world of Veron.

When talking to Valentin before, Leo learned from the words of his words that this dream world is also divided into morning and evening, but they are called the active period and the rest period, and the machine that divides the active and rest periods is the clock tower in the center of each town.

According to Valentin, this bell tower is not necessarily the tallest and largest building in the entire town, but it is certainly the most striking building in the town.

The shape of the bell tower is different from the mechanical bell tower common in the world of Velon, this bell tower is a black tower, the top of the tower holds a huge stone ring divided into twenty-four areas, there will always be an area on this ring in a luminous state, every once in a while the luminous area will move to the right of a square, and the different rays of light in the area represent the active period and the rest period respectively, gold represents the active period, and silver represents the rest period.

At this moment, the dream world is in the active period, a new golden area has just been lit up, and a large number of people are walking around and working in the town.

Leo compared the time area marked on the stone ring of the tower at this moment with the time record of the auxiliary brain system, and was surprised to find that if you judge according to the time of the world of Vilon, it is exactly about ten o'clock in the day in the western continent of the French Empire at this moment, which is very consistent with the time displayed on this stone ring.

"Interesting!" Leo smiled inexplicably, he didn't just think it was just a coincidence.

According to Valentin, the bell tower is controlled by the Wizarding Guild of Silvermoon City, and the change of time markers is also controlled by the Wizarding Guild of Silvermoon City, which makes Leo guess that the Wizarding Guild here may have some connection with the world of Velon, at least to be able to synchronize the time with the area of the Fran Empire in the world of Velon.

Leo was already a little impatient to enter the city to have a look, but he didn't follow the route of ordinary people, from the drawbridge to the garrison area, and then enter the city, after all, with his current situation, it is really not easy to explain how an ordinary person can enter here from outside the forest and climb the high wall in the moon.

Leo stepped on the protruding stones and crevices on the inside of the wall, quickly climbed to the corner of the wall, came to the lake, and measured the distance between the lake and the vines in the water opposite, and estimated the strength of the jump.

He didn't plan to swim over, because he felt that there must be other reasons why the builders of this lake-based town would choose to build a high-altitude suspension bridge in the air rather than a bridge directly on the water to connect to the shore.

He reckoned that this had something to do with the water of the lake, or more specifically, that the lake was dangerous, as evidenced by the fact that he had not found any boats around the town. And by all indications, it seems that the people here are sure that the lake can block the spirit of dreams, so they built the town on the lake.

Leo retreated to the giant wall, stretched his legs back and stepped on the wall, turned on the perfect control skill, and instantly improved the quality of the body to the extreme, and then kicked the wall hard, and the whole person rushed out like an arrow from the string, and rushed to the lake in the blink of an eye.

As a reaction force came from under his feet, his whole person flew up, crossed an arc above the lake, and landed on the vine platform floating on the water more than twenty meters away.

The vines that make up the foundation of this water are thick and thin, the thick ones need to be hugged by several people, and the thin ones are only equivalent to the little fingers, they are entangled with each other, the thick ones form the backbone, and the thin ones fill the gaps, forming a relatively flat floating platform under the control of unknown forces.

As soon as Leo stepped on the vine platform, he noticed that these vines seemed to be the main materials for the kind of reticulated wizarding artifact he had seen before, because his psychic perception could easily sense the similar psionic wavelength in the vine.

It's just that after Leo landed, he didn't care about the situation of the vines, but the situation of the lake.

He walked to the edge of the vine, put his head out, and looked over at the water.

"Sure enough. Seeing the situation on the water, Leo muttered to himself.

At first, he just thought that it was because the moonlight in the sky was not strong enough to form a mirror reflection on the surface of the lake, but now he was sure that the lake water here did not reflect any reflection.

In addition, he could also feel a psionic fluctuation in the lake near a certain area of the vines, and in his opinion, this psionic fluctuation seemed to exist because of the psionic energy contained in these vines.

Through the analysis of the paracerebral system, he even found that the wavelength of the psionic energy that appeared in this lake water was very similar to the wavelength of psionic energy contained in the dense fog that sent him to this dream world, almost identical.

For this reason, the curious Leo tried to let go of the spirit network to investigate the situation of the lake, and soon the spirit network gave him a lot of information, and this information without exception showed that the lake he perceived did not exist, only an unknown energy force field.

Just like the previous analysis of the parabrain, the analysis data of this energy force field is very similar to the dense fog outside 9 Golden Oak Street before, and can almost be seen as an energy force field composed of the same psionic energy.

"Could it be that the water of this lake also acts like a dense fog, which can send objects that fall into the lake into another dream world. After Leo saw the results of the data analysis and comparison, he quickly had a guess in his mind, and he felt that this guess should be very close to the truth.

Just as Leo was thinking about the anomaly of the lake, a very harsh-sounding sound of the door opening came from the lowest-level house not far away, followed by a slight footstep indicating that several people were approaching this direction.

Leo didn't think much about it, and immediately walked quickly to a huge vine that arched slightly, hiding his body in the shadow of the vine, and only using the spiritual net to observe the surrounding situation.

Soon those people entered Leo's spiritual network, and Leo found that the appearance of these people and Valentin was very different.

Although Valentin's skin is extremely pale for some unknown reason, with a hint of silver, he is only different from ordinary people in this way, and his other facial features and internal organs are the same as ordinary people.

But now the residents of Lake Town, who were wearing uniform uniforms and supposed to be guarded by the wall, were completely different from ordinary people, two of them had four octopus-like tentacles on their bodies, and there were also many small tentacles on their faces, and the other two had bird's claw-like legs and disproportionately thick hands, which formed a great visual contrast with their thin bodies.

Although the appearance of the four people felt very similar to those dream spirits outside, Leo did not feel any spiritual energy fluctuations unique to dream spirits from the four people, so these people were just ordinary people whose bodies had changed.

The four of them walked quickly, and in a short time they reached the edge of the vine platform. After they stopped, they conversed a few words in a very heavily accented Mares, and then quarreled loudly. Then the two tentacles shot at the same time as if they had planned it a long time ago, and the extra four tentacles on their bodies instantly became extremely hard, like four sharp blades, piercing into the bodies of the other two colleagues in front of them, killing the two colleagues directly.

While pulling out the tentacles, the two carefully avoided the blood splashing from the wounds of the corpses, and then pushed the two corpses into the lake outside the platform, and then turned around and walked back the same way without looking at the follow-up of the corpses.

At this moment, Leo did not leave immediately, but after the two left, he came to the place where the two left their bodies.

I saw that the two corpses did not immediately sink to the bottom of the water, but floated on the surface of the water, but the energy force field contained in the lake around the corpses emitted bursts of fairly regular wavelengths as if they had been disturbed.

Soon, Leo felt that some kind of stealth presence seemed to be approaching in the water, and then the two corpses instantly sank into the water as if they were tied to stones, and disappeared.

And at this moment, Leo found that the invisible existence he felt through the spiritual network did not disappear with the disappearance of the corpse, but stopped in the water in front of his position, as if he was sensing the other party at the moment, and the other party seemed to be observing him through some method.

Although Leo felt that the best thing to do now was to retreat to the depths of the vine platform and no longer look at the hidden beings in the water, his intense curiosity led him to do the exact opposite, activating his psionic skills.

When the psionic skill was activated, Leo found that the lake in front of him had all disappeared, replaced by a thick fog, and a very large black shadow with countless tentacles stretching outwards appeared in the thick fog, less than a few meters in front of him.

Although the shadow had no organs such as glasses, Leo could clearly sense that the other party was looking at him, and was using some kind of psychic energy similar to spiritism to affect his mind, causing him to feel the urge to jump into the water immediately.

"Activate the mechanical will. At the moment when he felt that he could no longer resist the impulse in his heart and wanted to jump forward, Leo immediately withdrew from the psychic state and activated the mechanical will, allowing his mind to instantly get rid of the influence, and quickly retreated to a safe place.

I don't know if it's an auditory hallucination, but when he retreated to a safe place, an indescribable hissing sound suddenly sounded in his ears, and this voice was full of annoyance and unwillingness.

"Huh~" After feeling that the hidden existence in the lake water had disappeared, Leo let out a long breath of turbidity, stopped the mechanical will skill, and returned himself to a normal state of absolute sanity, and then opened the personal data interface to check the situation.

The daily value of will is what Leo is most concerned about at the moment, and when he sees that the daily value of will at this moment has dropped by eleven points compared to just now, he can't help but feel deeply glad in his heart.

Just now, he only saw the black shadow for less than ten seconds, and the daily value of the will fell frantically by eleven points, if he didn't activate the mechanical will skill in time to get rid of the other party's mental control, I am afraid that even if he was not lured into jumping into the water, he would be in danger because of the rapid drop in the daily value of will.

However, there must be gains, although Leo's daily value of will has decreased, but because he successfully escaped the close control of a mysterious existence with his will, his spirit is basically worth increasing by two points, reaching thirty-nine points, and if he is raised by two points, he will almost be able to reach the fourth level of psionics.