Chapter 309: Abyssal Sea

Although Leo's situation has proved the existence of souls in some ways, Leo has always been in a state of half-belief in souls, and at this moment Leo has begun to believe that souls really exist, because he is now looking at these souls.

I saw that the ball of light jellyfish broke through the blockade of the little goblin, and after entering the jungle, the body immediately dispersed, turning into a cloud of light mist, and then quickly condensed the human form and slowly moved towards the depths of the jungle.

These humanoid light mist are all human beings before they died, some are drowned, some are mortally wounded, and some are sick and dead, and these light mist all maintain the form of the moment of death.

The scene in front of him reminded Leo that he had seen a church book about corpse collectors in the dream world, where a place called the Abyssal Sea was mentioned, saying that the dead would float on the Abyssal Sea, knowing that a whirlpool appeared in the sea to take the dead away, and some of the dead were lucky enough to drift to the realm of the gods, and those souls became another form and were immortalized in the realm of the gods.

In addition, it is mentioned that the Abyssal Sea is connected to the kingdom of all the gods, or it can be said that the kingdom of all the gods is an island floating in the abyssal sea.

Although the scene in front of him was different from the scene described in the book of the corpse collectors taking their souls into the abyssal sea, Leo had a faint feeling that this might be the lucky souls written in the book.

The lucky souls who were hunted by the goblins were able to transform and live on the island in another way, but it is unknown how much wisdom these souls possessed, at least Leo did not see any traces of wisdom in these souls that had become the same as before.

A feast of breaking and hunting didn't last long before it ended, the ocean returned to calm and depth, and when you looked at the sea, you could only see pitch black, it was a kind of black that could not help but make people feel frightened, and after looking at it for a long time, it felt like the soul would be sucked away.

At the same time, Leo felt that gaze again, that gaze from the depths of the ocean, from the depths of the abyss, and it was more intense and clearer than the sensations he had received before, and he figured out where it was coming from.

"Corpse collector!" Leo couldn't help but have a look of surprise on his face, as he noticed that this gaze came from the dream world.

When he was in the dream world, Leo had just arrived in Lake Town and had a face-to-face with the god of corpse collectors, and then learned from the lake lady that this corpse collector had been paying attention to him, but what surprised him was that after returning to the world of Velon, he would still meet this corpse collector, which really made him feel a little puzzled.

Although the gods of the dream world are inextricably linked to the gods of the Velun world, the corpse collector is different from the lady of the lake, the corpse collector is a god created by the people of the dream world themselves, and among the many ancient beliefs in the Velen world, there has never been a god like the corpse collector, and there is only one god related to death, and that is the creator of the web weaver.

However, now Leo really felt the attention from the corpse collector, and this feeling of being noticed was very strong, so strong that Leo had the illusion that the corpse collector would crawl out of the water.

It's just that he can only rely on the feelings on his body to exist or not, and after his spiritual network spreads, he didn't find anything suspicious from the sea at all.

This feeling of being noticed didn't last long, and soon disappeared, and before disappearing, Leo vaguely sensed that the collector who had paid attention to him seemed to be scrupling about something.

Everything around was calm again, and there was no sound or anything of interest except the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks on the shore and the wind blowing through the wreckage of the ship.

Leo looked at the deep sea in the distance, was silent for a moment, then turned and returned to the lower cabin, to the campfire he had set up, and added some dry wood to the fire.

Looking at the flickering flames, Leo fell into deep thought, everything he had just seen and felt made him realize that he seemed to have overlooked a possibility before, that is, the place he was in now was not the sea of the Velen world at all, but the abyssal sea mentioned in the books of the Church of the Corpse Collector.

If this is the Abyssal Sea, then the attention of the corpse collectors before, the souls that came out of the sea just now, and even the island they are in now, and the wreckage of the broken ships on the island, all of which can find a reasonable explanation.

According to the texts of the Church of the Corpse Collectors, the Abyssal Sea is the home of the undead at sea, which explains why there are souls in the sea.

In addition, the Abyssal Sea is also connected to the kingdom and domain of all the gods, and now this island is likely to be the garden of the sea god as he guessed.

As for the wrecks of so many ships from different countries on and near the beach, it can also be found that before the previous ships were launched, some rituals were performed to sacrifice the new ships to the god of the sea, praying that the god of the sea would protect the ship to sail safely on the sea. And when the ship is shipwrecked, the ship and all the dead on the ship will become the sacrifice of the sea god and be taken away by the sea god, which is why there are so many ship wrecks of different shapes and countries around this beach.

"Storm! It should have been the storm that was brought to the Abyssal Sea. Leo pondered why he had appeared in the Abyssal Sea, and soon he thought of the storm at sea when he left the Queen Mary, and he couldn't help but look at the location of the Web Weaver's sigil.

Because of the terrible situation at the time, Leo had to concentrate on dealing with the storm, and he didn't notice the anomaly produced by the Webweaver Mark at the time, but now that he looked back on the situation, he found that the Netweaver Mark was producing some anomalous movements that could not be analyzed.

In normal times, even if he found this abnormal movement, Leo would not have too many suspicions, but now this situation is different, the scene at that time, the timing of the abnormal movement of the Webweaver's Mark, and the environment he is in now all indicate that the heaven and earth that he entered this abyssal sea may not be inseparable from the Webweaver.

"I'm afraid the so-called plague that suddenly broke out on the ship is not so simple!" Thinking of this, Leo guessed again.

After the outbreak of the plague in the city of Miria, all public transportation facilities such as ships and steam trains were subjected to very strict inspections.

Just like Leo, even with a first-class ticket, had three checks before boarding, one of which was a medical examination to see if there were any signs of illness.

Although these examinations may not be able to completely identify people who are suffering from the plague, those who have obvious signs of illness will still be identified and will not be allowed to board the ship, so even if someone's illness is not identified, the disease will not be a fatal disease in a short period of time.

In addition, on the Queen Mary, Leo examined the corpses of the passengers and crew members, and found that although the death characteristics on their bodies were very similar to those who died of the plague, the actual death was organ failure, not a direct result of the plague, but more like the failure of body organs after weakened vitality.

So the plague that turned the Queen Mary into a ship of death was not a plague at all, I am afraid it was some other unknown force.

"Why? Why did I do this? Did I misjudge, this thing is coming for me?" Leo fiddled with the campfire in front of him, his heart was full of doubts, and even reversed his previous judgment, thinking that the whole thing was for him, but then he shook his head again, still firmly believing that the source of this matter was not him, he just happened to be involved.

The most direct evidence is that if it is aimed at him, he will definitely have some premonitions in his sight, this is not nonsense, but after the life evolves to the fifth level of psionic ability, the perception will reach another level.

If Leo had received any training in subspace knowledge, then now a fifth-level psionic could enter the subspace in a spiritual way anywhere. And any targeted hostility or thoughts towards a fifth-level psyker, no matter where such thoughts and hostility come from, even at the end of the universe, will be projected into the subspace of the Dao and perceived by him, even if this hostility comes from an omega-level higher being, it is just a difference in the intensity of the feeling and the time of induction.

Although Leo now only has the power of a fifth-level psionic person, and has no corresponding knowledge, and his knowledge about subspace is even less, and he is not a real fifth-level psionic, but he will not be less talented than some fifth-level psionics, which is the product of the evolution of life, just like the nose is used to breathe and the ears are used to listen, so he trusts his crisis premonition very much.

In the process of constantly asking questions and denying them, Leo's doubts in his heart not only decreased but increased, and finally he felt that these chaotic thoughts would only disturb his thinking, so he decided not to think and speculate on the ins and outs of the matter until he found further clues.

In order to prevent accidents, Leo set traps in some parts of the ship, and kept himself in a shallow state of rest, ready to get up for any possible attack.

The rest of the night was peaceful, not as shocking as it had been, and the only time Leo was alarmed was when the wreckage of a new ship had drifted aground on the shore, and to Leo's surprise, he knew the ship.

The ship was docked at the same pier as the Queen Mary, and when the Queen Mary left port, it had just opened for passengers to board, and I didn't expect to see the ship again in this ship cemetery.

The reason why Leo paid special attention to this ship was because it was the only pure sailboat on the dock at that time, and this ship was not a cargo cargo, but a private sailing boat for some aristocratic young ladies to go out to play.

Now the sailboat that reappeared in front of Leo's eyes no longer has the simplicity and magnificence of the first sight, and all traces such as broken masts and cracked hulls tell the story of the great disaster that has befallen the ship.

Leo, who saw the ship stranded, didn't pay attention for too long, but made a decision to search the ship after dawn tomorrow to see if there was anything useful, and then returned to the campfire in the lower cabin and continued to rest.

The night passed quickly, and the sunlight after dawn shone on Leo through the cracks in the ship, allowing him to recover from his shallow rest.

Leo, who had regained his senses, extinguished the bonfire, then walked directly to the hole in the side of the cabin and jumped overboard, cleared himself with the clear water, and followed the plan set last night to search the stranded sailboat.

Although the hull of the sailboat was cracked, the keel was still intact, so it was able to drift at sea without sinking to the bottom of the sea. In addition, the ship is littered with signs of destruction left over from the crashing of the waves, which makes it possible to deduce what kind of ordeal the ship has gone through, but it is the situation inside the cabin that interests Leo.

In the cabin, there are a lot of traces of battle, many of the arrows of the steam engine crossbow are nailed to the wooden plank, and some special bullets are also embedded in the wall, whether it is from the arrows, or the special bullets, the passengers on this ship are quite strongly armed, and the attacks they encountered are also very strong, even if they try their best to counterattack, they have never been able to break through the other party's encirclement, and they are suppressed in a cabin, and finally trapped in it.

Because the inside of the ship had been washed by a large amount of seawater, and even if there were blood stains on the ground, it was impossible for Leo to judge the final condition of the passengers on the ship, but judging by the marks on the surrounding walls and floors, they were probably in a bad condition, with a ninety percent chance of being killed on the spot.

Through the surrounding traces of destruction, Leo could also tell that the person who attacked the ship was probably not a normal person, but probably some family members, because there were a large number of walls and floors destroyed by external forces here, which showed that the strength of the attackers was far beyond ordinary people.

In addition, he also found some human cell tissues from some arrows inserted in the wall, although these human tissues are only some flesh and blood, but they also contain a trace of spiritual energy fluctuations, but this spiritual energy fluctuations are extremely weak, if Leo does not become a fifth-level spiritual power, I am afraid it will be difficult to sense.

Leo, based on yesterday's experience, quickly found the location of the captain's room, only the captain's room had been badly damaged, leaving only a pile of debris, and anything useful had been washed away.

However, the careful Leo still found a completely wet piece of paper from a pile of broken wood, and the ink on the paper was also blurred, and it was impossible to see what was written, only the last signature was still relatively intact and barely legible.

"Justis Mason?" Leo couldn't help but be stunned as he carefully recognized the signature, he seemed to have heard the name somewhere.