Compared to Sylvia, Leo has a clearer grasp of what happened in the ruins, and even knows what happened better than those involved.

From the moment he discovered that something was wrong, Leo's mental network had already enveloped the entire ruins, and he carefully observed all the changes here.

Although there are sometimes things that cannot be sensed in his mental network, such as the sudden appearance of fog, what happens to those scholars is still under his control.

From the moment the fog appeared, the twisted symbols and Turing-like patterns on the ruins walls began to produce waves of energy fluctuations. These energy fluctuations were not strong, but very weird and extremely contagious.

Sex, when Leo's mental network senses them, they also infect Leo through the mental network.

However, not to mention the mental infection caused by these energy fluctuations affecting Leo's mind, even the protection formed by the god's mark could not penetrate, and was eventually absorbed by the pattern on Leo's back representing the mark of the night god.

Just like when he absorbed the fog in the fog outside Hushang Town, this also made him more certain of the origin of the fog.

A sixth-level psyker like Leo who is so far away can be infected by this energy. Naturally, those scholars who are close to the ruins cannot escape the fate of being infected by the energy, and they are not only mentally infected.

Under the influence of the energy and the surrounding mist, even the body mutated and turned into twisted and vicious monsters.

The rapid mutation of the body will inevitably consume a lot of energy, and it cannot be obtained from the outside community. It can only consume the energy of these mutants themselves. Therefore, when the mutants complete the mutation, the first thing they think of is to replenish energy, and the best way to replenish energy is

The solution is food.

When these monsters mutate, the first thing they obviously lose is their intelligence. All they possess is biological instinct. Their strong hunger drives them to attack other monsters closest to them. The weakest mutants are the first to be eaten by the powerful mutants.

, and then another weak mutant was besieged and eaten, and this was repeated until the remaining mutants felt that the opponent's power was no less than theirs, and then they began to place their targets in other places, such as standing on the plank road.

Mutated people.

Under the monitoring of Leo's mental network, there are some mutants that have grown more than a dozen limbs and elongated bodies, like centipedes, as if they were on flat ground, their bodies clinging to the 90-degree wall, climbing quickly

When he reached the plank road, he rushed towards the panicked ordinary person nearest him.

The same scene was still going on elsewhere on the plank road. The scholars didn't even have the strength to fight back and could only scream in agony when they were thrown to the ground by the monster.

At the same time, several mutants also discovered Leo and Sylvia. They rushed towards the two of them quickly, and they all opened their mouths full of sharp teeth, as if they wanted to eat all of Leo.

Eat it normally.

Facing the mutants rushing over, Leo was about to pull out the king and queen and deal with them, but Sylvia moved faster than him. She raised her crossbow and pointed at the mutants who were rushing over.

Shoot a few arrows from the head.

Although the hand crossbow looks very light and has little power, and its only advantage seems to be the repeating quiver, in fact, the speed of the arrows shot from the hand crossbow is not slower than the bullets shot from the queen, and it shoots

After hitting the target, a powerful impact force will emerge from the arrow, directly tearing apart everything within a range of nearly 20 centimeters around the wound.

This also caused the heads of these mutants to disappear in an instant, along with part of their necks and shoulders. Their bodies fell heavily to the ground, and blood spattered from the wounds, instantly filling the surroundings with a bloody smell.

The strong bloody smell naturally attracted those mutants who were still very hungry, and this attraction was so great that they let go of the ordinary people who were about to reach their mouths, and quickly moved towards Leo and Sylvia.

He rushed over to the corner where he was.

In fact, it is not difficult to guess the reason. The energy contained in the flesh and blood of mutants far exceeds that of ordinary people. Moreover, the flesh and blood of mutants also contains substances that can allow these mutants to mutate further. The powerful ones that have just swallowed up other mutants

The mutant's body undergoes a secondary mutation, not only becoming more ferocious but also becoming larger.

However, facing the menacing hordes of mutants, Sylvia appeared very calm and signaled Leo not to do anything. She followed her as if playing a target shooting game, quickly pulling the trigger of the crossbow towards the heads of the monsters.

, every arrow can easily take away the life of a monster. These monsters, which are extremely deadly to others, are as weak as lambs in front of her. She doesn't even need to get up close, just with her hands.

The crossbow had already wiped out all these monsters.

Just when Sylvia aimed the hand crossbow at the last living mutant below, Leo reached out to stop her attack and said, "Wait a minute, let's see what it can mutate into in the end.

"

Sylvia nodded, put down the crossbow, and then looked at the mutant below, regardless of the danger from above, wholeheartedly devouring the corpses of the same kind. She suddenly felt a little sick in her heart, so she turned her head and said nothing more.

He took a look at the mutated monster and said to Leo: "Aside from being slightly stronger, stronger, and more ferocious in appearance, these monsters are not much stronger than ordinary people."

"Are you a little disappointed?" Leo looked at Sylvia who looked bored.

Sylvia nodded, took apart the arrow box under the hand crossbow, replaced it with a new arrow box, and said: "There is indeed one thing. This kind of battle is not as intense as in the morning. I also want to test the strength of my body now.

Bottom line." After changing the quiver, she hung the crossbow back on her waist, then waved the staff and sword in her hand and said, "If I had known this, I would have used the staff and sword for close combat just now."

"You can try it later." Leo said, pointing to the mutants below who were mutating rapidly after devouring the same kind of corpses.

I saw that this mutant was eating faster and faster. In order to eat quickly, its mouth turned into a mouthpart for easy swallowing. Its body was also elongated to accommodate food, and a layer of horny scales grew on the surface of its body.

Under the illumination of the light, it even emits a metallic luster. A large number of tentacles protrude from the surface of its body, which look like hair. But if you look carefully, you will find that each tentacle is a vacuum.

If the straw is inserted into the prey, it can instantly drain the prey's blood.

Seeing the mutant in this form, Sylvia's expression became a little solemn. Regardless of her disgust at the disgusting scene below, she watched the mutation process of the mutant in front of her, and was thinking quickly in her heart.

How would she fight against such a mutant?

Compared to Sylvia who could only judge the mutant's abilities by observing the changes in his appearance, Leo penetrated into the mutant's body through the mental network and observed the rapid mutation of the mutant's body at a deeper level.

He found that as more mutant corpses were eaten, the organs in the mutant's body also rapidly decreased, and the functions of the organs also rapidly merged. In the end, it seemed that there was only one stomach left, and even the brain was separated from the stomach.

It merges into one, and an energy block with extremely strong energy fluctuations is condensed in its stomach.

When the last mutant corpse was devoured, the mutant's body mutation gradually slowed down and finally stopped, and its appearance had nothing to do with humans. It looked like a tentacle-covered metal

Horny, a worm with huge mouthparts.

When the corpse was digested in the only organ in its body, its target of devouring was aimed at Leo and Sylvia who were watching above it.

I saw that the mutant's body seemed to be equipped with springs, jumping up from the ground. The body seemed to have lost weight and flew into the air. The huge mouthparts opened like a blooming flower, and the mouthparts were filled with sharp edges.

It was like sharp teeth, and tentacles rushed out from the mouthparts, surrounding Leo and Sylvia, as if they wanted to restrain them and drag them into the mouth.

Facing the attack of mutants, Leo still stood motionless. He seemed to have absolute trust in Sylvia's power, and Sylvia did not betray his trust. A powerful force emerged from

It surged out of her body and turned into an invisible big hand that easily held the mutant in the air. At the same time, Sylvia's staff and sword seemed to be swung out at random.

A flash of sword light flashed, and the seemingly powerful mutant was separated from the middle, broken into two sections, and fell to the ground.

Sylvia put the staff sword in her hand back into the scabbard and returned it to the appearance of a staff. Then she turned to Leo and raised her head proudly.

Leo was not surprised that Sylvia was able to deal with this mutant, because although this mutant condensed an energy block in its body, it still only relied on its body's instinct to fight. At best, it was just a stronger beast.

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What really surprised Leo was the staff sword in Sylvia's hand, because in his opinion, after the power of this staff sword was activated, it could almost be compared with the particle cycle knife. You must know that the particle cycle knife is a star.

An important weapon used by the Marine Corps to cut through the armor of the spacecraft and attack the interior of the spacecraft.

However, although Leo was very curious about the origin of this staff sword and even more curious about the structure of this staff sword, he still suppressed his curiosity and did not ask Sylvia for research on the staff sword, even though he knew that if he spoke

Even Sylvia would not refuse.

Leo turned his attention back to the corpse below, and saw that he used his spiritual power to find the energy block from the mutant's corpse and ingested it.

Sylvia only saw Leo reaching out to grab the mutant corpse, and an extremely beautiful gem emerged from the pile of ugly and disgusting corpses, flew into Leo's hand, and floated in the air.

Above the palm.

"What is this?" Sylvia asked curiously.

Leo answered truthfully: "An energy block, and a very stable energy block."

"What's the use?" Sylvia asked again.

This question made Leo stunned for a moment. If it were in the Earth Federation, Leo could name tens of thousands of ways to use this energy block, but here, in this Velen world, apart from being used as gems, energy blocks seem to be used for nothing more.

There is no other function.

"No, since it has evolved this thing, then this thing must be useful to it." Leo's eyes fell on the corpse of the mutant below, and he had a guess in his heart, and told Sylvia the guess.

Sylvia also said with some regret: "It seems that I should be gentler, let this guy live for a while, and use all the power in his body!"

At this time, the fog in the ruins below suddenly began to become shallower, and then dissipated very quickly. It didn't take long for the fog to completely dissipate, leaving only a mess.

Just as the fog disappeared, the walls around the cave returned to their original state, and the entrance and exit reappeared, as if everything just now was just an illusion.

Now, in addition to Leo and Sylvia, there are a few lucky scholars still alive in the entire cave. However, their situation is not very optimistic. I don’t know whether it is because they were frightened by mutants or for other reasons. One

All of them are stupid and crazy.

"What a pity. You should know that the scholars who died include almost most of the most outstanding archaeologists in the Kingdom of Maris." Sylvia suddenly sighed, then quickly returned to normal, and asked Leo: "

What do we do next?”

"Find out the reason for the appearance of the fog." Leo immediately replied: "That's where the exit of the circular passage is."

After saying that, he jumped off the plank road, stepped on the blood on the ground, and walked towards a circular open space in the ruins.

Sylvia originally wanted to follow her, but when she saw the blood on the ground and the messy internal organs, she stopped jumping. Instead, she walked along the plank road on the wall for a short distance before jumping into the ruins.

, followed.

When Sylvia followed Leo, Leo was already standing in the ring-shaped open space. This open space was not very big and was probably not a rest square or the like.

There are a large number of square stones on the ground in the open space. All the stones have some patterns and symbols on them. However, due to aging, wind erosion, etc., most of the patterns and symbols on the stone slabs have been very blurred and cannot be recognized.

Show your true colors.

The reason why Leo chose to investigate here was mainly because he had just seen the fog dissipating here first. According to common sense, it is likely that the fog appeared first, which is where the entrance and exit of the passage are.

However, Leo's mental network scanned this area over and over again, even reaching more than ten meters underground, but found nothing abnormal, not even energy fluctuations.
Chapter completed!