Although it was discovered that these bugs had something to do with the town on the lake, it had no impact on the rest of the trip. Leo and Sylvia quickly put the matter behind them and no longer thought about it.

Tessa Mocha quickly cleaned up all the bugs and eggs in the nest, and the three of them continued moving forward.

In the next five or six days, Leo and the other three did not encounter any more attacks from monsters such as bugs in the ice cave. However, there were not many accidents on the road, such as those originally marked as passable.

The passage was blocked, forcing them to open another passage. In addition, some passages became extremely narrow and had huge cracks. It would be difficult for normal people to pass through.

However, these accidents were not a big problem for Leo and the others. They were solved easily and without any delay.

These days, the only thing they have to do is to hurry, and as they become more familiar with the terrain and environment, they move faster and faster. According to Leo's estimation, they should have walked more than half the distance.

You should be able to cross the ice bridge in a few days.

However, God didn't seem to be prepared to let them pass the ice bridge so smoothly, so he created an accident in front of them that they had no way to solve.

"What should we do now?" Looking at the situation in front of her, Sylvia asked in a deep voice.

They saw that the ice cave passage in front of them was filled with a lot of gray fog, and it was not just this ice cave passage. Through the spiritual network, Leo discovered that almost the entire section of the ice bridge, and all the passages up and down, had been covered by gray fog.

occupied.

Because the spiritual network cannot penetrate the gray fog, Leo can't figure out what is going on inside the gray fog, let alone where it comes from.

However, judging from the data map, there is a huge ice cave node not far ahead. The ice cave is connected to almost all the surrounding passages. It seems that the ice cave node has a gap connected to the outside world, making the gray

Fog was able to flow in and fill this section of the ice bridge passage.

Faced with Sylvia's inquiry, Leo turned his head and looked at Tessa Moka. Tessa Moka, who felt Leo's gaze, showed an ugly face and shook her head, saying that she had nothing to do.

In fact, when she saw the gray fog blocking the way just now, Tessa Mocha seemed very excited, because without the nutrients provided by the insects, the mother tree seeds seemed very languid in her body, which directly affected her mood. Now that she appeared

The recovery in front of her was naturally treated as a big meal.

She could directly swallow the gray mist to provide nutrients for the mother tree seeds in her body, and she did so. After having the idea, she transformed into a vine and absorbed the gray mist in front of her through the vine tentacles.

As a result, the gray fog did not decrease significantly, but she was overstretched again, and this time the situation was a bit serious. When she felt something was wrong, her body had expanded three or four times, and all the flesh on her body was spread out on the ground, and the surface appeared

There are some black patterns on it, which looks very scary.

Leo took action in time and cleared away most of the gray mist power accumulated in her body, and she just recovered.

However, Leo did not completely eliminate the gray mist power accumulated in Tessa Moka's body like the previous cleansing. This time, the gray mist power she absorbed was too much, and it was transformed into insects.

The power of the gray mist was also different, so part of it stubbornly remained in her body, and it also turned into weird tattoos that appeared on her skin.

After repeated inspections by Leo, he did not find that the remaining gray mist power would cause any harm to Tessa Mocha's body. Now Tessa Mocha only needs to digest these gray mist powers and these weird patterns little by little.

It should disappear.

After this time, Tessa Moka no longer dared to swallow and absorb the gray mist, so when Leo looked at her again, she shook her head without thinking.

Leo did not force Tessa Moka to absorb the gray mist. He walked to the edge of the gray mist, swept his hand through the gray mist, and said: "It seems that if you want these gray mist to disappear, you have to wait until the gap is closed."

Seal it again.”

"How long do we need to wait?" Sylvia frowned and asked.

"I don't know," Leo shook his head and said, "It may only take one night, or it may take many days."

"Are we going to wait here like this?" The boring rush over the past few days has worn away Sylvia's patience. Knowing that she might have to wait here for a few days, she felt a little anxious.

Leo thought for a while and said, "I'll go in and check the situation. You guys stay here. If there's no big problem inside, we'll go through."

"Are you going in alone?" Sylvia frowned and said worriedly: "It's too dangerous to do this, or should we go together..."

Before Sylvia could finish speaking, Leo shook his head and said: "Don't forget, with the power I have, these gray mist cannot cause any trouble to me, but it's different for you, you can go in together.

It will only become a burden to me and make me unable to let go."

Although Leo's words were a bit direct and unpleasant, they were still stating the facts, and Sylvia said nothing more.

As for Tessa Mocha on the side, she is naturally happy to see such an arrangement. If she is really allowed to enter the gray fog, it may be difficult for her to function if she encounters something.

After making the decision, Leo placed the beacon rune magic array he made based on the positioning method on the warlock portal in the Witcher world outside the gray fog and activated it. After sensing the direction of the beacon, he took a step forward

Went into the gray fog.

At the moment when he was completely immersed in the gray mist, Leo felt that the signpost runes that he had clearly sensed before had become blurry and were moving around, like a bird that couldn't stop.

Same.

Leo knew very well that the movement of the beacon runes was just his illusion. In fact, it was him who was really moving. The gray fog was like a space wormhole, sending people who entered here to an unknown place.

This place may be just a few steps away, or it may be another world, just like what he is experiencing now.

After Leo took two more steps into the gray fog, the gray fog in front of him became much lighter, but it did not disappear completely. As for the beacon runes, they also stopped moving, and Leo could still clearly sense their location.

At the same time, Leo also tried to check the power on his body, and found that except for the power of nightmare, which became extremely active, other powers were still normal. However, the mark of the World Tree was a bit sluggish, but there was nothing particularly wrong.

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After checking his own condition, Leo looked around. Although both his vision and mental network were affected due to the gray fog, he could still be sure that he was definitely not the right person even without using his eyes and mental network.

Inside the ice bridge, the surrounding air is no longer as cold and humid as the ice bridge, but rather warm, like the spring climate.

After walking forward for a while, Leo smelled a lot of rotting smell surrounding him, and then saw a large number of corpses piled up on the ground. Most of these corpses were weird monsters, but some corpses were...

Some mechanical devices that look like robots.

These mechanical devices are all three to four meters high and round in shape. They look like several iron balls merged together, which makes them a bit bulky. Its arms are not humanoid arms, but two chainsaw-like ones.

The mist carried a huge box on their backs, which should be their power device, and judging from the details of the device, this should be a set of miniaturized steam power devices.

In addition, there is a line of words and patterns on the chest and shoulders of this steam mecha. However, Leo cannot see these words and patterns at all with normal vision, because in his eyes, they are like caught earthworms that keep twisting.

It was not until he used his spiritual vision that he could see clearly with his true eyes that this line of text and pattern were the name of the Third Lake Town and the badge of the border guard army. It seemed that these people should be the troops stationed by the Third Lake Town in the border area.

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Leo quickly figured out the internal structure of this steam mecha through the mental network, especially the miniaturized steam-powered structure. Then he jumped on the steam mecha, reached out and found a hidden one under his right armpit.

The metal rod was pulled out and turned.

According to Leo's analysis, this metal rod should be the backup opening device for the cockpit of this steam mecha.

As he expected, as he pulled the metal rod, the cockpit of the steam mecha under his feet made a slight vibration and the sound of mechanical operation. It seemed that this backup opening device was not powered by steam, otherwise it would not be powered by steam at all.

Impossible to open.

With an abnormal clicking sound, the armor on the mecha's chest bounced outward, revealing the cockpit inside and the mecha pilot who had long since died inside.

However, when he saw the driver who was almost a mummy, Leo was stunned because this driver was very unusual.

First of all, the unusual thing is that the pilot has no limbs. His limbs look like they have been cut off at the root, but the fractures are connected with several steel bars extending from the mecha. It looks like the steel bars are growing on the pilot.

The same is true for the pilots. In addition, the pilot, the steel bars connected to the pilot, and even the interior of the mecha's cockpit are all engraved with various complex runes.

Judging from the various features on the runes, there is no doubt that this should have been created by the Lake Town Wizards Association, but it is much more complicated than the rune magic circle that Leo secretly learned.

Leo used his amazing memory, not asking for understanding, just memory, to quickly memorize all the rune magic arrays inside the mecha and on the pilot's body. Then he opened several other damaged steam mechas in turn and checked them.

, the situation inside every mecha is similar.

This also made Leo feel a little confused, because in his memory, there seemed to be no such steam mechas in Hushang Town. They still relied on the fighting ability of soldiers and the huge war castle.

If there really is such a weapon, then every Hushang Town has already spread the word, and it is impossible to fill it up. Therefore, these steam mechas can only appear after he left Hushang Town, and they did not appear in a short period of time.

, it is officially installed after a long period of research and testing, plus testing. The backbone time interval may be decades or even hundreds of years.

Thinking that less than a year has passed since he left Hushang Town, and many years have passed in Hushang Town, this kind of thing is undoubtedly enough to shock and surprise any ordinary person, but for Leo, it did not cause much abnormal reaction.

After all, he already knows that time flows at different speeds in Lake Town and Velen's world.

Obviously, the current battlefield should be a large-scale war between the people of Hushang Town and the fog beasts long after he left Hushang Town. As for who was the final winner, Leo was not very clear, but he was very clear about it.

One thing is that the armed forces of Hushang Town have reached a very high level.

He has no doubt that if the people of Hushang Town find a way to get to the world of Velen at this time, then with the current steam mecha armed force of Hushang Town, they will definitely be able to sweep across any country in the world of Velen, unless the gods take action.

With a hint of surprise at the development of Hushang Town, Leo continued to walk forward. At this time, he saw more corpses of fog beasts and scrapped steam mechas, but there was no pure human corpse here. From this point of view, this

Steam mechas have become the most basic armed force in Hushang Town.

Just when Leo was surprised by the development of Hushang Town, there was a sudden violent vibration on the ground, which felt like an earthquake.

What makes Leo a little confused is that he feels that there are two sources of vibration on the ground. These two sources of vibration are still moving, and they are still moving towards him, so the vibrations he feels are getting stronger and stronger.

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Leo stood there without leaving, as if waiting for something.

After a while, he felt that the vibration intensity of the ground had reached a level that could throw ordinary people away, and then he saw the gray fog on both sides of the battlefield suddenly shake, and then retreated twice like an ebbing tide.

Then a huge monster with black hair on its body and countless monster skeletons on its head appeared on his right side and rushed out of the gray mist. On the other side, a giant war castle with a height of 100 meters was built like a dozen giant pillars.

With the support of his legs, he also rushed out.

Two behemoths collided on the battlefield not far in front of Leo. The huge sound and air waves rolled over like a hurricane, forcing Leo to have to hold up a psychic barrier to stabilize his body.

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After the impact, the monster's head bit into the armor of the war castle crazily, and its hair turned into countless black smoke and swept towards the war castle, looking for every inch of the gap it could find, then got in and attacked the interior of the war castle.
Chapter completed!