Compared with the number of passengers on the ship when it arrived at Skeleton Bay, the number of passengers on the Snow Queen increased a lot when it left Skeleton Bay, and it finally filled most of the vacant cabins on the ship.
These new passengers were not pre-existing, but were temporarily added. The reason was precisely because of the sinking of the Miracle Star.
As a representative of the highest technology in the shipbuilding industry, the giant steel ship Miracle Star carried the expectations of countless people. Now that expectations have been shattered, people's confidence in steel ships has dropped avalanche.
Now, many tourists in Skeleton Bay have distrust of steel steamships. Even if most of the steamships in Skeleton Bay are still made of wood and steel, this will not bring any trust to these tourists. On the contrary, the Snow Queen
This kind of completely sail-powered ship was favored by them.
For this reason, they did not hesitate to change their itinerary, spend a high price to buy ferry tickets, and take the Snow Queen to leave Skeleton Bay.
Because most of these new arrivals changed their itinerary temporarily and kept all the money they originally planned to spend in Skeleton Bay, the previously idle entertainment room on the ship began to be put to use, and almost the vast majority of passengers left
After their own cabin, they came to this entertainment room. After all, there were not many places for them to spend money on the ship.
Leo originally didn't want to come here. He preferred to stay in the cabin and study the notebook, but Old Beren found him after sailing the ship, pulled him out of the room and took him to the entertainment room, because he found several
The treasure hunter who implanted the seeds on Big Nose Island that day also boarded the Snow Queen.
Although the incident on Big Nose Island has passed, Leo has no plans to interfere with the Life Society's affairs for the time being, but even so, he is still curious about the mutation process of the body of the person who implanted the seeds. As long as it has no adverse effects on him
, secretly observing the changes in these people would also be of some help to him in understanding the evolution of life.
Therefore, Leo did not refuse, temporarily put aside his research on the notebook, and went to the recreation room with Old Beren.
The entertainment room was a little noisy. Most people were talking about the Miracle Star. Only a few people were paying attention to the game in progress. Judging from the chips on the table, which treasure hunters were on the gambling table at the moment?
They seemed to have good luck and won a lot.
Leo and Old Belen did not go to the gambling table, but stayed on the bar not far from the gambling table, drinking wine and watching the gambling game going on on the table over there.
"Which guys have problems?" After looking at a few games of cards on the table, Old Beren suddenly said.
Leo had no reaction to Old Beren's discovery, and he had no intention of asking. From the first game of cards on the table after he came in, he knew there was a problem.
However, he didn't see it from the cards, but from the seeds of assimilation in these people.
From the seeds in the brains of those people, Leo sensed very weak spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy fluctuations on these people were almost the same. Moreover, at the beginning of the game, the spiritual energy in the seeds of these people seemed to be just like...
Like some kind of signal contact device, it continuously emits psychic energy with obvious characteristic codes. Then those people cooperate with each other in the game of cards, wearing away the other party's good cards bit by bit, and finally gain the advantage of the card game.
victory.
Because several people were always looking at the cards in their hands and did not make any gestures that seemed to be signaling, the dealer on board the ship who presided over the card game could only think that they were lucky and always got what they wanted.
of cards.
But this is only temporary. Now these people have attracted the attention of the supervisor in charge of the entertainment room on the ship, and they have already made a preliminary guess about how many people can continue to win card games.
Although the card games are organized voluntarily by the passengers, they only provide dealers and venues, and winning or losing will not cause any loss of profits to them, but if these people are allowed to continue winning like this, it will definitely cause some dissatisfaction among them.
Arrival trouble.
So just now the supervisor asked someone to go to the computer room and turn on the jamming device there.
Sure enough, when the jamming device was turned on, the connection between those people through the seed energy was immediately severed, and the three people's winning momentum was immediately curbed. However, they did not lose immediately, their own
With their card skills and some tacit cooperation, they can barely maintain a win rate of neither losing nor winning.
Although these people didn't know why their moves didn't work, they also knew very well what it meant to give up when they were ready. After waiting for a few more people to come to the card table, they withdrew one after another, and then pretended not to know each other.
They each found a group of people and intervened in the conversation.
For treasure hunters, connections are very important. This is not only related to their sources of information, but also whether the goods they obtain can be sold smoothly. Selling directly to customers is more efficient than selling to middlemen.
Somewhat cost effective.
Those who can afford to ride on the Snow Queen are either rich or noble, and are potential customers of these treasure hunters. They spend a lot of money to buy the tickets, maybe because they want to use this long sea journey to make a few friends.
The rich and powerful who can afford big prices.
"They must be weird!" At this time, Old Beren suddenly pointed secretly at the group of people where one of the treasure hunters intervened, and said: "Did you see that old man? He is the steel tycoon Catli from the Maris Kingdom.
Bobly, his steel group used to be the largest steel manufacturer in the Kingdom of Maris. Although his steel group was forcibly split up due to some changes, he was no longer allowed to operate in the steel industry, but he was in Maris.
The steel industry in the Kingdom of Sri Lanka, and even the steel industry in Velen as a whole, has a lot of say. There must be something wrong with that guy approaching him."
Because he had doubts in his heart, Old Belen was full of doubts about every move, word and deed of these treasure hunters who had seeds planted in them, and he kept thinking the worst.
Leo did not defend those treasure hunters. He could judge from some details of the secret exchanges between those people. They must have had a purpose in approaching those people, but this purpose was obviously very different from what Old Beren believed.
difference.
Leo was more concerned about the changes in the bodies of these people at this moment. Just after they stopped using the power contained in the seeds, the power emitted by the seeds did not fade away, but was slowly changing their bodies. It has only been two days.
It's just that some parts of their bodies have grown a little extra peripheral nerves. I think they will also grow an extra nervous system like the residents of Big Nose Island in the future.
"Huh?" Just as Leo was checking the bodies of these people through the mental network, he suddenly felt a little inexplicable panic in his heart or soul, and he also felt a mysterious pressure on his body.
After careful inspection, he found that this mysterious pressure that made him strange did not come from anyone in the entertainment room, nor from anyone on the ship, but from the ocean outside the ship.
After discovering this, Leo immediately stood up, walked out of the entertainment room, came to the deck, and looked out at the ocean. Because it was daytime and the weather was good, Leo could see far away.
However, there was no ship in sight on the endless sea surface, and naturally there was no existence that could cause him such an abnormal feeling.
"Is it in the sea?" After Leo couldn't find any clues on the sea, he focused his attention on the sea level. However, he didn't find any abnormalities within the coverage of his mental network, and ordinary sight couldn't.
Penetrate the barrier of sea water.
So, he turned on his spiritual vision and looked into the ocean.
However, when he looked at the ocean with his spiritual vision, the scorching sun and cloudless sky a moment ago had now turned pitch black in the blink of an eye, and the people around him had disappeared at this moment, leaving only
He stood alone on the deck of the ship, looking at the ocean ahead.
In the depths of the ocean in his eyes, there were no longer some ordinary sea creatures, but a huge black shadow, a black shadow that shrouded the entire surrounding area of ​​the Snow Queen, and this black shadow was the one on Leo's body.
Sources of mysterious stress.
"Corpse Collector." Leo quickly identified who the black figure in the water was, and at the same time he felt a little confused. Corpse Collector, a demigod who is close to an Omega-level advanced life form, has been following him since Lake Town in the dream world.
He even followed Yam Island, the special subspace between the past, present and future, and now he seems to have followed the world of Velen. Leo is really curious about what is so attractive about him. Maybe this is what he will do.
The reason for being imprinted by various gods.
Although the corpse collector looks like he is in the ocean under the boat, as if he can overturn the boat with just a little force, let Leo fall into the water, and then catch Leo, but in fact Leo knows very well that he is actually
It is in a subspace, separated from the Velen world by a spatial dimension. Now it is just a special method to project the body into the Velen world.
After Leo discovered this, the awe in his heart immediately disappeared. He leaned against the side of the ship provocatively, and then took out some food he had put in the storage space for emergencies, as if to tease the fish.
He crushed it and threw it into the sea, and also deliberately released his provocative emotions into the sea.
The corpse collector's projection instantly understood Leo's provocative behavior, and immediately became extremely angry. The huge black shadow in the sea shook rapidly, changing its shape, and even some tentacle-like body edges forcibly penetrated from the sea water.
He tried to attack Leo, but the result was that as soon as these tentacles extended out of the sea, they were immediately scattered by an invisible force and assimilated into the surrounding world.
Seeing this scene, Leo didn't know why, but a bold idea suddenly came to his mind. While he continued to provoke the corpse collector, he also mobilized the power of the Poseidon mark in his body, and instantly integrated his spirit into the ocean.
Although Leo can't control any ocean power through this Poseidon mark, he can mentally integrate into the ocean and use the power of the ocean to perceive all the power details within the influence of the mark, which naturally includes the corpses that have been scattered by the power of the world.
The person projects the remaining power aura.
Just when Leo sensed that there was an unknown power aura in the ocean that was different from the various powers in the world of Velen, this aura of power seemed to have received some kind of call, and it instantly entered him along Leo's spirit.
In his body, a divine mark was condensed, a divine mark belonging to the corpse collector.
This change was completely beyond Leo's expectation. He just wanted to sense the details of the corpse collector's power so that he could be prepared when he faced him again in the future and not be in a hurry. If he was lucky,
He can also find out the weakness of the corpse collector from this aura of power, and may be able to defeat it head-on in the future.
But he never imagined that the residual power of the corpse collector, which was supposed to be dispersed and assimilated by the power of the world, would actually enter his body and condense into a divine mark.
Although the accident happened suddenly and caught Leo off guard, he still reacted instinctively as quickly as possible and controlled the Mark of the Corpse Collector condensed in his body according to the method he had explored through previous research.
Perhaps it was because this divine mark was rootless and there was no follow-up support, or perhaps it was the joint suppression of other divine marks in his body. In short, he completely controlled the corpse collector's divine mark very easily.
The complete control mentioned here is not just a casual talk, it is really complete control, because the secrets about this mark were completely revealed to him the moment he took control, and the corpse collector had no secrets in front of him.
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At the moment when Leo mastered the mark of the Corpse Collector, the Corpse Collector's projection in the ocean seemed to sense something. It no longer just tentatively tried to rush into the world of Velen, but tried to pass through the barrier of the world with full force.
.
Although it is just a black shadow that changes shape violently, anyone who can see this scene can feel the anxiety and panic of the black shadow.
It's a pity that he is not the god of Velen's world, nor is he a real god. Even if he is a real god facing the power of a world, he cannot make any resistance. His crazy actions only speed up the demise of the projection.
The power of the world dispersed the projection and assimilated the power of the corpse collector. At the same time, some scattered power was scattered in the surrounding ocean, and because of the Poseidon mark, it flowed to Leo and the corpse collector in Leo's body.
imprint.
As more and more power pours in, the mark of the Corpse Collector becomes more and more solid, no longer the vague state at the beginning, and begins to move closer to the marks of gods such as the Web Weaver.
And this is not the final change. As the mark of the corpse collector becomes more and more visible, the secrets about the corpse collector contained in it become clearer and clearer. However, the confusion caused by these secrets is also increasing, making it even more confusing.
Chapter completed!