The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Conqueror of the five seas of Geros, owner of the amethyst crown, singer who awakened the original sea monster, daughter of the sea..." When a group of people came to the only stone fortress in the center of the island town, a The one-eyed man, who has grown into a sea tribe, stood respectfully at the door, shouted a series of names of Chris, and didn't finish shouting until Chris came to him, then walked towards Chris and looked very The poor etiquette of the upper class said: "Your eternal servant Duke is waiting for your orders."

"Old Duke, you still talk so much nonsense," Chris stopped, looked at the former subordinate coldly, and said, "Are all the things I need ready?"

Old Duke quickly replied: "You came much sooner than expected. I only received the news yesterday, and I haven't had time to prepare things yet."

Chris frowned, knowing that the problem was with her, so she didn't say much, and asked directly, "How long will it take to prepare everything?"

"It will take at least two days," Old Duke said after thinking carefully.

Chris muttered dissatisfied: "Two days? So long?"

The old Duke explained: "Other things are easy to collect, most of them are here, even if there are no islands in the nearby sea area, you can buy them, but the guide you asked for on the upper layer of the trench is a bit difficult to find. The good guide Andu is not here, he is still in prison on Britton Island, and it will take some effort to get him..."

Hearing Old Duke mention his difficulties, Chris immediately turned to the attendants beside her and asked, "Who is the bishop of Britton Island?"

The attendant quickly responded, "It's Linde."

Chrissy ordered: "Let him release Andu and send it over by the fastest boat." Then, she turned to Old Duke and said, "You used me this time to rescue that Andu. I don't care about this matter, but I hope that Andu is really capable of being a guide, otherwise you should know what the consequences of lying to me are."

Old Duke immediately knelt down on the ground in fright, not daring to say more.

Chrissy didn't even look at him, and walked directly past him, entered the interior of the fortress, and ordered the clergymen under her command to station and arrange housing, as if she regarded herself as the master of the fortress.

Regarding Chris's practice of turning the client into the main, the old Duke didn't dare to say anything more, and followed behind, and the people who assisted Chris arranged the various personnel properly, with a look of hard work.

Neither Leo nor Chris planned to take a break. They came to the library of the fortress and read all kinds of information related to the Taranque Trench that Old Duke had collected over the years. Under Chris's order, Templar guards stood outside the door.

"That old Duke doesn't seem to be as loyal as you think." Leo took out a fishskin paper volume from the bookshelf, and reminded him while flipping through it.

Leo's words were not casual. He could clearly feel that the old Duke was hiding a power of hatred under the incomparable respect shown on the surface. Obviously, the relationship between Chris and the old Duke was not simple. up and down relationship.

"I know this very well. He and I are considered enemies, the kind of enemies who cannot resolve hatred." Chris was not surprised, and without raising her head, she said calmly: "He used to be a member of the Jellosh Yongning Sea. The pirate overlord has 50 ships, and there are more than 50,000 people directly under him. As a result, he clashed with my fleet and was wiped out by me. All the pirates were executed, the ships were destroyed, and he was also gouged out by me. , but I saved his life and let him be stationed here."

"Aren't you worried about him rebelling?" Leo asked again.

Chrissy said disdainfully: "I hope he can rebel, and I even took the initiative to help him contact those guys who were against me, but this guy always thought that the opportunity hadn't come, so he didn't do anything, and stayed here honestly. "

Leo was silent for a moment, and said, "You came here on purpose."

Chris didn't answer, but just smiled slightly.

Seeing this situation, Leo didn't ask any more questions, and focused on the information in his hand.

Old Duke stayed in the Taranque Trench for a long time, and collected information related to it very comprehensively. It can be seen that he seems to regard the Taranque Trench as his own territory, and as a lord, he must naturally You need to know the situation in your territory well.

In the outside world, the Taranque Trench is associated with words such as death and Jedi. Countless sentences describe this place as a sea area cursed by the sea god, where no fish can survive and so on.

However, the actual situation is that the Taranque Trench is a treasure house containing countless wealth, and any item found here may make people rich overnight.

As rumored by the outside world, the Taranque Trench is indeed not suitable for any fish to survive. Even if some fish survive, they will be difficult to be found, but such a harsh environment is very suitable for the survival of shellfish and sea worms.

A large number of seashells are all over the seabed of the seabed in the reef area. They just stick to the reefs on the seabed, blend with the reefs, resist the surrounding currents, and obtain a lot of food from the surrounding turbulent currents.

Due to environmental reasons, these seashells are stronger, larger, and more delicious than other seashells in the outside world, and the pearls they produce also have some extremely mysterious powers under the influence of the environment. Some methods are attached to the holder. In short, many of the pearls produced here are natural wonders.

What's more important is the sea worms here, which are very suitable for the growth of sea worms, and the sea worms grown here can be made into a kind of powder, which is a very special aphrodisiac, which can help the sea people improve their fertility, Therefore, the price of this kind of sea worm in the sea tribe is very high.

Although there are sea bugs that are very important to the sea people, the sea people do not control it, because it seems that there is a force that is extremely unfriendly to the sea people. Any sea people who approach here will feel the power of the body passing away quickly. In the end, even the power to swim completely disappeared, and he could only follow the ocean current, be drawn into the maelstrom, and be torn to pieces.

Although the Sea Clan can't control this place, they have ways to influence it. For example, they don't allow any forces to build direct strongholds here, including the Spirit Clan and the Church of Poseidon, and at the same time, they also publicize the dangers of the Taranque Trench. The rumors made others dare not approach, and the people who finally gathered here were all pirates who were hunted down from various sea areas. As time passed, this place became an extralegal place for pirates in this world.

The people who settled on the islands and reefs here cannot get food directly from the Taranque Trench, they can only catch sea bugs and seashells to trade food with the sea people outside.

The reason Chris was able to arrange Old Duke here was mainly because Chris was still a pirate in this world at the time, and her arrangement did not violate the rules of the Sea Clan. The clergyman, and then became the holder of the artifact. When the Godborn Temple was established, she had already become the actual controller of the Taranque Trench through indirect control.

Perhaps because of the blood connection, Chris said that the reason why she arranged for Old Duke to stay here was also because she had a strange feeling after coming here, feeling that there seemed to be something very important here.

The reason why Chris has never explored this place is that apart from the obstruction of the Sea Clan, it is also because the Taranque Trench is extremely dangerous. Before she fully masters the use method and ability of the Sea God Artifact, she is not sure how to get out of here completely. .

According to known exploration data, the Taranque Trench is divided into upper and lower layers, and the interval between the two layers is the Great Whirlpool and the Bottomless Trench.

The great vortex on the sea surface is formed by a huge deep submarine hole. To enter the upper layer of the trench, you need to pass through the deep submarine hole from the siphon in the middle of the great vortex to reach the underground sea area, which is the first layer of the trench.

This level alone is enough to discourage the vast majority of people in this world. The huge pulling force of the maelstrom and the pressure brought by the huge water flow in the deep cave on the seabed are enough to destroy most intruders. Only a few people who have mastered the deep sea ability It can resist this force and enter the upper trench, which is also the main body of the Taranque Trench, a deep-sea trench that cannot be explored at both ends.

There are countless dangers hidden in this trench. There are a large number of sea monsters that have perished in ancient times, and there are also various undercurrents that suddenly erupt and disappear suddenly. In these dangers, sea monsters can still avoid or kill them in various ways, but if they encounter the undercurrent of the seabed, they can only resist it.

Although the same name is used, the undercurrent tide in the normal sea area and the undercurrent tide in the Taranque Trench are not the same thing at all. The tearing force produced by the undercurrent tide alone is a hundred times or a thousand times different.

However, even though the Trench on the upper layer of Taranque is so dangerous, there are still many people who will use various means and methods to enter there, because the ancient sea monsters there can be sold for a high price in the outside world. New year's sea shells and sea worms are not necessarily comparable.

It is precisely because of this that the profession of trench guide has also emerged here.

The role of the Trench Guide is to lead the hirers to the most likely place where there are valuable ancient sea monsters in the upper trench, and to avoid some dangerous places in the trench. They will not participate in any battles, and will avoid danger as soon as possible.

But even so, their employment price is very high. A good guide who can bring benefits to the employer from time to time is usually enough to live in luxury for half a year in a city like Lingdu.

Among these trench guides, Linde, who was mentioned by the old Duke, was the most outstanding among them. According to the information Leo has seen now, this Linde not only leads the team every time It can make the employer gain something, and it can also safely bring the employer back to the sea.

It's just that his asking price is also very expensive, and usually requires half of the profit that the employer reaps this time, but even so, people who want to hire him are still flocking to him, because hiring other people is absolutely incomparable in terms of safety and yield. Compare.

Chrissy's plan to hire Linde just wanted not to waste too much power when passing through the upper trench, so that she would have enough strength to find the blood helmet in the lower trench.

The lower trench has not been explored so far, because all the people who entered the lower trench never came up again without exception.

The location of the lower trench is not fixed. Usually, when you dive and feel a force pulling from below, you should have entered the edge of the lower trench.

The reason why those explorers have entered the lower trench so far has not survived, mainly because of the downward pulling force in the lower trench, and that pulling force will double every time they dive, and the sea surface will form a large vortex. Compared with the pulling force, it is simply the strength of a baby and an adult. Once it enters the lower trench, the intruder will be continuously pulled down by the pulling force, and will never be able to float up.

"Can you survive in the deep sea?" Chris asked suddenly.

"Yes." Leo replied simply,

Although Chris was curious about how Leo could do it, she didn't ask too much and chose to believe in Leo's ability.

In fact, if Chris had asked Leo this question before Leo obtained a complete psionic system, she might have gotten a different answer, but now Leo has obtained the same spiritual power as those formally trained psychics in the universe. Complete psychic knowledge also allowed him to master various low-level but very practical psychic skills, including the psychic skills of how to survive and reproduce in various environments in the universe.

With these psychic skills, Leo, who has the strength of a sixth-level psyker, can survive smoothly even in the vacuum universe where the living environment is even harsher, let alone in the depths of the ocean.

"After we go down, let's go here first." After reading a certain guide's diary, Leo pointed to the place described on one of the pages, and said to Chris.

Chris took the diary and flipped through it, and saw that this page mentioned that he saw a huge metal body on a rock wall somewhere in the trench. It takes a long time for a snorkeler to swim from one end to the other.

At that time, the person who wrote the diary led a team of employers and was capturing a very valuable sea monster. After seeing this metal body, they were not only admiring the magnificent shape of the metal body, but also curious about what the metal body was. Want to go to explore, but their actions were finally stopped by a rational guide.

As a trench guide, he knew very well how dangerous it would be to temporarily change the route and target. In the end, he did not agree to the request of these employers, and he did not even take the employer to continue to capture the ancient sea monster. Instead, he returned to the surface of the sea and ended the trip. hire.

Obviously that trench guide made a very correct choice, because other trench guides also saw this huge metal body, and also found a sea monster called the stinger sea moth around this huge metal body.

This kind of sea monster is extremely territorial and lives in groups. Once they are disturbed, they will be attacked by a group of stinging sea vipers. Facing such an attack, it is difficult to survive, and the value of stinging sea vipers is very low. Killing is not worth the candle.