The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The announcement of the appearance date of the long night period is a matter of great importance to the residents of Audorin. Knowing that the duration of the long night period was more than 20 days long, this made all the people inside and outside of Aodorin City feel inexplicably nervous.

Many qualified people choose to leave Aodorine City temporarily, go to other cities to live temporarily, and return after the long night period passes, but there are still many people who can only stay in the city, and even the residents outside the city Temporarily entered the public shelter in the city to temporarily live, waiting for this long long night to pass.

During the long night period, the mutated monsters hidden in the primeval forests and mountains outside the city rioted, and the attack on Aodorine City was only one of the reasons for the worries and fears of the residents of Aodorine City. It really made the residents of Aodorine City fear What's more, all kinds of strange events appear together with the long night, and the forces that cause these strange events are unstoppable by the city walls. In the more painful situation of death.

The only powers that can resist this kind of weird event are various supernatural powers and stinky camphor fuel produced by the fermentation of stinky camphor wood. Therefore, after the time and duration of the long night period are announced, all Austrians who plan to stay in the city The residents of Doreen flocked to the fuel workshop, which they would not usually go to, to purchase a large amount of stinky camphor fuel and stock it up at home, so as not to run out of stinky camphor fuel before the end of the long night.

The stinky camphor tree is the most common and the most abundant type of wood in the Velen continent. This kind of wood produces a kind of stinky camphor fruit. The shaman church collects the stinky camphor fruit and processes it into insect repellent liquid and a psychic ritual. The hallucinogens, other than that, there is no big use for skunk camphor.

The wood of the stinky camphor tree itself is not the kind of wood that is particularly resistant to burning, and it will emit a stench when it is burned. Long-term inhalation of this stench will cause people to lose their sense of smell, and more seriously, it will affect vision. For a long time it was considered the least popular wood in Mozambique.

Whether it was the early colonists or the later Mozambican governments, they all hoped to cut down this tree and plant other more valuable trees.

It's just that the stinky camphor tree's survival ability is too strong. As long as a seed takes root in a certain place, a stinky camphor tree shrub will grow in that place in just a few months. It becomes a forest of stinky camphor trees, so it is almost impossible for the stinky camphor trees to be completely extinct. The governments of various countries can only clean up one tree after another in a limited area, so as not to allow it to grow.

However, with the development of industrial civilization, the demand for fuel from various factories is increasing day by day, and the existing combustible tree species in Mozambique have begun to be in short supply. Religious, political, and military issues will be triggered, and eventually a war that will spread to the entire continent will break out. This is something no one wants to see.

As a result, various countries began to focus on the stinky camphor trees that can be seen everywhere in the Mozambique continent, and jointly mobilized human and material resources to solve the problem of the use of stinky camphor trees. Finally, a scholar discovered a kind of fermentation similar to wine making It doesn’t take too long to ferment the wood. It only needs to ferment for three to five days to completely solve the odor produced by the burning of camphor tree wood, and the fermented wood fuel can also produce strong enough firepower. , although it is much worse than those combustible woods, it is enough as a supplementary fuel, until then the stinky camphor tree can be used.

Later, shamanism discovered that the combustible materials supported by the camphor tree after incompletely removing the odor can relieve some negative forces generated during the long night to a certain extent. These negative forces include the power to make people violent and irritable. It also contains some unknown forces that cause weird events to happen.

Therefore, every time a long night occurs, people with conditions will buy some stinky camphor fuel, and big cities like Audorin will also replace the street lights on the main roads with this stinky camphor fuel.

After the news that Aodolin and other regions and countries in the southern part of the Mozambique continent would fall into a long night, people and things in other places had to be rescheduled because of this accident. Lan also had to give up the plan for the time being. Other commercial exchanges with the southern long-night countries and regions, except for particularly urgent transactions, have also stopped. Everyone knows that the world is already walking in the wild. A very dangerous thing to do, and ten times more dangerous in the wild in long night coverage.

Time passed quickly, and a few days later, the long night came as expected. One moment it was sunny, but the next moment it fell into darkness, and the sky was completely replaced by darkness. Even the stars and the moon could not be seen.

After a short period of panic, those walking on the street turned on the small waist lamps hanging around their waists, lit the stinky camphor fuel that had been prepared in the lamps, adjusted the flames, and after a little adaptation, started from the top of the waist lamps. After emitting a slight stench, they walked on the street like normal people again, heading to where they needed to go.

Although they are protected by the waist lamp fueled by stinky camphor, they will not be affected by the special power of the long night for the time being, but according to past experience, they will be eroded by the unknown power of darkness even if they have stinky camphor fuel. , so the pace of pedestrians on the road has obviously accelerated a lot. They have to deal with the things in hand as soon as possible, and then return to the company or home to stay with other people, and try to avoid being alone.

At the same time, the lamplighting team of the Odoline City Government also began to light the street lamps on the road specially used to burn stinky camphor fuel with a team of three. Sufficient fuel, without adjusting the flame, the light produced after burning can illuminate the land around the street lamp as much as possible, and pedestrians on the road also began to consciously walk along the route arranged by the street lamps to avoid falling into those street lamps. In the dark that cannot be seen.

Because the smell of stinky camphor fuel can suppress human emotions and will not be affected by the power in the dark, even after some treatment, the smell in stinky camphor fuel has weakened a lot, but when using stinky camphor fuel When all the street lamps were turned on, the entire city of Aodorine was immediately haunted by an inexplicable stench.

In the ruined construction site of the Dodd Group’s factory area, temporary stinky camphor braziers were also ignited, illuminating the entire construction site. The workers on the construction site were not greatly affected, and they still focused on doing their own things. Most of these workers are of local origin, and they are well aware that with so many people gathered, stinky camphor fuel is lit around, and everyone still has potions to solve emotional abnormalities in their hands, so the danger they will encounter will be lower. much smaller.

However, because the burning brazier is open without a fire cover, and because Sylvia led the first witch group to arrange some blocking forces around the factory area, it hindered the air circulation to a certain extent, which in turn made The air in the ruins of the factory area became much smellier than the outside world.

The local people are used to this smell, and even have a certain resistance to it, but it is obviously uncomfortable for Sylvia and the others, so they have to use some methods to clean the air in the factory camp. It's only slightly better with some filtering.

However, people like Emily who need to patrol the factory area often have to suffer from the stench every time they leave the camp. This time she couldn't help complaining: "We should have left before the long night appeared. .”

"Who is responsible for the construction site we left here?" Sylvia asked back, and before Emily could respond, she asked again, "What is the progress of the reconstruction on the smelting furnace?"

"The inscription team has already begun to engrave the Turing radicals on the inner layer. It will take about two days to complete. The components on the outer layer have almost been made. They should be able to be assembled after the Turing radicals are inscribed on the inner layer. , if the basic renovation project of the entire smelting furnace goes well, it can be completed before the end of the long night period." Emily replied seriously.

Sylvia nodded in satisfaction and said, "Very good, so even if those guys find something abnormal, they won't be able to stop it."

At this time, there was a sudden noise from outside the tent, and then Su hurriedly walked in from the outside, and said to Sylvia, "Something happened."

Seeing Su's serious expression, Sylvia didn't ask any further questions, and immediately stood up and led the people outside, asking Su to briefly explain the situation on the way.

It turned out that there was a miserable cry in a collapsed factory building that was waiting for the foundation to be re-strengthened just now. After the nearby workers heard it, some people went in to check. These people were all workers sent from other places and had never experienced a long night. Looking forward to such a thing, and those local workers knew very well that something strange might have happened, and they all gathered around the brazier, the area illuminated by the light, and didn't do anything to gather inside.

Su was in charge of the safety of the factory area. Naturally, he rushed there immediately, and quickly counted the number of people. He found that there were seven workers who were in charge of the reconstruction of the factory area, and all seven of them were foreigners without exception. Four people were the ones who entered the factory building when they heard the voice later. It is not clear when the other three people disappeared.

Soon Sylvia brought people to the factory where the accident happened. The workers who had gathered here had already been taken to the camp under Su's order. There was only a team of factory guards left here. Seemingly very nervous, after seeing Sylvia and others coming, he was slightly relieved, and immediately reported the situation just now.

Just now, when Su rushed back to notify Sylvia, there were screams from the factory again, but this time no one came over there, and the screams stopped after a dozen or so .

The factory building waiting to be rebuilt is not on the edge of the factory area, but in the center of the factory area, next to the core melting furnace. Specifications of steel, and then shipped to other factories for subsequent processing.

In the entire factory area, there are five more factory buildings like this, and they are all next to the melting furnace. When the accident happened not long ago, these factory buildings were also one of the most severely damaged factory buildings. The ground parts of almost all the factory buildings were damaged. It collapsed, leaving only some load-bearing columns and foundations relatively well preserved. In the next reconstruction work, the foundations and load-bearing columns of these factories will be re-strengthened, and the factories will be built for different purposes, no longer just for carrying out Secondary processing.

Although it is located near the main tent of the entire reconstruction site, it may seem like it is dark under the lights, but it has become a place that everyone ignores. There are only four braziers around the entire factory building, and the light of these braziers can only vaguely illuminate some of them. The road, because of the obstruction of the surrounding trees, could not illuminate the interior of the factory building at all.

"Didn't you warn them not to go to places without light?" Seeing the situation of the factory building, Sylvia couldn't help frowning, and turned to question the manager in charge of this area.

"You know, outsiders who haven't experienced the long night period will not really understand how dangerous it is." Without waiting for the manager to respond, Su explained for the other party, saying: "Among the people who have accidents during the long night period every year, the people from other places People make up the vast majority.”

Sylvia stopped blaming the supervisor for not being optimistic about her workers, and looked at the dark factory building for a moment of silence, and said, "Su and Emily let me in, and the others stay outside."

The other witches of the No. 1 Witch Squad around said worriedly, "Master Countess, we also..."

"You don't need to follow. If something happens, with your strength, being by my side will actually drag me down." Sylvia interrupted them unceremoniously, and bluntly expressed her thoughts.

After that, she didn't look at the ugly faces of her subordinates, and led Su and Emily towards the factory building, and soon entered the ruins of the factory building from a road that had been cleared.

The moment she entered the factory building, Sylvia turned on the energy detection module in the universal recorder worn on her wrist, and soon an energy wavelength map appeared on her retina, allowing her to see intuitively Details of any unusual energy fluctuations within the plant.

This universal recorder is the one that Leo gave to Sylvia at the beginning. It is more complete than the universal recorder used by Leo, and this universal recorder is not a simple civilian version, but specializes in some The explorer version used by the Star Expedition Team also has many functional modules.

Leo has never used this type of general-purpose recorder, and can only unlock some general-purpose modules, and the energy detection module is one of them.

This general-purpose recorder was given to Sylvia by Leo, and also taught Sylvia how to use it and some universal language. Over the years, Sylvia has used this general-purpose recorder to do a lot of things, and has also gained There are many benefits, and it is not much worse than Leo in terms of proficiency in use.