The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Speaking of the wild life experience in Vinylon World, Sylvia, who was a well-known adventurer in the early years, obviously has much more than Leo. When Leo set up the rune magic circle next to the hut, Sylvia was already in A fire was lit in the fireplace, the resting space was cleared, and prey was even caught for dinner in the evening.

"It's not far from the Old Panier Kingdom. Shall we go and have a look tomorrow." While processing the prey, Sylvia suddenly asked Leo.

Leo was stunned for a moment, and said: "I remember that you seemed to have written a book about the old capital of the Panier Kingdom. Do you want to see if the things you didn't take away are still there?"

"I have this idea." Sylvia smiled and admitted.

The old capital of the Panier Kingdom is called Cancantotan, which is located deep in the Panier Mountains. It is a stone city built against the mountains. Everyone who sees this city thinks it is a miracle of architecture.

The reason why the Panier people chose to build their city in the deep mountains was mainly to defend against colonists and adventurers from other continents. This decision made the Panir Kingdom very difficult even in the era of war-torn Mozambique. Calm, even the old capital Cancantotan has become a refuge for various indigenous tribes.

However, as the situation stabilized, the Kingdom of Panier began to have frequent contacts with the outside world, and exchanges in trade and politics increased. The kingdom chose to move the capital to the edge of the mountains, closer to Kalut in the north. As for the old capital, it was preserved as a royal fiefdom.

However, because the location of the old capital is too remote, the Panier people who have begun to enjoy the prosperity of the outside world are naturally unwilling to stay in the old capital, so the population of the old capital is gradually decreasing. First, the young people leave, and then the middle-aged people, Only a few old people remained here, and in the end, the old people died of old age, and the old city became a deserted city. No one came to live here, and a lot of vegetation covered it. When Sylvia went, only The altar transformed from a small hill in the center of the old capital is still not covered by duties.

It stands to reason that all the valuable things in Paneer have been carried away long ago, and then they have been abandoned for so many years. Some of the murals and reliefs inlaid on the walls and other slightly valuable things have been dug up and taken away. It is no longer possible. There is nothing valuable, but when Sylvia went to explore the old capital, she found that there was actually another palace hidden near the old capital, and she also found a hidden treasure house in the palace, but the gate was blocked. Protected by some unknown force, she couldn't open the door of the treasure house for a short time, and she had other things to do at that time, so she didn't stay there much.

When she returned to the Faran Empire, she wrote this matter into her book, but she did not write down the method of entering the palace, nor did she write down the location of the treasure house, so most people read it. Anyone who has read this book thinks that the so-called palace is just a story she made up to make the adventure legendary.

But then it seemed that news came out that an expedition team specializing in excavating ruins from the Kingdom of America seemed to have found the palace that Sylvia mentioned. As for whether they found the hidden treasure house, opened the treasure house, and took away the contents. I don't know.

However, it is rumored that shortly after returning from the old capital of Panier, the expedition team prepared a large number of tools for excavation and exploration, and recruited more than 30 veterans to go to the old capital of Panier again. All, as a result, there was no news about the expedition.

At that time, although this incident did not cause much impact in the entire Vinylon world, it caused quite a stir in the Kingdom of Megalica, because several people in the expedition team were the heirs of the rich and powerful of Megalica, so the Kingdom of Megalica also sent The search and rescue team went to the old capital to find the expedition team, but in the end, not to mention the expedition team, even the hidden palace mentioned by the expedition team was not found.

For this matter, the Kingdom of America sent diplomats to find Sylvia, and wanted to ask Sylvia about the hidden palace in the old capital of the Panier Kingdom, but Sylvia was busy with other things He ignored the diplomat of the Kingdom of America at all, and the diplomat also thought that Sylvia was insulting him, so he left directly, and the matter was left alone.

After that, the Kingdom of Megalica also searched for the Kingdom of Panier. After all, it was the old capital of Panier. The Kingdom of Panier should know more about its former capital than anyone else. The disappointing result is that the old capital All the documents in the old capital were burned due to a fire shortly after the capital was moved, and now all the records about the old capital are pieced together from the records of shamanism and the tribes of the surrounding kingdoms, and the level of detail is not even as good as that written by Sylvia of that book.

After the search was fruitless, the Kingdom of America gave up the search, and after the families of the several powerful heirs elected new heirs, they didn't care much about the former heirs, and the matter eventually disappeared quickly. faded from people's memory.

It wasn't Sylvia's whim to go to the old capital of Panier to open the treasure house. In fact, after she moved to the Mozambique continent and settled down, she thought about going to the old capital of Panier to open the unopened treasure house several times. See what's in there, but there are always some things that hinder her and prevent her from making the trip. Now that she is accompanied by Leo, and the location is so good near the old capital, she naturally thinks over this matter.

Naturally, Leo would not object. For him, this trip to the holy mountain of the tribe in the southern part of the wilderness was completely a trip, and the issue of food was only secondary.

As time passed, the sky soon became dark, and the entire forest was completely swallowed by the darkness. Only a little bit of light from the campfire swayed in the darkness, and this bit of light was like a magnet attracting people hidden in the dark forest. those moths.

"Aren't you going to test it now?" Sylvia used a knife to cut off a small piece of meat from the prey that was being grilled, tasted it, and signaled to Leo that it was ready to eat, and then looked at the layout not far away. Rune magic circle, asked.

"Not yet," Leo used his spiritual vision to look at the rune magic array he had arranged, looked at the faint light emanating from the runes, and looked at the eye-catching figures in the dark forest emitting energy light. The individual, said: "Some sacrifices are needed for perfect operation."

"Sacrifice?" Sylvia was stunned, and then followed Leo's line of sight to look into the dark forest. Although she couldn't easily see the mutated monsters hidden in the forest like Leo, she could still Relying on other means to perceive the location of those monsters, she saw that she inserted the knife in her hand into the prey on the grill, and then asked Leo: "To live or to die?"

Seeing Sylvia's eagerness to try, Leo didn't stop him, so he replied: "As long as their hearts are enough."

Hearing Leo's words, Sylvia didn't say anything, stepped into the darkness, and quickly disappeared into a forest.

Then I heard the screams of monsters before they died from the woods, and at the same time, the clusters of energy bodies in Leo's vision were also rapidly decreasing. Those monsters that were powerful enough to cause heavy casualties to hundreds of soldiers They were so weak in front of Sylvia that they died without any resistance like some poultry waiting to be slaughtered.

Ten minutes later, the last mass of energy in the spirit vision also dimmed, and it didn't take long to see Sylvia dragging a dozen blood vessels connected to the heart into the range of the fire, and the blood on the monster's body stuck to the flames. It was on her clothes, making her look extraordinarily scary.

Leo took the heart from Sylvia's hand, and then performed witchcraft to clean up the blood on Sylvia's body, and then said that the hearts were placed in several runes of the magic circle in turn.

At this time, the magic circle seemed to be stimulated by the blood of the heart, emitting a blood-red light that could be seen by the naked eye, and these lights formed a series of light bands, linking the heart and the rune magic circle together. The full heart is also slowly decaying.

Seeing this situation, Leo took out the monster's head that he cut off before, and placed it in the center of the rune magic circle. After placing it, all the surrounding light bands passing through the heart also extended towards the head. It is injected into the brain in the skull and stimulates the network on the cerebral cortex.

At this moment, the net suddenly emitted bursts of energy fluctuations, which spread to the surroundings like some kind of signal wave. It didn't take long for Leo to see more than a dozen people appearing in the distance through his spiritual vision. A wave of energy resembling a web.

After these energy waves appear, they constantly change the wavelength of the energy waves as if they are conveying some kind of information, but because the energy waves of the network forged by Leo have no way to change the wavelength of the energy waves, they cannot give any response, so These energy waves that appeared quickly subsided.

Although the whole process was very short, it was enough for Leo to remember the approximate location where those energy waves appeared, and this situation also confirmed his previous guess that the mutated monster with the mesh was indeed able to pass through this kind of wave. The mesh gets in touch and communicates.

As the hearts in the rune magic circle began to shrink and decay, the light bands also began to dim, and the energy waves emanating from the brain at the center of the rune also began to weaken, and no new energy waves appeared in the distance.

Just when Leo thought that the matter was over, and was about to go to the nearest energy wave generation point to catch a new mutant monster with a net, an energy wave suddenly burst out in the distance on the southwest side. The single wavelength of the wave is similar to the previous energy wave, but there is a huge difference in intensity, which is equivalent to the difference between a small torch and a spotlight, and even because the energy wave is too strong, the energy wave interferes The energy particles in the normal world, the friction between the two produces beams of light that look like lightning, which look very gorgeous from a distance.

"What is that?" Sylvia naturally saw such an obvious sight, so she asked suspiciously.

"That should be the source." Leo looked solemnly at the direction where the energy wave appeared. Although it looked very close, it was actually separated by several mountains, and such a long distance could still make him Feeling a powerful energy wave, it is obvious that the source of that energy wave is probably a very powerful existence.

"Did you guess right? Those mutated monsters are all puppets, and that's the source of the puppets?" Sylvia asked with a serious expression on her relaxed expression.

"Well! If there is no accident, it should be the source." Leo replied affirmatively, thought for a while, and added: "The source is very strong, maybe even stronger than the bone butterfly."

There was a hint of worry in Sylvia's eyes. You must know that the skeleton butterfly is a disaster-level mutant monster. Every time it appears, it will bring a series of destruction. Now there is a monster that is stronger than the skeleton butterfly, and this The monster is still hidden in a place so close to civilized society, and it is also intelligent, able to create and control intelligent monsters, how can this not make her feel worried.

"Don't worry so much," Leo seemed to see what Sylvia was thinking, and he said with relief: "The reason why the bone butterfly will cause huge disasters every time it appears, and it is difficult to eliminate is mainly because of its own nature. The ability makes it have a strong survivability and destructive ability, but in fact its power is not particularly strong. And the source of this puppet monster..." As he spoke, he looked at the light beam that was gradually dimming in the distance, and said: "Although in terms of energy In terms of strength, it is much stronger than the Skeleton Butterfly, but it has not exceeded the limit we can deal with, so it should not be difficult for us to solve him."

After listening to Leo's words, Sylvia's expression relaxed a little, and then, as if thinking of something, she looked towards the distance where the light beam had almost completely disappeared, frowned slightly, and said, "Then The side seems to be where the old capital of Paneer is located."

Hearing this, Leo couldn't help but smiled, and said, "Isn't this just right? It saves us another detour tomorrow."

As Leo's voice fell, the rune magic circle not far away, as well as the heart and head inside, turned into ashes at the moment the energy wave disappeared and scattered on the ground.

Leo and Sylvia didn't think about anything else. They returned to the bonfire, ate the food that was being baked on it, and then hugged each other, leaning against the fireplace, and fell asleep one after another.

Because Sylvia cleaned up the mutant monsters around at night, they didn't encounter any attacks that night, until the next morning, a bold carnivore ran in and ate some of the mutated monsters born last night. It was the barbecue that woke them up from their sleep.

After tidying up and washing up, the two packed up their luggage, left the temporary camp, and rushed towards the source of the energy wave they discovered last night.