The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Eagle Mouth Rock is a very famous landmark located on the edge of the wasteland. If you go south from Eagle Mouth Rock, you will officially enter the wasteland, and if you go north, you will enter the civilized world.

Because this is the geographical hub, many tribes hoped to control this place in the past to monopolize the exchange and trade between the wilderness tribes and the outside world. Therefore, there was a battle of Yingzuiyan here more than 300 years ago, and more than 100 tribes Participating in this war, there were at least 100,000 warriors from various tribes who died here. More than a dozen tribes with very ancient traditions perished in this war. In the end, there was no winner in this war.

Under the mediation of the Shaman Holy Mountain, this place has become a tribal public land boundary. Any tribe is allowed to enter the Yingshen Lake under the Yingzui Rock to camp, but it is not allowed to live for a long time.

However, as the tribes in the wasteland began to divide from north to south, the north of the wasteland established its own holy mountain, and a very spacious and flat road was built in the jungle, directly connecting the two holy mountains, which also weakened the importance of Eagle Mouth Rock. There are a lot of people, and only a few tribes will come to Eagle Mouth Rock to settle for a period of time due to other reasons.

The Long Feather Tribe is such a wilderness tribe that often travels to and from the Eagle's Mouth Rock. Every time they come to the Eagle's Mouth Rock, they will settle here for a few months before returning to their settlement deep in the southern wilderness.

The reason why the Changyu tribe has this weird custom is mainly because this tribe was also one of the tribes that participated in the battle of Yingzuiyan, and almost all the young and middle-aged men of the Changyu tribe died in this battle. People were destroyed by the beast tide in the wilderness, and the tribes had already been expelled from the holy mountain.

However, some old people and children of the Changyu tribe survived, and they lived in a tribe that had a very good relationship with the Changyu tribe.

These children later grew up, and through their abilities, they rebuilt the Long Feather Tribe, and also allowed the Holy Mountain to restart their tribe name, becoming a wilderness tribe recognized by the Holy Mountain again.

In order to let the descendants of the tribe remember this disaster forever, the Changyu tribe will move to live near Yingzuiyan for a few months every year, and hold the coming-of-age ceremony for the young men of the tribe in Yingshen Lake. lasted for hundreds of years.

After the mist disaster, the Changyu tribe stopped this custom for two years, but the Changyu tribe had a very bad life in those two years. There was a plague in the tribe, and there were mutant monsters attacking them constantly outside, and the elders of the tribe The shaman died suddenly, and the young shaman apprentice hadn't passed the test of the Holy Mountain, which means that the Changyu tribe was in a state of no shaman in those two years, which was an extremely serious problem for the wilderness tribe. disaster.

At that time, the elders of the tribe attributed these disasters to the fact that the Changyu tribe did not follow the tribal tradition and went to Yingzui Rock to pay homage to their ancestors, so the punishment was imposed.

So in the third year, the Changyu tribe restarted this tradition, and the whole family migrated to Yingzuiyan. As a result, not only did three shaman apprentices pass the holy mountain test that year and became tribal shamans, but also the tribe was attacked by mutated monsters. In addition, the number of newborns born within the tribe is close to the largest number of births in a century.

It is precisely because of these things that the Changyu tribe believes that the tradition of migrating to the Yingzuiyan is very important, so no matter how difficult it is to encounter in the future, this tradition must be completed.

This year is not a good year for the Long Feather Tribe. They have mutated a large number of wild beasts in the wilderness hunting grounds, and a wave of mutated monsters has begun to form. Hunters can no longer enter the hunting grounds to hunt. In addition, the purchase price of fur outside Even if the large amount of fur hoarded by the tribe last year was sold, they would not make much money, which was not enough to cover the daily expenses of the tribe. In the end, the food reserves they used for the winter were all buried underground due to landslides.

However, even with these waves of disasters coming, the Changyu tribe still did not abandon the tradition, and still chose to move the whole family to Yingzuiyan to live temporarily for a few months. It may be crazy to mock the patriarch of the Changyu tribe secretly, which is why he made such a crazy decision.

It's just that these people who secretly laughed at the Changyu tribe didn't know that the Changyu tribe's insistence on tradition had ushered in a turning point for them.

The first is the problem of the sharp drop in fur purchase prices. In fact, the demand for animal fur in Vinylon is very large, and the price has been rising. The Northern Tribal Alliance, which controls fur purchases, deliberately lowered the price to make huge profits.

When the Long Feather Tribe moved to Eagle's Mouth Rock, someone spread the news that the Long Feather Tribe had brought a large amount of fur stockpiles, which led many people who wanted to bypass the Northern Tribal Alliance to secretly send people to Eagle's Mouth Rock and In the long-feather tribe's transaction, in the end, the long-feather tribe's fur not only did not lose money, but also made the long-feather tribe a big profit.

After having money, the Long Feather Tribe directly purchased a large amount of food from these smugglers, so that the gap in winter food was also filled.

As for the problem about the hunting ground, it was also resolved after they migrated to Eagle Mouth Rock, because the group of mutated monsters moved to the depths of the wilderness after they left. into the depths of the wilderness.

This series of good news is naturally regarded as the tribe follows the tradition, and thus has obtained the protection of the ancestors and the tribe's wild gods. Many tribes in the wasteland also feel that they should also learn from the Changyu tribe and bring out some traditional rituals that have been abandoned. .

Because the Long Feather Tribe has attracted many smuggling caravans to come here for various transactions, some nearby small tribes who do not want to be drawn by the Northern Tribal Alliance also secretly send people to come here to trade with goods. For more than a month, there has been a small market here.

Feiyang Yuwei is the captain of the patrol team formed by the small market. His main task is to patrol around the Yingzui Rock. If any beasts mutate into monsters, they must be dealt with in time. .

I don't know if it's because it's located in the Northern Tribal Alliance, or because the Eagle's Mouth Rock was protected by the tribal warriors who died here in the past. All in all, the number of mutated monsters in the Eagle's Mouth Rock is far less than other places. .

Most of the mutated monsters encountered by the patrol team led by Feiyang Yuwei were mutated monsters acting alone. These monsters were easy to deal with for the patrol team, because the number of mutated monsters in the wasteland was astonishing, and the wasteland tribe had already found some The skills to deal with monsters, as long as they don't encounter hordes of monsters, then a tribe hunter can also use these skills to hunt monsters, so patrols feel very relaxed these days.

It's just that this relaxed atmosphere was gone early this morning, because they saw a herd of wild unicorns being preyed on.

The one-horned ox is the longest domesticated wild beast in the tribe, and its importance to the tribe is self-evident. Milk, beef, and beef bones can all be used as food, cowhide can be made into clothing and boots, and tendon is the main material for making bows and arrows. , and the offal of the cow is the best bait when fishing, so long ago, before the first kingdom in the world of Velen appeared, the wilderness tribes had already begun to domesticate the one-horned cow.

Although domesticated unicorns are very docile, wild unicorns are very fierce. Once they encounter creatures that trespass into their territory, no matter how powerful the creatures are, they will attack desperately. All live in groups, so attacks are also in groups.

In the wilderness, even the most ferocious beasts and experienced hunters are unwilling to provoke wild unicorns.

However, now such a group of ferocious wild unicorns have turned into a mass of mutilated corpses covering the hillside in front of them, and many of the corpses have a large number of signs of being corroded by some kind of acid. Judging from various situations, These wild unicorns all died from the attack of some kind of mutated monster, but they didn't know whether the mutated monster was a group or just one.

Still, it's just as dangerous for people on patrol like Feathertail, whether in groups or alone.

Therefore, Feiyang Yuwei immediately asked his subordinates to tie a half-corroded one-horned ox to a bracket made of branches, and prepared to drag the one-horned ox back to the tribal shaman for inspection and analyze what kind it was. What the mutated monster did, in order to find out the corresponding countermeasures, so as not to be in a hurry when being attacked.

However, just as they tied up the corroded unicorn, there were bursts of loud noises from the forest in the distance. These noises include the sound of big trees collapsing, and the sound of giant beasts trampling on the ground. Feiyang Yuwei reacted, and saw more than a dozen monsters with strange shapes and no heads rushed out of the forest on the east side of the hillside. The height of each of these monsters was almost equivalent to that of an adult. The giant mahogany tree is even more like a hill.

However, the body of such a huge monster is almost transparent, and ordinary people can see through the skin of these giant beasts with the naked eye, and the insides of these giant beasts are all liquid except for a complete skeleton. And countless mutilated corpses that were about to be corroded floated in the liquid.

"Damn it! Run away!" Seeing that there were more than a dozen huge monsters rushing out, Feiyang Yu immediately knew that these monsters, not to mention a group, even one of them was not something their patrol team could deal with, so he immediately ordered He gave the most correct order and shouted loudly: "Scatter and escape! Don't forget Yingzuiyan escape, all escape!"

Undoubtedly, if they just fled directly to Yingzui Rock, these monsters would definitely be led there, and the Long Feather Tribe who hadn't had time to take precautions would probably be doomed, that's why Fei Yang decided to Use these patrols as bait to lure these monsters to other places as much as possible, leaving enough time for the Eagle's Mouth Rock to prepare.

The members of the patrol team couldn't think about too many things at all. They were frightened when they saw those monsters, and even their spirits were more or less polluted, so they couldn't think normally. So after hearing the order, They all instinctively followed Fluttering Feather's order to drive away the sitting pack beast, and quickly fled in different directions.

However, what Feiyang Yu didn't expect was that after those monsters rushed out, they didn't chase after them who were fleeing in all directions as he expected, but still gathered together and rushed forward. When it comes to fear and panic, it seems that something terrible is chasing after it.

"Mutated monsters will be afraid? How is this possible?" Although the weird feeling made Feiyang feel extremely absurd, he still couldn't hold back the running beast, and involuntarily looked at the animals that the monsters knocked into the woods. That channel seems to want to see something from somewhere.

However, as those mutated monsters rushed to the jungle at the other end of the hillside and quickly disappeared into the dense jungle, Feiyang Yuwei still didn't see anything shocking, so he smiled self-deprecatingly and turned around. , driving the pack beast under his crotch to retrieve the other patrol members who had fled in all directions.

However, at the moment Yuwei Feiyang turned around, he did not see dozens of arrow-like red lights shooting out from the passage he was staring at before, and following the moving traces of those monsters, Drilled into the jungle on the other side.

Just when Yuwei Feiyang drove the pack beast to the vicinity of a forest, bursts of extremely tragic roars came from the distant forest. These roars were very ear-piercing, making anyone who heard it feel a burst of Inexplicable dizziness, accompanied by a strong sense of nausea.

Almost at the moment when the screams came out, a huge flame shot up from the ground in the distant jungle and burned to the clouds, burning the entire sky red, and a heat wave came from there. Making those swept by the heat feel like they're deep in an arid, harsh desert rather than in the rainforest of Mozambique, even the surrounding trees are beginning to show desiccative withering .

However, what is surprising is that the soaring flames appeared suddenly and disappeared even more suddenly. Almost at the same time as the heat wave spread, the flames also quickly dissipated. Even the jungle where the flames appeared seemed to have no Be ignited, otherwise, you should be able to see thick smoke over there.

Faced with this situation, Feiyang Yuwei, who was extremely curious, turned his direction without hesitation, and quickly drove the pack beast towards the place where the flame appeared.

It didn't take long before he came to that place, but he only stayed at the edge instead of entering it, because everything in front of him shocked and frightened him. He saw the jungle trees, shrubs and even animals, The insects were all turned into pieces of lava rocks covered with cracks and lava falling outwards, and those terrifying mutant monsters before were also lava-formed, and their distorted shapes made it possible for anyone to see them immediately. Feel the pain of these monsters before they die.