The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

This is not the first time Sylvia has entered the wasteland. When she was studying in the Cathedral of the Lord of the Sky, she went deep into the wasteland more than once as an adventure writer. These organizations collected species information in the wilderness, and the second was to collect information on the wilderness tribes for the French Empire. So she either organized a caravan to go to various places in the tribe, or hired the guides of the wilderness tribes to explore some ruins in the jungle. There is no going into the jungle depths of the wasteland alone.

In addition, there is a huge difference between the jungle after entering the wilderness and the jungle outside the wilderness, and the jungle, hills and other landforms will change every year or even every month after the mist disaster. It has completely failed. Only the tribes that live in the jungle all year round know how to find the right path. Even caravans that go deep into the jungle all the year round need the old guides of the tribe to find the right path in the ever-changing wilderness landscape.

All kinds of accidents caused Sylvia to misjudge her ability, and Leo also did not expect that Sylvia, a veteran adventurer who could write many adventure books about the wilderness in the past, would actually enter the Got lost shortly after Wasteland.

However, this unexpected loss also made the two of them unexpectedly discover a ruin. In the ruins, they found a wild god who had died for an unknown number of years, and the remaining spirituality of this wild god could actually arouse Sylvia. The resonance of the power of the abyss dragon in the body was absorbed by Sylvia.

And after Sylvia absorbed the spirituality of the Rage God, the flame of the abyss in her body that originated from the blood of the dragon also transformed, evolving into a more powerful and terrifying flame power. In Leo's view, apart from this ability Apart from improving with the improvement of one's own strength, other aspects are already very close to the strategic-level psionic skill of Thunder Gun.

The group of giant mutated monsters that appeared near Eagle's Mouth Rock not long ago became the object of Sylvia's experiment with the power of the flames of the abyss, and after this terrifying power belonging to the abyss appeared in the world of Velen, the power and reaction it produced were completely out of control. Contrary to Leo and Sylvia's expectations, in addition to the known incineration effect, there is actually a petrification effect, and because of the stimulation of the power of the world, it produces an amazing effect similar to burning the sky.

This also made them curious about the Rage God, who had been dead for many years, who could have caused such a huge change in the flames of the abyss only by relying on the remaining spirituality.

"Do you know what Batokaka those people were talking about just now?" Sylvia asked in a deep voice.

Leo thought for a while, and said: "I remember Roger Lance's "Records of the Wilderness Gods" mentioned that it seems to be a very evil and powerful wilderness, and was later banned by the mother of plants and other wilderness existences. "Speaking, he pondered for a while, and said: "I remember that the banning method mentioned in that book is to divide Batokaka into several pieces and put them in different places to avoid its resurrection."

Sylvia said in surprise: "In this way, the rotting body we encountered is only a part of it. There are other Batokaka's bodies in other places in the wasteland."

"It stands to reason, but..." Leo nodded, hesitated again, and said: "However, the wilderness tribes did not have written words in the past, and all kinds of legends were passed down by word of mouth, and the content has long been changed beyond recognition It may be very difficult to find the relics that sealed Batokaka's body through legends, but the chances of luck are greater."

"Trying luck?" Sylvia raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "Your suggestion is not bad. Since we were lucky enough to encounter a remnant with spirituality, then we will meet another remnant in the future." It's not impossible for the body."

Although Sylvia said this only as a joke, Leo could faintly feel that this might not be a joke.

Afterwards, Leo and Silvia continued to travel south along the map traded from the smuggling caravan, and soon found the first set of landmark terrain.

This terrain is very simple, just three hills with different orientations and a pond formed by a hill spring. This is the place where smuggling caravans supply drinking water, but this is not a suitable camping place, caravans will come during the day Replenish water here and leave immediately, because at night it is a gathering place for all kinds of beasts.

Although it seems that the pond is full of weak beasts that ordinary people can deal with with weapons, in fact, there are many extremely threatening beasts hidden in the woods around the pond, and there are even some extraordinary creatures.

When passing by this landmark position, Leo only sensed it, and before using his spiritual vision ability, he already felt that no less than twenty extraordinary creatures were hunting. In terms of the habitat density of extraordinary creatures alone, the edge of the wasteland is It is already second only to the Black Forest.

After passing through the first landmark, the second landmark appeared in front of the two of them not long after. It was a habitat of light worms. These light worms are a unique species in the wasteland, and they are common during the day. Bugs, but at night it will glow all over, illuminating the entire forest.

Although this kind of light worm looks harmless, in fact, these light worms are even more dangerous than those more ferocious extraordinary creatures. They will spray out a very powerful corrosive liquid. Once this liquid sticks to the It will stick tightly to the body and it is difficult to peel off. Only by cutting off the place where the liquid is occupied or even the entire part can you get rid of this liquid.

Therefore, even though the Dodd Group seemed to want to use the light-emitting properties of these light worms to replace old street lamps in the early days, they had to abandon this plan because the light worms were too difficult to catch and could not be artificially cultivated.

When bypassing the light worm habitat, Leo and Sylvia stayed for a while to observe the light worm swarm in the habitat.

The reason why they became interested in light worms was not because there was anything special about light worms, but because they discovered that these light worms would actually set up traps in the habitat to attract some individual mutant monsters into the habitat, and in this habitat Some vine-like plants grow as if they have consciousness, and they will cooperate with the light worms to kill mutant monsters, and the corrosive acid of the light worms will also dissolve those mutant monsters, which will be absorbed by the plants, and the plants will grow rapidly after absorbing the solution Some flowers are produced, and the light insects seem to rely on these flowers to survive and reproduce.

A complete and perfect predation chain was presented in front of the two, which made them marvel at the beauty of nature.

However, what makes Leo and Sylvia even more interesting is that those mutated monsters who are only interested in preying on and attacking humans based on past experience actually like to prey on light worms, and it’s like that kind of addiction. If you are lured, you will completely forget the dangers around you, and even if you are entangled and attacked by those evil vines, you will not fight back, and will only keep moving towards the light worm it is staring at, trying to eat it, so During the entire hunting process of the light worms and vines, there was hardly any resistance.

After discovering this scene, Leo immediately reminded Sylvia, saying: "We should record this characteristic, and find someone to study it later, maybe we can find a way to deal with mutant monsters."

After hearing this, Sylvia also used her general-purpose recorder to record a video of light worms and vines preying on mutated monsters, then marked the approximate location here, and sent it to Su.

"This thing is really easy to use. If I have a chance, I will find a few more." After the data was sent, Sylvia also sighed.

Leo shook his head and explained: "It's not as good as you think. This link network is built with the general-purpose recorder in your hand as the core. The energy cycle index can only build a small network of four terminals at most, which means that at most two general-purpose recorders can be connected, and other general-purpose recorders cannot be connected.”

"Can't you use the universal recorder in your or Su's hands as the core?" Although Sylvia couldn't fully understand some of Leo's professional vocabulary in the Earth Federation language, she could understand what he wanted to express. , so asked.

"No, the general-purpose recorder in my hand and Su's is damaged, and many functional modules inside have been lost, so it can't be used as the core host." Leo shook his head, then shrugged and said: "It's just a word. I can’t say absolutely, maybe the universal recorder we find in the future can be as complete as the universal recorder in your hand, or we can find a set of external energy modules to make up for the energy deficiency of the universal recorder.”

The two stopped for a while, and then continued on the road. In the early morning, they came to the third landmark, Angry Bear Mountain.

It was originally called Longtooth Mountain, because the whole mountain looked like a crouching Longtooth, but in the year of mist disaster, part of the mountain collapsed due to an earthquake, which changed the shape of the whole mountain and became like It was a bear with its head raised and roaring, so it was changed to the current name.

Angry Bear Mountain is the last landmark on the route marked on the map, reaching Badisha, an important town in the former Southern Tribal Alliance. The Dajiao River continues to go south, and it will take about two days to reach Badisha.

After arriving here, the two did not continue to advance along the Tutu River at the foot of the mountain, but turned up the mountain, because Sylvia wanted to visit the tribes living on the mountain, and see if they could make a living for the future. Resident researchers lay a foundation.

It is not very far from the habitat of the light worms. It only takes half a day for normal people to walk. When the time comes, the researcher's station will be placed in the tribe here, which will facilitate the travel between the two places.

However, when they walked halfway up the mountain, the faces of Leo and Sylvia became serious, because they both smelled a strong rancid smell at the moment, and this smell should be the smell of a corpse, and it is Lots of dead bodies.

The two quickened their pace and came to the top of the mountain. They soon saw the tribe described on the map, but now the tribe had turned into corpses, and the defensive walls built by the tribe had been completely destroyed. There was almost no one in the tribe. There are no intact buildings, nor any intact corpses. A large number of corpses are scattered inside and outside the tribe. The blood has already penetrated into the land, dried up and turned black, and rotted together with the corpses, exuding a horrible smell. smell.

"This was not done by a mutant monster." Almost in unison, the two said in unison when they saw the scene in front of them.

Judging from the situation at the scene, although it feels like being attacked by a monster, everyone was killed by the monster, the corpse was also torn to pieces by the monster, and the house was completely destroyed by the monster, but if you observe carefully, you will see It is found that no matter the shape of the wounds on the scattered corpses or the damage marks of the surrounding buildings, there are too many traces of artificial forgery, and the more important point is that although the monsters may not completely eat the killed humans, they will also eat them. Most of them were lost, especially the heads, so there were too many corpse fragments on the scene, so much that even the mutant monsters would shout and waste it if they saw it.

"Is it a tribal vendetta?" Leo said with some doubts.

"Impossible!" Sylvia knew the situation of the wilderness tribes very well, and immediately denied: "Even if it is a vendetta between tribes, they will not use this method to exterminate a tribe, they will turn those young and middle-aged captives into Slaves, children who are already sensible will be sold, children who are not sensible will be adopted, women are the most important wealth, and will be preserved intact, while the elderly will be discarded, let them fend for themselves, and will not do anything kill them."

"Since it wasn't a tribal vendetta, it was done by people other than the wilderness tribe, but they made such an arrangement because they were worried about being discovered." Leo quickly analyzed: "However, the people who wanted to arrange this scene encountered There should not be many cases of mutated monsters attacking, otherwise, such a scene full of loopholes would not be arranged."

"It's not necessarily because they don't understand." Sylvia objected to Leo's analysis, and said in a deep voice, "This may also be the effect they want on purpose."

While talking, I saw Sylvia walking quickly to a wooden wall that had been destroyed, and then found a metal fragment embedded in the wood on the wooden wall, which seemed to be the tip of some kind of weapon. The thorn fragments were broken in the wooden wall because of careless pulling.

"Look at this." Sylvia looked at the piece of metal and handed it to Leo.

Leo directly used the spirit net to infiltrate into the metal, analyzed its composition, and said: "It is the early Teklin forging process, and the composition inside is somewhat similar to the fourth formula metal of the Teklin forging process, but in this A little Jacquette iron rock ore is added to the formula, which can make the metal more rigid, but it will weaken the toughness to a certain extent."

"Teklin forging technology? Isn't that a forging technology that has been outdated for more than a hundred years?" Sylvia was a little puzzled, and said: "I remember that only some manual blacksmith shops and some primitive tribes will use this forging technology , because forging metal with this technique does not require too high a temperature, and an ordinary iron forging furnace will do.”