The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After burning all the corpses, these tribesmen piled the ashes into a house, then knocked down the earthen walls around the house, buried the bones in it, piled some bricks, stones and soil on it, and erected a tombstone.

After doing this, these tribesmen packed up the things in the camp, left this place in a hurry, and disappeared on the way down the mountain.

After the tribesmen left, Leo and Sylvia, who were hiding in the shadows under the trees, came out, came to the large tomb, and looked at the simple tombstone.

Leo looked at the words engraved on the tombstone, and said: "This is a variant language of the Moon's Words, which contains some words of the Holy Mountain Language. It should be the language used by a clan of the Crescent Moon branch of the Silver Moon Tribe."

"It's the Banyue clan." Sylvia obviously knew more about the tribes in the wasteland than Leo, and quickly gave the answer, and continued: "Just now they mentioned that the attackers might be the Tinder tribe. I remember this tribe correctly. In other words, it should be a new tribe, which appeared after the fog disaster year. The initial members of the tribe were the survivors of some tribes who perished in the monster wave. Later, they gradually grew and formed a large tribe. But they gave up a few years ago They left the territory of the northern tribal alliance and migrated back to the southern tribal alliance, preparing to follow the ancient tribal traditions. This incident caused a lot of trouble at the time, and this tribe was even set up by the southern holy mountain as a model of following the traditional way.”

"The Yinyue tribe seems to be one of the main supporters of the southern holy mountain, right?" Leo asked after thinking about it.

"Yes." Sylvia nodded, and then said: "The Tinder Tribe will move to the south, and it is said that it is also dominated by the Silver Moon Tribe, and the Tinder Tribe can be so valued by the Southern Holy Mountain, which is also the operation of the Silver Moon Tribe. "

"Did someone massacre a branch of the Yinyue Tribe, using this to frame the Tinder Tribe and destroy the relationship between the two tribes?" Leo then guessed, and then felt that this guess was too hasty, so he smiled and denied: "This method is too rough and too simple, and no one should be fooled."

"That's not necessarily the case." Sylvia had a different opinion and said, "The Silvermoon Tribe paid a lot of money to allow the Tinder Tribe to move to the south, and now the Tinder Tribe's habitat is also a hunting ground belonging to the Silvermoon Tribe. The most fertile piece of land. Originally, the Yinyue Tribe tried their best to win the Huorong Tribe to the south, hoping to increase their voice in the holy mountain in the south, and even made the Huorong Tribe a firm follower of the tradition. The development of the Silver Moon Tribe did not follow the hope of the Silver Moon Tribe. The Huorong Tribe did not completely rely on the Silver Moon Tribe. Instead, it became a source of success among the various tribes. This also made the Silver Moon Tribe very disgusted with the Huorong Tribe, and even the people at the bottom had a lot of hatred The Huorong Tribe, the high-level executives lost their reputation because of a wrong decision, and they naturally hate the Huorong Tribe. Now the two tribes only need one fire primer, and the accumulated hatred can completely explode. As for who made this fire primer , they don't care."

Leo was a little puzzled and said, "Who will benefit from the conflict between the two tribes? Moreover, the overall strength of the Yinyue tribe far exceeds that of the Huorong tribe. A conflict between the two will not cause too much movement at all."

"Many people will benefit, those who buy and sell arms, those who buy and sell food, those who hoard various commodities, and those who work as war mercenaries. All in all, as long as there is a war, there will definitely be many people who will benefit from this war. That's for sure." Although Sylvia saw the problem clearly, she also failed to understand the beneficiary in Leo's problem, that is, who was the biggest beneficiary. And she also agrees with Leo's statement that if the enemy of the Yinyue tribe is the Tinder tribe, then this conflict will hardly turn into a war, it can only be regarded as a big conflict, and no one can benefit from it.

Leo said again: "The man seemed to mention a place name after seeing those items just now. Do you know what that place name is?"

Sylvia recalled a little, and said: "It's Sobans, at the confluence of the Tutu River and the Dajiao River. It was originally just an ordinary tribal hunter camp, and it may have been built as a distribution center now. The group is in the south The acquisition point of Shengshan has purchased a batch of bald head roots produced by Sobanth, and the quality of bald head roots there is much higher than other places, and the group also plans to set up a station in Sobanth specifically to purchase bald head roots."

"White-headed root?" Leo was stunned when he heard the name of the herb, and said, "Is that the white-headed root that is used to stop bleeding?"

"Yes." Sylvia wondered, "Is there any problem?"

"Of course there is a problem." Leo said in a deep voice: "If only a small area grows white-headed roots, there is no problem, but from what you said just now, there are a lot of high-quality white-headed roots growing there, then This is a problem, because as far as I know, if the wild bald head grows with good quality and a large number, there will often be some associated minerals near the place where the bald head grows, and this associated mineral is purple tungsten."

"Purple tungsten ore?" Sylvia immediately thought of the purple tungsten steel cold weapon made of precious metals with backward techniques, so she said, "It's just on the way, where can we go and have a look, maybe we can find something interesting .”

Leo had no objection to this, and the two quickly left the dilapidated tribal camp, went down the mountain, and traveled south along the Tutu River. On the way, they also saw Yinyue who was also rushing towards Sobans Tribal fighters, but the two of them did not come into contact with these menacing fighters. Instead, they bypassed these people, accelerated their march, and arrived at Sobanth in less than half a day.

As Sylvia said before, Sobanth is no longer a hunter camp, and it is much larger than the distribution center Sylvia said. It is more like a small city because of the outer defenses here. It is no longer a wooden wall, but is built with stone walls like the big cities outside, and there are neat streets and busy docks inside the city, except that most of the people walking on the streets are indigenous tribes of the wilderness Apart from dressing up, everything from urban planning to urban architecture can't see any relationship with this primitive wasteland at all.

"A city was actually built?" Sylvia was also extremely surprised by this, and felt a strange disobedience.

"Look at the center of the city." Leo seemed to have noticed something, pointed to the location of the city's central square, and said.

Sylvia looked in the direction of Leo's finger, and saw a huge statue standing on the central square of the city, and there were altars and other things set up around the square for believers to worship. It looked similar to other tribes. Worshiping the guardian spirit of one's own tribe is almost the same, but the problem is that the huge statue is not any known natural guardian spirit, nor is it a desolate god, but a mutation that even Sylvia would feel a little uncomfortable looking at Monster, the only difference is that this mutant monster has a pair of human eyes.

When mutated monsters appeared in the Year of Fog Disaster, almost everyone classified these mutated monsters together with the previous mutations of human mutants, gods, and so on.

But as the understanding of mutant monsters deepens, people gradually understand that there are huge differences among them, and they are not of the same type at all.

For example, human mutants and the family of the gods are all due to the mutation of the world. Some of their characteristics have been affected by the mutation of the world and have also mutated, so their mutation can be said to come from themselves. No matter how much they mutate, it is the world A part, just like cancer cells in the human body, no matter how mutated, cancer cells will still affect a part of the body, but this part will cause damage and destruction to itself.

However, the mutated monsters appearing all over the world now are due to the interference of foreign forces that entered the world together with the thick fog, resulting in unexpected mutations in their bodies, and these mutations all occurred in wild beasts. So far, there has not been a single case of human mutation The reason for the mutation of the latter is this external force.

As for the difference between human mutants and mutant monsters, it is very obvious in terms of appearance. The mutation of mutant monsters is disordered and chaotic, and their shapes are all kinds of strange. A pile of mud was formed after being smashed on the ground, but human mutants are different. No matter how they mutate, they will inevitably retain a little of their original shape.

However, the statue that now appears in the center of Sobanth City is completely the shape of a mutated monster without any original features, but the monster has a pair of very obvious human eyes, which makes Sylvia feel a little bit eccentric.

"Is it the first human mutated monster, or did the mutated monster mutate into a pair of human eyes?" Sylvia said to herself.

Leo thought for a while after hearing this, and said, "I think the first possibility is more likely."

The two exchanged their views, and then stopped observing. Instead, they walked on the road that should have been opened by the Sobans, and walked into the city from the city gate.

There are a few guards at the city gate. Although they all look like tribesmen in the wilderness, the armor on their bodies is not that of tribal warriors. Instead, they are half armor similar to the armor of the French infantry a hundred years ago. It is not a traditional bow, arrow or short spear, but an obsolete steam machine crossbow. Although it is an obsolete type, judging from the wear and tear on the machine crossbow, the manufacturing time of this machine crossbow definitely did not exceed half a year.

Just as Leo and Sylvia walked past these guards and took a quick look at these guards, these guards also looked up and down with surprise and scrutiny. Sylvia.

Although the clothes on Leo and Sylvia are considered normal in other places, they are particularly eye-catching in this city in the wasteland, among the crowd of tribes and aboriginals.

Fortunately, there seemed to be some people in the city who came to the wilderness to try their luck. The clothes of these people were not much different from those of Leo and Sylvia, so the guards at the city gate and the passers-by in the city just looked at them more. At a glance, they ignored the two of them.

Sylvia murmured softly as she walked: "The city walls here are too thin, and there is no solidified barrier. If there are monster groups outside the city, such a city wall may not even be able to attack the monsters for the first time." Impossible to resist."

Leo also said: "Looking at the forest outside, the city doesn't seem to have received any decent attacks."

Under normal circumstances, in order to prevent some small mutated monsters from approaching the town through the cover of the forest, an isolation zone will be built near the town, and all trees and shrubs that will block the line of sight in this isolation zone will be cut down.

And the city of Sobanth not only built the city walls against common sense, but even the most basic defense facilities were not built. The whole city feels as if they will not be attacked by mutant monsters.

"Statue." After sorting out their opinions, Sylvia and Leo coincidentally thought of the source of why this city is so unreasonable.

So, the two went directly to the central square of the city, took a closer look at the statue, and by the way heard something about the statue from the conversations among the worshipers around.

As Leo and Sylvia guessed in advance, this statue is indeed the guardian spirit of the entire city, but because this guardian spirit is not recognized by the Holy Mountain, this statue and the surrounding altars are illegal .

However, the people living in the city of Sobanth are all from the Tinder tribe. They are all composed of different tribes. They don't pay much attention to the traditions of the tribe and the authority of the holy mountain. They built this statue and the surrounding altars according to their own ideas.

The reason why the Huorong tribe attaches great importance to this guardian spirit is because this guardian spirit is their great shaman, and he is also the one who leads the Huorong tribe from weak to strong.

And this great shaman used an extraordinary shaman spell to protect the clansmen who were attacked by the mutated monster group when the Huorong tribe moved south, but the great shaman who was supposed to die died for unknown reasons. It merged with the mutilated limbs of the monster group and turned into a new mutant monster.

However, this mutated monster did not attack the people of the Huorong Tribe, but instead secretly protected the Huorong Tribe so that they would not be attacked by the mutant monsters encountered on the road. Settlements build mutated statues of the Grand Shaman, who are considered guardian spirits of the tribe.

It is strange to say that since the statue of the great shaman was built, all the settlements of the Tinder Tribe have never been attacked by monsters again, which is why the defense equipment of the city of Sobanth is so weak. one.