The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The Southern Sacred Mountain is the former Changsong Sacred Mountain, also known as the Apprentice Sacred Mountain. Almost all shamans will come to this sacred mountain to explore their natural way when they are still apprentices. It is said that this is because of the Contains the purest power of nature.

When the tribes in the wilderness began to separate from the north to the south, the southern tribes chose to use the Changge Holy Mountain as their main holy mountain. It is difficult to find an apprentice training place comparable to Changge Holy Mountain.

The matter finally ended with a reconciliation of each taking a step back. The shaman apprentices in the northern holy mountain can go to the southern holy mountain to practice, but they need to pay a certain price. A lottery ceremony is used to choose the final price, and usually only some money is needed, but there are also a few unlucky ones who will become slaves for a period of time, and even the most unlucky ones directly become sacrifices.

Of course, things like being directly sacrificed are very rare, and it has only happened once in so many years.

In order to maintain the original state, the southern holy mountain avoids disturbing the natural force contained in the holy mountain due to the flow of people. Therefore, unlike the northern holy mountain, the southern holy mountain is a forbidden area as a whole. Except for shamans, no one is allowed on weekdays. Enter, and those who live in the holy mountain are housed in different ring cities under the holy mountain.

There are a total of five ring cities on the southern holy mountain. They are not cities built around the southern holy mountain, but cities built around five hills of different heights around the southern holy mountain. Because of the different sizes of the hills, plus The shape of the city is completely different according to the division of the occupants.

The second ring city is located on the southeast side of the southern holy mountain. According to the distance estimate, it is the farthest from the southern holy mountain. Because the people living here are all outsiders who are not wilderness tribes, the architectural form of this city is closer to that of the southern holy mountain. There is a clear contrast between the buildings of various civilizations outside and the more primitive architectural forms of the local wilderness tribes.

It is also because the foreigners living here come from different countries and continents, so they also bring their own country's architectural style here, which also makes the second ring city look a bit like a cheap and reduced version of Millie Yacheng, even some people who lived in Miria City before would call it Miria City.

Because the Second Ring City is the center of the external affairs of the Southern Holy Mountain and the Southern Tribal Alliance, all things connected to the outside world are also concentrated here, such as the North-South Highway and the terminus of various external railways, the distribution center of all goods in the south, etc. , This is also the overall size of the second ring city is much larger than the other four ring cities, it can even be said to be the sum of the area of ​​the other four ring cities.

This also makes the people living here far exceed the people in other areas of the southern holy mountain, and one of the disadvantages of the large number of people is that every time there is a wave of mutant monsters, those mutant monsters will ignore other areas and concentrate on attacking the first place. The second ring city, which indirectly caused the second ring city to have a solid city wall that other ring cities do not have.

The office of the Dodd Group in the Holy Mountain is located on a small hill at the foot of the Holy Mountain on the second ring of the city. This is where almost all the offices of large and small forces in other places are concentrated, even the Holy See, a church that was a deadly enemy of Shamanism during the colonial period. Organizations have also set up contact points here, which I have to say feels a bit ironic.

Although the office of the Dodd Group has existed in the southern holy mountain for more than ten years, Sylvia came here for the first time. On the way, she specifically asked Powell to detour to other places. After going around the area, I returned to the office.

Powell is also a person who is used to enjoyment. Since the construction of the office is funded by the group, he will not treat himself badly, so he chose an excellent location at the beginning of the office construction.

This is one of the few remaining forest areas in the second ring city, and after artificial pruning, the environment is naturally much better than other places in the second ring city.

Moreover, it is located at the height of the second ring city. Not only can you have a bird's-eye view of most of the second ring city, but you can also have a panoramic view of the main warehouse area and the railway station on the second ring city. From the details of the goods in and out of the warehouse area and the cargo handling at the railway station, the trade transactions of various forces are analyzed.

In addition, the scenery you can see here is also very good. For example, you can easily see the gem lake at the foot of the southern holy mountain. Whenever the sun shines on the lake in the morning and evening, there will be colorful rays of light, like gems. Very dazzling.

After arriving at the office, Powell introduced Sylvia to the staff recruited locally, and then took the initiative to hand over the ledger to Sylvia for review.

Sylvia just casually flipped through two pages, put the ledger aside, and said to Powell, "How are you doing with the grain procurement?"

"I have already contacted several agricultural-based tribes, and the purchase price is still being negotiated. There should be results in the next two days." Powell responded immediately: "However, because we rarely contacted this business before, in this On the one hand, there are not many advantages compared to other forces. The tradable grain produced here has already been divided up, so even if we can negotiate, the grain trading quota that will eventually fall into our hands will not be very large , not enough to fill our vacancy."

Sylvia frowned and asked, "Who controls the most important food trade in the southern tribal alliance?"

"Megalica." Powell gave a not-so-good answer, and added: "The latest deal was negotiated four days ago, and Megalica paid a considerable price for it."

Sylvia didn't show too much surprise and surprise on her face, instead she sneered and said: "They are not stupid, they know how to plan ahead." She thought for a while, and picked up a bag from the table. A piece of paper, and then quickly wrote something on it, folded it, put it in an envelope, covered it with sealing wax, handed it to Powell, and said: "Go to the Holy Mountain yourself, and hand this letter to the Three-eyed receptionist, and wait for the reply from there."

"Third eye?" Powell had a look of surprise on his face when he took the letter.

In the southern holy mountain, there are a total of four great shamans who hold real power. They control the shamanism of the entire southern tribal alliance. It can be said that they are the four most powerful people in the southern tribal alliance, because the vast majority of shamanism in the southern tribal alliance believe in The way of cognition, and in the way of cognition, it is mentioned that mastering four different natural eyes can see through all the rules of the world, so these four great shamans will call themselves by one kind of eyes.

Although it is said that there is one, two, and three in the external name, in fact, there is no difference in the power of the four people.

Also because the power in their hands is too great, a little movement may affect the current stability of the southern tribal alliance, so the four great shamans will rarely use their power and influence, and will not make any comments on a certain thing. Even though the conflict between the Yinyue tribe and Huorong tribe had turned into a tribal war, they didn't stand up and say anything.

Although the four great shamans seem to be ignoring the outside world and only know how to practice in the holy mountain, no one in the southern tribal alliance or even the entire wilderness tribe will underestimate the influence of these four great shamans.

Now Sylvia actually said that she has an extraordinary relationship with the third-eyed great shaman, and that she only needs a letter to get a response, which really surprised Powell.

Because after so many years, Powell didn't know that Sylvia still had such a strong relationship in the Southern Tribal Alliance. If the third-eyed great shaman has such a relationship, then the current structure of the Dodd group in the southern tribal alliance is definitely much larger than it is now.

Sylvia seemed to see what Powell was thinking, and said: "Don't think too much, the relationship between me and the third eye can't be used casually. There are actually other ways to solve the food problem this time, but it took too long Now, I don't like staying here for too long, so I use this relationship to solve this matter quickly. Just pretend that you don't have this matter, and don't think about using this relationship in the future. "

"Yes, Lord Earl." Powell nodded without saying anything, then turned and left the office.

After Powell left, Sylvia turned to Leo and said, "Fran with the third eye is named Demoke."

"Demoke?" Leo was stunned for a moment. In his memory, the meaning behind the name was illegitimate child.

The extravagant life of the aristocratic circle of the French Empire easily produced illegitimate children, and the identities of these illegitimate children were generally not recognized. They could neither have family names nor their own names. Almost all illegitimate children could only use Twenty-seven names representing illegitimate children, and Democ is one of them.

Reminiscent of Sylvia's relationship with the third-eyed great shaman just now, Leo subconsciously guessed: "Is it the illegitimate child of the Belmont family?"

Sylvia nodded and said: "If you count the family background, the third eye is my nephew, but he is more than 20 years older than me. He was my attendant when I came to the wasteland to take risks. , Later I found out that he had shaman qualifications, so I introduced him to a tribal shaman who had a good relationship with him at that time. I didn't expect him to be so good, and he became the third-eyed shaman of the southern holy mountain. To be honest A few years ago, when he suddenly wrote to me to tell me about his recent situation, I was also taken aback, I thought he was dead long ago."

Hearing this, Leo hesitated a little, and said, "Is there no problem with your relationship?"

The reason why Leo has such hesitation is because in his memory, the illegitimate son of the noble family has almost no good relationship with the family. On the contrary, after the rise of the illegitimate son, revenge on the family has happened frequently, so whether it is Fran or others Most of the country's attitude towards illegitimate children is extremely indifferent, and they will even take the initiative to suppress them.

Sylvia explained: "There is no problem with this. Although his treatment cannot be compared with that of official family members, it is not much worse, so our relationship has always been very good."

Seeing that Sylvia was so determined, Leo didn't say anything more, and then changed the topic a bit, saying: "I just discovered the people from the Hearing Society, among those we met in Badisa one of."

Sylvia was just stunned for a moment when she heard the words, and did not show too much surprise, and said: "It is not surprising that there are people from the Hearing Society here. This can be said to be the last stop in the wilderness. Basically All adventurers and adventure teams on the planet who explore the depths of the wasteland use this place as their starting point, and the Abnormal Society has always been very interested in the wasteland, so it is reasonable to secretly set up a contact point here."

"However, it would be unreasonable for the Abnormal Society to be with people from the Huorong tribe and the mixed-blood tribe." Leo added what he had just discovered through the Spirit Network, and then walked to the edge of the balcony, towards the warehouse area. Pointing to the house connected to the warehouse on the east side, he said, "There they are."

Sylvia frowned when she heard the words, walked to Leo's side, looked in the direction of the finger, and then said doubtfully: "I remember when Powell introduced the place just now, he mentioned that the area is the northern tribe. Alliance warehouse?"

Leo nodded and said, "Yes, that's the warehouse of the northern tribal alliance, but I didn't find any executives from the northern tribal alliance among the people around me, only some warehouse guards had their hands outside."

"It doesn't matter if you don't see the supervisor, as long as it's in the warehouse of the northern tribal alliance." Sylvia suddenly smiled and said: "It seems that the northern tribal alliance is involved in this conflict between the Silvermoon tribe and the Tinder tribe. Whether it played a disgraceful role or not, it should have been involved, just don't know if the Confederation of Tribes knew about it, and if it didn't, maybe we could take advantage of it."

Leo has no objection to this. In fact, after discovering this incident just now, he has already thought of some ways to use this incident, but he does not know whether Sylvia has the idea of ​​investigating this tribal conflict war , so did not say it.

And now he doesn't need to talk about his ideas. After all, with the relationship of the third-eyed shaman, no matter how good his idea is, in terms of effect, it will not be better than directly using the third-eyed shaman. The effect obtained by filling this relationship is better.

However, what Leo and Sylvia didn't expect was that before they could find trouble with the Odd Society, the Odd Society had already contacted them, and a banquet invitation letter with the special mark of the Odd Society was sent. In the hands of Sylvia, although the contents of this invitation letter are all formal invitation words and sentences, the invitation letter itself seems to reveal another message that the Odd Society wants to express, that is, your every move is under our control middle.