The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

According to various records, there are still more than 20 days before the accident. In order to avoid accidents, Leo and Sylvia asked the servants and housekeepers who had lived in the villa for more than ten days to temporarily stay in the villa when they rest at night. Go to the hotel in the nearby village, and ask the housekeeper to contact the construction company to build a building next to the villa for the servants.

After that, Leo and Sylvia checked the manor from the villa to the ruins of the church. Leo's spiritual net even penetrated to a depth of 100 meters underground, but they didn't find anything abnormal.

Neither Leo nor Sylvia was surprised by this. After all, it was so easy for them to find clues, and Longanus would not be troubled for many years because he couldn't solve the secret here.

Now Leo and Silvia can only find useful clues after the abnormal state in the villa is triggered.

It's just that the two of them didn't wait in the villa for more than 20 days. They also went to the forest farm at night to investigate the haunting, but they didn't know the reason. The so-called frequent haunting incidents seemed to have disappeared. Neither of them appeared in front of the two of them, which made people suspect that the so-called haunted incident was actually caused by the family of loggers who were in charge of this forest farm.

It's just that the suspicion was soon withdrawn, because there was no object of suspicion.

On the fifth day after Leo and Sylvia arrived at the manor, seventeen members of the Vinolin family, the lumberjack family in charge of Leo's forest farm, all died overnight, and the death process was very normal, so normal that Not normal at all.

For example, the patriarch of the Venolin family choked to death with a piece of fleshy bone stuck in his throat while drinking with his friends. His son was bitten to death by a poisonous snake in the grass while he was urinating, and he was sleeping at home. The little grandson was smothered to death by his mother who hugged him too tightly, and that mother died of a sudden heart attack, which was inherited from her family. Her parents and many elders died in such diseases.

The seventeen members of the Venolin family basically all died at the same time, and the death process was very natural, without any trace of murder, but it was this extremely normal death that revealed that even the blind man It can be seen that it is not normal.

When the steward reported this incident to Leo and Sylvia, they both thought of the haunting of the forest farm and the special power of the lumberjack family in this place. Their intuition told him that the death of the Venolin family and These two things are related.

Although Trube Mountain is very large, the human society at the foot of the mountain is very small. In less than half a day, the news that the Vinolin family died overnight quickly spread throughout the human society around Trube Mountain.

For the vast majority of people, this incident is just a horror story that will be talked about for a long time in the future, but for some people, such as the lumberjack family, this incident is a story that makes people laugh. The thing they were panicking about was basically the very night when word got out that all the logger families in Trube Hill got together to talk about it and whether they were in danger as well.

The content of this discussion was placed on Leo's table by the housekeeper the next day. Although the lumberjack family stated at the meeting that no one is allowed to leak any of the conversation at the meeting, there are always a few on hand. Some nervous loggers can't resist the lure of money.

"The Truber contract?" Leo showed a little interest after flipping through the materials.

Sylvia also put down the information in her hand, showed a little excited look, and asked, "Do you think it's an unknown newborn god, or something else?"

In this world, the gods seem to like to sign various contracts with humans. At the beginning of almost all churches of the gods, the gods and the founder of the church signed a contract, and each church’s holy place will store a copy of what they call A covenant that is the cornerstone of the church.

The lumberjack family in Truber Mountain was originally just thirty or so ordinary out-of-town loggers. Like most of the other out-of-town loggers who planned to make a fortune during the Truber logging season, they were extremely rewarded by the owner of the local forest farm. Low wages are employed, and bonuses are settled according to the amount of logging.

The advantage of this method is that if the amount of logging is large, the loggers will earn more, and the owner of the forest farm can also earn a lot. However, if the loggers are sick and cannot complete the basic amount of logging, then it is very likely that the entire logging season will be exhausted. For nothing.

And every logging season in Truber Mountain is also a time when some diseases are prevalent, and you may be infected with diseases if you are not careful.

The 30 or so foreign lumberjacks who formed the lumberjack family were infected with the disease, and more than 30 people were infected at the same time. In order to avoid infecting others, the owner of the forest farm isolated all 30 people in a small forest area , and is already preparing to recruit another group of people to replace these thirty or so people.

However, just when everyone thought that these thirty or so people were done for, and when these thirty or so people thought that this time might be for nothing, they encountered a mysterious existence, and this mysterious existence signed a contract with the thirty or so people. contract.

Afterwards, the illnesses of these thirty or so people were cured almost overnight, and the epidemics in the logging season would no longer affect them, and they could even enter the deeper forest farms of Truber Mountain without being harassed. The ferocious beasts of Truber Mountain can still cut down the most precious trees.

Over time, these thirty or so people became the leaders of the Truber Mountain loggers, and they gradually established their own families, eventually forming the current logger family.

However, accidents happened to some lumberjack families later, and the number of lumberjack families became more than a dozen. Until today, another lumberjack family disappeared.

What’s interesting is that from the conversations of the members of these lumberjack families, it’s not hard to hear that they didn’t seem surprised by what happened to the Venolin family, because the lumberjack families that disappeared in the past were almost in a similar situation, and there may be some loggers in the future It is not certain that the Gong family will disappear in the same way.

In addition, these lumberjack families don't seem to be particularly afraid of this weird way of death falling on them. They also seem to know why the Venolin family died. The only worry is whether they will be affected. .

In the end, these people discussed it all night, but they didn't come to a result. They could only wait for a while to see if the matter would pass like this.

Therefore, on the second day, all the lumberjack families announced that the forest farm in Truber Mountain had entered a rest period, and felling could only continue after the rest period passed.

Everyone felt absurd about the decision made by the lumberjack family. Although there are similar recovery periods and rest periods in other mountainous forest farms, this is Truber Mountain. The growth rate of trees here does not require a rest period or recovery period at all.

But the decision made by the lumberjack family has nothing to do with other lumberjacks. No one dares to violate this decision. Any lumberjack would risk offending the lumberjack's family by entering a forest farm and logging.

However, after the lumberjack family announced the rest period, the dozen or so lumberjack families sent some people to the Vinolin family's residence and Leo's forest farm, as if they wanted to find something there.

After receiving the news, Leo and Sylvia were also curious about the behavior of the lumberjack family, so they also went to the Vinolin family's residence and forest farm respectively to see what the lumberjack family was doing.

Because the spiritual network is convenient for range monitoring, Leo chose a large forest farm. After arriving at the forest farm, he found a suitable place, spread the spiritual network to the entire forest farm, and monitored everything in the forest farm. movement.

Soon, the lumberjacks sent here were captured by the spirit net, and these lumberjacks were busy with their own affairs, not realizing that their every move was being watched by others.

I saw these loggers scattered in various areas of the forest farm. They held a small wooden bowl full of water in their hands, and a leaf floated in the wooden bowl. They seemed to be walking back and forth in an area aimlessly. In fact, they were The direction is determined by the pointing of the tip of the leaf.

It's just that this approach doesn't seem to have any effect. Not only did it not let them find what they were looking for, but it made them circle around the forest farm.

After going around several times, some people finally couldn't bear it anymore. They stopped and walked towards the lumberjack camp in the middle of the forest farm, and soon gathered in the camp.

A young lumberjack squeezed out the leaf from the bowl and put it in his pocket, muttering angrily, "Will those old men make a mistake? Such important things should be placed in the Vinolin family. It’s right to keep it at home, how could it be thrown in the forest farm?”

An older lumberjack next to him obviously didn't have the confidence of a young lumberjack, and he didn't dare to directly question the judgment of the elders of the family, so he just echoed: "Maybe our method is wrong, so there is no gain."

Hearing this, the young lumberjack gave his companion a blank look, and ignored him.

Another well-dressed lumberjack said in a deep voice: "The old men's judgment is not without basis. The haunting of this forest farm must be related to the Vinolin family. They can only rely on that thing if they want to do this kind of thing. And their accident happened so suddenly, there must be no time to take the thing away, so there is a high chance that the thing is here."

The youngest lumberjack among them couldn't help but wonder, and asked, "Do you know what happened to the Venolin family?"

The well-dressed lumberjack responded: "We don't know about this, but the old man in the family concluded that it was probably a breach of the contract." He paused, and continued: "Every family's contract is different. , no one knows which contract the Venolin family has violated, and even the Venolin family themselves may not know."

"What do you mean by that?" The young lumberjack asked puzzled.

"I still don't understand, that is, the Venolin family themselves don't remember any restrictive clauses in the contract they signed at the beginning." The young woodcutter said without any emotion: "The Venolin family has lost their taboo book for a long time. Well, it’s a miracle that they can survive till now, and they probably think the same way. They think that miracles can last forever, so they can do things so unrestricted. If they don't die, who will die?"

Obviously, the relationship between the young lumberjack and the Vinolin family is very bad, otherwise, it would be impossible for the Vinolin family, which is also a lumberjack family, to say such words that they are happy to see their death.

Hearing this, Leo already understood what these people were looking for. That thing should be the contract signed by the ancestors of the Venolin family with Truber Mountain, and it is not difficult to hear from their conversation that the contract contained Contains some mysterious power, and the previous haunting in the forest farm is probably caused by this contract.

Leo couldn't help being interested in this contract, but he was very clear that this contract must not be in the forest farm, because a few days ago Leo used various methods in the forest farm to check it several times, but he didn't find the forest farm. There are any abnormal energy fluctuations in it, so he expects Sylvia to gain something.

In addition, in addition to the contract, Leo is also interested in the leaves in the hands of these people. Those leaves emit weak energy radiation. From this, it can be judged that these leaves come from a tree that has bred extraordinary power. Judging from their actions, these leaves have a great relationship with the contract they signed, otherwise they would not be able to find the Venolin family's contract through this seemingly useless method.

The lumberjacks who were talking were obviously not interested in finding the lost contract. They each found a shady place, sprinkled some insect repellent powder around them, and lay down on the ground to sleep. In the past, it didn't take long before the snoring sounded one after another in this silent camp.

In this case, Leo easily got a leaf from a lumberjack.

However, at the moment when he got the leaves, Leo was suddenly pulled into an illusion by a force. In the illusion, he saw a towering tree emitting colorful lights, and the colorful lights of this towering tree He seemed to see the image of the Black Forest in the light.

This illusion didn't last long, and soon Leo's consciousness returned to his body, and the leaf in his hand had completely withered.

Thoughtful, Leo got another leaf from another lumberjack, hoping to see the phantom again through this leaf, but unfortunately nothing happened when the leaf was held in his hand.

He tried it with the leaves of other loggers, and the result was the same. Obviously, the appearance of the illusion could not be repeated.

Not getting the desired result, Leo was not disappointed. He took the leaves from the loggers and returned to the manor. It didn't take long for Sylvia to return to the manor. Before he found out, he handed the leaves to Sylvia.