The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The name Sentinel Hill was given by the lumberjack family because of the ruins of a small castle on the hill that looked like some sort of military outpost.

Because this is located at the front end of the Trube Mountain forest, it is relatively easy to walk from the forest on the outpost hill, but the road behind the outpost hill will become a lot more rugged, not only dense and dangerous forests, but also need to There are loose gravel and snow-covered and wet mountains, so most of the lumberjack families who go into the mountains will rest here for a night to recharge their batteries before continuing on the road.

Although on the way to the Sentinel Hill, the shrouded unknown power is not particularly powerful, but for ordinary people, it has enough bad influences, and they will lose their way unconsciously under the influence of this bad influence.

The middle-aged man who was captured by Leo as a guide tried to escape from Leo's hands several times on the road, but no matter how far he escaped, he would always end up at a turning point. , Meeting Leo and Sylvia again, this almost gave him an illusion, thinking that he had lost his protection and lost his way under the influence of unknown forces.

After trying several times to no avail, he found that he couldn't escape at all, so he didn't run away again, but led the way obediently.

After about two or three hours, they passed through a very dense forest and came to the Sentinel Hill.

I saw that the outpost hill was not just living with him as the middle-aged man said, but dozens of people lived here. These people built houses under the outpost hill, formed families, and their children Living here, judging from the number and distribution of houses, there should be about four or five families living here.

With little effort, Leo could easily tell from the appearance of these people which of these people had the blood of the lumberjack family and which were just ordinary people.

The wives of these families are undoubtedly all ordinary people, while those husbands and some of the children are people with the blood of woodcutters, because they have more or less obvious mutant features on their faces, maybe that's why they can only wait On Outpost Hill, instead of living outside like other members of the Lumberjack family, only entering the mountain when needed.

These people were extremely surprised by the arrival of Leo and Silvia. This may be the first time they have seen outsiders come here after living here for so many years. The middle-aged man led the two into this miniature village. At that time, someone immediately stepped forward to block their way, and asked the middle-aged man why he brought outsiders here.

However, before the middle-aged man could answer, the abyss dragon aura emanating from Sylvia had already had an effect, and all the men, women, old and children surrounded by the aura of the dragon all lay down on the ground, as if they were praying to the gods. Same as Sunday.

"We will rest in the castle above. If anyone comes from the mountain, please let us know." Leo told the middle-aged man who was frightened and froze, and then signaled Sylvia to take back the abyss dragon. With a breath, he walked towards the dilapidated castle on the hill with only a section of foundation left.

Although Leo and Sylvia had already left, it took a long time for the people around them to regain their strength. They got up from the ground, and while getting up, they all gathered around the middle-aged man and asked The identities of Leo and Sylvia, what happened and so on.

Leo and Silvia ignored the half-exiled members of the logger family, and they soon came to the dilapidated fortress on the top of the mountain.

"This is the Tajer-style foundation accumulation method." The careful Sylvia saw some clues from the structure of the foundation the moment she entered the fortress.

Relevant information also appeared in Leo's mind, and he learned that the Tajer-style foundation building method was the castle construction method in the first and second French dynasties. This castle method was polished by a special The schist, combined with specially prepared clay, is gradually accumulated and superimposed, and finally a castle is built.

The advantage of this kind of castle is that the construction materials are easy to obtain, the construction cost is low, the building is also very stable, and it is easy to repair. Until now, there are still many castles built in this way on Velen Continent, but most of these castles have been rebuilt. became a manor.

As for the shortcomings, it is also very obvious, that is, this kind of castle cannot be built too high, usually there is only one floor, if some load-bearing stone columns are added in the middle, it may be able to build to two floors, but this kind of castle with three floors has never been built. appeared, so after a new method of building a giant castle later, this method of construction was quickly eliminated.

Now the foundation of the castle built by such an ancient construction method appeared in front of the two of them, which made Leo doubt the origin of this small castle, so he communicated with Sylvia: "Do you think it will be that one? Built by the Belmont family?"

"It's possible." Sylvia nodded slightly, but she also put forward a different idea, saying: "It may also be built by a tower wizard. After all, the wizard tower of the tower wizard was similar to a castle."

"The tower wizard?" Leo hesitated for a moment, then squatted down and searched on the ground, and finally found some clues on a stone pillar in a corner as a ground pile, and said, "Your guess may be right. of."

Sylvia also came over to take a look, and saw that there were some complicated patterns engraved on the surface of the stone pillar. These patterns looked like some kind of runes with mysterious power, or some kind of words that were deliberately mixed together. , so she asked puzzledly: "What is this?"

Leo explained: "This should be the Diavin used by the tower wizard in the early days."

Sylvia touched the relief with her fingers in surprise, and said, "Is this Diawen? I thought Diawen, like Gamore, is a language with mysterious power."

Leo explained: "You are mistaken. Diavin is a secret language created by the early tower wizards for secret communication. It does not possess any extraordinary power. It is just a kind of text that can use simple symbols to represent complex meanings. Like the code words you spies love to use."

"Do you know what it said?" Sylvia asked again.

"I don't know." Leo gave a disappointing answer, and said, "I have only seen similar words in some books from tower wizards, but the use and interpretation of this word has long been It’s already a legacy, and I’m afraid that even the tower wizards who may still exist may not be able to decipher this kind of text. I tried to decipher it, but found that this kind of text has no rules at all, unless I know a specific text code Otherwise, it is impossible to decipher what they mean.” He paused for a while, then changed the topic and said: “However, judging from the environment in which this text is used, it is obvious that the content of this text should be inseparable from Say something nice about housing."

"Unfortunately, this castle has been destroyed, otherwise..." Sylvia looked at the ruined walls around her, showing regret, but then she seemed to have discovered something, and walked quickly to a slightly higher building in the middle of the ruined castle. The location looked around and said, "This castle doesn't seem to be destroyed naturally."

Hearing this, Leo also came up to the top and looked around. Although a long time has passed, and those people under the hill will pry some stone bricks from here when building houses, the original damage traces have been completely destroyed. It's eighty-eight, but Leo can still tell from the damage of the castle and the geographical ups and downs around the castle that the castle must have experienced a big explosion, and that big explosion not only destroyed the castle, but also caused the surrounding The topography also presents common impact topography.

Seeing all this, Leo calculated the power of the explosion. If there was such a very powerful interference force in Truber Mountain at that time, then from the analysis of the damage caused by the explosion, then the person who caused the explosion at that time The power should be comparable to that of the thunder gun.

"Do you think the explosion here is related to the one in the mountain?" Sylvia thought again.

Leo shook his head, and could only answer blankly: "I don't know! There are too few data that can be used for analysis."

Afterwards, Leo and Silvia walked around the castle to see if they could find any useful clues, but the results were not satisfactory.

Seeing that there were no other interesting discoveries, Leo and Silvia lit a fire in the castle, waiting for the arrival of the lumberjack family.

After about nightfall, a sound suddenly came from the woods under the hill, and three strong young men came out of the woods, but the three of them didn't have any companion beasts around them, but the energy fluctuations on their bodies Very strong, it seems that they should not be members of the Luffy family, more like members of other lumberjack families.

The three of them were going to enter the small village composed of several families, but when they saw the flames appearing in the direction of the castle, they were a little surprised, puzzled and curious, so they turned a corner halfway and walked towards the castle. , and soon came outside the dilapidated castle.

The three of them didn't worry at all that they would be attacked, and they walked in together without sending anyone to check outside the castle. They saw a bonfire, and Leo and Sylvia who were roasting things beside the bonfire.

After seeing Leo and Sylvia, the three of them were stunned for a while, and then they seemed to realize who they were, but they didn't seem to know how powerful Leo and Sylvia were. Face walked up excitedly, looking as if he was taken as prey by Leo and Sylvia.

One of the leaders, a young lover, said with a smile: "We were lucky. We didn't expect to encounter two big fish during a routine patrol. As long as we catch them back, we..."

Before the young lover could finish speaking, an invisible pressure appeared on the three of them, instantly pressing the three of them to their knees on the ground, and this pressure was still tightly pressing on the chest and back, as if It was as if all the air in their lungs had to be squeezed out, not to mention speaking normally, it was even difficult to breathe.

Just when the three of them felt that they might be dying, the invisible pressure on their chests and backs suddenly disappeared, and the three of them panted heavily at the same time, as if they wanted to suck all the air around them into their lungs. It's just that when they regained their strength and wanted to stand up, they found that the invisible pressure on their bodies hadn't disappeared. They could only kneel on the ground and couldn't move.

"Our couple wanted to go into the mountain. We originally asked Bain from Lufu's family to lead the way, but judging from all the circumstances, something happened to Bain, and I don't want to know what happened. I just want to make sure I can find it. A guide who can take our couple into the mountains." Leo said, looking at the three of them, said: "The three of you can choose for yourself, whether to be a guide to take us into the mountains, or we use a special method directly from your Extract relevant memories in the brain, but the process and result of extracting memories may not be very good."

Although Leo's tone was very calm, and he didn't say anything bad about extracting the memory, none of the three were fools, and they could all guess that the result would definitely not be what they hoped.

For a moment, the three of them became extremely flustered, and they cursed those damned guys who provided their information in their hearts. Those guys just said that Leo and Sylvia were two scholars and weapons manufacturing experts, and did not mention that the two were originally It is a mysterious existence with powerful and extraordinary power.

They felt that if those guys hadn't provided false information, causing them to think that the two people in front of them were big fish, maybe they would have fled the moment they recognized them just now, and they wouldn't have ended up in the current situation.

Seeing that the three were silent for a long time without answering, Leo said casually: "Since the three have already made a choice, then..."

"Wait, I'm willing to be a guide." The young man who was the leader said immediately.

"Wells! You're crazy!" The young man on the left looked at his companion in disbelief.

The young man gave his companion a hard look, and said, "I'm not crazy. I don't want to lose my life because of leading the way. It's your business if you want to die. I also want to do other big things."

"I am also willing to be a guide." The young man on the right also said at this time.

Seeing that there were already two young people who were willing to be guides, the remaining young man did not persist and had to bow his head.

Leo didn't make any contract with the three of them, he directly lifted the restraint on the three of them, and asked the three of them to find a place to rest by themselves, and take them into the mountain after they rested.

After that, he fiddled with the bonfire with a wooden stick as if he had nothing to do. In fact, he was recalling some accidents and control problems that occurred in the process of performing psionic suppression just now.

In fact, the invisible pressure on the chests and backs of the three youths just now was not intentionally exerted by Leo, but when he exerted the psychic suppression, he suddenly lost control. Fortunately, he controlled the strength of the psychic suppression in time Otherwise, these three youths would have been crushed into meat paste by the suppression of spiritual energy.