The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

This section of the Yadi Ancient Canal went smoothly, except for the two collisions caused by the new fleet that blocked the waterway, there were no other accidents.

Leo and the others can be said to have listened to the story for a whole day. Although not all the sailors in the fleet have rough experiences like the old sailors, the various things they encountered in the past sailing at sea can still provide a lot of information. Information, at least let Leo and Sylvia have some understanding of the world's oceans.

For example, there are no sea gods in this world, but there are deep-sea giant monsters. These deep-sea giant monsters are like sea gods in the eyes of people who make a living at sea. They will believe in these giant monsters, and through methods including living sacrifices, Obtain the amulet bestowed by the troll, and the ship with the amulet can sail safely on the sea, of course, the premise is that it will not encounter a big enough storm or break into the sea area of ​​​​the hostile troll.

These deep-sea monsters are not as lofty as the gods and have never appeared in front of people. They appear very frequently. Ships often see the giant monsters, and sometimes they can even see them on the coast where storms appear. In the distance, the scene of two deep-sea giants fighting in a storm.

Almost every sailor in Leo's fleet has seen trolls at sea, and a few are the lucky ones who survived the tsunami caused by the troll fight.

Apart from these anecdotes at sea, the biggest thing Leo got from these sailors was the sea charts in these sailors' minds.

This is also what makes Leo and Silvia interesting, that is, although this world has very powerful sailing ships and a large number of professionals related to sailing, this world does not have a complete and unified sea chart.

According to sailors, the oceans of this world do not have a fixed ocean current. The ocean current changes every time, and the changes are disordered and chaotic. Some islands even drift irregularly due to changes in the ocean current. Only Only a small number of islands are fixed, so the routes formed based on these fixed islands become extremely important.

These routes have always been in the hands of the church fleet of the Holy Alliance, and all ships need to pay very high taxes on this route, so some bold fleets will try to open a new route.

However, these bold actions ended in failure in the end, but even after so many failures, there are still new fleets that will try this. Almost all the ships that Ives sailors on have made similar attempts, and the results are also All failed.

In other people's eyes, the routes taken by these failed ships have no reference value, but in Leo's eyes, they have a different view, because in his opinion, the experience of failure is also experience, and it is extremely important experience. There is also very valuable information in it. For example, he found at least six islands with fixed positions by comparing the charts provided by these sailors.

Although the location and number of these islands are not enough to form a route, the surrounding waters of these islands are all related to the magical sea legends, deep sea monsters, etc. that the sailors said. One of them was mentioned by the old sailor That island may be a settlement of the Belmont family, so Leo specially sorted out these materials for future needs.

Although there was no trouble in the waterway of the ancient canal, there were some problems during the less than 20-minute journey from Tissan to Yodel City. A very critical mountain road encountered landslides caused by mudslides. Cleaning up this The road may take ten days and a half months, and finally Leo and the others had to give up their original idea of ​​going on the road with the caravan, and took the mountain path directly, over the middle of several peaks, and came to Yodel City.

Just like all mining cities, Yodel City is also extremely prosperous inside the city, while the outside of the city is extremely desolate, not even a single plant can be seen on most of the hillsides.

This is not only because this place is very dry and has little rain, but also because the water source here has been polluted due to mining, washing and silver refining, and the polluted water will evaporate with the water vapor, float in the air, and then Cover the whole land with the rain falling.

The reason why other places are not affected is because this place is a basin surrounded by high mountains, and the water vapor evaporated from this place cannot cross the mountains and float to other places.

It is also for this reason that most of the people who lived here in the past suffered from a skin disease called psoriasis. Some silver lumps will grow on the skin of the sick people, and these lumps will accumulate to a certain extent. After a certain degree, it will crack and fall off, exposing the flesh and blood inside, and the patient will also feel pain like being skinned, and this is not the end, because after that, this layer of silver hard lump will grow out with the skin, and it will go round and round until it is full of skin. The whole body, and finally died of pain.

At the beginning, the local people didn't know that the water source was polluted, they just thought it was some kind of curse, and the purification technique of the Purifying Fire Church could relieve the symptoms of silver moss, so after a long period of purification, The Church of Fire is the core belief here.

Until a doctor from the Old World discovered that the cause of silver moss disease was that the water source was polluted by mining. To completely solve the silver moss disease, the mine needs to be closed to completely purify the water source. But the problem is that all the local income comes from the mine. Without the mine, there would be no city, and the people in the city would have no way of life, so this solution cannot be implemented at all.

Later, the Temple of Springs came here and used the magic of this church to create a clean spring that would never dry up in the church of the Temple of Springs, and built a large reservoir in the city, which solved the problem. Psoriasis, a persistent disease that has plagued the local area for many years.

Up to now, except for those who have been working in the mine for a long time and also suffer from silver moss, the people in the city who have clean spring water all the year round have not suffered from this kind of disease. Therefore, the temple of spring water is more hostile, whether it is prestige or believers. All surpassed the Purifying Fire Church in the city before, and became the most important religious belief in Yodel City.

As for the Purifying Fire Church, it behaved very strangely. Instead of confronting it head-on and snatching back the diocese, it completely withdrew from the city, leaving only sixteen Purifying Fire Stone Pillars, which were distributed in various parts of the city. A feeling of weakness.

Compared to ordinary people in Yodel City, Leo and Sylvia are more aware of the status quo. Although the believers of the Spring Temple in the city dominate, the power of the Spring Temple is very weak, and the power that really controls the entire city It is the sixteen fire stone pillars of purification.

Now it may be impossible to see the function of these sixteen stone pillars full of the power of the Purifying Fire, but both Leo and Sylvia believe that once Yodel City intends to completely abandon the Church of the Purifying Fire, then the sixteen stone pillars will The power of the power will explode, and it is self-evident what the scene will be when it explodes.

However, because of the effect of these sixteen stone pillars, Yodel City suffered the least loss in this rat wave. Except for the miners who were in the mines outside the city when the rat wave happened, the people in the city did not suffer any damage. One died in a rat swarm.

However, even so, many people in the city still died. They survived the rat tide, but died in the riots that occurred in the city.

Because the rat wave happened suddenly and spread extremely fast, Yodel City didn't have time to react at all, and the whole city was completely isolated by the rat wave, losing contact with the outside world.

Yodel City is not a food-producing city, and no food crops can be grown around it, so the daily food needed in the city is brought in from outside.

In the past, a large amount of food was delivered to the city almost every day. Except for a small amount of food stored in the city, the rest of the food was bought on the same day. It's been ten days, and I can't even last five days.

Although the governor of the city at that time discovered the problem at the first time and immediately carried out the minimum ratio of food, this still could not alleviate the food crisis. The outside of the city was eaten to bones by crazy rats.

Under such circumstances, the people in the city could only stay in the city and exhausted their food bit by bit, so some hungry and crazy people began to target their own kind, and the cannibals that appeared in the city The phenomenon, and there were also some rumors about the rich people in the city and the food stored in the temples and churches, and a riot followed.

Leo didn't know the final result, because everything about Yodel City in the Rat Surge was immediately banned by the Purifying Fire Church. All outsiders only knew that there was a riot in the city due to hunger. As for the process and results of the riot How, no one knows.

The only thing that is certain is that when Leo came to Yodel City, the blood on the ground had not been washed off, and some places were congealed into plasma, because the flies attracted by the corpse and blood covered the whole city, and the whole city was covered with blood. A smell of feces can be smelled, and a huge bonfire was set up in the sanctuary of the Purifying Fire in the distance. The flames soaring into the sky can be seen even outside the city. In addition to the smell of burning wood, there is also a strong smell of barbecue.

Because of this, the three of Leo who had just entered the city didn't even have the idea of ​​staying in the city for one more day. The train ticket for the city of Nice, only stayed in this dead city for less than two hours, and embarked on a new journey.

"I feel the power of the abyss." Sylvia suddenly said as the train started slowly leaving the platform and heading out of the city.

"Don't worry about it," Leo responded.

Leo was not surprised by Sylvia's discovery. In fact, he felt it the moment he entered Yodel City. This was not because he understood the power of the abyss better than Sylvia, but because he was in this The abyssal power felt in the city belongs to an abyssal serpent.

In the abyss, unless the abyssal snakes gather together to carry out some primitive activities when procreating offspring, most of the abyssal snakes will live alone at other times, and each abyssal snake has its own territory. provocative.

Through the reaction of the crystal serpent in his right hand, Leo determined that he should have broken into the territory designated by an abyss serpent, and he also knew that this abyss serpent did not enter this world physically, but just possessed by projection.

Although with the power of Leo and Sylvia, they don't need to worry about the projection of an abyssal serpent, they also don't need to cause such trouble, not to mention that this is still the site of the purification fire, and a little noise and big noise will cause unspeakable troubles. Anticipated response.

It's just that Leo and Sylvia didn't want to cause extra problems, but the other party obviously didn't think so, especially when he sensed that Sylvia, an abyssal dragon bloodline family who was already comparable to a pure-blooded abyssal dragon, appeared in him. In , his strong curiosity drove him to temporarily put aside what he was doing and board the same train.

After the train left Yodel City, he walked directly outside the carriage where Leo and Sylvia were, opened the door of the carriage very casually, walked in, and sat directly on the seat opposite to the two.

Seeing the middle-aged man dressed as a miner come in, Leo and Sylvia naturally recognized his origin at a glance, and after the other sat down, Sylvia took out some coins and handed them to the seat opposite Feeling overwhelmed, Penistan asked her to stay in the dining car in front for a while.

After Penny left, Leo stood up, closed the compartment door, and locked it from the inside, then sat back beside Sylvia.

This incarnation of the abyssal serpent focused on Sylvia from the beginning to the end, and did not pay attention to Leo at all. He neither sensed that Leo possessed the power of the completely banned abyssal serpent, nor He didn't discover Leo's own powerful power. In his eyes, Leo might just be a tool used by the abyssal dragon family in front of him to disguise his identity.

This may be due to the flaws in his method of projection possession, or it may be that Leo's control over his own power is too strong, completely restraining any energy fluctuations on his body, or it may be that Sylvia's power aura at the moment is too strong. It is powerful enough to cover up all abnormalities around it. All in all, the other party has made a misjudgment at this moment, and this misjudgment may be fatal to him.

For Leo, naturally he would not let go of any opportunity to expand his advantage, so when he found that the opponent's attention was all attracted by Sylvia, he was already getting up to close the door, lock the door, come back and sit down. The trap was set up in a short period of time, and now it was necessary to consider how to deal with the prey that was delivered to the door.

And Sylvia on the side also guessed what Leo had done from Leo's actions, and looked at the opposite person with disdain, even as if she was looking at a lively bug.