The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Are you really going to the old...source continent?" Perhaps it was because they had been in the New World for a long time that these social activists began to think of people from the New World in their words and sentences. For example, they were more accustomed to referring to the Old World as Yuan Continent, but their habits have not been fully formed, and they soon realized that their address was wrong, and changed it.

"Yes, this time we are planning to go to St. Paulia Port to take a boat to the source continent." Leo also followed the other party's words and said.

Several people looked at each other after hearing the words, and then asked tentatively: "I don't know if I can trouble you with something?"

"Please tell me." Sylvia said as if she had guessed.

A social activist asked tentatively: "We have a few letters that we hope the two of you will send out for us when you arrive in Yuan Dalu."

Leo questioned: "But we will not go to your country."

The man explained again: "You don't need to go to our country. The postal system of the source mainland is very developed, which is unmatched by the New World. You only need to put the letter into the post office box of the port city of the source mainland where you arrive. It is payable."

Sylvia intentionally hesitated, and said in a deep voice, "Will this matter be dangerous? After all, you offended some important people in the Yuan Continent. If it's because of this letter..."

The other person quickly explained: "There will be no danger. These letters are all family letters to report safety, and they will not cause any trouble to the two of you." He paused and looked at his companion. Look, as if he was consulting his companions, and then continued: "Of course, this matter will not let the two of you do it for nothing, we will pay you both."

"Remuneration? Don't you guys think we are unpaid?" Sylvia couldn't help laughing.

"Of course not, of course not!" Several people shook their heads repeatedly, and one of them immediately argued: "Of course we won't use such vulgar things as money to pay, we will give you two very practical things as rewards."

"Practical things." Sylvia smiled and said with interest: "I really want to take a look at it."

A social activist with a slight accent explained: "The two mentioned just now that they will definitely go to the Kingdom of Teresa after going to the source continent, but according to our understanding, the Kingdom of Teresa has closed the country and will no longer communicate with the outside world. Exchange, unless the two are smuggled, they will not be able to enter Teresa Kingdom at all, and even if they enter, they will be discovered soon."

Leo questioned: "Seclude the country? Why do you want to close the country?"

"We don't know about this either." Several people shook their heads in unison.

Sylvia asked: "Listen to you, can you help us enter the Kingdom of Teresa?"

"Of course not," several people shook their heads tacitly, and one of them added: "It is impossible for us to help you directly enter the Kingdom of Teresa, but we can introduce you to someone who can help you enter the Kingdom of Teresa."

Another person continued: "Professor Scott Jon, he is a professor of biological evolution at Teresa Kingdom College, and now lives in Prince Port. When we left the source continent, he asked us to help him find a We have already found the red-tailed french finch, which is a specialty of the Liszt Swamp in the mainland, and we are trying to find a way to send it to the mainland. Professor Te writes a letter of introduction to enter Teresa Kingdom."

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other after hearing this, and then Sylvia asked with a little doubt: "Why did you choose us? It stands to reason that you should have met many people who plan to go to the source continent, right? Why did you choose us?" Choose us to bring you a letter?"

Several people smiled and said in unison: "Feelings are often so wonderful. We feel that you are trustworthy, so we want to ask the two of you to help me with this."

Leo smiled and said, "Are you all doing things so casually?"

Several people shrugged and responded: "Of course not, but there are some exceptions sometimes."

Sylvia didn't ask any more questions, nodded and said, "Thank you for your trust, we are very willing to help you."

After hearing this, several people were very happy, and then made an appointment with Leo and Sylvia. Before Leo and the others left tomorrow, they would hand over the letter to be delivered and the letter of introduction to them at the pier.

Afterwards, the few people chatted for a while, discussing the philosophy, politics, and sociology of this world. Naturally, Leo couldn't get in the way, but Sylvia was an expert in this field, so she easily They kept gaining the upper hand in the debate of opinions. When they were separated, several people even believed that Sylvia should go to a national university in a big country to teach sociology and political science.

After being separated from these social activists, Leo and the others went to live in the hotel arranged for them by the Sanctity.

Although the house is built on the swamp water, there are red-leaved shrubs in the middle, and the builder also added some insect repellent powder coating to the wooden board material of the house. In addition, the hotel owner will use special herbs to smoke the house every day. Insect repellent, so living in this kind of hotel house, apart from the slightly unpleasant smell, there will be no worries about mosquitoes or the like.

"How credible do you think the words of those social activists are?" After a brief grooming, Sylvia opened the window, leaned lazily by the window, poured herself a glass of fruit wine, and at the same time asked.

"One point." Leo sat next to Sylvia, looked at the situation in the swamp outside the window, and at the same time quickly drew a witchcraft rune on his hand, using the power of the rune to disperse the mosquitoes inside and outside the room. At that time, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.

Sylvia didn't see Leo's expression, and her mind was still on the evaluation of those social activists, and she wasn't too surprised by Leo's answer, saying: "You gave it so low. .”

"It's a problem for social activists like them to stay in the Lister swamp. Social activists, social activists, naturally have to be active in human society. So many countries in the New World have places for them to use their abilities, but they But they chose to stay in this remote swamp, which in itself shows that they have a problem." Leo smiled and said: "In addition, think about it, as long as normal people don't give such a big trust to the people they just met. , handing such an important letter to strangers I just met, it is obvious that those few people are not fools or lunatics, so I guess what they said to us, I am afraid that they have already told many people, they are When fishermen cast their nets, as long as one can do what they want, their approach will be considered successful."

Sylvia also smiled, Leo saw the same problem as her, then she looked at the dark swamp outside and said: "Speaking of which, I'm curious about why they chose to stay in this swamp ?”

Leo nodded in agreement, and said, "I'm also a little curious about this, but there must be something in this swamp that attracted them."

"Did you find something?" Sylvia seemed to hear something in Leo's words, so she asked.

"Try to use your power." Leo did not answer directly, but reminded.

When Sylvia heard this, she mobilized the power of the abyss dragon in her body without thinking too much, trying to create a flame in her palm.

However, what surprised her was that although she did not encounter any abnormal obstacles when she used her power, the effect after using it was far less than expected. Originally, he wanted to create a ball of fist-sized flames, but after using it , what was created was only a flame the size of a grain of rice, its power was weakened by more than ten times, and it might be extinguished at any time, but the problem was that she didn't feel any obstacles in the process of exerting her power, as if the power she exerted itself could only As if it could create a flame.

"There is a forbidden area for extraordinary power here?" Sylvia immediately made a judgment.

Leo shook his head and said: "If that kind of power exists, we should have sensed it after entering the swamp, and can you sense a trace of hindrance when you exert your power? You can't sense it, so there's nothing here. There are realms where extraordinary powers are banned."

"Then what's going on?" Sylvia said, looking at the flames that hadn't been extinguished in the palm of her hand.

Leo pondered for a moment, then said, "I think the laws of the world should have changed."

"The laws of the world have changed?" Sylvia didn't quite understand.

Leo then explained in more detail: "That is to say, from a certain point of view, Lister Swamp is another world, which is completely different from the world we were in before in terms of the laws of natural operation. Extraordinary power can be fully exerted, but entering the present world can only exert 50% due to various obstacles, and now entering the world of Lister Swamp can only exert 10%, or even less than 10%."

After hearing Leo's words, Sylvia seemed to think of something, and said, "I remember that the area of ​​the Lister Swamp is very large. If the geography books we read are not wrong, then the area of ​​this swamp is larger than that of the Velen Continent. The size of the Black Forest Swamp is at least twice as large. Many swamp gods have been born in such a small area of ​​the Black Forest Swamp, but there is no god in the Lister Swamp in this world with witchcraft gods. That's weird, maybe..."

Leo took the words and said, "Perhaps the special environment here makes this place a forbidden place for gods."

Sylvia also nodded in agreement, and asked again: "Do you think this has something to do with the reason why those social activists stayed in this swamp?"

"I don't know." Leo still did not give a clear response, and reminded: "But one thing is for sure, they are just ordinary people without any supernatural power, and a few ordinary people are not engaged in specialized The researcher came to this swamp to find the secret of why no gods were bred, it's a bit..."

Leo didn't finish his sentence, but Sylvia also understood what Leo meant, and also felt that what Leo said was reasonable.

While the two were talking, there was a knock on the door, and then Joan was seen walking in from the door.

Seeing Joan coming in, Sylvia and Leo were stunned and glanced at each other.

Because they didn't discover the strangeness of Lister Swamp before, they didn't pay too much attention to Joan, but now they realized the mysterious law of Lister Swamp, and when they re-examined Joan, they found that Joan's whole body at the moment His temperament seems to have changed a lot. To put it simply, he has lost a kind of madness, and he feels like he has returned to a normal person.

"Is something wrong? Joan." Although he noticed Joan's abnormality, Leo didn't show it, but asked calmly.

"No, I have nothing." Joan shook his head, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.

Both Leo and Sylvia saw that Joan was hesitating to speak, so they didn't speak, but watched him quietly waiting for him to adjust himself and think clearly about what he wanted to say.

After a while, Joan seemed to have made some decision, and said: "I'm fine, very fine, I haven't been this good in the past few years, since I entered the Liszt Swamp, I feel fine, before hearing The voices that I often hear around me have disappeared, and my mind has become much clearer, and I am no longer as muddled as before."

Leo smiled and said, "This is a good thing..."

"No, it's not a good thing." Before Leo could finish speaking, Joan interrupted him, pointed to his eyes, and said, "But my eyes are blind again, and the other eye's Vision seems to be affected too, and things are a bit blurry. Do you know what's going on?"

After listening to Joan's words, Leo quickly thought of the answer. He didn't say it directly, but asked tactfully, "Have you been to Lister Swamp before?"

"No." Joan shook his head and said, "All the churches believe that the Lister Swamp is the filthy cave of this world, and any clergy who enters the Lister Swamp will be polluted by the filthy power." Speaking of which, he seems Thinking of something, he said, "Am I also polluted by filth?"

Leo shook his head and said: "There is no misunderstanding in the Liszt Swamp, but it is indeed a bit special. It is extremely unfriendly to any supernatural power and will greatly weaken the effect of supernatural power. You are blind One eye was healed with supernormal power, and the other eye has been affected by supernormal power for a long time, and there is more or less a trace of assimilation effect, so when you enter the List Swamp, everything related to supernormal power Weakened, including the whispers of the false heart that you false heart clergy suffer every moment."

"So that's the case." Joan showed a look of surprise, and then asked tentatively: "If I continue to stay in the swamp, will I never be affected?"

"As long as the nature of the swamp remains unchanged, it won't be affected." Leo nodded and said, "But your eyes may never recover, including the one that can barely see clearly now. .”

When Joan heard this, a troubled look appeared on his face.

Sylvia, who saw Joan's thoughts, suggested: "Don't make a decision right away, think about it calmly, there is still one night, and think carefully about whether to stay or not."