The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo held a dry branch in the room and looked at it for a long time, as if this ordinary dry branch was something rare, so that he temporarily put aside the relevant information sent by Barbarisa. No mind to watch.

This branch is the reward given by the old priest of the White Deer Church in this world, but Leo took this branch in his hand and pondered over it for a long time, but he still didn't see the mystery of this branch. The moment he saw this branch, the stone throne, which was the source of his soul, began to be touched. Maybe he already suspected that the old man had found a dead branch at random to tease him.

Not long ago, when the old man was talking about the transaction reward with Leo, he said very firmly that he had an item on hand that Leo would definitely be interested in. After that, he went outside and took it from the entourage waiting outside. He took out a metal box and returned to Leo's room.

Before seeing the contents of the box, Leo was already attracted by the metal box used to hold the items, not to say how exquisite and beautiful the metal box is, but in Leo’s knowledge, it is more beautiful than this metal box He had seen a hundred times the boxes before, and what really caught his attention was that he discovered that the so-called metal material of the box was actually bones, and it was the bones of an unknown god.

The reason why Leo was so certain that the metal box was made of the bones of the gods was that the moment he touched the metal box, he absorbed a very weak breath of the gods from the box, and the breath of the gods entered his body. , forming a divine imprint.

And at the moment when the imprint of the gods was formed, Leo discovered that the power of the imprint of the gods is to control the three basic states of metal, solid, liquid, and gas. It can be seen that the unknown god corresponding to the metal box should be someone who can control A metal god, and this kind of god is definitely a god-level god in any world, but now the bones of this kind of god are made into a metal box to hold things. It is hard not to make people wonder what is inside the box. What kind of precious item is worthy of such a high-standard preservation method.

However, when the old man opened the box and took out a dead branch from the box, even though Leo believed that there must be something extraordinary about this thing, he still felt disappointed because the dead branch was so ordinary. It's so common that it looks like it was picked up from the woods next to the town.

However, when Leo reached out to take the dead tree branch and was about to seriously study the connotation of this thing, the disappointment in his heart disappeared instantly, and at the same time, his curiosity about the dead tree branch also grew rapidly.

The reason why there was such a big change in mentality was because the moment he touched the dead tree branch, there was some abnormal movement on the stone throne, and a vague tree-like relief appeared on the back of the originally empty stone throne, just The relief could not be fully formed, and the moment his hand let go of the dead branch, it receded again.

Leo asked the old man about the origin of the dead branch, and the old man told him that the dead branch came from a tree sea world they passed by when they escaped from their own world.

They didn't enter that world, they just walked around the edge of the world. Some of them accidentally broke some branches in the sea of ​​trees world, intending to make them into crutches, but those branches withered quickly after leaving the sea of ​​trees world After making debris, only this one just withered, and the main body of the branch was still intact.

At that time, the leader among them took this branch to ask Bailu, and the answer given by Bailu was that this dead branch contained a trace of the original breath of the mother of the tree, and it was regarded as a part of the mother of the tree. It's a fetish.

After coming to this world, the survivors settled down, and soon discovered that this dead branch can, to a certain extent, promote the rapid maturation of various plants planted.

It was also because of this that this dead branch was the only valuable treasure that they, the refugees, could get.

As for why they took out such an incomparably precious treasure in exchange for the opportunity for the whole family to move to the Kingdom of Teresa, the main reason is that this treasure has little effect on them now. Lacking money, all they lack is a stable home, so exchanging this thing for a stable home land is definitely a good deal for them.

After listening to the old man's explanation, Leo also deepened his understanding of this group of refugees. In his opinion, this group is simply a natural businessman. The treasures that they have played a great role in will be traded without hesitation.

Leo thinks that this kind of ethnic group that regards value as the principle of conduct and advocates equal exchange is very suitable for dealing with, but it is absolutely not possible to make close friends, so even if he is very curious why this group of refugees will leave the central government at all costs. Kingdom area, but did not plan to find out.

So much so that, after reaching a deal agreement with the old man, he couldn't wait to write a letter to the principal and vice president of Academic City and Queen Teresa respectively, in which he explained some things about the refugee group, such as these people What ability, what can be done, etc., and then clearly express the idea that these people want to be able to move to the Kingdom of Teresa, and after writing and stamping Sylvia and her own unique badge, it is directly handed over to the old man , Let the old man send someone to deliver the letter directly.

Although the relocation of the family has not yet started, the final result is predictable. Leo has completed this transaction and no longer intends to continue to make friends with these refugee groups, so as to avoid being regarded as the next transaction object by the other party. .

After the old man left, Leo began to study with the dead branch, and the direction of his research gradually shifted from the change of the stone throne caused by the dead branch to the dead branch itself, but the more he studied, the more confused he felt, because he Through various methods to detect the dead branch, it was found that this dead branch was no different from ordinary dead branches, and even the original breath of the so-called mother of the tree that caused the change of the stone throne was never perceived.

Leo didn't know anything about the God of the Mother of Trees, but he knew that there were gods like the Mother of Trees in almost every world, but their names were different, such as the Mother of the Forest, It seems that such gods have become the standard gods in every world, which makes him seriously doubt whether such gods as the mother of the tree will be an extension of the power of the world tree.

Leo didn't think it was just a coincidence that the dead branch representing the body of the mother of the tree fell into his hands as a trade item. He had just started to adjust the way of evolution not long ago because of the influence of Qunheyi. All kinds of power began to be transferred to concentrate on strengthening the original power of the stone throne.

At this time, White Hart gave an oracle to a group of so-called White Hart believers who were not even considered believers, and the church was established entirely out of interest, asking them to pass a word to Leo, and these believers happened to have a life-and-death matter that required Lei Help Ou, the only valuable thing that these people can produce can cause changes in the Stone Throne. After this series of connections, no matter how you look at it, it is the White Deer who is behind the guidance, which makes Leo wonder what the White Deer wants. what to do.

On the one hand, let him not completely believe what Qun Heyi said, and on the other hand, because of Qun Heyi's words, he changed the way of evolution and started to work towards the stone throne of the soul source, but Bailu offered to help, which is self-contradictory. behavior is really puzzling.

"Is it because the research materials are not enough, is this because you want me to go to the tree sea world? Maybe this is also your purpose?" After Leo couldn't find any clues from the dead branches, an idea came to his mind. .

Although he couldn't research anything useful from the dead branches, as long as what the old priest said was true, then he could find the world coordinates corresponding to the dead branches through some special rituals, that is, the sea of ​​trees. The orientation of the world, as long as he has the coordinate parameters and the dead tree branches as a guide, then he can open the space rift leading to that world and go to the world of trees and seas.

After thinking twice, Leo still felt clueless and didn't understand Bailu's intentions, but he still decided to wait for the spar mine in the Middle Kingdom to go to the world of trees.

This is not only to see why the white deer led him to the world of the sea of ​​trees, but also to find more remnants of the mother of trees, so as to find out the secret that caused the change of the stone throne.

After figuring this out, Leo didn't continue to smash on the dead branches, but put away the dead branches and used them when he needed to go to the tree sea world.

After temporarily giving up the research on the changes of the stone throne, Leo turned his attention to the pile of materials sent by Barbarisa.

Although Barbarisa said that the materials sent over are all his research materials, in fact his research materials only occupy a small part, most of them are other people's research materials, and the most content in these research materials is It's about the fallen First Gods in that Middle Kingdom region.

Leo sorted out the materials related to the Primordial God and put them aside, specifically looking at the research materials of Barbarisa. He said that the research qualifications were incorrect. Names and identity information, connecting these personal information together, can form a huge genealogy tree.

However, the human beings represented by all the names on this genealogy tree are from the Barbarisa matriarchal family, and there is very little content about the paternal line. It is only known that the patrilineal group was the priest of the Primordial God at the beginning. He secretly sent someone to investigate the cause of the Primordial God.

The reason why Barbarisa began to pay attention to the reasons for his canonization and began to investigate the affairs of his father's family was mainly because of an incident that happened to him after returning to the Middle Kingdom area. This incident is very common to outsiders. It was just a dream, in which he kept running in a dark place, and repeatedly said something like Feng Sheng was wrong, and he had to correct it immediately. The memory is still fresh, and some weird patterns have appeared on him and his children.

Although the appearance of these patterns did not affect daily life, Barbarisa still felt that these patterns concealed very dangerous things that would kill their whole family, so a strong sense of crisis drove him to conduct related investigations, and found that his father's Some similar patterns also appeared on the bodies of the clansmen of the first line, and after the patterns appeared, these people disappeared. Now, besides Barbarisa, there are only a few clansmen living in other countries besides Barbarisa himself. .

Afterwards, he investigated the missing clansmen, and found that the disappearance of those clansmen seemed to be related to the Church of True God. He just wanted to continue the investigation, but all the clues were destroyed by the people of the church.

However, he didn't gain nothing at all. While investigating the clues of the disappearance of his tribe, he also found that the patterns on some of the remains of the Primordial God were somewhat similar to those on their bodies. The location of the temple is on the ruins of a temple known as the place where the original god fell, so he felt that there was something strange about the canonization, so he secretly investigated.

After reading the materials of Barbarisa, Leo also had a clear direction of investigation, and the first stop in this direction was the place where the god of the beginning who consecrated Barbarisa fell.

After determining the direction of investigation, Leo looked at other materials, which recorded some recent abnormal behaviors of the Church of True God, and these abnormal behaviors are inextricably linked with Barbarisa, such as a certain The Church of the True God secretly sent people to collect the remains of Barbarisa's ancestors and so on.

In Leo's view, this seemed to be preparing for a certain ceremony, but unfortunately the relevant content was not very sufficient, so that Leo could not judge the reason for this ceremony, he could only vaguely feel that it was related to the ceremony. related to the resurrection.

According to common sense, resurrection can be regarded as a manifestation of the highest miracle in any church. Every church in the world of Velen has its own set of resurrection methods, but their religious resurrection and ordinary people's resurrection are different. different.

However, in this world, resurrection is a taboo. It is listed as the top three blasphemy by the Church of True God. Someone is secretly planning some kind of unknown resurrection ceremony, which is obviously an extremely dangerous thing. Once it is exposed, all the people involved or those who are related to it may be disappeared, just like those members of the Barbarisa family. .

The materials that Leo checked last were the research materials about the God of the Beginning. The content of these materials is very detailed, from folklore to incomplete books. In short, anything related to the God of the Beginning is recorded by them, so These materials appear very scattered and difficult to read.