The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although Vera Thothmuller did not hold any important position in Huajing City, her identity and status in Huajing City is unique, even the city lord of Huajing City is far inferior.

Facing Vera's reprimand, not only the official who opened his mouth to drive the refugees away was terrified, but even other officials who were clearly out of the way became timid, and all of them hung their heads, not daring to look up at Vera. .

The city lord of Huajing City also wanted to give that stupid official a serious lesson at this moment, although he didn't fully agree with Vera's words, and he didn't think that expelling those refugees would make Huajing City disappear within a month, and felt that Vera was a bit alarmist , but he agreed with Vera's opinion on the official's proposal. He knew very well that if the refugees were really driven away, the reputation that Huajing City had accumulated over the years would definitely be wiped out. The default rules in the room will no longer exist, and the undefended Huajing City will become fat in the eyes of others.

Knowing that the disposal of these refugees determines the future of Huajing City, the owner of Huajing City had to make some choices, and reluctantly proposed: "Why don't these people be arranged in my hunting ground! Although the environment there is not as good as It's warm inside the city, but it's better than the ice and snow outside."

"Well, this is a way," Vera nodded, and said, "I will also open the dense forest of the Natural Shamanism to refugees. These two places should be enough to accommodate these refugees."

On the outskirts of Huajing City, after turning over a hill a few hundred meters away, you can see a small valley full of trees. The forest in this small valley was specially opened up by the natural shaman, and it is called dense forest. Part of it was given to the lord of Huajing City by the former great shaman as a hunting ground.

Although the environment here is far from being comparable to that of Huajing City, compared with other places, this small valley surrounded by high mountains and dense forests is obviously better, and it is full of trees and there is no shortage of materials for building houses. It is very suitable for resettling these fleeing refugees.

"But what about the food?" An official said in a low voice: "There is not enough food in the city now, so where can we get the extra food for the refugees? It will take at least ten days to send them out to buy food. The weather is good." In the current situation, it is still during the black storm outside, it will definitely take longer, and it may be difficult to store food in the city..."

"Enough!" At this moment, Vera interrupted the official's words in displeasure, and then glanced at everyone present with her cold eyes, and said, "I know what you are thinking, and I also know what is going on behind your back. What the family is thinking, I don't care what you plan, I just ask that Huajing City will not be chaotic, so I hope that the families behind each of you will honestly take out the accumulated food and get through this difficulty together. Otherwise, without me doing it, those who are blinded by hunger will be willing to eat you alive."

Everyone swallowed dryly at this moment, looked at Vera nervously, and all realized that Vera was not joking, but really planned to do something.

In fact, during the discussion at the meeting just now, someone mentioned that they hoped that the various families in the city would take out all kinds of food they hoarded to help Huajing City through this crisis, but no one agreed at that time, and Vera Thoth Mueller and the owner of Huajing City did not express their views, so the proposal was not passed.

Now that Vera mentioned the proposal of getting food from each family again, everyone felt different. The tone of the person at the meeting before was more of a discussion, but now Vera's tone was more like an order, and It was an order that was not allowed to object, and everyone could see from Vera's cold face that she was really planning to do something ruthless, which made those officials with big family backgrounds feel scared involuntarily.

Although Vera and the Nature Shaman will never intervene in Huajing City's government affairs or participate in any family struggles, everyone knows that the Nature Shaman's attitude plays a pivotal role in Huajing City. Once the nature shaman society expresses its attitude, it will definitely not change, and those who try to stop the nature shaman society will encounter various things without exception, and finally disappear completely in Huajing City or even the polar mountains. middle.

Seeing this situation, all the officials also took the initiative to come forward and said that they would collect the grain.

After discussing the dormitory and food, the officials of the Huajing City Management Committee got instructions from the city lord and went to work separately. Although the city lord seemed to go back to his official residence, he was still stayed by Vera and joined the city guards. Stay together, because the chaos in the city has not completely subsided, and the guards in the mansion are not enough to guarantee the safety of the city lord. For this reason, Vera also left her shaman apprentice to be responsible for the safety of the city lord.

After making these arrangements, Vera returned to the city together with the mysterious man around him, walking back and forth in various streets in the city as if patrolling the city, and the mysterious man was also walking around, using the power of animal bones invisible to others The staff pulled out the black energy from the unconscious people in the city, absorbed it and devoured it.

"Huh? Here..." After the two reached the small town where the Belmont family's contact point was located, the mysterious person was stunned for a moment, because she found that most of the people here had no black air coming out of them.

"Don't make a fuss." After looking at the badge at the gate, Vera said, "This is the residence of the Belmont family, and there are many Belmonts in it. Their family is famous for hunting demons in the south. It’s not a strange thing not to have the breath of the abyss.” Then, she shifted her gaze to Belmont’s exclusive warehouse at the back of the city, frowned, and asked in doubt: “There shouldn’t be a totem pole here? Why... Huh? Disappeared, is it an illusion?"

At the same time, Leo, who was in the warehouse, was studying the natural totem pole in front of him. When Vera's perception passed over and had a slight connection with the totem pole, he also felt it, and cut off this connection in time, leaving The power emanating from the totem pole was imprisoned without any leakage.

At the same time, various perception abilities and skills such as his mental net were displayed by him at the same time, and he quickly swept over Vera Thothmuller and the mysterious man wearing a mask on the street outside, especially That mysterious person was the focus of his scan.

However, after the scan results came back, a puzzled look appeared on his face, because he found that the results he got from the scan were far from what he expected.

Vera's identity is easy to identify. After all, she is the only one who possesses such powerful shaman power in Huajing City. Therefore, after confirming Vera's identity, Leo took it for granted that the mysterious person beside her was his guess. The firewalker Perunia, the abyss upper race Tokatni.

However, what surprised him was that after scanning the mysterious man's body with his mental network and other perception and skills, he found that the power in the mysterious man's body turned out to be the power of a shaman. The power of the shaman is very similar. It looks like some kind of shaman power with an orderly inheritance. On the contrary, the mysterious person has a very strong abyss aura in his hands. This abyss aura indeed belongs to the abyss superiors The abyssal breath, but the problem is that Leo's spiritual network and other means can only vaguely feel this abyssal breath, but he can't find out the origin of the abyssal breath. The only thing that can be confirmed is that this abyssal breath is entrenched in the mysterious person In the palm, there is a shape of a scepter.

Leo's detection ability is very hidden, and it was not discovered by Vera and the mysterious person. After they confirmed that there was nothing suspicious here, they continued to move forward. After thinking about it for a while, Leo temporarily stopped studying nature. The secret in the totem pole, but sealed it in the warehouse, he left the residence of the Belmont family, followed Vera and the mysterious man, and saw what they were doing.

Soon, Leo discovered that after Vera and the mysterious man passed by a certain place, a very faint breath of the abyss would emerge from the unconscious residents of that place, and then gathered in the hands of the mysterious man. In the power of the abyss in the form of a stick,

At first, Leo thought it was the abyss superior controlling the mysterious person to harvest the fruits of abyss power conceived in the city residents, but soon he found that he guessed wrong, because from all the signs, the mysterious person was obviously Helping the situation in the city get rid of the influence of the abyss, these residents are still in a coma and can't find any abnormalities. When they wake up, they should be able to feel that their negative emotions such as irritability, anxiety, anger, and resentment have disappeared. , People should also calm down, and won't be as irritable as before, ready to use force at any time.

"Is this saving people in the city?" Leo couldn't help but wonder as he watched the two people in front of him walk by block by block, clearing the abyssal breath from the body of the person who was sleeping on the ground.

Obviously, there seems to be a big gap between what the two of them are doing now and what he expected, but he didn't immediately draw a conclusion, but continued to follow secretly.

In this way, the three people walked all over the streets and urban areas of Huajing City. After confirming that there were no omissions, the two people who walked in front walked towards the headquarters of the Natural Shaman Society on the hillside in the distance.

This small hillside in the city has no name, but it is the most important location, because almost all the offices and headquarters of important departments and organizations in the city are set up here. This is where the power center of the entire Huajing City is located. Nature is also here.

Unlike other buildings that are built with hard rocks, the headquarters of the Natural Shaman Society is a huge tree. All the houses are made up of intertwined branches that hang down. Vera's residence is the topmost tree on the tree. tree house.

When Leo saw the huge tree that formed the headquarters of the Nature Shaman Society, what Leo thought of was the Shaman Tree City in the Green City.

Although the big tree in front of him is like the difference between a giant and a dwarf compared to the shaman tree city, Leo can feel that this big tree and the shaman tree city should have similarities from the natural power emanating from the tree. Some relationship, perhaps the ancestor of this big tree is the tree seed that survived after transplanting a branch in the Shaman Tree City.

Although this big tree also possesses the power of nature, it is far behind the tree city, and can barely protect it. As for blocking Leo's spirit net and other detection abilities, it is powerless.

"What's going on here? Why did the war suddenly break out and so many refugees were attracted? Is it your plan?" Just after arriving at the tree house where she lived, Vera couldn't wait to ask the mysterious person.

"Don't count me in, you should know that I am no longer one of them." The mysterious man took off the hood and the mask, revealing a face with dark purple skin, and compared to her skin Come on, her pitch-black eyeballs and long pointed ears are even more eye-catching.

At the moment when he saw the mysterious man, what Leo thought of was not the creatures of the abyss, but some kind of creatures called elves. There are no elves in the world of Velen. It is unknown whether elves exist in this world, maybe they are migrating. There were elves among the earliest native races in the New World, but in the world of the witcher that Leo had been to, there were elves, and Leo also saw statues of elves and half-elves living in cities , although the skin color of the two is different, but the pair of long ears are very similar, it is easy to connect the two.

In the house, although the mysterious man claimed that he was no longer a member of a certain organization, it was obvious that Vera did not fully believe it, but she did not question him, but went straight to the point and said: "Now tell me what you think, tell me Are those guys secretly planning this matter?"

The mysterious man hesitated for a moment, nodded, and replied affirmatively: "Yes, they must be planning in the dark."

"What is the purpose? Me, you, or..." Vera continued to ask with a serious expression, but suddenly stopped halfway through the question, raised her finger and pointed to the ground.

The mysterious man seemed to understand what Vera was talking about, thought about it seriously, and said: "They should be testing, testing whether we still have the ability to guard the things below. If we fail to deal with what happened in Huajing City, they may You'll have other thoughts."

"How dare they do this?" Vera's face became extremely gloomy, and she said in a deep voice: "Didn't they learn their lesson back then? They even came to provoke me, and really wanted to drive them out of the polar mountains and expose them to those Can they completely disappear in front of the gods?"

The mysterious man also frowned and said, "I think their sudden temptation may have something to do with what happened in the Church of True God recently."

Vera hesitated for a moment, then confirmed: "Are you talking about internal turmoil in the Church of the True God?"

"Yes." The mysterious man nodded, and said: "Justice suffered a loss in the territory of the Belmont family and fell into a dormant state. The power of the church shrank, and many dioceses were abandoned. These dioceses that have been developed are in other areas. In the eyes of the Church of True God, it is as if they are at your fingertips. Naturally, they will not turn a blind eye, and are even willing to fight. Naturally, what happened to us will be temporarily put aside by them. Those guys should have seen this before taking the risk to test us. of."