The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"This is the boulder gold tribe. In addition to the unique mushrooms in the crack canyon, the trade products here also have a kind of boulder gold ore. This boulder gold ore is a very special ore. When smelting metals, add some that can Double the toughness of the metal, this is one of the first valuable metals discovered by the creator." Mimidor stood at the entrance of the cave specially prepared for him by the chief of the Boulder Gold Tribe, looked at the panorama of the tribe below, and turned towards Leo next to him introduced the current situation of this tribe, saying: "All the boulder gold mines produced by this tribe are supplied to the Sky City where I am. In the early years, I came here with the Sky City team to complete several transactions. I’ve lived here for a while, and I’m pretty familiar with it.”

I saw that the tribe where Mimidor and Leo are now is at the end of a big crack. There are cliffs on three sides, and there is only one entrance and exit. The terrain is uneven and not suitable for building houses. Therefore, the houses of this tribe The caves are all dug out of the mountain wall, and the caves are connected by wooden hanging ladders, and there are even suspension bridges to connect with the opposite caves, and the location of the living caves also corresponds to the level of identity.

For example, the slaves of the tribe live at the bottom, and the wooden houses are made of simple branches and insect skins. Next to the wooden houses they live in is the insect fence. The insect excrement accumulated every day is extremely smelly and very unsuitable for living. The higher the status of the person living in the cave, the higher the cave they live in. The cave where Mimidor is housed is a row of caves specially opened to house the trading team of Sky City or Earth City. The priest's cave is one level higher, which can be said to be the top level.

Because both mushrooms and boulder gold mines are to be traded to Sky City or Earth City, ordinary members of the tribe are responsible for the cultivation of mushrooms and the mining of boulder gold mines, and slaves are absolutely not allowed to touch these two things. One thing, in the words of the chief of the boulder gold tribe, is that the status of a slave is too low. Touching mushrooms and boulder gold mines will cause pollution, and letting the Miaonyyom people in Sky City and Dixing City use these polluted The mushrooms and boulders are the ultimate insult.

However, this kind of view is just wishful thinking and flattery by the upper echelons of the Boulder Gold Tribe. For the Miaonyyom people, there is no difference between ordinary members of this tribe and slaves, and anyone who touches mushrooms or boulder gold mines is the same.

In addition to serving their masters, the slaves of this tribe are mainly responsible for taking care of a huge worm named Taji. This worm is the most important livestock of the Ruojin tribe. The worm feeds on moss and can produce A large amount of dung is used to grow mushrooms, and it can also produce insect milk. Cheese and other milk products made from these insect milk are also important commodities traded by the Boulder Gold Tribe and other tribes.

"Have all the tribes here been controlled by you?" Leo's mental network quickly scanned the living area of ​​this tribe to understand the situation here. He had already clearly felt the chief of this tribe just now. After seeing Mimidor, the awe they showed was stronger than that of the priests of the previous tribe. Even after they entered the tribe, all the people in the tribe bowed down to Mimidor, as if seeing a god No wonder Mimidor would show such a contemptuous attitude to the tribes in the cracked plain, obviously it has something to do with the humble behavior of the people of this tribe in front of him.

"Of course not." Mimidor shook his head and said, "Only a few tribes on the outskirts of the plain that have valuable items are controlled by the Sky City or the Earth City, and the other tribes are protected by the Holy City." As he spoke, he paused and said: "Although the Holy City does not consider these tribesmen to be the remnants of the Midgards, they still feel obligated to protect these humans, so we are not allowed to approach the middle of the plains." Tribes, of course, if those tribes come to the periphery, it’s a different matter. In fact, the Lijin tribe was also a tribe in the central area at first, but it was a pity that they failed in the tribal war and were driven outside. They were taken in and placed in this area suitable for living, where mushrooms can be grown and minerals are available, and the Boulder Gold Tribe has become a vassal of our Sky City."

"Tribal war?" Leo asked in a deep voice, "Do the tribes here often have wars?"

"Yes." Mimidor nodded and said, "Every time a period of time, a big melee will break out among the tribes here. If any of the chieftains and priests of the defeated tribes are still alive, they will be expelled from the settlement. The settlement is in the hands of the victor tribe, and if the tribal chiefs and priests die in battle, all the people in the tribe will become slaves.” He paused, and said with disgust: “Their war is not It broke out because of some profit or survival, but just because they themselves are too boring and want to trigger a big war, just like a group of energetic reptiles that are in heat everywhere."

Hearing this, Leo quickly thought of what happened to Sylvia, so he asked abruptly, "Is the latest tribal war about to break out?"

Mimideore was stunned for a moment, not understanding why Leo suddenly asked such a question, and he didn't understand the question, so he stood on the wooden corridor outside the entrance and exit of the cave, squatting towards a section of the suspended wall. The entourage arranged for him by the tribal chief in the small wooden shed under the ladder waved, and after the entourage came, he asked a few words in the language of the tribe, then turned around and nodded to Leo, and said, "Yes, the latest time In a few days, when the red moon appears in the sky, the tribal war will start. However, we don’t need to worry here, as long as the tribes on the outskirts don’t take the initiative to go to the middle, the general war will not spread to this side.”

After getting an accurate answer from Mimidor, Leo directly contacted Sylvia, who was also in the cracked plain but located in the hinterland of the plain, through his spiritual source, and narrated the tribal war, and Sylvia After hearing this, Via immediately understood that her inexplicable becoming a chief was obviously related to this tribal war, because the entire tribe was hiding everything about the tribal war, so before Leo said this, she didn't know anything about it. Know.

She can already be sure that her so-called chieftain status is just a name, because he has already found out that a tribe needs to notify the surrounding tribes to hold a large-scale tribal banquet when the chieftain changes. Obviously, she did not implement this when she became the chieftain of the tribe. A crucial step, the chief of that tribe should intend to use her as a substitute, because the strength of that tribe is impossible to win the war, and even can't even protect itself. If the tribe's people become slaves, they must Keep any one of the chiefs or priests, and the priests of that tribe are very old, and the probability of accidents is very high, so we can only protect the chiefs, let the chiefs hide, and recommend a substitute. After the war, even if the substitute dies Now, because the chieftain is still alive, the tribe is only expelled to the edge, and will not become a slave.

"It's very interesting. I happen to be bored and want to find something to do." After learning about the situation, Sylvia simply responded to Leo, and then disconnected.

Leo could feel that Sylvia was not annoyed by being counted against, but rather excited by the tribal war, and seemed to want to intervene in the cracked plain tribal war.

Although Leo doesn't know how Sylvia will intervene, he can be sure that after the tribal war in the Crack Plain is over, the situation of the various tribes in the Crack Plain will probably change a lot.

Leo didn't have much interest in the future of the Crack Plain Tribe, and he didn't tell Mimidor about Sylvia, and he and Mimidor would stay in this boulder-gold tribe for a while. During this period of time, see if you can think of a way to let the consciousness in Mimidor come out again.

Mimidor is also very clear about Leo's thoughts, and he also hopes to help Leo. After all, if it weren't for Leo, he would not be able to unlock the law of enslavement in genes, nor would it be possible for the Miaonyyom to have The hope of being truly free.

Unlike when the law of enslavement was just unlocked a few days ago, because of the unlocking of the gene ban, Mimidor's mind has become much more active than before, and he has more things to think about, and he also He began to look at the fate of his people being enslaved forever, and the indignation and dissatisfaction accumulated in his heart increased, and he also had a very strong sense of mission deep in his heart, and he even felt that he and those recorded in the holy scriptures The saints who helped the creators escape the Ragnarok disaster are almost there.

The enriched emotions also made his gratitude to Leo stronger and stronger, so he also wanted to help Leo, but the consciousness in his body was not willing to regain control of his body, even if he voluntarily let go of everything. The defense, the consciousness didn't move, but he could vaguely feel that the consciousness had an extremely strong desire to regain control of the body, but compared to the scruples about Leo, that desire was a bit worthless. Apparently Leo's question had frightened him a lot that day.

Although there was no way to make that consciousness come out, Mimidor still helped Leo by actively cooperating with Leo's various experiments during the few days he lived in the Boulder Gold Tribe, and he also helped Leo in these experiments. It's not that he has gained nothing, at least he has a certain ability to control the anti-psychic power produced in his body, and this kind of control ability is real control, not indirect control through the mutated tumor that produces this power , and he also found that while his ability to control this kind of ability was strengthened, the emotions of that consciousness seemed to be a little flustered, as if his enhanced ability to control anti-psychic energy would pose a threat to this consciousness.

Mimidor told Leo his discovery, and Leo fell into deep thought after hearing it. After a while, Leo told some details of his recent research on anti-psychic power to Leo. Mimidore listened, and at the same time, he also talked about some methods he created that might be helpful in controlling the anti-psychic power, and asked Mimidore to train accordingly.

After hearing this, Mimidor returned to the cave where he lived, intending to train himself to control the anti-psychic power according to the simplest method Leo described.

After a while, Mimidor returned to the cave where Leo was, and when Leo saw Mimidor walking in from the entrance of the cave, a smile appeared on his face, and he didn't ask Mimidor how to use it. The effect of those methods after training, but abruptly said: "Are you willing to take the initiative to come out now? It seems that Mimidor's control of anti-psychic power can indeed threaten you as he thought."

"It's not threatening me, but threatening us." Mimidor looked at Leo with a complicated expression, wanting to get angry at Leo, but he felt deeply scruples, so he could only turn his head slightly and said, "Then A power will become stronger as the ability to control it increases, but the current body is simply not suitable for that kind of power, which will eventually cause the body to mutate in an unpredictable direction, and the probability of gene collapse is very high. I don't want to just wake up. Just because of some people's random operations, it fell asleep again."

Obviously, Mimidor at this moment has been re-occupied by the consciousness from the Earth Federation.

Leo captured a detail revealed in the other party's words, and then confirmed: "It's a deep sleep, not death. It seems that you should have other clones."

Mimidor sighed, and said: "Every human being who survived the cosmic catastrophe may be our awakened body. I am lucky to be awakened this time, but I may not be so lucky next time. , even if someone is awakened, it’s not necessarily me.”

Although Mimidor had determined that Leo's situation was different from his before, but now that Mimidor mentioned how those who carried out the rebirth plan awakened, Leo still felt that he was awakened on the battlefield. The situation is very similar.

However, Leo has no plans to ask Mimidore about his problems at this moment. In his opinion, his current situation is very good. It doesn't matter whether he is a participant in the rebirth plan or not. He only needs to know more and his own memory related things.

"Let's continue the topic from last time!" Leo didn't beat around the bush, but went straight to the point: "Why do you have such a big reaction when you hear me mention biochemical humans and Li Hongmei? What's the deal with the rebirth plan?"

Mimidor smiled wryly, and said: "I know what you want to hear, but I can tell you with certainty that I can't say anything about it, because it is related to the oath of the subspace. As long as the subspace still exists, if I If you violate the oath, you will be swallowed by the subspace and completely fall into eternal pain."

"The subspace oath? Do you know what you're talking about? That thing really exists?" Leo didn't know what to say after hearing this, and Mimidor's words made him feel like a lifetime It would be as absurd for people who advocate science and believe in atheism to tell him how great the gods are.