The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The notes found on the Queen Sydney are a kind of self-created ciphertext, which does not belong to any language system that Leo knows, but even if it is a self-created language, the creator still needs to rely on the existing language system for modification and processing , to be able to create a new language system, otherwise the time and experience required to create a language out of thin air is definitely not something that a single human can do, even a language master like Leo can't do it.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Leo was looking for the source of the language system of this self-created ciphertext to be those known languages. The world of Velen consists of three continents with different languages, including the local Bodonia language in the Bodo area of ​​the Velen continent, the northern language of the Minsk continent, and a minority tribal language called the Forestthorn tribe in the Mosan continent.

The person who created this secret language was very smart to use the minority tribal language of the Mozambique continent as the main language family of the secret language, and then used the languages ​​of the other two continents as the structural framework to combine these three languages ​​together to form a refined spoken language. Colloquial language that is efficient and hard to write.

However, in order to facilitate writing, the person who created the secret language used some French words similar to spoken language or self-created words to create the written style of this secret language, so even if there are many words in these secret words It looks familiar, but if you want to analyze the real content of this self-created secret language through these words, you will get nothing.

Deciphering the language may be very difficult at the beginning, and the progress is slow, but once the law is found, the deciphering speed will be doubled. Leo first determined that this self-created secret language belongs to the language system. It took a few days, and when he found out which language systems were used to create the secret language, it took him less than a day to completely decipher the secret language, and also decipher the contents of this notebook .

The content of this notebook is very simple. It is a nautical notebook as Leo speculated in advance, but the content is not finished. The interesting thing about this notebook is that the owner of the notebook is called Misassius Dodd, and his title is God. son, or descendant of God.

The meanings of "son of god" and "descendant of god" are extremely clear, that is, child of god or descendant of god, coupled with the surname Dodd, it made Leo instantly think of himself in the half-plane of the subspace of Yam Island full of giants. The descendant from the parallel world that I saw, that descendant finally succeeded in seizing the priesthood of the victim of the true god, ignited the divine fire, and became the new victim of the true god.

Later, after the island of Yam was separated, he never saw this descendant again, and in the world of Velen he returned to, there was no news about the victim.

Now I see that the owner of this note has Dodd's surname, and clearly wrote the identity of the son of God and the descendant of God, plus the note appeared on the Queen Sydney, and the note was put together with himself He and Sylvia's wedding ring, but this wedding ring is worn on his hand at the moment, and all kinds of information are superimposed, which makes Leo have to suspect that the owner of this notebook is the descendant of the victim, and he is also the one who died in another world. A descendant of a parallel world.

Thinking of this, Leo suddenly had a bold guess in his mind, and said to himself: "Could it be that the Velen world connected to this world is actually the parallel world where Sylvia and I have died?" world?"

It's no wonder that Leo has such a guess. After all, based on the various evidences he has now, the possibility of such a guess is very high, and this makes Leo even more curious about the world of Velen.

Most of the contents of the notes are very professional ocean observation data and marine biological observation records. It looks like an ordinary ocean researcher's record notes. If such a note is written in ordinary words and stored The location is not the secret collection cabinet, maybe Leo will subconsciously ignore it as an ordinary research notebook after seeing it.

But now Leo has preconceived that this notebook is not simple, so after seeing these ordinary records, the first thing he thinks of is to find out the secrets hidden in it.

After some analysis and search, Leo quickly discovered the real content hidden in these data records. The last owner of this notebook may not be the writer of the notebook, Misassius Dodd himself. It is also very likely that the last user of the Queen Sydney was not Misassius Dodd.

The hidden content of these data records is actually the process of the note writer Misassius looking for an island. By comparing the time of the data records, Leo can confirm that Misassius first set off from Lint Harbor in the Kingdom of England. , and then passed the Red Lighthouse Island, entered the deep sea, and then followed the Pearl Island chain around the Sea of ​​Falling Stars, sailing all the way to the endless sea in the east.

The ocean current data recorded in the notes, the essays on the island scenery, and the observation data on marine life are a complete route data chain. Leo can easily connect this data chain to form a route. To Leo's surprise, the other end of the route, that is, the last article recorded in this notebook is an observation record of a fish, and this fish called the soul attractor is a legendary fish. This kind of fish only appears on the edge of the endless sea fog.

It is said that this kind of soul guide has a lantern that will guide those who lost their lives at sea into another world.

Judging from the route analyzed in this notebook, the place where the writer of the notebook, Misassius, finally arrived on this voyage was in the deepest part of the Endless Sea, at the edge of the endless gray fog, and the reason why he sailed so far place, mainly to find an island, which is clearly recorded in the notes.

Although the name of this island was not written, Leo vaguely felt that it might be Yam Island, because in his notes, Misassius had mentioned that the island contained the mystery of becoming a god.

Whether or not Misassius became a god in the end, Leo is not sure, but judging from the fact that there is no follow-up record in the notes, he may have failed, maybe he did not find Yam Island, or maybe he found Yam Island, The mystery of becoming a god has not been found.

But no matter what, Misassius finally survived this sea adventure and left this note. The reason why Leo infers this is because he inadvertently recorded something in this note , the content is only one sentence, that is, the boiler has exploded and needs to be repaired for three days.

From this sentence, it is not difficult to guess that the ship that Misassius was on was a steam ship that needed to burn boilers, not a sailing ship.

As for why it is considered that Misassius survived, it is easy to explain, because if Misassius died at sea or on the island he was looking for, this notebook would definitely be left where he died Judging by the material of the notebook, it has fallen into the sea or been exposed to the sun and sea wind for a long time. In less than half a month, this notebook will be completely damaged, so it will not be the last owner of the Queen Sydney to hold this notebook. Note, take the route recorded above again, and it will not appear in Leo's hands.

Through this notebook, Leo already had a relatively complete inference in his mind. After Yam Island became the victim of the true god, his descendants returned to the world of Velen where he was, and some of his descendants knew about him. The experience of becoming a god, thinking that Yam Island has the mystery of becoming a god, so he went to look for Yam Island, but the result of the search was not as he wished, and he ended in failure in the end, and left this note containing the hidden route .

Later, the owner of the Queen Sydney, who was probably also a member of the Dodd family, got this notebook and discovered the secret of the route, so he re-piloted the Queen Sydney on this route. Seeking excitement, from taking the adventure route of the predecessors, it may also be aimed at Yam Island to become a mystery. All in all, the owner of Queen Sydney did not survive as lucky as his predecessor, but died. At sea, the Queen Sydney finally turned into a ghost ship, passing through the extremely dangerous gray fog, and came to the present world.

Leo didn't take the so-called mystery of becoming a god on Yam Island at all. After all, he knew very well how his descendant became a god. The reason he really cared about this notebook was that he found that it contained A space beacon, and this space beacon appeared very strangely.

You know, when Leo first got this notebook, he checked it carefully. This notebook is just an ordinary notebook, and the paper is very ordinary. It is not a legendary item that contains mysterious power, but this It was such a note that he found no problem after repeated inspections. After he finished deciphering this note, a spatial beacon was automatically generated, as if he deciphered the self-created ciphertext of the note and understood the content of the note. The power activation factor, as long as these two requirements are fulfilled, the spatial beacon hidden in the note will automatically appear.

Leo has every reason to suspect that the place pointed by this space beacon is the parallel world of Velen, but with this space beacon, he cannot go to that world, because with his power, it is impossible to open a path in this world. space rift.

However, even if it is not used now, it does not mean that it will not be used in the future. Leo, who had already planned to go to the parallel world of Velen World, now has this space beacon, and has even more plans to go to that Velen World. interest of.

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but after Leo completed all the exploration of this notebook, he received an order from the Governor’s Mansion to report to the Pioneering Regiment of the barracks. The regiment entered the jungle together to open up new land for Matou Bay.

The pioneering group in Matou Bay continued to recruit various personnel during this period, from forced prisoners of war to purchased slaves and ordinary people who voluntarily joined. The number of pioneering groups also expanded rapidly, and soon reached 5,000 people. The basic establishment, the command layer and the officer layer have also been completed in the past two days, and Leo is the last member of the entire pioneering group to join.

In fact, the Governor's Mansion, the Town Government and the Public Security Office have also had some discussions on whether Leo should be included in the pioneering team. In their opinion, Leo is a learned scholar who stayed in the Matouwan port area. Even better, if he joined the Pioneering Group, it would be difficult to guarantee his safety. It would be a pity if he accidentally died in the jungle.

At that time, except for a few officials who felt that Leo, the so-called Berent scholar, should not be given special treatment, almost all other Matou Bay officials believed that Leo should be kept in Matou Bay until a letter from the Royal Navy Leo's arrangement was finally finalized after the order was sent to Governor Weil.

The order was very simple, it was to ask Governor Vail to dispose of the captives sent by the Speargun not long ago, and asked not to do it himself. in the regiment.

Although all the personnel of the pioneering group have arrived, the various materials needed are still a little short, such as tools for felling trees, weapons for dealing with indigenous tribes, etc., are not yet complete, especially shields, etc. In terms of defensive equipment, there are basically none.

Originally, Governor Vail wanted to wait until all the materials were in place before letting the pioneering group leave, but the urging from the kingdom forced him to change his original plan, and only replenished the weapons and defensive equipment so that the pioneering group could move forward while marching. In the middle, make it yourself with local materials.

So on the third day after Leo entered the pioneering group, after each member of the pioneering group had a simple weapon in their hands, the 1,000-person vanguard battalion of the pioneering group left the barracks at Matou Bay and headed toward the deep jungle. Marching everywhere, the 3,000-member regular army of the pioneering regiment, the 500-member logistics army, and the 500-member medical regiment followed closely behind.

After the pioneering group left Matou Bay and entered the jungle, they did not go directly south. Instead, they turned a corner at the logging field and headed southeast.

"Where are we going?" As a consultant, Leo did not march like the others, but took the logistics army's material carriage, and a middle-aged man who was also a consultant was also riding in the same carriage with him.

This middle-aged man is not a prisoner of war, he joined the pioneer group voluntarily, and he is not a Rooter or a Berente, but a person from another inland country, but he likes adventure and is very curious about the New World , I came to the New World a long time ago, and I am very familiar with the geographical environment of the New World. This time, I came to voluntarily join the pioneering team after seeing the recruitment order of the Matouwan Pioneering Team.

The middle-aged consultant who is familiar with the surrounding areas of Matou Bay quickly gave an answer, saying: "They should go to Bichen Lake, where Matou Bay has established a colonial camp, but they often receive inquiries from the surrounding indigenous people. Tribal harassment and attacks, the pioneering group should first help the camp to clean up the surrounding indigenous tribes, and by the way run in the pioneering group, let the newcomers in the pioneering group get acquainted with the dangers of the new continent." Then, he looked at Leo, said : "Since you and I are separated together, I will take care of you. If there is nothing else, you just follow me."