The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

It has been seven years since Jenkins from Miotau came to the New World. All the people who sailed with him to make a fortune in the New World have all died here, and he is the only one who is still alive here.

Now he has completely lost the spirit he had when he came here, and the idea of ​​getting rich has not appeared in his mind for a long time. Now he wants to earn enough money to repay the debt, and then buy a A ticket to go home, to go back to the home that I detested so much back then.

To this day, he still clearly remembers that he joined the expedition team of the New World after reading the announcement of the New World’s exploration and treasure hunting. You can make a fortune by ordering something. There are even people who have been to the New World to make a fortune and come back to tell them that there is so much wealth in the New World that an entire lake is full of gold and gems.

At that time, under this kind of temptation, he and his companions did not tell his family members, and directly joined the expedition team of the New World, and imagined that he would earn a huge amount of wealth in the New World on the boat, and become those noble gentlemen who returned to China. Scenes from my hometown.

However, when they came to the New World, they found that things were completely different from what they had imagined. They did not see the legendary golden gems, but only the endless jungle and countless dangers hidden in the jungle.

In less than half a month, five of his companions on the same boat died in the camp because they were bitten by poisonous insects and contracted dysentery. In the endless dangers in the jungle.

Only he survived, and the reason why he survived was not because of his great ability, nor because he was an excellent hunter when he was in his hometown. In fact, the hunter skills and experience he learned in his hometown It is useless to put it in the New World. The reason why he can survive is because he has an unusually keen perception of danger since he was a child. When the danger is about to appear, he can clearly feel it and move to it in time. Safe position out of danger.

For example, once when he was carrying out an exploration mission of a pioneering group, he and a few companions passed through a seemingly harmless rainforest, but when he was close to the rainforest, he sensed a strong danger from the rainforest, so he proposed to go around Drive the rainforest away from other places.

It's just that his companions are unwilling, because they only need to go through the rainforest to complete the established exploration tasks and call it a day. If they take a detour, they will need to walk for several hours, and they may not even be able to go out after dark , and it was raining at that time, and the whole ground was so wet that people seemed to be soaked in water. Everyone hoped to complete the task as soon as possible and go back to the stove for a roast, so several of their companions chose to go directly through the rainforest.

As a result, when those companions approached the rainforest, a large number of spiders fell from the branches and leaves of the rainforest, biting them, and the poison of the spiders made them all paralyzed without the ability to escape. After that, he stood in a safe place and watched the thick vines protruding from the rainforest trees, slowly wrapping them up and dragging them to the depths of the rainforest. He still clearly remembers how those people were dragged When he entered the rainforest, he looked at him with fear, as if it happened yesterday.

It is precisely because of this that he has great trust in his own danger perception. No matter how unreasonable the situation he perceives, he will follow the perception prompts and respond accordingly, and this behavior has become the key to his survival .

He still remembers the shocked expression on his boss's face when he handed over the employment contract seven years ago to his boss, saying that he had completed the execution period on the employment contract. None of the people who joined the Pioneering Group could complete the employment period. All of them had completed one or two years. They couldn't stand the termination of the contract in advance and left with a very small commission. Like this kind of employment contract that completed the period, he could do it once. Sex gets a lot of money.

The senior management of the Pioneering Group did not play tricks on the commission, not only paid all the commissions and corresponding bonuses in full, but also gave an additional reward, and used him as a model to promote the Pioneering Group to other pioneers How high is the remuneration, how good are the benefits, and they are extremely trustworthy. As long as the contract is completed, they will definitely be able to get enough money and will not be greedy for commissions like other pioneering groups.

As the client, Jenkins is not disgusted with the behavior of his previous employer, and is even willing to actively cooperate. After all, he has money to get it. For him now, money is the most important thing.

Although his commissions and bonuses are very generous, they are still too little for him, because he needs to divide the money into several shares and give them to the fellow countrymen who followed his proposal to join the pioneering group. Those companions died in the New World, and he had an unshirkable responsibility to give some money to the families of those companions. Although it would not alleviate the pain of the companions' family members, at least it could make him feel a little better.

It is precisely because he urgently needs a large amount of money in a short period of time, and he does not want to stay in the New World for a long time, so when his former pioneer team proposed to hire him as the leader of the pioneer team, he chose reject.

Afterwards, he selected various hiring tasks, and finally chose the Nature Association's pioneer group explorer hiring task.

Explorers are an important position in the pioneering group. Usually, when the pioneering group officially goes deep into the jungle and opens up a new colony, they will send a large number of explorers to collect intelligence information in the jungle, understand the environment there, and then follow the intelligence information. To adjust the plan, so the information fed back by the explorers is crucial to the success or failure of the pioneering group's plan.

However, even though the explorer is so important, the basic commission of the explorer is not particularly high, only equivalent to the captain level of the pioneering team, and what really attracts the explorer is the extra intelligence bonus, once there is a piece of information If it is adopted and confirmed to be effective, then the explorer who put forward the information can get a large bonus far exceeding the basic commission. In addition, the explorer can also collect some rare plants and catch some rare insects in the depths of the jungle. Rich people like these things very much and are willing to pay high prices for them, which is also an extra income for explorers.

The reason why Jenkins chose the Nature Association is that among all the forces gathered in the New World, the Nature Association is definitely the one with the best reputation. They not only never default on commissions, but also provide sufficient supplies for everyone they hire , unlike the pioneering groups of other countries or forces, many supplies still need to be prepared by themselves.

In addition, if you can find enough precious species in the jungle, you can sell them directly to the Nature Association, and the purchase price offered by the Nature Association is also one of the highest prices. Location intelligence can still get a lot of rewards.

Jenkins believes that he can survive in the jungle with his own danger perception, and there must be some extremely dangerous and precious creatures in any area he senses to be dangerous, and a large part of these creatures should not have been colonized. Scholars found that if he provided location information related to it, the information rewards he could get would be very large, perhaps even more than directly capturing some precious creatures, which would undoubtedly help him obtain a lot of money in a short period of time.

Therefore, after joining the pioneering team of the Nature Association, he immediately applied for the latest pioneering task, but what he didn't expect was that the pioneering task he applied for was to support another pioneering team, and that pioneering team seemed to be still in preparation stage, just when he thought he was unlucky enough to choose the wrong mission, he heard that someone in the camp of the pioneering group was organizing an advance expedition team. The captain turned out to be the famous big talker Joe.

You must know that among the various colonial settlements in the New World, Dahua Joe’s reputation is often more famous than the colonial governor, but this fame is not in a good way, but all of them are extremely negative reputations, all about Dahua Joe's stories are all big stories without exception. Joe told a certain lie, which led some unlucky people to go to the place mentioned in his lie to find some treasure, and then became the prey of the natives or something.

Because of this, when it was learned that the mission poster and the expedition leader were Liar Joe, very few people responded in the camp of the pioneering team. The Nature Society came forward to form this expedition.

It’s just that, unlike other members who passively joined the advance expedition team, Jenkins actively joined the expedition team when he knew that the advance expedition team was to be formed, and he didn’t take the initiative to join the expedition just because he wanted to execute the mission as soon as possible and go deep into the jungle The search for precious creatures is more aimed at Joe Matthew, because compared to the misunderstanding of Joe by most people in the colony, he is more aware of Joe's ability, and knows that those rumors are some people who don't know. Based on slanderous rumors.

The reason why Jenkins saw Joe in this way was entirely because he was inadvertently involved in a conflict with an indigenous tribe when he was performing an explorer mission in the past, and was captured by the indigenous tribe, and Joe happened to be nearby at the time. He rescued himself from the hands of the indigenous tribes. At that time, he saw that the relationship between Joe and the indigenous tribes seemed unusual. After that, he cooperated with Joe several times. Every time the cooperation process was very good, there was almost no danger and it was very easy. Therefore, Jenkins believes that the advance expedition team formed by Joe will not be too dangerous this time.

Not long after the advance expedition team was formed, left the camp, and entered the jungle, Jenkins asked Joe to act alone, and Joe knew Jenkins' ability very well, so he agreed to Jenkins' proposal and took out a plan. A simple map was given to Jenkins, instructing him to explore a certain area on the map.

Over the years, although Jenkins has participated in various explorer missions and has gone deep into the jungle hundreds of times, the exploration mission area designated by Joe this time is deeper than any place he has explored in the past The jungle, that was a place he had never been to.

Jenkins is very clear that the reason why Joe arranged this task for him is because Joe is also very aware of his own ability, knowing that this task may be close to death for others, and it is not a particularly difficult thing for him.

So after receiving this task, he didn't make any additional requests, but only replenished various supplies to the maximum, especially the special arrows used to deal with some large beasts, and then he marked it on the map alone. Regions explore the past.

Although Joe's map is not as accurate as those real map surveyors, this simple map is enough for Jenkins, because Joe has marked some distinctive topography and special plants on the map, For example, the huge tree in front of him is far taller than any other big tree.

In the primitive jungles of the New World, the most important thing is those tall and dense trees. In the Novat continent, trees tens of meters high are extremely rare, but here, trees tens of meters high seem to be the base height, while hundreds of meters tall trees seem to be the base height. Higher trees are the norm, but he has never seen a huge tree with a height of 200 meters like the one he saw now. If it is measured by the standard of precious species, this tree is also It is definitely one of the most precious species, the only problem is that this tree cannot be dug up by anyone, so for those rich and noble gentlemen who like to collect precious species in the New World, the tree's The value is equal to zero again.

He thought that the tree had been marked on Joe's map. Obviously, Joe knew the location of the tree. Since Joe didn't announce the location of the tree, he probably thought of it with him.

Now the position of this huge tree is at the border of the area Joe instructed Jenkins to explore, and passing through this tree is considered to have entered his mission area.

He didn't enter the mission area immediately, but chose to camp under this huge tree, rest up for a night, recover his strength, and then set off.

As usual, Jenkins carefully checked around the tree. He didn't find anything unusual, and his sense of danger didn't appear. Obviously, the area under the huge tree should be very safe, but he was worried. Still a little uneasy, this uneasiness does not come from intuitive perception, but his years of living experience in the jungle made him find that the surrounding environment is a bit abnormal, the surrounding is too quiet.

Some wild animals may be lacking in certain areas in the jungle, but insects and birds are definitely not lacking, so no matter in which area of ​​the jungle, you can clearly hear the calls of birds and the rustling of insects when they are active, but Now Jenkins can't hear these sounds at all, except for the sound of collisions between trees and branches, there are no other sounds around him. This is obviously abnormal, but the problem is that his danger perception indicates that this place is very safe. This made it difficult for him to choose for a while.