The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

With Joe's map instructions, compared with those obvious landmark features, Leo can easily find the location of the Mumu tribe hidden in the deep mountain valley. Although there is no map, Leo can eventually find it here, but he also I have to admit that the shepherds hide very deeply, and even he may need to spend several days to find them.

The shepherds are located in a canyon. The walls at both ends of the canyon are covered with thick vines. These vines and the leaves on the vines completely cover the situation inside the canyon. At the bottom of the canyon is a small river. , the water from the mountain and the surrounding highlands all gathered here, making the water flow here extremely fast. Coupled with the sharp gravel and intentional traps at the bottom of the canyon, it was impossible for ordinary people to survive in such a fast water flow.

The shape of the mountain where the canyon is located is very strange, all of which are steep peaks and cliffs. Unless you are proficient in rock climbing, it is difficult to reach the top of the mountain, so it is impossible to enter the canyon where the shepherds are located from the top of the mountain.

The Mumu tribe was built in the midair of the canyon. They used a lot of wood and vines to erect the canyon above, forming a layer upon layer of flat land in the air. A rough count has hundreds of wooden houses of different sizes built in the canyon. Above, and on the rock walls on both sides of the canyon, many habitable caves were dug. This kind of construction made Leo think of the indigenous tribes seen in the Vanaheim Crack Plain. Although the architectural styles of the two are completely different, But the construction method is somewhat different.

Judging from the number of wooden houses and caves, the Mumu tribe has at least 10,000 people. Such a large number of people is already quite a lot among the indigenous tribes of the New World. At least in the eyes of the colonists, those they came into contact with Among the tribes, there are only a handful of tribes with tens of thousands of members.

Although the Mumu tribe has a large number of people, compared with those greedy colonists, this number is not enough. Although the Mumu tribe is located in the depths of the jungle, this depth is only relatively speaking, and they are far from the colony. The scope of activities of the group is still too close. In the past, a large number of indigenous tribes in the coastal area used as barriers to block the expansion of the pioneering group. Naturally, the shepherds would not worry about their own safety, but now these tribes have all retreated deeper into the jungle. This makes the Mumu tribe the forefront, so even if there is no order from the Paho tribe, the Mumu tribe may choose to migrate.

When Leo found the Mumu tribe, the tribe of the Mumu tribe was completely empty. Judging from the remaining items of the tribe, it was obvious that they left in a hurry. Many things were too late to take away, only food and other valuable things were taken away. .

However, before they left, they tidied up the tribe very well. The furniture in the house was neatly arranged, and it looked like they could come back to check in at any time. I think they should have planned this way, just leave here temporarily, wait When the colony pioneering group fails, they can come back here and continue to live their lives.

Leo quickly searched in the shepherds, and soon found what he was looking for, a cave similar to a temple, and this cave was also the largest and deepest among all the caves on the rock wall.

The caves on the other rock walls are almost as high as one person. After entering, there is an oval-shaped living room that is not particularly large. There are also several caves similar to bedrooms connecting the living room. The combined area of ​​these caves is not very large. , not even as good as the humble residence that Leo allocated in Matou Bay.

However, the temple-like cave is very huge. From the outside, the entrance of the cave is very small, slightly larger than the entrance of ordinary caves. After entering, there is a passage with a length of 100 meters. The passage goes deep into the mountain, and its shape is like A trumpet, the more you go in, the bigger it gets, and when it reaches the end, there is a huge oval cave with a horizontal diameter of more than 100 meters and a longitudinal diameter of 20 meters.

Such a huge cave is not formed naturally, but is all artificially excavated, and the stone walls around the cave are polished extremely smooth, and it is amazing that such a huge cave did not collapse. You must know the stone here It is not particularly strong, and if the cave is too big, it will easily collapse, so other caves for living are dug very small, and there are still a few stone pillars in the middle for support, unlike the temple in front of Leo, which is completely unsupported The stone pillars are all supported by the oval dome.

In the middle of the temple is a statue of an abyss snake sitting cross-body. This statue is not simply carved from stone. The material for making the statue seems to be gold with other precious metals added. This metal makes the statue even As high as ten meters, it can also be strong and firm.

In addition, the surface of the statue is covered with a layer of skin, which is python skin made by a special method. Judging from the size of each piece of skin, the pythons used are all ten-meter-long giant pythons, and at least one More than a hundred.

It has to be said that a hundred giant pythons are definitely a huge fortune no matter whether they are placed in the indigenous tribes of the New World or in those colonies, so it is enough to see that the Mumu tribe's worship of the abyss snake has a lot to do with it. how deep.

However, the most noteworthy thing about this statue of the abyssal serpent is not the material used for the statue and the giant python skin outside, but the pair of eyes of the abyssal serpent, because the eyes are made of a hollowed out crystal ball Yes, and the eyes were filled with an unknown liquid, hundreds of pairs of human research were soaked in the liquid, and what was even more weird was that these eyeballs seemed to be able to maintain their vitality, because when Leo came to the god statue, At that moment, all the eyeballs shifted their direction, looked at Leo, and changed the direction of pupil alignment as Leo moved.

Because of this, Leo couldn't help being curious about the liquid in the crystal ball. After all, it can keep human eyeballs immersed in it alive and inconvenient, and can produce visual perception of objects. This is obviously not comparable to ordinary medicinal liquids. , in terms of efficacy, the liquid here should already be considered an extraordinary item, but it may not involve extraordinary power, which also makes this liquid even more valuable.

It is not difficult to extract a little liquid from the crystal ball, because when making the statue, the maker took into account the placement of the crystal ball and the need to replace the liquid and eyeballs, so there is a hidden button near the eyeball of the abyss serpent, through the hidden button Remove a part of the eye socket of the idol, then take out the crystal ball, and open it from the closed opening behind the crystal ball.

The moment Leo took down the crystal ball and opened the mouth, he immediately smelled an extremely strong fragrance. Although it was a fragrance, it didn't make people feel fragrant, but instead gave people a very stinky feeling. But even if it is stinky, it can still make people feel that it smells very good, and after smelling it, there will be some desires in their hearts. These desires are not just the kind of desires between men and women. , more of other desires, such as killing, such as ambition and so on.

This unique smell and the unique effect brought by the smell instantly evoked the corresponding memory information in Leo's memory bank.

"Deceitful Saliva." Leo muttered, and then looked at the liquid responsibly.

Although the saliva of deceit sounds like the saliva of some kind of creature, it is actually a special material produced by the abyss. This material will only appear in the place where the abyss snakes gather. It is a special liquid that is filled with all kinds of deceitful words.

This liquid is one of the best materials for the abyss race to erode the world. It can make the user fall into various extreme emotions. Although these emotions are good and bad, once any emotion reaches the extreme point, it is good A person's mood will also turn into a bad mood, so anyone who takes the Saliva of Deceit will eventually be corrupted by the abyss, and this corruption is hidden, even the gods cannot detect it.

It is precisely because this liquid can perfectly create internal responses in that world in the early stage of invading the world, so when the various races in the abyss invade the world, they will try their best to get some to use.

However, the output of this liquid is very small. According to the relevant knowledge about the abyssal serpent in Leo's mind, this liquid can only produce the amount of a standard wine glass in a hundred years. Saliva is enough to create internal responses in four or five worlds.

So many deceitful saliva are used to soak the eyeballs and worship people as some kind of idol. It has to be said that this is considered reckless, but Leo can understand this approach, because the special laws of this world affect Now, even supernatural items like the Saliva of Deceit are also suppressed, and the suppression is so severe that the person who asks about the smell of this liquid can only have a little emotional fluctuation, let alone corruption.

Although these treacherous saliva have no effect in the current world, they are still useful to Leo, because he can use these treacherous saliva to make some abyss potions that could not be made before, and the effects of these abyss potions are not very good for Leo. Clear, but looking forward to it.

So, Leo found a few containers that could store liquids, filled the containers with the saliva of treachery, and then put the crystal ball back.

After that, Leo looked around the temple again. He found that there were a lot of oil lamps carved on the stone walls around the temple. The oil lamps were of different sizes, and the oil inside was very special, like human oil. In these oil lamps There are some symbols engraved on the lamp socket below, and there seems to be nothing strange about these symbols except that they look weird.

But after careful identification by Leo, he discovered that these symbols should be the blasphemous words of some kind of abyss upper race.

Blasphemy is almost the special ability of most of the upper races of the abyss. After they are born, they will resonate with the abyss, and then produce a blasphemy in their minds. Written down, can infect the spirit of those who hear or see, and make them degenerate into the abyss family members of the abyss superiors corresponding to the blasphemous words.

What's interesting is that the abyssal serpents in the abyss, known for their eloquent words, cannot produce their own blasphemy, but they can speak the blasphemy of all the upper races in the abyss, and produce corresponding effects, but the creatures polluted by them will Become their abyss family members, not the corresponding abyss upper races, so the various abyss upper races are also accustomed to calling the abyss serpents despicable and thieves.

Obviously, the blasphemous words engraved on the base of these oil lamps now come from the abyssal serpent corresponding to the god statue, but because of the special system of this world, these blasphemous words have lost the power they should have, or more correctly, they should have The ability has been suppressed to almost nothing, but if someone stares at these blasphemous words for a long time with full attention, perhaps the blasphemous words can still produce some effects. As for whether they can make the viewer become a family member of the abyss, this is unknown.

The shepherds are closely related to the abyss serpent, which can be proved from the temple in front of them. Now the question is where is the passage leading to the underground world. Leo has not found any clue yet.

He searched both sides of the tribe's rooms and caves, but found nothing useful, not even related words and patterns. All the patterns he could find were related to the abyss snake, and all the symbols that looked like words It's all unidentified symbolic fragments that unravel blasphemy.

However, in the process of searching carefully, he found that the Jaka he domesticated had been made into a specimen and placed in a slightly larger house. This house should belong to the chief of the Mumu tribe. Judging from the subtle traces on Jiaka's fur, Jiaka didn't seem to have been attacked by some weapons and died, because there were no scars on the fur, and it could only be analyzed from a break in the ear hole that it might be the cause of death.

This made Leo think of the insect-controlling ability of the Paho tribe. It seemed that only by controlling tiny insects to get into Jaca's ears, and then directly attacking its brain, could it be killed without injury.

After that, Leo couldn't find any clues in the tribe's houses and caves, so he turned his attention to the small river in the valley below the tribe, and jumped directly into the small river, looking for clues at the bottom of the river.

Soon he found some bones stuck in the crevices of the rocks and some funerary goods at the bottom of the water. It seems that the shepherds advocate water burial. The rapid current of the creek carried the body away and eventually into the ocean.

Only a few unlucky ones, whose bodies were stuck by the rocks, stayed here until they broke free one day, and they were able to complete their water burial ceremony.

Although there are very few things found at the bottom of the water, it is very useful for Leo to find the entrance of the underground passage, because among some funerary objects that sank to the bottom of the river and were not taken away, Leo found several jewelry similar to bracelets. Some sacrificial patterns are engraved on the jewelry, and the entire process of offering sacrifices to the abyss snake in the underground world is depicted in these patterns, and there are several landmark-like marks in the pattern, just like the map provided by Joe Similarly, as long as he finds these landmarks, then he may find the entrance to the underground world.