The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Not in this world?" Leo repeatedly tried various methods to find Sylvia's location, but all the results were the same, Sylvia was not in this world.

In fact, when he first tried to find Sylvia through the shaman ceremony, he already had the answer, because even in this world where extraordinary power is suppressed, the natural resonance generated by the shaman ceremony is still very strong, so The strong natural resonance is enough for the information he may want, and the other powers he tried repeatedly afterwards were to use other methods to confirm the correctness of the results obtained by the shaman ceremony, for which he consumed two white deer marks , and there is only one white deer mark left to prepare for any eventuality.

However, he wasn't worried, because according to his estimation, the power of the White Deer in the wedding ring would recover after a while, but the actual recovery time might be longer than his initial estimate.

Since the conversation with Leo that day, Joe never came to Leo again, perhaps because he also noticed something was wrong with him, and in front of Leo, he was like an honest child. Answering all questions, and answering them in great detail, is obviously extremely abnormal.

In addition, Leo's mysterious method of pulling out the worm for him made him have a lot of guesses about Leo's identity, so in his mind, Leo's danger level was also pushed to the extreme. He stopped meeting Leo in a short period of time, even in order to avoid Leo, he changed his plan, hurriedly formed a team through the Nature Association, and entered the jungle.

Judging from the materials prepared by this team, Joe should stay in the jungle as his three-sided spy for a long time in the future.

After discovering that Sylvia was not in this world, Leo became less interested in exploring this world. He just waited to find the entrance to the underground world, enter the underground world, and find the abyss snake that became the god of the Black Forest. Seeing what useful information he could get from this abyssal serpent, he planned to return directly from the underground world to the world of Velen, and then cast spells in the world of Velen, where power was unlimited, to find Sylvia's whereabouts.

It was also because of the change of mentality that Leo did not participate in the next pioneering mission. Because of Bernando's permission, he could also turn down some missions that consultants had to perform and stay in the camp to read.

Although Bernando's books were quickly read by Leo, as the Nature Association continued to send some scholars to the pioneer team, these scholars also carried a large number of books with them. For this reason, the Nature Association specially built a The library that helps these scholars store books, and Bernando’s collection of books was also stored in that house and kept together, and Leo has privileges, he does not need to go out to perform tasks, and stays in the camp for a long time, so he is very smooth He was appointed as the administrator of the library.

Naturally, Leo would not refuse this position that suits his wishes, and he also took this opportunity to read books from various kingdoms in the Novat continent, and these books are without exception the most valuable books.

The Natural Society has branches in various countries on the Novat continent, and their members are also from different kingdoms. This time, most of the scholars and consultants they called to the Bernando Pioneering Group were not from the Root Kingdom. The books that these scholar consultants carry with them are also books from different kingdoms, which gives Leo a lot of convenience and saves him the time and energy to search for books.

Among the books stored in the library, the largest number are books on biology and geography. It is obvious that these scholars at the very beginning imitated the geography and biological environment of the Novat continent on the new continent. However, they soon discovered that this rigid method was useless, so these books were shelved. Judging from the newness of the books, most of these books have not been completely read by their owners.

However, these books are cheaper for Leo, because he has learned about the various situations of Novat Continent through these books that record the geography and biology of Novat Continent. research scholars.

Apart from these books on geography and biology, most of the other books are books on folklore.

Just like those books on geography and biology, these folklore books from different kingdoms are also used as reference materials for the study of indigenous tribal cultures. Although most of these books are useless, there are still folklore books from some kingdoms. There are some commonalities with the cultures of certain indigenous tribes in the New World. The scholar who discovered these commonalities not only marked his discoveries, but also seemed to intend to conduct special research, but those research contents were not written in the In the books, there are their exclusive research notes. As for those notes, they will naturally not be placed in the library, they will only be kept close to them.

Leo also read those folklore books, but he was not interested in the marked folklore content of the Novat continent that was similar to the indigenous tribes of the New World. He was only interested in all the content in folklore that was suspected to involve gods .

He found that although this world does not have the concept of gods, it has recorded a lot of content related to extraordinary powers, and these extraordinary powers are more or less likely to involve gods.

For example, in a folklore book, it is recorded that there is a desert kingdom named Takli on the Novat continent. In this kingdom, there is a nomadic tribe mainly selling salt. This tribe walks in the desert all year round, but They never get lost, and according to what they say, the reason for not getting lost is that there will be a family of guides passed down from generation to generation among them. The guides selected by this family can enter a state of coma by drinking high-concentration salt water And in this state, they can see a road paved by light, as long as they walk along this road, they will not get lost in the desert.

If it’s just like this, it won’t have anything to do with the gods. What really has something to do with the gods is the passerby’s inheritance ceremony. The passerby family will regularly perform certain rituals for members of the right age in their family. Only those who have the talent of the passerby Only the most talented people can gain the ability to see the correct path in the desert during the ceremony, and the content of the ceremony is recorded in detail in the book, and Leo can easily see that the ceremony is actually a kind of divine descent ceremony , the only thing that is not clear is which god the ceremony is aimed at.

However, what is certain is that the targeted gods must be the gods of the Black Forest Department, otherwise, it would be impossible to give the ability to find the right path in the desert to some talented members of the Pathfinder family, which also made Leo think of Mumu and Paho.

Although Leo now has very little evidence, with the current discovery, he has every reason to believe that there may be not only three gods belonging to the Black Forest Department in this world, but many more, and even this world must still be hidden. There are many extraordinary people who have been blessed by the gods, even if their extraordinary power is not worth mentioning.

There are absolute restrictions on other gods and other types of extraordinary power, but they are lenient to the gods of the Black Forest Department. This kind of world law with specific targets makes Leo wonder whether this special world will be the Black Forest Department. The back gardens specially built by the gods for themselves.

While Leo was looking for traces of the existence of gods in this world, the erosion of the jungles of the New World by the outside pioneer group was also proceeding in an orderly manner. The preemptive action of the Bernando pioneer group was like the starting gun signal for some kind of competition. Other kingdoms Regardless of whether they were ready or not, the pioneering group of the colony pushed out the temporarily formed pioneering team and entered the jungle to mark the land and delimit the scope of their kingdom colony.

A few years ago, more than a dozen coastal kingdoms fought fiercely because of the colonies. Although the war did not spread to the Novat continent, it seriously affected the development of the colonies in the New World. As the war subsided, all the coastal kingdoms An agreement was signed on the planning of the colony. This agreement clearly stated the ownership of those undeveloped new colonies. Apart from those complicated and dizzying agreement terms, the only core of the entire agreement was first-served first-served.

Therefore, when Bernando's pioneering team set off, the kingdoms and colonies that received the news would be so eager to form a pioneering team, and when they were not fully formed, especially when the logistics materials were not prepared, they would send the pioneering team They pushed out and forcibly carved out a so-called colonial settlement in the area they wanted. Most of these pioneering groups that were forcibly withdrawn did not have any good results, either they were attacked by jungle creatures, or they were not acclimatized. As a result, no matter what kind of illness, they don't have enough medical supplies for treatment, so they can only rely on their bodies to carry it. If they fail to carry it, they will die. Therefore, since the pioneering groups of various countries were forcibly pushed out, in just half a month, the first The first wave of pioneers was almost dead.

However, for the governors of the colonies of the various kingdoms, death is nothing, because they have achieved the purpose of delineating the colonies, and in the past half a month, they have re-established a well-equipped and well-equipped logistics team. The new pioneering group, and this pioneering group is their main force.

However, what these colonial governors didn't know was that the pioneering groups they sent before had too many people died of accidental deaths and illnesses, and there were very few people who survived. The dead bodies were not properly disposed of. They were buried nearby, and some were even thrown directly into the nearby jungle, allowing nature to deal with these corpses. The Paho tribe seemed to have seized this opportunity and tampered with these corpses, making them a source of plague. The colonial plague is spreading silently among the colonies.

The Nature Association also noticed this, but they didn't discover it by their own ability, but discovered it after Leo reminded them.

At that time, the director of the Natural Society in the camp of the Bernando Pioneering Group came to the library to see if there were books on herbal medicine, because some people in the camp had already fallen ill, but now all the scholars and doctors who know herbal medicine They have all been dispatched to the pioneering group ahead, and now there is no doctor who knows how to treat various diseases in the camp, so they want to turn to books for help.

Leo didn't pay attention to this matter at the time, but when the supervisor was talking with a sick colleague, he noticed something was wrong from the content of their conversation, and then briefly checked the condition of the member of the Nature Association, and confirmed The member of the Natural Society should have suffered from a highly contagious dysentery, so he reminded the director of the Natural Society slightly.

Although Leo didn't care whether the pioneers were alive or dead, he didn't want to affect the exploration of the entrance to the underground world because of certain epidemic diseases.

The director of the Nature Association didn't pay attention to Leo's words at first, because Leo's reminder didn't make it clear, but just mentioned something cryptically, but as the number of sick people in the pioneer camp increased, the director of the Nature Association immediately realized The seriousness of the situation, so while reporting the situation to the higher level of the Nature Association, they also started self-rescue in the pioneer camp.

Although there are conflicts between the Natural Society and Matouwan, their hatred and conflicts are nothing in the face of disasters like the plague. Perhaps because of their trust in scholars, Matouwan is doing their best to Cooperating with the arrangement of the Nature Association, they even handed over the command of some soldiers to the Nature Association. It has to be said that because of the plague problem, the camp of the Pioneering Group, which often had conflicts, became much more peaceful.

Because the Bernando pioneering group did not push people into the jungle without any preparation like the pioneering groups of other kingdoms, so the casualties encountered during the pioneering process here were not many, and every pioneering group that died The corpses of the members have been properly disposed of, and the Paho people have not been given an opportunity. The dysentery that is now spreading in the camp of the Pioneering Group is completely passed on by the Natural Society from other colonies.

Therefore, when the Nature Society quarantined the sick and stopped sending people from other colonies, the plague here quickly subsided.

However, the quelling of the plague is only temporary. When the plague is rampant in other colonies, it is impossible for the camp of the Bernando Pioneering Group and even Matou Bay to survive alone, because they have a lot of supplies that need to be transported from other colonies. This kind of contact caused the plague in those colonies to continue to spread here. Although the Natural Society has tried its best to control it, those who should be sick are still sick, and those who should die are still dead. The thick smoke of burning corpses is always floating in the air. Everyone felt inexplicably disgusted, and the morale in the camp fell to the bottom.

However, when the carriage full of gold funerary objects was sent back to the camp from the pioneering group in front, the morale that had fallen due to death rose back up again through the stimulation of money.