The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although Bernando, the Governor of Matouwan and the Nature Association have tried their best to cover up all the gold-related matters, but there are too many people who know a secret, and no matter how much it is covered up, it cannot prevent the secret from being leaked.

One month after Bernando's pioneering group was stationed in the Mumu tribe, rumors about the lake of gold began to spread among the colonies along the coast of the New World.

Fortunately, at this moment, all the colonies are devastated by the great plague, and they cannot be distracted from the matter of gold for the time being, but everyone knows that once the plague subsides, the colonies in the New World will inevitably gather to deal with Bernando. Let alone the pioneering group formed by Bernando himself, even if they join forces with Matouwan and the Nature Association, they may find it difficult to cope with the siege of so many countries, even the Lute Kingdom. They may also be unable to bear the pressure and attack them.

Although Matou Bay often does things against the Kingdom of Root’s decrees, they belong to the Kingdom of Root after all, and the people here are still the people of the Kingdom of Root. Once the Kingdom of Root attacks them, unless They rebelled against Jianguo, otherwise it would be impossible for them to rebel against the Kingdom of Root.

Because of this, there is not much time left for Matouwan, Bernando and the Natural Society, so they began to increase the input of manpower. Matouwan has sent two-thirds of the troops to transport gold , and the support from the Natural Society is similar, and it is precisely because of the increase in the number of people transporting gold sacrificial objects that Bernando can free up enough people to build colonial settlements and send teams to explore the entrance of the underground world.

Establishing a colonial settlement is not an easy task. In addition to the various procedures that need to be prepared in the process of forming a pioneering group, you must also have a pioneering order issued by the kingdom where you are located. Related colony construction is carried out in the area delineated above.

After clearing that colony, building settlement camps became the top priority. In the past, countless development plans for coastal kingdoms failed at this stage, because building colonial settlement camps is not just about building a few logs. A house is enough, but a good fortification must be established, and a regular road needs to be built to connect with other colonial settlements.

Not to mention how difficult it is to open a regular road in the depths of the jungle that allows horse-drawn carriages to run side by side, it is already very difficult to build a fortified settlement camp in the depths of the jungle. All kinds of attacks, this kind of attack is not just from the indigenous tribes, but more from the creatures of the jungle itself, especially those seemingly harmless plants.

There was once a pioneering group of tens of thousands of people who went deep into the jungle to develop colonial settlements. They repelled the invading enemies and built a fortified camp at the selected location with difficulty. As a result, they grew around the camp. A kind of plant that is harmless most of the time, this plant emits some pollen when it blooms, and these pollen are highly poisonous, a little bit of inhalation is enough to poison an adult, and in the end, tens of thousands of people will die. The pioneering group and the thousands of artisans who supported them died silently in the camp they built, and no one dared to collect the corpses so far.

It's just that Bernando has no problems with these difficulties in building colonial settlements. First of all, the construction of regular roads has been completed in just half a month. The reason why it was completed so quickly is entirely due to The temptation of gold is too great. Although this road only leads to the Golden Lake, the road from the Golden Lake to the location of the Mumu tribe has been repaired by the Mumu tribe in the past. Bernando only The road needs to be repaired a little bit.

As for colonial settlements with fortifications, there are ready-made settlements. The shepherd tribes that have been empty are the best colonial settlements. The villages built on the cliffs of canyons have a large number of houses and houses for people to live in. The cave, because of its dangerous location, is full of natural fortifications, and there is no need for additional construction at all.

In addition, one of the scholars who followed Bernando to the Mumu tribe was also a geologist. He found that there were several flat lands on the top of the mountains at both ends of the mountain stream and canyon, although those lands were only covered with a thin layer of The soil is very barren, but as long as the fertile soil in the jungle is transferred to these lands, and then one or two reservoirs for irrigation are built nearby, then these few pieces of land on the top of the mountain can grow a lot of food, and He also calculated that the food produced each time should be enough for 10,000 ordinary people to eat for several months, which made the food available, and also made the colonial settlement where Bernando dove occupied the magpie's nest fearless. Siege.

So Bernando created a miracle that he built the colonial settlement in only half a month, and half a month ago, he designated his development plan and results together with the development order The envoys sent back to the Kingdom of Root to apply to the king and the cabinet for the position of governor.

Under normal circumstances, there will be no problems with this kind of application. The king and the cabinet will quickly approve the application. By then, Bernando will be a real colonial governor, but now because of the variable of gold, he is not sure about the kingdom. Will someone covet the gold and play tricks on the appointment and dismissal of his governor.

So, shortly after sending the envoy, he returned to the camp and met with the heads of Matouwan and the Nature Association respectively, hoping to use the strength of these two parties to help him obtain the appointment and dismissal of the governorship as soon as possible.

In this regard, both Matouwan and the Nature Association expressed their willingness to help, not to mention the Nature Association, which has been cooperating happily. Although Matouwan had some small conflicts at the beginning, those conflicts are no longer a problem under the common interests. Well, rather than stuffing in a new governor who doesn't know the details, it is more in the interest of Matouwan to let Bernando, who knows everything, be the governor.

After efforts by several parties, Bernando's appointment and removal order for the governor was delivered to him more than a month after his development plan was officially implemented, and when he became the first official governor, he sent a survey team to delineate On the border of the colony, an exploration team was sent to explore the entrance of the underground world, and the person who led the exploration team was Joe.

Because of the information obtained by Leo from the golden sacrificial object as a location marker, the expedition team led by Joe found the entrance of the underground world after about half a month of exploration, but it was difficult to enter the underground world, because the underground world The entrance to the world is most likely in a cave at the bottom of a lake.

The reason why Joe's expedition found the entrance was also an extremely coincidental thing. Although they had arrived at the marked location ten days ago, they did not see the so-called entrance, but only saw a lake, so Joe I wonder if I have found the wrong place.

So they took the lake as the center and continued to search around, until one day at noon, a body suddenly came out from the center of the lake, and the clothes on this body looked like a shepherd.

Afterwards, Joe sent people to dive into the bottom of the lake to search, and found several corpses of shepherds. These corpses were all stuck on some rocks at the bottom of the lake. At the same time, they also saw a huge cave at the bottom of the lake, so Joe guessed that the underground The entrance to the world is in the cave.

Although the lake is not very deep, the cave is very deep, the inside is pitch black, and the bottom cannot be seen, and ordinary people cannot sneak into it, so Joe went back to the pioneer camp overnight, looking for usable diving equipment, and at the same time opened the entrance to the underground world. If you find the news, tell Leo.

After getting the news, Leo and Joe set off overnight and returned to the entrance of the underground world he discovered. The diving equipment will be prepared and delivered by the people from the Nature Association, which will probably take several days.

"This is not a lake." After Leo came to the lake that Joe and the others found, he said something that made everyone puzzled. Then, before everyone was puzzled and wanted to ask, he walked to the edge of the lake and pointed Pointing to the plants under the clear lake, he said, "Those plants are all terrestrial plants, not aquatic plants."

When everyone heard the words, they couldn't help looking at the underwater plants that Leo pointed out. Some of the scholars who had studied the plant species in the New World immediately recognized the types of these plants and agreed with Leo's statement.

"Why is this?" Someone asked in confusion.

Leo simply explained: "It should be that when the mums hid underground, they poured a lot of water into this area in some way, forming a lake, hiding the entrance, and blocking the way to the underground world." entrance."

"Mum tribe? Underground world?" After listening to Leo's words, the surrounding people became more puzzled and puzzled. Obviously they didn't know that the expedition team they belonged to was looking for the entrance of the underground world. Thinking that they were looking for the gold mines of the indigenous tribes, they didn't even know that the tribe where Bernardo occupied the magpie's nest was the shepherds.

Joe didn't expect that Leo would say these things publicly, and his face was a little ugly, and he immediately asked Leo loudly as if he was disturbing everyone's thinking: "There is no reservoir around, and there are no big lakes or rivers. How did it get flooded here?"

Leo pointed to the center of the lake, and said meaningfully: "Sometimes the water doesn't necessarily come from the surroundings, maybe it comes from the ground, and I don't know."

Joe said with a little surprise: "You mean the water in this lake gushes out from the entrance?"

Leo didn't respond, but turned to look at Joe, and said, "I'm going to take a step first. You wait for the diving equipment to come, and then follow. If there is a fork in the road below, I will leave some obvious marks. You just follow the signs and you'll be fine."

After finishing speaking, before Joe and the others had time to react, they saw Leo jumping directly into the lake, just like that, diving to the bottom of the water without showing his head.

Everyone was stunned when they saw this scene. After a long time, they didn't find Leo surfaced, so they couldn't help but turned to Joe and asked, "Who is he? Is he crazy? Is he trying to commit suicide?" ?”

Faced with a series of questions, Joe didn't know how to answer, but he was sure that Leo was definitely not committing suicide, and he was sure that Leo must have mastered some method to survive underwater for a long time.

As for the impact of jumping into the lake, Leo has never thought about it. Now his only idea is to go underground, see what the underground world is like, and find the abyss snake that the underground world believes in. Get as much useful information as possible from the Abyss Serpent.

After entering the water, Leo swam towards the water at an extremely fast speed. With his demigod body state, even without extraordinary power, he can breathe underwater through the pores without worrying about survival at all, and he The various exhaust gases from the body shot out through the pores formed a jet propeller, allowing him to swim in the water at a faster speed.

Soon he came to the center of the lake, the cave where the entrance to the underground world was discovered.

He didn't enter the cave in a hurry, but swam to the corpses of the shepherds who were stuck on the rock beside the cave.

As Joe said, these shepherds are indeed different from ordinary people. Not only are their physical fitness much higher than ordinary people, but they also have some tiny scales on their necks, chests, back necks, etc. Although these The shepherds should have been dead for a long time, but their corpses did not show many signs of decay. This is obviously related to their physical fitness. Their extraordinary physical fitness gave them great strength and also helped them survive After death, the original appearance of the corpse can be preserved for a longer period of time.

These shepherds were not drowned as Joe guessed. Judging from the wounds that Leo could find, they should have been attacked by some kind of underground beast, and this beast not only had sharp claws and teeth , and the claws and teeth were poisoned, so they were all poisoned to death.

"Those shepherds have been attacked?" After discovering these clues, Leo couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

And this guess still brought a little confusion to Leo, because it is reasonable to say that the shepherds returning to the underground world should be regarded as returning to their hometown, and they should have walked through this passage leading to the underground world many times, so The possible dangers in this passage should have been eliminated long ago, but why were the shepherds attacked, and the attackers caused casualties?

Leo guessed in his heart: "Unless the shepherds and the towns of the underground world fall out and have not entered the underground world for a long time, this passage will be abandoned, and eventually the creatures of the underground world will occupy this area again."

While guessing about the situation of the underground cave in his mind, Leo dived into the cave. After passing a distance of about four or five hundred meters, he quickly dived to the bottom of the cave, and the scene at the bottom of the cave let him see When they arrived, they couldn't help frowning, because the bottom of the cave was already filled with a large number of corpses, and these corpses were all dressed in Mumu tribe without exception.