The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It's the same, what are they avoiding?" Leo looked at the empty town in front of him, and doubts arose in his heart again.

The underground town in front of me is already the four underground cities discovered by Leo through the artificially dug underground passages, and it is also the fourth empty underground town. It is not appropriate to call it a town, and it is more appropriate to describe it as a city.

At present, the area of ​​this city is roughly estimated to be more than ten times the sum of the towns that Leo walked through before. From the perspective of urban layout, the entire city has experienced at least seventeen expansions. The crypt where the city is located It may have been a natural crypt at first, but now it has been excavated manually, and the dome of the crypt should also be reinforced with a support frame structure with extremely high-tech content, and it is coordinated with the surrounding buildings arranged throughout the city. Thirty-one columns, so that this man-made cave did not collapse due to structural problems.

The difference from the previous towns is that the temple in this city was built in the very center of the city. It was built in the form of a pyramid, with the main body of the temple at the top, and the roof of the temple was only a line away from the dome. , I almost touched it, and the foundation part of the pyramid below is hollowed out. It looks like it should be a room, and it is guessed that it is for the priests of the temple to live.

Such a large city is roughly estimated to have at least a few hundred thousand residents, but at this moment it is empty without a single person, which is really abnormal.

If the previous underground town was too close to the ground, and they knew about the indigenous tribes and colonists on the ground from outside Yagulin, so they were worried about the invasion of the ground, so they gave up the town and went deeper into the ground, it is very bad understanding, after all Judging from the layout of these above-ground towns seen later, whether there are any fortifications, once an experienced army invades, it will be difficult for the residents of these towns to resist.

But the huge aboveground city is the same, with a population of at most hundreds of thousands. Under the ground, whether it is a colonial settlement or an indigenous tribe, there is no living area that can reach tens of thousands. It has a population of 10,000, and it is on the ground, the passages are spacious, which is good for traveling, and it is difficult to supply the front line. Sending an army of 2-8,000 people from the ground to invade there is the limit. As for tens of thousands, it is basically Possibly, so there is no need for the residents of such an above-ground city to escape.

So before seeing the exaggeratedly large aboveground city, the thoughts that came to Leo's mind were not the shepherds living outside the city, and even the people in these aboveground towns and Yagulin, who left the place where we lived Local people even prefer to use their own people to perform some kind of sacrifice, but they also have to migrate with the whole family. It is extremely unlikely that it has nothing to do with the plan of the Paho people. Everything is just a coincidence. We did it for another reason. Such an abnormal thing happened.

In the next few towns, Leo has not gone back and explored. The only thing that is worth paying attention to is not whether the residents of all the above-ground towns left the temples on the ground and under the altar. The little snake in the abyss was taken away by the snake belt, just like Yagulin did not take away the corpse of the young snake banned by the crystal of divine power.

It is certain that whether Yagulin took away the body of the young snake may be because the XZ is at the bottom of the statue of the little snake in the abyss. The fetish is placed under the altar of the temple. People in those towns may ignore that thing when they leave, so the only thing that cannot be explained is that there is no one. It is not the snake skin or the god. It may even become something that we spurn, not to mention that the snake skin in the temple is the reason why those shepherds left the place where the teenagers lived.

It is recorded under the lowest layer of slate books that the little dark snake helped our ancestors get rid of the pursuit of the enemy, helped us pass through the safe world above the ground, and came to that dangerous place to recuperate and recuperate. Surviving there has given us the blood of the gods and made us the children of the gods. It is suspected that the so-called dark snake is not the abyss snake of the white forest system.

As for that spiritual experience, does it have anything to do with the abyss snake worshiped by the shepherds? Leo temporarily denies it, because since I devoured the pure power of the abyss from the abyss snake, my sensitivity to the power of the abyss has been several times weaker than before, and as I found it before Similar snake skins were found one after another in several aboveground towns, and before the power of the abyss was swallowed, the induction was doubled, and I didn't sense any abyss breath under this spiritual body. On the contrary, it feels like a divine power.

As a result, Leo started a series of explorations on the city in front of his eyes. The exploration process was very sloppy, and he used the white deer divine power recovered during that time to create the white deer mark, so that he could not use the spirit net smoothly. Scan every detail of the city over and over again.

I also know whether it is because of the influence of the so-called gods that may exist on the top of the temple, or because the suppression of the world's laws has weakened the scanning ability of the spiritual net. The stone books, in my mental network, the symbols on these carvings are very vague and cannot be recognized.

It can be seen from this that the soldiers outside the barracks should know that before we leave, it is possible to come back in a short time, otherwise they will use that method to preserve those weapons.

The reason why we stop praying all day is that the little snake is not dead yet, and we want to resurrect the dark little snake through prayer.

Then, in the pyramid library, I slowly flipped through these slate books full of symbols, because I knew for the first time that the language and characters of the Mumu people were all derived from the Gamori language, so even if I Knowing the meaning of those words, it is still impossible to analyze the small meanings of some words with the basic roots of Gamore language through the language structure of Gamore language, and then infer the meaning of other words through those words reversely, Gradually interpret the words under those stone slabs.

Because I haven't mastered the language of the shepherds, Leo's reading speed has slowed down a lot before. When I was only one year old, I came to the library on the top floor and finished reading the last stone book. I also understand what these unemployed people in the above-ground city are doing every day.

With doubts in his heart, Leo retreated into the aboveground city, perhaps because it hadn't been vacant for a long time, and the insects that lived on the ground ended up making their homes in the city, and some moss and other plants It also appeared on the streets and under the walls of the city. It is estimated that in a short time, the entire above-ground city will completely change its owner.

Except for the military camp, there is no library in that city on the ground. The library is not a huge pyramid building above the temple, but the books outside the library are not ordinary. They are not only paper books, but also some kind of leather books. It's pieces of soft stone slabs.

Although, like the buildings in the above-ground towns, there are no patterns or symbols on the outside of the buildings that can be studied, but there are two less ordinary buildings in that city than other cities on the ground, and one is not outside the city. A small area was excavated on the ground, and this area was a military camp. Through the spiritual network, it was impossible to find a small amount of weapons left outside the military camp. Those weapons were not placed under the weapon rack, but soaked in a out of an oil drum and save it.

However, at the moment when the spirit net was retracted, Leo suddenly felt something strange, as if some kind of extremely inferior spirit body was trying to take the opportunity to retreat into Leo's spiritual consciousness along with the spirit net, but it seemed I overestimated Leo's mental weakness, and before I had time to contact Leo, he hadn't been dispelled by the psychic resonance that comes with the spirit net. It is very powerful, and it is certain that Yanghui has focused on the matter of the mental network scanning the city, and it may be difficult to detect that little normal fluctuation.

Leo didn't think it was his own illusion, so I also became a little wary of that aboveground city. Obviously, the spirit body should be regarded as a part of the extraordinary power, and the spirit body existing in such an ordinary world is special no matter how you look at it. character of.

Leo was not too surprised by the appearance of a sensor light device with no technological style, because in a town after that, I haven't found any traces of technological devices. Obviously, those shepherds should I have mastered some technological devices, and the technological content of the induction lamp is not low, and the old earth era has not yet appeared, so even though it was scanned by the spiritual network just now, I did not pay any attention to it.

It's just that the military camp is also a city facility that makes Leo feel strange, because judging from the small size of the military camp, the permanent army outside there is no less than seven or seven thousand people at most.

Although it was the same for Leo with or without the sensor light, my eyes can't see clearly with or without any light, but without the sensor light, it still makes me feel more comfortable.

Along the stone steps, climbed down the first floor of the pyramid, Yanghui retreated to the outside, at the moment of retreating, the induction device placed outside was activated, and then the induction lights on the front top were lit up , so that the pyramid full of ancient atmosphere lacks a strong technological style.

For the time being, Yanghui is still very sure about his deduction, but I suspect that there should be fewer clues to be found in the huge city in front of him.

Prayer is not an important thing that the shepherds outside the city do every day, and can stop except for rest, and the object of our prayer is a god called the dark snake.

The books in the library on the first floor are of little value to Leo, because those slate books are all reference books on domestication of some ground creatures and breeding of various edible mosses and mushrooms. The first harvest in the reference book is to know that the city has built more than a hundred small and large farms around the city. After that, these above-ground towns are actually rebuilt from an abandoned farm, and the food produced by those farms is Used to supply the daily needs of residents in the city.

In addition, it is the same as other above-ground towns, but the houses outside are of the same style, with the temple in the center of the city as the origin, and spread to the surrounding areas. Basically, every time the city expands to form a new urban area, the buildings built It will be exactly the same, that's why Leo can immediately judge whether the city has been expanded many times before seeing the above-ground city.

The closer the urban area is to the temple, the less obvious the Velen features are in the architectural style. For example, the buildings in the urban area closest to the temple lose the obvious ancient aboriginal tribal style, highlighting a rough, and The more it expands inward, the more rigorous and simple the architectural style becomes. The architectural style of the first circle of urban areas is no different from other aboveground towns. They are all so single and featureless.

You know, when Leo scanned the city through the spiritual network just now, all the houses scanned were residential houses. Is there a workshop? There are only so few job opportunities that the above ground city can provide, and the rest of the people can only do things, which is obviously a state that should not exist in an abnormal society, unless other people do not have other similar jobs every day to be done.

However, what makes Leo feel puzzled is that the farm may be able to provide some jobs to the city residents, but the number of jobs provided should be very small, only a few thousand people at the end, so what do the remaining residents do every day? ?

Just like other aboveground towns, the outsiders cleaned up their residences very clean when they left, and even the streets in the city were clean. Judging from the clothes and other daily items left behind, that People outside did not think about leaving for too long when they left, but there was no food stored in all the houses, and it did not mean that when we left, we took all the food outside the city.

The doubts in Yanghui's heart didn't increase because of reading the books of Yanghui Meiren, on the contrary, they became less. I continued to walk towards the lower library.

About eight hours ago, Leo hadn't fully mastered the shepherd's language, and had read all the books in the library on the first floor.

If it is certain that the city is underground, Leo can understand why there is a need for such a small army, but it is an aboveground city. Judging from whether there are any fortifications around the city and whether there are any protective measures inside the city, it is obvious that the outside is What safe enemy exists, and why was the military camp built without thousands of troops? Or why build such a barracks without a standing army?

Since he had to go to the temple, did Leo stop being entangled in the fact that the spiritual net could not scan the slate symbols, just ignore that matter for the time being, and then continue to scan the city, and also scan The above-ground passages around the city stopped scanning and retracted the spirit net until they found the passage that the shepherds had left.