The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The first ray of sunlight in the morning came from a distance, and the light passed through the snow walls around the camp and shone on a small flagpole in the center of the camp. A soldier standing under the flagpole took off the horn on his waist and blew it , The people in the tent came out one after another as if they had received a certain signal, and gathered in the camp.

Some people in religious attire held lit lanterns in their hands, walked back and forth among the crowd, chanting scriptures while shaking, while others lowered their heads, covered their faces with their hands, and followed the others piously. Read scriptures.

Although the cold wind in the early morning was biting, no one in the camp did anything inconsistent with the current situation. No matter what the true thoughts of these people were, at least on the surface they were very religious.

The ceremony ended after about half an hour. After the end, the people quickly took the cups, gathered at the boiling water place, poured a cup of boiling water for themselves, and covered the cup with their hands to make themselves slightly warmer. Thinking that the boiling water was too hot, I simply grabbed a handful of snow from the ground, put it in a cup, and drank the hot water that was already at a moderate temperature.

The soldiers stationed at the camp did not rest, but walked out of the camp one after another, and walked towards the ferocious beasts that they killed yesterday. The cold weather made these corpses hard and hard to deal with on the spot. They could only take these beasts The corpse was carried back to the camp, and then placed on a large sled specially designed to transport supplies. It seemed that it should be transported back to the city for disposal.

The scavengers in the camp all showed envious eyes, and they couldn't take their eyes off the dead beasts. Although they could eat in the camp, they had very little meat, unless it was their own prey. People haven't eaten meat for years.

However, envy is envy, but they dare not enter the snowfield to hunt rashly, because in the snowfield, the wild beasts are the masters, and they are just outsiders. The danger is not much different with or without weapons.

Soon the soldiers in the camp had already loaded all the items on the sleds, and put the sleds on a long-haired rhino, and then arranged them neatly at the exit on the side of the camp. At the same place, a team of thirty soldiers in full armor rode horses and stood by the convoy.

Some scavengers in the camp who planned to leave the camp also packed up their belongings, and those who were related or willing to pay got on the sleigh pulling the goods, while the rest gathered behind the convoy.

Not long after, as the gate of the camp opened, the team began to slowly drive out of the camp, perhaps to take care of the scavengers following behind, or maybe the kind of long-haired rhinoceros itself can't walk fast in the snow, the speed of the team's progress It was a bit slow, and the scavengers who followed behind could barely keep up.

Leo did not follow the outside alone, but just after the team left the camp, he mixed into the team and used psionic skills to make people around feel that they had seen Leo before and would not suddenly appear to them A well-dressed man was surprised.

Although everything in front of us is a flat snow field, the team did not move straight in one direction when walking, but turned around after reaching some set landmarks, and circled a It was a long way, and none of the people in the team expressed dissatisfaction. Obviously, they knew very well what was going on in the detour. .

In this way, the whole team walked in the endless snow for about three or four hours. Although the scavengers behind the team were very tired, they didn't complain about anything. They followed the team with their heads down and their teeth gritted.

At this time, the front of the snow field was no longer a flat snow field, and a line of pine green shadows appeared on the ground line. Some people passed on the information, and all the scavengers who heard the sound of the horn showed smiles on their faces, and their tired expressions also weakened a lot.

The team continued to walk for a while, and the pine green shadow in front became more and more obvious. It was a forest with tall pine trees. Even though it was in this ice and snow world, the pine needles and leaves of the forest were still green, just like the pine trees in spring.

As the team approached the forest, they saw a group of men and horses rushing out of the forest and rushing towards this team. Facing the team of men and horses that appeared from the forest, the soldiers in the team carefully took out their weapons, and The horses were moved to the sleds loaded with various goods, so that when there was a battle, the bunkers that could be used could be found in time.

At the same time, the soldiers at the end of the convoy also yelled a few words towards the scavenger team, and the people in the scavenger team also took out their weapons and stood on guard.

When the men and horses rushing out of the forest approached, the people in the convoy saw the flags raised in the hands of those people, and they breathed a sigh of relief, but they didn't relax. Then the team came to a stop more than ten meters ahead of the convoy. After getting down, a rider in full armor rode out and came to the team leader, and then lifted the mask on the helmet, revealing the appearance behind.

The team leader who saw the person coming clearly showed a smile on his face, put away his weapon, drove up to the person, greeted him cordially, and waved to the people behind him at the same time. Seeing this situation, the team leader The man also relaxed and put away his weapon.

The two talked for a while, then separated, and then the team that came out of the forest led the convoy into the forest.

Ordinary people feel a lot lighter after entering the forest, and some tired people also feel that their energy has recovered a lot. Although this is not the first time they have felt this way, they still feel extremely comfortable about it. Magical, and one by one bowed their heads and recited prayers praising the gods.

And Leo felt something strange after entering the forest, because he felt a force of nature in the forest, but this force of nature was not pure, it seemed to be mixed with other forces, but it was this impurity Only then can ordinary people also absorb this force of nature, and obtain some beneficial effects from the force of nature.

In addition, this forest is the same as the city center with giant vines, there are no animals or insects, only simple plants grow here.

Leo scanned through the mental network, and he determined that these plants are different from vines, not carnivorous plants, because these plants are not even plants, just some totem poles that look like plants, and there are no roots at the roots of these plants , all the plants are totem poles inserted on the ground, and the branches and leaves growing on the ground are camouflage created by the power of the totem poles. Once these branches and leaves are cut off, you can see the complete appearance of the totem pole.

The force of nature I felt before was produced by these totem poles. The power generated by these totem poles is very weak individually, but when the number increases, a totem pole force field is formed. The coverage of this force field It is the whole forest.

In addition, Leo was also surprised to find that these totem poles made him feel very familiar. Although it was the first time he saw the runes on the totem poles, the totem circle that made up the runes was created by Leo himself in Vanaheim. The totem pole circle, and the biggest function of this totem pole circle is to cooperate with Sylvia to refine the power of the law of chaos, war and other priesthood.

Right now, the totem pole system specially designed for Sylvia appeared here in another way, which made Leo more sure that Sylvia was in this world.

The team walked in the forest for more than an hour, and passed through three checkpoint-style military camps. Each military camp conducted an identity check. After the third military camp completed the inspection, they would hand over a similar ID card Paper, only those who wear a lantern badge do not need such a document.

After passing through these three military camps, Leo also found some unusual places, such as the badges and flags on the soldiers in the convoy were lantern patterns, while the flags and badges in the military camp were swords and shields. The badges on the chests of the registered civil servants are books, obviously belonging to three different systems, but they belong to the same church because they all use the same set of prayers.

This question was quickly answered as the convoy passed through the forest and came to New Rand surrounded by the totem pole forest.

I saw that the area of ​​this New Rand City is very large, even larger than that of the previous Rand City. Just as Rand City is divided into the city center and the suburbs, New Rand City is also divided into two parts. The suburbs are close to the forest, and the urban area surrounded by the central volcano is the city center. The two areas are separated by a ten-foot-high wall.

The entire New Rand City was built around the volcano, including the volcano, which is a part of the city. I can see that the surface of the volcano slope in the distance has been covered by stone houses, and the neat streets criss-cross. Divide the house into a piece of urban area, and on the top of the volcano is a temple. The temple is ring-shaped and should be built around the edge of the crater, and at the crater stands this giant statue with a height of 100 meters .

The size of this statue can be clearly seen even standing in the forest on the edge of the city. Anyone who sees that statue will involuntarily be in awe.

And that statue is also very strange. To be correct, it should not be a statue, but three back-to-back statues. The three statues are all women with hoods and veils on their faces. One of the statues Holding lanterns in their hands, one lantern emits thick smoke, one lantern burns with a green flame, another statue is holding a sword and shield, wearing armor, and the last statue is holding a book. The things he wore corresponded to the three previous badges.

Although the distance is far away, Leo can still see the details of the statue through his super vision. For example, the three statues all wear a ring on their hands, and the shape of the ring is exactly the same as Leo's wedding ring.

Undoubtedly, the gods represented by these three statues should be Sylvia. Judging from the number and shape of the statues, the three statues should represent the three powers in Sylvia's body. Needless to say, the sword and shield Now, it should be the power of the abyss dragon, the statue holding the book should be the power of the witch, and the lantern might be her original power of the god hunter.

Leo didn't know why the three powers in Sylvia's body were displayed in such a form, but he could be sure that Sylvia's power should be different from the power in his memory, which is very important. It's possible that something happened in his lost memory caused the change.

The houses at the foot of the volcanic mountain are blocked by the walls, and you can see that there are metal pipes drilled out of the mountain, stretching down the hillside, passing through the city below, passing through the city wall, and along the periphery Several main roads planned in the urban area extend all the way to the edge of the city near the Totem Forest, and then a circular pipe connects all the extended pipes.

From the hot gas constantly escaping from these pipes, it can be guessed that these pipes should be heating pipes, and the heat source used by these heating pipes is likely to be the lava of the volcano itself.

Although there is inexhaustible and inexhaustible heating, and heating pipes have been laid to the outer urban areas during the initial planning, not all people in this city can use these heating.

I saw that only part of the pipelines in the outer urban area had branch pipelines extending to some urban areas, and the houses in this urban area were also provided with heating, but most of the other houses did not have pipelines, and the people living there could only I can find ways to keep warm by myself.

However, fortunately, the surrounding totem forest blocked most of the cold outside, and the geothermal heat of the volcano itself penetrated the ground and dissipated a lot of chill, so that the temperature in the entire city of New Rand was not particularly cold, as long as you didn't seek death yourself. , basically don't have to worry about being frozen to death.

Compared with the neat and orderly houses built on the volcanic hillside, the houses in the outer urban area are very dilapidated. Although the city planning is very neat, each urban area is divided according to straight streets, but the buildings in the urban area are very different. The construction is very random, most of them directly use a combined steel frame, and then use the iron sheet that I don’t know where to find to lay the floor and walls. All houses are connected together with steel frames, usually one The urban area is a complete house, and how the rooms are arranged inside the house is difficult to see from the outside.

Although this world is a world in disaster, it does not mean that this world is backward. You can see some factory-like buildings in the inner city, and there should be a smelter in it. Otherwise, it would be impossible to have so many houses supporting the outer city. , In addition, trams can be seen on the street, which means that in addition to machinery factories, there are also power plants in those factories. All in all, the industrial level here is not low, and the only thing missing may be various available resources and sustainable planting food.