The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

On the fifth day after Barak proposed to climb the Dibia Mountains, there was still heavy snowfall in the sky. A mountaineering team composed of more than 700 refugees and more than 100 hunters came out of the remote mountain village in mighty form. Go deeper into the mountains.

Originally, Barack planned to set off immediately on the second day and cross the mountains, but what happened was that a snowstorm suddenly fell on the mountains, and it lasted for four days, so the plan had to be postponed.

During the past four days, the number of refugees who went to the Orion Village in the deep mountains due to various reasons has increased by more than 300 people. Such a large number of people has exceeded the limit of the surrounding villages, and has also affected the peace and safety of the village. There have been more than a dozen disputes in the past few days, and if it continues, more serious armed conflicts will inevitably break out between the refugees and the hunters in the village.

If it was in the past, Barak would not be afraid of armed conflicts with these refugees, because the vast majority of these refugees were ordinary people, and they were not opponents of the hunters in the mountains at all. But most of the 300 people who suddenly poured into the village in the past few days are strong and strong men with Kong Wu. Judging from their expressions and the weapons they wear, they must be gangsters with blood on their hands , once a conflict occurs, even if it finally wins due to changes in geographical location, I am afraid it will be a miserable victory.

However, these are not what Barak is worried about. What really worries Barak is the great plague in the city of Miria that the population who has taken refuge in the mountains these days said.

Through the information provided by the asylum seekers, Barak knew that the plague was first caused by the army of the French Empire. In just a few days, it quickly spread to various refugee camps in Miria City. Although it has not yet spread to Dibi Sub-mountain region, but according to the spread speed of the plague, it will spread to this area sooner or later.

Feeling that the crisis was approaching, Barak decided not to wait for the blizzard to stop completely. After discovering that the blizzard had begun to weaken, he decided to leave the village with people, cross to the opposite side of the mountain, find a suitable settlement there, and then return to the village. Everyone in the village took it over to avoid this great plague.

Although it is extremely difficult for the refugees who have lived in the city for many years to cross the mountains in the wind and snow, no one offered to stay. Packed up the luggage, waiting to go.

If there was no plague, in the face of such a snowstorm, some people might choose to stay because they were worried about the dangers of mountain climbing. But when the news of the great plague in Miria City spread among the crowd, the horror event that was almost legendary immediately came to everyone's minds, causing everyone to fall into an unprecedented panic. Now that they have the opportunity to leave this place of death, for these terrified people, even if they encounter unimaginable dangers on the way out, it is much better than staying here and waiting to die.

However, among these asylum seekers, at least a hundred people fled to the mountain village because it was the last day or two. The tools and materials needed to cross the mountains were not well prepared, especially the items for keeping out the cold. Before they came here, they had already been allocated by other asylum seekers. As a result, these more than a hundred people have insufficient insulation and cold protection items. Most of them can only buy a few pieces of finished animal skins from some hunters at a high price, and weave them into a coat casually, so as to resist the outside world. The cold of the wind and snow.

However, the clothing of several of these asylum seekers is very prominent. They did not wear that kind of animal skin clothing to keep out the cold, but always wore unfashionable city clothing. I didn't wear the snowshoes on the ground, so I walked slowly behind the big team.

At the beginning, some people paid attention to these strange people who seemed to be looking for their own death, but as they moved away from the village road and entered the deep mountains, everyone no longer dared to be distracted by other things, but concentrated on paying attention to their feet Because just now a few unlucky people who didn't pay attention to the road under their feet rolled directly up the mountain and fell under a small cliff. They didn't need to check to know that they couldn't survive.

It's just that, compared to the others, the weirdos who walked at the end looked at each other with interest, and their attitudes were more of mutual defense.

Leo was among these weirdos, but compared to those weirdos who wore stiff suits as if attending a funeral, his old windbreaker dressed as a scavenger looked much more normal.

As early as two days ago, Leo had already arrived at the village where Barak was. Originally, he did not plan to walk the secret path through the mountains that Barak's ancestors found with these refugees. Instead, he planned to cross Dibia alone. Mountains, after all, for him, even without spiritual power, it is not difficult to cross the Dibia Mountains.

But what made him change his mind was the monsters in uniforms that he was looking at now, because when these weirdos in costumes appeared, he felt a strong divine power and spiritual energy covering the entire village and all the people in the village. people.

When the psychic power disappeared, under his spiritual vision, all the people in the village, whether they were refugees or residents of the village, most of them completely changed their appearance, turning into a Living corpses with various fatal injuries.

At the same time, the images of these monsters in uniforms also completely changed in the spirit vision. The originally clear facial features became blurred, like melted oil paintings, and their hands and feet became several times longer. Humanoid spider.

At the same time that Leo discovered the abnormality of these people, those people also discovered the abnormality of Leo. Although they were a little surprised that the divine power and spiritual energy that fell on Leo's body were dispelled, they didn't pay too much attention to it. He didn't show strong hostility towards Leo, but just regarded Leo as an accident worthy of vigilance.

The obvious features of these strange people under the spiritual vision made Leo quickly think of a legendary existence of a web spinner.

Death belief has always existed in the world of Velen, but it has never developed into a very formal religion. Most of them only exist as a folk belief in cities and villages around the world. The gods of death they believe in are different. For example, in the primeval forest of the Mosang continent, many tribes regard the giant pythons and crocodiles that live there as the incarnation of the god of death. For example, some villages in the Kingdom of England believe in a giant stone. It is said that this boulder fell from the sky one day and took away countless gods.

However, no matter how different the beliefs of the god of death in different parts of the world are, they are all the same as the servants who help the god of death harvest life. They have a common name, the Weaver of the Web.

Whether the Weaver of the Web really exists has always been a question, and even the Orthodox Church, who knows most about the families of various gods, cannot fully confirm it, but all those who claim to have seen the Weaver of the Web use the same image without exception. Describe web spinners, ridiculously long limbs, spider-like form, etc.

In all the legends about the Weavers, their appearance represents the coming of death, so there are some legends that as long as the Weavers can be imprisoned, death can be avoided.

Leo didn't fully believe in those legends, but now after seeing these monsters in dresses who were suspected of web weavers, Leo felt that the statement that the appearance of web weavers would bring death might be true, and this In other words, these refugees and the residents of those villages will die.

Although Leo is not that kind of bad person, but with the change of heart, he was also affected by the original kindness of the body. If he has the ability to rescue those who are about to die without endangering his own safety, he may also help them.

But now, although so many people may die in front of his eyes, he can do nothing but be an observer on the sidelines, because those web weavers are very mysterious in his eyes, and he instinctively These web weavers felt a strong danger.

Except for the huge divine power and spiritual energy that fell from the sky and covered the mountains and forests for more than ten miles at the beginning, Leo had never felt any kind of spiritual energy from these people, and his spiritual network could not even feel it. Seeing the existence of these web weavers, it seems that these web weavers are the air.

In this way, Leo and these weirdoes in suits who were suspected of being web weavers followed the entire mountain-climbing team. It took almost two hours to climb over the high mountain where the Orion village is located. After climbing the high mountain, it was A valley full of gravel. Judging from the surrounding terrain, the gravel in the valley should come from the surrounding mountains.

However, at the moment he entered the gravel valley, Leo felt a slight vibration on the ground. This vibration was so weak that normal people couldn't feel it at all, but Leo, who was always focused, noticed it immediately when the vibration appeared, and even found that the vibration came from the mountain behind him that he turned over before through the trend of the vibration wave.

"Avalanche!" Leo looked back. Although there was nothing unusual about the snow on the mountain peak in his eyes, he could see layers of flying snow on the opposite side of the mountain through the farsightedness effect of his spiritual vision skill. It surged into the sky like a sea wave, and this situation quickly reminded him of a natural disaster such as an avalanche.

Moreover, the scale of the avalanche is likely to be very large, affecting all the slopes of the opposite mountain. In this way, the snow accumulated in the avalanche is likely to be pushed to the hunter villages on the mountainside, and the people living in those villages will be affected by this natural disaster. I'm afraid it's hard to survive.

Almost at the same time that Leo judged that a huge avalanche disaster had occurred on the other side of the mountain, the divine power and spiritual energy he felt before emerged from those web weavers again, making Leo couldn't help but look at those people. looked over.

In the spiritual vision, not only did the bodies of those web spinners change this time, but even strands of spider webs that could be seen by the spiritual vision sprang up from their bodies, and these spider webs stretched out without exception. Under the ground, it was pulled out as if fishing, and the other end of the spider silk dragged a vague figure, and along with the spider thread, it sank into the black hole on the back of the web spinner that even spirit vision couldn't see through. middle.

Leo didn't hide his observation behavior. Those web weavers easily discovered Leo's actions. At the same time, their faces were a little surprised, but they didn't show repulsion or hostility either. One of the oldest web weavers walked towards Leo after taking back all the nets, followed by taking out a black glass ball-shaped object from his pocket under Leo's slightly surprised gaze and handed it to Leo. At the same time, with the other hand, he leaned his finger against his lips and made a silent gesture.

Leo looked at the black glass ball handed over by the web weaver, and then at the expressionless web weaver. He knew very well that his decision represented the danger he might encounter next, as well as the danger he would encounter in the future. During the journey, the relationship between these web weavers and his friends and enemies.

Facing the choice, Leo just thought about it, and took the black glass ball in the hand of the Weaver, and the other party was obviously very satisfied with Leo's choice, and there was a smile on his face, but this This kind of smile looked extraordinarily ferocious under the reflection of his mouth full of sharp teeth.

Although Leo had reached an agreement with these mysterious web weavers of unknown strength and would not interfere in the deaths of these people, he did not leave just because of this, but continued to stay beside these web weavers through spiritual vision and Spirit Net observes their situation.

As for those web weavers, it seems that as long as Leo does not interfere with their work of collecting the souls of the dead, they will not care about the other party's observation behavior. Because they knew very well that Leo couldn't find anything from them.

"There is no divine power and spiritual power, no trace of evolution, just like ordinary people..." Leo quickly made an analysis after receiving various feedback information from the spirit network, and the more data obtained from the analysis, the more Make him wonder.

He can clearly feel the soul-replenishing net formed by divine power and spiritual energy, and he can also clearly see the black shadows that should be souls disappearing into the black hole on his back, but he has a feeling that everything he sees is an illusion The only reality is the black glass ball handed to him by the weaver of the web just now.

Through the touch of the skin of his fingers, Leo could easily tell that it was a glass ball, and the spirit net could also analyze the composition of the glass ball, but the psionic perception that had been integrated into his spiritual instinct felt that it was a glass ball. A bug egg, or more correctly a spider egg.

Leo held the glass ball in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, then pinched it vigorously, felt its hardness, and found nothing unusual in it. After that, he tried to inject psionic energy into the glass ball again, but there was also no change.

Until, when Leo began to use the power of nightmares and began to imitate the divine power he felt, the blackness on the surface of the glass ball began to fade rapidly, and a black spider appeared in the glass ball, and then the glass ball shattered instantly, and the spider It fell on the palm of Leo's right hand, and penetrated into the twin gloves before Leo could react. When Leo took off the gloves, he found that the black spider had integrated into the back of his right hand, turning into a tattoo-like pattern, and at this moment the vision in his eyes also changed.