The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When he discovered that family's unusual psychic reaction, Leo unconsciously wondered whether this family was the reason why these family members were spying on the fleeing team, so when he was strengthening the witchcraft on this family just now, Also pay special attention to the reaction of the web spinner.

Although the Web Weaver was still as dissatisfied with Leo's casting of spells on these refugees as yesterday, there was no other abnormal reaction, and it seemed that he had acquiesced in Leo's inappropriate behavior.

Leo, who failed to discover the abnormality, couldn't help asking the web weaver: "Is there anything special about these people? Why are they being targeted by the family? Why are you web weavers so nervous about these people, and you don't hesitate to come down and follow them all the way?" ?”

Although Leo asked these questions to the web weaver, he didn't expect to get answers from the web weaver at all, he was asking himself more.

However, what was surprising was that the oldest web spinner said: "Contract... contract..."

"Contract?" Leo couldn't help being stunned when he heard this word, because the word was not in French, but in Gugamore.

In French and the languages ​​of various countries in the world today, the word contract mostly refers to commercial agreements made between human beings, while in the ancient Gamore language, contract has only one meaning, which is the agreement between human beings and gods. A covenant, and this covenant usually refers to a sacrificial covenant.

When the old man Rembrandt taught Leogamore, he explained the word contract for more than an hour, and the content of the explanation was enough to make up an explanation book.

In the age of gods, offering sacrifices was a very serious matter, and one could not directly offer sacrifices to a god just by believing in a certain god. Before offering sacrifices, human beings must first make a contract with the gods or their families, so that the gods will accept the sacrifices, otherwise, even the most devout believers making such sacrifices without a contract are just a kind of blasphemy the behavior of.

It's just that with the end of the age of gods, there are fewer and fewer things about gods appearing in the world, and the formal sacrificial ceremony is gradually lost. With the continuous improvement of religious regulations, legal codes and church structures, bloody sacrifices are regarded as cult rituals and abolished. Normal sacrifice is more of a formal ceremony, which eventually makes the sacrifice contract completely disappear from religion.

Among the various religions of the Orthodox Church, whether it is the Church of the Lord of the Sky and the Church of the King of the Hill that can still receive the response of the gods, or those small churches that have not received any response from the gods, there is no need to make a sacrifice contract. Any believer or non-believer can perform sacrifices sanctioned by the Orthodox Church without the presence of any church members.

Now that the Weaver of the Web is bringing up this ancient ritual that has been used in the world of Velen again, Leo doesn't think it's just a casual remark, but more likely represents some kind of sign, such as the return of the age of gods, because the sacrificial contract can be said to be the age of gods One of the most notable signs.

Reminiscent of the question he raised, Leo couldn't help connecting the sacrificial contract with these things in his mind, and thought to himself: "Could it be that these people were used as sacrifices?"

But after making a guess, he shook his head slightly and said to himself: "No, it shouldn't be like this, it's not as simple as a sacrifice."

In the age of mythology, just as humans and gods had to sign a strict contract to perform sacrifices, the sacrifices for sacrifices also had very strict regulations, and it was not possible to just find something and put it on the altar to perform sacrifices.

For example, the fleeing team of more than 1,000 people does not meet the sacrifice standards of the age of mythology, so Leo feels that they may not be sacrifices, or not part of the sacrifices.

Compared with the valley with a wide view, the forest covered by dense giant redwoods gets dark faster. The refugees have just set up the camp and warmed up some food. Before the hunters have time to set off to clean up the dangerous beasts around the camp, The surroundings have been completely plunged into darkness, only the sky above the head is still glowing with a slight light.

Seeing this situation, the hunters knew that the hunting operations of the surrounding wild animals were cancelled, because they knew how dangerous the forest would be after nightfall. However, they did not do nothing. Under the command of these experienced hunters, the entire camp became active, reinforced the fence defense around the camp, and also lit a lot of bonfires to disperse wild animals. In many places, some traps that are not very deadly but can make a big enough noise have been set up.

At the same time, Leo did not sit still and think about the true meaning of the contract that the web weaver said. Although he tried to ask the web weaver for a more specific answer, the web weaver did not say a word. Words already contain everything they can answer.

After asking no results, Leo turned to prepare for possible battles in the future, such as making some alchemy potions.

In the Dibia Mountains, there are many plants that can be used as medicinal materials. Leo has collected a lot along the way, enough to make more than a dozen bottles of alchemy potions with different functions.

Among the potions made by Leo, apart from the most familiar healing potions, the most refined are two witcher potions that require the power of nightmares to successfully refine. One potion is called Pai Cui's elixir, and the other One potion is called cat.

The effect of the cat potion is very similar to that of a potion called dark vision in the wizard potion of Velen World. After drinking it, one can gain night vision ability.

Although Leo was able to ignore the darkness by using Spirit Vision and Spirit Net, once a fierce battle occurs, every ounce of spiritual energy in him is very precious, and may even determine life and death, so unnecessary spiritual energy can be reduced Consumption is very important.

However, I don't know if it's because of the extra effects of the power of nightmare, or because of the medicinal effects of the local herbs. In short, after the demon hunter's cat potion was refined in the world of Velen, it produced some unexpected effects. Mutations.

In addition to the fixed effect of night vision, the cat potion that originally only brought night vision has an additional effect similar to heat-sensing vision, but this heat-sensing vision is not aimed at body temperature, but at blood.

After refining a bottle of cat potion, Leo took the trial effect and found that not only could his eyes clearly see everything in the dark, but even those people in the dark were completely in his sight. Among them, but these people all appear in the form of network blood vessels.

Through the extraordinary vision endowed by the cat potion, Leo can clearly see every detail of the blood vessels of any living creature, he can clearly see the speed and direction of blood flow in the blood vessels, and even judge the mental activities of others at the moment through the constriction of the blood vessels.

In addition, when he tried the effect of the cat potion, he also had some unexpected gains, such as seeing some hidden monsters in the forest that even the spirit net hadn't found before, and he was very surprised by the large number.

When the fleeing team started camping on this small hill, Leo had already scanned the surroundings with the spirit net, found some hidden family members, and scared them away. Originally, he thought that the surroundings of the camp should be safe, but he didn't expect to see more than 50 monsters of different shapes in the surrounding forest after using the special vision given by the cat potion. The monster was less than three meters away from the camp, and a few people walked past it just now.

Judging from the shape of the blood vessel network, these monsters all have the shape of a beast, but they are different from different beasts in that they have some more organs than normal beasts, such as an extra pair of lower limbs, an extra head or eyeballs and more.

But apart from these beast-like monsters, there are also some monsters that have no normal shape at all. For example, the monster closest to the camp covers the ground like some kind of flat plant. It is suspended in the air, and a large number of root-like tentacles grow below, which can assist this weird figure to move quickly and smoothly on the ground.

This monster seems to be particularly sensitive to sight. When Leo's sight fell on it, it immediately noticed it. Its body was close to the ground and quickly moved towards the depths of the forest. When it moved, Leo also noticed it. It has another physical characteristic, split and recombine.

If it encounters an obstacle like a tree in front of the movement, it will not go around to the side, but at the moment when it is about to touch the trunk, its body will naturally split apart, passing by both sides of the trunk, and then on the other side. One side regroups completely ignoring the blocking of obstacles.

If Leo hadn't been able to clearly see the distribution of blood vessels on the monster's body, he might have mistaken the monster for a symbiosis composed of countless tiny individuals.

In addition to seeing some monsters that he had never seen before or seen in books, Leo also recognized a familiar figure from the obvious distribution of blood vessels on these monsters, and the appearance of this figure was also Let Leo have different associations and guesses about the meaning of the contract that the Weaver said.

The body of a black panther, the limbs made up of chicken feet, and the head of a parrot, such obvious physical characteristics, it is difficult for Leo to forget, not to mention that this is the first time Leo has seen him since he came to this world. It is a living mythical monster, and the impression of it is of course deep.

Mogandi is the name of this monster. It likes to eat the heart of prey and is good at invisibility. More importantly, this monster has disappeared from the outside world, and only a part of it survives in the Black Forest.

But right now, this kind of monster that only breathes in the Black Forest has appeared outside the Black Forest, and there are not one or two, but a dozen of them, and all of them are females.

In the books that Leo saw about these mythical monsters, some of Mogandi's living habits were recorded. It was mentioned that this monster is a female orc, usually polyandrous, females go out to hunt, and males They take care of their cubs in the nest, so the appearance of this group of Mogandi means that there are nearly a hundred Mogandi orcs.

If such a large group of ferocious Mogandi survived in the Dibia Mountains, especially in the mountains that are only two days away from the nearest village, then the surrounding hunter villages would have already been killed by these monsters. There are not any left, and the legend about the heart-eating monster may have spread in the Dibia Mountains.

But among all the rumors about the monsters inhabiting the Dibia Mountains, none of them involved Mogandi. It can be seen that these Mogandi did not exist in the Dibia Mountains before.

At this time, Leo also thought of the scene when he encountered Mo Gandi, and also thought of the Black Forest Wonderland, and he couldn't help but doubt in his heart: "Could it be that the subspace of the Black Forest Wonderland has spread to the Dibia Mountains?"

Almost at the same time that this conjecture appeared in his mind, Leo shook his head and denied this conjecture, because if the place they were in was really shrouded in a subspace like the Black Forest Wonderland, there would definitely be abnormal spiritual energy fluctuations around them, With Leo's current spiritual power level, it is impossible not to feel it.

After eliminating the possibility that the Black Forest Wonderland would expand to the Dibia Mountains, the only answer Leo could think of was that the mythical monsters inhabiting the Black Forest had expanded their hunting range to the Dibia Mountains.

The reason why Leo only guessed that the hunting range of these monsters expanded to the Dibia Mountains, rather than that these monsters migrated to the Dibia Mountains, is mainly because these monsters are all spiritual creatures.

Based on Leo's understanding of psychic creatures, the survival of any psychic creature is inseparable from a psychic environment, such as the Dibia Mountains, no matter how much food there is, for these psychic creatures It's like a desert. These psychic creatures leave the psychic environment where they have lived for a long time, and hunt in such a psychic desert for a few days, maybe there will be no adverse effects on their bodies, but if they stay in such an environment for a long time, I am afraid it will make them irreversible damage and mutations to the body.

And Leo, who made this guess, also associated the sons of the swamp and other family members he had seen before. In his opinion, those family members probably also ran out of the Black Forest Wonderland with these monsters.

"Why?" Leo vaguely caught some clues that could solve the mystery, but the clues were vague, so he asked himself to answer the question in his mind, and said, "Why hasn't this phenomenon happened before?" ?If the monsters in the Black Forest can leave the Black Forest to hunt freely, why are the people who lived around the Black Forest not attacked by these monsters? Why do the web spinners use Guga when they ask about these monsters and their families? Morey language contract to answer me? What does this have to do with the sacrificial contract between humans and gods..."

As one question after another was asked in his mind, the thoughts in Leo's mind became clearer and clearer. Finally, he found the most core key, and with a serious expression on his face, he said secretly: "Louis X? The Imperial Army The fact that they were able to cross the Black Forest safely and surprise the continent of West France is obviously related to what happened after Louis X entered the Black Forest. Could it be that Louis X and the mythical creatures of the Black Forest concluded an ancient human-god sacrifice contract?"