The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Mason? Mason?" Leo chewed on the familiar name over and over again. After a while, he seemed to think of something, and suddenly showed a look of surprise, and said in surprise: "Mason family, why do you look so familiar? It turned out to be the monument vandals of the Mason family."

The British royal family has been in a situation of co-governing the country with the domestic nobles for a long time, so in order to win over those powerful nobles, most of the British royal family will choose to marry in this way, and use the blood of their red roses Infiltrated into the blood of other nobles. Even if there is a large-scale civil strife and rebellion in the Kingdom of England, from the blood point of view, it is only the blood of the Red Rose family who is in conflict, and does not give the other blood a chance to rule the country.

The Mason family is the product of this situation. Although they can be regarded as royal nobles, compared to other nobles, they are obviously no different from commoners.

Just like other aristocratic families who married into the royal family, the Mason family was once prominent. This family had three prime ministers of the kingdom, which can be said to be a high-ranking family. The royal family also married into the Mason family at that time.

It's just that after marrying the royal family of England, the Mason family seemed to be cursed. The members of the family had accidents one after another, and the power of the family was shrinking day by day. The family also fell from the most prominent family in the Kingdom of England to the bottom in less than ten years. Noble family.

Now, the Mason family is not much different from ordinary civilians, and except for one old castle that the Mason family has kept, the other family territories have either been sold off or repaid their debts, and they have already been wiped out .

The reason why Leo knew the Mason family so well was not that he obtained information from other places, but because his predecessor was also a branch of the Mason family. His maternal grandmother in the previous life was a member of the Mason family. The experience of being taken by my grandmother to the Mason Family Castle.

It is precisely because of this level of kinship that Leo's predecessor paid special attention to news about the Mason family. In the past period of time, the Gangzalez Mason signed on the paper was once considered the hope of the Mason family's resurgence.

Twenty-year-old Gonzalez Mason graduated from the Royal Naval Academy and served as the first officer of the Royal Navy's famous battleship Rhine. In a conflict with the navy of the Kingdom of Sigmar, the captain of the Rhine was seriously injured and fell into a coma. As the first mate, Gonzales directly replaced the position of the captain. Sunk five warships including the flagship of the enemy fleet, and rushed out of the encirclement of the Sigmar Kingdom's fleet.

After returning to the Kingdom of England, Gonzalez was treated like a hero. Not only was he promoted and his salary increased, but he was also awarded the Kingdom Holy Emblem Medal, which is extremely difficult to obtain. The military meritorious nobles are almost a certainty.

However, what surprised everyone was that not long after receiving the Order of the Holy Emblem, Gangzalez Mason chose to resign from all military positions, bought a sailboat with the bonus he received, and recruited some Crew, go to sea and become a sea adventurer.

No one knew why Gonzales would make such a choice, but they were sure that the chance for the Mason family to rise again had been lost.

Afterwards, news about Gonzalez spread to the Kingdom of England continuously. For a long time, Gonzales became a legend in the Kingdom of England, and his reputation became bigger and bigger, but this reputation Not a good name, but a bad one.

Gonzalez seems to have some incredible good luck. Every time he goes to sea, he can always find some relics and treasures left by the predecessors. According to archaeologists from all over the world, his treasure hunting process is like a rampant mad cow.

Every time he brings out some property from those relic treasures, he will actively or passively destroy that relic completely, so he also has a bad reputation as a ruiner of relics, and twelve countries in the world of Velen will He was listed as one of the people prohibited from entering, and other countries only allowed him to stay in the port city and did not allow him to go deep into the interior.

After confirming that it was a letter written by Gunsales Mason, Leo became interested in the contents of the letter.

Although the self on the letter was all dizzy due to the water, and the original content could not be seen as a blurred mass, Leo still had a way to restore the contents of the letter.

I saw that he put this letter that would rot anytime in his hand, and then penetrated into the outermost surface of the paper through the microcosmic ability of his spiritual vision, carefully identifying the difference in the depth of the ink.

Although the ink was smudged, because of the different depths of ink penetration, the traces of the initial writing remained on the paper intact, allowing Leo to quickly extract it and form a complete sentence.

"The cargo has arrived at the port, the Queen Mary, keep a close watch on it." Because some of them have been unable to restore due to the rotten paper, but some important contents can still be identified, and several key words and sentences in these contents are focused on by Leo, And murmured thoughtfully.

According to the content pieced together from the letter, it is not difficult to see that Gonzalez Mason found a valuable thing from somewhere, but it was not convenient for him to transport it at that time, so he used some cruise ships to help him transport it, and his people secretly Surveillance protection.

The cruise ship responsible for the last transportation of this item was the Queen Mary on which Leo was aboard. Obviously, the cargo mentioned in this letter may be the one that was stored after the Queen Mary specially vacated the bottom warehouse.

"Is the plague on the ship related to this item?" Leo guessed in his mind. Although he didn't have any direct evidence, he felt that the guess might be true.

Leo searched in the captain's room again, and found a captain's diary that was also soaked in sea water. It is impossible to restore the content by touching the remaining handwriting, but judging from the cover of the captain's diary, this diary is from It was purchased by the Port of Leon, and it also has the certification stamp of the Leon Chamber of Commerce on it. In addition, this log is still very new, and most of the pages are blank. From this point of view, it is very likely that this ship has previously arrived at the port of Lyon, which was banned by the French Empire.

This also made Leo think of the plague that broke out in Miria City, but soon felt that he might have thought too much.

After finding nothing of value here, Leo turned around and left the sailing ship that was about to fall apart at any moment, and then used the spirit net to check the situation in the jungle on the island. He found that the goblins he saw last night had all disappeared. Apart from the hidden psionic creatures and some dilapidated wooden houses with traces of habitation, there was nothing else worth paying attention to.

Leo was not in a hurry to explore other parts of the island, but chose an abandoned jungle residence closest to him and walked over.

At the moment he entered the jungle, Leo felt that the surrounding spiritual energy fluctuations were obviously much stronger than those on the beach or in the sea, and these spiritual energy fluctuations all came from the surrounding trees and flowers. Obviously, these plants should also be a kind of Special psionic creatures.

When Leo was in the Earth Federation, he also knew from some materials that there are intelligent plants in the universe, and these intelligent plants are almost all psykers, and the most famous among them is the omega-level plant symbiosis.

This kind of plant symbiont can create a monster that looks like a living thing and has a plant inside. This kind of monster is almost a perfect life. They don't need to eat, they only need photosynthesis to store, and they don't need to wear any protective gear. Drifting in the universe, and the most terrifying thing is that they can reproduce asexually, and the number of reproduction is unlimited.

The plant symbionts conquered a large number of planets by virtue of their own strength and the race of perfect weapons they created, until several other psychic race countries joined forces to destroy the race they created and imprison it in a red giant star. Only in the heart core can a cosmic catastrophe be solved.

Therefore, when Leo confirmed that the plants around him were all spiritual creatures, he also began to feel awe of the jungle on this island, and he was no longer as careless as he was at the beginning, and he was also extra vigilant when walking.

It was precisely because of this vigilant attitude that he easily resolved the several psionic creatures attacks he encountered after entering the jungle, and what made him a little puzzled was that these psionic creatures did not leave any residue after death.

With doubts in his heart, Leo came to the abandoned residential area. He didn't need to check too carefully to see that this small residential area composed of wooden houses was abandoned by people. The people here were not forced to leave due to any accident.

Judging from the furnishing style of the house and the structure of the wooden house, the people living here should be from America, because there are a large number of utensils and decorations with the characteristics of the original tribe in America.

Because of the age, the main structure of all the houses has decayed to the point that it cannot support the entire house, and other doors, windows, roofs, and walls have rotted into a pile of debris. Leo has no doubt that he entered the house, and his movements were a little bigger It is possible to bring the house down.

For this reason, Leo could only use the spirit net to carefully check the situation inside. After searching a few houses, he found nothing. Leo was not discouraged by this, but continued to search slowly until His spiritual net entered a temple-like building in the center of this small village, and he discovered something useful.

Leo put on the ring that restricted his body, walked lightly into the temple building, walked to the side of a completely decayed statue, took out a metal box from a hidden compartment at the base of the statue, and then walked back to the outside.

I don't know whether it was because he moved too much when he left at the end, or because of the metal box he took away. The crumbling temple could no longer support it at the moment he left, and it collapsed. The movement of the temple collapse also affected other decayed houses in the village. Immediately afterwards, all the buildings in the village collapsed almost at the same time, turning into a pile of rotten debris.

In the dusty sky, Leo walked out of the village, came to the grass outside the village, then sat down anywhere, and directly opened the metal box in his hand.

I saw that the box was just an ordinary box, and there were no magical items worthy of attention after opening it. There was only a bark book made of tree bark.

The bark book is a special product of some tribes in the early Mozambique continent. Because the books were very expensive at that time, in the Kingdom of Sigma, only nobles and wealthy businessmen could buy them. scroll up.

Some tribes in the Mozambique continent have a deep contact with the Kingdom of Sigma, and they are very yearning for things from the outside world, hoping to learn some knowledge from the outside world, but they have to stay away from expensive books. This problem was not solved until a young man from a tribe invented the bark book, and because of its cheapness, ease of production, and good preservation, the influence of the bark book is not only in the Mosang continent, but also in other areas. The so-called civilized countries on both continents also began to try to produce low-cost bark books and sell them to the poor.

In this situation, it was not until someone inadvertently produced a piece of white paper that is now commonly used when making bark books, that the current paper books replaced bark books and early parchment scrolls.

In fact, after so many years, the production method of the bark book has long been forgotten. Even if someone remembers it, it is only some archaeologists. As for the common people, they have never even heard of the parchment, let alone the bark book. .

And now the bark book in the box is very beautifully made. It can be seen that the person who made this bark book is very proficient in this skill. Made in a very old way.

Leo himself doesn't know much about bark books, but he has seen a bark book made in ancient methods from old man Rembrandt, and he has heard old man Rembrandt mention the evolution process of bark books , Looking back now, it is enough for him to judge that the production method of this bark book should be popular in Mozambique during the Kingdom of Sigma or the Overlord of the Sea, that is to say, the person who made this bark book is either this school The inheritors of the skills are either the natives of the Mozambique continent hundreds of years ago.

After Leo looked through the bark book, he saw the lines of the Sigma Kingdom text, and he was a little more certain about his previous guess.

However, he was soon attracted by the contents of this bark book, because the contents of this book were somewhat beyond his expectations, because this bark book is not only a religious scripture, but also a corpse collector. of the scriptures.

When Leo was in the dream world, he had read the Canon of the Corpse Collector. Although the content in this bark book was somewhat different from the Canon of the Corpse Collector he had read, the themes were the same, and the description of the Corpse Collector was also the same. Similarly, there is no doubt that the god walking in the abyss mentioned in this book is the corpse collector.

And there is a very interesting thing mentioned in this scripture, that is, the corpse collectors dare not approach this small island.