The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Joey is a thief in Ice City in the Northern Kingdom, or more correctly, the best thief in Ice City and even the entire Northern Kingdom.

The reason why I say this is not because of how brilliant his stealing skills are. In fact, his stealing ability can only be regarded as the middle-class in the North Kingdom Thieves Alliance, no different from other ordinary thieves, and the reason why he can be recognized The best thief in the northern kingdom is because he can enter the king city ruled by the gods and bring back the items of the king city alive.

This incident caused quite a stir in the Thieves Alliance. He has also changed from an ordinary thief stationed on the street all the year round to a high-level executive of the Thieves Alliance. The only thing he has to do is to enter the Royal City every month to get An item with the unmistakable signature of a royal city.

Joey, who has enjoyed power and wealth, is naturally unwilling to give up everything he has obtained. Even if he knows how dangerous the royal city is, he may not be able to return the next time he enters, but he is still willing to take this risk. At the same time, his subconscious mind also feels that he His home should be in the royal city, not in this war-torn world.

Regarding the situation of the royal city, the northern kingdom is not very clear from the king and ministers to the common people, but it is known from ancient books that it was once a city ruled by the gods, and there was a powerful kingdom there. Sending out an army of knights can wipe out the entire world.

I don’t know when, the gods gave up the royal city, and the royal city that lost the blessing of the gods also entered into decline. After a civil war, the royal city completely disappeared from the world. I don’t know where it went. Some people said that the royal city was given by the gods. It was taken away, and some people said that the royal city had been destroyed by the civil war. All in all, the boundary where the royal city was located before became a huge bottomless pit.

For all countries on the mainland, the disappearance of the royal city is not a bad thing, but a very good thing, because in this way, the sharp sword that was pressing on the heads of all countries was taken down, and all countries did things. There is no need to worry about Wang Cheng's opinion anymore. They can do whatever they want.

And the first thing all countries do is similar, that is to provoke neighboring countries, provoke wars, and expand territories. The war swept across the entire continent in an instant, and no country was spared.

A large number of wars are naturally accompanied by a large number of deaths, and these extremely astonishing casualties have long been expected by those high-ranking kings and ministers, so death did not hold back the pace of the war.

However, what death cannot do, the living dead can.

It is not known where the earliest undead appeared. It is estimated that it should be on the battlefield, because so many people die on the battlefield, and there are conditions to produce the undead.

Although the time and place of the first appearance of the living dead cannot be determined, the influence of the living dead is very great. During the period of time when the living dead first appeared, all the wars on land stopped, as if the war pause button was pressed.

Burning the living dead was the only way that all countries treated the living dead back then. Even if those living dead had retained their wisdom in life, they could talk like normal people, and they all needed to eat and drink.

However, high-level officials in various countries soon discovered that burning the living dead could not fundamentally solve the problem, because the burned living dead would soon be revived in a place near where they were killed, as if they had not suffered any harm.

Seeing this situation, the vast majority of people are troubled by it, but there are also a few countries whose population has dropped sharply due to wars, but they see another way to save themselves from the kingdom, so they secretly collect and capture the living dead in various countries on the mainland , and then incorporated these undead into the army, trained them into an army of undead, and used them in some of the most dangerous and difficult battles.

Because of the immortality of the living dead, and the fact that the nerves on their bodies have failed, they will not feel pain, so the battles of these living dead are extremely fierce, and almost all of them use life-for-life crazy fighting methods to destroy the main force of the enemy. , The astonishing results of capturing the enemy's capital also foreshadowed the war history of the army of the living dead on the continent.

Almost at the same time, the living dead who were shouted and beaten by everyone just now became the sweet pastry in the eyes of high-level officials in various countries. They were summoned from all over the place to form an army, replacing ordinary soldiers, and became a long-term leader in the future. The main force of the Continental War for a while.

However, the good times didn’t last long. After several years of war, almost all the undead armies were wiped out at least once, and the undead who died the most times even died dozens of times. Suddenly one day an army died The most living dead died in the war again, and suddenly lost their minds after reattachment, attacking all visible living things frantically.

The power of this crazy undead has also become extremely huge, so huge that even a garrison army of fifty people can't resist it. After being killed, it will be resurrected again, and continue to kill all visible life. The only way that can be thought of is to tie up the living dead.

Just like the development situation after the first undead appeared on the mainland, after the first undead who went crazy appeared, some undead who went crazy appeared one after another in the undead armies of various countries on the mainland. Only then did the upper echelons of the countries realize that the living dead are not the good medicine that the gods gave them to continue the war, but a cup of poison that is enough to kill all countries and all lives.

For this reason, all countries had to stop the ongoing war and sit together to discuss how to solve this almost unsolvable problem, and the never-ending war on the mainland once again subsided, this time the reason for the subdued war was still the living dead.

After a series of discussions, the think tanks of various countries soon came up with a temporary solution, that is to build a huge prison next to the bottomless abyss where the original king's city was located, and imprison all the living dead there. When the dead man went crazy, he threw the living dead man into the bottomless abyss, so nothing would happen.

This solution was quickly passed at the top of the country and implemented. However, the army of the living dead, which was regarded as the treasure of the country, once again became a state where everyone shouted and beat all the living dead. All the living dead were detained until they were named In the huge prison that is the hospital of the undead. Of course, not all the undead are willing to be imprisoned, some choose to hide and escape, and some choose to resist directly, but in the end these methods have no effect, the escaped undead are hunted down by hunting teams that specialize in arresting the undead. The living dead who resisted directly cut off their hands and feet, made adult pupae, and sent them to the hospital of the undead. Life is worse than death.

Joey is also a living dead person. Of course, this kind of person is now called Ember. After he was found to be an undead person, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Undead Court.

Different from the cruel rules of the earliest undead hospital, the current undead hospital is divided into several areas. As long as the imprisoned living dead do not escape or make trouble, they will be placed in ordinary living areas.

The living area of ​​the Immortal Hospital is not much different from the outside, and the things that can be bought outside can also be bought here. As for the money needed to buy, you need to complete some not-so-heavy tasks assigned by the caretaker, such as weaving hemp rope, etc. Wait, as long as the task is completed on time, you can get some monetary compensation, and then use the money to buy the needed items, and this also makes this place like a closed small city.

As for those unruly living dead, their hands and feet will be cut off, their heads will be put in prison, their bodies will be tied up, and they will be made into adult pupae, which will be sent to the most terrifying human pupae prison in the Undead Hospital for storage. When they are completely insane, they are thrown into the bottomless pit. As for whether the undead themselves are insane or driven insane by them, in the eyes of the prison administrators, there is no difference.

When Joey knew that he was a living dead, he had already fallen into despair. He had no idea of ​​escape at all, and only wanted to stay in the prison until he was thrown into the pit because of madness.

However, one day, when Joey was completing a cell cleaning task assigned by the head of the living area, when cleaning the room of a living dead scholar who was thrown into the pit because of his madness, he accidentally discovered a very beautiful ring. At that time, he didn't pay much attention to the ring, he just thought it was a windfall and took it on his hand.

Not long after, he got involved in a fight, and with some tricks he learned on the streets at the bottom, he solved three or four opponents in a row, and he found that every time he solved an opponent, there would be a chill coming from the ring on his hand .

At this time, he felt the unusualness of this ring, so he wanted to see what this ring was full of curiosity, so he would participate in almost every fight in the prison, and he would solve it every time There were several opponents, and he had a good reputation in the Undead Hospital for a while.

And after killing more than twenty living dead, the shape of the ring changed from a beautiful ring to a silver ring with a weird shape. Tailed snake, and this snake is different from other snakes, it is a strange snake with blood red eyes, long ears, and big teeth.

While the shape of the ring changed, he also obtained a piece of information from the ring, which was the method of using the ring, but this piece of information did not include the effect of the ring after use.

And when he hesitated again and again, he plucked up the courage and tried to use the ring according to the method recorded. He was surprised to find that he was no longer in the Undead Court, but on the streets of a majestic city.

The majesty of this city and the beauty of its architecture cannot be described in words. It is no exaggeration to say that even the capital of the Northern Kingdom is put together with it, and it looks like a city that was just built by a dozen homeless people. Temporary shack.

This is only the outermost part of this huge city. He looked up and found that there are many floors in this city, and the buildings on each floor are more exquisite than the previous one. The city at the top has plunged into the clouds , although he couldn't see clearly, he could imagine that the city was probably already incomparably exquisite.

At this time, Joey also quickly realized that this was the royal city built, ruled by the gods, and finally abandoned by the legendary gods, and he also found that his body had become the same as those living dead who were about to go crazy, all of them were as emaciated as ever. Chai, as if a gust of wind could blow him away.

Afterwards, Joey quickly discovered the benefits brought by the changes in his body, because there were all kinds of undead in this beautiful city, and all of them were crazy undead, but his current body became more and more harmonious. There is no difference between other living dead, so when he walked in this city, he was not attacked or in danger.

Joey didn't stay in the royal city for too long. After he found some exquisite items with obvious imprints of the royal city, he used the ring to leave the royal city and took those found items with him.

It's just that after leaving the royal city, he didn't return to the prison of the Undead Court, but appeared on the outskirts of a secluded town in the northern kingdom. This situation made him panic immediately, because according to the current situation, He will definitely be defined as a prison escape, and the living dead who escaped from prison can only end up being made into a pupa and sent to that terrible place.

Joey didn't panic when he discovered the problem. He quickly thought of a solution, which was to return to the Thieves Alliance and use the items from the royal city he had in hand in exchange for the protection of the Thieves Alliance.

The development of the matter was just as Joey thought. Naturally, the profit-seeking Thieves Alliance could not resist the huge wealth brought by the items in the royal city. Even though they knew that their actions might bring great trouble to the Thieves Alliance, they did not care. , They have devoted themselves to the endless wealth created by Joey.

For this reason, the hunters they bought to capture the undead made another undead into a pupa and sent it to the prison to replace Joey's identity, name and position.

In addition, Joey also became a high-level member of the Thieves Alliance because of Wangcheng's relationship. Even though he, a high-level executive, does not have a lot of power at hand, and is restricted in the scope of activities, he still needs to go to Wangcheng every month to get the imprint of Wangcheng. Items, but he felt that he was living a better life now than in prison, so he naturally hoped that this kind of life could last forever.

However, as the number of him entering the royal city increased, his mentality gradually changed. He felt that he was very comfortable in Wangcheng, far more comfortable than he was in Bingling City. Even if he could not enjoy the pleasure brought by power and money here, it could relax his tense nerves a little. Not a lot.

In this regard, he has already made a decision in his heart. After this mission is over, he will try to get some necessities for life to Wangcheng, intending to live in Wangcheng for a long time, but Bingling City will be used by him as a place to replenish supplies , no longer intends to continue living there under the surveillance of the Thieves Alliance.

Many times in the past, the Wangcheng search experience made Joey very clear which rooms in the surrounding buildings have valuable and useful items, and which buildings are just empty shells, just like the villa next to the forest he is going to now, it is a place that should have A house with many valuable items.