The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"No, we still have something to do." Although Leo had chased away, neither of them got up, Su said to Leo with some seriousness.

"What's the matter?" Leo looked at Su, who had a serious expression, and Mira, who also had an equally serious expression, and guessed, "Is it related to Death Valley?"

"Yes." Mira nodded, and said very seriously: "That guy mentioned some weird things that happened in Death Valley when he left Death Valley. The dreams are very similar."

As she spoke, Mira recounted the situation in Death Valley that the Wolf Gang had just mentioned, together with the record about the Emerald Dream falling into the abyss.

Although the tribes in the wilderness of the Mozambique continent do not have the habit of recording history, the tribal shaman has the custom of recording various major events of the tribe, such as the Lord of Nature no longer responding to the shaman, and things like changes in the Emerald Dream are all recorded Come down, and it is not the shaman records of one tribe, but the shamans of all tribes. It is because of this that the Lord of Nature disappeared and the records of the accident in the Emerald Dream are extremely detailed. Readers have the feeling of being there.

Although these materials can only be read by the official shaman of each tribe, Mira has a special identity. She has read these records when she was very young, and read these records as a storybook, and the shaman and wizard cooperate The division of the Emerald Dream was also recorded in the most detail, and she read it the most times, so she also remembered the relevant content very clearly, so that when the leader of the wolf gang said about Death Valley, she could immediately judge that Death Valley should be a piece of land. A fragment of the Emerald Dream, and a fragment that was about to fall into the abyss.

Because according to the shaman's records, when the Emerald Dream began to fall into the abyss, the animals and plants in the Emerald Dream began to change first. All the animals and plants began to distort and grow into monsters that were completely different from before. , and these monsters changed from their peaceful temperament before, and all became bloodthirsty and aggressive.

Killing or eradicating these monsters will not eliminate the trouble, on the contrary, it will expand the trouble, because the blood and sap in the body of these monsters are all black oily substances. After killing them, the black oily substances will fall into the emerald dream. On the land, that piece of land will be corroded and turned into swamps of black oil, and there will no longer be any biological growth.

This is not the most dangerous part of the black oil substance. The most dangerous thing about this kind of thing is that as long as you touch the black oil, you will definitely be infected. However, this kind of infection is recessive, and the infected person cannot be found in a short time , It will not be discovered until the body of the infected person mutates.

Once infected, no matter how strong the person is, they can't resist the influence of this infection. In addition to the changes in the strength of these shamans, even their temperaments have become as bloodthirsty and brutal as those monsters.

It is precisely because this black oil substance has caused great damage to the Emerald Dream that the shamans at that time had the most records of black oil substances. They are all included in the shaman's record book.

When the leader of the wolf gang mentioned the reason for leaving Death Valley, he mentioned that there was a plague in Death Valley. Many residents of Death Valley fell ill, only a few people were not infected, and all the sick people were sick. Mutations appeared to varying degrees, and some people even developed some abscesses, and some black oily unknown substances flowed out of those abscesses, which looked very terrifying.

When Mira heard this, she immediately thought of the records about the Emerald Dream falling into the abyss, because the two are so similar.

However, after hearing the follow-up situation, I felt that something was wrong, because according to the leader of the wolf gang, those who fell ill recovered quickly, except for the mutation of the body and some black oily substances in the blood. The character and habits of the residents are still the same as before, and this situation is completely different from what Mira knows.

However, the matter did not end here, because almost all the people in Death Valley were infected with the plague, and their bodies mutated, which made these residents' perception of beauty and ugliness also change. I think it is beautiful, but there are less than twenty people who have not mutated like the leader of the wolf gang. They are all regarded as ugly people by the residents of the valley, and they are always rejected and hostile.

Over time, these non-mutated people couldn't stay any longer, and left Death Valley one after another. The leader of the wolf gang was the last normal person to leave Death Valley. After he left, only the mutated residents remained in Death Valley.

The leader of the wolf gang has been an orphan since he was a child, and he has no relatives or friends in Death Valley. He is used to the colorful world outside, so he has no interest in returning to that dead place, so the premise of her agreeing to lead the way this time is that he only takes Leo and the others there. To the entrance of Death Valley, do not enter Death Valley.

"What do you think about this?" After listening to Mira's words, Leo thought for a while and asked Mira, "Why don't those mutated people change their personalities?"

Mira thought for a while and said, "I think it should have something to do with wizards."

"I also think so." Su also said: "When the wizard transformed the emerald fragments into the secret realm, he should have made some arrangements on it to prevent the fragments from falling into the abyss again. However, it is obvious that the wizard's arrangement is not perfect , the emerald fragments are still inevitably changing."

"Hmm!" Leo thought for a while, and said, "It's indeed possible, and Earl Drake's sudden disappearance may also be related to this matter." Then, he looked at Mira suspiciously, and said: "Since There are things in Death Valley that can cause damage to the Emerald Dream, so why do you go to Death Valley? You should try to stay away from there, right?"

"This is my own business, it's inconvenient to say." Mira didn't intend to tell Leo her purpose of going to Death Valley.

Leo didn't ask too much, but after thinking for a while, he said, "Now you want to tell me that there will be other unexpected dangers in this trip to Death Valley."

"Yes." Mira nodded and said, "And it's very dangerous. Back then, there were examples of tower wizards and ancient shamans who died under the attack of those mutated monsters, although it sounds like those mutated people in Death Valley still seem to be She became rational, her temperament has not changed, and she has not gained any special powerful power, but we still need to make some preparations in advance." Then, she looked at Su and said, "I heard from Su that Your Excellency seems to understand Make wizard potion, I have a method of making wizard potion here, can you see if you can make it?"

While talking, she saw that she took out a piece of note paper that can be seen everywhere from her pocket, and wrote some words densely on the paper, which seemed to have been written not long ago.

Leo took the note and looked at it. It recorded in detail the production process of a wizard potion and the medicinal materials used. From the way of writing, the person who wrote this thing should be a person hundreds of years ago. The sentences are very simple and simple, with the obvious characteristics of the northern language family of the Minsk mainland.

After reading it once, Leo had memorized the content above, handed the note back to Mira, and said, "It's not difficult to make medicine, I can make it, but the premise is that the materials you use on it are all Complete, there are no mistakes or omissions in the method you wrote."

"Your Excellency really knows how to refine wizard potions. It seems that I was too worried before." Mira generously admitted that the content recorded on the note paper was somewhat incomplete, and then said: "I will hand over the complete prescription later. For everyone, I will also prepare the required materials at noon, and I hope that you can successfully refine this potion by then, because this potion is related to the safety of our trip to Death Valley."

"What kind of potion is this?" Leo asked.

"It's a potion used to resist the infection of the black oil substance. It was jointly researched by the tower wizard and the shaman." Mira replied as she stood up.

After finishing speaking, she nodded towards Su, and hurried out of the room to arrange the collection of materials. Although she has some influence in Mines City, the materials needed to refine wizard potions are too weird, even if she wants to collect them all in a short time, it is still somewhat difficult. It's just that the trip to Death Valley is the most important thing for her now, and she must ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Only Leo and Su were left in the room at the moment, Su didn't seem to have any plans to leave immediately, but looked at Leo with interest, and said, "You didn't finish what you just said, right?"

Leo didn't deny it, but looked at Su with interest, and asked, "How did you find out?"

"A woman's intuition." Su smiled, as if fooling around, and said.

However, Leo didn't think that Su was fooling afterward, it was probably true, because the intuition of a woman is still an unsolved mystery even in the scientific community of the Earth Federation.

"I did have something to say." Leo returned to the subject and said, "Just now Mira Pompeco said that the people in Death Valley still retain the rationality of normal people. I don't agree with this. In my opinion, those people are afraid Just like the animals and plants in the Emerald Dream, both the body and the mind have mutated."

"Why? Don't you think they are normal?" Su asked Leo, puzzled.

Leo asked back: "Do you think it's normal? It's fine if those residents are children. They are all adults who have formed their own concepts and thoughts. Their cognition of the world is normal. It may be reversed in a short period of time. For example? If it were you, how long would it take you to accept your ugly appearance, and how long would it take you to think that you are beautiful when you are ugly, while others Normal people are ugly monsters?"

Facing this question, Su opened her mouth, not knowing how to answer for a while, and then she also fell into deep thought, as if she was seriously thinking about Leo's question, and after a while, she slowly said: "It should always be It’s impossible to accept your own transformation, let alone think your own appearance is beautiful.”

Leo asked again: "Do you still remember what the wolf gang leader said? How long did it take those valley residents to accept their own changes, and even change their inherent cognition?"

"A few days." Su quickly answered Leo's question, and then said: "Do you think those people's changes are due to mutation?"

"That's for sure." Leo nodded, and said: "However, Mira Pompeco is also right. Some of the arrangements left by the tower wizard have played a role in preventing those people from completely mutating. However, we now It shouldn't be too optimistic, because the memory of the leader of the wolf gang is several years ago. At that time, Earl Drake should not have died, but now that Earl Drake is dead, it is very likely that the tower wizard stayed in Death Valley Some of the arrangements have also lost their effect, and those people have completely mutated, so we may have to face the monsters that could pose a threat to the tower wizards and wasteland shamans back then."

Su was silent for a moment, then said, "Are you trying to make me give up this mission?"

"No." Leo shook his head and said, "I'm just preparing you. If anything happens, I may not be able to help you."

"Hmph!" Sensing that Leo underestimated his ability, Su Leng snorted, stood up, walked outside, and said without looking back: "Don't worry, I don't need your help, and I don't need your help. I'll give it back to you too, and I won't help you when something happens to you."

With the sound of a heavy closing door echoing in the room, the room returned to the state where Leo was alone again, but at this time he did not lie on the bed to rest, but picked up a piece of note paper and wrote the The memorized wizard potion refining method was rewritten silently, and then carefully studied the wizard potion refining method.

In fact, when he saw the wizard potion refining method on the sticky note just now, Leo had already aroused his desire for research, because he found that the process of refining wizard potion recorded on this piece of paper could unlock a lot of his knowledge. Although there are not many questions about the questions encountered when refining wizard potions, they were written by the tower wizard himself after all, and in order to make the wasteland shaman understand, the author wrote down all the questions in as detailed and simply as possible. The refining steps are like handing over to them.

What Leo has to do now is to integrate these medicine refining methods into his own medicine refining method, so that he can become familiar with this more advanced wizard medicine refining method as soon as possible, because the wizard medicine given by Mira just now Judging from the material list and refining method, this kind of potion specially used to deal with the erosion of the abyss is difficult to refine, and it is also a big challenge for him.

However, in the same way, he can gain a lot of knowledge from the refining method of this wizard potion, which can improve his ability to refine wizard potions by at least one level. This is definitely a benefit that money cannot buy. Of course, refining potions The various precious materials used do not need to be produced or collected by him, which is also an added benefit.