The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The great adventurer Will Jackson is definitely an outlier among the many legendary adventurers in the world of Velen. He is not famous because he discovered any ancient books or had a breakthrough research on some ancient texts. In fact, Will Jackson is not well-known in both academic and adventure circles. His popularity comes entirely from the children who read his adventure novels.

Yes, if there is no one in the world who bears the title and epitaph of a great adventurer named Will Jackson, then there is only one great adventurer Will Jackson.

Will Jackson's Great Adventurer is more like a mockery in the eyes of most people. According to his true identity, he is a very good best-selling novelist, and each of his novels can become a bedside reading for every family. However, such a novelist has always regarded himself as an adventurer, and even often uses the plots in his novels in some publications to refute the public theories of some real archaeologists, adventurers and paleographers, giving people a sense of Kind of crazy.

Those in the academic world were unwilling to pay attention to such a crazy novelist, but this crazy novelist spent money to attack them in various newspapers, so that their reputation was affected, so they had to stand up and fight controversy.

In fact, the people have no interest in who is right and who is wrong in this kind of debate. They just like to see those high-ranking scholars being scolded by Will Jackson, and then tear off the mask of civilization and scold them in the newspaper like a shrew. go back.

For a long time, any newspaper that published Will Jackson and all kinds of academics sparred with sales.

Until the death of Will Jackson, the scolding war between him and the academic circles did not stop. Even before his death, he specially asked someone to build a luxurious tomb for himself, and then engraved the characters in his novels on the tomb. Classic scenes and storylines, under each engraving there are reliefs of figures wearing scholar clothes but without facial features carrying these engravings.

Although none of these relief figures have engraved facial features, as long as they are familiar with their body shapes and iconic clothes, it can be seen that these relief figures should be scholars who had a scolding battle with him.

After his burial, the tombstone he prepared for himself was also very interesting. The words "Will Jackson, the great adventurer" were engraved in more than 400 different languages ​​and characters, and the words "Will Jackson", the great adventurer, were also written on the back of the tombstone in more than 400 languages. Curse those scholars.

Leo first saw the books of the great adventurer Will Jackson in the study of the old man Rembrandt. At that time, his books were placed among a pile of professional linguistics, archeology, etc. A feeling of being out of place.

At that time, he asked Rembrandt why he wanted to put these novels in academic works, but Rembrandt didn't tell him the reason, but let him find it himself.

At that time, Leo also read all of Will Jackson's novels, but he didn't think there was anything worth learning in them, so he classified Will Jackson's novels into those that could be discarded at any time. In the underlying memory, so even if you search for information, you don't search in these underlying memories.

Now that he heard what Saran said, Leo was still puzzled at first, why Saran would mention this novelist, so he quickly searched his information in his mind, and found some interesting and amazing things in the information. He discovered that the novels of Will Jackson that he thought were useless at the time actually contained a lot of secrets, and many of the seemingly magical and absurd plots in the books were actually true.

For example, in a novel called The Lost Sea, Will Jackson tells that he was lost in a sea area during an adventure of a one-man sailing ship falling into the sea of ​​stars, and saw some It is a magical scene, and many of the plots are very similar to what Leo encountered in the sea area where the starship was silent. People who have not personally experienced it will never be able to imagine the scene at that time out of thin air, so Will Jackson He must have been to that sea area, and the content recorded in the book is also true.

In addition, Will Jackson's Witch Mountain Range is undoubtedly in the Aishali Forest and the mountain in front of me. The ancient trees and other unique landforms and landmarks of the Aishali Forest are also mentioned in the article, but the name It's just different. It is obvious that Will Jackson must have been to the Aishali Forest, and even the mountain in front of him.

Seeing that Leo didn't answer his question, but instead looked pensive, Saran couldn't help being surprised and said, "You don't really think Will Jackson's crazy talk is true, do you?"

"Why isn't it true?" Leo asked Saran back.

Leo went through the book of Witch Mountain in his mind at a very fast speed, and he found something interesting. This Will Jackson actually entered the inside of this mountain, but unfortunately he didn't go deep, because He heard a mysterious voice, which he called the mantra of all things, and thought that as long as he heard all the mantras, he would be able to know all the mysteries of the whole world.

When he knew this at the time, he was inexplicably afraid, and ran out of the passage leading to the interior of the mountain like crazy, but when he calmed down and planned to go back to accept the mysteries of the whole world, he couldn't find that passage again. channel up.

Leo suddenly asked Saran, "He should also be the witch's assistant, right? Otherwise, he wouldn't have entered the Aishali Forest."

Saran said angrily: "It was the worst thing that witch did that year to let that liar who could only speak sweet words enter the Aishali Forest."

After finishing speaking, he seemed unwilling to talk more about Will Jackson.

Leo asked: "You don't believe the story written in Will Jackson's book about the relics of the gods in this mountain?"

"Why? Do you believe it?" Saran asked back.

Leo didn't answer, just looked around, and asked in a deep voice: "I shouldn't have any problem walking around, right?"

Saran said in a deep voice, "As long as you don't climb to the top of the mountain, I won't stop you."

Leo looked at the top of the mountain, which was completely covered by clouds, and asked, "What's on the top of the mountain?"

Saran didn't intend to answer this question, nor did he have any desire to talk to Leo.

Leo turned his head to Sylvia and Seran and said, "You guys stay here first! You can just ask Ms. Saran how to get rid of the hidden dangers in your body. I will come here to find you later when I find some clues."

"Okay." The two nodded, and Sylvia added, "Be careful, there is something wrong here, I don't know what danger may arise."

After speaking, he looked at the huge pit caused by the falling monster.

Leo nodded, turned around and circled around the edge of the bottom of the mountain towards the distance, and soon disappeared in the wind and snow.

The bottom of this high mountain, which has been used as a landmark and has no official name so far, is not very big. It is only about half the size of the witch's cemetery. The entire mountain is straight up, and the surface is uneven. From a distance, it looks like a needle tip that is gradually shrinking.

Leo is now going to walk around the foot of the mountain. He is not walking aimlessly, but looking for the passage mentioned in Will Jackson's book with a purpose.

Whether Will Jackson is an excellent archaeologist, this Leo does not know, but Leo knows that Will Jackson is definitely an excellent novelist, otherwise, his books would not be so popular, Many people still buy it to this day.

Because he is good at writing, in his book, the experience of how to discover the mysterious passage in the Witch Mountain Range is recorded in very detailed and accurate records.

In that paragraph of text, he not only carefully described the surrounding topography, but also wrote down the surrounding plants and their locations in detail. Now Leo is going to find the passage according to the records of the novel. .

Although more than 300 years have passed since Will Jackson wrote this text, it may be somewhat difficult to find the location of the passage through this text according to common ideals.

But the Aishali Forest is a magical place. Through Sylvia, I learned that within a certain area of ​​those landmarks, unless they are affected by irresistible external forces, the landforms and plants will not change. Three hundred What it was like years ago is what it is now.

It's just that the forest here has long since disappeared for a reason that Leo doesn't understand. There is not only thick snow on the ground, but also a lot of land covered by bones.

But this doesn't matter much to Leo, because the tree roots here are still relatively well preserved under the burial of a large number of bones, and it is possible to judge which area is which tree from the tree roots.

In Will Jackson's book, he mentioned that the virgin forest here seems to be deliberately planned. Each area is planted with different trees, shrubs and flowers, and they will not grow randomly with each other. It feels like It looks like a garden that is often tended by the gods.

In the book, he wrote in detail the trees, shrubs and other plant species in each area in turn according to the route he traveled, but he is not a botanist himself, and he doesn't know much about plants, so he can only write about various plants. Shape and other things that can be seen.

However, then again, even if Will Jackson is the best and most knowledgeable botanist in the world of Velen, I am afraid he will not be able to understand the types of these plants, because from the description in the novel, most of these plants They are not plants from the Velen world, but some alien plants.

For example, the plant that Leo is looking for now is a kind of hardwood-shaped vine plant. This plant looks like a complete tree at first glance, but it is actually woven by thousands of tiny vines. Jack Wilson called it the Iron Vine Tree.

But in fact, Leo knew that this kind of tree was not called an iron vine tree, and he also knew what this kind of tree was and which planet it came from.

Daha Kaka is the name of this tree. This name is just a translation of the Earth Federation. The official name of this tree is a sound that cannot be produced by human vocal organs.

It is a unique plant of Mobius star. Mobius star is a rare pure plant planet in the universe. The pure plants here are pure plants in the true sense. More than 90% of the strata are plants, and Dhakaka is a common plant on this planet.

The Earth Federation once thought of occupying this rare plant planet suitable for human habitation, but during the exploration process, it was discovered that this planet already had intelligent species and civilization. Although this civilization is very primitive and only equivalent to tribal civilization, this civilization has three Omega-level advanced life forms, and one of them is the planet itself.

So the Earth Federation changed the plan of getting along at that time. It was no longer based on conquest, but instead made friends, established diplomatic relations, and so on.

Because this alien civilization was the first planet to establish diplomatic relations with the Earth Federation, this planet is relatively complete in the information about aliens, and this information was also one of the standard basic information that Leo needed to record at the beginning.

Leo's spiritual network went deep into the ground, accurately found those tree roots buried deep in the ground, and quickly identified what kind of tree these roots belonged to.

Although Leo needed to distinguish the tree species that the roots belonged to, his speed was not slow at all, and he walked half a circle around the alpine pepper very quickly.

After passing through a very common long-gown black wood forest, Leo finally discovered the unique tree roots of Daha Kaka. In order to confirm that his spiritual net was not mistaken, he dug a deep pit again and put the bones covering it After cleaning it up, I saw the relatively well-preserved tree roots at the bottom and dug them out. After carefully checking and comparing the information, I was sure that this was the first forest I was looking for.

With the first coordinate reference object, it became much easier for Leo to find other forests. He walked around the edge of this forest for a while, and found the second forest described in the novel. The fourth and fifth were found by Leo in turn.

However, what surprised Leo was that from the position of the forest, Will Jackson was not walking up the mountainside, but out of the mountain, which puzzled him a bit.

Although doubts arose in his heart, Leo did not stop his current actions, and continued to search for the location of the woods mentioned in the book, but he stopped soon, not because there was a mistake in the trees recorded in the novel , but because there is no way ahead, what blocks Leo is a fog wall connected to the sky.

Facing the fog wall in front of him, Leo's expression became very serious. After all, anyone who saw that there was nothing in front of him before, but suddenly appeared such a striking fog wall in the next moment, would be heartbroken. He was vigilant, not to mention not only invisible, but even the mental network could not perceive the existence of the fog wall. Even though his eyes could see the fog wall in front of his eyes, there was nothing in front of him in his spiritual network. .

"Illusion?" Leo had a guess in his mind, but he quickly denied it, because he felt that there was danger in the fog wall, a dangerous force that made the imprints of the gods in his body react.