The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although he is very curious about what kind of warships are still operating normally in the Guga Desert, he also knows that now is definitely not a good time to look for warships.

Now his knowledge of the Guga Desert is limited to some books, but judging from the actual situation, the situation in the Guga Desert is not as simple as mentioned in the book. He needs to collect more really useful information to be able to Go deeper and more effectively into the depths of the Guga Desert to find things.

After confirming that the direction of the field effect is the direction leaving the Guga Desert, Leo began to let go of his speed and move in that direction.

For ordinary people, the climate of the Guja Desert is fatal. Not only does the temperature drop below freezing point after nightfall, but it is also often accompanied by biting cold winds. The ground formed by a large amount of floating sand may cause serious damage if you step on it carelessly. Couldn't climb out anymore.

However, the climate and environment are not the most dangerous. The most dangerous are the creatures that inhabit the desert. Those creatures are all kinds of strange, and all of them are highly poisonous. Come out to launch a fatal attack on the prey, and some directly disguise themselves as a large sandy field, as long as someone steps on it, it will directly wrap the intruder, and the pores under the outer skin will instantly eject a large amount of corroded venom , dissolves the prey in a short time, and then swallows and digests it.

Leo had only walked in the desert for less than two hours, and he encountered more than 50 attacks, which was completely different from just having to withstand the harsh weather during the day.

"It's no wonder that everyone who can walk out of the Guga Desert alive will be called the lucky ones. It really takes a lot of luck for an ordinary person to survive in this environment." After the poisonous sand lizard was crushed, he looked at the endless desert in front of him, and couldn't help sighing.

Although these dangers in the desert are fatal to ordinary people, they are not dangerous to Leo, just like a group of annoying little bugs.

Leo was on his way all night, and the constant terrain around him could easily make people feel bored, and even doubted whether he was going in the right direction, but Leo didn't feel hesitant, because just over an hour ago, his sense of smell Already smelled a very faint smell of the sea breeze, and the surrounding temperature has also changed a bit, it is no longer just below freezing point, but has risen a bit.

Judging from these signs, Leo can be sure that he is about to reach the edge of the Guga Desert.

Just when the night was about to end and the sun in the distance began to emerge, Leo saw a series of tent shadows emerging from the sand dunes in the distance under the sunlight, which seemed to be a desert nomad.

Although the products in the desert are scarce, there are also things worth trading. Most of the nomads living in the desert are natural traders. They will buy a large amount of salt from the salt field on the east coast of Savile, and then swim in the desert. When leaving, trade it to various desert tribes, and buy various desert creatures captured from those tribes.

In the beginning, these grotesque desert creatures would be made into specimens and sold to rich people in other countries who liked to hunt for novelties but could not afford to come to Savile.

However, with the emergence of various research reports from the medical school, the world has discovered that various organisms in the desert have a very special medicinal ingredient. After extracting this medicinal ingredient and adding it to other medicinals, the curative effect of this medicinal It can be increased several times.

All of a sudden, all kinds of market related to desert creatures skyrocketed, and the export revenue of various desert creatures has accounted for more than one-third of the various export revenue of the Savile Kingdom every year.

However, it is precisely because a large number of Saviles have captured desert creatures that they have almost caught all kinds of creatures that are easy to catch in other deserts, but the domesticated desert creatures do not have that magical potion ingredient, that is, there are quite a few of them. The extremely poor nomads had to come to the edge of a dangerous desert like the Guga Desert, looking for opportunities to capture those desert creatures.

The nomadic tribe that appeared in front of Leo was also such a tribe that ventured to capture desert creatures.

This tribe is called Kaka, and it is a member of thousands of small tribes in Savile, but in the past, before the Lord of All Creation and Death was the only religion in the Kingdom of Savile, the Kaka tribe was One of the dozen or so largest tribes in Savile, with hundreds of thousands of tribe members, many high-level tribes hold important positions in the palace.

The reason why the Kaka tribe had such a strong strength and status at the time was because the women of the Kaka tribe had a high chance of becoming guides.

In ancient times, the desert road had not yet appeared in the Saville Kingdom. If the tribes in the kingdom want to survive in the desert, there are two kinds of people who are indispensable. One is Sha Lao, who has lived in the desert for many years and has rich survival experience. The other is the desert guide.

Shalao's role is to help the tribe find valuable crops and desert beasts, so that the tribe can survive and inherit in such a harsh environment as the desert.

The desert guides are more important, because they can help the tribe not lose their way when they wander in the desert, and they can find water sources for people to survive.

In the desert, unless it is on the edge of the desert, the water source in the desert will not be fixed in one place, and it will appear in any place in the desert without any rules. Maybe the bottom of the dunes in front of you during the day is still a deep pit, but when it arrives At night, it may turn into a small lake.

Therefore, if you want to survive in the desert, people who can easily find water sources are absolutely indispensable.

At that time, in the entire Savile Kingdom, the desert guides of the Kaka tribe accounted for more than half of all the desert guides. Its importance was self-evident for all desert tribes, and the Kaka tribe also used this to make itself stronger.

It's a pity that when the belief of the Lord of Birth and Death began to spread in the desert and gradually replaced the original beliefs of various tribes, it was finally recognized by the Savile Kingdom as the only belief and became the state religion.

After the Lord of Birth and Death became the only belief, many things in the desert changed. For example, the Church-led Desert Road Project, the Great Oasis Project, etc., gathered the originally scattered tribes into city-states with the Church as the core. , which relieved the pressure on the survival of the tribe, and also made Sha Lao's status gradually lost.

Afterwards, the witch hunting incident that swept across the entire Velen world also appeared in Savile. At that time, the desert guides from the Kaka tribe were all women, and because other tribes coveted the wealth of the Kaka tribe, they framed all the women of the Kaka tribe. It's a witch.

A gluttonous feast against the Kaka tribe was also instigated by interested people from all sides. The desert guides in the tribe and the families related to the desert guides were all captured and killed by fanatical believers. The tribal property was divided up by various forces. A Kaka tribe fell apart, and in the end there were less than a thousand Kaka tribes left.

After that, the Kaka tribe has been at the bottom of the entire Savile tribe and has not recovered. Although the church no longer captures witches, and even the witches have stepped onto the stage and become powerful figures in the kingdom, the Kaka tribe is still being used by people from various tribes. Even the last piece of land belonging to the Kaka tribe was deprived decades ago, and the Kaka tribe had to become a nomadic tribe.

Now the Kaka tribe mainly lives by selling sea salt. There are only more than 300 tribe members. Half of the women are female slaves bought by the Kaka tribe from slave traders in order to allow the tribe to multiply. These female slaves will eventually be distributed to the tribe. Men become tools for the reproduction of tribes.

The patriarch of the Kaka tribe is called Abahan Kasa. He was born in the era when the Kaka tribe had not lost their land and was still living in the city-state. Although the relationship between other tribes in the city and the Kaka tribe was not harmonious at that time, life At least it's safe.

However, since the Kaka tribe was driven out of the city-state, it has become full of disasters. The tribe died in large numbers due to illness, and even the former patriarch died of illness.

Abahan Kasa was forcibly elected as the patriarch by the tribe, because he was the only person in the tribe who had gone to school, and he was also the only adult Kasa family member.

In order to allow the Kaka tribe to continue, Abahan was forced to lead the tribe to work as a sand bandit for a period of time, and quickly accumulated a fortune. He led this group of people to start a business of selling salt, and he did it for decades.

Selling salt is not a very easy business. Generally, nomadic tribes take the desert road, which is safe and convenient, but you need to pay taxes when you go on the road, and you don’t just pay it once, you have to pay it once when you don’t go to a city-state.

The Kaka tribe doesn't have that much money to pay taxes, so they can only cross the desert like other low-level tribes. In the process of crossing the desert again and again, many tribesmen died in the desert, but fortunately they were found Several safe desert passages were made, and the Horde's losses stabilized.

Ten years ago, Abahan Kasa broke the marriage rules of the tribe, took out all the savings of the tribe for more than ten years, bought some female slaves, and let some of them marry adult men in the tribe. It has recovered a little, and children can be seen in the tribe.

Abahan Kasa not only wanted to restore the tribe's population, but he also hoped that the tribe could develop further. Even if it couldn't return to the former grand occasion of 100,000 people, it would be good to be able to become a tribe with thousands of people.

So, after thinking twice, Abham Kasa put his mind on those desert creatures in the Guga Desert.

Now the price of buying wild desert creatures outside has reached an astonishingly high bottom. An ordinary sand snake costs three golds. You must know that the price of an ordinary female slave outside is only fourteen gassas. One golds can buy Six female slaves.

Although it is very dangerous for anyone to enter the Guga Desert, even the tribes living in the edge of the Guga Desert will not be willing to enter the Guga Desert. The creatures are drawn out, captured.

But for Abahan Kasa, there is no danger at all when they enter the Guga Desert. For the Kaka tribe, the Guja Desert is just a home.

Others in the Kaka tribe did not know that the Kaka tribe actually originated from the Guja Desert, let alone the ability of the Kaka tribe to be able to freely enter and exit the Guja Desert and survive for a long time.

In Abahan Kasa’s view, the desert tribes around the Guga Desert claiming to be descendants of the Guga civilization are all liars. If there is really a Guga civilization in this world, and if there are descendants left behind, only the Kaka tribe Only this qualification.

The secrets about the Guja Desert were learned by Abhan Kasa after he became the patriarch. At that time, the former patriarch died of illness before he could leave any words. He was the patriarch elected by the clan. Find useful information from various tomes collected by the tribe.

But what he didn't expect was that he discovered the secret of the origin of the Kaka tribe in those ancient books of the tribe, and discovered a more important secret in the secret of the origin, that is, the desert guide of the Kaka tribe should actually be the ancient The guide of the Ga Desert.

In the past, when the Kaka tribe had just left the Guga Desert and was still very weak, the Kaka tribe relied on the tribe’s desert guides to travel through the Guga Desert and do business with other tribes, so Abahan Kasa also wanted to let Kaka Tribe starts again.

But the problem is that the Kaka tribe no longer has desert guides. Because of the witch hunting incident, all the guide families in the tribe were extinct. Their Kasa family was originally a guide family, but there were no guides for several generations at that time. Passers-by, so luckily escaped this catastrophe.

So this matter has been kept in the bottom of my heart by Abahan Kasa for a long time, but what happened suddenly a year ago reminded Abahan Kasa, who had already forgotten the story of the rise of the Kaka tribe. dream of the year.

A year ago, the Kaka tribe had to go deep into the desert to take refuge because they encountered an extremely powerful sand bandit. However, although they avoided the sand bandits, they got lost in the desert. Thieves are dangerous.

Just when everyone was feeling desperate, a person stood up and said that she could find a way out. At that time, no one believed her until she went out suddenly on a camel one night and brought back a dozen skins in the morning. Only after the clear water in the bag did everyone confirm that she was a guide in the desert where the Kaka tribe had been extinct for more than a hundred years.

In the next year, Abham Kasa constantly tested the ability of this guide. At first, the guide could only guide the correct road and direction at the edge of the desert. Now the guide can lead the entire tribe across The entire desert, and the process of crossing is more comfortable than taking the desert road. Before camping every night, you can always find a suitable water pool for camping.

It was also his confidence in the guide that made Abham Kasa impatient to implement his plan, and began to lead his tribe to infiltrate the Guga Desert to capture those desert creatures that could be sold for a large price.