The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Because Leo made a lot of noise in the forest, the caravan resting in the castle became a lot more nervous. Many of them took up weapons and stood on the broken city wall facing the forest. Look over, trying to see what's going on under the flat tree top.

Leo's return to the castle did not attract the attention of the rest of the caravan, and no one else even noticed that Leo had left the castle. Their attention was all attracted by the previous movement. Some bold and curious people He even thought that someone should be sent into the forest to see what happened.

However, this proposal was quickly rejected. After all, the sight of the hidden beasts in the forest last night was still fresh in the caravan's memory. No one had the guts to accept the task of exploring the forest.

However, although the caravan rejected the decision to explore the forest, they still carefully placed some lethal traps in several key places of the castle. In addition, they also placed some warning traps in other places in case something happened. accidents.

After returning to the caravan camp, Leo did not immediately start exploring the castle, but temporarily in his cart tent, carefully sorting out the harvest just now.

What is certain now is that the forest outside is extremely entangled with the power of the abyss, and has even caused the species there to undergo an abyssal mutation. For example, the giant python more than 50 meters long can already be regarded as an abyss creature.

Since the power of the forest and the abyss is extremely entangled, the castle that is so close to the forest must inevitably be affected by the power of the abyss, so that all kinds of horror legends about the castle will have a basis.

In addition, judging from the forest outside, the source of the power of the abyss that caused the change in the forest should no longer exist, or it may have failed. Otherwise, the giant python will definitely resonate with the source of the power of the abyss just now.

If this is the case, then those horror legends in the castle may not happen again.

Thinking of this, Leo's interest in exploring the castle weakened a lot.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the caravan camp. It seemed that something unusual happened outside. Leo opened the curtain of the tent and looked outside, and found a large group of people surrounded by several people looking towards another tent. Walked, and two of those people were carrying two young people on their backs. It seemed that the two young people were not in a good condition.

"What happened?" Leo recognized at a glance that the two young men who were being carried seemed to be one of the people who suggested exploring in the castle not long ago, so he directed to Sans, the owner of the cart next to him: "Go and find out, what happened?"

Hearing Leo's order, Sans immediately got into the crowd, relying on the relationship he had drawn in the past few days and his eloquence, he quickly got the news Leo wanted.

After hearing the inquired news from Sans, the curiosity that had just been extinguished in Leo's heart grew again.

After those young people entered the topmost castle, they each went away to explore on their own. When they were separated, they agreed on a meeting time and bet on what treasures they could find in the castle.

However, after the appointed time, several young people returned to the meeting hall of the upper castle, and found that two young people were missing. Afterwards, they searched, and soon found two people in the same empty room that was well preserved, and found that both of them were unconscious in the room, and they couldn't wake up no matter how much they shouted. The movement of the commotion in the camp.

After discovering this situation, Leo naturally thought that the time when the two young men fell into a coma seemed to be exactly when he solved the giant python and caused the entire forest to collapse abnormally. The unknown thing that caused the horror legend is still here.

The only thing that Leo didn't quite understand was that the two young men were unconscious, not dead as in the legend.

Thinking of this, Leo felt that he should check the situation of the two young people, so he directly used the spirit net to investigate the past.

Soon the situation in that tent was completely investigated by the spirit network. Now the tent is very lively, and the people in charge of the caravan, big and small, have come to the tent. Beside the hospital bed, they discussed whether they should immediately evacuate the camp in the square and leave the castle.

Obviously, the situation of these two young people has frightened these people, and many of them have followed other caravans to sleep in the castle overnight, but nothing happened in the legend, so they all They thought those were just unreliable rumors, so that when the caravan decided to rest in the castle for a day and a night, they also agreed.

But now, although the symptoms shown by these two children are somewhat inconsistent with the legendary situation, they are enough to arouse the panic deep in these people's hearts. They are all worried that they will become the next unconscious person.

It's just that the camp doesn't just start out, because after passing the ancient castle, there are all mountain roads, and there is no place for a large camp like a caravan to camp, so they can only cross the Quinsis Snow Mountain in one go.

It’s just that the road to the Quinsis Snow Mountain is rough and dangerous in some places. If you don’t pay attention, you may fall under the cliff on the other side of the mountain road. Therefore, you must have enough mental and physical strength before you can climb the mountain.

Everyone at the scene knew very well that with the current mental and physical strength of the caravan, if they forcibly climbed over the mountain, something would happen.

But it would be unrealistic to leave the castle and go back down the mountain, because in the early morning, it started to rain down the mountain, and the mud on the ground was even more muddy than last night, making it impossible to camp.

Leo was not interested in the things discussed in the tent. After he had a little understanding of the situation, he set the main purpose of the Spirit Net investigation on the two young men lying on the tent bed.

The energy wave generated by the spiritual net scanned the young man's body several times back and forth, and obtained detailed information on their bodies.

"Something's wrong!" Leo quickly discovered something unusual after obtaining the information of the two of them.

Because judging from the functioning of the various organs of the two people's bodies, the two should have entered a deep sleep, but through the analysis of the surge fluctuations of the neurons in the two brains, the two are in a light sleep state, which is normal sleep. Said dream sleep state. In this sleep state, people will start to dream, but the body will also have different degrees of movement with the dream, and the internal organs will also have a corresponding metabolism.

This knowledge comes from the early interstellar explorers of the Earth Federation. The Earth Federation has just entered the period of galaxy civilization. All the exploration spacecraft fly very slowly. It often takes several years or even ten years to fly from one galaxy to another. , so the Earth Federation created something like the dormant freezing method.

It is to let the astronauts enter the dormant and frozen state, and then the mastermind of the spacecraft assists the astronauts to enter the light sleep state at regular intervals, and their consciousness is integrated into the artificial virtual world to live and study. At the same time, the body will also obtain enough nutrients from the dormant cabin. Nutrition, thereby sustaining ultra-long-duration spaceflight missions.

Although soon, the Earth Federation came into contact with alien civilizations and obtained a subspace engine, and this dormant freezing method also lost its effect, but the relevant content was recorded in the universe history of the Earth Federation. Almost every When the cyborgs leave the factory, they will inject this knowledge, and Leo is no exception.

However, the current situation of these two young people is obviously completely contrary to the relevant experimental results of the Earth Federation. Their brains and bodies seem to be separated into two unconnected individuals. The bodies have entered a deep sleep state, but the brains But staying at the lower level of sleep, what kind of consequences this situation will eventually cause, Leo hardly needs to think very clearly, if this situation is not alleviated, these two young people will soon die in their sleep, just like the legend Like the victims who stayed overnight in the castle.

After learning about the situation, Leo took back the spiritual net, left the cart, entered the castle, and walked along the broken spiral staircase to the upper floor of the castle, where the senior generals and nobles of the castle should live.

Because it is built on the mountain, most of the houses here are excavated close to the mountain wall. Most of these houses except the brick and stone buildings built on the outer layer are due to age, vines and other reasons. Except for the collapse, the houses excavated close to the mountain wall inside are still well preserved.

Judging from the various traces here, no one has been here for a long time. The wooden furniture in the room has long been decayed, and only some stone furniture remains intact, allowing people to see some scenes of life in those years.

After Leo reached the upper floor, he went directly into the high-level meeting room whose roof had collapsed, then turned left, passed a corridor of ruins, and came to a room full of vines at the end.

Judging from its location, this room should be the room where the priests accompanying the army lived.

Although the Church of the Hill King did not have such a high status in the Maris Kingdom a thousand years ago, the Maris military has always been the concentration of the Hill King's faithful believers, so the military of the Maris Kingdom There is an unwritten rule, that is, every army must be equipped with a priest from the Church of the Hill King to bless the soldiers in the army.

It is precisely because the clergy are extremely important to the army, so the treatment of the clergy is naturally the best. This can be seen from the size of the room of the clergy. The room of the clergy is the largest, even larger than the room where the nobles and knights live in the castle.

The reason why Leo quickly recognized that this room belonged to the priests accompanying the army was not judging from the size of the room, but the large number of reliefs related to the king of the hill in the room.

For example, on the stone wall facing the stone bed in the room, there is a carefully carved holy emblem of the hill king. Even after so many years, this stone holy emblem is still well preserved.

In addition, in the reliefs on the walls around the room, there are a large number of mythological stories recorded in the classics of the hill king. Anyone who enters this room can feel a very strong religious atmosphere.

In addition, it is the natural atmosphere, because this house is the house with the most vines in the entire castle, and these vines almost cover the walls, roof and ground of the entire room.

If there were no accidents with those two young people, Leo might not have any opinion on this room, but now seeing this room and seeing such dense vines in the room, Leo felt that something was wrong with the room .

So, Leo immediately started to clean up the vines in the room.

The tiny vines in the room were directly torn off from the wall with spiritual energy, and the thick vines were cut into sections with the cross sword, and soon the plants and vines in the room were cleaned up. , the various reliefs on the walls of the room have also been concealed for hundreds of years, and they have reappeared before our eyes.

At this moment, Leo immediately noticed some abnormalities. If the reliefs of the fairy tales in the tome of the hill king were all on the ceiling and walls, he could still understand, but the problem is that these reliefs are also on the ground, and There are also a large number of holy symbols representing the king of the hill on the ground.

In other words, as long as you enter this room, no matter how careful you are, you may guess the holy emblem of the hill king on the ground, which is definitely a blasphemy in the church of the hill king.

"It seems that the faith of the clergy of the Church of the Hill King is going to be discounted!" Seeing everything in front of him, Leo couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Undoubtedly, such things as reliefs in the room can only be done by those who hate the Church of the Hill King, and a clergyman of the Church of the Hill King, or even a senior clergyman, can do such a thing. It's a little strange.

Because there are gods and spirits in the world of Velen, any high-ranking cleric will inevitably accept the magic of the gods. Only by obtaining the gift of magic from the gods can he become a high-level clergyman, and the magic of the gods naturally brings the power of the gods, These divine powers will affect the priests all the time, making those priests more and more loyal, so any senior priest must be a very loyal believer.

But now there is an exception here. If the clergyman appeared in the current era when the gods are retiring, it would be difficult for the gods to grant divine spells to the clergyman, and the influence on the clergyman would naturally weaken a lot. A hypocrite or two is nothing unusual.

But you must know that the owner of this room was a priest a thousand years ago. At that time, gods could still come to the world frequently, and evil gods and righteous gods were fighting openly and secretly in the world of Velen. It will also inevitably be affected by the power of the gods.

"How did he do it?" Leo couldn't help wondering how this hypocrite who was hostile to the Hill King deceived the Hill King Church at that time and became a senior priest of the Hill King.