The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The head of the caravan, Gu Sang, commanded his subordinates to sort out the goods in the camp and move them to the pack cart. Then he looked at the sun that was about to rise above his head, cursed in his heart, and felt a little puzzled at the same time.

The people in the caravan got up very late today. They should have been woken up by the night guards in the early morning, but knowing that the sun was rising very high, the people in the caravan woke up one after another, and missed the last time to cross the Quinsis Snow Mountain. good time.

If they continue to set off, they may have to climb the mountain overnight, which is far more dangerous than climbing the mountain during the day.

In addition to such a big matter, the principals of the caravan, large and small, naturally have to be held accountable.

Afterwards, after asking everyone, they found out that the guards who were supposed to be on duty at night were all asleep, which means that their caravan camp was in a completely undefended state last night.

After learning about this incident, everyone felt terrified. Fortunately, they did not encounter any robbers or robbers, otherwise the entire caravan would be over.

However, even though they knew that the responsibility lay with the guards who were on duty at night, the principals who had heard the guards' explanation did not intend to blame the guards, because they all thought of the legends about this castle at the moment.

Although the entire caravan seemed to be in good condition, it was learned from the night guards that they all fell asleep inexplicably last night, just like the legendary victims who stayed overnight in the castle.

So each of them felt scared in their hearts. Even under the bright sun during the day, they still felt that the surroundings seemed very eerie. Almost all the people in charge expressed that they did not want to stay here for another night, and proposed to leave immediately, even if they needed to turn around overnight. Mountain.

Seeing this situation, although Gu Sang was worried about the dangers of walking the mountain road at night, he was also worried about the dangers hidden in the castle. He thought this was not a place where he could stay for a long time, so he ordered the camp to be set up and packed.

Although the caravan had already tidied up most of their luggage the day before, these tidying methods are aimed at climbing mountains during the day. At night, this kind of tidying method cannot be used, and a different method is needed to reduce the danger of trekking. For example, the cargo of each pack cart must be lightened and so on.

It took a lot of time to rearrange the goods, and it was already noon when the pack cart was completely rearranged and ready to go on the road.

The convoy did not stop to eat, but prepared a little dry food casually, and drove the cart directly, passed through the castle corridor at one end of the square to the other end, and began to formally step into the mountain road of Quinsis Snow Mountain. The previous algorithm, here is the real ancient salt railway.

The Ancient Salt Railway was first used by the mountain people of the Maris Kingdom to hunt, chop firewood, and gather herbs. Later, some smugglers from the Maris Kingdom discovered the mountain road, and they expanded the mountain road, and then A road was dug on the hillside of the Saville Kingdom, and only then did the ancient salt railway come into being.

At that time, there was no sea salt extraction method in the Vinylon world, and all the demand for salt came from salt mines on several continents, and the top three salt mines in the Vinylon world were all in the Savile Kingdom, and these salts were also important for the Savile Kingdom. commodity, and was listed as one of the prohibited items by the kingdom.

Similarly, the Kingdom of Maris uses the highest-quality iron ore in the entire Vinylon world. The special ironware they produce can be said to be high-quality goods, and they are also the most popular commodities in the entire Vinylon world.

The smugglers used this ancient salt railway to transport these two best-selling commodities to the two countries, and obtained huge profits beyond imagination. Some smugglers even became nobles of the two countries through the huge profits they obtained.

Such huge huge profits naturally attracted the attention of the real nobles of the two countries, and they quickly decided to take this smuggling business route for themselves.

Although the smugglers were unwilling to give up such a huge profit, they were helpless in the face of the oppression of the two kingdoms. They could only surrender the ancient salt railway.

However, after that, except for some civil strife in the Kingdom of Savile, all the attention of the kingdom was attracted by the civil strife, and the Kingdom of Maris quickly sent people to the other side of the ancient salt railway to build a strong castle. , occupied the entire ancient salt railway, and finally after the Savile Kingdom recovered from the civil strife, it was no longer possible to delay the situation. In the end, the Savile Kingdom could only find another business route.

Although at the beginning, the ancient salt railway dug by the smugglers on the hillside of the Savile Kingdom was a bit narrow and simple, but because the Maris Kingdom built a castle here and stationed troops, it needed to transport military supplies frequently, so the ancient The Salt Railway has undergone yet another major renovation.

During this renovation, the road was not only widened, but they also carefully measured the width of the military-style pack cars, and installed two ground rails on the ground for the pack cars to climb.

I saw that the caravan came to the bluestone road going up, skillfully stuck the wheels in the guide rail grooves on both sides of the road, and then drove the pack car to move towards the top of the mountain.

Because, from time to time, smugglers and other caravans take this road, this ancient salt railway does not know the road that has been deserted for a long time, except that weeds grow in some places, and there are some gravels that have fallen from the mountain. Other than that, the road conditions are pretty good.

However, this relatively good road condition only lasted halfway up the mountain. After the middle section, most of the previously paved roads have been destroyed, leaving only a gravel mountain road that allows two cars to run side by side. Some broken stones kept falling down due to the mountain wind.

It took less than two hours for the caravan to go from the foot of the mountain to the halfway up the mountain, and it took almost the same time to climb up less than two kilometers from the halfway up the mountain. It may not be possible until late at night to reach the top of the mountain.

What's worse is that it has started to rain and snow, and the ground has become slippery.

For this reason, Gu Sang had to stop temporarily, cover the wheels with non-slip leather covers, and then tie up each pack cart with iron chains. Once a pack cart slipped out of the road, these iron chains could also ensure that The pack cart was pulled to prevent it from slipping into the ravine beside the road.

The really bad thing is not the slippery ground, but the strong wind brought by the rainy and snowy weather. These strong winds not only slow down the climbing speed a lot, but also keep hanging down the big rocks from the hillside. These big rocks A fall is often fatal.

The convoy is also very experienced in dealing with these big rocks. They have erected several shield-like iron plates on the pack carts. The people and pack animals in the caravan hid under the iron plates, but some people were still too careless. He failed to grab the shaft, was blown away from the protection of the iron plate by the strong wind, and was hit by falling rocks and died on the spot.

Although people died, the convoy did not stop because of this. According to the tribal rules, the dead people cut off their hair and nails, wrapped them in paper, and handed them over to their families when they returned, while their bodies were thrown on the cliff beside the road. Down.

Compared with the pack cart that was driving hard in front, the pack cart at the end of the caravan without any defensive measures looked very relaxed.

There seemed to be an invisible force around that pack cart. The violent rain and snow turned into drizzle and light snow when it approached there, while the strong wind turned into a breeze. Even stones falling from the sky would be blown away Before approaching there, he inexplicably changed direction and passed by without causing any trouble to the carriage.

The pack owner Sans was worried about this danger at first, but as various weird things happened around him, he realized in his heart that the people in the tent behind him should have done it, and he relaxed a little. .

Some people in the caravan who knew about the woodcarving also noticed the condition of the carriage, and guessed in their hearts that this strange situation should be caused by the people in the carriage. They felt more and more awe in their hearts. Get close to the horse and make friends and chat.

Although Leo, who was sitting in the carriage, protected the carriage from being blocked by the wind and snow and the surrounding falling rocks through the spiritual net and psychic energy, his mind was not on protecting the cart, but on his back. Variations in patterns.

There is no doubt that those few pages yesterday from the book of Night God's Sigh brought great changes to the pattern on his back, but the problem is that he can only find the change in the shape of the pattern now, but the changed pattern does not make the pattern change. Any changes in his nightmare power neither greatly enhanced his nightmare power, nor gave him any knowledge related to the power of nightmare or Night God's Sigh.

"Could it be that yesterday's thunder gun was too powerful and damaged those pages." Leo couldn't help but feel puzzled, and at the same time, some guesses appeared in his mind.

Although it was just a guess, Leo also felt that this guess might be true. After all, he didn't absorb the power of the thunder gun last night at all, and the power contained in it was not much worse than the energy main gun on a starship, and Although those few pages came from a mysterious and powerful thing like Night God's Sigh, they are only a few pages after all. Even if there is really powerful power contained in them, after so many years, there may not be many left. Lei It is reasonable that the gun can damage it.

However, even if he was skeptical, Leo did not give up and continued to study the tattoo behind him. Since those few pages can still cause changes in the tattoo behind him, it will definitely change his nightmare power. Maybe this change It was hidden, or it might be that this change was so small that he didn't notice it for the time being.

In this way, Leo stayed quietly in the cart, studying his own affairs, ignoring all kinds of movements outside.

The caravan was led by experienced veterans, slowly moving towards the top of the mountain.

As the sky gradually darkened, the convoy lit the torches. I don’t know whether it was because of the proximity to the top of the mountain or other reasons. The surrounding wind and snow were much smaller, and the gravel falling from the slope next to the road It has been greatly reduced, and they are all very fine gravel, no longer big stones.

However, this does not mean that the road is easy to walk. The rain and snow that fell during the day have already formed ice on the road at this time, and the road is slippery and difficult to walk.

Fortunately, every time there was an accident, the veteran in charge of the cart was able to use the braking device on the pack cart in time to block the ground and prevent the pack cart from sliding further, and then the other pack carts used the connected iron chains to move the The pack cart that slid out of the driveway was pulled back, and this did not cause major damage.

Along the way, the caravan did not suffer any major losses. Only when a pack cart slid out of the driveway, nearly half of the cargo on it fell to the cliff beside the road because it was not tied securely.

Although the convoy walked very slowly, it was still steady, and finally reached the top of Quinsis Snow Mountain in the middle of the night.

The mountaintop part of the ancient salt railway is built along a mountaintop glacier, and there are some relatively flat terrain around it, which can be used for people to rest.

Although, as a caravan supervisor, it seemed like he would keep going and walk through this mountain path in one go, but his rationality prevented him from doing so.

After a whole day of intense driving, the convoy was exhausted from top to bottom, and the ancient salt railway on the side of the Maris Kingdom was not like the relatively spacious two-lane railways on the side of the Savile Kingdom. With an extremely narrow lane, it takes more concentration to drive a pack cart to safely walk through this ancient salt railway.

Therefore, Gu Sang ordered the team to rest on the spot for an hour, boil some hot water and cook some hot food on the spot, eat something, and recover some physical strength and energy.

When the convoy stopped, Leo got off the cart, left the convoy alone, and walked towards the glacier not far away.

Some guards in the convoy didn't know about Leo's situation. They wanted to stop Leo from approaching the glacier, but they were stopped by the team chief. Although these chiefs didn't know what Leo wanted to do, they knew very well that no matter what Leo wanted to do, Nothing is out of their control.

Leo walked to the edge of the glacier, released the spirit net, and probed into the glacier.

The reason why Leo was interested in the glacier was because he felt that there seemed to be an energy fluctuation in the glacier. This energy fluctuation was very weak, almost equivalent to a low-level psionic creature, but the level of this energy was very high. High, at least beyond Leo's psychic level, because while feeling this energy fluctuation, he also felt a suppression from the life level.

"The God of Quinsis Snow Mountain? Why is this thing?" Leo quickly discovered the source of this energy fluctuation, but he felt a little puzzled by what he detected through the spiritual network.

Because, Leo discovered that the thing emitting that high-level energy fluctuation turned out to be a skull fragment, and this was also a very special skull fragment.

Driven by curiosity, Leo walked quickly to the top of the glacier. The spiritual energy was driven out from his body and gathered at his feet to form an invisible drill bit, making him drill into the skull fragments under the glacier like some kind of drilling device. past.

The people in the caravan were all attracted by the movement on Leo's side. They only saw Leo walking on the glacier, and suddenly sank into the iceberg. Before they went to the rescue, Leo, who had just sunk into the glacier, came up from below again and landed on the surface of the glacier, but there seemed to be something extra in his hand.