The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

I don’t know if it’s because of the good luck brought by the so-called “miracle” that climbing the most dangerous mountaintop section of Quinsis Snow Mountain has become very easy. Even if you walk in the middle of the night, the road is only full of surprises. Not to mention casualties, even the goods were not lost.

After climbing over the top of the mountain and officially entering the mountain body of the Maris Kingdom, the continuous rain and snow stopped, and the snow on the ground also melted quickly, and the ground was no longer slippery after a while , Pack cart driving has become a lot safer.

What's more important is that the ancient salt railway on the side of the Maris Kingdom is better than the road on the side of the Savile Kingdom, and because the terrain is relatively flat, the road is much easier to walk.

The only flaw is that because no one regularly cleans the road, a lot of weeds grow on the road, which blocks people's sight and makes it impossible to see some potholes and traps on the road. The shaft and wheels of the car were destroyed, and the vehicle had to be stopped to repair it.

However, this is a good thing for the caravan. After all, the caravan crossed the Quinsis Snow Mountain overnight, and everyone was already extremely sleepy. If it weren't for the shocking scene witnessed on the top of the mountain, everyone's spirits seemed to be infused with divine power Generally excited and vigorous, maybe they have already fallen asleep under the dual pressure of spirit and body.

The head of the caravan also found that everyone was extremely sleepy, and it might be dangerous to continue walking, so after reaching a relatively flat area, he ordered to stop and rest on the spot.

Although there was no formal camping, a bonfire was lit to dispel the chill from everyone, and some hot food was prepared to restore some strength and spirit.

After the meal, the members of the caravan each found a warm place to take a nap, and they were not woken up until noon. They continued their journey with hot water and some dry food.

Although the slopes on the west side of Quinsis Snow Mountain are a little gentler, the journey is much farther, and there are still several peaks to be detoured on the way. The ancient salt railway in this section is four or five times longer than the ancient salt railway on the eastern slope.

The caravan that continued on its way at noon did not arrive at Cask Town, a resting point in the middle of the ancient salt railway, until late at night.

The mountains on the east and west sides of Quinsis Snow Mountain are like two extremes. I don’t know if the mountains on the east side of the Savile Kingdom are affected by the desert. The vegetation on the slopes is very sparse, and most of them are some Weeds and moss are everywhere, and a large number of rocks are exposed outside, which looks very desolate, and no one would think that there can be any prey in such a place.

However, the mountains on the west side of the Quinsis Snow Mountain in the Maris Kingdom are different. Except for a part of the top of the snow mountain that is covered with shrubs, moss, weeds and other plants, the rest is very dense virgin forest. A large number of red broad-leaved trees grow here, and countless wild animals inhabit here, so hunting activities here are very popular.

In the beginning, Barrel Town was just a lumberyard and manufacturing workshop specially opened by a wine barrel merchant to cut down trees and make wine barrels conveniently. But after that, many hunters who went hunting on the mountain would use this place as a resting place, and some hunters even built some simple hunter huts, and over time it became a village.

However, with the reopening of the ancient salt railway, caravans coming and going here will also use this place as a foothold, which also makes the small village that was originally just a resting place for hunters gradually grow into a small town.

The new hunting season is still two months away. It is reasonable to say that there should not be too many people in Wooden Barrel Town, but when the caravan arrived in Wooden Barrel Town, they found that Wooden Barrel Town was already overcrowded. They couldn't even find a hotel or private house where they could rest, so they could only camp on a meadow outside the town.

Afterwards, the caravan manager Gu Sang sent someone to the town to buy food, and asked why there were so many people in the town.

The people who went to the town came back soon, and brought back bad news, that is, the civil war in Marris Kingdom has spread to Kugang City, and many people are unwilling to be involved in the disaster of this civil war , chose to throw it into the deep mountains to avoid the disaster of war, and wait for the outside things to calm down before going back.

Although the civil war in the Kingdom of Marris has nothing to do with the Saviles, and even the Saviles will take pleasure in this civil war, but the problem is that once the scope of the war includes Dry Steel City, then the business of Dry Steel City It will inevitably be affected, and merchants in Kugang City from various countries will also temporarily leave their residences like ordinary people, and go to other places to avoid it.

In this way, there may no longer be any foreign merchants from Dellatte’s side in Kugang City, and their caravan mainly transports goods with merchants from Dellatte’s side. If they leave, then the goods they transported this time will definitely not be sold.

The more important point is that wars often bring security problems. Ordinary bandits are fine. The caravan guards alone are enough to deal with them, but if those bandits are from the army, then they will be really troublesome.

For a while, the senior management of the caravan became tense, and after casually ordering the camping, they gathered in a tent to discuss whether to continue to Kugang City.

When the caravan set up camp, Leo had already quietly left the camp and came to Cask Town. He mainly wanted to know the news in Marris Kingdom.

Because it is a remote town in the deep mountains and old forests, and there are no newspapers or other things that can provide a lot of information, Leo can only follow the old method, stay in the most lively tavern in the center of the town for a while, and listen to the people around him. Chat with us to learn about the situation in the Kingdom of Maris.

Now the hottest thing in the tavern is naturally the monsters and weird things that appeared out of thin air after the world mutated. Except for a few people in the tavern who have experienced it personally, everyone else is hearsay, so there are not many people Really believe that there are monsters and such in the world, and use these topics as talk to pass the boring time.

However, for Leo, these topics provided him with a lot of useful information.

When he was in the Savile Kingdom, he also saw some reports about the Marris Kingdom, but those reports were not very detailed or many about the sudden appearance of monsters, and the situation of the Savile Kingdom itself It stabilized quickly, so it gave Leo an illusion that the situation of the Maris Kingdom should be similar to that of the Savile Kingdom, even if it was a little bit worse, it would not be much worse.

But now, from the mouths of the people in the tavern who fled here to escape the disaster of war, he knows that the mysterious side of the Marris Kingdom has had a very serious impact on the real world. Monsters continue to attack ordinary people in various parts of the Marris Kingdom. Happened, and not only at night, there are also many monsters that appear during the day.

In the face of these monsters, ordinary people have no ability to resist at all. Only the army and the city's military police can deal with these monsters, but every time they have to pay huge casualties to solve the monsters.

There are legends that appear together with monsters, and there are organizations that maintain order such as night watchmen, but their number seems to be much smaller than monsters. Although they can save many people every time, but for the mysterious side of the entire Marris Kingdom The situation doesn't make much difference.

However, the kingdom's army still has absolute power to suppress these monsters, so those towns that encountered monsters either invited government troops to garrison the towns, or simply joined the rebels. It is also rapidly expanding. Both sides believe that if the war continues, they will become the final victors, so no one has the idea of ​​peace talks.

Because a large number of people have gathered around the cities where the army is stationed, the suburbs or remote areas have become desolate, and some villages have not escaped and want to stay in their homes. However, after they encounter monsters, they often end up in extreme situations. Tragic.

In the tavern, there were a few people from the village that was slaughtered by monsters. Most of the other people didn't take what these people said seriously, but Leo could hear the excitement, grief and indignation in these people's words , regret and so on.

In the tavern, some people knew that what these people said was true, because they had seen those monsters before, and how those monsters treated human beings as food, so they somewhat empathized with them, and they also felt sorry for themselves. I feel fortunate, and even more fortunate that I was able to come to the safe Wooden Barrel Town.

However, these survivors under the mouth of the monster did not know that in the tavern where they were, not far from the table where they were sitting, there were five family members who had returned to the appearance of ordinary people sitting quietly. there.

Although the camouflage of these family members is perfect, under the investigation of Leo's spiritual network, it is easy to distinguish the family members with very special physique and soul.

From the strong bloody smell on these four family members, it can be seen that these family members must have attacked humans, and attacked many humans, and even ate many humans, but Leo did not see any signs of them losing control , obviously these Familia are just pure evil.

However, Leo does not plan to deal with these four family members now, because he really wants to see what changes will happen to the family members who are closely connected with the gods after the world changes, with the return of the gods, especially in terms of strength. He also wondered if the Night's Watch had changed as well.

At the same time as he discovered the four evil family members, Leo also discovered the traces of two night watchmen. They were on the second floor attic of the tavern, and their positions happened to overlook the entire tavern. The two of them had more sightlines. What was placed on the four evil family members was obviously aimed at these distances.

The situation of these two night watchmen is different. One should be implanted with different god cells, and the energy fluctuations on his body are somewhat similar to those of the family members, while the other is derived from the awakening of the blood, but Leo is not clear What is this person's blood? From the energy fluctuations, he can only feel that this person's power may be related to flames, because his energy fluctuations are somewhat similar to those of the fire bather Seran, which can make Leo feel hot.

After discovering these family members and night watchmen, Leo buried a mark on them respectively to determine the location of these people.

After that, he turned his attention to another thing he heard in the tavern.

The person who said this matter has some status. He is a maintenance craftsman of the logistics support department of the Royal Government Army, and he is a craftsman with military rank. He is mainly responsible for the maintenance of the material transportation steam train exclusively for the military department.

Not long ago, he was in charge of a routine inspection of a steam locomotive, and after discovering a few problems, he quickly solved them, and let the steam locomotive leave the maintenance room within the stipulated time and continue to run on the rails Send strategic materials to the various distributions of the Royal Government Army.

Originally, this was just a very simple routine inspection, but the steam locomotive he was in charge of inspecting had an accident on the second day. The reason was that the speed of the locomotive was so fast that it was impossible to stop the train after arriving at the station. He rushed out of the station and entered the track in advance, and collided head-on with another steam train on the opposite side. The two locomotives were damaged on the spot, and the people inside the train suffered heavy casualties.

After hearing this, the craftsman knew that things were bad. It would be fine if only people were injured, but the problem was that two steam locomotives crashed, and the loss was too great for anyone to bear. And the most important thing is that the factory that manufactures locomotive cylinders is still under the control of the rebel army, which means that it is impossible for these two steam locomotives to be replenished.

There is no doubt that someone must take responsibility for such an important time. Let alone others, he, the craftsman who overhauls the steam train, may not escape accountability.

The craftsman quickly figured out the pros and cons, and immediately made a decision to flee, so he escaped from the factory managed by the military with all his money overnight, and headed north all the way to Deliyat.

However, he had never traveled far, was not familiar with the road, and encountered some strange things, which made him lose his way, and finally mixed with a group of refugees and came to Wooden Barrel Town.

After he settled down, he was always thinking about why the steam locomotive he was repairing had an accident, so he used the limited resources at hand to carefully restore the process, and even made a steam locomotive that was so crude that it would fall apart at any time. After experimenting, he finally came to a result, that is, some parts that make up the steam locomotive can produce power far beyond the limit measured in the past after certain combinations.

This extraordinary power effect makes the train run faster than before, and also makes the brake system unable to work after activation, which eventually leads to the steam train passing through the station, and another train slowly coming from the opposite side collide.