The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Verona is located at the junction of the upper and middle reaches of the Yelena River. This is the first village you can see after coming out of the Yelena River valley. What kind of caravans come and go, and Verona is not engaged in cargo merchant ships like other villages and towns on both sides of the Yelena River. They still use fishing according to the ancient tradition of the village.

However, the fish they catch are not river fish, but a sea fish called whitefish, which swims back from the sea to the valley of the Yelena River every year and lays eggs in a lake not far from their village.

Fishermen in the village do not catch whitefish that have not spawned, but fish that have just spawned and died not long ago. The flesh of this kind of fish will have a slightly sour taste, and the meat is firm and can be eaten directly. It's not good to eat.

But the people of Verona have mastered a method, collect concentrated fruit from the local forest, make sauce, and then smoke the whitefish, spread a lot of sauce, put it in a sealed jar and seal it , stored for half a year, after half a year, this kind of fish not only becomes soft and delicious, but also has a fruity fragrance, which is a delicacy at the banquet of Nilfgaard nobles.

Although this kind of fish is very delicious after being made, it is very fishy during the production process. Even after several months, the fishy smell has not disappeared.

When Leo and the others came to Verona, more than half a winter had passed since the fishing season and processing season. However, after they entered the village, the strong stench still made them hold their noses. , Women such as Sylvia and Miwar couldn't help showing a look of disgust.

However, compared to the disgusted expressions hidden by the women in the team, the disgusted expressions shown by the people in the village towards Leo and the others are on the surface. More precisely, the object of these villagers' disgust It wasn't Leo, Regil and the others, but Geralt, the witcher.

When he was in Lake Town, Leo knew something about the demon hunter from Ciri, and knew what the situation of the demon hunter was in their world. People here needed the demon hunter to hunt down those dangerous monsters for them monsters, but the people here regard the demon hunters as the same kind of monsters, and even think that the demon hunters are inferior to monsters, so the attitude of the people here towards the demon hunters can be said to be extremely bad, even with the hunters Lies such as the fact that demons will be entangled in bad luck when they eat together will be taken as truth.

However, after coming to this world, Leo did not see the things Shirley described in Toussaint. Although the people in Toussaint were also somewhat indifferent to the witcher, that kind of indifference and the feeling of seeing a stranger It was almost indifferent, so Leo felt that Ciri was exaggerating.

However, now that he came to Verona, the first village he arrived after leaving Toussaint, he realized that what Shirley said was not an exaggeration at all, the situation of the demon hunters here was indeed very bad.

When they entered the village, the villagers who saw them all showed awe when they saw Leo and Sylvia in gorgeous armor. They probably thought they were knight masters of a certain lord, but when After they turned their heads and saw Geralt, one by one hid back home as if they had encountered a plague god, and closed the door tightly. Some bold people even spat at the team. Within a moment, it was still very noisy. The villages and towns fell silent.

It was obvious that Geralt was used to this kind of situation, and although the others still showed dissatisfaction on their faces, they might have encountered it too many times before, so they didn't say anything about this situation.

On the contrary, Sylvia felt a little strange about this situation. If it wasn't for the inappropriate time and place, she would really like to ask someone casually, why do they hate someone who has nothing to do with them for no reason?

"We don't have any monsters here, and we don't have any ghosts. We don't need a witcher!" Right here, the village head of this village should have come out of a house and shouted at Geralt.

Geralt was about to say something, but was stopped by Regil who was beside him. He got off his horse, walked up to the village chief, and said, "Hello, we are just passing by here, not here to pick you up." What mission."

"Then you guys leave quickly!" The village head said indifferently when he heard the words, and turned around to go back to the house.

"Wait!" Regil immediately stopped the village chief and said, "We hope to rent a big boat from your village to go to Neuches downstream."

"No, there is no boat for you in the village." The village head replied without thinking.

"What if I want to buy a boat? Is there a boat for sale?" Sylvia rode up to the two of them at this time and said.

Seeing Sylvia, the village head's expression of disgust quickly turned into awe.

Although the armor that Sylvia is wearing now is not the dazzling set of dragon hunter armor, the gorgeousness of this set of king blade armor is still not comparable to the armor in this world. Anyone who sees this armor They will subconsciously think that the person wearing this armor is definitely a big shot.

So, the village head bowed his head halfway, and said respectfully to Sylvia, "My lord, there are indeed boats in the village, but those are fishing boats, and there aren't enough people on them, let alone horses." Then, he was worried that Sylvia thought he was lying, so he immediately added: "If you don't believe me, you can go to the river and have a look. All the boats in the village are docked by the river."

Hearing this, Sylvia turned to look at Geralt, as if asking for his opinion.

On the way here, they had already discussed the route of travel. In order to encounter the attack of Wigfortz's henchmen, Geralt thought it would be better to take a boat down the water. Continue south to Abbin.

Although Leo and Sylvia thought it would be okay even if they were attacked by people from Vigfortez, and they had enough strength to deal with these people, Leo still did not raise any objections and stopped Sylvia, because he My own proposal will make things go wrong.

"In this case, let's take the road of caravans!" Geralt quickly made a decision, and then he looked at the others, who did not express any objection.

Sylvia looked at Mirva, Angulan and the others with tired faces, and suggested: "It's getting late today, and it's not suitable for traveling. We've been traveling overnight these days, without rest, and in a bad state. Great, rest here tonight!"

Although Geralt wanted to object in his heart, he wished he could fly to the stronghold of Vigfortz right now, but he still resisted his urge, turned to look at his companion who had already written his exhaustion on his face, and clicked Nodded, agreed to Sylvia's proposal.

"Is there any place to live here?" Sylvia asked the village chief.

"My lord, if you don't like it, you can stay with me for one night," the village chief responded respectfully, then looked at the witcher in disgust, and added: "However, my place is too small to accommodate too many people." Man, only you and my lord..." He pointed to Leo and said, "This lord can stay here, the others can only find another place."

The very obvious repulsion of the village chief made the well-tempered Regil frowned. Angulan even wanted to scold him, but was stopped by Milva.

Sylvia said coldly: "No need! We will live together, you just need to tell me where is suitable for camping here."

The village chief curled his lips, and then seriously replied: "Along the path along the river bank, there is an abandoned hunter's hut, which was prepared by some nobles for hunting. However, the construction of Hegu Town Woke up, all the nobles went to Hegu Town for hunting, and this hunter’s hut was abandoned.” He paused and said, “However, something happened there a year ago, and it became Haunted cabin, if you are going to camp there, you may have to be careful."

After getting a suitable place to camp, the people did not stay in this village full of fishy smell and repulsive atmosphere. They turned their horses around, walked out of the village, found the riverside path, and headed forward.

"Damn old man! If you hadn't stopped me just now, I would have pounced on him and beat him up. Why does this guy look down on Uncle Geralt!" Angulane couldn't help feeling bad on the road, extremely aggrieved Said.

"What's the use of beating him? Don't other places discriminate against demon hunters?" Sylvia drove to Angulan's side, rubbed her head with her hand, and said, "Hunter The discrimination against demons is the reason of the whole world, it cannot be changed by one or two people, so there is no need to be angry about it.”

"I like Toussaint!" Angulane pouted, and said, "At least Toussaint doesn't hate uncle for no reason."

"Toussaint is indeed a good place." Angulane's words also resonated with Geralt, and he said in a deep voice: "If I decide to retire, I will definitely buy a manor in Toussaint and settle there .”

"Then you must reserve a room for me." Angulane immediately raised his hand and said.

"There must be your room!" Geralt responded with a smile, and said to the others: "There must be your room too."

Everyone laughed when they heard the words. Although they all thought that it was impossible for Geralt to settle in Toussaint, let alone buy a manor in Toussaint, this did not prevent them from imagining such a life.

During the conversation, everyone soon came to the hunter's hut mentioned by the village chief.

Because it was built by nobles, this hunter's cabin is much larger than ordinary hunter's cabins, and because it is full of materials, even if it has been abandoned for a long time, the overall cabin is still intact, but it is full of return trips, and Some vines grew.

When he came outside the hut, Geralt signaled everyone to stop, because his wolf head badge began to vibrate. Obviously, there was some negative energy here. It seems that the haunted hut that the village chief said before is not a rumor.

Geralt got off his horse, and was about to look for clues to see what happened here, and then find a chance to force out the ghost hiding here and deal with it.

"Let me do it!" Leo stopped Geralt at this moment, then dismounted, and motioned for everyone to get off their horses, followed Geralt to the front of the hut, and under everyone's gaze, Take the helmet off.

At the moment when the helmet was removed, the aura of sinful karma gushed out from the armor and spread to the surroundings. Those who felt the aura of sinful karma could not help feeling a little panic, wanting to run away from here immediately. , and those horses were even more unbearable and fell directly on the ground. Now everyone understands why Leo let everyone get off their horses.

At the same time, countless insects living in the abandoned wooden house and the surrounding forest died instantly, falling down like insect rain.

When everyone was suppressing their discomfort and covering the fallen insect corpses, a piercing scream came out from the shaft next to the hunter's hut, followed by a night demon spirit rushing out of the well, regardless of whether it was still daytime or not. Flee away.

However, at this time, a ray of sunlight in the distance passed through the branch of the tree and shone on the body of the night demon spirit. The body of the night demon spirit immediately melted like a piece of paper being lit, and it was completely destroyed in less than a minute before everyone's eyes. Disappeared.

Seeing that the cause of the haunting had been resolved, Leo put the helmet back on, and the sinful aura that affected all living beings around him disappeared instantly, and everything returned to its original state.

"You are terrible! I pity anyone who is against you!" Geralt, who had recovered a little, looked at Leo with lingering fear.

Leo smiled and said nothing.

Now that the hidden dangers of the hut have been resolved, everyone began to camp in the hut, and Leo and Silvia offered to hunt prey outside.

After leaving the hut, the two walked around the woods for a while. With Leo's spiritual net, they quickly caught several prey, and they took the prey to the river to clean them up.

At this time, Sylvia couldn't help but worry in her heart, and asked in a deep voice: "The aura of guilt on your body seems to be getting stronger and stronger? Is there something wrong?"

"It's okay! I'm just doing an experiment, so I didn't let the armor absorb the new sinful karma," Leo comforted Sylvia, and said, "But the experiment will have results soon. You won't have any problems without this armor."

Seeing Leo's answer, Sylvia didn't ask any more questions. The two returned to the hut after handling the prey.

At this time, the hunter's hut has been cleaned by everyone. All the dead insects have been cleaned out, and the dust around the stove in the house has also been cleaned up. Everyone spread the backpack items on the ground, and lit the stove. Once up there, the room soon warmed up enough to at least get a good night's sleep.