The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Damn it! When will I leave this ghostly place!" Losev stomped his feet hard, stepped off the snow that was frozen on the edge of his shoes, and then moved his somewhat numb toes, although he had been in Cullenville for three years. , but he is still not used to this ghostly place.

Losev's home is in the Bena Forest Farm, which is the largest primeval forest in Daliat, where countless tall winter cypresses grow.

Although it is closer to the endless ice field in the north, there are constant cold winds all year round, but because of the obstruction of winter cypresses, the town where he lives actually encounters little wind, far from Cullenville, where there is no tall The trees, the cold and humid sea breeze constantly blowing from the sea, even if you wear thick clothes, these clothes will become extremely damp and cold due to the humid sea breeze, and have no effect on keeping out the cold.

He still remembered the unlucky guy last year who thought he lived in Bernia and could withstand any cold weather, put on something and ran outside to patrol, only to see his frozen body the next day, and His body was just over a small mound from the nearest barracks.

"Persist for a few more years!" Markucci, a veteran who has been in Cullenville for almost five years, said casually, while skillfully stuffing the Ackermann vanilla that arrived yesterday into the pipe and lighting it, took two puffs , and then tightened the towel around his neck, and continued to walk forward.

"Markucci, didn't you apply for discharge or transfer from here the year before last? Why didn't you apply?" Losev quickly caught up with Markucci and asked curiously.

"The current situation is so good, why should I apply to leave or be discharged from the army?" Markucci glanced at his young colleague, took a puff of cigarette, and asked back.

"How is the situation here?" Losev looked at the veteran in front of him in surprise, and felt incredible that he would make such an evaluation, so he retorted: "How is the situation here? Serving as a soldier here, everyone The monthly salary is the lowest in all parts of the country, and it takes a day’s walk to the nearest town, there are no people, and every day is to eat and wait to die.”

"Isn't it good to eat and wait to die?" Markucci asked back, and without waiting for Losev's answer, he continued: "Our daily task here is to patrol around this blood fog, and there is no need to patrol every day. According to the shift, each person only patrols twice a month, and the rest of the time is completely arranged by himself. How can there be such an easy job? Although our salary is low, if compared with the amount of tasks we Any soldier gets a high salary, and more importantly, we don’t need to risk our lives to earn this salary. If you want a high salary, go to the Berman patrol, go to the desert every day, and those Sasha The Virsa pirates are going back and forth, fighting for life and death, as long as there is one negligence, you will die in the desert, is that what you want?"

Losev curled his lips and did not refute. He was very clear that what Markucci said was correct. In fact, in the first year he came here, he also felt that this place was very good. There was no danger, the task was light, and there were Salary, but after staying for two years, he felt that this place was boring, and felt that this place was like a prison, and more importantly, there was no future for staying here.

The reason why he complained when he was on patrol today is not for nothing, because before the patrol, he received a letter from a friend from his hometown who was also being trained at the same time. He is still just a patrol soldier, and more importantly, when he was trained, his results far surpassed this companion. At that time, the same group of people who were trained thought that he would definitely be the first in that group to become an officer. People, but the result is now like this, which makes people who leave the village and want to do a big business feel extremely uncomfortable.

The two of them didn't speak any more, and followed the established route, stepping on the thick snow, walking around the edge of the blood fog in Cullenville.

The army stationed in Cullenville has two brigades. Their task is very simple, that is, to patrol around Cullenville surrounded by blood mist every morning, noon and night, and then record the changes in the blood mist. The task can be said to be extremely easy. .

At the beginning, the officers who were stationed in the army still took this task very seriously. Every patrol had to be patrolled by a whole team of troops, but later, they felt that it was completely unnecessary, so they divided the army into small groups, one small group at a time. The patrol, but now it has become a two-person patrol, which is completely perfunctory.

In fact, the higher-ups are very aware of this, but they have no intention of pursuing it. In their view, if it were not for the Queen's order, they would not have sent two brigades of people to station here in Cullenville. At most, they would only establish An observation post for ten people.

Undoubtedly, such a place is undoubtedly a prison for people like Losev who hope to get promoted and build a career.

Markucci is very aware of Losev's mentality, because he didn't have this kind of mentality back then. Such a mentality can only be figured out by himself, and other people's suggestions are useless at all.

Although the pace of the two was not fast, but because they were speechless all the way and walked with their heads buried, their speed was still very fast. Before they knew it, they had already patrolled around according to the route, and returned to the vicinity of the barracks. When they turned over a small hill, They had already seen the barracks from a distance.

At this time, both of them thought of the stove in the barracks and the hot milk tea brewed on the stove, the chill on their bodies could not help but reduce a bit, and their pace was much faster.

"Huh!" Markucci stopped suddenly at this moment, and looked at the blood mist in the distance.

"What's wrong?" Losev also stopped and asked.

"The blood mist is a bit different today." Markucci frowned and said vaguely.

Markucci doesn't have any extraordinary power, and he can't feel the changes in the blood mist, but he has often patrolled back and forth in the past five years, and he is also very curious about the blood mist, and he is the one who writes the records of the blood mist every time. The fog was very familiar, and just some slight changes made him feel a little strange.

"No? Isn't it still blood mist?" Losev also looked at the blood mist, but didn't see any abnormalities, then turned his head to look at his colleagues worriedly, and said, "You don't want to be with the old man too. Barenke is the same?"

Old Barenke can be said to be the biggest accident of the Cullenville Garrison. He was also one of the patrol soldiers. One day he claimed that he heard something talking to him in the blood mist. At that time, everyone paid no attention to it. , because after staying here for a long time, people will always talk about it, but then Barenke secretly preached in the barracks, established a mysterious blood mist church, and then when the army officials noticed this, led Those soldiers who were bewitched by him robbed the weapon depot, kidnapped more than 50 other soldiers, fled into the blood fog and never came out again.

Because of this incident, all the officers in the Cullenville garrison were sent to the court-martial, and each of the remaining soldiers had to be examined by some mysterious people. All in all, the entire barracks was panicked during that time.

"Fart, don't spread rumors about me! This is going to kill you." Upon hearing this, Ma Kuqi immediately yelled angrily at his colleagues.

Losev also knew that he had said something wrong, so he gestured apologetically to Markucci.

Markucci didn't say anything else, and continued to walk into the barracks. Although he was worried that he would be regarded as an old Barenk, he still looked in the direction of the blood mist, because he did feel something abnormal in the blood mist at this moment.

Soon the two returned to the camp and handed over the task. The officer in charge of the task handed over the task as usual and asked about the situation. The two looked at each other. , responded with a sentence, everything is normal.

The officer didn't find anything unusual, or he was just doing routine work, so he stamped a stamp on the task list, then motioned for the two to sign, and let the two leave.

The two people who left the office returned to the room where they lived. Just as they opened the door, they heard a group of people inside the room yelling for them to close the door quickly. People who had been walking for more than two hours couldn't help but relax, and then closed the door amidst yelling and scolding, took off their heavy coats and cotton clothes, took their own cups, walked to the stove, poured a cup of hot milk tea, and drank , while listening to the soldiers in the same room talking.

"Those two women are definitely the most beautiful women I have ever seen!" one of the soldiers swore.

Another soldier joked with disbelief on his face: "You have been here for more than five years, and the only woman you have seen is the aunt who delivers vegetables once a month. At least a slightly better-looking woman will be very beautiful to you. Maybe in another year, that aunt may also be the most beautiful woman in your eyes."

"Fart!" The soldier replied angrily, "I'm not like you, as long as I'm a woman, I'll go up to you!"

"You just said that they went into the warehouse?" At this time, the head of the house who was in charge of the military discipline in this room motioned everyone not to change the topic, and continued to ask what was interrupted just now.

"Yes!" The soldier who was asked nodded immediately, and recalled: "The guy in knight armor went in first," he said, and he habitually changed the subject to a fork in the road, saying: "That guy He is really tall, and his knight armor is the most gorgeous and beautiful knight armor I have ever seen, even more beautiful than the ceremonial armor of those gentlemen."

"Okay! Back to the topic." The head of the house clapped his hands vigorously and asked, "What happened after that? What happened after that?"

"Afterwards, there seemed to be some strange noises in that room, but they passed away quickly," the soldier continued to reply, "then the knight opened the door and let the two women in, and after a while, they came out and went The blood mist has gone there."

"Is it the new investigation team?" Markucci thought of the changed blood mist he saw at this time, and couldn't help asking, "Did they go into the blood mist?"

"Yes, they are the new investigation team." The soldier nodded, and then said regretfully, "It's a pity that those two beautiful women may not be able to come out anymore."

"How is the warehouse now?" the head of the house asked again.

The soldier shrugged his shoulders and said, "What else can we do? Isn't it still the same? Those three people left without closing the door. Although some people said that the warehouse must be safe, we didn't dare to approach it."

"Didn't you report this matter to the higher authorities?" She frowned and asked again.

"Others don't know, but I don't dare to report," the soldier shook his head and said, "What if those guys tell me to go to the warehouse to take a look? I don't want to become a lunatic and put my The skin is peeled."

While talking, everyone felt the ground vibrate suddenly, and then heard a loud noise spreading in the air. They were all stunned by the sudden appearance, but soon someone woke up. And without thinking about putting on warm clothes, he ran outside the house and looked towards the sky. At this time, the soldiers in other houses in the barracks were also shocked by the movement just now, and rushed out to check the situation. As a result, they all Seeing a scene that shocked them.

I saw that the half of the wizard tower in the blood mist in the distance had recovered at this moment, and the straight and tall tower directly penetrated the blockade of the blood mist and penetrated into the thick clouds in the sky.

However, before they understood what was going on, they saw a dazzling silver-blue light burst out of the clouds where the wizard tower was located, and then all the clouds around the wizard tower seemed to be covered by an invisible big hand. As if pushed, it rolled around, revealing a huge hollow, and the restored half of the wizard tower was right in the middle of the hollow.

Although the hole is very far away from the barracks, they can still see the starry sky that they haven't seen for a long time through the hole.

"This is because of the investigation team that went in before..." A soldier asked suddenly.

But before he could speak, he heard some people yelling in panic on the edge of the barracks facing the city of Cullenville in the distance, and then saw many people running at high speed in the direction away from Cullenville, although The soldiers present didn't understand what was going on, but they also started to run.

Although some people also wanted to follow, they ran back to their dormitories to get dressed without wearing enough clothes to keep out the cold.

When an abnormal situation happened, Markucci also ran out with the others to check the situation, but he was smarter and took the coat he had just taken off and put it on his body. Losev, who was planning to go out like this, saw this The situation also puts on its coat.

So when everyone ran outside without knowing it, neither of them ran back to get dressed, and because they had entered from the outside before, their bodies quickly adapted to the cold outside, and their running speed was much faster. , and soon caught up with the front man.

Just when they wanted to ask what happened, they saw those people looking behind them. They also looked over, and were immediately stunned. It turned out that the blood mist of Cullenville was spreading outward rapidly at this moment, and it had already pushed forward. Arrived at the station.