The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Do you know where the hometown of the Renault people is?" Leo couldn't find the information he wanted from his own data, so he asked Sylvia who was still studying the detector.

"Do you still need to ask?" Sylvia looked at Leo with some puzzlement, and said, "Of course they are from the northern ice field."

"I know they come from the Northland Icefield." Leo saw that Sylvia misunderstood him, so he added: "What I want to ask is where is the Northland Icefield?"

Sylvia was about to answer Leo's question, but after the question went through her mind, she found that she couldn't find the answer.

The Reynolds of Daliat come from the North Ice Field of the Velen Continent. The materials Via had seen before did not mention the hometown of the Renault people, as if the Renault people suddenly appeared in this world, just like they suddenly perished.

"If you want to investigate the materials of the Renault people, the Royal Academy of France should have it. They once specially revised a history of the tribes of the Northland. However, due to some political reasons, this work was not published, and only a few copies were printed and stored in the Royal Academy. The college and the royal library." Sylvia thought for a while, gave a suggestion, and then asked: "Why did you suddenly ask about the hometown of the Renault people? Do they have any questions?"

"There is a problem." Leo nodded, pointing to the universal recorder and the detector on his wrist, and said, "I just checked the original data in the detector through this thing, and found that the ancestors of the Renault people understood How to fully use this device from the starry sky, so the Leiluo people must have systematically contacted the items left in the starry sky, and those items are likely to be in the hometown of the Renault people."

"They might have brought something here too?" Sylvia questioned, arranged the detector, and said, "Didn't they also bring this thing?"

"Indeed, this kind of small thing can indeed be taken away, but..." Leo pointed to the document that recorded the metal chunks at the bottom of the lake and said, "They should not be able to take away something as big as the bottom of the Belén Ice Lake."

Sylvia didn't refute Leo's thoughts, but changed the topic back, saying: "When we return to the Velen Continent, we can go to the imperial capital. I happen to have some family things to get back."

Leo nodded after hearing this. In fact, before that, they mentioned that after returning to the Velen Continent, they would go south by that route and where they were going.

If it is safe to say, it is natural to travel westward from the Northland, take the Union of Hanossa, and then pass through the ruins of Miria, and then browse the Dibia Mountains or take a boat south along the coastline and return to the United Kingdom.

However, Sylvia denied this safe path, and instead decided to go through the Faran Empire on the east coast and take this dangerous path.

You must know that both Sylvia Belmont and Earl Maupassant are among the top ten most wanted criminals in the French Empire. There are countless people in the French Empire and the people who want to catch her. This southward route of the French Empire is tantamount to seeking a dead end.

However, when Sylvia made a decision, Leo did not dissuade her. He didn't know why Sylvia chose this path, but he knew that there was no need to ask more questions, he only needed to express that he would be with her. She walks.

Now it seems that Sylvia's decision to go to the Faran Empire should be related to her family's belongings.

On that day, the political situation in the Villen continent changed suddenly. The sudden establishment of the United Kingdom not only caught the French Empire by surprise, but even some people in the United Kingdom were completely confused, and Sylvia was one of them.

It was also for this reason that Sylvia was unable to transfer her family's property and belongings, so that all these belongings were seized by the French Empire. Afterwards, these things, including Belmont Manor, were auctioned off, and all the belongings were lost. .

Although Sylvia has retrieved most of the family's belongings through some means, there are still many important things that are still in the hands of other people. This has become a thorn in her heart, and she decided to find them no matter what. Opportunity pulls out this thorn, and Leo's colleagues are a good opportunity.

Leo knew Sylvia's thoughts very well, so he didn't persuade Sylvia.

The two of them didn't discuss in depth what to do after meeting Velen Continent. Instead, they returned to the matter of Belen Ice Lake and studied the information carefully. Also test the detector.

When he learned that the two were planning to investigate the huge metal ruins in the water of Belen Ice Lake, the head of the scholars in the camp naturally objected, and the reason for his objection was not that he was worried about what the two would find out, but that it was the most severe cold. In winter, none of the divers they recruited could go into the water in such a cold season, and they would not be able to do any reconnaissance there.

However, after Leo and Sylvia showed the Ice Queen's pass, the scholar director had no way to stop the two, but sent a recruited diver as a guide to lead the two to the underwater ruins they built. channel.

After that, the three of them rode the pack beasts of the North towards the passage.

On the way, Leo also asked the diver guide about the ruins in the water, but he didn't get any useful information, not because the diver wanted to keep some secrets, but because the diver was only recruited this summer Yes, since I came here, I have carried out a total of three missions, and those three missions were all search missions in other waters, and I have not touched the remains of the metal block in the water.

Like all the divers recruited here, this young man named Talanke is also a member of the family. In fact, nearly half of the divers here are members of the same clan in the village where Talanke lives. Almost all the people in their village are family members.

Their tribe was originally a small fishing tribe on the east coast of Savile. Because the ancestors of the tribe believed in an evil god in the water, their blood was infected, and their entire tribe became the family of that evil god.

It's just that the evil god was finally consulted by the church of the Lord of the Birth and Death of All Things, and the evil god was also killed. Their tribe was even wanted by the Savile church and the government, so they had to escape from Savile and freeze in the northern ice field. The soil settled down and still made a living by fishing.

Because at the beginning, Daliat also had the same strong repelling mentality towards the family members as the southern countries, so their tribe had to hide their true identities. The mutations are all recessive, such as webbed feet, gills behind the ears, etc. These invisible mutations will not affect their lives, but will make it easier for them to go fishing.

Only a small number of people will undergo large-scale mutations in their bodies, such as growing scales, completely deforming their heads, and turning into half-human, half-fish monsters. Most of these people will suffer from mental disorders and other problems due to body mutations. They will not go to other people, but will enter the sea one day, and finally disappear completely from the eyes of the tribe.

Some people said that the people who turned into murlocs all died in the sea, but others said that they encountered some murlocs when they went fishing. These people seem to have established an underwater village in the sea.

Later, Lia Venistan became the queen of Daliyat, and the whole Daliyat became the sanctuary of the family, and their tribe was truly stable. In addition to inheriting the family business, the people in their tribe went to sea to catch In addition to fish, more people joined Deliyat's navy, and some of them even became officers because of their military exploits.

Taranque originally wanted to join Deliyat's navy, but because of his strong cold resistance and deep diving ability, he was assigned to the Belén Ice Lake and became one of the hired divers.

Although he therefore lost the way to rely on the army to improve his social status, he also received monetary compensation. It is no exaggeration to say that a newcomer like him who has only been here for a few months and has performed several missions, a few months His salary is already the salary of other members of the same family who joined the army for several years. If he can find any artifacts of prehistoric civilization at the bottom of the lake, then the reward he received is enough to allow him to live a very rich life.

So he will try his best to accept tasks from scholars. Veterans here will not accept tasks like this after winter, because such tasks are very dangerous, and the salary will not be much higher than ordinary tasks. Many, only a rookie like him would show such enthusiasm.

Perhaps it was because no one in the camp was willing to talk to him. When Leo asked about the prehistoric ruins at the bottom of the Belen Ice Lake, he didn't have any idea of ​​keeping it secret, so he talked about everything he knew. He said it out loud and clear.

And what he said was not exactly the same as what Leo and Sylvia saw in the information, and there were many secrets of conversations between divers.

For example, a diver once saw the metal relic at the bottom of the lake emitting light one night. He thought it might be an opportunity, so he dived into the frozen lake by himself without notifying the camp.

As a result, after approaching the metal ruins, he heard an unknown sound. According to his description, the sound was very loud and terrifying, like a whisper from the abyss, and even covering his ears could not stop him from hearing it. this voice.

At that time, he was very scared and did not continue to approach the metal ruins. Afterwards, he returned to the camp and reported the matter to the scholars in the camp.

However, after hearing the report, the scholars at the camp immediately took people to the metal ruins, but they didn't hear anything, so the scholars thought that the diver was lying and wanted to use it to defraud the bonus.

However, after the third day, when the diver was carrying out the mission, he suddenly mutated at a rapid rate, and the whole person was completely familyized, turning into a pair of algae-like monsters, and attacked other people like crazy, and was eventually killed by the troops in the camp. To wiped out.

Scholars in the camp did not think that the sudden mutation of this diver was due to what happened two days ago, but the divers in the camp believed that this incident was related, so as long as they saw the metal relics in the water glowing afterwards, all Divers will not go into the water, even with excessive rewards and strong military orders, no one will step into the Belém Ice Lake.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, or Talanc's crow's mouth had an effect. When the three of them came to the entrance of the passage near the underwater metal ruins, they found bursts of light shining from under the ice.

"Damn it! I'm sorry, Mr. Leo, I can't go into the water later." The moment he saw the light appear, Talank immediately said to Leo nervously, his tone also very serious.

"Don't worry, I didn't intend to let you go into the water from the very beginning." Leo looked at the light shining from under the ice, and immediately understood what was going on. He reached out and patted Taranque's stiff shoulder, Signal him not to be nervous.

In fact, after Talanke mentioned what happened to the diver just now, he vaguely guessed what happened. The so-called light is actually the signal wave that the underwater cabin is sending out, and this signal wave is in the universe full of all kinds of waves. In the environment of this kind of ray, it will be hidden and invisible to the naked eye, but in the environment full of special energy in the world of Velen, it becomes a state like light waves.

And the so-called murmur of the abyss heard by the diver is actually just the noise produced by the friction between the signal wave and the energy of the environment. Ordinary people cannot hear this kind of subtle noise, and some family members have special hearing, and the noise is in the water waves. Under the action of the ear, it is amplified a lot, and it is still transmitted through vibration. Even if you cover your ears, you can't stop this vibration.

As for the sudden mutation of the diver, it should be that the noise hit his will, and the blood of the family took the opportunity to counterattack and take the initiative, eventually causing him to mutate into a complete family.

Although Leo had learned the details of the phenomenon called the terrifying light by the divers, he did not explain it to Taranque, because judging from Taranque's current state, any explanation would be futile.

So, after arriving at the location, he didn't even let Talanke follow them into the passage, but told Talanke to keep an eye on the pack animals at the entrance of the passage, and then he and Sylvia entered the special passage A sewer channel excavated for winter diving exploration.

The channel is located about 500 meters away from the lakeside. The interior is very narrow and can only accommodate two people in parallel. The channel as a whole is inclined downward and the slope is not very large. After about 100 meters, it came to one end of the waterway. And this waterway will extend down with a steeper slope until it passes under the ice of the lake.

Standing by the water, Leo took out the detector, threw it directly into the water, then turned on the universal recorder, controlled the detector to move towards the lake, and installed the holographic imaging system to make a clear underwater scene appear. in front of the two.