The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo's question didn't get any answer, and the universal recorder remained as it was. On the contrary, Sylvia looked at Leo's one-man show with a weird face, feeling like she wanted to laugh.

"Go and check on Tessa Moka's situation. If possible, we will leave now. There is no need to stay here any longer." Leo put away the main brain core in his hand, and said to Sylvia.

"Just leave?" Sylvia frowned and asked.

"Yeah!" Leo nodded, turned his head to look in the direction of the palace, and said, "In order to avoid her repeated appearances, it's better for us to leave first."

Sylvia nodded when she heard the words, and said nothing, got up and went to Tessa Mocha's room to check the situation, and Leo also quickly sorted out the items. Fortunately, most of the required materials have been prepared these days Well, except for a small amount of food and medicines that are put into the storage space, other things only need to be tidied up.

Sylvia quickly walked out of Tessa Mocha's room and said, "She hasn't shown signs of waking up yet, but there is nothing wrong with her body, so she should be able to take her away."

Leo nodded when he heard the words, and then took an animal skin sleeping bag commonly used by Daliates, and put Tessa Mocha in it together with Sylvia, then tied it with a strap, and Leo carried it on his back .

Sylvia recruited a few servants from the royal palace to move the prepared supplies to the carriage station outside the city, and then asked the station owner to set up a windshield for the ice pack beasts he had bought earlier and tie them up. Various items fixed Tessa Moka on the back of the pack beast, and the three of them rode two pack beasts into the snowstorm outside the city and headed west.

Just when Leo and Sylvia left, their whereabouts were reported to Leah Venistan by the Queen's spies, although Leo and the others left her very unhappy, because this kind of behavior was clearly aimed at She hinted that she didn't trust her, but she didn't plan to pursue anything. Now she has more important things to do. Even if she can't leave the palace yet, she still needs to prepare in advance.

As a result, several orders were sent out from the palace. A few days later, under the orders, several armies stationed in the Belém Ice Lake. Salvage experts from the east and west coasts also gathered in Dai Lisa, accepted the Queen's reception, and joined the salvage team. In the discussion of the remains of prehistoric civilizations under the Belém Glacier.

On the other side, Leo and the others went smoothly towards Taniko near the ice bridge. Except for some obstacles caused by the wind and snow, such as going the wrong way, they did not encounter any obstacles on the road.

On the third day after they left Dai Lisa, Tessa Mocha woke up from a deep sleep, and the skin on her body changed from dark green to normal color.

The awakened Tessa Mocha did not experience any changes such as rapid increase in strength, reborn body, etc. It felt the same as before, but Leo could see some very obvious changes in the energy fluctuations on her body when using the Spirit Vision. The wavelengths widened, the frequencies slowed down, and it felt like some kind of psionic being in hibernation.

Moreover, Tessa Mocha's perception has also become extremely sharp, even surpassing Leo's mental network. On the road afterwards, often things that Leo's mental network has not yet perceived, Tessa Mocha can immediately understand. Perception, but her powerful perception ability is not without flaws, for example, she can only perceive living things, but it is completely ineffective for dead things.

On the fifth day after it was formed, a new round of extremely cold ice storms blew across the northern land. In this harsh environment, even the snow beasts that have been active around the northern ice sheets all year round could not bear this for a long time. of extremely cold weather.

For this reason, Leo and the others had to find a small village to stay in for two days, and leave after the ice storm was over.

In this way, they walked slowly, stopping and stopping in waves of extreme cold and ice storms. After walking for about two months, they finally arrived at the small town of Deliyat, which is located at the top of the northeast. Nico.

Taniko is not Daliat language, but Gubeitsha language. This language is one of the ancient languages ​​of the northern tribes of Velen Continent, and it is also the language spoken by the Reynolds.

The Reynolds who first crossed the ice bridge built a settlement in a ring-shaped valley at the southern end of the ice bridge, and named it after Taniko, which means the land bestowed by the gods in the Gubeitsha language. .

Afterwards, the Reynolds crossed the ice bridge several times, taking over the tribe members from the northern part of the Velen Continent at the other end of the ice bridge, and finally formed the Reynolds tribe of Daliat.

To this day, historians from all over the world are still wondering why the Renault people ventured across the ice bridge to settle in the northern ice sheet of the Minsk continent.

Some people suspect that it is because of the climate, because according to scholars' research, there was an extremely cold climate in the Northland for a period of time. At that time, many tribes in the Northland moved southward, and such things were also recorded in some ancient documents of Faran.

Someone quickly refuted this point of view. You must know that the environment of Daliat is worse than that of the northern part of the Velen Continent.

After all, there is a Dakart Mountain Range between the northern part of the Velen Continent and the Endless Ice Field. This mountain range blocks most of the cold wind from the Endless Ice Field. The climate in the Northland is much better than that of Deliyat, and there will be no extreme weather such as extreme cold and ice storms. Therefore, due to climate reasons, the view that the Renault people moved to Deliyat is completely untenable.

In addition to climate reasons, some people also said that it might be due to wars, because the climate at that time caused a great famine in the Northland. In order to survive, while some tribes chose to move south, some tribes attacked and robbed other tribes Therefore, the entire Northland fell into war at that time.

But this point of view was quickly refuted. The number of people who moved the Renault people to Daliat, plus the number of casualties during the relocation process, finally got the population of the Renault people before they moved, and this number was in the entire North. The land, even the current Northland, can be regarded as one of the best large tribes. It is already very good for such a powerful tribe not to rob others, so why would anyone rush to provoke them.

As for food, it is not a problem, because the Renault people were in the stage of adapting to the environment during the two years after they moved to Daliat. The main food in the tribe was the reserve food brought from the Velen Continent. When the Renault people decided to migrate, they had enough food in their hands, enough for them to easily survive the famine.

It is precisely because the reason for the migration of the Renault people is so mysterious that it has aroused the curiosity of many scholars, and Taniko, the first settlement established by the Renault people after they arrived on the Minsk mainland, has become the first place for them to study the mystery of the Renault people's migration. It is the best location, because there are many relics left by the Renault people here, and there are many places worth studying.

The early Reynolds did not practice water burial and cremation like the northern tribes of Velen continent. Their burial was rock burial, that is, they dug caves in the rocks of the mountains, and put the corpses and sacrificial objects into the caves. Most of the caves will be eaten by scavenging birds of prey, and the caves will also be transformed into nests by raptors, so it is rare to see Raynor burials in the northern part of the Velen continent.

But Taniko is different. It is located near the endless ice sheet in the extremely cold north. There are almost no raptors living here, so the caves and tombs they dug on the rocks can be well preserved. Coupled with the cold and dry climate, it makes The corpses seldom decompose, which also makes the rock walls around the Taniko crater densely populated with cave tombs, some of which are even used by a family.

Many people suspect that the Renault people settled in Taniko for nearly a hundred years before deciding to migrate to other places in Daliat. The main reason is that there is no way to open new tombs here.

The Taniko Crater was not named by the Reynolds, but by the scholars who studied the tribal civilization of the Reynolds here. In the Reynolds language, the Taniko Crater has only one name, which is Mother’s Embrace .

For the Renault people, the Taniko crater, which is shaped like an embrace, is the embrace of their mother. In this embrace, their tribe can continue. They can survive the extreme cold and ice storm, and this embrace is also for them. Provide the food you need to survive.

In the Taniko crater, there is a kind of grain that is very important to organize Daliat. This kind of grain is called powder potato. It is an extremely cold-resistant staple food plant. It can also grow near the ice sheet, and the yield is also very high. Large, and the growth cycle is extremely fast, usually 40 days after planting can complete the growth,.

This kind of powdery potato cannot be eaten raw, as it will cause strong diarrhea. For a long time, this kind of powdery potato has been regarded as poison.

But later, I don’t know who discovered that after drying these vermicelli, grinding them into powder, kneading them into dough and baking them, it can remove the toxins in this plant that cause people’s diarrhea, and it can also add a little sweetness, so Vermicelli has become the staple food of all residents in Daliat. This kind of vermicelli also has a scientific name of Taniko vermicelli, and the bread made from this vermicelli is called Tania bread.

When Leo and his party came to Taniko, they immediately attracted the attention of many Daliates living here, because no one would come here during the winter ice storm in the past, especially these three people All have an extraordinary temperament.

"Hi! I'm the mayor of the small town of Taniko." When Leo and the others sent their pack beasts to the town post and asked the townspeople to unload the pack animals, the town mayor Then he came over with a few subordinates, greeted Leo and the others, and said, "I don't know if the three are here..."

Before the mayor of the town could finish asking, Sylvia took out the pass that Lia Venistan had issued for them to go to Belen Ice Lake, handed it to the mayor of the town, and said, "We are here mainly It's about ice bridges."

"Study the Ice Bridge?" The mayor of the small town was stunned, because in the past, the people he met were either to study the endless ice fields in the north, or to study the Reynolds. This was the first time he heard about the ice bridge. arrive.

After receiving the pass and seeing the seals of the queen and the palace minister, the mayor of the town did not continue to look down. He quickly folded the pass again, saluted the three of them, and said, "Since you are sent by Her Majesty, Scholars, our small town of Taniko will naturally assist the three of you in their research work as much as possible, I will send someone to arrange the residence of the three of you now, what else do you need to assist with?"

Sylvia said with a natural expression: "Not yet, we will let you know when we need it."

Seeing that the town mayor didn't ask any more questions, he turned around and ordered a subordinate to accompany Leo and the others to wait for the order, then turned and left.

Not long after the mayor of the small town left, someone notified them that they had arranged a residence for them, and brought a few people to help Leo and the others carry their luggage.

A group of people walked directly through the main road of the town covered with snow, and came to a small villa surrounded by woods in the northeast corner.

From the shape of the villa, it is not difficult to see that it should be built by a certain nobleman, and it has been a few years old, and many parts of the exterior look very old, but because it is often cleaned, it is still clean.

The person who carried the luggage turned around and left after putting down the luggage, while the staff of the town government arranged by the mayor stayed and temporarily lived in the hut at the entrance of the villa, and told Leo and the others that they could directly notify him if there was anything wrong. to handle.

After the staff member left, Tessa Moka suddenly said: "There is something wrong with this town, we sent people to monitor us when we first arrived, I'm afraid..."

"We won't stay here for too long. We will leave after we figure out the situation of the ice bridge. It doesn't matter what happens." Sylvia said flatly.

Leo walked to the fireplace, stacked the firewood next to the fireplace, and used the witcher's seal to directly light the firewood. Then he raised his hand and took down a mural hanging on the fireplace, revealing the wall behind the mural. I saw another badge with seven rings nested together on the wall, each ring has a different symbol.

"Sacred Emblem of Tranquility!" Sylvia said in surprise after seeing the pattern on the wall.

"The Sacred Emblem of Tranquility?" Tessa Mocha was stunned for a moment before confirming, "Is it the Sacred Emblem of Tranquility where all things are peaceful?"

"En!" Sylvia nodded seriously.

In Leo's mind at this moment, he quickly searched for information about the holy emblem of tranquility and the tranquility of all things.

In the world of Velen, Death Gane is the only true god in charge of death recognized by the Orthodox Church, but Death Gane is not the only god involved in death. In fact, there is another god that appeared before Death Gane, and He also Closely linked to death, this deity is the peace of all things.

The holy symbol of peace of all things is called the holy symbol of tranquility. It is composed of seven rings, and there is a holy symbol in each ring, representing different stages of life, namely birth, toddler, child, teenager, youth, adulthood, old age , the holy emblem composed of seven rings represents eternal tranquility, that is, death.