The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Cayuga!" Before Sylvia remembered anything, Tessa Moka, who was also awakened and came to check the situation, said a word whose pronunciation was different from that of the northern language family.

"Cayuga? What's that?" Leo asked.

"That's a legend in the wasteland." Tessa Mocha thought for a while and said, "Cayuga is the endless rice field where the ferry giant lives. Anyone who dies will be judged by him in the rice field. Anyone who is innocent You can walk to the end of the paddy field unscathed, but the guilty person can only wander in the paddy field forever, and the paddy field will also turn into thorns."

"Rice field?" The rice field he was in before appeared in Leo's mind. He was still wondering why his spiritual world was presented in the form of a rice field. Now it seems that the rice field is not his spiritual world. , but the mysterious existence called Cayuga.

"What happened later?" Sylvia asked now: "I remember that the shamans in the wasteland advocate returning to nature, even death is returning to nature. Obviously, this legend of Cayuga violates the teachings of those shamans in the wasteland. They're not going to let this Cayuga go, are they?"

Tessa Mocha nodded, and said: "The shamans did have conflicts with the church of Cayuga. I don't know how it went. It's just that there is no belief in Cayuga in the wasteland."

"When did that happen?" Sylvia asked again.

"It happened during the great pioneering period." Tessa Moka thought for a while and replied.

"The period of great pioneering happened just after the peace of all things disappeared," Sylvia also recalled the materials she saw in the Orthodox Church, and deduced: "It is recorded in the materials that after the peace of all things disappeared, some believers claimed to hear When they heard the sound of the tranquility of all things, they left the church and went to the mainland of Mozambique. It seems that the voice they heard should belong to this Cayuga, and it should be that they brought Cayuga out of the wilderness of the Mozambique to avoid the Orthodox Church. They did not contact the Tranquility Church before, and they came to the blank space of the Orthodox Church in Deliyat to establish a new Tranquility Church.” Then, she looked at Leo and asked, “What should we do now? "

"There's no need to pay attention to them! I think they won't bother us anymore." Leo responded briefly, then looked at the sky outside the house, and said, "Let's go! Let's go to the ice bridge to have a look first. look."

Seeing that Leo had already made a decision, Sylvia didn't say anything more, followed Leo out of the room, and went to the bathroom to freshen up.

Tessa Moka on the side felt that Leo's actions were too contemptuous. After all, the other party was a god, even a false god, and he was stronger than most people. Treating a god's attack casually like this was a bit negligent.

However, it's hard for her to say much, after all, both of them now think that there is no need to bother too much about this matter, so she can only keep herself in mind, so as not to wipe out the whole army when something happens.

The three simply freshened up in the bathroom, changed into warm clothes, extinguished the fire in the stove, and walked out of the small villa.

At this time, the person assigned by the mayor was staying in the small room at the door. When Leo and the others came over, he had already noticed something and knocked down the things in the room in panic.

It's just that his behavior was very weird. When Leo and the others passed by the door, he didn't open the door, but asked Leo and the others through the door: "Sir, ma'am, are you leaving now?"

"Yes, we're going to have a look at the ice bridge." Leo looked thoughtfully into the room and said.

"I was sick last night, so I couldn't accompany the three of you..." the man said hastily.

Leo smiled and said, "It's okay, we can go there by ourselves, and you can recuperate well in the house."

Then, continue to walk to the town.

Sylvia and Tessa Mocha who were following by also felt something was wrong and frowned.

Not long after, they went through the woods and came to the town. Although it was daytime, there was no one in the town. All the doors of the houses were closed, and the doors and windows on the first floor were covered by thick snow. More than half of the time, the people in the house didn't seem to care about this situation, and they didn't have any intention of clearing the snow.

When Leo and the others walked through the streets of the town, they could feel the sight projected from the house, falling on them, moving with their steps, and containing all kinds of sights in the sight. Emotions include fear, anger, doubt, and curiosity.

"Something's wrong!" Tessa Moka reminded softly, feeling abnormal.

Leo smiled easily and said, "It's okay! As long as they don't trouble us, we don't need to bother with them."

Before entering the town, Leo had already scanned all the houses in the town through the spiritual network, and saw obvious mutations in each of the people there, and their mutations were all the same, all of them had forehead changes. It is wide and concave inward, and there is a group of light spots in the depression. The only difference is the brightness of the light spots.

There is no doubt that the people in the entire town, including those scholars who came to the town to study the culture of the Reynolds, have become Cayuga's family, and what happened last night obviously dealt some blows to Cayuga, thus indirectly The influence of these Cayuga family members made the recessive mutations in them become dominant.

Now Leo doesn't know what Kayuga's attitude is, whether he has been frightened by his counterattack last night, or whether he is hiding and preparing to continue to attack next time, but he knows very well that if it is not necessary, try not to Conflict with the townspeople, lest Cayuga, who is hidden in the shadows, see his pompous appearance.

Although even if he confronts Cayuga in reality, he still has a way to become the final winner, but the price of that victory may be very high and meaningless, so what he has to do is to avoid his true situation being exposed come out.

The three of them were speechless all the way, and came to the outside of the station. The officials and coachmen in the same station all shut themselves in the room. When Leo called the door, he only answered inside the door and asked Leo to lead a few pack animals. , tidy up the pack beast saddle by yourself.

Leo and the others didn't say anything. They went to the animal shed behind the house, pulled out the pack animals one by one, put them on the pack beast saddles, and then drove the pack animals out of the town, heading towards the ice bridge not far to the north. go.

Not long after the three of them left the town, all the people in the town came out of the house. Without exception, they all put on cloaks, covered their heads, and gathered towards the mayor's house , It looks like they are discussing countermeasures or asking about the situation.

"High Priest, why did our bodies suddenly lose control just now?" After everyone came to the mayor's house, the mayor who also mutated also came out. At this time, someone in the crowd asked the mayor impatiently. .

The mayor glanced at all the people, made up a reason casually, and said, "Don't worry, everyone, this is a test for his descendants by the Lord. When everyone enters the kingdom of God in the future, they will look like you are now. appear, so the Lord hopes that his descendants can adapt to this state as soon as possible."

Another person asked, "Did the Lord let us appear in front of those strangers?"

The mayor shook his head and said: "Of course not. When foreigners come, you just stay at home. After all, our real appearance is different from ordinary people, and those ordinary people may not accept us. Shape."

Afterwards, a few more people asked the questions in their hearts, and the worries in everyone's hearts gradually weakened, and they left the mayor's house one after another.

After persuading the townspeople and believers to leave, the mayor also ordered his men to go back and not to come out until the body recovered, then closed the door of the house, turned around and went upstairs, came to the study, stood in front of a bronze mirror, stretched out his hand in the mirror Caressing on the top, muttering words.

After a while, there was a flash of light on the mirror, and then Kayuga's head appeared in the mirror. If Leo were here, he would definitely find that the light on Kayuga's head became much dimmer at this moment, like It was like being hit by something.

After Cayuga's head appeared, the mayor did not speak, but flashed the light on his forehead, and the light flashed on Cayuga's head. The two seemed to pass through the frequency and brightness of the light. , as if to communicate.

"Lord, I understand! I won't provoke them." After a while, the mayor said.

The image in the mirror also dimmed when his voice fell, and quickly disappeared.

At the same time, the three of Leo had arrived at the seaside, and were heading towards the ice bridge in the north along the coastline.

Although there was some wind and snow yesterday, the weather today is not bad. Even if there is no sunlight, it doesn't look too dim, and you can see far away with your normal vision. For example, where the three of them are at the moment, you can see clearly I can see the ice bridge shining with a ray of silver light in the distance, and the thick gray fog on the western sea.

The gray fog appeared on the sea, blocking the sea routes. Leo also heard about it from other people, but he had never actually seen it. This is the first time he has seen this gray fog, and even if it However, he still has a strong sense of familiarity, because he feels that this gray fog is the same thing as the fog he saw at No. 9 Golden Oak Street, but there is a difference in depth between the two.

At this time, Tessa Mocha suddenly experienced an abnormality. She stared blankly at the direction of the gray fog on the sea, and breathed rapidly, as if she wanted to suck all the air around her body into her lungs, and a cloud of embarrassment appeared on her face. A terrified look.

"What's the matter?" Sylvia first noticed Tessa Mocha's abnormality and asked hastily.

Sylvia's inquiry also caught Leo's attention. He noticed the direction of Tessa Mocha's gaze even more, so he looked towards the gray fog over there, but he didn't see anything surprising enough. s things.

But he didn't suspect that there was something wrong with Tessa Mocha's body. He directly switched his vision to spiritual vision, and at the moment his vision changed to spiritual vision, he saw an extremely huge figure appearing In the sea fog.

He couldn't see the specific shape of that figure, he could only tell from the figure that it was like a hill, with countless tentacles under it, these tentacles were inserted straight into the sea, deep into the bottom of the sea, like The huge body of the monster was supported like a pillar, moving forward slowly.

Although the sight in his eyes was astonishing, to Leo, this kind of sight was really nothing, it didn't make him feel any strange at all, and although the monster in the gray mist was huge in size, it possessed a god-like power. Feed, but it gave Leo a feeling of being ostentatious, not to mention compared with the Cayuga he saw not long ago, even compared with the ordinary Guha giant he saw before.

Although it looked like the figure was moving very slowly, in fact it was extremely fast, and within a moment, it disappeared into the gray mist.

At this moment, Leo withdrew his spiritual vision ability and turned to look at Tessa Mocha.

Tessa Mocha had already left the state of extreme shock. Her emotions were still immersed in what she had just perceived, and she hadn't fully recovered. Facing Sylvia's inquiry, it took her a long time to realize it.

"There was something in the gray fog on the sea just now!" Tessa Mocha pointed to the gray fog area where the huge figure appeared before, and said, "That thing is full of death, full of despair, full of... In short, it is terrible, Terrible!"

If it wasn't for the direction that Tessa Mocha was pointing at, it was the position of the figure seen by the spirit vision, Leo had some doubts that the figure he saw and what Tessa Mocha felt were not the same thing.

It's just that Tessa Mocha's reaction was a bit exaggerated. In Leo's opinion, there shouldn't be such a strong reaction at all.

However, Leo did not suspect that Tessa Mocha was acting because of this. He felt that the figure in the gray fog must contain some kind of power. The seed that Mocha integrated into his body formed a restraint effect, so Tessa Mocha had such a big reaction.

After hearing Tessa Moka's words, Sylvia looked in the direction she pointed with a blank face, but she didn't see any abnormal situation at all, which made her completely confused about what happened just now .

Seeing Sylvia's bewildered look, Tessa Mocha also knew that Sylvia hadn't found anything, and she didn't know how to explain it, so she could only shake her head and said, "It's okay! I It's all right now! It may have been my illusion just now, let's continue on the road!"

At this time, Leo drove the beast under him to come over, took out a bottle of potion, handed it to Tessa Mocha and said: "Drink it, it will be good for you, next time you feel something is wrong, don't feel it again." Yes, the things inside the gray mist are weird."

"Did you see it?" Tessa Mocha looked at Leo in surprise.

"What did you see?" Sylvia also asked curiously.

Leo thought for a while and said, "It should be some kind of fog beast!"