The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When Leo and the others arrived at Rum Peak, it was already the third day. The temperature here was slightly warmer than the previous northern ice sheet, because the sea breeze blowing from the east sea would neutralize the ice sheet wind to a certain extent. the cold.

After entering this area, Leo and the others have met two or three tribes. Although the clothes worn by these tribes are no different from those of ordinary tribes, their overall temperament and behavior are the same as those of the normal tribes in the north. There is a big difference between the tribes living on the ground.

At that time, after seeing these tribes, Leo and the others quickly realized that these tribes should be the losers in the Ferut civil war. After they escaped from Ferut, they came to the relatively warm eastern ice sheet lived down.

Although their life cannot be compared with that in Ferut, at least there is no shortage of food. There are some tribes of their relatives and friends in Ferut City, and those tribes can help them buy food and clothes for the winter. No shortage, when they fled Ferut, they also brought a lot of money with them, which was enough for these tribes to spend for several years.

However, these tribes are obviously very dissatisfied with the status quo, and they are still thinking about returning to Ferut, not only because of their original revenge, but also because they can no longer adapt to the life of the tribes outside the city, even if they are not Lack of food and clothing.

When these tribes met Leo and the others, they did not make things difficult for Leo and the others, but asked Leo and the others about Ferut City.

When they learned from Leo and the others that the city of Ferut had returned to calm, and that the other tribes in the Northland had not had any conflicts with the tribes staying in the city, they all showed obvious disappointment on their faces. Obviously, in their view, if there is no chaos in Ferut City, the current number of survivors of their families will definitely not be able to shake the rule of the families in the city.

Although they didn't get the desired news from Leo and the others, these tribes still warmly entertained Leo and the others. When they learned that Leo and the others were going to cross Rum Peak, they all showed obvious surprise However, they all thought that Leo and the others were mountaineers and adventurers, so they didn't doubt the motivation of Leo and the others to cross Rum Peak. After all, there are always some adventurers from the south who try to cross Rum Peak from the north slope every year.

When Leo and the others were leaving, the patriarch of one of the families suddenly took out a letter and a sum of money and handed it to Leo, expressing the hope that if Leo and the others returned to the south alive, they would hand over the letter to a person in Winterring City. Powerful court nobles, it seems that these exiles want to use the power of the Faran Empire to suppress the victors so that they can return to Ferut City.

However, this does not mean that they think that Leo and his party can cross Rum Peak, they just think that Leo and others will give up climbing halfway through the climbing path and return the same way as other mountaineering adventurers.

Leo originally didn't intend to help these fugitives, but under Sylvia's hint, he still took the letter and the reward, and said that he would hand over the letter to the court official when he arrived in the Faran Empire. Noble.

After leaving the shelter camps of those families, before Leo couldn't help asking curiously, Tessa Moka asked first: "Why did you take over this matter? If we arrived in the Faran Empire, there should be no Do you have so much free time to help other people?"

"Although Baron Ethan is only a court baron, he is indeed one of the most trusted people of Louis X, and several other court nobles manage the royal property for Louis X, including the agricultural and commercial taxes of the royal county. Wait." Sylvia explained carefully: "If we can get in touch with Baron Ethan and have the pass issued by him, then we will suffer much less obstacles in the counties controlled by the royal family."

After listening to Sylvia's explanation, Tessa Mocha didn't ask any more questions, and Leo felt that Sylvia wanted him to take over the delivery of the letter. It didn't seem like what she said, it was just for the sake of There may be other deep meanings about the pass, but he didn't ask too much, because Sylvia would tell him when he needed to know, so there was no need to ask.

The group continued to move towards the mountain where Rum Peak was located, and in the evening, they came to a simple camp established by former mountaineering explorers at the foot of Rum Peak.

Although this camp is rudimentary, there are still things that should be there, such as a wooden house for shelter from the wind, a fireplace, a firewood storage room and a cellar for food storage. Judging from the materials in this camp alone, it is enough for seven or eight people Been here all winter.

Leo decided to stay here for one night, and continue to climb Mount Rum in the daytime tomorrow. Although it is not difficult to climb Mount Rum with the ability of him, Sylvia and Tessa Mocha, Mist and Randall Obviously there is no way to climb the mountain at night again.

The whole group was speechless all night, and fell asleep after eating early.

However, in the middle of the night, Leo suddenly opened his eyes and looked towards Mister and Randall. At the same time, the spiritual net covered the two people, recording their energy fluctuations and body organ activities. Details, etc., especially the process of some secretions on the body.

The reason why Leo suddenly paid attention to the situation of Mist and Randall was because the energy in the two of them produced a very special resonance phenomenon just now. If it was only the resonance phenomenon, he would not be too much Shangxin, the important thing is that this resonance phenomenon actually caused the supernatural power in his body to produce a trace of uncontrollable abnormal fluctuations.

Although this fluctuation is very slight, so slight that it is difficult to notice it if you don't feel it carefully, it is enough for Leo to attract his attention, not to mention that he is already very familiar with the abilities and abilities of Mist and Randall. The behavior was a little suspicious, so when he noticed the resonance phenomenon and found the abnormal fluctuations of the supernatural power in his body, he immediately thought of what the two of them did in the Longhorn tribe's house.

So when he was paying attention to the energy resonance effect on the two of them, he was also paying attention to the secretions on the two of them.

After carefully recording for a period of time, Leo quickly found some abnormalities through the analysis of the recorded information.

Whenever two people secrete some substances, such as sweat, dander, nails and other substances, the resonance effect of the energy on the body will weaken rapidly, as if the special energy produced by these resonance effects has been transferred to the substances secreted by the two up.

After discovering this, Leo seemed to grasp a clue, and guessed in his heart: "No! It's not just causing abnormal fluctuations in power, but also lower-level things, such as... such as blood."

At this moment, Leo seemed to understand something, looked at Mister and Randall who were sleeping soundly, removed the spirit net, and ignored these two people.

Late night passed quickly, Leo and the others got up early, washed up, cut down some trees, replenished some of the wood consumed last night, then packed their luggage and walked towards Rum Peak.

Among the countless peaks in the Vinoy Mountains, Rum Peak is neither the highest nor the lowest, but it is definitely the easiest mountain to climb. Of course, this ease is mainly compared to other In terms of mountains.

The mountaineering adventure to conquer Mount Rum began a long time ago. According to some records, hundreds of years ago, those smugglers hoped to bypass the supervision of the French Empire and went to the Northland to smuggle special products from the Northland. I chose various peaks to try, and finally thought that Rum Peak was the most likely to climb, so I started to conquer Rum Peak. As you can imagine, all the people who tried to climb Rum Peak fell on the ground In the mountains, until today, their bodies are still in the snow in the mountains.

Although the smuggler's conquest of Rum Peak was unsuccessful, and he quickly lost confidence and did not continue, but this behavior spread because of some specious rumors, and it became a human attempt to conquer the Vinovi Mountains. The heroic feats of the people, thus inspiring a large number of people with an adventurous spirit.

For hundreds of years, many people have tried to cross Rum Peak every year, but they all ended in failure. The lucky ones were able to walk down the mountain alive, and the unlucky ones stayed on the mountain. Among them, the closest to success is Fadia, the mountaineer who named Rum Peak.

In the past many years, all the people who tried to climb Rum Peak climbed from the south side of the mountain. They never thought of climbing from the north side until a pair of aristocratic couples who traveled to the north and were also famous mountaineers. My family, in the process of traveling in the Northland, had a sudden idea and wanted to see what the north slope of Rum Peak looked like, but they found that the slope of the north slope of Rum Peak was much gentler than that of the south slope.

At that time, the couple decided to try to climb. As a result, the couple still climbed the north slope according to the climbing method of the south slope. They accidentally stepped on a layer of ice floe and fell directly to the bottom of the cliff. Both died. Then he returned to the Faran Empire alive and told the experience of the couple. In this way, some people realized the possibility of crossing from the north slope, so the number of people crossing Rum Peak from the north slope also increased.

If the French Empire controls the number of people entering the Northland, it is possible that there will be ten times more adventurers climbing from the north slope of Mount Rum than it is now.

Climbing Rum Peak from the north slope is relatively gentle, and ordinary climbers can climb it smoothly, but there are also a lot of dangers here. These dangers are the moving glaciers formed by the snow accumulation on the north slope for countless years.

These glaciers are all buried deep below, and the upper layer is covered with a thick layer of snow. These glaciers are moving at a very slow speed every moment. Because of the slow speed, this kind of movement can hardly be noticed by ordinary people.

But this seemingly harmless movement can create a fatal danger. The ground under the climber's feet is still a solid layer of ice one moment, and the next moment it will become a bottomless abyss of ice.

It is also for this reason that those who climb Mount Rum from the north slope have a much lower chance of surviving than climbers on the south slope.

Before Leo and the others started climbing, they used ropes to link everyone together. Afterwards, Leo opened his mental net to check the condition of the glacier under the snow under his feet and find out the location of the trap. The group of people seemed to be on a mountaineering outing. , very easy to walk up the hillside a little bit, except for the biting cold wind around.

At first, Mist and Randall walked tremblingly. After all, they had heard all kinds of rumors about the north slope of Rum Peak, so it was hard not to be afraid.

So in the previous section of the journey, Leo and the others had to deliberately slow down in order to take care of the two of them, but even so sometimes, they needed to stop and wait for the two to ease some of the physical discomfort caused by tension.

However, as the journey was safe and sound, the two realized that Leo must have mastered some method to know the traps under the snow, and the nervousness was relaxed, and the pace was much faster.

In less than two hours, the group had climbed two-thirds of the height.

"Wait a minute!" Sylvia suddenly stopped Leo who was leading the way, then pointed to a flagpole in the distance, and said, "Let's go over there and have a look."

Hearing this, Leo turned around without saying much, and walked towards the place pointed by Sylvia.

On the road, he found a crack that wasn't very wide. According to the normal situation, he would definitely have to take a detour, but he didn't want to waste time, so he directly used the psionic skill created by combining the warlock's ice spell to turn the crack into a crack. The snow layer on the road crack solidified into a layer of ice, forming an ice bridge that can be walked on.

After a group of people walked through the crack, they came to the flagpole.

Here is a huge, protruding rock. A climbing stick tied with a lot of cloth strips was artificially inserted in the gap of the protruding rock below, and some stones were built around it to prevent it from falling down. .

"Is this the list of martyrs?" Mister walked to the side of the rock at this time, looking at the climbing stick wrapped in cloth strips with some surprise.

I don’t know where it started. When mountaineering adventurers start to conquer some high mountains, they will find an obvious place to insert a stick when they reach a certain height, and then tie a cloth strip with their name on the stick. As a nostalgia, but also as a proof of their own achievements.

However, most of the people who left cloth strips on the sticks died in accidents while climbing higher places. Over time, these cloth strips gradually accumulated and increased, and because all of them were the names of dead climbers, some people did it for them. Climbers are the martyrs of human beings conquering nature, so this kind of sticks wrapped with the names of climbers is called the list of martyrs.

For extraordinary people like Leo and others, this kind of martyrdom is just the product of the self-satisfaction of ordinary people. For high mountains like Rum Peak, most extraordinary people only need to be careful. The ability to transcend the past, so the conquest of nature by humans is just a joke in the eyes of people who really understand nature, let alone ordinary people, even gods may not be able to conquer the entire nature.