The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

At this time, Sylvia took out a cloth strip prepared in advance with everyone's names written on it, wrapped it around the stick, and then found a few stones to reinforce the cornerstone under the stick.

Seeing Sylvia's behavior, Leo couldn't help asking curiously: "Why are you interested in this?"

"Don't forget, I have another identity." Sylvia patted the dust on her hands and said.

At this time, Leo remembered that Sylvia's other identity is a world-renowned adventurer and writer.

"When we cross Rum Peak later, are you going to erect another stick and tie cloth strips?" Tessa Mocha said with a hint of teasing.

"Why not?" Sylvia shrugged and pointed to a spare trekking stick on Leo's luggage.

"Look." At this moment, Randall suddenly let out a small exclamation, then pointed to the top of the mountain in the distance, and said.

Everyone saw a huge black shadow moving slowly in the clouds on the top of the mountain. Judging from the shape of the black shadow, it looked like an old-fashioned sailing ship, but the black shadow disappeared soon.

Compared to Mister and Randall, Sylvia did not show any surprise at this scene. She had seen countless such scenes when she was out on an adventure, so she explained to them in a calm tone: "It's nothing to make a fuss about. It's just an illusion caused by the refraction of light. That black shadow may be a ship sailing in the eastern sea at this moment."

"Not necessarily." Leo denied what she said, and said, "The situation you mentioned will only happen when the weather is fine. The weather is gloomy like now, with wind and snow hanging around, and thick clouds On the mountain, it is impossible to have such an illusion. And the black figure appeared in the clouds, which is definitely different from the illusion you saw."

"If it's not that kind of illusion, what is it?" Sylvia asked after being stunned.

"I don't know either," Leo said while walking towards the mountain, "Let's go, go up and see what's going on."

Seeing that Leo had made a decision, everyone stopped talking and continued to follow behind Leo, climbing towards the mountain.

Although when I saw the mountain where the black shadow was located just now, I thought it was very close, but it was actually very far away. Sometimes Leo had to take a long way to avoid the too large cracks in the lower glacier.

On the way, they encountered several more lists of martyrs, and Sylvia tied cloth strips with their names on them respectively, but the cloth strips on these lists were much less than what they saw at first , the nearest one is only one, and the owner of this strip of cloth is lying next to the list he built. It seems that he should have come here and knew that he was dead, so he left a mark of his own existence.

Going up from this list, I no longer see the list of martyrs. It seems that the list just now should be the highest altitude that ordinary climbers can reach.

After learning this, Leo and the others were not surprised, but Mist and Randall felt incredible.

They are very clear that although they have a strong ability to resist cold and their bodies have become much stronger because of the mutation, they are still a little weaker than those mountaineers, but now they have come For those places that mountaineers cannot reach in their lifetime, they feel very relaxed during the whole process, just like an outing, they only need to take steps to keep up with the leader, which makes them feel that they are not climbing Mount Rum illusion.

Because a lot of time was spent on finding the way, detours, etc., this made the group walk for about three hours before reaching the mountain where the shadow appeared before. This mountain has no name, but from the height, It should be second only to Rum Peak, and it is very close to Rum Peak, as long as you walk through a relatively steep hill, you can climb Rum Peak.

When they came to the edge of the mountain, the black shadow of the ship in front appeared again, much more sober than before, and at this time everyone could see clearly that the black shadow was indeed a sailing boat.

"Be careful." Leo suddenly felt that the spiritual network was disturbed in front of him, so he reminded Sylvia, and then continued to walk forward.

After hearing the reminder, Sylvia and Tessa Mocha also made preparations to prevent a sudden attack.

As for Mist and Randall, they have no ability to protect themselves and can only follow Sylvia and the others.

The top of this mountain is not steep, but looks like a platform. The sailboat is lying on the edge of the platform. Judging from the traces around it, the sailboat should have been covered with a lot of ice and snow, but due to avalanches and other reasons, the surface covered The ice and snow fell off before the sailboat was exposed.

"Betkas!" When Leo was about to check the interior of the sailboat with the spirit net, Sylvia seemed to recognize the sailboat and said in great surprise.

Hearing the name that Sylvia called out, Leo was stunned for a moment, and then quickly found the information about the fishbone, and confirmed with some surprise: "It is the Betkas that explored the end of the Sea of ​​Silence. ?”

"Yes, that's the one!" Sylvia nodded, pointing to the statue on the bow and the broken flag frozen on the flagpole and said, "That's the Sea Goddess statue unique to the Betkas, and the flag on the flagpole is also The goddess star flag of the Betkas family."

At this time, the people around were also looking at the sailboat in shock, and followed Sylvia's fingers towards the two objects with obvious features.

"But didn't it disappear in the Sea of ​​Tranquility? How did it appear here?" Mist couldn't help asking curiously.

For anyone who cares about the nautical history of the Velen world, the Betkas is definitely the most famous ship in the history of nautical history, bar none.

This ship is a sailing ship carefully built by Earl Betkas VI of the Kingdom of Sigma. It can be said to be the largest and best sailing ship at that time, with eight main sails and five sets of auxiliary sails, a total of thirteen sails , coupled with the use of extinct tung oil wood, enables the boat to sail at extremely fast speeds on the water.

Someone once calculated that if it was in a downwind situation, the speed of the Betkas would be far behind even the best steam engine ship at present.

And the most talked about thing about this ship is that it has never encountered any bad weather at sea, and every sailing is smooth, as if the ship has really suffered from a certain accident as the builder claimed. It's like the blessing of the goddess of the sea that has not been recognized by the Orthodox Church.

In addition to the excellent ship itself, the Betkas has an even better experience. At least in the history of navigation, the pen and ink left on it far exceeds the sum of other ships.

It was the first ship to complete a voyage around the world and the first ship to discover the Pearl Island Chain. Although the Kingdom of England did not recognize this, it also helped the surveyors of Sigma to complete the first world nautical chart and The island map, the first topographic map of the coastlines of the three continents, nearly half of the world's routes were discovered or formulated by it.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Betkas represents the peak ocean power of the Kingdom of Sigma. On the departure ceremony of the last voyage of the Betkas, the king of the Kingdom of Sigma declared loudly to all the guests from all countries, You have mastered the land, but the sea will always belong to Sigmar's rhetoric, even if it sounds like a joke now.

After the Betkas completed its third voyage around the continent, it decided to do something that no one had done before, and that was to explore the end of the endless sea or the silent sea.

In the world of Velen, the ocean on the west side of Velen Continent is called the Endless Sea, while the ocean on the east side of Minsk Continent is called the Sea of ​​Silence. According to the church and some folklore, these two oceans are endless and have no end , and people in the past never thought of exploring the ends of these two oceans until the Betkas appeared.

In the end, the Betkas disappeared into the Sea of ​​Silence and never appeared again, and its last touch in the history of navigation has always disappeared, not sunk.

For adventurous people like Sylvia, Tessa Moka and the others, the Betcas is definitely an immortal legend, and they all have a strong respect for the Betcas.

For Mister and Randall, who were born in the Kingdom of Sigma, the meaning of this ship is even more extraordinary. It can be said that it is regarded as the incarnation of Sigma. The drama of the Betkas grew up.

Someone once joked that if a Betkas church was established in the Kingdom of Sigma, nearly two-thirds of the people in the Kingdom of Sigma would join the church without hesitation.

Now, this legendary ship suddenly appeared in front of them, and the shock it brought to their hearts could not be described in words.

But when others were completely immersed in the shock of the Betkas appearing in front of them, Leo had no such special feelings at all. In his eyes, it was just a sailing ship, and the thing that interested him It is the unknown object in this ship that affects the spirit net, and why this ship appears on Rum Peak.

"I'll go in and have a look, maybe I can find something like the captain's log." Leo suggested.

"Are you alone?" Sylvia said dissatisfiedly: "I want to see it too."

"It's best not to, this ship doesn't look stable, I don't know what will happen, if there is an accident." Leo said, looked at Mist and Randall, said: "The two of them will die here."

Seeing what Leo said, even though Sylvia really wanted to board the boat to have a look, she still endured it and said nothing.

Afterwards, Leo jumped under the boat and landed on the deck above. There were no bones on the deck. The cables, buckets and other items were all placed on the deck in good condition and tied to a mast. A pair of corpses, it looks like he is a punished sailor, but the strange thing is that there are no other corpses on the deck, and there are no corpses in the ship.

Leo didn't get too entangled in this issue, and walked directly to the captain's room, where the captain's logbook should be stored, and it was also the source of interference with Leo's spiritual network.

The moment he entered the captain's room, Leo immediately felt that all the extraordinary power in his body had disappeared, and he could no longer feel it in his body. Only the spiritual energy and the blood power of the body remained intact, while the spiritual network was still intact. It was completely affected, and it was impossible to detect any useful information.

Feeling the change in his body, Leo didn't panic. He looked around calmly, and his sight soon fell on an opened metal box on the captain's desk.

Leo went over to look at the box, and found that there was a very ordinary-looking bone in the box, and it was this bone that caused the disappearance of various supernatural powers in Dao's body.

However, in addition to this bone, this metal box also attracted Leo's attention, because judging from the unique reddish-purple luster on the metal surface and some metal lines hidden in the luster, this piece of metal is likely to be Made of Ardanor metal.

In the universe, Idano metal is a unique metal produced on the planet Idano. This metal is also called balance metal. Its function is to balance any abnormal energy fluctuations in the universe, so this metal is also the source of all spacecraft and energy. The key component of the laboratory emergency rescue system, because when the spacecraft and the energy laboratory have any abnormal conditions, such as the spacecraft engine overloaded, the energy laboratory is out of control, etc., the emergency rescue system made of this metal can be operated, Balances all energy anomalies.

It is precisely because this metal is very important and its effect is extremely special, so the excavation, production, smelting, manufacturing and other processes of this metal are all directly controlled by the Supreme Council, and every component used is subject to very strict supervision , the situation of loss will directly lead to the investigation team formed by the Supreme Council.

Leo had only heard about this metal, and had never seen it before, but he had personally experienced the effect of this metal. At that time, on the battlefield, the enemy used an unconventional energy weapon, and this energy weapon eventually lost control. It is possible to destroy the entire planet or even the surrounding planets, and this metal-made emergency rescue system is activated, and the energy that can destroy half of the galaxy calms down instantly.

That scene at that time was really amazing, until now Leo still remembers it vividly.

Now the box made of Adano metal in front of Leo's eyes is obviously to limit the strength of the bone. Although he doesn't know who made the box and who owns the bone, he knows this thing It's his now.

So, he directly closed the box and picked it up. The moment the box was closed, the surrounding effect field affecting the extraordinary power in his body disappeared, and his mental network re-scanned the surrounding situation.

"Oops!" Leo couldn't help but frowned after receiving the feedback from the spiritual network, picked up a pile of documents that looked like logbooks on the table, jumped out of the window behind him, and then opened his spiritual wings, Gliding in the air, it landed firmly on the ground.

Behind him, a huge sailing ship was turned into dust in the strong cold wind, blown into the air, and disappeared.