The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

There are many types of family members in this world, but most of them are mainly human family members. Except for the Black Forest, there are very few other creatures that become family members. As for the examples of plants becoming family members, it is even rarer, and these examples All are bad examples without exception.

The appearance of almost every plant family will be accompanied by death, and there will be a large number of deaths, because the plant family is different from the human family or the animal family. The plant family will absorb it due to mutation and amplify its instinct of growth without limit. In order to be able to grow plants The Familia will swallow anything that will help it grow.

There have been cases where plant families swallowed up an entire city, and this kind of plant family is difficult to remove. As long as there are a few roots left on the ground, the plant family cannot be wiped out. The plant family will even take the initiative to produce seeds before the crisis comes. , Let the seeds either follow the wind, or find a host, and scatter everywhere to avoid death.

"But this family is a bit weird, its body is not here." Leo activated his spiritual vision, and easily saw through the details of this plant family, and said: "Its body should be in the Black Forest, Dashu Town The big tree is its roots." He paused for a while, and said: "This family is very large, and the surrounding area is probably full of its body."

In Leo's eyes, a lot of red rays of light appeared in the luxuriant black forest in the distance. These red lights were hidden in the real forest trees and extended to the distance, while the tree in the middle of Dashu Town wrapped With a red light.

"I've seen information about this Dashu Town before." Sylvia recalled some of the information she had seen, and said, "It's mentioned in the information that Dashu Town will be closed when its townspeople enter the black market." Before collecting in the forest, pick a leaf from the big tree in the town, and then perform some secret rituals in the Black Forest to pray for the existence of the unknown Black Forest to protect the townspeople from surviving in the Black Forest. It seems that Big Tree Town The secret ceremony is praying for this family. However, it doesn’t matter, from the coing data, this family does not seem to be dangerous, it seems..."

"Not dangerous?" Leo interrupted Sylvia's tree and said, "What I saw is different from what you described."

"What did you see?" Sylvia frowned and asked.

"Death, chaos and bloodthirsty." Leo briefly said a few words, and then concluded: "Almost all the energy characteristics of the bloodthirsty family can be seen on it."

Sylvia was stunned when she heard the words, looked towards the Black Forest, and said, "Should we change places..."

"No need!" Leo shook his head, looked at the Black Forest in other directions, and said, "Other places are not much better than here. Let's go! Stay here for one night and enter the Black Forest tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, the two walked into Dashu Town. What they didn't expect was that there were no more rooms in the hotel in Dashu Town, and all the rooms were rented by a large number of foreign adventurers. Listening to their conversations, among them Many adventurers seem to be planning to enter the Black Forest tomorrow, because tomorrow the local people in Dashu Town will also organize a team to enter the Black Forest. These foreign adventurers seem to be planning to follow the locals in Dashu Town to check for leaks.

After hearing the conversations of these adventurers, the two of them also heard some of the latest weird rules promulgated by Dashu Town. Although there is nothing unusual about this rule at first glance, when you think about it carefully, you can feel something is wrong.

However, the two of them did not delve into the matter, but planned to go to the town office tomorrow to apply for a pass to see what tricks were hidden inside.

Afterwards, Leo and Sylvia found a temporary room in a local residence and stayed for one night.

The owner of this dwelling is a hunter from Dashu Town. He used to hunt unique animals in the Black Forest, but later his leg was injured and he did not enter the Black Forest again.

Originally, the wealth he had gained from selling all kinds of black forest prey in the past was enough to support him to leave Dashu Town and live a prosperous life in other places more suitable for living, but in the end he didn't do that, but stayed in the town Inside, some traps for catching living things are specially made and sold to adventurers who want to enter the Black Forest.

In fact, not only this Orion is like this, but all the residents in Dashu Town are like this. Even if they make money and can live in a better place, they are unwilling to leave. People seem to miss their homeland.

But after seeing the residents of Dashu Town, Leo knew very well that these residents didn't want to leave, but couldn't.

The big tree that is the core of Dashu Town is a family member of a mysterious existence in the Black Forest, and the sacrificial ceremonies that have been carried out in Dashu Town for so many years have transformed themselves into the family members of this big tree. It can be said to be the next family.

It's just that the residents of Dashu Town don't seem to know that their bodies have undergone fundamental changes. They still think that they are ordinary people, and they don't want to live in other places because it is more comfortable to live in their hometown.

From a certain point of view, these residents of Dashu Town can no longer be regarded as human beings. Although their appearance and thoughts are no different from human beings, they have mutated a lot inside, especially the bone marrow, heart and other organs. Some kind of wood transformation.

Leo and Sylvia had a little understanding of the situation in Dashu Town, and confirmed that they would not cause obstacles to their itinerary, so they ignored the matter of Dashu Town.

After staying for one night, Leo and Sylvia simply washed up, went to the town hall, and applied for a pass. However, when applying for the pass, Leo seemed to have noticed something, and took the pass. The pass looked repeatedly.

Leo did not tell Sylvia what he had discovered at the time, until the two left the town hall and came to a small square where adventurers from other places gathered, and said: "This pass is a sacrifice contract. "

"Sacrifice contract?" Sylvia was stunned. She lowered her head and looked at the pass in her hand, but she didn't see anything unusual, for example, the words were composed of decorative patterns to represent the content of the contract.

"This pass itself is a contract, and there is no need to use additional words." Leo flicked the pass in his hand with his fingers and said.

It was only at this time that Sylvia discovered the abnormality of this pass, and saw that this pass was not paper, but a whole leaf, and this leaf did not look like it was made into paper by some method. It's because it grows into a piece of paper itself, so she didn't feel anything abnormal just now.

"What is this? Have we become sacrifices?" Sylvia smiled and said.

"No, none of us signed our real names, and we didn't leave any suicide notes. It can't be regarded as a sacrifice." Leo shook his head, pointed to other adventurers in the square who were packing up their equipment, and said, "They That's the real sacrifice."

Leo didn't just talk nonsense, but through the eyes of reality, he saw a wave of energy emerging from these foreign adventurers and linking with the big tree in Dashu Town, and most of the foreign adventurers had extra foreheads. an energy token.

"What shall we do now?" Sylvia asked in a deep voice.

Leo shook his head and said, "There's no need to bother with this matter. As long as you don't provoke us, there's no need for us to intervene in this matter."

Leo is not afraid of this tree family that forms a domain. Although the energy fluctuations of the other party are huge, almost comparable to those of sixth-level psykers, this energy fluctuation is not concentrated, and it is extremely chaotic. In the end, this The power that the family can display may at most reach the level of a fifth-level psychic, and what Leo needs to pay attention to is the mysterious existence of the Black Forest behind this family.

Through various collected materials, Leo already has a certain understanding of the Black Forest, and no longer thinks that the Black Forest is as big as it looks outside. According to what he knows, the Black Forest is like a compressed space. The area of ​​the black forest is much larger than the forest area seen from the outside, and there are countless mysterious existences hidden in the black forest, many of which are gods in ancient times who have not left any information in the world.

According to the research of the tower wizard, there seems to be a huge doomsday disaster in ancient times, even the gods will fall, and the black forest seems to be a sanctuary for the gods. Under the protection of the forest lord, only a few gods who think they are strong enough will stay in the world.

Leo also agreed with the research of the Tower Wizard, because the body of the Eagle God, the predecessor of the Sky Lord, is the best evidence.

With the sound of a horn, more than a hundred foreign adventurers gathered in the square began to walk towards the direction of the Black Forest under the leadership of the townspeople of Dashu Town, and soon they came to the edge of the tree wall of the Black Forest.

The townspeople of Dashu Town, who were leading the way, signaled the people behind them to stop, then walked to a tree wall alone, took out a piece of wood, and put it on the ground to burn.

That piece of wood doesn't look big, and it's dry wood, but when it's burning, it emits a lot of thick smoke, and the smoke seems to be pulled by some kind of force, towards the black forest ahead Inside poured in.

Immediately afterwards, everyone saw that the tree wall of the Black Forest seemed to be ripped apart by an invisible force, revealing a straight deep stream of trees from the bottom to the top, and at the bottom was a deep stream that went deep into it with no end in sight. path of.

At this time, among the townspeople leading the way, after seeing the road opened, a young man reminded the foreign adventurers behind him loudly: "Everyone, I need to remind you here that even if you take this road, It may not be absolutely safe, so you must be careful, and try not to stay away from the road. Even if you are far away from the road, it is best to have a few people together and mark it well, otherwise..."

Before the young man finished speaking, someone reached out and grabbed him, and said dissatisfiedly: "Little Kerry, they all know this kind of thing, there is no need for you to remind them again, and waste everyone's time."

"That's right, we all know this, stop talking nonsense and waste our time." Obviously, the words of the interrupter were more in line with the wishes of these foreign adventurers, and they completely ignored the young man's reminder .

Next, these out-of-town adventurers rushed towards the road in the Black Forest impatiently, for fear that they would run away and buy something, and they would not be able to get good things.

Someone took the lead and rushed in, and the others naturally followed closely, not to be outdone, and soon only Leo and Sylvia were left walking towards the Black Forest.

When passing by the young man who reminded adventurers from other places, Leo reached out and patted him on the shoulder, said that you are very good, and then continued walking.

The young man only felt a slight weight on his shoulders. He looked at Leo's back in confusion, and then wanted to say something, but he didn't say it in the end.

"You just now..." Sylvia couldn't help asking after seeing this scene.

Before Sylvia could finish asking, Leo replied: "I just gave him a chance. In the end, whether he can get rid of the fate of becoming a family member depends on himself."

Leo could see that the young man just wanted to remind the adventurers from other places to be careful, but his reminder didn't have any effect under the disturbance of his companions. Even so, he could feel the kindness of the young man, so Lei Ou When Ou patted the opponent's shoulder, he took the opportunity to suppress the mutated cells in the young man with spiritual energy.

As long as the young man doesn't continue to contact the source of mutation, his body's mutation will stop forever. Based on the strength of the spiritual energy Leo injected into his body, it is enough to see that the mutation is suppressed until the day he dies.

Leo and Sylvia soon followed the foreign adventurers into the Black Forest. The moment they entered the Black Forest, both of them clearly felt a powerful force enveloped the surroundings.

Neither of them tried to repel this force, but let this force sweep over them, but at the same time as the force swept across, Leo's mental network also expanded, trying to track the whereabouts of this force, And he also turned on his spiritual vision to check the surrounding situation.

It's a pity, just like encountering the strongest interference device, Leo's mental net can't function in the Black Forest at all, or Leo's mental net is completely disturbed and can't sense anything around him, or That is, you can sense things, but the sensed things are all wrong.

As for the spiritual vision, it has no effect on the Black Forest. There is almost no difference between the Black Forest he sees in his spiritual vision and the Black Forest he sees with his naked eyes. The road that has been opened up is completely muddy, and it is mud that has not been excavated or reclaimed.

And the more important point is that in the spirit vision, the exit of the road behind him has disappeared, and it has returned to the appearance of the tree wall.