The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Is this the ancient Bran tree?" After arriving at the first location landmark, Sylvia looked up at the huge plant in front of her, and quickly recognized that it was an extinct tree in Velen. Ancient tree species.

"Look over there." Leo's eyes only glanced at the ancient tree, and then fell on the dilapidated building covered by a large number of vines and moss.

It is obvious that these dilapidated buildings were built by humans in terms of shape and size.

Although it was surprising to see human buildings here, the two did not have doubts about it, because from a certain point of view, the people of Velen Continent can be said to come from the primitive tribes inhabiting the Black Forest. Nor is human architecture anything surprising.

"Buildings from the Birok period." After Leo cleaned up some vines to reveal the main body of these buildings, Sylvia immediately recognized the origin of these buildings from the unique reliefs on the buildings.

The Birok period was the middle and early civilization of the tribal civilization of the Black Forest, and it was also a civilization that transitioned from matrilineal clan tribes to patrilineal clan tribes. During this period, buildings with a large number of totems and symbols representing patriarchal characteristics appeared, and the tribes of this period also Begin to use these symbols to record various legends of the tribe's ancestors.

Although the Birok period was only a short period of time in the civilization process of the Vinylon world, less than fifty years before and after, and there were not many civilization achievements worth boasting about, but the way of symbolic records created by itself is Vinylon is one of the main components of characters in various countries in the world.

Leo searched briefly in these dilapidated buildings, and soon found some patterns engraved on a damaged wall. From the patterns, it is not difficult to see that these seem to be related to the civilization of the universe, because he saw a feature that is very Obvious spaceships and some aliens that look like monsters. Several of the aliens can easily guess their origin because of their obvious physical characteristics.

"Are these family members?" Sylvia naturally noticed these patterns, but she regarded these aliens as family members.

"No." Leo shook his head, then pointed to the sky, without further explanation.

After Sylvia saw it, she immediately understood what Leo wanted to express, and then looked at the relief again curiously, and said, "Are they also related to the visitors from the depths of the starry sky?"

"Maybe!" Leo still gave a vague response.

Regarding the alien races of these cosmic civilizations, Leo doesn't know how to explain to Sylvia, because if he wants to explain thoroughly until Sylvia understands, then he may need to explain for several months before he can completely let Sylvia understand. Via understands the origin of concepts such as the universe and alien races.

In this ruins, except for the mural, the two of them found nothing useful anymore, so they didn't intend to stay any longer, but continued to rush towards the next location punctuation mark.

On the way to the road sign at the back, I don't know if it's because of the contract ring or other reasons, although both Leo and Sylvia sensed some mysterious creatures hiding in the surrounding woods, many of them were obviously hostile , but no one rushed out to attack them.

When they spent nearly six hours and walked through five location landmarks, they finally came to the outskirts of the area controlled by the mysterious ancient existence. The forest creatures are not following, and the number of surrounding black forest creatures is also rapidly decreasing. It seems that this place has entered a restricted area.

"Look!" Sylvia suddenly pointed to a shadow in the gap between the trees ahead.

When Leo saw what the shadow was, he also felt a little surprised. This kind of surprise was not the surprise of seeing the tribal buildings in the Biroque period, but a surprise full of doubts, because the building he saw turned out to be a hunter lodge.

The two walked over, and after seeing the shape of the hunter's hut clearly, they couldn't help but glanced at each other and exchanged views.

I saw that the shape of this hut is a typical triangular house building during the Second Dynasty. This kind of building was especially popular in farms during the Second Dynasty. This kind of building can be said to be the only house building for all the bottom people at that time.

However, with the fall of the second dynasty and the beginning of the third dynasty, masonry castle buildings became the mainstream. Early farmers lived in the castle, farming outside during the day and returning to the castle at night, so this triangular house The buildings also disappeared.

Now, after seeing this triangular house building, the first thought in Leo and Sylvia's mind was that this building was built by people who lived in the Black Forest during the Second Dynasty.

Because during the Second Dynasty, the Black Forest was already considered a restricted area of ​​life, and anyone who broke in never went out. However, due to the system of the Second Dynasty, a large number of low-level farmers and slaves would live a life that would be worse than death. These people will eventually choose to escape into the Black Forest to avoid the exploitation and enslavement of the nobles of the second dynasty. Even if they die, it is much better than living like a dead.

Therefore, there were a lot of people who fled into the Black Forest during the Second Dynasty. According to the statistics of later scholars, there were at least one million people. Five times is not a problem.

But after taking a closer look at the triangular house, they felt something was wrong again, because although the house was old, the construction time was at most one or two years, and it was definitely not as long as the second dynasty.

"Could it be that those who fled to the Black Forest back then adapted here and lived to this day." Leo suddenly had a guess at this moment, and said in a deep voice.

Sylvia was stunned when she heard the words, thought about it carefully, and nodded. In her opinion, Leo's guess seemed to be the only answer.

The two walked outside the hut, untied the wooden latch on the door of the hut, and walked into the hut.

The interior of the hut was a little dark, because no one had lived there for a long time, and the inside had been covered with a layer of dust. In the gaps in the house, some vines squeezed in and grew.

The two glanced around the house, and found many things that are common in hunter's huts, such as knives immersed in oil barrels, bow racks that have been simply processed, and some completely sealed dry food storage and so on.

At this time, Leo saw a wrapped book on the bedside at the other end of the room, so he walked over, picked up the book, opened it and looked through it.

This book is not an important book, it is just a novel, and the text used to write this novel is Old French, but from the aspects of grammar, words, etc., this Old French seems to be There have also been some improvements.

Since the great discovery of voyages, the connection between countries has also become closer, and the phenomenon of language blending among countries has become increasingly prominent. Almost all languages ​​​​of countries have the habit of choosing words and making sentences from other four or five countries. For example, the current French language is integrated. A new language formed after a large number of Sigma, English, and Maris. Although the grammar is still the same as that of Old French, it is completely different from Old French in terms of vocabulary and sentence patterns. .

Now Leo sees that the Old French used in this book shows no signs of being integrated into other languages ​​outside the world, but more like some changes in the use of Old French over the long years, so it makes people understand Leo, in Old French, had no trouble reading this book.

"Look at this book." Leo flipped through the book for a while, then handed it over to Sylvia who was beside him, and then he walked to the oil drum with the weapon on it, and took it from inside. The weapon was drawn.

The liquid in this bucket is not so much oil as it is a kind of tree sap, which is somewhat similar to the oil mentioned by the Earth Federation, but it is also different. Just like oil, this juice can also act as a lubricant and help steel to resist oxidation. All steam machinery can be used, but this oil cannot burn, and because it can cover the flame to extinguish it, so many At that time, this oil was also used as a sharp weapon for extinguishing fires.

Compared with the steam machinery that has only been around for a few hundred years, this kind of tree sap extracted by a special method has appeared a long time ago. There is no consensus on the specific time, but it is certain that it was during the Black Forest tribe period.

Although the juice was developed during the time of the tribes of the Black Forest, it has undergone many improvements over the following thousands of years, the most recent of which was after the advent of steam machinery.

At that time, steam machinery manufacturers needed a juice with less impurities and more lubricity, so they developed a filtration and purification device, so that this juice could be further purified, and finally became the transparent juice used by the outside world. machine oil.

But now the oil in the oil barrel in front of Leo is still clear, with few impurities, but its color is reddish brown. Lubricating oil is the armor oil used by knight squires of the Second Dynasty to preserve their master's armor.

After the establishment of the third dynasty, the King of Knights discovered that this kind of armor oil would be easily stained with dust after being applied too much, and then produce a kind of stickiness that would interfere with the movement of the armor wearer, so he asked his scholars to This oil has been improved to purify it a little.

Therefore, judging from various signs, the living habits, objects used, and language used by the people who built this hunter’s cabin were all inherited from the Second Dynasty. If there is a settlement built by humans, it is likely to be related to the Second Dynasty. It is related to the bottom poor who fled to the black forest.

Leo told Sylvia what he had found and asked for her opinion.

After hearing this, Sylvia closed the book in her hand, thought for a while, and said, "Do you know the book Doris in Wonderland?"

Leo heard the words, thought for a while, and said, "The fairy tale book?"

"Yes, it's the book of fairy tales." Sylvia nodded and said, "Don't you think the content in the book is very similar to what we found?"

Doris in Wonderland is a fairy tale novel that has been circulated in the French Empire for many years. The author of this novel is still unknown. The only thing that is certain is that the author is a woman.

The content of this book is very simple. It is about a Frenchman named Doris who inadvertently broke into the Black Forest, was chased and killed by monsters in the Black Forest, and fled to a fairyland-like world. I lived in that world for a while, and then because of a play, I accidentally fell into a tree hole and returned to the French Empire.

The story in this book is not very exciting, what is wonderful is the author's various descriptions of the fairyland world, which makes people seem to see a living second dynasty of France, so many people who study the history of France will use this fairy tale The book is used as a reference book for the study of the Second Dynasty of France, and for this reason, many people think that the person who wrote this book was a scholar who was proficient in the history of the folklore of the Second Dynasty.

Leo himself is not interested in fairy tale books, but when he read the books of the Second Dynasty from the old man Rembrandt, the old man told him about the book Doris in Wonderland, and he just read it briefly , included in your own database and put it aside.

Now, after Sylvia's reminder, Leo recalled the book and recalled the contents of that book. As Sylvia said, the contents of that book were indeed the same as what they saw now very similar.

For example, the girl named Doris lost her way because she passed through a huge hole in a huge tree, and when she was chased and killed by a monster in the Black Forest, she ran away in a panic, and finally she fled into a forest. The monster chasing her suddenly retreated inexplicably, and then she walked through the forest and saw a fairy world.

The reason why it is called fairyland is because she saw that the castle in the fairyland world was shrouded in light, dispelling the darkness of the black forest, and the people living in the castle in the fairyland world had a lot of magical wisdom besides human beings. Creatures, such as the winged tribe with wings, the upper body of which is a human and the lower body of a bird, such as the stone man who can curl himself up and turn into a stone ball, and so on.

After going through the novel in his mind, Leo said to Sylvia: "It seems that there is a civilization here that inherited from the Second Dynasty, and the author of Doris's Adventures in Wonderland also came here."

Sylvia smiled and said, "I'm somewhat interested in this civilization."

Leo thought for a while, and said: "Since we have come to the Black Forest, there is no need to be so anxious. We can see what the civilization of the second dynasty is like in the Black Forest, and then move on."

Sylvia knew that Leo was accommodating herself, and a smile appeared on her face.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the house. Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other, walked out of the hunter's hut, and looked at the bushes where the footsteps came from.