The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo and Sylvia could easily tell that the sound of footsteps should be the footsteps of a human being or a biped creature similar to a human being. They looked at each other, walked out, and looked in the direction of the footsteps.

It didn't take long before I saw a bush being pushed away by someone, followed by a white-haired old man with very old clothes coming out from behind the bush. It was not difficult to see him from the bow on his back, the animal trap on his body, etc. It should be the owner of this hunter's lodge.

When Leo and the others saw the old hunter, the old hunter also saw Leo and Sylvia, and was taken aback. Then he looked curiously at the young couple who suddenly appeared in front of his hut. What attracted his attention the most was the costumes they were wearing. Obviously, the clothes of the two of them were very different from the civilian costumes worn by the old hunter during the Second Dynasty.

"Who are you?" The old hunter quickly returned to normal, and asked Leo and Silvia.

Although the language used by the old hunter is ancient French, it is not too different from modern French. It is somewhat like the local language of the remote areas in southern France, and both Leo and Sylvia can understand it.

"We are just people who got lost in the Black Forest." Sylvia casually found a reason and said according to the French local language closest to her memory.

Although Sylvia's language is not very different from that of the old man in her opinion, the old hunter can clearly feel the difference between the two languages, and he also wonders where Sylvia's accent comes from. accent.

Although it was only a very brief conversation, the old hunter's attitude had changed from being alert to relaxed, and he moved his hand from the handle of the knife at his waist without a trace.

His question just now was to determine whether the two people in front of him were transformed by monsters in the Black Forest, because in known attempts, although monsters can become normal people, they cannot talk like normal people .

The moment Sylvia opened her mouth, she had already proved that she was not a monster from the Black Forest.

It's just that the old hunter also wondered why the two strangely dressed people in front of him lost their way in the Black Forest.

Although the Black Forest has never been regarded as a forbidden area, anyone who wants to enter the Black Forest can enter, but almost everyone is well aware of the dangers of the Black Forest, and no one will go to the Black Forest for boring reasons such as playing. Inside, even came to the edge of this black forest safe zone.

The old hunter knew very well that the hunter hut he built was specially used to process the prey after he hunted Black Forest monsters, and to use it as a temporary storage point. place,

Facts have also proved that his choice of location is correct. With the help of this hunter's hut, he can capture some weak monsters in the Black Forest faster, and he doesn't have to worry about someone breaking into the hunter's hut. In fact, this is the first time he has encountered Outsiders discovered the Hunter's Lodge.

"Where are you from?" the old hunter asked again.

"It's inconvenient to say." Sylvia said vaguely again.

And the hand that the old hunter loosened from the weapon returned to the weapon, and looked at Leo and Silvia vigilantly.

Although anyone can enter the Black Forest, anyone who enters the Black Forest and gains something has to pay a considerable amount of Black Forest tax. However, the old hunter's financial situation simply cannot afford such a heavy tax, so he The first time they went hunting in the forest, they were careful to stay as far away from the eyes and ears of the lords as possible.

Right now, Sylvia's ambiguous answer naturally aroused the old hunter's worries, but besides worrying, he had suspicions about the identities of the two of them.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not your enemy, and I have no ill intentions towards you, we just accidentally found this hunter's cabin to take a look." Leo said at this time: "If you don't show up, we will leave soon gone."

Although Leo's words were just ordinary explanations, he used some voices with psychic powers when he spoke. After these sound waves with weak psychic powers were passed into the old hunter's ears, they naturally It gave him an inexplicable sense of trust, and his hands were put down from his weapon again.

"Do you need me to take you out?" Under the influence of trust, the old hunter took the initiative to ask.

"Of course." Leo nodded bluntly.

The old hunter didn't say anything more, walked into the wooden house, took out the weapon in the oil barrel, wiped it clean, put it away, took out two weapons from the backpack and inserted them into the wooden barrel, and then turned around After walking out of the house and closing the door, he motioned for Leo and Silvia to follow behind him.

Neither Leo nor Sylvia said anything, and followed closely behind the old hunter, walking towards the domain controlled by the mysterious existence mentioned in the message in their minds.

After walking for a while, Sylvia suddenly broke the silence and said, "My name is Sylvia, and this is my partner Leo. This is our first time here, can you introduce some of your territories?" Case?"

The old hunter was stunned when he heard the words, turned his head to look at Leo and Sylvia, glanced back and forth a few times at the out of place clothes of the two, and then seemed to think of something, his face revealed A look of awe.

The old hunter asked tentatively in a low-profile tone, "Are the two adults from Lanxi?"

"Lanxi?" Leo and Sylvia were stunned for a moment, but soon realized that the Lanxi mentioned by the old hunter should not be Lanxi, an important industrial town in the United Kingdom of Vinylon World, but a derivative of the French Empire in the Black Forest. The city Lanxi built by the civilization that came out.

Lanxi has a special meaning for any Frenchman. Even in the third dynasty, many Frenchmen do not think that Winterrin City is the capital of the French Empire, but the ancient capital city of Lanxi. This idea was most prevalent among those in the south and west of the Farland Empire.

So much so that after the establishment of the United Kingdom of France, the government of the United Kingdom had to follow public opinion and established Lanxi as the capital of the kingdom.

From the words of the old hunter, it is not difficult for Leo and Sylvia to guess that in this Black Forest world, there is also a civilization named Lanxi as its center, which coincides with their previous speculation about the Second Dynasty. And together.

"Yes, we are from Lanxi." Sylvia nodded and admitted.

Hearing Sylvia's acknowledgment, the old hunter was a little relieved. In his heart, those people in Lanxi were indeed worthy of awe, even fear, but compared to the lords who actually controlled them, the people in Lanxi were obviously not So threatening.

Moreover, this also gave him an answer to his doubts about the strange clothes on the two of them. After all, those people in Lanxi are known for being weird, let alone wearing some weird clothes, even if they become weird people. What.

What's more, the people in Lanxi are simply a symbol of wealth for people like them who live in the Black Forest. Every time those who help Lanxi can finally earn a huge amount of wealth that can only be earned in a few years .

Thinking that he might get a windfall, the old hunter showed a smile on his face, and then asked tentatively: "Why did you send people here so early this year? Now those monsters in the Black Forest are still there. During the dormant period, you will have to wait for at least four full moons to regain your vitality.” Then, without waiting for Leo and Sylvia to react, he said smartly: “Do you want to go deeper into the Black Forest? ? If so, you must look for me, you must know that my knowledge of the Black Forest is unmatched by anyone in the entire Lyon Territory."

As he said that, he deliberately took off the bow he was carrying behind his back, then put on an arrow, searched in the surrounding forest, and shot an arrow at one of the trees, and then saw that the arrow pierced through A black forest creature that looked like a tree rat fell down.

Seeing this scene, Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other, exchanged glances, and looked at the old hunter with slightly different expressions.

Just now, although the old hunter opened his bow and shot arrows, although it looked no different from ordinary archery, both Leo and Sylvia felt that there was an extraordinary power attached to the old hunter's arrows. This extraordinary power was not very strong, but people around In this environment, it is particularly obvious.

The first human being encountered in the Black Forest actually had extraordinary power, so how many people in this civilization inside the Black Forest have extraordinary power? This question appeared in the minds of Leo and Sylvia at the same time.

When guessing that there was a civilization in the Black Forest that continued from the Second Dynasty of Faran, Leo and Sylvia had thought that the people in this civilization also had extraordinary powers, because in an environment like the Black Forest, the long-term Time is affected by huge energy, and human beings will definitely undergo some mutations.

But they never expected that an old hunter they met by chance would also have extraordinary power, and judging from the techniques and process he used, he was very familiar with this power and had obviously been using it for a long time.

Although Leo and Sylvia were curious, they didn't ask the old hunter about the extraordinary power, but refocused the topic on what he said about the Lyon collar.

The old hunter didn't doubt him, and said seriously what he knew about the Leon collar, but even though he tried his best to explain everything as clearly as possible, in the end, Leo and Silvia's relationship Not much to gain.

This is not because the old hunter is hiding anything, but because the old hunter only knows these things. He has spent his whole life in the Black Forest to make a living. Let him tell the things in the Black Forest. He can tell a lot of information, such as those The growth cycle of the trees, the roots and leaves of those trees can be used as medicine, etc., but he has not been to other parts of the Leon Land, all the things about the other parts of the Lyon Land are businessmen who come here to buy prey He said, he just pieced together the fragments he remembered and told Leo and Sylvia.

Now this Black Forest corresponds to the Lyon Territory, which is under the control of a lord named Prodi. It is not clear how big the entire territory is. The old hunter only knows that after leaving the Black Forest, he will be able to reach Prodi after walking for about a day. of the castle.

The village where the old hunter lives is the only nearby village. This village mainly grows a kind of wine-making berry, and some people will also make cameos as hunters.

In addition, there are wars here, and the old hunters don't know where to fight the specific wars. Lord Prodi often mobilizes some young people to fight, and after each war, not many people can come back.

Talking and walking in this way, the group of three quickly walked out of the Black Forest.

Here, the boundary division of the Black Forest is similar to that of the Velen World. It is a towering tree wall, and after walking out of the Black Forest, the scene Leo saw almost made him think that he had returned to the Velen World, because the scene in front of him was different from that of the Velen World. After he passed through the Black Forest, the scene he saw was very similar.

They are all pieces of reclaimed land, and slices of crops are neatly divided on the land, but the crops at that time were staple foods such as wheat, while the crops in front of them were berries full of red fruits.

"That's our village over there." The old hunter led Leo and Sylvia through a field of crops, walked to a hillside, then pointed to a village in the distance, and said, "You two adults can come to our village first Take a rest inside, and then we can let the carriage in the village take the two adults to the castle."

Neither Leo nor Sylvia objected to the old hunter's proposal. Sylvia suddenly thought of money, so she took out a gold sa from her pocket and handed it to the old hunter, saying, "This can be used as a gold medal." cost?"

"This..." Seeing the gold sa that Sylvia took out, the old hunter showed a shocked expression on his face, shook his head quickly, and said, "No, no! This is too precious, too precious! This kind of fetish I dare not accept it."

From the reaction of the old hunter, both Leo and Sylvia could see that gold seemed to be of unimaginable value here, and it was even regarded as a fetish.

"We seldom go out, so I don't know what currency you use for transactions?" Sylvia took the gold coins back and asked.

Seeing Sylvia take back the gold coins, the old hunter felt a little bit reluctant, but he didn't say much. Before, he still had some doubts about the identities of Leo and Sylvia, but now all the doubts are gone. It seemed to him that only people from Lanxi would take out the fetishes as currency so casually.

The old hunter then took out some coins from his pocket and put them in front of Leo and Sylvia. They were both surprised when they saw it, because the coins that the old hunter took out were not metal at all, but pieces of wood There are numbers and some patterns engraved on the wood slices.

Leo and Sylvia each picked up a piece of wood and looked at it, and soon they found that the piece of wood was not as simple as it seemed, because they both felt a faint energy inside the piece of wood, obviously this A hint of energy is the key to distinguishing the authenticity of this wood chip currency.