The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After looking at it repeatedly, Leo handed the piece of wood back to the old hunter, because he couldn't see how the energy was sealed inside the piece of wood stably. He could only guess that the piece of wood itself was a special object capable of absorbing energy. Conserve external energy.

"Sorry, we don't have this kind of currency on hand." Sylvia also handed the wood piece back to the old hunter.

The old hunter quickly shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'm just leading the way. With the abilities of the two adults, it is not difficult to get out of the Black Forest. In fact, there is no need for the two of you..."

"We don't like to owe favors." Leo interrupted the old hunter, and then took out a gold sa and handed it to the old hunter, saying: "Let's do it! You still hold it, if you think it's too valuable, When you get back to the village later, help me collect as many books as possible, if you still feel sorry, don’t give me some ordinary coins.”

The old hunter originally wanted to return Jinsa back, but he hesitated a little after hearing what Leo said. He didn't really think that Leo wanted to entrust him to collect some books, nor did he want any ordinary coins. , These are just some excuses that Leo wanted to find so that he could accept this gold coin and the amazing reward offered by the other party.

Seeing that Leo had found a reason for him to accept the reward, the old hunter, who was very eager for this gold coin, didn't pretend anymore and returned the thing. Instead, while being extremely grateful, he expressed that he would do everything possible to save Leo Gather enough books before leaving.

The group quickly returned to the village. Like the old hunter, the people who lived here rarely saw people from other places. After seeing the old hunter leading two men and women in strange clothes into the village, everyone was curious. Standing in the distance and looking around, it's like looking at something rare.

The actions of these villagers made the old hunter feel ashamed, so he immediately scolded them and drove them away. Although the old hunter is not the village head of this village, his prestige in the village seems to be very high. After being reprimanded, everyone temporarily put away their curious eyes, and refocused on what they were doing.

The old hunter brought Leo to his residence, took out two bottles of wine he treasured and poured them for Leo and Sylvia, and then let Leo and Sylvia have a rest, he went to help Leo collect books, by the way Arrange carriage to the castle.

"What do you think?" Leo turned to Sylvia and asked.

Sylvia picked up the wine glass, took a sip of the wine, nodded slightly, and said, "The wine is not bad."

"You know what I'm asking?" Leo smiled, took a sip of the wine in his glass, nodded, and said, "The wine is really good."

Sylvia thought for a while and said: "I guess the system here should be the city-state co-ownership system in the early and middle period of the second dynasty. The lord of each castle is a city-state lord with great autonomy. Lanxi is The co-lords of the city-states have certain influence over these city-states, but they do not have absolute control."

After hearing this, Leo nodded slightly, and said, "I think so too," he paused, and said, "I just noticed that quite a few people here have signs of mutation. It's not a mutation caused by extraordinary power, it's a mutation of the body itself, just like a different god cell."

When Sylvia heard the words, associations quickly formed in her mind, and she said, "This is related to what the Seventh Research Institute is doing..."

Although Sylvia didn't finish her sentence, Leo already understood what she meant. He nodded and agreed with Sylvia's guess, and said, "It seems that someone from the Farland Empire should have come here, and even people have had some exchanges."

While speaking, Leo pointed to an ordinary-looking sieve hanging on the wall in the room.

Sylvia followed Leo's finger and looked at the humble sieve. She didn't understand what Leo meant for a while, but then Leo reported a year number, and she suddenly realized it. Realized why Leo thought that the French Empire had exchanges with the second dynasty continuation civilization of the Black Forest.

This very ordinary sieve in her eyes is indeed just an ordinary agricultural tool. Its function is to screen crops. When using it, the size of the mesh can be adjusted to screen out crops with different qualities, which is convenient for farmers to specify different sieves. Commodity prices.

This sieve can be seen in any farmer's house in Vinylon World, and it can be said to be the most common farm tool, but if this farm tool appears here, things are not so common.

Because this agricultural tool was manufactured seventy-three years ago, the person who made it was a scholar from the American Academy of Agriculture in Mozambique. This scholar specialized in some steam machinery to help farmers and planters in Mozambique more easily. The sieve that swept the entire Vinylon world in a very short time was a farm tool he made casually in his spare time, and this farm tool has become the best-selling farm tool in the world.

However, this farm tool that was only popular in the Vinylon world appeared in this civilized world of the Black Forest, and it seems that this farm tool is also a kind of common farm tool, so Leo has reason to believe that this farm tool should be Vinylon It has been handed down from the world, and the only people in the whole world of Velen who are capable of doing this are the royal family of Fran who has the contract ring and can safely pass through the Black Forest.

After making this guess, Leo and Sylvia found several items unique to the world of Velen in the room respectively. However, these items have undergone some modifications and their appearance has changed a lot, but their core mechanical principles are not the same. It has not changed, and the careful Sylvia still found the steel stamp of a famous machinery factory in France on a certain part of a farm tool.

"If there is communication between the Faran Empire and this place, then the higher-ups here should also know something about the Faran Empire." Sylvia pointed to the clothes of the two, and said in a deep voice: "Our clothes are too conspicuous. , is incompatible with the surrounding environment, and it is easy for people to see the problem and associate it with the French Empire."

"Indeed, we should change our clothes." Leo nodded, but there is no clothing store in this village, so naturally it can't solve the problem of their clothing. Leo can only take out two long hoods of the Savile Kingdom Robe, cover yourself up.

Although these two long burqas still have a strong exotic style, compared with the clothes they are wearing, they obviously cannot attract too much attention.

Not long after, the old hunter returned to his residence with a large backpack on his back. When he saw Leo and Sylvia wearing a beautiful robe, he couldn't help being stunned, but he didn't ask. What, he put the backpack in his hand in front of Leo, and said, "My lord, all the books that can be collected in the village are already placed here." Then, he took out more than a dozen pieces of silver The black wooden currency was placed on the backpack, and he said: "This is all the black coins I can find. The value of these black coins is definitely not comparable to what you gave me, my lord..."

"No, it's enough." Leo reached out and picked up a black coin and looked at it. Compared with the wooden chip currency he saw earlier, this black coin is more exquisite, and the number marked on it is also larger, while the black coin The special energy contained inside has not changed. It seems that the value of these currencies does not lie in the special energy, but in the wood that can hold the special energy.

"Where's the carriage?" Sylvia asked.

The old hunter quickly said: "By the way, the carriage is ready, and the two adults can leave at any time."

"Didn't you say that you have to wait for a while before the carriage goes to the castle?" Sylvia asked.

The old hunter immediately explained: "Of course, it's someone else. The two adults must have important things to do, so I called up that guy, Old Todd. He still has a carriage for rotation on hand."

Seeing that the old hunter had made arrangements, Leo and Sylvia didn't say anything more. Sylvia picked up the coins, and Leo picked up a bag of books, signaling the old hunter to lead the way.

The old hunter was very surprised to see that Leo was able to easily grab such a heavy backpack with one hand, but soon he was relieved, because in his opinion, the person from Lanxi lifted a heavy backpack It's nothing, there's no need to make a fuss about it.

So, the old hunter led Leo and Sylvia to the end of the street at the other end of the village. At this time, he saw a somewhat old but sturdy carriage parked in front of the driver. There is already a coachman sitting on the board.

The driver's dress was a little weird, his whole body was wrapped tightly, even his face was tied with cloth strips, only his eyes were exposed.

"Old Todd was caught in a fire some time ago, and his body was burned. He covered his body to avoid scaring others." Maybe he noticed where Leo and Sylvia's eyes fell, and the old hunter immediately explained: "My lords, please rest assured of Old Todd's driving ability. He is the best coachman in our village, and he will definitely satisfy your two lords."

After listening to the explanation, Leo nodded, opened the door and boarded the carriage, and Sylvia followed and sat beside him.

The old hunter closed the door of the car, then patted the driver's seat, gave instructions to the driver, and saw the driver driving the two strange-looking pack animals pulling the cart, drove out of the village, and drove for a while on the trail inside the plantation , onto a wider road, and the speed of the carriage also accelerated.

After Leo and Sylvia got into the carriage, their eyes fell on the light source in the carriage. This light source was not a brazier or lantern, but a plant, a plant that could emit strong light , obviously this should also be a species unique to the Black Forest.

Although the carriage was shaking, it didn't affect Leo and Silvia from flipping through the books. After the carriage got on the avenue, they each took out a book from their backpack pockets and flipped through it.

The book Leo got was very interesting. It was a book dedicated to distinguishing the collections of the Black Forest. In this book, the unique plants and animals of the Black Forest were described in detail in graphic form, and marked Their value, which is naturally helpful for Leo to understand the species of the Black Forest, but it is a pity that this book seems to deliberately not write the reasons for the value of these plants and animals, such as the medicinal value of certain plants, etc. wait.

Leo reads books very fast. In less than an hour, he has read all the books. These books do not involve any advanced knowledge, and most of them are story books. But from these books, Leo can Learn a lot of daily knowledge related to this civilization, such as speaking, using words, such as dressing, food and so on.

Under Leo's guidance, Sylvia also quickly became familiar with the unique behaviors here. Although her learning and acceptance ability is a little worse than Leo's, she is a spy after all. When she came to a place, Disguising as a local in the shortest time is her best skill, and soon she found the trick, and together with Leo, used the driver to experiment to see if the driver could see through their disguise.

The carriage was driving very fast, and Old Todd stopped twice on the road to let Leo and Sylvia move around, and the places he chose to stop were also some small villages, far away from the border of the Black Forest.

Leo and Sylvia found that as they drove into the center of the territory, more and more people possessed extraordinary power, but the extraordinary power they possessed was very weak, and they could hardly be felt if they didn't feel it carefully. And with the emergence of extraordinary power, the mutation of these people has become more and more obvious.

Just like in a village where the carriage stopped to rest, more than half of the people had obvious mutated organs, but the normal-looking people in the village did not show any disgust towards these mutated people. Those who were obviously mutated all showed envy and jealousy, as if this mutation was an expression of beauty and a symbol of status for them.

When their carriage arrived at the lord's castle, they found that almost 90% of the villages outside the castle had obvious mutated organs, and what was even more interesting was that almost all the nobles in the Lyon collar were inhuman, Leo and Hill The first local nobleman Via saw when he got out of the car was a maggot-like form, but with a human head and arms.

The status of this maggot man seems to be quite high, and all the people around who have not mutated or have mutated bodies saluted him when they saw the maggot man approaching.

It's just that their etiquette is different, people with no obvious body mutation will kneel down on the ground, looking very humble, while those with mutant organs just bow their bodies.

Leo and Sylvia didn't do anything unique, but they didn't plan to kneel down to the maggot man either. When the people around gathered and bowed down to the maggot man, the two of them retreated into the crowd In the corner of a house behind, wait for the maggot man's team to pass before coming out.