The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although the Black Silver Mine Town belongs to the territory of the Mother of Filth, its actual jurisdiction is controlled by Lanxi City, and the nearby Lord Faen Lord is only the nominal owner of this town.

As the name suggests, Black Silver Mining Town is a town specially built for the black silver mines that are abundant in the nearby Black Forest. Except for a small number of people in the town who are militiamen, the rest are pickers, responsible for picking mature black silver mines.

Although the black silver ore is a metal mine, this metal mine is different from the metal mines buried in the world of Velen. The black silver ore grows on trees, and it is actually a fruit that grows called the black silver ore tree.

It was also a very coincidence that Lanxi City discovered the black silver mine. At that time, Lanxi City just experienced an abyss tide. That abyss tide caused a lot of casualties in Lanxi City. Some stockpiles of parts left over from Tin City were also depleted, and these much-needed parts needed to be remanufactured.

The early reformers of Lanxi City had already prepared all this, and the manufacturing machinery and methods of the parts required for various devices had been preserved, but the reformers at that time did not expect the wear and consumption of various equipment parts. So huge.

After a period of time, the raw materials to be used to make parts have been used up, and the raw materials needed to make several key parts have also been used up. It is necessary to go to the Black Forest to find raw materials for manufacturing.

Among these used up raw materials, those ordinary metal mines and clay are still easy to find. There are many such mines around, and the reserves are so huge that it is impossible to avoid the danger of running out in hundreds of thousands of years. A metal used to make signal lines inside the component was not found.

Although some scholars tried to replace it with other metals at that time, these substitutes often had the problem of losing signal packets. This kind of problem is not a problem in normal times, just need to retransmit the data. But it's the difference between life and death.

As a result, Lanxi City had to join forces with other church forces in the realm of the gods, and sent the largest number of people into the depths of the Black Forest to find alternative metals. As a result, out of more than 30 exploration teams sent, only seven returned in the end. Incomplete, the rest of the team died in the Black Forest.

Just when Lanxi City thought that the exploration operation had failed and was about to mobilize more people to form an exploration team to continue the exploration, a hunter living on the edge of the Mother of Filth domain brought a spherical metal object to Lanxi City. See if he can receive the ore hunting bounty issued by Lanxi City. As a result, he became the recipient of the bounty. Not only did he get a lot of money, but he also became a real nobleman in the domain of the mother of filth, and his The fief is the Faen Territory.

This mineral that can replace that special metal is not a mineral deposit in the conventional sense, but a fruit that grows on a tree. When the fruit grows on the tree, it is the same as a normal fruit, and can even be picked and eaten by people, but After ripening and falling, the fruit cracked and the seeds flew out of the fruit, the broken fruit did not rot, but underwent some inexplicable transformation and became a piece of metal, and this metal because of its blackness Silver, so it is called black silver fruit by the locals, and the tree that grows this fruit is also called black silver tree.

Black and silver trees are extremely rare in the Black Forest, at least in the Black Forest within the influence of Lanxi City. So far, only one piece of black and silver trees has been found in the forest that grows on the edge of the Mother of Filth's domain. The number of black and silver trees in this piece Not a lot, only about 300 grams, and the fruit produced each time is less than 3,000 pieces.

Although this amount of black silver ore could alleviate the demand for special metal ore raw materials in Lanxi City at that time, it could not guarantee the supply of raw materials consumed for manufacturing components in the event of large-scale component damage in Lanxi City. Xicheng wanted to transplant this black silver tree.

The end result is that this kind of tree can only grow on that piece of land, and after being transplanted to other places, it will die immediately, but if it is transplanted with seeds, it will not even germinate, and even later there are gods who try to give birth to this kind of tree. trees, but the result remains the same.

In the end, the matter of transplanting the Black Silver Tree was over. Lanxi City could only unite with members of the Church of the Mother of Filth to establish a village dedicated to taking care of the Black Silver Forest on the edge of the Black Silver Forest, that is, The current Black Silver Mine Town.

Moreover, Lanxi City is very aware of the importance of the Black Silver Tree, so it also dispatched some ordinary mech sergeants to station near the Black Silver Forest to take care of the Black Silver Forest, and the Black Silver Mine Town became Lanxi. The only town outside of the city that has a Mecha Sergeant team.

Therefore, when the transportation team came to Black Silver Mine Town, Leo got out of the car and saw a group of ordinary mecha sergeants handing over the work with the mecha sergeants who were sent over, he was not surprised.

The process of him and Sylvia pretending to be the Church of the Victims and leaving Lanxi City was very smooth, because almost every time the abyss tide passed, the Church of the Victims would form a transportation team to transport various ore raw materials, but this time the speed of the formation of the transportation team was very smooth. It seems to be a lot faster.

On the way, although the transportation team encountered some tax cards established by local lords, they did not encounter any difficulties and got used to it smoothly. Moreover, the people inside the transportation team did not ask about the origins of the two, but just regarded them as two people. The higher-ups of the victims stayed away, until Leo and Sylvia left the transport team and entered the Black Forest, still no one asked about the situation of the two of them, as if they thought they were carrying out some secret mission.

"What's the matter?" After the two re-entered the Black Forest, Leo suddenly saw Sylvia frowning, as if feeling a little uncomfortable.

Sylvia responded: "The power of the Black Forest is repelling me. Although it is not very serious, it makes people feel uncomfortable."

Leo thought for a while and said: "It should be related to your blood power. Although you are not suitable for the abyss species, the abyss power on your body has reached the upper limit allowed by the Black Forest. If something happens, you'd better Don't make a move, leave it to me, otherwise the more you use the power of the abyss dragon, the stronger the repulsion you will receive, and it is very likely to cause some damage to your body in the end."

Sylvia nodded slightly upon hearing this, and agreed to Leo's proposal, then she looked around and asked, "Where are we now?"

"According to the information obtained from Lanxi, our current location should be here." Leo took out a map of the Mother of Filth Domain, pointed to a protruding edge near the northwest corner of the map, and then pointed While moving, he said: "The location of the Black Silver Forest should be here. According to the information provided by Guangren, Mirror Lake should be here."

Sylvia looked at the map in Leo's hand and couldn't help but smiled wryly, and said, "Is there no more detailed map? This map only has the mark of the Mother of Filth domain, and the Black Forest outside, except for the Black Silver Forest, It's all blank."

"The space and time of the Black Forest are chaotic, and it is impossible to use a map to mark them." Leo put the map away, and explained: "Because the Black Silver Forest was anchored by ten surrounding gods, including the Mother of Filth, It is fixed, so it is possible to mark an exact position, otherwise, even if the position is marked on it, you will not be able to find the desired position if you search for it according to the mark above."

"In that case, how do we find Mirror Lake?" Sylvia asked puzzled.

Leo pointed to the domain of the mother of filth outside the black forest behind him, and said: "Mirror lake should be fixed in one place by some kind of force, just like these god domains, we just need to walk in a fixed direction, regardless of the black No matter how the forest changes, we will eventually be able to reach Mirror Lake." He paused again and said, "However, we should be able to open up a shortcut."

"A contract ring?" Sylvia guessed.

Leo nodded, and then he raised his hand wearing the contract ring, thinking of the mirror lake leading to the Deer Park Forest in his mind.

Then, they heard a sudden noisy sound from the woods beside them, and then saw that all the dense trees moved to the two sides for a certain distance, and the shrubs and weeds below also moved, finally revealing a Straight, flat forest passage.

"Let's go..." Leo put down his hand and was about to say something to Sylvia when a loud noise suddenly came from the black silver mining town they had just passed.

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other, did not say much, made the same decision and action, and quickly moved towards the black silver mining town.

The two soon came to the outside of the Black Silver Mine Town. At this time, they only saw the flames in the Black Silver Mine Town, and the fire surrounded the whole town. However, there was no human voice in the town, only the burning fire. The crackling of wood.

Sylvia wanted to rush in to check the situation, but was held back by Leo, because Leo's mental network did not sense the existence of any living beings in the black silver mine town, no matter whether they were alive or dead, as if they were When they left the town and entered the Black Forest just now, all the people in the town disappeared, and the town was burnt down.

Leo told Sylvia what he found, and Sylvia used her method to check the situation in the town. Like Leo, she only found the burning town. But did not see anyone.

"What's going on here?" Sylvia asked with a puzzled look.

Leo thought for a while and said: "We should not be in the previous period now? Didn't you notice? The transport team carriage we took was not in there, not only this, but even the buildings in the town It’s also much less than before.”

With Leo's reminder, Sylvia also realized the unusualness of the black silver mining town in front of her.

"It should be caused by the fact that I used the contract ring of the Black Forest just now to open up a shortcut," Leo made another inference, and then wondered: "However, which time period is the Black Silver Mine Town now? I remember the Black Silver Mine After the town was built, except for some monsters that ran out of the black forest, it has never been attacked, and there has never been a case of being completely burned by a fire. If there is one, it will definitely be recorded."

"What if it wasn't the former black silver mining town?" Sylvia also thought about it, and said: "You also said that there has never been such a thing in the former black silver mining town. What if this happened in the future? .”

Just when Sylvia said these words, there was a loud thunderous noise in the sky. The two looked up and found that the sky had cracked patterns like mirrors, and then they saw the broken city in the sky. Countless shattered light spots were replaced by meteorite fireballs falling all over the sky.

"This..." Sylvia was stunned by everything in front of her. She stared straight at the sky, not knowing what to say.

However, Leo was not frightened by the sight in front of him. He calmly and quickly analyzed the places where the falling meteorites fell from the sky and the power generated by the falling meteorites, and he found that most of these meteorites would fall around, and Judging from the power of the meteorite, unless the power of an Omega-level advanced life body blocks it, this place will be completely destroyed by the meteorite.

"Let's go!" Leo didn't intend to explain slowly, he pulled Sylvia and rushed into the black forest again, running towards the passage he opened up.

The moment they walked out of the Black Forest just now, the landscape of the Black Forest had already changed, but Leo could feel the location of the shortcut passage, so he did not take a detour, and directly arranged the spiritual energy around his body, buried his head in the He rushed forward, even if there were trees blocking him, he did not detour, but smashed the trees and rushed over.

The two soon rushed to the shortcut passage, and rushed in without even thinking about it.

The moment Leo and Sylvia rushed into the shortcut passage, the surroundings fell silent instantly. The two people who stopped could see the trees on the right outside the passage growing and withering at a very fast speed, and new trees were constantly being filled. Come in, and the other side is boundless ashes, as if it has been burned by a fire, even they can still smell the smoke from the burning trees.

Seeing the scene in front of her, Sylvia asked curiously, "What's going on?"

"The flow of time outside is different from the shortcut channel we are in now." Leo is no stranger to the scene in front of him. When the spaceship enters the speed of light, the surrounding scene will become like this.

"What about this side?" Sylvia asked, pointing at the forest that had been burned by the fire.

"It should be caused by the group of falling meteorites we saw just now." Leo quickly gave the answer, but felt that something was wrong, and then looked at the burning forest over there, and then he As if seeing something in the distant flames.

It's a pity that before Leo took a closer look, whether it was the rapidly growing and withered trees or the forest burned by the fire, they all disappeared, and the surrounding scene returned to its original appearance.