The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"There are people living here!" Leo quickly made a judgment after seeing this scene, and felt surprised, but also took it for granted.

After all, on the other half of the island, which is full of dangerous spiritual creatures and all kinds of weird things, there are traces of human habitation. There must be some human beings on this half of the island that is isolated from spiritual power due to unknown forces. As for these human beings? It is not known whether he drifted here because of a shipwreck like him, or whether he is the descendant of the village residents he saw before.

Leo followed the traces on the beach and began to walk into the nearby jungle. Soon he found more and more traces of human habitation. For example, the jungle is no longer a natural primitive jungle, but artificially planted Breadfruit trees whose fruit can be used as food, whose trunk can be used as fuel, and whose leaves can be used to make coarse cloth.

After walking a certain distance from the breadfruit grove, Leo saw a man-made stone road, and also saw a very old outpost in the distance, and could vaguely see someone standing outside the outpost.

Seeing the traces of people, Leo walked towards the outpost, and while walking, he secretly prepared several sets of countermeasures and countermeasures to prevent the other party from making any malicious actions when in contact with the other party.

Because he was walking on the open road, he was seen by the people at the outpost from a long distance away. After raising his eyes and seeing Leo's figure clearly, the people in the outpost didn't do anything that would cause misunderstanding. However, it was still the same as before, leaning the weapon against the wall of the outpost, and sitting lazily on the ground.

Leo's spiritual vision ability also allowed him to see these sentries clearly from a long distance. Although the figures of these sentries were much larger than ordinary people, they were still within the normal range , and judging from the various parts on the surface, there are no abnormal organs on their bodies, they are just a few strong soldiers.

Although no abnormalities were found, Leo did not let down his vigilance. After all, after seeing all kinds of weird things that happened on the other half of the island, it was difficult for him to be sure whether these people who looked no different from humans were really humans. .

Just when Leo walked to a place five or six meters in front of the outpost, and was about to ask something about the island, the middle-aged man sitting on a big rock and smoking a pipe spoke first: "From here until now You can reach the town of Yam by walking, when you register at the registration office outside the town, someone will arrange your accommodation and work."

Hearing the middle-aged man talking to him so familiarly, Leo froze for a moment, wondering if the middle-aged man had misunderstood someone and mistook himself for someone else.

Before Leo could speak, another younger sentinel seemed to know what Leo was thinking, and explained: "You don't have to doubt, we don't know you, but people like you, we are I have seen quite a few, almost every day I receive one or two, sometimes even dozens of them, so this process has long been familiar to me and I can’t be more familiar with it.”

"A person like me?" Leo frowned slightly, and asked back: "Your words are really unreasonable. Since you don't know me, how can you know what kind of person I am?"

"You are an unlucky guy who got into a shipwreck." As soon as Leo's voice fell, the middle-aged man who spoke first responded directly, and then said with a pipe in his mouth: "We are honest with people like you. There are too many, if you have any questions, ask the mayor at the registration office after you arrive in Yam, or go to the library to check the information yourself." Then, he turned to his colleagues in the post and said: "Give him the things , let him go quickly and don't disturb our rest."

Following the instructions of the middle-aged man, the young sentry came out of the post with a box, handed it to Leo, then turned back to the post without saying anything, sat on a chair in a daze, I don't know what to think about.

Leo could feel that if he continued to ask, it would be impossible to ask more useful questions from these sloppy sentries, so he followed the middle-aged man's prompt, bypassed the sentry, and walked along the road under his feet towards the island. deeper.

On the way, Leo opened the box and looked at the contents, only to see that there was only one item in the shape of a badge in this small box. the first letter of a vocabulary.

Pick up the badge and put it in the palm of your hand to look at it. The badge is polished with obsidian. Reminiscent of the geographical location here, it is very close to the volcano. It is not difficult to find some obsidian mines. The only thing that makes Leo a little confused Yes, there seems to be a drop of liquid in the obsidian. If you look at the obsidian to the sun, you can see the liquid dangling back and forth in the cavity in the stone.

In Vinylon, obsidian itself is a kind of gem, and its value is already high. Now there is a drop of liquid contained in obsidian, so in terms of its preciousness, it is already tens of thousands of times that of ordinary obsidian, and the price is also thousands of times more , can be regarded as priceless.

But now the people on this island use this priceless gemstone to carve such a crude identity badge. If the people here are not so stupid that they don't know the value of these obsidian, then it can only be that there are so many obsidian here, or even This kind of obsidian with liquid inside is too much to be worthless.

Obviously, the first guess is impossible. From the clothes and speech of the three sentinels just now, it is not difficult to see that they should have some communication with the outside world. Like the indigenous tribes in the Mosang continent that the Kingdom of Sigma encountered, gems were used as cheap stones to exchange cloth or food with the explorers of the Kingdom of Sigma.

Then there is only the second possibility. Obsidian is mass-produced here, and the mineral deposits are extremely huge.

However, a new question arises in this way, because if obsidian is really mass-produced here and has contact with the outside world, then they can completely control the obsidian production and sell these obsidian to outsiders, instead of This is used as an ordinary stone.

"Could it be that this place has no connection with the outside world?" Leo thought in his heart, muttering in his mouth.

At this time, he thought of the sentinel just now who mentioned that they would often receive people who were shipwrecked. This matter did not seem to be a problem, but if you think about it carefully, you will feel that there is a big problem.

Because just like shipwrecks in the universe, any planet in the universe may encounter some shipwreck survivors, but there is absolutely no planet that encounters shipwreck survivors every day.

Although the sea in the Velen world cannot be compared with the universe, the reason is the same. It is impossible for any normal island to continuously encounter survivors of shipwrecks.

This also made Leo couldn't help but think of the shipwrecked ships on the beach on the other half of the island, as if this island had an inexplicable attraction, attracting all the people and ships who encountered disasters at sea.

If there is such an invisible attraction, then the people on the island may not be able to leave the island, because no matter what method they use to go to sea, they will either encounter new shipwrecks or be pulled back to the island by the attraction. In fact, this also explains why the people on this island seem to have communication with the outside world, but they regard obsidian, an extremely precious gemstone from the outside world, as dung.

After thinking about this, Leo prepared to put the obsidian badge in his pocket, speed up, and reach the town called Yam as soon as possible.

In fact, when he heard the sentinel mention Yam's town just now, he immediately thought of the things mentioned in the gods' scriptures. It was just a lack of opportunity for the gods to descend, and this opportunity happened to be in the town of Yam .

Therefore, Leo was also very curious about the town of Yam, and wanted to explore the so-called opportunity for the coming of the gods while looking for a way to leave.

"Huh? What is this?" Just as Leo put the obsidian badge back into his pocket, a ray of sunlight passing through the gaps in the woods shone on the stone, and the careful Leo immediately found that there seemed to be something in the drop of liquid inside the stone. Something is moving.

With doubts, Leo put the stone directly into the sunlight to observe, but found nothing, as if the scene he saw just now was just an illusion.

However, Leo didn't deny himself because he didn't find anything, on the contrary, he believed even more that his eyes blessed with spiritual vision were right.

After thinking for a while, Leo found the sunlight that passed through the branches and leaves before, and felt the situation of the sunlight.

After confirming that the sunlight was just ordinary sunlight, he recalled his actions before and after he saw the abnormal liquid in the obsidian. Then, relying on his control over his body, he perfectly restored the actions just now.

Just when the obsidian was illuminated by the sun at an oblique angle, the things seen in the obsidian liquid appeared again, but this time Leo could see clearly.

The thing inside the liquid is a kind of small bug, which is very tiny. Leo estimated it and found that this bug is not much bigger than a cell, and the number is very small, only four.

This kind of bug is not only small, but also invisible. Only the astigmatism projected into the liquid by obsidian at a specific angle can make these bugs visible. abnormal.

It is already weird to have bugs in the liquid in obsidian, and it is a bit weird that these bugs survived in that completely enclosed environment and survived well.

"Could this be another kind of Kananan bug?" Leo thought that there is also a kind of alien bug in the universe of the Earth Federation, which can hibernate in a completely enclosed environment for tens of thousands of years until there is a suitable parasitic insect. Only when the conditions are met will he wake up from his deep sleep.

Because this kind of Kananania is very small in size, it will not cause any damage to the host after parasitism, and it will not modify the host's genes. All general methods cannot detect those people who are parasitized by Kananania. Only under certain conditions Under the condition of parasitism, it will mutate due to Kanania.

At that time, all advanced civilizations in the universe were unable to stop the parasitic Canaanites. In order to prevent the expansion of the parasitic range of the Kananites, the civilizations of the entire universe united to carry out an unprecedented insecticidal operation, and finally completely eradicated the Canaanites. Insect plague.

"It won't be so unlucky, right?" Leo has never experienced that bug plague. It has been hundreds of years since he was created. All the research materials about Kanan bugs have been classified as top secret files, isn't it? A cyborg like him can see it.

He can only see the extent of the crisis caused by the insect plague from some historical data. In his memory, it seems that only this time, the civilizations of the entire universe unite to do the same thing, and even some omega Super planet wanderers also participated, which shows how terrible the insect plague was at that time.

Worried, Leo quickly shook his head again, denying his own thoughts, because if it is really the Kananite, then even if there are gods on this island, it is impossible to stop the expansion of the Kananite, because death There were more than 30 high-level omega-level creatures during the insect disaster, and the gods in the world of Velen were only high-level omega-level creatures, and it was impossible to resist the erosion of Kanan insects.

Although it has been confirmed that this kind of bug cannot be Kanan bug, he still did not relax his vigilance. He originally planned to put the bug in his pocket, but now he put it back in the box, and used a sacrificial knife on the surface of the box A simple warning rune was engraved, and as long as the obsidian was damaged, this warning rune would immediately notify Leo.

After completing these protective measures, Leo turned his head to look at the outpost that had disappeared into the breadfruit grove, with a serious expression on his face, and some suspicions could not help but arise in his heart.

He doesn't know if the sentries at the outpost knew that there were bugs in the obsidian before they handed him the obsidian badge, and whether they knew whether the bugs in it were dangerous or not. I'm afraid there's something wrong with Tom.

The doubt about whether to go to Yam did not trouble Leo for a long time. He quickly made a decision to move on. He would go to Yam anyway. After all, this is the fastest way for him to understand Opportunity on this quirky island.

After walking through the breadfruit grove, he saw some man-made wheat fields and artificial lakes for water storage, and he also saw more ordinary people doing things in the fields or playing in the lake. something unusual. It's just that the costumes of these people are different, some are popular in the outside world in the past ten years, and some costumes can be traced back to the Middle Ages. Obviously, those people don't care much about this, and there is no barrier.

Leo was walking on the road, and people passed by him from time to time. Although these people looked at Leo curiously, they didn't make any contact. Instead, they showed repulsion, and after walking a certain distance, they would say something Why did another foreigner say something like that?