The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Feeling the strong xenophobic sentiment of Yam residents, Leo felt a little doubt in his heart.

According to common sense, if a place has extreme xenophobic sentiment, either the place itself has a strong xenophobic culture, or outsiders will touch the interests of the local people.

If it is an extreme xenophobic culture, Leo has not felt it from the previous sentinel, and from the sentinel's mention of the various arrangements made by the city of Yam for the survivors of the shipwreck, all of them show that the city of Yam Outsiders are very welcome, so an extremely xenophobic culture does not hold.

Since it is not a xenophobic culture, it is only possible that he or all foreigners who come to Yam will infringe on the interests of the locals, but what is this interest, Leo can't make a guess yet, he can only be sure that it has nothing to do with money . After all, Yam is just an isolated island city that cannot communicate with the outside world. Naturally, it is impossible to form an economic system and industrial chain. Even money does not necessarily exist, and it is likely to remain in a public distribution and barter. in the primitive economic system.

With speculation about the culture and economy of the city of Yam, Leo walked along the increasingly spacious road for about ten minutes. After walking up a small hill, the town of Yam had a panoramic view.

At first, Leo just thought that Yam was a small town like other towns in the Velen Continent, but when the distant scene in front of him fell into his eyes, he realized that his guess was wrong.

Yam is a huge city, and a very magnificent ancient city, at least as far as the architecture itself is concerned, it is comparable to the city of Miria.

Behind the hill is a small basin next to the volcano. In this small basin, a city composed of black and white boulders is built along the mountain. Spread around, forming a huge fan-shaped city.

This city is black and white. The buildings on the volcanic hills are all black. They are majestic and huge, just like huge temples and churches magnified more than ten times. From a distance, one can feel an inexplicable oppression. feel.

The city at the foot of the mountain is as white as jade, shining brightly under the sunlight, but compared with the magnificent black palaces on the volcanic mountain, the buildings in the city at the foot of the mountain are much smaller. It is equally majestic and huge.

All the houses here are neatly arranged in a square shape, and the spacious streets divide these square buildings into individual districts, and in the center of each district there is a minaret with a height of more than 100 meters standing in the center, like an arched city pool The sharp sword generally exudes an invisible deterrent.

The only thing that Leo couldn't understand was that a huge wall with a height of more than 50 meters was built around the white city on the basin plain. This huge wall not only protected the white city, but also protected the volcanic mountains. The black giant city was split apart, splitting a complete city into two parts.

The function of the city wall is to resist foreign enemies. Judging from the current construction method of Yam City, it is obvious that the original builders treated the black giant city on the mountain as an enemy, and the defense object of the white city is not only black The giant city, and other directions around it, that is to say, there are also some enemies in other directions around it.

It is not surprising that a city builds walls to resist foreign enemies, but it is worth pondering whether Yam City resists those foreign enemies.

According to the principle, the only enemies of the people living here are the spiritual creatures on the other side of the island, but it is impossible for those spiritual creatures to enter the range of the island here, otherwise, the repulsion here alone is enough to kill them. Those psionic creatures kill.

However, if there is no power that rejects psychic energy here, those psychic creatures can enter this half of the island and attack the people in Yam City. With the ability of psychic creatures, it is definitely not something that can be blocked by a city wall tens of meters high , so this wall without any power is not used to resist spiritual creatures at all.

Since it is not used to resist spiritual creatures, who is it used to resist?

While thinking about the problem, Leo walked towards Yam City. On the way, he found that everyone here seemed to know each other. No matter how natural Leo's expression and movements were, anyone who saw Leo could easily They recognized Leo as a foreigner, and then showed obvious disgust, avoiding him as if he had the plague.

Just when Leo reached the gate of Yam, he stood in front of the huge city gate, looked at the Yam people entering and leaving the city, and quickly had a guess in his mind that this city was not what he saw in front of him. Built by these Yam people, these outsiders who later discovered and moved here, or these Yam people should be descendants of survivors of previous shipwrecks, and the huge city of Yam City is also There is a master, and the master is probably very huge.

The reason why Leo thinks so is entirely because he found that the buildings here are simply not something that ordinary people can build.

Take the city wall as an example, when he saw the city wall from a distance, he thought it was made of stones, but when he got close to him and observed it carefully, he found that the city wall was made of a whole huge stone. Yes, that is to say, the circle of city walls surrounding the entire white city is actually a huge stone ring.

Such a huge stone ring, let alone transporting it, is extremely difficult to manufacture, at least for Leo, who is now a fifth-level psychic, it is still impossible. I am afraid that only a ninth-level psychic can start It is only possible to create such a stone ring with human power when it is in contact with the original psionic energy of the universe and can invoke endless power from the subspace.

"Newcomer!" Just as Leo was standing at the gate, wondering who built the city, an old man walked out of a simple wooden house outside the gate. He looked at Leo, Then he waved his hand and signaled Leo to go over.

"Interesting!" Seeing this scene, Leo showed a deep smile on his face, and while walking over, he glanced thoughtfully at the people around him.

Although Leo's spiritual network was suppressed, the old man happened to be within the detection range of his spiritual network, and when he was paying attention to the city wall just now, he also used the spiritual network to find out what the sentinel said. Naturally, the old man was noticed quickly, and the spirit net was also locked on the old man.

However, he found that the old man was obviously just an ordinary person, and the house he was in had no windows to look out, so it was definitely impossible for the old man to see him coming.

But just now, when he stopped and stood in front of the city gate without any embossed decorations, the old man inside the wooden house seemed to have sensed him, stood up, and walked outside the house without even looking around or looking for him. , greeted him directly as if knowing his location in advance, without any hesitation or thinking.

This also shows that the old man knew in advance that Leo was outside the door, and he knew the exact location of Leo. This also made Leo think of the situation where the Yam people he met before recognized him as a survivor of the shipwreck easily. , obviously the two must be related.

In other words, there must be a completely different quality in him from the Yam people in front of him. This quality even makes him like a light in the dark night, and can be easily perceived by the people here even through some blocking boards. Even if those people are just ordinary people.

"Come and register! After registration, I will take you to your residence. Someone will come to you tomorrow to arrange your work." When Leo came over, the old man introduced a sentence like a routine, then turned and led Leo Walking into the wooden house, he took out a form and a charcoal pencil and handed it to Leo, saying, "Fill it in! It's better to fill it out in detail, for example, what you know how to do, it's related to whether you can be assigned a good job. "

Leo took the pen and the form and looked at it, but didn't fill it out immediately. The format of this form was a bit like the entry form of a chamber of commerce. There were many items, and most of them involved the ability of the person who filled it out.

"Is there anything you don't understand?" The old man frowned when he saw that Leo didn't fill out the form immediately.

Leo asked straightforwardly: "If I want to be assigned to a library or archive in the city, how do I fill it out?"

"Library? Why would you want to go to that ghostly place? It's dangerous, and you don't have much salary." The old man muttered something, and without waiting for Leo to explain, he pointed to a few options in the form and said: "It's enough to check these options, and you don't need any ability to assign them to the library." After speaking, he said meaningfully: "Just be brave."

Leo could tell that this library might not be a good place in the eyes of the old man, and there might be something scary inside, but he didn't ask carefully, but randomly checked the options that the old man pointed out, and casually After filling out his identity, he handed the form back to the old man.

"The Kingdom of England? The Kingdom of England again?" After taking the form, the old man looked at what Leo had filled in, and then said in surprise.

Hearing this, Leo asked thoughtfully: "Are there any other shipwreck survivors from the Kingdom of England who came to Yam today besides me?"

The old man didn't answer, just smiled, then put the form in his hand into a pile of documents, picked up a bell and a walking stick on the table, motioned to Leo, walked out of the wooden house, and walked towards the city .

Leo didn't ask, but followed behind the old man and entered the huge city.

Soon, he found that although the city was huge and had huge stone houses that could easily accommodate tens of millions of people, there were not many Yam people living here. Judging from the number of people passing by on the street, there were only ten people at most. Only tens of thousands.

In terms of the area of ​​the entire White City, the occupancy of these people only occupies a piece of land the size of a palm, and the Yam people here indeed only occupy a small piece of land. They would rather have more than a dozen families squeezed into one house, I don't want to go to other places to live alone in some spacious rooms.

In addition, he also found that some sandbags that looked like fortifications were arranged on the streets of the Yam residential area, and they were neatly piled up. However, he passed one of the sandbags and checked it through the spiritual net. It's not gravel at all, but some obsidian powder that has been ground into a very fine powder.

"Obsidian powder?" Leo thought about it carefully. He remembered that in a wizard's notebook, besides being used to extract a kind of psionic substance, the biggest function of obsidian powder was to expel some evil spirits, such as performing certain In the summoning ceremony involving evil spirits, most spellcasters will wear gestures made of obsidian, and sprinkle obsidian powder on the ground to surround themselves to resist the attacks of evil spirits.

What the Yam people are doing now is undoubtedly to avoid evil spirits from approaching, because not only are there a lot of cloth bags filled with obsidian powder piled up on the streets, but there are also traces of obsidian powder sprinkled on the doorways of the surrounding stone houses.

"You will know what is going on with these things in the future?" Maybe many people have asked what these obsidian powders are for before, so the old man thought that Leo must be asking similar questions, so he took the initiative to explain A moment, then quickened his pace.

Soon the two walked to the edge of the Yam living area, where a stone wall made of obsidian was built to separate the Yam living area from other urban areas, and there were some wearers near the city wall. Strong men with weapons patrolled back and forth.

The old man nodded to a strong man guarding the stone wall, and then led Leo across the not-so-high obsidian wall and into other urban areas.

After entering other urban areas, the old man began to shake the bell in his hand, and Leo who was behind him also tried to release the spirit net to check the situation here.

But what Leo didn't expect was that not only did the suppression of psychic energy in Yam City not weaken, but it was strengthened several times. His mental net broke down almost immediately after it was released, and it was impossible to detect the surrounding situation at all, so he just Can rely on their own sensory organs to observe the surrounding movement.

He quickly discovered that although there was no one on the street, there were many people in the surrounding houses, and the doors of these houses were all blocked with various objects without exception. After hearing the bell, they all moved to the gap of the blockage Looking out, when they saw Leo, they all gloated, as if Leo was a death row prisoner who was being sent to the execution ground.

Soon the two came to a very huge arched stone house, which was so big that a horse race could be held in the house. There are some huge gates around the stone house, and these huge gates just confirm the speculation of the giants when the city was built.

Apparently the stone gate has never been opened. The Yam people just used wood to build some buildings inside the stone house. These buildings also make the stone house look more like a rural town.