The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Mature men? They! They've all gone to work at the logging farm." Facing Leo's question, the old man guarding the gate of the town hesitated for a while, and then replied indifferently.

"Does the lumber mill need so many workers?" Leo asked a slightly puzzled question.

"Of course," the old man said seriously: "I heard that there is a large order from the logging yard, and a large amount of logs needs to be purchased. The existing workers at the logging yard simply cannot cut enough logs within the time specified in the order. , so I temporarily recruited all the adult men from the town to go to the forest for logging, and when the number of logs stipulated in the order is completed, they should come back." After speaking, he looked at Leo curiously and said: "Yes Why did you come here at this time? Now is not a good time to travel here. During this period, the animals in the forest are in estrus, and even the docile animals are very aggressive. It is very dangerous to enter the forest at this time. ."

Leo pretended to smile bitterly, and said helplessly: "No way, I'm just a clerk, the gentlemen above have given a task, and I need to complete it."

After speaking, he asked the direction of Lake Narnia and left the town, and not long after he left, a bird with a note tied to its leg flew out of the janitor's hut , quickly flew into the forest, but after entering the forest, the bird turned a corner, passed through a dense forest, and fell into the hands of the tree demon Lutasi.

"How do you know he's lying?" The tree demon Lutassi took the note from the bird's feet, looked at it, and handed it to Leo.

Leo took the note and looked at it. The content on the note was very simple, that is, a strange traveler was planning to go to Lake Narnia, so the recipient of the note should be careful.

After reading the note, Leo re-tied the note to the bird's feet, then signaled the tree demon Lutasi to let go of the bird, and answered her previous question: "It's very simple, because it's unreasonable. ."

"Unreasonable?" The tree demon Lutaxi looked at Leo in confusion.

"Not to mention towns built in these primeval forests, even those rural towns close to big cities will never send all the adult males in the town as lumberjacks for a little salary. You must know the Middle Kingdom. The area is not a peaceful area. There are constant wars here all year round. Every war will create a large number of deserters and defeated troops. If they are sent out to work, if those robber groups come to their town, how can their town resist?" Leo answered in great detail and earnestly: "Although the people in the town have little knowledge or knowledge, But they are not stupid. Of course they know how dangerous it is to have no adult men in the town, so sending all the adult men out is definitely not for wages. There must be more important reasons, and these reasons are also closely related to the town itself. so they had to risk the town being attacked by sending all the adult males out."

"Are we going to the lumber mill?" asked the tree demon Lutassi while listening to Leo's explanation, looking in the direction where the messenger bird disappeared.

"No! Don't go to the logging farm." Leo shook his head and said, "No matter what the situation is, it has nothing to do with me. For me, Lake Narnia is the purpose of this trip."

"Aren't you curious about what's going on?" asked the tree demon Lutaxi.

Leo turned to look at the tree demon Lutaxi, and seemed to see some careful thoughts of the tree demon Lutaxi, and said, "Do you know something?"

"It's nothing," the tree demon Lutaxi didn't hide it either, pointing to the direction where the bird disappeared, and said, "I feel there is a force of nature over there, but that force of nature is chaotic and full of I've never felt such a force of nature before."

When Leo heard the words, he also sensed in the direction pointed by the tree demon Lutaxi, but compared to the tree demon Lutaxi's sensitivity to the force of nature, Leo's perception was obviously not a star and a half. For a long time, I didn't feel a reason.

Although the tree demon Lutassi seemed to tell the truth about what she knew, Leo still felt that the tree demon Lutasi was still hiding something, especially when she mentioned the so-called power of nature that she had never felt before. Even if she tried to cover it up, Leo could still see a trace of complicated emotions in her eyes. This emotion included panic and fear, as well as desire and greed. Obviously, the power of nature in his mouth was not like what she said. Simple as that.

"After I've been to Lake Narnia and finished my business, I'll go there when I have time." Leo did not intend to follow the wish of the tree demon Lutasi, but made a decision to maintain the original goal. .

Hearing Leo's decision, the tree demon Lutassi felt very disappointed. Although she wanted to say something and persuade Leo again, she swallowed the words before she could say it, and she could only talk silently in the end. Behind Leo, walked towards the direction of Lake Narnia.

In the early days, the crystalline stones of Lake Narnia were regarded as gems. Although mining was difficult and dangerous, the open-pit gem mines at the bottom of the lake were obviously less expensive to mine than those that required mining holes. Anyone can mine without much qualification.

As a result, a large number of miners gathered here, relying on a simple diving device or their own extraordinary diving ability, to dive into the bottom of the lake to open up Nina gems, and these people also left a large number of residences around Lake Narnia. required cabin.

Leo is still a long way from Lake Narnia, and he has already seen abandoned wooden houses by the road, and as it gets closer to Lake Narnia, the number of such wooden houses is also increasing, one by one by the roadside. Buried in forests and bushes, it looks a little eerie.

However, in addition to the wooden house, there are also a large number of devices used for diving before, such as a house-sized tower pump that can supply artificial gas for six-person diving. This tower pump was outdated decades ago, and now All of them are mechanical pumps for personal use, but there are similar devices on some expedition ships at sea that are specially designed for sunken ships. After all, this kind of tower pump is easier to manufacture and not easy to break.

In addition, some corpses can be seen inside and outside some houses. Judging from the distribution of the corpses, there should be a large-scale fight here. As for the purpose of the fight, it is unknown, but I think it should not be for The crystals in Lake Narnia.

Because Lake Narnia gems were all the rage for a while and even once became the top gems in the world, but their value dropped very quickly, almost in a dozen days, from sky-high gems to general crystallization price of stone.

The reason why this happened was because the Minister of Finance of a certain country was sacked at the time. Through the interrogation of the Minister of Finance, it was found that there was an organization secretly manipulating the price of Narnia gems, and even the Narnia gems. They also concealed the fact that it was only a crystalline stone, not a gemstone, and bought a large number of gemstone experts to let those gemstone experts speak for the Narnia gem.

This incident destroyed the reputation accumulated by Narnia gemstones almost instantly, and the price of Narnia gemstones also fell to the bottom. Until now, the price of Narnia gemstones has not risen, but has Other crystalline stones are used together as decorative stones.

Also because the price of Narnian gems is too low, mining is difficult and dangerous, so except for some gem merchants who temporarily need a batch of Narnian gems and hire people to mine here, other gem merchants are reluctant to touch Nani. Sub-gem, and the settlements around Lake Narnia gathered by miners are naturally abandoned.

After passing through the residential area formed by a large intricate wooden house, the realization in front of him suddenly became clear, and a huge lake that even Leo could not see the opposite edge appeared in front of him, because it was dusk at the moment, the sunlight Falling on the gloomy lake that reflects the reflection of the sky, the sparkling waves make the scenery look very beautiful.

However, the two people who saw this scene at the moment seemed to ignore this beautiful scene, and their attention was on the extraordinary things hidden under this beautiful scene.

Perhaps it was because the shadows she had seen at Lake Narnia cast her so much that the dryad Rutasi stopped a long way from Lake Narnia and stopped At the same time, he used his ability to apply a layer of protection around his body, and also showed Leo that he would not approach the lake anyway.

The somewhat exaggerated behavior of the tree demon Lutaxi did not make Leo unhappy. At this moment, he could clearly feel the fear and worry in the tree demon Lutasi. The other party was in this extreme fear and anxiety. Under the influence of worry, it was not bad to turn around and run away immediately.

Out of curiosity, Leo asked what the tree demon Lutasi was afraid of, and what form Lake Narnia looked like in her eyes.

"Above the Sky"

In the face of Leo's inquiry, the tree demon Rutasi did not give a suitable answer, because even she herself did not know what she was afraid of, because the experience that brought her fear at the beginning was in her mind. It has become very vague. This is not because of a problem with her memory, but because the experience itself contains a mysterious power, and that power will completely obliterate that memory, leaving only fear. emotion itself.

As for the shape of Lake Narnia in her eyes is very uniform, whether it is the shadow world or the real world, Lake Narnia is a dark lake with calm water without a ripple.

After hearing the description of Lake Narnia from the dryad Lutassi, Leo also realized that the Narnia Lake that the dryad Lutas saw was completely different from the Narnia Lake that he saw. Although Lake Narnia seen with normal vision is also very calm and peaceful, there are still obvious ripples on the lake, and these ripples, under the illumination of the setting sun, seem to cover the lake with a layer of scales. This kind of scene It's completely different from the black mirror lake that the Dryad Rutas said.

In this case, Leo also converted his eyes to a state of spiritual vision. Through the power of the true eye, he also saw the situation of Lake Narnia in the mouth of the tree demon Rutasi.

Although he had already heard the description of the tree demon Lutassi and was already prepared, when he saw the Narnia Lake under the eyes of the truth, Leo couldn't help but feel an inexplicable sense of danger. This dark mirror lake made him involuntarily think of a black hole, let alone approaching it, just by staring at it for a long time, there will be a feeling of spiritual consciousness, and even the flesh and blood of the body being sucked away by the lake in front of him, and more importantly, the thunder Ou soon found that it was not a feeling, but a real existence. After he removed the spirit vision, he immediately felt a sense of inexplicable fatigue in his body and mind. After inspection, he found that his spirit and flesh were indeed partially damaged. .

After discovering this, Leo also understood why the tree demon Lutasi was so far away from the lake that she did not dare to approach it. She should have been aware of the dangers of the Black Mirror Lake.

However, what also makes Leo feel amazing and incredible is that as long as he exits the state of spiritual vision, the dangerous black mirror lake in front of him immediately becomes an ordinary lake, and the mysterious power that can pull away the soul and flesh also disappears. , UU reading www. uukanshu.com Even if Leo stood on the edge of the lake and squatted down and put his hands into the water, he did not feel any danger.

Although the origin of the dangerous power in the Black Mirror Lake is still unclear, Leo can be sure of one thing, that is, this power should have nothing to do with the Stone Throne, because when that power appeared, the Stone Throne had nothing to do with it. reaction.

But what is interesting is that the power of devouring generated by Leo's chaotic stomach has become more active because of this power, but the degree of activity is not too obvious. If Leo did not seriously check all the conditions of the body, I am afraid This faint activity could not be found either.

Obviously, this situation shows that even if the dangerous power contained in the Black Mirror Lake is not directly related to the devouring power of the Chaos Stomach, there should be some origin-level connection between the two.

In order to confirm his guess, Leo deliberately used his spiritual vision ability near the lake, and began to invoke the power of swallowing in his body, spreading it on the surface of his body.

Because it is on the edge of Lake Narnia, the mysterious power that absorbs spirit and flesh in the Black Mirror Lake has become several times stronger than the previous position, but its side effects on Leo have completely disappeared. Perhaps To be more correct, it was isolated from the body by the power of swallowing. Obviously, the power of swallowing can effectively resist the mysterious power of Black Mirror Lake.

After discovering this, Leo released his spiritual vision ability again, and restored the Narnia Lake in front of him to its normal state.

Although he found a way to deal with the mysterious power in the Black Mirror Lake, he did not immediately explore the situation in the Black Mirror Lake, but decided to first explore the normal state of Lake Narnia, enter the bottom of the lake, and mine some Narnia gems Mine and see what effect these crystals have on your stone throne.