The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Palm Rock! Palm Rock is here!" A cheer of joy started from the guard at the front of the caravan and spread to the end of the team. All the people who were burying their heads on the road were at the same moment facing the wind and snow like a knife. Looking at it, although the vast majority of people did not see the palm rock mentioned in the cheers due to reasons such as vision, wind and snow, there are still some people who vaguely saw the shape of the palm rock, and excitedly turned to the people around them. Tell what you see.

For the entire ice bear caravan, this is undoubtedly very good news, even if their leader Philolia mentioned that they are approaching Palm Rock a few hours ago, but these few hours are marching against a blizzard The hardships had already exhausted their energy and heart, and now this news undoubtedly gave them a boost, making them inexplicably stronger, and their pace quickened a lot, and the entire caravan moved faster. It returned to normal speed.

Palm Rock is a rare big hill on the northern snowfield. The whole rock is shaped like a huge palm lying on the ground. Although it is not the best place to shelter from the wind, it contains a geothermal heat, which makes the ground hot all the year round. Rising, these hot air melted the surrounding snow and gathered into a hot pool that almost never freezes, and because of the existence of the hot pool, some trees that can block the wind and snow grow here.

Blocked by the mountain of Palm Rock itself and the surrounding trees, coupled with the temperature of the hot water pool, people who come to and from the snowfield can still survive even if they encounter a blizzard of the level of a black storm.

The accelerating caravan soon came to the forest circle around Palm Rock, because the blizzard was so strong that a lot of trees were blown away, which made it difficult for the caravan to advance.

Seeing this, Filoria decisively found a suitable depression, and then instructed the caravan to move the carriage full of goods into the depression, and then drove the huge ice bear that sat down to scrape down the trees. Stacked around, forming a retaining wall against wind and snow.

After doing all this, she asked the caravan to travel lightly. As for the goods and carriages, they were temporarily put here, and they would come here to pick them up when they continued on the road after the blizzard was over.

After unloading the goods, the caravan's people said that they continued to move towards the main body of the palm rock in the woods, perhaps because they were lightly loaded, or because the palm rock was in front of them, so they could have a good rest. , All in all, the caravan's speed in the woods was much faster than before. After a while, they walked out of the grove and came to the bottom of the palm rock.

The geothermal heat of the palm rock should be directly below the rock, so the heat of the geothermal heat will spread out along the bottom of the palm rock, so that the hot pool formed by the melt water surrounds the palm rock.

Because the obtained geothermal temperature is different, the water temperature in those hot pools is also different. Some water temperatures are as high as boiling water, while others are only above freezing point. Only a few hot pools have water temperature suitable for human beings. I thought about connecting these large and small hot water pools with ditches, which can balance the temperature and increase the pools suitable for humans, but in the end this plan failed. The reason for the failure is that the rock under the palm rock is very hard, even if it is sharp. Hard mining picks are also difficult to dig up these rocks. If you insist on implementing it, the amount of money spent in the end is definitely a huge amount, so this plan is not over, and you can still see abandoned next to some hot pools. Tools here.

The location where the ice bear caravan came to is not very good. The hot water pool here is scalding hot water, and the heat emitted also contains an inexplicable stench, which will make people feel sick after a long time, so the caravan immediately Under the guidance of someone familiar with Palm Rock, move towards the nearest hot pool with a suitable temperature.

Soon, the caravan came to the suitable hot water pool. Because of the snow and ice brought by the blizzard, the water after the snow melted was much more than usual, which increased the melt water in the surrounding hot water pools. The pools also spread out in size and eventually joined together to form a small lake.

This was not a good thing for the caravan, because the expansion of the thermal pool made the unfrozen ground around the thermal pool that was suitable for camping become so muddy that it was no longer suitable for camping, and they had to find a suitable place to camp again.

Fortunately, this place is easy to find, because someone has already helped them find it in advance. In the dark forest by the hot pool, a striking bonfire is burning there. The light from the bonfire can clearly see that the bonfire should be around. A large open space was cleared, in addition to which a dozen people were sitting by the campfire.

Seeing this situation, Filolia immediately ordered to go to the open space to camp. Although this was a little out of order, the caravan was very tired now, and there was no extra energy to continue looking for other suitable places to camp.

As the sound of the caravan's marching reached the bonfire, the dozen or so people resting around the bonfire were all alarmed. They didn't have the salutes and other items around them, but were trained to take up weapons. , retreating to the shadow outside the bonfire, vigilantly observing the sound of the caravan, and checking the surrounding area from time to time, beware of being attacked by detours.

It is not difficult to see from the actions of these people that they all have rich experience in dealing with the current situation, and are veterans living in the snowfields, but this veteran does not mean that they are tribal people who have been living in the snowfields all the year round, nor are they businessmen who travel through business. Team members, they are more likely to be some bandits who wandered back to both sides of the business road, waiting for an opportunity to loot.

Becoming a bandit in the snowfield is not an easy task, nor is it something that can make people rich overnight, because the vast majority of caravans in the snowfield will unite to form a large caravan with many guards, wanting to loot this area. A large caravan can only be done collectively by those snowfield tribes.

In the past, the Snow Plains Tribes would indeed make a cameo appearance as a bandit at certain times, but with Movit Road taking the lead, after more than a dozen large tribes in the Snow Plains and the southern caravan concluded a trade agreement, basically the Snow Plains Tribes will no longer loot Caravan, after all, others have sent enough wealth to their own hands, so why bother to rob them? Not only will there be a large number of casualties, but it will not necessarily be able to grab enough wealth, and it will get a bad reputation, and there will be no caravans to do business with, so the tribes in the snowfield not only will not rob the caravan, but will. Actively maintain this business road.

Most of the people who are still doing robbery on the snowfields are just pretending to be robbery. and many more.

In this state of vigilance, the front guard of the ice bear caravan soon walked out of the woods. This team of guards consisted of ten guards, all of whom were strong Movit warriors, and they all had rich experience. When he walked out of the woods, he took out the shield with the badge of the chamber of commerce, put it in his hand, and pulled out the scabbard of the weapon.

"Come out! If you are not hostile, we will not do anything to you, even if you are those gray gophers." The captain said to the first refugees who hid in the shadows of the woods.

This sentence is not only an attitude, but also a warning. If the other party does not give a correct response, then they don't mind to solve the other party, so as to avoid any accidents when they camp and rest.

At this time, those who came here first to avoid the blizzard couldn't help but cursed their luck secretly. As people who lived in the snowy fields all the year round, they naturally recognized that the badge on the shield was the badge of the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce.

Although the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce is not particularly large among the many snowfield chambers of commerce, it can also be ranked in the top ten, and its strength can definitely be included in the top three. After all, the owner of the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce is a war bear priest who has formed an army by himself. .

Faced with this situation, they didn't have any discussions, they all made the same action, put away the weapons again, and then walked out from the shadow of the woods with open hands, fully showing their most harmless side. At the same time, the leader of them said loudly: "We are just ordinary people who avoid the wind and snow, and we don't dare to be enemies with the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce. We can also give the bonfire here to your guild, and we only hope that your guild can stay. There is an open space for us to rest, and when the black storm stops, we will leave immediately."

As soon as this man finished speaking, he heard someone from the guards of the ice bear caravan mockingly say: "Tibebeto, how dare you, a butcher whose hands are full of innocent blood, dare to claim to be an ordinary person, aren't you afraid of the sleeping Snow Mother? Did you wake up laughing?"

"Damn?" The leader couldn't help but scolded after hearing the other party's taunting. At the same time, he couldn't help but put his hand back on the weapon he had just collected, and his companions also held their hands again when they saw this. on the weapon.

Just as their identities were revealed, the first refugees were about to fight back the guards, and when they fled with their loot by the bonfire, a dull footstep came from the woods behind the caravan guards, and then they saw a forest collapsed. Going down, a road was formed, and then a huge figure came out of the woods.

The first refugees were stunned by the sight in front of them. Their eyes not only fell on the mountain-like ice bear, but also on the little giant-like fitness woman sitting on the ice bear's back. .

At this moment, they couldn't help feeling despair. If they were confident that they could repel the caravan guards in front of them and take their trophies, now they can only think of the word escape. As for the trophies, everything has been disappeared from my mind.

Almost without the leader's order, everyone made the same action, turned and fled into the woods, all intending to use the forest's blocking and shadows to escape the hunt of the ice bear caravan.

However, they obviously underestimated the power of the War Bear Priest. After Filoria uttered a battle roar with a special rhythm, an invisible cold air was created out of thin air and rushed towards the forest ahead in the form of scattering. The dozen or so fleeing people who caught up with them were frozen into ice men by the extremely freezing cold air without even resisting, and the surrounding woods were also frozen into ice withers.

"Go and chop off their heads. You should be able to exchange some bounty on Movit Road." Filolia jumped from the back of the ice bear, her movements were as agile as a snow leopard, and after she landed, she did not immediately order The people behind started camping, but walked to the bonfire and asked in an empty space that ordinary people saw: "Your Excellency shouldn't be with those guys, right?"

The caravan guards were stunned when they saw Filolia's movements, but they quickly realized what they were doing, and stood vigilantly behind Filolia, ready to protect her at any time.

"No, I'm just a traveler passing through the snowfields to avoid the wind and snow." At this time, a male voice sounded in the open space, but the strange thing was that only Filolia could hear this clearly, and Other than being able to remember and think about the content of this sentence, everyone else completely ignored it, as if they couldn't hear it, just as they completely ignored the man in southern traveler clothing sitting by the campfire now.

Filoria also noticed that the southerner in front of her was only visible to herself, and that no one else could see or hear it. This unprecedented phenomenon made her curious and asked, "My subordinates are even How did you manage to be unaware of your existence?"

The caravan guards standing behind Filolia all looked at Filolia talking to herself with blank faces. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

The southerner who was questioned explained: "I just reduced my presence to the extreme, just like you don't care about the snowflakes under your feet. In their eyes, I may be more inconspicuous than the snowflakes."

"It's amazing, your ability is definitely suitable for being an assassin." Filolia couldn't help but praised, and continued to ask: "Is this your awakened extraordinary talent?"

The man smiled and replied: "No, this is a kind of witchcraft, you don't need to wake up to anything, you just need to learn and practice to master it."

"Witchcraft? You only need to learn and practice to master it. I have never heard of this ability." Philolia asked with a curious expression on her face, "Can I learn it?"

"Okay." The other party nodded.

An excited smile appeared on Filolia's face. When she was about to continue her question, she heard the voices of her subordinates in the woods behind her. Although these voices were not loud, they made her realize that now is not the time to talk to people. .

Now that it was clear that the mysterious southerner in front of her was not an enemy, she began to give orders to the caravan behind her to set up camp, and designated several camping sites to avoid the bonfire, and then she handed over the affairs to the merchants. The various supervisors of the team, and she herself let her war bear partner shrink and sit next to the bonfire with her, and couldn't wait to face the southerners, saying: "I'm Filolia, the president of the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce, you should Have you heard of me?"

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"Of course I've heard of it, the youngest war bear priest, the Valkyrie on the snowy field." The southerner nodded with a smile, stretched out his hand to Filolia, and introduced himself: "Leo Dodd, a wizard."