The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Don't those people want to enter the Black Forest? Just let them go." A hunter-dressed parliamentarian in Dashu Town suddenly proposed when everyone was discussing that there was no definite result.

"Franco, are you crazy?" The other councillors sitting next to this councillor immediately asked: "Let them go in, if they discover our secret..."

"Isn't that better?" Senator Hunter said with a ruthless expression on his face. "Everyone knows that the methods left by our ancestors have begun to fail, even if the adventurers in the village enter the Black Forest Great danger, but have you ever thought that it is not that our method has failed, but that the sacrifices used in the method are no longer useful."

An elderly member of Parliament heard the words of the Assemblyman Hunting, and raised his hand to stop others from continuing the discussion. When the room became quiet, he asked the Assemblyman Hunter: "Franco, you said the sacrifice is useless. Is there any basis for it?"

"Of course there is a basis." The hunting suit member replied immediately: "Everyone should know the third of Brick's family?"

"That's the lunatic?" Everyone thought for a while, and soon thought of who was the third of the Brick family.

"After the disappearance of the team led by Kerry in the Black Forest not long ago, I have carefully investigated why the method left by our ancestors would be ineffective." He stood up, walked to the middle of the seats of everyone, and then said with a serious face: "After my careful investigation, I found that the earliest method failure was not in recent months, but two years ago, that is, Brick The harvest team that the third son of the family participated in. You should remember that the team’s people were all dead. Only the third of the Brick family came back, but although he came back, he lost one eye and One ear, and people are crazy."

A parliamentarian wearing a police uniform took the call and said: "Yes, I remember this matter, this matter is still my investigation. The result of the investigation was that they violated the rules of their ancestors and entered the scope of the contract. The outer Black Forest caused the tragedy that time."

"Actually, it's not something that entered the Black Forest beyond the scope of the contract, but the contract we signed with the mysterious signing of the Black Forest had problems, and the sacrifices began to become invalid." Before the other person refuted himself, he added: "Remember, carefully, after the tragedy, our people began to increase in casualties after entering the Black Forest, and now they are almost the same as outsiders."

After the hunter’s voice fell, the room became very quiet. Everyone was thinking about his words, and thought his words seemed right. Before entering the Black Forest in the village, as long as the ceremony was completed, there would be basically no danger. , But since the tragedy, even if their rituals were completed perfectly, the villagers will also have an accident when they enter the Black Forest, but the casualties are much less than those of the foreigners, and it was not until recently that everyone died. The situation in the Black Forest.

Mr. Hunter looked at the expression on the faces of the people around him and knew that what he had said had already been recognized by everyone. Then he went on and said: "After investigating this point, I had a question in my mind. As a matter of fact, if those people had contract failures for some reason, then everyone should die in the forest. Why did the Brick's third son come back alive?"

Some congressmen speculated maliciously based on the words of the congressman: "You mean that the third of the Brick family is also one of the people who caused the contract to fail. He should have died in the forest. Now he walked out of the forest alive. , The reason for the failure of the contract still exists, we should send the third of the Brick family back to the Black Forest, right?"

Although the remarks were full of malice, many people seemed to agree with the proposal and nodded inadvertently.

"Of course not!" The Hunting Councilman immediately defended: "Since the third man of the Brick family can walk out of the Black Forest alive, it means that the Black Forest allows him to leave. There must be a special way for the Ke family’s third son to live out of the Black Forest."

"Franco, do you already know that method?" Some MPs asked after hearing some clues.

The Hunting Assemblyman no longer circled, nodding and admitting: "Yes, I have got the method from the third man of the Brick family."

"You got a way from a lunatic, Franco, are you crazy?" A parliamentarian with a poor relationship with a parliamentary hunter said sarcastically.

The Hunter Councilor didn’t care about the opponent’s sarcasm and calmly said: “Although the Brick’s third son is crazy, even if the method is suitable, even a lunatic can say something useful. The reason he can live out of the black The forest, mainly because he made another sacrifice in the Black Forest, but this time the sacrifice was not the sacrifices prepared by our village, but his own eyes and ears, so I would feel our The ritual may still be useful, but the sacrifice has changed."

The voice of Senator Hunter dropped, and there was a burst of exclamation from everyone present.

All along, the sacrifices needed for the ceremony in Dashu Town were just some beasts. They never did things like sacrifices for living people, and now the meaning of the words of the hunter congressman seems to refer to those who want to let them The ceremony was successful, so that the villagers would continue to enter and leave the Black Forest safely as before.

"Damn, do you know what you're talking about?" The police officer suddenly stood up and yelled loudly: "You can say things like sacrifices with living people, don't you know that the empire has this kind of time How taboo? You dare to do this kind of thing today, and the people of the Imperial Security Bureau will come here tomorrow to take you away. Do you want to kill everyone?"

Hearing these words, the face of the House of Representatives became very ugly, and the look at the Hunter Councilor became a bit gloomy.

Seeing that he has become the target of criticism, the hunter-in-law did not appear to be in a panic, but smiled lightly and said, "You have misunderstood what I meant. I never thought of offering sacrifices to living people. Since it has changed, our ritual can also change."

Someone immediately asked, "What do you mean?"

Mr. Hunter explained: “We can complete the ceremony in advance, but we don’t offer sacrifices, and wait for the sacrifices to offer ourselves to the mystery of the Black Forest.

Another questioned: "Are you crazy? How could someone be willing to sacrifice themselves?"

"Why not?" Mr. Hunter said with a smile, "You forgot, but now there are many foreigners in our town, don't they all want to enter the Black Forest from the road we opened? Since they are going , We don’t have to stop them, do we?

After these remarks, the members of the House of Representatives seemed to understand what the Hunting Councillors wanted to express, and the somber face eased down, and they whispered with each other to discuss, and quickly reached a consensus.

The next day, a notice was posted on the bulletin board of the town office of Dashu Town. This announcement mentioned that Dashu Town agreed to open the Black Forest road opened by Dashu Town to outside adventurers. Any field adventurers only A pass is required at the town office.

This news did not make those foreign adventurers gathered in the town feel outside. In their view, although Dashu Town tried every means to prevent the foreign adventurers from using the road opened by Dashu Town, some people still escaped the big adventure. Blockade of Tree Town.

At present, the number of out-of-town adventurers in the town is not very large, and it cannot be blocked. After the number of adventurers hides in the future, it is even more impossible to block completely, so in the end it is still an open road.

Now Dashu Town is actively opening the road, which not only saves the face of Dashu Town, but also makes the foreign adventurers feel that they owe Dashu Town anything. At that time, all the items needed to enter the Black Forest will also be in Dashu. Town purchase, so that people in Dashu Town can benefit from it.

Now that Dashu Town has given way to foreign adventurers, the foreign adventurers will also abide by the rules set by Dashu Town to avoid unnecessary conflicts.

Originally, those foreign adventurers thought that they only needed to register their name to get a pass, but what they did not expect was that things were not as simple as they thought. Although the whole process of obtaining a pass was not unpleasant, But the procedures are a bit cumbersome.

The most troublesome of these procedures is the need to fill out a disclaimer, in order to prevent their relatives and friends from using the road they opened up to cause trouble in Dashu Town.

Although this disclaimer is a little unpleasant, it is still within the tolerable range, but another procedure after that has made the foreign adventurers who handle the pass full of unhappiness.

According to Dashu Town, because entering the Black Forest is very dangerous and the mortality rate is very high, no one can guarantee to be able to come out of the Black Forest, so in order to avoid these foreign adventurers dying in the Black Forest No one knows, Dashu Town hopes All foreign adventurers who enter the Black Forest leave a suicide note and write the address of the recipient on the suicide note. Once they do not come out of the Black Forest, Dashu Town will send these suicide notes to the address.

This approach of Dashu Town seems to many people to be kind, but at this time it always feels weird, like some kind of mortal curse.

It's just that they are angry and angry. They haven't resisted such a move by Dashu Town. After all, Dashu Town has opened up its roads, giving them a chance of great profit.

In fact, in the towns around the Black Forest, there are many roads that have been opened up through a long period of time and a lot of lives. Many roads have even reached the depths of the Black Forest, but after entering the Black Forest, there is a great probability The only way to harvest and return alive is Dashu Town.

Someone once specifically counted the chances of local adventurers in Dashu Town coming back alive after entering the Black Forest, and the harvest of each entry. It is amazing to find that local adventurers in Dashu Town can harvest a lot of things almost every time. Nearly half of the things related to the Black Forest are from Dashu Town, and the survival rate of adventurers in Dashu Town is also the highest.

It is for this reason that those adventurers who put their minds in the Black Forest have chosen the road opened by Dashu Town as the first choice. According to the price of items related to the Black Forest on the market, they only need to enter the Black Forest. Bring out an item unique to the Black Forest, so they do not need to worry about spending it for the next few years.

So for great benefit, these adventurers are willing to endure everything, including the kind of reserved suicide note that looks very unpleasant.

However, this dissatisfaction soon dissipated among the foreign adventurers, because some people who entered the Black Forest came out alive and gained something, which allowed all foreign adventurers to see their chances of getting rich and started preparing to enter the black forest.

However, they did not find that there were only a few people who could walk out of the Black Forest alive, and no other people who entered the Black Forest came out.

Perhaps they also found this, but their attention was focused on the gains of those who were alive, and they did not care about other things.

In this way, more and more adventurers gathered in Dashu Town~www.readwn.com~Dashu Town has become the most prosperous of all the nearby villages and towns.

Leo and Sylvia arrived in Big Tree Town at night. Instead of driving the carriage directly into Big Tree Town, they abandoned the carriage on the road and put on an adventurer costume that would not be particularly noticeable. .

"There are a lot more adventurers here than expected, and the Imperial Security Service will definitely send people to monitor it." Standing on a hillside, looking at the town surrounded by simple wooden walls in front, I heard all the noise from the town. Sound, Sylvia said calmly.

"It's okay, we don't need to stay here, tonight..." Leo, who was talking, suddenly stopped, looking seriously at the huge umbrella tree in the middle of the town in front of him, and frowned, saying, "That There is something wrong with the big tree."

Sylvia looked at the umbrella tree doubtfully, and did not see any clues.

The umbrella tree is a common tree in the northern part of the French Empire. Because its branches and leaves grow like an umbrella, it has the name of an umbrella tree. This type of umbrella tree is most popular in various gardens of the French Empire. Tourists provide a place to cool off.

However, although the umbrella tree in Dashu Town has the same shape as other umbrella trees, its body shape is much larger than half of the umbrella trees. Even outside the town, this tree can be clearly seen, which is also a big tree The origin of the name of the town.

"There are energy fluctuations in this umbrella tree, very strong energy fluctuations." Leo knew that Sylvia didn't see the bottom of this umbrella tree, and explained: "It should be a family."

"Family?" Sylvia immediately heard a bad association in her mind, and the expression on her face became more serious.