The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What's going on here?" Watching the driver arranged for him by the funder suddenly assassinate his new student, and seeing his student knock him down with a punch, Dio Browno was completely overwhelmed by the scene in front of him. confused.

"I think your driver and bodyguard has been killed." Leo squatted down and turned the stunned person over, untied the other person's coat, and saw that under the dress coat was a suit that did not match the coat at all. The longshoreman's uniform, and the clothes were stained with a lot of blood.

"He..." Dio Browno, who was already stunned, didn't know what to say or how to react for a while. He has been doing research work in the college all his life, and he has never encountered such a thing.

"Leave here first." Leo saw some porters at the freight train station coming from a distance, so he lifted the people on the ground and threw them behind the carriage, and gestured to Dior Browno. Sit in the driver's seat.

Leo has driven land Titans, space fighters, and even had a mission. He also replaced the No. 1 pilot of the Star Destroyer, Unknown, and was responsible for controlling the space transition of the Star Destroyer, so he felt that controlling this steam locomotive Should not be difficult.

It was only after he sat in the driver's seat that he realized that the things in front of him were a little different from what he had expected. There was no holographic control system like that on the Star Destroyer in front of him, nor did he have the nerve connection system of land Titans and space fighters. It's just a semicircular hollow decoration and three iron rods that look like some kind of mechanical device.

"You don't know how to drive this thing?" Dio Browno, who was sitting in the passenger car at the back, couldn't help but ask through the front window of the car and saw Leo sitting outside in the driver's seat without any movement.

"It's the first time I've seen this thing." Leo smiled awkwardly.

When he entered the dream world, although there was already a prototype of a personal steam locomotive in Vinylon World, it was only a test product that had not been made public. No operating experience.

"That's right, this thing has only become popular in the past two years, and it takes a lot of high-grade charcoal to drive every time, so only a few rich people will buy this thing." Dior Bruno said, He put his head near the front window, looked at the situation on the driver's seat, and then pointed out: "I read a newspaper that introduced this thing before. That thing that looks like a decoration should be called a steering wheel. It is used to control the direction of the car. Yes, the other three bars seem to be the steam valve, the forward lever, and the stop lever."

While Dio Browno was talking, Leo also figured out the mechanical structure of the steam locomotive through the spiritual network, and then he put his hands on the steering wheel, which was more like an ornament, and then pushed it according to his understanding. The iron rod opens the steam valve and pushes the forward lever.

The air outlet next to the carriage began to emit white steam, the car began to vibrate, and then moved forward slowly.

Leo turned the steering wheel, turned the car around, and drove towards the road the car had come from.

Although the road from Wuwan Town to Lyon Port has been repaired, it is still not very good. The main reason is that most of the valuable goods are transported by water with a large capacity and low price, so land transportation is not so important. Sometimes this road is only used by the porters who live in the port area to go to and from work, so naturally it will not be repaired very well.

The car is not fast, which is equivalent to running for a normal person. At this speed, it will take about an hour to reach the port area of ​​the Port of Lyon.

Leo did not drive directly to the Port of Lyon, but turned a corner at a fork leading to the forest, and drove into a relatively dense forest, then stopped the car, got up and walked out of the passenger compartment behind .

At this time, Dior Browno hadn't recovered from what happened just now, and he was still at a loss. Leo who opened the car door began to propose: "Teacher, now we should find out why someone assassinated you Otherwise, it might not be a good idea to go directly to the port of Lyon to meet your patron friend."

"How to do it?" Hearing Leo's voice, Dio Browno asked as if he had a backbone.

Leo pointed to the assassin who was knocked out by him, and said, "See if you can ask him something useful."

After finishing speaking, Leo asked Dior Browno to stay in the car, then lifted the assassin up, took him to a tree a little far from the road, and tied him to the tree with a rope, and then stretched out his hand in the car. The opponent pressed a certain part of the neck.

The sharp pain from his neck woke up the sleepy assassin instantly, and let out a scream. When he regained consciousness, he saw the scene around him and immediately understood his situation.

Before the other party was fully awake, Leo raised his hand and used an Axii seal to control the other party's spirit, and then asked directly: "Why did you kill Dior Bruno?"

The assassin who was in a trance said the reason without any hindrance, and said, "The blasphemer, he is the blasphemer."

Leo asked again: "The blasphemer? Which god did he blaspheme?"

The assassin murmured, "Not a god! It's Wakhanha he's blaspheming."

"Wakanha?" Leo froze for a moment, searched for information carefully in his mind, and said, "Is it the Wakanha civilization in the Mozambique continent?"

"Wakanha!" The assassin suddenly became excited, and shouted loudly: "Ancient immortal species, we are a golden clan parallel to the gods!"

"How much do you have in Port of Lyon..." Sensing that the other party was fighting for his control, Leo was about to step up and ask for other useful information. However, before he could say anything, he realized that something was wrong with the assassin.

I saw the assassin's body trembling violently as if suffering from epilepsy, and then saw countless tiny tentacles coming out of his mouth, eye sockets, nostrils, etc., and his eyes also turned blood red.

Leo felt that there was a force gushing out from the opponent's body, so it was unavoidable that there would be an accident. He immediately chanted witchcraft spells, mobilized his body's spiritual energy, and quickly drew witchcraft runes in the air with his fingers.

After a burst of psychic energy fluctuations, a blue flame appeared out of thin air, and under Leo's control, it instantly penetrated into the assassin's body.

Immediately afterwards, a blue flame emerged from the opponent's body, turning the assassin into a ball of fire, which was burned to ashes in the blink of an eye.

Self-immolation is one of the witchcraft improved by Leo. The biggest advantage of this witchcraft is that it can be cast quickly, the spell is concealed, and the effect is powerful. People who have been affected by this witchcraft will instantly produce a human body with a temperature of more than 7,000 degrees. The only one The disadvantage is that spells have traces to follow and are easy to be dodged.

This is also the first time Leo used this improved witchcraft, so after the successful release, he did not leave, but stood still to watch the final effect. After the assassin's body was completely burned to ashes, the flames did not spread to the nearby trees, but were quickly extinguished due to the complete consumption of spiritual energy.

Satisfied with the effect of the witchcraft, Leo was about to turn around and leave, but found that there seemed to be something in the ashes. He bent down and fiddled with the ashes, and found a glass crystalline sphere from inside. I don't know if it's because of high temperature incineration. Or because of other reasons, the surface and interior of the sphere are covered with cracks, and its true colors can no longer be seen, but thinking of what happened to the assassin just now, Leo feels that the spherical glass crystal may be the reason.

Holding the last remnant on his body at this moment, Leo turned around and returned to the side of the steam locomotive. Dio Browno, who looked a little anxious, immediately got out of the car and saw that the assassin was not by Leo's side. Asked: "What did you ask?"

"He's from Wakanha." Leo stared at Dior Browno, trying to see something useful from his face.

However, Dio Browno was completely bewildered. After a long while, he remembered what Wakanha is, and said in a puzzled way: "Are there still Wakanha people? Aren't they killed by the Kingdom of Sigma?" ? If they seek revenge, they should also go to the Kingdom of Sigma, why did they come here to kill a researcher of ancient civilization like me?"

"I think it should be related to the research you are going to conduct now." Leo guessed: "He said you desecrated his civilization."

"My research? Desecrated his civilization?" Dio Browno showed a contemplative look, but soon seemed to think of something, returned to the car, took out his backpack, and took out a notebook from the backpack , opened it and took out a few folded rubbing papers from inside, and then spread the papers on the ground.

Leo also walked over and looked at the rubbing paper on the ground.

I saw that there were some Turing radicals and patterns printed on these rubbing papers. The person responsible for the rubbing was very smart. The content of the rubbing was enough to attract people like Dior Browno, but they didn’t reveal too much The detailed content is like a bait.

Dio Browno searched for a while on the rubbing paper, and soon found what he wanted, pointed to one of the half-rubbed patterns, and said: "It's really related to the Wakanha civilization, they should Found a remnant of the Wakanha civilization."

At this time, Leo also recalled the information about the Wakhanha civilization in his mind.

Although the officials of all countries in the Vinylon world have never recognized the Wakhanha civilization as an advanced civilization, they just think that the Wakhanha civilization is just a tribal civilization with a small range of influence just like the countless tribal civilizations on the Mozambique continent.

However, scholars engaged in the study of ancient civilizations all believe that the Wakhanha civilization is a very advanced civilization, even higher than all the civilizations in the current Velen world, and all the tribal civilizations in the Mozambique continent should have originated from the Wakhanha civilization.

For ordinary people in the Vinylon world, the Wakhanha civilization represents infinite gold and countless wealth.

For a long time, books about the Wakhanha civilization have been bestsellers in all the countries of Vinylon. From rigorous research reports to adventure novels focusing on the Wakhanha civilization, they are all the most popular reading materials among the public. The reason why ordinary people like to read the books of Wakhanha civilization so much is because of their longing for that era of great adventure, and their fantasy about the legend of getting rich that day.

The Wakanha civilization is a civilization formed around the ancient city of Wakanha. This civilization is somewhat similar to the Hanossa Confederacy. More than a hundred tribes of all sizes gathered around the Wakanha tribe and formed an alliance to form a huge tribal nation.

However, this country does not have a complete administrative organization from top to bottom. All tribal alliances are very loose and can be joined or withdrawn. Taxation does not exist, so the academic circles also agree with the official statements of various countries. Wakhan Ha is just a civilization, not a country.

As the earliest explorer and colonizer of the Mozambique continent, the Kingdom of Sigma was also the earliest discoverer of the Wakhanha civilization, as well as the conqueror and destroyer of the Wakhanha civilization.

With advanced weapons and a well-trained army, the Kingdom of Sigma easily conquered the Wakanha civilization, which had not experienced war for a long time, enslaved the Wakanha people, and plundered the wealth of the ancient city of Wakanha.

The worst thing is that the sailors and soldiers of the Kingdom of Sigma brought the plague that swept through the countries of Velen to the Mosang Continent. A large number of people from various tribes in the Mozambique continent headed by the Ha people died. In less than a year, more than one million Wakhanha people were almost extinct.

It is precisely because the Wakhanha people died too fast, too early, and the inheritance of civilization was cut off instantly, making it impossible for later scholars of ancient civilization to study the Wakhanha civilization. The understanding of Wakhanha civilization is still only at the most superficial stage, such as architectural style, decorative jewelry and so on.

However, for those scholars who study ancient languages, the Wakanha civilization undoubtedly provided them with a lot of research materials, because they found that in the ancient city of Wakanha, some builders such as temples had a large number of Gamore The basic root and Turing root of Chinese language, and these basic root and Turing root have never appeared in other places.

"What are you going to do now?" Leo went through the information on the Wakanha civilization in his mind, and then said to Dio Browno, who looked very excited: "It depends on the Wakanha civilization discovered by your sponsor. It's not easy, you have just accepted the invitation, and you have already been targeted, and when you arrive in the Mosang Continent, I'm afraid..."

"It's because it's not easy. This research may solve a question I had many years ago." Dior Bruno has been completely immersed in the excitement of new discoveries. For him, studying ancient civilizations is far more difficult than More important than life, the nervousness caused by the assassination was completely replaced by excitement.

Leo has seen many people like Dio Browno in the Earth Federation. These people are real scientists. For these people, studying what they want to study is the only goal of life. As for other things , including life, will not care.

Knowing that persuasion is useless, Leo thought for a while and said, "I will accompany you to the foothold you planned to go to, and see the situation there, before you consider whether to go to Mozambique, what do you think?"

Dio Browno also nodded in agreement: "Okay, let's do this."