The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"A small village that believes in corpse collectors, but is afraid of them?" Leo closed the scripture in his hand, and quickly organized the materials he had harvested in his mind.

Obviously, this village belonged to the indigenous tribes of the Mosang mainland. Judging from the decay of the houses in the village, the village should have been built for at least two hundred years, that is, during the period of great voyages.

During the period of great voyages, more than half of the ships traveling between the stars in the middle of the three continents were slave ships.

The native slaves transported in the early days of the Mozambique were all strong and young, and they were mainly used as low-level labor. However, as the demand for slaves in the Mozambique continued to increase, slaves in different industries also came into There were even slave merchants who specially trained these slaves and then sold them at a high price. Therefore, in the late age of great voyages, most of the slaves transported on the sea slave ships were well-educated.

The people who built this village were probably a ship of such high-level slaves. They should have encountered some kind of shipwreck and finally drifted to this island and survived.

As for the belief of the body collector, it is definitely not from the mainland of Mozambique, because if there is a belief in gods with complete church books, with the ability and power of the Orthodox church and religious scholars from various countries, it is impossible not to know the existence of this church, so in the village The belief about the corpse collector should have appeared after coming to this island.

In addition, judging from the classics in Leo's hands, the people in this village are more afraid of the corpse collectors and have little respect for the corpse collectors. They also deliberately wrote the fact that the corpse collectors cannot approach the island on the cover of the scriptures. It can be seen that the belief of the corpse collectors in the village is forced to make beliefs due to some unknown reasons.

The last question is where did the people in these villages go?

Judging from the surviving traces of the village, there was no fighting at all when the people in the village left. Everyone left voluntarily, and even left very suddenly, because some houses still had tableware for meals in them. The food had been completely rotted, but the remaining tableware still let Leo know that these people were probably still eating when they left.

Although what happened in this village always revealed a little weirdness, but Leo did not continue to pursue it. He picked up the Corpse Collector's Manual and prepared to put it in the storage space, and waited until he had time. Slow down.

But what surprised him was that a force gushed out of the Corpse Collector's Tome that seemed to be resisting his psionic power, which made his psionic skill of storing items into the storage space fail, and the Corpse Retriever's tome was still intact in his hands.

This result really surprised Leo, because when he read the scriptures just now, he had carefully checked the bark book, and he was sure that this book was an ordinary bark book, and there was nothing in it. Unusual power fluctuations.

But just now, the bark book was resisting entering the storage space, making his witchcraft ineffective, which he did not expect beforehand, and what puzzled him even more was that he didn't know it from the beginning to the end. Where does the power coming out of the Corpse Collector's Manual come from? Even if he could indeed feel this power and capture it, when the power disappeared, it disappeared completely, without any power fluctuations remaining.

Leo tried several times later, but the result was the same, the books were resisting entering the storage space.

This weird situation made Leo feel that this bark book is not simple, and it contains power that he cannot perceive, and it is also a power that cannot be controlled. The best countermeasure is to throw away the book and stay away from it .

After making a decision in his heart, Leo was about to throw the book in his hand back to the ruined village, but before the throwing action was completed, he stopped, and put the Corpse Collector's Manual in front of his eyes again, He looked at the bark book with a serious expression.

"It's such a weird power. It's unknowingly affected the mind and thoughts, and all the defenses on the body are unaware. If the will is not strong enough, I feel that something is wrong. I'm afraid it's as you wished!" Looking at the scripture in his hand, Leo showed a contemptuous smile, and narrated it, which seemed to be aimed at the scripture, and seemed to be talking to himself.

Just when he was about to throw the book out, Leo felt that his mentality was very wrong. According to common sense, even if the book was weird, he would not throw it away, as if he avoided it.

What's more, this book probably hides the answers to questions such as why the corpse collector appeared in the world of Velen, and whether this island is the world of Velen. Before determining whether this book is actually dangerous.

Therefore, when he was vigilant, the idea of ​​throwing away the books and staying away from this place in his mind was very strange. Obviously, this idea did not originate from him, but was the product of external influence.

However, just like just now, even if Leo knew that this thing was weird, he still couldn't figure out where the weirdness was.

Then Leo tried to destroy the book, such as tearing off a page, or directly burning it with fire, but the result was the same. No matter how he cast spells or tried hard, he still couldn't damage the book at all.

After repeated attempts to no avail, and unable to find out the mystery of the book, Leo could only temporarily put the book in his coat pocket, and wait to search other places on the island to see if there are other discoveries.

After that, Leo went to the ruins of other basic settlements found in the jungle by Spirit Net.

The situation of those ruins is the same as that of the original settlement. Everyone left suddenly, without any traces of fighting, and all the villages have a temple, and there is also a scripture at the bottom of the statue of the temple, but these scriptures The gods targeted were all different, and all of them were gods that Leo didn't know, such as the girl of the starry sky, the stupid Yada, etc., all of which were names of gods that had never been heard before.

However, judging from the scriptures of these gods, although these gods have different religious ceremonies, the matter of coming is mentioned in all the scriptures. According to the scriptures, as long as they obtain a certain opportunity, They will be able to descend into this world, and what that opportunity is is not mentioned in the scriptures, only a place called Yam is mentioned.

After exploring all the abandoned villages in the jungle that can be found on the spiritual network, Leo has seven church books in his hands, corresponding to seven different gods, and all of these books cannot be destroyed without exception.

However, different from the tome of the body collector, the other six tomes of gods did not have any influence on him after he held them in his hands, such as affecting his thoughts and making him throw away the tome. These tomes cannot be stored in the storage space.

Looking at the scriptures of the gods piled up in his hands, Leo frowned, then took off his coat, made a suggested backpack, put all the scriptures together, carried them behind his back, and then moved to the other side of the island past.

Leo didn't go directly through the jungle on the island, nor did he plan to climb the volcano, but walked around the island along the edge of the beach.

Along the way, he saw a large number of shipwrecks, many of which were famous ships in the history of the world of Velen.

For example, the first dreadnought ship of the Kingdom of Sigma, the San Fran, disappeared when it was transporting treasure from the Mozambique mainland to the Kingdom of Sigma after two years of service. Some people speculate that the ship suffered bad luck because of the cursed items in the treasure, but more people think that the captain and crew of the San Franchi saw the wealth and swallowed up the wealth, and they have been incognito. live in another country.

In addition, there is the world's end, the first ocean-going expedition ship in the Vinylon Continent. After entering the age of great voyages, any adventurous person tried to sail to a farther place, and the first to do so was the End of the World.

This ship was the largest ship at that time, and it was loaded with all the supplies needed by fifty crew members for half a year. There was also a seawater distillation device specially developed by the Sigma Academy of Sciences, which could directly turn seawater into drinking water. After everything was ready, the ship set off from the port of Lyon, headed towards the endless sea in the west, and finally disappeared from everyone's sight, and there has been no news since then.

After discovering the World's End, Leo also stopped for a while, went up to the wreckage of the ship and searched to see if he could find any information related to the adventure that year, but in the end he did not find information such as the captain's diary. It can only be judged from some remaining traces on the ship that the ship was attacked by a huge creature, the keel broke, and finally sank.

This also made Leo guess again and again about the huge creature that attacked the ship, because the material used to make the keel of the ship was a tree species from a world tree in the Black Forest, which was far harder than steel.

Leo has done experiments, and even after so many years of corrosion, he can't cause any damage to this keel. In terms of hardness alone, it is already comparable to the materials used by the space battleships of the Earth Federation.

But such a strong and indestructible keel was broken due to external force, and judging from the traces, the huge creature only used one attack.

Inferred from this, the power of that huge creature is probably equivalent to that of a level nine psyker, because in the Earth Federation, only the power of a level nine psyker can tear apart the outer protective armor of a space battleship.

Although the keel of this ship still contains powerful power, and the keel itself can be used as a material for making wizards and wonders, it is a pity that the keel is too big to be put into the storage space at all, so he can only Use the twin sacrificial knife to cut off a small piece of the keel with the strongest power fluctuation, and put it into the storage space.

After that, although Leo was still on the beach, or on the seabed near the sea, he found many famous ships, and some of the sunken ships still had some psychic wonders with obvious psychic fluctuations, but he felt that entering the sea rashly, I am afraid that I will encounter unknown dangers, so I just mark the locations of those interested shipwrecks in my heart, and wait for the opportunity to explore and hunt for treasure.

In the afternoon, Leo bypassed a protruding promontory and entered the other half of the island.

In fact, before entering this side of the border, Leo felt some abnormalities. The most obvious thing is that after his spiritual network extended to this side of the island, he was suppressed by the abnormal energy permeating the world. The intensity weakened rapidly, becoming almost the same as when the spiritual energy was just activated.

This suppressed situation became more intense after he entered this half of the island. Not only was the exploration range of the spirit net suppressed to less than ten meters, but even the psionic energy on his body was completely suppressed, as if this half of the island was filled with an invisible force field that repelled psionic energy.

It is also for this reason that the psionic creatures that can be seen everywhere on the other half of the island have disappeared here, and there is not a single sunken ship on the beach. Compared with the island on the other side, it is completely two worlds.

Leo moved his hands and feet, then tried to perform witchcraft, and tried to take off the ring to perform witchcraft.

Soon he discovered that the so-called psychic energy suppression was just an illusion. In fact, the psychic energy in his body was not suppressed, but after his psychic energy was released, it would be rapidly weakened by some invisible force in the surrounding world, causing The illusion of weakened spiritual energy.

The most obvious evidence is that the power of all witchcraft that needs to be released has been greatly weakened, and even dissipated as soon as it is released, causing the illusion that witchcraft has failed, but all witchcraft that do not need to be released, but strengthen their own power There will be no abnormalities in witchcraft and psionic skills, such as clairvoyance.

In addition, he also found that after he took off the confinement ring and let his psychic energy reach its strongest state, the witchcraft released would not be more powerful than the witchcraft released by him wearing the confinement ring. The change in power between the two can be said to be minimal, so The restriction of the surrounding world on psionic energy should also be a constant equivalent.

Leo checked his body carefully, and found that apart from the limitation of spiritual energy, there was no other abnormality on his body, and the original power of the physical body could still be displayed intact, which was good news for him.

After adapting to the surrounding environment, Leo continued to walk along the beach, but because he lost the spirit net exploration skill, he had to rely on the eyes blessed with spiritual vision to check the surrounding situation and find useful information.

After walking along the beach for about two kilometers, Leo's eyes quickly discovered something interesting. In a low-lying land washed by the tide near the beach, some nets were laid out as traps. In the low-lying land, whenever the tide washes the fish into the low-lying land, these nets will entangle the fish and make it impossible to get out.

What attracted Leo's attention was that these net traps were recently set up. From the stones holding down the fishing nets and some traces left on the beach around the water depression, it can be seen that the fishing net traps were recently set up.