The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

In addition to being curious, Leo also began to analyze the profane reliefs in the room.

There is no doubt that whether it is on the wall or the ceiling, these reliefs that will be shown to others are carved very rigorously, and they are carved out in strict accordance with the dogmatic requirements of the hill king. Anyone who sees this If you look at the reliefs, you will definitely think that the person who lives here is an extremely devout follower of the hill king.

But on the ground, where the carpet might have covered at that time, all the reliefs were distorted and chaotic. There were distorted patterns around the holy emblem of the hill king, and there were some patterns in the middle of each pattern that made people feel uncomfortable. Weird writing that feels offensive, feels like some kind of blasphemy.

However, if attention is only attracted by the distorted and chaotic shapes on the surface of these reliefs, then the real mystery hidden in the reliefs is easy to miss.

For example, now Leo discovered that there is a dark line in the embossed pattern that connects a large number of those weird characters to form a new pattern, and this pattern is also nested with the holy emblem of the hill king.

From the knowledge gained from the eyeball of the abyss serpent, Leo knew that this pattern represented a mysterious existence at the bottom of the abyss, and its function was similar to the holy emblem of the king of the hill.

The only difference from the holy emblem of the King of the Hill is that this pattern itself has some magical effects. Even if this pattern is only drawn by ordinary people, it can still produce some supernatural power.

However, this kind of power is not a very good power, because if people are affected by this kind of power for a long time, people's mind will subtly change, become distorted, become chaotic, and finally completely invaded by the power of the abyss Infected, turned into an abyssal creature.

Leo squatted down and groped the ground, and found that there was some powder that looked like stone powder in the gaps of these reliefs. This kind of stone powder is mainly used to fill the gaps when repairing buildings. Skilled craftsmen can use this Plant stone powder and repair the damaged parts of the building so that they cannot be seen at all.

This discovery also gave Leo a new idea in his mind, that is, the clergy living in this room may also be a victim. Someone carved these marks of the abyss on the ground, and then let the senior clergy of the king of the hill live in. In the end, he used the power of the imprint to pull him into the abyss little by little.

This also made Leo couldn't help but think of the massacre that happened in the castle in the legend. Now it seems that the massacre may have something else wrong.

While discovering the secret on the floor of the room, Leo also discovered the reason for the coma of the two youths. Just as he guessed before, the coma of the two youths was indeed related to him solving the giant python.

The marks of the abyss on the floor of this room have already been destroyed due to the wear and tear of the millennium and the crushing damage caused by the growth of the vines, and they are no longer able to exert the power to influence people.

But when Leo killed the giant python in the forest, the forest in a symbiotic relationship with the giant python was also hurt, and some abnormal energy fluctuations were produced, which were not harmful to ordinary people or ordinary superhumans. It will not affect, but it will have a connection with things that have the power of the abyss, and the abyss imprint that has expired on the ground is one of them, so these abyss imprints should have regenerated some power at that time, and then affected the two. young people.

In order to confirm his guess, Leo tried to sense the power of the abyss in the room with the eyeballs of the abyss serpent. As he expected, there was indeed a very weak power of the abyss in the room, which was undoubtedly true. It was this force that caused the coma of the two youths.

"You are..." At this moment, several caravan guards came in from the outside. It seems that they should also come here to find the reason for the coma of the two young people. When they saw Leo, they were stunned. After a while, they instinctively put their hands on the weapons around their waists, but soon they recognized Leo and said, "You are that foreigner, why are you here?"

"Curious." Leo replied very simply.

"Curiosity?" Several guards were stunned for a moment. They didn't expect Leo to give such an answer, and then the leader among them couldn't help but annoyed: "Mr. Lying unconscious in the camp, I don't want your excellency to cause us more trouble because of this damn curiosity!"

Facing the guard's censure, Leo was not angry, but just smiled, walked past several caravan guards, and left the room.

For him, the mystery in that room has been explored almost, everything that needs to be found has been found, and there is only one mystery that has not been found yet, and that is the reason that caused the people who stayed here to die in a coma .

Although the abyss mark on the ground of the room just now caused the two children to fall into a coma instantly, that can only be regarded as an example. With the power of the abyss mark in the room, only staying in that room for a long time can have an effect, and Those who stay here overnight can only camp in the square below, and the stay will not be very long, a day or two at most, so it is impossible for the abyss mark in the room to produce the legendary effect of coma and death.

However, Leo can now be sure that everything here is related to the abyss. The question is what ran out of the abyss thousands of years ago.

In the knowledge about the abyss in Leo's mind, there are many terrifying monsters from the abyss that can cause many people to fall into a killing madness, and there are also many that can make people fall into nightmares and die in nightmares, and almost all monsters from the abyss All can produce abyssal radiation, thereby affecting and transforming the surrounding things.

Therefore, now Leo has too few clues to help him analyze an accurate answer.

Leo did not return to the camp immediately, but searched carefully in the other rooms of the upper castle, and searched in the conference hall of the upper castle, the room where the highest general of the castle lived, and the single room of the castle knight. In the room, similar abyss marks were found, and these abyss marks in the priest's room were all damaged, and the damage was more serious, it can be said that it was completely damaged.

Fortunately, these abyss marks were completely destroyed, otherwise those two young people would not be the only ones who were unconscious.

When Leo was searching the room, he met those guards again, but this time they didn't blame Leo again, they just looked at Leo with a gloomy face, then turned and left.

After carefully searching one side of the upper castle, Leo didn't stay any longer. He returned to the tent in the camp and carefully sorted out all the information he had collected.

Obviously, one or more abyss believers are hidden in this ancient castle, and their status is very high, which can affect the construction process of the ancient castle.

Judging from various circumstances, this ancient castle should not have been fully built from the beginning. At the beginning, it should only be the lowest pass and the middle square, and then the middle barracks and living quarters were built. After the Reese Kingdom began to pay attention to the ancient salt railway, it began to send nobles and knights, and it was specially built for these high-rises.

When the upper level castle was built, there must have been someone in the upper levels of the castle who wanted to use the power of the abyss to corrupt these higher levels. As for the purpose, if you think about it carefully, it might be to provoke a war between Savile and Maris. .

According to the normal situation, after the massacre in the castle thousands of years ago, no matter who survived in the end, it should lead to a war between the two countries. If it is operated secretly, the war will become the entire Minsk A big melee in the mainland is not impossible.

However, the problem is that the abyss believer's prediction of provoking war is based on the construction of the upper castle, but the world has changed far beyond ordinary people's expectations. A more convenient and faster commercial road was opened in the south, which made this ancient salt railway fall down quickly and became a paradise for smugglers.

It is precisely because of the decline of the ancient salt railway that the nobles and knights stationed here are not important figures, and they may even be losers in the power struggle. Their life and death are not so important to the Maris Kingdom. important.

So much so that in the end, the massacre only caused some verbal disputes between the two countries, and it never caused any abnormal fluctuations.

Although the person who arranged the castle back then failed to achieve the real purpose, his arrangement actually summoned something from the abyss, thus giving rise to the legend of the castle that has been passed down for thousands of years.

It's just that it's impossible to figure out what this thing came out of the abyss, because he just checked it carefully with the eyes of the abyss serpent in the castle, and didn't find any noteworthy power of the abyss, which means that it was entrenched here back then. The creatures of the abyss had either moved to other places, or they were captured by the God of Quinsis Snow Mountain.

Compared with the former guess, Leo felt that the latter guess was more reliable, because what he saw that night, the changes in the fallen abyss after the God of Quinsis Snow Mountain couldn't be promoted, were undoubtedly the best evidence.

When Leo was thinking about the castle, Gu Sang, the head of the caravan, found Leo and asked expectantly, "Mr. Leo, did you find any clues during your investigation on the castle?"

"Yes." Leo nodded without denying it.

Gu Sang hurriedly asked again: "Then the two little guys in our caravan, are they still rescued?"

Leo thought for a while and said, "Bring them here! I can save them."

Hearing Leo's words, Gu Sang was overjoyed immediately. After thanking him again and again, he immediately had the two young men carried over.

Leo didn't use any dazzling methods to treat the two of them. He just let go of the restraint of the abyss snake's eyeballs, sensed their situation, cleaned up the extremely weak abyss power in their bodies, and then used their spirit to He was able to adjust the electrical pulse frequency of the brain nerves of the two of them. From the perspective of outsiders, he just stroked their foreheads, and the painful and hideous expressions of the two young people quickly eased down.

The management of the caravan who came with these two young people all gave a slight exclamation at this, although they had already obtained that kind of wood carving with magical power from Leo before, and they thought that Leo might also be that kind of woodcarving. People with special powers, but after all, they haven't seen any evidence with their own eyes, so they are just suspicious.

But now after seeing Leo's actions, all the doubts in their hearts disappeared, and all that was left was awe of Leo.

"They will wake up tomorrow, just like ordinary sleep, and there will be no other problems." After Leo solved the troubles of the two young caravans, he briefly said, and then signaled everyone to leave.

Gu Sang hurriedly asked: "Excuse me, Mr. Leo, will there be no problem if we continue to rest here tonight?"

Leo thought for a while, but did not give a definite answer, and said, "I don't know either."

After finishing speaking, he returned to the tent without any thought of dealing with these people.

The reason why he didn't tell Gu Sang an affirmative answer was because he was still not sure whether the castle was safe. After all, there were still a lot of power from the abyss hidden in the forest outside the castle. , Will the power of the abyss in the forest extend to the castle along the vines?

The people in the caravan left Leo's cart with anxiety. They did not choose to leave the castle in the end, but stayed and continued to rest. However, they slightly changed the number of caravan guards patrolling at night and The number of times, to ensure that when any abnormal situation occurs, someone can find it and give a warning.

Because Leo rescued the two young men without any concealment or concealment, the news that Leo was a man with magical power soon spread in the caravan camp.

Even so, it didn't bring any trouble to Leo. The people in the caravan were more in awe of Leo, and they didn't dare to get too close to Leo's pack cart, even passing by the pack cart would be easy. His light hands and feet made the environment around him cleaner.

The day soon passed, and the castle was shrouded in darkness, because the events during the day reminded many people of the legend of the castle, and their hearts were filled with worries and fears, and they dared not fall asleep for a long time.

However, it is difficult for their tense nerves to last for too long. When the time entered the night and they did not find anything abnormal, the fatigue caused by the tense nerves quickly spread throughout the body, and none of them could continue to support them. They fell asleep in their tents.

The camp also re-entered the silence, only the conversations of the caravan guards in charge of the night watch could be heard.

About one more time passed and disappeared. I don’t know if there was nothing to say, and the conversation of the guards outside also disappeared. At this time, Leo in the tent opened his eyes, from the state of resting his eyes. Zhong regained consciousness, and came to the outside of the cart, looked around.