The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Compared with the various situations that appeared on the first night after entering the endless ridge, the nights of the next two days were obviously much quieter. Not only did no big monster larvae appear throughout the night, even those dangerous monsters hidden in the dark And the beast did not appear either.

In fact, for the lumberjack family, such nights are the norm in their lives. The situation like the first night is completely a rare case. In the records of the lumberjack family over the years, there are similar The experience does not add up to more than twenty times, which can be said to be very few.

Although the past two days had been peaceful, the three youths from the Powell family were not happy at all, because they found themselves lost.

It is not correct to say that they are lost. The correct statement is that they have become like ordinary people and have begun to be affected by the mysterious power of Trube Mountain.

The reason they found something wrong was that according to their calculations, they should have arrived at the last temporary resting place at noon, as long as they had a rest there for one night and went on the road the next day, they would be able to reach the bottom of Truber Mountain in the afternoon, which the lumberjack family built by themselves. mountain city.

However, the problem now is that it is already in the afternoon, and there is not much time before dark, but the temporary resting place has never appeared, so they wonder if they will lose their freedom from the mystery of Truber Mountain. The ability to affect the force, and become trapped in Truber Hill like ordinary people.

Regarding the worries of these three people, Leo also took them into account. In fact, compared to the three people who didn't find out that something was wrong after noon, he even found out that something was wrong in the morning.

If you want to say a specific time, it was in the morning, after they encountered the remains of an investigator sent by the Otto Federation into the mountain, something was wrong with the three logger families.

On the previous road, it was not the first time that Leo and his party encountered the remains of victims of the Ott Federation, but those remains were all scattered in the gravel. If there were not some clothes as markers, it would have been difficult The remains were identified among the rubble on the hillside.

But this remains is different. This remains did not die naturally, but was chained to a large rock and died slowly. In the end, the cause of his death could not be identified, but it is certain that he It must have been a painful death at that time, because there were a lot of finger scratches on the surface of the big stone that bound him, and the ten fingers of the remains were very worn out, and some fingers and even the first knuckles had been polished off .

It can be seen that the deceased was in extreme pain at that time, and couldn't help scratching the surrounding things, and the pain was so intense that even the fingers were worn out and polished.

When the three of them saw the corpse, their faces changed, they were as pale as if their blood had been sucked out, and their expressions of fear seemed to be as if they had seen something terrible, and this fear even surpassed that of the big one that night. Fear when the larvae appear.

Leo didn't ask about the origin of the corpse at the time, but thought it was the punishment of the lumberjack family for the intruders. However, it seems that this matter is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

"It's over, we're over! The curse is real, we're all cursed!" At this moment, the young man in charge looked at the darkening sky and murmured in despair.

The faces of the other two were also full of despair, and their feet sat limply on the ground as if they had lost their strength.

"What happened to that corpse just now?" Leo walked up to several people and asked.

The three looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and finally said something related to the corpse.

It turned out that there was a member of the lumberjack family in the exploration team sent by the Otter Federation, and he joined the team as a guide.

In fact, the Outer Federation has also discovered some mysteries of Trube Mountain. At that time, some people in Trube Mountain had the ability to freely enter and leave Trube Mountain, but they did not know the details of these people, so they I found an opportunity to catch a person, and used threats and lures to make that person a guide.

As a result, the guide failed to bring the exploration team to the foot of Mount Trube. Even if there was a guide, those who entered the mountain were still affected by the mysterious power of Mount Trube and lost one after another. In the end, only the guide returned. Arrived at the mountain city.

However, after he returned to the mountain city, he did not receive comfort and care from his clansmen. Instead, he was treated as a traitor, locked on a stone, and then tortured him with a torture that only the elders of the family could master. Death, as a way to warn the rest of the various lumberjack families not to be traitors.

No one knows how the guide died in the end, but there is a legend in the lumberjack family that the guide cast a curse before his death, after which all those who serve as guides for outsiders will be lost forever in the endless ridge .

It's just that no one in the lumberjack family believed in this curse. They all thought it was just a lie deliberately fabricated by the old people in the family to prevent similar things from happening again, hoping that it would serve as a deterrent.

Because this curse never happened, even now most of the lumberjack family thinks that the story about the family traitor and being punished is false, it was deliberately fabricated to prove the existence of the curse.

However, now the three of the Powell family seem to have believed that the curse is true, because the body of the family traitor who was tortured and died in the legend really appeared in front of their eyes, and the dilemma of the three of them is clear. It is the best example of being cursed.

After listening to the narrative of the three, before Leo had time to check whether the curse they said was true, Sylvia on the side said firmly: "False, the three of them don't have the power of the curse." .”

Hearing Sylvia's words, Leo was stunned. Although he didn't know why Sylvia was so sure, he still chose to believe Sylvia's words, because he felt that since Sylvia was completed at the level of life, If she has undergone a leap-forward evolution, then she will definitely have many unique innate abilities, and among these abilities may be the ability to see through curses.

After eliminating the reason of the curse, Leo needs to consider what caused the three of them to have problems with their own abilities.

For Leo, if it was really because of the curse, it would be easier. He only needs to find the reason from the three of them, and then remove the curse power from the three of them. At least there is a targeted goal, but now He had no idea what had caused the trio to become less immune to Trube Hill.

The reason why it is called weakening, rather than disappearing, is mainly because the extended space of the endless ridge did not fully affect them. They still traveled a long distance in this day's journey, but compared to the previous two days Come on, this distance is a little less.

At first, Leo looked for the reason on the three of them, but soon found that the three of them were normal and had no physical problems, so he could only shift the direction of investigation to other aspects, such as the surrounding environment. Put away the amulet of power, and carefully perceive the changes in the strength of the surrounding energy fluctuations without the influence of any external force.

As a result, as soon as he put away the Talisman of Distortion Power, he immediately ended his search for the problem, because he was sure that the problem was in the surrounding environment, because the energy fluctuation he felt at this moment was much stronger than the energy he had just entered. The energy fluctuations he felt at the endless ridge were more than twice as strong. The moment he put away the twisting power amulet, he hardly needed to release the mental net, and he already felt the squeeze and repulsion of the surrounding forces very clearly. He even had the illusion that Sylvia and the three young men from the lumberjack family who were standing beside him were rapidly moving away. This was obviously the effect of the extended space on him.

"Has your lumberjack family ever experienced a sudden increase in the mysterious power somewhere in Truber Mountain, and your immunity has been greatly weakened?" The three people who came over asked.

"Ah?" The three of them didn't recover for a while, and after a while, they realized Leo's question.

However, the three of them were obviously ordinary members of the Powell family, and they were completely puzzled by Leo's question, so naturally they couldn't give any answers.

"I remember some similar situations were mentioned in the manual." At this time, one of them suddenly seemed to remember something, and shouted.

After being reminded by this person, the other two also remembered something one after another, and chattered about the manual they mentioned.

That manual is the experience manual of the rangers of the lumberjack family. Most of it mentioned what problems they encountered when patrolling the Trube Mountain area, how to solve them, and how to protect themselves.

However, the three of them obviously didn't pay much attention to the contents of this manual, because the experience recorded in that manual did not have the relevant experience of the Powell family, because the Powell family basically would not encounter the people mentioned in the manual. those dangers. So they didn't remember the contents carefully, they just flipped through it hastily.

Now they recall that the current situation seems to be somewhat similar to a situation recorded in the manual, but they can't remember the specific content.

Seeing that the three of them couldn't recall the contents of the manual, Leo decided to do it himself.

I saw that he walked directly in front of the three of them and used hypnotism on them, because hypnotism is not supernatural power, but a psychological suggestion caused by words and actions, so he was not disturbed by the mysterious power shrouded in Truber Mountain Dao, and because the three of them were defenseless, the effect was very good.

Soon, under the guidance of Leo, the three of them began to dig out the contents of the memory in the subconscious, and said those contents in detail.

Soon the three of them mentioned similar situations recorded in the manual, and also talked about the reasons for this situation and how to deal with it.

"The big monster lays eggs?" Leo and Sylvia were a little surprised after listening to the statements of the three, because it was mentioned in the manual that the reason why the logger family's immunity failed in the endless ridge was because the big The monster worm is about to lay eggs, and the process of laying eggs will cause the power of the big monster worm to lose, causing the mysterious power of the endless ridge to increase, thus forming the illusion that the ability is invalid.

As for the way to deal with this situation, it is very simple. Dig a cave on the ground where you can bury yourself, and hide in the cave until the spawning of the monster worm is over, and the sign of the end is easy to identify. A scream that can make the listener feel happy from the heart, it means that the spawning of the big monster insect is over.

There is one thing to pay attention to during the hiding process, that is, never drill out of the cave and look into the sky.

In addition, the length of time for the big monster to lay eggs cannot be determined. If it is short, it will be over in one night. If it is long, it may take several days or even months. and food can only wait for death, as for leaving the cave to find food and water, there is no doubt about death.

After understanding the situation, Leo and Silvia felt that no matter whether this method was useful or not, it was necessary to dig a cave and build a temporary shelter.

So, the two found a place with slightly stronger geology on the side of the hillside and started digging.

When the three youths from the lumberjack family heard that Leo and Sylvia were going to dig a cave on the rocky hillside, they all felt that they might be crazy.

However, when they saw the scene of Leo and Sylvia doing their hands, they all felt that they might be crazy, because they thought they had seen hallucinations.

They saw that Sylvia, who was beautiful and terrifying in their eyes, suddenly created a flame out of thin air, and then the flame erupted a pillar of fire towards the rock on the hillside she designated. The temperature of this pillar of fire was so high that it touched the rock In an instant, the rock melted into lava, and an irregular cave appeared in front of the three of them.

Following Leo's seemingly random waving of his hands, the softened rock and lava in the cave were grabbed out as if caught by an invisible big hand, and thrown aside, and the inner wall of the cave was also squeezed by invisible forces. Press down flat and smooth.

When the last ball of lava was caught, the interior of a cave that could accommodate dozens of people was fully formed, and the lava caught by the invisible big hand was not discarded, but kneaded repeatedly in the air, and finally kneaded into a A stone door leaned against the entrance.

On the other side, the fireball made by Sylvia also stopped spewing fire and dispersed it, but at the same time as the fireball disappeared, an invisible whirlwind appeared in the cave, blowing out the scorching air in the cave. After more than ten minutes, the cave has completely cooled down.

"It's not bad as a temporary residence." Leo walked into the cave, looked at it and said.

"It's not good after a long time." Sylvia frowned and said.

Leo nodded and said, "If it takes a long time, dig in and build a toilet or something."

Sylvia didn't say anything more.

At this time, the three stunned people outside the cave looked at the two as if they were two monsters, and they didn't recover from the shock.