The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After the child picked up a wood carving, he also forgot that he was playing hide-and-seek with his companion. He took the wood carving and ran to find his companion impatiently, wanting to show his companion what he got.

After the child left, Leo picked up the metal ball in his hand again, and carefully looked at the pattern on it. Although he still didn't know the working principle of the metal ball, the child told the truth of the metal ball. The role, that is the map.

Now for Leo, what he needs to understand most is not how the metal ball works. What he needs to know is whether the map corresponding to the patterns on the surface of the metal ball is only in the Savile Kingdom, or includes The entire world of Velen, or even beyond Velen. In addition, this map is only a rough map from a bird's-eye view, and it can still be enlarged.

However, when Leo wondered whether the patterns on the surface of the metal ball could be enlarged, he found that these patterns began to enlarge silently, and it seemed that they were zooming in on his position as the center.

"Continue to zoom in." Seeing this situation, Leo concentrated on looking at the metal ball, and issued an order with his mind again. The pattern on the surface of the metal ball continued to enlarge until it was enlarged enough to clearly distinguish the little Gus River. The geographical features of the bay, and even the joint caravan that is camping are also revealed on the metal ball.

"Could it be?" Leo had a cleverness in his heart, and immediately opened the curtain, went outside, and looked up at the sky. Although the sun had come out and illuminated the sky, the bright moon hanging in the sky was still very eye-catching.

Looking at the moon in the sky, Leo lowered his head and looked at the metal ball in his hand. He now understands why he has never been able to find out the way the metal ball works, the energy fluctuations, and why the pattern on the surface of the metal ball can show the map. , because this metal ball is a survey instrument distributed to the pioneers by the universe council.

Leo is not clear about the specific working principle of this survey instrument. He just knows that when the pioneer spacecraft or the fleet discovers a resource star, it will put a survey instrument on that planet, and then the survey instrument will automatically detect the resource star. The resources and orientation of the planet are marked and passed to the database of the Universal Council.

Because of the special environment of some planets, it is impossible to conduct a complete survey of the planet with the power of the survey instrument itself, so it is necessary to send personnel to the ground to control the survey instrument for on-the-spot survey.

Under normal circumstances, an intelligent brain system will be specially installed on the flagship of the pioneer to serve the survey instrument. This intelligent brain system will continuously receive the information transmitted by the survey instrument and feed it back to guide the ground survey personnel to conduct targeted surveys. survey.

Obviously, Leo is holding such a survey instrument, and the intelligent brain system corresponding to this survey instrument is on the Weiyaren brood battleship that has become the moon of Vinyran World.

However, these are just Leo's guesses, and further tests are needed to know whether this is a surveyor.

If it is a survey instrument, then this will have a great effect on Leo. Among other things, if he goes to the wasteland in the future, he will not have to worry about getting lost, and under the action of the survey instrument, the fog on the sea will no longer be Problems, but this does not mean that he can leave from the sea full of fog, because the fog may not be the most dangerous on the sea.

Back in the carriage, Leo tried to control the survey instrument to explore more functions, but he was a little disappointed that this thing didn't seem to be as easy to use as he imagined, except that he could only zoom in and out of the map around him. Moreover, zooming in and out of the map also has a range limit. After a rough estimate, it is probably within a radius of 300 kilometers.

Leo was not discouraged by this. He felt that it was just because he did not master the correct method of using this item. After all, according to the rumors, this survey instrument produced by the Supreme Council of the universe can be used only by one piece. Completely survey a planet.

While Leo was constantly trying to use the metal ball in his pack tent, the wood carving he gave to the tribal child in the joint caravan camp outside caused quite a commotion.

What happened was very simple. It was nothing more than that the child showed the wood carving in his hand to other children, which aroused the jealousy of a child and wanted to snatch it. During the snatching process, the child accidentally touched the power in the wood carving and attacked the snatcher Child. Although the child's anger and obsession with fighting are not very strong, so the power aroused is not very large, but if the target of the attack is a child, it can still cause great damage, so the people around at that time thought that the person who was attacked The child is dead.

Fortunately, the tribe's witch doctor quickly rescued the man, and he was surprised to know that the injury was caused by another child. This incident naturally alarmed the senior management in the caravan.

Although it is now the industrial age, as far as the tribes of the Savile Kingdom still maintain a large number of ancient traditions, a powerful warrior is still the most precious talent of the tribe, so the senior officials in the caravan regard that child as The seedling of a powerful warrior was born, and the tribe to which the child belonged was naturally overjoyed.

After that, because no one was killed, the questioning of the child was just a routine matter. However, during the process of questioning, the senior management of the caravan found that the original estimate seemed to be wrong. This child is not a warrior with unlimited potential. The wood carving in hand is the source.

A supervisor of the caravan looked at the wooden carving on the child's hand and confirmed: "You said you were very angry at the time, and then you felt something inside the wooden carving penetrated into your body, and then you didn't know anything about it. , When I woke up, I saw Little Badger lying on the ground."

The child who had been frightened for a long time nodded quickly.

Out of curiosity, the supervisor was about to reach out to pick up the wood carving in the child's hand to have a look, but before he could touch the wood carving, the elder of the tribe where the child was was stopped before him, and said with a serious expression : "Hofs, this thing belongs to our tribe. Are you going to break the rules and just take it away?"

The tribal elders who could be assigned to this caravan by various tribes were all shrewd people. They could naturally tell that the wooden carving was not an ordinary item, and it was probably something with magical power.

Since what happened some time ago, the tribes of the Saville Kingdom, large and small, have also begun to pay attention to the ancient legends, mysterious powers and other things of their respective tribes.

It's a pity that at the beginning, the Maris Kingdom rose rapidly by virtue of industry, and in the following two hundred years, it suppressed the Savile Kingdom in an all-round way, so that the entire Savile Kingdom began to be dominated by industry, and some more radical tribes even simply thought that Those ancient books that recorded all kinds of weird things in the tribe's collection are some dross that should be discarded, so during the industrial reform movement that spread to the entire Savile Kingdom, many tribes burned the books inherited by their own tribe .

The city-states in the west are next to the Maris Kingdom, and they were naturally greatly affected by the industrial changes of the Marris Kingdom. Therefore, when the books were burned, almost all small tribes such as the United Caravan did it.

Therefore, even if the various tribes now pay more attention to the mysterious power, they are still unable to start because the books related to it have been burned.

However, now an item containing magical power appeared in front of them, and no one would allow people from other tribes to touch this item. After all, who would know that after people from other tribes touched this item, Will this item have any other abnormal reactions.

The supervisor looked at his partner with displeasure, and said, "Kesan, you are too serious, I just want to confirm whether the little guy in your tribe is lying."

"No need, our tribe will confirm this matter by ourselves, and our tribe is also willing to pay compensation for the injury, so let's end this matter like this!" The elder of the tribe didn't give other people a chance to ask the child again, and directly spoke to the child. After summing up the matter, he walked out of the tent with the children of his own tribe.

The other people in the tent saw that the protagonist had already left, so naturally there was no need to stay any longer, they got up and left one after another, when only the caravan supervisor was left, he lowered his head and ordered to the subordinates beside him: "Send someone to keep an eye on Ke The people of Sang’s tribe must find out where that wooden carving came from.”

After Elder Kesang brought the little guy back to his tribe's camp, he quickly asked about the origin of the wood carvings, and also knew that there were several kinds of wood carvings in Leo's hands.

At this moment, Elder Kesang thought that Leo must not know the value of these wood carvings, so he gave them to a child so casually, that is to say, he can buy them at a very low price if he handles them well. The remaining wood carvings allow their tribe to have a batch of items that contain mysterious power.

Thinking of this, Elder Kesang wished he could find Leo immediately and spend a lot of money to buy those woodcarvings from Leo, but he also knew very well that people from other tribes would definitely stare at him. I am afraid that the rest of the tribe will come together later, not to mention buying wood carvings, I am afraid that the foreigner will also know the value of wood carvings and will not sell them again.

Therefore, he can only keep calm now, and when the opportunity comes, he will go to the foreigner. As for the wood carving in the child's hand, it will naturally be taken back to the tribe, and he will slowly study the function of this wood carving when he has the opportunity , and the child was also tightly protected to prevent news from leaking.

For a while, the joint caravan, which was still very united, had a crack inside this small wooden carving. Although on the surface they did not show any disharmony, but carefully looking at the layout of their respective camps, it can be seen that It turns out that they are all wary of each other.

The owner of the cart hired by Leo is obviously also a discerning person. When he brought food to Leo at noon, he told Leo about the strange atmosphere in the caravan, and told Leo to keep his weapon by his side. , beware of accidents.

After hearing the reminder, Leo directly used the spirit net to check the situation in the camp, and found that the cause of the internal tension was the wood carving he gave to the child.

Although this incident is a bit surprising, it is not a bad thing in Leo's view, because he can sell these wood carvings to these tribes at a high price, so that he can accumulate more funds on hand.

Therefore, he didn't intend to do anything, but stayed quietly in the tent, waiting for the large and small tribes in the caravan to come to him by themselves.

A day passed quickly, and the joint caravan did not change its plan because of the day's events, and continued to set out on the road according to the original plan.

However, compared to the previous day, the speed of the caravan was much slower this night, and the guards of the caravan also held weapons in their hands, sending people forward or around to check the situation from time to time.

The reason why they are so nervous is because the caravan has really entered the hinterland of the Little Gus Desert now, and this is also a place where sand bandits often haunt.

The tense atmosphere in the caravan also directly affected the small team behind. They all gathered together and followed closely. Everyone was hurrying with their heads buried, and no one spoke.

In the middle of the night, the caravan has already passed the core area of ​​the Little Goose Desert. If the current speed remains the same, it should be able to reach Lake Bonana on the edge of the Little Goose Desert before dawn. The team is about to walk out of the Little Gus Desert and enter the Quinsis Snow Mountain.

However, things are often not so smooth. Not long after the caravan sent people to the front and surroundings to check the situation again, a sharp whistle resounding through the desert came from the left side of the caravan.

When the whistle sounded, the convoy stopped immediately, and all the armed personnel raised their weapons. The team supervisor sent a few people over there to check the situation, and soon several more whistles came, accompanied by the whistle The voices were also those who had been sent out before.

"What did you find?" The supervisor immediately led someone to meet him and asked a few times.

"Someone is following us. Judging by the attire, it should be a Sand Bandit," one of them said, "I wanted to grab a tongue, but he ran away."

"Do you know which group of people they are?" the caravan supervisor asked in a deep voice.

"Looking at the attire, it seems to be Xiao Xiao's person."

"Xiao? This is troublesome." The head of the caravan turned ugly, and everyone else had gloomy expressions. Then the head of the caravan immediately ordered to stop the march. A defensive position.

The actions of the caravan also frightened the small teams behind, and they also hurriedly stationed near the caravan camp. However, they also did not build a well-defended barracks, but chose to use pack carts to do so. A retaining wall, and then put some goods on the pack animals. It seems that they intend to abandon the barracks after encountering an irresistible attack, and each drive the pack animals to scatter and escape.