Chapter 1101: High-Wall Settlements
Leo didn't know what to do with the red soul crystal for the time being, but he was sure of one thing, and that was that the red soul crystal was very unstable, just like the uncoordinated hedge particles that are often used in the universe to create overrun attack weapons.
After putting away the red soul crystals, Leo used the psionic rope to hang himself on the end of the tree, and with the traction of the psionic rope, he quickly moved flexibly between the dense canopy, and soon caught up with the group of armed men, silently hanging among the branches and leaves of the trees above their heads, following them slowly moving forward.
Maybe it was because what had just happened had shocked them and made them feel extremely uneasy, just thinking about getting back to a safe place as soon as possible, so they were all in silent hurry all the way, not saying anything.
Leo carefully scanned the situation of these people through the spirit net in the air, although these people were wearing strange objects similar to induction spirit scanning, but obviously Leo's spirit net was beyond the sensing range of this strange object, and did not produce any reaction.
However, after scanning these people, Leo's doubts in his heart not only did not weaken, but increased a lot, because he found a lot of things in these people that should not have appeared in these people.
For example, the small steam engine and the accompanying steam guns carried by these people are related to some of the things that Leo studied when he was in Castle Black, and some of them are even one of the supports he researched.
When he was experimenting with how many times the kinetic energy of other worlds' mechanical devices could be increased in the world of Vinylon, Sylvia asked him to help design a simple small steam engine, which was designed to increase the power of the mechanical bow and crossbow and reduce the burden on the user, because the small steam engine used in the steam engine crossbow at that time was too cumbersome, although it could still move on the back, it moved very slowly, which was not conducive to battlefield strain.
At that time, Leo designed four models of small steam engines for Sylvia, and most of the mechanical techniques and principles of the four models of small steam engines were based on the mechanical knowledge of Hushang Town, and even the forging technology of parts used some smelting techniques he had developed himself.
The core steam power part of the small steam engine on these people is the one that uses the least steam kinetic energy of the four small steam engines designed by Leo, but it is the lightest model.
Although the kinetic energy generated by this model is the smallest, it is also several times more powerful than the kinetic energy generated by the smallest steam engine in the world of Vinylon at that time, and now the small steam engine on these people has been further improved by others, and this improvement has also increased the energy output of the steam engine several times, and at the same time, after equipping the matching gun, it has some other magical effects.
For example, when those people stopped the transparent monster before, the bullets fired from the steam gun had a freezing effect and froze the monster.
Interestingly, Leo also had to do with him, as it used some of his rune magic research.
From the small jar that provided the catalytic effect to the small steam engine, to the internal structure of the steam gun itself, it was full of Leo's research on rune magic, some of which were ideas he had made when he was bored at Castle Black, and the knowledge of these ideas was now made and used in real combat.
Seeing the main equipment of these people under the tree, Leo had no doubt that these equipment were from the research notes he had left in the laboratory of Castle Black, and there was only one person who could possess them, and that was Sylvia.
With a hint of suspicion, Leo scanned the equipment on the team again, and soon saw a logo similar to the badge on the equipment such as the small steam engine, which looked very similar to the coat of arms of the Montreal family, but compared to the badge of the Montreal family in his memory, this badge had an additional Turing root in the Gamoree language that represented infinite possibilities.
The group under the trees seemed to be a regular in the forest, easily finding a suitable path to walk on, and skillfully using their tools to remove vines and shrubs that stood in their way.
They also encountered some attacks on the way, but these attacks were ordinary beasts, and they were easy to deal with, but the strange thing was that although they killed those beasts, they never took the carcasses of the beasts, but as if they were worried about something, they quickly walked away from the prey, and sprinkled some powder on their bodies before leaving, which should seem to prevent some breath from attracting real predators in the forest.
In this case, Leo followed the group onwards, but still curiously left the spirit net around a large prey, wanting to see what the forest predator that scared these people really looked like.
Leo didn't wait long, not long after the group left, he sensed a dark shadow suddenly appear next to the beast's corpse, instantly picked up the beast's corpse, and then leaped forward, disappearing into the air.
Although the movements of this black shadow were so fast, so fast that they were almost impossible to see with the naked eye, it was still easily captured by Leo's spirit net in its full form.
"Pencado!It's Pencado!" Leo looked a little surprised on his face after recognizing the mysterious beast that had been terrified by the group, followed by a thoughtful expression on his face.
Pencado is a supernatural creature of the Black Forest that is able to move in some kind of short-distance spatial shuttle, which helps them to suddenly appear next to their prey and then attack unsuspecting prey.
These otherworldly creatures are located on the edge of the Black Forest, so they often run out of the Black Forest and attack people near the Black Forest, which also adds a mysterious predator legend to the various dangerous legends of the Black Forest.
However, after all, Pencardo is a creature of the Black Forest, and its existence is attached to the Black Forest, so it cannot stay away from the Black Forest, and can only move on the edge of the Black Forest, and it is impossible for it to appear so far away from Port Randall.
But now the fact is that this Pencado has indeed appeared in this forest far from the Black Forest, and the activities are still very frequent, and the people who frequently come here have already understood it, so the reason for this kind of thing, in addition to the fact that Pencardo has mutated and no longer needs to be attached to the Black Forest, only the Black Forest no longer has to abide by some rules, such as the Black Forest creatures cannot leave the Black Forest and so on.
All kinds of discoveries made Leo more and more curious in his heart, curious about what happened here during his time in the Poseidon World, and he couldn't wait to meet Sylvia.
The port of Landall is one of the most important port cities in the south of the United Kingdom, and not only is it home to inland cities where large quantities of fish are transported by rail, but also where large quantities of seaborne cargo from the Kingdom of England and the Moisan mainland are unloaded and transshipped elsewhere.
Therefore, in order to be able to better serve the entry and exit of goods in and out of the port of Randall, the United Kingdom has not only built three small towns on the railway line outside the port of Randall that specialize in freight transport, but also built three convenient roads for this purpose.
At the moment, the group is traveling in the direction of the largest town, Landowstore, which means the second town of Landaure.
Landaus is mainly responsible for the transportation of large goods, and there was originally a very wide road leading directly from the port of Landauer to the town, and there was no need to detour from the station town on the outskirts of Landauer.
However, due to the fact that no one has traveled for many years, and because of the time of day, the road has been completely covered by new trees and shrubs, and the location of the road can only be faintly identified by the bare masonry under a thick layer of decaying leaves.
After finding this path, the team traveled much happier, and after about two hours of walking through the forest, they finally got out of the forest and came to a plain covered with waist-deep grass, and as far as the eye could see, there was a town surrounded by a wall more than twenty meters high in the far side of the plain.
Although the inside of the wall is not visible, puffs of black smoke emerge from the wall, indicating that there is human activity inside the wall.
It's just that after seeing the black smoke coming out of the high wall, the team leader turned his head to the person next to him and asked, "Is today the furnace day?"
The person next to him didn't seem to be sure, and lowered his head to count the days, but another female member of the team gave an affirmative answer, saying: "Yes, today is the day of the furnace, unless there is a special permit issued by the kingdom, we can only read it under the high wall these days." ”
"Bad luck!" cursed the leader, turning his head to look at his tired teammates, knowing that it was unrealistic to move on to the next settlement in their current state, but it was too dangerous to spend the night under a high wall.
"We may be able to go in," a teammate reminded him of the small steam engine behind him, and said, "Don't forget that these guys on us are the goods ordered by Lord Earl, and if we lose this batch of goods, I believe those big people in the city may not be able to afford it." ”
"Yes, that's the way. Hearing the reminder from his teammates, the team leader immediately came to his senses, and the sadness on his face dissipated, and he continued to rush towards the high-walled castle.
Although he had seen a human settlement, Leo did not abandon the team, and still followed the team, and also used a psionic skill that affected perception to make these people ignore him, an outsider who had blended into the team, and completely regarded him as his own.
With no dense shrubs and trees in the way, the group moved much faster, and it wasn't long before they came outside the high-walled town.
From a distance, the town doesn't seem to be large, but up close, the length of the walls shows that the town is at least three times larger than the previous Landus, and the prosperity of the town does not need to be scanned by the spirit network, just the noise through the walls is enough to judge the prosperity of the town.
At present, the high wall used to protect Landusto is not an ordinary stone high wall, and the large number of sacred emblems of the ladies of the lake carved on the surface of those stones can be judged to be a high wall containing special powers such as the divine power of some gods, and it also represents the protection of the city by the lady of the lake.
Leo remembered that most of the inhabitants of the town of Landaudo were from Landaure, so even though they worked on land and lived on land, these people were still devout believers in the god of the sea, and under the subtle influence of these people, those foreign settlers gradually became believers in the god of the sea.
At this moment, this city of Poseidon believers has become the city of the Lady of the Lake, in addition to the charm of the Lady of the Lake itself, it is more likely that the destruction of the Poseidon Church in Port Landall made the believers here begin to doubt whether the Poseidon can really protect them, and finally this doubt also gave the Lady of the Lake the opportunity to enter this town and change the faith of this town.
Outside the main gate of the town, you can see two heavily armed statues of the Lady of the Lake standing on both sides of the gate, majestically watching all the visitors, and the devotees of the Lady of the Lake in the procession go out and pray in front of the statue of the Lady of the Lake, completing some simple religious rituals.
Not far from the main entrance road, the Continental Railway can be seen clinging to the city walls, circling the town, passing through the small station outside the town, and disappearing into the dense grass in the distance.
When everyone stopped, the leader signaled everyone to stay where they were and guarded, and he walked towards the city gate with a companion who knew some aristocratic etiquette and had some aristocratic blood.
When the two of them came to the city gate, they struck the bronze bell placed next to a small one-man high gate in the lower right corner of the gate.
Perhaps in order to match the high wall, this gate was built very large, and the wood was made of wood as hard as steel, and according to the size and thickness of this gate, it is estimated that it is not possible for ordinary people to open this gate, and the opening and closing of this gate should be done by some kind of machine.
Not long after the bell rang, the window of the little gate was opened from the inside, and a soldier in armor looked out, and said, "Don't you know that the city gates are not allowed to be opened on the day ......of the furnace?"
The team leader didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, and said bluntly: "The goods on us are very important, they are the goods ordered by Count Baggins, I think your town chief doesn't want to see Count Baggins' goods because we can't enter the city, right?"
Hearing the leader's words, the gatekeeper's face changed, and then motioned for the leader to reveal the small steam engine behind his back and the transportation agreement on the leader's body, then motioned for them to wait, then closed the window and left quickly.
After that, after several more people who looked like officials confirmed the goods and agreements, they agreed to enter the town through the small gate next to them, and did not let them stay outside the town.