Chapter 312: The People of the Island
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After all, there have been traces of human habitation on the other half of the island, which is full of dangerous psionic creatures and all kinds of strange things, and there must be some humans on this half of the island that has been isolated from psionic energy due to unknown forces, and it is unknown whether these humans have drifted here because of shipwrecks like him, or the descendants of the villagers he saw before.
Leo followed the traces on the beach and began to walk into the jungle next to him, and soon he found more and more traces of human habitation, such as the jungle is no longer a natural primeval jungle, but a breadfruit tree that has been artificially planted with some fruit that can be used as food, tree trunks can be used as fuel, and leaves can be used to make coarse cloth.
After walking some distance through the breadfruit grove, Leo saw a man-made stone path, and in the distance he saw a very old outpost, outside which he could vaguely see standing.
Seeing the tracks, Leo walked towards the outpost, and as he walked, he secretly prepared several sets of countermeasures and means to control the enemy, in case the other party made any malicious moves when he came into contact with the other party.
Because he was walking on an open road, he was seen by the people at the outpost from a long distance, and after raising his eyes and seeing Leo's figure clearly, several people in the outpost did not make any movements that would cause people to misunderstand, but still let the weapon lean against the wall of the outpost as before, and sat lazily on the ground by themselves.
Leo's psychic ability also allowed him to see these sentries clearly from a long distance, although these sentries were far more burly than ordinary people, but they were still within the normal range, and judging from the various parts of the surface, they did not have any abnormal organs on their bodies, even a few strong soldiers.
Although he didn't find anything out of the ordinary, Leo didn't let his guard down, after all, after seeing all the strange things happening on the other half of the island, it was hard for him to be sure if these people who looked like they were really human.
Just as Leo walked five or six meters in front of the outpost and was about to ask something about the island, the middle-aged man sitting on a big rock and smoking a pipe spoke first: "You can reach the town of Yam by walking all the way from here, and when the time comes, you can register at the registration office outside the town, and someone will arrange your accommodation and work." ”..
Hearing the middle-aged man talking to himself so familiarly, Leo was stunned, wondering if the middle-aged man had recognized the wrong person and regarded himself as someone else.
Without waiting for Leo to speak, another slightly younger sentry explained, as if he knew what Leo was thinking, "You don't have to doubt it, we don't know you, it's just that we have seen a lot of people like you, and we have to receive one or two almost every day, and sometimes even dozens, so this process has long been too familiar." ”
"Someone like me?" Leo frowned slightly, and asked rhetorically, "Your words are really unreasonable, since you don't know me, how can you know what kind of person I am?"
"You're a hapless guy who was shipwrecked. As soon as Leo's words fell, the middle-aged man who spoke first responded directly, then took his pipe in his mouth and said, "We have seen too many people like you, if you have any questions, you can ask the city magistrate at the registration office when you go to Yam, or go to the library to check the information yourself." As he spoke, he turned to his colleagues in the outpost and said, "Give him the things and let him go quickly, so as not to disturb our rest." ”
With the middle-aged man's command, the young sentry came out of the post with a box, handed it to Leo, and then turned around and returned to the post without saying a word, sitting in a chair in a daze, not knowing what to think again.
Leo could feel that he could not find it more useful to ask any more useful questions from the scattered sentinels, so he followed the middle-aged man's prompts and bypassed the outpost and followed the path under his feet towards the deeper part of the island.
On the way, Leo opened the box and looked at the contents inside, only to see that there was only a badge-like item in this small box, and the badge was not sudden, there was only a variant of the Sigma Kingdom letter, which should be the first letter of a certain word.
Pick up the badge and put it in the palm of your hand to look at it, the badge is polished with obsidian, reminiscent of the geographical location here, it is very close to the volcano, it is not difficult to find some obsidian mines, the only thing that makes Leo a little puzzled is that there seems to be a drop of liquid in the obsidian, if you look at the obsidian against the sun, you can see the liquid swaying back and forth in the hollow inside the stone.
In Veron, obsidian itself is a kind of gemstone, the value is already a lot, and now the obsidian also contains a drop of liquid, so in terms of preciousness, it is already tens of thousands of times that of ordinary obsidian, and the price is thousands of times, which can be regarded as priceless.
But now the people on this island are carving such a rudimentary identity badge with this priceless gemstone, if it weren't for the stupidity of the people here who don't know the value of these obsidian, then it can only be that there are a lot of obsidian here, and even this kind of obsidian with liquid in it is so much that it is worthless.
Obviously, the first guess cannot be established, from the clothes and speech of the three sentinels just now, it is not difficult to see that they should have some communication with the outside world, and the clothes and weapons on their bodies are similar to the outside world, so they must not be like the indigenous tribes of the Moisan continent that the Sigma Kingdom encountered at the beginning, and they used gems as cheap stones to exchange cloth or food with the explorers of the Sigma Kingdom.
Then there is only the second possibility, where obsidian is mass-produced and the mineral deposits are extremely large.
However, new doubts have arisen in this way, because if obsidian is really produced here, and it has contact with the outside world, then they can completely control the production of obsidian and sell this obsidian to people outside, instead of using it as an ordinary stone as it is now.
"Could it be that there is no connection between here and the outside world?" Leo thought to himself, muttering to himself.
At this point, he remembered that the sentry had mentioned that they often received shipwrecked people, which seemed like a big problem, but when he thought about it, he felt that it was a big problem.
Because just like a shipwreck in the universe, any planet in the universe may encounter some shipwreck survivors, but there is definitely no planet that will encounter shipwreck survivors every day.
Although the sea of the world of Vilun cannot be compared to the universe, the principle is the same, it is impossible for any normal island to encounter shipwreck survivors in a row.
This also made Leo think of the shipwrecked ships on the beach of the other half of the island, as if this island had an inexplicable attraction that attracted all the people and ships that suffered disasters at sea.
If such an invisible attraction exists, then the people of the island will probably not be able to leave the island, because no matter what method they use to go to sea, they will either encounter a new shipwreck or be pulled back to the island by the attraction, which is exactly why the people of this island seem to communicate with the outside world, but they regard obsidian, an incomparably precious gem from the outside world, as dung.
With this in mind, Leo prepares to get the obsidian badge in his pocket and speed up to get to the town known as Yam as soon as possible.
In fact, when he heard the sentry mention Yam's town just now, he immediately thought of the things mentioned in the gods and goddesses, and he just lacked an opportunity to let the gods come, and this opportunity happened to be in the town of Yam.
Therefore, Leo is also very curious about the town of Yam, and wants to find a way to leave while also exploring the opportunity for the so-called gods to descend.
"Huh, what is this?" As Leo took the obsidian badge back into his pocket, a ray of sunlight shining through the gap in the trees shone on the stone, and the attentive Leo immediately noticed that something seemed to be moving in the drop of liquid inside the stone.
Suspicious, Leo put the stone directly into the sunlight and looked at it, but found nothing, as if what he had just seen was just an illusion.
However, Leo did not deny himself because he had found nothing, but was more confident that his blessed eyes were not wrong.
After a little thought, Leo found the sunlight that had passed through the branches and leaves, and sensed the situation of the sunlight.
After confirming that the sunlight was just ordinary sunlight, he recalled his movements before and after seeing the liquid in the obsidian abnormality, and then with his control of his body, he perfectly restored the movements just now.
Just as the obsidian was being hit by the sunlight at an oblique angle, what had been seen in the obsidian liquid before reappeared, only this time Leo could see it clearly.
The contents of the liquid were a small bug, which was very subtle, and Leo estimated it, and found that this bug was not much larger than a cell, and there were only four of them.
Not only are these bugs small, but they are also invisible, and only the astigmatism cast into the liquid by the obsidian at a certain angle can make them visible, otherwise, even the eyes blessed with psionic skills will not be able to find any anomalies in the liquid.
It's weird to have bugs in the liquid inside obsidian, and it's a bit weird that these bugs have survived and survived in that completely enclosed environment, and they're doing well.
"Is this another kind of Cananbug?" Leo thought of an alien bug in the universe of the Earth Federation, which could hibernate in a completely enclosed environment for tens of thousands of years, and would not wake up from its slumber until conditions suitable for their parasitism appeared.
Because the body size of this cananella is very small, it will not cause any damage to the host after parasitism, let alone modify the host's genes, and all ordinary means cannot detect those people who are parasitized by cananium, and only under certain conditions will they mutate because of cananium.
In order to prevent the expansion of the range of parasitism, the civilizations of the entire universe united to carry out an unprecedented insecticidal operation, and finally completely eradicated the insect plague of Canan.
"It wouldn't be so unlucky, would it?" Leo hadn't experienced the plague, hundreds of years had passed since he was created, and all research materials on the Canan worm had been classified as a top-secret archive, not for cyborgs like him to see.
He could only see the extent of the crisis caused by the insect plague from some historical materials, and it seemed that there was only this time in his memory, when the civilizations of the entire universe united to do the same thing, and even some lonely Omega-level planet wanderers also participated, which showed how terrifying the insect plague was at that time.
In addition to worrying, Leo quickly shook his head again and denied his idea, because if it was really the Kanan worm, then even if there were gods on this island, it would be impossible to stop the expansion of the Kanan worm, because there were more than thirty omega-level higher creatures who died in the insect plague that year, and the gods of the Velen world were only omega-level higher creatures, and it was impossible to resist the erosion of the Kanan worm.
Although it was already certain that the bug could not be the Kanan bug, he still did not let his guard down, and was originally going to pocket the bug, but now he put it back in the box, and carved a simple warning rune with a sacrificial knife on the surface of the box, and whenever the obsidian was broken, the warning rune would immediately notify Leo.
After taking these precautions, Leo turned his head to look at the outpost that had disappeared into the breadfruit grove, and his face showed a serious expression, and he couldn't help but have some suspicions in his heart.
He didn't know if the sentinels at the outpost knew that there were bugs in the obsidian before they handed him the obsidian badge, and if they knew if the bugs were dangerous, then there was probably something wrong with the Yam he was going to now.
The doubt about whether or not to go to Yam didn't bother Leo for long, and he quickly made the decision to move on, going to Yam anyway, after all, it was the quickest chance he could get to know the strange island.
After walking through the breadfruit groves, he saw some artificial wheat fields and artificial lakes for water storage, and he also saw more ordinary people working in the fields or playing on the lake, and there seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary. It's just that the costumes of these people are different, some are popular in the outside world in the past ten years, and some of the clothes can be traced back to the Middle Ages, and it is obvious that those people do not care much about this, and there is no barrier.
Leo walked along the road, and from time to time someone passed by him, although these people looked at Leo with some curiosity, but did not make contact, but showed repulsion, and after walking a distance, they would say something like why there was another stranger.