"Does anyone among you know the origin of this thing?" In the large tent in the center of the camp of the pioneer regiment, Baron Bernando, the leader of the pioneer regiment, placed a serpentine golden statue on the conference table, and then asked all the pioneer regiment consultants called around.

Although Joe's proposal was very attractive yesterday, the cautious Bernando did not agree immediately, mainly because he knew nothing about the indigenous tribal civilization mentioned by Joe.

Bernando has been working hard in the New World for many years. He knew very well that the indigenous tribes of the New World were definitely not as wild and primitive as other people who had just come into contact with the New World said. These indigenous tribes often have some incredible things, and these things are often fatal, just like the one who had parasites on Matou Bay not long ago.

It is also because of this that any new and unknown indigenous tribe is like a gambling involving life for those explorers. If you make a gamble, you will naturally be fine. If you don’t make a gamble, you may die inexplicably in the jungle. After all, in the past, there were hundreds of adventure teams that died mysteriously because of exploring new indigenous tribes.

In addition, the expedition team organized by the Nature Association is also very famous in the New World, but now the Nature Association does not use its expedition team to explore the indigenous tribe, but instead finds him through cooperation. This makes Bernando feel that there must be secret things he doesn't know. So after Bernando is sure that he has not heard of the indigenous tribe that Qiao mentioned, he did not agree to Qiao's proposal for the time being. Instead, he found all the consultants in the pioneering group the next day to inquire about the situation.

There were thirty-four consultants in the entire pioneering group. Except for those who were prisoners like Leo, there were thirty-one other consultants. Twenty-three of these thirty-one were consultants found by the Rut royal family to help Bernando, and the remaining eight were recruited in Matou Bay.

All the consultants recruited by Bernando this time were not the kind of academic scholars who specialize in research, but the kind of adventure consultants who have rich experience in exploring the New World and have a very good understanding of various indigenous tribes in the New World. Although this type of adventure consultant is far from comparing with those academic scholars in writing papers and intensively studying, it is necessary to be knowledgeable and have a survival ability in the jungle of the New World, those academic scholars may not be able to catch up with them.

So when Bernando took out the golden withered statue, these consultants quickly judged from various details on the withered statue which area the withered statue belonged to. As for why it is not possible to confirm which tribe it is, the area is located deep in the jungle of the New World. There are very few people who can enter and walk out alive. There are no detailed information at all. Only a few words were preserved. These words were passed down by word of mouth and became the basis for these consultants to judge the origin of the withered statue.

Hearing the consultants talking about the origin of the golden withered statue, Bernando's brow frowned slightly. It is not difficult to see from his expression that the contents of these consultants' speeches did not satisfy him, and the balance of his inner cooperation with the Nature Society was gradually tilting towards the direction of giving up. In his opinion, it was too dangerous to cooperate with an organization that had never cooperated with to explore an unknown indigenous tribe. His purpose was to open a colonial area. Although the two did not conflict, they still influence each other. Moreover, this influence was unpredictable. Bernando did not like anything unpredictable.

Just when Bernando decided to give up Joe's proposal and not cooperate with the Nature Society, a not particularly loud voice passed through the noisy environment of the tent and passed into Bernando's ears, saying, "This withering came from an indigenous tribe called the Mumu."

Bernando looked over the place where the sound came, and soon saw Leo standing on the edge of the consultant crowd. Leo's strange face made him hesitate for a moment, but he quickly remembered who Leo was, and at the same time he felt a little different.

In his memory, Leo was a captive captive of the captured Kingdom of Berent. This was Leo's first time to come to the New World. Although he was a scholar of the Kingdom of Berent, he should not know much more about the New World than other ordinary people. Logically speaking, he should not know the affairs of the indigenous tribe of the New World. It is even more impossible to judge which indigenous tribe it belongs to based on a certain image, and also know the name of that indigenous tribe. This is obviously unreasonable.

However, just as Bernando was about to ask Leo why he knew this indigenous tribe called the Mumu tribe, Leo continued to tell the information about the Mumu customs, culture and other materials he saw in that note. While he was telling these contents, other consultants around who were talking about the origin of the golden statue gradually stopped telling it, but turned to look at Leo. Everyone was curious about why Leo knew such an indigenous tribe so well.

In this way, Leo was soon left in the tent, and the rest were listening carefully to what Leo said, just like a student in class.

Although there is a note about the Mumu tribe, it does not take much time to tell it all, and soon all the content is finished by Leo.

After Leo stopped telling, the people in the tent realized that Leo had finished speaking and they didn't say anything, but seriously recalled what Leo just said. For them, this was the first time they had heard such a complete study of an indigenous tribe in the New World, which contained too many reference-based research methods.

After Bernando recovered from surprise, he couldn't wait to ask Leo: "Hiss Leo, how did you know about the Mumu tribe? I remember that it wasn't your first time in the New World? Are all you said true?"

Faced with this series of problems, Leo just smiled, and under Bernando's gaze, he took out the notes about the Mumu tribe that Joe gave him, handed them over, and said, "What I said is all about it. This notes were given to me by Joe Matthew. He hoped that I could help him prove the origin of this golden image. After all, his reputation was not very good, and I think you would not believe his words. As for whether the contents here are true, I personally think that this should be true."

When he heard Leo's words, Bernando was stunned and didn't know what to say for a moment, because this was the first time he met someone like Leo, and directly exposed the commission of another person, feeling like a whistleblower.

The others were also confused at this moment, because they heard from Leo's words that Joe Matthew and Baron Bernando seemed to have reached a deal, and the deal involved the indigenous tribe where the golden statue came from.

Almost all of them knew Joe's reputation. Now that they heard what Leo said, they subconsciously had some associations and regarded Baron Bernando as the unlucky guy in Joe's stories who was confused by his lies. This also made them doubt the content about the Mumu clan that Leo just said, suspected that these contents were fabricated by Joe. After all, Joe's behavior of commissioning Leo to testify was too suspicious.

So some people immediately persuaded Bernando not to cooperate with Joe, and even suggested driving Joe away, who was also a consultant.

Just as the tent became lively again, Leo suddenly spoke again: "What I said before was provided by Joe Matthew. I don't know whether it is true or not, but the golden wither I want to talk about next is my own research, and has nothing to do with Joe Matthew." As he said that, he paused for a moment, and waited for the sounds inside the tent to disappear before continuing: "This snake-shaped golden wither is called the Abyss. It comes from a species outside the world called the Abyss. It has powerful power beyond imagination and knows how to bewitch people's hearts. As long as an indigenous tribe is bewitched by her and regards it as a spiritual totem, then other indigenous tribes in the New World are likely to become their believers."

"Faith? Spiritual Totem? Are you a supporter of the supremacy theory?" Someone quickly revealed a few words from Leo's words, believing that Leo believes in the supremacy theory.

Hearing this person's words, some of the consultants around him acted calmly, but some seemed to feel Leo's body was covered with filth and avoided him for a few steps away.

However, Bernando seemed to care whether Leo was a believer in the supremacy theory. He was very interested in the abyss snake and species outside the world mentioned by Leo, so he directly asked Leo two related questions.

After hearing Bernando's inquiry, Leo quickly responded: "This species outside the world is easy to explain. You should all know the ghost ship, right?"

"Ghost Ship?" Everyone looked at each other and couldn't understand why Leo suddenly pulled the Ghost Ship from the Abyss.

Just as everyone looked puzzled, Leo said in a shocking voice: "The ghost ship and the abyss snake both come from outside this world, that is, the world outside the gray fog."

Everyone was stunned when they heard Leo's words, because Leo's words were indeed somewhat beyond their common sense. The world was shrouded in gray fog. In their cognition, it was like breathing air, eating and sleeping. They were already accustomed to the existence of gray fog, and they also felt that the edge of the world should be gray fog. In the past, many people were curious about what was in gray fog and explored it, but no one came back, so people in the whole world knew nothing about gray fog.

But now, Leo told everyone so surely that there is a world outside the grey fog, and the mysterious ghost ship and this golden withered snake that correspond to the abyss snake, both came from the world outside the grey fog, which made them feel unbelievable. Many of them even thought that Leo might be another person who lies like Joe Matthew.

However, Bernando did not think that Leo was a liar like others. Instead, he looked at Leo with surprise. Before the others attacked Leo, he asked in a deep voice: "How do you know that the ghost ship comes from the world outside the grey fog?"

When Leo heard Bernando's inquiry, he was stunned, looked at Bernando thoughtfully and said, "Do you know too?"

When Bernando heard this, he did not answer, but just nodded slightly.

Speaking of which, this should be a secret of Bernando. When Bernando, who had just grown up, joined the Navy of the Kingdom of Rut and became a naval officer, the ship he served encountered a storm. He was inexperienced and was knocked into the sea by the mast. Then he drifted on the sea for three days and landed on a deserted island.

On that deserted island, he was not the only one, but also an old man who was in trouble. He had never heard of the language spoken by this old man, so he could not communicate with him.

However, even though there was no way to communicate, the two still supported each other to survive on this deserted island. The old man seemed to be very good at learning. He quickly spent a year learning some daily Rutte through various methods and was able to communicate with Bernando.

When communicating with the old man, he learned that the old man came from a sea kingdom called Sigma. He was a captain. He was mainly engaged in marine trade and traveled around the world, so he had a very strong language learning ability.

After listening to the old man's description of his origin, Bernando was very confused because the old man had never heard of the Sigma Kingdom and the continents and countries mentioned in his experience, as if he was describing the continents and countries of another world.

Later, the old man mentioned why he was wandering on a deserted island. It turned out that he was in a normal maritime trade and encountered pirates. He was panicked and drove the ship into a fog on the sea, and then lost in the grey fog. Later, the crew on the ship had a riot due to food supplies. He was injured and fell into the water. He drifted in the sea for a period of time and landed on this deserted island. He lived there for forty years.

When Bernando heard this, he felt even more confused because in his memory, the gray fog on the sea had only been gone for more than ten years. When the gray fog on the sea was still there, no ship could sail in the deep sea, let alone the islands deep in the ocean. So he questioned the old man's words, thinking that the old man had remembered it wrong.

The old man thought he remembered it correctly, and said that the ocean around the deserted island was indeed shrouded in gray fog in the past, until it suddenly disappeared one day. As for the day it disappeared, he could no longer remember it.

Although Bernando still felt that the old man was talking nonsense, because there was nothing else to do on the deserted island, he often asked the old man about the things related to the fabrication of the world, and even learned the Sigma language the old man spoke.

Until a few years later, on a stormy night, Bernando suddenly saw a ghost ship appearing on the sea. The ghost ship did not float away from the coast, but instead sailed towards the deserted island where he was pulled by some force, and docked on the sea where the deserted island was very close to the shore.

After seeing the ghost ship, the old man became ecstatic and shouted that it was his ship, then rushed into the sea, swam towards the ship, and climbed onto the ship under the gaze of Bernando.
Chapter completed!