Chapter 312 The people on the island
"There are people living here!" Leo quickly made a judgment after seeing this scene. While he was surprised, he also felt that it was natural.
After all, on the other half of the island, which is full of dangerous psychic creatures and all kinds of weird things, there have been traces of human habitation. There must also be some humans on this half of the island that is isolated from psychic energy due to unknown forces. As for these humans, what exactly are they?
Whether he drifted here due to a shipwreck like him, or whether he is a descendant of the village residents he met before, is unknown.
Leo followed the traces on the beach and began to walk into the jungle next to it. Soon he found more and more traces of human habitation. For example, the jungle was no longer a primitive jungle that grew naturally, but was artificially planted.
Some fruits can be used as food, the trunk can be used as fuel, and the leaves can be used to make coarse cloth from the breadfruit tree.
After walking for a certain distance from the breadfruit forest, Leo saw a man-made stone road, and also saw a very ancient outpost in the distance, and he could vaguely see someone standing outside the outpost.
After seeing the traces of people, Leo walked towards the outpost, and as he walked, he secretly prepared several countermeasures and enemy-defeating measures to prevent the other party from making any malicious moves when he came into contact with them.
Because we were walking on an open road, we were spotted by people at the outpost from a distance. After looking into the distance and seeing Leo's figure clearly, the people at the outpost did not do anything that would cause misunderstanding.
The action was still the same as before, leaning the weapon against the wall of the post and sitting lazily on the ground.
Leo's spiritual vision also allowed him to see these sentinels clearly from a long distance away. Although these sentinels were much larger than ordinary people, they were still within the normal range.
, and judging from the surface, there are no abnormal organs on their bodies, they are just a few strong soldiers.
Although he didn't find anything unusual, Leo did not relax his vigilance. After all, after seeing all kinds of weird things happening on the other half of the island, it was difficult for him to be sure whether these people who looked no different from humans were really humans.
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Just when Leo walked five or six meters in front of the outpost and was about to ask something about the island, a middle-aged man sitting on a big rock and smoking a pipe spoke first: "From here all the way.
You can reach Yam Town by walking. Then you can register at the registration office outside the town and someone will arrange your accommodation and work."
Leo was stunned when he heard the middle-aged man talking to him so familiarly, wondering if the middle-aged man had mistaken him for someone else.
Before Leo could speak, another slightly younger sentry, as if he knew what Leo was thinking, explained: "You don't have to doubt that we don't know you, but for people like you, we do
I have seen a lot of them, and I have to receive one or two almost every day, sometimes even dozens, so I have become very familiar with this process."
"A person like me?" Leo frowned slightly and asked, "What you said is really unreasonable. Since you don't know me, how can you know what kind of person I am?"
"You are an unlucky guy who got into a shipwreck." As soon as Leo finished speaking, the middle-aged man who spoke first responded directly, and then, holding a pipe in his mouth, he said: "We know that people like you are real.
There are too many. If you have any questions, you can ask the municipal official at the registration office when you arrive in Yam, or go to the library to check the information yourself." After saying that, he turned to his colleague inside the outpost and said: "Give him the things.
, tell him to leave quickly and not to disturb our rest."
Following the middle-aged man's instructions, the young sentry walked out of the post with a box, handed it to Leo, then turned around and returned to the post without saying anything, sitting on a chair in a daze.
I don’t know what else to think about.
Leo could feel that if he continued to ask, he would not be able to ask more useful questions from these lax sentries, so he followed the middle-aged man's prompts, bypassed the sentry, followed the road under his feet, and headed towards the island.
deeper.
On the way, Leo opened the box and looked at the contents inside. He saw that this small box only contained an item that looked like a badge. There was nothing sudden about the badge. There was only a variant of the Sigma Kingdom letters, which should be someone's.
the first letter of a word.
He picked up the badge and put it in his hand and looked at it. The badge was polished with obsidian. Thinking 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 made Leo a little confused
Yes, there seems to be a drop of liquid inside the obsidian. If you look at the obsidian against the sun, you can see the liquid swaying back and forth in the holes inside the stone.
In Velen, obsidian itself is a kind of gemstone, which is already valuable. Now that obsidian contains a drop of liquid, in terms of its preciousness, it is already tens of thousands of times that of ordinary obsidian, and its price is also thousands of times more.
, it can be regarded as priceless.
But now the people on this island use this priceless gemstone to carve such a simple identity badge. If the people here are not so stupid that they don’t know the value of these obsidians, then it can only be that there are so many obsidians here, even
This kind of obsidian contained liquid is so abundant that it has no value at all.
Obviously, the first guess cannot be established. From the clothes and speech of the three sentries just now, it is not difficult to see that they should have some communication with the outside world. Their clothes and weapons are similar to those in the outside world, so they are definitely not like the original ones.
Like the indigenous tribes of the Moissan continent that the Kingdom of Sigmar encountered, they used gems as cheap stones in exchange for cloth or food with the explorers of the Kingdom of Sigmar.
Then there is only the second possibility. Obsidian is produced in large quantities here, and the mineral deposits are extremely huge.
However, new questions arise again, because if obsidian is really mass-produced here and has connections with the outside world, then they can completely control the production of obsidian and sell these obsidian to outsiders, instead of like now
Use it like an ordinary stone.
"Is it possible that there is no connection between this place and the outside world?" Leo thought in his mind and muttered.
At this time, he thought of the sentry who just mentioned that they often receive people who are shipwrecked. This may not sound like a problem, but if you think about it carefully, you will feel that it is a big problem.
Because just like encountering shipwrecks in the universe, any planet in the universe may encounter some survivors of shipwrecks, but there will definitely not be a planet that encounters survivors of shipwrecks every day.
Although the sea in Velen's world cannot be compared with the universe, the principle is the same. It is impossible for any normal island to encounter shipwreck survivors continuously.
This also made Leo couldn't help but think of the shipwrecked ships on the beaches of the other half of the island, as if this island had an inexplicable attraction, attracting all the people and ships that suffered disasters at sea.
If there really is such an invisible attraction, then people on the island will probably not be able to leave the island, because no matter what method they use to go out to sea, they will either encounter a new shipwreck or be pulled back to the island by the attraction.
This also explains why the people on this island seem to be communicating with the outside world, but treat obsidian, an extremely precious gemstone from the outside world, as dirt.
After thinking about this, Leo prepared to put the obsidian badge in his pocket, speed up, and reach the town called Yam as soon as possible.
In fact, when he heard the sentry mention the town of Yam just now, he immediately thought of the things mentioned in the scriptures of the gods. He just lacked an opportunity for the gods to come, and this opportunity happened to be in the town of Yam.
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Therefore, Leo was also very curious about the town of Yam, and wanted to explore the opportunity of the so-called arrival of the gods while looking for a way to leave.
"Huh? What is this?" Just as Leo put the obsidian badge back into his pocket, a ray of sunlight passing through the gap between the trees shone on the stone. The careful Leo immediately discovered that there seemed to be something in the drop of liquid inside the stone.
Things are moving.
Leo put the stone directly under the sun to observe with doubts, but found nothing, as if what he just saw was just an illusion.
However, Leo did not deny himself because he found nothing. Instead, he believed that his eyes blessed with spiritual vision had not seen anything wrong.
After thinking for a moment, Leo found the ray of sunlight that had passed through the branches and leaves before, and sensed the situation of the sunlight.
After confirming that the sunlight was just ordinary sunlight, he recalled his actions before and after he saw the abnormality in the liquid in the obsidian. Then, relying on his control over his body, he perfectly restored the actions he had just taken.
Just when the obsidian was illuminated by the sun at an oblique angle, what he had seen in the obsidian liquid appeared again, but this time Leo could see it clearly.
The thing in the liquid was a kind of small bug. This bug was very tiny. Leo estimated it and found that the bug was not much bigger than a cell, and there were only four of them.
This kind of bug is not only small, but also invisible. Only the astigmatism of obsidian at a specific angle after being illuminated by sunlight and projected into the liquid can make these bugs visible. Otherwise, even eyes blessed with spiritual vision skills will not be able to find anything in the liquid.
abnormal.
It's already weird to have bugs in the liquid inside obsidian, but it's a bit weird that these bugs survived in that completely closed environment and survived well.
"Is this another kind of Canan bug?" Leo thought that there is also a kind of alien bug in the universe of the Earth Federation, which can hibernate in a completely closed environment for tens of thousands of years, until something suitable for them to parasitize appears.
When certain conditions arise, you will wake up from your deep sleep.
Because this kind of Cannan parasite is very small, it will not cause any damage to the host after being parasitized, let alone modify the host's genes. All ordinary methods cannot detect those people who are parasitized by Cannan parasites. Only under certain conditions
Under the circumstances, only those who are parasitized will mutate due to Canania.
At that time, all advanced civilizations in the universe were unable to stop the parasitism of Canaan parasites. In order to prevent the expansion of the scope of Canaan parasites, the civilizations of the entire universe united to carry out an unprecedented insecticide operation, and finally completely eradicated Canaan parasites.
Insect plague.
"It won't be so unlucky, right?" Leo had not experienced that insect plague. When he was created, the insect plague had passed hundreds of years. All research information on Kanan bugs had been classified as top secret files, no.
A cyborg like him can see it.
He could only see from some historical data the extent of the crisis caused by the insect plague. In his memory, it seemed that only this time, the civilizations of the entire universe united to do the same thing, and even some solitary Omegas
The super planet wanderers also participated, which shows how terrifying the insect plague was at that time.
While worried, Leo quickly shook his head and rejected his idea, because if it was really the Kanan worm, then even if there were gods on this island, it would not be able to stop the expansion of the Kanan worm, because death
There were more than thirty high-level Omega-level creatures in the insect plague that year, and the gods in Velen's world were only high-level Omega-level creatures, and it was impossible to resist the erosion of Kanan bugs.
Although it was certain that this bug could not be Canan, he still did not relax his vigilance. He was originally going to put the bug in his pocket, but now he put it back into the box and used a sacrificial knife on the surface of the box.
A simple warning rune was engraved on it. As soon as the obsidian was damaged, this warning rune would immediately notify Leo.
After taking these protective measures, Leo turned his head and looked at the outpost that had disappeared into the breadfruit forest. A serious look appeared on his face, and he couldn't help but feel some suspicion in his heart.
He now doesn't know whether the sentries at the outpost knew that there were bugs in the obsidian before handing him the obsidian badge, and whether they knew whether the bugs in it were dangerous. If everything goes to the worst, then he is going to Yaya now.
I'm afraid there may be a problem.
The doubt about whether to go to Yam did not bother Leo for a long time. He quickly made the decision to move on. He had to go to Yam no matter what. After all, this was the fastest way for him to understand
Opportunity on this quirky island.
After walking through the breadfruit forest, he saw some artificially cultivated wheat fields and artificial lakes for water storage, and he also saw more ordinary people working in the fields or playing on the lake.
What's unusual? It's just that these people's costumes are all different. Some are popular in the outside world in the past ten years, and some costumes can be traced back to the Middle Ages. It's obvious that those people don't care much about this and there is no barrier.
Leo was walking on the road, and people passed by him from time to time. Although these people looked at Leo curiously, they did not make any contact with him. Instead, they showed rejection, and after walking a certain distance, they would say something
Chapter completed!