After looking at it repeatedly, Leo handed the piece of wood back to the old hunter, because he couldn't see how the energy was stably sealed in the piece of wood. He could only guess that the piece of wood itself was a special object that could absorb

Save external energy.

"Sorry, we don't have this kind of currency on hand." Sylvia also handed the piece of wood back to the old hunter.

The old hunter quickly shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter, I'm just leading the way. With the abilities of the two adults, it's not difficult to get out of the dark forest. In fact, there is no need for you two..."

"We don't like to owe favors." Leo interrupted the old hunter, then took out another Jinsa and handed it to the old hunter, saying: "Let's do this! You still hold it, if you think it is too valuable,

When you return to the village later, you can help me collect as many books as possible. If you still feel sorry for me, don't give me some ordinary coins."

The old hunter originally wanted to return Jinsa, but after hearing Leo's words, he hesitated a little. He didn't really think that Leo wanted to entrust him to collect some books, nor did he want some ordinary coins.

, these are just some excuses that Leo wants to find to allow him to accept this gold coin and accept the amazing reward offered by the other party.

The old hunter who was originally very eager for this gold coin saw that Leo had helped him find a reason to accept the reward, so he no longer pretended to return the thing. Instead, while being extremely grateful, he said that he would do everything possible to help Leo

Before leaving, collect enough books.

The group of people quickly returned to the village. The people living here, like the old hunter, rarely saw people from other places. After seeing the old hunter leading two men and women in strange clothes into the village, everyone was curious.

He stood looking at it from a distance, as if looking at something rare.

The actions of these villagers made the old hunter feel embarrassed, so he immediately yelled at them and drove them away. Although the old hunter was not the head of the village, his prestige in the village seemed to be very high.

Under the scolding, everyone temporarily put away their curious eyes and returned their attention to what they were doing.

The old hunter brought Leo to his residence, took out two bottles of wine from his collection and poured them for Leo and Sylvia. Then he let Leo and Sylvia take a rest while he went to help Leo collect books.

Arrange a carriage to the castle.

"What do you think?" Leo turned to Sylvia and asked.

Sylvia picked up the wine glass, took a sip of wine, nodded slightly, and said, "The wine is good."

"Do you know what I'm asking?" Leo smiled, took a sip of the wine in the glass, nodded, and said, "The wine is indeed good."

Sylvia thought for a while and said: "I guess the system here should be the city-state co-ownership system in the early and middle periods of the Second Dynasty. The lord of each castle is a city-state lord and has great autonomy. Lan Xi is

The co-lords of city-states have certain influence over these city-states, but they do not have absolute control."

After hearing this, Leo nodded slightly and said, "I think so too." After saying that, he paused and said, "I just discovered that many people here have signs of minor or minor mutations.

It's not a mutation caused by extraordinary power, it's a mutation of the body itself, just like the cells of a supernatural god."

Hearing this, Sylvia quickly made an association in her mind and said: "This is related to what the Seventh Research Institute is doing..."

Although Sylvia didn't finish her sentence, Leo already understood what she meant. He nodded and agreed with Sylvia's guess, saying: "It seems that someone from the French Empire should have been here, or even with this place."

There have been some exchanges with people.”

As he spoke, Leo pointed to an ordinary-looking sieve hanging on the wall in the room.

Sylvia also followed Leo's fingers to look at this inconspicuous sieve. She didn't understand what Leo meant for a while, but then Leo reported a year number, and she suddenly understood, and at the same time

Realizing why Leo thought there was communication between the French Empire and the continuation of civilization of the Second Dynasty of the Black Forest.

This sieve, which is very ordinary in her eyes, is indeed just an ordinary farm tool. Its function is to screen crops. When used, the size of the mesh can be adjusted to screen out crops of different qualities, making it easier for farmers to specify different crops.

Product price.

This sieve can be seen in any farmer's house in the Velen world. It can be said to be the most common agricultural tool. But when this agricultural tool appears here, things are not so ordinary.

Because this farm tool was made seventy-three years ago, the person who made it was a scholar from the American Agricultural College in Mozambique. This scholar specializes in steam machinery to help farmers and planters in Mozambique make it easier.

He harvested crops, and this sieve that became popular throughout the vinylon world in a very short period of time was a farm tool he made casually in his spare time, and this farm tool became the best-selling farm tool in the world.

However, this farm tool, which was originally only popular in the world of Velon, appeared in the civilized world of the Black Forest, and it seemed that this farm tool was one of those ordinary farm tools, so Leo had reason to believe that this farm tool should be Velon.

It has been passed down from the world, and the only people in the entire Velen world who have the ability to do this are the Fran royal family who have mastered the contract ring and can safely pass through the Black Forest.

After making this speculation, Leo and Sylvia found several items unique to the vinylon world in the room. However, these items had undergone some modifications and their appearance had changed greatly, but their core mechanical principles did not.

There was no change, and the careful Sylvia also found the steel stamp of a famous machinery factory in Flange on a certain part of a farm tool.

"If there is communication between the French Empire and this place, then the higher-ups here should also know something about the French Empire," Sylvia pointed at the clothes of the two of them and said in a deep voice: "Our clothes are too conspicuous.

, it is incompatible with the surrounding environment, and it is easy for others to see the problem and associate it with the French Empire."

"Indeed, we should change our clothes." Leo nodded, but there was no ready-made clothing store in this village, so naturally it couldn't solve their clothing problem. Leo could only take out two long hoods from the Savile Kingdom.

robe, cover yourself.

Although these two long burqas still have a strong exotic feel, they obviously cannot attract too much attention compared to the clothes they are wearing.

Not long after, the old hunter returned to his residence carrying a large backpack. He saw Leo and Sylvia covering themselves in a beautiful-looking robe. He couldn't help but be stunned, but he did not ask.

What? He put the backpack in his hand in front of Leo and said, "Sir, all the books that can be collected in the village have been placed here." As he said that, he took out another dozen pieces of silver.

Putting the black wooden currency on the backpack, he said: "These are all the black coins I can find. The value of these black coins is definitely not comparable to what you gave me, my lord..."

"No, it's enough." Leo reached out and picked up a black coin and looked at it. Compared with the wood chip currency he saw earlier, this black coin is more exquisite, and the numbers marked on it are larger, and the black coin

The special energy contained inside has not changed. It seems that the value of these currencies does not lie in the special energy, but in the wood that can contain the special energy.

"Where's the carriage?" Sylvia asked.

The old hunter said quickly: "By the way, the carriage is ready, and the two adults can set off at any time."

"Didn't I say before that it would take a while for a carriage to go to the castle?" Sylvia asked.

The old hunter immediately explained: "Of course, those were other people. The two adults must have important things to do, so I called up the old Todd guy. He also had a carriage on hand for rotation."

Seeing that the old hunter had already made arrangements, Leo and Sylvia said nothing more. Sylvia picked up the coins, while Leo picked up the books in his backpack and motioned to the old hunter to lead the way.

Seeing that Leo could easily pick up such a heavy backpack with one hand, the old hunter was very surprised, but he soon felt relieved, because it seemed to him that the person coming out of Lanxi had lifted a heavy backpack.

It's nothing, no need to make a fuss.

So, the old hunter led Leo and Sylvia to the end of the street at the other end of the village. At this time, he saw a somewhat old but still sturdy carriage parked in front, in the driver's seat.

A coachman was already on board.

This coachman's dress was a little weird. His whole body was wrapped tightly, and even his face was tied up with strips of cloth, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

"Old Todd encountered a fire some time ago and his body was burned. In order to avoid scaring others, he covered his body." Perhaps he noticed where Leo and Sylvia's eyes were, and the old hunter immediately explained:

"You two adults, please rest assured about Old Todd's driving ability. He is the best driver in our village and he will definitely satisfy you two adults."

After hearing the explanation, Leo nodded, opened the door and got on the carriage, Sylvia followed and sat next to him.

The old hunter closed the car door, then patted the coachman's seat and gave instructions to the coachman. Then he saw the coachman driving the two strange-looking beasts of burden pulling the cart out of the village and driving for a while on the path inside the plantation.

, they got onto a wider road, and the speed of the carriage also accelerated.

After Leo and Sylvia got on the carriage, their eyes fell on the light source inside the carriage. This light source was not a fire pot or a lantern, but a plant, a plant that could emit strong lighting.

, obviously this should also be a species unique to the Black Forest.

Although the carriage was a little swaying, it did not prevent Leo and Sylvia from reading books. After the carriage got on the road, they each took out a book from their backpack pockets and started reading.

The book that Leo got was very interesting. It was a book dedicated to identifying the objects collected in the Black Forest. This book described the unique plants and animals of the Black Forest in great detail with pictures and texts, and labeled them.

Their value is also helpful for Leo to understand the nature of black forest species, but it is a pity that this book seems to have deliberately not written down the reasons why these plants and animals have value, such as the medicinal value of certain plants, etc.

wait.

Leo read books very quickly. In less than an hour, he read all the books. These books did not involve any advanced knowledge, and most of them were story books, but from these books Leo was able to

I learned a lot of daily knowledge related to this civilization, such as speaking, using words, dressing, food, etc.

Under Leo's guidance, Sylvia quickly became familiar with the unique words and deeds here. Although her learning and acceptance skills were a little worse than Leo's, she was originally a spy after all, and when she came to a place,

Disguising herself as a local in the shortest possible time was what she was best at. She soon found the trick, and together with Leo, they conducted an experiment with the coachman to see if the coachman could see through their disguise.

The carriage traveled very fast, and Old Todd stopped twice on the way to let Leo and Sylvia exercise. The places he chose to stop were also small villages, far away from the border of the Black Forest.

Leo and Sylvia discovered that as they drove into the center of this territory, more and more people had extraordinary powers. However, the extraordinary powers they possessed were very weak. If you didn't feel the paintings carefully, you could hardly feel them.

And with the emergence of extraordinary powers, the mutations in these people have become more and more obvious.

Just like in a village where the carriage stopped to rest, almost half of the people had obvious mutant organs, but the normal-looking people in the village did not show any disgust towards these mutants. On the contrary, they were

Those with obvious mutations all expressed feelings of envy and jealousy, as if this mutation was an expression of beauty and a symbol of status for them.

When their carriage arrived at the lord's castle, they found that more than 90% of the villages outside the castle had obvious mutated organs. What was even more interesting was that almost all of the nobles in Lyon were inhuman. Leo and Hill

The first local nobleman Wea saw when he got out of the car was a maggot-like form, but with a human head and arms.

This maggot man seemed to have a very high status. All the people around him, whether without mutations or those with mutated bodies, saluted him when they saw the maggot man approaching.

It's just that their etiquette is different. People with no obvious physical mutations will kneel on the ground and appear very humble, while those with mutated organs will just bend down.

Leo and Sylvia didn't do anything unique, but they didn't intend to kneel down to the maggot man. When the people around them gathered to kneel down to the maggot man, the two of them retreated into the crowd.
Chapter completed!