Struggle in the Steam Age

　　 The White Eagle Federation, as a nascent New World country, has learned various experiences and lessons from the Old Continent. In particular, the lack of adequate infrastructure construction in human settlements led to several large-scale plagues. Therefore, a series of infrastructure construction will always be carried out before the construction of various buildings, including a complete sewer system.

　　 Of course, sewers often mean dirty. Fortunately, Lawrence and the others entered a newly-built sewer that was not in use, so the air just smelled of dust.

　　 "This sewer is well repaired." Lawrence raised the lantern in his hand, looking at the sewer, which was enough for two carriages to go side by side, with a low voice. As a result, the gunman next to him said proudly. "Of course. Our boss González specifically requested that this place be up to the level of the sewer in the main city, so as not to spend time and energy on expansion."

"Really a visionary." Lawrence nodded slightly. He had heard a famous saying in his last life, that is, if a building is built to save money, it will inevitably pay more in the future use process. Much price. This is the case with the sewers. If they are not repaired once, they will inevitably be dug and filled regularly in the future. The overall calculation is much more expensive than a one-time repair.

　　 "You're right, that's why our boss can become the largest plantation owner on Hiram Island." The gunman nodded, with an expression of Rongyan. Of course, this is a very normal thing, and the gunner who can be called to participate in this kind of thing must be the baron's most elite and most loyal subordinate.

　　 After a group of people walked in the slightly cold sewer for ten minutes, the part covered with red bricks and cement slowly disappeared. The surrounding area has become an original ecological earth and rock cave, and there are traces of various tools excavated on the walls on both sides.

　　 "We dug through this place before, and everyone found something wrong in this place." After walking out of the cave, everyone was blocked by a rock wall. At this time, Bobo, the foreman, came out and said. "We have tried using a pickaxe, a chisel, and even the steam impact drill that was specially ordered, but none of them can cause damage to this rock wall."

　　 "Didn't you try to get around this strange place?" the younger sister of the witcher brother and sister asked. "The sewer does not need to be straight. In many places, rocks are bypassed."

　　 "We tried." Boob shrugged. "But whether we dig around or dig down, all we see are slates." After speaking, he pointed to several places, Lawrence took a few steps forward, and then looked at his fingers with the light of the lantern. The place.

　　 From the excavation traces, it can be seen that these workers tried to dig in all directions, but they did not find the edge of the rock wall.

"We began to think it was a problem with the texture of this stone. After all, we did not encounter a hard rock in the previous construction." Looking at everyone to check the traces, Bobu then introduced the members of the expedition. "But then when we tried to find the weak spots on the stone wall with tools, we found something unusual."

　　 said that he raised the lantern in his hand to illuminate a stone wall. This stone wall may have been damaged in the early excavation, causing its surface to peel off, revealing the gray stone behind. It's just that it's not the gray stone itself that attracts everyone's attention, but there are many traces that were clearly portrayed by humans.

　　 "We discovered that this stone wall is actually two layers." Boob continued. "The outermost layer is very fragile, and ordinary tools can easily destroy them. But the gray stones behind are completely different. All our existing methods can't even leave enough marks on them, let alone destroy them. ."

　　 "This is indeed a relic of an aboriginal." The Professor Edward from Miska University put down his lantern and said. "And the relics are very important relics of sacrificial places."

　　 "For example, here," Professor Edward said as he gestured to his students to raise the lantern in their hands, and then pointed to the traces carved on the gray stone that was exposed after the surface rock was damaged. "The circle of these little people represents a kind of sacrificial activity, and the leaf in the middle of them represents the most common giant wood worship in the northeastern coastal area of ​​the northern continent of the New World."

　　 "Giant wood worship, what is that?" Senior Liszt asked curiously.

"It is a kind of natural spirit worship, worshiping a huge transcendent plant, and using its power to master a certain transcendent power. This is also the earliest path to transcendence that most intelligent creatures grasp." Professor Edward explained "However, in theory, the sacrificial activities of this giant tree worship should be held on the ground. I don't know why there are traces of sacrificial offerings here."

"In that case, let's clean up this wall first. After all, the patterns that are now exposed are only part of it." Baron Gonzalez clapped, "Maybe after all the patterns are cleaned out, we can figure out this. What is going on with the ruins."

　　 Just do it, the workers led by Bubu rushed up and started smashing the stone wall with their tools. Because the gray stone that everyone needs to keep is extremely hard, they just need to smash it hard, and don't worry about the important rock carvings on the gray rock surface being damaged.

　　 After half an hour, all the carved patterns were cleared out, and even a large space was dug out to the left and right to clean up. After the clean-up work is completed, what is presented to everyone is a flat stone wall with a size of more than ten square meters and various patterns.

In the middle of the stone wall is a huge tree with reliefs, and the surrounding circle is decorated with reliefs of various characters and action images. The other parts are like comic strips with much smaller patterns depicting stories one by one.

　　 "Yes, this should be the first picture." Professor Edward said with a lantern shining the picture on the bottom left of the wall. UU reading www.uukanshu.com "This picture should mean that some kind of disaster occurred in the hometown, and some people chose to escape from their hometown and came to this land. Then-yes, here."

　　 As he said, he raised the lantern and stood up a little along the wall. The yellow light illuminates the next picture. "They came to the peninsula where we are now and found a powerful tree. The shamans gained power by offering sacrifices to the tree, and at the same time the entire tribe settled here smoothly under the shelter of the tree."

"The next picture is how this tribe slowly developed and expanded after establishing a foothold here. There are a series of stories about how they sacrificed, how to fight with the evil creatures around, how to hunt, how to fish, how to grow corn, etc. This is very useful for us to study the history of this tribe and this land—"

　　 "Professor, please wait a minute." Baron Gonzalez interrupted the eloquent Professor Edward. "These pictures on the stone wall won't run away. We can study them slowly in the future. Now, can you tell me what happened to this ruin?"

After 　　 was interrupted, Professor Edward seemed a little unhappy, but in the face of the sponsor, he could only stop the previous introduction. "The picture shows that the real remains are behind this wall, but the passage requires extraordinary power to open it."

　　 "Unfortunately, there is no way to open the passage on these patterns. Based on the experience I have obtained from investigating other tribes before, such sacrificial places are often only accessible to tribal shamans, shaman apprentices and tribal chiefs."

　　 "If we can't find the correct opening method, I think our only choice is to find a way to wipe out the remaining magic on this stone wall. Then use violence to force it to open." Finally Professor Edward concluded.