The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

A rapid gasp sounded in the silent Black Forest, followed by a black shadow with a lantern hanging through a tree hole formed by an arched tree root, stepping on a large rock opposite, agile Overturned a shrub and landed on the soft ground opposite.

"Ok!"

　　 A murmur of deliberate depression sounded, and the black shadow on the ground half kneeled on the ground, covering his right foot. Next to the right foot was a stone covered by rot and rotten leaves.

　　 It seems that when the shadow fell just now, he stepped on this hidden stone, and his ankle should be injured.

However, even if the foot was injured, the shadow still tolerated the pain and limped forward. Until the wound was so painful that he could not bear it, he found a relatively empty place. He took out a spare bottle of kerosene, sprinkled it around himself, and then ignited, forming a circle of fire, encircling him.

Under the light of the fire, the black figure revealed his appearance. I saw that he was a young man in his twenties. His body was very strong, and his clothes were a little old. He should look like a person who often worked hard, holding in his hand. The short sword and the one-handed crossbow are a novice in terms of posture.

The only striking thing about him was a scar on the corner of his right eye to his lips, which looked like he was injured by a sharp weapon, which made him look a bit fierce and daunting, except that his face was no longer visible at the moment. These temperaments are left, only endless fear and despair.

If someone from Shiban Town outside the Black Forest would see this young man at this time, he would definitely know him because he is the most famous gangster in Shiban Town and the most restless guy in the town. His name is Arbon and he is a free man. people.

　　 said that Arbon was the most restless because he was unwilling to work in the joint quarry in the town, and always wanted to leave the town to go to a big city like Leon, Lanzi and even Milia. If it was just his personal thoughts, he would like to encourage the young people in the town to fantasize with him and make the town sullen.

　　However, for Arbon, his dream did not cause any hindrance to others at all. The conservative old guys in the town were all lifeless walking dead.

　　Alban wanted to leave the flagstone town, but he also knew that living in those big cities needed a lot of money. For this reason, he used various means in the past to accumulate reserves of twenty gold and thirty dollars.

　　 Such a large sum of money may be considered a huge sum of money in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is obviously not enough to live in a big city for a long time.

He inquired that in the large city pool like Leon, the monthly rent of an ordinary dormitory apartment would need 70 Biya. If it is included in the consumption of food and drink, about 90 Biya per month. The money can make him live in a big city for two and a half years at most.

　　 Therefore, he always hopes that he can get a large sum of money in a short time, and he has enough money to spend in large cities, so that he can leave this remote ghost place.

　　It wasn't until two days ago that something sensational happened in Stone Town, and Arbon felt his opportunity came.

　　 A nicknamed the honest Bill guy was lucky to pick up a dungeon of a gold beast by the Black Forest.

The gold-eating beast is a unique beast of the Black Forest. This beast likes to eat metal, but it can only digest a few metals such as iron and copper. The remaining metal will dissolve in its body and mix into a kind of The alloy material is excreted together with the feces.

　　These alloys are of high value and low value for those who study metals, but it is undeniable that the composition of each alloy is unique.

　　The Royal Academy of Sciences of the French Empire attached great importance to this alloy, so it announced a high price acquisition.

　　Things are rare, and some other imperial nobles and big merchants also think that owning a unique alloy is a face-saving thing, so it is also bought at a high price.

The alloy contained in the feces of the gold-eating beast that Bill picked up was a very rare alloy body of gold and silver plus gemstones. The value of the alloy was much higher than that of the ordinary alloy. The merchant bought the alloy with a huge sum of 70,000 gold flanges.

　　Albon was jealous of honest Bill’s good luck, and hoped that he could also pick up a dungeon of a gold-eating beast, so he went to the town’s library to check the information about the gold-eating beast.

　　 An unexpected discovery made him ignore the danger of Wuyue Black Forest and decided to venture into the Black Forest.

　　 This discovery is that the excrement of excrement will not be completed at once. It will excrete the same amount of excrement in turn in other places not far away. Therefore, according to the habits of this gold-eating beast, there must be other gold-eating animal dung just outside the place where honest Bill picked up the gold-eating animal dung.

Under the temptation of huge amounts of money, Arbon also forgot how dangerous it is to go down to the Black Forest in the foggy period. Even because he was worried that someone else would know about this matter, he would first enter the forest to find the feces of the gold-eating beast, so he did not prepare carefully. All kinds of necessities, just took a few weapons, brought some water and food, and carried the glass lantern in his house into the Black Forest.

Speaking of it, he had good luck at the beginning, did not encounter any danger, and also found a dung of the gold-eating beast, and also found traces of the gold-eating beast's movement. Looking along the traces, he found another gold-eating beast. stool.

If he can bring back these two pieces of gold-eating animal dung from the Black Forest, let alone settle in a big city like Leon, even if he buys a villa and leads a noble life, it is not impossible. .

Unfortunately, when he picked up the feces of the second golden beast, Arbon found his luck seemed to be over. He was bitten by a small bug hidden under the feces, and then accidentally slipped into the river when he walked. The river floated for a while. After landing, he lost his way. When he found his way back, he even encountered the scariest predator Scarlet Leopard in the Black Forest, forcing him to keep running in the forest until now.

　　Although now protected by the ring of fire, Arbon felt no hope of surviving under the claws of the Scarlet Leopard.

Not to mention that the red leopard waiting outside the ring of fire just waited for the flame to extinguish to kill him, even if there was no threat of death from the red leopard, he was completely lost in the Black Forest and he had no possibility of going out. Sex, not to mention that it is still the most dangerous foggy period.

I don’t know what kind of emotions. Albon opened the package around his waist and looked at the two pieces of gold beast feces worth hundreds of thousands of gold flanges. The expression on his face was unpredictable. Eventually he pressed the package tightly. Go up, take it off from your body, throw the one-handed crossbow aside, and pull out another short knife from your waist.

"Come! Come! You animal, don't you want my life? Then come!" Arbon stood up from the ground and rushed to the fire circle, glaring at the darkness outside the fire circle, Crazy waving his short knife in his hand, he provoked loudly towards the invisible deadly hunter outside the ring of fire.

　　 However, there was no movement in the darkness in front of him.

　　Albon seemed not ready to give up, changed his position and continued to provoke. He felt that he could only do this, because instead of dying in despair, it would be better to forget all dangers and fight hard, at least he died like a warrior, maybe he would enter the spirit after death like the Beirut legend temple.

　　As Arbon continued this death-seeking practice, a black shadow lurked silently outside the ring of fire. The purple-black eyes stared deadly at the figure of Albon in the ring of fire, as if waiting for an opportunity.

When Arbon was completely turned away from the shadow, the shadow quickly rushed out, flying like a black wind over the ring of fire, and rushed behind Arbon in the blink of an eye, and opened his mouth, With blade-like fangs exposed, he bit towards the neck of the prey.

Perhaps it was the threat of death that instantly raised Albon’s feelings. At the moment when the shadow pounced, he turned around and happened to see a large fang filled with teeth falling towards his neck, and by this time he had already Can't avoid it.

It’s over. It’s the only thought of Arbon at this moment. Time seems to be slower at this moment, and the speed of the red leopard is also very slow, so slow that he feels that he can easily dodge, but he also finds that his body cannot move. And, in front of him, some memories of the past appeared, many of which were scenes that he felt he had forgotten.

In the end, these scenes were fixed on a beautiful figure, and he couldn't help but have a remorse, regretting his longing for a big city, regretting entering the Black Forest for money, and regretting what he had done to the person who loved him in the past Wrong thing.

　　 At this moment, he couldn't help but swear to the God that if he could survive, he must stay at work in Shiban Town, and must treat his lovers well.

Perhaps Arbon’s prayer had an effect. When the red leopard’s fangs touched his neck, an invisible force knocked the red leopard out of the air, falling down outside the ring of fire, and his body twitched. After a while, there was no movement on the ground.

　　After undergoing great changes in life and death, all the strength in Albon's body seemed to be evacuated, and the soft body could no longer support him to continue to stand, making him sit on the ground.

Arbon didn’t understand what happened just now, he just knew that the terrorist hunter who was killing himself was dead and he was already safe. The ups and downs of his emotions made him cry out of control, like a lunatic. of. Even if he is still in the dangerous Black Forest, even if he doesn’t know if he can go out, he still has to cheer for his escape.

It didn’t take long for Arbon to vent his emotions, and suddenly a few flares of fire suddenly appeared in the jungle on his left, followed by a bush that was half a person tall, and several of them were wearing hunting suits, each carrying huge packages. The hunter came out and stepped into the ring of fire.

　　 One of the tallest and strongest people looked at the crying Albon and asked the man with glasses next to him: "Doctor, is this kid crazy?"

　　The man in glasses crouched down and looked at Albon, and said: "It should not be crazy, just experienced the ups and downs of life and death, it is inevitable that the emotions will be a little out of control, just vent it."

"It's such a poor fellow." The strong man mumbled, and then quickly walked to the other side of the ring of fire, lifted the red leopard, walked back to the fire, looked at the red leopard's head, toward The man with the same stature but a more symmetrical shape said: "You won, you really hit the right eye, but this guy's head is so hard that no special bullet can penetrate its head."

The man wearing glasses took the prey from the strong man and looked at it and said, "The Red Leopard is the strongest hunter in the Black Forest. Almost half of the hunters who entered the Black Forest died in the Red Leopard’s mouth. Next, in ancient times, the head of the red leopard can be used to make very hard bone armor. Although the special bullets are harmful, they may not be able to penetrate this skull."

　　 At this moment, the loudly vented Arbon stopped suddenly, as if he had vented, and his energy seemed to be exhausted, so he sat on the ground blankly.

"Boy, can you go?" The strong man approached the quiet Arbon and kicked him in the leg, saying, "You should be a resident of the nearby Black Forest village? We are about to leave the Black Forest, Don’t you mind leading a way?”

　　However, Albon did not respond to the strong man's request, as if he ignored him.

The strong man frowned, and was about to squat down and lift Arbon from the ground to give him a good lesson to let him know how to treat the life-saving benefactor, but he was stopped by the person with glasses Too.

Then he saw that the man wearing glasses squatted down, pulled his hand out of the glove, touched the pulse of Arbon, and said, "He is dead." He then looked at the bare parts of the body and saw When he blackened his right hand, he said: "It should have been bitten by a poisonous insect. This poisonous insect should not be deadly immediately. It can be rescued with herbs, but he has to escape from the red leopard's pursuit, and keeps running, accelerating the blood. The circulation of venom makes the venom penetrate into every part of the body. The abnormal behavior just now may also be the effect of venom."

When he finished, he closed the open eyes of the corpse, supported him and lay down, recited a prayer, then stood up and said regretfully: “It’s a poor fellow, even if we meet him earlier, I’m afraid I will save him. It's not his life."

"Hey! There is a parcel here, it should be this kid." At this time, the strong man seemed to find something, picked up the package of Arbon, opened it, and said, "It seems to be two pieces of gold ore. ."

　　The man wearing glasses came forward to look at it, and said with some surprise: "It's not gold ore, but the dung of gold beasts."

　　 "What? Feces!" The strong man dropped the package on the ground with a disgusted face. Although wearing gloves, he still habitually wiped his hands on his companion.

On the contrary, the person wearing glasses picked up the package from the ground without any care, took out one of the gold-eating animal dung, put it in front of his eyes, carefully looked at it, and then turned to the bearded man who was holding a knife to plan the red leopard, Said: "Since Jason doesn't want this thing, it's better for you and me to share it!"

　　 "Is this a valuable thing?" Hu Xuhan asked carefully, as each organ of the red leopard was looking for something, without looking up.

　　Hu Xuhan's inquiry also attracted the strong man's attention. His eyes could not help but stare at the two pieces of golden beast dung that made him feel sick.

"It's really expensive." The person wearing glasses quickly gave an accurate answer, saying: "The golden beast is a very rare beast in the Black Forest, and also a few beasts that are not aggressive. They are extremely good at Hiding, no matter how good the hunter can catch it, there was once a duke who was willing to exchange a territory for a live gold-eating beast without success."

　　The strong man couldn't help but interjected: "Wow! It has such a high value. Is the gold beast's worth so high, and its feces are worth it?"

"The price of gold-eating beasts has nothing to do with the gold-eating beasts themselves. The reason why the gold-eating beasts are valuable is because the manure itself is a unique alloy metal." The person wearing glasses glanced at his companion and continued to explain: "Because the gold-eating animal's whereabouts are uncertain, its feces are also difficult to find, and it is almost difficult to see a piece of the market in a year. The general market of gold-eating animal feces is between about two thousand and eight thousand gold shields..."

　　 "There are so many eight thousand gold shields?" the strong man exclaimed.

　　 "But some special gold-eating animal dung can be fired to tens of thousands..."

　　 The strong man opened his mouth, and he didn't know what to say.

The spectacled person continued: "And the stool in our hands is a very rare gold, silver and gem alloy~www.wuxiahere.com~ A similar piece of gold-eating manure was recently in Reed, Port Sait 13 years ago. The price sold by the auction house at that time was 79,000 gold shields. And our piece, no matter its volume, or the proportion of gold, silver and precious stones, far exceeded that piece, so according to the growth rate of market prices, it must be at least a dozen Wan Jindun can buy a piece of such gold-eating animal dung."

"Wow~Oh~!" The strong man heard hundreds of thousands of numbers, his mouth was slammed, and a shocked look appeared on his face. It took a long time before he spit out a linguistic auxiliary word and lengthened his voice. A lot, as if he could not express his exclamation without doing so.

　　The man with glasses took the golden animal dung in his hands and teased him in front of the strong man's eyes, and said, "How is it? Do you want to get a piece back?"

　　However, the strong man just shook his head, did not ask for a slice of the soup, just turned his head to look at the body lying on the ground, sighed, and regretted: "It's a poor guy!"

　　 "Yeah! What a poor fellow." The person wearing glasses also smiled, looked at the body, and nodded in agreement.

The strong man's emotions passed quickly. He suddenly seemed to think of something. He said to the bearded man who had completely shed the red leopard next to him: "Leo, have you been kissed by the goddess of luck, since you entered After arriving in the Black Forest, your luck was so good. You kicked a stone to help Nelson find the purple crown flower. Just push a block of the root of the road, you found a rare herb, and now you hit a prey. You got two pieces of worthless dung, your luck is really good!"

　　The bragging of the strong man did not make his companion show a happy look, but instead he frowned and thought, "I also want to know how this luck came from?"