Chapter 1865 Colonial Plague

"Not in this world?" Leo tried various methods to find Sylvia's location, but the results were all the same. Sylvia was not in this world.

In fact, when he first tried to find Sylvia through the shaman ritual, he already had the answer, because even in this world where supernatural power was suppressed, the natural resonance generated by the shaman ritual was still very strong. Such a strong natural resonance was enough for the information he might want. The other powers he tried repeatedly afterwards were to verify the correctness of the results obtained by the shaman ritual through other aspects. For this, he consumed two white deer marks, and only one white deer mark was left in case of an emergency.

However, he was not worried, because according to his estimate, the white deer power in the wedding ring would be restored after a while, but the actual recovery time might be longer than his initial estimate.

Since the conversation with Leo that day, Joe has never come to Leo again. This may be because he also realized that something was wrong with him. In front of Leo, he answered every question like an honest child, and the answer was very detailed, which was obviously extremely abnormal.

In addition, the mysterious method that Leo used to pull out the bugs for him made him speculate a lot about Leo's identity, so in his mind, the danger level of Leo was also pushed to the extreme. In order to avoid any accidents, he decided not to meet Leo in a short time. In order to avoid Leo, he even changed his plan and hastily formed a team through the Nature Association and entered the jungle.

Judging from the materials prepared by this team, Joe should stay in the jungle as his triple agent for a long time in the future.

After discovering that Sylvia was not in this world, Leo was much less interested in exploring this world. He just waited to find the entrance to the underground world, enter the underground world, find the abyss snake that became the god of the Black Forest, and see what useful information he could get from the abyss snake. After that, he planned to return directly from the underground world to the Velen world, and then cast a spell in the Velen world where power was not restricted to find Sylvia's whereabouts.

It was precisely because of the change in mentality that Leo did not participate in the next pioneering group action. Because of Bernardo's permission, he could also push away some tasks that the consultants had to perform and stay in the camp to read books.

Although Leo finished reading Bernardo's books very quickly, as the Natural Association continued to dispatch some scholars to the pioneer group, these scholars also carried a large number of books with them. For this reason, the Natural Association specially built a library to help these scholars store books, and Bernardo's books were later stored in that house for safekeeping. Leo had the privilege of not having to go out to perform tasks and staying in the camp for a long time, so he was smoothly appointed as the manager of the library.

Leo would naturally not refuse this position that suited his heart, and he also took this opportunity to read books from various kingdoms in the Novat continent, and these books were all the most valuable books without exception.

The Natural Association has branches in various countries in the Novat continent, and their members are all from different kingdoms. This time, most of the scholars and consultants they summoned to the Bernardo pioneer group were not from the Ruth Kingdom, which made the books these scholars and consultants carried with them all books from different kingdoms, which gave Leo a lot of convenience and saved him time and energy to find books.

Among the books stored in the library, the largest number are some books on biology and geography. Obviously, these scholars initially forced the geography and biological environment of the Novat continent to the New World, but they soon found that this forced method was useless, so these books were put aside. Judging from the age of the books, most of these books have not been completely read by their owners.

However, these books are a bargain for Leo, because through these books that record the geography and biology of the Novat continent, he has learned about the various situations of the Novat continent. In terms of theoretical knowledge alone, he can already match any scholar engaged in such research.

In addition to these geography and biology books, the vast majority of other books are folklore books.

Just like those geography and biology books, these folklore books from different kingdoms were also used as reference materials for studying the culture of indigenous tribes. Although most of these books were useless, there were still some kingdoms whose folklore had something in common with the culture of some indigenous tribes in the New World. The scholars who found these similarities not only marked their findings, but also seemed to be planning to conduct special research. However, the research contents were not written in the books, but they had their own research notes. As for those notes, they would not be put in the library, but they would only keep them close to their bodies.

Leo also read those folklore books, but he was not interested in the folklore contents of the Novat continent that were marked and similar to the indigenous tribes in the New World. He was only interested in all the contents in folklore that were suspected to involve gods.

He found that although this world did not have the concept of gods, it recorded a lot of contents related to extraordinary powers, and these extraordinary powers were more or less likely to involve gods.

For example, a book of folklore records a desert kingdom called Takli on the Novat continent. In this kingdom, there is a nomadic tribe that mainly sells salt. This tribe walks in the desert all year round, but They never get lost, and according to themselves, the reason why they don't get lost is that there is a family of guides passed down from generation to generation among them. The guides selected by this family can enter a state of near coma by drinking high-concentration salt water. In this state, they can see a road paved with light. As long as they follow this road, they will not get lost in the desert.

If it were just like this, it would not be related to the gods. What is really related to the gods is the inheritance ceremony of the guide. The guide family will regularly perform certain rituals for members of the appropriate age of the family. Only those who have the talent of guide Only people can gain the ability to see the correct path in the desert during the ceremony, and the contents of the ceremony are recorded in detail in the book, and Leo can easily see from these contents that the ceremony is actually a divine descending ceremony. , the only thing unclear is which god the ritual is aimed at.

However, what is certain is that the gods targeted must be gods from the Black Forest system. Otherwise, it would be impossible to give the ability to find the right path in the desert to some talented people from the Guiding Family. This also made Leo think about it. Mum and Paho.

Although Leo currently has very little evidence, with his current discoveries, he has absolutely reason to believe that there may not only be three gods belonging to the Black Forest system in this world, but there are many more, and even this world must still be hidden. There are many extraordinary people who have been blessed by the gods, even if the extraordinary power they possess is not worth mentioning.

There are absolute restrictions on other gods and other types of extraordinary powers, but they are open to the gods of the Black Forest system. This clearly targeted world law makes Leo wonder whether this special world will be of the Black Forest system. A back garden built especially for themselves by the gods.

While Leo was searching for traces of the existence of gods in this world, the erosion of the jungles of the New World by outside pioneering groups was also proceeding in an orderly manner. The pioneering action of Bernardo's pioneering group was like the starting gun signal of some kind of competition. Other kingdoms Regardless of whether they were ready or not, the colonial pioneer team pushed out the temporarily formed pioneer team and entered the jungle to mark the land and delineate the scope of their kingdom colony.

A few years ago, more than a dozen coastal kingdoms fought over colonies. Although that war did not affect the Novat continent, it severely affected the colonial development of the New World. As the war subsided, all the coastal kingdoms An agreement was signed on the planning of the colony. This agreement clearly stated the ownership of the undeveloped new colonies. Apart from the complicated and dizzying terms of the agreement, the only core of the entire agreement was first-come-first-served.

Therefore, when Bernardo's pioneering team set off, the various kingdoms and colonies that received the news were so anxious to form a pioneering team, and they were not fully formed, especially when the logistics materials were not prepared. Pushed out and forcibly carved out a so-called colonial settlement in the area they wanted. Most of these pioneer groups that were forcibly withdrawn did not have good results. They were either attacked by jungle creatures or were acclimatized. As a result, they fell ill. No matter which kind they were, they did not have enough medical supplies for treatment. They could only rely on their bodies to carry them. If they could not carry them, they would die. Therefore, from the time when the pioneering teams from various countries were forcibly pushed out, in just half a month, the first Almost all the people in the pioneering group were dead.

However, for the governors of various kingdoms and colonies, the death of these people is nothing, because they have achieved the purpose of demarcating the colonies, and in this half month, they have reorganized a well-equipped and logistically sufficient army. A new development team, and this development team is their main force.

However, what these colonial governors did not know was that too many people in the pioneering groups they sent before died due to accidents and illness. There were very few survivors, and the bodies of the deceased were not properly disposed of. Many of them were They were buried nearby, and some were even thrown directly into the nearby jungle, allowing nature to deal with the corpses. The Paho people seemed to have seized this opportunity and tampered with these corpses, making them the source of the plague. A campaign against The colonial plague is spreading silently in various colonies.

The Nature Association was also aware of this matter, but they did not discover it based on their own abilities, but discovered it after Leo reminded it.

At that time, the director of the Nature Association in the camp of the Bernardo Pioneer Group came to the library to see if there were books on herbal medicine, because some people in the camp were already sick, but now all the scholars and doctors who know herbal medicine They have all been transferred to the front-line pioneering group. Now there is no doctor in the camp who knows how to treat various diseases, so they want to turn to books for help.

Leo didn't pay attention to this matter at the time. He just noticed something was wrong from the content of their conversation when the supervisor was talking to a sick colleague. Then he briefly checked the condition of the Nature Association member and determined that The member of the Nature Association must have suffered from a highly contagious form of dysentery, so he reminded the director of the Nature Association in a subtle way.

Although Leo didn't care whether the pioneers lived or died, he didn't want to affect the exploration of the entrance to the underground world because of some epidemic diseases.

The director of the Natural Association didn't care about Leo's words at first, because Leo's reminder was not explicit, but only mentioned it implicitly. However, as the number of sick people in the pioneer camp increased, the director of the Natural Association immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. So while reporting the situation to the higher level of the Natural Association, he also started self-rescue in the pioneer camp.

Although there were conflicts between the Natural Association and Matouwan, when facing a disaster like the plague, their hatred and conflicts were nothing. Perhaps because of the trust in scholars, Matouwan tried its best to cooperate with the arrangements of the Natural Association, and even handed over the command of some soldiers to the Natural Association. It must be said that the plague problem made the pioneer camp, which often had conflicts, become much more peaceful.

Because the Bernardo pioneer group was not like the pioneer groups of other kingdoms who pushed people into the depths of the jungle without any preparation, there were not many casualties during the development process, and the bodies of each dead pioneer group member were properly handled, leaving no opportunity for the Paho people to take advantage of. The dysentery that was now spreading in the pioneer group camp was completely transmitted by the people transferred from other colonies by the Natural Association.

Therefore, when the Natural Association isolated the sick people and stopped transferring people from other colonies, the plague here soon subsided.

However, the plague was only temporarily quelled. When the plague was rampant in other colonies, the Bernardo pioneer group camp and even Matou Bay could not be immune, because they had a lot of supplies that needed to be transported from other colonies, and the various contacts during the transportation process caused the plague in those colonies to continue to spread here. Although the Natural Association has tried its best to control it, those who should be sick are still sick, and those who should die are still dead. The smoke from the burning of corpses is always floating in the air, and everyone who breathes it feels inexplicably nauseous, and the morale in the camp has fallen to the bottom.

However, when the carriages filled with gold burial objects were sent back to the camp from the front pioneer group, the morale that had fallen due to the deaths was restored by the stimulation of money.