Chapter 1868: Agulin People
"What's going on? Why do you have such an idea?" Looking at the skin of the Abyss Snake in his hand, Leo showed a hesitant look on his face and fell into deep thought.
After Leo's careful perception, he confirmed that this skin of the Abyss Snake was not able to resist the suppression law of the world against extraordinary power by relying on the identity of the Black Forest God, but relying on the pure abyss power contained in this skin.
In other words, if this skin came from the Abyss Snake that became the Black Forest God, then the Abyss Snake had already possessed a powerful power comparable to that of a true god before changing its home. This also made Leo more curious about this Abyss Snake, so he had an idea to use the abyss power contained in this skin to find the whereabouts of the Abyss Snake, the owner of the skin.
However, when he was about to implement it, he stopped and fell into deep thought. This was not because he thought of a better way, nor was it because there was anything wrong with the method he was going to use, but because the method of using the abyss breath contained in this skin to find the Abyss Snake itself had problems.
Not to mention that the abyss power contained in this skin can only resist the suppression of part of the world's laws, allowing his abyss breath to radiate, but the range of its radiation is not very large, not even one meter. In this case, even if he wants to create a resonance effect by integrating his spirit into the abyss breath and sense the location of other similar abyss powers, the final effect will probably be close to nothing. Unless the location of other similar abyss powers is in this temple, otherwise even if he uses the method he thinks of, he may not be able to resonate with other objects containing the same abyss power and then find its location.
Such an idea with obvious flaws and problems should not appear in theory, but such an idea appeared in his mind, and he was very impulsive just now to perform it immediately, which was undoubtedly too abnormal in his opinion, which made him doubt that he was immediately affected by the pure abyss power in the snake skin the moment he touched it.
Thinking of this, Leo wanted to put the snake skin in his hand back on the altar, but when he did so, he suddenly had a reluctant thought in his mind, which made him unwilling to put the snake skin back on the altar. This reluctance was very abrupt, so abrupt that not only the thought and action were contradictory, but even the thoughts themselves were contradictory. One was the thought of putting down the snake skin, and the other was the thought of not wanting to put down the snake skin.
Feeling the contradictory thoughts that came out of thin air in his mind, Leo no longer needed to find other evidence. Things were as he thought. The abyss power in this snake skin was indeed affecting his thoughts. He was even sure that once he had just followed that idea and put his consciousness into the abyss power in this skin to create a resonance reaction, then he would most likely face the erosion from this pure abyss power, and it was also possible that a certain consciousness contained in this abyss power was possessed.
Although no evidence has been found yet, Leo is certain that there is a consciousness hidden in this skin, but he is not sure whether this consciousness is naturally generated by the power of the abyss or by external forces. The only thing that is certain is that this consciousness does not have much wisdom, but is more of an erosion instinct derived from the laws of the abyss.
Because the moment Leo appeared, this consciousness used the power of the abyss to influence his thinking, making him have thoughts that he should not have, but this consciousness did not think about his strength, whether he was suitable as a possessed object, and did not even make any cover-up, so it was exposed to Leo without any cover.
Since it is known that there is a consciousness in this skin, Leo will naturally not let it go, so Leo directly activates the power of the white deer in the ring, imposes a white deer mark on himself, and obtains the power to exert extraordinary power in this world.
Then, he directly called on the power of the crystal snake and the stone throne in his body, while using the power of the stone throne to suppress the abyss power in the snake skin, while driving the power of the crystal snake to assimilate this abyss power, and swallow up the consciousness contained in it.
Everything went as he thought. Although the abyss power in the snake skin was extremely pure, the power itself was too weak, and the snake skin itself was also very fragile. Facing the suppression of the stone throne, the abyss power had no power to fight back and was easily swallowed by the crystal snake. After swallowing this pure abyss power, the pillars of the crystal snake on the stone pillar square changed a little. There was an abyss snake on the top of the pillar, and this abyss snake was a pure abyss snake without any crystal state on its body. It was entangled with the crystal snake on the top of the pillar, forming a strange shape similar to a two-headed snake.
However, at this moment, Leo did not have the extra mind to pay attention to the changes in the stone pillar square. At this moment, he put most of his energy on resisting the polluted mumbling produced by the consciousness in the snake skin, and sorting out the fragmented information that was stuffed into his brain along with the consciousness.
After about a few hours, the follow-up reactions caused by the devouring power of the abyss gradually subsided, and all abnormal fluctuations were completely eliminated by Leo. Even the fragmented information that poured in along with the consciousness was collected into the database. At this moment, he also had a little understanding of the situation of the Mum tribe, or the Yagulin tribe.
The Yagulin tribe is the mother tribe of the Mum tribe. In fact, when Leo captured the Yagulin tribe in those fragmentary information, he was a little surprised, because he knew this ancient tribe a long time ago. This tribe, like many tribes in the Black Forest, has also left traces in the history of the Veron continent. It can be counted that the nobles of the Fran Empire have more or less some blood of the Yagulin tribe.
The Yagulin tribe is not the oldest tribe in the Black Forest, and this tribe is not good at force. They are more likely to get support from other powerful tribes through marriage, so as to survive in the Black Forest. According to the archaeological research of scholars in the Fran Empire, the Yagulin tribe once married with more than 70 Black Forest tribes, including the tribe of the Knight King, the founder of the First Dynasty of Fran, and most of the other Black Forest tribes are the origin of the Fran nobles.
However, the archaeological research of the Fran Empire on the Yagulin tribe is limited to this. It is not even clear what the Yagulin tribe believes in, what customs it has, etc., because the Yagulin tribe disappeared from the Veron continent almost overnight, and with the disappearance of the Yagulin tribe, all traces related to the Yagulin tribe were also erased, as if deliberately erasing its past. According to the records left by other ancient Black Forest tribes, it is said that the Yagulin tribe angered the Black Forest and was expelled by the Black Forest.
In the fragmentary information obtained by Leo, there is no reason why the Yagulin tribe left the Black Forest. There is only some information about the Yagulin tribe splitting up after coming to this world. As for the reason for the split, there is no record. It only records that the Yagulin tribe was divided into three parts. One part is the Mum tribe, another part is such an underground town, and the third part is the underground world. There are a total of four underground towns like this. This one is the latest one, which was built less than fifty years ago.
These pieces of information are relatively complete among the fragments of information Leo obtained from that consciousness. Other information is more fragmented. Even Leo cannot fully analyze what the content of the information is. Moreover, some false information constructed by that consciousness is mixed in these fragments of information. It may take some time to thoroughly analyze the useful parts. Fortunately, what Leo lacks the least now is time.
Because the white deer divine power in the ring was used to create a white deer mark, the remaining white deer divine power in the ring is not enough to form another mark, so Leo decided to temporarily repair here, sorting out the fragments of information in the database while waiting for the white deer divine power in the ring to recover.
However, while doing these things, he also repeatedly used various methods to clean up the remaining side effects caused by swallowing that consciousness.
The consciousness in the snake skin is not the consciousness clone of the abyss snake, but the abyss power of the snake skin itself, which is influenced by the people in this town after years of worship. Those who have touched this snake skin will leave a mark on their bodies. If the person with the mark on his body dies not far from the snake skin, that is, within the temple, then the remaining consciousness of that person will be assimilated by the consciousness in the snake skin. This is why so many fragments of information will flow into Leo's brain after swallowing the consciousness in the snake skin. Those fragments of information all come from the assimilated remaining consciousness.
In the following days, Leo stayed in this underground town. In addition to sorting out the fragments of information, he would walk around the town to find various useful clues and information that might be found.
For example, he found out how the residents of this underground town survive in this underground world. A fern should be their main food. Although this plant is slightly toxic, this toxicity should not have much impact on the Yagulin people whose bodies have mutated.
In addition, there are some bugs living underground. Leo saw some dried bugs in the food storage cabinets in each house. These bugs are not only a source of meat, but also can replace salt after special treatment.
In various cases, they don't need to go up to the ground to hunt. They don't have to worry about food shortages just by relying on the underground output.
However, there is no sign of population explosion in the underground town with sufficient food. Judging from the number of houses, the population of this underground town does not exceed 2,000 at most, and it is not known whether it is because of radiation, the life expectancy of people in the town is not very long.
Leo saw neatly arranged caves on the stone wall on the edge of the town. These caves were artificially dug, and the bones left by the town residents after death were stored in the caves.
Judging from the traces left on the bones, the residents of the town would put the dead people among swarms of carrion-eating insects, allowing the insects to eat all the flesh, internal organs and other perishable things on the dead body, leaving only the bones. These bones would then be stored in sealed stone boxes and placed neatly in the caves. It is estimated that basically every family has retained a cave, and from the number of caves, it can also be judged that the number of Yagulin people in this underground town is gradually decreasing.
From the various information that can be analyzed from the bones, it can be judged that most people here can only live to more than 40 years old, and only a few can live to 50 or 60 years old. As for those over 70 years old, there are only a few, all of whom are in the innermost layer of the stone boxes preserved in the cave. It can be seen that the life span of the Yagulin people living here is also gradually decreasing, which means that the radiation here has indeed caused serious damage to their bodies. I just don’t know whether the Yagulin people here know this.
In addition, Leo also found passages leading to other underground towns. Although the Yagulin people in the town did some cover-ups when they left, through some footsteps left by these people, Leo still easily found a small passage above the stone wall.
This small passage is the same size as other caves where the remains of residents are stored. It is mixed in these caves, and it is difficult to see any clues from the appearance. If Leo hadn’t seen some footsteps and traces of hanging stairs, it would probably be difficult to find this passage for a while.
When those people left, they took back the hanging ladder and used some stone boxes to disguise it as a burial cave, blocking the real passage behind.
After discovering this small passage, Leo went in for a distance and saw the murals carved by the previous people on the walls on both sides of the passage. In these murals, he saw that the unknown beasts that killed the Mumu people were the Yagulin people.
Perhaps because he had already guessed it in his heart, Leo was not too surprised. He saw on the mural how a Yagulin person mutated from a human into a monster with claws, a twisted head, missing skin, and flowing muscles. They seemed to worship this monster very much. There were a lot of images of worship and sacrifice on it, and this monster was always placed together with the statue of the Abyss Serpent.
Obviously, the Yagulin people had a great mutation in their bodies because of the blood from the Abyss Serpent in their bodies, the radiation here, and the influence of the Abyss power on the snake skin. They seemed to regard this mutation as a gift from the Abyss Serpent, and even sacrificed the lives of their own people to the mutants.
However, after discovering so many useful clues and information about this underground town and the Yagulin people, there was a thing that should exist, but Leo did not find any trace of its existence. This thing is gold.
Apart from the statue of the Abyss Serpent in the temple, there is no trace of gold in the entire town, let alone gold mines. There are not even any tools for mining or refining gold, as if the gold here appeared out of thin air.