Chapter 1875 New Rand

The first ray of sunlight in the morning came from afar, shining through the snow wall around the camp and shining on a small flagpole in the center of the camp. A soldier standing under the flagpole took off the horn on his waist and blew it. The people in the tent came out one after another and gathered in the camp as if they had received a signal.

Some people in religious clothes walked back and forth among the crowd with lit lanterns in their hands, swaying and reciting scriptures, while others bowed their heads, covered their faces with their hands, and recited scriptures devoutly with others.

Although the cold wind in the morning was biting, no one in the camp made a move that was inconsistent with the current situation. No matter what these people really thought in their hearts, they were at least very pious on the surface.

The ceremony ended in about half an hour. After the ceremony, the people quickly took the cups and gathered at the place where water was boiled. They poured themselves a cup of boiling water and covered the cups with their hands to make themselves a little warmer. Some people thought the water was too hot, so they simply grabbed a handful of snow from the ground, put it in the cup, and then drank the hot water that was already at a moderate temperature.

The soldiers stationed in the camp did not rest, but walked out of the camp and walked to the ferocious beasts they killed yesterday. The cold weather made the bodies frozen hard and difficult to deal with on the spot. They could only carry the bodies of the beasts back to the camp and put them on the big sled used to transport supplies. It seemed that they should be transported back to the city for processing.

The scavengers in the camp showed envy one by one, and their eyes stayed on the bodies of the beasts. Although they could eat in the camp, there was very little meat, unless they hunted the prey themselves. Many people had not eaten meat for several years.

However, they envied it, but they did not dare to rashly enter the snowfield to hunt, because in the snowfield, the beasts were the masters, and they were just outsiders. Even if they, the outsiders, had weapons in their hands, it didn’t make much difference whether they had weapons or not in the face of the dangers hidden in the snowfield.

Soon, the soldiers in the camp had loaded all the items onto the cargo sleds, and put a long-haired rhino on the sleds, and then neatly arranged them at the exit on one side of the camp. A team of 30 soldiers, fully armed, rode horses and waited beside the team.

Some scavengers in the camp who were planning to leave the camp also packed their items. Some people with connections or who were willing to pay got on the cargo sleds, and the rest gathered behind the team.

Not long after, as the camp gate opened, the team began to slowly drive out of the camp, perhaps to take care of the scavengers following behind, or perhaps the long-haired rhinoceros itself could not walk fast in the snow, the team moved a little slowly, and the scavengers following behind could barely keep up.

Leo did not follow alone on the periphery, but mixed into the team just after the team left the camp, and used psychic skills to make people around him feel that they had seen Leo before, and would not be surprised by the sudden appearance of a neatly dressed person around them.

Although everything ahead was flat snow, the team did not move straight in one direction when walking. Instead, after reaching some set landmarks, they began to turn and took a long detour. No one in the team expressed dissatisfaction, and it was obvious that they knew what the detour was like. .

In this way, the whole team walked in the endless snow for about three or four hours. Although the scavengers following the team were very tired, they did not complain about anything. They lowered their heads and gritted their teeth to follow the team.

At this time, the snowfield in front was no longer flat snow. A line of pine green shadow appeared on the ground line. The leader in front also picked up the horn hanging on his waist and blew it hard, as if conveying information to someone. The scavengers who heard the horn all smiled and their tired expressions were reduced a lot.

The team continued to walk for a while, and the pine green shadow in front became more and more obvious. It was a forest with tall pine trees. Although it was in this icy and snowy land, the pine needles and leaves of the forest were still green, just like the pine trees in spring.

As the team approached the forest, they saw a group of people rushing out of the forest and rushing towards the team. Facing this group of people coming out of the forest, the soldiers in the team carefully took out their weapons and moved the horses to the sleds loaded with various goods, so that they could find a cover that could be used in time when a battle occurred.

At the same time, the soldiers at the end of the team also said a few words loudly to the scavenger team, and the people in the scavenger team also took out their weapons and were carefully on guard.

When the people rushing out of the forest approached, the people in the team saw the flags raised in the hands of those people and breathed a sigh of relief, but they did not relax. Then the team came to a place more than ten meters in front of the team and stopped. A rider in full armor rode out and came to the team leader, then took off the mask on the helmet, revealing the appearance behind.

Seeing the person coming clearly, the team leader smiled, put away his weapons, drove his horse to the person, greeted him cordially, and waved to the person behind him. Seeing this, the people in the team also relaxed and put away their weapons.

The two talked for a while and then separated. Then the team that came out of the forest led the convoy into the forest.

Ordinary people felt much more relaxed after entering the forest, and some tired people also felt much more energetic. Although this was not the first time they had this feeling, they still felt it was extremely magical, and they bowed their heads and recited prayers to praise the gods.

Leo felt something strange after entering the forest, because he felt a natural force in the forest, but this natural force was not pure, and seemed to be mixed with other forces. However, it was this impurity that allowed ordinary people to absorb this natural force and obtain some beneficial effects from it.

In addition, this forest is like the city center with giant vines, there are no animals or insects, only simple plants growing here.

Leo scanned through the mental network and determined that these plants were different from vines and were not carnivorous plants, because these plants were not even plants, but totem poles that looked like plants. There were no roots at the roots of these plants. All the plants were totem poles inserted into the ground. As for the branches and leaves growing on the ground, they were camouflage created by the power of the totem poles. Once these branches and leaves were cut off, the complete totem poles could be seen.

The natural force that I felt before was created by these totem poles. The power generated by these totem poles was very weak individually, but when the number increased, a totem pole force field was formed, and the coverage of this force field was the entire forest.

In addition, Leo was also surprised to find that these totem poles made him feel very familiar. Although he saw the runes on the totem poles for the first time, the totem array that composed the runes was the totem pole array created by Leo in Vanaheim. The biggest function of this totem pole array was to cooperate with Sylvia to refine the power of the laws of chaos, war and other priesthoods.

At present, this totem pole system designed specifically for Sylvia appeared here in another way, which made Leo more certain that Sylvia was in this world.

The team walked in the forest for more than an hour, passing through three checkpoint-style military camps in the middle. Each military camp conducted an identity check. After the inspection was completed in the third military camp, most of them would be handed a piece of paper similar to an identity document. Only those who wore lantern badges did not need such documents.

Passing through these three military camps also let Leo discover some unusual places. For example, the badges and flags on the soldiers in the convoy were all lantern patterns, while the flags and badges in the military camp were swords and shields. As for the badges worn on the chests of the civilian staff responsible for registration in the military camp, they were books. Obviously, these belonged to three different systems, but they belonged to the same church because they all used the same set of prayers.

This question was soon answered as the convoy passed through the forest and came to New Rand, which was surrounded by the totem pole forest.

The area of ​​the new Land City is very large, larger than the previous Land City. Just like the Land City is divided into the city center and the suburbs, the new Land City is also divided into two parts. The outer part close to the forest is the suburbs, and the inner part surrounding the central volcano is the city center. The two areas are separated by a ten-foot-high wall.

The entire New Land City is built with the volcano as the center. The volcano is part of the city. The surface of the volcanic slope in the distance has been covered by stone houses. The neat streets crisscross and divide the houses into urban areas. On the top of the volcano is a temple. The temple is circular and should be built around the edge of the crater. At the crater stands a giant statue that is 100 meters tall.

The statue is so large that it can be seen clearly even if you stand in the forest on the edge of the city. Anyone who sees the statue will involuntarily stand in awe.

The statue was also very strange. To be precise, it should not be one statue, but three statues back to back. All three statues were women with hoods and veils on their faces. One of the statues was holding a lantern, one lantern was emitting thick smoke, one lantern was burning green flames, another statue was holding a sword and shield, wearing armor, and the last statue was holding a book. The things held by these three statues corresponded to the three badges before.

Although the distance was far, Leo could still see the details of the statues with his super vision. For example, all three statues were wearing a ring on their hands, and the shape of the ring was exactly the same as Leo's wedding ring.

There is no doubt that the gods represented by these three statues should be Sylvia. Judging from the number and shape of the statues, the three statues should represent the three powers in Sylvia's body. Needless to say, the sword and shield should be the power of the abyss dragon. The statue holding the book should be the power of the witch, and the lantern may be the power of her original hunter god.

Leo didn't know why the three powers in Sylvia's body had to manifest in this form, but he was sure of one thing: Sylvia's power should be different from the power in his memory. This was most likely a change caused by what happened in the memory he lost.

The houses at the foot of the volcano are blocked by the wall and cannot be seen. You can see that there are metal pipes coming out of the mountain, extending down the hillside, passing through the city below, passing through the city wall, and extending along several main roads planned in the outer urban area to the vicinity of the totem forest at the edge of the city, and then a circular pipe connects all the extended pipes.

From the hot air that keeps coming out of these pipes, it can be guessed that these pipes should be heating pipes, and the heat source used by these heating pipes is likely to be the lava of the volcano itself.

Although there is inexhaustible heating, and the heating pipes have been laid to the outer urban area during the initial planning, not all people in this city can use these heating.

Only a part of the pipes in the outer urban area have built branch pipes extending to some urban areas, so the houses in this urban area have heating supply, but most of the other houses have no pipes, and the people living there can only find ways to keep warm by themselves.

Fortunately, the surrounding totem forest blocked most of the cold outside, and the geothermal heat of the volcano itself penetrated the ground and dispelled a lot of cold, so that the temperature of the entire city of Newland was not particularly cold. As long as you didn't seek death, you basically didn't have to worry about freezing to death.

Compared with the neatly built houses on the slopes of the volcano, the houses in the outer city were very dilapidated. Although the city was planned very neatly, and each city was divided according to straight streets, the buildings in the city were built very casually. Most of them were directly made of a combined steel frame, and then the floors and walls were covered with iron sheets found from nowhere. All the houses were connected together with steel frames. Usually a city was a complete house, and it was difficult to see from the outside how the rooms were arranged in the house.

Although this world is a world in disaster, it does not mean that this world is backward. In the inner city, you can see some factory-like buildings, among which there should be smelters, otherwise there would not be so many houses supporting the construction of the outer city. In addition, trams can be seen on the streets, which means that in addition to machinery factories, those factories also have power plants. In short, the industrial level here is not low. The only thing lacking may be various available resources and food that can be grown sustainably.