The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The next day, just after dawn, Leo left Landosdo and did not stop in this town any longer.

However, before leaving, I encountered a little trouble, because a large number of people who needed to leave the city gathered at the gates of each city, waiting for the guards to check.

From the conversations of these people, Leo learned that the number of monsters in the field is the least in the early morning, and it will gradually increase after noon, and it will be the most at night.

All the people who are on the road will choose to leave the town where they are in the early morning, and then proceed to the next town along the mainland railway. If there is no accident, then almost all of them will be able to reach the next town before dark.

As for why you don't take the steam train, it's mainly because the steam train basically runs every ten days, and the last train just left two days ago.

It takes such a long time for steam trains to have one class, not because of the small number of steam trains, but because the trains need to be overhauled before they can be used again every time they are used. The reason is that every time the steam train runs, it will encounter A large number of monsters risk their lives to attack.

Although these attacks are equivalent to hitting a stone with a pebble when encountering the heavy armor, heavy body and extremely high speed of the steam train, they will still cause some damage to the steam train, and some damage will not affect the running of the steam train. Over time, it can be fatal.

Before confirming that the steam train can withstand various shocks, these trains cannot be dispatched, because as long as the steam train has an accident on land, it may be difficult for the people on the train to survive.

In addition, ordinary people are not willing to choose steam trains to travel, because the fares of steam trains are too expensive, which is not within the range of ordinary people.

Because the connection between each town in the Vinylon Alliance and the connection with the Northern Hanossa Alliance needs to rely on steam trains, and this connection is mainly based on material transactions, so the carriages towed behind the steam trains are all truck carriages. Normally there are only two passenger cars, so the fare is very expensive, and the price of a ticket can almost buy a small apartment in a small town.

After learning about the steam train, Leo walked along the railway outside the town for a certain distance after leaving Landausto, sensing the surrounding environment while walking.

Although two days have passed since the last train, there are still many clues accumulated here because trains often travel on the railway.

For example, Leo knew why those monsters in the wild would attack steam trains crazily. This is mainly because in order to improve the power of the train, pull more carriages, and transport more goods, the fuel for the train is not only wood and charcoal, A lot of combustion-supporting formulas supported by high-energy substances have also been added, so every time the steam train runs, it is like a delicious snack that emits high-energy substances all the time. Any monster that senses it will not give up eating this Delicious dim sum.

Although Leo hadn't seen the fuel formula used by trains now, he felt that this formula might also come from an unfinished research he was doing in Castle Black.

However, what Leo was researching at that time was not the formula of train fuel, but the formula of airship fuel. Although the new formula he developed could increase the potency of the same amount of firewood and charcoal by more than four times, and prolong the time by one year. times the burning time, but because he couldn't neutralize the energy substances produced after burning, he was temporarily included in his unsuccessful data file.

Afterwards, Leo went to check the place where the transparent monsters were eliminated. After one night, there were only some energy fluctuations left, but some mucus that should be left behind after the monsters died could still be seen on the ground. From these slimes, Leo could find the shadows of some biological cells, so he collected the slimes in a glass bottle, and studied them again when he had time to see what is special about these transparent monsters.

After resolving these matters, Leo went back to Port Randall and returned to Castle Black according to the long journey yesterday.

He didn't leave in a hurry, and carefully checked his surroundings to see if he had missed anything. He also checked the bottom of Wanghai Cliff, and found that the cliff below had completely collapsed, which means that the ruins of Castle Black are now in the On a protruding dangerous rock, it may collapse along with Wanghai Cliff at any time and fall into the sea.

I don't know if it's because of the power of fate in the dark, or just because of his carelessness. When he climbed up Wanghai Cliff again, the loose rock at the bottom of Wanghai Cliff seemed to be unable to bear the weight of the extra person. Cracks appeared and then began to collapse.

The moment Leo Wanghai Cliff collapsed, he spread his psychic wings and flew into the air. He stabilized his figure in the air, and when he looked back at Castle Black, the entire Castle Black had completely fallen into the sea. There were waves of flowers, and only one of the outer walls of Castle Black remained on the cliff, telling that there used to be a majestic building here.

Leo controlled the psychic wings to float in the air, watching the waves created by Castle Black gradually calm down, and without returning to the shore, he drew an arc in the air and flew towards the direction of the Mosang Continent.

The Star of Hope is the third largest ship of the Siren Shipping Company of the Kingdom of England. Unlike other ships of the shipping company, this ship transports passengers between the continents of Velen and Mozambique, and does not carry any cargo.

Although this kind of rule makes the crew of this ship lose some cargo bonuses on the surface, it also adds a hidden money of smuggling. After adding up the subtraction, the crew's income is not only not less, but more up.

Siren Shipping Company is the largest private company among the many shipping companies blessed by the Sea God in the Kingdom of England. The company has a total of fifteen ships of all sizes, and the pirates and plundering accidents encountered by these fifteen ships are almost Zero, and very few maritime accidents due to weather.

The reason for this is that Sean Donald, the owner of Kraken Shipping Company, is a person who has truly been blessed by the Sea God. In addition to the weather, these ships were also given fifteen siren patron saints.

It has always been an unconfirmed legend that the ships of the Kraken Shipping Company were protected by the Kraken, but many people believe that this legend is true, and some even swear that they have seen how the Kraken destroyed the ship. A pirate ship.

It's just that what others saw was a pirate ship that suddenly sank inexplicably when it tried to rob the Kraken Shipping Company's ship, and the pirates on board sank along with the ship like people who couldn't swim.

Although I did not see the so-called Kraken, the inexplicable sinking of the pirate ship was enough to make people believe that the ships of the Kraken Shipping Company were protected by some kind of mysterious ocean power, so whether it was cargo or passengers, they were unable to buy When going to the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Sigma Royal Shipping Company's boat tickets, and the Church's boat tickets, the first choice of boats is definitely the Kraken Shipping Company's ships.

Originally, Siren Shipping Company was not engaged in passenger transport business, but mainly used freight transport. However, as the situation in the three continents began to stabilize, more people traveled to and from each continent. Except for a few who wanted to return to their homeland, Or ordinary people who want to leave their homeland and live in other places, most of them are adventurers with the idea of ​​getting rich overnight.

When the fog disaster broke out, a large number of areas fell, and until today they have not been recaptured by human civilization, and all of them have become a paradise for monsters. However, the land of Mozambique and Minsk are all small towns or village roads in the suburbs. The cities have survived.

But the Vinylon Continent is different. All the big cities have fallen. Except for a few lucky people who fled to remote towns with churches in the big cities, everyone else fell into the big cities. , or fall, it is too late to take away the wealth in these big cities.

You must know that the French Empire of the Velen Continent has been the most powerful country in the Velen World for so many years, and their accumulated wealth is more than the sum of all the countries on the other continents, and so much wealth is now lying quietly In those fallen big cities, waiting to be taken away, how many people can bear such a temptation.

So after the situation stabilized a bit and the air routes between the continents resumed, not only people from the Velen Alliance, but even people from other continents came to the Velen Continent, trying to take away the huge wealth buried in those cities.

It's just that some of these people are lucky, and they can quickly find a large amount of wealth, from a poor at the bottom of society to a rich man who everyone envies overnight, but more people disappear in the process of adventure treasure hunting Life and death are unknown, but even this still cannot stop those adventurers who hope to get rich overnight.

The passengers on the Star of Hope are such a group of lucky adventurers. They found a lot of treasures in the ruins of the big cities on the Velen continent, and these treasures were exchanged for currency in the local towns.

Although these treasures did not make them a millionaire who would never worry about life as in the legend, it was enough for them to change their lives after they went back, such as buying some land, building their own houses, and so on.

Different from the relaxed mood of the passengers on the ship, the faces of the good captain, first mate and other senior crew members of Hope Star all looked very serious. Everyone sank, and the atmosphere in the meeting room also froze.

"Is this information going to be wrong?" The first mate couldn't help questioning: "Henry the Tooth, Mortana the Sea Witch, Jenningt the Old Sea Dog, the three big pirates, together with almost twenty ships, actually want to Hunting down our worthless liner? Are they crazy? Aren't they afraid of sirens?"

The captain was silent for a while, and said: "Henry the Tooth, Mortana the Sea Witch, and Geninte the Sea Dog are all famous pirates in this sea area. The Kingdom has sent naval fleets to wipe them out several times, but they all escaped. It can be seen that Their abilities are not ordinary. Moreover, the targets of their plunder are also the merchant ships of those smuggling merchant ships and small chambers of commerce. They rarely attack the kingdom, the church fleet, and large chambers of commerce such as our Siren Shipping, so they are also very clear about their own Who can offend who can't offend. But now they are robbing a passenger ship like ours together, so there is only one possibility, that is, if they succeed in the robbery this time, the final harvest will definitely far exceed what they will face. The danger and blame.” He paused and made a judgment: “There must be something on our ship that the three of us have to grab.”

The first mate said with some disapproval: "The guests on our ship are all desperadoes and adventurers. Even if they got something in the ruins of Velen, they have already exchanged it for church bank checks. Those checks are not It is impossible to exchange the permission of themselves and the beneficiaries of the inheritance, and nothing can be obtained if they are robbed."

"What if what they want to grab is not money?" the new navigator on board suddenly interjected.

Hearing his words, everyone looked at him in unison, which made him a little inexplicably nervous as a newcomer.

The captain gestured: "Don't be nervous, just tell me what you think."

The navigator took a deep breath, stabilized his emotions, and said: "I remember that Sharp Tooth, Sea Witch, and Old Sea Dog are all very devout disciples of the Lord of the Sky. The Old Sea Dog even almost became a senior priest. It's just because they committed They made some mistakes and were deprived of their membership. The three of them have always wanted to restore their membership. A large part of the property after each robbery was donated to the church, and they never robbed the sky The ships of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, so that they can risk offending our sea monster shipping and being destroyed by the sea monster, and also rob us of our things, it can only be related to the Church of the Lord of the Sky, maybe that thing can help them become A member of the Church of the Lord of the Sky."

After listening to the navigator's analysis, everyone present fell into deep thought, and then said that the navigator's analysis was probably true.

However, a question arose later. No one knew exactly what that thing was in whose hands it was in. Perhaps the only way to find it was to search the cabins of the passengers one by one and salute.

But if this is really done, the reputation of Siren Shipping may be ruined. At that time, let alone the passengers on the passenger ship, even on the cargo side, no one will be willing to cooperate with a shipping company that searches passengers to salute. After all Everyone's goods have some shady things.