The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo slowly raised the submarine from the water, and looked at the appearance of the submarine full of ancient atmosphere with great interest. In his memory, it was written by a certain science fiction writer in the enlightenment period of the old earth era. Such a submarine is mentioned in the novel, and the scientist seems to have named the submarine after some ancient creature on Earth.

Just now, Leo discovered the submarine lurking at the bottom of the water, and also discovered that the manufacturing process of this submarine is not only scientific, but also mixed with some of the kind he felt in Emerald Island that made him The power to generate resentment.

Although the power on this submarine is different from that of Emerald Island, they are essentially the same, and they both make those who can feel it very uncomfortable and disgusted.

It was also because of this power that Leo's mental net could not penetrate into the submarine, and he could not know the specific situation inside the submarine, but he was still able to recognize the submarine from the flag of the Otto Federation on the submarine and the badge next to the flag It should belong to the Otto Federal Internal Revenue Service.

In order to be able to develop weapons that are suitable for the technological level of this world, Leo also conducted some research on the technological level of this world during this period. confusion.

Some technologies have reached a very high level, such as the ability to manufacture iron-clad ships that travel around the world, and the ability to use civilian electricity, etc., but some technologies are very mediocre, such as farmland farming still using animal power, and medical research in medical schools. Still in its early stages, the best medical treatment turned out to be bloodletting.

However, even so, he was not surprised when he saw this submarine that looked a bit beyond the technology of the times, because it is not difficult to manufacture a submarine with the technological level of the current world, not to mention it has extraordinary power participate.

When Leo first discovered the submarine, the submarine seemed to have also discovered him, but the submarine did not surface at the time, but followed all the way until the gangster ship that had been swimming around the sailing speedboat before. After leaving, it only surfaced, so Leo judged that the submarine's hiding in this water area should be related to the gang smuggling entrenched in this area.

Soon the submarine was completely surfaced. Although compared with the deep-sea explorers of the planetary expeditions that Leo had seen, this submarine was not very big, but it was considered a large ship in this world. The volume is equivalent to five Leo's current sailing speedboats.

Its overall shape looks like a fish, and the eight propellers around the hull drive it forward, backward, and direction. Some symbols with supernatural power are engraved on the hull surface with a special casting technique. , unless the hull is damaged, the power given by these symbols will not disappear.

The entry and exit hatch of the submarine is not opened at the top, but at the front of the side of the hull. When it floated to the surface, the hatch was aligned with Leo’s sailing speedboat. It's like being stared at by a big fish.

The hatch opened quickly, and then saw a long escalator extending from the hatch to the side of the sailing speedboat, and then a group of heavily armed soldiers boarded the speedboat. They didn't say anything to Leo, just After guarding the key areas, a middle-aged general in military uniform but wearing the badge of the Internal Revenue Service stepped onto the ship from the escalator.

The middle-aged general saluted Leo, and then said very seriously: "I am Major General Rice of the Seventh Anti-smuggling Fleet, Your Excellency Leo Dodd, and now we need to recruit your sailing speedboat. Your Excellency, please come with me."

"Do you know who I am?" Leo asked.

"Yes, at the wharf around Lake Beruk, we will receive the news as soon as any ship leaves the port." Major General Rice raised his head proudly, and urged: "Now is not the time to talk about these things. If you have any questions, please follow me to the Kraken, and I will explain to you slowly."

While Major General Rice was speaking, the soldiers who had boarded before began to set up the sailing speedboat. They set up some dummies on the boat that looked real from a distance, and dragged a few corpses out of the submarine and put them on the boat. Inside the cabin.

In addition, some soldiers jumped into the sea with a few devices that looked like screw propellers and installed them on the bottom of the sailing speedboat.

Seeing this situation, Leo seemed to know what these people were planning to do, and without asking any more questions, he asked the major general to lead him into the interior of the submarine.

The soldiers also quickly finished setting up the sailing speedboat, and withdrew into the submarine, and the submarine quickly sank again, while the uncontrolled sailing speedboat moved forward slowly under the force of the wind, and because of the water Under the action of the propeller, the sailing speedboat will not lose power due to the change of the wind direction, and can still move forward in a certain direction.

In the submarine, Rear Admiral Rice led Leo through a narrow passage, and came to the bridge at the front. Here is a huge airtight cabin. Each window is inlaid with a mirror polished with high-hardness transparent ore, and each window has at least two observers observing the underwater situation outside the window, and reporting the situation loudly to the driver at any time, so as to modify the direction of travel in time .

"This is the embodiment of our federation's highest technology. As long as there are ten sea monsters, the entire ocean will be under our control." Major General Rice looked around proudly, then turned to look at the man next to him. Leo, no doubt he hoped to see expressions of shock, exclamation, etc. on Leo's face, but he was very disappointed in the result. Leo looked very calm, and there was even a hint of disappointment in his eyes. The decorative patterns engraved on it are very interesting.

"Your Excellency Leo, do you think this diving boat is not great and worthy of admiration?" Major General Rice frowned and said, "From ancient times to the present, no kingdom has been able to conquer the ocean, not even the legendary kingdom of the ocean. Eplance also only dared to call himself the country of the sea, but not the lord of the sea. They still knew nothing about the mysteries of the depths of the ocean, but the diving boat developed by our Federation can dive deep into the bottom of the sea. To explore the true mysteries of the sea, you can also hide on the bottom of the sea, silently monitoring any ship on the sea surface, just like the legendary sea monster lurking on the bottom of the sea waiting for its prey, this kind of great creation that has never appeared in the history of the world, is it possible? Can't you shock Your Excellency?"

"It is indeed an amazing creation." Leo echoed, but unfortunately his expression and what he said were completely different.

Not seeing the scene he wanted to see made Major General Rice extremely disappointed, which also made him suddenly think of another possibility, that is, Leo had seen this thing before.

In the information in his hand, Leo and his wife are described as a pair of noble and knowledgeable travelers. The extensive knowledge they have traveled around the world makes their speech and behavior look different, so he feels that if Leo is in I have seen similar diving boats in other places, so Leo's reaction should be almost the same as now, without being too surprised.

Although there was suspicion in his heart, Major General Rice did not ask Leo about this, but put the matter in his heart, then changed the subject, and said: "Your Excellency Leo, you should feel uncomfortable with the current situation, let me Let me explain to you."

Afterwards, Major General Rice explained what had happened carefully. If it was an ordinary person, Major General Rice, a high-ranking general in the army, would naturally disdain to explain it, but Leo's identity was different, and it was related to the reform of the army and the change of weapons. , and is also one of the senior weapon research and development experts, so he has to treat it carefully to avoid Leo from having bad thoughts on the federal government because of this matter.

In fact, it was a coincidence that Leo would be involved in the IRS and the smuggling dock, and this coincidence coincided with all the conditions of the IRS anti-smuggling fleet plan, even better than expected. It will be wasted, not to mention that in their view, if Leo's sailing speedboat is allowed to sail in this area, it will not only destroy their plan, but also put Leo himself in danger, so what they are doing now is to save took Leo's life.

It turned out that the IRS had been eyeing the smuggling docks on Lake Beruk a long time ago. They were not only targeting the docks of Iron Gang, but also gangster docks in Beruk City and other cities around the lake. Because there are some high-ranking people behind these docks to support, rashly doing it will cause some unnecessary problems, and even make the IRS a target of public criticism.

Moreover, these smuggling docks can sometimes bring some benefits to the federal government, such as obtaining some items through underground channels that the federal government cannot obtain through normal procedures, so under the requests of many parties, the IRS had to take a look at these smuggling docks closed approach.

However, even though they couldn't deal with these smuggling docks immediately, they still didn't relax their surveillance on the smuggling docks. On the contrary, they intensified their monitoring and secretly collected information on all the smuggling docks on Lake Beruk, even the Sea Monster. The latest weapons of the Internal Revenue Service's anti-smuggling fleet were also placed in Lake Beruk to monitor the movement of the smuggling dock.

As the federal government began to expel various churches, the relationship between the surrounding religious countries and the federal government gradually deteriorated. Some forces that were originally hostile countries began to unite, and it seemed that they were preparing to form a coalition to deal with the Otto Federation.

Faced with this situation, while actively preparing for war according to the plan, the federal government began to clean up some hidden dangers in the country, such as smuggling docks that are inextricably linked with foreign forces. the best performer.

In order to wipe out all the smuggling docks on Lake Belluk, the anti-smuggling fleet of the Internal Revenue Service did not act rashly, lest they catch a smuggling boat operator and let most of the other smuggling boat operators run away.

They planned for a few days and decided to find a bait to let the gang's smuggling dock take the initiative to create an accident, and then in the name of investigating the accident, let the anti-smuggling fleet disguise as the marine police fleet of Lake Beruk to investigate.

The marine police on Lake Beruk have already been bought and infiltrated by the gangsters behind the various smuggling docks, so the appearance of the marine police will not cause too much reaction from these smuggling docks. At that time, we only need to act faster, and the news should be blocked tightly. The bureau's anti-smuggling fleet can completely eliminate the smuggling docks that have been marked by them one by one in a short period of time.

After the plan was made, the anti-smuggling fleet began to look for a suitable bait. The bait must have a certain identity, otherwise it would be impossible for ordinary fishermen fishing on the lake to alert the marine police fleet. After that, otherwise, the people on the smuggling shipping company will think that there is a big trouble, and temporarily abandon the dock and go to land to avoid disaster.

When the anti-smuggling fleet of the Internal Revenue Service was looking for a suitable target, Leo, who rented a sailing speedboat and sailed alone, appeared at this time. They found that Leo was the most suitable target, because Leo had a certain identity, but his identity was not the same. It would be too much, and his status as a foreigner would make the gangsters on the dock instinctively feel that it is not a big deal.

In addition, after Leo set sail, it happened that the waters where their preferred target Iron Gang Dock was located was used as an activity area, so the anti-smuggling fleet asked the director of the dock to hint at Leo's sailing speedboat.

After that, there was the scene just now, and for the next period of time, Leo would stay on the Kraken, pretending to be an accident and disappearing on the water, so that it would be convenient for the anti-smuggling fleet disguised as the marine police to This is an excuse to search the waters of Lake Beruk, and he will not be able to leave until the anti-smuggling fleet completely controls the situation.

After the explanation, Major General Rice turned his head to look at Leo, waiting for Leo's uncooperative reaction, and then he would use various arguments he had prepared to persuade Leo.

However, Leo's reaction disappointed him again, because Leo didn't care about being used as a bait at all, he looked very calm, so calm that it made people feel that what Major General Rice said just now had nothing to do with him It seems that, on the contrary, he has always been very interested in the patterns on the wall, and while Major General Rice was waiting for his response, he pointed to those patterns and asked, "Major General Rice, who designed the symbols on this? What is there?" Meaning?"

"Ah?" Major General Rice was stunned for a moment, apparently he didn't expect Leo to ask such a question, and then he followed Leo's finger to look at the patterns on the surrounding walls that he usually wouldn't take a second look at, Some doubts said: "Is there anything special about these patterns? What do they mean? I don't know who designed them..."

At this time, a young man's voice sounded from the side, saying: "This was designed by Bachelor Langenus. These symbols originated from the Tafek Catacomb Temple."