The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For the Purifying Fire Church, the Yardi Ancient Aqueduct is an extremely important water channel for them, because the area controlled by the Purifying Fire is higher in the north than in the south, and the main water systems here are all in the south of the Betain Mountains. The higher northern regions are extremely arid and water-scarce.

After the Purifying Fire Church entered this area, they mobilized believers to build aqueducts, and they did not build aqueducts from scratch. They expanded the existing ancient aqueducts into the current Yadi ancient aqueduct based on an existing local aqueduct.

When and who built the ancient canal that existed before, no one knows. So far, there is no information related to that ancient canal, and even the building materials of that ancient canal are being purified. When the Fire Church built the aqueduct, it was demolished for the construction of a new aqueduct.

If, in order to commemorate the priests who died during the construction of this aqueduct, the Church of Purifying Fire specially built a stone tablet at both ends of the aqueduct, and wrote the origin of the ancient aqueduct of Yardi on it, perhaps no one would know about it now The matter of the ancient aqueduct.

Although the main function of this canal is to irrigate the land on both sides of the canal, in fact this canal is also used as a canal. Before the railway appeared, this canal can be said to be the most important in the area controlled by the Purifying Fire Church. A transportation channel, more than 90% of the supplies of more than a dozen principalities need to be transported through this channel.

In order to adapt to the width of the canal, the craftsmen specially designed a narrow but very long transport ship, and also ingeniously designed a hook device, which allows these long and narrow transport ships called leaf ships to be connected end to end. A fleet of three or four people punting can make the boat sail smoothly.

In addition, in order to allow ships to pass through the canal smoothly, a person in charge of the pier assigned by Purification Fire to the canal at that time specially designed a sailing rule.

It is precisely because this set of rules for sailing is simple and effective that some interested people also put this set of rules on land carriages, and finally formed the unified road traffic regulations implemented by various countries.

The fleet of Leo, Sylvia, and Penistan belonged to the Principality of Ives, which is a small Principality in the north. The population of the Principality is less than 100,000. The inland Principality produces the best sailors in the New World. Almost 80% of the population of the Principality is engaged in sailors.

Because of this, most of the sailors in the Principality of Ives will come back to form a transport fleet and engage in the transportation industry in the Yadi Ancient Aqueduct after retirement. Therefore, for a long time in the past, the Yadi Ancient Aqueduct is located There is also a saying in the area that there are leaf boats on the ancient canal, eight out of ten are the boats of Ives sailors, and the remaining two are boats of the sailor's son-in-law.

Although the number of Ives' transport ships has been greatly reduced due to various reasons, merchants and the officials of the principalities along the route still choose Ives ships when they want to transport some important supplies.

Because these ships are very safe, almost every sailor on board has rich combat experience. If they encounter thieves, they have enough self-protection capabilities. Coupled with the reputation of Ives sailors, the chance of cargo loss is very low, or even lost. Ives will also compensate according to the price, so even if Ives's ships on the ancient canal are reduced by more than half, the share of the annual shipping is not small at all.

Leo originally just asked the cleric in charge of dock operations to randomly pick a fleet to Yordle, but he didn’t expect that cleric to arrange him into a fleet in charge of an old Ives sailor, which also made Leo , Sylvia, and Penistan didn't feel bored along the way, because the old sailor was invited by Leo and used some sales terminals, and happily told the three strangers about his past so many years. life at sea.

The old sailor's name was Ta Shi, and like almost all the Ives, he became a sailor on an ocean-going freighter under the introduction of his fellow countrymen after he became an adult.

When he was a sailor, steamships had not yet become popular in this world. Most of the ocean-going ships on the sea were sailing ships, and some were divine ships made using magic and other magical powers.

When the old sailor mentioned the divine power ship, there was still a strong resentment on his face. Before Leo could ask, he explained the reason. It turned out that the ocean freighter he was on at the beginning was because he offended a member of the divine power ship. The clergyman was sunk by the divine ship at sea, and all the people on board died. Only he had a little luck, lying on a broken deck and drifting to a nearby deserted island far away from the route.

Afterwards, he lived on that deserted island for two years. He thought he would never return to the civilized world, but what he didn't expect was that a sea storm blew a pirate ship onto the deserted island. Island was forced to join the pirate ship and became a pirate.

Later, he stayed on this pirate ship for nearly twenty years, from an ordinary sailor to first mate, and accumulated a lot of wealth in his hand. When he arrived at Ives, his life turned around again, but this time the situation was not good, because the captain of the pirate ship he was on decided to join forces with other pirate ships, and to have a decisive battle with the fleet of the Holy Alliance, so as to control the old and new continents All benefits of this route.

This sea battle can be said to be a great battle that established the current sea power in the world, and it has also been recorded in detail in various documents. Even the landlocked country of the Otto Federation has a large number of books related to it. Leo and the others Of course I have seen it too.

In those books, without exception, it is written how heroic and powerful the fleet of the Holy Alliance was at that time. The pirates have been driven into the history books. Since that big sea battle, there has never been a large pirate fleet on the sea. A few sporadic pirate ships can still be seen, but they can no longer be given to the present. Steamships posed a threat.

Although I have seen a lot of detailed information from books, and even have information on the personnel of both sides, the ratio of military forces, and fleet arrays, etc., but these are not as good as the personal narration of one person, and in the case of the person in Tashi The process of this naval battle in the mouth is completely another matter.

It turned out that in that naval battle, although the Holy Alliance gathered ten divine ships as the main battleships, and there were also many naval fleets from church countries, but because of the chaotic command, the Holy Alliance's fleets basically fought on their own. , no sign of cooperation at all.

As for the Pirate Alliance, the situation is similar to that of the Holy Alliance. Even the big pirates cannot command the ships of the small pirates, but they are better than the Holy Alliance, that is, they have extremely rich experience in fighting alone. It is very difficult for a warship of the Holy Alliance to defeat a pirate ship of the same size.

Another point is that the Pirate Alliance also has some divine power ships made by non-church forces. Although these ships cannot compare with the church's divine power ships in terms of power, these ships can use some extremely strange methods, and these methods are still there. The role played in naval battles is far beyond that of church ships.

So when the war started, the Holy Alliance was completely suppressed by the Pirate Alliance, a large number of warships were sunk, and even a few of the flagship divine ships of the Holy Alliance were captured by pirates.

Continue to fight under normal conditions, and the fleet of the Holy Alliance will definitely be wiped out in HNA, but suddenly, without knowing what happened, the big pirates who initiated the Pirate Alliance suddenly turned against the water, and cooperated with the ships of the Holy Alliance to attack other ships. It was originally a pirate ship of the alliance, but in the end, under this sudden betrayal, all the pirate ships except those of the big pirates were sunk, and most of the pirates died at sea, and only a few were captured. It was one of the captured pirates.

Originally, the captive pirates like Ta Shi would be hung on the mast of the ship and die of thirst. However, a dignitary in the Holy Alliance took all the captives and sold them to several southern planters because of their heavy losses. garden as a slave.

After that, he worked as a slave in that plantation for almost five or six years, until a nephew in charge of a caravan from Ives recognized him at a glance, and the caravan paid for it. Having bought his freedom, he returned to Yver and served as the captain of the caravan's fleet in the ancient aqueduct.

The old sailor himself is not a talkative person, but after Leo used some small tricks, he seemed to have opened up some kind of knot in his heart, and told his past experiences in detail, no matter what he should say, Still said everything that shouldn't have been said.

The sea battle between the Holy Alliance and the Pirate Alliance is a secret that should be buried in the bottom of my heart. Although his words alone will not have any impact, if someone wants to cause trouble, his narration of the sea battle is also very likely. Will become someone else's handle.

However, neither Leo, Sylvia, nor Penistan were particularly interested in that sea battle. On the contrary, they were all more interested in Tapshi's twenty-year pirate career.

Penny's idea was very simple, she was thinking about the treasures buried in those islands, especially after the sea battle, most of the famous pirates on the sea either died at sea or became captives. All the treasures she arrived became ownerless. This fantasy of wealth made her temporarily forget the pain of losing her last relative.

As for Leo, he paid attention to the various sea experiences told by the old sailors in the past twenty years, including common plundering of merchant ships, sea adventures, especially those related to geography, customs, etc. Mysteries that no old sailor has figured out. For example, the old sailor once saw an extremely huge golden deer walking on the sea, but like everyone else on the ship, he thought it was just a common mirage.

However, this experience gave Leo other ideas. He once mistakenly thought that the golden giant deer seen by the old sailor was the same as the golden giant deer he saw, but after careful questioning later, he found out that it was another one. The golden giant deer, because there is no castle on the top of the golden giant deer, and the antlers of the golden giant deer are not golden, but crystal-like transparent.

I don't know why when mentioning the golden giant deer in this world, Leo felt that if he went out to sea by boat, he might be able to see him at sea.

On the other hand, Sylvia paid more attention to things than Leo. She was concerned about a sea adventure mentioned by the old sailor.

During that experience, the old sailor and his companions on the pirate ship encountered a storm, and they were forced to dock on an unnamed island that was not marked on the chart, but they found that this island did not seem to be the original unnamed island. Isle of Man, because there is a complete pier on this small island, and there is a manor on the pier.

Afterwards, they entered the manor to explore, and found that no one had lived in the manor for a long time. They found some belongings in the manor and never found anything else, but judging from the manor, the people who lived here left in a hurry , Even left without taking the clothes.

Because they felt that the situation on the island was very strange, they did not live on the island, but lived on the boat, and left after the storm passed.

After one night, the storm had passed, but the pirates who woke up found that the small island had disappeared inexplicably. The place they docked was on the sea. No.

The reason why Sylvia suddenly paid attention to this experience was that when the old sailor was telling the story, he also drew some scenes he saw on that small island, but his memory was a little fuzzy because of the time The painted things also look a little fake, and inside these paintings is the badge on the gate of the manor, and that badge looks very similar to the badge of the Belmont family.

This made Sylvia feel that the manor on the small island might be a settlement of the Belmont family in this world, so she asked the old sailor in detail where the island where the manor was located and its approximate location on the sea , depending on the situation, this trip to sea should take a trip to that sea area.

Leo didn't object to this. In fact, even if Sylvia didn't say anything, he thought about taking some detours during this voyage to the New World, because from the mouth of the old sailor, he found that there is a difference between the New World and the Old World. The sea area in the middle is full of various mysterious things, the number of these mysterious things far exceeds the number of various mysterious things on land, giving people the feeling that after humans migrated to the New World, the mysterious existences that created mysterious things in the New World It's like moving to sea.