The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

As announced by the city council, the prohibition order was lifted on the fourth day after it was promulgated, but this kind of lifting was not completely lifted, but the rules were changed, that is, people who leave can leave at will, but if they want to Those who enter the city need to pass the double review of the city council and the church.

Although the city council of Nice City stated that this new policy is only temporary and will be lifted when things subside, it still makes many people dissatisfied.

Especially those caravans who have been trapped outside the city for many days, because the various procedures and inspections they need to go through to enter the city are three or four times more than before, and the speed of entering the city is naturally much slower, which makes the city of Nice The same scene appeared at the four city gates. Caravan vehicles blocked the roads, so those who were planning to leave had to find other ways to leave.

Compared with the limited number of steam trains, taking a cruise ship to leave on the water is the best choice, but because there are too many people leaving, the boat tickets are also in short supply, and ticket dealers are naturally keeping an eye on this opportunity to make a fortune. Early on, all the tickets were taken out through the internal response of various shipping companies. Unless they bought the tickets two days in advance like Leo and the others, it was almost impossible to buy the tickets directly at the ticket office at the pier.

Although many people were worried about what might happen to them and wanted to leave Nice City as soon as possible, there were still many people who went in the opposite direction after the lifting of the ban in Nice City, tried their best to enter the city, and stayed in the city to wait and see the situation.

These people are not ordinary people, they are all presidents or senior executives of well-known chambers of commerce in the New World and the Old World. Even the lowest-ranked people are all at the level of regional directors. The funds that can be used at any time are astronomical in the eyes of ordinary people.

The reason why these rich people did not choose to leave the city of Nice at this time, and even those who got the news couldn't wait to come to the city of Nice in the shortest time, is because of the by-product of this big move in the city of Nice, a large number of real estate , land and supplies.

Although the big action in Nice City only lasted a few days, it was a joint attack by the city council of Nice City and all the churches, and it was decisive and powerful. Almost 90% of the cases in Nice City were related to the heresy of evil gods. The underground forces were uprooted, and even the chambers of commerce and officials involved with it were not spared.

After a life-and-death blow, the seizure of the city council was naturally astonishingly large.

For example, Dolby Group is the largest family-owned chamber of commerce group in the city of Nice. This chamber of commerce was established more than a hundred years ago and has always been dominated by real estate. When its industry was the largest, it once controlled half of the The land in the city of Nice, although the size of the group has declined now, coupled with industrial transformation and other reasons, the real estate under its control is only half of what it was at its peak, but it is still the largest landlord in the city of Nice.

However, it is such a huge chamber of commerce group, its controlling family, the Dolby family, worships evil gods, not only performing sacrifices in their family's manor, but also secretly planting a lot of blasphemous things in the real estate they control .

Such a huge evil force is naturally the focus of this attack, and even in order to prevent the Dolby family from committing suicide together, several churches participating in the siege operation even sent their own paladins and senior priests at the archbishop level. Inside is holding a saint bone and an artifact.

Now that the entire Dolby family has been killed or arrested, they are waiting for trial, and their property will naturally fall into the hands of the city council. According to the previous management, the city council will not directly conduct business operations. Therefore, these industries will inevitably be auctioned after the matter subsides, which is undoubtedly a mouth-watering big cake for all chambers of commerce.

This is just the Dolby Group. There are many other chambers of commerce and nobles who have ties to evil forces. None of them were spared this time, and they were all arrested.

In addition, those underground forces hidden underground in the city naturally cannot escape the fate of being purged. Although the industries of these underground forces in name cannot be compared with a large chamber of commerce, the wealth they actually control is no bigger than those There are few chambers of commerce, and this wealth has undoubtedly fallen into the hands of the city council.

Some people have tried to estimate how much property, materials and wealth the city council has confiscated in the past few days in the clean-up operation. The final figure is staggering. Even the most conservative figure is equivalent to more than 20 years in the city of Nice. taxation.

For other chambers of commerce, although it is impossible for them to eat meat, it is still very good to drink some soup, and just the soup of real estate is enough to support these chambers of commerce, not to mention there are other products from various countries. , Store food and other materials, these will definitely make every chamber of commerce involved in this matter earn a lot of money.

Therefore, after the owners and executives of various chambers of commerce who entered the city of Nice had just booked a temporary living room in the hotel, they couldn't wait to find out their relationship in the city of Nice, trying to find out the details of the auction.

When the clean-up operation began to enter the final stage, and the city council and the church were satisfied with the operation, some rumors began to circulate in the city of Nice that made them a little worried.

In the rumors, it was mentioned that the city council and the church’s action to clean up heresies has nothing to do with heresies and cultists. They are only interested in the wealth accumulated by these chambers of commerce, city nobles, and underground forces over the years, so they found An excuse to blatantly rob these wealth.

Such rumors are of no use to officials, nobles, and rich people who know the situation. They can easily see that such rumors are untenable, because many of the people who have been purged are members of the city council and Officials, and they come from different factions, and several of them are known for their incorruptibility and integrity. If it is really aimed at the wealth of these people, as the rumors say, what will happen to the other members and officials in the city council? Will they be worried that they will be the next one to be purged? In that case, these people will definitely not sit idly by, and the whole city of Nice will be in chaos.

However, this kind of rumor that can be easily seen through is widely spread among the people at the bottom. They all think that this rumor is not groundless.

Therefore, when they saw those big people who were originally high above being imprisoned one by one, they felt pleasure in their hearts, but also had a strong sense of worry. They felt that since those big people were so miserable, what if things fell on their heads? What ability do they have to resist?

For a time, the entire city of Nice did not regain its vitality due to the end of the prohibition order. The entire bottom of the city fell into an inexplicable panic, and the trust of the city residents in the city council also dropped to an unprecedented 50%. the following.

You must know that before the incident, the city council of Nice city still had 87% trust among the people. Although it was not the highest, it was still among the top ten. It lost 3% in just four days. ten.

This also made the city council wonder whether these rumors were deliberately spread by the few surviving Acropolis Heroic Families.

Their suspicions are not groundless, because these Acropolis hero families have been unwilling to only have a false name and cannot intervene in the real power of the city, so they have been trying to enter the management departments of the city council at all levels, and even recently A few years also called for the creation of an honorary seat in the city council for them to oversee parliamentary order in the city council.

The reason why the city council carried out such a large-scale purge of heresy this time was because of the Moxi Troupe incident related to the Heroes of the Acropolis. As a result, the entire investigation and arrest work was completely out of the control of the city council, resulting in an infinite expansion of the targets of attack, and finally became what it is now.

Although the city council has also gained a lot of benefits from the cleansing operation, at least in the next few years there will be no worries about a funding gap for urban development, but most of its reputation has been lost because of this operation.

Now in the city of Nice, there is already a saying that the Acropolis hero family should come forward to form a new city council, and this saying seems to have been recognized by a large number of citizens.

Although most of the members of the city council don't need to pay attention to the appeals of the lower-level people in Nice City, when it comes to the parliamentary election year, these lower-level people with voting rights will be different. If the Acropolis Heroes family let them control If some people who have the qualifications to run for the city council can stand for the election, then these councilors in the city council may be in danger.

As a result, a monster called internal fighting began to gradually form inside the city of Nice, which has always been known for its unity. Regardless of the final result, the solid city wall of Nice City has already been cracked by this monster, and it is an irreparable crack. , This may also become the Achilles' heel of the city of Nice.

However, Leo, who caused all this chaos, has already boarded their cruise ship with Sylvia and Penistan, and will leave Nice City soon, and maybe he will never come back in the future.

Regarding the situation in Nice City, Leo, who had once infiltrated every part of Nice City with the spirit network, is naturally well aware of it. He even knows that those city councils are launching cleansing operations for the wealth of others, and that the Acropolis Hero Family wants to take the opportunity to seize real power. Who made and spread such rumors, but he is not even as concerned about these things as the so-called cruise ship he is currently on.

In Leo's opinion, since the cruise ship Sanctity can be called the most luxurious and largest cruise ship, it should be like a ship like Vinylon World, but actually seeing it is completely another matter.

It is true that this cruise ship is called the most luxurious and the largest, because it is the only cruise ship on the pier that is five stories high. The side wheel inland river ferry, one can see that it should be a refitted ship.

The Liszt River is an inland river with a very wide channel, but the water is very shallow. It is not suitable for deep-bottomed boats. On the contrary, the flat-bottomed boats that have been eliminated in other places are very suitable for sailing on this kind of river. So on the Liszt River, it's basically punts.

Most of these flat-bottomed boats are made of wood. People here are used to finding relatively well-preserved wood from the hull after the boat breaks down, dismantling it and replacing it with a new boat. , but the result of this is that the new ship is mixed with old wood, which leads to different corrosion conditions of the old and new wood after the ship has been used for a long time, resulting in unpredictable hidden damage.

Now the Sanctuary that Leo is riding on is such a old and new flatbed boat. After scanning by the spirit network, Leo found at least fifty hidden dangers, including more than a dozen hidden wounds on key parts such as the keel. This also made him skeptical that the ship would eventually reach the port of St. Paulia.

It's just that, even so, Leo and the others didn't change ships, not because they didn't want to change, but because all the other ships were full of tourists leaving the city of Nice, and there wasn't a single empty ship.

For this reason, Leo had to go through every place where the hidden wounds were located before the ship left the dock, and buried a wizard rune array for reinforcement, so that this luxury cruise ship with strong external power and strong internal capacity could reach its final destination safely. As for whether the ship will fall apart during the voyage in the future, it is not in his control.

"Do you think that crazy knight will come?" Sylvia, who was sitting by the window enjoying the view of the pier, suddenly asked when Leo reinforced the ship and returned to his cabin.

"I don't know." Leo shook his head and replied.

There is a place in the city of Nice that his spiritual network cannot penetrate. That place is the church of the False Heart Church. In that church with weird architectural shapes, there is an extremely powerful twisting force. The power will directly distort the power in the spiritual net into another power when it approaches. The most intuitive manifestation is that some rainbow-like lights appear above the sanctuary of the false heart. That light is the power in Leo's spiritual net The scene presented after being distorted.

From that night on, except for the first day when Joan and other church knights cooperated with the city council to eliminate heresy in the city, he stayed in the sanctuary of the false heart for the next few days, so Leo is not aware of his situation now. .

However, for Leo, it doesn't matter whether Joan follows or not. If he follows, it will only give him one more test subject and a few more test subjects, and there will be no major loss.

A little bit of time passed, the Sanctity had completed its replenishment, and all the passengers had come up. With the sound of two whistles, the ship gradually moved away from the pier under the push of the crew's poles.

At this time, a man wearing church knight armor suddenly ran out from the crowd and rushed to the edge of the pier at an extremely fast speed, then jumped up, and the whole person was like a falling rock, hitting the fragile poop deck of the Holy , causing a series of exclamations.

"It seems that he has finally caught up." Sylvia, who witnessed this scene, said to Leo, who was instructing Penny on spiritual training in the cabin.