The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The next morning, the owner of the Holy Ship sent someone to inform the departure time. Leo and Sylvia tidied up the room a little bit. When they came out, Penny and Joann who had packed their luggage also stood there At the door, Joan's blindness seems to have become more serious at this time, and he needs Petunia's support to walk normally.

Seeing this situation, Leo and Sylvia didn't say anything, and led them to the rough dock area.

Although it was early in the morning, the pier was already crowded with people. Many ships that docked yesterday also sailed at this time. Passengers who lived temporarily for one night gathered at the pier waiting to board.

It's just that some ship owners found a few people missing when they counted the number of people, and after confirming that those people were not in the hotel they arranged, they didn't say anything more, they just reported to the public security management department of the dock town, Let the rest of the people board the ship directly, without further search and rescue.

For boat owners who often run this river and people who live in the swamp, things like disappearances are common, because the Lister Swamp is very large, and criminals and fugitives from other countries do not have enough money and resources Before entering Nice City to hide, they would choose to hide in Lister Swamp.

Although St. Paulia Port has mastered the Liszt Swamp, this does not mean that it really controls the entire swamp. In fact, St. Paulia Port only controls the area where many swamp villages and towns were built on both sides of the Lister River. The deeper part of the swamp is no longer under their control, and those who really control those places are criminals and fugitives from various countries in the old and new continents.

It is almost certain that those who disappeared in the dock swamp and surrounding areas were kidnapped by people from the sinful areas deep in the swamp. Not only the ship owner has no way to solve this problem, even the locals have no way to solve it solve.

In fact, as long as the missing people obeyed the ship owner, they would be fine if they stayed in the hotel at night, because there is an unwritten rule among the people from the sinful area and the locals that any crime can only be committed on the street and cannot enter the hotel. House, those criminals also acquiesce to this rule and will not break it, because if it really annoys the Port of San Polia, let it clean up the swamp and stop supplying it, those entrenched in the depths of the swamp The criminals will never have a better time.

However, there is no need to worry about the safety of those kidnapped. It will not be long before a blackmail letter will be sent to the family members of those people, even if the family members of those kidnapped have no way to pay the ransom, or the kidnapped have no family members , it doesn’t matter, in the end those people will stay in the depths of the swamp and become members of that sinful zone. Things like tearing tickets rarely happen, because in the depths of the swamp, population is also a very important resource, even more important than money. to be important.

When a group of people came to the pier and waited to board the boat, a young couple on the same boat approached abruptly and thanked Petunia repeatedly, making Petunia a little unsure how to respond.

It turned out that the couple also left the hotel last night and planned to take a stroll in this dock town, but they didn't know that the shops in the town were closed after nightfall, and there was no one on the street. When they were about to come back, they met When we arrived at the kidnappers, Penny happened to be a little hungry and wanted to find a restaurant nearby. No matter how bad she was, she was going to hunt some prey in the swamp and go back to the hotel for the hotel kitchen to do. In the end, she happened to meet the kidnapped couple and rescued them.

Although, she personally felt that this matter was nothing more than a little effort, and she almost forgot about it after one night, but when she got the couple's thanks, she was still a little proud in her heart.

When they learned that Penny was Leo's student and that the group was going to the Old World, the young couple invited Leo and the others to take a cruise on their uncle's ship, the Lisa Beauty.

Sylvia easily obtained the identities of the young couple through conversation. It turned out that the two of them were nobles from Port Rand in the Old Continent. Elders who served as missionaries in the New World.

After they came to the New World, they didn't encounter any troubles. The travel process went very smoothly, and the things to be handled were quickly completed. Except for the injunction in the city of Nice a few days ago, they never encountered any inconvenience. It's a matter of liking, and even the injunction order is just a daily routine for them in the Old Continent, and now it is the last stage of their journey, and they will board the ship back to the Old Continent in two days, so They also took their own safety lightly, disobeyed the owner's orders, and ran out at night, and they were in danger.

Afterwards, Sylvia asked again about the situation of the Lisa Beauty, and learned from the couple that the Lisa Beauty is a continental cruise ship affiliated to the Zijinxing Shipping Group, and it is also the largest ship in the world. One of the cruise ships. Its starting point is the port city of Lant in the northern part of the Old World, and then goes all the way south to Vadar Island, the southernmost island of the Old World. Continue to go north along the east coast of the New World, arrive at Icewind Harbor, the northernmost port of the New World, cross the Arctic Ocean, and return to Port Rand to complete a cruise of the old and new continents.

After learning about the route of the Lisa Beauty, Leo and Sylvia found that if they took the Lisa Beauty, they could not directly cross the ocean to the other side of the New World, but had to continue northward for about five or six After arriving at Icewind Harbor, they will turn to sail to the New World.

If they were in a hurry, they would definitely not take this detour cruise ship, even if this cruise ship is a luxury cruise ship, but now they are not in a hurry at all and have enough time for them to spend on the road, so they also After thinking about it for a while, he agreed to the couple's invitation.

After seeing Leo agreeing, the couple was also very happy. Later, they found the captain of the Sanctity and asked him to move the cabin next to Penny's cabin. Judging from various behaviors, they are very straightforward and enthusiastic people.

And it was such a straightforward and enthusiastic couple, after seeing the social activists Leo and Sylvia saw yesterday, their faces became a little ugly, and their expressions showed disgust, After seeing those social activists talking to Leo and Sylvia and handing them a few letters, they all showed expressions of surprise.

Those social activists didn't talk too much with Leo and Sylvia. After handing them the letters to be mailed and letters of introduction, they repeatedly emphasized the importance of these mailed letters, and then turned and left. It's just that they didn't return to the pier town, but took a boat directly at the pier and got into the red leaf bushes. It seemed that they were going to the small town built deep in the swamp.

"Mr. Leo is also a social activist?" After those people left, the husband of the previous couple hesitated, leaned forward and asked.

"No." Leo shook his head, then showed the letter in his hand, and said, "I just promised to send a few letters for them after I go to the Yuan Continent." Then, he looked at the other party's expression and asked Said: "You seem to dislike those social activists, can you tell me why?"

"Those guys are a bunch of worms that can only create turmoil!" The young man changed from his gentle words just now, and used the most vicious words he thought to describe those social activists without hesitation.

"You know them?" Leo asked again.

The young man said full of resentment: "Of course I do. Almost all the nobles from the mainland know them. Their theory of rights has created countless mobs. A large number of traditional nobles who had no fault at all died because of their families. And those really greedy and shameless political It is absurd that nobles are admired by the world and become so-called saviors."

Seeing the excitement of the young people, Leo asked a few more detailed questions about those social activists, only to find out that those social activists obviously didn't tell them the truth yesterday. Those people immediately took a small boat into the depths of the swamp, because they were worried that Leo would turn his face after learning about their real situation.

It turned out that those social activists used to belong to a sociological research school that is now very popular in the Old World. This school is called the Social New Rights Contract School.

The main purpose of this school is very simple, that is, it believes that the social power contract of the old era is no longer applicable to the current era, and now it is necessary to establish a new social rights contract with the people at the bottom as the main body, and this school believes that the social class that should be completely abandoned It is those traditional nobles who inherit ancient traditions and have a large amount of land resources.

Originally, this school was just a small regional research school with less than one hundred members. Not to mention other countries, even the country that produced this school scoffed at it.

But I don't know when it started, this school suddenly became popular among all classes in the Old Continent, especially among the people at the bottom. Those traditional aristocrats that should be abandoned in the school of thought, eventually these riots evolved into small-scale wars, not only the ordinary people suffered heavy casualties, but even the traditional aristocrats suffered countless casualties.

Under such circumstances, although the school of social new rights contract has not been strictly prohibited by various countries, those who founded this school and wrote books of the school have become the targets of various forces, and some people have been imprisoned for various reasons. Some people had to give up relevant research due to external pressure, and some fled to other continents to continue to spread their ideas as social activists.

After hearing this, Leo and Sylvia couldn't help but glanced at each other, because they were very clear that in the series of events caused by this school of thought, there was a third party, even a fourth party, and a fifth party. Without exception, these forces are all directed at those traditional nobles, and the new social rights contract school is the target of their use. As for whether the scholars in this school have noticed and actively cooperated, that is It is unknown, but judging from the current situation, it seems that the possibility of cooperation is very high.

The couple persuaded Leo and Sylvia very seriously: "You two don't understand the actual situation of these people, so you agreed to their request by mistake. Although I am not qualified to let you give up helping them mail letters, but I still hope that the two of you can think carefully before mailing them, so as not to get into trouble because of this matter."

"Thank you, I know how to do it." Leo smiled and didn't care about the other party's persuasion.

The other party also saw that Leo didn't take his words to heart, so he didn't say anything more. After all, it was enough to remind them sincerely based on their relationship.

At this time, the sailors of the Sanctity also began to greet the passengers to board the ship, and the group boarded the ship with the crowd and returned to their respective cabins.

After a while, the sound of a whistle was heard, and the Sanctuary slowly left the pier and continued to head towards the port of St. Paulia.

In the next two days, the Sanctity stopped at two other dock towns for one night. During this time, Leo and Sylvia took the initiative to contact the couple, and also asked about the old continent during the chat. .

Compared with those few social activists who used to only stay in their own country, this couple obviously knew better about the countries and customs of the Old World, because both of them were travel enthusiasts, before they got married, The two of them have already traveled around the countries of the Old Continent together. Although most of the countries and cities have passed through them casually, they still know the customs, political environment and some folk customs of these countries. Taboo.

In addition, the two of them also studied religious studies in their respective colleges during school. Although they studied for credits at that time, they have a certain understanding of the world's religions, which can help Leo and Hill Via understands the religions of this world.

At the same time, Penny was also pulled over by Leo to practice the lingua franca of the Old Continent, and the partner was the couple, because the couple liked to travel, and they both spent a period of time in order to communicate with people from different countries. Time and experience to learn all kinds of lingua franca, although the mastery of lingua franca is not a master, but you can also communicate with people from various countries, it is the best partner training.

Compared to when Penny was having a headache about her heavy learning of the common language, Joan was also feeling anxious about her current state, because as time went by, he found that his blindness was getting worse , From being unable to see clearly at the very beginning, until now he could not see anything clearly at all, and his brain and spine also felt some pain from time to time, as if some bugs were crawling around in his brain.

This made him ask Leo almost every once in a while whether his eyes would recover. Even if he got an affirmative answer from Leo, he still couldn't help but ask again after a while, as if the same thing happened over and over again. Only by asking can he dispel the anxiety in his heart.