The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Santa Priya, the city of white walls, the pearl of Papani Bay, my eternal love, I am fascinated by you!" When the carriage turned over a hill and the port of Sant Priya appeared in front of everyone, Joan was like It was a lunatic standing on the roof of the car, yelling wantonly, and his joy and excitement could be heard from the yelling.

The other horse-drawn carriages picking up passengers from the St. Paulia Lake Wharf seemed to be used to Joan's lunatic behavior. They ignored it and just introduced the settled hotels to the passengers in their own carriages so that they could get some commission. .

As for the people in the same carriage as Joan, Leo, Sylvia, and Penny all acted calmly. On the contrary, the young couple who joined in the middle hadn't adjusted yet, showing a little embarrassment on their faces. look.

It's just that the couple didn't feel puzzled by Joan's performance, because they already knew that Joan was a church knight of the Church of False Heart when they were on board, and his rank among church knights was second only to paladins. , this is already considered a senior priest.

As for the virtues of the clergy and believers of the False Heart Church, almost everyone in the world knows that this kind of lunatic behavior is actually a reasonable expression.

However, they were somewhat puzzled about the relationship between Leo, the Sylvia couple, and this vain senior clergyman, because from the performance on the ship, it was clear that Joan was in awe of the two of them, and would In front of the two of them, he restrained his madness as much as possible, and made himself behave like an ordinary person as much as possible.

At first they suspected that Leo and Sylvia were also senior priests of False Heart, and they were at the bishop level, but in the subsequent conversation, they found that their behavior was completely different from those of the False Heart Church. Only then did I realize that I had misunderstood.

But they are also more curious about the identities of Leo and Sylvia. You must know that although the clergy of the False Heart Church, especially the senior clergy, can be measured according to the code of conduct of normal people, they all have one thing in common. The code of conduct, that is, they will not respect anyone except for their vanity, even the popes of other churches, so when they saw that Joan showed respect to Leo and Silvia Only then will there be wrong guesses in my mind.

Although the young couple hid their curiosity well, both Leo and Sylvia could easily see their thoughts, and even used some simple clichés when talking to know their curiosity. real thoughts.

Undoubtedly, this young couple has completely misunderstood, and the biggest misunderstanding is that Joan is regarded as a real senior priest of the Church of False Heart. Perhaps Joan is no different from the senior priest of the Church of False Heart on the surface , are all insane, but in fact, the cause of Joan's insanity is the imitation god cells implanted in his brain and transformed from the real eye body, not the false heart, which Joan himself also knows It was very clear, so he knew that he would never be able to become a paladin and solve his own troubles.

Another misunderstanding is Joan's respect. Perhaps Leo's previous performance in the Rock Sanctuary made Joan feel powerful, but for a person with confused thinking, great power is not enough for him to show any respect The real reason why Joan showed respect to Leo from the heart, even ordinary people can see it, is actually the imprint of the gods of the real eye on Leo's body formed by the imitation god cells fused in Joan's body. Grade suppression.

If it is divided according to the level of the church, Joan is the family member of the True Eye, and it is still an inferior family member, while Leo is considered the envoy of the True Eye, or even the incarnation of the gods. With such a huge level gap, even if Leo Even if you don't do it, it can subtly affect Qiao An.

In fact, during the few days in the Liszt Swamp, when the power of the imitation god cells in Joan's body was suppressed, he was not affected by the imitation god cells, and the emotions he expressed were the most in line with normal emotions.

It's just that, at that time, all Joan's focus was on whether he would always be blind, whether his original good eyes would always be affected, and he didn't notice any other changes in his body.

Following that, the Holy Ship sailed out of the Liszt Swamp, and the power of law in the swamp also disappeared, and Joan returned to normal. The state seemed normal, at least to him, and so did others, such as the young couple.

After traveling on the Liszt River for about four days, the Holy Ship finally docked at the pier of St. Pauliyahu.

St. Paulia Lake is located at the end of the Liszt River. It was originally a small swamp without a name. Later, after the Liszt River was opened up, the St. Paulia Port was opened in order to allow ships on the river to berth better. This small unnamed swamp was dug up and became the current San Polia Lake.

During the most prosperous period of the Lister River, the wharf of St. Paulia Lake was able to dock thousands of flat-bottomed boats at the same time, and even more boats had to berth on the lake when they could not dock at the wharf. The disciples once counted how many boats there were when the entire lake surface of St. Paulia Lake was filled with ships. The final calculation was between 5,400 and 500. Therefore, there is also a lake of 5,000 boats in St. Paulia Lake. alias for .

At that time, because this area was too prosperous, St. Paulia not only built a white-walled avenue from here to St. Paulia Port, which can parallel ten carriages, but also built a large number of cargo storage facilities around the pier. Warehouses, and later a town was built. When this town was at its most prosperous, it even surpassed the capitals of many small inland countries in the New World.

The several major chambers of commerce that once controlled most of the warehouses and shops in this town tried to get the town out of the control of the Port of Santa Polia. Unfortunately, before they could achieve their goal, the New World Railway Network had already begun to be laid. When the St. Paulia Port Council competed for the control of the town, the freight industry on the List River gradually declined. When they reflected, the town built on the freight of the List River was unable to stop its own decline.

Now there are no other young people in this town except for some old people who can no longer make a living. The houses in the town, like most of the docks and warehouses, are all idle, and gradually decay with the wind and rain. The few chambers of commerce that the town regarded as treasures have also withdrawn, and the whole town is like a ghost town. No matter how late those tourists arrive at the pier, they are unwilling to stay in this town for the night. They will choose to go to St. Pauline overnight ya port.

The White Wall Avenue is the only road connecting this small town with the Port of Saint-Peria. In order to build this spacious road in the swamp, the city of Nice and the Port of Saint-Peria invested a lot, even at high prices, but it is extremely expensive. Built with durable white stone, it was originally thought that this avenue could be used for hundreds of years. Unexpectedly, in less than a hundred years, this avenue gradually fell into disrepair as the volume of trade decreased.

Now both sides of the road are covered with various swamp weeds, vines and shrubs. Because they were not repaired in time, some weeds and shrubs spread to the road, and even the root system cracked the road, which also made the road look like It looked very dilapidated.

The length of this road is not very long, and the horse-drawn carriage only needs to drive for about an hour according to the normal speed. However, due to the recent resurgence period and the influx of sea water, the swamps on both sides of the road have increased a lot, and a part of the road that was originally low It was submerged, so that the carriage of Leo and the others had to go around a temporary road and turn over a small hillside.

However, this also has an advantage, that is, when the carriage reaches the hillside, it can take advantage of the height of the hillside to overlook the whole picture of St. Paulia Harbor.

The port of Santa Polia was built very early, even earlier than the period of the Great Migration. Before the Great Migration, during the period of exploration of the New World, the Port of Santa Polia had already been built, but it was a little strange that all the documents did not It is recorded who built the port of St. Paulia.

It is important to know that the entire port of St. Paulia is built with white wall stones. Although there is a mining site for white wall stones nearby, it is very difficult to mine white wall stones. It is still expensive until now. Using white wall stones to build a street, Or some houses are not uncommon, but building an entire city, even now, is a matter that consumes a lot of money and manpower, and even the richest country cannot do it.

However, Port of St. Paulia is such a white-walled stone city. This city not only has urban buildings made of white-walled stones, but also regular streets made of white-walled stones. Even the sewer system is built with white-walled stones. into.

You must know that the sewer system had just become popular in the capitals and important cities of the Old Continent at that time, and there was no perfect plan. Everyone was in the groping stage, but there was a complete sewer system in the Port of San Polia. The news spread to In the Old Continent, it also caused quite a stir. People from all over the world even sent people to investigate the sewer system of the Port of St. Paulia.

In a way, the sewer systems of all cities in the Old World and the New World can be traced back to the port of Santa Polia.

The earliest ship to record the port of St. Paulia was not the expedition ship of those maritime countries in the old continent at that time, but a pirate ship that often plundered in the waters between the old and new continents.

At that time, the pirate ship was sunk by another escort ship of the expedition team. When the expedition team salvaged the spoils floating in the sea, they salvaged a captain's diary. When the captain of the expedition team looked through the diary, he found this The captain of a pirate ship recorded in his diary a city that was never recorded on any nautical chart.

In the diary, it is recorded that the main and secondary masts of the pirate ship were blown off in a certain storm, so the pirate ship had to drift southward along the ocean current, looking for a suitable docking point with materials for repairing the ship, and finally they came to a place from A mysterious city that is not recorded on the sea chart.

This city is the most majestic and magnificent city those pirates have ever seen. According to the original words recorded in the diary by the captain, when the city appeared before their eyes, the morning sun shone on the city, making the whole city glow. It emits a milky white light, like a huge gemstone inlaid on the surface of the earth.

The city was built so grandly, so there must be a lot of wealth in the city. Originally, the pirates planned to loot the city, but when their ship docked and the pirates rushed down from the ship, they found that there was no one at the dock, and then explored In the whole city, I found that there is no one in the whole city. Not only is there no one, there are no traces of human life. There are no tables, chairs and other daily necessities used by human beings in the whole city, and some are just empty white stones Architecture, as if the whole city was abandoned after it was built.

It was precisely because the whole city revealed a strange atmosphere, and there was nothing to grab in the city, that the pirates immediately lost interest in the city, and they fled without even repairing their boat that day. sailed again, and continued south along the ocean current to find a suitable place for rest.

After reading the captain's diary, the captain of the expedition team at that time immediately became interested in the empty city recorded in the diary, so he followed the records in the diary and followed the ocean current all the way south.

At that time, the main exploration direction of the expedition team in the Old Continent was in the northern region, while the southern region was full of hidden reefs, which was very dangerous, so no formal exploration was carried out. Only some individual explorers drove south with small sails. Most of these individual explorers perished because they collided with the reef ship, and the rest also turned back halfway and did not continue to explore.

However, driven by the ocean currents, the expedition fleet perfectly avoided the rocky waters and entered the southern coastline that had not been explored at that time. It didn't take long for them to see the city recorded by the pirate captain.

When they saw the city emitting soft light, everyone was stunned, only one young crew member couldn't help but say, "Saint Paulia."

Priya was actually a girl next door that the crew had a crush on. He always said that the girl was as pure as a saint, so he would often call her Saint Priya in his poems. As a result, This name later became the name of this white-walled stone city.

At first, the members of the expedition thought that the city was built by a certain god, but some priests accompanying the ship made it clear that the city has no aura of gods, and it is absolutely impossible to be built by gods.

Later, some people speculated that this might be a masterpiece of the local civilization of the New World. After all, the local civilization fever in the New World was just emerging at that time. Although no signs of local civilization in the New World were found in other places, it did not hinder the imagination of others.

This guess was quickly denied, because the buildings of the entire St. Paulia Port are in the architectural style of the old continent. Although the buildings here contain different characteristic buildings from more than a dozen countries, their source always points to the old world. mainland.

Ever since, who built St. Paulia Port has become one of the most mysterious mysteries in the New World, and it has not been solved so far.