The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Hancock is the senior leader of the Ice Bear Merchant Guild. He has been with Filoria since the establishment of the Ice Bear Caravan. With his qualifications and status, he should have been promoted to the steward of the caravan or assigned to different cities. He has served as the head of the chamber of commerce branch, but now he is still only one of the leaders of the chamber of commerce. This is entirely because he has to blame himself.

Hancock, who grew up in the market since he was a child, developed a lot of bad habits. These bad habits have been deeply rooted in his character and behavior and cannot be corrected at all. For this reason, he even chopped off three fingers on his left hand, but still no change. A little bit of effect, bad habits still appear when they should appear.

It is precisely because of these bad habits that Hancock has made many mistakes in his career over the past few years, and these mistakes have directly affected his promotion. The mistakes he made were kicked out of the caravan, and to make matters worse, some mistakes that were not revealed were now used by others to blackmail him.

This time Philorea personally led the caravan to the north. Originally, Hancock didn't have to join, but this time he offered to be the leader of a team in the caravan. smuggled a batch of special cargo.

Although the beliefs of the Church of the True God in the entire Old Continent spread all over the countries, the polar mountains north of the Northland Snowfield are the restricted area of ​​the Church of the True God. Some primitive natural spirit beliefs prevail here, while the belief in the True God has lost its place here. Some brilliance.

Although the cities in the polar mountains will not oppose the mission of the Church of the True God on the surface, they will secretly use some means to hinder the effect of the mission, such as preventing any books related to the Church of the True God from entering the polar mountains, preventing the Church of the True God from setting up holy Churches and other important missionary places, if the Church of the True God wants to preach, it will send clergy to preach one-on-one, one by one. This kind of missionary efficiency can be said to be almost non-existent.

Of course, these obstructive actions against the Church of the True God in various cities in the mountains will not be written into laws and regulations, but will become a customary rule, and some small tricks will be implemented during execution, such as blocking books related to the Church of the True God, which is to directly check These books, Ann’s crime is that there are prohibited books in them, and the way to avoid the Church of True God’s creation of interfaces is also very simple, that is, to deliberately stuff a few prohibited books pretending to be church classics in them when they are confiscated.

The Church of the True God is naturally very clear about this, but they have no reason to blame the polar mountains for what they did, so they can only suffer from being dumb.

However, even so, the enthusiasm of the clergy in the Church of True God for preaching to the various cities in the polar mountains has not diminished in the slightest. A large number of ascetic clergy believe that the polar mountains are the test of the gods, so even if they fail countless times, they still A large number of clergy from the Church of True God rushed to the cities in the polar mountains one after another.

Although those clergy who believed in asceticism were full of enthusiasm, passion was not enough for missionary work, and a tool was also needed. Naturally, this tool was the church books that recorded the true meaning of the gods.

When Philorea began to organize a northward caravan, the clergy of the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge in the Church of True God approached Hancock, willing to pay a lot of money for Hancock to help them transport a batch of church classics to Movit Road.

The reason why Hancock was found was because one of Hancock’s very important handles was grasped by the people of the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge. The other is that the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce where Hancock belongs is a very special chamber of commerce. The owner of the chamber of commerce, Philo Leah had an agreement with the city lord of Movit Road. This agreement not only reduced Filoria's business tax for 30 years, but also allowed Filoria's caravan to have the qualifications not to be inspected when entering the city. Only a few special characters such as Filoria have the qualifications for the entire Northland Snowfield.

Facing the request of the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge, Hancock only hesitated for a moment before agreeing. The reason why he agreed so readily was that the handle left behind was too dangerous. If it was leaked, even the Chamber of Commerce would not be able to protect it Hold him, or even send him away directly.

In addition, although the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge is restricted in the cities of the polar mountains like other Churches of True God, the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge is different from other churches. Their way of preaching is more like imparting knowledge, even They still have some cooperation with various cities in the polar mountains, so even if the books transported by the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge are discovered, they will not be punished too much. Then, borrowing the influence of the Chamber of Commerce, they only need to confiscate the smuggled goods and pay some A fine might be enough to get away.

Of course, he readily agreed because the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge gave too much, and he really needs a lot of money recently.

Things went well. He took advantage of his position to mix the classics of the Spirit of Knowledge Church with the goods of the Chamber of Commerce, and took the initiative to serve as the leader of this team. The only accident was that the departure time of the caravan was later than expected. It was much later, and the biggest problem encountered when starting late was the black storm on the snow field.

The caravan happened to encounter a black storm on the road. Although this black storm was not the biggest, it was also very dangerous for the entire caravan. This also forced the caravan to turn around and come to Palm Rock Avoid the black storm.

When the caravan successfully arrived at the Palm Rock and started camping, Hancock received the news that Philorea put aside the business of the caravan and ran to find the legendary treasure of the Palm Rock. As the leader of the chamber of commerce, Loria is too irrelevant, but he is happy to see the results, because without Filoria's personal supervision, many inspection procedures will be much easier.

Since it needs to be repaired at the Palm Rock for a few days, the goods can't continue to be placed on the back of the pack beast, and they need to be unloaded one by one and counted one by one.

If Filoria was there, the caravan stewards would definitely ask each team in the caravan to unload and count each other's goods to prevent someone from messing around, but now that Filoria is not there, there is room for redemption.

"Portis, I will unload and count my team later, okay?" Hancock directly approached the supervisor in charge of his part of the team and suggested.

Hearing Hancock's proposal, Portis glanced at him and said, "Did you smuggle something?"

The reason why Hancock was sure that things could be reversed was because Portis, who is now his boss, had been very good friends with him in the past, and they had killed each other, and Portis could become a supervisor. Borrowing some of Hancock's relationship, so he thought that the other party should not embarrass him for such a small matter as unloading, but what he didn't expect was that the other party directly saw through the reason behind his behavior, and panic immediately appeared on his face. Looking around, seeing that other people were busy with the things in their hands, and didn't hear what he said just now, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"You're crazy, is it possible to say such a thing?" Hancock, who had regained his strength, couldn't help complaining.

"You can do it, I can't say it yet." Portis also looked at his friend extremely dissatisfied, but still lowered his voice, leaned in front of the other party, and whispered: "Don't you know you What is your current situation? If this matter is known, you will be too late. What else can you do after being kicked out of the Chamber of Commerce, and which caravan will use you? At that time, your creditors... "

Hancock also knew that his friend was worried about him. Facing his friend's lesson, he also lowered his head, did not refute, and listened silently. As for whether he listened to it, he didn't know. , raised his head and said, "I've already done everything, what else can I do?"

Looking at the friend in front of him, Portis took a deep breath to suppress the anger in his heart, and then asked Hancock very seriously: "What are you smuggling? Could it be those taboos..."

"No, no! Of course not." Hancock shook his head quickly and said, "I dare not touch those things. The things smuggled this time are just a batch of books."

"Book?" Portis frowned, and quickly remembered what book Hancock was talking about, and immediately confirmed: "It's from the church..."

Before he finished speaking, Hancock nodded, and then drew a representative symbol of the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge with his fingers in the air.

Seeing that the smuggled goods were the classics of the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge, Portis also breathed a sigh of relief. Although it is also the Church of the True God, the tolerance of the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge in the cities of the polar mountains is higher than that of other Churches of the True God. It's much bigger, and even if it is discovered, it won't cause too much trouble.

However, he was still uneasy and reconfirmed: "Are you sure there are only books from the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge and nothing else?"

"Of course I'm sure, I installed the goods myself." Hancock felt that his friend was about to let go, and responded quickly.

Portis thought for a while after hearing this, and said, "Okay then! You will be responsible for the unloading and counting of your team." Then, he reminded: "Don't let others find out. The camp is cleared out and it's getting dark."

Seeing that the goal had been achieved, and Hancock was no longer in the mood to talk to his friends, he immediately turned around and prepared to go back to his team to unload, but at this moment the ground under his feet shook suddenly, and he lost his footing and fell to the ground. On the ground, many other people around fell like him, and the abnormal shaking of the ground also disturbed the pack animals of the caravan. Walking away from the Palm Rock, he ran into the surrounding forest.

Because the load had only just been unloaded, the pack beast's sudden panic caused all the rest of the load to fall off the pack beast's back, and the sudden change caught everyone in the caravan by surprise, and they didn't stabilize the load immediately. beast.

Although the people in the caravan were experienced and returned to normal soon, it was over. All kinds of goods were scattered all over the camp, and some were brought into the woods by frightened pack animals.

At this time, the managers of each team stood on the height of the piled goods, so that everyone around them could see themselves, and then loudly issued orders one by one to suspend camping. Some people stayed to clean up the chaotic camp, while the other part stayed behind. Under the leadership of the escort, he entered the woods and began to retrieve the pack animals and scattered goods.

Hancock was crying to death at this moment, for the pack-beast that carried his smuggled load was among the frightened pack-beasts, and since his ranks were at the outermost point, the pack-beasts ran farther when he When he returned to the camp where his team was, his subordinates told him that the pack animal had gone deep into the woods, and it was difficult to find it in the current snowstorm.

Hancock did not veto his subordinate's proposal, because he also felt that the proposal was correct. Although it might cause accidents if the pack animals were left in the forest like this, his smuggled church books were all placed in strong boxes. Even if something happens to the pack beast, there will be no problem with those things. At that time, you only need to get the goods back and replace it with a pack beast.

However, just when Hancock decided to follow the advice of his subordinates and temporarily concentrate on finding the lost pack animals nearby, and waited for the pack animals that went too deep into the woods to wait for the weather to clear up, the previous ground vibration reappeared. And this time the magnitude of the vibration was even greater.

The caravan staff who had the previous experience immediately stabilized the pack animals that panicked again, and each held on to the things around them to avoid falling, while the pack animals that hadn't caught it in time ran away even faster because of the fright. Far.

Faced with this situation, Hancock felt that this kind of earthquake might happen again in the future, and the frightened pack animals would flee further away in fright. Not anymore.

As a result, Hancock changed his mind and immediately divided two groups of people like other team leaders. One group stayed in place to clean up the camp, and the other group followed him into the forest to look for the lost pack animals.

After that, as Hancock expected, the earthquakes became more frequent and the movement became louder. Some of the pools around the Palm Rock began to boil, and some rapidly cooled and froze. All these changes did not seem to be a good thing. occur.

For this reason, the caravan executives discussed moving the caravan camp to a more peripheral place, so that they would be the first to bear the brunt of any major abnormalities.

However, the more serious problem now is what happened to their Chamber of Commerce owner Filoria.

Now these executives are very clear that all these abnormal movements must be related to the palm rock, and now Filoria is looking for the legendary treasure of the palm rock, and to connect the two, they all have to suspect that Filoria may be Found the legendary palm rock treasure, and fought against the terrifying existence guarding the treasure, that's why there was such a big commotion.

For these executives, it is obvious that the safety of Filoria is more important than the goods of the caravan, so they quickly made a decision to support Filoria, but now The problem is they don't know where Filoria is.

And when these caravan executives were anxious and worried about the safety of Filoria, they were alarmed by bursts of exclamations from not far away, and they climbed up the pile of goods and looked towards the side of the exclamations. , they saw Filoria, who had become taller and had a pair of golden antlers on her head, walking towards them, while the relatively short figure beside Filoria was directly ignored by them.