The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

On the sea swept by the lightning storm, a dilapidated sailing ship swayed with the huge waves. Although it looked like the ship would be overturned by the huge waves at any time and sink to the bottom of the sea, in fact, no matter the huge waves No matter how fierce the waves are, the ship can always sail smoothly on the sea.

The speed of this ship was extremely fast, and it was still dangling on the distant sea a moment ago, and it had already driven to the vicinity of the Speargun in less than ten minutes, and began to keep pace with the Speargun, feeling as if it was being pulled by some invisible force generally.

I don't know whether the fear of the ghost ship exceeds the fear of the storm, or because there is some powerful invisible force in the ghost ship. The surrounding wind and rain seem to be much smaller, and even the huge waves sent are not so dangerous.

This is not the first time the captain and the others have seen a ghost ship. In fact, in their decades of long voyage experience, the least number of times they have seen a ghost ship is more than ten times. However, any experience of seeing a ghost ship in the past , are not as shocked as this time.

Because the ghost ships they saw in the past would float on the distant sea for a period of time, as long as they did not take the initiative to approach, they could always keep a distance from the ghost ship, and this distance was also regarded as a safe distance for them, but this time they encountered In an accident, this ghost ship seemed to be directed at their ship. After it appeared, it sailed towards them, and then docked at a close distance that could only be swung by cables. They could even rely on the sky. The light of the lightning, the pattern of the wood on the ghost hull can be clearly seen, and the disappearance of the safe distance naturally makes the captain and the others feel fear that they have never had before.

"Damn it, I knew something would happen! Those guys were talking about ghost ships, so I knew something would happen!" the first officer couldn't help trembling.

The captain raised his foot and kicked the first mate to wake him up from his panic, and then tried to calm himself down, saying: "Don't panic! As long as we don't board the ship, we will not be in danger." Commanded: "You go down immediately and watch those boys. It is said that the ghost ship will have a bewitching effect on some people who have been unsteady, so that they can't help boarding. You must watch those boys. You can use some extraordinary measures from time to time.”

After hearing this, the first officer nodded, picked up his weapon and walked out of the rudder cabin, covered his face with his hat, lowered his head, not daring to take a second look at the ghost ship, and hurried down to the cabin below.

At this time, the cabin below did not know that there was a ghost ship close to the Speargun outside, so shortly after the first officer went down to the cabin, there were bursts of panic and exclamation, and then fell silent immediately. It felt like someone had suddenly covered their mouth.

At the same time, in the cabin of the small boat, Leo looked at the ghost ship that appeared out of the window with a serious face, and his sight completely fell on the name "Queen Sydney" written on the side of the ghost ship with special paint.

Yes, Queen Sydney, Sylvia's special car in the world of Velen, because the steam engine is too bulky and ugly, when building this ship, Sylvia used a traditional sailboat, the entire hull The design of the ship is not the fastest design, but the most beautiful and gorgeous design. When it is intact and sailing on the sea, it looks like a beautiful white seagull, so this ship is also called For the White Gull.

It's just that the Queen Sydney is already dilapidated, and the pure white hull can't help being covered by various molds and decay. Even the Queen's statue, which was sculpted by Sylvia, is decapitated. And if you observe carefully, you can find that the traces at the fracture were not broken after decay, but were cut off by a sharp weapon.

In addition to the traces of being attacked on the fracture of the bow, there are also many holes made by artillery or muskets in other places on the ship. In addition, obvious traces of fire can be seen at the half-broken mast. From the location of the fire traces and the surrounding conditions From the looks of it, it wasn't an ordinary fire, but more like a magic flame with a directional attack.

In Leo's memory, when he and Sylvia left, he had already given the right to use the Queen Sydney to his daughter, and now that the ship appears in such a state, the only thing that can be explained is the possibility It was the daughter who was attacked.

However, with the strength of the kingdom established by Sylvia in the Mosang Continent at that time, plus the various resources and knowledge left by Leo before leaving, their children will not bully other kingdoms and unify the northern part of the Mosang Continent The area is already very good, how could someone be able to attack them proactively?

Thinking of this, Leo had the idea of ​​boarding this ghost ship to take a peek, but because of the weirdness revealed by the various legends of the ghost ship, Leo realized the situation around him very carefully, and tried to use it. Checking the spirit net, the result is the same as before, the release-type psionic energy will still be weakened to the maximum, and there is no such thing as the space superposition that he guessed before, leading to the reduction of the effect of the world law. After confirming that the psionic skills are useless, he changed It becomes an analysis of the situation on board through the sound echoes caused by rainwater and waves beating the hull, through the subtle smells left on the ship and other information that can be received through the five supernormal senses.

After confirming that there were no abnormal objects on the ship, Leo went straight out of the window, skipped over the area between the two ships, and landed steadily on the helm platform at the stern, and then went down directly to the On the deck, they entered the captain's room under the helm station.

Although Leo's movements were quick and silent, he was still seen by Captain Buffy of the Speargun who was at the helm, but because of the wind, rain and weather, he couldn't see Leo's appearance and figure clearly. I saw a blurry figure swaying on the deck of the ghost ship.

Witnessing this scene, he couldn't help shivering, and immediately recalled the legends about the scary ghosts on the ghost ship, his body immediately became stiff, and at the same time he became afraid to breathe, for fear that his breathing would be too loud , to lure those terrible ghosts on the ghost ship to his own ship.

At this time, Leo, who had already entered the captain's room, quickly checked the situation in the room. Because of Sylvia's habit, the construction of the captain's room was not much different from the office, except for a large table, surrounded by File cabinets for storing documents and books. There are still many files and books in these file cabinets, but most of them are rotten. Only a few important documents that have been treated with special potions are still intact.

Leo directly picked up those documents and looked through them, and found that the contents of these documents, which Sylvia had mentioned to him before, were all information about important officials of neighboring countries, and some of these information contained records The evidence that the officials accepted her bribes, but kept and processed these documents with water, is not to use these documents as evidence to blackmail those officials, but to let the intelligence organizations of neighboring countries take these documents by themselves when necessary. Take it and let them willingly help her deal with those officials who are no longer useful.

After seeing these documents, Leo felt a little doubt in his heart, because according to Sylvia, these documents should have been stolen by the intelligence organization of the neighboring country, and successfully caused the other party to believe in themselves. The massacre solved several important enemies of neighboring countries, which meant that these documents should not have appeared on this ship.

Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help suspecting that this ship was not the Queen Sydney he knew, but the Queen Sydney of another time dimension, the world of Velen, and this ship might be the ship he and Sylvie Ya had already been attacked and became a ghost ship before meeting in Mozambique, which also explained why these documents appeared on the ship.

While thinking, Leo put down the files in his hand, then walked to the desk, opened the drawer to check the situation inside, originally there should be some important files in it, but those files were taken away, the drawer It was empty, except for a few rotten and unimportant waste papers still lying at the bottom of the drawer.

Although he didn't find anything in the drawer, Leo didn't put the drawer back, but pulled it out completely, then reached out and groped on the wooden board at the top of the drawer, and found what he was looking for, followed Hill's instructions. The rules Via described flipped the movable metal plates above.

With a crisp clicking sound, I saw the tabletop suddenly and slowly rise, revealing a secret collection cabinet made of special metal between the bottom of the tabletop and the top board of the drawer.

After seeing the things in the collection cabinet, Leo's face changed slightly, because he saw something that should not have appeared in the collection cabinet, and this thing was the wedding ring he was wearing on his hand now.

Leo immediately picked up the wedding ring and looked at it. In fact, he didn't need to look at it. This ring was made by him himself, and he had been wearing it in his hand all the time. He knew the details of the ring's weight, pattern and so on. The moment he picked up that ring, he could be sure that it was the same ring as the one he was wearing in his hand, and even that ring also contained the power of a white deer's blessing, even in such a world Among them, even if it has been stored here for an unknown period of time, the power of the White Deer's blessing contained in it is still slightly weakened.

With the appearance of this wedding ring now, it seems that the guesses made by Leo because of the appearance of those documents are no longer correct, because in his memory, the time when he and Sylvia met in Mozambique was definitely at After those documents had been stolen by the intelligence organization of the neighboring country, and his and Sylvia's wedding was at a later time, these two things should not appear at the same time.

But now these two things have indeed appeared at the same time, so the explanation that Leo can make is that the time dimension where the Queen Sydney is located is completely different from the time dimension where he is. There are big changes, for example, he and Sylvia got married after they came out of the Black Forest, instead of getting married after going to the Mozambique continent like the current him.

Leo suddenly sniffed hard, as if he smelled something unusual, and then took the ring under his nose and smelled it carefully. Through his extraordinary sense of smell, Leo quickly analyzed that the ring was once covered with dirt. The blood, although it has been removed now, the residue of the blood is still on it, and more importantly, the blood he smells seems to be his own blood.

"Am I already dead in that time dimension?" A guess suddenly appeared in Leo's mind. The wedding ring was stored here alone, and there was still blood on the ring, which only reminded him that he was dead. Then Sylvia left his ring as a souvenir.

Negative associations did not affect Leo's emotions. He quickly returned to his normal state, put the ring in his pocket, and then looked at other items in the collection cabinet.

I saw that there were only three things left in the cabinet. One was the noble badge of the Belmont family. Leo had seen Sylvia take out this badge. The badge of the Lord, but there are not many people in the Belmont family, so this badge has become a souvenir.

In addition, there is a Queen's Seal next to it, which is exclusive to Sylvia, but this seal should also be a discarded seal, because the seal on the seal has been scratched by a carving knife, and Leo did not see this seal. Yes, but I heard Sylvia mention it and Leo clearly remembered that Sylvia was still using this seal before leaving. In the end, this seal was left in the palace and was not taken away, but now it is It was stored in this secret collection cabinet as a souvenir.

Compared with the previous two souvenirs that did not reveal much useful information, the remaining item seems to be able to bring some useful things to Leo, because this item is a diary, but this diary The recording method is a password encryption method that Leo has never seen before. If you want to reveal the contents of the diary, you need to decipher the summary password and encryption method, which cannot be done in a short time.

Leo knew that now was not the right time to decrypt, so he put the diary in his pocket, and was about to continue searching for other useful clues on the ship.

Suddenly a slight shaking came from the hull under his feet, and Leo judged from the sound of the waves beating the hull that the Queen Sydney under his feet was leaving the way of sailing alongside the Speargun and was moving away from the Speargun.

Leo immediately walked out of the cabin and came to the deck. As expected, the Queen Sydney was turning around and heading away from the Speargun, and the surrounding storm seemed to have weakened a lot. The lightning in the sky also became intermittent, not as continuous as before.

The current situation made Leo hesitate a little. If he stayed on the Queen Sydney, he might be able to discover the biggest secret hidden in this world with the Queen Sydney, but in this case, he might miss Sylvia , because Sylvia probably also drifted into this world with him.

Thinking of this, Leo quickly made a decision. He quickly ran to the side of the ship, stepped on the side of the ship hard, and jumped up, drawing an arc, and very precisely drilled into the window of the small cabin of the Speargun. Back in his temporary room, he turned his head and stood by the window, watching the Queen Sydney getting farther and farther away, disappearing into the turbulent ocean.