The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Not long after the old man left the desert island, an ocean-going sailing ship from the Kingdom of Root went on the wrong route and passed near the desert island. Bernando was very lucky to board this ship and return to the Kingdom of Root.

This experience on the deserted island was the most important experience in Bernando’s life. He learned a lot of knowledge and skills from the old man on the deserted island, which played a very important role in his later life, so To this day, the life on that deserted island is still engraved in his memory.

After returning to Root, Bernando looked for the countries mentioned by the old man, the Kingdom of Sigmar, the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of France, etc., but he searched all the books and found no one that matched them. Although there is indeed a principality called England among the countries that have disappeared in the Norvat continent in the past, that country is completely different from the kingdom of England described by the old man. There is no shadow of the French Empire.

And more importantly, the old man mentioned that his own country, the Sigmar Kingdom, is an extremely powerful sea kingdom known as the Overlord of the Sea, but there has never been a sea kingdom in the Novat continent, even now that the gray fog has Disappearing on the sea, many coastal kingdoms compete for maritime interests, but the strength of these kingdoms is not much different from each other, and absolutely none of them is qualified to be called a maritime hegemony.

This made him have a bold guess, that is, the countries mentioned by the old man are not the world he is in, but another world, and he also told the old man that he was living on a deserted island from the process of the old man disappearing with the ghost ship. During the process, he guessed that the world of the old man might be in the gray fog on the edge of the world.

Although Bernando made a bold guess, he has no way to confirm it, and he can't even tell these things and ideas, because anyone who hears these guesses will regard him as a lunatic , a lunatic who lives alone on a deserted island and has to fantasize about an old man's companion.

So everything about the old man, the world in the gray mist that the old man said, etc. became Bernando’s secrets. He never told anyone about it, even including his wife and son. He also felt that he might Will take this secret to the grave.

However, just today, just now, Leo Dodd, a scholar from the Kingdom of Berent, actually told everyone that the place called the abyss is a world outside the gray fog, and that it is also a ghost ship that comes from a world outside the gray fog. , This immediately aroused the memory buried deep in his heart, and made him think about it.

"You guys go down, I have something to say to this Mr. Leo." Bernando felt that some things were not suitable to be said in front of everyone, so he told the other consultants.

Although the other consultants were also very curious about what the two of them were going to say, whether they were going to talk about the world outside the gray mist, and what Bernando, the leader of the pioneering team, knew, but no matter how powerful their curiosity was, Unable to resist the oppression of the power, they obediently walked out of the tent without any rebuttal upon hearing Bernando's order.

After the consultant left, Bernando went outside the tent again, and told his personal guards to stay away from the tent and not let anyone approach him. After taking these precautions to avoid being overheard, he returned to the tent, and then directed at Leo Using the Sigma language he learned from the old man, he said half a sentence of the common proverb of the Sigma Kingdom, saying: "A person can never meet the same people in the same place."

When Bernando uttered the not-so-standard, even slightly convoluted Sigma language, Leo couldn't help showing a shocked look on his face, and he took advantage of the opportunity to connect the other half in standard Sigma language. A proverb says: "Just as a ship can never meet the same ship at the same position on the sea."

Hearing the proverbs that Leo continued and the language he used, Bernando's face was also occupied by a shocked expression, as if the shock emotion was some kind of contagious virus.

"You, have you seen people from the Kingdom of Sigma?" Bernando asked impatiently after calming down a little.

Leo said truthfully: "I have not only met people from the Kingdom of Sigma, I have also been to the world where the Kingdom of Sigma is located."

"This is impossible, this is impossible! Ghost ship, have you ever boarded a ghost ship, and got off the ship alive?" Bernando stepped back several times as if he had been frightened by something, his body Had to rely on the hands to support the table to be able to stand firmly.

In his opinion, only a ghost ship can travel through the gray fog in this world, and if what Leo said is true, then it can only be that Leo boarded the ghost ship, passed through the gray fog through the ghost ship, and reached the gray fog. The world on the other side of the fog, and then returned to this world through the ghost ship, and got off the ghost ship alive.

"No, it's impossible! No one can get off the ghost ship alive!" However, after he made this guess, he quickly denied it.

"I boarded the ghost ship and got off the ship safely, but I didn't go to the world beyond the gray mist through the ghost ship as you said," Leo guessed at this moment that the nobleman of the Root Kingdom should be He had met people from the Kingdom of Sigma, and spent a long time with them, so that he could learn the language of the Kingdom of Sigma, which made him very interested in Bernando's experience, so he did not hide his origin, Use this to elicit the information you want to know.

After hearing Leo's words, Bernando was completely stunned. He looked at Leo with his mouth open, not knowing what to say.

According to common sense, he should question Leo, but the problem is that he is a person who has really seen another world. He knows that the people in the other world are no different from himself, just like people in another country. Leo was able to speak the half-proverb in Sigma, which was more accurate than him. Obviously, this was enough to prove that even if Leo didn't come from another world, he definitely had a long-term contact with people from another world like him.

No matter which possibility means that Leo really knows that there are other worlds beyond the gray fog, it also means that what Leo said before is very likely to be true.

Bernando took a deep breath, calmed down his somewhat confused heart, and asked with confirmation: "Since you said you are from that world, then tell me, which country in that world are you from?"

"Inge." Leo replied calmly.

Hearing the word Inge, Bernando believed Leo's words a little more in his heart, and then he asked, "Besides the Kingdom of Inge, do you know which kingdoms there are in that world?"

Leo then talked about more than a dozen kingdoms in the world of Velen. After listening to Bernando, he found that among the kingdom names Leo said, in addition to the names of kingdoms such as the Faran Empire he knew, there were many other kingdoms that he did not know. The name, which also made him feel more and more that Leo really came from the world outside the gray fog.

Before Bernando asked again, Leo asked first: "Since Sir Bernando has asked so many questions, and I have answered your questions, I would also like to ask you why you understand Sigma, Could it be that you have also been to the world outside the gray fog, or have you spent a long time with people from the Kingdom of Sigma in that world?"

Hearing this, Bernando hesitated for a moment. Maybe he felt that since Leo had already answered his question, he should also answer Leo's question. So he sorted out his thoughts and put his past experience of living on a deserted island Simply told Leo.

After hearing this, Leo couldn't help falling into deep thought. He could hear that Bernando was hiding something, but that was not important to him. What he valued was that Bernando's experience just proved his guess. At the same time, it also provided him with a feasible way to leave this world, that is to pass through the gray fog and reach the world of Velen on the other side.

From the life experience of the old man Sigma in Bernando's mouth, it is not difficult to see that the gray fog itself is not harmful, otherwise, the old man Sigma would not have come to this world alive, but what really makes the gray fog dangerous is in the gray fog. Unknown forces and extraordinary life forms exist, and the damage caused by these dangers is unpredictable.

One thing Leo can be sure of is that although the old man Sigma came to this world alive and lived on a deserted island in this world for a long time, it seems that he passed through the gray fog without any harm, but actually The old man Sigma has actually been infected or polluted by the unknown force in the gray fog. It is more correct to say that this pollution is more like turning the old man Sigma into a signal source, constantly sending signals to the people who have been transformed by the gray fog. The ghost ship transmits the signal, and only then does the ghost ship appear by the sea, the old man boards the ship, and disappears with the ghost ship.

Leo did not see what was going on with his own eyes, but through the situation described by Bernando and his own speculation, it is almost certain that the power contained in the gray mist can play some role in this world where all extraordinary power is suppressed. As a result, this may be the most important information Leo discovered from the experience narrated by Bernando.

You must know that in this world, even the power of the Stone Throne is suppressed to the point of being completely suppressed, and other powers are suppressed to the point where it makes no difference whether to use it or not, but now there is a power that can still be used in this world. The powerful effect in the world of the law of anti-extraordinary power naturally made Leo covet him. He felt that it was necessary to study this power. If he could master this power, then he would have an easier time in this world. For some, don't worry about finding a way to leave this world smoothly.

"Although you said that you are from that world, it seems incredible to me, because compared to the fact that you are from that world, you have seen and heard people from that world just like me. The things in that world seem more reasonable." Although Bernando had completely believed that the person in front of him knew more about the things in that world than himself, he still had some doubts about the origin of what he said, so he asked for proof: "Do you still have Is there any other evidence that you are from that world?"

Leo didn't follow Bernando's idea to come up with any evidence, but smiled and said: "I don't need proof, it doesn't make any sense to me whether you believe it or not, compared to whether I come from that world, your lord Shouldn't you be more concerned about the current situation?"

Bernando was stunned, and realized that he was putting the cart before the horse. As the other party said, the most important thing for him now is to solve his current bad situation and find a new partner who is enough for him to continue to develop the colony.

After figuring out the priorities, Bernando suppressed his curiosity about the other world, and asked instead: "According to your opinion, Joe's proposal is feasible, right?"

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

Bernando froze for a moment, he thought that Leo was a lobbyist arranged by Joe, but now it seems that things are different from what he thought.

I saw that Leo continued: "I don't understand what you and Joe are talking about. Joe and I are just cooperating to explore the underground world together."

"Underground world?" Bernando was completely stunned, he didn't understand why there was another underground world.

Leo didn't hide it either. Compared to Joe, he felt that Bernando in front of him was more suitable to be a collaborator, even though Bernando knew nothing about the so-called underground world.

So, he told Bernando about the underground world and the cooperation between him and Joe.

After hearing this, Bernando was even more shocked. He never imagined that in addition to the indigenous tribes, there was an underground world in the New World, and that underground world even had a passage connected to the Novat continent. This was undoubtedly in his opinion. It is a news that is enough to shock the whole world.

Now the coastal kingdoms of the Novat continent are very active in the development of new continents and ocean resources. They have spared no expense in building fleets and investing in the development of new continents and ocean routes. Today, only three routes are stable and safe. The rest of the so-called The routes are either full of unpredictable ocean turbulence, or are located in areas with high incidence of storms, and there are not enough islands in the middle of those routes to provide supplies, which makes the countries that currently control those three routes control most of the New World Wealth, if other kingdoms want to sail from these three routes, they must pay a high shipping fee.

It is not that there are no countries trying to seize control of these three routes, but the countries that control these three routes not only have extremely powerful naval fleets, but they have also built strong fortresses on the islands in the route. Cruising fleets that can get all kinds of supplies are basically difficult to defeat in the sea areas they control.

Now, if there is a passage that can pass through the ocean from the ground and connect the two continents, then not only those maritime countries will be moved by it, but even those inland countries that are not interested in the new continent are very likely to pay attention. All power has been transferred to the New World, so the whole world may be agitated by this channel, just like Bernando is now agitated by the news.