The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The change of exterior painting, sail flag, and ship shape of the Snow Queen naturally attracted the attention of the passengers on board. The old captain easily deceived the passengers on the ship on the grounds of avoiding being discovered.

In fact, it doesn’t matter if the old captain doesn’t solve any doubts. Most of the passengers on the ship are interested in the magic of the Snow Queen. Turned into a triangular sail, the whole ship changed from a large white sailing ship to a large speedboat, and only curiosity about this magical sailing ship was left in their minds. As for other questions, they had already been thrown away by them. The back of your mind.

Afterwards, the voyage was very smooth, and there were no accidents. The only thing that made people on board feel uncomfortable was that they often felt nervous for no reason.

However, compared to the passengers on the ship and most of the sailors who were ignorant of what happened to them, the family members like the old captain who had mutated to a certain extent were very clear about the source of this phenomenon.

Although the crew couldn't stand the loss of control again and again, they came to the old captain one after another, asking the old captain to ask what happened to Leo and whether they could stop it, but the old captain ignored the request of the crew and just let the crew Just be patient, there are not many days left anyway.

Compared with taking the route of the Pearl Island Chain, it is obviously much faster to go directly from Falling Star Sea to the Principality of Pusi. The formation of nearly a month has been reduced to more than ten days, and after the Ice Queen departed from that small island, luck improved. After a while, not only did the walking route not only follow the ocean current, but also follow the sea breeze, and we did not encounter any bad weather such as storms.

Such a smooth voyage greatly reduced the original sailing schedule of only ten days to about ten days, which also included the few days they stayed on the small island.

Maybe everything went too smoothly. When the old captain saw a ship with the patrol fleet of the Principality of Pus appearing in the distance, he almost thought it was a pirate's disguise. After all, the pirates disguised themselves as some national patrol fleets Robbery is not uncommon in Velen, and some may even be patrol fleets.

When the patrol fleet of the Principality of Puluo appeared, in order to avoid trouble, the old captain directly hung the flag of the Grand Duke of the Principality, and disguised himself as the private fleet of the Duke of Puluo.

Naturally, the patrol fleet would not give up on the inspection of the Ice Queen based on just one flag. After all, flags can be faked, but when they got close to the Ice Queen and took some documents from the old captain, they were sure of the ship in front of them. It is indeed the Grand Duke's ship.

So, they not only let it go, but also dispatched two armed boats to escort this weird-looking speedboat to Simps port.

The Principality of Pus is the most special duchy of the Kingdom of Maris. The Grand Duke I of Pus who founded the Principality was a Daliat. At that time, he rescued the king of the Kingdom of Maris in Roland and helped the king regain the throne. , So the king rewarded him with a piece of Pusi forest land at the southernmost tip of the Maris Kingdom and several small fishing villages around it, and named him Grand Duke of Pusi.

Although the Grand Duke Pusi is the Grand Duke of the Maris Kingdom, the Grand Duke himself has never joined the Maris Kingdom, and he regards himself as a Daliat, and because he helped the king regain the throne, he had a relationship with many southern nobles. As a result of enmity, King Maris probably didn't have any good intentions in sealing him to the south, so he couldn't get any support from the king. In the end, he chose to ask Daliat for help.

At that time, King Dalia felt that this was an opportunity. Even if he failed, he would not lose anything. If he succeeded, he would be able to own an enclave in the south.

So Daliat immediately sent some well-trained fighters to the Principality of Puss by means of immigrants. After joining the Principality of Puss, these fighters helped the Grand Duke of Puss resist many attacks from the southern aristocrats, and finally Allowing the Grand Duke of Pusi to gain a firm foothold in the south.

Afterwards, the Principality of Puss and Daliyat secretly carried out many immigration plans, turning all the citizens of the Duchy of Puss into Daliyats. After the death, there was turmoil again within the Kingdom of Marris, and when there was no way to punish the Principality of Pusi, the Grand Duke of Pusi at that time issued a statement in conjunction with Deliyat, merging the Principality into the Kingdom of Deliya.

On the second day after the statement was issued, Dailiat's fleet and army entered the Principality of Pus, completely engulfing this southern enclave into the kingdom's territory.

Although the Kingdom of Marris tried to take back this land many times afterwards, in the end, because the Kingdom of Deliyat stationed troops in the north, and the Kingdom of Savile, the old enemy, joined in the fun and made troubles in the east, the Kingdom of Marris had to give up targeting the land. Due to some military operations of the Principality of Puss, it has become an internationally recognized fact that this southern enclave has become part of Deliyat's territory over time.

Most of the land in the Duchy of Pus is salty and alkaline land. Except for a few marine plants that can grow, other crops such as food are not suitable for planting here. For a long time, the people of the Duchy of Pus have relied on fishing for sea fish , As for other vegetables and food, most of them are transported from Daliat.

It wasn't until the era of great navigation began that Simps built a large deep-water port due to environmental reasons, which helped Daliat's naval power develop to the southern seas, and the Principality of Puss gradually changed from a backward fishing principality to a The entire Vinylon is a well-known maritime trade principality.

The Grand Duke of Pus also transferred his administrative office from the inland Pus City to the port of Simpus. Under the careful management of successive Dukes of Pusi, Simpus has become the most important external port of the Sigma Continent, and its status is almost It is equivalent to Venaya Port in Velen Continent.

When the Ice Queen came to the sea off Simps, it sent two escort boats back, and because of the change in shape, it was not eye-catching among the many merchant ships going to and from Simps Port.

When the Ice Queen entered the sheltered bay, the secret dock staff who had been waiting here drove a tugboat to meet them, and brought the Ice Queen into the queen's private secret dock.

Immediately after the ship entered the dock, a team of staff picked up the passengers on the ship. It seemed that they were arranging forged boarding records for these passengers. It was also necessary to reach some agreements with these people so as not to damage Daliad. Some of the queen's plans.

Leo and Old Beren were not among these people. After the ship docked at the dock, Leo left the Ice Queen, and the old captain didn't stop him, while Old Beren stayed. Other things to do.

The urban layout of Simps Harbor is almost the same as that of all port cities. It is divided into several large areas such as dock area, commercial area, residential area, administrative area, etc. Because of environmental problems, there are not many flowers and plants here, but because of the city Just next to the quarry, coupled with the unique architectural style of the Minsk mainland, makes the whole Simps more like a city built of huge stones.

From the city's roads to the surrounding buildings, there are tall megalithic buildings that make the whole city look more solemn and majestic, and also less angry.

After Leo left the Ice Queen, he immediately called a carriage and headed to the pier. Although he still had plenty of time, he didn't plan to stop in this city, and planned to go directly to Pender Harbor to meet Sylvia.

"What? There are no ships heading north?" Leo was taken aback when he heard the bad news, and asked the conductor of the dock company, "What's the reason?"

"Zhanluan! What else can there be?" The man pointed at a group of porters gathered in the hall through the ticket window, and said impatiently: "Those are fleeing, if you don't want to buy a newspaper, just ask them."

Leo looked at the group of wharf porters with sad faces and walked out of the ticket hall of the dock company. Outside the hall, he stopped a newspaper boy, bought a copy of all kinds of newspapers in his hand, and then stopped a carriage. , let him go to the quietest and best hotel in town.

After getting into the carriage, Leo opened the newspapers he just bought and quickly flipped through them while the carriage was jolting.

The contents of these newspapers are similar, and they are all recording the civil war in the northern Maris Kingdom. A large number of pseudo-military experts have published various articles in these newspapers to analyze where the war will go. What is the impact on the entire Minsk continent? what effect.

Although they published many articles, they all frankly admitted the predictions of the gas defense war at the beginning of the article, and believed that if the Maris Kingdom could not eliminate the revolutionary army from the army and the government, then it would definitely Another miraculous result of the gas defense battle occurred.

From these newspapers, Leo also learned in detail what happened to the battle that affected the entire Marris Kingdom.

Gas is an industrial city in the interior of the Maris Kingdom. It is famous for producing rivets for trial use on ships, so it is also called Rivet City. Among the many industrial cities in the Marris Kingdom, this city is not very eye-catching, but this time it has become the center of attention of the entire Maris Kingdom, as well as the Minsk continent and the world of Velen.

After it was recognized that the riots had occurred, the Maris government handled them very badly, allowing the rioting workers to grow and gain the ability to resist the government.

It's just that the leaders of those workers' organizations are not stupid and arrogant people. They are very clear-headed and know that their current advantage is only because they were caught off guard by the Maris Kingdom government. Once the Marris Kingdom recovers, then With the power of the Royal Government Army, it is absolutely possible to easily eliminate all the workers' organizations that seem to be strong now.

For this reason, the leaders of various workers' organizations contacted each other, and finally decided to unite to form a unified workers' organization, so they decided to use Gas City as a meeting place, where the leaders of various organizations gathered to start discussions.

Because everyone's goals are very clear, and due to the influence of unknown reasons, the meeting went very smoothly, so the rioting workers formed the Equality Revolutionary Army, and formed the Provisional Government and Military Command Post of the Revolutionary Army, and began to move towards a formalized organization. A crucial step has been made.

However, their meeting was drawing to a close, and when the participants began to prepare to return to the various workers' organizations to form branches of the revolutionary army, the army of the Maris Kingdom suddenly appeared outside the city located in the hinterland of the various workers' organizations. , and surrounded the entire city, preparing to storm the city, and it seemed that he was not going to let anyone in the city go.

Faced with this situation, the top leaders of the established revolutionary army can only mobilize all the workers and citizens in the city to jointly resist the attack of the Maris Kingdom.

During the mobilization, although the workers actively responded to the call, other citizens believed that the revolutionary army brought the disaster of war to the city, so even if they knew that the Maris Kingdom might do something like massacre the city, it was difficult to be positive. Respond to the call of the Revolutionary Army.

Because of the internal instability, the revolutionary army lost all the fortifications in the outer suburbs in the first defensive battle, and had to build barriers in the urban area and carry out defensive warfare.

At that time, the results of the first gas defense battle were deliberately publicized by the Maris Kingdom government to let people know that the turmoil affecting the kingdom's ruling power was not a big problem, and the situation was still in the hands of the kingdom.

At that time, everyone who saw the relevant news believed that the Royal Government Army had already grasped the situation, and at most it only needed one attack to completely eliminate the leaders of these workers' organizations. Without these charismatic leaders, those workers' organizations would be It will disintegrate in an instant like a plate of loose sand.

But then something unexpected happened. The third and seventh armies, the main forces of the Royal Government army, suddenly revolted and put all the officers of the remaining legions under house arrest. Lived in several legions that surrounded the entire city of Gas at that time, and surrendered to the revolutionary army.

In this way, a sneak attack that originally quelled the workers' riots led to a great increase in the military strength of the Revolutionary Army. In addition, the Revolutionary Army controlled more than half of the heavy industrial cities in the Maris Kingdom, mastered the ability to manufacture weapons, and made the entire The situation in the Kingdom of Maris has changed completely.

The government of the Kingdom of Maris also realized that they were at a disadvantage, so in order to attack the revolutionary army as much as possible, they immediately ordered the navy that was still in their hands to block all sea areas under the control of the Kingdom of Maris, and no ships were allowed The voyage cut off the continued food supply of the Revolutionary Army, which was regarded as a comeback, and this order also led to the interruption of the main routes going south and north, and a few ships could only take the eastern route of the Savile Kingdom and go north by detour .

For Leo, it is of course impossible to take the eastern route. In that case, even if he goes north, he will have to traverse the entire Sigma Continent before he can reach Pender Harbor in the west. In the desert of the Viel Kingdom, even if it is possible, there is no time.