The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The train restarted and left the platform, followed the trend of the railway ahead and turned to the south side, and gradually shifted from the elevated railway that had been running for almost ten days to the down-to-earth land railway. This change also indicates that this long-distance train only needs After two more city stops, we will arrive at the terminal.

It has been several days since the last contact with Sylvia, and in that contact, Sylvia already knew what the king-picker Saran Meyer was going to do, and decided to leave the Kingdom of Marris, in Saran Travel to Daliat and wait out winter before completing her plans.

For Sylvia, Saran Meyer can no longer be trusted, because if, as Leo deduced, Saran Meyer is a collaborator of the Church of the Hill King, then Saran Meyer It can be said that they are traitors of the witch group.

Because, the hunting operation against witches in the Minsk mainland was initiated by the Church of the Hill King, and several members of the witch group fell into the hands of the Church of the Hill King and were burned alive.

If Saran Meyer was a collaborator of the Church of the Hill King at that time, then the whereabouts of those witches were probably betrayed by Saran Meyer to the Church of the Hill King.

And with the suspicion of Saran Meyer, some things that were ignored by Sylvia before were also remembered by her.

For example, since Saran Meyer became the gatekeeper of the Aishali Forest, every time the witch group organized a trip home, some witches would encounter various accidents and cause some casualties.

This also made many people criticize Saran Meyer, and even feel disgusted with the homecoming ceremony. Many people who have completed the ceremony did not plan to participate in it even after receiving the notice, which also made it difficult for them to participate in the homecoming ceremony. There are fewer and fewer witches of ritual.

In addition, the attitude of the Ice Queen Lia Venistan towards Saran Meyer is also a problem. You must know how close the Ice Queen was to Saran Meyer when she knew that Saran Meyer was the famous king picker. He almost regards her as a mentor, and every time he meets, he will ask her for advice on countless national issues.

However, such a good relationship suddenly turned cold one day. Although the two could not be said to be against each other, they were also indifferent to each other when they met. They couldn't say a few words at a gathering of the Witches, and more importantly, the Snow Queen never met again. Step into the castle of Saran Meyer.

At that time, Sylvia just thought that it was because the relationship between the two had broken down, and they didn't want to touch anything about each other, but now it seems that the Snow Queen's behavior is more like expressing distrust, thinking that she can't be in that castle. Get real security within.

It was also because of this that Sylvia was no longer interested in the so-called revival plan proposed by Saran Meyer. She decided to take Seran, the fire bather, to join Leo and head to Deliyat in the north. The meeting place is in Padu City, Asha County.

The reason why Padu City was chosen was not only because it was Leo's second purpose of coming to the Mosang Continent, but also because it was the place least affected by the civil war in the entire Maris Kingdom.

For ordinary people, Yasha County is ruled by a group of very old noble families. They have extremely strong military power and their rule is very stable. No matter who is in power in the Maris Kingdom, they are very obedient and willing to Abide by the laws and regulations and various policies set by the rulers, but only if their bottom line cannot be touched, and this bottom line is the land.

It is precisely because of the particularity of Yasha County and the fact that there is a very strong military force here, so both parties in the civil war in the kingdom tacitly avoided Yasha County to avoid some improper actions and offend Yasha County. The psychological bottom line of the ancient nobles of Shasha County pushed the excellent military force of Yasha County to the enemy.

But no matter how you avoid Yasha County, the various effects of the war are like uncontrolled wildfires spreading to the surroundings, which cannot be stopped.

The first thing that impacted Yasha County was naturally the wave of refugees that accompanied the war. According to the newspaper reports that Leo read, nearly half a million refugees had entered the territory of Yasha County. This is exactly the number that can be counted. And those numbers that cannot be counted are probably even more.

There is no doubt that this wave of refugees hit the fragile social structure of Asha County like a flood. Although it is not as chaotic as other places in the Marris Kingdom, there is not much order. The relationship between locals and refugees The conflict has been repeatedly reported in the newspapers of Savile, a neighboring country, which shows that the situation there is already very bad.

However, for the real ruler of Yasha County, the conflicts between refugees and locals, the consumption of supplies, social chaos, etc. are not big problems, and the long time is enough to smooth out all the bad things caused by these problems Influence, for these rulers, the real problem comes from themselves, from various adverse reactions caused by changes in the world.

For people in the dark world, it is no secret that the enemies of werewolves and vampires rule Yasha County together. Whether it is the Church of the Hill King, the Night Watchman Organization, etc. Rule of Asha County.

Except for some hot-headed idiots, these forces that maintain the rules of the dark world will not take the initiative to send people to Yasha County to capture werewolves or vampires.

But this does not mean that the names of werewolves and vampires have been erased from the hunting lists of these forces, so whenever there are werewolves and vampires who voluntarily leave Asha County, there will be people such as night watchmen, church knights or bounty hunters. These werewolves and vampires were hunted and killed, and their killing sequence was always next to the out-of-control family members. It was not until the last hundred years that this hunting gradually decreased, and the long-term bounty on the black market was also cancelled.

The reason for this is that werewolves and vampires are also the two groups that are most likely to lose control of their power. For example, vampires smell a strong smell of blood, and werewolves will lose control when they encounter a full moon night.

However, with the disappearance of the gods, the situation of werewolves and vampires out of control seems to have improved, and there have been no rumors of out of control for a long time, so the ranking of their hunting sequences will be lowered.

However, from Sylvia's mouth, after this world change, various abnormal incidents in Yasha County have also increased rapidly, even far exceeding the sum of other places, and these incidents are all related to the out-of-control werewolves and There are even rumors of werewolves fighting vampires circulating in the dark world of the Minsk continent.

Before Sylvia contacted Leo, Sylvia, who is also a member of the Orthodox Ability God Adjudicator, a member of the Hearing Society, and a Night Watchman, received notifications from these organizations one after another, hoping that she would go to Asha County to investigate . If it is a small matter, it will be solved directly. If it is a major event, it will give an event rating, and these major dark world organizations will resend people according to the rating.

So when deciding to go to Daliat, Sylvia did not hesitate to choose Padu City in Asha County as the place to meet Leo. Naturally, he would not object to Leo, after all, he still cared about Auction at the black market in Padu City.

Originally, Leo thought that the last two days of the train journey would be as peaceful as the previous journey, but the reality told him that he was thinking too much.

After the train entered the land rail at the end of the last canyon railway, about half an hour later, a sudden sudden brake alarmed everyone on the train.

Leo didn't know the situation in the rear compartment of the train, but in the restaurant he was in now, all kinds of tableware and drinks were smashed all over the floor, the service staff and passengers fell into a ball, and many people were injured because of broken wine bottles. It was cut, and Leo also staggered and walked forward several steps because of the sudden brake before he stabilized his figure.

Because the train designer also considered the problem of sudden braking, all six locomotives have a brake linkage device. Once the front two locomotives brake, the other four locomotives will reverse the wheels to increase the pulling force to prevent the carriage from derailing. It can also assist with braking.

Soon the train came to a complete stop, and everyone in the restaurant recovered from the initial panic. Cursing sounds in various languages ​​continued in the restaurant. If no higher-level person in charge could be found, the foreman of the restaurant became The target of everyone venting their anger, all kinds of cursing and questioning were concentrated on him, and he could only lower his head and try his best to make various explanations to appease the anger of the passengers.

But Leo ignored the chaos in the restaurant. He opened the car window, stretched out his head and looked in front of the train, and saw a huge sand dune blocking the train, like a wall, and the sand and stones also The railway has been completely covered up. If it is not cleaned up, the train may not be able to continue moving forward.

Perhaps, the driver at the front of the train and other train managers who found the sand dune blocking the road did not find anything unusual, but the moment he saw the sand dune, Leo had already determined that something would happen.

The reason why he was so sure was that the original railway designer chose to lay the land rails at the southern end of the canyon instead of the flatter northern end, because after entering this area, the southern end is no longer a desert area, but a large number of canyon. Grasses and shrubs that prevent wind and sand grow here vigorously, so building a railway at the southern end of the canyon can minimize the obstruction of the wind and sand to the railway. In fact, this is the case. From the records, this section of land railway has never encountered an accident caused by wind and sand. .

However, now such a huge sand dune just buried the railway tracks on the ground and stopped the train, no matter how you look at it, it will make people feel weird.

Just when Leo felt the abnormality, his extraordinary hearing heard the sound of chaotic footsteps and heavy breathing coming from the hills on both sides of the train, and then he saw some paintings erected on the top of the hills on both sides. There were flags in tattered clothes, and a large number of ragged Savile paupers with various weapons stood on the hill overlooking the train below.

"This bloody poor gang, how dare they do this, how dare they?" After seeing the obvious flag on the hill, the head waiter in the restaurant showed an unbelievable expression, and couldn't help cursing .

All the passengers in the restaurant who heard the foreman swearing also fell silent. They all temporarily forgot the pain in their hands and leaned to the window to look out. After confirming the situation, except for a few people, they were still the same as Leo. Apart from being calm, everyone else's faces became extremely ugly.

Savile's Poor Man's Party first appeared when the Savile Kingdom began to implement the parliamentary system. As the name suggests, the people who formed the Poor Man's Party were some of the lowest status civilians, and the identity of the initiator was slightly better. He once worked in a noble family He worked as a servant, learned knowledge there, and was recommended to be a civil officer in a poor area.

The purpose of this person forming the Poor Man's Party is very simple, that is, to occupy a seat in the city council, so that the poor can have someone to speak for them.

However, it is clear that the nobles did not want to see a person with such a low status sitting on an equal footing with them in the parliament, so they created various obstacles to running for the election, and directly made the Poor Han Party out of the game without even being eligible to run for the election. And the person who founded the Poor Man's Party was also stabbed to death one night because of a quarrel with an unknown drunk.

Originally, the nobles of the local city thought that this matter was over, but instead of disappearing, the Poor Han Party has expanded rapidly and even spread to other cities because of the death of the founder.

When the nobles of Savile felt that something was wrong, the Poor Han Party had spread all over the cities and tribes of the Savile Kingdom. It has become the big trouble that the rulers of the Savile Kingdom most hope to solve completely, and are also the most difficult to solve completely.

The Poor Han Party has done many things in the past hundred years, among which two things have been done the most, one is to help the poor and help the poor, and the second is to assassinate those notorious nobles.

According to statistics, nearly 60% of all the nobles who died abnormally in the Savile Kingdom over the past hundred years were committed by the Poor Han Party. There is even a prince level.

Because of this, almost all the official reports of the Savile Kingdom described the Poor Han Gang as a gang of vicious bandits, who piled up all kinds of things that were not done by the Poor Han Gang, and the passengers in the carriage mostly Most of them read the official reports of the Savile Kingdom, and it is natural and inevitable to feel fear in my heart at this moment.

It's just that when most people in the car showed fearful expressions, a few people reacted so calmly that Leo paid a little attention.

The old puppet master is naturally calm because he is extremely confident in his own strength, thinking that even if something happens, he will be able to escape safely. However, the other well-dressed Savile nobles who boarded the car on the way also acted very calm, which is a bit weird. It stands to reason that they should be most afraid of these innately hostile poor fellows.

"Interesting! It seems that there is a good show to watch!" Leo, who had discovered something, couldn't help smiling, and found a chair to sit quietly in the corner, waiting for the follow-up development of the matter.