The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

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The next day, as soon as the sky came to light, Leo left Landusto and didn't stay in this town any more.

However, before leaving, I encountered a little trouble, because a large number of people who needed to leave the city gathered at the city gates, waiting for the guards to check.

From the conversations of these people, Leo learned that there are the fewest monsters in the wild every morning, knowing that it will gradually increase after noon, and that it will be the most at night.

All those on the road will choose to leave the town where they are in the early morning, and then follow the Continental Railway to the next town. If there is no accident, they will almost be able to reach the next town before dark.

As for why you don’t take a steam train, this is mainly because the steam train basically runs every ten days, and the train leaves only two days before the last train.

It takes such a long time for a steam train to run. It is not because the number of steam trains is small, but because every time the train is used, it needs to be overhauled before it can be used again. The reason is that every time the steam train runs, it will encounter A large number of monsters surrendered their lives to attack.

Although these attacks are equivalent to hitting rocks with pebbles when they encounter the heavy armor, heavy body and extremely high speed of the steam train, they still cause some damage to the steam train, and some damage will not affect the steam train’s running. Accumulation over time may lead to fatal danger.

Until it is confirmed that the steam train can withstand various shocks, these trains cannot be dispatched, because as long as the steam train has an accident on land, it may be difficult for the people on the train to survive.

In addition, ordinary people are reluctant to choose steam trains to travel, because the fares of steam trains are too expensive and are not affordable for ordinary people.

Because the connection between each town of the Vinylon Alliance and the connection with the Northern Hannossa Alliance needs to rely on the steam train, and this connection is mainly based on material transactions, so the carriages behind the steam train are all freight cars. There are only two passenger cars under normal circumstances, so the fare is very expensive. The value of a ticket can almost buy a small apartment in a small town.

After learning about the steam train, Leo walked a distance along the railway outside the town after leaving Landusto, and he was aware of the surrounding environment while walking.

Although two days have passed since the last train, there are still many clues accumulated here because the trains often travel on the railway.

For example, Leo knew why those wild monsters would madly attack steam trains. This is mainly because in order to increase the power of the train, pull more carriages, and transport more goods, the fuel of the train is not only wood and charcoal. A lot of fuel-supporting formulas supported by high-energy substances have also been added, so every time the steam train runs, it is like a delicious snack that emits high-energy substances at all times. Any monster that senses it will not give up eating this Delicious snacks.

Although Leo did not see the fuel formula used in the current train, he felt that this formula might also originate from an unfinished research in the Black Castle.

It’s just that Leo’s research was not the formula of train fuel, but the formula of airship fuel. Although the new formula he developed can increase the effectiveness of the same amount of wood and charcoal by more than four times, and extend it by one. Times the burning time, but because he could not neutralize the energy produced after burning, he was temporarily included in the unsuccessful data file.

After that, Leo went to the place where the transparent monsters were eliminated after finishing the work. After a night, only some energy fluctuations remained here, but some mucus that should have been with the monsters after death can still be seen on the ground. Leo was able to find the shadows of some biological cells in the slime, so he collected the slime in a glass bottle, and waited for time to study it again to see what is special about these transparent monsters.

After resolving these matters, Leo followed yesterday's long journey, repented of Port Randall and returned to the Black Castle.

He did not leave in a hurry, and carefully checked the surroundings again to see if there was anything missing. He also checked the bottom of the cliff at the sea, and found that the cliff below has all collapsed, which means that the ruins of the black castle are now On a piece of protruding dangerous rock, it may collapse along with Wanghai Cliff and fall into the sea at any time.

I don’t know if it’s because of the power of fate in the dark, or just because of his carelessness. When he re-climbed Wanghai Cliff, the loose rock at the bottom of Wanghai Cliff seemed unable to bear the extra person’s weight. Cracks appeared and then began to collapse.

Leo opened his psionic wings and flew into the air at the moment when Wanghai Cliff collapsed. He stabilized his figure in the air, and when he looked back at the black castle, the entire black castle had completely fallen into the sea and lifted up. After a wave of flowers, only the outer wall of the black castle remained on the cliff, telling that there was once a majestic building here.

Leo controlled the psionic wing to float in the air, watching the waves created by the black castle gradually calm down, and without returning to the shore, he drew an arc in the air and flew towards the direction of the mainland of Mossan.

The Star of Hope is the third largest ship of the Sea Monster Shipping Company of the Kingdom of England. Unlike other ships of the shipping company, this ship transports passengers between the mainland of Vinylon and the mainland of Mozambique and does not carry any cargo.

Although such rules make the crew of this ship lose some of the obvious freight bonuses, they have an extra amount of smuggling money. This minus one plus the increase, the crew’s income is not only not less, but more. Up.

The Kraken Shipping Company is the largest private company among the many shipping companies blessed by Poseidon in the English Kingdom. There are a total of fifteen ships of this company size, and these fifteen ships have encountered pirate looting accidents. Zero, and there are very few shipwrecks due to weather.

The reason for this is that Sean Donald, the boss of the Sea-Monster Shipping Company, is a person who has truly received the blessing of the Sea God. This blessing not only allows the Sea-Monster Shipping Company’s ships to sail smoothly at sea, but also not encounter too bad. In addition to the weather, fifteen sea monster patron saints were also given to these ships.

The fact that the Kraken shipping company’s ships were protected by the Kraken has always been an unconfirmed legend, but many people believe that this legend is true, and some even vowed to say that they have seen how the Kraken destroyed. A pirate ship.

However, what others saw was that a pirate ship would suddenly sink inexplicably when trying to rob the Kraken Shipping Company's ship, and the pirates on the ship would sink with the ship like people who couldn't swim.

Although I did not see the so-called Kraken, the inexplicable sinking of the pirate ship is enough to make people believe that the Sea Monster Shipping Company’s ships are protected by some mysterious ocean power, so whether it is cargo or passengers, they cannot buy it. When going to the ship tickets of the Royal Shipping Company of the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Sigma, and the ship tickets of the church ships, the ship of choice is definitely the ship of the Sea Monster Shipping Company.

Originally, the Sea-Monster Shipping Company was not engaged in passenger transportation, and mainly focused on freight. However, as the situation on the three continents began to stabilize, more people traveled to and from all continents, except for a few who wanted to return to their homeland. Other than ordinary people who want to leave their homeland to live elsewhere, the vast majority are adventurers with the idea of ​​getting rich overnight.

When the fog broke out, a large number of areas fell. Until today, they have not been recaptured by human civilization. They have all become monsters’ paradise. However, the small towns or village roads on the outskirts of the continents of Mozambique and Minsk fell. The cities have been preserved.

But Velen Continent is different. All the big cities have fallen. Except for a small number of people in the big cities who are lucky and fled to remote towns with churches, everyone else has fallen into the big cities, regardless of whether they are fleeing. , It’s still too late to take away the wealth in these big cities.

You know, the Flange empire of the Vinylon continent has been the most powerful country in the Vinylon world for so many years. The wealth they have accumulated is more than the sum of all the countries on the other continents, and so much wealth is now lying quietly. In those big cities that have fallen, waiting to be taken away, few people can withstand this temptation.

So after the situation stabilized a little bit and the routes between the various continents began to resume, not only the people from the Vinylon Alliance, but also people from other continents came to the Vinylon continent, trying to take away the huge wealth buried in those cities.

It's just that these people have good luck, and they will soon be able to find a large amount of wealth. From a poor person at the bottom of the society, they become the envy of everyone overnight, but more people disappear in the process of adventure treasure hunting. In, life and death are unknown, but even this still cannot stop those adventurers who hope to get rich overnight.

Now the passengers on the Star of Hope are such a group of lucky adventurers. They have found a lot of treasures in the ruins of the big cities in Velen Continent, and these treasures were exchanged for currency in local towns.

Although these treasures do not allow them to become rich people for life as in the legend, they are enough for them to change their lives when they go back, such as buying some land, building their own houses, and so on.

Different from the relaxed mood of the passengers on the ship, the faces of the senior crew members such as the good captain and chief mate of Hope Star were very serious. After exchanging the information that the correspondent had just taken from the paw of the letter bird, all The people sank, and the atmosphere in the conference room solidified.

"Can this information be wrong?" The first officer couldn't help but questioned: "Henry the Tooth, the sea witch Motana, the old sea dog Jenning, three great pirates, combined almost 20 ships, unexpectedly wanted Hunting our boat of little value? Are they crazy? Are they not afraid of sea monsters?"

The captain was silent for a moment, and said: "Henry the Tooth, the sea witch Motana, and the old sea dog Jenint are all well-known pirates in this sea area. The kingdom has sent a naval fleet to clean them out several times, and they have all escaped. Their abilities are not average. And the targets of their looting are to select merchant ships that smuggle merchant ships and small chambers of commerce. They seldom do anything against the kingdoms, church fleets, and large chambers of commerce such as our Sea-Monster Shipping, so they also know themselves very well. Who can offend and who can’t. But now they are united to rob a passenger ship like ours, then there is only one possibility, that is, if they succeed in the robbery this time, the ultimate gain will definitely far exceed what they will face. The danger and blame.” He paused for a while and made a judgment: “There must be something on our boat that the three of us have to grab.”

The first officer said disapprovingly: "The guests on our ship are desperadoes and adventurers. Even if they have gained anything from the ruins of the city of Velen, they have been exchanged for checks from the church bank. Those checks have not It is impossible for them and the beneficiaries of the inheritance to exchange their licenses, and they will get nothing if you steal them.

"What if they don't want to grab money?" the new navigator on board suddenly interrupted.

Hearing what he said, everyone looked at him in unison, making him a bit nervous as a newcomer.

The captain motioned: "Don't be nervous, UU read www.uukanshu.com and talk about your thoughts."

The navigator took a deep breath, stabilized his emotions, and said, "I remember that Sharptooth, the sea witch, and the old sea dog are very pious bishops of the sky. The old sea dog almost even became a senior priest. It was just because they committed the crime. They made some mistakes and were deprived of their membership. For a long time, the three of them wanted to restore their membership. A large part of the property after each robbery was donated to the church by them, and they never rob the sky. The boats of the believers of the Lord’s Church, so they can risk offending our Sea-Monster shipping and being destroyed by the Sea-Monster, and also rob our things. It can only be related to the Church of the Lord of the Sky. Maybe that thing can help them become A member of the Church of the Lord of the Sky."

After listening to the navigator's analysis, everyone present fell into contemplation, and then said one after another that the navigator's analysis was probably true.

However, the question came again later, what exactly was that thing, and whose hands it was in the hands of everyone was completely unclear. Perhaps only by searching the passenger cabins and saluting one by one could it be possible to find out the thing.

But if it does this, the reputation of Sea-Monster Shipping will probably be ruined. By that time, let alone passengers on passenger ships, even if it is freight, no one will be willing to cooperate with a shipping company that searches for passengers and salutes. Everyone’s goods have something ugly.