The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"The mysterious world under steampunk (

"Coincidentally, or..." The passenger on the Flying Fish returned to the cabin, sat at the desk again, looked at the contents recorded on a piece of paper on the desk, and muttered to himself.

The passenger on the Flying Fish is Leo. Since he got on the ship, he has had a strange feeling of inexplicability. This feeling does not originate from the Flying Fish, nor the fateful net weaver, nor is it The other gods from this world seemed to be imposed on him by the world of Velen itself.

Afterwards, the various encounters of the Flying Fish at sea also confirmed that his inexplicable feeling was not an illusion caused by caring about Sylvia's current situation.

In the past few days of voyage, Feiyu encountered various accidents more than 20 times, such as accidentally breaking into the mating area of ​​a group of thousand-eyed sea snakes, or the single great hornwhale encountered this time.

No matter what kind of accident, when it first appeared, either it was not too dangerous for the time being, or it was able to give some non-obvious benefits on board the Flying Fish. For example, this time the big horned whale can only increase the crew at most. The income for most of the year is only, not the kind of huge benefit that is worth the effort.

However, if you think about it carefully, these seemingly not too dangerous things will eventually become very dangerous without exception, and most of them are devastating dangers.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Leo is not on board, if Leo’s power is strong enough and vigilant enough, maybe the Flying Fish would have been caught in a submarine volcanic eruption due to an unexpected move off course on the day of going to sea. In danger, the ship was destroyed.

At that time, the ship sailed into a seemingly calm sea, and the people on the ship did not feel any danger, and Leo always maintained his vigilance because of the abnormal feeling after boarding the ship, and opened the spiritual net to perceive the surroundings. Case.

So when the ship deviated from the course and sailed into the calm sea, Leo immediately felt that a large amount of energy was accumulating on the bottom of the sea, and it was speculated that the submarine volcano was about to erupt.

Because the situation is urgent, notifying the captain directly will only waste time, so he directly influences the helmsman through psionic energy, so that he finds that he has deviated from the course, adjusts the ship back, and returns to the correct course.

And when the ship left that sea area not long after, the volcano on the bottom of the sea erupted. According to the discussion of the crew on the ship, its power was definitely the strongest submarine volcano eruption in the past ten years.

Since then, emergencies like this submarine volcano have emerged in endlessly. Every time they appear in front of the flying fish crew, they have a harmless appearance, and the subsequent development hidden under the harmless appearance is without exception. Very dangerous, very serious.

Until just now, Leo used the special life breath of his higher life body to scare away the sea monsters attracted by the flesh and blood of the great hornwhale. There have been more than 20 accidents of this kind.

If this happens two or three times during the Flying Fish's voyage, it can be said to be a coincidence, but more than twenty times is obviously not a coincidence.

There is a power in the dark that seems to be preventing Leo from approaching the mainland of Mossan, or it may be preventing him from meeting Sylvia.

However, this is also the place that confuses Leo the most, because this power against him, from all aspects, obviously far exceeds his psionic level and life form. If you want to kill him, you should It is not difficult, but in the end, this power only uses the natural environment and biological characteristics of the Vinylon World to affect the flying fish's voyage. This really makes him completely unable to speculate whether this power is malicious against him.

Although Leo has not encountered events that threaten him so far, he did not relax his vigilance because of this. He still opened up his spiritual net, scanned the surrounding waters, and drove away dangerous sea beasts, while also sensing and analyzing. The details of that mysterious power.

Perhaps it was because he knew that those accidents did not bring any hindrance to Leo, or perhaps he knew that Leo had discovered his own existence. After the big hornwhale incident, the Flying Fish never encountered those seemingly harmless, It was a dangerous accident, and the indescribable force that caused Leo's feeling gradually faded, and finally disappeared completely when it reached Torch Harbor.

The Kuishan Allies belong to that kind of small country among the more than 30 large and small countries on the mainland of Mozambique. Its smallness is not only reflected in its territory, but also in its overall national strength.

The Kuishan Allies, like most other countries on the mainland of Mozambique, were originally colonies of the Sigma Kingdom. After the colonial uprising, the nearby large plantation owners and the original indigenous tribes united to drive away the Sigma Kingdom’s colonies. The army established an inconspicuous local government, and then annexed some surrounding lands. It was not until the establishment of the United States that all the attraction of everyone was concentrated on the United States, and then the Kuishan Allies were publicly established.

Although the Kuishan ally is a country in name, in fact because its territory is completely covered by the Kingdom of the United States, most of the domestic food, clothing, housing and transportation need to be supplied by the Kingdom of the United States, so whether it is from the Mozambican mainland or people from other continents Subconsciously regard the Kuishan Allies as a member of the United States.

The Kuishan Allies are located at the apex of the northern section of the Newsky Mountains. The territory spans both sides of the Newsky Mountains. The land area is the fourth lowest country among the more than 30 countries on the mainland of Mozambique. The entire country counts the newly established new There are only three counties in Bodo County, and the area of ​​the entire country is not even as large as the Bodo region in the Velen continent.

New Bodo County was originally a different name, but with the large number of people from the Bodo region of the Weilun mainland, the number of Bodo people gradually surpassed the locals, coupled with the wealth and political sensitivity of the Bodo people, finally made The Bodos had a complete advantage in the local political and business circles, and eventually changed the original county name to the current name.

Because of the division of the Newsky Mountains, New Bodo County is divided into two parts, east and west, the east is New Bodo District, and the west is the Torch District. As the name implies, the Torch District is naturally centered on Torch Harbor.

Compared with Hope Port, which was established in the foggy years, Torch Port is a new port established in recent years. The white ash on the dock has not been mottled by the erosion of the sea breeze. The whole port looks very Clean and orderly.

The reason why New Bodo County will build two large port cities at such a close distance is entirely due to the internal political situation and ethnic conflicts in New Bodo County.

As the political and business circles of New Bodo County were controlled by the Bodos, the original locals lost not only the land under their feet, but also the room for their rights and wealth to rise, because the locals and the Bodos who migrated here There was an irreconcilable contradiction from the beginning.

However, compared with the rich and united Bodos, the local forces composed of former plantation owners and local tribes are much looser, and they also have internal conflicts and cannot cooperate sincerely.

Whether it is financial, power, or military power, the locals are far from being compared with the Bodos, so the local forces have to consider starting anew, leaving the area controlled by the Bodos, and establishing an urban area entirely owned by the locals in other areas. , And the Bodo people were also happy to see all these internal troubles left, so the Torch Harbor and the Torch District were established under this strange consensus.

It is precisely because of the support and cooperation of the Bodo people that the Torch Port can be successfully established under such a bad environmental situation after the fog disaster, and because of the establishment of the Torch Port, the internal tension in New Bodo County has actually become Some have eased, and the senior management in the Xinboduo District and the Torch District have improved a lot, and they have even established a good business partnership.

However, compared with the high-ranking powers in the region, the residents of the Torch Zone at the bottom still maintain a strong hostility towards the Porto people. For example, when the Flying Fish docked at the port, Leo heard the most about this hope after leaving the ship and boarding the dock. Discussions about the emergence of sea animal tides in Hong Kong waters, and all of these discussions are in a smirking tone.

Because it was a colony of the Kingdom of Sigma in the past, most of the locals in Torch Harbor mainly spoke Sigma. The American Kingdom, which was improved with English as the core, was also one of their auxiliary languages. As for the Bodos The French language they brought was regarded as disgusting by them, and they didn't even want to listen to it, let alone speak it.

Therefore, when Leo came to the caravan rest area in the market area outside the port, and habitually asked the manager of the rest area in French if there was any caravan going to the new port area, what he got was just a pair of white eyes and apathy. Expression, even if Leo switched to English after that, he didn't get any good looks from these managers.

Leo was not angry or angry about this, he was just considering whether he should go on the road alone and cross the Newsky Mountains.

At this time, a caravan supervisor who was in the management area going through the warehouse lease withdrawal procedure seemed to have heard Leo’s previous conversation with the manager. When Leo left, he caught up with him and spoke in American-Canada similar to English: "Your Excellency just came over from the other side of the sea? You don't understand the situation here. It is a taboo to speak French in Torch Harbor and Torch Zone. Even if the people from Porto come here, they still have to speak Sigma or American Canadian."

Hearing the kindly reminded by the other party, Leo did not respond to the other party. He just turned his head and looked at the plump caravan supervisor, with a look of questioning in his eyes.

Although Leo was a little cold, the caravan supervisor did not show any discomfort because of this. He still had a friendly smile on his face and said: "My caravan is going to leave in a while, and the destination is just right. It’s a wine town in the New Port District. If you don’t dislike it, you can start with my caravan."

Leo looked at the caravan manager in front of him, and asked, "Why? Why do you invite a stranger like me to join your caravan? Shouldn’t you try to avoid strangers from joining the caravan and prevent the thief’s enthusiasm from getting in? ?"

The caravan manager smiled and said: "If the thieves in the mainland of Mosang had the temperament of your lord, then the thieves would have disappeared long ago. I guess your lord should be a very distinguished figure on the Weilun mainland. , I’m afraid the status of the people you deal with is not low, so I think if you can establish some relationship with your Excellency, it might be beneficial to my caravan."

Hearing the caravan’s supervisor directly confessed his careful thoughts, Leo didn’t feel disgusted, nor did he give any affirmative response to the opponent’s guess. He just thought for a while and nodded and said: "I hope that we will be able to Get along well."

Upon hearing this, the caravan supervisor also showed a smile.

As he himself said, the reason why he would take the initiative to contact Leo was because he wanted to make Leo. Although there was one more person in the caravan to take care of, if Leo was really from Velon mainland as he guessed. A certain person with identity, even if the other party is now down, needs to come to New Bodo area to seek refuge with relatives and friends, he can still get a lot of benefits from it, and the price he needs to pay is almost nothing. Naturally he will not let go of investing.

Afterwards, the two came to the small caravan where the caravan supervisor was. The two introduced themselves to each other on the way. Leo did not forge a name, but directly said his real name, just like the previous encounter. Like everyone else, when Leo's surname was Dodd, the caravan supervisor immediately thought of something, and the smile on his face increased a lot.

And Leo also knew that the caravan supervisor's name was Bran Fire Dancer. From the name, he could tell that the opponent should be a mixed race, and his blood and inheritance were more inclined to the tribes of the mainland of Mosang.

The caravan managed by Bran is not a common chamber of commerce caravan, but a family caravan. His family is not a native of the Kuishan ally, but comes from a small inland country close to the wilderness in the depths of the Mozambican continent. The small country is called Gulin, and it is composed of two city states. Because most of its land is a wasteland forest, even if there are only two city states, its land area is more than twice that of the Kuishan allies.

These two city-states are ruled by families developed from two primitive tribes in the wasteland, and the Fire Dancer family is one of them.

For various reasons, the two city-states of Gu Lin did not develop an industrial system, and they still maintain a relatively primitive political civilization. Therefore, the economy of these two city-states needs to be provided through the wasteland, a treasure house full of various resources.

However, because the surrounding countries are close to the wasteland, even if they collect all kinds of precious resources from the wasteland, it is still difficult to sell a high price locally, so they set up their own city-state caravans in various parts of Mozambique. Bran Fire Dancer is one of the countries and cities to conduct business transactions. The area he is in charge of is the current Kuishan Allied Region.