The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although the trade objects of the Dodd Group in the wasteland are mainly the enlightened tribes of the northern tribal alliance, Sylvia still attaches importance to the southern tribal alliance, because only the southern tribal alliance can cross the natural barrier on the edge of the Great Horn River. , Enter the depths of the real wasteland and trade with those real hidden tribes in exchange for the most precious wasteland products in the hands of those tribes.

Even in the chaotic situation of the current world, the rare items from the depths of the wasteland are still the things that the top powers in this world are eager to. Some items can even be exchanged for a huge benefit equivalent to the output of the Dodd Group in a month. .

However, it is definitely not an easy task to obtain trading rights from the conservative tribes of the Southern Tribal Alliance. Except for a few organizations, including the Church of True God, which can obtain stable trading quotas, other organizations and forces need to be touched. Luck can only get a trading quota. This is true for the Kingdom of the United States and the Dodd Group.

Sylvia knows exactly how valuable the rare items from the depths of the wasteland are, so when she first moved the industry to the mainland of Mozambique, she had already sent permanent staff to the sacred mountain of the wasteland that had not yet been divided. , Established a fixed office.

After more than 20 years of development, although this office still has not been able to help the Dodd Group get a fixed trading quota, it has also helped the Dodd Group establish a good trade route among the Southern Tribal Alliance. The Dodd Group The produced portable steam engine crossbow can be said to be the favorite weapon of these tribes.

The only defect of this kind of steam engine crossbow is that it is easy to damage. Every time it is damaged, it needs to be sent back to the Dodd Group for replacement and repair. Although the people of the Southern Tribal Alliance have requested the Dodd Group to improve the vulnerable defects of the steam engine crossbow, Dodd The group has never met the other party’s request. It’s not that the Dodd Group can’t make up for the shortcomings, but it’s just unwilling. After all, if this thing is built too strong and not broken for decades, then who can buy the newly built steam engine crossbow? ?

However, in order to prevent the people of these tribes from being disgusted with their behavior of not improving the steam engine crossbow, Sylvia asked the R&D staff of the Dodd Group to improve the special arrow of the steam engine crossbow, and increase the types and effect categories of the arrows. , Such as anesthetic arrows and trap arrows specifically for hunting extraordinary creatures, burst arrows specifically for mutant monsters, and so on.

Although these arrows are expensive consumables, they are not easy to use. Not only people in the southern tribal alliance like them, but even the people in the northern tribal alliance hope to buy them in large quantities. However, due to the problem of production capacity, Such weapons have never been able to meet the needs of all forces.

Sylvia chose to take the risk of expanding the Dodd Group this time because he wanted to expand the production capacity of the Dodd Group starting from raw materials.

It's not that there are other industrial groups that do not watch this large piece of interest. It is just that the steam engine crossbows manufactured by those industrial groups are far from being portable, powerful, and useful, but they are better than solid and cheap, and more or less. Occupy a part of the interest, but it will not cause any trouble to the Dodd Group.

However, this situation has begun to change as the conflict between the Silvermoon Tribe and the Tinder Tribe has gradually heated up in recent times. This is also the biggest headache for Powell, the director of the Dodd Group’s Southern Sacred Mountain Office.

Powell is a pure French empire. He joined the secret organization formed by Sylvia a long time ago, and then moved to the United Kingdom of France with Sylvia. It can be said that he is an old subordinate of Sylvia. Up.

When Sylvia moved his industry to the mainland of Mozambique, he hesitated whether he should continue to follow Sylvia.

Because in his opinion, although on the surface Sylvia Pan rebelled against the French Empire and joined the United Kingdom of France, in fact Sylvia still served under the banner of the Royal Family of France, because the Union of France The king of the kingdom is still the royal family of France, even if the power in the hands of this king is not large, it is more nominal, but for the French people, it is still an object of allegiance.

However, if you leave the continent of Velen and go to the continent of Mozambique, then you will really be completely cut off from the French dynasty, and the object of allegiance to the old French like Powell will really become Sylvia. This is a very difficult choice for many French people.

So like all the other French people who have difficulty making a choice, Powell is also the continent of Vinylon where the last relocation ship left.

No matter how painful the decision was made at the beginning, but after thinking about it, you will think that the original choice was extremely correct, because it was not long after the last relocation ship left the mainland of Velon, a wave of mutant monsters appeared on the continent of Velon. Even the most glorious Flange dynasty in the entire Vinylon world was completely destroyed by an endless wave of monsters in a short time. Those companions who chose to stay in Vinylon at the beginning were mostly killed by monsters. Those who survived are also lingering.

Because it was the last group to make the choice, all the good positions within the group were already filled. Even old subordinates like Powell could only choose more dangerous and difficult positions.

The establishment of an office in the sacred mountain of the wasteland was considered the most dangerous of all tasks, not only because of the bad relationship between the wasteland tribe and people on other continents, but also because of the monster tide that had spread to the continent of Mosang at that time. .

It was no secret that mutated monsters originated from ordinary creatures in nature, and the wasteland was full of countless natural creatures, so people in Mozambique believed that the wasteland would definitely burst into an unprecedented wave of mutated monsters. , Completely destroyed everything in the wasteland, and then spread back to the entire continent of Mossan.

So don’t even talk about sending people to the wasteland. There are even many natives of the mainland of Mozambique, as well as the mainland people of Velen who have just fled to the mainland of Mozambique, planning to flee to Minsk by boat again, because if the wasteland really breaks out In the case of the monster tide, then the power of the countries of the Mosang continent will absolutely not be able to resist such a huge monster tide, and it will be a matter of time before the French Empire falls.

However, only a handful of forces still did not have the idea of ​​moving away from the mainland of Mozambique. Among them was the Dodd Group that Sylvia had just formed.

Unlike the Church of the Lord of the Sky, which obtained the oracle and stayed firmly in the mainland of Mosang, the Dodd Group could not bear the huge losses caused by the re-migration at all, and had to stay in the mainland of Moss with one heart and soul. Being able to obtain first-hand information on the wasteland, especially whether the wasteland has a wave of mutant monsters, so that we can respond in time, Sylvia immediately decided to establish an office in the sacred mountain of the wasteland, and the main work of the office It is not to conduct any trade with the tribes of the wasteland, but to collect all kinds of intelligence. As a result, there are some restrictions on the candidates sent to the wasteland, and they must be experienced intelligence personnel.

At that time, there were not many people who met this requirement. Powell was just one of them. However, it was different from others who resisted the task. After hearing about the content of the task, Powell submitted the application as soon as possible and became the Dodd Group. Head of the office in the Holy Mountain, and worked in this position for more than 20 years.

Powell didn’t know why he made such a decision so quickly. Perhaps it was because he found out that his fiancée had an empathy, or because he heard that his friend died in the monster tide. In short, he came to the wasteland. At the time of the Holy Mountain, he never thought that he could survive, but he did not expect that he not only survived, but also lived for more than 20 years.

In the past two decades, Powell has submitted many transfer applications, hoping that the group can send someone to replace his own plant, but the results are not satisfactory, or the successor is too incompetent and messed up, or It is that the successor is too capable, trying to play a game of power in the wasteland, and the end result is that he has to continue to stay in the supervisory position of the Holy Mountain office.

For Powell, this is nothing. Although more than 20 years have passed, he still has not adapted to life in the Mossan wilderness. He is still extremely disgusted with the blood sacrifice rituals that slaughter slaves at the annual sacred mountain shaman ceremony, but he still likes it. The peaceful life of the sacred mountain in the wasteland, because of the particularity of the sacred mountain, even if the surrounding tribes have conflicts, it will not affect the sacred mountain.

But this time he faintly felt a little different in the situation. On the surface, it seemed that it was just a small war caused by the conflict between the Silver Moon and the Tinder tribe. But with the addition of the Tinder tribe, this small war between the two tribes has begun to gradually move towards The Great War changed. In the past two days, not only the Silver Moon and Tinder tribes were looking for him to buy various weapons, but even other tribes who were unlikely to participate in the war had also secretly sent people to contact him to buy weapons and equipment.

This situation reminded Powell for the first time about the period when the desert tribes were divided from north to south. At that time, it seemed that all tribes were buying large quantities of weapons and equipment, and the war spreading to the whole desert tribe was about to start.

Faced with so many tribes requesting weapons to purchase, Powell was completely caught off guard. The weapons in stock could not be supplied to so many orders, so he had to push most of the orders away, and these orders eventually flowed to In the hands of other downstream industrial group offices.

Although in terms of the power and sophistication of weapons and equipment, the weapons manufactured by those industrial groups are far from being comparable to those manufactured by the Dodd Group, but those weapons are better than they are in sufficient quantity and cheap enough to quickly satisfy most of them. The needs of the tribes have caused those industrial groups to rapidly expand their share of arms sales, and several of them can already be on par with the Dodd Group offices.

Faced with this situation, Powell naturally wants to suppress his opponent, but now he can't come up with any way to suppress it, because he knows that if he does not have enough goods on hand to meet the needs of those tribes, then he will suppress it. The practices of those industrial group offices are tantamount to offending most of the tribes in the Southern Wilderness, and it will be him who will be unlucky then.

So the only thing he can do now is to ask for help from the headquarters of the Dodd Group, asking the headquarters to deploy a large amount of goods and manpower as soon as possible to keep the current share, and then consider the follow-up.

Now for Powell, the most important thing is time. If the time for the war between the Silvermoon and Tinder tribe can be delayed, the headquarters will send enough manpower and goods to regain the lost. The order made by Dodd Group will not shake the position of the Dodd Group Office in the Southern Holy Hill Tribe.

But once the Silvermoon Tribe and the Tinder Tribe are fighting, there is not enough weapon supply in the warehouse of the office, then what he is most worried about is bound to happen. Afterwards, he wants to grab the orders from the offices of those industrial groups. very difficult.

Powell knew that there was very little he could do, and the only thing he could do was delay the time for the steam train from Badisa to reach the Holy Mountain.

Because both the Sacred Mountain, the Silver Moon Tribe and the Tinder Tribe all believed that the starting point of this conflict should be at the source of the conflict, Sobans.

Although Sobans is surrounded by hunting grounds of the Silvermoon tribe, the permanent manpower there can be used to resist the attack. It is still very difficult for them to gather and attack a large city in the jungle like Sobans.

Therefore, the steam train transporting the mercenaries from the holy mountain becomes intuitive and important. The arrival time of the steam train can basically be counted as the opening time of the countdown to the outbreak of the conflict.

For this reason, Powell specially took advantage of this sudden storm, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com sent people to sneak into the middle section of the railway and created several landslides. This is not too difficult for him, and the effect of the landslides It was not bad. The train was delayed for several days, and the people who cleaned up the landslide found nothing unusual.

However, on the entire railway line, there are only a few places suitable for making landslides. If landslides are made in other places that are not prone to landslides, they may be easy to see through. Therefore, Powell did not use this method and can only wait and see. Watching the steam train arrive at the platform, the mercenaries that have been ready to board the train one after another.

What Powell can do now is to continue to send urgent items to the headquarters so that the goods can be delivered there as soon as possible, otherwise most of the Southern Tribal Alliance's market will really have to hand over people.

However, just when Powell ordered the servant carrying the sedan chair to return to the office, a pair of men and women walking along the avenue around the holy mountain from the train station immediately attracted his attention. After all, now At this time, not many people went deep into the wasteland.

But when he saw the woman of the pair of men and women clearly, he immediately jumped off the sedan chair. Then, in the shocked eyes of his servants, he rushed to the pair of men and women, and then he was very respectful. He saluted the woman and said, "The third intelligence section Powell Tully, I have met Lord Earl."