The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

As the most chaotic area in the Old World, the Middle Kingdom, which has been in war for many years, has never lacked dramas such as betrayal and betrayal. The knight betrays the lord, the lord betrays the king, and the king betrays his subjects. More than once, I have used the dirty land of the soul to describe the Middle Kingdom area, and I think that as long as you enter the Middle Kingdom area, even if you just take one step, and then retreat, that person's soul will also be polluted by this dirty land.

There is no unified explanation for why the Middle Kingdom has never stopped fighting and a unified kingdom has never appeared. The only explanation accepted by the vast majority of scholars is that the church is unwilling.

The church mentioned here doesn’t just refer to the Church of the True God, even those unseen churches of the evil gods are completely consistent with the Church of the True God when it comes to treating the Middle Kingdom region.

Throughout the history of the entire Middle Kingdom region, every time a powerful force appeared in this region, there would be betrayers in this force. Some of these betrayers killed the leader of the force directly, and some were at a certain critical moment. In sexual wars, selling the position of the leader to the enemy, etc., if you investigate carefully, it is not difficult to find that these traitors are all more or less involved with the Church of True God and the Church of the Evil God without exception.

When the Middle Kingdom in the region was almost unified, the king was attacked and killed because of the appearance of the betrayal. This situation started from the earliest people who settled in the Middle Kingdom region, and it still exists today. People living in the region, or People who come to the area to seek life have long been accustomed to such things, and if there are no accidents, this situation will continue until the destruction of the world.

However, with the presence of Protector Barbarisa, that seems to be improving.

In the area controlled by Barbarisa, fairness, justice, integrity, and loyalty have become the core moral standards. Almost all nobles, knights and civilians in the area controlled by Barbarisa follow this moral code, especially Barbary. Those of Sa's subordinates regard this rule of arrival as an oracle-like existence. For a long time, the random betrayal of other regions has hardly happened again, which makes the Barbarisa territory become the center. An outlier in the kingdom area.

The reason why Barbarisa's territory has such an amazing performance is entirely because Barbarisa has brought a good head.

When Barbarisa had already mastered the most powerful legion in the Middle Kingdom, everyone thought that Barbarisa would be like the other ambitions in the Middle Kingdom, killing his titular king and becoming the new leader of the region. king.

But to everyone's surprise, he did not do that. Instead, he still respected the king, and erected a boulder outside the king's castle, engraved with an article called the Code of Justice, expounding on the His moral thinking, and then disbanded most of the army under his command, leaving only a knight order, and returned to his own territory.

It is precisely because of this amazing move that he won the absolute trust of the king, and in the subsequent wars with other countries, he also received the absolute support of the king, and after his achievements reached a certain level, he was crowned by the king as the protector of the country. He is entitled to the same right as a king. At the same time, he was given the very special title of saint by the Church of the True God, establishing his special status in the Middle Kingdom.

And as a role model, his subordinates are also extremely loyal to him. There have been more than one occasions when someone wanted to buy his subordinates with a lot of money.

Even this moral code has spread to the people, affecting other ordinary people in the Barbarisa territory, which makes the Barbarisa region the region with the most moral behavior in the Middle Kingdom, and even other regions in the Old World can Nor has it ever been comparable in moral conduct to that of the Barbarisa region.

It is precisely because the people here have extremely high moral standards, and the Barbarisa territory just includes two large rivers at the same time, with extremely convenient water network transportation, which makes people in the Middle Kingdom more willing to come here. Various transactions, this has also become the first choice for various negotiations in the Middle Kingdom region.

However, there is a crack in this completely unreasonable righteous environment in the Middle Kingdom, and the appearance of this crack is very likely to affect the special status and status of the entire Barbarisa territory.

In the eyes of ordinary people, it was only the steward of a small property under the name of Grand Duke Barbarisa who betrayed the trust of Grand Duke Barbarisa, sold all the goods in the property at a low price, swept all the cash, and fled In the Middle Kingdom, these losses were a drop in the bucket compared to Grand Duke Barbarisa's huge assets.

But in the eyes of people with a heart, the deep meaning of this betrayal is extremely unusual, because the steward who betrayed Grand Duke Barbarisa was a member of the Knights of the Guards of the Grand Duke of Barbarisa during the war, and the Knights of the Guards were He is regarded as the most loyal subordinate of Archduke Barbarisa. When danger comes, every knight will die for Archduke Barbarisa without hesitation, but it is such a loyal representative who betrays Archduke Barbarisa. , what about the rest of Barbarisa's men? Is their loyalty still as indestructible as it once was, or is it just as corrupted as this knight of the Guards.

As the only neutral zone in the Middle Kingdom, the Barbarisa territory will affect the hearts of many people. Therefore, when the news of the betrayer's appearance spread, all the forces in the Middle Kingdom sent people overtly and covertly. Go to the Barbarisa territory to inquire about news, and even the Church of the True God has sent people over to watch the follow-up changes.

This sudden incident also made Barbarisa have to give up the travel plan he had set before, and honestly stayed in the territory, met his subordinates, soothed their emotions, and consolidated their loyalty at the same time.

Barbarisa is very clear that the reason why his subordinates do not have some betrayers from time to time like other forces is not only because he has a reputation and status that no one else can get, but more importantly, his ability can help him. win over people.

Affinity is one of the special abilities that Barbarisa has. As long as you get along with Barbarisa for a long time, the contact will naturally be affected by this silent affinity, making the other party a close friend who will never betray you. friend.

However, this ability also has a flaw, that is, it has a duration. Once the time is up, the people affected by the affinity will gradually return to normal, and eventually will be completely unaffected.

Barbarisa is also very aware of his own shortcomings in this ability, so he will meet with his cronies and some important subordinates from time to time, and complete the reinforcement of loyalty to these people during the gathering.

However, because there were no accidents all the year round, Barbarisa was a little slack. In addition, this trip was to the New World, and it took a lot longer than expected to return to the Middle Kingdom area. In the end, there was no time to strengthen the loyalty of his subordinates. As a result, one of them got rid of the control of his mind and became a betrayal.

So after learning of the situation, Barbarisa immediately summoned the officers of his knights and corps to come to his castle for a party to strengthen the loyalty of these people.

In his opinion, it is no big deal if there is a problem with the management of those industries, but it is just a loss of money. As long as a loyal army is still in his hands, no amount of turbulence will appear in his territory.

However, even if Barbarisa reacted in time and did the right thing after the incident, the turmoil caused by the betrayal will not change because of his correct decision, because more people hope that this turmoil can Expand, preferably to the point where Barbarisa's territory can't bear, a neutral area so stable and secure doesn't meet their expectations.

When Leo came to Barbarisa's territory, he just got off the boat when he saw two gangs of people who looked like porters gathered at the warehouse door of the dock and fought fiercely. More than a dozen people were already lying on the ground. Unknown, others still have no plans to stop.

Although the security personnel at the wharf had already received the news before the porters started to reach the vicinity, they had no intention of going forward to stop these people from fighting.

After seeing this scene, Leo felt a little weird, because the information he obtained through other channels about the security of Barbarisa's territory was praised, but now he saw this scene on the dock, obviously here The actual situation is very inconsistent with what is seen.

This is just the beginning. After that, on the way to the hotel closest to the pier, Leo encountered four fights of different forces one after another. Without exception, just like the situation at the pier, the security personnel arrived at the scene, but did nothing, etc. After these people are finished, clean up the mess.

And what is even more interesting is that so many fights appeared in the city, but the residents living in this inland port city did not show the slightest disgust. Instead, they completely incarnated into a bystander watching these people catch and fight in front of them with relish. , and those who are in the slaughter are also careful to avoid ordinary people on the street, as if these people are buried with bombs, they will explode with a light touch.

Soon Leo knew the reason, and saw that the two fighting forces inadvertently involved a bystander in the fight, and caused the bystander to fall to the ground with serious injuries. Seeing this scene, the two sides of the fight stopped instantly. After coming down, they heard a rush of hooves coming from the end of the street, and then saw a ten-man, fully armed knight rushing in front of them.

At this moment, both sides of the battle chose the same surrender action, and then the team of knights took away the wounded and some people led by the two forces, and the rest of the people who saw the master were taken away, so naturally there was no need. The fight continued, so they dispersed, and the street quickly returned to calm.

This abnormal phenomenon was naturally remembered by Leo, so that after he checked into a large suite in the hotel, he immediately asked the hotel attendant who was carrying the luggage what happened just now.

"Is this your first time here?" The attendant didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically.

"Is the image of an outsider obvious?" Leo asked after looking at his clothes.

"No, it has nothing to do with your appearance." The attendant shook his head and said, "If you were a local, you wouldn't ask such a question at all." After speaking, he sighed and said, "There is some chaos in the city now. , Many forces that used to get along well with each other inexplicably disliked each other, and then organized people to attack each other on the streets. At first, the knights of the police station would intervene in these battles, but because it happened too many times , and the locations are too scattered, so as long as the struggle of these forces does not affect ordinary people like us, they will not take action to quell this struggle."

After hearing the explanation of the hotel attendant, Leo couldn't help frowning. He felt that the deep meaning was not as simple as the attendant saw. This was obviously a test to test the bottom line of the security forces in the territorial towns. The knights at the police station seem to have made the worst choice.

Leo didn't bother much about this issue, and instead asked another question, saying: "If I want to buy rare ores and gems, who do I need to find in the town?"

The attendant immediately gave several names, of which two names Leo had also heard of. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com was one of the best ore chambers in the Old Continent.

Leo then inquired about the addresses of these chambers of commerce in the town. After getting the answer, he gave the attendant some consumption and let the attendant leave. When giving a tip, Leo deliberately revealed some gems in his pocket. Let the attendant see that he believes that it will not take long for the fact that he is carrying precious gems to penetrate into the ears of various forces in the town.

However, what surprised Leo was that he did not wait for those forces to send people to test his details, nor did he have time to go to those ore chambers of commerce to discuss ore mining, but the night he entered the hotel, he saw the secret Barbarisa, who came to the hotel to meet him.

"How did you know my whereabouts? Mr. Barbarisa." In the hotel room, Leo looked at Barbarisa, who was a little nervous outside the door, and did not let him in immediately, but was very serious asked.

Barbarisa explained seriously: "In your current status, there are many people watching you, and you came to this particularly sensitive Middle Kingdom area, so when you set foot on the territory of the Middle Kingdom, and Your relevant information has already been sent to the most powerful people in the Middle Kingdom, and I naturally have a copy. When you chose to take a boat, I guessed that you would come to this port town, so I've been waiting here in advance, I hope you don't misunderstand."