The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The Lucky Star is a passenger ship running around Josh County all year round. Heel Bondi is the owner of this ship. Like most young people in the Kingdom of England, he also wandered in the sea in the early years, but his Luck is better, I made a lot of money, and I know how to go back and forth. When others still dream of making more money, I returned to my hometown in Josh County and started a passenger transportation business.

Although Josh County and Sabo County are both in a state of economic downturn, almost all industries have entered a depression period under the influence of the environment, but compared to other industries, the river shipping industry has maintained a prosperous trend In addition to the well-developed mining industry in Sabo County, it also benefits from the Josh people who are working in Josh County.

Josh County is a huge swamp. In the early years, Josh County was settled by some urban citizens who failed to pay taxes, free citizens who lost their employers, and some serfs who fled the land of the lords.

These people gathered in Josh County to form villages. These villages all rely on this swamp to survive. They use their geographical advantages to resist the tax officials sent by the kingdom and resist the army of the lords of the surrounding counties. This has also created Josh County is tough and full of life.

It is no exaggeration to say that at least five of the ten people in Josh County have participated in one or more robberies, the other four are gangsters, and the remaining one is considering joining the gang or the robber. .

Even if it was later that Josh County broke away from the three-indifferent state, it began to be directly managed by the kingdom and had its own lord, but this gangster's habit has not changed at all.

The roads in Josh County are definitely the most dangerous roads in the entire Kingdom of England, because there are a large number of robbers waiting on both sides of the road, waiting for those fat sheep to pass by, so anyone with a little spare money in their pockets will not choose to Leaving Josh County on the road and choosing a safer shipping, even if the ticket is very expensive.

Heel Bondi is aware of this, and it costs a lot of money. Please ask a professional technician to change this lucky star into a steam paddle steamer with the fastest inland river transportation, and specialize in the wide river channel. This route to Joshburg.

It takes another week for other ships to finish this route, but his paddle steamer only takes two days, which virtually makes his shipping income increase by two or three times, and because his ship is more The smoothness and speed make his ferry tickets much more expensive than others, but this has not affected his business. Lucky Star is still the most profitable ship on this river.

This time, the original shoes and Bondi were also preparing to pull a boatman as usual and start a new round of voyage. To his surprise, some people ordered his boat, and even more strangely, he boarded the boat. There are only a dozen people.

Although the Lucky Star is not comparable to those sea passenger cruise ships that can easily take thousands of people, but here, on the route of Miner and Josh Fort, his passenger ship that can take up to 500 people at the same time is already huge. The tyrants exist, so few people would be willing to charter the boat as a whole, and most people will only book a suite as their own dedicated cabin.

But as big as a boat is now packaged, but only a dozen people board the ship, this kind of thing has never been seen.

Although Heel Bondi is curious about what is happening right now, he knows the rules very well, what to ask, what not to ask, and he also recognized a person from the crowd, that person is the Miner Wolf Willis, the leader of the gang.

When doing business in Minnie City, you may not know who the mayor is or who the city councillor is, but you absolutely must know the leaders and leaders of the major gangsters in Minnie City. Although the wolf gang is not the largest gangster in Miner City, its strength can also be ranked in the first array, and it directly controls an urban area. It is one of the few gangsters with a real chassis.

The head wolf Willis is definitely a legend in Mi Pinch. A rural poor boy from Joshburg joined the gang, and became a gang leader in charge of an industry in less than a year. When the leader was beside him, he killed the other leaders of the gang with his own strength and became the unique leader of the gang.

Later, he changed the name of the gang to the wolf gang, and quickly expanded, annihilated and annexed several other gangs around him, and became the largest gang in the city of Miner.

It is precisely because of his legendary rise experience that many people who came out of Josh County admired him very much. If they want to join the gang, the wolf gang is always the first choice.

However, such a gang leader known for his proficiency in fighting was standing on the deck of the ship at the moment, and he was very obediently lowered in front of a woman, any eye-catching person could see who the two were. Who is the master, and this man who made the head of the wolf gang bow in the city of Miner is also very famous as the proprietress of the jungle hotel.

This famous lady boss is regarded as the mistress of the head of the wolf gang. Therefore, under the protection of the wolf gang, the Jungle Hotel can be the safest hotel in the city of Miner, but now it seems that everyone is misunderstanding By the way, this woman is not a mistress at all, but more like the owner of the leader of the wolf gang.

Compared with these famous people in the city of Mine, the other five people who boarded the ship together are a lot of strangers. These five people are not like a group of people. Three of them are dressed like that. Mercenaries and the like, while the other two are more like nobles, walking together more like bodyguards and employers.

Heel Bondi has learned from experience that none of these five people is a resident of Mine City, because such an aristocracy is unlikely to appear in Mine City, and even if there are mercenaries, they have already joined the gang, and those who do not want to join the gang Became the food of the wild beasts in the mountains, or was forced to leave the city of Mine.

Heel Bondi does not have the hobby of observing people, mainly because in addition to his identity as the owner of the Lucky Star on the surface, he is also an intelligence collector of a secret agency in the Kingdom. He needs to record the passengers on board every day. Every move for the investigation of that secret department.

It’s just that apart from guessing about the identities of those people, there is really nothing worth studying for those people, because those people stayed in the cabin after they got on the boat, and they never came out. Go in.

In fact, the heel Bondi did not know that he thought that the hidden observation method did not escape the eyes of Leo and others, and Leo and others were not prepared to delve into this matter. After all, the things they have to consider are comparable to this. The secret department's eyes and ears are much stronger, and more importantly, it solves this person, who will sail.

The Mines River is normal in the Saab County, but after entering Josh County, it becomes weird.

Because of the marsh terrain of Josh County, and the groundwater here will have a surge, the channel of the Mines River will change with the season, which causes some difficulties in river transportation.

For example, today the boat can drive on a spacious river channel and finally reach its goal, but the next day he chose to walk the same channel and he will find that the channel has been blocked, even if it is not blocked, there will be some Unexpected reef.

If you want to drive on the Mines River in Yosh County, the person at the helm needs to have a deep understanding of all the changes in the water patterns of this section of the river, and it also needs to have some relationship with the villages and towns along the river, which is called Miner The transportation on the River Sze is basically the main reason completely controlled by the Josh.

So Leo, even if they knew that the heel Bondi was observing them in secret, they did not teach each other. They just stayed in the cabin and did not give the other the opportunity to observe.

After more than half a day, the passenger ship floated over a relatively turbulent river section, and entered a spacious and gentle channel. The mountains around the channel were gradually replaced by the endless plain grassland, which also represented their official entry. Josh County.

It was originally believed that the ship would continue to move directly along the spacious river channel, but the heel Bondi turned the rudder quickly, driving the ship into a very narrow channel that just let the Lucky Star pass , And then docked in a lake where the river is not too big or too small.

"What's the matter?" Willis, the leader of the wolf gang, sent the shoe to Bondi and asked about the situation.

"Sir, you can't drive on the river at night." Heel Bondi faced such a big man in the city of Minnie, he was very nervous and quickly replied.

"At night?" Willis turned to look at the sky. Although it was almost evening, the sky had not darkened. It seemed that it should be a few hours before the evening. When he saw such a sky, his face was somber. Going down, grabbing the heel of Bondi's collar and saying, "Do you think I'm a fool?"

"No, it's not!" Heel Bondy shook his head again and again, said in a panic: "You are also Josh, you should know that Josh's swamp is active, but you may not know that Josh's swamp is approaching evening. Activities at the time, if we continue to sail during that time, we may encounter a reef formed by swamp activities. And..."

At this point, he hesitated for a moment, and it seemed that he didn't know whether to say the next thing.

There was a sharp look in Willis' eyes, and Shen Sheng asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"

Heel Bondi secretly works for the Kingdom’s secret department, but he is actually just an ordinary person. Where can he withstand the threat of the gang leader such as Willis, sweating immediately on his forehead, he quickly replied: "Yes Papa, if you sail on the river at night, you are very likely to encounter Papa."

"Papa?" Willis didn't expect that he would get such an answer. He was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed with his head up, and all the gangsters from other Josh counties around him laughed, only those who were not Josh. Talents from the county are confused, and don’t know what everyone is laughing at.

Someone also explained what Papa was. After hearing the explanation, others looked at the heels of Bondi eccentrically, just like they were looking at some freaks.

Legends about Papa in Josh County have been circulating for a long time, but these are spread in some small villages, and other towns sneer at this kind of rural legend.

Papa is a local slang term in Josh County. The earliest meaning was a curse word, but now it means a monster in a swamp.

In the past, many people have seen some monsters in the swamp, but they can’t tell what the monsters look like. In addition, most of the rumors are from the tavern, so these rumors about Papa were The Josh who thinks that some drunkards are drunk, even the superstitious Josh, will not take Papa like this seriously.

"It's true, it's true that there is Papa!" The ridiculed heel Bondi seems to care about this matter, suppressing the fear of Willis, and quickly said: "I have seen Papa, I I have seen Papa twice. One of the people on board was killed by Papa. The second time I was lucky. I found a place to evacuate in time and didn’t die in Papa."

"Are you going to meet a thief in disguise?" Willis said angrily.

Ships on the Mines River are indeed safer than horse-drawn carriages on the road, but this safety is only relative. Some thieves and robbers see that there is less trading on the road, so they put their ideas on the river.

They used a special kind of reed growing in the swamp to make a reed boat. They rode the reed boat in the dark and approached the freighter docked on the river to carry out robbery.

It's just that after such a thing or two, the captains of those freighters also learned well. Most of them will estimate the distance. Before dark, they will enter the pier of the town. A few will have to sail late at night. Keep the speed so that those reed boats cannot get close.

Those river robbers have not thought about robbing ships during the day, but that requires very good and fast ships to be able to do it~www.readwn.com~ But if there are such ships, why should they do this kind of business that will lose their heads at any time? The freight and passenger transport running directly along the Mines River line are enough to make them profitable.

Before, Willis saw that the ship did not continue to travel, but docked in this small river bay. The first thought was to think that the owner was colluding with the river robber and wanted to start working on them at night.

But when I think about it, I feel that something is wrong, because the shipowner knows their identity very well. Who is the wolf or who is the sheep in front of them is not necessarily so, so the shipowner should not be so stupid and want to unite the river robbers to rob them. .

But now, after listening to the narrative of the shipowner, Willis thinks that the shipowner may really be a lunatic. Who will take some unbelievable legends seriously, and even if Papa is true, is it possible to dock the ship in a nearby village Isn't the pier safer than docking on this remote river?

"No, it's not a river thief! We were docked in the village at that time, and the river thief didn't dare to enter the village!" Feeling Willis' distrust, the shoe heel Bondi quickly explained.

"You were attacked in the village?" Willis was very surprised, because according to common sense such things should not happen.