The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

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

The passenger on the Flying Fish was Leo. Ever since he boarded the ship, he had an inexplicable strange feeling. This feeling did not originate from the Flying Fish, nor from the Weaver of Fate, nor from Other gods originate from this world, as if imposed upon him by the world of Velen itself.

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

During the few days of sailing, the Flying Fish encountered more than 20 unexpected incidents, such as accidentally breaking into the mating area of ​​a group of thousand-eyed sea snakes, or this time encountering a lone horned whale.

No matter what kind of accident, when it first appeared, it would either not be too dangerous for the time being, or it would be able to give some unobtrusive benefits to the Flying Fish. For example, this time the horned whale can only increase the crew at most. Half a year's income is just not the kind of huge benefit that is worth fighting for.

However, if you think about it carefully, these seemingly innocuous things will eventually become very dangerous with subsequent development, and most of them are destructive dangers.

It is no exaggeration to say that if there was no Leo on board, if Leo was strong enough and vigilant enough, maybe the Flying Fish would have fallen into a submarine volcanic eruption on the day it went out to sea because of an unexpected move off course. In the midst of danger, the ship crashed and people died.

At that time, the ship sailed into a seemingly calm sea area, and the people on board did not feel any danger, but Leo was always vigilant because of the abnormal feeling after boarding the ship, and opened his mental net to sense the surrounding Case.

So when the ship deviated from the course and sailed into the calm sea area, Leo immediately felt that the seabed of that sea area was gathering a lot of energy, and it was speculated that the submarine volcano was about to erupt.

Because the situation was urgent, it would be a waste of time to notify the captain directly, so he directly influenced the helmsman through spiritual energy, making him find that he had deviated from the course, and adjusted the ship back to the correct course.

Not long after the ship left that sea area, the volcano on the seabed erupted. According to the discussion of the crew on board, its power was definitely the strongest eruption of a seabed volcano in the past ten years.

Afterwards, emergencies similar to this underwater volcano emerged one after another. Every time they appeared in front of the crew of the Flying Fish, they appeared harmless, and the subsequent developments hidden under the harmless appearance were all 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 horned whale. There have been more than 20 accidents like this.

If this happened two or three times during the voyage of the Flying Fish, it could be said to be a coincidence, but more than twenty times was obviously not a simple coincidence.

There is a power in the dark that seems to be preventing Leo from approaching the Mozambique continent, or perhaps preventing him from meeting Sylvia.

However, this is also what confuses Leo the most, because the power against him, from all aspects, obviously far exceeds his spiritual power level and life form. If you want to kill him, you should It was not difficult, but in the end, this force only used the natural environment and biological characteristics of Velen World itself to affect the navigation of the Flying Fish, which really made it impossible for him to speculate whether this force was malicious to him or not.

Although up to now, Leo has not encountered any incident that could threaten him, but he has not let down his vigilance because of this. He still opens his mental net, scans the surrounding sea area, and drives away dangerous sea beasts approaching. The details of that mysterious power.

Maybe it was knowing that those accidents would not bring any hindrance to Leo, or maybe it was knowing that Leo had already discovered his own existence. After the narwhal incident, Flying Fish never encountered those seemingly harmless, In fact, a dangerous accident happened, and the indescribable power that caused Leo to feel gradually subsided, and finally disappeared completely when it reached Torch Port.

Among the more than 30 large and small countries in the Mozambique continent, the Kuishan Allies belong to that kind of small country. Its smallness is not only reflected in its land area, but also in the overall national strength of the country.

The Kuishan Allies, like most other countries on the Mozambique continent, were colonies of the Kingdom of Sigmar at first. Later, with the colonial uprising, the nearby large plantation owners and the original indigenous tribes united to drive out the colonies of the Kingdom of Sigmar The army established an inconspicuous small local regime, and then annexed some surrounding lands. It was not until the establishment of Megalica that everyone's attraction was concentrated on the Kingdom of Megalica that they publicly established the Kuishan Allies.

Although the Kuishan Allies is a country in name, in fact, because its territory is completely surrounded by the Kingdom of America, most of the food, clothing, housing and transportation in the country needs the supplies of the Kingdom of America, so people from Mozambique or other continents will Subconsciously regard the Kuishan Allies as a member country of the Kingdom of Galica.

The Kuishan Allied State is located at the apex of the northern section of the Newski Mountains, and its land spans both sides of the Newski Mountains. There are only three counties in Bodo County, and the area of ​​the entire country is not even as large as the Bodo area in the Villen continent.

New Bodo County was originally named by another name, but with the large number of people immigrating here from the Bodo area of ​​the Velen Continent, the number of Bodo people gradually surpassed the locals. Coupled with the wealth and political sensitivity of Bodo people, it finally made Bodo has a complete advantage in the local political and business circles, and finally changed the original county name to the current name.

Because of the division of the Newski Mountains, New Porto County is divided into two parts, east and west. The east is the New Porto District, while the west is the Torch District. As the name suggests, the Torch District is naturally centered on Torch Harbor.

Compared with the Port of Hope, which was established in the year of the fog disaster, the Torch Port is a new port established in recent years. The whitewash on the pier has not been mottled by the erosion of the sea wind, and the entire port looks very Clean and organized.

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

As the political and business circles of New Bodo County are controlled by Bodo people, the original local people lost not only the land under their feet, but also their rights and wealth. Because the local people and the Bodo people who immigrated here There have been irreconcilable contradictions between them from the very beginning.

However, compared to the rich and united Bodo people, the local forces composed of former plantation owners and local tribes seem to be much looser, and they themselves have internal conflicts and cannot cooperate sincerely at all.

Whether it is financial resources, power, or force, the locals are far from being able to compare with the Bodos, so the local forces have to consider starting a new stove, leaving the area controlled by the Bodos, and establishing an urban area completely owned by the locals in other areas , and Bodo people are also happy to see all these internal troubles leave, so Torch Harbor and Torch District were established under this strange consensus.

It is precisely because of the support and cooperation of Bodo that Torch Harbor was able to be successfully established in such a bad environment after the foggy year, and because of the establishment of Torch Harbor, the internal tension in New Porto County has become Some things have eased up, and the high-level executives of the New Porto District and the Torch District have also improved a lot, and even established a good business partnership.

However, compared with the high-level dignitaries in the area, the residents of the Torch District at the bottom still maintain a strong hostility towards Bodo people. Discussions about the tide of sea beasts appearing in Hong Kong waters, and without exception, all of these discussions have a tone of gloating.

Because this was a colony of the Kingdom of Sigma in the past, most of the locals in Torch Port mainly speak Sigma, and the American-Canada language improved by the Kingdom of America with English as the core is also one of their auxiliary languages. The French they brought was regarded as a disgusting sound, 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 heading to the New Porto area, all he got was a pair of blank eyes and indifferent Even if Leo switched to English, he didn't get any good looks from these managers.

Leo was not angry or annoyed by this, he was just thinking about whether he should go on the road alone, over the Newski Mountains.

At this time, a caravan supervisor who was going through the procedure of renting out the warehouse in the management area seemed to have heard Leo's previous conversation with the manager. When Leo left, he caught up and spoke in American-Canada, which is similar to English: "Did you just come from the other side of the sea, right? You don't know the situation here. Speaking French is a big taboo in Torch Harbor and Torch District. Even if Bodo people come here, they still have to speak Sigma or American-Canadian."

Hearing the other party's kind reminder, Leo did not respond to the other party, but turned his head to look at the slightly fat caravan director, with a little questioning look in his eyes.

Although Leo was a little indifferent, the caravan supervisor didn't show any displeasure because of this, he still smiled kindly and said: "My caravan is about to set off soon, and the destination is just right. It’s Meijiu Town in New Porto District, if you don’t mind, you can set off with my caravan.”

Leo looked at the caravan director in front of him, and asked, "Why? Why did you invite a stranger like me to join your caravan? Shouldn't you try to avoid strangers from joining the caravan to prevent thieves from sneaking in?" ?"

The head of the caravan smiled and said: "If the thieves in the Mosang Continent have the temperament of your Excellency, then the thieves may have disappeared long ago. I guess your Excellency should be a very noble person in the Villen Continent. , I am afraid that the people you deal with are not of low status, so I think that if I can establish some relationship with you, it may be of some benefit to my caravan."

Hearing that the head of the caravan directly confessed his small thoughts, Leo was not disgusted, nor did he give any positive response to the other party's guess. He just thought about it, then nodded and said: "I hope that in the next journey, we can Have a good time."

When the caravan supervisor heard this, a smile appeared on his face.

As he himself said, the reason why he took the initiative to contact Leo was because he wanted to make friends with Leo. Although the caravan had one more person to take care of, if Leo was really from the Velen Continent as he guessed, A certain person with status, even if the other party is down and out now and needs to come to the New Porto 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. He will naturally not let go of this kind of profitable investment .

Afterwards, the two came to the small caravan where the caravan supervisor was located. On the way, they also introduced themselves to each other. Leo did not forge a name, but directly said his real name, just like the one he met before. Like everyone else, when he heard Leo's surname Dodd, the head of the caravan immediately thought of something, and the smile on his face increased a lot.

And Leo also knew that the name of the head of the caravan was Bran Fire Dancer. From the name, it could be seen that the other party should be a mixed race, and his blood and inheritance were more inclined to the Mosang mainland tribe.

The caravan managed by Bran is not a common merchant caravan, but a family caravan. His family is not a native of the Kuishan Allies, but a small inland country near the wasteland in the depths of the Mozambique 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 though 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 wilderness primitive tribes, and the Fire Dancer family is one of them.

For various reasons, the two major city-states in Gulin have not developed an industrial system, and they still maintain a relatively primitive political civilization. Therefore, the economy of these two major city-states needs to be provided by the wasteland, a treasure house full of various resources.

However, since the surrounding countries are all close to the wasteland, even if they collect all kinds of precious resources from the wasteland, it is still difficult to sell them at a high price locally, so they set up caravans from their respective city-states, and set up their own caravans in various parts of the Mozambique continent. Countries and cities conduct traveling business transactions, and Bran Fire Dancer is one of them. The area he is in charge of is now the area of ​​the Kuishan Confederate States.