The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Before coming to Matou Bay, Leo already knew a lot about the governor of Matou Bay from the sailors of the Speargun. Although the original builder of Matou Bay was not the governor, the current governor of Matou Bay Everything was built by the governor alone.

After initially discovering Matou Bay, an excellent deep-water port, the Root Kingdom sent people to build settlements and ports. However, during the construction process, they encountered several attacks from indigenous tribes and jungle beasts, and the construction progress was almost zero.

It was not until the arrival of the governor that the construction of Matou Bay officially started, and it is still expanding and building until now.

The name of this governor is Will Ruthman. According to the sailors, the Ruthman family he belongs to is a great nobleman of the Root Kingdom. There have been two earls and four barons in the family. He still has a good future in the Kingdom of Root, but after learning about the situation in Matou Bay, he voluntarily gave up his position in the kingdom and applied to be the governor here.

After becoming the governor, he did not immediately build the port like the previous builders did, but directly built a temporary barracks, and began to deploy troops on a large scale, forming an army of 5,000 people in a short period of time, and They also brought artillery, which was very rare at that time, from the kingdom.

In the next three months, he led an army of 5,000 people to sweep the jungle near Matou Bay. No matter if it was an indigenous tribe or a jungle beast, he would kill them directly if they saw them, without mercy, and finally completely wiped out the jungle around Matou Bay. was cleaned up.

After cleaning up the foreign aggression, Governor Vail began to calmly and formally build various facilities required by the dock. First, the city wall and fort were built, and then the docks and other facilities were gradually improved.

It is also because of this that the prestige of Governor Vail in Matouwan is supreme, even the king may not be able to match it, and his power is also unique, not only controlling the political power in Matouwan, but also the military power .

However, no one thinks that he will stand on his own, because he does not have a ship under his command, nor does he have a naval fleet. The navy in the port is the Royal Navy and does not obey his orders. The daily supply of Matou Bay cannot keep up. In the end, even if the kingdom does not attack Matou Bay, the interior of Matou Bay will kill each other due to the shortage of food and other resources.

In the eyes of the people in Matou Bay, Governor Vail is a very weird person. He doesn't like to manage things, and prefers to distribute things to the people below. Therefore, he has established many departments in Matou Bay to assist him in management. From the public security station to the warehouse management office, etc., they were all newly built according to his ideas. There is no such department in the Kingdom of Root. In addition, he also likes to set rules. Any newly established department Each has its own set of laws and regulations, and the entire Matou Bay also has a set of laws and regulations that are different from the laws of the kingdom.

For those who live in Matou Bay, as long as they don't violate the regulations set by Governor Vail, they will live very easily, but if they violate the regulations, they must accept the corresponding punishment, and those who don't want to accept Those who try to avoid punishment by escaping and other means will be punished with more cruel punishment.

For example, there was once a young nobleman from the kingdom who was sent to Matouwan to serve. Of course, this was done only to give the young nobleman some experience and increase his reputation. It would not take long for him to be transferred back to the mainland of the kingdom.

However, this young nobleman is a restless guy. He not only brought over his behavior in the kingdom, but also let him fly freely because he was far away from the mainland, and magnified all kinds of behaviors to the extreme, not only There was a disturbance in the port, and a female resident was arrested and brought back to her residence to be abused. As a result, Governor Weier directly arrested him, and according to the set regulations, he was to be castrated and handed over to the female resident as a slave.

Things that can be settled with only a small amount of money in the kingdom, but here they will be castrated and demoted to slavery. The young nobleman is naturally unwilling to accept punishment, so he bought the people from the security station that night, and then He escaped on a ship back to the kingdom itself.

Although the young nobleman escaped, Governor Ville did not give up. He not only found out the people from the public security station who had accepted bribes, hanged them in public on the pier square, but also selected the most powerful of his men. The soldiers formed the most elite hunting team, rushed back to the mainland of the kingdom, and captured the young nobleman and the captain of the kingdom's battleship who took the nobleman away.

After recapturing the two, he directly burned the captain into a mummy, and then sent someone to send the mummy back to the hall of the Royal Navy Headquarters with great fanfare. In addition, he sent a letter to the parents of the young nobleman to let They came to Matouwan to watch the execution of the young nobleman.

As a result, the parents of the young nobleman brought the king's amnesty to try to save their son, but Governor Vere took off his trousers in front of everyone, defecated on the viewing platform at the pier square, and then used The amnesty wiped his **** and threw it on the **** he had just pulled out, and then directly ordered to use a sharp wooden pole to penetrate under the young nobleman, and then added it to the square, causing him to struggle in pain It took four or five days before he died.

So far, Governor Vail has gained absolute respect and fear in Matou Bay, and at the same time he has gained a very bad reputation in the Kingdom of Root. If Matou Bay is not still under construction, once it is replaced, it will definitely affect Matou. According to the progress of the construction of the bay, perhaps Governor Vile has been recalled by the kingdom.

When Leo looked at Governor Weier and recalled relevant information in his mind, Governor Weier and several administrative officials in Matou Bay around him also looked at Leo.

The moment they landed on Leo's shore, they had already settled Leo's affairs from the mouth of the captain of the Speargun. Matou Bay will inevitably build its own fleet or even a fleet, and then Leo, an oceanographer, will come in handy.

So when they learned that there was a plague in the prison of the public security station, Governor Weir and his officials were just discussing how to arrange Leo so as not to cause trouble.

They got wrong information from the captain of the Speargun, and they also regarded Leo as the research assistant of Professor Ferrance, a famous scholar in the Kingdom of Berent, and they also knew the status of Professor Ferrance in the relevant academic circles of the Kingdom of Berent. , now that Professor Ferrance has died in the attack, only Leo is left. The Kingdom of Belente will definitely do everything possible to track down this matter, so they need to hide Leo tightly, Don't let the slightest bit of wind leak out.

However, before they could reach a conclusion, Leo had already given them a big surprise, that there was a possibility of a plague breaking out in Matou Bay.

This undoubtedly frightened them. Fortunately, the governor of Weir calmed down quickly, and ordered to seal off the cell area of ​​the public security station according to the most stringent plague treatment method in the kingdom, and invited some of the best doctors in the city to work together. Investigate what kind of plague it is so we can find a solution as soon as possible.

However, after some investigation, they got an unexpected result. The cell was not a plague, but some kind of curse and parasitism, and it was the oceanographer Ray they were talking about just now who came to this conclusion. Europe.

Later, he learned from his subordinates that Leo seemed to be not only an oceanographer, but also a biological researcher in the New World. Thinking of Professor Ferrance's academic achievements, they had no doubts about this statement, but they wanted to learn from Leo. Ou asked to confirm whether the person in the cell was the plague, and what if it wasn't the plague. As for the curse, they didn't take it to heart. In their view, there is no such thing as a curse in the world. Curses are just some It's just the imagination of stupid country people, but they are very interested in the theory of parasitism, because when the New World was opened up, some people would grow some strange things on their bodies, and some people seemed to call that kind of thing parasitism.

"I'm Governor Will Ruthman." After looking at Leo, Governor Will took the initiative to reach out to Leo and said.

"Leo Dodd, a scholar." Leo replied.

Governor Weier seemed to have heard the accent that Leo imitated, and asked, "The accent of the Minlock Mountains, are you from the Minlock Mountains?"

"No." Leo shook his head directly. He learned this accent from a naval officer captive on the ship. He knew nothing about the so-called Minlok Mountains. If he admitted that he was from the Minlok Mountains, the other party would If you ask about the Minlok Mountains again, then you'll be out of luck.

Hearing Leo's denial of his guess, Governor Weier couldn't help being stunned, but he didn't plan to continue asking, but simply introduced the other officials around him, and then went straight to the topic very directly, asking: " It was you who discovered the abnormality on the prisoner, and you were the first to check the prisoner's physical condition, why are you so sure that it is some kind of parasite, not some kind of plague?"

Leo explained: "It's very simple. The doctors who examined the prisoners before should have shown you the worms extracted from the pustules on the prisoners' backs, right? That's a parasite."

"Does your excellency know how that prisoner got infected?" an official asked hastily.

Leo looked at the official. He remembered that when Governor Vail introduced it just now, he said that this official was in charge of urban construction planning inside and outside Matou Bay. That is to say, entering the jungle to cut timber was also under his management. This time, the logger disappeared all at once. In addition to the management team of the forest farm, this is undoubtedly a major loss, which has seriously affected the construction of the outer city of Matouwan, so he is also concerned about the matter of the lumberjack Daman. He is particularly concerned, and seems to want to find clues about the disappearance of the logger from Daman, as well as some information about the forest farm.

Leo easily guessed what the other party was thinking, and said bluntly: "Your Excellency wants to make sure whether the prisoner was parasitized by this kind of insect in the forest farm?"

The official didn't deny it either, and nodded very frankly, saying: "Rumors are spreading everywhere now, even if I pay three times the wages, I still can't hire a logger to enter the forest farm."

"You should be more worried about the people who kidnapped those loggers and forestry workers, rather than worrying about whether there are parasites in the forestry." Leo glanced at the other party and said, "But I can make you feel a little more at ease now, that prisoner The parasites on my body did not come from the forest farm."

Hearing this, the official couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, then looked at the others, signaling that he was fine.

Governor Vail took over the topic of inquiry and asked, "Since it wasn't a parasite infected in the forest farm, where is it?"

"In the outlying towns." Leo gave an answer that made everyone feel panicked, but before everyone could write the panic in their hearts on the expressions on their faces, he added: "The first time he met that night To that monster that sneaks into town and attacks people."

Hearing Leo's words, the panic in everyone's hearts calmed down a little, followed by Governor Weier, who seemed to think of something from Leo's answer, and asked, "You mean the parasite was transmitted to him by that monster?"

Leo nodded, and added: "No, you made a mistake. It was not only infected to him, but also to the patrolling soldiers who saw the monster at that time."

"What? Others are also infected?" Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and Governor Weier immediately wanted to order to find out those patrolling soldiers and imprison them temporarily.

Before Governor Weier gave the order, Leo added: "However, you don't have to worry, they were infected, but they were not infected successfully. Only the lumberjack from Daman was successfully infected."

Everyone couldn't help frowning, and an official asked: "How do you know that other people have not successfully infected?"

"It's very simple, that monster told me." Leo responded, but everyone didn't understand, so he continued to explain: "If you have heard the story of the lumberjack Daman's attack by a monster, you will You should be able to feel that the monster is very weird. After it appeared, it attacked everyone, and then did not immediately continue to attack those who had lost their resistance. Instead, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com stayed by everyone for a while, and finally It stayed with the lumberjack Daman the longest, so long that even the lumberjack Daman himself thought he would be killed. In the end, it let Daman go, and killed another person instead, and took him away. .”

Governor Weier quickly guessed, and said in a deep voice: "Hearing what you said, it seems that the monster has wisdom."

Leo corrected: "No, it's not that the monster is intelligent, but the person who controls the monster is intelligent."

"Control the monster?" Everyone showed shocked expressions again, looking at Leo as if they were looking at a fool.

There is an unwritten general knowledge in the New World, that is, the beasts of the New World may be able to be tamed, but the monsters will never be tamed. Not only the people from the Novat continent cannot tame those monsters, but even the natives who have lived in the local area for countless years cannot tame them. It cannot be tamed. In the past few years, the people in the colony have seen monsters attacking the local aborigines countless times. It seems that in the eyes of the monsters, both the local aborigines and the colonists of the Novat continent need to be killed Foreign enemies, so Leo said that someone can control the monster, which made the people who ended the situation feel very absurd.

(end of this chapter)