The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The steam train that should have arrived at two o’clock in the afternoon and re-departed at two thirty, there was no sign of arriving at night. The mechanical clock in the waiting room of the station just struck twenty times, which was already evening. It's eight o'clock.

　　 Just now, the waiter of the station waiting room came to inform the station master that the train should arrive in half an hour, and told the reason why the train was so late for the third time.

　　 It was originally in the southern hilly area of ​​Guéret that a sudden rainstorm caused a burst of mudslides. Many railroad tracks were covered by mudslides and required a lot of manual cleaning, so such a serious delay occurred.

Fortunately, all the blocked sections have passed, and the train will arrive at the station soon.

　　When buying tickets, Nielsen took advantage of the Jazz privileges he had just obtained and purchased four tickets for VIP cars.

According to the priesthood ceremonies, Nelson must hold the priesthood book, and after registering with the Noble House of Port Sait, after some cumbersome priesthood ceremonies, it can be considered a formal priesthood, but the priesthood book is also a jazz to some extent Proof, you can get some noble privileges of Jazz in advance.

With the tickets of the VIP compartment, a group of four people naturally wait in the comfortable VIP waiting room. Although the late train is still annoying, compared to the people waiting in the ordinary waiting room and waiting hall, this is simply heaven. .

　　 not only provides drinks, melons and fruits, but also the band plays some soothing music. In the evening, the bathroom is arranged so that people in the VIP waiting room can freshen up and use hot water to relieve some anxiety.

　　 Leo also refreshed a little, and cleaned the industrial dust that had stuck to him during the day. After returning to the VIP waiting room, he asked the waiter for a few copies of today’s newspaper and read it.

Soon Leo saw two items of interest. The first one was that the fighting between the Inge Kingdom and the French Empire intensified, and an anxious state was formed in the Bretley area. There are signs that the direct forces of the Duke of Derwin have been controlled. The frontline troops of the French Empire used the reason to jointly resist the invasion of the enemy.

　　 Seeing this news, Leo couldn’t help but be thankful that he didn’t be stupid to retreat to the south of the Inge Kingdom. Otherwise, he would definitely be sent to the battlefield again, and it would not be so rewarding.

Another piece of news is a local newspaper in Lanxi. The content is that the local business federation has reached a series of agreements with the Workers’ Mutual Aid Association, including the reduction of daily working hours from fifteen hours to ten hours in Eastern Europe and four per month. Day off, salary increase by 10%, including work injury compensation in labor contracts, etc. agreements that benefit workers.

Because of the successful negotiation of these important agreements, the president of the Workers’ Mutual Aid Association, Martin Luther, gained great popularity, and were elected by the directors of the Business Federation to the board of directors, and by more than half of the members of the Lanxi Municipal Council. Entering the parliament, one can imagine a political star rising.

　　 "What's this? Is the shark running to the fish pond?" Leo said tauntingly after reading this news carefully.

　　Although Leo does not know how much these board directors and members of parliament have, he is very clear about Martin’s ability, so it is not difficult to infer what Martin Luther will do after entering these places. Martin Luther will never be a rising star like the newspaper said. It may be a man-eating shark wandering inside. I can imagine the future of Lanxi, or the cities of the western French mainland may be lively. .

"Woo~!" As a whistle sounded, a blade-shaped locomotive slowly drove into the station. A large amount of steam was discharged from the vent hole beside the car, covering the entire station. A special boarding guide in the VIP room arrived. At the door, the person leading the VIP waiting room enters the VIP car's boarding area from the dedicated passage, and after checking the tickets one by one, the cabin crew on the car helps the guests to salute and guide them to the corresponding car.

The luggage of other people is not heavy, and there are not many people like Leo who don’t need to take it at all. Only Jason’s salutes are heavy flintlock pistols. It took three crew members to carry them into the car. This naturally cost Jason a lot of tips.

Although the tickets bought by the four people are consecutive, they are not arranged in the same car. For example, Leo was arranged in the fifth room of car 37, while Jason, Nelson and Catherine arranged In the thirty-eighth car. But they are still good, because the station sells more tickets, passengers behind the number can only be arranged in the cabin crew's room, and wait for the room to be vacated before arranging for their stay.

After arriving in the room, there was no one in the other berth of the room, but the luggage was already on the luggage rack. The coffee in the cup on the table was still warm. It should be while parking, go down and move around, or buy some locals 'S specialty is gone.

　　 Leo just instinctively observed and analyzed it, and he didn't pay attention to these things. He put his luggage on the luggage rack, and then took out the bilingual dictionary of Old French and English that Catherine bought for him at the station bookstore and a collection of folk novels written in Old French by a French child writer. , Lying on the berth, looking at the book quietly, quickly recording the pronunciation, words and grammar of learning the ancient French.

　　 Although modern French and ancient French are the official languages ​​of the French Empire, the relationship between the two is not significant.

　　 Modern French is evolved according to Beirut language, and some pronunciations of ancient French are added to the sound, and then a little English is mixed, finally forming the current French.

However, Old French is derived from the Ska language in the Old Velon language family. It is one of the oldest languages. The pronunciation is soft and changeable. It sounds like reading poetry, so some people think that Old French is a noble language. , And modern French is a slang term for inferiors.

This theory of noble and cheap language has been widely spread, and many people have been affected, so that the nobles, scholars and other well-known people in the French Empire, whether they are letters or books, mostly like to write in ancient French. Modern French is more commonly used for conversations between ordinary people and government documents.

　　 Just when the steam train sounded the first whistle to remind the driver, the room door was opened, and a handsome young man with a mustache and single-frame eyes came in.

　　 I saw that this man was wearing a very popular lace pattern dress and long sleeved boots, walking, sitting and other behaviors in Leo's eyes, but in the eyes of others, it was a French nobility.

　　 "Leo Dodd, these two days should be your roommate." Leo greeted actively, using the ancient French language that he had just learned to be less proficient.

Hearing Leo’s very stiff and weird Old French language, Moustache smiled, followed by a stunned thought, and swept his eyes on Leo, seeing Leo hanging on the bed The Panil's tomahawks on the head hook, which can be easily picked up, couldn't help but stunned, eyes narrowed slightly, and then looked at Leo with a kind of scrutiny.

　　 "We know?" Leo easily felt the abnormality of the other party's line of sight, so he closed the dictionary in his hand, looked at the Panil tomahawk that had previously attracted the attention of Moustache, and asked Moustache.

　　 "I don't know." Moustache said in a very good voice, but he was not speaking French or Old French, but English.

Hearing the other person’s words, Leo sat up from the berth, hugged his chest with both hands, slightly tilted his head, and looked at the other person, saying, “It seems we should know, but I can be sure, I don’t know you, not even I’ve seen you, but you know me. Let me guess how you met me.” Then, he pondered for a moment, and said, “I have nothing to say about my experience in other places, nor can I be known. , So you can only know that there is someone like me, Rabbit Skin Town, right?"

　　 When Moustache heard this, a surprised expression appeared on his face. Apparently Leo's words calmed him down.

　　 Leo looked at Moustache and continued: "Let me guess who you are again?"

With that, he was silent again and said, "I arrived in Lanxi directly through the Black Forest, so it took a short time, and since you know what happened in Rabbit Skin, then you leave at the latest time It should be similar to mine. If you can catch us across the Black Forest in such a short time, then you must have taken the Continental Train and detoured from the south. Wealth is expensive, and you are forced to get on the train halfway. Your identity is definitely not ordinary, and you appeared in Rabbit Skin Town at such a specific time, so I guess you must be Baron Maupassant, right?"

Although Leo's reasoning ability like pulling silk and peeling cocoons seems very bluffing, in fact, it is the result of data collection and analysis by the auxiliary brain system, and the really crucial clue is that a noble was exposed by the cuff when Moustache entered the door. Coat of arms. This double-headed sparrow coat of arms is not only famous in the French Empire, but also in other empires, because the majority of the people who own this coat of arms are world-renowned artists, and this coat of arms represents Baron Mopossant.

"I really should send those who gather intelligence to Katya's mine pit and let them reflect on it." Obviously Baron Mopossant was completely bluffed by Leo, and his face was full of surprises and habits. He rubbed the moustache at the corner of his mouth sexually and sat on the opposite berth, looking at Leo with a smile, and said, "Leo Dodd, twenty-five years old, the owner of the Dodd Smithy in Yorkshire, England It’s just a pity that the business is not good, I signed a lot of debts and had to repay the debts from the army. I have to say, Mr. Dodd, you are really disguised. Judging from your information, you can’t see that you are the one. Excellent people."

　　 "Are you able to find out so clearly?" Leo said slightly surprised.

"If you want to check, there is naturally a way to find it." Baron Maupassant smiled slightly. "And after you fled the battlefield, there are too many clues left, and your name and the troops you belong to on the military uniform by the river. , The owner of the rabbit skin herbal medicine shop has never been a hard-mouthed person."

　　 Leo did not show any strange expression, but just chuckled lightly: "Lord Baron, big people like you are also interested in small people like me?"

"You are not a small person." Baron Maupassant raised his eyebrows and said, "It is possible to suppress the old hunter Bobbull in Rabbit Skin Town without even taking revenge. Your reputation will spread throughout the entire black soon. The area around the forest." He said, he looked at the Panil tomahawk hanging on the bed and said, "The guys who seem to catch up have been solved by you."

　　 "Your weapon is easy to use, that is, there are fewer bullets." Leo opened the waist trench coat, patted the bullet bag hanging on the waist belt, and said.

Leo’s slightly provocative move made Baron Mopossant’s breath a little bit heavy, and there was a hint of displeasure on his face, but while he was cursing Leo for being rude, he may be more complaining about the old hunter Boer Incompetence.

　　 The atmosphere in the room also became a little dull at this time.

At this time, a whistle sound of driving sounded, a large amount of steam drifted through the window, so that the people inside could not see the outside, and the people outside could not see the inside. Follow the train slowly, the steel The sound of clashes and friction sounds, covering up all the sounds around.

At this moment, Leo suddenly leapt from the berth and rushed in front of Baron Mopossang, and Baron Mopossang’s movement was not slow~www.wuxiahere.com~ With a very fast gun drawing method, he pulled out his waist pistol, pointing Leo's head.

It’s just that Baron Mopoisan didn’t shoot because he saw Leo’s sight wasn’t on him at all, and he reached out at the speed of Baroque Mopoisan’s side with a very fast speed, and then saw him throwing a bullet On the bed of Baron Moposan, he sat back in his bunk.

It wasn’t until this moment that Baron Maupassant saw an additional bullet hole in the window at this time. Although the glass around the bullet hole was covered with cracks, it had not been completely broken. It seems that the bullet should be extremely fast and fast. So as not to damage the glass while penetrating the glass.

Looking at the thin and long bullet that was thrown onto the bed, Baron Mopoisan felt terrified. Although the bullet was not necessarily fatal to him, it was enough to cause him serious injuries. In this case, he went to the city of Miriam The task cannot be completed.

　　 "Thank you." It is very rare to say thank you from the mouth of Baro Morposan, and if someone who knows him is nearby, he will be very surprised.

Leo lay down on the berth again, picked up the book, and read it in a bland tone: “No need to thank, I’m just saving myself! After all, you died here, and I’m the only one here, I’m hard Explain clearly."

　　 Hearing Leo’s words, Baron Maupassant raised his eyebrows habitually. If someone who knew him saw him like this, he must know that he was in a bad mood at the moment.

　　 After a while, the steam train's speed began to stabilize, and Baron Morbosant stood up, opened the door, and walked out of the room.

　　 "Damn! Why is it so unlucky? It seems to be in trouble." Leo put down his book, looked at the door, frowned, and said to himself.