The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although the war has stopped in Miria City for more than two months, the last unit of the United Kingdom's army was wiped out in the Dibia Forest on the outskirts of Miria City ten days ago. Less than a full United Kingdom army.

The chaos brought about by this war did not end there. On the contrary, because of the deliberate connivance and arrangements of the Faran Empire, the chaos in Miria City was even more serious than during the war.

In the past few months since Miria City became a lawless place, hundreds of gang organizations, large and small, have sprung up from the ground like mushrooms after a rain, and then divided the entire Miria City into In dozens of areas, large and small, they fought each other and killed each other in order to seize the few resources. Hundreds of people died in this kind of struggle almost every day.

However, although these gangster organizations are the largest power group in Miria City, when it comes to the strongest power, they are obviously not qualified to be scattered.

There are two forces currently controlling the situation in Miria City, and one force is the black market that controls the smuggling channels and has unfathomable strength. When Miria City was banned by the French Empire army, controlling the smuggling channels was equivalent to controlling the livelihood of millions of people in Miria City. If there was no black market to continuously smuggle all kinds of food and medicine into Miria City , I am afraid that the order of Miria City has completely collapsed now.

In addition to the black market, a big force that lurks underground and makes money silently, there is another force hidden underground in Miria City. Although everyone has heard the name of this force, no one has ever known how big this force is. , How many people are in control, this force is the Miria Freedom Front.

The Miria Freedom Front appeared when the United Kingdom withdrew from Miria City. When Miria City was bombed and completely destroyed by airships, the Freedom Front also stood up to rectify and rescue the refugees in the city. This made Miria City It is a miracle that the post-war casualties of the residents were controlled within a thousand people.

Because the timing of the appearance of the Freedom Front happened to be when the United Kingdom withdrew from Miria City, some people initially believed that the Freedom Front was a pawn left by the United Kingdom in Miria City to contain the imperial army.

But after the Freedom Front put forward its own slogan and did a few major things, the aura of the United Kingdom on it completely disappeared, and it was also honored to be listed by the French Empire and the United Kingdom at the same time. On the wanted list.

The external slogan and proposition of the Freedom Front is to establish a free and independent Miria Republic. They believe that the United Kingdom abandoned Miria City before the war officially started, which means that it has completely lost the sovereignty of Miria City, and the French Empire is an invader and a massacre of the people of Miria City , is not qualified to master Miria City, Miria City can only be controlled by the Miria people themselves.

At the beginning, everyone thought that the slogan of the Freedom Front was just a syllable, in order to have a legitimate reputation to control the now chaotic city of Miria, just like those gangsters.

However, what happened later made everyone realize that they were wrong. The Freedom Front really wanted to build a Republic of Miriya, because they divided the French Empire and the United Kingdom in the city of Miriya regardless of whether they were enemies or friends. The secret sentries and spies of the two countries were all removed, and even the arsenals of the two countries on the front line of the Dibia Mountains were robbed.

Although both countries hate the people of the Freedom Front and want to pull out this nail, but the strength of the Freedom Front is too strong. Anyone sent by the two countries to Miria City will eventually sink into the sea, without any The news, including special departments such as the Imperial Secret Service formed by supernormal forces such as the family, have suffered a lot in Miria City.

The reason why the Freedom Front is so difficult to destroy is mainly because no one knows who the members of the Freedom Front are. There is only one open member of the Freedom Front, and the others are all hidden underground. Maybe a certain garrison soldier is a member of the Freedom Front. Maybe it's a gang leader. All in all, the Freedom Front is completely hidden among the residents of Miria City. Unless all the residents are killed, the Freedom Front cannot be eliminated at all.

Someone once thought of using the only publicly identified Freedom Front member as a breakthrough point, because many indications show that this publicly identified person should be the supreme leader of the Freedom Front. As long as he is captured or killed, he will definitely be able to cause heavy damage to the Freedom Front. blow, and even make it collapse.

However, this publicly-identified Freedom Front member is not an ordinary person. He is the Chief Detective Ljungberg Weai, who has received the highest medal of the Empire and has considerable reputation and influence in both the light and dark circles of Miria City.

When Miria City was still under the administration of the United Kingdom, Ljungberg Weai had already been appointed by the United Kingdom Parliament as the Minister of Police and the Chief of Police. He was one of the people who really held real power in the United Kingdom. More than half of the sheriffs in the police stations in the United Kingdom come from his disciples, and the proportion of the positions above the sheriff, such as the chief, will be even higher. He can be said to be the father of the police in the United Kingdom.

However, such an important person in charge of real power did not leave when the United Kingdom withdrew from Miria City. He disappeared directly after processing the last official document. At that time, some people believed that he had been captured by the Empire. The agent was assassinated.

But as the city of Miriya was destroyed by the war, Ljungberg Weai stood up as a member of the Freedom Front, and his first appearance was also very amazing, because he would fly an airship to bomb the city of Miriya The pilot, the front-line commander who gave the order, General Bart, and the entire front-line combat staff group were all assassinated. Fifty-three people were killed, and none of them survived.

It was precisely because of this incident that the French Imperial Army failed to penetrate the United Kingdom's defense line in the Dibia Mountains and enter the southern end of the mountains. That's why people at that time thought that the Freedom Front was a nail planted by the United Kingdom.

However, Ljungberg Weai led some members of the Freedom Front who concealed their identities to raid the secret base of the United Kingdom hidden under the city of Miria, killing more than 30 United Kingdom spies and agents, and completely destroyed the The United Kingdom's espionage organization in the north, everyone realizes that the Freedom Front slogan is more than just rhetoric.

Although, in order to capture or assassinate Ljungberg Weai, the two countries have sent professional killers and assassins, and even issued a reward on the black market, using bounty hunters to hunt and kill Ljungberg Weai, but in the end they were unsuccessful , Ljungberg Weai is still alive and well, and will appear in public every once in a while to give some public speeches.

Leo himself doesn't know much about Miria City, and now Miria City has become so chaotic, the experience and information Leo accumulated during his stay in Miria City is obviously useless, he thinks If you want to find the whereabouts of the ring of plague in this ruins, you can only rely on the local snake.

As the Hearing Society thought, although it should be much easier to use the black market to find the Ring of Plague, but the black market cannot be trusted at all, and looking for them is undoubtedly door-to-door.

Now in the entire city of Miria, Ljungberg Weai is definitely one of the people who do not want the ring of plague to have problems, and he has great influence among ordinary civilians in Miria city, the eyes and ears of the Freedom Front There are also many, and with his assistance in finding them, Leo can save a lot of unnecessary trouble.

However, Ljungberg Weai is also missing, and it will take some effort for Leo to find him. Fortunately, Ljungberg will definitely do one thing, and that is to go to the largest refugee area in Miria City to give a public speech.

Although Leo already knew the current situation of Miria City from the information provided by Sylvia, and he also saw the desolate urban situation when he walked all the way from the suburbs to the city, but after seeing this When he couldn't see the refugee city beyond, it was a bit embarrassing for him, who already had ordinary human emotions, to still not be able to recognize it.

This refugee urban area used to be a religious area and a foreign consulate area. Leo still remembers when he first entered Miria City, when the train passed through this urban area, he saw so many buildings with styles from various countries. Shock and novelty.

At that time, this urban area was definitely the most beautiful scenery in the city of Miria. Anyone can appreciate the customs and customs of all parts of the world without going out of the urban area. Various religious buildings stand in it, blending together perfectly and harmoniously. There is no other place The conflict caused by that religious thought.

But now, those majestic religious buildings, those consulate buildings with national styles and the living areas of consulate staff have all turned into rubble and rotten tiles, and houses made of rubble and rotten wood are chaotically built in these once On the foundation of the exquisite and majestic building, people can't help feeling inexplicably sad when recalling the glory of the past.

Now Leo is going to find a contact person in this refugee area. Because of the Freedom Front, the main eyes and ears of the United Kingdom in the urban area have been dealt with by Ljungberg Weai, and only a small number of people in the suburbs are still stationed safely. With various underground bases.

So for the mission of the Ring of Plague, Sylvia had to use her own subordinates. Now this subordinate is a gang leader in the refugee city, and has a certain amount of power, which can bring some help to Leo's investigation.

Before Leo entered the city, he had already put on some disguises, such as making his clothes old and making his face more dusty, etc., and then carried a package full of various garbage materials on his back, making him look like other scavengers. or there is no difference.

When I entered the refugee city, although I was noticed by some scavengers guarding the entrance of the city because of my strong body, and received some invitations, the process was generally calm and I didn’t encounter any unsightly things. guy.

After entering the city, Leo was not in a hurry to go to Sylvia's gang. Instead, like other scavengers, he found a buying point with a black market background and sold all the sundries he picked up.

Although, in his eyes, the things that Leo picked up from some houses in the villa area are all useless garbage, but in the eyes of some people, these things become treasures, and one of them is a famous statue with a little damage. The sculpture was actually sold for 80 underground coins.

Because when the United Kingdom was established, the currency of the whole country was exchanged, so that the residents of Miria City did not have the currency of the French Empire on hand, and the currency of the United Kingdom was useless at this time, so they controlled a large number of materials in and out. The black market established a new temporary currency underground coin for the gang and other organizations.

Underground currency is not divided into several grades like other currencies. For example, the currency of the French Empire has three main grades: gold flange, bia, and Marceau. It is more like a cash check issued on the black market. Write the amount on the bill, stamp it with a special stamp, and then this bill can be exchanged for equivalent items in any business organization under the name of the black market and gangsters.

Although the underground currency has only been created for a few months, it has gradually become a common currency in Miria City. Even the official merchants of the French Empire who enter the market and trade with the scavengers of Miria City will pay the underground currency.

Eighty points of underground currency is equivalent to three gold flanges in the past. In the underground market of the black market, you can buy all the rations needed for a family of five for three months. It is definitely a huge sum of money in the current refugee city. Rubbish, Leo currently has as many as one hundred and sixteen underground coins on hand.

Putting such a huge sum of money on one person will naturally attract some people's attention, but even if Leo goes to some remote places, no one dares to snatch it, because these people regard Leo as that kind of lone traveler.

In order to snatch the treasures buried in the ruins, the scavengers started to fight on their own, then cooperated with each other, and now they even formed gang-like groups. They divided the ruins of the entire city into parts, each Master an area, thereby reducing unnecessary casualties.

But among the scavengers, there are still some powerful solo travelers. Most of them act alone, looking for useful supplies in the areas controlled by other scavengers.

There have been conflicts between the scavenger organization and the lone traveler in the past. Although the lone traveler was besieged to death by a large number of scavenger in the end, the scavenger organization also suffered heavy losses and was attacked by hostile organizations. In the end, not only the ruined area it controlled was lost, but also Even organizations have been annexed.

Therefore, in the refugee area, there is another unwritten code of conduct for various gangs and scavengers organizations, not to provoke those lone travelers easily.

Leo, who was a solo traveler, left the black market's purchase point and went directly to an underground market opened by the nearby black market.

Although the name is called an underground market, it is actually open above ground. The various items traded here are no different from those in other cities. As long as you have money, you can buy anything. As far as the types of materials are concerned, even It surpassed the logistics department of the French Empire.

Therefore, in this market, not only a large number of refugees came to buy daily necessities, but also some railway garrison recruited by the empire took the imperial currency and came here to buy some things that could not be bought by the French Empire military camp, such as wine.