The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For the passengers boarding the ship, they may still be in the mood of worry and fear at first, but as the airship flew into the air and flew forward, excitement and curiosity immediately replaced the previous emotions. Both of them chose to lie on the glass window and grasp it outwards.

It's just that after they looked out, everyone had different adverse effects. Most of them were weak in hands and feet and had difficulty walking due to the height, while some people were as mentally retarded as if they were motion sick on a train. Feeling dizzy, nauseated and uncomfortable, I found a wooden barrel that had been prepared long ago on the boat, vomited out everything I ate from last night to this morning, and then fell on the bed with a pale face. Like dead.

The staff on the airship knew this would happen a long time ago, and then went cabin by cabin to sell a concoction that could alleviate the adverse symptoms. Although the passengers on board were somewhat dissatisfied with this behavior of robbery by fire, they still couldn't bear the pain in the end The feeling, the concoction bought at a high price.

However, this concoction is indeed very effective. After drinking it, although the adverse reaction on them has not completely disappeared, it has weakened a lot, at least it will not affect some of their normal activities.

"Don't you need some concoction?" The staff who knocked on the door of Leo's cabin were a little surprised when they saw Leo in normal condition, but they still asked as usual.

"No need." Leo shook his head, then asked, "When will the deck open?"

"Sorry, because the wind is very strong in the air, and it is difficult for ordinary people to stay on the deck without special training and special equipment, so we generally don't open the deck to the public." The staff immediately responded and suggested: " If you want to see the scenery of the sky, you can go to our restaurant, where there are large windows, you can see the scenery outside, and there are some game supplies and books for the guests to pass the time."

Leo nodded, and under the guidance of the staff, he came to the restaurant on the lower deck, which is the entertainment room.

Because the passengers on the ship were still adapting to the high-altitude environment, there were only a few staff members on the ship in the restaurant, and they were all talking about how much money they made from selling the medicine juice this time. When Leo came in, they all lowered their volumes in unison.

Leo ignored these people, walked to the sofa near the window and sat down, picked up a book on the shelf next to him, and flipped through it.

Because it is for the guests to browse at their leisure, the books on the bookshelf are not books with profound knowledge, most of them are some folk myths and landscape guides of Daliat.

Although these books are common to Daliat, Leo read them with great interest. Although there are books introducing Daliat in the Kingdom of England, most of those books are introduced to other countries in the world of Velen, by the way. Introduce Daliat.

Just like the French Empire, the Kingdom of England, as the overlord of the sea, mostly had some discriminatory impressions of Deliyat, and did not think that Deliyat was the only one of the three major kingdoms on the Minsk mainland. The vast majority of people in England think that the Daliats are a group of northern barbarians with no civilization at all. Therefore, in order to cater to these people, the publishing house of the Kingdom of England compiled a large number of books introducing Daliat. Strongly discriminatory text, as for the substantive content is extremely rare.

The books that Leo is reading now contain a lot of information about Dariat's past and present living conditions, geographical environment, etc., allowing him to understand Dariat's situation more easily.

While Leo was reading, some pale-faced passengers came to the restaurant one after another, bought some cheap and expensive drinks from the bartender, and used the power of alcohol to suppress the nausea in their hearts.

Among these people is the husband of the businessman couple just now. He has a good physique, and it seems that this is not the first time he has taken such a high-altitude airship, so he is better able to adapt to the current welcome than his bodyguards. After two glasses of wine, it quickly returned to normal.

At this time, he saw Leo who was reading a book leisurely by the limited window. In normal times and other circumstances, Leo's state would not attract the attention of others at all, but now his leisurely attitude is too abnormal.

"Hello!" The businessman walked to the seat opposite Leo with interest, and greeted him after sitting down.

Leo looked up at the businessman, nodded to him, and did not respond.

"Rayleigh Jon, Daliat's furrier." The merchant was not at all embarrassed by Leo's indifference. Instead, he introduced himself and extended a polite greeting to Leo as if he was familiar with him. Let's do it.

Leo looked at the other party's hand, but he didn't reach out to shake it, but asked in a deep voice, "Is there something wrong?"

As a successful businessman, Raleigh Jon is very good at communication. He was not discouraged by Leo's attitude, but retracted his outstretched hand very gracefully, and then said with a smile: "In the next few days, We will all stay on this airship, and there is nothing else to do, if we don’t chat with each other and pass the time, I’m afraid it will be very sad.”

Leo ignored him.

The businessman looked at the book in Leo's hand again, and said, "Are you traveling to Daliat? If so, I suggest you visit Moss Lake. That's my hometown. It's the fishing season right now. Every day, you can see thousands of fishing boats set off from the pier and go deep into the newly thawed Moss Glacier Lake to catch all kinds of fish. You will never forget that sight once you have seen it.”

The other party's familiar approach made Leo, who wanted to read quietly, feel a little displeased. He closed the book in his hand, looked at the smiling businessman sitting across from him, fell silent for a moment, and said, "Although you The Daliat language is very proficient, and you can use the spoken language of the Daliat Moss area freely, but the habit of speaking you have developed over the years still leaks your real accent. You are not the Moss of Daliat Sri Lankan, you are the Huer Mountaineer of the Faran Empire."

Leo's words stunned the businessman. Although his expression was a little surprised, he quickly covered it up, forced a smile on his face, and said, "Did you misunderstand? I am the real Moss." Man, why did you become that Huer Mountain Man in Your Excellency's mouth?"

"When you said the words hometown, scenery, and fishing boat just now, you used a double-syllable with a tongue-rolling tongue. Among the languages ​​​​of the Vilen countries, only the Huer mountain people are accustomed to using this pronunciation method when speaking, This is also the best identification standard for the Huer mountain people." Leo analyzed the other party's accent like a linguist, and when the smile on the businessman's face gradually weakened, he added: "The Huer area It is an area directly under the royal jurisdiction of the Faran Empire, and the Huer mountain people have always been the source of soldiers for the Royal Guards, and the intelligence agencies of the Faran Empire have always selected the Huer mountain people as intelligence personnel."

The smile on the merchant's face had completely disappeared at this moment, and he looked at Leo with a pale face, as if he wanted to find something from Leo's appearance.

Leo continued: "You can adapt to the high-altitude environment of the airship so quickly, it can be seen that you have boarded an airship before, and it took a long time, so you must have a certain status in the royal guard of the French Empire, otherwise it is impossible to stay for a long time On the airship. But now you, an important figure in the royal guard, have become a businessman of Deliyat. The only possibility is that you were recruited by the intelligence department of the Faran Empire and became an intelligence agent who has been lurking in Daliat for a long time. personnel."

"You..." The businessman pointed at Leo, unable to speak for a moment. From his expression, it was not difficult to see that his heart was full of panic.

"You must be a very important intelligence officer pretending to be a Daliyat person and getting married and having children here, and this time you hurried back to Daliyat, if I guessed right, it should be for Daliyat Regarding the metal trade negotiations," Leo continued with a blank expression: "However, you did not choose other safer channels to bypass the blockade, but chose the current airship, I am afraid that you also want to know the technical secrets of the airship , to see if it can be used on the airships of the French Empire. According to my knowledge, the airships of the French Empire have never left the surrounding areas of the Black Forest, which means that the airships of the French Empire will not be attacked by birds , it should be some kind of agreement signed with the Black Forest, and now this airship obviously has the ability to fly freely in the sky, so..."

"You... who are you?" The businessman Raleigh Jon couldn't bear the horror in his heart, interrupted Leo's drawing, and asked in a trembling voice.

"I'm just an ordinary person who wanted to read a book but was disturbed by a fool," Leo said, staring at the businessman, "Are you still going to continue chatting with me now?"

How dare the businessman continue to sit down now? Although he didn't know how Leo saw his identity, he was sure that if he continued to sit down, his secrets might be revealed by the other party little by little. This situation of being seen through made him feel inexplicable fear.

The businessman sat up from the chair tremblingly, and then ran out of the restaurant in a hurry, and the behavior of the businessman also attracted the attention of other people in the restaurant, and they all looked at Leo. They all wondered what Leo did to make a man who could adapt to the high-altitude environment so quickly panic.

Leo ignored the gazes around him, picked up the book in his hand and flipped through it again.

The businessman didn't show up in the restaurant for the whole day, apparently because he was frightened by Leo.

During the day, in order to avoid too many people discovering the existence of the airship, the flight routes chosen by the airship are not populated towns, but mountains and wilderness without too many people.

When flying over these places, there were several times a large number of birds flew out of the forest in the mountains below. It looked like they were about to attack the airship, but when they were about to fly near the airship, they sprayed from the pipes around the airship. Some gas came out, and the gas wrapped around the airship like mist, and after encountering the gas, the menacing birds flew back one after another as if they had encountered a natural enemy, and flew back into the woods until The airship flew away and never appeared again.

Before night fell, the airship slowly landed over a castle square. The security guard on the ship climbed down the rope ladder very skillfully, tied a rein to the stone pillar of the castle, and then climbed back to the airship. superior.

After fixing the airship above the castle, the staff on board also notified the passengers one by one, saying that the airship would dock here for the night.

As for the reason, it is not because flying at night is dangerous, but because the cold air flow from the north will go south after the Minsk mainland is at night. At this time, if the airship continues to fly north, it will only go against the wind. Also more fuel.

The passengers on the airship did not express much dissent. For them, they wished that the airship would stop temporarily, because they had been in the air all day and couldn't wait to enjoy the down-to-earth feeling.

So at the request of the passengers, after checking the safety around the castle, the security guards on the ship put the passengers on the airship on the ground one by one, pitched tents, lit a bonfire, and let them spend the night in the castle tonight.

The previous businessman named Rayleigh Jon didn't get off the airship, but let his wife go down to the ground, followed by bodyguards, while he himself stayed on board, as if he was deliberately avoiding Leo, or he wanted to At night, look for opportunities to explore the secrets of the airship's ability to disperse the birds.

Leo also chose to return to the ground, not because he couldn't stand the wobbly environment in the air, but because the castle below aroused his interest.

According to the introduction of the staff on board, the castle below is one of the stops that they organized specially for the airship. This castle was a very important military fortress during the kings of the ancient Maris Kingdom, but with the unification of the kingdom , this military fortress also lost its function and was abandoned. Only the name of this military fortress is retained in some old military archives, and the small fortress is the name of this fortress.

For ordinary people, this military fortress is just an abandoned fortress, but for Leo, this military fortress is very special, because this fortress has been recorded in an ancient book about recording the daily life of wizards.

There used to be three tower wizards who fought an evil god named Justice here, and killed Justice completely.

This record seems very contradictory, because it seems that justice cannot be related to evil, but if it is absolute justice, it is equivalent to absolute evil for ordinary people.

At that time, many knights who were bewitched by this evil god of justice carried out a massacre of some ordinary villages, and the reason for the massacre was only because of minor problems in the daily behavior of the villagers here.

At that time, the three tower wizards happened to pass by here and were attacked by the knights of justice, so they intervened in this matter and started a big battle with the evil god of justice.