The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although a few days ago had a great impact on the train station, which can be seen from the depression inside and outside the train station, the service of the train station itself has not been reduced because of this, especially the first-class treatment is still maintained. The standard it should have.

In addition to fresh fruits, food and iced drinks that are often filled, there will also be dedicated waiters waiting for the first-class passengers outside the door.

Not long after Leo sat down, he ordered the waiter outside the door to fetch as many recent newspapers as possible, whether they were from the Savile Kingdom or abroad.

Not long after Leo made the request, the waiter walked in with a box in his arms, took out neatly ironed newspapers from the box, and put them on the table by Leo's hand.

Leo quickly picked out the newspapers he had read before, and finally there were more than 20 newspapers from other cities and foreign countries in the Savile Kingdom, and then he carefully read them.

Most of these newspapers have the same content, and there are not many new things, but the only one in the newspapers, which comes from Daliat, caught Leo's attention. When the world changed suddenly, an unprecedented blizzard suddenly broke out in the north of Daliyat, and the temperature dropped extremely rapidly. It has not stopped until today, and a snow disaster has already formed. Some people also found that the Moss Sea It's starting to freeze.

The Vinylon Continent and the Minsk Continent are separated by the Silver Moon Sea. The name Silver Moon Sea comes from the fact that the ocean is indeed in the shape of a silver moon. In addition, the person who named it at the time had no talent, so they just named it casually.

However, Yinyue Sea is just a collective name for this ocean. In fact, this ocean is divided into four parts. The southernmost end is naturally the Pearl Island Chain connected to Falling Star Sea. To the north is Xingyue Sea, and to the north is Silver Moon. The middle of the lake is generally called the Moon Sea, and the northernmost point is the Moss Sea.

The reason why it is called the Moss Sea instead of naming this sea area according to the shape or climate of the sea area is because the westernmost side of this sea area is the port of Moss in the northeast corner of the Velen Continent.

The Port of Moss is called the source of pirates by the historians of the world of Vinen. The earliest pirates in the world may not have originated here, but the large-scale pirate ships have originated here since there are records. For a long time, the pirates of Moss It has almost become a nightmare for cities along the coast of Velen Continent, and there are countless bedside songs telling the horror of Moss pirates.

Although the pirates of Moss have all kinds of horror legends, which have become synonymous with negative words such as horror, greed, cruelty, etc. in various books in the world of Velen, it is undeniable that the pirates of Moss sailed the entire world of Velen. The career has played an indisputably huge role.

The world's earliest topographic map of Velen Continent originated from the Moss pirates. The earliest communication route with the Minsk continent was also established by the Moss pirates. The discovery of the Mossan continent was also made by the Moss pirates. It was given by the Moss pirates, and the first fleet to sail around the Star Sea and complete the first three-continent voyage was also the Moss pirates.

Because of this, the route connecting the northern part of the Villen continent with the Minsk continent was named the Moss route a long time ago, and the sea area where the route is located is the Moss Sea.

The reason why Leo was interested in the news about the freezing of the Moss Sea was because there were records showing that thousands of years ago, the Moss Sea would be covered with a thick layer of ice in winter, and an ice bridge across the sea would be built. People can walk on ice.

It is also for this reason that many scholars who have studied the bloodlines of the three continents said that the people living in the Minsk continent are likely to come from the Velen continent, and their ancestors are more likely to make the Black Forest tribe, the French who fled from the Velen continent. The slaves of the Orchid Empire, etc., in that era of underdeveloped navigation, these people came to settle on the vast and sparsely populated Minsk continent through this ice bridge. It was not until the ice bridge disappeared due to climate change that the connection between the two continents was completely broken , It was not until later that navigation technology was developed that contact was made again.

This is not an argument made by those scholars, but there is clear evidence that the shapes of various stone carvings, pottery and other daily objects of the early tribes in the Minsk continent have the most primitive style of the Velen continent.

However, some scholars also put forward different views, believing that the Minsk continent is the origin of humans in the Velen world. The earliest humans in the Minsk continent passed through the ice bridge and arrived in the land of Velen, and gradually multiplied.

The reason for such an argument is that a large number of relics of ancient civilizations have been found in the desert of the Savile Kingdom, but there are no such relics on the Velen Continent.

Leo has no interest in which continent is the birthplace of humans in the Velen world. He is more concerned about the freezing of the Moss Sea. Obviously this incident should be related to the changes in the Velen world. If he does not If the estimate is wrong, the ice bridge that disappeared for thousands of years will definitely reappear in the Moss Sea this winter.

"In case, if there is an emergency, then we can only walk on this ice bridge." Leo closed the newspaper and murmured in his heart.

Leo made such a sudden decision entirely because of the various reports about dense fog at sea that appeared in the newspapers. He remembered reading a book on sailing. It was mentioned in the book that the perennial entrenched Thick fog on the sea, and in some other folklore, it has been mentioned more than once that the sea was shrouded in thick fog for a long time in the past, and countless huge and dangerous sea monsters were hidden in the thick fog .

It would be fine if the legends of one country or nation were written in this way, but the problem is that the folklore of many countries are described in this way, then this shows that in the past, thick fog was indeed entrenched on the sea of ​​Velen World, This also made Leo couldn't help but think of the dense fog that enveloped countless worlds.

This time, due to the changes in the world, the dense fog on the sea will dissipate. If the dense fog cannot dissipate, Leo will have to consider other ways to leave the Minsk mainland, and the ice bridge is One of the nice ways.

Just as Leo was planning the next trip in his mind, the whistle of a steam train came from a distance, and then everyone felt a faint vibration from the ground, and a light appeared in the darkness in the distance , It didn't take long to see a steel behemoth rumbling into the station, and finally stopped slowly.

In order to reduce the burden on the steel frame of the railway, the stop of the train does not use the brake device that will cause huge friction, but slows down the speed of the train at a long distance until it enters the railway station and can stop naturally. The location is slightly different.

For this reason, railway designers specially designed a set of channel bridges that can move positions for each station. After the train stops completely, the channel bridge controllers at the station will control each channel bridge to move to the corresponding position and put it down. Linked to the doors of the train.

However, this time, there was a little trouble connecting the passage bridge for cargo transportation to the passage bridge for first-class cabins. After several dockings, it was connected to the train door. Obviously, this was because the operators of the passage bridge were not familiar with it. , and the reason may well be that the station workers who manned the two access bridges died that night in the disaster, and that the descendants who succeeded them had not yet been fully acquainted with the work.

After the channel docking was completed, the waiter at the station entered the waiting room and led the first-class passengers in the room to enter the first-class cabin at the front of the car through a special passage, and then the waiter in the first-class cabin looked at everyone's tickets and led them to to their respective compartments.

Leo's room is near the end of the passenger car, and the location is not very good, but because it is next to the restaurant car, it is more convenient to eat.

In order to disperse the weight of various parts of the train and avoid the weight of a certain place being particularly heavy, the railway designer also designed a unique train for this railway.

Instead of using one huge locomotive to drive the entire train like the Villen Continental Circus, this train splits the huge locomotive into six smaller locomotives that are much lighter in weight.

Among the six small locomotives, four are placed at the front and rear respectively to provide the main push and pull force, while the other two are arranged in the middle of the train, dividing the carriage into three parts: first-class carriages, ordinary carriages and freight carriages.

When the train is about to stop at the station, the four main locomotives will stop running, and instead the two locomotives in the middle will provide less thrust, slow down and enter the station.

Although this kind of industrial design is obviously extremely simple compared to spaceships and warships in the universe, it can already be called a great design in the world of Vinylon, but it is a pity that the surrounding railway designers did not leave any names, or more To be correct, the Savile Kingdom official did not record any name of this person, but only called it by a designator or something like that.

In this regard, there are many speculations from the outside world. Some people think that the identity of this designer is very high, but due to special reasons, it is inconvenient to disclose it, so they only use pronouns such as designer. This can be seen from the knowledge of the designer, because in In the Savile Kingdom, the only people who could acquire such high knowledge were those nobles with extremely high status.

However, some people think that this designer is a criminal with the lowest status, because in the Savile Kingdom, only criminals whose status is lower than slaves are not allowed to have a name, or even to show their faces. From the records, it can be seen that when the designer appeared in front of people, he always covered his face completely.

Regarding who the canyon railway designer is, all kinds of guesses are just guesses, no matter how reasonable the guess is, but because there is no substantive evidence to prove it, it still cannot be regarded as a definite answer. It becomes a mystery, and as time goes on, the chances of solving this mystery are getting smaller and smaller.

However, the operators of the Canyon Railway seem to be willing to let this mystery exist for a long time, and use it as a selling point of the Canyon Railway tour. In the cabin of the cabin, passengers who have reached this train can deepen their impression of the Canyon Railway.

Leo also had to admire this railway operator's pursuit of profit, and he, who had nothing to do, reluctantly picked up the books in the room and started to read them.

With Leo's flipping speed, Leo had finished reading those books soon, and the train hadn't started yet.

Originally, Leo just read this book casually, but after seeing some people who built the canyon railway in the book mention the words and demeanor of the railway designer, Leo couldn't help but appear in his heart as a person, and in his heart After comparing the time, he found that the railway designer was probably someone he knew, and that person was the king of election, Saran Meyer.

At first, Leo felt that he might have guessed wrong. After all, the relationship between Saran and the Kingdom of Savile could be said to be a deadly enemy relationship. She would not help the Kingdom of Savile build such a railway that can be called the lifeline of the economy. , You must know that the direct and indirect benefits brought by this railway to the Savile Kingdom account for more than 80% of the annual tax revenue.

It is no exaggeration to say that if something goes wrong with the Canyon Railway, the economy of the entire Savile Kingdom will collapse in just one month.

But Leo changed his mind and thought about it again, and found that it is more and more likely that the king who chose Saran was the designer of the railway. This is mainly because of the huge benefits this railway brought to the Savile Kingdom. It plays the role of a pillar, so this railway has become the deadliest dead spot of the Savile Kingdom.

You must know that in the past, the Kingdom of Savile was a kingdom that claimed to never fall. Neither the Kingdom of Marris nor the Kingdom of Deliyat had ever really captured the Kingdom of Savile, because of the special geographical environment of the Kingdom of Savile and the seemingly Scattered, but flexible tribal council system.

Once encountering an irresistible enemy, the rulers of the Savile Kingdom will disperse among the nomadic tribes, sneak into the depths of the desert, and then drag the enemy to death in the desert, even if the king of the kingdom is dead or captured Now, the tribal council will also elect a king from the leaders of the big tribes to succeed to the throne and resist the incoming enemies again.

But now with the emergence of the Kingdom Avenue and the Canyon Railway, the Savile Kingdom has entered the urban age, and the original flexible tribal system has been transferred to the city. With the emergence of various huge benefits, coupled with the convenience and safety of life, making The people of the Savile tribe are more and more adapted to urban life, and the customs of the past nomadic tribes have also been abandoned.

It is conceivable that next time the Savile Kingdom encounters an irresistible and powerful enemy, then they may no longer be able to annihilate the incoming enemy like in the past, and the destruction of the kingdom will become a foregone conclusion.

To destroy the Savile Kingdom, the first step must be to destroy the economy of the Savile Kingdom, so that the Savile Kingdom will be in chaos for a while before being attacked by foreign enemies, so the canyon railway has become a fatal point.

"Damn it!" Thinking of this, Leo suddenly couldn't help cursing, and looked gloomyly at the railway steel frame outside the window.