The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Is Lisa okay?" Shelf looked a little embarrassed after looking away from Fat Robert, and asked after a moment of hesitation.

"Alive." The woman replied angrily, obviously she was still angry about what happened to her.

Scherf smiled awkwardly, and didn't ask any more questions. The atmosphere in the car had returned to the original state of silence, but at this time, there was an inexplicable embarrassment in the atmosphere.

"My name is Robert!" Perhaps because he couldn't bear the awkward atmosphere in the carriage, as the car began to start slowly, Robert sat cross-legged on the bed, turned to the woman, and asked, "Have you asked Miss your name yet?" .”

"Ylan of Corenza." The woman also couldn't bear the situation in the carriage, and followed the fat Robert's drawing, and said her own identity.

Just like the national form of the Velen Continent, in addition to the two major national forces of the French Empire and the United Kingdom of France, there is also a kingdom composed of small city-states such as the Hanossa League in the north, barely surviving.

Similarly, in addition to the three major powers in the Minsk continent, there are also some small city-state kingdoms that survive at the junction of the three countries. In addition to playing a buffer role, these city-state kingdoms also play a role in promoting trade between major powers.

The Principality of Corensa is a small city-state at the junction of the Kingdom of Maris and the Kingdom of Deliyat. It is the main transfer point for the goods of the two countries. Most of the people living there are mixed blood from the two kingdoms of the North and the South. Both of the two kingdoms have the status of dukes, so the people of the Principality of Colenza are born with the nationality of both countries.

By virtue of their particular status, most of the Korenza people make a living as merchants, so the Korenza people are also very rich.

Perhaps because he was too rich, the previous generations of the Grand Duke of Corenza felt very scared, fearing that when the two countries would treat him as a piece of fat and separate him, so he found a reason to pay a certain amount to the two countries respectively. The business tax can actually be said to be a protection fee, so that the Principality of Corenza can always maintain stability and stability under the somewhat turbulent political relationship between the North and the South.

After hearing that Yilan was from Korenza, neither Robert nor Sherf showed a look of surprise. In fact, in the counties and provinces on the northern border of the Marris Kingdom, one out of ten people has Korenza blood. Or the native place of Corenza.

However, after hearing the other party's self-introduction, Leo felt that the name sounded a little familiar. After thinking for a while, he asked Yilan, "Are you the bachelor Yilan Sasha who wrote the hypothesis of the fifth era of Velen?"

Perhaps because Sherf and Robert attracted most of the attention, Yilan completely forgot about Leo's existence just now. It was only when Leo spoke now that she suddenly realized that he was lying on the bunk opposite her. stranger.

After realizing the existence of Leo, she couldn't help but feel puzzled, because although the actions and words of the three of them were not very big just now, they were enough to make people see that something was wrong, but the person on the opposite side didn't feel anything at all. The abnormal behavior, as if what happened just now was just an ordinary thing, which made her guess his identity, and forgot to answer Leo's inquiry for a while.

It wasn't until Leo asked for the second time that Yilan realized it, and quickly denied it: "No, no! I didn't write that book." But soon she changed the subject and said, "That book is My mother wrote it, and my mother is Ilan Sasa."

"Oh!" Leo responded briefly, and then lost the idea of ​​talking to the other party.

The reason why Leo suddenly mentioned Yilan Sasa was mainly because of a historical hypothesis she published. This hypothesis was published in an internal journal of the Hearing Society. They are all related to the prehistoric relics unearthed in various parts of the world of Velen, but other people write articles around a single relic study, only Yilan Sasa said that all the relics were integrated together to create a fifth era hypothesis.

In the hypothesis, she believes that the world of Velen has experienced five eras. The first era is the era of chaos, then the era of wasteland, then the age of deep sea, then the age of gods, and finally the current era of steam era.

Leo is not sure whether the hypothesis of the fifth era is correct, but now, according to what he knows, the several eras mentioned in the hypothesis of the fifth era are all confirmed, and he really wants to know how the other party infers out of these eras.

In addition, there is another thing mentioned at the end of that hypothesis, that is, the human beings living in the world of Velen are not creatures that evolved from the world of Velen, but alien creatures, outsiders from the stars in the sky.

It was also because of this that Leo was a little curious about Yilan Sasa.

"You are Ms. Sasa's daughter?" After hearing the name of Yilan Sasha, the fat Robert looked at the opposite woman in surprise. It was obvious that Yilan Saza had an unusual relationship with the black market.

"Who are you?" Seeing Robert's reaction, Yilan felt that this person might know her mother, so she couldn't help asking.

"I'm Robert Chris Jr., the person in charge of the black market in Dry Steel City." Fat Robert introduced himself with a smile.

"Black market!" Yilan was stunned for a moment, then her face became a little gloomy and disgusted, and she said to Fatty Robert very indifferently, "Please don't talk to me anymore, I want to read a book."

After finishing speaking, regardless of Robert's reaction, he directly picked up a book and put it in front of his eyes. He didn't know whether he was really reading a book or pretended to read it.

Fatty Robert was caught off guard by the other party's sudden turn of events, and his bewildered look showed that he didn't understand what was going on at all.

Just when Robert was about to ask, Sherf on the opposite side said lazily, "The Faris incident."

After Robert heard the words, a relieved expression appeared on his face, and he swallowed the words he was going to ask again.

As an observer, Leo quickly found some information about the Faris incident in his mind, and understood why Yilan had such an attitude.

Faris is a small city located on the border between Maris and Savile, but it is famous for a piece of prehistoric civilization relics found in the wasteland outside the city. It was discovered by the First Public College of the Maris Kingdom and presided over the excavation. .

However, when the first public college just started digging, it was stopped by someone, because someone took out the title deed of the land, indicating that the land was private land, and the things in the land were all private property. All the academic scholars and workers who were in charge of excavation at that time were driven away.

Scholars at the First Public College will naturally not let this prehistoric relic fall into private hands, so they mobilize their respective forces and let the government intervene in order to revoke the ownership of this private land, or let the excavation of this relic to the College.

This matter caused a lot of trouble at the time, because the request of the scholars violated the sacred and inviolable clause of Article 9 of the Kingdom’s First Constitution. If it fails, the foundation of the kingdom will inevitably be shaken.

So at that time, the whole kingdom paid special attention to this matter, and various discussions were carried out in the large and small councils all over the kingdom.

However, the development of the matter was a bit unexpected at the end. When the heat of the matter reached its peak and the First Academy first submitted the appeal to the Supreme Court of the Kingdom, the prosecutors of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom discovered that the piece of private land recorded in the appeal The contract does not exist, there is no such contract in Kingdom Daring, and when they went to the person who claimed to be the owner of the land, they found that this person did not exist either.

At this time, everyone sensed that something was wrong, and turned their attention from the notice of the First Academy to the ruins in the so-called private land. Only at this time did they realize that the ruins had been treated extremely violently. The method was thoroughly excavated, all the relics that were considered to be of slight value were removed, and most of the remaining relic buildings were destroyed. It can be said that this relic has been completely destroyed.

At this time, everyone knew that the First Public Academy had been tricked, and also because of this incident, the First Public Academy became the laughing stock of the people of the Kingdom for a long time, and its reputation plummeted, and it has not recovered until now.

Who did this thing? So far, the Marris Kingdom officials have not found out, but in the dark world, who did this thing is almost an open secret, because just after the incident happened Half a month ago, the black market took out a batch of ancient items from the ruins of Faris for auction. Although the black market claimed to be entrusted by someone, anyone with a little brain would know that this was just an excuse for the black market Forget it, the black market is another protagonist of the Faris incident.

The vast majority of people in the First Public School don't know the role played by the black market in this matter, but dark world organizations like the library can naturally receive all kinds of information and intelligence, the bachelor sitting on the opposite side of Yilan The uniform has the obvious characteristics of the First Public Academy, so it is reasonable for her to have such an attitude towards Fat Robert, who is the black market manager.

The train is running slowly on the track. Although the speed is more than half slower than that of the steam train, but I don’t know if it is because of the addition of special equipment in ancient times. The vibration of the carriage is much smaller, and some Noise-reducing cork chips make the cabin extra quiet.

As time passed, Leo quickly finished reading the ancient book in his hand, put it on the table beside him, then lay on the bed, entered the deep consciousness, sorted out, summarized, and created all kinds of books he had mastered as usual. ability.

At this time, Yilan couldn't help looking at the ancient book on the table with her glasses. She could tell that the binding of the ancient book should come from the Kingdom of Savile, and she could also tell that the ancient book should be some years old. It made her wonder what was recorded in this ancient book.

The Kingdom of Savile is recognized as the country with the most ancient relics in the entire Vinylon world. It is no exaggeration to pick up a stone in a desert in the Kingdom of Savile. That stone may come from a building of a prehistoric civilization or other thing.

It is also because there are many ancient ruins in the Savile Kingdom, so many people suspect that the ancient tribes in the Savile Kingdom may be the survivors of prehistoric civilization, and those survivors are more likely to record things about prehistoric civilization.

Although scholars from all over the world want to study clues related to prehistoric civilization through the records left by the various tribes of the Savile Kingdom, the traditional power of the Savile Kingdom is very strong, coupled with the strength of the Church of the Lord of All Things, making scholars from all over the world There is no way to get access to any real valuable information.

Now there is a book that is suspected to be an ancient book of the tribe of the Savile Kingdom. As a researcher of ancient ruins, Yilan is naturally itchy. After hesitating for a long time, he broke the long silence before and asked Leo: "Can I read this book, please?"

Leo didn't answer, but pointed to the book on the table to express his agreement.

Yilan couldn't wait to pick up the book, and carefully read it, because the book was written in the ancient language of the Savile tribe, which contained a large number of dialects and spoken grammar of the Savile tribe, plus it was a handwritten copy, so this Reading this book is a bit difficult for her, and the same passage needs to be read many times.

However, while she felt that it was difficult for her to read this book, she also admired Leo's knowledge very much, because she just saw that Leo's reading this book was as easy and simple as reading an ordinary best-selling novel, This undoubtedly represents his extraordinary knowledge.

After flipping through more than a dozen pages and finding that most of the content in this book was just recording the daily affairs of the tribe that gave Kaka, Yilan lost interest in the book and put the book back on the table.

After hesitating with her, I couldn't help being curious, and asked Leo: "Which college are you a linguistics tutor?"

Leo didn't answer, but the fat man on the upper bunk, Robert, couldn't help but say for Leo: "He's Mr. Leo Dodd. If you know about the dark world, you should know that he might be the tower boss." The last heir to wizard lore."

"Great Tower Wizard?" The expression on Yilan's face was startled. She knew very well the status of the Tower Wizard in the dark world, and also knew that the Tower Wizard represented a power that was close to that of a god, but there was a successor to the Tower Wizard The latter was in front of her, which made her feel a little shocked and a little unbelievable.

However, apart from being shocked, she couldn't help becoming interested in Leo, because in the library's research on prehistoric civilization, more than one person had speculated that the tower wizards might be the inheritors of prehistoric civilization knowledge, and their origins were even more important than the gods. more distant.

Therefore, although the tower wizards have the power of gods, they have not become gods, because they know the essence of gods, and they are unwilling to become such inhuman existences.