Struggle in the Steam Age

In the early hours of the morning, at the corner of Lime Tree Street in the wealthy district of Eagle Fort, where the security conditions are the best. A wagon that operated all night, accompanied by pattering horseshoes, drove into the extremely bright station illuminated by gas lights.

Even 10 years ago, there was no such kind of overnight operation in cities. If a person wants to travel at night, except for a few wealthy people who have their own private transportation, other people can only move to the destination on their own legs.

However, with economic development, a large number of middle classes have emerged in big cities like Eagle Fort. At the same time, due to the popularity of lighting appliances such as gas lamps, more and more people need to work at night. Under such circumstances, the issue of public transportation at night has to be put on the construction agenda.

So seven years ago, Eagle Fort, the largest city in the Silver Federation, built the first night bus line. It stretches from the high area where middle class people live in the north to the Albatross Wharf in the south. In the middle is a train station, financial district and a series of areas where middle-class and high-tech workers work and live.

As a night bus, the conductor and driver on the bus have received simple training and wear guns. At the same time, all the cars are painted bright orange to ensure the safety of night operation.

This carriage with two articulated carriages entered the station just after the door opened. A young man with white hair and blue eyes in a traveling safari suit, and a young man with gray hair and blue eyes in the same male safari suit, looked at The girl who went up like a doll walked into the carriage arm in arm. Each of them carried a leather box with copper on the corner.

These two young people who came out in the early morning are naturally Lawrence and Syfiel who came out this time to travel. The reason why they came out now is purely because the tickets they bought were the Federal Express that stopped at Eagle Fort in the early morning.

"Ha — ow, I will definitely not buy early morning tickets next time. Even if this express sleeper ticket is similar to a soft seat ticket, I won't save this money." After buying the ticket and sitting down at the conductor, Sefil called He yawned and said to Lawrence with a sleepy look. She originally thought that she was an apprentice-level warrior and should be very healthy, but she didn't expect that she would be as sleepy as ordinary people after getting up at 2:00 in the morning.

"Crazy girl, don’t you know that for the transcendents. As long as they don’t reach the level of silver rank or higher in ancient times, that is, today’s expert or expert and above. Then they are only equivalent to ordinary people with special abilities. It’s not much different from ordinary people in many places."

"I see-nerd, I won't be called by my nickname when there are others." After Lawrence called his nickname, Syfiel looked at the scattered passengers sitting around and dozed off and said to Lawrence. , And then leaned his head on his shoulder. "Call me when I get to the place. I'll sleep for a while."

After Syfiel leaned his head on Lawrence's shoulder, there was a clear whip sound from the front. Then, with the sound of horses' hoofs, the carriages moved along the track again.

The Eagle Fort at night was dark, only the two kerosene lamps hung in front of the car illuminated the surrounding road through the lens of the lamp. Although these carriages spend a long time at each station during the night operation, because there are no people or cars on the road, the overall operation speed is still very fast.

Under the condition of smooth traffic, it only took half an hour before Lawrence pulled the sleepy Safir into the brightly lit Central Station. Because this train is a long-distance train, the platform they went to this time was in the opposite direction from the platform where they took the train to the capital last time.

The train was no different from the one I've seen before. It was the same iron-gray giant armored train, but this time there were a lot of red, green and black blood stains on the barrier in front of the train. There are also a few places where the collision marks are obvious, even leaving a trace on the hard surface of the barrier-breaker that is smelted into some extraordinary metal.

"This road doesn't look so peaceful." Through the mist that filled the platform, Lawrence could see the traces of various attacks on the front bumper and the muzzle blackened by gunpowder.

Unlike the previous road to the Capital Eagle’s Nest Special Zone, which mainly passes through the human-controlled area, the long-distance line that this train takes from south to north in a C shape across the entire White Eagle Federation requires many passes. Wilderness, so fighting with extraordinary creatures in the wild and certain wild races is inevitable.

Because they bought sleeper tickets, Lawrence and the others quickly climbed up the stairs after getting in the car, and then found their own box door in the slightly dim light on the second floor of the car.

"That's it, Box 233." Lawrence glanced at the ticket in his hand and then at the number on the palm-sized bronze plate nailed to the door. After making sure that he had gone wrong, he went forward and twisted the handle to open the door. .

This box is very narrow. When the door is pushed, there is a small car window. Under the window is a table, and under the table is a small chair. In addition, there is the bunk bed on the right side of the door. It looks like four or five square meters.

After entering the box, Lawrence and Syphile said goodnight to each other and went straight to sleep. I slept until after ten o'clock the next morning before I got up.

It takes five days to take the express train from Eagle Fort to Huguang City, so Lawrence and the others naturally prepared something to pass the boring time on the road. Of course, although he used the day before departure to go to St. Gutenberg The cathedral bought a few magic scrolls for learning, but those things are naturally not suitable for learning on a slightly bumpy train.

So the books he was reading at this time were a series of reference books that were also borrowed from the library of St. Gutenberg Cathedral, including "The Extraordinary History of the White Eagle Federation", "New World Northland Essays", and "Priest Ericsson" "The Travels of the Great Lakes" and so on, among which the Lord Lawrence pays the most attention to "The Travels of the Great Lakes of Priest Ericsson".

Priest Ericsson was the first Priest of the Church of Knowledge to penetrate the northern inland area of ​​the New World, and the first Old World adventurer to discover the Great Lakes. Many cities in the inland areas today laid the foundations for the first batch of information that he obtained through exploration.

Some of these discoveries even appeared in geography textbooks. For example, the earliest colonists who came to the east coast believed that the Great Lakes area referred to by the local aboriginals was just a large lake, and the priest Ericsson discovered the so-called The Great Lake is not a lake, but a series of six huge lakes interconnected by rivers.

Because he made such a great discovery and his writing is also very good. Therefore, the notes that recorded what he saw and heard during his travels, "The Travels of the Priest Ericsson on the Great Lakes" sold very well, and many people in the Federation had read this book.

This is true both in the world of ordinary people and in the world of extraordinary people. Many people with a little money at home would buy a set of general knowledge education for their children. For example, Lawrence remembers that there was a set in Seifer's family.

Of course, the set of books that Lawrence is holding is not the same as the books bought in the world of ordinary people. There are many knowledge related to transcendence that have been deleted from the books sold in the world of ordinary people.

For example, it is mentioned here that the two lakes in the south of the six lakes, the green lake and the black lake, are named so not because of the color of the lake~www.ltnovel.com~ but because of Ericsson. The priest really found traces of green dragon and black dragon activities in this lake area.

This is actually a very miraculous thing from the perspective of extraordinary biology, because giant dragons have very high requirements for moving space, often as high as tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. It seems strange that the areas where the black dragon and the green dragon frequently move are less than 20 kilometers apart.

Because of this note, multiple churches and the Federation themselves organized multiple expeditions to explore this area. More than 70 years ago, a joint expedition organized by multiple churches and federations successfully discovered the Dragon Blood Forest.

The reason for the name is that the land under the forest was assimilated by the blood of a dragon with the power of a god. All dragon-veined creatures near that forest can gain some small but real benefits. This is why the two giant dragons can live in harmony here.

"Can you benefit from the nearby dragon-veined creatures?" After reading this paragraph, Lawrence suddenly felt that it was a pity that Fatina could not travel together this time, because this dragon blood forest was obviously more useful to her.