Although the events a few days ago had a great impact on the train station, which can be seen from the depressed scene inside and outside the train station, the service of the train station itself has not been reduced, especially the first-class treatment is still maintained.

The level it should be.

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

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

Not long after Leo made the request, the waiter came in with a box, took out neatly ironed newspapers one by one, and placed them on the table at Leo's hand.

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

Most of the contents in these newspapers are similar, and there is not much new stuff. However, the only one from Dalyat caught Leo's attention. The content of this news was reported a few days ago.

Just when the world was undergoing a sudden change, an unprecedented blizzard suddenly broke out in the north of Dalyat. The temperature dropped rapidly, and it has not stopped to this day. A snowstorm has formed. Some people also discovered that the Moss Sea in the northern part of Dalyat

It's starting to freeze.

Velen Continent and Minsk Continent are separated by the Silver Moon Sea. The name Silver Moon Sea came about because the ocean is indeed in the shape of a silver moon, and the person who named it at the time didn't have much talent, so the name was chosen casually.

However, Silver Moon Sea is just a general name for this ocean. In fact, this ocean is divided into four parts. The southernmost end is naturally the chain of pearl islands connected to Falling Star Sea, to the north is Star Moon Sea, and further north is Silver Moon.

The middle area of ​​the lake is generally called the Moon Sea, and the northernmost end is the Moss Sea.

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

Port Moss is called the source of pirates by historians in the Velen world. The earliest pirates in the world may not have originated from here, but the large-scale pirate ships on record originated from here. For a long time, Moss pirates

It has almost become a nightmare in every city along the Velen continent, and there are countless bedside songs telling the terror of the Moss pirates.

Although the Moss pirates have various horror legends, and have become synonymous with negative words such as terror, greed, cruelty, etc. in various books in the world of Velen, it is undeniable that the Moss pirates' voyages to the entire Velen world

Career has played an indisputable role.

The world's earliest topographical map of the Velen continent came from the Moss pirates. The earliest communication route with the Minsk continent was also established by the Moss pirates. The Moss pirates also discovered the Mossant continent. Even the name of the Mossant continent is Moss.

It was given by the Moss pirates, and the first fleet to sail around the Star Sea and complete the first voyage to three continents was also the Moss pirates.

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

The reason why Leo is interested in the news about the Moss Sea freezing is because there are records showing that thousands of years ago, the Moss Sea would be covered with thick ice in winter and a cross-sea ice bridge would be built.

People can walk on ice.

It is for this reason that many scholars who study the bloodlines of the three continents say that the people living in the Minsk continent are likely to come from the Velen continent, and their ancestors are more likely to be the Black Forest tribes who escaped from the Velen continent.

slaves of the Lan Empire, etc. In that era when navigation was underdeveloped, these people came to the vast and sparsely populated continent of Minsk through this cross-sea ice bridge to settle. It was not until the ice bridge disappeared due to climate change that the connection between the two continents was completely interrupted.

, it was not until later that navigation technology developed that we were able to regain contact.

This is not an argument that those scholars have come up with, but there is clear evidence that the shapes of various stone carvings, pottery and other daily objects of the early tribes of Minsk Continent all have the style of the most primitive form of Velen Continent.

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

The reason for this argument is that a large number of ancient civilization relics were discovered in the desert of the Kingdom of Savil, but there are no such relics on the Velen Continent.

Leo has no interest in which continent is the birthplace of mankind in the world of Velen. He is more concerned about the freezing of the Moss Sea. Obviously this matter should be related to the mutation in the world of Velen. If he hadn't

If the estimate is wrong, the ice bridge scenery that has been missing for thousands of years will definitely reappear on the Moss Sea this winter.

"If anything, if something really happens, then we have no choice but to walk on this ice bridge." Leo closed the newspaper and murmured slightly in his heart.

Leo suddenly made such a decision entirely because of various reports about dense fog on the sea that appeared in newspapers. He remembered reading a sailing book, which mentioned that the original obstacle to the sailing adventure in the world of Velen was the perennial

The thick fog on the sea, and in some other folklore, it has been mentioned more than once that for a long time in the past, the sea was shrouded in thick fog, and countless huge and dangerous sea monsters were hidden in the thick fog.

.

If the legends of just one country and one nation were written like this, that would be fine. But the problem is that the folklores of many countries are described like this. Then this shows that in the past, thick fog was indeed entrenched on the sea surface of the Velen world.

This also made Leo couldn't help but think of the thick fog that enveloped countless worlds.

I don’t know when the thick fog on the sea that appeared due to the changes in the world will dissipate this time. If the thick fog does not dissipate, Leo will have to consider other ways to leave the Minsk continent, and the ice bridge is

One of the good ways.

Just as Leo was planning his next trip in his mind, the whistle of a steam train came from far away, 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 giant steel beast rumbling into the station, and finally slowly stopped.

In order to reduce the burden on the railway steel frame, the train does not stop using braking devices that cause huge friction. Instead, it slows down at a long distance until it enters the train station and can stop naturally. It is just a stop.

The location is slightly different.

For this reason, railway designers specially designed a set of movable access bridges for each station. After the train comes to a complete stop, the access bridge controller at the station controls each access bridge to move to the corresponding position and lower it.

Linked to the train door.

However, this time, there was a little trouble connecting the cargo passage bridge with the first class passage bridge. It took several docking attempts before they were connected to the train door. Apparently, this was because the operator of the passage bridge was not familiar with it.

, and the reason is probably that the station staff who controlled the two access bridges died in the disaster that night, and the descendants who succeeded them were not yet fully familiar with this 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 from the special channel into the first-class cabin located at the front of the car. Then the first-class waiter looked at everyone's tickets and led them to

Go to your respective compartments.

Leo's room was near the end of the passenger car. The location was not very good, but because it was next to the restaurant car, it was relatively directional for dining.

In order to distribute the weight of various parts of the train and prevent the weight from being particularly heavy in one place, railway designers also designed unique trains for this railway.

This train does not use a huge locomotive to drive the entire train like the Velen Continental Rim Train, but instead divides the huge locomotive into six smaller locomotives that are much lighter.

Among these six small locomotives, four are placed on the front and rear sides 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 carriage, ordinary carriage and freight carriage.

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

Although this kind of industrial design is obviously extremely crude compared to spaceships and battleships in the universe, it can already be regarded as a great design in the Velen world. It is a pity that the designers of the surrounding railways did not leave any names, or more

To be precise, the official name of the Savile Kingdom did not record any name of this person, but only referred to him as the designer.

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

The only people in the Kingdom of Savile who can acquire such high level of knowledge are the 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 with a lower status than slaves are not allowed to have names or even show their faces. This started from the construction of the Canyon Railway at that time.

It can be seen from the records that when the designer appears in front of people, his face is always completely covered.

As for who the designer of the Canyon Railway is, all the speculations are just guesses. Even if the guesses are reasonable, they still cannot be regarded as a definite answer because there is no substantial evidence to prove it.

It has become a mystery, and as time goes by, the chances of solving this mystery become smaller and smaller.

However, the operators of the canyon railway seem to be willing to keep this mystery alive for a long time, using it as a selling point for canyon railway tourism. They even put books written by some scholars about who the railway designer was on every first-class ticket.

Inside the cabin, passengers who arrive on this train can deepen their impression of the Canyon Railway.

Leo couldn't help but admire the railway operator's hard work, and when he had nothing to do, he eagerly picked up the books in the room and started reading.

With Leo's reading speed, Leo had finished reading those books in no time, and the train hadn't started yet.

Originally, Leo just casually read this book, but after seeing some of the people involved in the construction of the canyon railway mention the words and deeds of railway designers in the book, Leo couldn't help but think of a person in his heart, 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-chooser Saran Meyer.

At first, Leo thought that he might have guessed wrong. After all, the relationship between Saran and the Savile Kingdom can be said to be mortal enemies. She would not help the Savile Kingdom build such a railway that can be called the economic lifeline.

, 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 thought about it again and found that it was more and more likely that the King Selector Saran was the designer of the railway. This was mainly because of the huge benefits that this railway had brought to the Kingdom of Savile. In the economy of the Kingdom of Savile

Playing the role of a pillar, this railway has become the most fatal Achilles' heel of the Savile Kingdom.

You must know that in the past, the Kingdom of Savile was a kingdom that was said to never fall. Neither the Kingdom of Maris nor the Kingdom of Dialiat had ever truly captured the Kingdom of Savile. This was because of the special geographical environment and appearance of the Kingdom of Savile.

Scattered sand is actually a flexible tribal council system.

Once they encounter an irresistible and powerful enemy, the rulers of the Savile Kingdom will disperse to various 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 dies or is captured.

, the tribal council will also elect a king from the leaders of the large tribes to succeed the throne and resume resistance to the enemy.

But now with the emergence of the Kingdom Avenue and the Canyon Railway, the Kingdom of Savile has entered the urban era. The originally flexible tribal system has been transferred to the city. With the emergence of various huge interests, coupled with the convenience and safety of life, making

The people of the Savile tribe are increasingly adapting to urban life, and the customs of the nomadic tribes in the past have been abandoned.

It is conceivable that if the Saville Kingdom encounters an irresistible and powerful enemy next time, then they may not be able to annihilate the enemy as they did in the past, and the destruction of the kingdom will become a foregone conclusion.

If you want to destroy the Savile Kingdom, the first step must be to destroy the economy of the Savile Kingdom and let the Savile Kingdom be in chaos for a while before it is attacked by foreign enemies. In this way, the Canyon Railway has become a fatal point.
Chapter completed!