Chapter 33: Isn’t it different from what you imagined?
"Do you really believe Mrs. Maggie didn't mean it?"
Alice asked curiously as she walked to the No. 7 public transportation stop. She was dressed in a maid outfit and stood out among the pedestrians, especially the silver rabbit ear headphones hanging around her neck, which attracted many people.
But the girl has always been big-hearted and doesn't care about these small things, so she naturally pretends she doesn't see them and ignores them all.
What she asked Ringer was about the interview in the newspaper. Mrs. Maggie's interview with reporter Fiyali during such a sensitive period undoubtedly put Tianxin Church on the forefront. In addition, Ringer had previously
She had been told to be wary of Mrs. Maggie, so Alice naturally had reason to doubt her intentions.
Lin Ge walked in front and led the way, without squinting his eyes, and nodded gently: "Yes."
"Aren't you comforting Metien?"
"No."
"Why?" Alice was puzzled: "You said before that Mrs. Maggie was not a good person..."
"When did I say this?" Ringer finally glanced back at her: "My original words were, don't get too close to her, and don't believe what she says."
"Don't these mean the same thing?"
"No."
Ringer withdrew his gaze and stepped on the stone bricks of the sidewalk, making a rhythmic reverberation, suppressing his already deep voice: "The people from the Religious Mutual Aid Association want to use Tianxin Church to create a public opinion advantage for their negotiations.
Do you think Mrs. Maggie, an ordinary person, can imagine such an inside story?"
A person's position determines their vision. How much energy can Mrs. Maggie, who works hard all day and is busy supporting herself and her six children, have to pay attention to these things that have nothing to do with her? Let alone see through the inside story and add fuel to the fire in the newspaper.
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"It makes sense." Alice, who had no opinion, nodded in agreement, and then asked: "So, she really just wanted to say a few good words for Tianxin Church, and then she was taken advantage of by that hateful and unscrupulous reporter?"<
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"No." Ringer replied: "Everyone on Songshi Street can speak for Tianxin Church, but she can't."
His tone was calm, as if he was just stating a solid fact.
This determined attitude made Alice even more curious about the relationship between Tianxin Church and Mrs. Maggie. She wanted to continue asking, but the No. 7 public transportation stop had already arrived. There were a lot of people waiting here today, and it was crowded and shouting.
In the vegetable market, Alice's voice was swallowed up by the noise as soon as she left her mouth. It was silent, and Linge naturally didn't hear it.
The golden-haired maid rolled her eyes in a circle and closed her mouth. She knew in her heart that she would probably not get an answer from Ringer, and Merdine knew little about it. So, she could either ask Mrs. Maggie directly, or wait for the main plot.
As the plot progresses, the protagonist's background story will naturally be revealed slowly.
Is this going to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Month?
She tilted her head.
After the employer and the maid waited for about five minutes at the No. 7 public transportation stop, a steam locomotive whimpered out of the thick smoke, gradually slowed down and stopped outside the stop. It was natural for Alice to see this steel beast for the first time.
With his eyes shining, he was about to squeeze in with the crowd, but was stopped by Ringer.
"There are too many people." He said: "Wait for the next bus."
Seeing the crowds of people passing by, Alice became very anxious: "Hurry up, aren't you in a hurry?"
"There's still an hour before class starts, so there's no rush." Lin Ge looked at the car that was gradually filled with people and said flatly: "If you don't mind rough physical contact, poor air quality, and dirty garbage,
If you want something, you can get on the bus now."
Of course Alice minded, so she shrunk her head and pretended to be a quail.
One after another, indifferent pedestrians pressed forward impatiently, swarming towards the narrow car doors, like swarms of sardines towards the gaping mouth of a whale. Their footsteps were as hurried as the development trend of the city.
, and also highlights the characteristics of this era. In comparison, the two people who are still waiting in the site seem somewhat out of place, but no one will look at them twice.
After all, in this city, there is nothing worthy of attention except yourself.
"Speaking of which," Alice suddenly asked: "Since it's not to sow discord or to say good things about Tianxin Church, then why on earth did Mrs. Maggie accept the interview from that guy?"
Ringer glanced at her: "Asking such a question shows that you don't have a particularly clear understanding of the era you live in, Miss Alice."
He did not continue. The maid blinked, seeming to understand.
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In the past fifteen minutes, another steam locomotive entered the station. This time there were not many people crowding to get on the train. Ringer and Alice found their seats easily. The maid who likes to be funny even specially chose a seat by the window.
She looked through the glass window to see the scene along the street. Although the smoke from the steam engine and the dust from the tire friction on the ground made her vision blurred. Whether it was pedestrians or buildings, they were just hazy shadows in her eyes, but she still watched with gusto.
, very dedicated.
Everything in this world is new to her.
However, such silence only lasted for more than ten minutes. When the train left the Holy Cross district along a specific route and entered Riverside Street, she suddenly turned to Ringer and said: "This is not at all what I imagined." Ringer was checking today's lesson plan and casually said: "What's different?"
Alice took back the hand that was pressed on the car window and put it on her skirt. She sat upright at the same time, pretending to be a lady, with a serious expression: "I remember you said before that the steam age in this world was as early as the twelfth century.
It began in the 19th century, but as of the 19th century, it is still the age of steam."
"I have already told you the answer." Ringer said without raising his head: "Because of the two hundred years of steam holy war, the development speed of the era has greatly stagnated, and it took a long time to recover."
"But, there are seven hundred years between the 19th century and the 12th century." Alice counted on her fingers: "Then the Steam Holy War lasted for two hundred years. What are you going to do with the remaining five hundred years?
What? Even if we can’t advance the level of science and technology to the electrical or even information age, we should at least invent a super huge analytical engine, power furnaces everywhere, and pipeline systems throughout the city, as mentioned in steampunk novels.
A steam airship that can carry people, a steel knight using a gun blade, and a bionic machine that imitates biological structures, right?"
As she spoke, she raised her head and looked out the car window at the smoke-filled street, and saw a noisy and bustling river: pedestrians, vendors, employees, travelers, sweepers, drunken men, newsboys, flower girls, public carriages,
Private carriages, two-wheeled open carriages, brass street lamps, red dragon sculptures, old city wall ruins, dirty river water, drifting garbage, mist, cold wind, smoke, crows, dogs, black cats, and dark alleys
The mice in it... What she saw with the naked eye showed that there seemed to be some gap between this era and the steam fantasy world she imagined.
What did people do in the five hundred years after the two-hundred-year Steam Crusade? Why did the world neither take another path nor persist on the original path? Instead, it seemed to stay where it was, no longer
Go forward and no longer retreat?
Her question drew Ringer's attention away from the lesson plan and he closed the textbook. He thought for a moment and suddenly said: "In 1166 AD, Watt, the president of the Royal Research Society of the Kingdom of Great Brita, invented the steam engine and announced that
Human civilization has officially entered a new era."
“In 1252 AD, civil strife broke out in the Order of Steam, which mastered the core technology of steam engines. The December Declaration triggered a battle between the Order of Steam and its splintered Alpha Knights, and gradually evolved into a war that spread throughout the Sigiriya continent.
The war is known as the Steam Holy War in history."
"On February 12, 1400 AD, the Realism Order, which was only a year old, broke into the headquarters of the Order of Steam and replaced its dominance. Since then, the Steam Holy War has evolved into a battle between the United Order and the Alpha Knights.
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"On February 2, 1404 AD, the combined army attacked the holy city of Pession, the Alpha Knights were destroyed, and the countries in the Western Continent also suffered heavy losses. The United Order became the only winner in this battle, and the Steam Holy War came to an end." p>
"On May 12, 1767 AD, Raman Thaler invented the steam locomotive with external suspension carriages. The religious group jointly obtained the patent and completed improvements, which almost revolutionized the entire Western Continent's transportation system. At the same time, it was also the last great work of the steam age.
Since the invention of steam technology, human research on steam technology has not made any breakthrough progress."
A hundred years have passed since then.
Originally, he wanted to use the knowledge he had learned to answer this question, but after carefully recalling the history of science and technology after the invention of the steam engine, Ringer's voice gradually dropped, and finally turned into a murmur like a soliloquy.
He had to admit that Alice's doubts were reasonable. From the end of the Steam Holy War in 1404 AD to the invention of the steam locomotive by Laman Thaler in 1767 AD, in more than three hundred years, mankind had made great achievements in steam technology.
There are very few research results. In the past one hundred years, there have been no decent inventions.
This is weird.
What’s even more strange is that as a college student in the history department, I have never thought about similar issues.
There seems to be an invisible hand controlling everything.
His eyes were deep and deep in thought.
In the seat next to her, Alice's question was ignored, but she was not angry because she heard the names of two old friends: Watt, who invented the steam engine, and Raman Sai, who invented the externally suspended carriage steam locomotive.
Le.
In the history of the earth, Watt was the improver of the steam engine, and Laman Thaler - to be precise, Laman Thaler Company, was a manufacturer of steam vehicles.
The two worlds, with similar historical images, overlap again.