It was different from the trip to Nalo, Gaul. At that time, the cruise ship that carried Lorenzo was specially used for enjoyment. The huge ship was full of entertainment facilities, bacon and wine, but now the Morning Glory Advance can
Without those things, the warehouses were filled with steel and gunpowder, and what was even worse were the sleeping armors.
Different from the previous relaxation and joy, nameless depression covered every part of the ship. Most people did not know the purpose of this voyage, but perhaps because of the heavy rain, their moods sank together.
Walking along the rickety corridor, Lorenzo was carrying the food and beer he had taken from the canteen. The conversation with the shrike successfully made Lorenzo miss the meal time. Fortunately, the chefs left some food for them.
A lot of stuff.
"Why are you here?"
Lorenzo's steps stopped, and he saw a familiar girl standing on one side of the corridor. She was looking at the sea outside the porthole.
Dark clouds and heavy rain swallowed up the night, and the only source of light was the passing thunder. They surged wildly, illuminating the sky and sea. The rain hanging on the glass slightly distorted the world, and everything was lost in the distorted light.
The original appearance.
"Come and see the storm."
Seleu looked directly at the core of the thunder, which was stirred by the storm and rose at the other end of the sea.
"What's so cool about this thing?"
Lorenzo came over and leaned on the porthole, taking a closer look.
There was nothing unusual, it was just an ordinary sea storm. If there was anything strange about it, it was that it was too violent, and the sea kept rising and falling.
"Aren't you going to rest?"
Lorenzo asked. It was not too late, but because life at sea was really monotonous, everyone usually returned to their rooms early if there was nothing to do.
"No, I feel a little uncomfortable and want to go out for a walk." Seliu looked away.
"Is the air pressure low? Normal reaction."
Lorenzo said, picked up a bottle of beer and handed it to Seleu. Seleu didn't hesitate and reached out to grab it, but when he was about to touch it, Lorenzo stopped his hand and took the bottle back.
"It's not a good time to drink in this situation. If you fall into the sea drunk, no one can save you."
Lorenzo said this, but he bit off the bottle cap and took a sip himself.
"Aren't you afraid of falling?"
"I'm a demon hunter, alcohol doesn't have much effect on me."
Under the transformation of the secret blood, the demon hunter's physique has a very strong metabolic ability. The influence of alcohol is only a trivial matter. This ability mainly deals with toxins. Most of the toxins can only cause minor effects on the demon hunters.
Influence.
"Very strange."
Seleu looked very puzzled.
"What's wrong?"
"Everyone drinks to get drunk, but you don't get drunk at all, so why do you still drink?"
Due to her indifferent character, Seleu had very little communication with the outside world. Outside of working at the Stuart family, she would hardly meet any strangers. Most of the time, she would shut herself in the study room and read books.
Therefore, Selyu's thinking is often quite interesting and becomes very weird in places that others would not expect.
"Hmm...I don't know."
Lorenzo thought for a moment, and he, who was always quick in thinking, didn't know what to say to refute.
"Oh...Is this where your room comes from?"
Seliu sighed and pointed to the hatch on the side. She didn't know who designed the Morning Glory Advance. The residential area was like a maze, and the rooms had no obvious markings.
"Oh oh oh, please come in."
Lorenzo said and quickly opened his cabin door.
As a military ship, the Morning Glory Advance has basically no comfort at all. When taking the cruise, Lorenzo's room also had a large sunny living room, soft beds and bathrooms, but there is nothing here, only small rooms.
, and an iron bed with only one layer of mattresses, and it has bunk beds.
The living environment on the cargo ship was much better, but for safety reasons, Lorenzo decided to let Seleu ride on the iron-clad ship with him. After all, in the event of a sudden incident, the cargo ship did not have much resistance.
"It looks good, much better than I expected."
Seleu glanced at Lorenzo's room, because there was an empty bed in the upper and lower bunks. Lorenzo threw all his messy things on the lower bunk. Among the pile of items, there was a blank space for someone to sit.
Seleu could imagine Lorenzo struggling to clear this area.
"What did you expect?"
Lorenzo felt a little embarrassed.
"Maybe it's full of mushrooms. It's so humid on the ship, maybe they will grow very lush."
Seleu moved a chair over and sat on one side. Lorenzo followed him and sat on the empty seat on his lower bunk.
"So what's the matter with you coming?"
Lorenzo asked. In his opinion, Seleu was obviously not wandering out because of any discomfort. She came to see him, and she seemed to have been waiting at the door for a long time.
"What else can happen? The Stuarts' trade route."
Seleu said and picked up his bag. It had been hanging behind him, and the light was dim and swaying, so Lorenzo didn't notice it.
"This is our next voyage. Although the civil war in the Viking countries is over, the governance of each region is still governed by the lords themselves."
Seleu spread out the sea chart, but there were some differences between this chart and the one of Shrike. The most obvious thing was that it did not record the existence of the Sea of Silence, and there was just a blank space there.
Just as Lorenzo thought, there are deeper forces in this world that are affecting the direction of the world, and that is the nation-builders. They have always controlled the flow of information. As long as they do not want the world to know, this information can be
It will never be leaked out.
"autonomy?"
"Well, their relationship with the Ice Sea King is that the lords are loyal to the king, so the place we are going to on this trip is not only Welrent, but the most important one is Lingbing Bay."
Seleu's fingers traced back and forth on the chart.
Lorenzo had heard of Velente, which was a large island. After the civil war, the Ice King occupied it and turned it into the capital of various countries. It was also the main city for foreign diplomacy of the Viking countries.
, but he had never heard of the Lingbing Bay that Seliu mentioned.
"What is Lingbing Bay?"
Lorenzo asked. He had also briefly learned about the Viking countries before, but there was not much useful information at all. They had been in a civil war for a long time, and the information was extremely limited.
"A seaport city within the Viking countries, you can understand it as the main port for their internal trade. Velenert is responsible for the external circulation, so Lengbing Bay ensures the internal trade circulation of the Viking countries.
Our negotiations with the Ice King are almost complete, and the Stuart family's trade has been incorporated into the alliance between Inverg and the Viking nations, but the issue of the internal docking of the Ice Bay has not yet been resolved."
"The king agreed, but the lord didn't agree? So the Viking countries are not monolithic." Lorenzo felt a little helpless when he heard this.
"There is no way. Isn't the so-called politics just a compromise on the interests of all parties? It is already very difficult to make these lords put down their axes." Seliu also felt helpless, "But the problem is not this, it is mainly related to those pirates
."
"Most of the ships in the Viking Kingdoms originated from the shipyards of Lingbing Bay. As the civil war came to an end, some of the rebellious lords were crushed by the Ice King's army, but some still escaped and became
Wandering pirates are harassing various territories internally, and the one that suffers the most is Lingbing Bay."
Seleu pointed to the archipelago of the Viking countries. Most of the islands were uninhabited due to the harsh environment, which had become a refuge for the pirates.
"The end of the civil war has consumed a lot of the strength of the Viking countries. In recent years, they have recovered a lot, but they have to use it to face the war with Gaul Naluo. The Ice King has not much spare power to encircle and suppress these people.
pirates, they handed over the task to the lords and allowed them to expand their private armed forces to a certain extent."
"Then the lords of Lingbing Bay rose up?"
Lorenzo began to have his own fantastic ideas.
"How is it possible? He did use his armed forces to fight against pirates, which also led to repeated wars in Lingbing Bay. The lord also often participated in battles. He was gone for several months and could not find anyone else!"
Seliu couldn't help shouting, because he couldn't find anyone else, so the cooperation couldn't continue.
"Ah...this..."
Lorenzo didn't know what to say.
"The lord himself is a very eccentric person, obsessed with sailing on the sea, so obsessed that some people say that he rarely touches land during the year. Other Vikings like to build some barracks in the territory to expand their military power, and only he
He loves the sea so much that he founded the first large-scale shipyard in the Viking kingdoms. Yin Erweg's technical support is also ready to be implemented in Lingbing Bay, which has more potential for industrial development than other barren territories."
Seliu recalled her partner who had not yet met, and the words of the Viking envoys rolled in her mind.
"Who else is very interested in forbidden mysterious legends? It is said that this lord even joined a secret society for this reason. This made other lords who believed in Odin hate him so much that they became more and more alienated from him.
There is also less and less relevant information.
Also because he has not been in Lingbing Bay for a long time, Lingbing Bay has gradually turned into a chaotic and complicated place... You can think of it as an old Dunling Lower Town with a slightly more regular structure."
When Seleu said this, Lorenzo understood.
"Downtown!"
Lorenzo Yile, he has been around in Xiacheng District for many years, he is considered a veteran, not to mention there is a guy on this boat who was the boss in Xiacheng District.
"The lord has finally returned to Lingbing Bay after being missing for almost half a year. We have to stop at Welrent before rushing to that ghost place."
When Seliu thought about the unknown Lingbing Bay and the elusive pirates, she felt a little headache.
"That's probably it, do you understand?"
Lorenzo nodded, and immediately reached out and took out a Winchester. The retainer was loaded, and amid the crisp metal sound, Lorenzo looked very interested.
This was indeed something to be happy about. All he had to do all day was to kill monsters. Even Lorenzo felt a little tired and needed to chop something else to soothe his mood.
"Cut down violence, protect your employer, I understand, I understand."
Seleucid glanced at Lorenzo, not knowing what to say. She knew very well that everyone would draw happiness from different places. Seleucid was reading books, the lord was sailing, and Lorenzo was...him.
Something was not normal, and Seliu didn't know how to persuade him.
Fortunately, Lorenzo is an irreplaceable guy, otherwise Seliu really thought that he would be sent to Montenegro Hospital for proper treatment. No, Lorenzo had already been there once, and the condition seemed to be more serious.
Seliu couldn't help but cover his face, and glanced at Lorenzo through the gaps between his fingers. Lorenzo was looking at Seliu with a puzzled look on his face, not knowing why she made such an action.
"Perhaps...Lorenzo is really a hopeless guy," Seleu thought to himself.
"By the way, I have something else to ask you."
Seliu put down his hand and glanced at the hatch. It was closed tightly. No one should hear the conversation here.
"I passed by the lower part today, probably on the warehouse level. I don't know why, but I felt a very strange feeling."
Seliu recalled that although the time at sea was boring, it somewhat aroused Seliu's curiosity. She often wandered around the Morning Glory Advance and carefully looked at this advanced iron-clad ship. Today she stepped into the dark cargo room.
The warehouse was strictly guarded by soldiers, and a huge circular hatch separated Seleu from the contents inside.
She still remembered the feeling at that time. Something came out from the cracks in the steel. They approached her gently and cut her with the strange blade.
Seliu looked at the hatch, his heartbeat speeding up involuntarily, and evil things were squirming in the darkness in his heart.
This is such a familiar feeling, like facing a demon, and more than that, Seliu can detect that this is a familiar erosion, as if someone he has seen before is being imprisoned on the other side of the hatch.
of demons.
"This voyage is more than just establishing trade, right?"
Seliu was keenly aware of these, not only the things behind the hatch, but also the ship full of soldiers, Shrike and Blue Jade, and the advanced iron-clad ship at his feet.
If he were to serve as his own bodyguard and protect the establishment of trade, Lorenzo alone would be enough, but this time the arrangement of the purification agency simply sent thousands of troops for himself.
Lorenzo was speechless. He was silent for a while, and then said a little artificially.
"Children should not inquire into adult matters."
"I'm a Duke. When you see me, you might have to kneel down and kiss my hand."
Lorenzo's mean smile was obviously of no use to Seleu. She knew Lorenzo too well. Through those gray-blue eyes, Lorenzo could rarely hide anything in front of her unless he hid that thing.
Go deeper, into the dark and dirty corners of my heart.
"If you don't want to say it, forget it."
Seleu stopped questioning Lorenzo. She knew very well that even if she continued to question, all she would get was Lorenzo's bad words. The two of them remained in strange silence for a long time.
His eyes wandered uneasily, and the small space made Lorenzo feel very uncomfortable. He did not expect Seleu to grow up so fast, and he had become somewhat like a duke. Although he was not big, he was quite oppressive.
He didn't dare to look into Seliu's eyes for fear of being discovered by her.
Until Lorenzo saw the chart, he suddenly discovered that there was something wrong with the location of Lingbing Bay. It was very deep inside the Viking countries and very close to the blank spot on the chart.
Lorenzo thought of something, he became serious and asked.
"Who is the lord of Lingbing Bay?"
"Lord?" Seeing Lorenzo's sudden change of attitude, Seleu had long been used to it and she replied.