In the early hours of the morning, at the intersection of Limetree Street in the wealthy area of Eagle Castle with the best security conditions, an all-night tramcar drove into the station illuminated by gas lights accompanied by the clatter of horse hooves.
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Even 10 years ago, there was no such kind of all-night transportation in the city. If a person wanted to travel at night, except for a few wealthy people who had their own private transportation, other people could only rely on their own transportation.
The legs move towards the destination.
However, with the development of the economy, a large number of middle class people have emerged in big cities like Eagle Castle. At the same time, due to the popularity of lighting appliances such as gas lamps, more and more people have to work night shifts. Under such circumstances,
The issue of public transportation at night has also been put on the construction agenda.
So seven years ago, Eagle Castle, the largest city in the Silver Federation, built its first night bus line. It stretches from the highland area where the middle class lives in the north to the Albatross Wharf in the south. It passes through the train station and the financial district in the middle.
Areas where a series of middle-class and high-level skilled workers work and live.
As a night bus, the conductors and drivers on the bus have received simple training and wear guns. At the same time, all the carriages are painted bright orange to ensure the safety of night operation.
The door of this tram carriage with two articulated carriages was just opened after it entered the station. A young man with white hair and blue eyes wearing a hunting suit and a young man with gray hair and blue eyes also wearing a hunting suit looked at them.
The girl who looked like a doll walked into the carriage arm in arm. Each of them was carrying a leather box with copper covering the corners.
The two young men who came out in the early morning were naturally Lawrence and Saphire who were traveling this time. The reason why they came out now was purely because the tickets they bought were for the Federal Express that stopped at Eagle Fort in the early morning.
"Ha--yeah, I will definitely not buy an early morning ticket next time. Even if the express sleeper ticket is almost the same as a soft seat ticket, I won't save the money." After buying the ticket from the conductor and sitting down, Saifeir said.
She yawned and said to Lawrence with a sleepy look on her face. She originally thought that she was in good health as an apprentice-level warrior, but she didn't expect that she would be as sleepy as an ordinary person after getting up at 2:00 in the morning.
"Crazy girl, don't you know that for extraordinary people, as long as they have not reached the silver level or above as mentioned in ancient times, which is today's experts or experts and above, then they are only equivalent to ordinary people who have mastered special abilities.
, in many places there is not much difference from ordinary people.”
"I got it - nerd, don't call me your nickname when you're around other people in the future." Listening to Lawrence calling him his nickname, Sephiel looked at the scattered passengers around him who were dozing on the seats and said to Lawrence.
, then tilted her head and leaned on his shoulder. "Call me when you're somewhere. I'll sleep for a while first."
Just after Saphire rested his head on Lawrence's shoulder, there was a crisp crack of a whip from the front. Then with the clatter of horse hooves, the carriage started running along the track again.
Eagle Castle is dark at night. Only the two kerosene lamps hanging in front of the carriage illuminate the surrounding roads through the lenses on the lamps. Although these carriages stop at each station for a relatively long time when running at night.
, but because there are no people or cars on the road, the overall running speed is still very fast.
With the traffic flowing all the way, it only took half an hour for Lawrence to pull the sleepy Saifei into the brightly lit Central Station. Because this train was a long-distance train, they were heading to 32
Platform number is exactly in the opposite direction to the platform where I took the train to the capital last time.
The train is no different from the ones we have seen before. It is also the same iron-gray giant armored train, but this time there are a lot of red, green and black blood stains on the barrier breaker in front of the train. There are also a few collisions in some places.
The traces 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 clearly the traces of various attacks on the front obstacle breaker and the gun muzzle blackened by gunpowder smoke.
Unlike the last trip to the Capital Eagle's Nest Special Zone, which mainly passed through human-controlled areas, the long-distance route this train took in a C-shape from south to north across the entire White Eagle Federation had to pass through many
In the wilderness, battles with extraordinary creatures in the wild and certain wilderness races are unavoidable.
Because they bought sleeper tickets, Lawrence and the others quickly climbed up the stairs after getting on the train, and then found their own box door in the slightly dim light on the second floor of the carriage.
"This is 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 was not in the wrong place, he stepped forward, twisted the handle, and pushed the door open.
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This box is very narrow. When you push the door, you will see a small car window. Under the window is a table. There is a small chair under the table. In addition, there is a bunk bed to the right of the door.
, it only looks like four or five square meters.
After entering the box, Lawrence and Saphire said good night to each other and went directly to bed to catch up on their sleep. They slept until about ten o'clock the next morning.
It takes five days to take the express train from Eagle Fort to Huguang City, so Lawrence and the others naturally prepared some things to kill the boring time on the road. Of course, although he took advantage of the day before departure to go to St. Gutenberg
The cathedral bought several magic scrolls for study, but those things were naturally not suitable for studying on a slightly bumpy train.
So the books he was looking at at this time were a series of information books that he had also borrowed from the St. Gutenberg Cathedral Library, including "The Extraordinary History of the White Eagle Federation", "Essays on the New World Hokuriku", and "Priest Erikson"
"Travels to the Great Lakes" and so on, among which Lord Lawrence paid the most attention to "Travels to the Great Lakes of Priest Erikson".
Priest Eriksson was the first priest of the Church of Knowledge to penetrate into the northern interior of the New World. He was also the first Old World adventurer to discover the Great Lakes region. Many cities in the interior today were originally founded with him.
It is related to the batch of information obtained from the exploration that year.
Some of these findings even appeared in geography textbooks. For example, the earliest colonists who came to the East Coast thought that the Great Lakes area mentioned by the local indigenous people was just a big lake. After in-depth investigation, Priest Erikson discovered that the so-called Great Lakes Area was just a big lake.
The Great Lakes is not one lake, but a series of six huge lakes connected by rivers.
Because he made such great discoveries and wrote very well, the notes he recorded on his journey, "Priest Erikson's Travels on the Great Lakes," sold very well and were read by many people in the Federation.
This book.
This is true whether it is in the world of ordinary people or the world of extraordinary beings. Many people with a little money in their families will buy a set of common sense education for their children. For example, Lawrence remembers that there was a set of common sense education in Saifei's family at that time.
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Of course, the set of books Lawrence is holding now is different from the ones he bought in the ordinary world. There is a lot of extraordinary knowledge that has been deleted from the books sold in the ordinary world.
For example, it is mentioned here that the two lakes in the south of the six lakes, Green Lake and Black Lake, are so named not because of the color of the lake water, but because Priest Eriksson was really here.
Traces of green dragon and black dragon activity were found in the lake area.
This is actually a very miraculous thing from the perspective of extraordinary biology, because dragons have very high requirements for activity space, often as high as tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. And there are two different types of black dragons and green dragons.
It seems strange that the areas where giant dragons frequently move are less than 20 kilometers apart.
Because of this note, multiple churches and the Federation themselves subsequently organized multiple expeditions to explore this area. More than 70 years ago, a joint expedition organized by multiple churches and the Federation successfully discovered the Dragon's Blood Forest.
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The reason why it is so named is because the land under the forest is assimilated by the blood of a dragon with divine power. All dragon-veined creatures near that forest can obtain some small but real benefits. This is also
This is the reason why the two giant dragons can live in harmony here.
"Can approaching dragon-veined creatures benefit?" After reading this paragraph, Lawrence suddenly felt that it was a pity that Fatina could not travel with her this time, because this dragon's blood forest was obviously more useful to her.