The waterway in the Yadi Ancient Canal ran smoothly. Except for two collisions caused by the new fleet that blocked the waterway, there were no other accidents.

It can be said that Leo and the others listened to stories for a whole day. Although not all the sailors in the fleet had rough experiences like old sailors, the various things they encountered while sailing at sea in the past can still provide a lot of information.

The information at least gave Leo and Sylvia some understanding of the world's oceans.

For example, there is no sea god in this world, but there are deep sea monsters. In the eyes of people who make a living at sea, these deep sea monsters are like sea gods. They will believe in these monsters and use methods including human sacrifice to

Obtain the talisman given by the troll, and the ship with the talisman can sail safely on the sea. Of course, the premise is that it does not encounter a big enough storm or breaks into the waters of hostile trolls.

These deep-sea monsters are not as aloof as gods and have never appeared in front of people. They appear very frequently. Ships often see the monsters, and sometimes they can even be seen on the coast where storms occur.

To the distant scene of two deep sea monsters fighting in the storm.

Almost every sailor in Leo's fleet has seen a giant monster on the sea, and a few are the lucky ones who survived the tsunami caused by the giant monster's fight.

In addition to these strange things at sea, the biggest gain Leo gained from these sailors was the nautical charts in these sailors' minds.

This is what makes Leo and Sylvia interesting, that is, although this world has very powerful sailing ships and a large number of navigation-related professionals, this world does not have a complete and unified nautical chart.

According to sailors, there is no fixed ocean current in the world's oceans. The ocean currents are changing every time, and the changes are disorderly and chaotic. Even some islands will drift irregularly due to changes in ocean currents. Only

Only a small number of islands are fixed, so the routes formed based on these fixed islands become particularly important.

These routes have always been in the hands of the Church fleet of the Holy Alliance. All ships taking this route need to pay very high taxes, so some bold fleets will try to open up a new route.

However, these bold actions ended in failure, but even if they failed so many times, new fleets would still try it. Almost all the ships of the Ivis sailors had made similar attempts, and the results were also different.

All are failures.

In the eyes of others, the routes traveled by these failed ships have no reference value, but in Leo's eyes, they have a different view, because in his view, the experience of failure is also experience, and it is an extremely important experience. In these failed experiences

There is also very valuable information in it. For example, by comparing the charts provided by these sailors, he found at least six islands with fixed locations.

Although the location and number of these islands are not enough to form a route, the surrounding waters of these islands are related to the magical sea legends, deep-sea monsters, etc. mentioned by sailors. One of them was even mentioned by an old sailor.

That island might be a settlement of the Belmont family, so Leo specially compiled this information for future needs.

Although there was no trouble on the waterway of the ancient canal, some problems arose in the less than 20 minutes' journey from Tisang to Yodel City. A very critical mountain road encountered a landslide caused by a mudslide. It was necessary to clean this

The road might take ten days and a half, so in the end Leo and the others had no choice but to give up their original idea of ​​going on the road with the caravan, and directly took the mountain path, climbed over several peaks in the middle, and arrived at Yodel City.

Just like all mining cities, Yodel City is also extremely prosperous inside the city, but extremely desolate outside the city, with not even a single plant visible on most of the hillsides.

This is not only because this place is already very arid with little rain, but also because the water here is polluted due to mining, washing and refining silver, and this polluted water will evaporate with the water vapor, float in the air, and then return to the air.

As the rain falls, it covers the entire land.

The reason why other places are not affected is because this place is a basin surrounded by mountains, and the water vapor that evaporates in this place cannot cross the mountains and float to other places.

It is for this reason that most people who lived here in the past suffered from a skin disease called psoriasis. The skin of sick people will grow some silvery lumps in some places. These lumps accumulate to a certain extent.

After a certain amount of time, it will crack and fall off, exposing the flesh and blood inside, and the patient will also feel pain as if the skin is being peeled off, and this is not the end, because later this layer of silver lumps will grow out with the skin, over and over again, until it is full

body, and finally died of pain.

At first, the locals did not know that the water source was polluted. They just thought that they had been cursed. In addition, the purification technique of the Purifying Fire Church could alleviate the symptoms of psoriasis, so after a long period of purification, the water source was purified.

The Fire Church is the core belief here.

Until a doctor from the Old World discovered that the cause of psoriasis was that water sources were polluted by mining. To completely solve psoriasis, it was necessary to close the mines and allow the water sources to be completely purified. But the problem was that all local income came from the mines, and there was no

Without the mine, the city would be gone, and the people in the city would have no way to survive, so this solution cannot be implemented at all.

Later, the Spring Temple came here and used the church's magic to create a clean spring that would never dry up in the church of the Spring Temple, and built a large reservoir in the city. This solved the problem.

Psoriasis is a stubborn disease that has plagued the local area for many years.

Up to now, except for those who have worked in the mines for a long time and will suffer from psoriasis, no one in the city who has clean spring water all year round has suffered from this kind of disease. Therefore, the spring water temple has become mainly guests, both in terms of reputation and believers.

They have surpassed the previous Purifying Fire Church in the city and become the most important religious belief in Yodel City.

As for the Purifying Fire Church, it behaved very strangely. Instead of directly conflicting with it and taking back the parish, it completely withdrew from the city, leaving only sixteen Purifying Fire stone pillars scattered throughout the city.

It gives a feeling of weakness.

Compared to ordinary people in Yodel City, Leo and Sylvia are more aware of the current situation. Although the believers of the Spring Temple are dominant in the city, the power of the Spring Temple is very weak, and the power that truly controls the entire city

They are the sixteen purifying fire stone pillars.

Now it may not be clear at all what the role of these sixteen stone pillars filled with the divine power of the Purifying Fire is, but both Leo and Sylvia believe that once Yodel City plans to completely abandon the Church of the Purifying Fire, then among these sixteen stone pillars

The power will burst out, and it is self-evident what the scene will be like when it bursts out.

However, because of the effect of these sixteen stone pillars, Yodel City suffered the least losses in this rat tide. Except for the miners who were in the mines outside the city when the rat tide occurred, no one in the city suffered.

One died in the rat tide.

However, even so, many people in the city still died. They escaped from the rat tide, but died in the riots in the city.

Because the rat tide occurred suddenly and spread extremely quickly, Yodel City had no time to react. The entire city was completely isolated by the rat tide and lost contact with the outside world.

Yodel City is not a food-producing city, and no food crops can be grown around it, so the daily food needed in the city is transported in from the outside world.

In the past, a large amount of food was delivered to the city almost every day. Except for a small amount of food stored in the city, all other needs were purchased on the same day. Therefore, when the rat tide blocked the city, the food in the city could not be sustained.

It's been ten days, and I can't even sustain it for five days.

Although the governor of the city discovered the problem immediately and immediately rationed the food to the minimum, this still failed to alleviate the food crisis. Some bold people wanted to escape during the day, but they just left the city.

Outside the city, they were eaten to pieces by crazy rats.

Under this situation, the people in the city could only stick to the city, completely depleting the food bit by bit, so some people who were hungry and crazy began to target their own kind, and the cannibals that appeared in the city

phenomenon, and there were also some rumors about the rich people in the city and the food stored in temples and churches spread quickly, and a riot also occurred.

Leo didn't know what the final result would be, because everything about what happened in Yodel City during the rat tide was immediately banned by the Church of Purifying Fire. All outsiders only knew that there was a riot in the city because of hunger. As for the process and results of the riot,

How, no one knows.

The only thing that is certain is that when Leo came to Yodel City, the blood stains on the ground had not been washed away, and some places had condensed into plasma, because the flies attracted by the corpses and blood were all over the city, and the whole city was covered with blood.

You can smell the stench of shit, and a huge bonfire has been set up in the temple of the Purifying Fire in the distance. The flames are soaring into the sky. Even outside the city, you can see the swaying flames, and the wind blowing from there.

In addition to the smell of burning wood, there is also a strong smell of barbecue.

Because of this, the three Leos who had just entered the city did not even think about staying in the city for one more day. After entering the city, they came to the newly cleaned train station in the city and spent a lot of money to buy three tickets to the central city of the New World.

The train ticket to Nice only stayed in this dead city for less than two hours before embarking on a new journey.

"I feel the power of the abyss." Sylvia suddenly said as the train slowly left the platform and headed out of the city.

"Ignore it." Leo responded.

Leo was not surprised by Sylvia's discovery. In fact, he felt it the moment he entered Yodel City. This was not because he understood the power of the abyss better than Sylvia, but because he was in this place.

The power of the abyss felt in the city belongs to an abyssal serpent.

In the abyss, unless they gather together to carry out some primitive activities when reproducing offspring, the abyss serpents mostly live alone, and each abyss serpent has its own territory. If other abyss serpents break in, it will be the same.

To provoke.

It was through the reaction of the crystallized serpent in his right hand that Leo determined that he had broken into the territory designated by an abyssal serpent, and he also knew that this abyssal serpent did not enter the world physically, but was merely possessed by a projection.

Although Leo and Sylvia don't need to worry about the projection of an abyss serpent with their strength, they also don't need to cause such trouble. What's more, this is the territory of the Purifying Fire. The slightest noise and big noise will cause unforeseen consequences.

expected reaction.

However, Leo and Sylvia didn't want to cause trouble, but the other party obviously didn't think so, especially when he sensed the appearance of Sylvia, an Abyss Demon Dragon's family member who was comparable to the pure-blood Abyss Demon Dragon.

, strong curiosity drove him to temporarily put aside what he was doing and boarded the same train.

After the train left Yodel City, he walked directly to the outside of the carriage where Leo and Sylvia were, opened the door of the carriage very casually, walked in, and sat directly on the seat opposite the two of them.

Seeing the middle-aged man dressed as a miner coming in, Leo and Sylvia naturally recognized his origin at a glance. After the other person sat down, Sylvia took out some coins and handed them to the person sitting opposite.

Pennenstein, who was a little overwhelmed, asked her to go to the dining car in front to stay for a while.

After Penny left, Leo stood up, closed the carriage door and locked it from the inside, then sat back down next to Sylvia.

This incarnation of the Abyss Serpent focused his attention on Sylvia from beginning to end, and did not take Leo into his eyes at all. He neither sensed that Leo possessed the completely banned power of the Abyss Serpent, nor did he

He didn't realize Leo's own powerful power. In his eyes, Leo might just be a tool used by the Abyss Demonic Dragon Familia to disguise his identity.

This may be because of the flaws in his method of projection possession, or perhaps Leo's control over his own power is too strong, completely restraining any energy fluctuations in his body, or perhaps Sylvia's aura of power at the moment is too strong.

It is powerful enough to cover up all the abnormalities around it. All in all, the other party has misjudged it at this moment, and this misjudgement may be fatal to him.

For Leo, naturally he would not let go of any opportunity to expand his advantage, so when he found that the other party's attention was all attracted to Sylvia, he had already stood up, closed the door, locked the door, and came back to sit down.

The trap was set up in a short period of time, and now you need to consider how to deal with the prey that comes to your door.
Chapter completed!