The next morning, the owner of the Holy Ship sent someone to inform them of the sailing time. Leo and Sylvia tidied up a little in the room. When they walked out, Penny and Joan, who had packed their luggage, were also standing there.

At the door, Joan's blindness seemed to have become more serious at this time, and she needed Penny's help to be able to walk normally.

Seeing this, Leo and Sylvia didn't say anything and led them to the simple dock area.

Although it was early in the morning, the pier was already crowded with people. Many ships that docked yesterday were also sailing at this time. Passengers who had stayed overnight were gathered at the pier waiting to board the ship.

However, when some ship owners were counting the number of people, they found that a few people were missing. After confirming that those people were not at the hotel they arranged, they did not say anything more. They just reported it to the security management department of the dock town.

The remaining people were simply allowed to board the ship without any further search or rescue.

For boat owners who often run this river and people who live in the swamp, things like disappearances are a common thing, because the Lister Swamp is very large, and criminals and fugitives from other countries do not have enough money and resources.

Before entering the city of Nice to escape, they would always choose to hide in the Liszt Marsh.

Although the Port of St. Pelia controls the Liszt Marsh, this does not mean that it truly controls the entire swamp. In fact, the Port of St. Pelia only controls the area where many swamp villages and towns have been built on both sides of the Liszt River.

The deeper parts of the swamp are no longer under their control. Those who really control those places are criminals and fugitives from various countries in the New and Old Worlds.

It is almost certain that the people who disappeared in the dock swamp and surrounding areas were kidnapped by people from those sinful areas deep in the swamp. Not only the boat owners have no way to solve this problem, but even the locals have no way to solve it.

solve.

In fact, as long as the missing people listen to the boat owner and stay in the hotel at night, they will be fine, because there is an unwritten rule among those who come from sinful areas and the locals, that is, any crime can only be committed on the street and cannot be entered.

House, those criminals also acquiesce in this rule and will not break it, because if it really offends the Port of St. Paulia and asks it to clean the swamp and stop supplying it, those entrenched deep in the swamp will

It will definitely not be easy for the criminals.

However, there is no need to worry about the safety of the kidnapped people. It won’t be long before a ransom note will be sent to the families of those people. Even if the family members of the kidnapped people are unable to pay the ransom, or the kidnapped person has no family members.

, it doesn’t matter, eventually those people will stay in the depths of the swamp and become a member of that sinful zone. Things like tearing up votes rarely happen, because in the depths of the swamp, population is also a very important resource, even more important than money.

Be important.

When a group of people arrived at the dock waiting to board the boat, a young couple on the same boat came up to them unexpectedly and thanked Penny repeatedly, which made Penny not sure how to respond.

It turned out that the couple also left the hotel last night and planned to take a stroll in this dock town. Unexpectedly, the shops in the town were closed after dark and there were no people on the streets. When they were about to come back, they encountered

When the kidnappers arrived, Penny happened to be a little hungry at the time and wanted to find a restaurant nearby. If not, she prepared to catch some game in the swamp and return to the hotel to have the hotel kitchen cook it. As a result, she happened to meet the kidnapped couple and rescued them.

Although she personally felt that this matter was just a simple effort and she almost forgot about it after one night, she still felt a little proud when she received the thanks from the couple.

After learning that Penny was Leo's student and that the group was preparing to travel to the Old World, the young couple invited Leo and the others to take a transoceanic cruise on their uncle's ship, the Lisa Beauty.

Sylvia easily got the identity of the young couple through conversation. It turned out that they were nobles from Lantport in the Old Continent. This trip to the Old Continent was firstly for a wedding trip and secondly to find a wife.

Elders who served as missionaries in the New World.

After they arrived in the New World, they did not encounter any trouble. The travel process went very smoothly and the things they needed to handle were completed quickly. Except for the injunction order they encountered in Nice a few days ago, they never encountered any trouble again.

It's a happy thing, and even the ban is just a daily routine for them in the old continent. In addition, it is the last part of their journey and they will board the ship back to the old continent in two days, so

They took their own safety lightly, did not follow the boat owner's instructions, and ran outside at night, and encountered danger.

After that, Sylvia asked again about the Lisa Beauty, and learned from the couple that the Lisa Beauty is a continent-circling cruise ship affiliated to the Purple Star Shipping Group, and it is also the largest in the world.

One of the cruise ships. It starts from the port city of Lant in the northern part of the Old World, and then goes all the way south to Vadar Island, the southernmost island of the Old World. Then it crosses the ocean from Vadar Island to the southernmost port of the New World, Asia.

Lia Port, and then continue north along the east coast of the New World to arrive at Icewind Port, the northernmost port of the New World, and then cross the Arctic Ocean and return to Lant Port to complete a cruise of the Old and New Worlds.

After learning about the route of the Lisa Beauty, Leo and Sylvia discovered that if they took the Lisa Beauty, they could not directly cross the ocean to the other side of the New World, but would have to continue driving north for about five or six miles.

port, and only after arriving at Icewind Port will it turn to the New World.

If they were in a hurry, they would definitely not take this detoured cruise ship, even if it was a luxury cruise ship, but now they are not in a hurry at all and have enough time for them to consume on the road, so they also

After a little thought, I agreed to the couple's invitation.

After seeing Leo agree, the couple was also very happy. Later, they found the captain of the Holy and asked him to move the cabin next to Penny's cabin. Judging from their behavior, they were both very straightforward and enthusiastic.

people.

And for such a straightforward and enthusiastic couple, after seeing the social activists Leo and Sylvia met yesterday approaching, their faces became a little ugly, and their expressions also showed a look of disgust,

And when they saw the social activists talking to Leo and Sylvia and handing them a few letters, they all looked surprised.

The social activists did not talk too much with Leo and Sylvia. After handing them the letters to be mailed and the letters of introduction, they repeatedly emphasized the importance of these mailing letters and then turned around and left.

, but they did not return to the dock town. Instead, they boarded a small boat directly at the dock and went into the red leaf shrubbery. It seemed that they were going to build a town deep in the swamp.

"Mr. Leo is also a social activist?" After those people left, the husband of the previous couple hesitated, stepped forward and asked.

"No." Leo shook his head, then showed the letter in his hand and said, "I just promised to send them a few letters after I go to Source Continent." As he said that, he looked at the other person's expression and asked

He said: "You seem to dislike those social activists. Can you tell me why?"

"Those guys are just a bunch of worms who only create chaos!" This young man changed his gentle words and did not hesitate to use the most vicious words he thought to describe those social activists.

"Do you know them?" Leo asked again.

The young man said with resentment: "Of course I do. Almost all the nobles in the continent know them. Their theory of rights has created countless mobs. A large number of traditional nobles who had no fault in the first place were ruined because of their families. And those who are truly greedy and shameless politicians

It is really absurd that a nobleman is admired by the world and becomes the so-called savior."

Seeing the excitement of the young people, Leo asked a few more detailed questions about those social activists. Only then did he find out that those social activists obviously did not tell them the truth yesterday. Thinking about it just now

Those people immediately took a boat and entered the depths of the swamp, fearing that Leo would fall out after learning their true situation.

It turns out that those social activists once belonged to a sociological research school that is now extremely popular in the Old World. This school is called the New Social Rights Contract School.

The main purpose of this school of thought is very simple. It believes that the social power contract of the old era is no longer applicable to the current era. Now it is necessary to establish a new social rights contract with the people at the bottom as the main body. This school of thought believes that the social class should be completely abandoned.

They are those traditional nobles with ancient inheritance and control of large amounts of land resources.

Originally, this school of thought was just a small regional research school with less than a hundred people. Not to mention other countries, even the countries that produced this school of thought looked down upon this school of thought.

But I don’t know when it started. This school of thought suddenly became popular among all classes in the old continent, especially among the people at the bottom. Later, some people used the doctrines and ideas of this school to incite people, launch riots, and attack

Those traditional aristocrats who were proposed in the school of thought to be abandoned eventually turned into small-scale wars, causing heavy casualties not only among the ordinary people, but also among the traditional aristocrats.

In this case, although the new social rights contract school was not strictly banned by various countries, those who founded the school and wrote the school's books became the targets of attacks by various forces. Some people were imprisoned for various reasons.

After being imprisoned, some had to give up related research due to external pressure, while others fled to other continents and continued to spread their ideas as social activists.

After hearing this, Leo and Sylvia couldn't help but look at each other, because they both knew very well that in the series of events caused by this school of thought, a third party, or even a fourth party, or a fifth party intervened, and

Without exception, these forces are all targeting the traditional nobles, and the new social rights contract school is the target of their use. As for whether any scholars in this school have noticed it and actively cooperated, then

It’s unknown, but judging from the current situation, it seems that cooperation is very likely.

The couple advised Leo and Sylvia very seriously: "You two did not understand the actual situation of these people and mistakenly agreed to their request. Although I am not qualified to ask you to give up helping them mail letters, but

I still hope that you two can think carefully before mailing it, so as not to get into trouble because of this matter."

"Thank you, I know what to do." Leo smiled and didn't care about the other person's persuasion.

The other party also saw that Leo didn't take his words to heart, so he didn't say anything more. After all, given their relationship, a sincere reminder was enough.

At this time, the sailors of the Holy Ship also began to greet passengers to board the ship. The group of people boarded the ship with the crowd and returned to their respective cabins.

After a while, a whistle was heard, and the Holy Ship slowly left the dock and continued to sail towards the port of Santa Pelia.

In the next two days, the Holy Ship docked at two other dock towns for one night. During this time, Leo and Sylvia took the initiative to contact the couple and asked about some things about the old continent during the chat.

.

Compared with those social activists who only stayed in their own countries in the past, this couple obviously knows more about the countries and customs of the Old World, because both of them are travel enthusiasts. Before they got married,

The two of them had already traveled together in various countries in the Old World. Although most of the countries and cities were visited casually, they still knew to some extent the customs, political environment and some folk customs of these countries.

Taboo.

In addition, the two of them also took part-time studies in religious studies in their respective colleges during their school years. Although they studied it in order to collect credits, they still had a certain understanding of the religions of this world, which could help Leo and Hill.

Via understands the religions of this world.

At the same time, Penny was also brought over by Leo to practice the lingua franca of the old continent, and her sparring partner was that couple, because the couple loved traveling, and in order to be able to communicate with people from all over the world, they both spent a period of time

It takes time and experience to learn various lingua franca. Although I am not a master in mastering lingua franca, I can still communicate with people from various countries, so I can be regarded as the best sparring partner.

Compared to when Penny was having headaches due to her heavy Common Language learning plan, Qiao An was also feeling anxious about his current state, because as time went by, he found that his blindness was becoming more and more serious.

, he couldn't see clearly at the beginning, but now he can no longer see anything clearly, and his brain and spine also experienced some pain from time to time, as if there were bugs burrowing around in his brain.

This makes him ask Leo almost every once in a while if his eyes will recover. Even if he gets a positive answer from Leo, he still can't help but ask again after a while, as if this time over and over again.
Chapter completed!