After carefully reading these newspapers, Leo couldn't help but have a doubt in his mind, that is, all the reports in the newspapers were concentrated in various countries and regions in the Minsk continent, and there was almost no news about the other two continents. Even if there was

It's also old news.

Just when Leo felt extremely puzzled, a piece of news from the Kingdom of Maris answered this question. A thick fog has risen over the Falling Star Sea that has not dispersed for a long time. Ships will get lost after sailing into the thick fog. The three continents

Contact is temporarily blocked.

This news also made Leo feel a little uneasy, because he was very aware of the situation in the Falling Star Sea, and the energy cycle of the Velen world had changed. The Falling Star Sea must have been affected, and it was a big impact. The current thick fog may be just the beginning.

There may be more unusual changes in the future.

Leo wanted to contact Sylvia at this time to see how the situation was on her side and if there was any other news. However, although he knew that Sylvia had left some power in him that only a witch could use.

, but he could never find the location of this power, and naturally he could not take the initiative to contact Sylvia.

Therefore, after the Church of the Lord of Creation and Death of All Creation lifted the ban on cities and railways, Leo decided to take a steam train to the border of Seville Kingdom and Maris Kingdom, and then find a way to cross the border to Maris.

The Kingdom is looking to see if it can find Sylvia.

After making the decision, Leo immediately hired a hotel waiter to go to the station to buy a train ticket for the western terminus of the Savile Gorge Railway.

The waiter who left in the morning didn't come back until the afternoon. When he came back, his face was very ugly. He didn't tell Leo the reason when he asked. He just told Leo that it was hard to get a ticket for the Canyon Railway train, so he only bought a first-class ticket through a relationship.

, and its underlying meaning is naturally that additional money is needed, whether it is ticket money or employment wages.

Leo didn't bother with this little thing. He took out the first-class ticket from the waiter after taking out the extra commission.

The ticket was for the train in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Leo had no intention of rushing to the station on time. Instead, after finishing dinner, he checked out the room, left the hotel, and headed to the station.

The train station of Ethiopian City is located in the northern part of the city. It was originally built on the edge of the city, mainly to facilitate the loading of goods. The merchant tribes can load and unload goods directly outside the city without entering the city, which can reduce the pressure on the roads in the city.

It can also avoid causing unnecessary trouble to citizens in the urban area.

It has to be said that the city owner of Ethiopia City planned the train station very wisely and anticipated the impact of the train station on the city. However, he did not predict that after the railway was connected, the city would develop so fast.

Far exceeded everyone's expectations.

The opening of the steam train brought huge benefits to this small city located in the middle of two deserts. Businessmen and people from the kingdom who saw these benefits also flocked here.

The influx of a large number of people has caused the city area to rapidly expand to the surrounding areas. The train station that was originally located on the edge of the city gradually became part of the urban area, and as the urban area increased, it gradually became part of the urban center.

However, the later rulers of Ethiopian City were far less talented than the original city lord. They only focused on immediate interests. Roads and public facilities were not their considerations at all. They just wanted to build more houses and more buildings.

Collect rent and tax.

Therefore, when the train station became the center of the city, other city plans did not keep up. Even the roads originally planned for the entry and exit of goods were occupied. The daily congestion around the train station has become a daily routine in Ethiopian City.

Over time, this place became the most chaotic place in Ethiopia.

Before arriving at the train station, Leo had already been mentally prepared and thought of a way to squeeze through the crowd. However, when he arrived at the train station, he found that not only did it not appear crowded or chaotic, but it was very deserted.

Looking at the square in front of the train station, there are less than a hundred people, and there are no vendors around, which is completely different from the rumors.

The cause of this abnormal situation is right before our eyes. The square in front of the railway station, paved with yellow sandstone common in the desert, has now turned dark red. The dark red is not paint, but dried blood.

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Although the managers of the railway station have hired a large number of poor people to clean up the blood in front of the square in the past two days, a lot of the blood has penetrated into the sandstone and cannot be cleaned away. Under the sun, the blood dries quickly.

, merged with the sandstone and turned into blood rock. A strong bloody smell also continued to emit from the blood rock, lingering over the square for a long time.

This was Leo thinking about the expression on the hotel waiter's face after he bought the ticket from the train station. The sight in front of him, let alone an ordinary person, would make even a battle-hardened soldier feel horrified when he saw it, not to mention the sight in front of him.

The church classics of the Lord of Creation and Death of All Things once mentioned a

The place where evildoers in the world are punished is made of sandstone dyed red with blood. It is shrouded in the smell of blood all year round. It is very similar to the scene in front of you, so you can also see some clergy here doing some kind of things.

Rituals of the Church of the Lord of Life and Death.

Leo made some estimates based on his own experience, and quickly calculated from the amount of blood integrated into the sandstone on the ground. When the incident happened a few days ago, at least hundreds of people died here, or even more, because if the train station

If it is really as crowded as the rumors say, the stampede accident caused by the panic escape will definitely cause a large number of casualties, and the number of casualties will be even greater than those caused by the out-of-control family members.

After only staying outside the train station for a while, Leo directly bypassed a group of locals kneeling on the ground performing a prayer ceremony at the entrance of the train station and entered the train station.

Compared with the situation outside, the inside of the train station is not much better. It is also made of sandstone soaked in blood, and the same or even stronger smell of blood is entrenched in the empty hall.

In addition, we can also see that many facilities in the hall have been damaged, such as walls, columns, and some simple shops added later, which have been damaged to varying degrees. From this, we can infer that fierce battles took place here at that time.

The battle may be between out-of-control family members, but it may also be a battle with someone with extraordinary power.

Like the square outside, inside the train station there are also a large number of poor people hired by the managers who are working hard to clean the blood stains on the ground. There are also some craftsmen repairing damaged columns, walls and other facilities.

After Leo entered the train station, he showed his first-class ticket to a staff member. The staff member immediately and respectfully led Leo to a waiting room near the edge of the canyon cliff, where he could see the canyon railway.

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This waiting room has been sprinkled with natural fragrance by the manager. Although it is a bit pungent, it can isolate the bloody smell from the outside and make the people in the room feel a little better.

At this moment, there were more than a dozen people sitting in the room, including three foreign couples who were probably traveling here, three explorers with distinctive clothing, an old man with two children and his bodyguard.

These people were all doing their own things, there was no communication, and the room seemed very quiet.

The three foreign couples should all be ordinary people. The frightened expressions are still written on their faces. The couples always hold each other's hands in order to gain a sense of security from each other. It can be seen that the incident a few days ago has had a negative impact on them.

It hasn't gone away yet, and may even be with them for a long time.

The situation of the three explorers was much better. Either they were not in the city when the incident occurred, or they were well-informed and were no strangers to things like the Familia. In short, there was no fear on their faces.

, panicky mood.

These three people should not be in the same group. They each sit at a table, pour their harvest on the table, pick out the fine products, carefully wipe them clean, and put them in different pockets. Sometimes they will do it because of other people.

They discussed exchanging the things on hand, but their voices were not very loud.

As for the combination of old people, children and bodyguards on the other side, it looked like a grandfather taking his grandson and granddaughter on a trip. It didn't seem worthy of paying much attention. But after Leo entered the house, his main attention was

All the power is concentrated on this old man, because this old man has an energy wave that is not much weaker than Sylvia.

The old man's energy fluctuations made Leo think of spiders for some reason, because they appeared as thread-like bodies in Leo's spiritual vision, and Leo also noticed the pair of children laughing and playing next to the old man and the ones behind him.

The expressionless bodyguards are not real people, they are puppets controlled by the energy of silk threads.

"Puppet Master?" Leo quickly thought of a very special type of extraordinary person.

In the world of Velen, there are many people with extraordinary powers. Most of them are concentrated in various churches, underground cults and several dark world organizations. However, there are still some extraordinary people who survive in the cracks of these major forces.

The Puppet Master is one of them.

It is no longer known who the earliest puppet master was, but it is generally accepted that it came from the circus, and the inheritance of puppet masters is not very old, only less than three hundred years. Compared with the inheritance that can take thousands of years, obviously

Not enough to watch.

However, the power of the puppet master cannot be measured by the time of inheritance. In the black market information about extraordinary people, the danger level of the puppet master is always ranked high.

The strength of the puppet master does not depend on the puppet master himself. In fact, the puppet master's own strength is not much stronger than that of ordinary people. The strength of the puppet master completely depends on the puppets he controls.

Some puppet masters will find various extraordinary materials and carefully create a puppet. Some puppet masters will directly control people with powerful power and take their power as their own.

There have also been puppet masters who tried to control people in a city to threaten the local kingdom and church. However, the person who did this ended up not being good. Because he had contact with people in the entire city, countless people's thoughts were directly instilled.

It entered his mind and directly dispersed his spirit, turning him into a vegetable. He was eventually made into a puppet by other puppet masters.

How the puppet master is passed down has always been a mystery, because the inheritance of the puppet master has been cut off in some periods of time. When everyone thinks that the inheritance of the puppet master has disappeared, a new puppet master will appear.

, so some people speculate that the puppet master must use a certain object as an inheritance. As long as a person with extraordinary power comes into contact with those objects, he will obtain this kind of inheritance. This also explains why there are four or five puppet masters appearing in some periods of time.

, and do not know each other.

When Leo saw the puppet master, he immediately made a rough judgment on his strength. Although the tall and strong bodyguards seemed to be the puppet master's main combat strength, Leo

It is clear that the puppet master relies on the two vivid child puppets beside him.

Obviously those bodyguards are just bait. Once someone wants to deal with him and attacks the bodyguards as a protective barrier first, then the two child puppets next to the puppet master will reveal their sharp claws and give the attacker a fatal attack.

After Leo came in, he only glanced at the people around him, then walked to a chair facing the canyon and sat down. After that, he used the mental net to explore the people in the room, so the people in the room were

These people didn't pay much attention to Leo, they just thought he was an ordinary loner.

However, after Leo sat down, the old puppet master glanced at Leo from time to time, with a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

This is not to say that the old man saw Leo's true strength. It was mainly because of the old man's rich life experience and his instincts of life and death over the years. He felt that Leo was not as ordinary as he seemed on the surface, and even made him

Sensing danger, this can be seen from the fact that he calmly moved the two child puppets to the position between himself and Leo, and how vigilant he was towards Leo.

Leo didn't care that he became the target of the puppet master's vigilance. As long as the other party didn't take any action against him, he was not prepared to conflict with this extraordinary person.

After checking the people in the room, Leo focused his gaze and part of his attention on the railway outside the window.

Although Leo has seen more fantastic construction facilities than the railway in front of him, if this standard is applied to the world of Velen, which is still in its infancy of industrialization, then the design and construction of this railway are enough to be called

It's a miracle.

Every twenty meters, a steel frame with a width of five meters is placed in the air in a herringbone shape. The bottom is just connected to the cliffs on both sides of the canyon. A railway with a width of three meters is assumed to be at the top of the herringbone steel frame. All the

The steel frame was all made of the best steel at the time, and the thickness of each steel member reached about 20 centimeters.

Legend has it that the Saville Kingdom exhausted its treasury in order to build this world-miracle railway, so that in the years after the railway was built, the Kingdom increased various tax rates thirteen times in a row. It was not until all the tax increases in the previous few years that

Readjust back.

Therefore, the people of the Saville Kingdom both love and hate this railway. They love because this railway brings transportation convenience that was not available in the past, and it also brings endless business opportunities and benefits, while they hate because of this railway.
Chapter completed!