Chapter 22 Third Class x Kembo's Intention to Move North
He also went to Andal City? Northen was suspicious.
The whole airship is nearly 200 meters long, more than 20 meters wide and high, and is divided into four cabins from beginning to end, which are noble class, first class, second class and third class, and the ticket price is naturally four grades.
The airship has two landing pads, located in the front half of the hull with direct access to the noble and first class cabins, while the rear half is used for the second and third class cabins.
Although airship technology has been improved several times since the Steam Revolution and has become the safest way to travel in the Endless Continent, air crashes are still inevitable. So, a little further below it, a small escape boat was hung, but only the passengers of the noble and first class classes could reach it.
Standing at the junction of the landing pad and the airship, Northon saw from a distance that Vio was surrounded by the crowd and walked up to another landing pad, and before he could take a closer look, the crowd squeezed him into the airship.
The third-class cabin was chaotic and noisy, and the occupants in the cabin were basically low-level civilians, wearing clothes sewn from the worst coarse cloth, and the color was mainly black and gray. As if they were on the green train of the Spring Festival, he and Kembo finally squeezed to the seats, only to find that the seats had been dismantled and left with a steel skeleton.
Fortunately, the two didn't care, wiped their sleeves a few times and sat down.
The presence of Vio caused Norsen to fall into deep thought, and after a long time, he opened his mouth and said to Kembo, "I see Vio!" ”
The latter seemed to have predicted: "The Royal Academy of the Principality of Andal, the top institution of learning in the northern part of the empire, is not surprising that the son of the lord of Jocha County studied there. ”
"In the future, you'll have a lot of chances to settle accounts with him!" Kembo quipped again.
Northon clenched his fists and shook his head, forcing himself to stop thinking about the painful past.
He looked at Kembo, the senior advisor of the Forging Association, the former city lord of the Holy Emperor City, and a figure who had once been a powerful person, but now he was in the last class of the airship with the nameless him.
Combined with his status as a senior advisor to the Forge Guild and former lord of the Holy Imperial City, as well as his relationship with Philip, as well as the information he received from Damon, Northon concluded that his prestige in Andal could not be matched by many. The Desert Earth City is a small border city, with high mountains and long roads, and poor properties, if there is no major event, there will be very few strong people to set foot in.
Northon asked no less than ten times about Kembo's intentions to travel north, but the other party was always secretive and did not answer directly, coupled with the strange encounter in the phantom forest, Northon felt more and more that he had some kind of inexplicable connection with the murder of his family a few months ago.
"You're going back to Andal, can you talk about it?" He asked, there were many people in the cabin, but the two of them were dressed normally, and they didn't attract much attention.
Kenbo rolled his eyes, touched the bridge of his nose and said in a deep voice: "Half a year ago, a caravan was accidentally intercepted and killed when it entered the border of Andal, this kind of thing happens from time to time in the Endless Continent, it is not unusual, but the perpetrators only killed people, and did not take any of the caravan's property. ”
"They had a holiday with the caravan?"
"It's hard to say, Lord Caesar only deals with this matter as a general case, but within a few days, two more caravans were intercepted and killed, and the situation was exactly the same. As a result, all caravans in and out of the Duchy were suspended or modified, and commerce was shut down, which soon had a serious impact on the daily lives of the people, and the Lord sent me to investigate. ”
"But does this have anything to do with Desert Earth City?" When asked this, Northen inexplicably thought of the letter his father left for him, "Or did you find the murderer and chase it all the way here?" ”
"I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even find the shadow of the murderer, I went to check the scene of the crime, and the broken corpses were all over the ground, but I couldn't smell the smell of burnt flesh."
"Does this mean that the Monster did it?"
"However, there were no other traces at the scene except for the footprints of the messy people, and most of the deceased still had frightened expressions on their faces, and they must have seen the most vicious perpetrators before they died."
"Maybe the murderer wasn't a gunsmith, but someone with a cold weapon?"
Kenbo shook his head and said: "There is no such possibility, the caravan will generally hire a few gunsmiths to protect the safety of property and people with the team, and there are also a lot of destroyed guns scattered on the scene, and some have even fired, in the endless continent, you can't win the gunsmith with cold weapons." ”
"Hmm...... It's a little weird! Northen cupped his arms, frowned, and listened to Kembo say: "I was worried about this, but the old stubborn received a letter from your father, saying that a group of strong men had come to the desert city, who went out late and returned early, and acted secretly, and he secretly traced them, and found that this group of people was actually from the Duchy of Andal. ”
Hearing this, Northon remembered the "they" mentioned in his father's letter, and a spark of anger burst into his eyes.
"The old stubborn begged me to find out where these fellows came from," Kembo continued, "and I also felt that they had some kind of secret connection to the caravan killings. Later that same day, I was asked to go north to investigate an old story, and many factors eventually contributed to my northward journey. ”
"You caught them? Are they the murderers of my people? Northon asked eagerly and loudly, causing the surrounding passengers to turn their heads and watch.
The two stopped talking, until the others turned their attention elsewhere, and Northson's mood calmed down a little, and Kembo sighed: "I have been with me for more than ten days, and I have also fought with several of them, although both sides are in the dark and do not look at each other, but they can feel that each other's strength is equal.
Later, I inquired about what they were experimenting with on the monsters, and I guessed that the Phantom Forest outside the Desert City was most likely their testing ground, and then the rest ......" Kembo shrugged, "You know it too. ”
"You meet a worm in the jungle, you fight it, they plot against you, and that worm is the test subject."
"You're right, the worm has indeed undergone a mutation, as if it has taken some kind of fanatical alchemy potion, and it is extremely aggressive. It took me some trouble to subdue it, and while I was extracting its serum and preparing to bring it back for the old stubborn to analyze, someone did shoot me from behind. But there are other people who are plotting against me, not them. ”
Kenbo was silent for a moment, and then said, "But what is certain is that your family was not in Desert City when they were killed, and as for the person who plotted against me, what is the relationship with the gang of guys I tracked down, and whether he is the culprit who killed your people, I don't know." ”
Thinking of his deceased relatives and missing father, as well as Leah, who was in the "devil's cave", Nuosen felt like he had been stabbed in the heart by a sharp sword, and he was overwhelmed with grief, and bright and hot tears swirled in his eyes.
And when he thought of Saudin and the "them" hidden in the dark, his eyes reflected the murderous aura of Sen Han, his body trembled slightly, and his breathing unconsciously increased.
Kembo notices Northson's change and coughs dryly, alerting him to the presence of outsiders around him.
When you arrive at the Royal Academy, work hard to move up the ranks! When you return to Desert Earth City, you must rescue Ria, kill Saudin, and find out the real murderer who invaded the family!
Northson's new knife, he blinked quickly a few times, took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.
"Where's your Gatling?" He asked Kembo suddenly.
"Hey, how do you know my weapon is Gatling?"
"The demon spirit is still there after the worm died, and when I investigated, I somehow saw the picture of it before it died, and at that moment I seemed to have become it, no, I am it, and the rain of bullets from Gatling hit me all over my body......"
"Wait," Kembo suddenly became interested, "you can feel the demon's grudge?!" ”
"Execution...... Grudge? Norson heard another unfamiliar word.