The train, running at high speed on the tracks, makes a rhythmic clanging sound, and the scenery outside the window quickly reverses backwards, far away, forgotten.

Jacques sat by the window of the car, looking intently out the window, still a fertile plain, with only a glimmer of mountains in the far distance. It had been five hours from the capital Rand, and Jacques, who had learned a good geography, knew that the train was about to go to the mountain, and through it was the Gyeonggi region.

As he was about to leave the Duchy of Castia, the teenagers were a little inexplicably excited, and Fabian tried to describe the magnificence and greatness, fortune and prosperity of the imperial capital in adjectives he knew, although he had never been to the imperial capital either.

Of the six people sitting opposite, only Lily had been to the imperial capital before, but at this time, Lily, who was sitting opposite Jacques, was also silently looking out of the window, everything in the distance gradually disappeared into the sky, and a new scenery jumped into view.

Emma leaned on Alisia's shoulder and fell asleep, and Natasha put a finger on Fabian's mouth to signal him to be quiet, and Fabian immediately obediently stopped chattering.

Sitting near the hallway, Alyssa spread her legs and hands on her knees, leaning slightly towards Emma, her sharp eyes fixed on the seats diagonally opposite.

Diagonally across from each other, also from Port Mousse, are old acquaintances, Lucien Ginoah and his sixth-grade teammates, as well as their mentor Brobbie.

The two groups have not communicated with each other since they got on the bus yesterday, and they are both wary of each other and disgusted at first sight.

The grievances between the Minority Alliance and Lucien have been intermittently entangled for several years, and this time the two gangs participated in the Misty Forest Challenge at the same time, which is even more narrow, and the leader of Lucien's team turned out to be the mustachioed Mentor Brobbie who was picked off by Jacques at the camp gate during the training, and there is a taste of new hatred and old hatred.

Woo......

There was a long whistle, and the train was about to enter the station again.

Lily became nervous, and every time she arrived at the big station, someone would take advantage of the stop to get on the bus and give Lily a gift called "local product", so as to talk about it, and not forget to emphasize her gratitude and friendship to Robert.

This scene made the 16-year-old Jacques understand that making an invention is not the most important thing, and that only by making the invention can he create the greatest benefit for himself can he become a great inventor, and the two Baptistes, Lee and Robert, are worthy of the title of great inventors.

Jacques and Fat Orange, who had also read "Around the World in Eighty Days", also lamented the convenience of trains and ships, but they did not expect that Robert could use the construction of the railway to win people's hearts, and the aristocrats along the railway line not only became shareholders of the railway company to share the benefits, but also used the convenience of the railway to make their territory prosper rapidly.

Many aristocrats who had opposed the passage of the railway in their own territory finally regretted seeing the rapid changes in the cities and towns along the railway line and the rapid bulging of the money bags of the local nobles.

Some people put down their children and ran to the Rand to beg Robert to build the railway to his doorstep, Robert believed that everyone could make money, as long as they could pay for the railway company, and mobilize local forces to ensure the safety of the railway along the way, they would be able to catch this speeding money-making train.

As a result, Robert, one of the auxiliary governors, has become wider and wider, and has become a popular candidate for the next first assistant of the Duchy of Castia, and the Baptiste family's rule over Port Musay has also reached the most stable period in history, and Viscount Ginoa's anti-Baptiste alliance has disappeared, and even Viscount Ginoa himself saddled in front of the "lazy Carl" every day, in order to get a position under Robert after his son graduates from college.

The fiancée of the most prominent political figure in the Principality of Castile passed by, and the nobles and officials along the way had already received the news from the inner line of the railway company and hurried to take the "lady route".

The whistle sounded again, and the pot-bellied mayor reluctantly left the carriage with his entourage and waved goodbye on the platform, as if bidding farewell to his own relatives.

Lily rubbed her swollen temples and whispered to Jacques on the other side, "That's what I hate him...... politics. Every day we have to welcome the send-off. No wonder he couldn't even reach the peak of the Awakened, so how could he have time to cultivate with peace of mind. ”

Natasha, who routinely inspected the "souvenirs", registered the gifts and names, and sighed, "The next stop is the Gyeonggi area, so I don't think there will be any more gifts, right?" Someone came in the middle of the night last night with something, and Mentor Lily was so popular. ”

Lily said: "These are all for Robert, I just collect them on my behalf, and when I get to the imperial capital, I will ask the conductor to bring everything back to Rand and send it to him." ”

Natasha asked: "Aren't you afraid that the train conductor will intercept some?" The mountain snow lotus sent by the fat mayor just now can't be obtained without three thousand silver coins, and she ...... "Natasha's family is in the spiritual material business, and it is estimated that these materials are of course eight or nine."

Fabian said: "You little fool, not only did the conductor not dare to intercept it, but he also had to prepare a gift in the imperial capital and send it together." ”

Unlike the others, Jacques was excited and uneasy on his first trip, often looking out the window at the scenery and the reflection in the window.

It was already evening when they arrived at the railway station on the southern outskirts of the imperial capital, and the railway station arranged a passage for them to board the extended steam car waiting at the entrance of the station, and seven or eight porters stuffed their large and small boxes into the trunk of the steam car, and the steam car would take them to the hotel they had booked.

Fabian was right, the conductor hurried through the crowds of the shopping street, expecting to buy the right gift before the mall closed, and the boss of the boss who could bring it to the boss when he returned tomorrow, had a rare opportunity to contact the big guys, and to appear well-behaved and sensible, maybe this was the step of promotion.

With both faces squeezed into the window of the steam car, observing the crowded streets and the endless flow of people, Fat Orange showed an unparalleled interest in the largest city on the mainland, and Jacques knew that tonight, Fat Orange would have his own imperial capital adventure.

The steam wagon drove along the Canal Avenue towards the city and entered the south gate of the imperial capital, and the streets on both sides suddenly became quiet from the bustle, except for the sound of the wind and the steam wagon scraping through the masonry.

The car stopped in front of a nondescript inn less than three blocks from Legion Square, and the group got out of the car, and the teenagers each took their suitcases and equipment boxes, and followed Lily into the inn called "Huerdo's Eagle".

When the front desk waiter of the hotel saw the six people walking into the lobby, he immediately came to greet them, and after asking for their names, the waiter hurried to the back hall. After a while, an old man dressed in an intricate tuxedo suit, with gray hair combed back, a clear face, and a smile on his face, walked out of the back hall quickly, and his swift movements that did not match his age made people know at a glance that he was extraordinary.

The old man opened his arms to Lily and said with a smile: "My little lark, you can make old Hunter wait all day, this damn train is delaying again? I haven't seen you for six years, you look more and more like your mother, Baptiste boy is really lucky!"

After hugging Lily, the old man Hunter turned to Alixia, straightened up, and clenched his right hand into a fist and lightly tapped his left chest, the standard second son regimental military salute. The teenagers of the Minority Alliance all subconsciously responded with the same military salute.

Hunter said: "The second son of the heavy cavalry Hunter Dawater, Commander Astori is okay?"

Alyssa said happily: "Grandpa wrote in the summer, it happened to be winter in Pappas, and his asthma was again, and everything else was fine. ”

"Actually, he could go back and forth between Castile and Pappas and spend the summer forever," Hunter said. ”

Alyssa agreed: "My father and I advised him the same, but he can't do without Pappas, and I think he may never leave there." ”

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little sad, Hunter hurriedly said, "Look at me, I'm confused, what are you talking about here, let's go to the restaurant." Gustav, you take Mustafa to the room with the luggage of a few distinguished guests. ”