Chapter 681: Changes in the World

I don't know if it is the good luck brought by the so-called "miracle", but it has become very easy to climb the most treacherous summit section of the Quincy Snow Mountain, even if you walk in the middle of the night, there is only no danger on the road, not to mention casualties, even the goods are not lost.

After climbing over the top of the mountain and officially entering the mountain on the side of the Maris Kingdom, the rain and snow that had been falling non-stop also stopped, and the snow on the ground melted quickly, and it didn't take long for the ground to be no longer slippery, and the pack cart became much safer.

What's more important is that the road facing the Mares Kingdom side of the Ancient Salt Railway is better than that of the Savile Kingdom, and because the terrain is relatively gentle, the road is much easier.

The only flaw is that because there is no one to clean the road regularly, there are a lot of weeds growing on the road, blocking people's vision, unable to see some potholes and traps on the road, and several times the convoy has had to stop to repair the vehicles because of these potholes, the wheels and wheels of the pack carts have been destroyed.

However, this is a good thing for the caravan, after all, the caravan climbed over the Quincy Snow Mountain overnight, and one by one was already extremely tired, if it weren't for the unimaginable shocking scene witnessed on the top of the mountain, which made everyone's spirit as if injected with divine power, maybe they would have fallen asleep under the double pressure of spirit and body.

The caravan leader also found that everyone was extremely tired, and it was dangerous to continue walking, so after reaching a relatively flat area, he ordered to stop the march and rest on the spot.

Although there was no formal camp, a bonfire was lit to dispel the chill from the crowd, and some hot food was prepared to restore some strength and spirit.

After eating, the caravan people found a warm place to take a nap, and it was not until noon that they were woken up, and after eating some dry food, they continued on their way.

Although the slopes of the mountains west of Quincy Snow Mountain are a little gentler, the road is much farther, and there are several peaks to detour along the way, and this section of the ancient salt railway is four or five times longer than the ancient salt railway on the eastern slope.

The caravan that continued on its journey at noon did not arrive at Barrel Town, a resting point in the middle of the ancient salt railway.

The mountains on the east and west sides of the Quincy Snow Mountain are like two extremes, and the mountains on the east side of the Savile Kingdom don't know if they are affected by the desert, the vegetation on the slopes is very sparse, most of them are weeds and mosses that are inserted into the seams, and a large number of rocks are exposed outside, which looks very desolate, and no one will think that there can be any prey in such a place.

However, the mountains on the west side of the Quincy Snow Mountain are different from the Mares Kingdom, except for a part of the top of the Snow Mountain that is covered with shrubs, mosses, weeds and other plants, the rest of the place is a very dense primeval forest, a large number of red broadwood grows here, and countless wild animals inhabit here, so hunting activities here are very popular.

Originally, the town was just a lumber yard and manufacturing workshop opened by coopers to make it easier for them to cut down trees and make barrels. However, after that, many hunters who went to the mountains to hunt would use this place as a resting place, and some hunters even built some simple hunter huts, and over time it became a village.

However, with the reactivation of the Ancient Salt Railway, caravans used it as a base of residence, which made the small village that was originally only a place for hunters to rest gradually grow into a small town.

With two months to go before the new hunting season, it stands to reason that Barreltown shouldn't have too many talents, but when the caravan arrived in Barreltown, they found that Barreltown was overcrowded, and their caravan couldn't even find a hotel or private house to rest in, so they had to camp on a meadow outside the town.

After that, the head of the caravan, Gussan, sent people to the town to buy food, and by the way, asked why there were so many people in the town.

The people who went to the town soon returned, and brought back a not-so-good news, that is, the civil war in the Kingdom of Mares had spread to the city of Dry Steel, and many people were unwilling to get involved in this civil war, and chose to throw it into the mountains to avoid the war, and then go back after the things outside had calmed down.

Although the civil war in the Kingdom of Mares has nothing to do with the Saviles, and even the Saviles will gloat over this civil war, the problem is that once the scope of the war includes the Dry Steel City, then the business of the Dry Steel City will inevitably be affected, and the merchants of various countries in the Dry Steel City will temporarily leave their residences and take refuge in other places like ordinary people.

In this way, there will probably be no more foreign merchants from the Dyyat side in the dry steel city, and their caravan transports goods mainly with the merchants on the Dyat side, and now if those merchants leave, then the goods they transported this time will definitely not be sold.

What's more important is that wars often bring security problems, ordinary bandits are fine, the caravan guards alone are enough to deal with those people, but if those bandits are the army, then they are really in trouble.

For a while, the high-level of the caravan became nervous, and after casually ordering the camp, they gathered in a tent to discuss whether to continue to the city of dry steel.

By the time the caravan was set up camp, Leo had quietly left the camp and arrived in Barrel Town, mainly to find out about the news in the Kingdom of Mares.

Because it is a remote town deep in the mountains and old forests, and there are no newspapers or other things that can provide a lot of information, Leo can only follow the old method, stay for a while in the most lively tavern in the middle of the town, and learn about the situation in the kingdom of Mares from the conversations of the people around him.

The most popular things to talk about in the tavern now are naturally the monsters and strange things that appear out of thin air after the world changes, and the people in the tavern are hearsay except for a few who have personally experienced them, so not many people really believe in what monsters are in the world, and they use these topics as talking points to pass the boring time.

For Leo, however, these topics provide him with a lot of useful information.

When he was in the Savile Kingdom, he also saw some reports about the Mares Kingdom, but those reports were not very detailed and not very detailed about things like the sudden appearance of monsters, and the situation in the Savile Kingdom itself quickly stabilized, so it gave Leo an illusion that the situation in the Mares Kingdom should be similar to the Savile Kingdom, even if it was a little worse, it was not much worse.

But now from the mouths of the people in the tavern who fled here to escape the scourge of war, he knew that the impact of the mysterious things on the real world of the Mares Kingdom has been very serious, and there are constantly monsters suddenly attacking ordinary people all over the Maris Kingdom, and not only at night, but also during the day.

In the face of these monsters, ordinary people have no ability to resist at all, only the army and the city's gendarmes can deal with these monsters, but each time it takes huge casualties to deal with the monsters.

The legend that appeared with the monsters, as well as the organizations that maintain the order of the night watch, but their number seems to be much smaller than that of monsters, and although they can save a lot of people every time, they can't play much role in the situation on the mysterious side of the entire Maris Kingdom.

However, the kingdom's army still has absolute suppressive power over these monsters, so those towns that encounter monsters either invite the army of the government army to garrison the town, or simply join the rebels, and it is precisely because of this that the armies and forces on both sides of the civil war are also expanding rapidly, and both sides think that if the war continues, they will become the ultimate victors, so no one has the idea of peace talks.

Because a large number of people have gathered around the city where the army is stationed, the suburbs or remote areas have become deserted, and there are some villages that have not fled and want to stay at home, and when they encounter monsters, the end is often extremely tragic.

There were a few people in the tavern who came from the village that had been slaughtered by monsters, and most of the others didn't take what they said seriously, but Leo could hear the emotions of excitement, sadness, and remorse in the words of these people.

In the tavern, there were also people who knew that what they said was true, because they had seen those monsters before, and how those monsters used humans for food, so they felt a little bit of empathy, and they were also glad that they were still happy, and even more glad that they were able to come to the safety of Barrel Town.

However, these survivors under the mouth of the monster did not know that in the tavern where they were, not far from the table where they were sitting, there were five clansmen who had returned to their normal appearance, each sitting quietly.

Although the disguise of these dependents is very perfect, under the investigation of Leo's spiritual network, it is easy to distinguish the dependents with very special physique and soul.

From the thick bloody aura of these four clansmen, it can be seen that these clans must have attacked humans, and they have attacked many humans, and even eaten many humans, but Leo does not see any signs of them getting out of control, it is obvious that these clans are just pure evil.

However, Leo is not going to deal with these four clans now, because he is eager to see what happens to the clans who are closely related to the gods after the change in the world and the return of the gods, especially in terms of strength, and he also wants to know if the night watchman has also changed.

At the same time as discovering the four evil clansmen, Leo also spotted the traces of two night watchmen, who were on the second floor of the tavern, just overlooking the entire tavern, and the two of them were more focused on the four evil clansmen, apparently aiming at these distances.

The situation of these two night watchmen is not the same, one should be implanted with alien cells, and the energy fluctuations on his body are somewhat similar to those of the family, while the other is from the bloodline awakening, but Leo does not know what this person's bloodline is, and can only feel from the energy fluctuations that this person's power may be related to the flames, because his energy fluctuations are somewhat similar to those of Thran the Fire Bather, which can make Leo feel very hot.

After discovering the Clan and the Night's Watch, Leo planted a mark on each of them to determine their location.

After that, he turned his attention to another thing he had heard in the tavern.

The person who said this is still a bit of an identity, he is a maintenance craftsman of the Logistics Support Department of the Royal Government Army, and he is a craftsman with a military rank, and he is mainly responsible for repairing the material transportation steam locomotive that belongs to the military department.

Not long ago, he was in charge of a routine inspection of a steam locomotive, and after discovering several problems, he quickly solved them, and then let the steam locomotive leave the maintenance room within the specified time and continue to transport strategic materials to the various distributions of the Royal Government Army on the railroad tracks.

Originally, it was just a simple routine inspection, but the steam locomotive he was in charge of inspecting had an accident the next day, because the locomotive was unusually fast, which caused the train to be unable to stop after arriving at the station, and rushed out of the station to enter the track change track in advance, and collided head-on with another steam train on the opposite side. Two locomotives were damaged on the spot, and the people inside the trains also suffered heavy casualties.

After hearing this, the craftsman knew that something was wrong, if only people were injured, but the problem was that the two steam locomotives had crashed, and the loss was too great for any one person to bear, and the most important thing was that the factory that made the locomotive cylinders was still under the control of the rebels, which meant that the two steam locomotives could not be replenished.

There is no doubt that someone must be held accountable for such a momentous time, and if others do not say it, he, the craftsman who overhauled the steam locomotive, may not escape responsibility.

The craftsman quickly figured out the pros and cons, and immediately made the decision to flee, so he escaped overnight from the factory run by the military headquarters with all his money and headed north, ready to go to Dalyat.

It's just that he hasn't traveled far at all, he is not familiar with the road, and some strange things have happened to him, which makes him lose his way, and finally blends in with a group of refugees and comes to Barrel Town.

After settling down, he was always thinking about why the steam locomotive he was overhauling had an accident, so he used the limited resources at hand, carefully reconstructed the process, and even built a steam locomotive that was so simple that it would fall apart at any time for experimentation, and finally he came to a result, that is, some of the parts that make up the steam locomotive can produce far beyond the power limit that has been measured in the past after certain combinations.

This extraordinary power effect caused the train to travel faster than before, and also made the braking system unable to exert its effect when activated, eventually causing the steam train to pass through the station and collide with another train slowly approaching on the opposite side.