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

Just when Leo was extremely puzzled, a message from the Kingdom of Maris answered this doubt, a thick fog rose from the Falling Star Sea that had not dissipated for a long time, and the ships would get lost after sailing into the dense fog, and the connection between the three continents was temporarily blocked.

This news also made Leo feel a little uneasy, because he was very aware of the situation of 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 dense fog may be just the beginning, and there may be more abnormal changes in the future.

Leo wanted to contact Sylvia at this time to see how the situation was on her side, and whether there could be other news, but although he knew that Sylvia had left some power on his body that belonged to a witch that could only be used, he could not find out where this power was, and naturally he could not take the initiative to get in touch with Sylvia.

Therefore, after the Church of the Lord of Life and Death lifted the ban on the city and the railway, Ben Leo decided to make a steam train to first go to the border between the kingdom of Sevier and the kingdom of Mares, and then find a way to cross the border and go to the kingdom of Maris to see if he could find Sylvia.

As soon as he made his decision, Leo hired a waiter at the hotel to go to the station to buy a train ticket for the western terminus of the Savile Canyon Railway.

The waiter who went out in the morning didn't come back until the afternoon, and when he came back, his face was very ugly, and he didn't say the reason for asking, but just told Leo that it was difficult to find a ticket for the Canyon Railway train now, and he bought a first-class ticket because of his relationship, and the potential meaning was naturally that he needed to add money, whether it was ticket money or employment money.

Leo didn't bother with this little thing too much, and took the first-class ticket from the waiter after taking the extra commission.

The time of the ticket is tomorrow morning, and Leo did not plan to pinch the time and go to the station, but after dinner, he pushed down his room, left the hotel, and went to the station.

The railway station of Ethiopia City is in the north side of the city, which was originally built on the edge of the city, mainly to facilitate the loading of goods, and those merchant tribes can directly load and unload goods outside the city, without entering the city, which can reduce the pressure on the roads in the city and avoid causing unnecessary trouble to the citizens in the city.

I have to say that the city lord of Ethiopia planned the railway station very cleverly at the beginning, and also expected the impact of the railway station on the city, but he did not predict that after the railway, the development of the city would be so fast, so fast that it far exceeded everyone's expectations.

The opening of the steam train brought great benefits to this small city located in the middle of two deserts, and merchants and people of the kingdom who saw these benefits also flocked to it.

The influx of people led to the rapid expansion of the city area, and the railway station, which was originally on the edge of the city, gradually became an urban area, and as the urban area increased, it gradually became part of the urban center.

It's just that the later rulers of Ethiopia City are far from the talent of the original city lord, they are interested in immediate interests, roads, public facilities and other things are not the object of their consideration at all, they just want to build more houses, collect more rent and collect taxes.

Therefore, when the railway station became the center of the city, other plans of the city did not keep up, and even the roads that were originally planned to be used for goods to enter and exit were also occupied, and the congestion around the railway station every day has become the daily life of Ethiopia, and over time it has become the most chaotic place in Ethiopia.

Before coming to the train station, Leo had already been mentally prepared and thought of a way to squeeze through the crowd, but when he arrived at the train station, he found that not only did it not seem crowded and chaotic, but it was very, very deserted, and there were less than a hundred people on the square in front of the train station, and there were no vendors around, which was completely different from the rumored situation.

And the reason for this anomaly is right in front of you, I saw that the front square of the railway station paved with yellow sandstone common in the desert has turned dark red at this moment, and those dark red are not paint, but dried blood.

Although the manager of the railway station has hired a large number of poor people to clean up the blood in front of the square in the past two days, much of this blood has penetrated into the sandstone and cannot be cleaned up at all. Under the exposure of the sun, the blood quickly dried up, fused with the sandstone, and turned into a blood rock, and a strong bloody gas continued to emanate from the blood rock, entrenched in the sky over the square for a long time.

This is Leo thought of the waiter's expression after buying a ticket from the train station, not to mention ordinary people, even a battle-experienced warrior will feel terrified when he sees it, not to mention that in the church books of the Lord of All Things, there was a place to punish the wicked in the world, that place was built of sandstone stained red with blood, shrouded in blood all year round, and it was very similar to the scene in front of him, so some clergy can also be seen here performing some kind of ritual of the Church of the Lord of Life and Death。

Leo estimated a little from his own experience, and quickly calculated the amount of blood that had melted into the sandstone on the ground, and at the time of the incident a few days ago, at least hundreds of people had died here, if not more, because if the train station was really as crowded as it was rumored, the stampede caused by the panic and escape would surely cause a large number of casualties, and the number of casualties would be even more than the casualties caused by the out-of-control families.

After only a brief pause outside the train station, Leo bypassed a group of locals kneeling on the ground at the gate of the train station and entered the train station.

Compared to the outside, the inside of the train station was no better, the same blood-soaked sandstone, and the same or even stronger bloody gas entrenched in the empty halls.

In addition, it can be seen that many of the facilities in the hall have been damaged, such as the walls, columns, and some simple shops that were added later, all of which have been damaged to varying degrees, which can be inferred that there were fierce battles here at that time, which may have taken place between runaway clans, but also with people with extraordinary powers.

Like the square outside, there was a large number of poor people hired by the administrators to wash the blood from the ground. In addition, there are craftsmen who are repairing broken columns, walls, and other facilities.

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

The waiting room was sprinkled with natural essences, which were a little pungent, but they were able to keep the blood from the outside, making the people in the room feel a little better.

At this moment, there were already more than a dozen people sitting in the room, three foreign couples who were supposed to be traveling here, three explorers with obvious clothing characteristics, an old man with two small children and his bodyguard.

These people were all doing their own thing, there was no act of communication, and the room seemed quiet.

The three foreign couples should all be ordinary people, the frightened looks are still written on their faces, and the couple always hold each other's hands in order to gain a sense of security from each other, which shows that the bad influence of the incident a few days ago on them has not disappeared, and may even accompany them for a long time.

The situation of the three explorers was much better, either they were not in the city at the time of the incident, or they were well-informed and no stranger to such things as the family, and in short, their faces did not show any fear or panic.

The three of them should not be in a group, they each sat at a table, poured their harvest on the table, picked out the best of it, carefully wiped it clean, put it in different pockets, and sometimes discussed the exchange of things that other people had on hand, but they did not talk very loudly.

As for the combination of the old man, the child and the bodyguard on the other side, it looks like a grandfather has brought his grandson and granddaughter on a trip, and it doesn't seem to deserve much attention, but after Leo enters the house, his main attention is focused on this old man, because this old man has an energy fluctuation that is not much weaker than Sylvia.

The old man's energy fluctuations somehow reminded Leo of spiders, because it was a kind of filamentous body in Leo's vision, and Leo also found that the pair of children laughing and playing around the old man and the expressionless bodyguards behind him were not real people, but puppets controlled by the energy of silk threads.

"Puppeteer?" Leo quickly thought of a very special class of transcendents.

In the world of Vilon, there are not a few people with extraordinary powers, and the vast majority of them are concentrated in various churches, underground cults and several underworld organizations, but there are still some extraordinary people who survive in the gap between these major forces, and the puppeteer is one of them.

It is impossible to know who the earliest puppeteer was, but the accepted theory should be from the circus, and the inheritance of the puppeteer is not very old, only less than three hundred years, compared to the inheritance of thousands of years, it is obviously not enough.

However, the power of the puppeteer cannot be measured by the time of inheritance, and the danger of the puppeteer is always ranked high in the black market information about the transcendent.

The strength of the puppeteer does not depend on the puppeteer itself, in fact, the puppeteer's own strength is not much stronger than that of ordinary people, and the strength of the puppeteer depends entirely on the puppet he controls.

Some puppeteers will find a variety of supernatural materials and craft them into a puppet, while others will directly control those with great power and claim their power for themselves.

There have also been puppeteers who tried to control the people of a city to blackmail the local kingdom and church, but the end of the person who did this was not good, because he had a connection with the people of the whole city, and countless people's thoughts were directly instilled into his brain, which directly washed away his spirit, making him a vegetative person, and finally made into a puppet puppet by other puppeteers.

It has always been a mystery how the puppeteer inherited, because the puppeteer's lineage has also been cut off at some point in time, and when everyone thinks that the puppeteer's legacy has disappeared, a new puppeteer will appear, so some people speculate that the puppeteer must have used a certain object as a inheritance, and as long as someone with supernatural power comes into contact with those objects, they will receive this kind of inheritance, which explains why there are four or five puppeteers in some time periods who don't know each other.

When Leo saw this puppeteer, he immediately made a rough judgment of his strength, although the tall and strong bodyguards looked like the main combat power of this puppeteer, but Leo knew very well that this puppeteer's reliance came from the two lively child puppets beside him.

Obviously, those bodyguards are just bait, and if someone wants to deal with him, attack the bodyguards as a protective barrier first, then the two child puppets next to the puppeteer will show their claws and give the attacker a deadly attack.

After Leo came in, his eyes only swept over the people around him, and then he walked to a chair facing the canyon and sat down, and then all the people in the room were probed with a spiritual net, so these people in the room didn't pay much attention to Leo, they just thought he was an ordinary lone traveler.

However, after Leo sat down, the old puppeteer swept his gaze over Leo from time to time, with a slight hint of vigilance in his eyes.

This is not to say that the old man has seen Leo's true strength, mainly because of the old man's rich life experience and the instinct of birth and death over the years, he feels that Leo is not as ordinary as it seems on the surface, and even makes him feel dangerous, which can be seen from his vigilance towards Leo by quietly moving the two child puppets to the position between himself and Leo.

Leo didn't care that he was the object of the puppeteer's vigilance, and as long as the other party didn't intervene against him, he wasn't prepared to clash with the transcendent.

After inspecting the room, Leo focused his gaze and some attention on the railroad outside the window.

Although Leo had seen more fantastical buildings than the railroad in front of him, the design and construction of the railroad would be a miracle if the standard was put into a world where Veron was still in its infancy.

Every twenty meters of distance, a steel frame with a width of five meters is framed in the air in a herringbone shape, the bottom is connected to the cliffs on both sides of the canyon, and a railway with a width of three meters is assumed to be at the top of the herringbone steel frame, all the steel frames are made of the best steel at the time, and the thickness of each steel reaches about 20 centimeters.

Legend has it that the Kingdom of Savile depleted its treasury in order to build this railway that can be called a miracle of the world, so that in the years after the construction of the railway, the kingdom increased various tax rates thirteen times in a row, and it was not until the previous years that all the increased tax rates were readjusted.

Therefore, the people of the Savile Kingdom love and hate this railway, because this railway has brought transportation convenience that was not available in the past, and also brought endless business opportunities and benefits, and hate because the various tax rates increased by this railway almost caused a riot among the people in the kingdom, which plunged the kingdom into turmoil for many years.

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