Unlike the outskirts of Port Sète, which are full of factories and workshops, the outskirts of Simps are wasteland, not only because there are no trains passing through it, and it is impossible to borrow a railway to transport large quantities of supplies, but also because this wasteland is a soft swamp, unlike the harbor where the foundation is hard rock, and once large buildings are built here, they gradually sink over time.

However, this does not mean that this land does not have any economic value, in the past, I don't know when, someone brought a reed seed from the Moisan continent and sprinkled it on this land, and this reed seed is very suitable for growing in this saline swamp, and the growth cycle is very short, and it can be fully matured in a week.

Some paper craftsmen found that the paper made from this reed was soft and white, which was very suitable for some special situations, so dozens of such handmade paper workshops were built in the slums of Simps, because the source of raw materials was very simple, almost no money, only a little manual physical effort, so over time this became an important economic pillar for the poor class in the city.

On the way of the steam trailer, many low-level citizens from the slums can be seen harvesting reeds in the dense reeds, but this can only be seen in the suburbs, which are too far away to be the breeding ground of swamps, wild animals and poisonous insects, unless they are combined into a team that can take care of each other, it is impossible for ordinary citizens to run to such a dangerous place to harvest reeds.

The dangers of the suburbs were well known to those familiar with Simps's surroundings, and although the passengers were all newcomers' hotel credits, they instinctively reacted somewhat defensively.

For example, the chattering in the car was much quieter, and each of them put their hands in their clothes or purses, and it seemed that they were ready for a possible attack.

However, the feared attack did not materialize, and the steam trailer ended up parked on a small barren hill in the reedfields on the outskirts of the country. Then signal that everyone can wait in the car or get off the bus.

None of the people in the room understood what they were waiting for, and some of them were impatient and asked the driver who brought them directly about the situation, and the driver simply responded and told them to wait.

Everyone had no choice but to wait in the car, and after about ten minutes or so, a noisy mechanical sound suddenly sounded in the open reeds outside.

The occupants of the car heard the sound and looked out the window, and to their surprise, although it was loud and seemed to be nearby, no one could see anything unusual in the reeds.

The only passenger in the car was Leo looking up, as if he had seen the sky through the ceiling overhead.

Leo's actions were so prominent that someone soon noticed it, and the man seemed to have thought of something and looked at the ground, and shouted in surprise: "Airship, it's an airship." ”

With the man's reminder, everyone realized where the noisy mechanical sound came from, and it was only because of the restrictions on the roof that they couldn't see the sky outside, so they got out of the car one by one, looked up, and then let out exclamations one by one.

It's just that their exclamations are mixed with emotional changes quickly, and it only takes a short time from surprise to surprise at the beginning.

Leo also stepped out of the carriage like the other passengers, and looked up at the sky, and when he looked up, a very large shadow covered the passengers and the carriage below.

I saw that at this moment, in the cloudless sky, there was a huge airship floating, this airship was roughly estimated, about more than 100 meters long and more than ten meters wide, and from the ground it looked like looking at a huge monster, which made people feel an inexplicable shock.

In the world of Vinylon, airships have appeared a long time ago, even before the steam engine. It arose from a laboratory accident in which the master craftsmen of the Royal Cadets of the French Empire discovered a very light gas and used it as a power to create the first manned balloon.

This invention attracted the attention of the Emperor at the time, because if the balloon proved to be able to carry people, the Black Forest would no longer be a barrier for the French Empire, and they could cross the Black Forest from the sky and rule the western part of the French Empire more effectively.

As for the people in the western provinces of the French Empire, they were also keenly aware that the invention of this balloon might change the relatively free and relaxed political environment of the people in the west at that time.

Because of this, the first public experiment of manned balloons attracted the attention of the entire French Empire, and other countries also turned their attention here for various reasons.

The first balloon test was very successful, with the balloon carrying the expected maximum weight of cargo and people successfully lifted into the air and reached the expected altitude.

Because of this success, governments began to order their own domestic academies to start researching similar balloon devices, and the French Empire increased its investment in the practicality of balloons, and the master craftsmen of the Royal Academy lived up to expectations, and soon invented an air guide device for balloons and a human spiral air flow propulsion device within a month.

In this case, the second balloon test soon began, this time no longer carrying cargo, but all manned, with a total of five people, one of whom was responsible for controlling the guides, and four of them were responsible for maneuvering the human propellers, creating artificial air currents, and pushing the balloon in a given direction.

This test was a practical test, and it was even more remarkable than the first test, as the countries no longer just sent observers to see the situation, but were personally led by the ambassadors to France.

However, the experiment was both successful and unsuccessful, and the test balloon began to move in the air as envisioned after liftoff, which can be said to be a complete success, but then an accident happened, after the balloon moved to an empty space, a large number of birds flew out of the trees on the ground as if they were stimulated, and frantically attacked the balloon in the sky, and the people in the balloon were also the target of the attack.

It wasn't until the balloon was destroyed and crashed that the frenzied birds dispersed, and the people inside the balloon did not die from the crash, but from the attacks of the birds.

Although the experiment ended in failure, it did not hit the confidence of the French Empire and the Veron countries in manned balloons, they believed that the balloon was attacked by birds only because it inadvertently broke into the airspace of birds, and some people in the French Empire also believed that this was the power of the Black Forest to control the birds, and did not want the balloon experiment to succeed, because the place of this test was right on the edge of the Black Forest, and in the plan of the test, the balloon would also fly into the sky over the Black Forest for a period of time.

Therefore, after the failure of this test, the support of the French Empire for this test did not weaken, and the countries did the same, and according to the data and plans of this test, they carried out their own balloon flight tests.

But soon they found that things were not as smooth as they thought, and in all the balloon flight tests, except for a few that failed because the test equipment was not rigorous and failed, all the other failed tests were attacked by birds, resulting in the crash of the test equipment and the casualties of the test personnel.

At this time, the biological research scholars of the medical school stood up to explain the situation, it turns out that all the birds in the world of Velen have a strong desire for air supremacy, and they will divide the airspace according to some law that has not yet been discovered, once other birds break into their airspace, then the birds that share that airspace will invariably attack the intruder together until the intruder dies, and the flying balloon is an intruder in the eyes of these birds.

Over the years, countries have searched for various ways to solve the problem of bird attacks, some of which have been effective, such as asking the priest of the Lord of the Sky to cast a blessing on the balloon every time it flies, such as letting the balloon walk on the edge of the airspace where the bird's desire to attack is weak, etc., but these methods have finally proved to be ineffective.

For example, it seems feasible to let the balloon walk on the edge of the bird-controlled airspace, but the premise is that there must be a detailed bird airspace control map, and the study has found that the classification of the airspace by birds will change with the different groups, that is, the airspace is not fixed.

As for finding the blessing of the priest of the Lord of the Sky, this is fine, with the blessing of the Lord of the Sky, no bird will do any attack, but the blessing of the Lord of the Sky is generally a blessing to the believers at major celebrations, and each priest can initiate a limited number of blessings in a year, and they can't take care of the careful believers, so how can they bless some balloons used as a means of transportation?

Because of these birds, the idea of transporting balloons failed, and the invention of the steam engine and steam train allowed countries to see another convenient and powerful means of transportation, and the balloon became an unrealizable fantasy in the eyes of everyone, and people gave up exploring the sky.

However, this situation changed somewhat after the French Empire created a practical airship.

As the initiator of the transport balloon, the French Empire never gave up the research on the transport balloon, and finally allowed them to create the airship as a flying tool, and let it play an extraordinary role in some subsequent wars, the most famous of which is naturally the current Emperor Fran's car.

It has always been a mystery why airships were able to avoid being attacked by birds.

Some say that the French Empire has developed a sound device that can interfere with birds and discourage them from approaching airships. There are many people who agree with this statement, because every time an airship appears, it is accompanied by a loud noise, which even a human cannot stand, let alone a bird that is more vulnerable than a human.

But more people think that the French Empire must have received some support from the Black Forest, so as to avoid the attacks of birds, because people who have been on the airship have seen that some of the decorative gods on the airship are different from the statues of the church announced by the Orthodox Church.

In any case, it is generally accepted that the French Empire has mastered a mature technology that can avoid the birds in the sky, but due to the manufacturing cost and technical requirements of airships, it is impossible to build airship legions on a large scale, but it is undeniable that the French Empire is the first mortal kingdom to conquer the sky.

Now that everyone saw an airship falling from the sky, they were naturally shocked and surprised, and they were even more curious about how this airship avoided the attacks of birds.

It's just that when they saw the shape of this airship clearly, all emotions such as shock, surprise, curiosity, etc., turned into strong doubts, because the appearance of this very ship was really bad.

I saw that the airship airbag of this spaceship felt like it was made of rags and broken skins, and some patch-like skins could be seen everywhere, and the cabin hanging under the airship was even more outrageous, it was directly modified from a small boat, and even the barnacles attached to the ship were not removed.

"Are you crazy? want us to get something like this, through the lockdown zone. "As soon as they came to their senses, some of the bad-tempered passengers yelled at the coachman in charge of the hotel, and put their hands on the weapons at their waists, as if they would kill you if you didn't give a satisfactory answer.

"If I were you, I wouldn't do that!" the coachman was not afraid of the threats of the irascible passengers, and said coldly, "You should go to the rules of the hotel, if you dare to break the rules, even if you flee to the Moisan continent, the hotel will have a way to find you." ”

Hearing the coachman's words, the people who were still restless just now quickly calmed down, they seemed to know the strength of the hotel, and they could only endure the anger in their hearts, remove their hands from their weapons, and glared at the coachman viciously, waiting for the other party to explain.

The coachman looked at everyone, and said to everyone with a smile in a relaxed tone: "I know that you will question the transportation capacity of the airship when you see it, but our hotel can guarantee that this airship Jedi is safe and effective, because you are not the first people to be transported by the airship, and the others have arrived at their destination smoothly, so you don't have to worry at all." ”

The coachman's words did not reassure everyone much, and many people were already preparing to give up their deposits and go back to the hotel to find other ways to break through the blockade area.

But when the airship fell, the hatch was opened, and one by one the pale Dagliats came out of the cabin, many of them came out, and sat on the ground with weak hands and feet, and a few of them vomited in spite of their image, and looked a little bad.

"Well, this is not suitable for long periods of time in the air, just some normal reactions, please rest assured that it will not cause any substantial damage to your body. Seeing this, the coachman's face was a little ugly, and he immediately explained it to everyone.

However, for those present, they did not care about the condition of these people, they were more concerned about whether these people really came from Daliat through the blockade area.

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