"Miria City?" Nelson looked at the location pointed out by Leo's finger, and he didn't understand why he had chosen this place as the destination of their escape.

Judging from their current position, the distance between them and Miria City is indeed much shorter than the distance between them and Pombo City, but the distance between the two cannot only be measured by looking at the straight line on the map, but also by looking at the actual terrain.

If they want to go to Pombo City, they only need to go down the river, find a working boat in the villages and towns along the river, and float down the river, and it will only take three days to reach Pombo City at most.

But if they wanted to go to Miria City, unless they were crossing the Black Forest, the largest and most primitive forest in the French Empire, they would have to make a long detour around the edge of the forest, and it would take at least seven days or more to reach Miria City.

And more importantly, Miria City is located in the interior of the French Empire, surrounded by one of the most important towns in the French Empire, and the summer residence of the French Imperial Royal Family was built on the outskirts of Bordeaux next to Miria City.

Suspicious, Nelson told what he was thinking about Miria City, and although he did not directly question Leo's decision, he already revealed that the location Leo had chosen was not a suitable escape destination.

After listening to Nelson's words, Jason on the side still trusted Leo very much, but he also had some doubts about whether it was appropriate to go to Miria City.

On the other hand, Leo looked very confident in the face of doubts, smiled, put away the map, tied the compass to his arm with a canvas, and then asked Nelson unhurriedly: "Doctor, let me ask you, what is the name of Miria City besides being called the City of Hundred Flowers?"

"City of Peace. Nelson was quick to answer.

"Why is that called?" asked Leo again.

Nelson frowned and narrated, "It's because Empress Miria I of the French Empire divided the land that originally belonged to the royal garden, built a new city, and invited the Continental Continent Headquarters of the Continental Council to settle here, so this place is regarded as a permanent neutral place. Countless disputes between the countries of the Velen Continent were mediated by the Continental Council in Miria City, and finally resolved peacefully, without the outbreak of war, and over time it was also called the City of Peace. ”

"Yes, the headquarters of the Continental Council on the continent of Vilun is there. What do you think of the fact that we are now going to the city of Miria and accusing the army of Duke Dewyn, the eldest son of the Emperor of France, with a participant in the Battle of Bretey, for violating the continental agreement signed by the countries and using imine gas?"

After hearing Leo's plan, Nelson's glasses widened, his mouth opened slightly, and he couldn't close it for a long time, and even his nose forgot to breathe and only used his mouth to inhale, which made his breathing sound very heavy.

After a long time, he came to his senses and yelled at Leo: "Are you crazy? The Continental Council will not accept your complaint at all, they will just throw you into the street, and then the secret service of the French Empire will find you, seize you, and let you stay in the dungeon forever." ”

"Shhh Leo seemed to have expected such a reaction from Nelson, and he reached out to cover Nelson's mouth so that he could no longer yell, while putting his finger to his lips and motioning for him not to speak.

Although Leo's movements were not rough and his tone was flat, Nelson felt an inexplicable chill, as if he would be torn off by the person in front of him if he said a word loudly.

Leo let go of the hand covering Nelson's mouth at this time, ignored the look of horror in Nelson's eyes, and continued the topic just now, and said: "If a small soldier like me makes an accusation, it will indeed not attract the attention of those high-ranking members of the Continental Congress, but you are different, doctor! You are an intern tutor at the Velen Medical School, and you participated in the war between the French Empire and the Kingdom of England this time completely to save lives and help the wounded. However, Duke Dewin used imine gas to kill the young interns who had just left the academy and were carrying out their mission to save lives and help the wounded.

Although the fear of Leo that Nelson had just generated in his heart had not completely dissipated, he was terrified to hear the accusation plan narrated by Leo. Even if the plan is crude, and if you are not careful, you will never recover, but it is undeniable that the plan is very operable and has an equally high probability of success.

"If it were just an accusation against Duke Derwin, the French Empire might really take a step back and let the accusation succeed. Nelson thought carefully about Leo's plan, and the more he thought about it, the more feasible he felt, and then he thought that Leo had come up with such a good plan in such a short period of time, and this kind of wisdom was really not something that a village blacksmith could have.

He was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Are you deliberately targeting the accusation on the eldest son of the emperor, Duke Dewen, to avoid spreading the scope of the attack to the French Empire and making it more difficult to prosecute?"

"No!" Leo quickly gave an unexpected answer, and pointed at Nelson, "Didn't you say before that Duke Derwin's army shouldn't be here? ”

Although Leo answered categorically, Nelson always felt that he was covering up.

"But what's in it for you?" asked Nelson again.

"Of course there are benefits. Leo smiled and pointed at himself and Jason, and said, "We will be one of the main witnesses against Duke Devon at that time, although we are not as important as you as a doctor, but we can also play some role." I think that when the time comes, the Kingdom of England will not send our two important witnesses to the battlefield, but will protect us well, let us live comfortably, and when the accusation is successful, we will also have some credit for it. With these merits, it should not be a big problem to leave the battlefield and return to China. ”

After listening to this, Nelson pondered for a moment and found that he seemed to be a key factor in Leo's plan, and without his participation, the plan probably had no chance of success.

"This is your only option, and if the complaint is successful, it should also be of great benefit to you. Leo seemed to see through Nelson's thoughts, and said, "At that time, not to mention how much benefit you can get from the Kingdom Council when you return home, in the case of Velen Medical College, your student should not be held accountable for the death on the battlefield, and you will be able to keep your position as a trainee mentor." ”

As Leo said, Nelson found himself with no other choice, and if he carried out Leo's complaint plan, he would probably be held accountable by the medical school, even if he would not be sent to the front by the army, and he would lose not only his position as an intern mentor, but perhaps even his doctor's qualification.

Thinking of this, Nelson was about to agree to Leo's plan, but suddenly a whistle resounded in the sky from afar, and then a loud sound from the mechanical friction was heard intensifying.

"It's a steam airship!" Nelson easily recognized the source from the distinctive sound. Then he stood up, ignoring the exhaustion of his body, and staggered to a clearing by the river, which was not covered by the branches and foliage of the surrounding trees, and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

Leo and Jason were also curious about the steam airship that Nelson was talking about, and walked to the river and looked up.

After a while, I saw some neatly arranged points of light appear in the distant sky as if shining with stars. After a while, the point of light gradually approached, and the sky began to brighten, and a huge airship appeared in the eyes of the three of them.

I saw that this airship was about 400 meters long, and it was shaped like a whale, except that it had two more tail fins for balancing than a whale, and the whole was forged from a silver metal, and the huge rivets connected the metal plates into a whole.

At the top of the airship there are five steam pipes, from which steam is spewed from time to time, like a water column produced by a whale when it breathes.

The bottom of the airship is a cockpit more than 300 meters long, the cockpit and the main body of the airship are connected together, and the tail of the cockpit is a thruster tied together with thousands of steam pipes, when the airship needs to accelerate, thousands of pipes spew steam outward at the same time, which can instantly increase the speed of the airship by more than ten times.

In addition, the most shocking thing at the bottom of the cockpit is the barrel with the muzzle downward, roughly counting, there are about 100 large and small barrels, and the thickest barrel is directly in front of the field, the tube body is about 50 meters, it seems that it should be specially used to deal with other airships.

Soon, the airship flew over the trio's heads, not stopping for a moment for the three ants below.

"It's so beautiful, every time I see it, I feel like it's the most beautiful machine in the world. Watching the tail of the airship disappear from the top of the mountain, Nelson couldn't help but let out a long breath and sighed.

"What a big guy!" Jason chimed in.

On the contrary of these two, Leo seemed much calmer, although he also greatly admired the strange beauty of this strange steam machine, but he had also seen and boarded a Star Destroyer large enough to accommodate a city, this airship was naturally different from the Star Destroyer, and the shock he felt in his heart was much smaller.

He was more interested in the badge on the airship than in the take-off ship itself, because it was a double-headed deer badge, and it was clear that the airship belonged to Duke Devon.

Leo told Nelson about the airship badge he had seen, and Nelson immediately judged that the airship was most likely Duke Devon's car, the Whale.

After figuring out the ownership of the airship, Leo and Nelson couldn't help but feel puzzled, because judging from the direction from which the airship flew, the airship should have set off from the battlefield. That is to say, Duke Devin put down what he was doing and left the battlefield before the war was over.

Nelson also judged from the direction of the airship's flight that the airship should have flown towards the imperial capital of the French Empire, and it flew very quickly, constantly accelerating through the thrusters.

This makes people like Leo and Nelson feel that maybe something is happening that they can't touch.

The two didn't dwell on the matter any longer, and Nelson quickly agreed with Leo's plan, and Leo decided to cross the Black Forest as he complained about the loss of time.

Hearing Leo's decision, Nelson accepted this decision although he was a little worried, and even showed a lot of expectations in his eyes, because the Black Forest is one of the most primitive forests in existence, and a large number of ancient species are preserved in the forest, including many herbs that have been lost in the outside world, if he can bring out one or two, he will definitely be able to gain extraordinary prestige in the medical school.

On the contrary, Jason, who was very arrogant, glared at Leo with a frightened face, and wanted to shout loudly, but he was afraid of making too much noise, so he held back his emotions, lowered his voice, and said excitedly to Leo: "You are crazy! You are really crazy! Crossing the Black Forest, this kind of thing is only you think, if you want to die, you can jump into the water and drown now, why waste your strength to run so far to die?"

Leo didn't expect Jason's reaction to be so big, and in his memory, the Black Forest was just a huge primeval forest.

"Are you scared of the Black Forest?" asked Leo, frowning slightly.

"Aren't you afraid?" said Jason, with a clear fear on his face, "Haven't you heard songs about the Black Forest as a child?"

"Ballads?" Leo heard this, looking at the big man in front of him with a strange expression, who was a few centimeters taller than him, and didn't know what to say for a while.

He may have thought that Jason would seem so nervous and frightened because he had been to the Black Forest before and had encountered bad things, but he would never have imagined that Jason's current flustered behavior was actually derived from the Black Forest ballads when he was a child.

Without waiting for Leo to convince Jason, Nelson on the side took the initiative to stand up and persuade: "The Black Forest is indeed terrifying, if it is really across the Black Forest, I'm afraid I won't dare to agree." But ......" as he spoke, he pointed to their current location and the city of Miria on the map, then drew a route in the middle, and then circled the Black Forest where the route was located, and said: "The Black Forest we passed through was only on the edge, and it did not enter the interior of the Black Forest at all, and this area has been explored by many people, and most of the deadly beasts have felt that the forest is deeper and less dangerous. ”

Jason looked down at the map, and after a long time, he raised his head, looked at Nelson with a little distrust, and asked, "Is it really much less dangerous?"

"It's going to be a lot smaller. Nelson nodded in affirmation, then added, "I need to prepare something beforehand, though." ”

Jason was silent for a moment, but finally nodded vigorously and said, "Okay! ”