Chapter 587: Chain Reaction
The next day, the Queen did not travel as planned, as the passengers on board wanted to spend two more days on the small island.
For these passengers, they took this ship to play in various ports of the Pearl Island Chain, but because of the plague, they had no way to continue playing, coupled with the tension of these days, they were mentally exhausted, and now they came to this small island with a decent scenery and relative safety, they enjoyed the rare leisure and tranquility these days, so they all wanted to continue to play here for a few days, and then continue the next trip.
For the old captain, this was exactly what he wanted, and after talking to old Belen yesterday, he was also very interested in the metal treasures buried at the bottom of the sea. At that time, because of the sailing plan, he was just going to mark the location of that sea area with Old Belen first, and then bring people over to salvage it when he came back. But now the passengers' requests have given him the opportunity to do this private matter in the past two days.
As for Leo, he has no objection, he is now familiar with the changed devouring power, and often needs to test some of the corresponding skills created, and now that the ship is staying on this island, when he needs to test, he will directly drive the ship to the sea far from the coast and conduct the test, neither disturbing others, nor being snooped on by others to discover the secrets of his abilities.
In this way, the Ice Queen, which was loaded with supplies, stayed on this small island on the edge of the Falling Star Sea for three days, and what they didn't know was that there had been a lot of uproar outside in the past three days because of the plague on the Ice Queen.
Although the plague broke out very suddenly and was quickly extinguished by the people on the Ice Queen, this incident was still terrifying, and the ports along the Pearl Island Chain arranged interception ships and supply ships outside the ports after receiving the news.
It seems that they are not going to let the Ice Queen dock in port, and even if they need supplies, they will do so at sea, and the sailors and soldiers on the supply ship and the interceptor ship have also prepared anti-plague leather clothes on board, all of them look like they are ready for battle.
But then things went wrong, because the Ice Queen not only did not appear in any of the ports of the Pearl Island Chain, but also did not appear in this part of the sea.
Some people speculated that the Ice Queen was taking the route of falling into the sea of stars and went directly to the final port of the route, but soon the news that complicated things came, and this news came from the side of Dalyat, that is, the Snow Queen was missing.
If the Ice Queen is just an ordinary sailing ship, it would be fine, but the problem is that the Ice Queen is the private property of the Queen of Delriat, and the passengers on board are generally big people who are either rich or noble, and if these people have an accident with the Ice Queen, I am afraid that it will cause a lot of chaos.
The biggest problem now is that the Ice Queen has an accident, and according to Dalyat, it is because the Ice Queen was driven away by the people of the Shackle Island, and was restricted from entering the port by the ports of the Pearl Island Chain, so that the Ice Queen had to take the risk of falling into the sea of stars, and finally caused the Ice Queen to lose contact now.
Although there are some discrepancies between this statement and the facts, such as the timing of the Ice Queen's realignment, the timing of the injunctions at various ports, etc., these discrepancies are deliberately ignored, and in the end, the pressure on the Ice Queen's disappearance is all on the side of the Kingdom of England.
Although the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Deliad do not share a border, this does not mean that the Kingdom of England has no scruples about Dariat.
In fact, Dagliat produced a special type of steel that produced a steam engine that was five times more effective than other steam engines, and the armor of ships made from this steel was lighter and stronger.
Now the Kingdom of England is negotiating with Dalyat a large number of cooperation projects to introduce this kind of steel, not only he is negotiating, but even the old rival of the Kingdom of Sigma, as well as the French Empire and the United Kingdom of France are negotiating similar business with Dalyat, everyone knows who can negotiate this steel, then who is likely to quickly improve the strength of the sea and affect the existing maritime control areas of various countries, of which the most affected is naturally the Kingdom of England.
So the Kingdom of England attaches great importance to this matter, as early as a year ago, when the metal was just manufactured, they contacted Dyriat for the first time, and Dyriat had repeated consultations and negotiations, and now although other countries are involved, the situation has become a little out of control, but in general, some things have been negotiated with Dyriat, and they are waiting to sign a trade agreement with the queen.
But now that the ports of their colony have expelled Queen Dariat's personal ships, the ships are now out of touch, which directly affects the steel trade agreement that has been negotiated, and gives other subsequent countries an opportunity, and it is no exaggeration to say that the efforts of the Ministry of Commerce of the Kingdom of England for the past year have all been in vain.
Dagliat is different from the Kingdom of England, although the king and royal family of the Kingdom of England still have a little power, but this power can no longer constitute a key influence on the country's major decisions, and can only influence the trend before the decision is designated, and the parliament is the political center of the Kingdom of England.
However, the queen of Dalyat has absolute rule in this country, and any decision she makes will affect the direction of the country, just like the agreement that is about to be signed now, but because of a note sent by the queen to send a maid, it was completely nullified, and the Kingdom of England was completely caught off guard.
Seeing that the trade of the new metal took a turn, not only the countries that watched the maritime supremacy of the Kingdom of England, but even countries such as Mozambique that were not very interested in sea power began to send people to Dalyat, after all, this metal was not only used to make ship armor, but also used to make all kinds of weapons and chariots.
When the outside world was in a uproar because of the disappearance of the Ice Queen, on the small island in the Falling Star Sea, the crew and passengers of the Ice Queen were extremely comfortable, and even when they knew that they were going to leave and continue the next trip, they were a little reluctant.
The old captain, the old Belen, and the sailors of the Queen who participated in the treasure hunt for the bottom of the sea, knew that there must be a large amount of priceless Okada metal buried in the bottom of the sea, and if they did not salvage it in time, it would not be known whether the metal would still be in the sea when they came back next time, because the force of the ocean current would take them to unknown places.
With the exact location of the sea, two days is not a short time, nor is it very long, after all, all the Okada metal is buried in the thick soil, and it takes a lot of extra effort and a needle in a haystack to find a piece of the soil on the bottom of the sea.
Fortunately, the crew brought by the old captain are some dependents with the power of the sea, and when they use the power of the clan, they are as flexible as all kinds of marine fish in the ocean, and they can also dive for a long time, and they can see objects in the darkness of the deep sea, and it will be easier for them to find the metal buried deep in the silt of the seabed.
It has to be said that they were very lucky, and in two days they found more than a dozen pieces of Okada metal, the largest of which was even as big as a square table, and once these metals were sold, everyone who participated in the salvage could become a monopoly.
So when they learned that they were going to leave, all those involved in the salvage mission had an urge to stay, but when the old captain was stunned and even said the name of the queen, everyone calmed down, as if the queen herself had cooled their hot minds with ice and snow.
They know very well that although each of them is a free man, they are actually slaves of Queen Dalyat, no matter how rich they are and how much power they have, they can only obey the queen's orders, and the consequences of disobeying orders are definitely not something they can afford.
In this way, most of the people on the ship continued to start the next voyage with reluctance to this sea area.
However, just as the Ice Queen sailed away from this sea area, free from the influence of the residual inert energy in the surrounding air, and got in touch with the road beacon tower of Dalyat, the old captain was stunned by the news from the outside world, and at the same time he also received an order from the queen, and he didn't know what it meant by an order, so he habitually came to Leo to ask for countermeasures.
"Let you change the shape of the ship and drive the ship directly to the secret dock?" Leo looked at the content of the order, and then looked at the information collected by the old captain in the past few days, and quickly understood what was going on, and then looked at the old captain with a slightly strange expression, and said: "Do you know that Queen Daliat asked you to do this to deal with the Kingdom of Inge, but now you put these in front of me, an Inge person, and ask me what to do?"
Although these materials are fragmented, Leo still easily connects them, and it is very easy to see that Dagliat is dissatisfied with the trade agreement with the Kingdom of England, just as the Ice Queen has an accident to make excuses, cancel the previously negotiated agreement, and then bring in other countries to compete and get the most out of it.
"Huh?" the old captain looked shocked when he heard this, and looked down at the contents on it, except for the mention of the Kingdom of England in the signing ceremony of the cancellation of the trade agreement at the beginning, there was no other content related to the Kingdom of England in other materials, so he couldn't help but feel puzzled and puzzled by Leo's judgment.
"Don't think about it, just do what your queen tells you to do!" Although he is from Inge, Leo does not care much about helping the Kingdom of Inge obtain the right to trade in special metals, compared to this, he is more concerned about the problems he encounters at hand, so he returns the information to the old captain, gives a simple suggestion, and without continuing to talk, he kicks the old captain out of the room, closes the door, and takes out the bones of the Wycombe Abbey who has just recovered the storage space.
Leo had noticed an anomaly in the bones of the Wycombe Abbey people yesterday, thinking that it was due to some natural changes caused by the change of environment, but when he noticed that the very important feather was missing from the storage space, he realized that the change in the bones was due to the feather.
When he found out this, Leo was completely stunned, the feather he was going to give to the old man Rembrandt, and he also promised the old man Rembrandt, and the most important thing was that he didn't remember how he got the feather at all, because the memories related to this feather and the crystallized magic book were all like to be erased, and he couldn't remember it at all.
Now the feather fused with the Wycombe Abbey corpse, causing the Wycombe Abbey corpse to change, which made him not know what to give to the old man when he saw him.
After a period of overwhelm, Leo had to accept the loss of the feather, and he now regretted that he still didn't know what the feather was for.
But now seeing the feather and the body of the Wycombe Abbey merge together gave Leo a guess about the origin of the trade, that is, the feather may have something to do with the Light of Origin.
Unfortunately, this was just a guess, and without the feather, Leo couldn't be sure if the guess was correct or not, but then again, even if the feather was still there, he wouldn't have been able to find out where the feather came from, otherwise, he wouldn't have waited until now.
Although the body of the Wycombe Abbey had changed, Leo was puzzled by the fact that he had not found any essential changes in the corpse, just like in the beginning, this corpse could perfectly change its own power form, fusing any kind of transcendent power.
However, Leo wouldn't really think that the body of the Wycombe Abbey had not changed in essence, after all, the feather itself was a mysterious object with extraordinary powers, and now that it was integrated into the body of the Wycombe Abbey people, it would only bring more and stronger changes in ability, and the reason why he didn't find it was probably because of the wrong method.
Thinking of this, Leo tried to test the corpse by other means, but there was still no result.
"Is that the reason?" Leo pondered for a moment, looked at the hand with the twin gloves, thought for a moment, took the twin gloves off, and then reached out and grabbed the body of the Wycombe Abbey.
As soon as Leo's hand touched the Wycombe Abbey corpse, the neural network-like corpse immediately climbed up Leo's fingers like a molten liquid, covering Leo's skin in the blink of an eye.
Immediately afterwards, Leo felt as if his skin had been scorched with a red-hot iron, and a sharp pain transmitted from the skin covered by the Wycombe Abbey corpse.
Leo instinctively used psionic energy and various forces within him to try to peel the body of the Wycombe Abbey from his own skin, but he found it seemed a little late, the body of the Wycombe Abbey had merged with his skin, becoming his second nervous system as he had best conceived it.
But Leo was not happy at all, because this uncontrollable change often hid great danger, and as he expected, before he had time to think about countermeasures, a force emanated from the second nervous system, enveloping his whole body, and as soon as his eyes were black, the whole person appeared on a strange and desolate planet.