Embers of Embers

Chapter 505 Lingbing Bay
It was different from the itinerary when going to Gaulnaro. At that time, the cruise ship carrying Lorenzo was specially used for enjoyment. The huge ship was full of entertainment facilities, bacon and wine, but the current morning glory advance ship can Without those things, the warehouses were filled with steel and gunpowder, and what was even worse were the sleeping armors.
Different from the relaxed joy before, nameless depression covered every part of the ship. Most people did not know the purpose of this voyage, but perhaps because of the heavy rain, their moods sank together.
Walking along the swaying corridor, Lorenzo was carrying food and beer from the canteen in his hands. The conversation with the shrike successfully made Lorenzo miss the meal time. Fortunately, the chefs left some food for them. Quite a few things.
"Why are you here?"
Lorenzo stopped and saw a familiar girl standing on one side of the corridor. She was looking at the sea outside the porthole.
Dark clouds and heavy rain swallowed up the night, and the only source of light was the passing thunder. They surged wildly, illuminating the sky and sea. The rain hanging on the glass slightly distorted the world, and everything was lost in the distorted light. The original appearance.
"Come and see the storm."
Seleu looked directly at the core of the thunder, which was stirred by the storm and rose at the other end of the sea.
"What's so good about this thing?"
Lorenzo came over, leaned on the porthole, and looked carefully.
There was nothing unusual, it was just an ordinary sea storm. If there was anything strange about it, it was that it was too violent, and the sea kept rising and falling.
"Aren't you going to rest?"
Lorenzo asked. It was not too late, but because life at sea was really monotonous, everyone would usually return to their rooms early if there was nothing to do.
"No, I feel a little uncomfortable and want to go out for a walk." Seliu looked back.
"Is the air pressure low? Normal reaction."
Lorenzo said, picked up a bottle of beer and handed it to Seleu. Seleu didn't hesitate and reached out to grab it, but when he was about to touch it, Lorenzo stopped his hand and took the bottle back.
"Drinking is not suitable in this situation. You fell into the sea drunk, but no one can save you."
Lorenzo said this, but he bit off the bottle cap and took a sip himself.
"Aren't you afraid of falling?"
"I'm a demon hunter, alcohol has little effect on me."
Under the transformation of the secret blood, the demon hunter's physique has a very strong metabolic ability. The influence of alcohol is only a trivial matter. This ability mainly deals with toxins. Most of the toxins can only cause minor effects on the demon hunters. Influence.
"It's strange."
Seliu looked very puzzled.
"what happened?"
"Everyone drinks to get drunk, but you don't get drunk at all, so why do you still drink?"
Due to her indifferent personality, Seleu had very little communication with the outside world. Outside of working at the Stuart home, she would hardly meet any strangers. Most of the time, she would shut herself in the study room and read books.
Therefore, Seliu's thinking is often quite interesting and becomes weird in places that others would not expect.
"Well... I don't know."
Lorenzo thought for a moment, and he, who was always quick in thinking, didn't know what to say to refute.
"Oh...is this where your room comes from?"
Seliu sighed and pointed to the hatch on the side. She didn't know who designed the Morning Glory Advance. The residential area was like a maze, and the rooms were not clearly marked.
"Oh oh oh, please come in please come in."
Lorenzo said and quickly opened his cabin door.
As a military ship, the Morning Glory Advance has basically no comfort at all. When taking the cruise, Lorenzo's room also had a large sunny living room, soft beds and bathrooms, but there was nothing here, only small rooms. , and an iron bed with only one layer of mattresses, and it was a bunk bed.
The living environment of the cargo ship is much better, but in consideration of safety, Lorenzo decided to let Seleu take the iron-clad ship with him. After all, in case of sudden incident, the cargo ship has little resistance.
"It looks good, much better than I expected."
Seleu glanced at Lorenzo's room, because there was an empty bed in the upper and lower bunks. Lorenzo threw all his messy things on the lower bunk. Among the pile of items, there was a blank space for someone to sit. Seleu could imagine Lorenzo struggling to clear this area.
"What did you expect?"
Lorenzo felt a little embarrassed.
"It's probably full of mushrooms. It's so humid on the ship, they might grow very lush."
Seleu moved the chair over and sat on one side, and Lorenzo followed and sat on the vacant seat on his lower berth.
"So what brings you here?"
Lorenzo asked. It seemed to him that Seleu was not wandering out because of any discomfort. She came to see him and seemed to have been waiting at the door for a long time.
"What else can happen, the Stuart family's trade route."
Seleu said, picking up his bag, which had been hanging behind him, and the light was dim and swaying, so Lorenzo didn't notice it.
"This is our next voyage. Although the civil war in the Viking countries is over, the governance of each region is still governed by the lords."
Seliu spread out the sea chart, but there were some differences between this chart and the one of Shrike. The most obvious thing was that it did not record the existence of the Silent Sea, and there was just a blank space there.
As Lorenzo thought, there are deeper forces in this world that are affecting the direction of the world, and that is the nation-builders. They have always controlled the flow of information. As long as they do not want the world to know, this information can be It will never be leaked out.
"autonomy?"
"Well, their relationship with the Ice Sea King is that the lords are loyal to the king, so the place we are going to on this trip is not only Welrent, but the most important one is Lingbing Bay."
Seleu's fingers moved back and forth on the chart.
Lorenzo had heard of Valente, which was a large island that the Ice King occupied after the civil war and turned it into the capital of the nations and the main city for foreign diplomacy of the Viking nations. But he has never heard of the Bingbing Bay that Seliu mentioned.
"What is Bingbing Bay?"
Lorenzo asked. He had also briefly learned about the Viking countries before, but there was not much useful information at all. They had been in a civil war for a long time, and the information was extremely limited.
"A seaport city within the Viking countries, you can understand it as the main port for their internal trade. Velenert is responsible for the external circulation, so Lengbing Bay ensures the internal trade circulation of the Viking countries.
Our negotiations with the Ice King are almost complete, and the Stuart family's trade has been incorporated into the alliance between Inverg and the Viking nations, but the issue of the internal docking of the Ice Bay has not yet been resolved. "
"The king agreed, but the lord didn't agree? So the Viking countries are not monolithic." Lorenzo felt a little helpless when he heard this.
"I can't help it. Isn't the so-called politics a compromise of the interests of all parties? It's not easy to get these lords to put down their battle axes," Seleu also felt helpless, "but the problem is not this, it is mainly related to those pirates .”
"Most of the ships in the Viking countries originated from the shipyards in Ice Bay. With the cessation of the civil war, some rebellious lords were crushed by the army of the King of the Ice Sea, but some still escaped and became Wandering pirates are harassing various territories internally, and the one that suffers the most is Lingbing Bay."
Seleu pointed to the archipelago of the Viking countries. Most of the islands were uninhabited due to the harsh environment, which had become a refuge for the pirates.
"The end of the civil war has consumed a lot of power of the Viking countries, and it has recovered a lot in recent years, but it has to be used to face the war with Gaulnaro. The King of the Ice Sea has no spare power to encircle and suppress these pirates, they handed over the task to the lords and allowed them to expand their private armed forces to a certain extent."
"Then the lords of Lingbing Bay revolted?"
Lorenzo began to have his own whims.
"How is it possible? He did use his armed forces to fight against pirates, which also led to repeated wars in Lingbing Bay. That lord often participated in battles. He was gone for several months and could not find anyone else!"
Seliu couldn't help shouting, because he couldn't find anyone else, so the cooperation couldn't proceed.
"Ah...this..."
Lorenzo didn't know what to say.
"The lord himself is a very eccentric person. He is obsessed with sailing on the sea. He is so obsessed that some people say that he rarely touches land during the year. Other Vikings like to build some barracks in the territory to expand their military power. Only he is He loves the sea so much that he founded the first large-scale shipyard in the Viking kingdoms. Inverg's technical support is also ready to be implemented in Lingbing Bay, which has more potential for industrial development than other barren territories."
Seliu recalled her partner who had not yet met, and the words of the Viking messengers rolled in her mind.
"Who else is very interested in taboo mysterious legends? It is said that this lord even joined a secret society for this reason. This made other lords who believed in the god Odin hate him so much that they became more and more alienated from him. There is also less and less relevant information.
Also because he has not been in Lingbing Bay for a long time, Lingbing Bay has gradually turned into a chaotic and complicated place... You can think of it as an old Dunling lower town with a slightly more regular structure. "
When Seleu said this, Lorenzo understood.
"Downtown!"
Lorenzo Yile, he has been around in Xiacheng District for many years, and he can be considered a veteran, not to mention that there is a guy on this boat who was the boss in Xiacheng District.
"The lord has finally returned to Lingbing Bay after being missing for almost half a year. We have to stop at Welrent before rushing to that ghost place."
When Seleu thought of the unknown Bingbing Bay and the pirates who were elusive, she felt a little headache.
"That's probably it, do you understand?"
Lorenzo nodded, and immediately reached out and took out a Winchester. The retainer was loaded, and amid the crisp metal sound, Lorenzo looked very interested.
This was indeed something to be happy about. All he had to do all day was to kill monsters. Even Lorenzo felt a little tired of it and needed to chop something else to relieve his mood.
"Cut down violence, protect your employer, I understand."
Seleucid glanced at Lorenzo, not knowing what to say. She knew very well that everyone would draw happiness from different places. Seleucid was reading books, the lord was sailing, and Lorenzo was...him. Something was not normal, and Seliu didn't know how to persuade him.
Fortunately, Lorenzo is an irreplaceable guy, otherwise Seleu really thought that he would be locked up in the Montenegro Hospital for a good treatment, no, Lorenzo has already been in there once, and the disease seemed to be more serious.
Seliu couldn't help but cover his face, and glanced at Lorenzo through the gaps between his fingers. Lorenzo was looking at Seliu with a puzzled look on his face, not knowing why she made such an action.
"Maybe...Lorenzo is really a hopeless guy," Seleu thought to himself.
"By the way, I have something else I want to ask you."
Seliu put down his hand and glanced at the hatch. It was closed tightly. No one should hear the conversation here.
"I passed by the lower part today, probably the warehouse level. I don't know why, but I had a very strange feeling."
Seliu recalled that although the time at sea was boring, it somewhat aroused Seliu's curiosity. She often wandered around the Morning Glory Advance and carefully looked at this advanced iron-clad ship. Today she stepped into the dark cargo room. In the warehouse, it was strictly guarded by soldiers, and a huge circular hatch separated Seliu from the things inside.
She still remembered the feeling at that time. Something came out from the gaps in the steel. They approached her gently and cut herself with the weird blade.
Seriu looked at the cabin door, his heart beat faster, and there was a creeping evil in the darkness in his heart.
This is such a familiar feeling, just like facing a demon, and more than that, Seliu can detect that this is a familiar erosion, as if someone he has seen before is being imprisoned on the other side of the hatch. of demons.
"This voyage is more than just establishing trade, right?"
Seliu was keenly aware of these, not only the things behind the hatch, but also the ship full of soldiers, Shrike and Blue Jade, and the advanced iron-clad ship at his feet.
Lorenzo alone is enough to serve as his own guard and protect the establishment of trade, but this time the arrangement of the purging agency is like sending thousands of troops for himself.
Lorenzo was speechless, he was silent for a while, and then said slightly artificially.
"Children should not inquire into adult matters."
"I'm a Duke. When you see me, you might have to kneel down and kiss my hand."
Lorenzo's cheap smile is obviously useless to Seleu, she knows Lorenzo too well, through those gray-blue eyes, Lorenzo can rarely hide something in front of her, unless he hides that thing Go deeper, into the dark and dirty corners of my heart.
"You don't want to say it."
Seliu stopped questioning Lorenzo. She knew very well that even if she continued to question, all she would get was Lorenzo's bad words. The two of them stayed in a strange silence for a long time.
His eyes wandered uneasily, and the small space made Lorenzo feel very uncomfortable. He did not expect Seleu to grow up so fast, and he had become somewhat like a duke. Although he was not big, he was quite oppressive. He didn't dare to look into Seriu's eyes, for fear of being discovered by her.
Until Lorenzo saw the chart, he suddenly discovered that the location of Lingbing Bay was wrong. It was very deep inside the Viking countries and very close to the blank position on the chart.
What did Lorenzo think of, he became serious and asked.
"Who is the lord of Lingbing Bay?"
"The lord?" Seeing Lorenzo's sudden attitude, Seleu was already used to it, she replied.
"The Vikings called him the Shipbuilder."
She recalled the complicated name.
"Floki Wilgdason."
(End of this chapter)