Creator's Steam Fairy

Loria sneaked a piece of chocolate into her mouth, and Alice found out that she had to part with one reluctantly.

Luckily she secretly hid several jars.

Honey, spices, dried vegetables, cheese and local specialty ham, dried beef.

Luria felt that life in the wilderness might not be as scary as the rumors said, so she ran to the second floor of the rented house and wrote a sentence on the vanity mirror with her lipstick.

Simple water purifier, bags of sand, a lot of wood and coal, some spirits, kitchen utensils and a three-piece set of fire scythe, tinder, and flint.

It's backwards, but it works.

All kinds of tools, tents and thick quilts for camping in the wild; Abigail’s packed clothes, shoes and hats that she originally put in the rented house... and the weapons, ammunition, fuel and refills she bought High pressure steam tank.

Some things are completely useless, but always have to hide?

"You have nothing to do with these people... right?"

"Thank you for your concern, Miss Romero, we have our own solution."

The implication was that they couldn't find them at all... Jr. Delgado was a careful businessman, and the materials he prepared far exceeded Luria's expectations.

Fortunately, the transfer is almost over.

"Mom, I'm going out."

After Delgado and his men left, leaving only the carriage waiting outside, Loria uttered the extremely shameful retraction command.

Abigail looked shocked, and Alice looked like she really was.

"let's go."

Loria draws their attention away.

Waved to Mrs. Crespo who bowed to her on the terrace of the house next door.

The stateless lady priest, the lady guard who couldn't figure out which country she was from, and the country maid who couldn't prove that she was Galian, stepped into the carriage heading out of the city.

And nearly an hour and a half after they left the city of Zambia, the order to seal off the entire city to catch spies and saboteurs came late.

'I'm watching you. '

As for the time when her message was known by a certain 'big shot', it was already July.

……

Bending down and using the manual joystick to adjust the seat, Luria held the steering wheel nervously. Although she had gone through half an hour of emergency training, she looked at a large number of instruments and joysticks that she didn't know what was in front of her. Feeling flustered.

Alice, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, read the thick manual with great interest, turned the rocker on the console from time to time, lowered the glass, raised the armor, lowered the armor, raised the glass, and opened the rear sunroof...

Well, there are a lot of unrealized parts, it seems to be used to operate weapons... This machine is too beautiful!

The front and the front compartment occupy about three meters in length, while the rear compartment occupies more than four meters.

Abigail patted the boiler and touched the overly comfortable upholstery on the seat. It felt very novel. She didn't understand why the front compartment and the rear compartment were separated by pitch-black steel, leaving only one that needed to be manually operated. The small window that opens.

She didn't know that this was designed to keep at least the other half of the people when they were unfortunately pierced by shells.

The military-type 'Defender of the Holy Cult' equipped by the Alemanni Empire does not have such a design, and the space is very cramped.

Not counting those expensive motor-driven turrets and various auxiliary attack instruments, the cost of the vehicle itself is even less than half of the civilian 'Defender of the Holy Cult'.

call……

After fumbling for a long time, Luo Liya finally recalled the knowledge of emergency training... a small part of it.

Twist the valve, press the most conspicuous red safety switch, the steam engine roars, and the vehicle body vibrates slightly.

Turn the steering wheel on the left, and the push rod on the console from brake to forward.Pressing the mechanism, the right hand pushed the long iron rod next to the seat forward one space with great effort.

The roar of the steam engine became louder, and the six exhaust pipes on both sides of the front of the car sprayed out white smoke.Soon, the 'Defenders of the Faith' moved forward.

The operation is indeed very simple, but the possibility that she is born to be an excellent armored steam car driver cannot be ruled out.

Miss Loria thought proudly.

Chapter 34 Don't Imitate

Driving a manned machine for the first time in life, there will always be some uncontrollable excitement.

Luo Liya was very excited at the moment. The 'Defender of the Holy Cult' was advancing at the lowest speed on the flat avenue outside the city. It was slightly bumpy, but the soft seats and spacious space made the bumps have little impact on people. .

She happily touched here and there, and figured out the functions of many joysticks and buttons... Learning swordsmanship from books for a month is not as good as picking up a sword and swinging it casually for an hour at the training ground.

The front armor was raised, she frantically shook the joystick, and the front armor lowered.

The hood popped up, and the high-pressure steam engine and densely rotating mechanical parts inside made more noise. Alice leaned out from the window. She flipped the front of the car lightly, stepped back on the popped hood, and Drilled back quickly.

Lights on, lights off, lights off, lights on.

Luo Liya set the gear lever to 0, slowed down slowly, and then pulled the left push lever back to 'brake'. After a piercing jet sound, the 'Defender of the Holy Cult' stopped.

It is very convenient to use high-pressure gas cylinders as power, and it can be started immediately...but this thing should be used in emergencies.

She tightened the valve and shouted to the back: "Boiler Master, the boiler is on."

"Me? Me? I'm the boiler manager?"

Abigail was stunned for a moment and immediately jumped up from her seat. She was sitting in the rear compartment seat that was arranged in a zigzag shape and was closest to the front end of the boiler.

Pressure gauge, water temperature gauge, negative pressure gauge, water level gauge, voltage and other monitoring instruments.

Various valves and indicator lights, switches and buttons.

The maid who had burned the boiler in her hometown figured it out after a little research... Although it was bigger and more advanced than the boiler in her hometown that could only burn coal, and could use a variety of fuels, the basic principle was still the same.

She left the seat and ran to the place where the fuel was piled behind the car—fuel oil and coal. Without thinking about it, she chose cheaper coal, and pushed the small wooden boxes to the boiler. The coal that was crushed into small pieces in the box was poured in together with the accompanying firelighter.

Press the switch of the automatic ignition device, tilt a little, and the chimney with the roof bent to the rear emits black smoke.

And then...and then no more.

Loria was in a daze, wondering what to think, Alice continued to read the instructions carefully with the help of the magic ball of light, while Abigail stared at the water temperature gauge with a good eye.

It takes time to boil the water in this huge boiler.

They all seem to have forgotten that they are still on the way to escape, but after a busy night, no one brought up this tense topic... Anyway, it is nearly ten kilometers away from the outpost of the city. Blockade is one thing, and there is a purpose. To hunt them down is another matter.

Take a break.

Under Alice's silent gaze, Loria reluctantly gave her a piece of paper-wrapped chocolate.

Yesterday morning I practiced shooting, I swam in the afternoon, I even crossed half of the city to rescue a kidnapped girl in the evening, and then I ran around all night to prepare. After a short pause to relax, she fell asleep sitting up.

After an unknown amount of time, she woke up to the sound of steam and mechanical vibrations.

The water is boiling.

She blinked her big blank eyes for a while, then subconsciously took out a candy from her small pocket and stuffed it into her mouth.

This time she automatically ignored Alice's gaze, not out of stinginess, but out of the nature of small animals protecting food.

Loria repeated the simple operation expressionlessly, and the 'Defender of the Holy Cult' set off along the road again... On the complicated instrument panel, one of the pointers moved slowly until it swayed slightly near the reading of 10.

It's faster than the slow-moving carriages in the city.

After the long boot time caused by hypoglycemia passed, Luria felt that she was much more proficient.

Time to speed up!

Directly move the gear lever to the 2 position with both hands, the noise of the mechanical operation becomes obvious, and the moving speed also begins to rise continuously, and the pointer indicating the speed reaches the 17 position and then stops.

"Here." Alice beside her pointed to a small silver valve handwheel and said, "Control the intake valve or something."

Loria twisted as she said, and the roar of the steam engine instantly became louder, and the speed pointer also quickly moved to the right.

"Ow!"

fly up.

It was Miss Loria who flew.

Is this what comes from the rigid suspension and belongs to the power of the earth?

Clenching the steering wheel with both hands, Luo Liya felt that she was constantly being thrown up and down slightly by a force. So the thick seat cushion is to protect the buttocks?

The wheel ran over a dent in the road, and Miss Luria, who was constantly moving up and down, leaned forward and hit her head on the steering wheel.

Abigail screams from behind, and she huddles with her hands to her head.

Ben was pointing the way aside. Alice, who was not injured because she was holding on to the handrail, twisted the silver valve in the opposite direction, and reached out to hold the steering wheel. After a while, the speed slowed down. She cooperated with the gear lever and slowly slow the 'sacred religion defenders' stopped.

'Be sure to fasten all three seat belts before starting! ! ! '

She turned to the first page of the instruction manual, pointed to the bold sentence, showed it to the little pink hair who had finally recovered from her panic, and said, "Or... I'll do it."

Luo Liya pulled the push rod to the brake position, curled her lips in disdain, she is a senior car commander who has undergone formal emergency training and has an hour of actual rough operation experience (no other words here), it was just a momentary carelessness , not next time!

"Then let you try it." The lady driver with a red forehead opened the car door and jumped onto the road, silently saying in her heart, don't cry and beg me to take over later.

Deputy captain, you underestimate steam!

After quickly changing seats, from left shoulder to right hip, from right shoulder to left hip, plus one around the waist, Loria and Abigail carefully fastened three seat belts, and tied themselves firmly in the on the seat.

Alice unhurriedly looked through the manual again against the real thing, and then started the steam car carefully.

The speed of the car quickly exceeded the speed of a two-horse carriage... unexpectedly smooth.

Loria puffed her face in disbelief, but saw Alice pull down the goggles on her forehead, adjusted the lens with one hand, and then continued to adjust the valve. The speed gradually increased, and the bumpy feeling became stronger. Bound Loria gripped the handrail nervously.

In third gear, she felt her teeth chatter, and Abigail was still adding coal, trembling with the small shovel.

In fourth gear, she felt like a leaf in a storm, with forces in different directions constantly pushing and pulling her, while Alice's eyes lit up, as if she was enjoying herself.

In fifth gear, the seat belt strangled her all over, and Abigail's screams even drowned out all kinds of noises and reached her ears.

Alice laughed and rolled down the window. She loved the machine.

In sixth gear, the speed pointer stuck tightly to the far right of the instrument, as if dead and motionless, and some kind of obviously not good alarm sounded.

Loria clenched her teeth and rolled her eyes to give up resistance. She felt that her brain was numb... and Abby, Abby hasn't made a sound for a long time.

When she felt that her ribs and waist were about to break, the Defender of the Holy Cult, who had lost the Boiler Chief, finally stopped slowly due to lack of motivation.

Chapter 35

Loria opened the car door and took a big breath of fresh air. She felt that she was about to be shattered. After a while, she asked feebly, "Where is this? How far are we away?"

Alice still couldn't get enough of it, she took out the map in her coat pocket, and while recalling the route she had passed, she checked the map to determine the direction.

"The city of Zambia is about... 80 kilometers south, and a little further will reach the coastal city of Tana." Alice asked after making a few gestures on the map: "I heard that the beach of Tana is like paved. It is as dazzling as gold dust, how about it, do you want to take a stroll?"

The area actually controlled by the Kingdom of Zambia is only the long and narrow coastal plain in the east of the peninsula and a small piece of coastal alluvial plain in the northwest of the peninsula, which only accounts for about [-]% of the theoretical land, and the remaining nearly [-]% of the land is broken plateaus and continuous land. The mountain range in the mountains has long been reduced to a disaster-occupied wilderness, with few people and only herdsmen in the fringe areas.

Fortunately, these two plains, separated by plateaus and mountains, are the most fertile areas in the whole peninsula.Although the backward industry and technology have always been ridiculed by foreign countries, even the Kingdom of Pasta, Zambia is rich in products-the offshore fishery and animal husbandry are large-scale, and agricultural products can even be exported by sea. Litania, Pasta, and the Circle of Enlightenment were exchanged for machines and technologies that eliminated an unknown number of generations.

The road to the south is flat and unobstructed, connecting many reasonably prosperous coastal towns in series, which is good for supplies and movement, but it is also the same for the possible pursuers... Go west and cross the actual control area of ​​the kingdom, and you will soon reach the wilderness... ...resupply and movement will be difficult...but those places are so inaccessible, it is not easy to find them in the wilderness.

"Go west, let's rest in the wilderness... Wait, let me rest for a while." After thinking for a while, Loria made up her mind. She rolled her eyes at Alice with all her strength and said, "This time Please slow down, if I also faint, you can go down and push the cart by yourself!"

After a while, she regained her strength and went to check Abigail and the boiler in the back compartment... The poor maid shook her head and had been unconscious for a long time.

Alice couldn't help laughing at Luria's frivolous footsteps when she left. The eldest lady's physique is too poor.

With the first ray of morning light in the morning, Alice decided to take a walk around while Loria was studying the boiler. She unbuckled her seat belt, supported herself out of the seat with both hands, and stepped on the ground as soon as she stepped on the ground. His legs were weak and he fell to the ground.

Fenmao's crisp laughter came from the carriage, mixed with laughter and cursing of "serve it" and "stupid".

Only then did Alice realize that her legs were so shaken that she was almost unconscious... Let's drive more slowly on the road ahead.

This was a major mistake, and she secretly reviewed it—too indulged herself in enjoying the excitement brought by extreme speed, and actually lost the basic power of self-protection.

In the compartment, after helping Abigail, who was still angry, to unfasten her seat belt, Loria patted and touched for a long time, and probably understood how to use the boiler, although she didn't quite understand the function of the large row of instruments , but it did not prevent her from making a correct judgment after playing with two universal machines - this is a large kettle loaded with universal machines.

But she had a new doubt - the steam engine in the front of the car drove the generator to generate electricity and light up the lights.Then why not use the electricity from the generator to boil water for the boiler...the steam from the boiled water can drive the steam engine...the steam engine can drive the generator to generate electricity.

I seem to have imagined the legendary perpetual motion machine?

Fortunately, she is somewhat self-aware of her poor scientific knowledge. Although she doesn't understand why she can't do this, she can guess that there is probably something wrong in a certain link.

Thinking about the horrible additional loss when she used magic herself, she also understood.

Perhaps the loss will always exist.

She didn't know that in the old calendar period, there was a man named Da Vinci who tried to create a perpetual motion machine, and also designed many subtle gadgets - but still failed in the end, because it violated the theorem of energy conservation .