Chapter 1317 The Railway on the Wasteland

Although the colonists of Midgard have not formally formed an alliance with the "Hall of Silence", there has been no conflict between the two sides. Stone blind barbarians often go to the colonists' trading sites to sell ores and prey, and purchase all kinds of things that cannot be produced in the underground world. Industrial products, generally speaking, the two sides get along fairly well.

If the Midgard mining area is annexed by the Fizen colonists, this area will become the sphere of influence of the "Abyssal Dragon's Nest". Gray Bird doesn't think that the powerful old black dragon and snake people can accommodate the "Silent Palace".

The situation is as dangerous as it is clear.

The survival of the "Palace of Silence" has been firmly tied to the Midgard mining area. If the Midgard mining area cannot be preserved, the "Palace of Silence" must be the next one to be wiped out.

In order to maintain its own safety, Gray Bird believes that the "Silent Temple" has no choice but to accept the olive branch thrown by the Midgard Colonial Company and accept employment to defend the magic crystal mining area in front of its home.

After listening to Gray Bird's analysis, Medea felt the same way, so she asked Gray Bird to be fully responsible for the cooperation with the Midgard Colonial Company. After finalizing the employment contract, she led the warriors of the Stoneblind Barbarians to form a mercenary team , went to the mining area to participate in the defense.

Gray Bird took over the job and accompanied Medea on a trip to the old world.

Medea simply kept Bell, the voice-blind monster, by Gray Bird's side. After all, this guy looks a bit scary, and he is not suitable to be brought to the human villages and towns to show his face.

After arranging things at home, Medea, accompanied by Joan and Ruby, directly cast a spell to teleport to the Far East of the Old World.

The next problem is that they have to try to figure out where they are at this moment.

The "navigation compass" can only present a geographical picture within 30 miles of the surrounding area at most, and the coverage area of ​​this virgin forest has obviously exceeded the scope of the map.

Joan can't see any signs of large villages and towns on the map. As for the small settlements with only a hundred people, it is difficult to distinguish them from the lairs of wild beasts on the map.

He had no choice but to put away the "navigation compass" and said to Medea and Ruby: "It's time for lunch now, let's fly to the sky and have a look, maybe we can see the smoke rising from the town in the distance."

Medea felt that this idea was good, so she blessed herself with a 3-ring "flying technique" to break through the shade of the trees and fly into the clear sky.

Joan and Ruby also used the supernatural ability "shape change", each of them turned into a half-human, half-insect hybrid form, flapping their wings and soaring into the sky.

The three of them looked down at the blue sky above their heads, and their field of vision became extraordinarily wide.

"Look! There seems to be a road over there!"

Medea pointed to the west, and about 40 miles away, at the edge of the jungle, a straight avenue was faintly visible, passing through the sparse bushes, extending from south to north, with no end in sight.

"Where there are roads, there must be settlements." Qiao An looked at the wide avenue passing through the forest, and said in thought, "This road is so smooth, it must have invested a lot of money and manpower, and the daily maintenance costs are also high. It’s not low, it’s unbelievable.”

"That's right, is it necessary to build such a magnificent avenue in such a desolate jungle area?" Medea shook her head in confusion, "It's really a good avenue, but there are no pedestrians on it. It’s a bit of a waste, do people from the Far East have money and no place to spend it?”

Joan thought for a while and said: "The Far East was originally a province of the empire. Last spring, the warlords of the Far East launched a rebellion and occupied the capital of the province not long after. On October 1 of the same year, they announced the establishment of an independent country, that is, The so-called 'Kingdom of Korath'."

"Most of this avenue was built by the rebels in the Far East confiscating farmers. Maybe it has some important military use? After all, there are no metropolises or trading ports in this area. It stands to reason that there is no need to build such a high-standard road. .”

"It really looks like the work of a brutal warlord." Medea felt the same. "I dare say that those workers who were forcibly recruited by the rebels to build roads may not get a few wages."

"Brother Joan, sister Medea, Ruby, I don't think that road is like an ordinary road."

"Miss Ruby" stared straight at the road with a strange expression.

"Have you noticed that there are slender things reflecting light on the road, which looks a bit like iron bars."

"It's really..." Medea also noticed that the road surface was abnormal after observing carefully, "Let's fly over and see what's going on."

Joan was also surprised by what he saw in front of him, nodded, and flew to the road closest to him.

The three of them flew at full speed for half an hour, and finally came to the top of the straight and open avenue, retracted their wings and landed one after another.

Standing on the side of the road and taking a closer look, Joan had to admit that Ruby's doubts made sense—this avenue is not a "highway" in the traditional sense at all!

The wide road surface is very flat, with drainage ditches dug on both sides. The road surface is paved with gravel and parallel sleepers. Four parallel steel rails are fixed on the sleepers and extend straight along the road. There are also steles and signs of unknown purpose.

"This kind of guide rail paved on the road looks familiar..."

Medea touched the scarf, and suddenly her eyes lit up.

"I remembered! Isn't this the kind of track used to carry mine carts in mines!"

"I haven't seen a mine cart track, but I, Ruby, have seen a similar track in the commercial area of ​​Midgard City-the kind of track specially used for driving public carriages."

Ruby looked suspiciously at the railroad tracks that seemed to extend to the end of the horizon, and muttered to herself.

"It's really strange that people from the Far East actually build stagecoach tracks in the wild!"

"This is indeed a track, but what runs on it may not be a stagecoach, and of course it is not a mine cart."

Joan recalled an article she saw in News Pictorial and put forward her own guess.

"This is more likely to be the track of the magic train, also known as the 'railway'."

"Magic train, what is that?"

Medea has lived in the underground world all year round, and she doesn't know much about the emerging things in the surface world.

"It's a new type of transportation that runs on rails. It's a bit like a horse-drawn carriage in a city, but with longer carriages and more sections. It can carry thousands of passengers or hundreds of tons of goods at the same time."

"It's really so powerful?!" Medea looked at Joan in disbelief, and asked, "If the train is really like what you said, it consists of many carriages connected in series and placed on the rails, how many horses will it take?" Can it be dragged?"