CHAPTER 24 HORTON PORT
"Sir?Sir?"
A cramped voice woke Sean up from his dream. As soon as he looked up, he saw a young boy wearing a conductor hat looking at him nervously.
His first reaction was not to talk to him, but to subconsciously touch the suitcase in his arms.
Fortunately, the box stayed there safely, and a thin steel chain tied his wrists and the box's keyhole together, which was safer.
He breathed a sigh of relief. The box contained most of his wealth, a total of three thousand pounds, and the old book, and other greetings were placed in the suitcase on the shelves above his head, which was not very worrying.
He was a little worried about which one, and the book of the old days was still the three thousand gold pounds, but after a moment, he decided not to think about this issue anymore.
"What's the matter?" he asked the boy.
"I'm here to arrive. You said you want me to remind you in Port Holden."
Sean immediately remembered what he said to the boy when he got in the car. He nodded thankfully, threw a silver Tucker's coin to the boy, turned around and got off the train with his suitcase.
On the platform, steam was everywhere. Through the diffuse steam and the crowds coming and going, Sean could see the busy scene of the port city.
Holden Harbor is the largest port in the south of the Kingdom of Brighton and the third largest commercial city in the country. Sailing ships and steamships leading overseas are constantly stopped every day. The train station is located near the port. The train transports export goods from all over Brighton here and loads them directly with ships. You can also see the towering masts of sail warships and the ugly paddle wheels of steamships emitting black smoke in the port.
Just woke up and the chaos and vitality scene in front of him made his previous experience unreal like a dream.
But he knew that was real, and the culprit was lying in his suitcase.
He took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. At around nine o'clock, he slept in the car for a whole day, which made him very energetic at this time.
He had a sloppy breakfast in a roadside tavern, and then went to the Shipping Bureau to inquire about the time and price of the tickets.
The nearest passenger sailboat has just set sail, and the next flight is two hours later, and there are two more in the afternoon, including a steamboat.
However, the reputation of steamships in this era is not good, with high noise and smoke, so you can't sleep at night, and the speed of the boat is not particularly ideal. The boat ticket is cheaper than sailing boats.
Sean was not in a hurry to buy tickets, he hadn't figured out where to go next.
Sean wandered around the streets near the port for a while, and then opened a room in a hotel near the bay. He locked himself in the room, stood in front of the window, and while looking at the scenery in the harbor in the distance, he silently calculated his next plan.
Open the suitcase, there was a tourist map he bought on the road, and the entire peninsula was exposed and on the map.
If you go out to sea, you can go to Faris or Dravens, but he doesn't speak the language there. He looks to the other end of the sea, across the storm sea in the south, to the desert-covered Sulander, and Esia further south, where it is a colony of the Kingdom of Brighton, and maybe you can go there for a while.
However, no matter how you look at it, you are overreacting and too dangerous.
He shook his head, thinking that it would be better not to go to sea. Going far away is a very dangerous thing in this era. Maybe one day when you encounter Shanghai disaster or get infected with tropical diseases, you will disappear.
Sean looked to the north of the peninsula again. In that vast area, the map was not marked incompletely, and the symbols representing cities and villages were particularly rare. In ancient times, it was once the territory of the Nord Kingdom, and the barbarians from the north often went south in groups to plunder.
However, as early as five hundred years ago, after the last King Nod died of leprosy, it was gradually taken over by the Kingdom of Brighton and became the northern territory of the Kingdom, an area with poor resources but able to provide a large number of excellent military sources.
Maybe it's a good idea to go there.
In that vast land that has been forgotten by the world, hiding identity should be an easy task.
But before he set out, he had to do one thing.
Technology in this era is undoubtedly backward. Without cameras and no fingerprint inspection, it is impossible for ordinary police to find themselves, and they will not even associate the death of Little Lanster to themselves.
From this point of view, even if you don’t leave the sword castle, you may not encounter any danger.
But he is not sure if there are other criminal investigation and tracking technologies in this world.
Since there are supernatural powers like the Book of the Old, a world in the mirror, and a fairy in the lake, it is hard to say that there will be no strangers in the police in the Sword Castle, or the Duke of Lanster, who master some magical tracking techniques, such as magic.
Another thing that makes him worry is the reason to learn it.
He had always thought that this was a world where scientific and technological civilization had just emerged, so he was not disgusted with rational learning and even had a good impression of it. However, after experiencing a series of previous events and discovering the strangeness and mystery of this world, he could not help but think of the role played by rational learning in it.
There is no doubt that rationality has been covering up the truth, using science and reason as an excuse to prevent people from exploring ancient secrets, covering up all gods, magic, supernatural powers and legends related to them, and even tampering with history for this purpose.
This kind of behavior is absolutely unusual. You should know that in the modern society where he originally lived, even if most people think that there is no mysterious force in the world, there is no regulation that suppresses people from exploring related content.
There are often scammers who pretend to be a fool, fool the public and create many farces.
In this world where mysterious powers really exist, it is suppressed everywhere and concealed its existence, which inevitably makes people wonder whether there is an ulterior motive behind this.
What made Sean even more worried was whether reason had learned to master this power.
Once the disappearance of Little Lanster is found to be related to the supernatural power, will rational learning intervene?
Deep in his heart, he learned rationality somewhat and connected it with the ancient Inquisition and the Witch Hunting Association.
Maybe there are hunters on the way to hunt him down now.
These speculations and hypotheses worried him, so he had to do enough cover before they disappeared.
If these people finally noticed themselves, he hoped to be able to direct these people's eyes elsewhere, the farther away from them, the better, and better to lead them overseas, so that he can study the mysterious power in the book with peace of mind in the distant north.
He had made up his mind to make up his mind, so he put on his coat and went out.
Walking on the streets of the port, he looked for the goals he needed to plan.
A drunken drunk man lying on the street caught his attention. He was dressed in tattered clothes and a dirty wig. It can be seen that he had a good social status before. In port cities like Xilai, you can always see such people, perhaps because of failure in investment, perhaps because of a ship sinking, or because of a belief in life in a shipwreck, or because of a useless and desperate person.
The port city occasionally cleans up these people, arrests them and sent them to the navy as sailors, or simply sent them to the coal mines as hard labor.
But most of the time, I just let it live and die.
Chapter completed!