Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 207: set off
Out of curiosity, Lawrence and the others focused their attention on a middle-aged man in a full tuxedo and top hat who was arguing with a pot belly, and the conductor behind the iron railing.
After listening to a few words of their quarrel, Lawrence immediately understood the reason for their quarrel: The businessman wanted to transfer the ticket from this afternoon to tomorrow afternoon because of something, but the conductor told the businessman that he could only follow the rules. Give him a 20% refund, and then buy another two tickets for tomorrow.
"Sorry, two gentlemen, I just accidentally heard the content of your quarrel on the side." Seeing the two people quarreling more intensely, Lawrence walked over and said to them. "I think I have a better plan here—"
After a few simple negotiations, it may have worked because of the high charm inherent in being a warlock. Lawrence was very fortunate to buy two first-class tickets from the businessman at a 10% discount. Now he and Syfiel can set off this afternoon.
At noon, they had lunch with Kogg in an outside restaurant and said goodbye to each other, and then rushed to Bofors Gunpowder and Metal Processing Factory to bid farewell to the dwarf Eugene, and prepared a trip for the little doll Nora by the way. box.
"Is this the construct doll you made?" After watching Nora jump out of the space bag to salute herself and say hello, Eugene showed a surprised look, as a member of the dwarves who are good at crafting various weapons. Elite, he knows how difficult it is to make such intelligent constructs.
Of course, even if Eugene had already boldly guessed, he would never think that Nora was a self-conscious divine construct creature. Naturally, Lawrence will keep this secret and will not reveal it to others.
"It should be said that the birth of this construct doll is related to me." Lawrence shrugged. "But the birth process of this doll is not repeatable. I think you should know what I mean."
"Understand, you spellcasters will always give everyone a surprise—" As a dwarf, Eugène certainly knew that this time was no longer suitable for asking. So he quickly changed the subject, "You mean to ask me now that you want to prepare a suitcase for this little guy for a long trip?"
"Yes, because I will take the train this afternoon to the Republic of New China, west of the Great Mountain Range." Lawrence nodded. "I hope I can be with my prettier doll instead of letting her stay alone in the space bag."
The reason why the space bag cannot transport most of the creatures is because the space in the bag is in a completely vacuum state, and the creatures that need to breathe cannot survive inside. Although Nora can survive in it, she is not Shumei's character that can stay anywhere as long as she has knowledge. In her character, she is no different from a human being. So Lawrence ran here after asking the opinion of the doll, hoping to create a suitcase for her to use.
"I understand what you mean." Eugene nodded, "You are the train at 6:00 in the afternoon. I promise to get this thing out for you within an hour. You don't have to worry because this can't catch the train."
Dwarves are indeed a race that is naturally good at crafting such props. Only 40 minutes later, a suitcase that could make Nara lie down comfortably was created.
This is a wooden box wrapped in fine brown cowhide on the outside. The eight corners are properly wrapped with engraved copper sheets. There are also a lot of copper parts on the top for reinforcement, which looks very strong. The inside of the box was wrapped with sponge and white velvet. Eugène did not know where he took out a lot of goose down and made a small goose down pillow for Nora.
"This is amazing." The one in front of me looks very ordinary at first glance, but every detail reveals a luxurious leather suitcase. The little doll happily said through the connection on the soul, "It is very suitable for me to rest inside."
"...you like it." Lawrence said helplessly, because he found that this box would look like a small coffin if it ignored the handle reinforced with copper components. But since he had promised Nora before, as long as she liked it, he could only express his approval.
Ten minutes later, Lawrence stood at the gate of the factory and shook his hands with the farewell Eugene, then carried the suitcase with Nora sleeping inside and boarded a carriage and drove towards the train station.
The station is still as noisy as it was when I came, but because of the heavy fog today, Lawrence can only see a vague silhouette. At the same time, I heard the loud shouts of the vendors who seemed a little vague as if they were separated by a floor, the clamors of the patrol police after spotting the thief, and the noise of children.
Because the train station is located near the edge of the city, it was also the focus of the murloc attack a few days ago when the murloc attacked on a large scale. Fortunately, the guards were prepared for battle in advance and used the weapons on the train to inflict heavy losses on the fish people.
For this reason, there are not many traces of war around the train station. Similarly, the surrounding residents were basically unaffected by the war, and soon returned to their old lives.
Even because the traffic was cut off due to the war a while ago, the number of people and materials flowing around the train station was much more than usual. The people around also took this opportunity to work hard, trying to make up for the losses caused by the murloc invasion.
After passing through the gate where the two armed soldiers stood guard, Lawrence once again walked into the train station in Huguang City. It's just different from the south platform where he came before. This time he will cross the railway via the flyover to the north platform used by international trains.
After passing through the crowded waiting room, Lawrence and the others followed the marble staircase to the second floor of the waiting hall, and then stepped onto a black wrought iron flyover through a door on the second floor.
The entire flyover is wrapped in white steam. From time to time, some of the mist is blown away by the wind driven by trains, revealing the rows of armored steam trains lying on the rails like steel dragons and standing on the platform beside it. Are the crowds of passengers ~lightnovelpub.net~ at the train station? Release me quickly. "Just an ordinary wooden box can't stop Nora's perception, so after discovering that Lawrence had arrived at a place she was interested in, she immediately expressed her desire to come out and have a look.
"Okay—" Lawrence immediately opened the box in his hand, and then Nora jumped directly onto Lawrence's left shoulder and sat down.
Passengers coming and going on the flyover quickly saw a peculiar scene: a young man with white hair and blue eyes was walking on the flyover with a movable doll on his shoulder, and the cute doll was still Turning his head around, as if looking at something.
After crossing the railroad along the flyover, Lawrence and the others came to the ticket gate. A young man in a red uniform with gold trim took the ticket for him and Safir and then pointed to them at the end of the hall. Brown oak door. At the same time speaking with a formulaic smile.
"Welcome to the Republic Express. As passengers of the first-class carriage, you can go to the dedicated waiting room opposite and enjoy free drinks and snacks in it. At the same time, there are boutique shops in the waiting room of the first-class carriage, which can provide you with carefully selected goods Finally, there is a special waiter reminder in the waiting room of the first class carriage, which can save you the trouble of staring at the clock all the time."
"Thank you!" After listening to the introduction, Lawrence touched the brim of his top hat and greeted the waiter, and then took the empty box in one hand, and walked to the lounge with one hand and Sefei. After all, it is only 3:30 in the afternoon, and there are still more than two hours before boarding.