"It is true that there are differences in appearance between southerners and northerners, but there shouldn't be that big of a difference between cities, right? In other words, you are the kind of detective depicted in "Hamilton's Detective Stories", and you can use your shoes to How dry or wet the mud and the traces on the palms can be used to judge a person’s origin?”

Xia De was joking, while the man who took the initiative to talk shook his head:

"No, no, I'm not a detective. I'm Jon Boulanger, a professor of geology and folklore at Carson Rik Royal School of Mines from Willendale, leading students to conduct geological surveys locally. As for deduction Your origin is because the people in Green Lake City do not have your temperament."

"I am a writer who traveled the Old World, John Watson. May I ask what kind of temperament I have?" Shade raised his eyebrows and asked, and Professor Boulanger said:

"Adventurer temperament, this is an unstable, risk-seeking and challenge-seeking temperament, but if you look closely, you look like a scholar. In short, there will be no people like you in a dead city like Green Lake City .”

"That's an amazing inference."

Xia De praised, and the other four people in the carriage were indeed not interested in their conversation:

"Because of the materials, I also know quite a few professors of folklore, but I have never seen a professor of folklore and geology like you." "Geology is work, and folklore is my hobby when I was studying. Take your degree away."

Professor Boulanger introduced that Xia De once again expressed his admiration and asked curiously:

"You brought your students here. Did you find a gold mine here, just like the Randall Valley in Carson Rico some time ago?" The four of them looked over at once, and Professor Boulanger hurriedly shook his head:

"Of course not. How could there be gold mines everywhere? I brought students to investigate Green Lake. You must know that the lake must turn green for a period of time every year. The previous view was that this phenomenon It has something to do with algae blooms caused by groundwater pollution, but I think it might also be related to the rare metal veins that exist underground.”

"Could there be veins beneath Green Lake?"

Xia De made a note of this, and then went on to introduce himself;

"I came to the Green Lake area to collect materials because the two cities so close have completely different development conditions. One is declining and the other is thriving. This is really an excellent subject."

"Yes, I'm also thinking about writing a report on the different interpretations of similar legends in these two cities. It's really interesting here."

Professor Boulanger was very talkative. He and Shad talked about the border checkpoints from their respective purposes of coming to the local area, and from the border checkpoints, they talked about the difference between De La Rione and Carson Rique, and from the language differences to the two languages. China's negotiations on the Pantanal region, and expressed their views on the negotiations.

The carriage will not enter the city, but will put a group of people on the edge of the city, where people can take a decent four-wheeled taxi. When getting off the carriage, Mr. Boulanger also invited Xia De to wait with him to pick up his carriage. The carriage can take Xia De to the city center along the way, and the two can continue to talk about the Pantanal area on the way.

Just now, Xia De talked about the environment of the Great Swamp, which made the professor who had never been there very interested.

"Please don't be polite to me. It's the carriage of Paradise Island Pharmaceutical Company. They also sponsored the trip between me and the students." "Oh?"

Xia De felt a little curious, "Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals" was mentioned by Miss Galina, the industry of the great witch Audrey Edwards: "Why do pharmaceutical companies sponsor geological expeditions?"

This is not a very secret thing, and Professor Boulanger doesn't mind talking to the traveling companion he met by accident:

"In fact, few people know that Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals was originally established in the Green Lake area. In addition to producing general medicines such as tonic water for malaria and earthworm oil for trauma, this company is also committed to researching more effects on the human body. Beneficial medicine. They seem to believe that the strange lake water of Green Lake has the effect of prolonging the life of ordinary people, so they sponsor some scholars of geology, mineralogy and environmental science all the year round.”

This is information that Xia De does not know, it sounds like

It seems to be related to the Edwards family's original research on "immortality", and the witch does not seem to have given up on the Edwards family's previous research. Xia De didn't know if the other witches knew about it, but presumably they wouldn't care even if they knew it. After all, researching "immortality" is not illegal, and it is also a very popular topic.

The carriage sent by Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals is very ordinary, but it is much better than the carriage just now. On the way back to the city, Xia De talked to Professor Boulanger about more information about the Pantanal. When the two separated, the professor even told Xia De the hotel where he was temporarily staying, and invited Xia De to come again when he had time. to visit him.

"What a passionate person."

Standing at the corner of the "Glass Avenue" in the center of Mikaela Blast Furnace City, Shad muttered as he looked at the departing carriage.

Looking up, you can see the bustling street scene of a big city, and there are almost smoking chimneys in the background picture of the stretches of new white buildings in the distance. Although limited by the productivity level of the steam age, this city is still incomparable to the hometown of the outsider, but apart from Tobesk, this is the most developed industrial city that the outsider has seen in this world.

Although it is shrouded in the same air polluted by heavy industry as Green Lake City not far away, everything here looks so vigorous and energetic. The sound of carriages crushing the road and the sound of leather shoes and boots trampling on the ground constitute a cheerful movement, and the noisy background sound of talking and selling on the street is also so dynamic.

The scorching smell in the air represents the highly developed steam industry level. The bells of the city in the distance and the whistle of steamboats on the lower reaches of the Duin River make this spring afternoon scene more three-dimensional.

"Sir, can I have a penny?"

While Shad was looking around, the little beggar by the wall raised his dirty brown crumpled hat to him. Xia De looked down. The boy was wearing a bulky white shirt that he picked up somewhere, and the cuffs were **** to keep him warm. His skinny appearance reminded Xia De of the kid who lived in the trash can that he saw in the back alley of the Green Lake Hotel in the morning.

Seeing Xia De looking at him with strange eyes, the boy closed his mouth in fear, but Xia De still took out a 1 pfennig coin and threw it into his hat. The boy who was huddled in the corner thanked him immediately, and Xia De realized that he was disabled, only his right leg was missing from his left leg. So he hesitated, first gave him three more coins, then took two white sugar cubes from his pocket and threw them into his hat.

"Thank you sir!"

The boy hurriedly stuffed the sugar cube into his mouth, as if afraid of being snatched away by someone. Xia De was about to ask him about the street, but the uniformed patrolman walked over quickly. The police ignored Xia De who looked like a northerner, but reprimanded the boy:

"Didn't I tell you that you can't beg on this road for the last month? Let the de la Rion delegation see what it looks like? Get lost!" "Yes, sir, I understand."

The boy stood up tremblingly while leaning on the wall, then leaned on the wooden stick standing beside him, and hurriedly "walked" towards the side alley as if he was jumping and dancing. But before being driven into the alley, he did not forget to turn his head to thank Xia De again.

The figure of the boy disappeared into the alley, and the patrolman with a rough tone nodded politely to Shad, and then continued to patrol along the street. "I thought there was something different, but it turned out to be the same."

The outsider muttered softly, put his hands in his pockets, and looked up again at this bustling city in the steam age.

The "City of Glass" Mikaela Blast Furnace City is not a city suitable for travel and vacation like Fort Midhill and Randall Valley, but if you really come here, you must take a look at the urban spectacle "Glass Blast Furnace".

This is not a blast furnace made of glass, but the city's first blast furnace for firing glass, which was turned into a viewing spot after it was out of service. The "Glass Blast Furnace" is located in the city center, and Xia De can see the 48-meter-high giant blast furnace from the corner of the street.

The glass blast furnace has a cylindrical shape as a whole, but the bottom of which covers a large area is a prism. The tall and grand industrial buildings and the eye-catching anti-rust red paint give people a strong visual impact. Surrounding the blast furnace, there are densely packed scaffolding, and a passage for walking is built on the scaffolding. From a distance, the top of the blast furnace is covered with pure glass.

Viewing platform. Only in the strange age of steam can there be such a spectacle of original taste and "industrial makeup".

Although it cannot be compared with the urban landscape of the hometown of outsiders, for this era, this blast furnace is enough.

If you want to board the "glass blast furnace", you need to buy tickets, and thoughtful businessmen even rent a place under the blast furnace to take pictures for tourists for a fee.

Although Xia De was very interested in this place, he did not pay to go to the highest place to watch the scenery of the city. He just stopped to look at the blast furnace, and he had already visited it.

The area of ​​Mikaela Blast City is about 1.5 times that of Green Lake City, and there are many places worth visiting in the urban area. Shad picked up the pace during the afternoon tour, having wasted some time by the chance encounter with Captain Rudds.

Before throwing the glass slipper home, he visited the Mikaela Blast Furnace City Industrial Expo Hall~lightnovelpub.net~ and saw all kinds of lifelike animals made of glass; under the guidance of the flower girl at the intersection, he found In the "Urban Glass Art Exhibition Hall" in a remote corner, I saw the exquisite artwork made of glass by crazy artists.

Of course, Xia De did not forget to choose a few small mirrors for the girls as souvenirs in the shop facing the street. Mirrors and glass are made in different ways, but local mirrors are also famous.

At sunset, Xia De, who finished a simple tour in the afternoon, was also preparing to go home. He was standing in front of Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals' factory in the City of Glass in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Because the pharmaceutical factory has higher environmental requirements, it is not located in the industrial area where the glass factory is located in the city, but is next to the Duin River, which is also convenient for taking water directly from the water source. The factory covers a large area, but tourists are not allowed to enter and visit. There is also a four-story building with a yard next to the factory, which is the local office of Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals.

"I don't know if that witch named Edwards is also in the Green Lake area."

He looked at the shining roof of the factory under the setting sun, and said softly in his heart. Pressing his hand to his chest, after confirming that the badge didn't show any signs of heat, he went around to the alley between the courtyard and the factory, took out and dropped the glass slipper that belonged to Rezia, and went home.

Not long after Xia De disappeared, the carriage came from the east of the street against the setting sun, and went straight into the factory. The young girl with light brown shawl hair and bored golden eyes looked out of the car window:

"boring day."

She spoke softly, curling the hair hanging by her ear with the index finger of her right hand, thinking about the news about "Orichalcum" sent by Grandma Natalie in her heart.

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