Chapter 1408 The Port of St. Paria
"St. Perria, the city of White Wall, the pearl of Papani Bay, the eternal lover, I am fascinated by you!" When the carriage crossed a hill and the port of Perria appeared in front of everyone, Joan stood on the roof of the carriage like a madman, screaming unrestrainedly, and his joy and excitement could be heard from the shouts.
The other carriages around who picked up passengers from the Pier San Pelia seemed to have become accustomed to Joan's crazy behavior. They ignored it and just introduced the passengers in their carriage to their settled hotels so that they could get some commission.
As for those who were in the same carriage as Joan, Leo, Sylvia and Penny were all very calm. On the contrary, the young couple who joined in the middle had not yet adapted, and a little embarrassed look appeared on their faces.
However, the couple was not confused about Joan's performance, because when they were on the boat, they already knew that Joan was a church knight of the Church of Void Hearts, and his level among church knights was second only to the Paladin, which was already considered a senior clergy.
Almost everyone knows what kind of virtues the clergy and believers of the church of False Hearts are, and the current madman-like behavior is a reasonable manifestation.
However, they were a little confused about the relationship between Leo and Sylvia and this senior clergyman with the false heart, because judging from the performance on the ship, Joan was obviously very awe of the two, and would restrain his crazy spirit in front of them as much as possible, so that he could act like an ordinary person as much as possible.
At first they suspected that Leo and Sylvia were also senior clergy of the False Heart, and they were at the bishop level. However, in the subsequent conversation, they found that their performance was completely different from those of the False Heart Church, and then they realized that they had misunderstood.
But they were also more curious about the identities of Leo and Sylvia. They should know that although the clergy in the Church of False Heart, especially the senior clergy, can be measured according to the normal code of conduct, they all have a common code of conduct, that is, they will not respect anyone except for False Heart, even the popes of other churches. Therefore, when they see that Joan actually showed respect for Leo and Sylvia, they will have wrong guesses in their hearts.
Although the young couple covered up their curiosity well, both Leo and Sylvia easily saw their thoughts, and even knew their true thoughts through some simple clichés during the conversation.
Undoubtedly, the young couple completely misunderstood. The biggest misunderstanding was that they regarded Joan as a senior clergyman of a true Void Heart Church. Perhaps Joan appeared to be no different from the senior clergyman of a false Heart Church. They were all crazy, but in fact, the reason why Joan was mad was the imitation of divine cells implanted in his mind, transformed by the physical body of the real eye, rather than the false heart. Qiaoan himself knew this, so he knew that he would never become a paladin and solve his troubles.
Another misunderstanding is Joan's respect. Perhaps Leo's previous performance in the Rock Temple made Joan feel powerful power, but for a person with a confused mind, powerful power is not enough to make him show any respect. The reason why Joan shows respect from the heart and even ordinary people can see is actually the hierarchical suppression of the imitation of the imitation of the divine cells fused in Joan's body by the divine mark of the real eye on Leo.
If divided according to the church level, Qiao An is a clan of the Real Eye and an inferior clan, while Leo is regarded as the divine envoy of the Real Eye and even the incarnation of the Gods. With such a huge level gap, even if Leo does nothing, it can subtly affect Qiao An.
In fact, during the days of Liszt swamp, when Joan's body's power of imitation of alien god cells was suppressed, he was not affected by imitation of alien god cells, and the emotions he showed were most in line with normal emotions.
However, at that time, all of Joan's concerns were whether he would be blind all the time, whether his originally intact eyes would be affected all the time, and he did not notice any changes in his body's other states.
As the Holy One drove out of the Liszt swamp, the power of law in the swamp also disappeared, and Joan returned to normal. The church knight who spoke and did things with a little crazy was back. This state was normal at least to him, and the same was true for others, such as the young couple.
After driving on the Liszt River for about four days, the Holy One finally stopped at the dock of St. Perriahu.
Lake St. Poria Lake is located at the end of the Liszt River. It was originally a small swamp without a name. Later, after the Liszt River was opened, in order to allow ships on the river to be better anchored, the Port of Poria Lake dug up this small swamp without a name and turned into the current Lake St. Poria Lake.
During the most prosperous period of the Liszt River, the docks of Saint-Perria Lake were able to dock thousands of flat-bottomed boats at the same time, and even more ships had to dock on the lake when they could not dock on the docks. Some good people once counted how many boats there were in total when the entire lake of Saint-Perria Lake was filled with ships. Finally, it was calculated that it was about 5,400 to 500, so Saint-Perria Lake also had an alias for the 5,000 boat lake.
At that time, because this area was too prosperous, Saint-Peria not only built the White Wall Avenue, which directly connects to Saint-Peria Port and can run ten carriages in parallel, but also built a large number of warehouses for storing goods around the dock. Later, it built a town. When this town was most prosperous, it even surpassed the capitals of many small inland countries in the New World.
Several major chambers of commerce that once controlled most of the warehouses and shops in this town tried to get the town out of control of the Port of St. Perria. Unfortunately, before they could achieve their goal, the New World railway network had already begun to be paved. When they competed with the Port of St. Perria for control of the town, the freight industry of the Lister River gradually declined. When they reported it, this town built on the freight transport of the Lister River could no longer stop its decline.
Now, except for some elderly people who can no longer make a living, there are no other young people in this town. The town's houses, most of the docks and warehouses have all been idle. As the wind and rain have gradually decayed, the chambers of commerce that originally regarded the town as treasures have also been withdrawn. The entire town is like a ghost town. Even if tourists arrive at the docks late, they will not want to stay in this town for overnight stays, and will choose to go to Port San Polya overnight.
White Wall Avenue is the only road connecting this town and the Port of St. Perria. In order to build this spacious road in the swamp, Nice City and Port of St. Perria have invested a lot, and they even used expensive but extremely durable white wall stones to build it. They originally thought that this road could be used for hundreds of years, but in less than a hundred years, this road gradually became abandoned with the decrease in trade volume.
Now the road is covered with various swamp weeds, vines and shrubs. Because it has not been trimmed in time, some weeds and shrubs have spread to the road, and even the roots have cracked the road, which makes the road look very broken.
The length of this road is not very long. The carriage only needs to be driven for about an hour at normal speed. However, because it is the recent reflux period, the sea water flows backward, causing the swamps on both sides of the road to rise a lot, flooding some sections of the road that were originally in a low place, forcing Leo and others to take a temporary road and climb over a small hill.
However, there is also an advantage of this, that is, when the carriage reaches the hillside, it can take advantage of the height of the hillside to overlook the full view of the Port of St. Perilla.
The construction of the Port of St. Perilla was very early, even earlier than the Great Migration. Before the Great Migration, the Port of St. Perilla was built during the exploration of the New World. It was just a bit strange that all the documents do not record who built the Port of St. Perilla.
You should know that the entire Port of San Polya is made of white-wall stone. Although there are mining sites for Baibi stone mines nearby, the difficulty of mining Baibi stone is very high. Until now, it is still expensive. Using white-wall stone to build a street or some houses is not a rare thing. However, building an entire city is an extremely financial and manpower task, even the richest countries cannot do it.
However, San Poria Port is such a white-walled stone city. This city not only has urban buildings made of white-walled stone, but also regular streets made of white-walled stone, and even the sewer system is made of white-walled stone.
You should know that at that time, the sewer system had just become popular in the capitals and important cities of the Old Continent, and there was no perfect plan. Everyone was in the exploration stage, but the port of St. Perilla had a perfect sewer started. When this news reached the old Continent, it caused a lot of sensation. Even countries sent people to inspect the sewer system of St. Perilla Port.
In one aspect, the sewer systems in all cities in the Old and New World cities will follow the source and point to the Port of St. Perria.
The earliest ships that recorded the port of St. Perria were not the expedition ships of the marine countries of the old continent at that time, but a pirate ship that often robbed the waters between the old and new continents.
At that time, the pirate ship was sunk by another expedition guard ship. When the expedition fleet salvaged the spoils floating on the sea, it salvaged a captain's diary. When the captain of the expedition fleet looked through the diary, it found that the captain of the pirate ship recorded a city in the diary that had not been recorded on any navigation chart.
In the diary, it was recorded that the main and secondary masts of the pirate ship were blown off in a storm, forcing the pirate ship to drift south along the ocean currents to find suitable stops with materials for repairing the ship. In the end, they came to a mysterious city that had never been recorded on the chart.
This city is the most majestic and magnificent city that pirates have ever seen. In the original words recorded by the captain in his diary, when the city appears before them, the morning sun shines on the city, making the whole city emit a milky white light, like a huge gem inlaid on the surface.
The city is built so magnificently that there must be a lot of wealth in the city. The pirates originally planned to loot the city, but when their ships docked and the pirates rushed down from the boat, they found that there was no one in the dock. After exploring the entire city, they found that there was no one in the entire city, not only no one, but also no trace of human life. There was no table, chair and other daily necessities used by humans in the entire city, and there were only empty white-walled stone buildings, as if the entire city had been abandoned after it was built.
It was precisely because the entire city revealed a strange atmosphere, and there was nothing to grab in the city, which made the pirates immediately lose interest in the city. They didn't even have a boat repair that day, and they sailed again as if they were running away, and continued to look for a suitable place to rest along the ocean currents.
After reading the captain's diary, the captain of the expedition team immediately became interested in the empty city recorded in the diary, so he followed the ocean currents all the way south according to the records in the diary.
At that time, the main direction of the expedition teams in the Old Continent were in the northern region. In the southern region, there was a section of the sea filled with reefs and was very dangerous, so there was no formal exploration yet. Only some individual explorers drove small sails and drove south. Most of these individual explorers died because of crashing into reefs, and the rest turned back halfway and did not continue to explore.
However, driven by ocean currents, the expedition fleet perfectly avoided the reef seas and entered the southern coastline that had not been explored at that time. Not long after, they saw the city recorded by the pirate captain.
Everyone was stunned when they saw the city that emitted a soft light, and only one young crew member could not help but say, "Saint-Perria."
Perriya is actually a girl next door that the crew member secretly loves. He always says that the girl is as pure as a saint, so he often calls her St. Perriya in his poems. As a result, this title later became the name of this white-walled stone city.
At first, the people on the expedition thought that the city was built by a certain god, but some clergymen on the ship clearly stated that the city did not have any magical aura and could not have been built by a god.
Later, some people speculated that this might be a masterpiece of the local civilization of the New World. After all, the local civilization craze in the New World had just emerged. Although no signs of local civilization in the New World were found in other places, it did not hinder others' imagination.
This speculation was quickly denied because the entire building in Port San Pelia is the architectural style of the Old Continent. Although the buildings here contain different characteristic buildings from more than a dozen countries, their source always points to the Old Continent.
Chapter completed!