Chapter 264 The British Isle

Traveling through November 7, 2012

Elizabeth's incident made my mind messed up for a while, but compared to that muddled relationship. I have to concentrate on doing business, after all, this trip to sea is not for fun.

The fleet is about to arrive in the British Isles. I visited once 5 years ago.

I heard from the doctor that the island has changed a lot recently. I am very curious about the changes. I hope it is a good change.

I don't know where Anna is now. I am a little worried about her. I want her to tell me her whereabouts when we meet next time. In case of any accident, I can rescue her.

Of course, I will persuade her to stay on the island, but it may not be so easy according to her personality.

As Charles continued to write, a flash of light outside the window caught his attention.

After quickly finishing today's diary, he walked to the window and looked outside.

A white beam of light appeared on the dark sea, it was the light of the lighthouse of the British Isles.

"Mr. Charles, are we there yet?" Lily climbed up his pant legs,

Under the gaze of the two, a bright island slowly appeared in front of him.

As the most famous island in the North Sea, the size of the British Isles is unmatched by other islands. Charles almost thought that a new continent appeared in front of him.

The chimney with black smoke was Charles' first impression of this place. He doubted that the roof of the cave above the British Isle had been completely blackened by smoke.

As the ship approached slowly, Charles could clearly feel the pungent smell of smoke in the sea-smelling air.

"I don't remember so many chimneys before..." Charles muttered to himself looking at the island in the distance.

The biggest difference from other islands is that electricity seems to be free on this island. Even the messy and noisy port area is covered with all kinds of yellowed light bulbs.

The yellow of the bulb below and the black of the smoke above are the main colors of the British Isles.

While Charles was still observing this kind of island, the British Isle suddenly sounded like an air raid siren.

Following the sound, several warships with anti-aircraft guns drove towards this side, and soon, the Hope Island battleship also sent a fast boat to dock.

Charles originally thought that the fleet would be stuck in front of the port, but to his surprise, the other party actually let it go.

"The other side didn't embarrass you?" Char, who was standing at the pier, asked the returned captain.

"Your Excellency, the other party said that friends from Hope Island can enter the port, but they must pay the parking tax."

"Hehe, friend?" Charles smiled, and he and he were never friends.

"Let's go, lean over and stop the boat, let's meet this "friend"."

The huge fleet attracted the attention of the British islanders, and they were all talking about who came.

"Now that we're at the place, I'll go first. If you want to read the content, you can find the University of Steam." The doctor who got off the ladder limped towards the pier.

"be safe."

"Hmph, I have more acquaintances than you in this place, you should worry about yourself, don't be fooled by that guy Swan."

Watching his back disappear into the crowd, Charles turned his head and got into the waiting car.

When you come to someone else's island as a governor, you still have to meet each other. This is an unspoken rule of Earthsea.

Charles didn't take many people there, except Lily, who was the guard led by Feuerbach.

"Where is the best shipyard here?" Charles asked the bearded and strong driver while stroking Lily's red hair with his hand.

"There are no private shipyards in the British Isles, and all shipyards are controlled by the Navy. I really don't understand this issue."

Hearing this, Charles stopped talking, rolled down the car window, and looked at the scenery outside.

As the wheels of the car rolled, Charles and his party drove into the island. The city of machinery lived up to its name, and various mechanical instruments that were not found on other islands could be seen everywhere here.

The level of technology here is obviously much higher. Charles could even see some people fiddling with huge, unwieldy disk drives.

"Mr. Charles, look over there, there is the TV you mentioned!" Lily shouted in surprise as she leaned against the window.

It was a screen as tall as a person, it looked very rough and bulky, it was indeed a TV.

"Technology is developing a bit fast. There was no such thing five years ago. The things in the New Territories have a great impact on the British Isles."

At this speed, it won't be long before Earthsea World's technology reaches the world's modern society.

As time passed, the car came near a factory, and Charles became interested when he saw the black smoke from the chimney outside the window, which was emitting day and night.

He could see a lot of factories, and he was a little curious about what these factories were made of.

Charles motioned to stop first. "Is that place allowed?"

The driver nodded. "Of course, this is Mr. Jim's factory. His business has had many transactions with Hope Island. I believe that if he knows that Governor Charles is visiting his factory, he will definitely not stop him."

Charles raised his feet and walked towards the gate of the factory. Everything inside felt inexplicably familiar to him. Everything here was very close to the factory on the surface.

"Very noisy." This was Charles' first impression when he entered the workshop. The huge machinery assembled from various gears and air pumps was like a monster crawling in the middle of the workshop.

It seems to be some kind of power machine, driven by the punching machine to hit it tirelessly.

Not to mention that Charles, who came to the surface, had never seen this kind of equipment, and the other people next to him hadn't seen this scene either.

The faces of everyone who followed were full of surprise.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The workers quickly put some kind of gear parts into the groove of the machine and punched them quickly.

As far as Charles could tell, it seemed to be making parts for some kind of machine.

Looking at the haggard faces of the workers and the dark circles under their eyes, Charles judged that these people obviously lacked sleep.

"The bloody primitive accumulation of the industrial revolution??"

Seeing the exhausted workers, Charles was sure that the punch press must have broken many fingers.

"Wow!" Lily, standing next to Charles, flicked her tail, looking at everything around her in amazement.

Just as she was looking at everything around her strangely, something was slowly approaching under the machine,

Suddenly, a shriveled little black hand stretched out from under the machine and grabbed Lily.

"ah!!"

The moment he heard Lily's scream, Charles tensed up all over. When he turned around, a sharp black blade had already appeared in his hand.

"Swipe!" A cold light flashed, the black hand was cut off from the wrist, and scarlet blood spurted out.

When Charles rescued the terrified Lily from Black Hand, the little mouse was terrified and cried while hugging Charles' finger.