After obtaining the arrest warrant signed by the governor, the first problem Li Wei faced was transportation.
There were three routes from Mullers, where the governor resided, to Feyhart City.
The shortest was by ship, followed by train, and finally by carriage.
Mericia lay far from the Empire, with an ocean separating them. On top of that, the Empire had little affection for Mericia. As a result, Mericia had the least access to the benefits of the Steam Industrial Revolution.
One only had to look at Mericia's roads to understand. There wasn't a single Steam Car in sight, and people still traveled mainly by carriage or on horseback.
It was a world apart from Fog City, where Steam Cars were already becoming commonplace. Still, Mericia's backward state was nothing new, and Li Wei had no expectation of changing it himself. He could only find his own solution.
A ship... Li Wei ruled that out first. Ever since his encounter with the sea monster, he had sworn never to travel by ship again unless absolutely necessary. Fear of the deep sea was no joke. He felt he would probably have to say goodbye to ocean voyages from now on.
Li Wei wasn't willing to take a carriage either. Mericia's roads were far worse than the Empire's. Paved roads were everywhere in the Empire, while Mericia still had mostly dirt roads. It was practically an impoverished backwater. Traveling from here to Feyhart City by carriage would take nearly half a month. By then, it would be far too late.
In the end, Li Wei decided to take the train.
If there was one mode of travel Li Wei particularly liked, it was the train.
Planes were fast, but leaving safety aside, flying was always boring. Most of the time, you could only