The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The sudden invitation made Leo stunned for a moment, but soon he returned to normal, signaling the senior priest to lead the way.

Under the leadership of the clergy, the two walked down the spiral staircase on the side of the church square and entered the underground area where the clergy lived.

Although it is closer to the lava of the crater, it is not hot here, and it is even cooler than the church square above.

The patterns of energy conversion formulas hidden on the walls of the basement are denser than those of the main body of the volcanic temple above, and the functions of these conversion patterns seem to be different from those of the main body of the volcanic temple above, and the biggest difference is the conversion The way to store energy later.

Because when passing through a certain basement, he accidentally saw through the open door that there was an Alpha 793 energy infusion device in this room, and several senior priests actually placed several obsidian cubes The things I put in the energy infusion port of the device, it seems that it should be to create energy blocks.

Although the Earth Federation is a medium-cosmic civilization, its medium-cosmic civilization cannot compare with the real medium-cosmic civilization in terms of civilization evolution.

Because in the early days when the Earth Federation came into contact with other cosmic civilizations, countless powerful alien civilizations brought a strong sense of crisis to the Earth Federation, and this sense of crisis from top to bottom caused the entire society to fall into anxiety, which in turn made The military, cultural and technological aspects of the Earth Federation are all developing in the direction of quick success and instant benefit.

In order to allow our own civilization to occupy a place among various alien civilizations, and to enable ourselves to have the ability to fight back or even destroy hostile civilizations in the face of attacks from other alien civilizations, the entire Earth Federation is trying every means Improve your technological level, weapons and equipment, and more.

However, it is difficult to make breakthroughs in a short period of time solely by the Earth Federation's own scientific research, so the Earth Federation began to absorb their technology from other alien civilizations and integrate it into its own technology.

It has to be said that this approach is indeed very effective, making the civilization level of the Earth Federation rise rapidly, and it also makes the Earth Federation not only not lose the wind in the subsequent conflicts with the alien civilizations that can be contacted in the surrounding area, but also occupies the upper hand in many cases. Above, the evolution from low-level cosmic civilization to mid-level cosmic civilization was completed in a very short time. The entire evolution process took less than 10,000 years, while other alien civilizations usually spend 100,000 to evolve to mid-level cosmic civilization. years, or even millions of years.

It’s just that after evolving to an intermediate cosmic civilization and understanding the mysteries of the evolution of cosmic civilization, the Earth Federation regretted what it had done before. Even the politicians, military strategists and scientists who made the entire civilization evolution plan at the beginning also all started from heroes. , sages, great men and other lofty reputations fell into the dust, and were beaten as civilized sinners and racial sinners.

From the contact with other intermediate cosmic civilizations, the Earth Federation discovered that the evolution of cosmic civilizations does not depend on how advanced the civilization’s technology, how powerful the military is, and how prosperous the culture is, but on how the cosmic civilization has formed its own core civilization. To what extent has this core civilization evolved.

This core civilization is just a concept that cannot be recorded. This concept can make the entire civilization race itself, or it may be an idea suddenly produced by someone in the civilization. The low-level cosmic civilization will gradually produce such a core civilization in the long process of evolution. , Then they will use this core civilization as the center to develop other aspects of the entire civilization. While improving civilization technology, culture, etc., they will also improve the core civilization, and finally enter the level of intermediate civilization together.

The core civilization of a cosmic civilization is the evolutionary foundation of this civilization. Just like a pyramid, the deeper the foundation, the greater the potential for civilization evolution, and the higher the pyramid will naturally be built.

The Earth Federation's method of absorbing the knowledge of alien civilization technology, military, etc., although it has made civilization reach the level of intermediate civilization in terms of these external technologies in a short period of time, it has not allowed the Earth Federation civilization to produce a core civilization. .

Without the foundation of core civilization, the civilization of the Earth Federation is like a top-heavy inverted pyramid. Not to mention allowing civilization to continue to evolve, it is very difficult to maintain the existence of civilization itself.

Later, the development of the Earth Federation also confirmed this inference. After entering the intermediate level of civilization, the Earth Federation has never made any progress in the evolution of civilization, and most of the energy of the Earth Federation has been put on maintaining the entire Earth Federation itself. In terms of social functioning, as long as the Earth Federation Government is a little looser, the entire Earth civilization may fall into collapse.

This is something Leo deeply feels. When he was still a biochemical warrior, most of the various missions he received were to quell the rebellion of the border colony planets, solve the alien infiltration forces inside the Federation, etc. All in all, the Earth Federation is absolutely not As stable and peaceful as he showed to the outside world.

In this regard, the top management of the Earth Federation didn't do nothing. They watched the entire civilization go to destruction little by little. When they discovered the problem, they had already thought of countermeasures.

The code of this countermeasure is a bit tacky, it is called the Eden Project, the whole plan is very simple, it is to completely block some planets suitable for human habitation, put enough human beings on this planet to continue the reproduction of the race, and not provide any technological assistance to the people of these planets , let these human beings develop through their own evolution, and then form a new civilization, and the Earth Federation can absorb the core civilization produced by these newborn human civilizations, and complete the restoration of the missing part of its own civilization.

The entire Eden project is very mysterious, it can be said to be the top secret of the Earth Federation, until thousands of years later, a civilian spaceship encountered a cosmic storm and was looking for a place to take refuge miraculously avoided all the protective devices of the Earth Federation, and crashed into a It was only on the Eden experimental star that some details of the Eden project were unraveled, and the experimental star that had been discovered naturally lost its experimental value and was taken back to the overall civilization of the Earth Federation.

It was only at this time that ordinary people in the Earth Federation discovered that the experimental star had developed a very high civilization, not only in terms of cultural knowledge, but also in terms of technology. Some of the devices have reached the level of low-level cosmic civilizations and even higher civilizations. For example, the Alpha 793 energy infusion device is the product of this experimental star civilization.

In the folks of the Earth Federation, this Alpha 793 energy infusion device is also commonly known as the universal energy infusion device, because this device can adapt to the infusion of all known energies in the universe, even including psionic energy and subspace energy. It is precisely because of the extraordinary adaptability of this device that it has attracted the attention of the Supreme Council of the Universe, and the Earth Federation has obtained the qualification to send envoys to the Supreme Council of the Universe.

Because of this, the Alpha 793 energy infusion device has become the only commodity that the Earth Federation can export to advanced cosmic civilizations. In addition to the installation of these energy infusion devices on some important warships and ground facilities of the Earth Federation itself, All such devices produced by other Earth Federations were bought by various advanced cosmic civilizations.

In other words, the Alpha 793 energy infusion device that Leo saw now should belong to a device on a battleship of a high-level cosmic civilization. Leo was a little curious about who this high-level cosmic civilization was, so he passed Spiritnet scanned the device, found the code number of the device, and learned which planet the device was produced on and which civilization it was exported to based on the hidden information on the number.

When Leo confirmed the high-level cosmic civilization to which the device belonged, a little doubt and thought appeared on his face, and he stopped to look at the engravings on the surrounding stone walls, and peeled off the useless engravings in his mind. Partly, the pattern of the energy conversion formula in the engraved pattern is restored.

"Is there any problem?" Leo stopped and turned his head to look at the patterns on the wall. The senior priests leading the way also stopped and asked Leo suspiciously.

"Excuse me, the patterns on it..." Leo asked tentatively.

"It was designed by the Duke after receiving the oracle from the Lord." The priest quickly replied.

After hearing this, Leo didn't ask any more questions, but it was suitable for the priests to continue leading the way.

Afterwards, the two came to the bottom of the entire underground building. This place was like a meditation place or silent hall often used by churches. The circular hall and dome made even a slight sound here amplified several times.

In addition to the entrance, there is only one door on the opposite side of this hall, which is facing the lava lake at the volcano level. It looks like a facility like a viewing platform.

After coming here, the priests allowed Leo to go in by himself, and then he closed the door gently behind him.

"Hello, Mr. Newborn Demigod." At this time, a woman's voice came from the air, and then a woman in priestly attire was seen slowly falling from the air, and her body emitted a burst of light as it fell. A burst of soft light makes people feel extremely sacred.

If it is an ordinary person, seeing this scene may immediately produce the emotion of worship, and even weak-willed people will bow their heads and kneel down.

However, when Leo saw this woman, the only thing he did was to use his mental network and perception to analyze her.

"Your Excellency's behavior is very disrespectful, and it may even be regarded as provocation." Because Leo did not cover up his actions, the woman could easily feel Leo's mental network, and a smile appeared on her face. A little displeased, said in a deep voice.

After being exposed directly, Leo didn't show any embarrassment, but just withdrew his mental network and perception. This was not because he felt embarrassed, but because he had obtained the information he needed.

"Hello, Weaver of Destiny." Leo also saluted the priestess in front of him.

The priestess in front of me has been possessed by the gods she believes in, and now she is basically equivalent to the Weaver of Destiny, but this kind of possession is fundamentally different from the divine descent of other churches, and this kind of possession is even more Like the spiritual seeds in psionic skills, it is a method of controlling others by implanting spiritual seeds in other people. This kind of psionic skills is considered a taboo skill in the Earth Federation, and even advanced psychics cannot learn it. Of course This is just a rhetoric on the surface, and no one knows what is actually going on.

Being seen through by Leo is the purpose of the Weaver of Destiny, otherwise she would not have appeared in front of Leo in such a conspicuous way. As for Leo's slightly ordinary salute, she did not resent her, after all, despite her name She is a god on the surface, but in fact she is only a demigod. She is essentially at the same level as Leo, even though the power Leo currently possesses is far from being comparable to her.

As if deliberately targeting, the current Weaver of Destiny is also rudely accumulating a large number of Leo, and also uses her divine power to perceive Leo's situation, and said at the same time: "In Velen, there are not many demigods. The appearance of a demigod will inevitably attract some attention, so the identity of each demigod is public, and your excellency seems to be an exception. I was also a little surprised just now, besides the one from Deliyat, there is actually a human being A demigod exists, I wonder if you can tell me your identity?"

Destiny Weaver did not hide her surprise at all, because Leo's appearance really surprised him. An undisclosed demigod suddenly broke into his temple domain, which made him think of some very bad things matter.

As he said, there are not many demigods in Velen, but they are not too few, because apart from a few true gods standing at the top, including the swamp gods who have existed for thousands of years, they are all demigods, and some of them are lurking. The evil gods underground are also demigods. In order to compete for scarce resources, there will also be some battles between demigods. When a demigod's unreported secret appears in another demigod's domain, it usually indicates that With the emergence of a demigod war.

Therefore, just now, the Destiny Web Weaver had thought of preemptively attacking the rude intruder through the arrangement of the volcano temple, but when he found out that this demigod was not on the list of known demigods, and he did not show any signs of attack. When he was hostile, he became curious about this demigod, and the reason why he wanted to waste a rare incarnation and meet Leo in person was not just because of a little curiosity, but more The reason is that Leo's power is very similar to his divine power.

He has existed in this world for many years, has seen various gods and demigods, felt their power, and even learned their power so that he can integrate into this world, but he has never seen I have seen that any god or demigod has the same power as him, so he also thinks he is unique.

It wasn't until he felt Leo's power and some of the ways Leo used his power just now, that he realized that there was another self, and it was a human being, which made him extremely curious, so curious that he was willing to get involved in this matter. risk, but also to get an answer.