The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For the local people in Audorin, the accident in the smelter built by the Dodd Group gave them an extra topic of conversation after dinner. While gloating about the loss of the Dodd Group in this disaster, they bet on the Dodd Group When will they leave the city of Aodorine? By the way, they also mocked those Aodorine residents who joined the smelter for high wages but are now killed.

Although Aodorine City is a new city composed of outsiders, due to some propaganda deliberately carried out by the high-level management of the city, most of the residents of Aodorine City think that they are pure Aodorine people, and everyone else is Outsiders, thus making Aodolin folks very xenophobic, even thinking that any outsider is taking advantage of themselves.

Under the effect of this kind of xenophobic sentiment, the locals naturally regarded the Dodd Group's stationing in Audorin as some kind of invasion.

Although the Dodd Group obtained a piece of cursed land as the basis for building the factory with the secret assistance of the Mulling Society, after the factory was completed, it was unable to recruit workers locally because the local people felt xenophobic. To work in the Dodd Group smelter is to be enslaved, and the cursed land is also prohibitive for the locals.

The piece of land used by the Dodd Group to build the factory has become an urban legend in the city of Aodolin since the day the city was rebuilt. No matter who builds any building on that land, it will be completed. Not long after that, it collapsed and collapsed inexplicably.

The city government of Odoline has also thought of various ways to solve this problem. After all, this piece of land is located in the center of the Odoline industrial zone, and its area is one-third the size of the industrial zone. It is a very large The land is just empty here, which is an intolerable waste for the inner city of Aodorine, where the land is already very tight.

It's just that both the church and the shaman have sent people here more than once to perform various rituals such as exorcising demons, descending from the gods, blessings, etc., but the result is only a period of peace, after which the building should or will collapse.

When the Dodd Group learned that the land it used to build the factory was such a cursed land, many people in the group expressed their opposition. Those who survived the foggy year have seen all kinds of mysterious and terrifying things. Things, it's clear that anything to do with curses is big trouble.

Although being able to settle in Audorin will allow the Dodd Group to break through the high walls built by various forces in the Mosang Continent, and extend its business and influence to the south and the wasteland, which will play a decisive role in the subsequent development of the Dodd Group, but if At the cost of incurring curses, whether this matter is worthwhile in the end is another matter.

However, this matter finally ended the intense discussion under Sylvia's order, and the Dodd Group still chose to station in Audorin, and did not care about the urban legend of the cursed land.

In the eyes of onlookers, the Dodd Group made this decision because they couldn't bear the temptation to expand to the south. In fact, Sylvia made this decision more because she wanted to borrow the land cursed by Aodorine. To draw out all kinds of restless forces inside and outside the group. As for Audoryn's factory, she had already planned to destroy it from the very beginning.

However, many things could not develop according to Sylvia's wishes.

From the very beginning, she expected that it would be difficult to recruit local workers, so she pretended to increase workers' wages every once in a while, pretending that she wanted to hire local people, and at the same time, she just used this reason as an excuse to delay The opening time of the factory was not until more than ten days after the recorded curse occurred, she transferred a group of workers from other places, and the local workers recruited with a lot of money to run the factory.

Originally, she had acted as carefully as possible. Every new factory was opened with various safety measures, and other factories that were already in operation were temporarily closed to avoid heavy casualties when the curse happened.

However, to the surprise of everyone, including the locals, the curse still did not happen until all the plants in the smelter were put into use. A piece of land, successfully stationed in Adoline is extremely jealous, even Sylvia felt that the curse might really have disappeared, so she went south to Adoline to inspect the factory.

What I didn't expect was that the factory had an accident just the second day after she arrived in Audorin, and she was caught off guard. Fortunately, she had already anticipated this incident and had a corresponding countermeasure, so she was able to recover from the loss. Control to the minimum, except that the smelting furnace where the giant is located has been completely destroyed, leaving only a cooling molten iron pool, the main buildings and equipment of the other workshops have been preserved under the effect of various protective measures, and the actual loss is not large. As huge as it looks from the outside.

It's just that Sylvia didn't tell the actual situation of the current factory, and the content announced to the public was deliberately vague, giving people the illusion of huge and incalculable losses, and then she quietly waited for those with ulterior motives. People jump out by themselves.

In addition, she did not take the great shaman of the Muling Society captured by Leo and others to the Muling Society to inquire about the crime, because she knew very well that doing so would not make the Muling Society admit her actions, but would probably be punished by the Muling Society. The Mulling Society retaliated, so she imprisoned the shaman of the Muling Society, sent them to the Xinbodo area by airship on the same day and locked them up, and used them as a bargaining chip in the future to attack the Muling Society.

As for Leo's trump card, she didn't reveal it, because once the news spread that there was a demigod standing beside her, those hidden poisonous snakes might not show up again.

She no longer has the patience to play those intriguing power games with these poisonous snakes, let alone now that she has Leo's hole card, she really can't think of any reason not to use this opportunity to get rid of those poisonous snakes hidden in the grass at once Lose.

Under Sylvia's deliberate operation, bad news about Dodd Group's internal discussion on whether to continue to build a factory in Aodolin and the obstruction of compensation for the victims was spread out. It didn't take long for Aodolin's market to spread. News spread that the Dodd Group was preparing to withdraw its capital and leave, and even refused to pay compensation for the victims.

Immediately afterwards, a large parade against the Dodd Group began to brew in the city of Odoline. Various union leaders and political figures jumped out to accuse the Dodd Group. Like street rats.

Later, the city government also sent people to meet Sylvia. It seemed that they wanted to ask Sylvia how to solve the matter, but they were sent back without even seeing Sylvia's people.

And the city government also deliberately leaked the fact that it was coldly received, which further angered the local people, and those agitators hidden among the people also took this opportunity to guide the target of the march not to be limited to the factory area, but to They started to head towards Sylvia's residence in Aodorine City, but they didn't know that Sylvia was not in a villa in the wealthy area at the moment, but on the top floor of the American National Taxation Building in the commercial area, standing Here you can overlook the entire rich area, and the parades that walk slowly on the streets are as small as insects.

The reason why Sylvia appeared here was not because the government of the Kingdom of America and California became her collaborator, but because the director of Aodorine's Internal Revenue Service was a chess piece that the Dodd Group had already placed in Aodorine. Even the tax army of the Internal Revenue Service is an armed force secretly controlled by the Dodd Group, which is one of the reasons why she had the confidence to set up such a huge trap in the first place without worrying about screwing it up.

"Should we close the net?" Seeing those restless people surrounded Sylvia's villa, Emily showed a look of displeasure on her face, although this was part of Sylvia's plan, But she still felt offended, so she asked Sylvia who was processing the documents.

Sylvia did not immediately respond to the inquiry, but carefully read the document in her hand, quickly wrote down the solution, and handed it to the secretary beside her, then shook her head and said, "It's not yet time, The ones who jump out are just some discarded pieces. The people who are really playing chess behind their backs have not yet finished. We will only catch some small fish and shrimps when we close the net now. The real big fish will slip away immediately when they see that the situation is wrong. Let's go, it will be very difficult to catch them next time."

"Actually, you don't have to be angry at these people who can't see the situation clearly." Su also walked to the window with a glass of wine at this time, overlooking the flow of people below like a god overlooking all living beings, and said: "These people's thoughts are still Immersed in the past, they think that the situation can be controlled by public opinion and the number of people. However, they do not know that as the extraordinary power becomes a universal power, the influence of the difference in numbers has gradually weakened. The powerful power of the individual is the key to the direction of the world situation. " As she spoke, she turned her head to look at Leo who was sitting on the sofa beside him and quickly flipping through various materials and books, and said with a little envy: "In the case where gods cannot directly descend to the world, demigods are the only ones in this world. An unrestricted demigod is an unimaginable existence.”

Feeling that the topic had shifted to himself, Leo raised his head and added: "I can only be regarded as a special case. If there is no accident, it is impossible for a second special case like me to appear in the world of Vinylon."

The reason why Leo used special cases to describe himself was because he discovered from the information he had collected about demigods during this period that he, a seventh-level psyker equivalent to demigods, was a very special existence.

According to Sylvia's analysis, although a demigod like him is slightly weaker than other demigods, he does not have the restrictions of other demigods, which means that he is a demigod that exceeds the rules of the world.

In this world, any demigod will have restrictions. For example, special demigods such as the swamp gods can only exist in the Black Forest Swamp of the Hannover Union, and can only appear in the form of natural spirits. In front of the congregation, not in the actual physical body.

Dailiat's Ice Queen is different. She can be said to be a demigod walking in the world. When she appeared in front of everyone, she had no intention of human beings, but she was also restricted. That restriction was her ice and snow kingdom. Her demigod power can only be fully displayed within the scope of her ice and snow kingdom. Once she leaves the ice and snow kingdom, even if she just crosses the border, her power will instantly drop from the demigod realm.

As for the demigods recognized by other Orthodox churches in the Vinylon world, and the demigods and evil gods of the underground churches, they will all be subject to various restrictions, and some of these restrictions are even fatal.

In the world of Velen, there was a legend that a farmer stabbed a demigod to death with a pitchfork, but for those underground forces with ancient inheritance, this is not a legend, but a fact, and the reason is because of that The demigod violated his own taboo and did something beyond the limit. It was a coincidence that he died on the pitchfork, and the pitchfork became a sacred object because he killed a demigod. It has been kept secret by the Orthodox Church until now.

It is precisely because the restrictions of demigods are very fatal, so some people who are close to the level of demigods will be very entangled when they take the last step, and the representative of them is the king who chooses Saran.

So far, the king-chosen Saran has not become a demigod like the Ice Queen, because of various concerns in her heart, and if the situation is not forced, she may still maintain the status quo for a long time in the future.

So when they learned that Leo had become a demigod, Sylvia and the others were a little curious about what kind of restrictions Leo would have, but they didn't take the initiative to ask, because after all, this is a matter of life and death. Sylvia also felt that she shouldn't know about it.

However, after reading some information about demigods, Leo realized that he was different, so he took the initiative to tell Sylvia.

At first, Sylvia naturally wouldn't believe it. After all, this kind of thing had never happened before. It wasn't until she tested Leo's strength through some orthodox methods that she confirmed that Leo was indeed an incompetent A special demigod limited by the world.

This matter is naturally a good thing for her. A demigod already has enough deterrent power, and an unrestricted demigod has more than ten times the deterrent power, even if the demigod Leo The power is slightly weaker.

When Emily and Su learned about this from Sylvia, they were also extremely surprised. Even after several days, the surprise and envy had not completely subsided.

Leo didn't want the topic to shift to himself, so he quickly found a new topic and asked Sylvia, "Why didn't you let me arrest the assassins sent by the Church of the Lord of the Sky yesterday? With those assassins in hand, the advantage in negotiating with the Church of the Lord of the Sky in the future will be much greater."

"It's impossible for us to capture those assassins in the living room, even if you do." Sylvia shook her head, then sneered: "And we don't need our hands to solve them. The Lord of the Sky hates those who assassinate the living room."