The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Hope City, the capital of the Bodo Kingdom, is making various preparations for the upcoming king's enthronement ceremony. Both the kingdom officials and ordinary people are busy inside and outside the city. The whole city is shrouded in various noisy voices, but in In such a city full of hustle and bustle, there is a place that is very quiet, as quiet as another world.

Deer Park is a virgin forest in the northeast corner of Hope City. It was originally a part of the Bran Forest, but now it is divided separately and has become a forbidden area.

Because this is the place where the White Deer first appeared, and it was also the place where the White Deer Church was established. Later, the New Porto County Government assigned this place to the church, and the church set up this place as a holy place for the church. A very simple church was established here. Only a few senior priests of the church can retreat here for a period of time after obtaining approval. It is said that when they are retreating here, senior priests can often obtain the revelation of the white deer.

Later, I didn’t know if it came from the Bran Forest, or if it was caused by the white deer. In short, there was a herd of deer unknowingly, and this herd of deer was taller than ordinary deer, and the antlers on their heads were also bigger. Even more peculiar, it has grown into various kinds.

After Leo and Sylvia returned to Hope City, they did not live in the newly built palace, but chose to live in the retreat temple in Deer Park. The White Deer Church did not have any objections to this, but was very honored , and sent nuns from the church as maids to serve the two of them.

Now this place has also become the office of the two, and the official documents from various departments that are too late to be processed or cannot be processed are sent here for the two to handle.

"The Southern Tribal Alliance has already delivered the first batch of food, but encountered a group of mutated monsters in the middle, and lost a quarter of it, and the rest have been sent to Aodorine's warehouse." Irene Belmonte will sort out The information was reported to Sylvia, who was correcting various documents, and at the same time, she secretly glanced at Leo, who was sitting not far away, who seemed to be playing with a general-purpose recorder.

"Don't send that batch of food over here, just ship it directly to Sackett. This batch of food is enough to solve the problem of food and clothing for those refugees for a month or two," Sylvia signed the document without looking up, and then handed it over I gave it to Irene, and then quickly drafted a document, saying: "Although the shelter of refugees was done by the Autonomous Alliance before, since we have completely taken over Sackett, we can't give up those people. It's just that we can't give up food for nothing. Here, they need to earn everything by themselves. The roads in the city-states of Sakt have been in disrepair for a long time, so let them build the roads! In addition, let the personnel department send people to pick out some of the special talents we need."

"The Personnel Department is already out of people." Irene said immediately, "The selection of talents in the former Kuishan Allies has just begun. The group, no, the Kingdom's personnel departments are all concentrated on this matter, and there is no extra manpower. Send to Sackett."

Sylvia thought for a while, and said: "The selection of talents from the former Kuishan allied country does not require the participation of everyone in the personnel department. It only needs ordinary people. Let those officials from the former Kuishan allied country assist in the selection. As for the rest of the people It can be transferred to Sackett, and the talents among the refugees will not be much less than those of the former Kuishan Allies, and it is easier to return to their hearts."

Irene was a little worried: "If there are not enough people, there may be loopholes in the talent selection of the former Kuishan Allies."

Sylvia smiled and said, "It's good to have a loophole. A loophole must mean that someone is doing nothing or doing things indiscriminately. Only in this way can we find some useless bugs."

Irene didn't say anything after hearing this, and then picked up a bunch of documents that had been corrected by Sylvia and prepared to leave.

"Wait!" Sylvia stopped Irene and asked, "How is Tolan's etiquette learned?"

Leo, who was immersed in the data of the general-purpose recorder, raised his head slightly when he heard this.

Eileen seemed to think of something funny and said with a smile: "It's still that bad. I really can't imagine that such a smart guy as him can't even learn this basic etiquette."

"What can't you learn? I don't want to learn." Sylvia snorted with some displeasure, and said, "Since he wants to be a king, he must look like a king. Which kingdom is there in this world? Etiquette can be compared with that of the Faran Empire. Go and tell him not to do anything these days, and to learn the etiquette of the royal family of the Faran Empire thoroughly. Besides, if I haven’t learned it, I’d rather postpone the enthronement ceremony than To see him humiliated before the envoys of the nations and the Church."

Irene could see that Sylvia wasn't joking now, and the smile on her face had subsided a lot. She turned and left without saying anything else.

Leo said at this time: "A respected king does not depend on whether the etiquette is ancient and noble, but whether he is strong enough."

"You should say this in front of Tolan." Sylvia turned her head, gave Leo a white look, and said, "He is your son. You have been away for more than 20 years, and now we meet, but a sentence He didn't say anything, he didn't even give a hug, he wasn't even as good as a stranger, what about him? It's the same as you, I really don't know what you guys are thinking?"

It's no wonder that Sylvia couldn't help but groan. After returning to Hope City a few days ago, the scene of the father and son meeting she was looking forward to made her extremely disappointed. After the two met, they just nodded and said nothing. They didn't say anything, and then they did their own things as if they completely forgot about each other. The embarrassing scene let alone the two of them, even the other people in the room felt uncomfortable.

After that, Leo and Sylvia came to Deer Park and stayed here to help her deal with things together. I don't know if it was because of Leo. Tolan was also doing his own things in the palace. She didn't come to Luyuan to see her mother, which had never happened before.

Facing Sylvia's complaints, Leo just smiled awkwardly and didn't refute anything.

In fact, he was also dissatisfied with his performance a few days ago. In his opinion, he just saw his son whom he hadn't seen for more than 20 years. He greeted him like a normal person, and then asked him how he was doing these years. That's fine, but when he actually saw Tolan, who had some of his own facial features, but looked more like Sylvia, he couldn't say anything. The preparations in advance were completely useless, and the whole person was so embarrassing that he had some doubts Is there something wrong with me, and Tolan's situation doesn't seem to be much better than him.

This kind of weird and embarrassing situation is completely beyond the scope of Leo's handling. If he is still a biochemical person, then he will definitely suspect that there is something wrong with his artificial organ and needs to be overhauled again, but now he can't find it at all. Any excuses to explain why it would be so embarrassing to just meet up with my son whom I haven't seen in over twenty years.

Recalling the situation that day, Leo couldn't help but miss the time when he didn't have any human emotions. At that time, getting along with people would not be so troublesome at all.

"Shouldn't you and him continue to be awkward like this?" Sylvia asked pressingly.

"He has grown up and has his own career and life." Leo said something irrelevant, but Sylvia could hear his implication, that is, getting along well like this, there is no need to change anything.

Sylvia couldn't help touching her forehead. She didn't expect that the first problem she had encountered in many years was actually a problem of getting along with a father and son.

Just when she was about to continue to say something, Leo suddenly interrupted what she was going to say, then manipulated the general-purpose recorder in his hand, and said: "This is after the invasion of those general-purpose recorders just now, from there Some data downloaded from several recorders, you should take a look first!"

Although she knew that Leo was deliberately changing the subject, Sylvia did not neglect the matter. She collected her emotions, activated the general-purpose recorder in her hand, and called up the information Leo had just sent. It also became a little serious as the reading deepened.

After Leo handed over the basic usage method of the universal recorder to Sylvia, Sylvia has been using some functions on the universal recorder to handle affairs, and even used it for some data collection and analysis .

It is precisely because of her understanding of the universal recorder, a powerful tool that crosses the world and across eras, that she also secretly dispatched her first witch to search for other universal recorders when she was dealing with the daily affairs of the Dodd Group. clue.

After more than 20 years of collection, she now has more than a dozen general-purpose recorders on hand. Except for a few that have been completely broken and cannot be used, the others are relatively well preserved, and the functional modules inside can also be used normally. .

So she distributed these general-purpose recorders to some of her trusted subordinates, and at the same time put several general-purpose recorders in some research places that needed to use the analysis and comparison function.

Maybe it's because the people under him have traitors, or maybe it's because some usage details were inadvertently leaked when using it. In short, some methods of the general recorder are also known to other forces, such as the Church of the Lord of the Sky.

The Church of the Lord of the Sky discovered the universal universal recorder a long time ago, and because of the hard texture of the universal universal recorder that cannot be destroyed, it is considered to be a kind of artifact, so before Sylvia began to collect the universal universal recorder, They have already started to collect general-purpose recorders, but they have always enshrined these recorders as artifacts, and they don't know how to use them. They didn't start using general-purpose recorders until the method of use spread from the Dodd Group.

However, I don’t know if it’s because most of the general-purpose recorders they collected before were broken, or because the method they obtained was incomplete and only part of the general-purpose recorders can be opened, or because they have always regarded the recorders as artifacts , there are restrictions on use, etc. All in all, according to Leo's understanding, there are only three general-purpose recorders that the Church of the Lord of the Sky can use.

It is precisely because of the use of the general-purpose recorder by the Dodd Group and the Church of the Lord of the Sky that many other forces also know that it is a useful thing, and they try their best to find the general-purpose recorder, get how to use it, and activate it.

Just like now, there are as many as a dozen activated universal recorders scanned by Leo through this special universal recorder in his hand, among which, apart from some belonging to themselves, there is also a Church of the Lord of the Sky, The rest belong to different factions. Among them are the Church of the White Hart and the Church of the Ladies of the Lake, which have a good relationship with the Dodd Group, and the Church of the Hill King, which is a neutral church. There are even some that have not been discovered before. The underground church of evil spirits.

I don’t know if it’s because the damage and damage caused by the mutated monsters to the entire society far surpassed any kind of Evil God’s church in the past, so after the fog disaster year, the Evil God’s Church will still encounter attacks from governments and the Church of True God , but the strength has been weakened a lot.

Moreover, there are mutated monsters blocking the front to attract people's attention, allowing the Church of the Evil God to hide in the shadows, giving people the illusion that they have disappeared. Except for some things related to the Underground Church of the Evil God that will happen in some remote villages and towns, each large Accidents caused by the Church of the Evil God rarely occurred in the city.

Sylvia, who had served in the Orthodox Church, knew very well how dangerous the underground Church of the Evil God was and how tenacious their survivability was, so she never believed rumors that the Church of the Evil God would disappear. After taking power in the region, she established a department specifically targeting the underground church of evil gods, and recruited many night watchmen and cult hunters who had fled from Velen Continent to enrich the department.

Over the years, this department has achieved brilliant results. It has cleaned up eight secret places of the Heretic God Church and captured no less than 600 official members of the Heretic God Church. A dozen of them are high priests and priests of the Heretic God with extraordinary power.

Originally, Sylvia thought that if she attacked the Church of Evil God like this, there should be no more Church of Evil God in Hope City, but now the real-time recording data obtained through the universal recorder scanned by Leo Invasion found that the so-called Evil God The fact that the church has disappeared from the City of Hope is just wishful thinking. The real situation is that there are still a large number of underground churches of evil gods here, and among the members of the cult, she also found some current officials of the Bodo Kingdom, including a royal palace Captain of the Guard Corps.

And from some conversation records in the data, she found that these underground churches of evil gods seem to be preparing to unite to do something at the Tolan Enthronement Ceremony.

Although Sylvia thinks that with her and Leo sitting in charge, unless the gods personally descend, otherwise, even if those cultists make some troubles, it is impossible to cause any trouble to the current Bodo Kingdom, but there is no doubt that , This will definitely make the Bodo Kingdom lose face in front of the countries and church envoys. This is undoubtedly a very annoying thing for Sylvia, who has always pursued perfection.