The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"The Federal Ministry of Defense hopes to send a force to replace the current guards of the smelter." Sylvia picked up a document that was just submitted from the city government on the table, looked at it, and said.

"Why?" Leo asked, putting down the newspaper in his hand.

Sylvia handed the document to Leo and said: "They feel that the security of the smelter is too weak and can only target ordinary people. Once any dangerous elements attack the smelter with dangerous weapons, the guards of the smelter will be It is impossible to resist, if there is a problem in the smelter, it will greatly affect the federal army's refit plan."

Leo glanced at it casually, smiled and said: "Since they are willing to provide better security personnel for free, there is no need for us to refuse, and we will leave the security work around the smelter to them!"

Sylvia took the document and quickly wrote down the content of her own instructions. While placing the document in another pile of processed document baskets, she said: "I think they are not just here to defend the smelting plant safety, they should be more interested in the formula."

Leo said disdainfully: "The key to special metals is my catalyst. There is nothing they want in the smelter," he said, and handed a newspaper to Sylvia, pointing to A piece of news above said: "The Baptist Church has taken action."

Sylvia took a look and saw that the news on it said that the Baptist Church was going to hold a grand evangelistic meeting on Emerald Island on Lake Beruk, and that believers who were willing to join the Baptist Church would be baptized. , wrote under the news that celebrities who have agreed to participate in this evangelistic meeting and are willing to be baptized and join the baptized church, many of these people are celebrities in Beiruk City, including academic scholars and social activists, There are also some well-known writers, who seem to give the impression that the Baptist Church is very active and popular in Beiruk.

However, as a matter of fact, anyone who is familiar with the upper class of Beruk City will know that the people on this list are all so-called famous people in name only, and none of those who really have wealth and power have appeared. Apparently, even though Beruk City has agreed to the Baptist Church's public preaching, the dignitaries of Beruk City still maintain a considerable degree of caution towards things like religion.

Sylvia said a little puzzled: "It seems that there is nothing unusual about this, it's just a missionary activity held to promote my belief."

Leo explained: "I have found some information about Lake Beruk these days, especially geographical data. This emerald island was named Tayev Mountain before Lake Beruk was formed. It is one of the few It is a mountain that can survive the huge destruction that formed Lake Beruk, but that mountain seems to have been destroyed by that destruction, and the entire mountain is much shorter, and it has become the current island in the lake."

"Tayef Mountain?" Sylvia seemed to remember something and confirmed, "Is it the recorded battle of Tayev?"

"Yeah." Leo nodded.

Leo was collecting information about Lake Beruk at the same time as he was collecting information related to the religious war, but it may be that the Otto Federation government consciously covered up and hidden that period of history, and there are very few relevant materials available on the market. , especially the information about the details of the war is even rarer, and the record of the Tayev battle can be said to be the only one that is fairly detailed.

The reason why this record has been handed down is mainly because several founders of the Otter Federation participated in that war. The founding father was so heroic in that war that there's even quite a bit of drama associated with it.

So even if the data about the Tayev War were collected, these materials were all manually modified, but Leo and Sylvia could still easily remove the artificially modified content and keep the most authentic one. A small part, and that small part also revealed a piece of information, that is, there is a dangerous item under Tayev Mountain that can turn the tide of the battle.

The cause of the Tayev War is very simple, that is, a church participating in the war inadvertently obtained a dangerous item that could turn the tide of the battle, and planned to secretly transport this item to the front line of the battlefield for use, but it was found out by the spies of the hostile church. As a result, the other party immediately dispatched elite troops to intercept it, and the church's dispatch of elite troops was detected by other churches participating in the war. In the end, the church's troops encountered each other on Tayev Mountain and a great battle broke out.

The final outcome of the war was mentioned in almost all related dramas, that is, the founding fathers of the Otter Federation were sensitive to the danger of the war if the war continued, so they led their troops to evacuate the battlefield quickly. Not long after they evacuated, some things happened on the battlefield. There is no description of what these things are. The only thing that can be known is that all the people who are still on the battlefield have died, and then went to investigate the world, collect the corpses, and search for loot The people who went there had no regrets, and this mystery continued until the foot of Tayev Mountain and the mountainside were all submerged by the last great destruction, forming Lake Beruk.

Although there is no record of what happened in the end of the war in all the materials, many people speculate that the church armed forces who transported the dangerous goods opened the container storing the dangerous goods and released the dangerous goods when they saw that they could not resist. It came out and killed everyone, and the people who went to Mount Tayev afterwards did not come back. It can be seen that the dangerous object has not moved, and it has always exerted its deadly effect on Mount Tayev.

Rumors about an extremely powerful dangerous object hidden under Mount Tayev caused some commotion in the early days of the founding of the Otter Federation, and both the government and the private sector sent people to dive to the bottom of the lake under Emerald Island to find danger. The existence of the item, I don’t know whether the waters around Emerald Island are too deep or the area is too large. All in all, these treasure hunting teams returned without success in the end.

In addition, those teams who went to the nearby waters to hunt for treasures did not appear to be in danger. Over time, there was a speculation that the great destruction that ended the religious war eventually destroyed the dangerous items at the foot of Mount Tayev, so the waters of Emerald Island are now Can't find anything in .

This kind of speculation quickly became a consensus, and things like treasure hunting in the surrounding waters of Emerald Island gradually decreased, and eventually disappeared. Now, except for a few boring people, most people will not dive into Emerald again. Treasure hunt in the waters around the island.

The Baptist Church’s choice of Emerald Island as the venue for the evangelistic meeting seems to be a reasonable choice. For example, the island is large enough to accommodate many participants. For example, the cost of renting here is small enough to be borne by the Baptist Church alone. It is very close to Beiruk City, and it can be reached in less than half an hour by boat, which sounds like a good reason.

It's just that if you think about it carefully, the reasons for choosing Emerald Island are all untenable, because almost all the people who participated in the evangelistic meeting this time are from Beiruk City, and there are people in Beiruk City and surrounding suburbs. A venue that is large enough and cheap enough can be chosen by the Baptist Church. Compared with the danger and time spent by boat, it is obviously easier and more relaxed to hold evangelistic meetings in urban areas and surrounding suburbs.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the Baptist Church chose Emerald Island as the venue for this mission. There must be other reasons that they don’t want to be known, and the biggest possibility that Leo can think of is the one in the waters of Emerald Island. Hazardous goods not known to exist.

"Are you going to participate?" Sylvia asked, seeing what Leo was thinking.

"You just recovered from a serious illness and just went out for a walk to relax, what do you think?" Leo asked with a smile.

Sylvia smiled and didn't say anything. She picked up the bell on the table and shook it. When the butler came over, she handed over the newspaper, pointed to the news and gave instructions.

After hearing this, the butler left immediately, and returned to the garden not long after, saying that he had booked the boats needed for that day.

Just when Leo and Sylvia were planning to go to Emerald Island when the Baptist Church held a preaching event, some other people had the same idea as them. These people were the people from the Ministry of Education dispatched from the federal capital and people from the City Police Department.

Originally, the Ministry of Education sent only a few people to Beruk City. The purpose of these people here was to monitor Leo and Sylvia and prevent them from discovering the hidden secrets of Monte Manor. The more important thing was to monitor the Baptist Church.

Although the Otter Federation has agreed to the Baptist Church to preach publicly in the country, not everyone agrees with this. In fact, there are still many people who are wary of the Baptist Church, even if the Baptist Church is very kind, Friendly, harmless, and many of these people are senior officials of the Ministry of Education.

Because the decision of the Baptist Church to preach publicly is a bill passed by the Congress, even if the Ministry of Education opposes it, it is impossible to change the case. Therefore, the Ministry of Education and Education can only monitor secretly, looking for evidence of the Baptist Church's ulterior motives.

However, the Ministry of Education and Culture is only a department of the federal government after all, and this is a special department with a small number of members and a lot of places that need to be monitored, so Beiruk City can only send a few people here in the end , this is also because the city of Beiruk occupies an important position in the federation.

But this situation changed after Sylvia destroyed a barren mountain. The Ministry of Education did not know that it was an excuse, but really believed that the accident was related to the Baptist Church. Sexually dispatched more than a dozen people to Beiruk City, and also signed a document through Congress, the federal government and the Supreme Court. .

Thus, a joint department composed of members of the Ministry of Education, police detectives of the city police station, and a combat team of the Beiruk City Standing Army appeared in the secret office under the Beiruk City Government.

The main job of this department is to investigate and deal with any strange cases that appear in Beiruk City. Just a few days after its establishment, this department has been quite effective. It solved three murder cases caused by cult activities in a short period of time. Captured a dozen cultists without any supernatural powers.

But now their focus is on the Baptist Church, and they have called all members together for a meeting. From the atmosphere, it is not difficult to see that they attach great importance to this matter.

"I think we should send more people. After all, we don't know much about the situation there. In addition, we need to bring weapons so that we can protect ourselves when things happen." Solander's voice echoed in the conference room , many people nodded in agreement.

Because she was in charge of receiving the members of the Ministry of Education and Culture before, and the cooperation with the people of the Ministry of Education and Culture was not bad, and the Municipal Police Department also planned to get rid of her burden, so after the establishment of this special department, the dispatch given by the Municipal Police Department Solander was ranked first in the list, and she was also appointed as the captain of the police force. It can be said that she was promoted to two police ranks at once.

It's just that her captain is not worthy of her name. Almost all the people dispatched from the city police station are unwilling to work under a woman's command. This is a great insult to them, so these people are directly under the command of the deputy captain Rick. , The female captain is just a polished commander.

However, in the current time of fighting for their own interests, no matter how much they look down on the female captain, they will not cause trouble for themselves, and almost do not need the deputy captain's instructions. Everyone in the city police station agrees with Solan Germany's proposal.

The team sent by the standing army on the other side didn't say anything, because unless an emergency happened, they couldn't be sent out to perform the mission, so they were just bystanders in this mission.

People in the Ministry of Education were a little displeased with Solander's request. Although they knew that there was nothing wrong with Solander's proposal, they didn't agree with it, and they didn't like people from the city police department either. Go against their decisions and make demands without authorization.

"If you go to Emerald Island with weapons, it will definitely arouse the vigilance of the Baptist Church. In that case, our intentions will be completely exposed, and the plans made by the headquarters will also be affected. Who will bear the responsibility." Ministry of Education The middle-aged man who led the team questioned blankly.

"Just because you don't want to take responsibility, put us in danger?" Someone from the city police immediately shouted dissatisfied.

The meeting room immediately became noisy. People from the City Police Department were very disgusted with these high-spirited special commissioners from the Ministry of Education. In the previous missions, people from the City Police Department were not only sent to dangerous places, but also Afterwards, the credit was also taken by the other party, which made them extremely dissatisfied, and now is just a suitable occasion to vent.

"Actually, the solution to this matter is very simple. Aren't there many people participating in the evangelistic activity this time?" An old police officer did not seem too excited. In the name of ensuring the safety of the participants, the government has sent people from the city police station to assist the church in maintaining law and order. In that case, weapons can be brought to the island justifiably. What do you think?"

Hearing the old policeman's words, the meeting room immediately fell silent. Everyone stopped arguing, looked at each other, and then continued to discuss the specific method of implementation as if they had forgotten the scene just now. This scene made Solander This kind of newcomer has the illusion that the quarrel scene he saw just now is just an illusion.