The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"How's your harvest?" When Leo returned to the manor, Sylvia also came back from the factory, and asked curiously after seeing him.

"The harvest is great." Leo said seriously.

Sylvia waited for Leo to continue, but Leo suddenly became silent, and couldn't help urging: "And then?"

Leo explained: "It still takes a little time to sort it out. The books I have seen have a lot of contradictory content, and many of the books and materials use some hidden language in the content. I want to fully understand the content in it. , It will take a day or two to sort them all out."

"A day or two is not too long." Sylvia nodded, and said, "It just so happens that I can handle all the things on the factory side in a day or two, and then I don't need to stay permanently There."

Leo reminded: "Don't worry too much about the factory. Don't forget that we are only using the resources of the factory to collect information for us. Once we find what we are looking for, there is no need to continue here. If you stay here, everything here will be abandoned.”

"I know." Sylvia responded disapprovingly.

Leo seemed to remember something again, and said, "By the way, I saw another person in the Hans family manor this time, that Roger Hans."

"Before we seemed to suspect that this Roger Hans was actually that smiling Todd Rudolf Hans in disguise," Sylvia asked curiously, "How? Is he?"

Leo was silent for a moment, and said, "It might be."

Sylvia froze for a moment and said, "It could be? What is the answer?"

Leo replied: "Roger Hans has a power in his body that doesn't belong to him, but I'm not sure that power comes from Rudolf Hans."

"Is that power strong?" Sylvia asked.

Leo thought about it carefully, and said: "It's not powerful, but it makes people feel very ancient. Maybe it came from a fallen ancient existence."

Sylvia analyzed seriously: "I remember that when Rupert Hans was arrested, he really wanted to claim that he had communicated with an ancient existence and obtained knowledge from it. Do you think this Could the two be the same ancient existence?"

"Maybe, maybe not." Leo still did not give a definite answer, and then added, "There are too many ancient existences in this world, and no one can be sure whether there is a person around him who contains thought and consciousness of an ancient existence."

Hearing Leo's words, Sylvia looked at him suspiciously and said, "Is this one of your gains?"

"Well." Leo nodded, and said: "This world is far more complicated and dangerous than we expected. If you insist on comparing a certain era of the Velen World with it, you can regard this as the Velen World In the earliest barbaric period, the gods walked the earth, and the number of these gods was dozens or even hundreds of times that of the world of Velen."

Hearing what Leo said, Sylvia couldn't help being shocked, and asked, "You saw this from the Hans family's library?"

Leo shook his head and said, "Not exactly."

Afterwards, he did not continue this topic, but exchanged with Sylvia about the nearest smelter and some things that happened in the urban area, then went to the basement alone, and then sat on a chair in the basement like this, and started Organize the knowledge gained from the Hans family in the Brain Database.

Although the library that Bojie Hans led Leo did not have much knowledge related to occultism, it can be seen from the placement of the books on the bookshelf and the traces of dust that the books there were sorted out beforehand, but even In this way, these books still brought a lot of information that Leo needed most.

For example, the ancient legends recorded in these books confirmed one of his conjectures. Even if this world is not the Colonial Planet of Pris, the humans in this world are definitely related to the immigrants of the Earth Federation on the Colonial Planet of Pris.

Because in several ancient books about the ancient times, the name Worcester was clearly mentioned. This name corresponds to an ark. It is said that human beings were transported to this world by this ark. The immigrant spaceship is called Worcester.

In addition, there are some totem symbols in those books that are considered to be ancient tribes, and although those symbols are somewhat deformed and deleted, the overall shape can still be seen that the original shape of these symbols should be the Department of Space Colonization, the Federation Fleet, etc. and other department badges.

That is to say, people in this world knew from the very beginning that they were not born and bred in this world, and it is not difficult to see from some long poetry records in ancient books that for a long time, people in this world tried to leave this world, Returning to their homeland in the starry sky, but due to unknown reasons, they all failed in the end, which made most of them give up this ideal and choose to compromise with reality.

However, there are still some people who insist on their ideals, but because of historical changes and man-made tampering, these people’s ideals have gradually evolved into some religions, believing that human beings are the sons of God, and the ultimate goal of human beings is to return to God Around, these religions still exist in this world so far, and there is a branch sect of this kind of religion in the church expelled by the Otter Federation.

In addition, there are some information hidden in the fragmentary records about the gods in some church books. Most people would ignore this information as some kind of metaphor, but after Leo sorted it out, he was able to form a complete The meaning of this message is very simple, that is, people came down from the starry sky, awakened the sleeping gods, and the gods brought the world into a cage, imprisoning people and themselves forever.

The meaning here is simple and clear. If this world is the Pris colony star, then the disappearance of the colony star is probably because human beings inadvertently awakened some powerful beings that were sleeping in this world, and these powerful beings produced a lot of power after waking up. The powerful force caused Pris Colony to enter a mysterious space. This space has the power of confinement. Not only the human beings who had spaceships at that time were imprisoned, but even those powerful beings who had awakened were also imprisoned.

Leo didn't know what happened at that time, and he didn't know whether the information was true, but if he analyzed it in combination with the current situation of the world, this world is not just a cage, but more like a breeding farm. Powerful beings called gods are the breeders, and humans are the livestock they raise.

There are many religions in this world. This is something Leo has known before, but he doesn't know how many religions there are in the whole world. Perhaps only a few people know this number, and the Hans family is obviously not among the minority.

In the library of the Hans family, most of the books are religious books of certain churches in the Old Continent. Except for the overlapping parts, Leo finally counted, and the number of gods involved in these books is as many as 4,000 There are many, and each god seems to have a complete church system, and basically all religious beliefs are related to sacrifice at the highest level. Some sacrifice their own beliefs, spirits and souls, while others sacrifice animals. , sacrificing prey, and even sacrificing himself.

Even the Baptist Church, which has nothing to do with sacrifice in terms of doctrine, records in its secret scriptures that the final stage of baptism is sacrifice, and at the same time, almost all rituals involve sacrifice. Ideas, but some are clearly said to be sacrifices, and some are disguised.

If there are no accidents in the preaching activities of the Baptist Church on Emerald Island, then before the last day of the event, the Baptist Church should conduct a sacrificial activity. They will collect the hair, nails and underwear of believers, and then treat them A mysterious existence whose name is not even recorded is sacrificed. This mysterious existence is the ultimate object of faith of the Baptist Church.

When Leo was still a cyborg, the automatic learning system injected a lot of knowledge into his brain. Among these knowledge, there was also knowledge about religions and gods in the old earth era.

Although there were a lot of gods in the old earth era, there were not many gods who could form a complete religious system and spread all over the world. The situation in the world of Velen is the same. Gods with churches are very rare.

However, this world is different. Almost all the gods have a complete church system, and they are spread all over the world, and what is even more amazing is that even if these churches conflict for various reasons, these conflicts will not have any influence on participation. Devastating losses have been caused to churches that are still going to survive.

For example, in the religious war that took place in the Otter Federation, according to the records Leo saw, there were a total of thirteen churches, but the names of these churches were not written down, which seemed to be deliberately concealed.

The great melee of thirteen churches involved more than 4 million church members, and the final casualties were several times that number, and even destroyed several small countries, but the final result was only the thirteen churches. The church withdrew from the Ott Federation area, and the church was still spreading in other countries in the New World, and it was not even absorbed by other powerful churches. Instead, those powerful churches protected these churches like patrons and let them gradually recover.

This situation does not only occur in this religious war in the Otter Federation, but also in all religious wars in this world, as if these wars are just a game of the gods, or a sacrifice.

When Leo saw the various religious wars that took place in the Old World recorded in the books, his first impression was sacrifice, a large-scale sacrifice with killing and death as a ritual.

This obvious intention was obviously seen by some smart people, such as the founding fathers of the Otter Federation, so they formulated a constitution that did not allow churches to preach publicly in the country.

There are many countries with similar constitutions in this world. At least according to the data, almost all new countries in the New World were anti-religious at first, but eventually these gradually changed.

Even if there is a constitution as a warning, as time goes by, the role of the constitution will slowly fade. Coupled with temptations such as money and power, the church will naturally infiltrate into an anti-religious country like the Outer Federation.

These data and analysis also allow Leo to now be sure that the Ott Federation allowed the Baptist Church to preach publicly, the Emerald Island incident, and the subsequent expulsion of all churches, etc., is a play directed and performed by the Ott Federation. The purpose is to purify all kinds of churches in the country.

Although Leo did not have any relevant statistical data, he did not know how far the private church in the Otto Federation had developed before the Emerald Island incident, but the Otto Federation government did not hesitate to use this method of self-harm to obtain Nominal justice, expulsion of religion in the territory, it is conceivable that the situation should not be optimistic.

At the same time, Leo also understands why he has such an important position in the mind of the Ott Federation government, why the Ott Federation government is so urgent to refit the entire army, and why the Ott Federation government suddenly asked him to develop a A weapon of mass destruction, because the high-level officials of the Otter Federation government should be very clear that as the churches in the territory are cleared, the Outer Federation will inevitably usher in a war, and the initiators of this war should be those around the Federation. Countries, those religious countries dominated by religious forces.

Judging from all signs, all the actions of the Ott Federation are not like a whim, but the result of a well-thought-out plan. The only accident may be Leo, and no one of them should be able to predict it. Someone can improve the steel formula and produce a special steel whose hardness and toughness are far superior to the existing ones just now, so this army change should be a temporary idea, and in order to complete the change before the war begins, it will be so generous. Several smelters were sent to Leo in order to increase the quantity of finished steel products and speed up the army's reloading.

However, Leo is not optimistic about the initiative of the Otter Federation to attack the churches this time, and use a war against the surrounding churches in exchange for hundreds of years of peace, because in his opinion, if there is a church war, then Otto The odds of the Special Federation in this war are not very high.

In addition to external reasons, what is more important is that the dignitaries within the Otto Federation and the Otto Federation government are not of one mind. Take the Hans family as an example. Many of them are invisible believers. Although the objects of belief They are different, but their attitude towards the church is the same. These people will definitely hold back the Otto Federation government when the war breaks out.

But Leo also believes that the Otto Federation should have a weapon that can turn the war around. This weapon is the weapon of mass destruction that the commissioner inadvertently revealed. However, judging from various circumstances, if this weapon is used, it may be a result of almost extinction.