The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"This floor can be used!" Leo said to the prison guards waiting on the first floor before leaving, and then ordered the prison guards to lead them to see Cassie Tally without waiting for the prison guards to ask questions.

Hearing Leo's order, the prison guards didn't think too much, let alone take Leo's words seriously. They still closed the metal door of the floor according to the previous habit, and then led Leo out of the building towards another relatively independent building. Go to the four-story building.

The reason why it is relatively independent is that all the buildings in this prison are connected. Even if the main buildings are not connected together, the two buildings will be connected by overhead passages. All in all, it seems that the prison is composed of dozens of buildings. In fact, if you really want to count them, they only have four or five buildings, and the other connected buildings can be counted as one.

However, the building where the prison guards led Leo and Sylvia was a separate building. From the shape of the building, it is not difficult to see that this building was originally built as a dormitory building, which should be used for prison guards and other prison management clerks. Yes, after all, it takes too much time to return to the urban area from the island, so generally, as long as it is not a rest day or a holiday, the prison staff will spend time in the prison.

However, now this dormitory building has been completely converted into a prison, and it is still a fully enclosed prison. All the windows of the prison are completely sealed by bricks, leaving only one door for entry and exit, and the prison has not installed the latest Instead of advanced lighting equipment, very primitive torches were used for lighting, which also made the whole prison extraordinarily gloomy and dark.

When heading to Cassie Tally's cell, Leo looked at the prison gate with metal plates around it, and asked the prison guard beside him, "What prisoners are in this prison?"

A prison guard turned his head, looked at Leo and Silvia with a look of awe, and replied: "They are all fools who can't understand the teachings, and they are locked here to let them get rid of reality. Interference from the world, to better understand the teachings of the Goddess."

Leo and Sylvia stopped for a while, glanced at each other, and then Leo asked, "Are you also a believer in the church founded by Cassie Tally?"

"Yes." The prison guard admitted honestly, and pointed to several other prison guards around him, and said, "The same goes for everyone else. In fact, except for a few vicious prisoners and rigid-minded clerks, everyone else Almost all of them are believers of the goddess."

"Don't tell me the warden doesn't care about this?" Sylvia frowned, and said, "It's a very serious issue for civil servants in the Outer Federation to believe in a certain church or to be a senior believer. "

"That's other places outside. This is Prison Island, the most dangerous place in the Otto Federation. It is impossible to enforce ordinary laws and regulations here." Another prison guard took the conversation and said, "You know, in the Goddess Church Before it appeared, there were casualties of prisoners every day on Prison Island, and at least four prison guards were assassinated by prisoners every month. The prison guards on Prison Island can be said to be the most dangerous profession in the entire Otto Federation. But now with the baptism of the Goddess Church , the personalities of all the prisoners have become peaceful, the fighting has almost disappeared, and the prison guards have no more casualties, since there are such benefits, why should we ban it?"

Sylvia raised her eyebrows, pointed in the direction of the playground with disdain, and said, "Peace? Are you referring to them? I couldn't see how peaceful they were just now!"

The prison guard immediately thought of the prisoners who were lying on the ground moaning before, swallowed dryly, and said, "The church can only calm their emotions, but cannot control their instincts."

"In that case, it's still my fault!" Sylvia said coldly.

Feeling the inexplicable pressure, the prison guard couldn't help but shuddered, and didn't dare to say anything more. The other prison guards also walked with their heads down, not daring to look at Sylvia at all, for fear that they would see Sylvia's face. When you are beautiful, if you show any expression that you shouldn't have on your face, you become the target of the other party's power.

A group of people came to the innermost room on the top floor. This room is different from other rooms, not only because there is an unsealed window on the wall of the corridor next to this room, nor because this room is not equipped with metal. The door, but because the door of this room is not locked, and there is a key board on the wall next to the door. The keys of every room in the entire prison building are hung on the key board. It feels like it is for the owner of the room. It was prepared so that when he wanted to meet the prisoner in any cell, he could directly use the key to open the cell door and enter the cell.

"What's going on here?" Although she already had guesses in her heart, Sylvia still pointed to the key board and asked.

And those prison guards seemed to be deaf, and they didn't intend to answer at all. Instead, they knocked on Cassie Tally's unlocked cell door and said, "Teacher, there are two people from the city who want to see you."

"Let them in! I know who they are." A slightly hoarse voice came from the room and said.

The prison guard pushed the door open and motioned to Leo and Silvia.

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other and walked in respectively.

Just like the situation outside the room, this room is also different from other prison cells. This room has a large floor-to-ceiling window, and the window is inlaid with a whole piece of valuable glass, and the room is not like other prison cells. Closed and narrow, but very spacious, it should be converted from two rooms into one room after removing the walls.

The interior of the room is very tidy, there is nothing superfluous, there is only a small bookshelf. Another thing worth noting is the exquisite patterns painted with special paint on the walls. Leo and Sylvia can easily see the lake in these patterns. Lady's ecclesiastical coat of arms.

"Please sit down, both of you. I've been waiting for this day for a long time." A Cassie Tally with a cloak and a hood on his head sat on the chair in the middle of the room. He didn't look up, his eyes were always on Looking at the books on his lap, he pointed to the sofa opposite, but murmured, "The goddess has already heralded the arrival of the two of you."

"Goddess? Which goddess?" Although she knew who the other party was talking about, Sylvia still asked knowingly.

At the same time, Leo's spiritual network was also deployed in the room, scanning everything around him and the energy fluctuations contained in it, and the information returned by the spiritual network surprised him a bit.

"The one you and I both know." Cassie Tally pointed to the ring of Lady of the Lake on Sylvia's hand.

When Sylvia was about to ask the other party about the lady in the lake in this world, Leo stopped her, and then Leo asked inexplicably, "How did you become like this?"

Sylvia showed a puzzled look at first, but soon realized something, and looked at Cassie Tully in surprise.

Cassie Tally was silent for a moment, then slowly took off the hood, revealing the face under the hood, and said to Leo: "It seems that you are very familiar with the other me, otherwise it would be impossible to tell so easily My current situation."

After seeing Cassie Tally's face, before Leo could respond, Sylvia couldn't help but exclaimed, "God descends!"

I saw that Cassie Tally was very old, as if he was almost a hundred years old, and his face was covered with cracks, but these cracks did not shed any blood, but emitted bursts of light. A blur of a woman's face emerged from his face, as if a light mask had been placed on Cassie Tully's face.

Perhaps it was because of Sylvia's exclamation, or maybe it was because of the obvious characteristics of Cassie Tally, relevant information immediately appeared in Leo's mind.

In Velen, the divine descent technique is almost one of the highest divine arts in all the churches. Its function is very simple, that is, to allow part of the consciousness of the gods to possess humans, and let the possessors exert some of the power that only gods can exert.

However, not everyone is able to withstand the partial consciousness of the gods, only those who have undergone special training and have the most firm beliefs can do it, and the duration of the divine descent technique cannot be too long, otherwise, it will be harmful to the body. Can cause irreparable damage to the body and soul of the victim, such as the cracks that appear on Cassie Tally's face now, which are the stigmata caused by the divine descent technique for too long, but like Cassie Tally This kind of stigmata is dense enough to be comparable to the wrinkles on the face, which has never been seen in Leo's data, and I believe Sylvia has never seen it either.

The person talking to Leo and Sylvia right now is not Cassie Tally, but a part of the true God consciousness of the lady in the world lake. In this way, some doubts about Prison Island before are easily solved .

For example, why the church established by Cassie Tally was able to gain a firm foothold on Prison Island and spread smoothly, gaining the faith of so many people, and even the management of Prison Island was affected and became believers.

Now it seems that these questions are not doubts. Ms. Huzhong personally went down to build a church and spread the faith. There is no reason for her failure.

"How did you become like this?" Sylvia asked, frowning as she looked at Cassie Tally's body that might collapse at any time due to the powerful divine power.

Cassie Tally or the lady in the lake smiled bitterly, and said: "I also want to know, I just remember that I was in a deep sleep, and then a force woke me up and pulled me into a mortal body, and then became This is how it looks now."

"Did you wake up in Monte Manor?" Leo asked.

The lady in the lake said helplessly: "I know what you want to know, yes, I was in Monte Manor when I woke up, and there were other people around, some of them were also descended by God in their deep sleep just like me. gone."

Leo said with a serious face: "You mean, there is an altar for the divine descent ceremony in Monte Manor, and someone uses this altar to continuously wake up the sleeping gods in this world?"

The lady in the lake seemed to have some concerns, she didn't confirm Leo's guess, she just nodded.

Leo wanted to ask when, but the lady in the lake interrupted him, saying: "Don't ask, I don't have much time left, I awakened part of my sanity through another ring left to you Yes, it won’t be long before this point of reason disappears, you’d better listen to what I have to say first.” Then, he pointed to the Lady of the Lake ring in Leo’s and Sylvia’s hands, and said, “Raise your hands Come."

Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other and raised their hands.

The lady in the lake also ignored the two's careful thoughts, and all her attention was on the rings in their hands. He reached out and touched the emblem of the lady in the lake on the ring surface with his index finger.

Both Leo and Silvia felt that some power had been injected into the ring, but they didn't feel any harm.

"I can't feel where my main body is now, but I can feel that he is not in a good condition. I hope you can find him." The lady in the lake said slowly: "I left something on your ring. When you get close to my main body, the ring will allow you to sense and know the exact location of my main body."

Sylvia asked suspiciously: "How close must the ring be to react?"

The lady in the lake said disapprovingly: "Don't worry about this, you will definitely get close to my body at some point in the future, because we have a direct bond, which is the bond of fate, just like I had a few years ago It’s as if I could have predicted your arrival.” Then, she said seriously: “If you think about it, you already feel that this world is not right! I can’t tell you too many things, because I don’t remember many things. I can only tell you that there are gods in this world, and those gods still exist, but they are just asleep in a certain state, it is best not to wake them up, because when they wake up, the world will be destroyed."

"What about you? Why are you asleep too?" Leo asked.

The lady in the lake said blankly: "I don't know, but I can feel that this world is assimilating me."

When she said this, her phantom face became a little unstable, flickering and scattered, as if it would disappear at any time.

Seeing this situation, Leo immediately asked another question, "What did you see after you were awakened in Monte Manor? Who else is around you?"

However, at this moment, the lady in the lake seemed to be having a hard time speaking normally. She opened and closed her mouth several times without making a sound. Finally, she reached out and tapped Leo's forehead, and then the face disappeared, only Some scattered light remained.

At this moment, an image appeared in Leo's mind. This image should be in the basement of the manor, and the surrounding altars are complete, not cleaned up like when Leo saw it.

In the basement, there were more than a dozen people, eight of them stood on the same altar as Cassie Tally represented in the video, but there were obvious mutations in all eight of them, only Cassie · Tully intact.

The people around seemed to think that Cassie Tully had failed, and the eight mutated ones were successful, and they lowered their heads to communicate with each other. Although these people were all wearing hoods, Leo could still see clearly They looked like people, and it happened that one of them, Leo, knew him. He was a high-status person in Beruk City.