The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Detective Solander?" Leo couldn't help being stunned after seeing the person who interrupted just now.

This person is the policewoman who previously worked in the Beruk City Police Department, Exploring Rand. She was involved in the Hans family because of the investigation of the disappearance of Monte Manor, and then went to the federal capital to find information. After that, there was no news. Unexpectedly Now she was seen again in the submarine of the Internal Revenue Service's anti-smuggling fleet.

It's just that Solander is not wearing a police uniform, but a secret service security agent's suit.

The Secret Service Security Department of the Utter Federation is affiliated to the Security Department of the Prime Minister's Office. It is responsible for protecting the safety of some high-level dignitaries and important people in the Federation. Although it is not within the law enforcement system of the Utter Federation, it has considerable power. Part of the police or military resources can be mobilized.

Solander's transition from a small police detective in the area to a special agent of the Security Department of the Prime Minister's Office is undoubtedly a high promotion, and it can be said to be a leap-forward promotion. This shows that Solander's background power is very strong, after all, it is not a power They can all intervene in the personnel arrangements of the Prime Minister's Office.

However, Leo didn't have the idea of ​​greeting Solander, nor did he pay attention to Solander for too long. What he was interested in was the Bachelor of Langenus and the Catacomb Temple of Tafik mentioned by Solander.

Although there are many bachelors in various colleges in the Otter Federation, if a bachelor's title is added after the name in public, then this bachelor is definitely and can only be a scholar who has won the Federation Gold Crown badge.

The name of Bachelor of Langenus is no stranger to Leo, but when Leo heard the name of this person, it was not because of any amazing academic articles published by this person, but because the Ott Federation now implements The policy of de-ecclesiasticism originated from Langenus's early publication entitled The Influence and Tribulation of the Church on the World.

Because this article was published by Longanus in his early years, it is full of young people's impulsiveness and anger. He blamed all the sufferings of the world on the rule of the church, and cited a large number of examples to prove his argument. In terms of academic value alone, the value of this article is almost equal to zero. It is completely a venting article full of dissatisfaction.

However, there are some contents in this article that have been taken by the federal government of Ott, and they have been refined and expanded. These contents are the five steps of de-ecclesiasticalization.

Leo also read this article and read the five steps. It has to be said that if the Oeter Federation can faithfully follow these five steps, then the success rate of the final demolition will be very high.

However, Leo is not very optimistic about these five steps, because the requirements for the completion of these five steps are too strict, as long as there is a slight error in one link, the final result will be flawed.

However, for the Oeter Federation, even if the five steps fail in the end, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, because even if it fails, the influence of the church on the Oeter Federation will also be weakened to the extreme, and it can almost be said that it has returned to the At the beginning of the founding of the Otter Federation.

However, a person like Longanus who was extremely anti-church in his youth has now become the most authoritative expert in religion, folklore, and mysticism in the Otter Federation. It has to be said that it is a very interesting thing .

As for the Tafik Catacomb Temple, it is Longanus’ famous work. He discovered a temple ruins in an undeveloped area deep in the New World, because that area is all Tafik Cave Rock Landform, so The site of that unknown temple is also known as the Tafik Catacomb Temple.

The discovery of this temple site confirmed that the New World was inhabited before the Great Migration, and developed a very successful civilization, but it is not known why these people and civilizations suddenly disappeared.

Because of the excavation of this temple site, Longanus was awarded the gold crown badge of the Otter Federation for the first time, thus gradually establishing his authoritative status in religion, folklore, and mysticism.

However, the Tafik Catacomb Temple has been controversial since the day it was discovered. Even today, the dispute between authenticity and falsehood still exists in relevant academic circles and even folk chats.

There are two main reasons for the controversy. The first point is that except for Langenus and his expedition team, no one else has seen the complete temple ruins. What the outside world sees are some temples The fragments of the building, because there was a strong earthquake at that time, directly swallowed the temple, and Longnus and his team almost died in that accident. They just brought back some adventure notes from there , described the whole picture of the temple in detail in the notes.

After that, Longanus formed a new team through the private chaebol of the Otter Federation, and also led an excavation team, and once again came to the ruins of the temple site for excavation, and finally excavated some fragments, and These fragments of the ruins have become the only evidence to prove the existence of its temple ruins.

However, the evidence of these fragments was not sufficient. Some people even discovered that there were some forged traces in these fragments later, and some people discovered that the whole picture of the temple outlined in an expedition notebook at that time was actually a destroyed ancient temple in the Old Continent. Architecture, so the academic community has no conclusions about the authenticity of these fragments and expedition notes.

The second point, which is particularly important, is that apart from the ruins of the Tafik Catacomb Temple, no one has ever found a second temple site in the New World, and there are not even traces of civilization, so Tafik The Catacomb Temple is completely an isolated evidence, and the academic circle has a rule that an isolated evidence cannot be established, so the Tafik Catacomb Temple is defined as a forgery in the academic circles of many countries.

However, even so, there are still many people who believe that the Tafek Catacomb Temple is real. It is not that these people have found any evidence that can prove the authenticity of the temple, but because of the academic achievements of Langenus himself. , personal charm, and recognized upright personality, many people are willing to believe that Langenus will not fake, and even some foreign academics who define the Tafik Catacomb Temple as fake also said that the reason for such a definition is just According to the practice in the academic world, it is not really considered to be fake or forged.

Now it seems that the Tafik Catacomb Temple should be real, and the mysticism in the Catacomb Temple should have been thoroughly understood by Langanus, and it has been put into practical use, which made Leo couldn't help but feel sorry for Langanus. Si became interested and thought of a chance to meet him.

While Leo was thinking, Solander greeted Leo like a friend he had known for a long time: "Mr. Leo, long time no see, how is Ms. Sylvia? When I was in Luke City, I thought about going to see you, but unfortunately I was on a mission and couldn't make it, I hope you don't take offense."

Leo looked at Solander with a weird expression when he heard this. Although they knew each other, it was only knowledge, and Solander's tone of speech was clearly aimed at a person who had known each other for many years and had a close relationship. Friends said.

Although he didn't understand why Solander did this, Leo didn't expose the other party, but followed the other party's words and said: "It doesn't matter, work is important, and you can see us whenever you want."

"Mr. Major General, Maester Longanus wants to see Mr. Leo." Solander then said to Major General Rice.

"Since your Excellency the Bachelor wants to see him, Miss Solander, please take him there!" Major General Rice didn't know whether he had a crush on strong women like Solander, or because of the family background behind Solander. When he spoke to Solander, his tone was much gentler.

Seeing Major General Rice let go so easily, Solander couldn't help being stunned, and didn't care about the change in Major General Rice's tone, so he gestured to Leo, and then led Leo away from the bridge, toward the Go to the end of the submarine.

When he reached a corner where there was no one else, Solander suddenly whispered to Leo, "Mr. Leo, tell me what you have to say to Ms. Sylvia as soon as possible, and wait for them to put you under house arrest." Wake up, it's hard for me to see you, too."

Hearing what Solander said inexplicably, Leo couldn't help being stunned, then he seemed to think of something, smiled and said, "Detective Solander, did you misunderstand something?"

"Ah? Misunderstanding?" Sorant stopped, turned his head to look at Leo, and said suspiciously: "Didn't you get trapped on a boat by people from the Internal Revenue Service pretending to be a water accident because of tax evasion?"

"No." Leo shook his head and said.

Solander was stunned for a while, his face turned red as if he had been scalded, even under the dim light in the cabin, it was especially obvious.

"I seem to have misunderstood." Solander also realized that his situation was wrong, and quickly turned his head and said.

"Although it's just a misunderstanding, I'm still very happy to see such a misunderstanding, which shows that you are a trustworthy friend." Leo said earnestly, if Solander had only met passers-by a few times before, then Now Solander is already considered a friend in Leo's mind. After all, he can lend a helping hand within his ability in the most difficult time, which many people may not be able to do.

Solander didn't think too much about the deep meaning of Leo's words, but just smiled awkwardly. Then, in order to ease his embarrassment, Solander asked Leo again why he was brought to the Kraken.

Leo didn't hide his explanation, and after seeing the expression on Solander's face, he asked, "You don't seem to know that the Kraken was involved in cleaning up the smuggling dock?"

Solander shrugged and said, "The Internal Revenue Service and I are two different departments. They won't tell me what they have to do. I have been staying in the cabin for the past two days. Today, I took advantage of the bachelor's rest to come out. Move around."

Leo pointed to the badge on Solander's clothes again, and asked, "Aren't you still investigating the Monte Manor case? Why were you suddenly transferred to the Security Department of the Prime Minister's Palace?"

When Solander was about to explain, several soldiers from the Internal Revenue Service came out from the passage not far away, so they said to Leo: "This is not a place to talk, we will talk as we walk." Leading Leo to continue, after walking a certain distance, he explained: "Simply speaking, what I investigated has crossed the line. Some people don't want me to continue investigating and put pressure on my family, or I will Resign and go home to marry, or I will stop the investigation and transfer. Of course I don’t want to marry, so I chose the latter.”

Leo questioned: "I still don't know what your family is?"

"Srode of the Huo Lihua family." Although Solander was very dissatisfied with his family, he still looked very proud when he mentioned the name of the family.

"Flower of the Federation." Leo was both surprised and reasonable.

The Srode family is also one of the founding meritorious families of the Federation, but it is different from other founding meritorious families in that the founding meritorious service of the Srode family is a woman, Talia S. Rhodes.

I don't know if it's because of this reason, or because the blood of the Srode family has already fixed the factor that women are stronger than men. All in all, most of the men in the Huo Lihua family after that are unknown, but women often Can be active in the political, commercial, and military circles, and has extraordinary influence in the entire Otter Federation.

It is precisely because of this influence that even if Solander touched the secrets of some people, those people did not dare to kill Solander, and could only use roundabout methods to stop Solander's investigation.

Leo didn't care about the other party's identity, but changed the topic back and asked, "Why are you on this ship? If it's not convenient to say..."

"This is not a secret mission. Almost everyone on the ship knows about it." Solander shook his head and said, "The thing is actually very simple, that is, the ship discovered an ancient ruin at the bottom of Lake Beruk and brought it back At first, I just thought that this relic was just the war relics of those churches during the War of Religion, but Maester Langenus studied those fragments carefully, and thought that the relics were probably a place related to the gods of the Tafik Catacombs. The ancient ruins of the New World at the same time as the temple ruins, so this investigation was organized, and I was also dispatched to be responsible for the safety of the bachelors."

Leo couldn't help feeling a little interested when he heard the words, and asked, "Where is the location of that ruin?"

"Great Rift." Solander replied.

Leo couldn't help but have a thought in his mind, and then asked: "Is it okay for you to take me to see Maester Langenus like this?"

Solander smiled and replied: "It's okay, Maester Langenus is very friendly, as long as he doesn't interfere with his research, he doesn't mind meeting and talking with anyone."

The two soon arrived at the cabin at the tail end of the submarine. It was supposed to be the captain's cabin, but now it was Langenus' lounge. There were several Secret Service security guards at the door who were dressed the same as Solander.

When they saw Solander bringing people over, they didn't express any abnormality. They just confirmed Leo's identity as a matter of routine. Obviously, this kind of thing had happened many times before, and they handled it very skillfully.

However, when they learned that Leo was the maker of the special steel, they still showed a little surprised look. After all, while the army was changing their outfits, their secret service security guards were no exception.

Solander opened the cabin door and walked in, Leo followed, and when he saw Longanus who was sitting behind a desk in the middle of the cabin, studying a slate, he couldn't help but froze, and said in surprise: " Master Rembrandt?"