The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After listening to Jason's description of the New World, both Sylvia and Leo showed surprised expressions on their faces, because they were both surprised by the vastness of the New World. Almost, but now it seems that the area of ​​the new continent is much larger than that of the old continent. It can even be said that the old continent is just a relatively large island on the edge of the new continent.

Moreover, Jason mentioned a very important adventure carried out by these non-human races hundreds of years ago. The purpose of this adventure was to find the border of the New World and draw a complete picture of the New World. With one exception, when they were traveling in one direction for several years or even more than ten years, they encountered thick fog that would not dissipate all year round, and were attacked by mysterious monsters in the thick fog. If you don't exit the dense fog, you will give up and continue exploring.

When hearing this description, Leo and Sylvia couldn't help but think of the world of Velen, the end of the wilderness of the Mozambique continent and the thick fog at the end of the ocean. Although this world is somewhat different from other worlds, it is surrounded by There seems to be no difference in the fact that the dense fog is wrapped. Obviously, the dense fog is not as simple as Leo thought before, and it may involve some laws with higher standards than the laws of the world.

However, in the description of this great expedition to the edge of the world, there is another piece of information that deserves the attention of Leo and Silvia, and that is the time when this incident happened.

It is very interesting that these independent civilizations that escaped deep in the interior of the New World and were almost disconnected from human civilization had the same idea and did the same thing as human civilization at the same time. Human civilization’s great geographical discovery of the world The movement is also launched during this time period, and the purpose is to discover the end of the world.

This happened more than once when two separate civilizations did the same thing at the same time. Afterwards, when humans in the Old World began to migrate, the non-human civilizations hidden in the New World were also migrating deeper into the New World. Humans in the New World When they began to settle down to establish a country, non-human civilizations were also building a country.

If this kind of coincidence of two different civilizations doing the same thing in the same time period only happened once, then this might really be a coincidence, but such coincidences happen one after another, then this kind of thing is obviously not explained by coincidence It worked out.

Obviously, there are one or more mysterious existences in this world. Through this method, the development of two independent civilizations is promoted at the same time. As for the purpose of doing so, Leo can’t see it yet. The only thing he can feel is the strong Strong malice.

Because, if he connects the fact that the non-human races were destroyed by the church before, and will not get a kind response from the gods of this world, and eventually forced all the non-human races to move to the Old Continent, etc., he will It can be vaguely felt that the gods of this world seem to be planning something, and perhaps the plan has succeeded.

The reason why Leo made such a guess is entirely because of what Jason told later that he could feel that human civilization and non-human civilization have begun to diverge in terms of technological development.

Although human civilization has developed the steam engine, and has made great progress in physics, chemistry and biology, etc., gods and churches are still the core and main body of human civilization. The development of all civilizations is through gods, The church is a branch extending from the main body. This can be seen from the fact that all technological development projects are dominated by the power of the church. On the contrary, countries like the Otter Federation are the biggest aliens in this civilization.

Just as the science and technology of human civilization has made great progress, the inhuman civilization deep in the New World has also made breakthroughs in technology and other aspects. The technological development of China is like having wings.

Although the development of science and technology of non-human civilization has also appeared in the form of civilization dominated by steam engines, this period of steam civilization has only stayed for a short period of time. After the follow-up extension of the steam civilization, it directly entered a higher level of electronic civilization.

According to Jason's description, they already have civilian flying devices, and they have begun to use various convenient electronic devices on a daily basis. The vehicles they usually use are electric-driven vehicles, and even some people's bodies have begun to be mechanized. It is no exaggeration to say that in the eyes of people like Jason, human civilization is like backward primitive people.

The reason why there is such a big difference is entirely because when the non-human civilization began to evolve into the steam civilization, a secret organization appeared in the country formed by the non-human civilization. This organization is called the light of civilization, and their members wander Between various colleges, some far-sighted scientific theories are often published in public. Gradually, the members of this organization have become the core members and leaders of various colleges and non-governmental scientific and technological organizations. Afterwards, driven by these people, the entire African The science and technology of human civilization began to advance at a rapid speed, and it is not enough to describe it with each passing day. The development and improvement of various technologies, many times a theory similar to the truth that was proposed a month ago, was overthrown a month later and replaced by a new theory. .

Although the non-human civilization still has structures such as national governments, the entire civilization is actually controlled by the Light of Civilization, and almost everyone is a member of the Light of Civilization, but only for the core structure of the Light of Civilization, Except for those who joined the core, no one else knew about it. Members of the action team like Jason only knew that there was a department specializing in the manufacture of various high-tech equipment in the core circle of the organization. The highest level of the organization It is the president, and the Light of Civilization was also created by the president alone, so the president of the Light of Civilization is also the promoter of the technological development of the entire non-human civilization, and he is also honored as a saint by the entire non-human group.

When mentioning the president, Jason would temporarily suppress his fear of Sylvia, and his admiration was beyond words, looking like a fanatic of a certain god.

However, both Sylvia and Leo felt that something was wrong with the Light of Civilization president who behaved almost like a saint. Sylvia was more of an intuition and instinct, while Leo did it through Judging by the development of non-human civilization technology in Jason's mouth.

Although the overall scientific and technological level of non-human civilization has far exceeded that of human civilization, even if it is placed in the universe, it can definitely be regarded as an advanced level of intrastellar civilization, but such a civilization with such a high technological level is only Using technology for civilian daily necessities without developing corresponding military armed technology, this kind of abnormal technological development completely violates the normal rules of civilization development. After the technology of any civilization in the universe develops to a certain height, there will be no One exception is the military as the leading development force, even if it is an alien civilization that is generally recognized as the most peace-loving in the universe civilization, but now this non-human civilization does not have any corresponding high-tech weapons at all, even Jason The self-destruct device on his body is only a product of the purification of explosive substances, and there is not much technological content in it, which is obviously very abnormal.

What is even more abnormal is that the science and technology of non-human civilization is so high, but the science popularization of this civilization is not much better than that of human civilization. Even this kind of people who are already considered as full-fledged members of the light of civilization do not know anything about the basic theories of various scientific principles. , just know how to use some high-tech tools, in essence, he is no different from ordinary people in human civilization.

A rather bold idea also emerged in Leo's mind. If the entire non-human civilization is regarded as a plantation, then the fruits in the plantation should have been ripened, and the owner of the plantation can't wait to harvest. These fruits have been harvested, and the president of the so-called Light of Civilization should be the reaper.

Leo did not intend to hide his thoughts, he directly expressed his speculation about inhuman civilization in front of Jason, and discussed the fallacies in it with Sylvia.

Sylvia originally only felt that the development of non-human civilization was a bit abnormal, unlike the development that normal civilization should have, but she only stayed at the level of feeling and intuition, and did not analyze more detailed clues, but Leo's speculation about the development of non-human civilization just helped her wipe away the dust in front of her eyes, and inspired her, allowing her to discover from the various abnormal developments of non-human civilization that it may have been regarded as The sacrifice was made, and even if the behind-the-scenes existence who did this was not the abyss superior who personally ended up, I am afraid that it is inseparable from the abyss superior, because sacrificing the entire civilization is simply a specialty of the abyss superior race.

Although the abyss knowledge that Leo obtained from the eyeball of the abyss big snake is incomplete, the matter of civilization sacrifice still occupies a considerable part of this abyss knowledge. The reason for this is that any upper race in the abyss attaches great importance to it. Civilization sacrifice, sacrificing a civilization to the abyss, is the best and fastest way to please the abyss and enhance the power of the superior.

It's just that the difficulty of sacrificing a civilization is far more than dragging a world into the abyss. To complete the sacrifice of a civilization, it must first let this civilization develop a unique civilization system, and then you need the civilization's owner Without being influenced by any external force, he willingly sacrificed himself.

Therefore, there are only a handful of successful examples of civilization sacrifices in the abyss, and every success is accompanied by the appearance of a hegemony-level abyss superior.

The conversations between Leo and Sylvia used a common language that Jason could understand. However, these contents clearly related to the safety of the entire non-human civilization. Jason, who heard these contents, seemed to be listening to some ordinary things , did not show any nervousness, shock, fear or doubt that should be there.

In Leo's perception of the spiritual network, Jason's body source fire also appeared very stable, as if the content of Leo's conversation with Sylvia hadn't been heard by him at all.

"Have you taken precautions in advance?" After discovering this abnormal situation, Leo immediately guessed.

"Forbidden words." Sylvia explained Jason's problem more accurately, and said: "This is a control method that the superiors in the abyss like to use most. People controlled by this method will automatically filter out All words against the controller."

"Is there a way to untie it?" Leo asked.

"There is no way." Sylvia shook her head and said: "The controlled persons are all voluntarily accepting this method, and the process of accepting it is equivalent to signing an abyss contract, unless they have the power to break the abyss contract, otherwise Taboo words are impossible to unravel."

Hearing what Sylvia said, Leo also stopped thinking of continuing to awaken Jason, and even gave up the other methods he had prepared to let Jason understand that inhuman civilization was used as a sacrifice. Because he knew very well that since the controller even used taboo words, he must have made up for other loopholes that might reveal his purpose, and he basically had no chance to wake Jason up.

Moreover, awakening Jason has no benefits for him, only disadvantages, not to mention whether Jason, an ordinary non-human race, can make the entire non-human civilization understand his dire situation after awakening Jason, The fact that he forcibly awakened Jason would set up a powerful abyssal superior enemy was enough to make Leo give up his original idea.

"But why did he appoint someone to collect the energy information of God War? What does this have to do with sacrificial civilization?" Leo asked Jason to take out the mission tool on his body, and then looked carefully to understand After the principle of this tool, he asked again.

The appearance of this mission tool is very ordinary, it is the monocular telescope commonly used by watchmen at sea, and its internal structure is very precise, involving a large number of microelectronic technologies, such as main control chips, data analysis chips, etc. If Jason If the science and technology contained in the communicator taken out far exceeds the technological level of human civilization in this world, then the technology and technology contained in this monocular now also far exceed the technological level contained in the communicator.

This tool already has the shadow of the early galactic civilization, and its function is very simple, that is, to collect energy information, and analyze the energy information to the corresponding original data through the analysis chip, and then record it.

Although this tool is still very rough in Leo's eyes, not to mention compared with the universal recorder in Leo's hands, even the early energy analysis device of the Earth Federation is far behind, but this depends on the occasion, because once When a war breaks out between the gods, the overflowing energy will become extremely obvious, and even the roughest energy collection equipment can obtain very detailed energy data.

However, what puzzles Leo now is why does a mysterious existence that intends to sacrifice to civilization collect the energy data of the gods of this world? This is obviously redundant behavior, and once non-human races like Jason are exposed to the gods of this world, his plan will be known to the gods of this world sooner or later, and the success rate of his final sacrifice to civilization will also be greatly reduced. Falling to the bottom, this is obviously not the behavior of a wise man who plans the entire civilization, unless collecting information about the energy of the gods is very critical to his plan.