The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The main reason why Leo would think that Lanke Byronville is a psyker is the forbidden book written by Lanke, in which he mentioned a sequence of a person evolving to a god, and part of that evolution sequence It is almost the same as the life evolution sequence in which psykers evolve to Omega-level advanced life forms, with only slight differences in some names and descriptions of life forms.

After reading the content of the book at that time, Leo had already planned to find an opportunity to meet this Ronco Byronville, and now it so happened that this Ronco professor actually gave a public lecture at Cape West College. will miss.

In this way, Leo and Sylvia did not continue to look for the companion of the middle-aged connector in the academy for the time being, but went to the amphitheater where the open class was held together with those who wanted to listen to the open class.

The amphitheater was not built after the college was built. It was built by the way when the Cape West Port was first built.

The reason why it is said to be built by the way is that the person in charge of the design and construction of the entire port at that time was a serious theater lover, and he also liked to write some things by himself and give them to his subordinates to rehearse into public plays, so he was building Cape Ziwangyang Before entering the port, he first built a "rough" small theater for himself using the stone materials used to build the port.

In the eyes of this great nobleman, the theater he built for public benefit is really rudimentary, but in the eyes of others, this theater is already luxurious enough, because not only the most expensive blue steel rocks are used in this theater, but also the overall design of the theater is also unique. It is completely in the style of the ruins of the Old Kingdom theater in the Middle Kingdom area.

Even in order to make the theater closer to the real theater of the ancient kingdom, the great nobleman also spent huge sums of money to invite experts who specialized in the research of the ruins of the ancient kingdom at that time, so that they were all exactly the same from the decorative pattern of the theater to the special echo wall design of the theater After the re-enactment, the only difference is the size and size of the theater. This is also the main reason why the nobleman still thinks it is very simple after the theater is completed.

Although this amphitheater can be regarded as a model of restoration of the remains of the ancient kingdom, its fate was quite rough. The nobleman who led the construction of the theater died of illness after the completion of the port, and the later port managers and port workers were busy with their livelihoods. I am not interested in drama, even when I am resting, I would rather go to places like taverns, brothels or casinos in the port, so this amphitheater gradually fell into disuse, and even some of the blue steel rocks in the amphitheater were later expanded Port workers pried it away to build other port buildings.

It wasn't until the construction period of Cape Xiwangyang College that the first dean of the college discovered the abandoned amphitheater and decided to restore it and bring it into the campus of the college.

In addition, it happened to be the revival period of drama at that time, and the famous academies in various countries in the Yuan mainland added a classroom dedicated to the study of drama in the ancient kingdom, so the Cape of the West Ocean Academy followed suit and added a similar classroom, and taught circular The theater is handed over to this classroom for management.

After that, the students and teachers of the college often wrote some novels and plays, and then handed them over to the local theater troupes to perform in the amphitheatre, some of which were public performances, and some were performed for a fee. Soon these plays became popular, and the amphitheater The shape theater has also become a sacred place for performances in various theaters, and theater rent has even become one of the main income of the college for a period of time.

Because of the special design of the echo wall in the theater, the performers can stand on the stage of the theater without using too much sound, and the people sitting in the theater can hear clearly. Therefore, some important public classes of the college will also be held in Classes are held in the amphitheatre, not in the classroom.

When Leo and Sylvia arrived at the theater, the theater was already full of people. It was not difficult to judge the identities of these people from their clothes and sitting positions. Nobles, businessmen and workers were all sitting in different areas. , Although there are many empty seats in the middle, just like the identities of these people, these empty seats are also natural air walls, separating these people.

Of course, this kind of area spontaneously formed according to identity is only suitable for locals. Most outsiders like Leo sit behind the seats in the theater, near the echoing wall, and some people who have no seats will also choose to stand. Next to the aisle, or leaning against the huge echoing wall, there are some bears who don't know how to do it, but even climbed to sit on the echoing wall.

Not long after, the college students who were in charge of managing the order of the scene saw that the theater was full, so they banned the people behind from entering the theater, and asked those who were already in the theater to stop talking. They were not polite, whether they were ordinary workers or local dignitaries, they were directly driven out, and soon the theater was completely quiet.

After a while, a tall, middle-aged scholar with obvious northern mountain features came out from the back of the theater and came to the center of the stage.

After this person appeared, there was a burst of applause in the theater, and some people from various areas stood up and saluted him. Obviously, he is very popular with people from all walks of life here.

However, Leo and Sylvia were both stunned when this person came out, and then glanced at each other, as if they were exchanging views.

The reason why they are like this is because the clothes on this person are completely different from the clothes of the local people, not only the local people, and it can even be said arbitrarily that his clothing style is different from the clothing styles produced by all cultures in this world, because his body Except for some decorative items, his clothing style is completely the clothing style of the First Dynasty of France.

Just when Leo and Sylvia were surprised and surprised by the appearance of the first dynasty style clothes, the people on the stage motioned for everyone to be quiet, and went straight to the topic, telling what he was going to talk about this time. The pure human period .

This person is obviously Lanke Byronville who made Leo think that he might be a psychic. At this moment, Leo has confirmed that his guess is wrong, because he has passed the extremely special psychic power the moment the other party just came out. The resonance technique has tested whether there is any spiritual energy on the opponent, and the result is disappointing. Although the spirit network can find that the opponent has a strong energy response, the energy is not spiritual energy, but more like a bloodline power.

However, their attention did not stay too long on Lang Ke's clothing and energy in the body, and they were quickly attracted by what Lang Ke said.

Just like the forbidden book of Ronco Byronville, what he said in today's public class was a bit shocking to the people present. Because he couldn't bear the following content, he got up and left the venue. There were both powerful and ordinary civilians.

As for those who stayed behind, they couldn't help disrupting the order of the scene and began to whisper, until the college students who maintained the order warned repeatedly, and expelled a few people who didn't listen to the warning, and the scene became quiet.

The reason why what Ronco Byronville said caused such a big reaction is because what he said was shaking the foundation of the church. His open class today is going to talk about a story that has been circulating in this world for a long time but has never been shaken. The underground legend on the stage, an ancient human era without gods.

In the churches of this world, no matter who the gods of the church believe in, the first chapter of the church classics will be very focused on describing how the church gods participated in the creation of this world, how they fell into a deep sleep, and then woke up from a deep sleep .

The Theory of Creation of Everything can be said to be the core of the world church’s thinking, and it is also the foundation of the world’s existing civilized social structure system. Any thoughts and theories that try to shake this foundation, to a certain extent, want to destroy the world.

In the past, in order to be able to resist the oppression of the church and to give a just and legitimate reason for their actions, some anti-church secret organizations created an underground theory, saying that God created all things is false, and gods are actually Alien, before the gods came to this world, human beings have lived in this world for a long time, and created an extremely brilliant human civilization, until the gods came, destroyed everything, and enslaved human beings, so human beings should resist God, regain the dominion of this world.

Although this underground theory is very demagogic and widely circulated, it has never been taken as true, and even those anti-church organizations know that this underground theory was created only for recruiting members.

But no one thought that this fabricated underground theory would gradually be recognized by the orthodox academic circles with the emergence of archaeology and the discovery of the remains of the ancient kingdom, and it really researched this ancient human period without gods. Which time period in the historical blank period.

Even so, the archaeological academic circles did not deny the theory of creation, but reversely proved the correctness of the theory of creation, because in the first chapter of the church, it was mentioned that the gods fell asleep for a long time because of the creation of the world. It took a long time to wake up later, and the period of ancient humans was the period when the gods were asleep, so it just confirmed the statement in the first chapter.

It is also because of this that the church did not take a full blow to the underground forbidden theory created by this anti-church organization, but only prevented this kind of theory from appearing in various written media, but the underground spread of this kind of theory The matter was not stalked like other heretical ideas.

In fact, the content of Ranco Byronville's open class today has already been circulated, and many people already knew that he was going to talk about the ancient human period without gods before they came to listen to the class.

It's just that they didn't know that what Lanke Byronville said was completely different from what they thought. Lanke Byronville didn't intend to talk about the new discovery of the remains of the ancient kingdom at all, or the research results of the new ancient human period. What he said was actually even more outrageous.

The introduction to the open class he talked about can be summed up as a theme, that is, the world is formed naturally, humans and gods are alien species, but humans came to this world before the gods, and the gods came later.

The content of this kind of public class will undoubtedly touch the sensitive nerves of some pious believers, but it also played a very clever edge ball, because the content of Lanke Byronville did not deny the existence of gods, nor He did not deny the greatness of the gods, not even the theory of the sleeping gods, even though what he said sounded like he was denying the creation of the gods, but there was no clear evidence in all the words and sentences, maybe It is also for this reason that the dean of the college, who is the dean of the Holy Prayer House, did not ban him from this open class.

For those who listened to this public lecture, the vast majority of them were not interested in the content of the public lecture, so they just listened to the excitement. After all, being able to hear this kind of forbidden theory in public like now is not going to be punished. There are not many opportunities for church punishment.

But there are still some people who have some interest in this new theory. They quickly recorded some useful content for them that Ronco Byronville said without attracting attention.

And there are only two people who have listened to the content of the open class from the beginning to the end, that is, Leo and Sylvia, but their focus on the content of the open class is different.

Leo focused on some unconventional content in the open class. For example, when Langco Byronville mentioned how humans came to this world, he described a process in detail, and that process was very similar to some kind of advanced civilization. There are subspace jump devices, and he also mentioned some tools used by ancient humans, and most of those tools can be found in the basic tools of some colonial ships, so Leo can almost believe that Lanke Bai Renville has more or less contact with some items and knowledge of cosmic civilization.

And Sylvia's focus is more on the history of ancient human development summarized by Ronco Byronville, because the development history he told is very similar to the development history of humans in the world of Velen, and even part of it can be compared to that of Frank Some historical fragments of the first dynasty corresponded, and it was not until the appearance of the gods that they began to be different, which also caused a sense of faulty violation in the narration.

Anyone who listens carefully will feel this sense of disobedience, feeling that the process of human development has taken a distorted turn, that the development of human beings without gods and the development of humans with gods have completely different development trends. It was like a piece of black cloth was woven into the middle and then replaced with a pure white braided thread. No matter how you looked at it, it felt very abrupt and extremely uncomfortable.

At this point in the public class, the discussion in the stands that had subsided before resounded again, but this time the discussion was much quieter, and only some people who really listened to the complete content would discuss with each other.

Ronco Byronville also seems to know that there is an unexplainable gap in the content of his public class, so when there was discussion in the stands because of this problem, he ended the public class and was still leaving , specifically telling those who are talking about it that if they have any questions, they can ask him alone.