The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Our research association is an institution under the Holy Prayer House?" When Stave just started to introduce the affairs related to the research association, Leo deliberately appeared very surprised, but soon he said to himself in relief, Dao said: "It's no wonder that this kind of research society that may touch taboo knowledge can recruit members so openly, which is different from what I thought."

Staff is very satisfied with Leo's performance, because it just fits some of his guesses about Leo. If he heard the news that Leo was calm, he would become suspicious instead.

Staff signaled the servant to close the door, and signaled Leo to sit on a sofa in the study. Then he walked towards the desk and reminded him: "Although we have the protection of the House of Holy Prayer, it doesn't mean we have no taboos." , Some heretical knowledge and behaviors, even within the Research Society, will not allow it, such as the idea you mentioned in your published article."

Leo asked with confirmation: "Is it the idea of ​​changing people's thoughts and beliefs through external stimuli?"

Staff nodded, and said very seriously: "Yes! This is also the reason why that paragraph of your article was removed before it was published. Only if the gods can determine the beliefs and thoughts of mortals, mortals only I can accept it. This is a restricted area for mortals, a territory for the gods, and a taboo for the church. If your article is fully published, what you are waiting for will not be an invitation letter from our research association, but a hunt by the heresy hunting team. Don’t look at some of the performances of the church over the years that seem to be gentle, but they are still extremely strict with those heresies in their eyes, and they would rather kill the wrong than let them go.”

After listening to Staff's reminder or warning, Leo jokingly said: "Now I feel a familiar taste."

"It's good to feel familiar, don't take this place as your hometown, this is Yuan Continent, the pasture of the gods." Staff sat on the chair, then opened a drawer on the right side, and took out a box prepared earlier.

"Do you know where my hometown is?" Leo deliberately showed a little surprised expression, and asked in a deep voice.

Leo's just-in-time response reduced Stave's doubts a little more, and at the same time strengthened his confidence in his own judgment. He nodded along with him and said, "That taboo heretic place in the Otto Federation, right? You don't have to worry, we are not the lunatics of the heresy hunting team, we are real scholars, we will not think you are a heretic just because you come from a place that is considered taboo, we have our own bottom line, and the bottom line is relative to the church The bottom line is much lower, otherwise, we wouldn't invite you to join our seminar."

As he said that, he handed the box in his hand to Leo, and said, "This box contains the member badge and manual of the research society. You'd better read the contents of the manual carefully. How many resources to obtain and the obligations that need to be fulfilled, and the taboo terms in the manual are also best to remember, don't touch those terms."

Leo took the box and did not open it immediately, but asked directly: "If some of my experiments may touch those taboo terms..."

Staff said in a deep voice: "Then you'd better tell me in advance, and let me make some preparations and arrangements in advance."

A look of surprise appeared on Leo's face, and he asked, "Isn't this a taboo clause?"

"Have you forgotten? I said that our bottom line is very low, much lower than the church's bottom line. Those terms are the church's terms, not ours." Stave smiled and replied without any scruples, It seemed that he was not worried at all that Leo might be sent by the church.

Leo then asked again: "So in the research meeting, are you my superior? I need to report to you for any experiment I do?"

Staff shook his head and said, "It's not a superior. We don't have a distinction between top and bottom positions within the research association. All members have the same identity, but I'm in charge of the aftermath of some people. You can take it as a housekeeper or a nanny." , Let me know in advance, just let me make some preparations before some of your experiments cause troubles, so as to prevent you from appearing in the list of heretics of the church. After all, for us, every member of the research society is unique and is most precious."

As he said, he pointed to the box and said: "Everything you want to know is in the manual inside the box. You don't need to ask me, just read the manual. I'm not just taking you to the study This box is entrusted to you, but I want to entrust you with two things, or more correctly, I entrust you and your wife, Ms. Sylvia, with one thing each."

Leo put the box aside and said, "Please tell me."

"Your commission is mainly related to an idea mentioned in your article." While talking, Stav took out a document that had been sorted out from the drawer, handed it to Leo, and said: "You take a look first."

Leo took the file and flipped through it quickly. The file wasn't very thick, so he finished it quickly. Then he looked at Staff in surprise and said, "Are you also engaged in research on blood?"

Staff nodded and admitted: "Yes, I've been working on it for a long time, but I haven't made any progress until I read your article. I got a lot of inspiration, and recently this research has also made a breakthrough. To be honest, I never thought that there was another person in this world who could advance blood research to such a deep position."

Leo was a little surprised that Staff showed his interest in blood research. This unexpected emotion was not a deliberate disguise as before, but a real surprise, because he didn't expect that he was in Some taboo content added on a whim in that article actually led to such a big fish.

After he finished writing that article, he felt that the taboo content in it was not enough to attract the attention of some people, so he added some taboo content by means of speculation, illusion, etc., such as human body modification, such as blood Research and so on, and in the part of blood research, he simply put some blood research of the blood wizard Lawrence on it. Although it is in the name of medicine, the content is taboo enough.

In his opinion, the body transformation in that article should attract some people's attention. After all, in the content of the body transformation, he mentioned the illusion of implants in a metaphorical way, but he never thought that the first thing that attracted attention would be It was he who added the blood research as he went.

This is, Stave poured himself a glass of wine, which was as bright red as blood, but he did not pour the same glass of wine for Leo, but took out another glass from the small wine cabinet next to the desk. A bottle of wine poured Leo a glass again.

Although the strong alcohol smell was enough to cover up the smell of other substances in the glass of wine in Stave's hand, Leo could still smell the blood in the glass of wine.

Leo took the normal glass of wine that Stuff handed over, didn't drink it, but put it aside, and then deliberately showed a embarrassed look, and said: "If Your Excellency Staff wants to cooperate with me in blood research, I'm afraid Going to be disappointed."

"What? Are you worried that I will steal your research results?" Staff frowned and said calmly.

"Of course not. For me, the research results are meaningless. I just enjoy the research process. As for whether I can finally research something and how much benefit the research can bring, I am not interested in these, and I don't have to Interested in these things." Leo showed a very high attitude, making himself look like a purest scholar, when Stave was slightly touched, he returned to the topic, showing With a embarrassed expression on his face, he said: "The reason why I can't cooperate with your Excellency in research is because blood research requires some very special equipment. Before I came here, I left all the equipment in my hometown and didn't bring it out. so……"

Staff said confidently: "You don't need to worry about this, we can manufacture all the equipment you need."

"Your Excellency Staff, it's better not to be so confident. My equipment is not an ordinary tool like a planer. My equipment comes from ancient times..." Leo said here, deliberately paused, Then, as if trying to cover up, he reorganized the sentence and said: "In short, the precision of these devices is beyond imagination, as if they were products of the gods, and they cannot be manufactured with the manufacturing techniques currently mastered by countries all over the world."

After finishing speaking, he deliberately pulled up his sleeves, then showed the general-purpose recorder on his wrist in front of Stave, and said, "Can you make this thing? If you can make this thing, then the tools I need , you can make it."

Of course, it was impossible for Staff to know the general-purpose recorder, but he was able to recognize what it was from the special material on the outside of the general-purpose recorder that far surpassed the world's level of craftsmanship, even if he had already known from Eric that Ray Ou owned a taboo item, but after actually seeing it, he was still extremely shocked.

Although the church declares that this thing is a taboo, in fact, the church has another name for it. As Leo said, only the gods can create this kind of thing, so the thing made by God is this thing Names within each church.

And within the research association, this thing also has another name, origin thing, because relevant scholars in the core circle of the organization can confirm that this thing is related to the origin of human beings.

Now there are several origin objects within the Mystery and Human Body Research Society, which are distributed by the core circle of the organization. One of them, but he is one of the few people who has had close contact with the origin and seen how it works.

Although the organization refers to those miraculous creations as the origin, after seeing the operation and function of the origin, he feels that it seems more appropriate to call it by the name of the church.

Because the origins he saw were definitely artifacts created by the Spirit of Knowledge, and they could even directly correspond to the Omniscient mentioned in the books of the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge, because any difficult questions can be obtained from those origins. The perfect answer is like the omniscient who knows the answers to all the questions in the world. The only regret is that those origins can only be used once a year, and the use time is very short, so short that it can only answer one or two questions at most .

Now, Leo actually brought an origin object on his wrist, as if he was wearing some kind of decoration, which made Staff feel violent, and he couldn't help but chop off the arm in front of him. Drop, the impulse to snatch the origin.

Staff took a deep breath, suppressed the impulse in his heart, and then moved his eyes away from the origin on Leo's wrist, and drank the glass of blood wine in his hand, barely suppressing the emotion in his heart. That impulse, and then he heard him ask: "Mr. Leo, do you know what you are wearing on your wrist?"

"Of course I know." Leo knew very well that his goal had been achieved, he pulled down his sleeve, blocked the general recorder again, and replied simply and calmly.

At this moment, Staff wanted to yell at Leo, "No, you don't know. If you knew, you wouldn't carry it!" The strange emotion in his heart made him take another deep breath, and asked : "Do you know how to use this thing?"

"Yes, I know how to use it, it's a good tool!" Leo responded flatly, as if talking about a craftsman's gavel.

This kind of tone made Stav feel his forehead shrinking and bulging rapidly, as if his blood vessels were about to burst. He felt that if he continued to talk with Leo on this topic, he might be aggrieved by the breath stuck in his chest. die.

So he adjusted the topic in time, and said: "Although the tools I have are far from being comparable to these god-made things, they are also much better than other common tools in the world, and they are specially made for blood research. Yes." As he spoke, he stood up, walked to a large cabinet beside him, opened the cabinet, turned around, and said, "Take a look, these tools are specially made by me for blood research, I believe they should be can satisfy you."

Leo looked into the cabinet, and saw that there were various planing tools and some glassware with special functions in it. Undoubtedly, these were tools related to planing, bloodletting and blood extraction, just as Stave showed confidence If it is based on the manufacturing technology of this world, it is very difficult to manufacture such a set of tools, and Stave can put them in a cabinet at will, which obviously means that he has more than one set of the same kind on hand. tools, and maybe even know how to make them.

After scanning the cabinet, Leo's eyes stopped on an object that looked like a microscope from the earth age that was placed alone on the top floor. He followed him up, gestured to Staff, and asked if he could You can take it down and have a look.

Staff nodded in agreement with Leo's request with a discerning look on your face.

Leo took down the microscope-like thing, looked at it repeatedly, and asked, "Your Excellency Staff, did you make this thing?"