The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The City of Academics was built among the mountains of Yinpine Mountains. The original builders specially selected the tops of five well-arranged and close to each other as the construction site of the City of Academics. There are five different districts of the city.

Each city district of Xuecheng is not only an independent existence, but also connected to each other. It is said to exist independently because each city district of Xuecheng has its own city gate, and each has its own winding stairs leading directly from the foot of the mountain to the city on the top of the mountain. Need to pass through other urban areas.

And to connect with each other, all the urban areas are connected by stepped arch bridges with a length of hundreds of meters. How the arch bridges are built is still a mystery, because all the arch bridges look like they are excavated and cut out of a complete rock. It is generally polished, and the two ends of the arch bridge are completely integrated with the rocks of the mountain, just like a part of the mountain.

However, anyone with a little knowledge of geology can find that the mountain rock where the school city is located is a patterned rock that is common in the Kingdom of Teresa, and the stone of these arch bridges is a honeystone that is only produced in the northern snowfield.

The honey stone is much lighter than normal rocks, but its density is extremely high, so it is also harder than ordinary stones. At the same time, there are a large number of mysterious ingredients that have not been analyzed so far, making it more rare. It has an almost metal-like toughness.

It stands to reason that this kind of rock is impossible to appear in the central part of the continent like the Kingdom of Teresa, but now it has appeared, and a bridge has been built, so this has aroused the curiosity of many scholars in the academic city .

Those who study the history of the construction of the academic city guess that the arch bridge connecting the various urban areas was polished with a whole giant rock elsewhere, and then it was transported and erected between the five peaks, and then the arch bridge was built in a special way. The rocks and the rocks of the mountain are integrated, because only in this way can they explain everything they see. As for the question of who can do this kind of thing, they can only push it to the mysterious and great true gods .

Some people have also tried to find information about the original construction of the Academic City in the archives of the Academic City, but the result is that all relevant materials have not been preserved, and only some fragmentary information mentions the construction process of the Academic City It is the top secret of Teresa's royal family, and all relevant information has been sealed in the royal family's secret archives, and only those with the highest status and status among the royal family members can access it.

As for those who participated in the construction of the Academic City, they did not even keep their names. Even after the Academic City was built, were they buried like the participants in private buildings such as mausoleums in the history of other kingdoms, or were they killed? It was silenced, and no one knew about it, because all the information was completely erased.

However, there are still some scholars who are proficient in research and have found a trace of clues. These clues come from some files of the Church of True God. A special phenomenon called the Forbidden Land of the Gods appeared.

The Forbidden Land of the Gods is a very special phenomenon. As its name suggests, the place where this phenomenon occurs will become a forbidden area for gods, or more correctly, a forbidden area for all supernatural powers. All things involving supernatural powers, no matter Whether it is the divine power of the true god, the divine power of the evil god, or the power of some other magical bloodline, all will be completely restricted, and even the gods will become like mortals in the forbidden land.

The number of occurrences of this kind of miraculous phenomenon is very small. There are only more than 30 recorded phenomena of the forbidden land in various churches. Excluding the number of overlapping records, the real number is only about 14 times. The occurrence of the land phenomenon is not very long each time, and it disappears in about a day, and the covered area is not large, equivalent to a small village.

However, the phenomenon of the Forbidden Land that appeared when the Kingdom of Teresa built the academic city was special among the special ones. It covered half the land area of ​​the Kingdom of Teresa, and it lasted for a very long time, almost It took half a year, and it didn't end until the construction of the academic city was completed.

It is precisely because of this discovery that the speculation about the arch bridge being a creation of gods is self-defeating, because in the forbidden land, any extraordinary power will disappear, and gods are no exception.

So up to now, how the arch bridge was built is still a mystery that plagues all scholars in the academic city, and the royal family of Teresa, who has the answer, has no idea of ​​solving this mystery for the scholars of the academic city. The big one offered an astonishing reward, as long as someone can solve the mystery of the construction of the arch bridge, then this person can not only directly obtain the duke title, but even obtain a piece of territory in the Kingdom of Teresa.

It's a pity that although the reward is huge, no one has been able to get it so far, because the answer requires not only theoretical demonstrations, but also examples, that is, the complete construction of the same arch bridge according to the answer theory.

The vast majority of people are stuck at the level of theory, and only a few scholars have been recognized by scholars and the royal family of Teresa in terms of theory, but it is a pity that they have not passed the verification of examples.

But even so, those few scholars have become one of the best bridge architects on the mainland by virtue of their research in this area, and the failure cases with proven theories were not demolished, but kept, and became a lot of people who aspire to become bridge architects. Objects of study for scholars and students of architects.

Although in the eyes of scholars and students of these architectural disciplines, the urban arch bridges in the academic city are the highest achievements in architecture, but compared with those architectural methods that they can't understand, these master architects stayed behind. The bridge will be able to be drilled into something useful by them.

"It made me laugh, these guys are not usually like this, but yesterday someone discovered some little secrets left by the builder of this arch bridge, Master Borent, so whether you are a student of architecture or not, you are curious about this arch bridge Come over and have a look.” Facing the small arch bridge that was completely blocked, Delkan suggested helplessly to Leo and Sylvia in the carriage: “Let’s get out of the carriage and go, cross the bridge, it’s not far away It’s the spiral staircase.”

After the management of the school city approved the recommendation proposal that two foreign scholars, Leo and Sylvia, directly become the tutors of the school city, Delkan, who had a deep relationship with the two, took the initiative to become the receptionist, and was responsible for going to the book town to pick up the two scholars. People return to the city of learning.

However, I don’t know if some people are dissatisfied with the school management’s adoption of this kind of recommendation proposal that they feel is extremely unfair, or it’s really just a coincidence that someone discovered the hidden secret left by Master Borent on the semi-circular arch bridge at the foot of the mountain. The news spread throughout the entire school city in an instant. It seemed that most of the scholars and students in the school city had become fans of arch bridge architecture. The only way to pass was completely blocked.

Even without this arch bridge, you can still take the old road to the winding stairs leading to the first urban area, but it takes a long detour, and because it has not been used and maintained for many years, it has long been dilapidated, and even some places It has been completely covered by forests, which is equivalent to desertion.

In the face of this situation, Delkan can't say anything, let alone ask the people blocked on the bridge to give way. If he does that, the calmed down debate will be stirred up again, and what changes will be made to the already confirmed recommended proposals , so I can only suggest to get off and walk through.

Facing Delkan's proposal, neither Leo nor Silvia said anything. They each got out of the car and looked at the people blocking the bridge.

Although those scholars all pretended to study the architectural structure of the arch bridge, and even discussed their opinions in a serious manner, but without exception, when Leo and Sylvia got out of the car, they all looked at the two sides at the same time. When people look at it, this makes most people on the bridge focus their eyes on the two, and no matter where the body is facing, the head is turned to the same place.

It's fine if one or two people are in this state, and it won't make people feel anything unusual, but most of the people standing on the side of the arch bridge are doing the same movements, which makes the scene fall into a kind of It looks like a ridiculous situation.

However, none of those scholars realized that the people around them would do the same actions as themselves, and it was too late when their consciousness fell, and they themselves fell into an embarrassing dilemma for a while. It was too rude to look at Leo and Sylvia like this, and felt that he couldn't turn his head first, because doing so would be too eye-catching.

"Are you guys crazy? Mr. Leo and Ms. Sylvia have been approved by the great mentor and the dean. If you are not convinced, you can either go to the dean to appeal, or directly use the method of scholars To prove that these two are not qualified to directly become mentors, what is it to block the bridge like a group of rascals?" Just when these scholars were in a dilemma, Delkan's reprimand pulled them out of this embarrassing situation come out.

After Delkan's voice fell, everyone also turned their heads and stopped looking at Leo and Sylvia. Some people who still felt awkward did not stay any longer, turned and left, but there were still some unconvinced people standing At the Arch Bridge, it felt like they wanted to verify the qualifications of Leo and Sylvia to become the tutors of the Academy City according to the method of scholars that Delkan said.

It's a pity that neither Leo nor Sylvia stayed behind to play this boring test with these scholars, they just walked over, and at the same time did not suppress the blood of the superiors on their bodies, and directly formed blood for these scholars invisible suppression.

The scholars who were still stuck on the bridge didn't understand what happened at all, they felt a timidity and fear from the heart spread throughout their bodies in an instant, and penetrated into the depths of their souls, making them all tremble. Feeling weak and unable to stand any longer, he knelt down on the ground naturally, looking like servants welcoming their master.

Everyone didn't know what happened to them, they only felt fear and uneasiness in their hearts, until Leo and Sylvia walked over the arch bridge, and the invisible power from the blood of the superior disappeared, they still didn't slow down. After working hard, my body still felt weak, and I couldn't stand up after lying on the ground for a long time.

Delkan saw the reverence attitude of those natural shamans towards Leo and Silvia in the Green City, and it was as simple as knowing that these two were definitely not foreign scholars, so when he saw this abnormal phenomenon in front of him, he didn't feel that much. Too much surprise and amazement, on the contrary, when I followed Leo and Sylvia and walked across the arch bridge over these kneeling people, I felt an inexplicable joy in my heart.

As one of the people who led the granting of the mentor status to Leo and Sylvia, he can be said to have been criticized in the academic city in recent days. There are even many rumors claiming that he is collecting money for work, and many former friends Not only did he not defend him, but he broke up with him as if he was hurting the situation, which caused his pressure to accumulate to an unprecedented level during this period. From his already bald hair, it can be seen how much pressure there is.

Although in the end the management of the school city passed their joint recommendation and decided to directly award Leo and Sylvia with the status of mentors, the pressure on Delkan still did not ease much, because the opposition in the school city was not because of the management. It was decided to disappear, and there are still a large number of scholars and students protesting in various ways, just like finding an excuse to block an arch bridge after all.

Seeing those people who prevented Leo and Sylvia from entering the academy city in such a state of embarrassment now, while he was enjoying the kneeling of these people like a victor, and stepping on them across the arch bridge, Delkan felt in his heart The accumulated pressure was also released at this moment, and the inner smile could not be concealed on his face.

Because most of the opponents were blocked on the arch bridge, there were no accidents on the road behind. Leo and his group arrived at the Qianping Square on the winding stairs smoothly.

This square is more like a sculpture art exhibition venue. In the past so many years, the most famous scholars in the academic city will be distributed in and out of the square in the form of sculptures. In addition to the statue of the scholar himself, each sculpture will also record on the base The scholar's life and research results, and engrave a famous saying that the scholar said before his death.

In addition, these sculptures are all made by the world's most famous sculptors, and these sculptors are also from the Academy City, so this is also a holy place that sculptors from all over the world yearn for.

It's just that most of the people who come here don't have much mentality to appreciate the statue. They are more thinking about the 3,700 steps to be climbed next, with an average angle of more than 60 degrees. For most students or scholars from other countries, it is undoubtedly a difficult obstacle that makes them doubt themselves.