The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Spectacular is the only feeling that anyone who sees this giant arch bridge has, followed by the idea that this kind of building should not exist, and whether what he sees is just a fantasy or something like doubt.

In fact, not only people who see this arch bridge for the first time will have this idea, even scholars who have lived in the city of academics for many years and walked back and forth on this arch bridge do not know how many times when they see the arch bridge , will still produce similar mood swings.

The giant arch bridge with a length of hundreds of meters and a width of more than ten meters spans from the top of the mountain here to the top of the opposite mountain. The clouds and mist in the mountains float under the arch bridge. Walking on the arch bridge is like walking in the sky. This kind of shock cannot be felt in other places.

Even Sylvia was in a daze for a long time when she saw the arch bridge before recovering from the shock, let alone Penny and Joan, they could only stare blankly at the sight in front of them. Arch bridge, couldn't help repeating words like miracles in his mouth.

Whether it is Sylvia, Penny, Joan, or the others, the emotions shown by Delkan and the others are normal, because in their memory, they have never seen the kind of giant arch bridge that they saw for the first time. No one would show a similarly shocked look.

But they soon discovered that the first exception seemed to have appeared, because Leo's calmness made people wonder if there was something wrong with his eyes, and whether the magnificent giant arch bridge in front of him had turned into air .

"Mr. Leo, have you ever seen this kind of arch bridge before?" Delkan couldn't help but wondered, and asked Leo.

"No." Leo shook his head and said.

Delkan asked again: "Then why do you look so calm? Isn't this building shocking enough?"

"It's shocking. According to the current world's construction technology and capabilities, it is absolutely impossible to build this kind of giant arch bridge. However, this kind of arch bridge actually exists now, and there are more than one." Leo said, his eyes While shifting to the distance, he looked at several other arch bridges of the same type across mountains, then looked back, turned to listen, and said calmly: "It's just that I have seen buildings that are a thousand times more magnificent than this arch bridge. So the arch bridge doesn't impress me."

"A thousand times more spectacular, ten thousand times more spectacular?" Hearing Leo's words, both Delkan and Boer subconsciously felt that Leo was bragging, but then they saw the calm expression on Leo's face, and they agreed again They felt that what Leo said might be true, and they couldn't even imagine a building that was a thousand or ten thousand times more magnificent than this arch bridge. Perhaps only the legendary palace of the gods could do it.

At this time, the others also recovered from the shock of the arch bridge building, and Bohr continued to lead the crowd towards the second urban area opposite the arch bridge. Introduce some stories about this arch bridge, most of which are about an architectural scholar's research on the construction method of the arch bridge and so on.

At the same time, while listening to Delkan's introduction, Leo used the spirit net to check the condition of the arch bridge, looking for the construction mystery of the arch bridge.

However, the questions that have plagued various scholars and master architects in this academic city for many years have been solved by Leo after only scanning two or three times through the spiritual net. The stone reshaper specially designed by the Earth Federation for colonists is used.

Under normal circumstances, colony spaceships use dedicated colony cabins as their residences. The materials and equipment used in this colony cabin can be used normally for a long time. This time can last thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years. There are still early Earth colonization pods in use from that era.

However, the number of colony cabins is limited. Once the planetary colonization enters the middle stage and the population begins to grow explosively, the colony cabins will definitely not be enough, so local building materials must be used to build houses, and in order to facilitate the construction of desired, various The shape of the house, the stone reshaper that can reshape the shape of various stones according to the desired shape came into being.

The early stone reshapers were very large, equivalent to a fifty-seater land chariot, but in Leo's era, the stone reshapers had already been miniaturized, about the same as an ordinary rifle.

The special rays emitted from the stone reshaper can make most of the rocks clay, and then change the shape of the clay rocks manually or mechanically, and then turn them back into a hard state by curing the light.

The rocks reshaped by this method will have a common characteristic, that is, the density of the rock will increase several times or even ten times compared to before shaping, because the curing light of the stone reshaper not only restores the hardness, but also You're compressing the rock, making it denser, so not only are these rocks stronger than normal rocks, but they're also heavier.

Although Leo had never seen the honeystone stone used in the construction of the arch bridge, he could not compare the density difference between the two stone materials, but he could infer from the density of the arch bridge stone material how strong the high-pressure environment is needed to produce such a high-density stone material. The musculoskeletal strength of life produced in this high-pressure environment definitely far exceeds that of civil steel.

Therefore, Leo immediately judged that the honeystone used in the arch bridge was definitely not produced in a normal environment, but a stone re-solidified by a similar stone reshaper, and only this kind of stone whose strength has increased by more than ten times can It can hang hundreds of meters in the air without other support without being crushed by its own weight.

The expression on Leo's face, who has already solved the mystery of the construction of the arch bridge, changed slightly, and Sylvia at the side was very familiar with what the change in Leo's expression represented, so he asked tentatively: "You have solved this problem?" The secret of the construction of the arch bridge?"

Leo nodded slightly, but he was still a little conservative, and said: "It's been confirmed 80 to 90%, and the remaining 10% can only be fully confirmed by finding the equipment at the time of construction."

Although there were people on the arch bridge, there were not many people. Apart from the scholars and students traveling between different cities, there were more architecture scholars and students obsessed with studying the mysteries of arch bridge construction. Because the surrounding environment was very empty, even Leo The voice of the conversation with Sylvia was very low, but it could still be heard clearly by many people, which made many people couldn't help but look at Leo and Sylvia.

However, after these people just glanced at Leo and Sylvia, they immediately withdrew their attention with a mocking or contemptuous look, and continued to do their own things. Obviously, they all took Leo And Sylvia became a sensationalist.

It's no wonder they think so. After all, the mysteries of the construction of these cross-mountain arch bridges have plagued the academic city for many years. Countless architects from all over the world have not been able to research any useful clues. The speculation was overturned, but now a stranger suddenly said that he had solved the mystery of the construction of the arch bridge. How could other people around who knew the situation of the arch bridge not think that the other party was grandstanding.

However, Delkan, who knew a little about Leo and knew that Leo was extremely knowledgeable, didn't look at Leo the way the others did. Instead, he asked with some expectation: "Mr. Leo, have you really cracked the key to this arch bridge?" Created a secret?"

Delkan's inquiry once again attracted some people's attention, and some of them also recognized Delkan's identity, and they didn't understand why this well-known mentor in the school city would ask such an obvious lie.

However, Leo did not give the other party a positive response, but simply asked: "I remember that the stone used for this arch bridge is honeystone, right? Are you sure?"

"Of course, the stone material of the arch bridge conforms to all the characteristics of the honeystone." Delkan waited for a response, and a certain architecture instructor who led the students to study the structure of the arch bridge not far away couldn't help it, and stood up and said.

"Don't be so sure, let's talk after comparing the hardness and weight!" Leo looked at the architecture tutor with a smile, and gave a simple reminder, then he seemed to have no intention of saying anything, and continued to walk across the arch bridge.

After the architecture tutor heard Leo's words, he didn't immediately refute, but froze in place, as if he really got something else, and his students around him also looked at their teacher with puzzled faces .

At this time, Delkan, who was closely following Leo, also showed a thoughtful expression on his face. Obviously, the reminder Leo gave not only touched the inspiration of the architecture tutor, but also made people who were not from architecture Delkan also thought of something.

The stone used in the arch bridge is honey gold stone, which is a fact recognized by all scholars engaged in arch bridge research, because the person who discovered this was the most outstanding master of geology and architecture at that time, and it is absolutely impossible for everyone to judge this master The type of stone used in the wrong building, and the characteristics of honey stone are so obvious that even ordinary geology or architecture students can judge it. In the eyes of many people, there is no possibility of error.

Because of this, later arch bridge researchers also focused their research on the construction method, but no one really questioned the issue of stone materials, and no one knocked a piece of material from the arch bridge to match the honey gold stone of the same weight. Make a comparison, otherwise, previous researchers should be able to easily find out that there is a huge gap between the stone used to build the arch bridge and the honeystone in terms of hardness and weight. The gap is so large that it can even be regarded as two kinds of materials.

Just after Leo and the others walked a certain distance, there was a sudden commotion behind them. When everyone looked back, they saw a few city guards who were responsible for the safety of the arch bridge pushing the previous architecture instructor to the ground. And the instructor was still holding a small hammer in his hand, and the surrounding students were all at a loss looking at the chaos in front of them.

Looking at this scene, it is not difficult to guess what happened just now. Obviously, the instructor of the architectural scholar was inspired by Leo, and wanted to knock a piece off the railing of the arch bridge directly, and bring it back to compare the density and weight. As a result, he was discovered by the city guard who was patrolling back and forth, and he was arrested as a saboteur.

The reason why the city guards have such a big reaction is that apart from the importance of the arch bridge itself, what is more important is that it has happened more than once before. The arch bridge is the key point they are targeting. For this reason, the school city will send additional city guards at both ends and in the middle of the arch bridge to take care of safety. Jump off, that's why extra people are sent to protect the safety.

Delkan looked at the scholar mentor who was pressed under the city guard and kept explaining his purpose. He felt like laughing, but at the same time he felt a little scared, because he had moved just now and knocked on it now. The idea of ​​the next fragment, after all, the attraction of solving the mystery of arch bridge architecture is too great, even if he is not engaged in the discipline of architecture, it is also difficult to resist the temptation to solve the mystery.

"This bridge can't be destroyed with a hammer." Leo looked at the situation behind, then looked at Delkan and Pol, who still had eager expressions on their faces, and reminded.

As he said, after the density of the honeystone of this bridge has increased so much, its hardness has far exceeded that of normal rocks. It is not necessarily possible to damage the surface.

So in Leo's view, if the management of the school city knows how hard these arch bridges are, then their purpose of sending so many city guards to put their hands on the arch bridges is probably not to protect the arch bridges, but to take advantage of them. This approach caused those anti-Academy City forces to misunderstand, mistakenly thinking that the arch bridge was easy to be destroyed, and then used the arch bridge as a bait and trap to lure those anti-Academy City forces to take the bait.

The group of people did not stop to watch the subsequent development of the matter, and continued to walk towards the second urban area. On the way, Delkan and Pol lost the enthusiasm to introduce the situation of the school city to Leo just now. They were all full of thoughts. The eyes looking at Leo also became strange, as if he had a lot of questions to ask, but he didn't know how to ask them.

Leo didn't have any thoughts on answering their questions either, both he and Sylvia were focused on feeling the increasing pressure and repulsion around them.

As they approached the second city, they all discovered that the situation in the second city was completely different from that of the first city. It seemed to be shrouded by an invisible forbidden zone. This forbidden zone had an effect similar to the law of the world, and this law was only for Those who have extraordinary power have a certain suppression and weakening effect on any extraordinary power, and this effect is hard not to remind people of the phenomenon of the forbidden land that once appeared in the Kingdom of Teresa, so There are also rumors in the outside world that the city of learning has mastered the method of creating the forbidden land.

However, when Leo and Sylvia felt the invisible forbidden zone against the extraordinary power, they immediately thought of not the forbidden land, but the energy disruptor in the world of Velen.