The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After arriving at the big library in the fourth city, Leo and Sylvia did not ask the secret keeper who was assigned to follow them where the forbidden books related to the Church of the Primitives were kept. The Restricted Area looks below.

Compared with Sylvia's conscious search and books and materials related to the Teresa royal family, the Belmont family, and the abyss and gods, Leo seems to be much more casual. In the eyes of the accompanying secret keeper, Leo is simply Not reading or looking for information, because he would pick up every book on the shelf from the outermost shelf since he entered the restricted book area, but he didn't read these books, he just flipped through them quickly from beginning to end , and then put it back and picked up a new one.

In this case, Sylvia just read a book about the Belmont family that she found in her hand, and Leo had already searched all the books in the first restricted area.

"Mr. Leo, are you looking for any books? Here I have the catalog and brief introduction of all the books in the library. You can directly read the catalog without flipping through them one by one." Leo went to the second restricted book area At that time, the administrator waiting outside the restricted area hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"No need, this is my reading habit." Leo rejected the administrator's kindness, and continued to the second restricted area.

The administrator was puzzled by Leo's behavior, and reported it to the curator of the large library, and the reply was that as long as Leo didn't destroy the books, don't interfere.

In this way, Leo spent almost a day, starting from the forbidden book area at the bottom of the fourth city's large library, and went through all the forbidden books on the top floor. If people feel that his behavior is a bit weird, then when he read those forbidden books that contain mysterious power, the plainness he displayed will be even more shocking. illusion.

The secret keeper who was assigned to follow Leo possesses the prohibition power second only to the oldest secret keeper. He has lived in the big library in the fourth city for more than 30 years, and he has long been familiar with every book here. The situation of banned books is well known, especially how powerful those banned books that contain mysterious power have the power to corrode the soul or body, he is the most clear.

In the face of those forbidden books that contain mysterious power, even a secret keeper like him needs to be extra careful before touching them. Among them, the forbidden books stored in a single room on the top floors need to use some special equipment to touch them.

However, Leo casually picked up those extremely dangerous forbidden books in front of him, and flipped through them as if facing an ordinary book, which really scared the accompanying secret keeper.

What shocked him even more was that Leo seemed to be immune to the power contained in these forbidden books. He could clearly feel that the power in those forbidden books would attack the books when Leo's hands touched them. He even reached out his hand to take the forbidden book from Leo's hand and cut off the power of the forbidden book, but Leo raised his hand to stop it, and said that he was fine, and at this moment he felt that the dangerous power in the forbidden book was rushing. Weakened until Leo put down the forbidden book, the forbidden book gave him almost the same feeling as an ordinary forbidden book.

The same situation also happened to other banned books, especially when Leo put down the banned books on the top floor, he found that the cover of the banned books had cracks, and the paper began to become old. In his memory, the forbidden books are mysterious powers with indestructible characteristics. Let alone holding them in his hands, even if these books are burned in a wrought iron furnace, they will not be damaged in the slightest.

It was also because of all kinds of unbelievable circumstances that the accompanying secret keeper couldn't wait to report the matter to his superior, that is, the oldest secret keeper when Leo and Silvia left. By.

At first, the old man who kept the secret thought that the other party was joking, but after he checked it himself, he found that almost all the forbidden books containing mysterious power had weakened, especially the most dangerous ones. When he was on the verge of destruction, seeing this situation, he also knew that something had happened, and immediately informed the management of the school city.

Compared with the nervousness of these secret keepers, the mood of the management of the school city is much calmer. After repeatedly confirming that there is no abnormality in Leo, but only a problem with the banned books, they are all relieved and express that they will Report this matter to Teresa's royal family, and the royal family will send someone to handle it.

The actions of the management of the school city are in line with the procedures, but their attitude is somewhat understated. It can even be felt that they are happy to see the destruction of those banned books that contain mysterious power.

In fact, the management of the Academy City in the past has been troubled by those banned books that contain mysterious power, especially the most dangerous banned books in the big library of the fourth city, because those banned books are not only dangerous in themselves, but even attract people. Some dangerous cultists or heretics, for this reason, they hoped that Teresa's royal family could take away those dangerous banned books and find another place to store them, but they were not approved.

Now these banned books are destroyed in the hands of Leo, which is a good thing for the management of the school city, provided that Leo is not harmed, so after they responded to the secret keeper, they sent someone with a special instrument , went to Leo to check the situation, and the result was that Leo was normal and did not show any signs of being corrupted by evil forces, but Leo seemed to be very interested in the detection instrument, and both the instrument and the operator were temporarily left behind. At Leo's place.

On the other hand, Leo, who had been examined, did not immediately start sorting out the forbidden book data recorded in the brain database and understand the imprints produced by the power of those forbidden books in his body, but began to study the method to check whether he was corrupted by evil forces. The instrument comes.

There was almost no need for special identification. The moment Leo saw the inspector sent by the management of the school city take out the instrument, he easily recognized it from the familiar appearance of the instrument and the text on it. The abnormal energy detector manufactured, and even the text on it told him that this instrument belonged to the nineteenth exploration team.

Because this energy detector is modular, it does not require any tools to disassemble it. Leo easily disassembled it into the most basic components, and his behavior made the instrument standing aside The operator was completely stunned, and even after the disassembly was completed, he hadn't recovered yet.

After Leo disassembled the instrument, he carefully checked the numbers of some instruments, and he could read a lot of information from the numbers.

However, what surprised him was that these numbers showed that the various modules of the instrument were not manufactured at the same time. Among them, the earliest module was the lens module, which was manufactured in the early days of the Earth Federation's colonization, and the latest manufacturing module It was in the late period of interstellar colonization, after the Earth Federation came into contact with alien civilizations and knew the real situation of the universe, the two were separated by nearly a thousand years.

Moreover, some obvious traces of artificial transformation can be seen from these modules. This transformation is to allow modules produced in different periods to be used together, and judging from the traces of transformation, the time is not long, only a few dozen at most. Years, that is to say, decades ago, someone used their own modification technology to transform these modules of different periods into a usable energy detector, and it is not an ordinary energy detector, it can detect extraordinary power detector.

This discovery shocked Leo, because he was sure that even now he might not be able to manufacture such a detector, but someone did it decades ago, so this undoubtedly represents the Some people not only mastered the functions and modification methods of these high-tech modules, but also mastered a lot of knowledge of extraordinary power, and could perfectly combine the two, otherwise it would be impossible to assemble and manufacture such an instrument.

"Is this device made by Xuecheng?" Leo asked after reassembling the instrument and returning it to the operator.

The operator quickly took over the restored instrument, checked it carefully, found nothing abnormal, and then replied truthfully: "No, it was sent by the royal family."

For this answer, Leo was not surprised, one of the possible makers he guessed was Teresa's royal family.

"Could it be that the Teresa royal family has mastered the knowledge of starry sky civilization?" After the operator left and heard Leo's guess about the instrument, Sylvia asked with some doubts.

Leo shook his head and said, "If the royal family of Teresa really mastered that knowledge and knew how to manufacture and transform related instruments, then the Kingdom of Teresa is no longer a kingdom, but an empire." After thinking about it for a while, he said, "However, what is certain is that the royal family of Teresa should have had contact with people who have the relevant knowledge, and they have a close relationship so far, because that instrument needs regular maintenance, from the traces on it. Look, the last maintenance should have been a few months ago."

"So what should we do now, should we take the initiative to contact the royal family?" Sylvia asked again.

"No, let's wait for Teresa's royal family to contact us according to the original plan. We are too proactive, which is not good." Leo shook his head and said.

Seeing that Leo had made a decision, Sylvia didn't say anything else, and then the two asked Penny to tell the city guard who was guarding the door of the apartment that they wanted to sort out the research materials without seeing any visitors, and then started in the apartment according to their own methods. Organize various harvests from the restricted section of the Great Library.

Through these banned books, Leo not only mastered a lot of knowledge and secrets about the Primordial Church, but also gained a deeper understanding of the world.

At this moment, he can already confirm that the founder of the Church of the Primitives is definitely related to the Earth Colonial Fleet, because the original emblem of the Church of the Primitives is recorded in a certain forbidden book, and that badge happens to be the emblem of the Early Colonial Star Administration of the Earth Federation. Every colonial fleet starting from the earth in the world uses this emblem as the main emblem.

In addition, this book also records the reason for establishing the Primordial Church. The reason is not that Leo wants to return to the original place as Leo initially thought, but wants to find the original place and bring food from the original place. seed.

According to the forbidden book, the world was experiencing a war of gods at that time. This kind of war of gods was not a religious battle between churches, but a real war of gods. Gods directly entered the world to fight, and every battle gave This world has brought endless disasters and tribulations, the climate has also become extremely chaotic under the influence of divine power, and plant growth has also experienced problems. Naturally, food has been greatly reduced, and the whole world has fallen into famine.

The founders of the Primordial Church knew that there was an extremely high-yielding food seed with low planting requirements in the Primordial Land, so they wanted to find the Primordial Land and bring that seed out.

As a result, whether the founder found the original land and whether he brought out the seeds was not mentioned in the forbidden book, because the latter part of the content was torn up, and the previous content was also related to the battle of the true gods. It was regarded as taboo knowledge, and the entire book was banned by the Church of True God. Judging from the content of the book, this banned book should be the early teaching scriptures of the Primordial Church.

However, there is also a piece of information revealed in this dilapidated forbidden book, that is, there is not only one original place in the mouth of the Primordial Church, but many, each of which contains different wealth and has different functions. This made Leo couldn't help but think of the colony spaceships that stored a lot of supplies.

However, for some unknown reason later, perhaps for the sake of publicity, the Primordial Church gradually changed the Primordial Land to the statement that all gods originated from the Primordial Land.

Perhaps this kind of statement annoyed the Church of True God, or it may be because of other reasons. In short, after the Church of True God’s power was consolidated, they joined hands to destroy the Church of the Primitives, which is also the Church of True God system.

I just don’t know why, they didn’t label the Church of the Primordial as a heresy, and still retained their membership in the Church of the True God, but listed it as a lost church, and even some Churches of the True God also recognized that the original place was According to the origin of the gods, the Justice Church is among them.

Although the Church of the Primitives has disappeared, the believers and senior clergy of the Church of the Primitives have not been completely wiped out. They are hidden all over the world, and according to their understanding of the classics of the Church of the Primitives, they have established various underground organizations , and one of the underground organizations should be the mysterious organization that researches and develops implants.

It's a pity that even the large library of the Academy City has not completely collected all the books related to the organizations of the Primordial Church, but fortunately, among the banned books that have been collected, there are several books from different underground organizations. When it comes to the taboo knowledge of god-making, one of them mentions that by implanting a god-derived object transformed from the flesh and blood of a god, an ordinary person can have the power of a god. This forbidden book belongs to a secret organization called the Transcendence.