The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The Black House is the most special building in the Fifth District of the Academic City. It is built on a protruding corner, surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and on the side facing the city, there is a nearly 100-meter isolation zone without any buildings. , and there are no obstacles that can block the line of sight. Two elite city guards of the centurion are stationed here, closely monitoring the only entrance of the black house.

The shape of the black house is like a square. On the wall of the house, there is no other opening except for an entrance. Anyone who wants to enter through this entrance needs to go through three checks, even if it is the dean inside or outside the academy. People with the status of Queen Teresa and the Duke of Belmont are no exception.

It is precisely because the black house's appearance, construction location, and inspection rigor are so eye-catching that even the cleaners in the city of academics know that there must be a huge secret hidden in the black house. What is the secret of this doubt is a matter of opinion.

Leaving aside the funny speculations such as the storage place of the dean of the academic city in the past dynasties, there are two most recognized guesses among all the guesses. One is that a god is locked in the black house, and the other is almost a black house. A corpse of a god.

The reason for this kind of speculation is entirely because the strange scenes that have happened in the black house in the past few years are like evidences one by one, guiding everyone who sees or hears the relevant rumors to speculate on the gods.

For example, one night, the black house suddenly emitted a strong light that illuminated the entire academic city into daylight, and even illuminated the book town at the foot of the mountain. In the light, there is an indomitable giant figure. Judging from various situations, it seems that this giant wants to break away from the shackles of the black house, but in the end, it is not known whether the power of the giant is too weak or the power of the black house is too strong. Still not able to escape from the black house, and was re-bound into the black house as the light weakened.

For another example, on a certain day, the black house suddenly turned into a light devourer, and everyone could see with the naked eye that the light around the black house was distorted and swallowed, and the black hole that swallowed the light was still expanding, and eventually the entire The city of academics swallowed the restricted area, and all the people deep inside could feel that time had stagnated, and their eyes seemed to be blind, unable to see or hear anything, until the swallowing black hole suddenly disappeared, and everything returned to normal in an instant.

Miraculous things like this happen several times a year, and the scholars and students who have been in the academic city all the year round have long been familiar with the strange things. any danger.

The sight of this kind of scene is enough for any reasonable person to make what he thinks is the most daring guess, so there are two most popular and most recognized guesses of imprisoning the gods and storing the corpses of the gods.

Not only the scholars and students in Academic City were curious about the secrets in the black house, but also other forces outside, such as the Church of True God. They scoffed at such rumors at first, but after seeing such strange More and more people are seeing the vision, and they gradually believe that there are amazing and mysterious items stored in the black house.

It's just that due to the bad relationship with Teresa Kingdom and Academic City, the Church of True God couldn't directly send people from the church to verify the rumors, but they still secretly sent many spies to lurk in Book Town, and even mixed into Academic City. In the city, most of these spies also saw the rumored wonders and visions.

When those strange sights and visions appeared, they were all filled with shock, fear, fear and other emotions in their hearts without exception. The black field reminded them of the dead world that appeared when the gods died mentioned in some church scriptures, and the one that was When the giant bound by light appeared, several spies who were not believers of the church seemed to have seen a miracle, and their inner beliefs became extremely devout, and they became fanatics directly.

After hearing the report from the spies of the church, the Church of True God no longer doubted the veracity of the rumors, and the only question that troubled them was which god was imprisoned in the black house, and whose corpse was stored.

The church and other forces interested in the secrets of the black house have used various methods to find out the secrets, such as contacting the scholars of the school city who can enter and exit the black house, through money temptation, or directly using supernatural powers such as magic to search their memories, but these Scholars in the Academy City are very important figures. They have basically never left the Fifth District in their entire lives, and they have been surrounded by elite city guards all their lives. So far, no force has been able to contact these Scholars in the Academy City.

In addition, some people try to climb the cliff directly, from the foot of the mountain to the corner of the cliff where the black house is located on the top of the mountain, and then try to cut through the outer wall from the other side to enter the black house.

Ordinary people may not be able to do things like climbing cliffs and cutting open outer walls silently, but it is not difficult for those with extraordinary strength, but these people are all climbing without exception. During the process, or after climbing to the top of the mountain, he jumped down and fell to his death inexplicably.

It is also because of this that no one else knows the secrets of the black room except those who can enter the black room. The lifelong wish of many scholars in the academic city is not to have some academic research. Results, but into the black room.

It is precisely because the black house is so special in the academic city that the fact that Leo and Sylvia were qualified to enter the black house was confirmed at the management meeting, and it immediately spread throughout the entire academic city, even Leo and Sylvia also knew about it from the rumors.

Leo and Sylvia's qualifications to enter the black house did not exceed the expectations of scholars and students in the city. Leo has conquered everyone in the school city with his extensive knowledge and wisdom for more than a month. Sylvia Although Ya is not as dazzling as Leo, she has also shown unparalleled talent in the disciplines she involves, and because of her female identity, she has won the support of all the women in the academy city, and there are faint signs of becoming its leader.

It would be a surprise if two such outstanding people did not get the qualification to enter the black house, but the whole school city is still shocked that the two of them got the qualification so quickly, because the past record Among them, it took sixteen years for the person who obtained the qualification to enter the black house in the shortest time, and even though Leo and Sylvia were so outstanding, others felt that it might take eight or nine years for them to obtain this qualification, but now go It only took one and a half months, which shocked them, but also made them curious about what is so special about Leo and Sylvia that made the management of the school city make such an astonishing decision.

Later, under the inquiring of some good-natured people, the people of the Academy City discovered that Queen Teresa and the Duke of Belmont had secretly come to the Academy City, and on the day they arrived in the Academy City, they met with Leo and his wife. And Ms. Silvia looks exactly like Queen Teresa.

When the news came out, many people were stunned. Obviously, they all thought that Leo and Sylvia's qualification to enter the black house should be related to the intervention of the Teresa royal family and the Belmont family. , and also speculated that Leo and Silvia are members of Teresa's royal family, and even boldly guessed that Silvia may be Queen Teresa's twin sister, and also has the qualifications to become queen, etc.

For a while, Leo and Sylvia once again became the main topic of discussion in the entire academy, but this time Leo became a supporting role in the topic, while Sylvia was the center of discussion.

The two parties involved ignored all the rumors in Xuecheng at the moment, and they all focused on the black house.

During the routine identity review process, the entire review process was shortened to one day because of the deans inside and outside the academy, Queen Teresa and the Duke of Belmont as guarantees.

After the review was passed, an old scholar came out from the dark room. He held a metal short stick-like object, and then pressed the end of the short stick on the backs of Leo's and Sylvia's hands respectively.

Sylvia's control over her body has reached the extreme. When the end of the short stick was pressed against the back of her hand, she immediately felt something sticking to the back of her hand, but it was so tiny that she couldn't see it clearly. Degree.

"Don't worry, this is an identification chip." Leo saw Sylvia frowning, and guessed what she was thinking, so he explained.

At this moment, the old scholar did not leave. He also heard Leo's words, and showed a surprised expression. Obviously, he did not expect that Leo knew so much about the relics of prehistoric civilization in his hands, which also made him feel Leo. He is extremely curious, and also expects that after Leo joins their research, he can bring them some new breakthroughs.

After passing the identity verification and affixing the identification chip, the next three inspections are just a process. However, even if it is a process, the rigor of the inspection has not been reduced much, especially the female city guard's closeness to Sylvia. The inspection gave Sylvia an urge to destroy everything in front of her eyes.

Fortunately, the three inspections ended soon, and even though Sylvia felt unhappy, she was still able to control her emotions well.

"Even Her Majesty the Queen accepts this kind of inspection." Seeing Sylvia's displeased expression, Dean Thomas, who had undergone the same inspection, quickly explained: "There is no way, after all, coveting the black house." There are too many people here, there was once a spies of the church who used magic to change their appearance and figure, pretending to be the dean of the school city, trying to get in."

"No need to explain, I can understand." Sylvia signaled Dean Thomas not to continue explaining.

After that, Dean Thomas became a guide and led the two of them through the isolation zone to the only entrance to the black house.

When they came to the entrance, a dark corridor automatically appeared in the middle of the gate of the black house.

Dean Thomas signaled the two of them not to worry, and walked directly into the corridor, and the two followed.

At the moment of entering the corridor, Sylvia only felt that her body was being pulled by some force, and she could move forward without taking a step, but this feeling disappeared quickly, and the corridor disappeared at the same time. In the darkness, almost instantly, an empty and huge warehouse-like interior space appeared in front of their eyes. The entire space, whether it was the floor, walls or ceiling, emitted soft light, illuminating everything in the space.

At this time, Sylvia's attention was already attracted by the metal cube suspended in the middle of this warehouse-like space. If this cube was only suspended in the air, it would not attract her special attention, and it would really attract her attention. The reason why she couldn't look away was that the moment she saw the cube, the concept of perfection immediately appeared in her mind. She had never seen an object with such a simple and perfect shape, and this extreme perfection made her She had the illusion of facing the gods, and she couldn't help feeling awed in her heart.

Sylvia's performance was completely within the expectations of the scholars in the black room. The metal cube in front of them is so perfect that even if they have seen it for so many years and come into contact with this cube every day, they will still feel it inadvertently. Completely attracted by the cube, let alone other people who saw the cube for the first time, even strong-willed people like Queen Teresa and the Duke of Belmont could not escape the law of attraction.

However, Leo's performance made these people feel surprised and confused, because after entering the black house, Leo only glanced at the cube, and immediately shifted his sight to other places in the room, such as those prehistoric civilizations neatly placed on the ground Relics, such as research and testing tools made by project participants themselves.

Leo's performance was unique, so that the minds of these researchers were full of imagination. Many people speculated that maybe Leo had seen this perfect cube before, and he might have come into contact with it more frequently than them, and even he already knew this perfect cube. The mystery contained in the cube made this perfect cube no longer attractive to him.

Driven by doubts in his heart, a middle-aged scholar suddenly asked: "Excuse me, have you ever touched this perfect cube before?"

Although the voice of the middle-aged scholar was not loud, the empty space inside the black house amplified it to the point where everyone could hear it clearly, including Sylvia and Queen Teresa who had just pulled their attention away from the cube. Including the Duke of Belmont, everyone's eyes were focused on Leo in unison.

"Well, I've seen it." Leo said without denying it, nodded.

"Do you know what this is?" the middle-aged scholar asked eagerly.

For a while, everyone in the room stopped breathing, and their eyes focused on Leo became eager.

"Yes, I know what it is." Leo looked at the crowd, still nodded, and then added: "I also know how to operate and use it."