The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

It is completely beyond Leo's knowledge that a civilization includes several high-level civilizations in the universe and an unknown number of medium-level civilizations. This kind of thing will never happen in the cosmic order under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council of the Universe.

However, because many things that seemed unimaginable in the past have been deduced from various materials, Leo has become a little numb to such things and news, and it is difficult to produce too strong emotional fluctuations. Curious what is going on with this Linde civilization? How is it formed? How does it work internally?

You must know that unless you have the absolute power of the supreme council of the universe, let alone fusing several high-level civilizations together, even if you bring together two low-level universe civilizations, it is impossible to live in peace, and there will definitely be conflicts and friction.

So after seeing these news, Leo had a feeling that this Linde civilization might be another civilization center that replaced the Supreme Council of the Universe after the Supreme Council of the Universe disappeared, but it did not inherit the Supreme Council of the Universe for some reason. name, but by civilization.

It's a pity that Leo's luck seems to have been used up in the first few days of sorting out the collection. After that, the equipment of the alien civilization was either completely broken or partially intact, but the intact part was just some functions module, no data logging functionality exists.

Although these disassembled alien civilization equipment is of no use to Leo, it is like a treasure to the scholars in the warehouse, because the parts he disassembled can make these people better understand and understand. Discovered the working principle of these devices, and some of them even reassembled some intact parts into a working device, even if the device was short-circuited and burned immediately after it started working, it still worked for a few seconds , can be said to be very remarkable.

You must know that although these scholars and experts specially dispatched by Academic City and Theresa Royal Family can be regarded as the smartest, most intelligent, and most knowledgeable people in the world, their basic knowledge is very primitive after all. In the era of the earth, the knowledge of in-terrestrial physics, chemistry and other subjects has not been thoroughly studied, let alone the laws of physics between galaxies in the universe. According to the normal situation, this kind of thing is absolutely impossible.

So after learning that these scholars and experts used the alien parts and functional modules they disassembled to piece together a device that can be activated for a short time, Leo was also surprised, and in the next day or two, separated Part of the energy focuses on the scholars and experts in the warehouse.

Soon, he discovered some interesting things. For example, experts from the royal family are better at reassembling the scattered parts than exploring the origin, craftsmanship and principles of these items. The short-lived device was actually assembled by experts from the royal family.

However, what is inversely proportional to their hands-on ability is that their theoretical knowledge is very little, far from being comparable to the scholars in the academic city.

Moreover, when they were talking, Leo heard some specialized vocabulary that should not have been heard from them, such as energy wires, bus interfaces, equivalent power, etc. related to the assembly of equipment parts, and the vocabulary they used, although They are all in Teresa language, but they are only pronounced in Teresa language. In fact, these words and expressions should be the seventh set of Federation languages ​​that Earth Federation foundation engineers like to use.

Although it is only some scattered information, Leo has reason to believe that there is at least one learning device in the hands of the royal family of Teresa for training basic equipment maintenance personnel, and these experts and scholars should have learned all kinds of knowledge through that device. Knowledge of maintenance and assembly of basic equipment.

It's just that the people targeted by this type of training device are usually quasi-engineers who have completed all basic subjects, so the training content does not involve any basic knowledge, only knowledge about the disassembly and assembly of various devices, so those royal families Experts and scholars can directly assemble those alien equipment parts that do not even belong to the Earth Federation into a short-term start-up machine without knowing any principles and only relying on the disassembly and assembly knowledge they have learned. device.

It is also fortunate that the parts produced by these alien civilizations are all manufactured according to the standard specifications set by the Supreme Council of the universe. Except for the differences in appearance, these alien products in the core are not much different from the equipment produced by the earth, especially Most of the connection interfaces are common interfaces, and even the function marks are general marks formulated by the Supreme Council. To assemble these temporary buildings, you only need to connect the different modules in the normal order like building blocks. Because of this, the half-baked experts in the royal family who didn't even know the principle were able to assemble these parts into a so-called device.

After discovering this situation, Leo prepared to contact the experts and scholars of the royal family to see if he could get some useful information from them. But at this time, the first batch of information collected by Queen Teresa was related to the gods of this world. All kinds of secret materials were sent to Book Town by the knights directly under the royal family. Because these materials are very precious, Leo can only read and copy them under the protection of the knights. Send it back to the secret vault of the royal family for archiving.

Leo was originally dissatisfied with the fact that he could only read and transcribe under the supervision of the Knights, but after he saw the real objects of these hidden materials, he felt that it was not too much for Queen Teresa to do so, because these Most of the materials are gold slates. These slates record various secret and precious materials like book pages. Only a few of the other materials are normal books, and the other books are made of unknown animal skins or other leathers that contain special powers. Forging, the value of all the materials added together is enough to turn any poor man into the richest man in the world.

It would be great if Queen Teresa sent people to the book town for Leo to read such a huge amount of material with only superficial value. If he put himself in Queen Teresa's position, Leo would feel Maybe it will directly let people read and copy in the past, or even go too far.

"These are the golden books?" Dean Thomas, who heard the news, came to the room where these materials were stored after being reviewed by the Knights. Although he was allowed to enter the room, he was not allowed to touch those materials, just like this , after seeing those golden slates, he still couldn't restrain his emotional agitation.

"Golden Book?" Leo was stunned when he heard Dean Thomas' surprised words, and soon thought of what the golden book in Dean Thomas's mouth referred to, and pointed to the golden slabs with some doubts, saying: "These are the books of eternal truth mentioned in the books of the Church of True God? Don't they say books compiled with golden pages? These are just a layer of gold on the surface of knowledge, and there should be some kind of rock inside, right? This is also gold book?"

Dean Thomas shook his head and said: "You must know that some objects recorded in books are often recorded with exaggerated descriptions, especially those things that have something to do with gods, such as the holy relic ruling helmet of the Justice Church , It was just an ordinary knight's helmet, and the helmet was smashed, but in the description of the Justice Church, this helmet is full of legends and mysteries from the material to the manufacturing process, so anyone who hears the description No one would recognize the Helm of Judgment when they saw it, any more than these golden books you see now."

Listening to Dean Thomas' words, Leo looked at the golden slates, and the description of the golden book also appeared in his mind.

When the Otter Federation first came into contact with the religious books of this world, Leo had already noticed the golden books recorded in these books. Church saints write down the eternal truths after listening to the words of the gods, and no matter what the carrier used to record these eternal truths, these carriers will eventually become golden pages, and the saints will also turn into golden pages after writing the eternal truths a part of.

It is also because the descriptions of the golden book in those classics are too exaggerated and mixed with a lot of religious worship content, so Leo subconsciously thinks that this is just a kind of sacred object, just like the legends in the church that have all kinds of magic Like a divine gift of power.

Seeing the emotions shown by Dean Thomas now, Leo realized that his previous judgment may have been wrong. These golden books may not be just man-made sacred objects of religious worship as he thought.

So, he walked to the nearest wooden platform where the golden slate was placed, looked down at the slate neatly placed by the Knights, and looked at the clearly engraved words on it.

However, Leo quickly discovered something was wrong, because he couldn't understand the engraved text on the golden slate. This kind of incomprehension was not at the level of knowledge. Grammar, but for Leo, he can still analyze the meaning of these words from the rules of writing and some familiar word usages, but the problem is that although he thinks these words are very simple, he can't understand them at all, as if the stone slab was It's the same as a concept called "Unintelligible", even if the words are the most familiar to the reader, the reader will still not be able to understand a single sentence.

"Mr. Dean, take a look at these stone slabs, and then tell me what is written on them." After discovering the abnormality of the slate, Leo thought for a while, then turned to Dean Thomas, who was looking curiously at him. , said.

"Can I watch?" Dean Thomas was a little puzzled, and then looked at the leader of the Cavaliers beside him.

The captain of the knight team frowned and said, "Her Majesty said that these slabs can only be..."

Leo interrupted him and said, "I will handle these things before sending them back. I think your Majesty the Queen should make this very clear."

The leader of the Cavaliers did not refute. He was silent for a while, then took a step back, indicating that Dean Thomas could read the slates.

Dean Thomas, who couldn't wait for a long time, walked forward quickly, and looked at the stone slab without saying anything to Leodo, but after seeing the stone slab, he showed a blank look on his face, and then there was something in his eyes. With strong doubts, he turned to Leo and asked, "Mr. Leo, what did you see on the slate?"

"I didn't see anything, and I couldn't understand it at all." Leo replied truthfully.

Dean Thomas breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "It turns out that you are the same, and I can't understand it at all, but...just, the writing on these stone slabs is... again, how should I describe it?"

Leo expressed his feelings for him: "It's so familiar and simple, I feel that I can understand what it means at a glance."

"Yes, yes, this is the case." Dean Thomas nodded again and again, and then he was a little surprised, and said: "So the legend is true, these golden books really record the eternal truth."

"What legend?" Leo asked curiously.

"A legend that only spreads within the Church of True God," Dean Thomas truthfully explained: "It is said that the real golden book has two eternal characteristics because it records the eternal truth. These two eternal characteristics are also the only ones to judge the authenticity of the golden book. Standard, one characteristic is that it cannot be destroyed, and the other characteristic is that it cannot be read, and these two characteristics just represent the unknowable and indestructible of divinity."

"Can't it be destroyed?" Hearing this, Leo suddenly raised his hand and patted the golden stone slab in front of him. With his palm, the slate did not show extraordinary hardness, but it was easily destroyed by Leo himself. Under the impact of force, it shattered into dozens of pieces.

Because Leo's movements were so sudden and fast, Dean Thomas and the captain of the Cavaliers had no time to stop them. When they came back to their senses, the stone slab had completely shattered, and they were also stunned. Land, completely at a loss.

However, before they questioned why Leo did this, the shattered stone slab returned to its intact state in an instant before their eyes, as if everything that happened just now was just an illusion they saw.

"It's really indestructible." Dean Thomas couldn't help but marvel at the sight in front of him.

The knight team leader was also shocked by the restoration of the stone slab, and felt awe at the same time. He seemed to think that all this had something to do with the mighty power of the gods. If it weren't for the inappropriate occasion, he might have already knelt on the ground, using the most pious tone To praise the gods he thought worthy of worship.

However, for Leo, the restoration of the stone slab has nothing to do with the mighty power of the gods, because he didn't feel any divine power on it, but he felt the powerful psionic energy, and this psionic energy made him He couldn't help but think of an almost legendary strategic-level psionic skill.