The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"I object. All preparations have not been made at all. We don't have enough monks with lanterns. Even if you recover Rand City now, the existing monks with lanterns will not be able to purify the city. Those things will grow again by then." Top of the volcano In a room in the Salvation Temple, the priest of the Goddess of Civilization said to his colleagues in dissatisfaction, "You just want to use the opportunity of recovering the city to let those people in the outer city die and reduce the number of people in the city by a large amount." population."

In this not-so-large room, beside a triangular table engraved with the holy emblem of the Lord of Redemption, three people were sitting respectively. The leaders of the Church of Redemption, although they are in charge of the city together, they have their own exclusive duties, and they usually deal with their own affairs separately. It is rare for them to gather together to discuss things like they are now.

Outside the room, the subordinates of the three gathered in an area, talking in low voices, and looked towards the door from time to time, as if they were all waiting for a definite result of the discussion in the room.

"I did this for New Rand." In the room, facing the accusation of the goddess of civilization, the priest of the goddess of victory seemed very calm. After emphasizing that she made such a proposal was not selfish, she retorted emphatically : "You also know how much food storage is left in the city now. It will take a certain amount of time for new seeds to be catalyzed. It is impossible to supply the current food storage to the whole city and the garrison outside the camp." During this period of time, all the food will be consumed for at most one month. At that time, there will be no food supply, and no matter how solid the faith is, it will not help. At that time, the hearts of our city will collapse, and those outside who are shouting for salvation If they dare to do anything, then the city will usher in a civil war, and no matter what the final result is, New Rand will be ruined." As she spoke, she stood up from the chair and put her hands on the On the table, the body leaned forward slightly, pressing down on the priest of the goddess of civilization from a overlooking angle, and said at the same time: "Instead of everyone hugging and dying together, it is better to use some methods to reduce the population and prolong the time for food consumption."

The priest of the goddess of civilization waited angrily for the other party, and also stood up from the chair, saying: "You are really crazy, have you thought about it? What you did was to sacrifice to those things in the old city in a disguised form, and you got so much money. Have you ever thought about how much those things will grow after the sacrifice? At that time, how much time will we need to spend preparing to make up for this gap, ten years, twenty years, or another sixty years... ..."

"So what about sixty years," said the Priestess of the Goddess of Victory in a deep voice, "Although it has been a little longer, at least we still have a chance to fulfill our sacred vows, but if this city is destroyed by civil war due to food, do you think we still have a chance?" Is there a chance to rebuild the city?" As she spoke, she shifted her gaze from the priestess of the goddess of civilization to the priestess of the goddess of the lantern who has never spoken, and continued: "Impossible, we can't rebuild New Rand again, we will Was transferred back to the holy city, and then stayed in the holy monastery forever as a quiet nun."

Faced with the aggressiveness of the goddess of victory, the goddess of civilization was a little overwhelmed. She was speechless when asked, and did not continue to refute. How could she not know that although the other party's proposal had drawbacks, it was also the one that could be thought of now, the fastest and the fastest? The best way to solve the problems in the city. As the priest of the goddess of civilization, she is in charge of the daily government affairs in the city. She is also responsible for the distribution and storage of food, so she knows better than anyone that the food shortage in the city is very serious now. , if some extraordinary measures are not used to solve the problem, it will be difficult to have a chance to recover on the day when the food is completely exhausted, but personal morality and her beliefs do not allow her to use the method of the Goddess of Victory to officiate. Solve the food shortage problem that the city is facing now.

The priest of the Goddess of Victory proposed a very simple method, which is to use the recovery plan as an excuse to hold a victory march to recover Rand City in advance, and the public said it was a drill, but after arriving at the location, it changed from a drill to a real recovery of Rand City , under such a situation of insufficient preparation, the result is doomed, and a large number of casualties can also relieve the food pressure in the city. At that time, it is only necessary to let a person with enough weight bear the responsibility for this failure. , and such a candidate is easy to find. There are many corrupted officials in the inner city, and you can pick a few at random. The reason why the three priests let these moths exist is that they intend to use them as their own when necessary. Abandoned.

However, calming public anger is not the main problem of this plan. The real problem is what the priest of the goddess of civilization said before. A large number of casualties in the city of Rand will inevitably cause the giant vines entrenched there to mutate again. At that time, the difficulty for them to regain Rand City will increase exponentially, and they may not be able to complete this vowed task in their entire lives.

But if this plan is not implemented, the situation in the city will only continue to deteriorate, and in the end, they can only watch the New Rand, which has been built with great difficulty, gradually collapse. This is something the three chief priests absolutely do not want to see.

After a moment of silence, the priest of the Goddess of Civilization suddenly proposed, "Maybe we can seek help from the Holy City of Redemption."

"No." This time, the priest of the Goddess of Victory has not had time to express her objection. The priest of the Goddess of Lantern, who has not spoken since just now, has already opposed this proposal immediately, and with an emphasis, repeated: "We absolutely cannot The Holy City of Salvation asks for help, all problems can only be solved by ourselves.”

Although the three priestesses in the room advertised that they are equal in status, in fact, everyone who knows the Order of Redemption knows that the Goddess of the Lantern is the leader of the three goddesses, and the status of the Goddess of the Lantern is therefore higher than that of the other two. She is relatively taller and knows more things, so when she expressed her objection so clearly, the other two goddess priests couldn't help but look at her, as if they were waiting for the other party to explain the reason for their objection.

The priestess of the Lamp Goddess fell silent, as if unwilling to tell the other two colleagues what she was thinking, but the other two had no intention of letting her go, they kept watching her without saying a word.

Faced with this situation, the priestess of the Lamp Goddess couldn't help but frowned, with a hesitant look on his face, and finally let go, explaining: "I have definite news, the three of us are on the list of the redemption trial. Inside."

Hearing this, the other two priestesses were all stunned, and even stopped breathing. The expressions on their faces couldn't tell whether it was joy, excitement or worry. All in all, it was very complicated.

After a while, the priest of the Goddess of Victory couldn't help but yelled at the Goddess of Lantern, "Are you crazy? You're telling us such an important thing now. If you had told us earlier, it wouldn't have happened at all." This is the situation now."

The officiant of the goddess of civilization also showed dissatisfaction on her face.

The Priestess of the Lamp Goddess immediately defended, "I only found out about it recently. I was the same as you before."

Hearing what she said, the priest of the goddess of civilization immediately thought of something, and asked, "Have you already asked for help from the Holy City of Redemption?"

The Priestess of the Lamp Goddess nodded, acknowledged the speculation of her colleagues, and said: "The high priest said that he can provide us with support, but our trial will be regarded as a failure, and the qualification to see our Lord will be cancelled."

"I can't ask for support." At this moment, the other two goddess priests gave their decisions in unison.

After the words fell, the three priestesses looked at each other at the same time, and no one said anything more. They knew very well that before facing the only chance in their life to meet our Lord, all worries, concerns and intolerance can be discarded. The decision no longer needs to be discussed.

Just when the three priestesses made a decision and were about to discuss further plans, the priestess of the goddess of civilization suddenly froze in place as if sensing something, and then turned to look in the direction of the large library under her management, with an expression on her face. There was a hint of doubt.

"What's the matter?" The other two priestesses noticed that their colleagues were doing the same thing, and asked.

The priest of the Goddess of Civilization hesitated for a moment, and said, "I felt like I was in the big library just now..." She stopped again, shook her head, and said, "It should be an illusion, it should be an illusion."

The Priestess of the Lamp Goddess frowned, and said in a deep voice, "Speak up, what did you feel in the big library?"

The priest of the goddess of civilization replied: "My lord, I feel that my lord is like a big library."

"That's impossible." Before the priestess of the Goddess of the Lantern could speak, the priest of the Goddess of Victory shook his head and said, "Even if our Lord descends, he will only appear in the Temple of the Lantern, and has never appeared outside of the Temple of the Lantern. Forget about big libraries."

"That's why I think it's an illusion." The priest of the goddess of civilization gave him a blank look and said.

"No, you'd better go to the big library." The priestess of the Lamp Goddess didn't completely deny the feelings of her colleagues, so she made a suggestion, then turned her head and said to the priestess of the Goddess of Victory: "You also go back and prepare the plan, Wait until tomorrow to discuss the implementation details.”

The Priest of the Goddess of Victory did not object, but asked the Priest of the Goddess of Lantern with some doubts, "What about you?"

The priestess of the Goddess Carrying the Lamp said solemnly, "I want to go back to the temple and pray to my lord, hoping to get enlightenment from my lord."

At the same time, in the big library, Leo has already scanned all the books in the library into the database of the brain through the spiritual network, but at this moment he did not sort out those materials immediately, because another thing attracted him. attention.

Just when he retracted the spiritual net just now, somehow it seemed to trigger some kind of restriction contained in the statue of the goddess of civilization in the hall of the large library, and then he had a short energy resonance with it, which did not cause any damage. Any abnormal phenomenon, there is no follow-up effect, it feels like two people with a good relationship say hello after meeting, ordinary and simple.

Leo walked up to the statue of the Goddess of Civilization. Although the statue looked quite different from Sylvia's figure and didn't show his appearance, Leo could still feel some intimacy, as if seeing As did Sylvia herself.

On the book held by the statue is the holy emblem of the goddess of civilization. This holy emblem exudes bursts of divine power. This should belong to the divine power of the goddess of civilization. Although it is divine power, the energy fluctuations generated by divine power are similar to Sylvia. The power of the witch is so similar, obviously the power corresponding to the goddess of civilization comes from the power of the witch.

However, the power that resonated with Leo's power just now is not the divine power of the goddess of civilization, but the holy emblem ring of the Lord of Redemption made of alloy metal behind the goddess of civilization. This kind of divine power, which Leo has never seen before, should be Sylvia's exclusive divine power, and he also wants to know whether Sylvia has sensed the resonance just now, and if so, Then Sylvia should know that she also came to this world.

Therefore, Leo stood under the statue and did not leave immediately. Instead, he waited for a while, wanting to wait for some reaction from the holy emblem of the Lord of Redemption on the statue, but he was disappointed, and there was no reaction.

Disappointed, Leo was about to turn around and leave, when he heard a commotion at the entrance of the large library, and then saw a woman in religious attire walking in from the outside, while other people in the library were seeing her. When they saw this woman, they all stopped what they were doing, saluted the woman very respectfully, and called her by her name.

"The Goddess of Civilization officiates." Leo looked at the woman, and felt that there was a divine power belonging to the Goddess of Civilization in this woman, obviously she should be a transcendent.

Under the effect of psychic power, people turned a blind eye to him, and naturally they were not surprised that he did not salute the ruler of the city.

Although the officiant of the goddess of civilization is an extraordinary person with divine power, she is not strong enough in front of Leo. Facing Leo's psychic power, she is no different from others around her, and she also turns a blind eye to Leo.

I saw that she walked up to the statue of the goddess of civilization, and then prayed with that weird prayer method of covering her face with her hands. Following the divine power of the goddess of civilization on the statue, she resonated with the divine power on her body. This resonance is not only It's just a reaction between extraordinary powers, and at the same time as it resonates, some information is transmitted from the statue to the priest, allowing her to understand what happened in the big library before.

However, she found that nothing happened and everything was normal, which made her suspect that the strangeness she felt before might really be just an illusion.

However, she didn't know that the divine power that reacted with Leo's psychic power just now was not the divine power of the goddess of civilization she possessed, but the divine power of the Lord of Redemption. She was completely in the wrong direction.

At this time, Leo, who had already achieved his goal, did not continue to stay in the large library, and turned around and walked out of the library.

Just when Leo walked out of the library, the Priest of the Goddess of Victory seemed to have sensed something, and turned to look at the library door, and Leo's psychic power also lost its effect for some reason, allowing the Priest to see him leave It's just that the priest didn't find anything unusual, and he didn't know why he suddenly noticed a person who left the library, his face was full of bewilderment.