The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Perhaps because of the volcanic and geothermal heat, the builders of this city delineated several areas on the hillside of the inner city where the land was already tight, and built various botanical gardens. Now these botanical gardens have become parks. Most of the plants are extinct in the icy and snowy land outside, and here you can still vaguely see the prosperity and vitality that this world should have before the disaster strikes.

It is precisely because it can make people feel the scene before the disaster that the houses around the park become very precious. The people who live here are all rich or expensive, so people in New Rand also Call this circle of buildings the Golden Circle of Power.

After leaving the large library, Leo found a house in the inner city near the inner city park to temporarily live in. The original owner of the house was a municipal official and a monk of the Goddess of Victory, who was a powerful figure in the area.

Under the influence of psychic abilities, the owner of the house and his family did not feel any problem with Leo's stay, as if Leo had lived here a long time ago, and he also regarded the room where Leo lived as a forbidden place , not only his family members are not allowed to approach, even he himself seems to have forgotten that there is such a room.

The room where Leo lives has a viewing balcony, which is very suitable for watching the scenery of the park, and the balcony is built using glass greenhouse technology, and heating pipes are laid on the ground, so even if you sit on the balcony and open the window, It doesn't make the people who are there feel cold either.

After finding a random place to sit down, Leo began to sort out and absorb the information that he had just scanned and collected into the database with the Spirit Net. Through these information, he had a clear understanding of the situation in this world at an extremely fast speed.

Because of the disaster, there are very few books about the past history of this world, and there are also very few geography books. It is not that people in the past did not pay attention to history and geography, but that this world has invented computers, and all books are stored in the form of data. in different hard drives.

The government of this world originally thought that even if the data in one hard disk is damaged, the other hard disks can still save and restore the data, but they did not expect that when the disaster strikes, these sophisticated but easily damaged electronic devices are the first to be damaged, and the results are related. All data is lost.

Even if the data and data in some cities are still preserved, those cities have been occupied by giant vines, and all the data hard disks have fallen into the city. Come, but the most important thing for them now is to find food, seeds, and other things that are helpful for survival. As for those materials that are not helpful for survival, such as history and geography, they will naturally discard them.

Now in places like the New Rand Great Library, the most collected books are all kinds of reference books. These reference books include both agricultural and industrial aspects, and are basically related to manufacturing techniques and principles.

From these reference books, it is not difficult to infer the level of science and technology in this world before the disaster. Technology products such as televisions and computers have also begun preliminary space exploration, manufactured rockets, launched satellites, and developed towards manned spaceflight.

The energy used in this world is a kind of crystal energy. This kind of mineral crystal can be converted into electricity, heat energy, etc. through a special catalytic method. When the crystal is in a normal state, it can create a normal temperature environment for the surrounding. This environment is convenient for life and for plant growth, so wherever there are crystal mines, there will be cities nearby, and some cities are even built directly on the crystal mines.

Although there are few books on history and geography in the large library, it is not that there are no books on history and geography, but those books on history and geography are all about the history and geography of the country where New Rand is located, and there are no historical and geographical records related to the entire world. not much.

The land where Leo is now is called the Milar Plain, which is an extremely fertile land. Because there are a large number of crystal mines underground, the environment here can also be said to be like spring all the year round. According to the book, this land produces China's grain has always accounted for one-seventh of the world's total grain production, and it is the third largest grain-producing area in the world.

It is precisely because this piece of land is extremely fertile that it was a place of frequent wars a long time ago. The first people who came here to settle down were a group of nomads called the Mumulan. More than a dozen southern nomadic peoples, large and small, such as the Linan people settled here, plus some refugees who fled because of the war in the southern kingdom, and soon there were hundreds of tribes, large and small, on this land.

Although the southern kingdom is mentioned in the book, it does not provide much information. It can only be seen from the fact that when this plain was still dominated by tribes, the southern kingdom already had a kingdom, and there were more than one. The south of China is much more developed than the north.

Then there was the millennium-long tribal period in the Millar Plain. During this period, there was only one theme, and that was tribal wars. Large tribes annexed small tribes to expand their land, and then the tribes split for some reason, forming multiple tribes and fighting each other. Annexation, repeated and never stopped, lasted for thousands of years.

It wasn't until a country in the south called St. Morakot Empire began to invade the Millar Plain that the millennium tribal war stopped, and under the wandering of the great chief of the Mumulan tribe, the lion Lilier of Miral, each tribe temporarily Give up hatred and fight against the invaders together.

After that, there was a five-year anti-invasion war. The tribal alliance of the Milar Plain successfully defeated the St. Morakot Empire. After the alliance disintegrated, the plain returned to the state of tribal war, but the tribal war at that time was not what it was at the beginning. Cruel, and Miral Lion Lilier gained great prestige by virtue of his status as the chief of the alliance in the anti-invasion war, which enabled him to quickly recover the various tribes. Finally, ten years later, the tribal war ended in The Millar Plain was completely ended, and the Kingdom of Millar was established.

The Kingdom of Miral lasted for about five hundred years. The power of the royal family fell apart, the palace ministers centralized power, the lords of various places acted independently, and internal politics were chaotic. Anti-imperialist movements began to break out in various places, and finally a great revolutionary movement broke out. Seven years later, revolutionary teams from all over the country seized the kingdom's power, and the Republic of Milar was thus established, which still existed until the catastrophe struck.

There is not much to say about the history of the Mirar Plain. It is either war or court intrigue. Other things are rarely recorded, and the people who write the history are not interested in the outside world. Neither the Morakot Empire nor the Southern eruption that led to the founding of the Republic is recorded, and those few history books are extremely sparse.

The rest of the geography books are also very simple, just introducing the geography of the various tribal states on the plain, and 90% of the content is the same, except for a few lakes and a few rivers running through the plain. And also recorded the situation of some animals and plants.

There are no clear written records about what kind of disasters this world has encountered, because after the disasters, people’s survival is a problem, and there is no thought to record these things, only the large number of miracles recorded in the redemption book of the Order of Redemption There are some relevant clues mentioned in the book, and these clues are enough for Leo to infer a general situation.

First of all, the cause of this worldwide catastrophe is most likely related to the ongoing manned spaceflight in the Southern Kingdom, because the redeemed people recorded in the Book of Redemption remember that they were watching the manned spaceflight experiment in the Southern Kingdom before the disaster happened. Successfully televised until there were already humans in outer space.

The disaster appeared very suddenly. At the beginning, a large number of plants withered and died, mainly of various types of food. Before the Milar Republic government could react, giant vines grew out of the underground of all cities, controlling the entire city. Immediately afterwards, in just half a day, the temperature dropped sharply, and a blizzard never seen before swept the whole world. In less than two days, more than 90% of the people in the whole world died.

The vast majority of these people who died were in the city. After the giant vines grew out, they were infected by the spores in the vines, and they entered the roots of the vines to wait to die, while the others were directly exposed to the extremely low temperature of the blizzard. die.

The reason for this is entirely because the world is always in a temperature environment that is extremely suitable for human habitation due to the effect of energy crystallization. There are no seasonal changes such as spring, summer, autumn and winter. Except for the accident of snow on the top of some extremely high peaks, other There has never been ice or snow in the place. In this environment, people naturally don't know any way to keep warm, and they don't have warm clothes.

According to the book of redemption, when the world fell into despair and human beings were about to become extinct, the Lord of Redemption appeared. She appeared in the dreams of everyone in this world in the image of three goddesses. The goddess of civilization taught everyone how to survive in such a harsh environment. With all the knowledge to survive, the Goddess of Victory bestows blessings on everyone, making their bodies strong enough to stay below the cold for a long time and the fighting ability to deal with beasts in the snow, while the Goddess of Lantern points out to everyone A path of redemption and survival, allowing them to come to the sanctuary opened by the Lord of Redemption.

So far, all countries and cities in the whole world have fallen into disaster, and only the sanctuary of the Lord of Redemption exists in this ruined world, and the Lord of Redemption has become the only faith in this world, and the Order of Redemption is also the only political power in this world .

In the Book of Redemption, it is mentioned that the religious center of the Order of Redemption is a place called the Holy City of Redemption, and it is also the only place where the Lord of Redemption appears, but the specific location of the Holy City of Redemption is not mentioned in the book.

In any case, Leo has also determined his next destination, but before leaving for the Holy City of Salvation, he still wants to go back to Rand City, because he wants to see what the world uses as an energy source What kind of crystal is it?

The various machines used in the city of New Rand are powered by steam and heat, not energy crystals as the energy source. According to the book of redemption, the technology of the world now comes from the Goddess of Civilization and the world before the catastrophe. Technology is completely decoupled.

The reason for this is that all survivors believe that the world will fall into disaster. The main reason may be the energy crystals, because the places where the giant vines appear are cities with underground energy crystals and mining areas with a small amount of energy crystals , and after the growth of those giant vines is complete, they will not spread outward, and will always stay in the city.

The second is climate reasons. Before the disaster, scientists from all over the world have determined through research that the world's climate will remain in a comfortable state. It is because of the energy emitted by this crystal, so the current temperature will become It is so cold, it is possible that the energy crystal has lost its function and can no longer maintain the constant temperature state of the environment.

Leo has never seen this kind of energy crystal that can change the environment of a world, so he is extremely curious, because even in the universe, he has never heard of a similar energy body. If there is such an energy body, Then it will definitely make any cosmic civilization that is keen on colonization and expansion crazy, because it means that those barren planets that are not suitable for living can be easily transformed into habitable planets.

As for the rumor that the energy crystal has lost its effect, Leo thinks it is unlikely, because it is not a matter of a year or two for this energy crystal to function, but it has been functioning since the existence of this world, even if it may be due to Loss of energy, loss of effectiveness, but that is also a long process, absolutely will not suddenly lose all energy.

Therefore, he deduced that there must be that kind of energy crystals under those cities, and the reason why he didn't feel any abnormal energy fluctuations related to them in the urban area of ​​Rand was most likely because they were covered by giant vines. That kind of giant vine is not only a carnivorous plant, but also an energy plant, and the energy emitted by that energy crystal is absorbed by it.

Just when Leo was sorting out the obtained information and thinking about what he should do next, the goddess of the Lantern, who returned to the prayer room of the Temple of the Lantern, started the daily prayer ceremony, but the process of the prayer ceremony this time was different from the previous ones. When she just started the ceremony, her soul consciousness was involuntarily pulled into a pure white space, and then she saw the goddess of the lamp and obtained the oracle of the goddess of the lamp.

After the Priestess of the Lantern Goddess got out of that state of prayer, she immediately returned to her office, found paper and a pen, and quickly drew a person on the paper. Although she had never drawn a picture before, this time she drew The people are very realistic, just like a photo.

Seeing the person on the paper, she was stunned for a long time, then suddenly rang the bell on the table, and after the attendant came in, she ordered loudly: "Copy it as soon as possible and find the person inside, he is our savior. "