The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Damn! Damn! What are those lunatics doing? Damn Rupert, I must impeach you in Congress!" Just after Leo finished his investigation, Sylvia couldn't help cursing , clenched his fists, veins appeared on his arms, and walked back and forth in place, obviously extremely angry.

Hearing Sylvia's roar, the other people in the cave were startled and couldn't help but look over here.

Leo ignored Sylvia's anger, but noticed some small details in Sylvia's words, and said, "Do you know who the members of the medical school in Miria City are?"

Sylvia didn't think much at all, and blurted out: "Who else? Except for those lunatics who healed the church, who else would do such a crazy thing!"

"The Church of Healing?" Leo hesitated for a moment, because it was the first time he heard the name, and there was no record in all the materials about the medical school that he had read before.

Seeing Leo's puzzled expression, Sylvia also noticed it. She took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in her heart, and then carefully explained the details of the Healing Church.

After Leo heard about the Healing Church, he couldn't help but feel a little absurd. In a place where the medical school is full of rigorous biological sciences, there should be such an underground church that is difficult to distinguish between righteous and evil. And from Sylvia's words, it's not difficult to hear that although the foundation of this sect is in the medical school, its influence is not limited to the inside of the medical school, and even other organizations outside have many secret members of the Church of Healing.

The basic idea of ​​the Healing Church comes from a very pure medical book, which was jointly compiled by dozens of biological experts from the medical school. The main content of the book is to record the living habits and medical value of various creatures and artificial cultivation methods.

Just like most other medical-related books published by medical schools, this book is also full of various medical articles written in professional terms, which are extremely obscure to read. Except for those who are devoted to medicine, I am afraid that other people Very few people will flip this book.

Only in the prologue of this book, an interesting point of view is expounded. This point of view anthropomorphizes the whole world of Vinylon. It believes that the world of Vinylon is declining due to various reasons. Human beings need careful maintenance and treatment to make the world of Vinylon healthy. continue. All in all, this preface co-authored by more than a dozen medical school scholars is to explain a very popular environmental protection idea in the early days of the Earth Federation, and this idea is not complete, it is just a prototype.

At the beginning, the prologue of this book did not attract any attention, and even this book was not read by many people until the medical school and the Orthodox church cooperated to train church doctors.

Because it is becoming more and more difficult to communicate with the gods through prayer, meditation, and the magic spells to obtain the gods are getting fewer and fewer, and their power is weakening day by day, especially some healing magic spells that are most beneficial to preaching have weakened the most. , most of the healing spells are only some light and shadow phantoms, and only higher priests, priests or bishops can exert a part of the healing effect.

For this reason, the Orthodox Church had to make some changes and pay some price in exchange for the support of the medical school to train some church doctors for each church.

The medical school is happy to see this result, because it will make the influence of the medical school expand wider with the help of the church, and the more additional benefits will naturally be brought.

However, the influence is often two-way. When the medical school began to influence the thoughts of various churches, the church's god beliefs also penetrated into the medical school, and even some chapels of the church gods were established in the medical school for people to pray. ,worship.

Because of this special atmosphere, church doctors also began to try to combine the basic beliefs of their respective sects with the natural medicine of medical schools, trying to establish a new sect that integrated science and faith. It's just that this kind of attempt failed, and the sects that were created in the end were so nondescript that even the church doctors couldn't see it, and took the initiative to destroy these failed products.

Until Joshua, a church doctor who believes in the mother of plants, accidentally got this book, or more correctly, the prologue of this book, from the library of the medical school. Quickly religiousized and deified the contents of this prologue, and in less than three days, compiled a complete set of core ideas and sect systems, and officially established the Healing Church.

The core idea of ​​the Healing Church is in the same line as the prologue. They both believe that the world of Velen is already sick and needs treatment, but the treatment methods are completely different. The church blames the disappearance and slumber of the gods for the illness in the world of Velen, so they believe that as long as the gods return, the world of Velen will restore order.

Just like some other secret societies and underground churches in Vinlen World, very few people joined the Healing Church at the beginning, only thirteen people. People in the medical school laughed and called them the thirteen disciples, and Joshua was jokingly called the thirteen disciples. Son.

In the first few years of the establishment of the Healing Church, there was nothing unusual about what they did. The most they did was to cultivate or find some herbs that could help the believers of various churches to enter the state more easily when meditating and praying. At the same time, we also worked with the archaeological community to excavate some ancient sites and so on.

Until, on a certain day, the Church of the Lord of the Sky in the Kingdom of America suddenly arrested Joshua and executed him for blasphemy before the medical school could react. Among his thirteen disciples, one betrayed and twelve fled. Only then did the healing church appear in the eyes of countries all over the world.

It's just that, at this time, more attention is focused on the religious lawsuit between the Church of the Lord of the Sky and the School of Medicine in the Orthodox Court, because this lawsuit will become a standard case to legally resolve religious regulations and judicial issues in various countries. problems encountered during conflicts.

As for Joshua who healed the church, more people remembered his crazy act of trying to steal the holy relic of the Lord of the Sky, remembered his speech on the kingdom of God on earth before he was burned to death by the church, and also remembered Forgot his ridiculous-sounding title of Son of God.

Originally, everyone thought that the Healing Church would completely disappear after this incident, but what they didn't expect was that the Healing Church would gradually develop after a few years, and it was much larger than it was at the beginning, forming an inter-church , A special religious organization that crosses the society, just like the Orthodox Church. Moreover, with the increase of members, its influence has gradually expanded, and the internal system has also been improved, forming the current twelve patriarchs, and finally developed into the current huge scale.

The vast majority of people who joined the Healing Church were attracted by Joshua’s speech on the kingdom of God on earth before his death. There were both unsatisfactory clergymen in the church and mechanics who advocated science. People from almost all industries as long as they meet the requirements The standards of the Healing Church can all be added. Blood wizard Lawrence Hillman used to be a member of the Church of Healing, and Anne Eve, Rupert Fitz, and Sylvia were also members of the Church of Healing, but they all quit later.

The reason why Sylvia and the others would withdraw from the Healing Church is because the Healing Church's methods are becoming more and more extreme.

The original Healing Church was still a very moderate academic sect, discussing some philosophical ideas such as people, gods, and the world, but as people from all walks of life continued to join, the sect's thinking became more and more chaotic, and more and more more extreme. Like the blood wizard Lawrence Hillman, what he did when he promoted blood therapy was absolutely not allowed in the Church of Healing. For this reason, they took the initiative to expose Lawrence's evil deeds and expelled him from the sect. But now, the Healing Church is doing the same as Lawrence Hillman back then. It can be seen that the Healing Church has been completely occupied by extremists, which is the main reason why Sylvia will curse those people as lunatics.

"Are you sure it was done by the Church of Healing?" After listening to Sylvia's introduction to the Church of Healing, Leo couldn't help asking in a deep voice.

Sylvia, who had calmed down, sighed, and said: "I can be sure, but what's the use of my affirmation, there is no evidence to prove that they were involved in this, and everyone will only think that it is the work of the medical school. "

"Don't the Healing Church belong to the medical school?" Leo asked puzzled.

"Of course not." Sylvia immediately corrected Leo's wrong opinion, saying: "Although the Healing Church originated from the medical school, and the members of the Healing Church are mainly from the medical school, the Healing Church itself is not a medical school. Even though it is called the Church, it is not part of the Orthodox Church. How should I put it? It should be an independent organization that lives like a parasite in the church, medical schools, and governments of various countries. Their only purpose is to create Create a new god to rule the world, and let everything become peaceful and orderly under the control of the god."

Leo asked curiously again: "Why did you join such an organization back then?"

"Their theory of the kingdom of the gods on earth is so deceptive that people can't help but join in after hearing it, and the situation of our witch group was not very good at that time. If the kingdom of the gods on the earth of the Healing Church is really completed, It is also of great benefit to the Witch Group." Sylvia briefly explained, but after listening to the words, she said: "Besides, I was young at the time, and I wanted to learn more. As long as it is an organization of the Dark World , I have joined almost all of the ones I can join, and the Healing Church is just one of them.”

Leo asked, "What are you going to do now?"

"Wait." Sylvia sighed, and said, "Just wait and see how things will develop." As she spoke, she suddenly confirmed to Leo: "You just said that there is something in the old mine tunnel. The magic power will make people feel fear involuntarily after touching it, Vaschi said it is a secret realm, right?"

"Not everyone can feel this kind of fear, and Vaschi can't feel this kind of fear, and she did say that it is a secret realm." Leo asked a little puzzled: "Why? This Is there a problem with the secret realm?"

"No, there's no problem?" Sylvia shook her head, but there was a very obvious serious expression on her face, which obviously didn't match what she said. Perhaps it was because she also felt that something was wrong with her expression, so before Leo asked, she changed her words and said, "I might know what's in there."

"What is it?" Leo asked curiously.

"It should be the source of fear." Sylvia explained.

However, just a noun can't solve Leo's doubts, so he asked again: "What is the source of fear?"

"I want to know too." Sylvia looked solemn, and did not continue to explain. Instead, she deliberately changed the topic and said, "What are you going to do? Are you still staying in Miria City?"

Leo stared at Sylvia and asked, "Do you need me to stay?"

Sylvia was stunned when she heard such a direct question, with a slight blushing on her face, but she hesitated for a while, but she didn't ask Leo to stay, but took it out of a box Some documents I had prepared earlier said: "It's better for you to leave here, some things are not suitable for your identity to intervene. In addition, the latest information I have obtained shows that there are some problems with the situation in Leon Port. Except for a small number of black market ships, Other ships can’t go out anymore, so you’d better go over the mountains and go to the other side of the Port of Lyon to take an international cruise to the Kingdom of England. These documents and money are prepared by me, so that you can travel unimpeded on the road.”

Leo didn't immediately reach out to pick it up, but looked at Sylvia, with an inexplicable expression in his eyes, and asked a little seriously: "Are you also involved?"

"Why do you ask that?" Although Sylvia's expression didn't change, Leo could notice that her pupils shrank slightly.

Leo didn't answer Sylvia's rhetorical question, but reached out and took the certificate and money, put them in the pocket of his coat, and then handed the psychic gun that he had never used to Sylvia. He said flatly: "This gun is for you, you should need him more than me."

Sylvia hesitated for a moment, looked at Leo, reached out to take his gun, and said, "After your gun is repaired, I will have someone send it to you."

"I'm sorry to trouble you." Leo nodded, and walked out of the cave quickly without staying here any longer.

Sylvia stood quietly on the spot, with a blank expression on her face, she didn't know what she was thinking. After a while, she saw that she suddenly swept everything on the table beside her to the ground. Even the table was overturned, and with her anger, her body was also changing, gradually becoming the appearance of Baron de Maupassant.

"Head, you..." The subordinates next to her were obviously the first to see Sylvia showing such a change in front of them, and they were all so surprised and shocked that they couldn't count for a long time.

"Continue to monitor them according to the original plan." Sylvia, who has become Baron de Maupassant, said with a stern face: "Once they have results, do it immediately, don't wait any longer."

Hearing what Leo said, Sylvia squeezed out a smile, nodded, and said, "I know."

"Yes, head." Everyone responded in the cave.