The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After agreeing to Catherine's request for participation, Martin reached out and opened the folder on the workbench, took out several documents from it, and handed them directly to Leo. Perhaps in his opinion, both Nelson and Jason were just subordinates. It's just a product, Leo is the one who really does things.

Leo wasn't polite either. After receiving the document, he found a chair and sat down, carefully reading it by the light on the wall.

The documents that Martin took out were all homicide case records, with sketches of the scene drawn by the artist on them. Although they were scribbled, they could also help people understand what the scene looked like with the written records.

These murders all took place in Cage City. Judging from the names of the places where they happened, the location is not fixed, but all the murders are in the same situation. The eyes and hearts of the victims were all gouged out, and the heart was placed in a A mouse with two cocoons placed in its eyes, and both the mouse and the cocoons were dead.

As for the heart and eyeballs that were dug up, they were not with the deceased. Judging from the traces at the scene, someone took the heart and eyeballs away and placed mice and cocoons after the deceased died.

The strangest thing about these cases is that all the people who recorded this case believed that the heart and eyes were dug out by the deceased himself, and the deceased dug out the heart first. When his eyeballs are opened, they are already dead.

"Are these cases from a few years ago?" Leo noticed the date on the document at this time, and frowned: "You won't let me help you solve these cases?"

"No, these cases are just the cause," Martin took out a few more documents and handed them to Leo.

Leo handed over the documents in his hands to Nelson and Jason respectively, took Martin's documents, and read them carefully. After seeing the contents of the documents, both Jason and Nelson couldn't help but exclaimed.

The date of the document in Leo's hands now was last winter, and the closest date to this spring was ten days ago, and this time the victim was no longer an adult, but a child.

The same method, the same arrangement, except that the items arranged this time are no longer simply mice and cocoons, but the so-called Violent Rat and two moths on the workbench.

"Where are the moths?" Leo asked.

"It melted." Martin explained: "Moths are made of ice, and they will melt after a long time." Then, he handed all the remaining documents in the folder to Leo, and said, "In fact, we found You don't want you to investigate these cases, we have already investigated these cases, and this sect is the most suspected,"

Following Martin's finger, he looked over, and saw that the document read Aknaiazong of Eibon Church.

"Is it a cult?" Leo didn't read on, but asked directly.

"No, it's a church registered by the Holy See." Martin shook his head and explained.

Leo carefully recalled the religions of this world, and found that the religions of this world are both tolerant and strict.

As long as the denomination is registered by the Orthodox Holy See and included in the list of Orthodox Churches, then this denomination can preach to anyone in any place, in any country.

But once a sect preaches without the permission of the Orthodox Holy See, it will be regarded as a cult, and the Orthodox Holy See's trial court army will dispatch to completely wipe out all people who believe in this cult, and the governments of various countries will actively cooperate.

As for, although the core of the Orthodox Holy See is the belief in God, it is not so much a religion as it is another continental parliament. Because before the establishment of the Continental Congress, when the disputes of various countries needed to be mediated, the Orthodox Holy See was responsible for the mediation, and the twelve cardinals of the Orthodox Holy See were sent by various countries to manage the Orthodox Holy See. Formed, so the governments of various countries are not worried that the Orthodox Holy See will grow bigger.

After hearing Martin's reply, Leo continued to look down at the information in his hand. Although he could quickly memorize all the content on the information through the sub-brain system, it was too shocking, so he honestly flipped through the pages. look.

According to records, the Church of Eibon is a very ancient polytheistic church. It first appeared in the Black Forest swamp. They deified all the creatures that can be seen in the swamp, such as the god of poisonous snakes, the god of toads, and so on.

Although this church is very old, it is a pity that the god they believe in is too weird, so they are not liked by people and are not widely spread. It is almost impossible to see the missionaries of this church in other places except the Black Forest Swamp.

Akenaya Sect is a new sect in the Ebon Church. The deity of this sect is called Akenaya, also known as the God of Thousand Eyes and Thousand Hearts.

Although the church officially said that the god of Akenaya is a very ancient god who was asleep in the past, but now he is awake, so they want to create a new sect to spread the belief of Akenaya.

But in fact, more people think that the so-called Akenaya God is the administrator of the church who wants to make more young people become members of the Eibon Church, and deliberately created such a strange shape, simple and easy to understand teachings. gods.

Although the appearance of this deity is very strange, there is nothing unusual in its teachings.

It is mentioned in the teachings of Aknaya that the truth of this world is hidden under the prosperity of the world. Only by believing in Aknaya can we use the power of his thousand eyes to see through the fog and see the truth of the world clearly. Only those who see through the truth of the world can obtain eternal sublimation.

At the same time, the teaching also mentions that the truth of this world cannot be tolerated by ordinary people. Anyone who sees the truth of the world will receive the impact of the will of the world every time they spy. Strength is the only way to survive the impact again and again, otherwise the soul will die in the impact, and the body will suffer endless torture.

After reading this passage, Leo couldn't help but think of his own experience, and those experiences seemed to coincide with the content of this teaching.

After pondering for a while, Leo thought that what Martin and he said were somewhat similar to the content of this teaching, so he put down the information in his hand and asked Martin very seriously: "Are you also a believer in Akenaya?"

"Yes." Martin nodded, and said, "Or to be more correct, I built the Akenaya Sect in the Cage City."

"Now? Have you lost your church?" Leo mercilessly poked Martin's sore spot, saying:

Martin frowned, and said, "In order to avoid conflicts and the splitting of the church that has finally grown stronger, I chose to avoid it."

Seeing that the information in his hand was put aside, Leo asked, "So what are you thinking now, do you want us to help you get it back from the Church?"

"Haha!" Martin suddenly laughed when he heard the words, the laughter was full of obvious mockery, even Jason could hear it, and he was even going to teach him a lesson, but was caught by the calm Leo stopped.

"Martin." Catherine stopped Martin with some reproach.

"Okay! Okay! I won't laugh anymore!" Martin raised his hand and made a gesture of forgiveness, and said, "I always thought that I was the most arrogant person in this world, and I always like to think that I can change the world. Talking about being able to do great things is on the lips, but I didn’t expect that there would be someone as arrogant as me here.”

"Did I say something wrong?" Leo was not angry because of Martin's behavior, but instead asked seriously.

"Do you know how many people believe in the Akenaya Church in the Cage City?" Martin asked, and without waiting for an answer, he revealed the answer directly: "More than one million people, accounting for one-third of the total population of the Cage City." One. Your Excellency Leo, what do you think you can do to help me regain control of the sect of more than one million people?"

Leo asked back: "Since it's not for sect control, then what are you doing for it?"

"For the order we have finally established." Martin put away his smiling face and said very seriously: "You are not from the Cage City, you don't know what the Cage City was like before, this is hell, and the entire Cage City is to swallow some hope The monsters that live here are either turned into monsters or swallowed. Now after many years of our slaves, a complete order has finally been established in the cage city, and everyone's life is getting better and better. At this time, someone But want to destroy this order, what do you think I should do?"

"Was the Cage City ever that bad in the past?" Nelson asked suddenly.

"It's worse than you imagined." Catherine also felt very painful about the past years, and responded in a deep voice.

"It's okay, it's over." Nelson couldn't help reaching out to grab Catherine's hand, but changed direction on the way and patted her on the shoulder instead.

Leo ignored the ambiguity between the men and women next to him, but looked at Martin and asked, "What do you want us to do?"

"My people, everyone in the church knows each other. When you go to the church, you will only be noticed by everyone, and you can't find anything at all." Martin said, "But the three of you are different. You are all familiar faces, and you can completely pretend to be Workers who lived in Cage City and mixed in as new members of the church to see if they could find out who did these things. Intervene directly and thoroughly investigate this matter."

"Judging from the above information, it is obvious that the person who did this has lived here for a long time, and what he did was some kind of religious ceremony, and it is more likely that someone is helping him to deliberately cover it up." Leo is full of Questioningly asked: "Didn't you suspect that it was the work of the three high priests you said?"

"Impossible." Martin said firmly: "It is absolutely impossible to be them. Please don't ask me why. I can only say that I know very well that it is absolutely impossible for the three of them to do such a thing."

Leo was silent for a while, and said: "I still need more information, such as the geography of the cage city, roads, etc., as well as the information inside and around the church."

Hearing Leo's request, Martin said with some displeasure: "I don't even have the information you want. It needs to be collected temporarily, and even if it is collected, there will be a lot. It is impossible to read it in a day, let alone It is said that you have mastered the content of the information. If His Excellency Leo Dodd is not willing to cooperate, just refuse, why use this method to make things difficult for me?"

"Sorry, the request I made is a bit difficult." After Leo apologized, he asked again: "However, we are not familiar with the cage city and the location of that sect at all. , It is also very difficult to find out what happened.”

"I have also considered this point." Martin quickly answered, "Originally, I planned to send someone to accompany you into the church site, and let him help you identify the way. But now that Catherine has joined in on her own initiative, let Catherine Renting is the best way to lead you, and she can cover for you when necessary."

Hearing Martin's words, Nelson frowned, and was about to say something, but was stopped by Catherine, who shook his head suggestively.

"As for the investigation, it's not as difficult as you imagined. We have already found out that it might be the stronghold where those guys held religious ceremonies. It's just that the geographical location of that stronghold is a bit special. It's inconvenient for me and my people to get close, but you can Sneak in easily, and get used to finding something that can be used as evidence when the time comes, so one day is enough."

Leo thought for a while and said, "In this case, I have no problem."

Martin asked, "Where are you two? If you have any other requests, you can ask them."

Nelson shook his head bluntly and said, "I don't have any requirements."

Jason said in a reckless voice: "We should always have something in our hands, right? If something happens and someone finds out, we can kill it!"

Martin was stunned, nodded, and said, "Of course this is necessary. After all, Mr. Dodd's musket is impossible to bring in, so we need to prepare some other weapons. But I hope that if you are discovered by accident, you can Try not to do it, because even if you are caught, I have a way to rescue you, but if you do, it may cause some accidents."

"Don't worry, we know what to do." Leo replied for the other two.

Seeing that the matter had been negotiated, everyone began to split up. Catherine took Nelson to leave to prepare the identification and clothes needed by the three of them, while Martin left the clinic with Leo and Jason. After walking back and forth between the aisle and the air aisle a few times, the two were brought to a small building near the ground.

This small building is full of various mechanical parts in a mess. In a relatively open place, there are some welding machines, cutting machines and other machines that seem to be pieced together at first glance. Another point that attracted Leo's attention was that the small building was actually decorated with electric lights. Although there were only two light bulbs, and the lights were a bit dim and flickered from time to time, there was no doubt that these were indeed electric-driven light bulbs.