The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The rail car that Leo and the others were riding in circled half a circle along the edge of this man-made giant hole, and stopped at a tall building that was also transformed into a platform.

When Catherine led a group of people off the track car, before Jason and Nelson could get used to the down-to-earth feeling, more than a dozen clergymen dressed in priestly uniforms with sabers and hand crossbows on their waists greeted them. Come up and salute Catherine.

This move was so eye-catching that all the people on the platform who had just got off the rail car and were about to board the rail car saw it. When they saw Catherine, they also bowed to Catherine to show their respect.

Although they already knew that Catherine had an extraordinary reputation outside the Cage City, the three of them, including Leo, were still a little shocked when they saw this scene, and Nelson couldn't help but show a trace of shame.

At this time, a young priest with gold thread embroidered on his shoulders and a strange symbol on his skirt in the group of priests stepped forward, said to Catherine respectfully, "Miss Catherine, High Priest Major already knew that you were coming, and specially The Jingsi Hall is waiting for you."

Catherine frowned, and said with some displeasure: "Your guard hall has long ears and eyes. I just made a temporary decision to come to the parish, and you immediately knew where I was."

The young priest didn't refute Catherine's words, nor did he defend himself, but just looked at Catherine with a smile, as if he was completely resigned to beating and scolding.

Facing this situation, Catherine had no choice but to nod to the young priest and said, "Lead the way! I haven't seen Major for a while, so it's good to meet my old friend."

Hearing Catherine's words, the young priest led his subordinates to lead the way. As for Leo, the three of them were not taken seriously by these priests from the beginning to the end, just like air.

Although it makes people feel a little uncomfortable to be completely ignored like this, but as far as the current situation is concerned, Leo and the others prefer that the other party continue to ignore themselves like this, so as to avoid any accidents.

The elevators in this building that are exclusively used by believers are obviously much larger and stronger than the elevators outside the Cage City. The strong tension of the steel chains is enough to allow each elevator to easily accommodate dozens of people.

The person who designed the elevator obviously understood the minds of the passengers. He removed the baffle facing the deep hole in the city and replaced it with a series of railings that were not very narrow, so that the people in the elevator could slowly fall or ascend on the elevator. When you get up, you can see the scenery outside which is different from other places in the cage city.

Because there is no cover from the densely packed houses in the cage city, the light from the outside falls from the sky and falls on the ancient buildings with obvious religious symbols in the deep cave, so that people in the cage city can feel it even if they leave the cage city. Feel the warmth of the sun, even if the sun is a second-hand product sifted through dark clouds and industrial fog.

This kind of scenery, which looks very ordinary from the outside, is placed in the cage city known as the steel black forest, but it exudes an inexplicable sacred atmosphere. Anyone who sees the scene in front of him will have a feeling that this place is blessed by the light. The land is the illusion of a sacred place.

In the elevator, Leo, who saw the scene in front of him, had to admire the person who designed all of this. That person's grasp of the human heart is definitely a master.

Looking at the scene in front of her, Catherine was not excited or appreciative, but said with disgust: "In order to build this light shelter, more than 500,000 people living in this area were relocated, and thousands of buildings were demolished." A total of more than 3,000 people died during the demolition of the high-rise buildings and the construction of these religious buildings, more than 50,000 people were injured and disabled, and as much as 4 million gold flanges were consumed. I don’t know if the original decision was correct? "

"Of course it is correct." Although the young priest respected Catherine very much, he still adhered to his own ideas and opinions, and retorted without hesitation: "The sacrifices of the predecessors were indeed heavy, but they created us. The shelter for the lonely is not only a shelter for the body, but also a shelter for the soul. Every cage city person benefits from this, and we are deeply proud of having such a bright place, and we also deeply admire The heroes who gave their lives for it."

Facing the young man's rebuttal, Catherine didn't go any further. She knew very well that discussing such issues with these priests would not lead to any results.

Soon the lift came to the bottom floor, two priests opened the gate, and everyone came out in a file. At this time, Nelson, who came here for the first time, could see the situation on the ground clearly, and this scene made him a little surprised and puzzled.

I saw that the ground here was full of people except for the main aisle. These people were all wrapped in black burqas, holding a book similar to scriptures in their hands. With the faint light around them, the believers recited silently. The scriptures in the book, and the sound of these recitations not only did not make people feel a little sacred and peaceful, but felt very depressing and very mysterious.

If this is the case only in the area close to the steel frame building of the cage city, it is fine, but the real situation is that there is a person sitting in the place where people can sit in the entire Light Sanctuary, wearing a black robe, chanting scriptures .

In addition, some priests wearing various priestly uniforms patrolled different areas according to the color of the clothes. Some were carrying food to the hungry believers, and some were checking whether some believers who had not moved for a long time were still breathing. It is more about answering their questions about the scriptures for believers.

"These are all patients?" Nelson looked at the scene in front of him and then at his medical bag, feeling powerless.

"You don't have to worry about running out of your medicinal materials. In my opinion, none of these people are willing to accept your treatment. They are all waiting for their gods to rescue them from this painful world." Leo looked around coldly The people sitting on the ground said.

At this moment, he didn't need to open his spirit vision at all to easily feel the despair in these people.

These hopeless breaths were originally produced by the negative emotions of these patients themselves. After being absorbed and transformed by the religious symbols painted on the walls and carved on the ground, they became a negative energy force field, which affected them and made their inner negative emotions If it increases, it will produce a breath of despair again, and the influence will continue in turn, until the day when life ends.

"I don't like it here." Jason, who has a keen intuition, tightened his clothes, shivering as if he was in the cold winter, and said, "It's worse here than outside."

"I don't like it here either, but some people like it. For them, this is the eternal garden that Beirut's population calls." Leo sneered unabashedly.

Although the conversation between Leo and the others was not very loud, it was enough for others to hear clearly. Even the most stupid people could feel the sarcasm in it. If Leo and the others hadn't come with Catherine, perhaps these priests have already taught these blasphemers a lesson.

A group of people with different intentions walked across a lawn full of people, and after passing through a forest, they came to a straight road leading to the chapel. There are two rows of tracks in the middle of the main road, and a track car has been waiting there for a long time. Under the guidance of the young priest, everyone got on the car and drove quickly to the pilgrimage hall.

After about three minutes, the rail car stopped. This is the square in front of the Sacrament Hall. Like other places, this place is also full of sick believers, but they are not holding a book and reading, but Worship and pray to the only statue of Aknaya on the square.

"The three stay for a while. High Priest Major only asks to see Miss Catherine." After getting off the car, the young priest immediately stopped Leo and the others and said.

Leo frowned slightly, and was about to say something, but Catherine said, "Let me go in alone! Nelson, Mr. Dodd, and Mr. Jason, please rest here first."

Seeing that the person concerned had already said that, Leo couldn't resist rebutting, so he walked to the side of the street and found an empty space where no one was sitting. Although Nelson was worried about Catherine, he couldn't say much. He could only watch Catherine leave and walk up and down the square by himself.

Leo, who was sitting down, looked up slightly at the statue of Akenaya, and saw that the statue's face was so handsome that it was difficult to distinguish between men and women. It was wearing a very old-style robe and held a heart in its left hand. Holding an eye in his right hand, his majestic expression has a touch of pity and kindness.

As far as the statue alone is concerned, this statue is definitely at the level of a top master, even in the Earth Federation, there are only a handful of people with such a sculpture level.

But the problem is that this statue is obviously completely different from the god of thousands of eyes and hearts promoted by the Aknaya Church. The church here not only anthropomorphizes the god they believe in according to the image that the believers want, but it seems that the real object of belief of the current high-level Aknaya Church is not the God with thousands of eyes and hearts.

The reason why Leo made such a bold speculation is entirely based on the emblem symbol of Akenaya that he found on this sculpture. In terms of the essence represented by the symbol, it is completely different from the religious symbols scattered throughout the parish. .

The difference in the shape of the symbols is only superficial; the real difference stems from the roots of the symbols of the two religions.

Although Akenaya, the God of Thousand Eyes and Thousand Hearts, sounds like some kind of evil god, being able to pass the inspection and verification of the Orthodox Holy See is enough to prove that the God of Thousand Eyes and Thousand Hearts is not evil, so Leo's appearance under the statue A gentle breath was felt on the symbol of the Arknaya emblem. It's just that this gentle breath is like rootless duckweed. Facing the surrounding negative energy force field, it is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket, and it is impossible to play any role at all. It can only provide psychological comfort.

As for another religious symbol painted all over the parish, the power it produces is full of chaos and negative energy, so that intuitively sensitive people like Jason can easily feel the negative energy in it. It can be seen that if these religious symbols are true If it represents a god, then this god is definitely an evil god.

In the name of righteous gods, doing the things of evil gods, from this point of view alone, this secret is enough to bring disaster to the entire cage city.

After discovering this secret that was fatal to Leo himself, the rationality of Leo's sub-brain system drove him to give up his curiosity and leave here immediately. Don't care about anything, he has already got the four spirits of the king, queen and twins. It can be said that this trip has gained a lot, and there is no need to take any more risks. Because whether it was about the secrets inside the Akenaya Church or the knowledge about those evil religious symbols, the more he knew, the more dangerous he would be.

But at the same time, the ordinary people's emotions that he is gradually adapting to constantly remind him to keep his promise, and because he can explore the knowledge and mysteries of the mysterious side of the world, he feels extremely excited and excited, thus creating a desire to continue exploring strong desire.

"Forget it! It was enough to be calm and rational in the previous life, let's change the way of life in this life!" After struggling for a while, Leo finally made a choice.

And at the moment when he made the choice, the repulsive force that always existed in his body suddenly disappeared, and his spirit and body became a little different. , like the difference between wearing a condom and not wearing a condom.

"Good! It's completely integrated! The personal qualities of this body at this stage should be fully displayed!"

Leo, who felt the change in his body, was overjoyed. Although he didn't understand why there was a change, he knew it was a good thing.

So, he immediately checked his personal data, and found that his strength attribute had increased by a little, reaching four points, his agility had also increased by 1.5 points, also reaching four points, and his constitution had increased by 0.5 points, reaching six points.

The improvement of these three physical attributes is still reasonable. What is really unreasonable is the improvement of the mental attribute. Said that he no longer needs to activate the spiritual vision skill in order to open the spiritual net, and can directly open the spiritual net.

After discovering that his personal attributes had changed, Leo couldn't wait to try to adapt to the changes in his body.

Among them, the changes in strength and physique are the best to adapt to. After all, there are not many changes, and you can quickly adapt after doing a few squats and push-ups.

The change in agility is a little troublesome, because agility includes too much content, such as action, movement, and even body flexibility, etc., all belong to the control range of agility attributes. And even though this accidental improvement is only 1.5, it has crossed two regular levels. The improvement is not insignificant. It needs a certain field and practice to fully adapt. Now he can only do some simple exercises to improve his physical fitness. Stay out of trouble.

For example, he took out some scattered Biya right now, threw them in the air, and then quickly stretched his hands to grab them, and grabbed all the coins in his hands. After becoming proficient, increase the number of coins to one hundred, assign a number to both hands to grab, or grab all the coins with one hand. With this little method, he was able to quickly adapt to the discomfort caused by the increased agility of his hands, while Jason on the side was stunned by his juggling skills and was unable to speak for a long time.