The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Prometheus!" Just like Sylvia's surprised expression when she saw Lanxi City, Leo also showed the same surprised expression after seeing Lanxi City, and couldn't help but read a name.

"Your Excellency Leo, have you read the ancient book on the origin of Lanxi City before?" Because Leo didn't hide his voice, the traveling merchants behind the carriage heard it too, and one of the traveling merchants immediately showed a surprised look. Leo said: "The origin name of Lanxi you recited sounds really standard, just like the pronunciation of the name when the Gulanxi people recited it. Are your ancestors Gulanxi people?"

Hearing what the traveling merchant said, Leo smiled and did not answer, but asked, "Are there any ancient books of origin in Lanxi City now?"

"Of course, although part of it was destroyed at the beginning, after the blood was mixed, the Lanxi people sorted out the ancient books of Lanxi's origin, and they even copied more than a dozen copies, which were distributed in various libraries in Lanxi City You should be able to borrow them for free." The traveling businessman responded immediately, and then seemed to think of something, and added: "However, if you want to read the original version of ancient books, you may need to go to the Gulanxi Cultural Museum. Although there are special commentators there to help you explain the text on the original ancient books, but because of the chaotic period, most of the inheritors of the Lanxi people died in the chaos, and the inheritors found were all students who had not obtained a complete inheritance , so they can’t recognize all the characters in the ancient books, and most of them need to compare the later translations to analyze the meaning of some characters, but the pronunciation has been lost, what a pity!”

While talking, the traveling businessman also showed a look of regret. Judging from the fact that the other party can know so much information, if the other party is not particularly interested in the Gulanxi culture, then the other party must have a special relationship with the Gulanxi people .

After getting the information he wanted, Leo didn't ask the traveler more about Gulanxi, because he didn't know anything about the so-called Gulanxi culture, and if he continued talking, he might reveal his secrets.

And the traveling businessman saw that Leo fell silent suddenly, thinking that what he said about the loss of Gu Lanxi culture just now caused Leo's sadness, so he looked at Leo who was driving the carriage apologetically, and didn't say anything again. Say something.

Sylvia, who was sitting next to Leo, looked at her partner. She knew that Leo had nothing to do with any Gulanxi people, but she could feel that Leo was undoubtedly the one who called out at the beginning. The name must have extraordinary meaning, but now is not the time to ask, so she can only suppress her curiosity.

As they approached Lanxi City, more pedestrians and carriages came and went on the road. After Leo and his carriage arrived at the first small town that built the edge of Lanxi, the traveling merchants got out of the car.

For these traveling merchants, their main customers are not the Lanxi people in Lanxi City, but the people in the surrounding towns.

These small towns around Lanxi City were built by people from different regions. Some of these people are locals from the realm of the mother of filth, and many are from other god realms, and even people who live outside the city A large portion of them are not human.

The reason why they came to Lanxi City is because Lanxi City has books that are many times less than other places combined, and Lanxi City does not mind others reading and copying these books. Although it costs a lot of money, as long as the money is enough, Or if there are enough equivalent materials, anyone can borrow any book in Lanxi City, including the original version of Gulanxi's original version, which is regarded as a treasure by Lanxi people. Of course, this book is only regarded as a treasure by Lanxi people. For ordinary people, this book does not have much value.

Some of these people who came here for books were addicted to books, and some needed a lot of time to copy books. In the end, they all chose to stay and built towns, and with the addition of later people, the towns became bigger and bigger. More and more, and finally formed the current scale.

Although many people have lived in these towns for several generations, they can be regarded as naturalized Lanxi people, but they still attach great importance to some items in their ancestral homeland, so the traveling merchants who have traveled around since then He has become the most welcome merchant in these towns. As long as there are no accidents, traveling merchants don't need to spend a lot of money to enter the city. When they enter Lanxi City, they can empty out all the goods in their hands.

After the traveling merchant left, Leo continued to drive the carriage towards the dazzling Lanxi City ahead.

The reason why it is said to be dazzling is because the outer armor of the spaceship in Lanxi City has been fully opened, and the lights of the inner spaceship cabin are projected outwards, giving people the feeling of a giant monster surrounded by countless light beams , So just now the traveling merchant also mentioned that many people think that Lanxi City is actually the remains of a certain god after death, otherwise it would not be so huge and complete.

Some races from the realm of other gods outside Lanxi City even regarded Lanxi City as an object of worship and established a Lanxi Church without gods, because the race that established this Lanxi Church was not human beings, but a This kind of dwarf is only as tall as a human and has stone skin, so the locals of Lanxi have not suppressed or restricted the churches of these races.

On the contrary, because these stone dwarves are good at smelting and forging, and because they are also very powerful, Lanxi people are also willing to hire these stone dwarves to do things. As for the reward, they are allowed to carry out their religious ceremonies and even preach in Lanxi city.

It's just that this kind of religion without the response of the gods, let alone other humans or Black Forest races, even the locals of Lanxi would not pay attention to it. In the end, the Lanxi Church only spread among the stone dwarves.

As the carriage approached Lanxi City, Leo and Sylvia also saw these stone dwarves. They were all wearing uniform church attire, and they were preaching at the crossroads where there were many people.

Although these stone dwarves had stone skins on their bodies, their appearance did not cause much surprise to Leo and Silvia.

Leo has already seen all kinds of incredible alien creatures, and he has long been accustomed to intelligent creatures with strange shapes. The stone dwarf is only a little shorter and has a layer of stone skin. The overall shape looks like a human. Similar, so it is difficult to arouse his surprise and curiosity.

As for Sylvia, she was a dwarf who had seen the world of Velen, and she was no stranger to the appearance of this kind of stone dwarf. Only the stone skin could attract her attention a little bit.

There was a dwarf race in the Maris Kingdom in the Velen world, but because of the brutal behavior of the pioneers of the Maris Kingdom in the early years, nearly 90% of the dwarves were slaughtered. After that, the Church of the Hill King was established, and the dwarves were killed The Qiuwangwang Church was classified as a church race, and it was finally preserved.

However, because of the complex emotions of the dwarves towards humans, they were unwilling to have too much contact with humans, so they all stayed underground in the holy mountain of the Church of the Hill King, and never had contact with other humans except the church staff. , so that most people in the Velen world have forgotten that there is such a non-human intelligent race.

Sylvia has a good relationship with the Church of the Hill King. After becoming the adjudicator of the Orthodox Church in the early years, she went to the holy mountain of the Church of the Hill King and met dwarves, but the stone-skinned dwarves that appeared now were She is considered a distant relative of the dwarves of the world of Velen.

After that, Leo and Sylvia saw more and more intelligent races in the Black Forest on the road, such as the centaur that was very similar to the deer man Leo saw outside the White Deer Treasure House, such as a kind of centaur floating in the In the air, floating species like jellyfish, etc.

Although the appearance of these intelligent races in the Black Forest is very strange, compared to the families of the mother of filth I have seen before, these intelligent races in the Black Forest are already very normal in appearance.

Two or three towns away from Lanxi City, the carriage was stopped by the guards of Lanxi City. They told Leo that he could only go on foot, not drive a car or ride a beast. Both carriages and beasts can be stored in a depository in a nearby town, for a small fee, of course.

Therefore, Leo and Sylvia sold the carriage directly to the local post station, because after leaving Lanxi, they would directly enter the Black Forest, and the carriage was useless to them.

After handling the carriage, Leo and Sylvia found a road with few pedestrians and walked towards Lanxi City. Because it was very close to Lanxi City, the originally blurred appearance of Lanxi City became clear. , while Leo and Sylvia were walking, they looked up from time to time at the behemoth in front of them.

As far as Lanxi City is concerned, it is larger than any spaceship that Leo and Sylvia had seen in Velen before, and its bottom coverage area is almost equivalent to a set port. Such a huge figure In the universe, it is almost half a brood battleship.

However, such a huge spaceship turned out to be a product of the old earth era that hadn’t left the orbit of the planet, and this also confirmed the speculations of the Earth Federation archaeologists about this spaceship. related to star civilization.

The reason why Leo recognized the city of Lanxi from so far away was that it was Prometheus. It was entirely because everything related to the Prometheus was recorded in detail in the basic education courses of the Earth Federation. There are even various drawings of Prometheus, and this knowledge is also the basic knowledge that every citizen of the Earth Federation must master, even biochemical humans are no exception.

Among the spaceships of various races in the universe, this hemispherical spaceship shape is unique, and the United Nations logo of the old earth era is also engraved on the armor of the spaceship. It is difficult to admit a mistake, but Leo really feels The reason for the surprise is that the spaceship is so well preserved, just like it was just built.

Just as Leo was reviewing the information related to this spaceship in his mind's memory, Sylvia finally couldn't bear the previous curiosity, and asked Leo: "What does Prometheus mean? Are you familiar with Lanxi City?"

Leo simply explained: "Prometheus is the name of a god in a certain ethnic legend. This god stole fire from God for mankind. Fire helped mankind gain wisdom and rationality and created civilization. And this god The god was punished by other gods for stealing fire. He was tied up on a high mountain and was eaten by another god’s pet. As for Lanxi City, I don’t know much about it, but the city that makes up Lanxi City I know very well about this spaceship, or even the locals in Lanxi know far less about this spaceship than I do."

"Can you tell me?" Sylvia asked curiously.

Leo nodded and said: "Of course we can, but this topic may be a bit long."

"It's okay, it will take us a lot of time to get to the city." Sylvia shrugged, holding Leo's arm, and said, "Take it as a walk and chat!"

Seeing this situation, Leo sorted out the information and rhetoric a little bit, and then described the old earth era as another star civilization, and slowly told Sylvia the story of the Prometheus, and he also Revisit the relevant information in the process of telling.

The reason why the Earth Federation attaches so much importance to things related to the Prometheus is that the archaeologists of the Earth Federation have marked the construction of the Prometheus as the starting point of the establishment of the Earth Federation, which is also the doomsday war in the old earth era the opening point.

At that time, the resources in the old earth era were extremely scarce, and the population was already overwhelmed. There was an urgent need to find a way out for human beings. At that time, all countries agreed to open up human colonies to outer planets, so as to obtain resources and disperse the population.

After making a decision, the government of the old earth era began to make two routes for this plan. One is to transform Mars, which is the closest to the earth, to make Mars a planet suitable for human habitation; An exploration spacecraft of an alien galaxy, looking for a planet suitable for human habitation from an alien galaxy.

With the technology that humans on Earth did not even complete the exploration of the solar system at that time, it was impossible to transform Mars, and it was even more impossible to build an alien system exploration spacecraft, but the final result was that not only the spacecraft was built, but even Mars The first stage of transformation has also been completed, and small-scale immigration can be carried out.

It is precisely because of this unreasonable technological leap that the Earth Federation historians who later studied this period of history all agreed that there must be alien technology involved.

In the era of the old earth at that time, the United Nations government announced that these two human salvation plans had initially succeeded. From the perspective of the human beings on the earth at that time, this undoubtedly represented that the human beings on the earth had got out of the predicament and would usher in a bright future.

It's just that they never imagined that instead of a bright future, what they were waiting for was a doomsday war that almost wiped out mankind.