The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"This place reminds me of the underground building in Aishali Forest. Although the styles of the two are quite different, they both look so grand and huge. Even the underground city of the Church of the Hill King can't compare to it!" Hill said. After Via entered Lanxi City, she couldn't help looking around, and said with emotion.

As the main material transportation channel of the spacecraft, because the transportation spacecraft needs to enter it directly for docking, the internal space here is definitely the largest space in the entire Prometheus, although in order to be suitable for human habitation, the interior has undergone a large-scale It has been remodeled, but it is still possible to judge what it looked like at the beginning from the main structure here.

The top 30 floors are the docking decks for various spaceships, and each deck can dock at least twenty of the largest transport spaceships in the old earth era at that time.

The 30th floor in the middle is the main scheduling platform, and all transported materials are dispatched to various areas of the spacecraft from here, so this is the starting point of the main road inside the spacecraft.

As for the lower 30th floor, it is the docking point for the spaceship's ground material transportation troops. Initially, land combat vehicles, asteroid mineral mining spaceships, etc. should be parked here.

Now these platforms have all been transformed into rooms, and some rooms are even transformed directly on the basis of docked spaceships. The main body was remodeled from the storage compartment of a large mineral excavator, and Leo even saw the engraved serial number of the storage compartment next to the entrance.

Leo noticed that the main part of all the space building renovations he saw in front of his eyes were renovations with very high technological and technological content. The reformers dismantled a large number of existing equipment and parts during the transformation, and perfected these equipment parts. It has been used in the renovation of each room and building to add additional functions to these buildings, but now how to use these functions has been forgotten by Lanxi locals, or it has been lost.

It can be seen that the people who first modified the Prometheus were the people who knew the spaceship best, and these people had mastered the technology related to all the equipment of the spaceship, so it is not difficult to guess Who completed the transformation of the core of the spaceship, and the subsequent reformers only added some decorative or protective things, and did not touch the most basic core transformation.

Leo could imagine the situation of the Prometheus at that time. This spaceship with the hope of the old earth era fell into the black forest for unknown reasons and could never leave here.

This kind of inability to leave is not necessarily because their actions are restricted, but because the Prometheus was built in space, and its huge shape destined that the technology of the old earth era at that time could not allow it to take off on the ground, that is, It is said that as long as it lands on the ground, its engine power will no longer be able to transport such a huge brood spaceship into the gravity-free space.

And even if it can fly, in such a special environment as the Black Forest, it is not certain whether the place they fly out of is the outer space, maybe the upper space is actually a subspace, in that case, there is no subspace The Prometheus of protective equipment is bound to be swallowed by the Warp.

At that time, the humans on the Prometheus already knew that they were destined to be unable to leave, so they naturally thought of settling down here, and the Prometheus, which was originally used for exploration and collection, was not a suitable living environment, so the transformation of the spacecraft It is inevitable.

"So the Lanxi people are the descendants of those people on Earth?" Leo observed the surrounding environment, and at the same time told Sylvia what he had thought and analyzed. From the information obtained from a traveling merchant, he speculated.

"Hmm! It's very likely." Leo nodded, and then added: "It is very likely that the humans in the world of Velen are also part of the blood of the Lanxi people. Don't forget, the humans of the Black Forest tribe are from the world of Velen. The origin of human beings is already a recognized fact, but where did the humans of the Black Forest Tribe come from?" Leo thought of the Earth Federation battleship he discovered before, paused, and continued: "It's possible that part of it comes from other humans in the starry sky, but more of it may come from Lanxi, who has taken root in the Black Forest."

"It is indeed possible." Sylvia also nodded, agreeing with Leo's statement.

Leo said again: "The name Lanxi is very interesting. We heard the name Lanxi before, and we all thought that this name was passed down here by people from the first and second dynasties of the French Empire, but if you think about it the other way around, In other words, the founders of the first and second dynasties of the French Empire came from here, and after they established the empire, they named the capital of their empire Lanxi, which also makes sense.”

Sylvia was silent for a while, thought for a while, and said: "Although there is no evidence to prove your inference, I think this inference is likely to be true. Not long ago, the United Kingdom conducted an investigation on the ancient ruins of Lanxi. They conducted some archaeological excavations, and at the excavation site found a stone tablet that should belong to the early Second Dynasty. There was an incomplete poem engraved on it. According to the archaeologists of the Kingdom, this poem is likely to belong to the sun Wang De, the pioneer of the Second Dynasty. Dela I’s poems, because Dela I was known as the king of poetry, his poems were very popular at that time, and many of them have been handed down. It can be analyzed from the grammar and words of the writing whether they were written by the same person. Lanxi was mentioned in that verse, he called Lanxi the city of the world, the city of glory, the city of miracles that even the gods marveled at, and according to the location where the stone slab was unearthed, the Sun King wrote this sentence at that time At the time of the poem, Lanxi City was undergoing post-war reconstruction. This stone slab was buried underground as a foundation, and the so-called city of miracles naturally did not exist. But now it seems that the city of miracles mentioned by the Sun King at that time City, maybe the Lanxi City we are in now."

When studying the history of the Faran Empire, Leo also read all the materials related to the pioneers of the three major dynasties of the Faran Empire, and naturally recorded the poems handed down by this king of poetry.

Because he didn't think of it together before, Leo's perception of those poems was always at least as a kind of literature, but now that he has a connection with Lanxi City, those poems that didn't have any special meaning originally To be able to savor some hidden meanings.

Nearly one-third of the Sun King’s numerous poems are in praise of Lanxi City. In the eyes of researchers in the world of Velen, these poems in praise of Lanxi City are actually the Sun King’s praise of himself and his greatness. But if you analyze it carefully, you will find that the description of Lanxi City in these poems is almost the same as the current Prometheus. Obviously, the Sun King is not a metaphor at all, but a real praise of Lanxi City.

"Should we find a place to live and stay here for a few days?" Sylvia was also interested in Lanxi City at the moment, so she suggested.

After hearing the words, Leo thought for a while, and felt that the White Hart should not be short of time in the next few days, and he also wanted to get some useful information from the Prometheus, so he nodded and agreed with Sylvie. Asia's proposal.

The two of them had a lot of money. They didn't choose the low-level hotel that outsiders who had just arrived in Lanxi City would choose. Instead, they found a high-end hotel on the forty-seventh floor that was specially prepared for foreign dignitaries. After obtaining a noble certificate, Leo chose a room on the inner side instead of facing the middle patio, and planned to live here temporarily for a few days.

Leo didn't choose this room randomly. He chose this room entirely to prepare for exploring the Prometheus later, because according to the instructions of the Prometheus architecture drawing in his mind, behind a wall in this room should be There is an emergency passage.

This emergency channel can directly lead to the secondary power cabin next to the material delivery cabin. In the secondary power cabin, there should be a computer that can be connected to the main computer of the spacecraft. As long as it is connected to the main computer of the spacecraft, it can The search program can grasp the current situation of the spacecraft, and can also access the information such as the flight records of the spacecraft.

However, the only problem that bothers Leo now is whether the old earth era computer control manuals and other materials sent to his mind together with the information of Prometheus can be used, and the computer host on the spacecraft has gone through such a process. Whether it can still be used for many years, after all, the computer mainframe in the old earth era does not have a strong enough protective coating for electronic equipment, let alone tens of thousands of years, even hundreds of years may not be able to preserve it well.

After entering the room, Leo easily found the emergency passage marked on the structural drawing, but that passage was blocked by a wall panel, but he could still hear a slightly different sound inside when he knocked on the wall. sound.

"Another secret passage?" After Sylvia saw Leo entering the room, she knocked on several walls, and then heard a slightly different sound from behind a wall. , and immediately understood what Leo was doing.

"There should be a passage behind here." Leo explained.

Because Leo had demonstrated his ability to find secret passages in the Seventh Research Institute before, Sylvia was not surprised now, and then she walked to the wall and knocked on the wall, saying: "If you want to enter the secret passage, this wall must be removed, but if it is removed in this way, it will definitely be discovered."

"It doesn't have to be demolished." Leo shook his head and said, "Behind this wall should be the entrance and exit of that passage. The main structure of this hotel was built by the people of Prometheus back then, so they built At that time, there must have been a switch or something that can easily move the wall."

As he spoke, Leo searched carefully around the walls and around the room.

He really wanted to use the spirit net to explore here, so that he could easily discover all the secrets in this room, but when he had such an idea, his intuition told him that it was dangerous to do so, and in the end he chose to trust his intuition, Even if his rationality now judges that there is no trace of extraordinary power here, and there is no Omega-level advanced life body monitoring this place.

"Found it!" After careful inspection, Leo quickly found a secret compartment in a corner of the wall. An ordinary iron buckle locked the secret compartment. After he opened the iron buckle, he found a circle inside. ring switch.

After thinking for a while, Leo tried to flip the ring switch. After turning it twice, Leo felt a weak resistance coming from the ring, and he also heard a very weak sound from the wall. There was a mechanical linkage sound, and a small gap was slightly cracked in the wall over there.

Seeing this situation, Leo turned the ring switch back a few times to restore everything to its original state.

"It seems that the designer of this room has already considered how to open the emergency passage when there is no energy source." Leo slapped the dust on his body and said to Sylvia.

"I think this approach is a little unnecessary," Sylvia had a different opinion, saying: "If the situation here really needs to open the entrance by hand, then the situation here is probably already extremely bad, then It doesn't matter whether the passage can be entered or not."

Regarding Sylvia's opinion, Leo was noncommittal, restored the hidden grid, and tidied it up a little, so that people couldn't see a gap in the wall just now.

The two stayed in the room for a while, then went to the restaurant of the hotel and ordered some food.

Although from the appearance of the food, except for the difference in raw materials, the food here is not much different from the food in Vinylon, but Leo and Sylvia are still trying carefully when eating, after all, the Black Forest and the outside environment It's completely different, seemingly harmless food may be fatal if eaten by people in the world of Velen.

Fortunately, both Leo and Sylvia's bodies were extraordinary. Although they ate some food that was not suitable for humans in the world of Velen, it did not cause any burden to their bodies.

After eating, Leo and Sylvia decided to follow the tips in the brochure and go to the nearest Lanxi History Museum.

However, just as they left the hotel, a completely mechanical female voice without any emotion came from the entire material dispatching cabin, and the language spoken by the female voice was the language of the old earth era, and the content was to tell the time.

Judging from the attitude of the people around who are accustomed to this kind of voice, this female voice should be the voice of the timing computer on the Prometheus, and the content of this voice is very attractive to Leo, because the time reported by the female voice is Four hundred and thirty-six thousand eight hundred and seventy-three years Earth time, June seventeenth at four o'clock in the afternoon.