The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"How was the exam?" Leo saw Sylvia walking out of the exam room in the bachelor's hall on the 30th floor below the Lanxi public area, and asked.

"It's very simple. You've hit on the topic. If I find it difficult, then I'm too stupid." Sylvia smiled relaxedly and asked again: "Where are we going now?"

"Just stay here and wait for the result." Leo shook his head, then pointed to the bachelor at the door, and said, "Just now he said that when the exam inside is over, the result will be announced on the screen," he said Pointing to the very old screen wall in the lobby, he said, "When the time comes, just take your ID number and get your study certificate."

Perhaps because the guides would get bored waiting here, the Maesters built a tavern in a corner of the hall, and those who had completed their exams gathered in the tavern to wait for news.

Leo and Sylvia came out of the exam room early, and when they came to the tavern, there were only one or two people who took the exam in the tavern, but looking at the one or two people who did not know each other and completed the exam, it was more like giving up the exam, Came out early, so they were all drinking at the bar counter.

The two found a corner where no one would disturb them, ordered some local drinks and food, and waited quietly.

As time went by, more and more people came out of the examination room and came to the tavern, and the originally deserted tavern became lively.

Leo found that almost all the people who came to take the exam were not locals of Lanxi, but outsiders, and most of them were not even human beings, but other forms of intelligent creatures. What made him more interested in these intelligent races Except for a few races that Leo has never seen, most other intelligent races can find some corresponding characteristic templates in alien races.

Although Leo didn't make any further confirmations, those unique features in appearance already allowed him to confirm that these intelligent races in the Black Forest definitely had some bloodlines of those alien races.

Leo was not too surprised by this. After all, many space battleships, spaceships, and wreckage of alien civilizations were found in Vinylon World. It is not surprising that there are descendants of alien civilizations in the special space of the Black Forest. surprise thing.

The only thing that puzzled him was that if the ancestors of these Black Forest intelligent races were crew members of spaceships from alien civilizations that crashed in the Black Forest, then logically speaking, their technological level should be much higher than that of Lanxi.

Judging from the certificate examination materials he read, although Lanxi's technological level far exceeds that of the Vinylon world, it is still within the technological level of the old earth era, and because of the appearance of supernatural forces such as gods and occultism, This caused these scientific and technological knowledge to begin to deviate, and it has completely become a strange product that can be called theological technology.

Under the influence of this severely shifted scientific and technological knowledge, even if the Lanxi people fully understand the scientific and technological knowledge on the Prometheus, they will definitely not be able to manufacture spaceships and the like, at most they will be able to manufacture the world of Velen. The airship, but the power is slightly different.

However, these Black Forest intelligent races who are supposed to be descendants of alien races regard Lanxi's scientific and technological knowledge as the highest intellectual achievement. They also have very advanced knowledge content.

According to the words of the vast majority of intelligent races in the Black Forest, as long as they pass the basic education certificate, they can return to their tribe or territory to hold civil positions with very high status and power. This is obviously related to their ethnic origin Something doesn't match.

You know, among these intelligent races in the Black Forest, Leo discovered that two intelligent races have the characteristics of two alien races with very high levels of technological civilization and spiritual civilization, and these two alien races are even the highest in the universe. Compared with the members of the parliament, the technology and spiritual power of the Earth Federation are light-years behind.

Leo found that the more things he discovered, the more mysteries he had in his heart, and the more ignorant he felt.

"In the Orthodox Church there is a book called Source Book. The person who wrote this book is a fortune teller who has been blessed by the gods. It is said that he can see the distant past and the near future. He sees himself I wrote a book about the past scene I visited, and named that book the source book from the very beginning, which means the origin of all things.” When Sylvia noticed that Leo was staring at the intelligent race of the Black Forest in the tavern, As if thinking of something, he said: "It's just that after he wrote the book, he suddenly went crazy and burned all the manuscripts and finished manuscripts he left behind. He also died in the fire, and he His disciples desperately rescued part of the manuscript, which was later approved by the Church of the Hill King to compile and publish. It is a pity that part of the manuscript is very fragmented, and even after some sorting and repairing, the content is very obscure. I remember that in that There is a chapter in the book that mentions that at the beginning Velen was a coexistence of humans and monsters, and later the monsters were banned by the gods to the Black Forest, and the world was given to humans."

Leo said: "You want to say that they are the monsters mentioned in that book?"

"Isn't that the case in the eyes of ordinary people?" Sylvia asked rhetorically.

Leo smiled, did not refute, and continued to focus on the matter. When thinking about the problem, time always passed quickly. It didn't take long for the last candidate to come out of the examination room, and the door of the examination room was also closed at this time.

At the moment when the door of the examination room was closed, all the candidates waiting for the results in the tavern went out and stood in the hall, looking at the screen. Leo and Sylvia also followed after seeing this situation.

At this time, before the screen was affected, the candidates present heard a burst of mechanical roar and heavy metal impact coming from outside, and then saw two heavy mechas mixed with sci-fi and mysterious colors coming from the outside. They walked in from outside the door, each standing in a corner of the hall, as if they were on guard for something.

"Sergeant! They are sergeants!" At this time, some of the candidates whispered, and the other candidates carefully peeked at the two mechas. They didn't dare to look too directly, and turned their heads after two glances. When I was curious, I would turn my head and look at them again, as if these mechs would attack them after watching for a long time. .

When Leo walked in with the two mechas, his eyes had already fallen on them, and when he heard the other candidates call them sergeants, he also showed a little surprised look on his face.

Before that, Leo and Sylvia had always regarded those ordinary soldiers as sergeants, but now it seemed that these mecha fighters were the real sergeants, and those soldiers were just soldiers.

Leo could feel strong energy fluctuations from these two sergeant mechas. If estimated according to the strength of this energy fluctuation, it was at least equivalent to a Thor-class heavy armored assault vehicle specially used by the Earth Federation for land attack. This heavy armored assault vehicle has the title of land battleship and is very powerful.

Although the Thor-class heavy-armored assault vehicle is not the strongest among the many land weapons of the Earth Federation, it can be regarded as the upper-middle class, especially the tower-type three-stage energy engine and the assault energy shield installed on the assault vehicle, which makes the This weapon has excellent impact when advancing on the land battlefield, and it is the preferred weapon of the Earth Federation Army in positional warfare.

However, now in Leo's eyes, these simple sergeant mechas give him the feeling that they are similar to the Thor-class heavy armored assault vehicle with a lot of alien technology in terms of energy and overall danger, which is obviously not suitable sense.

From the shape point of view, these sergeant mechas are obviously the most common form of engineering robot transformation in the old earth era. This type of robot does not use artificial intelligence system, but is driven by humans, and I don’t know what the designer thinks Instead of using the spherical spider-shaped design that is more suitable for all-terrain environments, it uses this humanoid design, and in order to allow the humanoid design to walk normally with the driver's movements, a motion assistance system is hung up like a burden.

Based on Leo's understanding of combat machines, the mecha in front of him can definitely be said to be full of flaws, not to mention him, even an ordinary marine soldier with an ordinary cutting weapon can easily kill this mecha. The mecha was dismantled into eight pieces.

It is reasonable to say that this kind of mecha is absolutely impossible to bring any sense of danger to Leo, but the fact is that after the two mechas entered the hall, when Leo felt the intensity of the energy fluctuations of the two mechas, There is indeed some sense of danger, even if the sense of danger is not strong.

Since it wasn't a problem with the mecha itself, the reason why it gave Leo such a dangerous feeling should be the reason for the mysterious patterns on the surface of the mecha.

Leo could see that the mysterious pattern was not the same as any pattern he knew that contained mysterious power. These patterns looked like some kind of words with strong logic, spread all over the surface of the mech, and If you look closely, you can see that these patterns are not engraved, but seem to grow out of the mecha.

The appearance of these two sergeant mechas caused some commotion in the hall. Obviously, many of these examinees knew about the sergeant mechas, and they even knew why the sergeant mechas appeared here. time, answer in a low voice.

It turned out that there were candidates who were dissatisfied with the results in the past. They made trouble in the Bachelor's Association, and even had conflicts with the Bachelors who came to dissuade them. During the conflict, several Lanxi Bachelors were killed. After the exam, when the final results are announced, Lanxi will send two or more sergeant mechas to the Bachelor Society to maintain law and order. Once someone makes trouble, they will execute the troublemaker without hesitation.

Not long after the sergeant mecha appeared, the screen wall in the hall lit up, and then I saw numbers appearing on it in order, and the numbers of Leo and Silvia were on it. Immediately there was cheering, while those who failed the exam were downcast, looking very depressed.

At this time, a bachelor came out from behind the door next to the hall, said something to the candidates in the hall, asked the candidates who had passed to follow behind, and then walked back to the door.

After hearing his order, the examinees followed one after another, and Leo also stopped observing the sergeant's mecha, and followed along with Sylvia.

After walking through the gate, I passed through several rooms, and finally came to another hall.

At this time, several bachelors were already waiting there. After seeing the candidates come in, they asked the candidates to go to the desk one by one with the numbered research certificates to receive their study certificates.

The procedure of receiving the certificate is not just a handover. The bachelor first asked the candidates to stand on a large platform, then inserted a metal certificate card into a machine next to the platform, and then pressed a few buttons next to the machine. Press the button, and a beam of light shoots out from the bottom of the platform. After sweeping over the person on the platform, he regains his composure, and the metal card for his study certificate is also drawn out and handed over to the new bachelor.

Leo has been paying attention to the process of the bachelor's operation of the machine. Through the operation of the bachelor, he quickly found the relevant information of this machine among the materials of the Prometheus in his mind.

This machine should be a body detection device specially developed by a company called Bones for the Prometheus. There are nearly 800 such devices installed on the Prometheus, and most of them are located at the entrance and exit. Material mobilization cabins and the like.

The main purpose of this device is to check the integrity of the body for the first time when those who leave the spacecraft to enter space or other planets return to the Prometheus, so as not to carry deadly alien organisms or germs into Prometheus What happened in the inner cabin area of ​​the USS.

This academic certificate is not a bachelor's certificate, but a physical examination card.

After knowing the details of the student certificate, Leo became more confident in changing the identity on the student certificate. In the information in his mind, there are no less than a hundred ways to decipher the information on the metal card, and Revise.

Soon it was Leo's turn. He walked onto the platform, restrained all his strength, and let the light sweep over him.

However, after the light on the platform disappeared, the bachelor in charge of inputting the certificate materials suddenly froze in place, looking at the small screen with shock written all over his face.

"What happened?" Leo turned to the bachelor and asked.

"No, it's okay! It's just that there is a problem with the data!" The bachelor quickly returned to normal, then pulled out his certificate and handed it to Leo, and reminded Leo to read the bachelor's rules and other materials, so as not to He was deprived of his bachelor's qualifications for doing something inappropriate.

After that, Sylvia also went up to the platform. Like Leo, she restrained her strength, and her test results surprised the bachelor. quite high,

And this also made the bachelor confirm that his machine might be malfunctioning. In order to avoid any accidents, after Sylvia got off the platform and got his card, the bachelor stopped using the machine, and After discussing with other people, I led the rest of the people who did not get the certificates to other rooms, continued to collect the candidates, and issued the certificates.