The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Okay! You go back and tell your boss that you don't need to deliver books here tomorrow." After Leo handed over the money for the books to the clerk of the grocery store who came to deliver the goods, he signaled him to leave.

At this time, Sylvia quickly found out the books that Leo hadn't read in the past two days and put them aside. After finishing all the books, she only found three Leo books. It was just books that Ou hadn't read. Leo had read other books in the library in the public area.

Leo picked up the three books and briefly flipped through them, then put them aside.

"You haven't read these three books, have you?" Seeing Leo's movements, Sylvia couldn't help asking.

"I haven't read it, but the content in it is in other books, so there is no need to read it again." Leo explained briefly, and asked, "Is there anything else you want to visit here?"

Sylvia shook her head and said, "Let's go! Let's go to the inner city."

Hearing Sylvia's words, Leo didn't say anything more, and he didn't bother to clean up the books and useless clutter in the room, leaving them to the hotel staff, and then he and Sylvia checked out directly. After leaving the hotel, he went directly to the top floor with the revised student certificate, and began to go through the formalities for entering the inner city.

The process of going through the formalities is also very simple, just use the scanner at the entrance to scan the identity level in the student certificate, and the door leading to the inner city will open when you reach the level. Generally, people who can take the elevator to the top floor will also be able to enter. It is considered to have the qualification by default, and the subsequent procedures are just routine.

After checking casually, Leo passed through the small door at the entrance and entered an internal passage.

Apparently, this passage was rebuilt from a maintenance passage. It is a bit narrow and can only support four people walking side by side at most. However, the safety measures in the passage are very sufficient. Leo has already seen from the upper, lower, left, and right wall panels of the passage. To a large number of microwave particle emitters.

Although for the Earth Federation, the overall technology of the Old Earth Era is very backward, this does not mean that the technological products of the Earth Era have no value. In fact, many technological products of the Old Earth Era have been used until Leo was sitting In the era of the Earth Federation, the microwave particle launchers are one of the few products of the old earth era that are still on the list of weapons of the Earth Federation.

Microwave particle emitters have a wide range of applications, from the microwave particle cutters used to mine ore to the microwave particle clusters used on space battleships, all of which originated from this old earth era weapon. It is also enough to show that this weapon is very powerful, even if it is placed among the powerful weapons of other cosmic civilizations, it will definitely rank first.

Seeing these microwave particle emitters, Leo also put away his contempt for the defense system of the Prometheus, because he knew very well that with his current strength as a sixth-level psyker, the microwave particles still had a fatal effect on him. threaten.

Sensing the change in Leo's mood, Sylvia immediately asked, "What's wrong?"

Leo didn't hide anything, pointed to the microwave particle emitter on the wall, and explained the power of this weapon.

Sylvia was also surprised when she heard this, but after hearing Leo mention the destructive weapons of starry sky civilization these days, she obviously has a certain resistance to weapons such as microwave particle launchers. Having seen a battleship-class microwave particle cluster, naturally, he couldn't feel awe of the motherland like Leo.

This passage full of microwave particle emitters was not very long, and the two of them came to the end after a few minutes of walking. Like the entrance, there was also an identity scanner at the end.

After scanning the metal plates of the two people's study certificates, the door began to open, and a smart holographic image appeared in front of the two people behind the door, saying, "Please follow me to change your clothes and disinfect your body."

Afterwards, the holographic image turned around and brought the two of them to a changing room. There were several very old disinfection cabins in the room, and a set of bachelor's clothes was neatly placed on the bracket next to the cabin.

At this time, the holographic image separated two avatars to show them how to change clothes and how to disinfect.

Leo is no stranger to this set. He gestured to Sylvia, took off his clothes, and entered the disinfection cabin. A disinfection grating with special energy was shot out from the bulkhead, from head to toe. Sylvia didn't say much after seeing this several times. Following Leo's actions, she stripped and disinfected her clothes, and then changed into the prepared bachelor's clothes.

After putting on the bachelor's clothes, Sylvia didn't have any special feelings, but felt that the clothes had a simple and capable feeling after wearing them, but Leo was different, because after he put on the bachelor's clothes, From some clothing details, he saw the shadow of the Earth Federation clerk's clothing.

In fact, when he discovered that Lanxi City turned out to be the Prometheus, Leo felt very strange in his heart, because as usual, the clothes worn by the highest-ranking bachelors in Lanxi City should be the clothes of the old earth era. , but now it is unreasonable to wear clothes with the characteristics of the Earth Federation, which is really puzzling.

Guided by the holographic image, Leo and Sylvia walked through the small passage at the other end of the disinfection cabin, and walked out through a small door that opened. The moment they walked out, Sylvia was completely overwhelmed by the Everything was shocked, she had a long mouth and didn't know what to say for a long time, while Leo looked at everything in front of her and had an inexplicable feeling of going home.

The high-rise buildings with metal structures can't see the edge, and various hovering cars fly between these high-rise buildings, and the sky is surrounded by the artificial sun, artificial clouds, etc. Covering all of them reminded Leo of the fringe galaxy colony city where he was stationed on his first mission.

If the clothes on his body make Leo suspect that this city also has the culture and technology of the Earth Federation, then now this city with the application of Earth Federation technology products everywhere will completely make Leo confirm his guess.

For example, the climate generator that is now imitating the summer rainstorm is a product of the Earth Federation, because most of the colonized planets of the Earth Federation are resource planets, and those planets are not suitable for human habitation, just because those planets have all kinds of things that humans need. This is why the Earth Federation will spare no effort to colonize those planets.

Because of the influence of the environment, the colonial cities of the Earth Federation on those planets are either built underground and relatively isolated from the outside world, or they build a colonial city completely protected by a protective cover, almost completely isolated from the outside environment.

Because of this, in order to create an environment suitable for human habitation in this closed state, the scientists of the Earth Federation have produced a climate generator to simulate various climate environments on the earth, even including the sun and the moon when the day and night change .

And this climate generator is easy to use and has obvious effects, so this device can be quickly promoted in the Earth Federation, and it has become a standard device for the Earth Federation's colonial stars.

However, this symbolic technology of a medium civilization that would appear in the Earth Federation tens of thousands of years later appeared in the Prometheus, the highest technological product of the old earth era, so there are only two possibilities to explain this matter.

One is that after the humans on the Prometheus settled down, they developed technology and developed technological products similar to climate generators, and the other is that the humans on the Prometheus obtained a complete set of Earth Federation Colonial technology, that is to say, a colonial fleet carrying all the colonial technology equipment also came here, and merged with the people of Prometheus, and also integrated the technology together.

Compared with the first one, Leo thinks the second one is more likely, because even if a technological product such as a climate generator can be developed, what about other technological and civilization products of the Earth Federation in this city? For example, the anti-gravity flying car, such as the clothes of the Earth Federation clerk, etc., it is impossible for them to develop exactly the same by chance, right?

"Where are we going now?" Sylvia was still at a loss after gradually recovering from the shock, and turned to ask Leo.

Leo thought for a while and said, "Follow the original plan, find a place to live first, and we should stay here for a few more days."

Although it is the first time for the two to come to this inner city, it is not difficult to find a suitable place to live here. You only need to place the metal plate of your education certificate on any scanning table in the aisle, and activate the artificial intelligence of the city service system You can get a service similar to a wizard.

Leo was not too surprised about this point. After all, any border colony of the Earth Federation has similar equipment, and Sylvia is very interested in this artificial intelligence. After obtaining the desired hotel information, she Still asking a ton of questions to the AI ​​program.

It's just that this artificial intelligence is obviously still a very rudimentary artificial intelligence program, and it can only give dogmatic answers to questions that can trigger the critical chain. For those tricky questions, this artificial intelligence often has only one response, that is, it cannot identify the problem content.

Although Sylvia started to play around childishly after asking, some of her casual questions brought some benefits, and these benefits were not expected by Leo in advance.

For example, during the process of asking questions, Sylvia asked the artificial intelligence program to obtain a map of the inner city within their authority. As a result, they got a map of the inner city, a complete map of the inner city, not only including residential areas The map included also includes some restricted areas on the Prometheus that are not open to ordinary Lanxi people. It can be said that this map is the entire area that the locals of Lanxi have explored and controlled the Prometheus.

When this map appeared in front of them in the form of a holographic image, both of them were surprised. Obviously, this map should be the top secret of Lanxi City in their opinion, but after careful imagination, it was not difficult to understand The reason for this is that their academic certificate authority level is the highest level in the entire Bachelor Association, and they are eligible to obtain all the knowledge known in Lanxi City.

Fortunately, there were very few people in the place where Leo and Sylvia lived, and the people who came and went were in a hurry, not interested in paying attention to other people, so when the map appeared, although they also saw the map, they didn't think so Many, and did not see any difference between that map and the maps they knew.

"It's much worse than Sarah." After Sylvia gradually lost interest in this artificial intelligence, she shook her head slightly and said.

"Sarah?" Leo froze for a moment, unable to remember the source of the name Sylvia said.

"It's the castle elf of Saran." Sylvia reminded.

Leo quickly remembered what Sylvia said about Sara, and smiled, and said, "Of course it's far worse, hundreds of thousands of years worse. This kind of artificial intelligence is just the most basic trigger information Chain artificial intelligence, and that Sara already has intelligence that is almost the same as that of human beings in a certain way, and even far surpasses human beings in analyzing data."

Sylvia didn't fully understand what Leo said, but she could understand the general meaning. Just when she was about to say something, there was a loud noise in the distance of the city, and she and Leo agreed. I looked at the place where the ultrasonic sound came from.

Although the pedestrians in the surrounding aisles were also frightened by the loud noise, they did not show panic. After looking at the location of the loud noise, they all continued their journey without seeing it, even if it was heard again later. There was a loud noise, but they didn't turn their heads to look more.

Sylvia closed her eyes slightly as if she was feeling something, and said in a deep voice after a while: "I feel the power of the abyss!"

"It is indeed the power of the abyss." Leo also nodded, and quickly analyzed the location of the source of the sound, compared the map he had just obtained, and said: "There is the thirty-sixth round."

"Thirty-six innings?" Sylvia looked at Leo in a daze.

While recalling the relevant information, Leo explained: "It is responsible for handling all dangerous items. The definition of these dangerous items is comfort that can threaten Lanxi City, which is also the concentration of extraordinary power owners in the entire Lanxi City. Except for those important scholars and the supernatural power guards of special departments, all supernatural power owners in the inner city are concentrated there, responsible for cleaning up those dangerous objects that have infiltrated the city." He suddenly paused, as if he had discovered a The interesting part, and before Sylvia asked, she said with a little deep meaning: "Maybe this thirty-sixth round has something to do with you?"

"It has something to do with me?" Sylvia looked puzzled, feeling that Leo was joking, it was her first time here.

Leo said with a smile: "According to the information I just obtained, the director of Bureau 36 is called Ferenza Belmont, the patriarch of the Belmont family in the city."