The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

In the map data obtained just now, there are detailed records of the main departments in the inner city of Lanxi, as well as the supervisory information of each department. The surname Belmont frequently appears in these supervisory documents, which shows the status of the Belmont family in the inner city of Lanxi. Not low, and Ferenza Belmonte is a name that has been highlighted.

Leo tried to look up the content related to this name, but it was a pity that the content seemed to be a very high-level secret, and these supervisors were also the highest rank among sergeants, and their status was comparable to that of bachelors. The senior bachelor with the highest authority also has no way to freely access the detailed information of these sergeants, only part of the identity information that can be disclosed can be accessed.

Leo called up the information on the Belmont family in the inner city of Lanxi, and Sylvia read it carefully, and began to read it with great difficulty.

Although the language of Lanxi City can be regarded as one of the upstream branches of French, most of the languages ​​can be interchanged. A few days ago, Leo had sorted out an interchange comparison table. There is no big problem in reading, but there are obviously some differences between the Lanxi language in the inner city and the Lanxi language in the public area. Except for the basic grammar, a large number of unique words have replaced some words in the public area. Like the upper-class French that was popular in the Lan Empire for a period of time, language was used to distinguish the upper and lower classes.

These inner city Lanci languages ​​are like a completely unfamiliar language to Sylvia, but for Leo, it is not difficult to identify and read them, because most of these languages ​​are from the old earth. The language of some countries in the era evolved, and some words were directly replaced by the language of the old earth era, such as chairman, political commissar, people's representative, etc. Many of these replaced specific words were not alphabetic characters, but It's a hieroglyph that looks like some kind of Turing root.

With the help of Leo, Sylvia spent quite a long time reading all the materials related to the members of the Belmont family, even though the actual content of these materials is not very much.

"It's better for me not to contact them for the time being." After learning about the power of the Belmont family in the inner city of Lanxi, Sylvia thought about it calmly and said.

"Why?" Leo asked puzzled.

"Because we are from Velen, it is too dangerous to reveal our identity rashly." Sylvia replied simply.

Hearing Sylvia's answer, Leo immediately understood her thoughts and nodded in agreement.

As Sylvia said, exposing the existence of the world of Velen to the world of the Black Forest is a very dangerous thing.

From the various information collected before, both Leo and Sylvia learned one thing, that is, the world of the Black Forest knows that there are other worlds beyond the Black Forest, but they don't know how to leave the Black Forest and go to outside world.

There is a book about the research of an advanced bachelor of the Lanxi Scholars Association on the Black Forest and the realm of gods in the Black Forest. At the end of the book, he came to a conclusion that the area of ​​the Black Forest is infinite, and there are countless realms of gods here. , and here is both a refuge and a cage for the gods.

So these gods in the Black Forest are always looking to escape from the captivity of the Black Forest, and Velen World is obviously the best springboard for them to escape, but although they know that there is such a springboard, they don’t know where it is , how to pass.

Obviously, for Leo and Silvia, they could easily get out of the Black Forest, but for the gods here, everything is not so simple.

However, if Leo and Silvia reveal that they are from the world of Velen, then all the gods in the Black Forest will focus on them and try to find clues from them to the world of Velen.

Just like the gods of the Black Forest, Lanxi, a special city, probably has the same thoughts about the world outside the Black Forest. This can be seen from the collection of a large number of novels describing various worlds outside the Black Forest in the public library. I can tell.

The people who wrote these novels are all intermediate and advanced bachelors of Lanxi, and these bachelors represent the mainstream thinking of Lanxi City. From the content of these novels, it is not difficult to see that Lanxi City has outward expansion ambitions.

In fact, Leo did not speculate why the overall mentality of the people in Lanxi City from top to bottom is also eager to leave the Black Forest and to expand outward, because the current Lanxi City is more like a pet kept in captivity by various gods in the Black Forest Similarly, even if they have a special status in the domain of these gods, this does not change the fact that they are kept in captivity.

But Lanxi people don't think of themselves as pets, and even think that the gods and the domain world ruled by the gods are some ignorant and backward civilized worlds. Lanxi bachelors despise the gods from the bottom of their hearts. The topic can be seen.

Many of those questions contained some thoughts of disrespect to the gods. If you don't look carefully, you can't find it at all. When ordinary people answer the questions, the answerers will instinctively choose to respect the gods or despise the gods. The choice of people is usually selected from the answer sheets that despise the gods. Even if they choose the answer sheets that fear the gods, these people will stop at the elementary school certificate and have no chance to further touch the higher technological mysteries of Lanxi.

Although Lanxi's core executives looked at the civilizations in the realm of other gods in the Black Forest with great contempt, they did not get carried away thinking that their technological level could defeat any god in the Black Forest, but if they left the Black Forest, When he went to another world where the power of the gods was restricted, the technological power they possessed would become invincible, so leaving the Black Forest and entering a world where the power of the gods was restricted has become a continuation of Lanxi's core executives from generation to generation. Leading policy, all scientific and technological development in the city is based on this policy.

This can be seen from the various research reports released to the public by every academic society, the exploration report on the Black Forest has always occupied the core part of all reports, and the content is more than ten times that of other single research reports, but the number of other research projects There are so many that even though these Black Forest exploration reports have the most content, they are not prominent in the overall collection of public reports. The premise is that they don't analyze with different thoughts like Leo.

Just as the gods of the Black Forest know that the world of Velen is not the only world outside the Black Forest, the upper echelons of Lanxi City should also know that there are many worlds outside the Black Forest, but the world they know best and think they are most likely to come into contact with is Velen World, this should have something to do with the fact that Lanxi City is the source of human beings in the Vinylon world. This fate of blood, race and civilization itself contains mysterious power. For example, now Sylvia found the Falan Belmont family The source of it is likely to be caused by the influence of this fetter.

After deciding not to contact the Belmont family for the time being, Leo and Sylvia followed the directions on the map and went to a hotel they had chosen.

In fact, with their current status as senior bachelors, they can completely apply to the inner city's bachelor's association for residences that match their status. Usually, these residences are on the top floors of various high-rise buildings in the city.

But the identities of Leo and Sylvia as senior bachelors really cannot withstand scrutiny. It is very simple to deceive the computer intelligence system that only needs to compare data, but it is obviously difficult to deceive those who are also senior bachelors. After all, Lan The number of senior bachelors in Xicheng is only those, and they know each other well, and it is easy to see the identity problem of the two of them.

The hotel chosen by Leo and Sylvia is located next to the largest comprehensive library in the lower part of the inner city of Lanxi. It is where the people at the lower level of the inner city of Lanxi live. There are almost no senior bachelors living there for a long time. There is also much less risk of tampering.

On the way to the hotel, the two did not take the hovering car in the city, but walked all the way to the hotel, and they did not take the viaduct that passed directly between every high-rise building, but from the lowest street in the city. Walking past, only in this way can they understand the overall situation of the inner city of Lanxi most intuitively.

When they came to the hotel, Sylvia's initial excitement and shock had disappeared, replaced by deep disappointment, because she found that although the civilization and technology in the inner city of Lanxi had reached her unimaginable The bottom of the world, but the entire social structure is not much different from that of Vinylon World. The status of the people at the bottom of the two is the same. The only difference is that the supplies here may be more abundant, the streets are cleaner, and there are no beggars or the like. people.

However, the law and order here seems to be not very good. On the streets they walked, policemen and gendarmes in heavy armor and armed with various weapons could be seen at every intersection. At some key intersections, they could also see driving mechas. All in all, walking on the road, you can feel that the atmosphere here is very tense. When the two of them were about to arrive at the hotel, they were stopped to check their identities.

When the police who checked their identities saw that the metal plates of the two people's education certificates turned out to be senior bachelors with a hand-held scanner, they were all very surprised, but they did not doubt their identities, and their attitudes became extremely respectful stand up.

Leo and Sylvia took this opportunity to tentatively ask the policeman what happened, but the policeman didn't know very well, but he just received instructions from his superiors to deploy people here.

However, he guessed that it should have something to do with the loud noise that happened in the thirty-sixth round just now, because in his memory, every time something happened in the thirty-sixth round, a similar arrangement would inevitably be made.

Afterwards, when he learned that Leo and Sylvia might stay in the lower urban area for a while, he immediately told Leo and Sylvia his identity and unit, and expressed that they were welcome to meet at any time. Go to him with any questions. For him, there are not many opportunities to serve two senior bachelors. If he is lucky, he might be able to use this to leave this ghostly place.

Neither Leo nor Sylvia was particularly close, they seemed very indifferent, and it was their attitude that would not arouse suspicion, because in the eyes of these low-level Lanxi people, senior bachelors should behave indifferently to everything. indifferent.

Relying on the escort sent by the police who should have some identity, after Leo and Silvia arrived at the hotel, they were assigned a room of the highest class without even showing any identification documents.

The two of them didn't waste time, took a short rest in the room, and then split up. Sylvia went to other places in the city to inquire about various news and materials about the inner city of Lanxi, while Leo went directly to the comprehensive book next to the hotel. The library increases the inventory of the memory database.

With his academic certificate, Leo easily obtained the highest borrowing authority of this comprehensive library, and also obtained the highest authority of the library's main control intelligent program. Unfortunately, this comprehensive library is located in the bottom area of ​​the inner city. It is the highest authority to control the intelligent program, but it is also the lowest authority in the intelligent center of the entire inner city of Lanxi, and the information that can be obtained from it is not much more intelligent than the guide when they first entered the inner city.

However, this does not mean that this comprehensive library does not have any good things. In fact, the collection of books in this comprehensive library makes his database more than all the previous materials. If all the books in the entire library are recorded Down, then his database data will expand nearly six times.

When Leo was choosing a hotel, he first chose this comprehensive library. According to the records of the map, this comprehensive library is the largest comprehensive library in the lower urban area. The number of books in the database is more than ten times that of physical books.

The types of books here are divided into three categories. The general knowledge category mainly covers the geography, biology, and civilization system in the realm of the gods in the Black Forest. Does not involve more advanced scientific knowledge, the last category is occultism, this category of books is also the most important category in the comprehensive library, and the reading authority is also very high, you must reach the tenth level of occult science specialist bachelor or occult science specialist sergeant To be eligible to read, of course the advanced bachelor is not included in the restricted category.

Through the intelligent program in the library, Leo easily consulted the catalog of books related to all occultism in the library. Perhaps because he was worried about offending the gods of the Black Forest, there were very few books on occultism about the gods. Most of them are believers' scriptures related to gods, and the books that really occupy the vast majority of mysticism categories are actually those books from different worlds involving extraordinary power. For example, Leo saw in those books the warlocks of the world of demon hunters books and more.

Obviously, the Black Forest is like a channel extending to different worlds, absorbing knowledge or people from different worlds, and finally converging in Lanxi City, so there are books and knowledge from different worlds here.