Mysteries: Arcana Wars

The scene became awkward for a moment.

"...You cat..."

The divine-robed priest took the secret cat from Klein's hand and fumbled with it with a serious expression.

"Actually, this is a resignation gift from my friend," Klein said calmly, "He said it's a bionic mechanical cat made by their R&D team."

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the men and women around who were wearing divine robes and holy emblems lit up. They walked over involuntarily and touched the secret cat enthusiastically.

"This fur is so well made, it looks like the real thing!"

"Look at the cooling effect. It's not hot at all. How did they do that? Why can't I touch the unit?"

"This skeleton feels a little strange. What material is it made of? Why not use a smoother and more efficient form? Is it to imitate the feel of a cat's bones?"

"The research group of the Abraham Group? The R&D group of the Gustav Group? The small company under the name of our church? Or some other recently opened technology company?"

"Can it carry a submachine gun?"

"..."

…My persona is a programmer, not a hardware engineer…

Klein was not familiar with mechanical hardware, and was unfamiliar with the pre-modern cutting-edge mechanical technology of the Sixth Epoch. Even though he improvised and molded some mechanical structures into the Secret Cat's body, he still could not escape the clutches of the Steam Church professionals.

Finally, after a brutal inspection, the aggrieved secret cat returned to the hands of the divine priest.

"I'm sorry, sir, you can't bring your cat into the church. You can leave it with us and take it with you when you leave."

"We will do some checks on your cat during this period. I'm sorry, but your... uh... mechanical cat seems to have a problem. I'm afraid it's not as simple as you think. I hope you can be mentally prepared..."

The programmer nodded in confusion and walked into the church again in confusion.

The bright sunlight at noon pours down from the clear and transparent glass windows. The wide and magnificent church hall has a kind of construction beauty that combines technology and romance. Some light glass structures are inlaid between the ancient bricks and stones, filling the scars left on the building by the long river of history.

Between the interlaced steel frames and wooden strips, amidst prayers and blessings, here, humans pursue the guidance of God and push the cart of civilization forward slowly.

From the perspective of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, mankind officially entered the Steam Age when the "Son of Steam" Emperor Roselle drew the first sketch of a steam engine in the Fifth Epoch. Since then, the carriage of civilization and progress can no longer be stopped. Therefore, the Saint Hillran Church, which records the development of technology, still maintains the items and pipeline systems of the late Fifth Epoch, that is, the early Steam Age.

Although Klein knew that most of these iron utensils had been replaced with modern technology, this style that was close to his memory still made Klein feel very emotional and relaxed.

Not long after entering the church, Klein saw a sign.

The Steam Church has always pursued cutting-edge technology, but in the solemn and simple church, they did not choose the commonly used LCD monitors as large bulletin boards, but still used retro panels and paper-based physical bulletin boards.

The notice board was covered with various posters and news, including the Steam Daily, a daily news newspaper published by the Steam Church. This is a newspaper about the development of some industry technologies, covering machinery, energy, aerospace, weapons and other aspects. It also publishes some popular science articles, topic discussions, science fiction novels, daily maintenance tutorials, and public academic lectures of St. Hillran Church.

At the same time, Steam Daily will also publish some "daily tips" that are close to people's lives, such as how to quickly make and use classical high-compression mercury vapor rocket-propelled grenades in shared housing disputes to protect your rights and interests in daily life and...

...Wait, there seems to be something wrong.

I think your editorial department should correctly distinguish between "the daily life of the Steam Church" and "the daily life of normal people"?

Of course, in addition to the daily updated "Steam Daily", the notice board also contains various news about the daily operations of St. Hillran Church.

...Selected Lectures on the Fifth Century Russell-type Classical Steam Engine...

…God’s Coil – Series Resonant Transformer Concert…

...St. Hierran Cup Wheelchair Racing Competition...

...Wanted order...

...Wait, a wanted warrant?

Klein noticed this piece of paper that seemed out of place and moved closer to examine it carefully.

"Emergency! Field Moretti, male, stole a number of ritual jewelry from various churches and a digital pet from St. Hillran Church. Preliminary estimates show that the victim churches include St. Samuel Church, St. Julie Church, Holy Wind Cathedral, etc. He is suspected of committing crimes again in recent days. He is very aggressive and may have accomplices. The reward is 1000 pounds."

This wanted poster does not contain any image information, only a name and a reward, and no other clues are known.

As an investigator who had just caught a robber of gift items, Klein keenly discovered that the description on the wanted poster was quite different from the actual situation.

First of all, the only crimes that Sene and Jerome could be convicted of were the robbery of the Church of Evernight's ritual jewelry and the robbery and murder of a family in Greenmont before they came to Backlund. Between these two cases, Sene and Jerome should not have taken other church ritual objects, because it was pure bad luck that they were able to steal the Church of Evernight's rotten ritual objects. Their original goal was to rob a delivery truck, but they were unfortunately caught when they opened the blind box.

If they had already become qualified ritual thieves, if they had at least robbed ritual objects from other churches before, they would not have suffered such a huge loss this time. According to the information Leonard obtained, the two men immediately sold the ritual objects of the Church of the Night in the dungeon after opening the bag on the first day. On the second day, they were chased by Klein and Leonard. Judging from the timeline, it is unlikely that they would steal valuable ritual objects from other churches again.

Of course, if their first order was to steal the ritual objects from the Church of Storms, then their career as a ritual object thief would be over...

Moreover, there were clearly two people who committed the crime, but there was only one person on the wanted warrant, and the wanted person was not Sene or Jerome.

In this kind of wanted warrants issued by the church, case investigation information and files are often not shared, but robbing a courier truck on the street is quite a big deal, and as long as one is willing to do an on-site investigation or even just watch the surveillance, they will definitely not use the phrase "may have accomplices."

Furthermore, with the current inflated prices, a bounty of 1000 pounds is completely incomparable to that of the Fifth Epoch. It is a bit shabby for an urgent wanted notice and is not worth the bounty hunters making a big fuss about. It even seems a bit of a joke.

To be honest, how could this Tamagotchi be stolen? Did someone touch the Tamagotchi? Or did someone hack its data?

A half-truthful case, a fugitive with no information except his name, a hasty reward, an urgent attitude...

Field Moretti... Moretti...

...Could this wanted poster be posted specifically for me to see?