The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Remember [New] for a second,! "You've done it very well, why do you continue to add some unnecessary things to it?" Leo closed the research report in his hand, and then approached the fourth city instructor who came to seek help when the research bottleneck appeared. Said: "You have already obtained a stable formula in one hundred and seventy-three experiments, and each test is in line with your original research goals, or even better, why do you need to add some unnecessary things, What about destabilizing the formula?"

"I just want to make it more powerful." Facing Leo's words and deeds, the instructor in the fourth city was more like a scholar than a scholar who came to exchange knowledge. s student.

I saw that the teacher's face and hands, which were exposed outside the burqa, were covered with scars. One eye was also a prosthetic eye, and his ears were deaf. He needed to wear special hearing aids, and his skin had a lot of burns. The whole person looked very scary.

His name is Rowell, and he is a very famous mentor in the Fourth City. He is famous because all the assistant scholars who participated in his research have died, and everyone died tragically, almost no one Can be buried in the state of a whole body.

The reason for this is mainly because his research project is a kind of gunpowder that is different from that used by countries all over the world. Whether the scars on his own body or those of the dead assistant scholars are all because of failed experiments again and again.

The gunpowder used in this world is very unstable. There are both reasons for the formula of gunpowder and the laws of the world. For example, gunpowder with the same formula is more stable and more powerful in the New World, but it is more powerful in the Old World. , the power becomes very chaotic, and the trigger is extremely unstable, so the army of the old continent is still dominated by cold weapons.

However, because of the effectiveness of the use of gunpowder weapons by New World countries such as the Otto Federation as an example, even if the gunpowder is very unstable, the Old World countries have not given up on the development and research of gunpowder formulas, and even the Church of the True God is also conducting related activities. Research.

As the place with the most wise people in the world, the academic city naturally has its own gunpowder research projects, and there is more than one. Among these gunpowder research projects, Rowell's research is the most important, because his formula is powerful and In terms of stability, it is far better than other formulas. For this reason, the city has built an extremely strong laboratory for him near the city, surrounded by the legion of the Kingdom of Teresa.

Because of this, even though Rowell is a mentor in the fourth city, he rarely appears in the academy. Most of the time, he does experiments in his own laboratory.

As usual, he and Leo won't have much interaction, and it's impossible to ask Leo for help with his research report, but it's interesting that such a person who devotes himself to his research project and is indifferent to external affairs. However, he is an avid all-knowing chess enthusiast. In Leo's one-to-thousand challenge, he was one of them, and he was also the last few players who conceded defeat.

For this reason, he has great respect for Leo's knowledge. After tentatively asking Leo some difficult questions about his experiments, and getting very useful answers, he decided to take his research report. Give it to Leo to see if Leo can help him solve the problem that has plagued him for many years.

However, there were some problems in the implementation of his decision, because Leo was a foreign scholar after all, and his research was designed to the most important secrets of the academy and the kingdom, so the management also discussed this matter. Fan, and also consulted with the kingdom, and finally decided to agree to show some of the research reports to Leo, and exclude the content related to the specific formula.

However, these people never thought that even if Leo did not see the formula, he would be able to infer the complete formula through the experimental process on the report and some fragmentary information revealed, and even modify Rowell's experiments after each experiment. The ingredients of the recipe are also inferred.

When Leo was in front of Rowell, while reading the research report, he speculated the formula one by one, and completely restored Rowell's thoughts and intentions at that time, Rowell's mentality can no longer be described as shock. And he no longer just respects Leo, but worships him like a believer, and even he has gradually agreed with the outside world rumors that Leo is the incarnation of the Spirit of Knowledge.

However, Rowell didn't know that Leo was also shocked by him when he looked at the research report. The reason for Leo's shock was not that Rowell's research on gunpowder had far exceeded the vast majority of people in the world. , but Rowell's luck and vitality.

The number of experiments recorded in the report is as high as more than 300 times, of which there are 294 failure records, and of the 294 failures, nearly 90% are unstable during the proportioning, and the direct Detonated, and every time the ratio of the new formula was operated by Rowell himself.

In this case, the person making the match can't escape the explosion range at all, which means that Rowell has suffered more than 200 explosions at close range in the past so many years, but the amazing thing is that Rowell is still still alive. Alive, even if he was covered in bruises, but compared to those assistant scholars who died in the explosion, his luck and vitality are obviously extraordinary, and such a person is just an ordinary person.

In addition, Leo also found that Rowell's experiment had already been successful. He obtained a stable formula in the one hundred and seventy-third experiment. The only flaw is that the power of the explosion is slightly smaller. Only the minimum standards of the research objectives were met.

Because of this, Rowell still did not stop researching, constantly adding different materials on the basis of this formula, trying to improve its power, but still not getting the desired result.

After discovering the problem, Leo directly gave a pertinent suggestion, but obviously Rowell did not intend to accept this suggestion.

Rowell's reaction did not exceed Leo's expectations. He thought for a while and said, "You can try to combine the two formulas."

"Two recipes?" Rowell didn't quite understand what Leo meant.

Leo explained: "In the formula in your early sixty-seventh experiment, the power of the formula has reached the standard requirements of your research target, but it is very difficult to trigger the explosion. You can use the stable formula as this formula. trigger..."

"I understand!" Before Leo could finish speaking, Rowell jumped up from the chair. The whole person looked very excited, and without saying anything to Leo, he ran out of Leo's madness. The office made people outside feel extremely puzzled, wondering what Leo had just said to Rowell.

Sylvia, who had stayed by the side and did not speak since just now, took a look at the research report that Rowell did not take away, and asked thoughtfully, "Will the advice you just gave be effective?"

Leo didn't answer immediately, but pondered for a while, and said, "The final effect may be far beyond his expectations."

"This is not a good thing," Sylvia said again.

"It depends on who is right." Leo responded.

There is no doubt that it will not be long before a powerful and stable new type of gunpowder will appear in the Old Continent, and matching weapons should also appear, which will definitely change the situation in the entire Old Continent. It is unknown if they benefit from this kind of change, but it is certain that the Church of True God or the Church of Heresy, which has the most extraordinary power, will not be the beneficiaries.

Afterwards, the two turned down other visitors, put on the burqas exclusive to senior instructors, left the back door of the research room building, and walked towards the great library in the fourth city.

As early as a few days ago, after they obtained the status of senior tutors, they knew that they did not need to accumulate additional contribution points. The authority of the senior tutors already made them eligible to check the ** of the Fourth City Great Library.

Therefore, they submitted the relevant application on the same day, and the application was not approved until today. They were allowed to enter the fourth urban area library to check any materials within the next three days. There is no time limit for reading materials, and there is no reading limit. But the premise is that you must be accompanied by a secret guard in the ** area, because many of those ** contain dangerous power. If you are not careful, you will be corroded by power. Restriction or confinement to be safe

During this time, Leo and Sylvia also learned some information about the Secret Keeper through various channels, but even the scholars or tutors from the academy didn't know much about the Secret Keeper.

Now I only know that there is an organization of Secret Keepers within Xuecheng. This organization is not under the jurisdiction of Xuecheng, and its relationship with Xuecheng is only a collaborator. No one directly under the organization of Secret Keepers knows, but some people speculate that it may be with the first school. The city dean is related, because the badge shape of the keepers is almost the same as the exclusive badge of the first dean of the academy.

Almost all keepers themselves have a very magical forbidden power, which can limit and weaken all extraordinary powers, whether it is the power of the evil god, the power of the blood, or the power of the true god, when encountering this kind of forbidden power. They will be suppressed and weakened, so all items involving extraordinary power in the academy are guarded by keepers. Even the royal family and the Belmont family have hired a group of keepers from the academy to guard some special power items.

No one knows where these keepers come from and how they came about. The only thing that is known is that keepers will join every once in a while, and keepers do not have any entertainment activities, nor do they have any feelings of ordinary people. They don't know how to fall in love or get married. They haven't retired. They won't rest until they die, so many people in Xuecheng call them stone men.

Leo and Sylvia have tested the restraining power of the keepers, and they found that the restraining power of these keepers is related to their age. An old secret keeper in his seventies, the forbidden power in him has begun to exert a clear suppressing effect on the power of Leo and Sylvia.

According to Leo's inference, if there are secret keepers who are over a hundred years old, maybe even demigods will be suppressed to be similar to ordinary people.

However, it is basically impossible for a hundred-year-old keeper to exist, because while these keepers have this kind of restraining power, their bodies will also be greatly weakened. It can be said that the lifespan has reached the limit, and the lifespan of the vast majority of keepers cannot reach this level. According to records, the vast majority of keepers died of various diseases around the age of forty.

Leo also tried to judge where these keepers came from from their accents and habits, but the results were disappointing. These people's accents were all very standard local official languages ​​of the Kingdom of Teresa, and the standard was even higher than that. The locals all speak well, and their habits are the same as ordinary people, unable to draw any useful clues from them.

Even so, Leo still had some guesses about the origin of these keepers. He felt that these keepers were not naturally generated, but were produced according to some kind of intelligent module like him in the past, because these keepers Almost identical living habits, ways of doing things, and indifference to the outside world made him feel like a biochemical man.

To this end, he went to the cemetery next to the book town dedicated to burying the keepers, and took some of the bones from the bodies of more than a dozen keepers.

Although the keepers have powerful restraining powers in front of them, they are no different from ordinary people's corpses after death~www.readwn.com~ That power also dissipates from them with death, and there is no way to get them back. The power in life, even through a certain degree of resurrection, the secret keepers after resurrection are just ordinary people.

Therefore, the Academy and the Secret Keeper organization believed that no one would be interested in the Secret Keeper's corpse, so they did not specially guard the Secret Keeper's cemetery. When Leo took the corpse from the cemetery, he naturally No one stopped it, and no one found it.

It is precisely because the bones of these keepers no longer possess that kind of forbidden power, so when Leo decomposed and analyzed these bones through witchcraft and other methods, there was no abnormality, and after the analysis, he became more and more certain. According to my previous guesses, these keepers are artificially created, and they use the blood of the same person, because the bones of all keepers are exactly the same after analysis, these keepers are very likely to be a batch of body transformation. of clones.

Leo told Sylvia about his discovery and about the clones. Sylvia was also very surprised when she found out, and she also had some associations, thinking that the bloodlines used by these secret keepers would be different. It would be Rupert Fitz's, maybe even Rupert Fitz was still alive, secretly creating and controlling the Keepers organization.

Although Sylvia's associations are a little wild, Leo has to admit that there seems to be some truth in it, and he also decides to look for opportunities in the future to see if he can find the mysterious source of the secret keeper and solve the mystery.