The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After saying the name of the old man Rembrandt, Leo immediately realized that he must have misidentified the person, because the person in front of him who looked very similar to the old man Rembrandt did not have any disabilities, his body was intact, and he did not look like Ren Brandon at all. Old man Brown needs special devices to survive and move.

At this time, Solander looked at Leo with some doubts, and quickly realized that Leo must have misunderstood the person, so he took the initiative to introduce: "This is Bachelor Langenus."

Bachelor Langnus, who had been lowering his head to study the slate just now, looked up at Leo, and then said to Solander, "Can Mr. Leo and I be alone for a while? We have some academic matters we want Let's discuss it."

Solander froze for a moment, didn't say anything, turned around and gestured to Leo, and then left the room.

While Solander exited the room, Maester Langenus said to a corner of the room, "You go out too, I don't need protection for now."

"Bachelor, your safety..." A vague figure suddenly appeared in the corner and said.

"Don't worry," Longanus shook his head, interrupted the words of his security personnel, and then seemed to have great trust in Leo, and said, "With Mr. Leo here, I will be fine."

These words not only made the fuzzy figure cast a strange look at Leo, but also made Leo feel suspicious.

From just now, there was something wrong with the way Langenus looked at him and some behaviors afterwards. It seemed that this Langanus knew him very well and trusted him very much, otherwise he would not have met him for the first time. When he was a foreigner, he transferred all his security personnel away.

It was also because of this that Leo couldn't help feeling a little suspicious. He suspected that the person in front of him might be the old man Rembrandt just as he knew it at first sight.

This question didn't last too long, and the answer came soon. After the security guard with the invisibility ability left the cabin, Langnus smiled at Leo and said, "I haven't heard that for a long time. The name Rembrandt!"

"Are you really Mr. Rembrandt?" Although he had already guessed in his heart, he was still very shocked, or more correctly called an accident, so he reconfirmed.

"Long time no see, Leo! It's been a long time since Miria..." Longanus wanted to say the exact time, but after thinking about it, he couldn't estimate the time, so he could only smile awkwardly and say, "Should Has it been many years? I never thought we would meet here."

After the other party mentioned Miria, Leo did not doubt the other party's identity anymore, but the doubts in his heart remained undiminished, and he asked in a deep voice: "Didn't you disappear in the ruins of prehistoric civilization in the wasteland? How did you come here?" In this world, he became a Bachelor of Langenus?"

"It's not that I became a Bachelor of Langenus, but I was a Bachelor of Langenus in the first place." While talking, Longanus pointed to the sofa next to him and motioned for Leo to sit down. He took out a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet, poured a glass for himself and Leo, and then sat on the sofa opposite Leo, while drinking, he said: "I did have an accident in the ruins, I finally My memory is that a ray of light swallowed everyone at that time, and when I regained consciousness, I had become the Langenus of youth."

"Rebirth, reincarnation?" Leo immediately thought of two things that could explain this situation, but he used French, because he didn't find two things that could be related to these two languages ​​in this world. Words that match things, and at the same time, he is also trying to test whether Langenus is old Rembrandt.

There are sayings of rebirth and reincarnation in the religious circles of the Velen world, but this is only for gods. For example, some gods will let their incarnations be reborn as living gods on a dead devout believer for better missionary purposes. It will directly reincarnate into a human being and establish and perfect its own church.

However, this kind of thing only appeared in the period of religious ignorance. Later, with the improvement of the church system, this kind of thing almost disappeared, but related legends are still recorded in the church's classics.

Langenus obviously passed the test, he could understand French, and explained in French habitually: "No, it's not like rebirth, because I didn't die, it's more like reincarnation, but my memory is blocked I woke up again because of a certain opportunity.” After he finished speaking, he realized that he was using French, and couldn’t help but smile, and said, “I haven’t spoken French for a long time, it sounds a bit weird. of."

"It should be that the tongue has not adapted to the French pronunciation habits." Leo explained for him, and then asked: "Am I calling you Rembrandt now? Or Langenus?"

Langenus thought for a while and said, "Languinus! Rembrandt is dead, and I have lived in this world for so long, and I have already gotten used to the new name and identity." Then, He asked again with a puzzled look on his face: "To be honest, I was really surprised when I saw the news about you and Sylvia. I thought it happened to be two people with the same name and surname. After investigation, I found out that it was really you. Two, how did you come to this world? Wouldn’t you have died like me, and then be reborn or reincarnated in this world?”

"No, we are all still alive and well, and we came to this world through other methods." Leo slightly deleted unnecessary things, and compared the method of him and Sylvia to this world with After a brief talk.

Longanus showed a look of surprise, and said, "Wizards of the tower? If it is them, it is indeed possible, after all, they have been here before."

Leo asked with interest: "Has the tower wizard also come to this world?"

Langenus explained: "Of course, isn't the entrance to this place obtained from the items they left behind? With their character, how could they not come here to have a look? As far as I know, they also established You have heard of a secret organization, the Truth Club, right?"

"Truth Society! The largest evil organization in the world?" Leo froze for a moment.

The name of the Truth Society will appear in newspapers every three days. It can be said that it is the most famous underground organization in the world. This organization has never expressed its political demands or core ideas. Their only purpose seems to be to kill people, and they kill people. The targets are never low-level civilians, but some world-renowned figures, either the head of state of a certain country, or the pope of a certain church.

According to the statistics of the Herald, the most authoritative newspaper in the New World, since the Truth Society appeared, more than 5,000 celebrities have died at their hands. General Rattle died at the hands of the assassins of the Truth Society.

However, the Otter Federation has extremely complicated feelings for the Truth Society, because if General Berat does not die, the Outer Federation will inevitably become a religious country like other surrounding countries, and any anti-religious clauses in the constitution are not Possibly, because General Berratt was a devout believer in the Thousand Words Bug, and he was also the most influential of all the Founding Fathers at the time, with the most troops in his hands.

From this point of view, the Otter Federation would also like to thank the assassins of the Truth Society. If the assassins of the Truth Society hadn’t assassinated some dignitaries of the Otter Federation, maybe the Outer Federation would not have defined the Truth Society as an evil organization. .

However, after hearing that the Truth Society was actually established by the Tower Wizards, Leo couldn't help but feel a sense of disobedience, because with the High Tower Wizards' code of conduct, it would certainly not be possible to create an assassin organization like the Truth Society, otherwise, The anti-wizard nobles and churches in Velen World will be in danger, because it is too easy to kill them silently with the ability of the tower wizard.

"You also find it unbelievable, don't you?" Longnus seemed to know what Leo was thinking, smiled, and said, "I was the same as you, I was unbelievable, but it's a pity that all the evidence I collected showed that The Truth Society was founded by the Tower Wizard."

While talking, I saw Langanus draw a symbol on the table, which can be said to be the most representative symbol of the tower wizard, and then he drew another symbol similar to it, no matter how Slow people can also see that this similar symbol should be an improvement of the symbol of the tower wizard, and even the motto of the tower wizard, "I want to know the truth of the world", has been preserved.

"What happened to those tower wizards in the end, have they returned to Velen?" Leo asked again.

Longanus shook his head and said, "As far as I know, they are all dead, at the hands of the gods of this world."

"The gods of this world..." Leo muttered, and was about to ask related questions.

"Stop!" Langenus interrupted him, and said very seriously: "This topic will stop here, don't continue the conversation, there is one thing you must know, the things about the gods in the world of Velen Taboos are still valid in this world, even more stringent, those tower wizards just ignored this and died in the hands of the gods, I don't want you to become the next sacrifice of the gods."

Leo didn't know what caused Langanus to be so scrupulous, but he knew that Langanus must know some unspeakable secrets related to the gods, otherwise he would not have such a reaction.

"What is the purpose of your coming to Lake Beruk this time?" Leo also changed the subject in cooperation.

"It's for the ruins found at the bottom of the lake," Langenus relaxed a lot when he mentioned what he was interested in. He picked up the stone slab that was just being studied from the table and handed it to Leo, saying : "Look at this and see what it reminds you of."

Leo finally took a look at the stone slab, and without much analysis, he could see that the cuneiform writing on this stone slab was exactly the same as the cuneiform writing of those ancient civilizations in the desert of the Savile Kingdom, and they should be variants of the same language. body.

Leo said his judgment, and Longanus nodded in agreement, and said: "Actually, I have seen similar writings on the ruins of the temple I discovered before, so I doubt the ancientness of this world. Civilization has a very close relationship with the prehistoric civilization of our world, and they can even communicate with each other, communicate, do business, etc., until one day something happened, and this kind of communication was cut off, and the two civilizations also went to different directions. direction, but even so, the development trajectories of the two civilizations are very similar, don’t you think?”

Leo didn't rush to agree with this argument because Langenus put it forward. He thought for a while and said: "If the civilizations of the two worlds have close exchanges, then there shouldn't be so few related ruins. .”

"Indeed, this is also where I am confused." Langenus did not deny the huge loophole in his argument, sighed, and said: "At first I thought that the church was deliberately hiding these civilization relics, because the existence of these civilization relics It just negates the theory of the origin of the world in most churches. This impact on the faith of the church is undoubtedly devastating. They absolutely have reasons to cover up the existence of these civilization relics. But after I investigated, I found that it was completely wrong, because these civilization relics The existence of the church is not as dangerous as I imagined, and the theory of the origin of the world is not that important, because the core of the church's belief is the gods, the gods that really exist in this world..."

When mentioning the gods, Longanus suddenly recalled something, his face became extremely ugly, and then he reached out and took out a small medicine box from his pocket, poured out a few pills from it, and swallowed it directly , It took a while for the tense face to ease down.

"What's going on with you?" Leo looked at Longanus seriously, and asked in a deep voice.

Compared with the sights seen by ordinary people, Leo's spiritual vision can see more things. Just now, Langenus emitted an abnormal energy fluctuation, and above Langenus' head A shadow full of countless tentacles also appeared on the ground. This shadow gave Leo the feeling of a mutant monster like a bone butterfly, even stronger, almost like an Omega-level advanced life form.

Langenus smiled wryly, shook his head, and seemed not to continue talking about this matter, but returned to the previous topic, and said: "I later obtained a large amount of information that is difficult for ordinary people to access through various relationships. , I even went to the Scholar Mountain in the Old Continent and read the ancient books that can be traced back to the birth of the first country in the world. Those nonsense also revealed some interesting information, and combining this information with the development track of this world and the world of Velen I mentioned earlier, I also discovered some truths about this world..."

Speaking of this, the hull of the ship suddenly shook violently, as if it had hit something. Although Longanus supported the table in time, the books on the bookshelf behind him fell out and smashed towards him. Fortunately, Ray Ou shot in time and created a spiritual shield to protect Longanus, so that he was not injured.