Chapter 1572 Progress

Even the "chief" can't accurately describe what the God's Forge is. The latter may really exist, but after so many years of word of mouth and deification, it has become a cult of abstract rhetoric and grandiosity. A phantom piled up with images, people in this world may use a thousand words to describe how great the Forge of the Gods is - but they just don't know what it is.

However, we can still roughly restore the situation of the God's Forge from these messy religious depictions: it is not on the earth (that is, far away from the planet, that is, in space), it is located in the God's eternal residence (then this residence may refer to is a larger space base), the Celestial Forge is closed, but people firmly believe that there is still a flame burning in its furnace (assuming that this legend is not groundless, then the "Celestial Forge" should be a working device), Finally, the legend mentions the "flame" of the God's Forge more than once. This flame should not be an ordinary fire... Then it will be a fusion reactor, or something more crazy, something similar to a psionic reactor?

"Anyway, if that thing is still running, there will definitely be an energy reaction. People on this planet believe that the flames of the God's Forge protect the world, so I guess it should be an energy device that provides some kind of protective barrier. Yes..." I expressed my opinion, "By the way, Sandora, do you think this protective barrier is an 'interference' in this universe? The God's Forge is actually the energy source of the interference transmitter, or it is simply interference. The transmitter itself?”

Sandora's ball floated up and down to express her agreement, and then she muttered slightly unhappily: "In short, the religious legends in this world are very complicated, and maybe to hide some secrets, some parts have obviously been artificially blurred... Hey, we should Get in touch with people at a higher level in this world. Maybe Celine can be a breakthrough. She is at least a battle sister."

At this moment, Alaya has transferred all the people in the underground stronghold to the prisoner-of-war camp of the Imperial Admiral. Those prisoners should be able to provide some information after they wake up. Sandora and I are among a bunch of autonomous machines. With help, this underground stronghold was "torn" a lot. Taking away some important-looking information and equipment, leaving a scene that looks like a hasty evacuation. This can explain the whereabouts of the people here. After completing these things, we left the underground stronghold.

At this moment...it's already the next morning. This night of tossing was quite long.

Facing the morning sun in the forest, I stretched my arms and stretched out. Although I don’t feel tired easily due to my physique, being tired after a long day and night always has a psychological effect. Sandora Ball seemed to be attracted to me as well. Infected, even though it was a ball of light, she still let out a long yawn: "Yawn - I'm so tired. Arjun, help me stretch."

I was stunned: "What? How to do this?!"

Sandora hit my head twice with the ball: "Just pull me a little longer. If you stretch, don't you just stretch yourself out?"

Me: "...Your Majesty, please don't do this. Your image has been ruined for several days. Can you please calm down a little..."

Sandra Ball immediately became anxious, hitting my head and yelling: "We are an old married couple, what do you think about mother-in-law and mother-in-law! What did I say when I usually give you a back and shoulder rub? In addition... why did I change? Do you always say weird things after doing this? When did my behavior become degrading? It’s normal, okay!”

Well, Sandora's world view is different from that of ordinary people. She can easily accept the various attributes she "should" have as a ball and doesn't think it's malicious and cute. I don't think I can be like this. Guang Dan, who had a psychotic level of outlook on life and an evil god level soul, quarreled, so he could only hold back the cramps on his face and hold the sandora ball in his arms. After squeezing it hard twice, he started to pull it to both sides according to her instructions. This...what should I do if I find the texture of the noodles! ?

Shandora also deliberately let out a foul cry: "Ah - so comfortable... This is the feeling, Ajun is awesome..."

As soon as this voice came out, I could hardly calm down: It would be great if Shandora was not spherical now.

When I feel excited, the strength in my hands becomes difficult to control. So a moment later, Shandora's exclamation scared the shit out of countless coy birds and animals in the forest: "Uh-ah - Jun, just break it gently... pull it off..."

All in all, I almost got two Sandora Balls, but in the end I had a close call. On the way back to the town with the adorable Queen in my arms, I couldn't help but talk to her: "Sandora, do you still feel your body after becoming like this? Do you really need to stretch your body for the spark of your soul?"

"It's necessary. If you don't believe me, try to get yourself together."

Me: "..." Where can I wipe it off! Do you think that other people can shine just by forming a ball like you?

We followed the man in the black cloak for a day and a night. We have long been far away from the ancient ruins where we originally set out. Although we are not lost, we are still far away from Celine and others. Sandora and I did not deliberately speed up the pace along the way (although it is still faster than ordinary people). a lot of). Therefore, it was already a few hours later when the two of them returned to the edge of the forest and saw the smoke from the town.

The probe detected that Celine had led most of the adventurers out of the ruins, so Sandora and I did not go to the ancient tower, but returned directly to the town.

In the past few hours, Shandora and I had a great time discussing issues involving three views, which directly caused both of us to feel a little exhausted physically and mentally. But there was no delay in getting down to business. Under remote orders, the Imperial Admiral built a large number of deep space probes (because the spacecraft had experienced "rebirth," these cargo objects basically had to be re-manufactured). This time The deep space probe is specially designed to enhance the ability to sense energy and abnormal space phenomena. We plan to use these things to find the Forge of the Gods, or at least something similar to it.

Coupled with the low-speed and high-precision probes launched two days ago and distributed throughout the galaxy, as long as the Celestial Forge really exists and its location does not deviate too far from my guess, it will definitely be found.

"Phew, I'm back - it looks like the town hasn't changed much, well, at least there's no damage."

Standing at the gate of the town holding the Sandora Ball, my first concern was whether this place had been damaged by the microwave irradiation yesterday: Although Celine opened the protective device in time, I was really worried about the Lost Cult. Can the half-assed electromagnetic shield withstand the power of ancient broadcast towers? It seems that the situation is good now. Everything in the town is business as usual. The civilians are still living their leisurely and ordinary lives. If there is any change, most people have a little bit of shock on their faces, and some buildings seem to be slightly different. Destroyed by heat or magnetic storms: This is better than turning the entire town into a microwave oven.

"Ah! It's Mr. Scholar! Mr. Scholar is back!" While I was observing the state of the town, an energetic little girl's voice suddenly came from the side. I turned around and saw that it was indeed Elu - and this girl was also following me. An adventurer who looks helpless, has this little girl found a "business" again? She still firmly believed in what she read in the knight's tale.

"Ellu is taking Mr. Scholar to find his mother," the little girl turned to the adventurer beside her and said. "Then let's treat it as a free service this time. You took advantage of twenty copper coins~~"

The adventurer immediately had an expression of gratitude to God. He gave me a look that said, "Brother, please be patient." Then he ran away. His speed and skill were simply... I don't know if he was this big when we were acting yesterday. Ganjin, is Elu really that annoying?

The little girl jumped up and ran to my side, and she didn't forget to raise her hand to say hello to Sandola Qiu: "Hello, Sister Dan! Mom said you were missing in the ruins, which scared Ellu. She was about to summon The adventurers are going to the forest to continue looking for someone. Elu will take you to find her."

Celine was not at home at this time due to "special circumstances." She was to sit in church. Under the leadership of Elu, we quickly arrived at the church. Celine was still dressed as a battle nun with a black robe and a rifle, and she seemed to be a little more tired than before because of the past two days. I held Sandora Ball in my arms. Appearing in front of the other party finally made her eyes look brighter: "Are you back? Are you not injured?"

"Ah. I ran into some trouble, and I have something to report to you..." As soon as I started speaking, I was interrupted by Celine, who said in a hurried tone: "Let's not talk about anything else. I will take people to check underground later. Situation. Some suspicious mine tunnels have been discovered. Pagans may be developing their power here. Now the town and surrounding areas have entered an emergency. Except for adventurers who team up with clergy, others are not allowed to go to the wild at will. You'd better Don’t go out. By the way...you just said you had a situation report?"

"This is what we want to say," I nodded, "Yesterday when I was looking for the missing adventurer in the underground passage, I met a suspicious guy. Sandora and I followed each other and found a secret stronghold. It should be you who said They claim to be a technology revival organization. The situation was special at that time, so I followed you directly before I had time to contact you, and lurked until late at night before returning."

"God of technology," Celine frowned and loosened her collar. It seemed that the presence of heretics made this experienced former adventurer + current battle nun feel quite troubled, "Sure enough, it's those gangs Pagans, they have actually infiltrated into a place like this... Well, don't worry, you have done a good job, it can't be better. Leave the rest to me. I will notify other parishes to block the road first. , and at the same time take people to the stronghold you mentioned to check the situation - by the way, I need your help to lead the way."

At the end, Celine couldn't help but look apologetic: "I'm sorry, I didn't expect that things would become so troublesome. Originally, it was just a remote ruins that was allowed to be developed, but it suddenly rose to the level of a 'heresy incident.' Originally, you were supposed to It belongs to my guest."

"Don't say that," I quickly chuckled and waved my hands, "Actually, I'm quite surprised that a hotel proprietress is actually the person in charge of the church in this area. It seems that Ellu's dream of 'reopening her hotel' has to be postponed. Wait, the more adventurers crowd around you, the less you will be able to relax."

"It's normal for clergy to engage in various professions. I just happened to have opened a hotel with my husband," Celine smiled. "Those civilians who don't have much contact with clergy occasionally think that we are mysterious or unattainable, but In fact, the church has never allowed clergy to occupy too many social privileges. The meaning of our existence is only to manage the knowledge of the world for the God of Technology and the God of Magic, so that the world can develop at the right pace. Apart from that, there cannot be too much I don’t think so - at least you have to figure out how to solve life problems by yourself. This is why the number of priests is so small, and most people are not very able to accept this kind of stressful life."

It seemed that she had talked about a topic that she was interested in, or that she couldn't usually find someone to talk to about such things. Celine talked a little more for a while, and Sandora and I also learned more about the operation of this lost religion. And finally the most core point was completely determined: the founder of the Lost God Religion and the current core of the church is the tree elf.

Of course, the indigenous people of this world do not have the term "tree elves". They refer to tree elves and two other white elves who may come from other civilization circles as "elves". The latter does not seem to be trying to correct this statement. interest.

After confirming that the Lost God Sect was founded by the tree elves, the "simple" and "pure style" of this sect became more understandable. Although their behavior is still a bit inappropriate in the opinion of Sandora and I, but that This atmosphere of clear goals, acting only to preserve knowledge, and not seeking personal gain (at least most priests do not seek personal gain) is really in line with the racial characteristics of the tree elves.

Next, I took Celine to the stronghold.

Of course, all the people here have been moved away by us. First of all, the current contradiction between the Lost God Religion and the Technological Revival Faction belongs to the "Contradiction of Obscurity" (a proper term for a certain discipline in the empire. It is specifically used to refer to those who are not civilized because of civilization. It seems that this excessive conflict between them should be temporarily suspended. Secondly, the members of the technical revivalists should be retained and useful. Shan and I Dora also hopes to get more information from them, so naturally she cannot just hand it over to Celine's sect.

So what Celine saw was a man going to an empty underground base.

"It seems we are a step late. They should have been keeping an eye on the movements around the ancient tower. They ran away as soon as the adventurers came." Celine led a group of adventurers back to the surface from the underground palace. With an unconcealed look of disappointment on his face, he said, "This will raise the alert level again. The heretics who escaped may scatter to the surrounding towns, making it more difficult to catch them."

I held Sandora beside me and kept laughing the whole time. I wish I could write the words "I don't know anything" directly on my face. At this time, I feel a little envious of Sandora: she will never worry about her expression showing anything when she looks like this...

"What should we do next? With such a big event happening, are things at the ruins still the same as before?" I asked casually, diverting Celine's attention while trying to shift the topic to higher levels of the sect. "How do you deal with such heretical incidents?"

"A fringe town like this is not even a 'parish', and I am the only battle nun who officially owns the Holy Clothes. This cannot deal with this level of heresy. Now we can only let the adventurers Help strengthen the security and strictly check every stranger who comes to the town... The town is small and remote, which seems to be a benefit now. Strangers other than adventurers will be very conspicuous here," Celine said a little tired He laughed, then frowned, "Based on the size of this underground base, there were probably a lot of heretics who were entrenched here at the beginning, and they also had certain research and development capabilities. This might alarm the cardinal-level leaders... No, It may even alarm His Majesty the Pope. If that happens, I will have to go to the Holy City of Science and Technology to meet with the Pope. By the way, if the Pope really personally intervenes in matters here, I am afraid that you, as the first parties involved, will also be summoned. Don't be nervous, this is an opportunity: I'm afraid only the Pope can solve the 'Egg Curse' encountered by Miss Sandora."

Sandra Ball suddenly became furious: "Don't mention the egg-making thing again!"

Celine smiled slightly, just taking Sandora's blow-up as an ordinary embarrassed reaction, and then lowered her head and muttered to herself: "I really can't believe that I will have the opportunity to see the Pope in person in this life, but... It’s because of this kind of incident…”

"It's better this time, it saves us trouble," Sandra Ball dangled in my arms and said through mental connection, "Before, I was thinking of finding a chance to meet the leader of the Lost Religion, but after planning for a long time, I just forced my way in. I still sneaked into the Holy Capital secretly, but the opportunity came to me."

The following days seemed to calm down temporarily, and nothing happened for several consecutive days.

Adventurers in the town still go to the ruins of the ancient tower to explore on a regular basis. Every day someone brings back some relics or rubbings of ancient texts and submits them to the church. As the only qualified clergyman in the town, Celine is responsible for inspecting these relics. After rough classification and registration, after the exploration of the relics here is completed, the adventurers who have contributed can get monetary rewards from the superior parishes based on the total number of relics turned in: this is the way of cooperation between the Lost God Cult and the adventurers. .

During this period, Shandora and I also went to the ancient tower out of curiosity, and found that the place was nothing to see: it was just a communication facility with backward technology, and it was not built by tree elves, and it had no exploration value.

Celine has also passed the information about "heretics" to the archdiocese through the clergy's special communication channels. Each parish has blocked the main traffic routes in an attempt to catch the heretics, but it is destined to be impossible. It is said that it can take up to four days to get direct instructions from the highest diocese. Now it seems that there is a real chance of going to meet the Pope, so Celine seems nervous.

Because Celine is busy with work, Ellu is even more unsupervised, and the little girl almost becomes a disaster in the town - so I am helping to take care of the child these days.

Wait... wait, why am I helping the widow take care of her children! ?

Widow, Battle Sister, Naughty Child, and Lost Civilization. Can anyone help me recall how these four things were put together? !

In short, time passed slowly, and just when I thought that there was nothing to do next and I should go to the Pope to talk about life, a signal suddenly came from the distant space.

A deep space probe discovered something suspected to be the "Celestial Forge". (To be continued...)