Chapter 1258: Understand the world

The small town in the mountain is not very big. There are only about a hundred households in the town, with a population of less than 1,000. Although the people in the small town are puzzled by the visit of Leo and Sylvia, two outsiders, It’s not too conflicting either, because even though the clothes of the two seem a little weird, they are not what ordinary people can wear. In addition, they speak different languages, so they just treat them as foreign tourists. people.
　　Although Leo and Sylvia do not have the currency of this country, they do have common precious metal gold, so there is no need to worry about the cost of the two of them in the town.
　　 The two stayed in the town for about three months. During these three months, Leo mastered the language of the country through the teachers in the local school and taught it to Sylvia.
　　 At the same time, the two also learned some information about the country and the world they are currently in through the books in the school and the small town library.
This is a world that amazes Sylvia, but is very normal for Leo. This world does not have an official uniform name. Basically, each country uses a different name to call the world, but The most commonly used name is Eta, which is a name left over from an ancient powerful empire, meaning the land of gods.
Although the world does not have a unified name, people in this world have explored the entire world to a very high level. For example, people in this world have completed voyages around the world hundreds of years ago, drawing a complete This is where Sylvia is shocked by this world, because this world is a sphere.
You know, no matter how enlightened the ideas of the people in the world of Vinylon are, their understanding of the world is flat. The world is surrounded by endless dense fog. After entering the dense fog, they will fall into the dense fog. Endless abyss.
　　 They could not imagine that the world would be a sphere, just like Sylvia, after learning about the geography of the world, asked the most about whether the people living under the sphere would not fall down?
Although Leo used scientific rhetoric such as gravity to explain why people live on the surface of a sphere and do not fall, it is clear that deep-rooted thinking and lack of basic common sense made Sylvia never understand Lei. Ou’s explanation, in the end, Leo could only explain that there is a world power beyond the gods in this world, which binds people to the surface. On the contrary, Sylvia quickly accepted that people can live on the surface of a sphere. know.
　　 Just like the world of Vinylon, this world also broke out a great nautical era hundreds of years ago. It was also the era of great geographic discovery in this world. Almost all geographic knowledge was discovered at that time.
For example, this world has two continents, a new continent, and an old road. Each continent is very huge. It takes six years to travel around the coastline of the old continent at the fastest speed, while the new continent is even bigger. It will not be possible to make a circle in less than ten years.
The other two continents are not connected. There are star-studded islands in the middle. These islands allow people from the old roads to migrate to the new continent. Otherwise, according to normal navigation, even the fastest ship will take about five years. , Can sail from the old road to the new continent, if there is no island in the middle for replenishment, it will be impossible to reach.
　　From this point of view, the area of ​​this world is probably much larger than the world of Vinylon surrounded by mist.
Perhaps because the world is much larger than the Vinylon world, Sylvia was shocked by the number of countries in this world. According to statistics, there are more than 5,000 countries that have joined the New World Covenant and the Old Road Covenant. Excluding those island countries, there are also many countries in the depths of the continent that do not like to contact with outsiders, so it is estimated that the total number of countries in the world may reach more than 6,000.
The country where Leo and Sylvia are located is a small inland mountain country in the New World. There are more than 30 provinces in total. Each province is divided into more than a dozen urban areas with a population of tens of millions. If In the world of Vinylon, it is already a very strong country, but in this world, it is not even in the top 1,000 in the New World.
　　The countries of the New World are almost all established by people who moved here from the old roads over the past few hundred years. Since the discovery of the New World by explorers during the great voyages at that time, a large number of people who escaped the war on the old roads have moved to the New World.
The original settlers also had some conflicts due to land, but later they discovered that the land in the New World was so large that they could not fully occupy it in their entire life, so they stopped the dispute. Those who came from the Old World were willing to If you settle down at the landing site, you can settle down and join the country established at the landing site. If you don’t want to, you can leave, go deep into the mainland, find a land without an owner, and build a country on your own.
In this way, the number of countries in the New World has sprung up like bamboo shoots after a few hundred years, and soon surpassed the Old World, reaching more than 3,000. But even so, the people here still explore the New World even half of the land area. No, the mark on the center of the continent is still blank on the map, just like the blank areas in the center of the old continent.
Although this world has a large population and endless resources, the level of technology and civilization of this world is not much higher than that of the world of Velen. The civilization of this world is still dominated by the three systems of monarchy, democracy and empire. Parliament The system is supplemented by the three core systems, and there is no more advanced political system.
　　 For example, the country where the two are located is a constitutional monarchy, which is somewhat similar to the former United Kingdom of France.
　　 As for the level of technology, the world also has trains and other mechanical devices, but they are not driven by steam, but by firepower generated by gas.
Because of the difference in the world environment, the trees in this world will not decompose rapidly after death like the Vinylon world. They will become mulch in just one or two months, and will be completely integrated into the earth. It will take a long time for the trees in this world to be able to survive. Completely corrupted, and in the process of corruption, most of the rotting wood will become fossilized, and only a few of the corrupted trees will become charcoal mud.
I don’t know why the fossils and charcoal mud that the trees turn into cannot be burned directly, but if soaked in a special formula of water, it will produce a kind of gas that can be easily burned, and this kind of gas is this. The power source of all mechanical devices in the world.
　　Although the mechanical devices in this world use more energy-efficient gas, but also because of the world's environmental constraints, the mechanical devices made by gas in this world are far from being compared with the Vinylon world in terms of energy efficiency.
For example, Leo can use a steam engine to create a war fortress in the world of Vinylon that is comparable to a hill and can move freely. However, if you count the energy efficiency of this world gas and the operating efficiency of the machine itself, even if it is a war fortress. Even if it is reduced to one tenth, it cannot be operated by a gas engine, so the civilian machinery in this world is very common.
　　 Compared with civilian machinery, this world may be because there are a lot of wars, so weapons and equipment are far beyond the world of Vinylon.
The main weapon in this world is gunpowder weapons. Unlike the world of Vinylon, the gunpowder outbreak in this world is very stable and does not require the use of special substances as stabilizers. So the gunpowder weapons in this world are very developed, not only pistols, rifles, but also There are special firearms such as revolving machine guns and sniper rifles.
In addition, this world has produced medium-sized weapons such as tanks and tanks. The weapons are equipped with large artillery. In addition, battleships are also equipped with various types of artillery. If such a battleship is placed in the world of Vinylon, perhaps one battleship is enough. Compete against a fleet.
　　 However, compared with the development of such huge and diverse types of weapons on the sea and on the land, the air weapons in this world are completely blank. There are air weapons such as the world of Vinylon, and the world does not have any air weapons.
This world has made flying devices in the past, but after countless experiments they found that except for birds and other natural flying creatures, any man-made flying device cannot fly into the air, even if it flies through a powerful gas engine. It will also fall down very quickly, as if this world possesses an invisible power that restricts people's exploration of the sky.
　　 Leo and Sylvia are more concerned about the history and religion of the countries of the world than these things about technology, civilization, and so on.
It’s a pity that there are too many countries in this world. Each country has its own national history and world history, and the history recorded by each country is different. Except for scholars specializing in history in universities in various countries, ordinary folks The understanding of history is also half-knowledge, and books are not referenced.
　　 The same situation also includes religion. There are even more religions in this world than in this world. Unless they are scholars who specialize in religious studies, ordinary people only know their own country’s religion and the churches around them.
　　 For example, the country where the two of them are now has a church called Gata as the state religion. This Gata is said to be a related to death and decay, and is in charge of the death of this country. Although the Gata Church is the state religion of this country, there are several other churches of gods that also have some fixed parishes here, and of course the Cthulhu Church is also indispensable.
However, unlike the world of Velen, the Cthulhu Church in this world will not experience such strong suppression. They are even allowed to have their own missionary sites, but they must be supervised by the government and the local state religion. Only the Cthulhu Church makes a big fuss. Things, such as the sacrifice of living people, will be suppressed by the government. The name of the suppression is not religious, but the arrest, interrogation, sentence and so on by the government's laws.
Leo and Sylvia do not know whether there are extraordinary powers in this world, because all the materials that record extraordinary powers are church myths and folklore, and according to Leo’s energy structure of the world, those church myths and The power described in the folklore can logically be impossible to exert normally, unless the world has a unique method suitable for this world.
　　 After getting to know the world a little bit, Leo and Sylvia both decided to leave this small town and also to leave this country, to go to another country, the Otter Federation, to see if they could find a suitable place for Sylvia to break through.
The reason why the two did not intend to stay here is because the country is too stable. Since the day of the founding of the country, more than two hundred years have passed. The entire country has not had any major events worthy of attention. The political situation is stable and the situation is stable. This environment also makes the people here have a comfortable temperament, they don't care about all things outside, and there is no way to collect enough information here.
Another more important point is that although the two did not find any traces of extraordinary power here, they could feel that the rancid smell of dead fish surrounding them was increasing, as if an unknown existence was paying attention to both of them. So, thinking of the theocracy of Gata, the state religion of this country, the two have reason to believe that they should have been targeted by this Gata, but this Gata did not act on them because of some scruples or other reasons.
Although Leo and Sylvia don’t know how powerful this Gata is, whether it’s a real god, a demigod, or an extraordinary creature with some extraordinary power, they are not in a very good state now. Before they found a way to fully exert their power, neither of them were suitable for conflict with the unknown existence in this world.
　　 That's why they decided to leave this country immediately and go to the Otter Federation, a country that is a little far away for the locals.
　　 Leo didn't choose the Otter Federation randomly. After careful consideration, he felt that the Otter Federation was suitable for them.
　　 First of all, the Ottoman Federation is a very large country. This size is not only the area of ​​the country, but also its national strength. If ranked according to the total strength, the Ottoman Federation is strong enough to rank among the top ten countries in the New World.
In addition, the Otter Federation is also one of the few anti-church countries in the entire world. Although they can't restrain some churches from preaching in their own country, they have very strict control over these churches, and the powers of appointment and dismissal, finance and personnel are in the hands of the federal government. , The members of the church only have the power to preach, so the Otter Federation has not established a state religion, so the trouble the two are now encountering may not be encountered there.
The last point is that the Otter Federation is the only country in the entire New World that has experienced religious wars. According to records, more than 30 churches launched a war there that lasted only a month, but the casualties were very huge. There are millions of people, and the specific reasons are unknown. In Leo and Sylvia's view, this war will definitely not be because of land, religious rights, and believers. It is more like fighting for something. So Otter The Federation is worth a visit.
　　Https://
　　Genius remembers this site address in one second: 　Mobile version reading URL: