"Gods...... The will of the gods? ”

Serena thought she had heard it wrong for a while, you said it was a secret, and it was okay to pretend to be mysterious and unfathomable, why use this reason?

Is this an insult to one's own intelligence? Who in this world would believe in such a reason that you don't need to think about it to know is false!

She tugged at the corners of her mouth a little far-fetched, and squeezed out a smile that wasn't too natural: "That, what does the will of the gods mean?" Can you make it clearer, I don't understand too much......"

The next moment, the relict woman's face changed in an instant, although it was not the kind that changed drastically, but it was obvious that people could feel her displeasure and hostility.

She stared hard at Serena and couldn't stop looking up and down, "You outsiders have a problem...... Isn't it possible to enter the Holy City casually without having to prove yourself lately? ”

"Huh? This" Serena's face froze, but she still subconsciously defended herself, "Wait, I'...... I really don't know......"

Damn it! What the hell is going on here, and what went wrong? She sensed danger at the moment—the situation seemed to be about to spiral out of control—and she was about to be exposed?!

What are you kidding, I didn't have any problems before!

Even just now, she was still thinking about how to take risks next, to steal information and plan an escape route, but now because of such a rhetorical question, is she going to plant it like this?

Could it be because I let go of the heavy social pressure accumulated in the past during this period of time and lived too easily...... And it's not enough of the previous caution and carefulness to miss any important details?!

At this moment, Serena's mind was undoubtedly a mess.

All kinds of complicated thoughts and emotions came to her heart, making it even more difficult for her to think calmly, and her hands hanging down at her side couldn't help but tremble slightly.

- Is this exposed?

- What to do? Do you want to decisively kill this woman in front of you?!

- But this will not change anything, the situation will only become more and more unavailable, and I am unprepared and I don't even have a weapon, how can I escape next?

Merely.

"Oh, by the way, you're in the third and last two groups......"

The remnant woman didn't seem to be as coherent as Selina imagined the plot of the movie to follow, she just frowned very dissatisfied, and snorted.

"I remember Sophia said that because there was not enough time to rebuild the Holy City before, the process could be omitted, and you people should have skipped some steps......"

As she said this, she lowered her head and checked Serena's corresponding number on the roster to confirm her thoughts.

Then the remnant woman raised her head, looked up and down at the former blonde policewoman, and then pouted: "Forget it, but I still have to remind you, even if you don't need to prove yourself, but those things are something you must master, if you can't integrate into us all the time, then it doesn't matter if I or someone else ......"

“……”

“……”

Serena was stunned for a moment, and then she still couldn't react, but at least she already understood, she had passed the test?

The other party had already continued to talk in a rambling manner, and he didn't seem to notice his strange appearance just now-

Is this because he subconsciously covered it up better, or because he was wearing thicker clothes, the other party didn't see his arm trembling a few times, and he wanted to burst out and kill people? Could it be that the other party actually found the problem, but wanted to stabilize himself?

But in any case, the most critical moment seems to be behind us.

After showing an honest and serious junior appearance, listening to the babbling sermons of the remnant woman, after a few minutes, the other party explained again and again, and then turned to leave.

"Whew...... Whew......"

After closing the door, Serena leaned against the back of the door and couldn't help panting rapidly, and some fine cold sweat appeared on her forehead.

However, this real panicked state has become her perfect disguise just now, and it looks like she is being grabbed by the handle and panicked.

After all, if you are too calm, then it will make people suspicious, right? So in a sense, Serena was indeed scared just now, but it was indeed the best disguise for her just now.

After breathing for a while, the former blonde policewoman calmed down a little and calmed down.

She is not completely covering up, she is also using the performance of submissiveness to extract information from the other party's mouth, and to determine the other party's true thoughts...... The final conclusion is that the other party really doesn't really perceive the problem.

Nor did he expose himself...... Although she was indeed shocked, she thought that she was going to die here today.

"These madmen...... It has grown to such a huge size, is it really a cult organization? What a damn one! ”

Wiping a handful of cold sweat from her head, Serena cursed in a low voice in annoyance.

Immediately after, she walked briskly to the edge of the table, quickly rummaged through the few books and documents on the shelves, and quickly pulled out several so-called official documents from them-

It was all sent by those people, and if there was any information she had overlooked, it could have been written on it.

Or had she seen it before, but ended up being mistaken for useless and cumbersome spam?

And now that she thinks about it, Serena seems to have remembered one thing, that is, she does have some impressions, such as the legend of the "prophet", the power of the "gods", and so on.

Merely......

This kind of background setting, which is completely religious, mythical, and legendary, was judged by her to be meaningless spam information at the beginning, and she just hurriedly skimmed through it and ignored it.

After all, compared to the information on technical science, rules and regulations, and the most important personnel arrangements, forbidden areas, authority and level promotion, etc., these are indeed spam information for ordinary people.

Serena's behavior was actually right, but she didn't expect that she was almost on her knees because of this assumption......

It's not a joke, it's because she understands her current situation too well, so when she thought she might be exposed just now, she almost felt suffocated, and a sense of despair pervaded her heart.

Because I know that there will only be an end after being exposed, there is no possibility of escape if I am unprepared.

It would be useless to even be able to abandon Glinton, the city is completely under the polar glaciers. And she'd seen the horrible walls of light, the radial blockades, the evil ruthless machines, and so on.

Even those crazy cultists have been tossing around some "tallboy" equipment recently-

It's a set of individual armor that people can't figure out what the principle is based on, and it's made.

Armed with incendiary bombs and heavily plated armor, the driver sits in the driver's seat nearly ten meters above the ground through a set of spider-legged hybrid stands.

This allows them to stay out of head-on confrontation, and the driver's seat is surrounded by an additional amber wood detachable shield that is extremely sturdy enough to protect them from strong shocks.

The tall soldiers are also equipped with spotlights that illuminate everything in the dark......

In addition, the carbon key microphone is very sensitive, and as long as it is within the audible range, it will react to suspicious movements that are not recorded......

It is also driven by whale oil power, and it can continue to operate for a long time with a full tank of oil......

Therefore, this is completely a brutal technological embodiment on the same level as those humanoid bird-headed evil machines, once faced head-on, as a human being, it is basically only the end of being slaughtered.

As for why it is so familiar, it is because Serena needs to hide her true identity through work after all, and her recent job schedule is to help make and produce that kind of individual armor. Earlier, it was arranged to build and assemble clockwork machines, but now it seems that there are enough of them.

It was because she knew too well that Serena understood that there was no possibility for her to hastily escape from this strange and mysterious but heavily guarded and terrible city without preparation......

The only result would be to have your head cut off by a clockwork machine, or burned to ashes by the Wall of Light, and either way you might die a good death.

"Immortal Prophet...... Jinni...... Sacred Source...... Is that? Only primitive tribes would believe in this kind of thing, but they have developed to this extent......"

Serena carefully read the information she needed, and then looked at the window with a solemn face, her eyes seemed to break through the barrier, and saw the magnificent and strange city outside-

"And they're still so fanatical, can't there really be a god? Wait, no, if it's a god, why would they come up with so many strange technologies, could it be an alien......"

For a moment, the woman felt extremely ridiculous about this fleeting thought.

But combined with the three views that have been repeatedly destroyed during this period of time, and the things that she has seen that are incomprehensible and do not conform to common sense, she feels that perhaps this is the most likely.

……

……

"What is the STEM system?"

In the main temple, Alex, who was temporarily called over, asked strangely, he was notified to come, and then he heard that he was really in charge of a certain technical position in the future, as for the previous ones......

This includes maintenance, improvement, manufacturing and assembly of clockwork machines, as well as technical guidance for rail cars, watchtowers, radial blockades, etc.

From now on, it's not that he can just leave it alone, but it has become an occasional part-time job. After all, those things can be easily completed in three days after a simple teaching, so it would be nice to let some people master this technique and take charge of it.

- Even the most technically demanding clockwork machines are not so sophisticated that they are incomprehensible.

If you put aside the hard conditions of material properties, or the overall technical level is a little higher than that of radios?

So it's no wonder that Alex's expression at this time also has an inexplicable sense of excitement and expectation, after all, the previous whale oil technology has opened his eyes.

That's completely different from the previous understanding and opinions, it's purely another unique style of system, although the technical content is not very high, but fanatical technology enthusiasts like him are not blindly pursuing high-tech and high-tech in many cases.

How to put it, it's probably a kind of ...... Technocratic nostalgia?

Just like the development of clocks, the time is now represented by numbers, and the hands used to be used to represent time. At the end of the day, it's just a difference in the way it is displayed, and digital clocks are definitely more accurate, more precise, and more advanced expressions.

There are hands, there are ticking sounds, and mechanical watches that remind people that this moment is connected to the previous moment and the next moment, and it has also been questioned because it blurs the true face of time-

"No matter how accurate a clock is, it can't tell us what time really is."

However, many people will insist that mechanical watches are "real clocks", and as for digital watches, hehe......

Just as digital cameras were not considered cameras by professionals in the first days, the technology of automatic printing was also disdained by professionals.

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