Chapter VIII War Wounds, War Casualties, and National Deaths
On the other hand, Levi has a very leisurely life here. Exiting the hall, Levi found a hallway next to each other. In some places, there are also "skylights" where you can see the universe outside. But...... The decoration style of the overall building is still biased towards the religious architectural structure of the Middle Ages, and there is no trace of the appearance of outer space civilization.
Levi left everyone else behind and got close to Catherine of the Mechanics. He was going to exploit the gap between the different acolytes to get to the bottom - and he was not wrong.
Belong to the same acolyte faction, but belong to different leadership forces, and they will spit on each other.
They belong to the same acolyte faction, the same faction, and different warbands, and they may fire two shots when they meet each other.
Belong to different acolytes...... Go to hell! Heterodox!
The vast majority of people in the human empire worship the emperor in the same way that Christ, the Orthodox, the Ish, and the Jews worship one God. The difference is that everyone has the same title for the emperor, and what they worship is also the worship of the emperor called the state worship - but the grassroots leaders of the acolyte faction are different. Like an armed maid, it's an all-female combat team.
As for the Cult of the Mechanics? Heterodox! Absolute heresy! One step worse than demons, in the minds of any emperor-worshipping warband in the Human Empire, the Cult of the Mechanicus means that it is labeled "don't be left alone when you walk"! Always look for a way to kill each other when you have the chance! It's just that the Cult of the Mechanicus and the Emperor have signed a strange agreement to keep peace with each other, to help each other, and even to maintain a nominal and subordinative affiliation.
"In the first millennium, mankind marched into the universe. The pace of the march was extremely slow at first, and it took generations to travel back and forth between planets. So everyone developed their own on their own, until one day they discovered subspace technology, and everyone began to learn to cross time and space, which developed rapidly. After millennia, there have been some changes in the subspace, resulting in subspace storms. The storm was desperate, but we survived on Mars - the Martian colonists began to believe that it was the mechanical gods who saved them, and established the Cult of the Mechanics to worship the Mechanics, which is the origin of the Cult of the Mechanics. β
Walking forward with Levi, telling the history of his original sect, and now the little maid in the maid's uniform has been completely converted...... Right?
"The Cult of the Mechanics is based on Mars and rules it, providing most of the technology of the Human Empire and crafting all types of weapons, armor, vehicles, and Titan legions. The Cult of the Mechanicus is the organization that controls the science and technology of the Empire, and oversees almost all of the Empire's machinery and ordnance production. The technology for producing all kinds of machinery has been lost, and the Cult of the Mechanics can only replicate ancient technology, that is, colonial-era technology, by standardizing construction templates - Your Majesty, please. β
Levi was guided to a "small" cloister, which was said to be a small cloister, but in fact it was twice the size of Levi's original house.
"That's the simple construct of the Cult of the Mechanicus you'd like to know, but now I think they're heretics, and I've shaken off heresy and converted to you - this is our maid's common time. It is not used very often, but it may be used here at the celebration Mass after the war. Usually we prefer the prayer roomβ"
"Well, you're changing jobs fast enough." Levi looked at the girl who had just reached his chest: "You mean you...... No, the mechanics don't know how to build machines, they only know how to copy them, do they? β
"Hmm...... It's basically like this, just like me. Catherine pointed to the tip of her nose and said, "I know how to control a warship, but that's it." The technology of copying things is also copying, and I don't know anything else, and low-level people like me are not allowed to understand it......"
"Here, I'll ask you a question." Levi walked over to a place that was obviously a switch and asked, "Do you know what this is?" β
"Your Majesty...... This is a power starter. β
"Do you know direct current and alternating current?"
ββ¦β¦οΌ Uh, what's that? β
"Do you know who Edison is?"
βοΌβ
"Come, tell me, what was the cosmic velocity when the spacecraft broke through the atmosphere?"
"Uh......"
Obviously, Levi saw this girl who was said to be able to operate a spaceship, and there were two big characters written in her eyes, one was called stunned, and the other was called forced. It's a pretty girl, she seems to know a lot, but it's actually empty.
"Your Majesty, you are so knowledgeable!" With her hands crossed in front of her chest, she looked up at Levi after clenching her hands, and Catherine looked longing: "I know everything!" ββDo you really know everything? How is this ship built......
"I don't know." Li Wei waved his hand, and some things were still straightforward: "But since you are knowledge, I will also teach you two sentences: those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern people." I can control the people who make this thing - I'm about the same as you, but ...... I feel like I know a little bit more than you do. β
Levi, a liberal arts student, sighed.
It turns out that the world has been completely ...... No more. Human technology seems to be able to travel through the universe, but the people who manipulate it are fools, and even the makers are just some high-level technicians, and no one understands the principle, which is really a kind of ignorance in the cosmic era, which is really too ......
Awesome!
Ignorance and backwardness are the soil of brick rule, you don't understand anything, I live a long time, don't you?
Levi came to this unreasonable world alone, understood an incomprehensible language, and then understood that in fact, human beings are incomprehensible. Liberal arts students can beat astronauts, can the world be saved? It's like saying that a programmer can outrun a monkey.
"Okay, I'm a little more confident."
The maids' lounge was simple and simple, and the interior was still decorated in a marble religious style, with the difference being that there were a few more chairs: "Then again...... This lounge is big enough, and the six of you use this boat? β
ββ¦β¦ A squad is not eligible for such a large shuttle battleship. β
"Oh?"
"It's a shuttle warship that only warbands can use - the sisters are all dead, or missing, and the result is the same." Feeling a little depressed, Catherine said, "They...... Fight for His Majesty, die for the worshippers, there is no need for any sorrow. β
"...... honestly it feels strange, Levi feels that their deaths have nothing to do with him, and he didn't cause them. But the moment he was forcibly recognized as the emperor, he didn't deny it himself - even if the death of these maids had nothing to do with him, it became related.
"Fran and Mozi of the Fifth Squad, Masalan of the Holy Lance Squad, Orin ...... of the Stigmata Squad"
Walking gently past a table, Catherine stroked the corner of the table in a small voice: "They like to rest under this table, I ...... I can't even remember their names, except that Orin likes to eat holy bread with onions, and he definitely eats them every time he comes. However, the logistics soldiers who can cook are also dead, and we now have to do it ourselves. At the table over there, it turned out that several sisters of the mechanical acolyte had an argument with someone here, and they were all dragged to be flogged. Blue-eyed Ira likes to drink carrot juice, Red-eyed Issa doesn't have a liking, but she hates eating fish to the extreme, and Valila, the head maid of my original squad, ......"
Uttering cold but nice names, Catherine recounts her past with many girls. Suddenly, as if Catherine realized something, she turned around and fell to her knees.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty - the concubine was rude!"
ββ¦β¦ Nothing, you continue. Levi felt in his heart that the deaths of these girls he had never met were honestly not on his own heads. I was forcibly summoned myself, but ...... At this point, it is useless to say: "Name everyone you know, I want to hear their names." β
"Your Majesty, their names are innumerable, a total of 1,194 armed maids - the bodies were found in the gene seed bank. If possible...... Your Majesty, these armed maid sisters are fighting for you and are willing to die asking you. But time is running out, and you haven't had time to celebrate Mass for the resurrection. Catherine still fell to her knees, clenching her trembling little hands to explain her shaky inner world at the moment: "We have the privilege of having the Mass you preside over personally...... No, it's rude, the concubine is rude, please ...... blame. β
"There is no rudeness or rudeness, it is impossible to preside over it in person...... It's no problem to participate. "Host? What hosts? I can't even preside over the kindergarten class meeting, let alone preside over the funeral mass.
"Huh? Thank you, Your Majesty, for your ......"
"But don't rush to thank me just yet." Levi smiled a little bitterly, he felt that all this was cruel, or too cruel: "Then again, I heard that you are in the cosmic era? β
"The ...... of the Cosmic Age?"
"It's that it's out of the earth and can sail in space."
"It's true."
Levi looked at the marble buildings after the Renaissance, and the torches on the marble walls, the candles on the ceiling, and the corners of his mouth cracked, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.