Sherlock Holmes sat on the couch and watched Magellan translate the main content of the book at breakneck speed.

He had finally solved the puzzle completely, and the current detective was satisfied, and as for the contents of this precious ancient book, Holmes had no interest in it.

"As I guessed before, the horn was an important information transmission tool in military operations in the Middle Ages, and the production process was very complicated, so every horn maker had a strict personal attachment to a feudal knight and noble lord, and everything he belonged to the lord. ”

The first half of the book is the process of making the horn, and the description is very detailed and well-organized, but the most important thing is the large letters at the front and the end: This belongs to the noble lord and the earl.

Magellan was a little disappointed that what he needed now was not an ancient horn-making process, but an ancient horn.

However, the second half of the book overjoyed him.

It was an account of a precious horn, and the author of this book, who was supposed to be a very good horn maker, described it with amazement and unbridled praise, and left behind the whole process of obtaining it.

There was once a small group of Esyad pirates attacking the territory of the Craftsman Lord, and in one of the clashes, the Lord won a great victory, even capturing the pirate leader's ship, and in the cabin, the soldiers found a horn.

It was an ornate horn adorned with gold and encrusted with rubies, and anyone who saw it was completely captured at first sight.

Naturally, this treasure became the most cherished collection of the lord himself.

But things are unpredictable, and the lord makes a mistake in the race for the next king, and trouble ensues.

Eventually, as expected, the lord was about to be executed, and before the final moment came, he gave the horn to the trumpeter beside him, telling him to flee with the treasure.

The craftsman was the author of the book.

With a priceless treasure, the craftsman was terrified, he was very clever, and as a genius who taught himself the ancient Loren language, and taught himself the code, he knew that this trumpet was now the source of calamity.

So the craftsman buried the horn under the castle and fled.

"What a story of ups and downs, good bedtime book for kids. ”

Sherlock Holmes is starting to get bored, and although Magellan tries to translate only the important parts, it's still a long, old-fashioned medieval saga, and in reality, the plot isn't interesting.

So Magellan omitted the later experience of the craftsman and went straight to the end.

"The horn is buried under the tower in the southeast corner of the castle. ”

Holmes woke up from his trance: "It's over?"

"It's over. ”

"Ah...... Overall, it's boring. ”

Magellan smiled.

This is Sherlock Holmes, in a word, he was a detective, a criminologist, then a chemist, a lover of logic, a seasoned violinist, an amateur poet, and finally, did not like history.

"If you want to use that weird horn sound to prove that the end of the world is coming, it probably won't take that long. ”

Magellan nodded: "I'm looking for the source of that voice, which could be a potential ally." ”

"Only a very small number of people have the possibility of going to the opposite of absolute sanity and falling into illusion, and that seems to be exactly what you are now. Holmes pulled out his pipe and put it in his mouth, "I don't believe in the end of the world, but you do." ”

"Transcendent powers do exist, and the state religion has confirmed the return of science......"

"There's a gap in your logical chain that shouldn't be there," Holmes was never a polite gentleman in fact, he was extremely harsh on people, and most people thought he was polite and thoughtful, because Holmes had always treated them only as strangers, "The world cannot be destroyed by a god." ”

Magellan instinctively began to think, he wanted to refute Sherlock Holmes, and then, suddenly, Magellan didn't want to say anything.

"Convince me, detective, I wish you could prove once and for all that the world will not be destroyed. ”

Both laughed.

"The world itself will not be destroyed, and I don't want to waste time explaining that even the ultimate catastrophe is the destruction of humanity, or everything on which humanity depends, nothing more. ”

"All religions, including Scientology's Armageddon Final Judgment, can be seen simply as a religious war, where victory and defeat can be determined by comparing the forces of friend and foe. ”

"A crusade?"

"The difference is that the power of science is much weaker than that time. ”

Sherlock Holmes was enveloped in smoke, and the sparks in his pipe flickered and dimmed.

"The real power of science is not the belief in its followers, but the belief that more people can be gained after the victory of the religious wars, and that the power of moral perfection in the war is negligible, and the final result of this simple calculation is that science will definitely fail. ”

"It's so optimistic. ”

If this were a war without the intervention of supernatural forces, then perhaps everything would really be as Sherlock Holmes put it, and science would have failed. But the possibilities of science are endless, and he actually single-handedly became a party to the war.

"According to the most pessimistic estimates, science has been brainwashed by supernatural power to get a huge number of fanatics, and the results will not change. Holmes took his pipe from his mouth and exhaled a puff of smoke, "How will the war go if we regard the entire peninsula where Loren is located as the domain of science, and the millions of people living on it as soldiers?"

......

Imperial War Department.

"Even if science owns the entire peninsula, it is still at a strategic disadvantage. ”

The Admiralty Chancellor was still refuting the proposal of the state church, but the tone was much more polite than yesterday, and the content of the speech also involved more specific analysis, I wonder if it was because of the magic air cooler donated by the countess privately.

"Unfortunately, to the north of the peninsula is the Central Mountains, and if you want to say that the army of the gods can climb over the snow-capped mountains, then on the other side of the mountains, is Francie, the army of the king of the world. ”

Venice is one of the strongest shipyards on the continent. ”

"At worst, Venice ignores the covenant with Arafa and turns to science," the Admiralty Chancellor himself couldn't help laughing, he obviously felt that it was impossible, "the Holy See will transform all the merchant ships into warships in an instant, and then go to sea, and they will be encircled, including the Inland Sea Fleet of the King of the World, the fleet of Arafa, and the weak, explorer pirates." ”

The atmosphere in the large conference room became cheerful, and low laughter was everywhere.