Chapter 1876 Three Goddesses
The scavengers following the team stopped following after entering the city and turned to walk towards their homes in the city. The team also unloaded the various goods on the sled at a cargo transfer station on the edge of the city. The team also disbanded on the spot after completing the transfer of goods.
Leo also left the team after entering the city. He did not immediately enter the inner city, but walked around the various blocks in the outer city. While walking, he listened to the conversations of people around him and analyzed the language they used. After walking four or five blocks, he basically mastered the daily language of this language.
Then, he found a tavern in a certain block, went in and found a corner to sit down, quietly listened to the conversations of people in the tavern, and obtained a lot of information about this city and the world.
Although there was a shortage of food in this city, there was still alcohol available. The raw material for brewing alcohol was not food, but a special kind of moss.
This kind of moss is toxic and cannot be eaten directly by humans. However, after special fermentation and filtration, its toxicity is weakened and it can be brewed into good wine. However, this kind of wine is slightly toxic. After drinking it, the tongue will be numb for a long time, and it will also be accompanied by a dizziness. However, for those alcoholics, this little toxicity is nothing, and they think that the side effects brought by this toxicity are the characteristics of this wine.
Because the production process is simple and the raw materials are available everywhere, such taverns can be seen everywhere in the outer city area. It is common for people to freeze to death on the roadside because of drunkenness in the outer city area. The managers of Newland City have a completely laissez-faire attitude towards this, because this is a good thing for them. It is better to get drunk and die than to get hot-headed and make trouble everywhere.
It is not difficult to hear from the conversations of the people in the tavern that the biggest problem for Newland City now is overpopulation, and it is a serious overpopulation.
Newland City is the only habitable city within a radius of thousands of kilometers. It is also the only refuge with a redemption order in the surrounding tribes. Almost all the survivors who cannot survive in the snowfield have come here to seek refuge, which has led to an explosive growth in the population. Last year, the population of the entire city just broke one million, but now the population of Newland City has reached more than six million. The appearance of so many unplanned people has directly led to an extreme shortage of various materials in the city, forcing the management to increase the number of scavengers to collect as many resources as possible.
It is precisely because of the population surge that there are many conflicts in the outer city. The earliest people who came here look down on those who came later, and those who came later look down on those who came later. This conflict eventually caused more serious conflicts, because there are more than 40 to 50 people who died in these conflicts every day. Therefore, in the tavern, topics related to conflicts are the most talked about topics. For example, a guy with a beard not far from Leo's seat proudly told his companions that he had solved several outsiders when he was scavenging not long ago, and next to that guy sat a neighborhood sheriff with a badge.
The Redemption Order is the controller of New Rand, and the Redemption Army is the only legal military organization in New Rand. In the outer city, ten Redemption Army camps were built, with 20,000 troops standing, and 40,000 troops were stationed in the surrounding Totem Pole Forest. This does not include the troops in the inner city. Some people estimate that the Redemption Army alone has an armed force of about 100,000.
However, the Redemption Army, with swords and shields as emblems, is an armed force affiliated with the Goddess of Victory, and it is not the only armed force of the Redemption Order. The Lantern Monks of the Lantern Goddess also have more than 100,000 people. Most of them are residents of the outer city, mainly responsible for the exploration of surrounding cities and the collection of materials.
However, neither the Redemption Army nor the Lantern Monks are responsible for the security of the outer city. The security of the outer city is the responsibility of ten sheriffs selected from each block. However, because these sheriffs are selected by the blocks themselves, most of them will take care of the people in their own blocks, and at the same time, they will act independently in handling things and enforcing the law.
Such an approach naturally has countless disadvantages, but for city managers, these disadvantages may not be disadvantages. For them, the stability and security of the inner city is the most important. As for the people in the outer city, as long as they don't make trouble, they can solve the internal contradictions and conflicts by themselves.
The Redemption Order is the only religious organization in New Land City and even the whole world, and it is also the controller of world power. Even the remaining survivors in the snowfield outside the city believe in the Lord of Redemption.
However, most people don't know much about the Redemption Order, and they know very little about the Lord of Redemption. They only know that after the world disaster, it was the Lord of Redemption who saved everyone and pulled back the human beings who were about to perish. In addition, the Lord of Redemption has three incarnations, namely the goddess of victory holding a sword and shield, the goddess of lanterns holding lanterns, and the goddess of civilization holding books.
"If I want to know more about the Lord of Redemption, where can I get relevant information?" When a believer of the Lord of Redemption promoted his faith to his companions, Leo walked over and asked.
The Lord of Redemption believer turned his head and looked at Leo. He was too lazy to pay attention to him, but his mouth opened and said: "It's very simple. As long as you become a monk of the Lord of Redemption, you can read all the books about the Goddess of Redemption. You can also go to the Great Library of the Goddess of Civilization in the inner city. There should be relevant information there."
Leo asked: "Doesn't the Lord of Redemption have any monastic books for believers?"
The believer looked at Leo with a puzzled look, and said as if reciting: "The Lord of Redemption does not need believers, it is the believers who need the Lord of Redemption. The Order of Redemption is obtained by the sages after pleading with the Lord of Redemption. It was established, and no words are enough to describe the greatness of the goddess. All the classics were written by the sages, and only the true redemption monks are qualified to read them. It is the limit for ordinary believers to recite the title of the Lord of Redemption, and reciting the titles of the three incarnations of the Lord of Redemption in prayer is what we should do. "
Leo did not ask any more questions after hearing this. Obviously, there is a strict hierarchy within the Redemption Order, and the qualification to read the sages' classics is a manifestation of a hierarchical identity. Moreover, the Redemption Order does not need to actively preach like he had seen before, so the selection of formal monks is also very strict.
Obviously, if Leo continues to stay in the outer city, it will be difficult for him to get more useful information. People in the outer city only care about things around them. Most people don't even know their past history, and they don't even know when the disaster came. As for the world, they know nothing at all. The only thing they can know is that there are other refuge cities similar to New Land City, but those cities are very far away. It is impossible for them to reach another city in their current situation. Only the airship of the Redemption Order can quickly travel through various cities.
Seeing that he could not get more useful information, Leo left the tavern and walked directly towards the inner city.
Although the inner city was surrounded by towering walls and guarded by a large number of armed monks, these were useless to Leo. He walked directly into the inner city from the main gate. Under the influence of psychic power, the monks guarding the gate ignored Leo, a stranger, and did not even look at him, let alone stop him.
Compared with the outer city, the inner city is much cleaner and tidier. Not only is there no snow or garbage on the ground, but heating pipes are not only laid in everyone's home, but also under the streets. Therefore, even if the sky is cold and windy, it still feels warm in the inner city.
People living in the inner city all wear decent clothes. Although these clothes are not new, they are clean and complete, much better than the tattered clothes of those people in the outer city.
However, the most common people in the inner city are the monks wearing monk robes, and the badges on these monks are different, representing the three incarnation goddesses, among which the number of monks of the goddess of victory is the largest, and the number of monks of the goddess of civilization is the smallest.
Although the living conditions of the people in the inner city are much better than those in the outer city, it does not mean that the people here are pampered. Under Leo's mental network scan, he found that the physical fitness of the people in the inner city is generally higher than that of the people in the outer city. This is not a little higher, but a multiple gap. It seems that the people in the inner city have been stimulated and transformed by some kind of power. If they do not use weapons, the people in the inner city can easily defeat four or five people from the outer city with bare hands.
This is just the physical fitness of ordinary people living in the inner city. Those monks wearing monk robes have a higher physical fitness than the people in the inner city, and the gap is equivalent to the gap between ordinary people in the inner and outer city.
A rough calculation shows that there are at least 400,000 to 500,000 residents in the inner city. 400,000 to 500,000 humans with super powers, plus the army stationed in the city and the forest, may be the main reason why the Redemption Order can cover this refuge city with order and stability.
The main reason for the great improvement in the physical fitness of ordinary people and monks in the inner city is on the surrounding city walls and the statues on the top of the mountain. Ordinary people cannot see the secrets on the city walls with their naked eyes. They can only see the smooth city walls, but Leo's spiritual vision can see that the surface of the city wall is a layer of magic array composed of five Turing roots repeatedly superimposed, and the core of the magic array is the three goddess statues on the top of the mountain.
This magic array constantly extracts the faith spirit generated by the people in the inner city and concentrates it on the goddess statue on the top of the mountain, and then completes the transformation in the body of the goddess statue, turning into three special energies, which are emitted from different items in the hands of the goddess statue and radiate the entire inner city.
People who are in this kind of energy radiation for a long time will naturally undergo some changes, and their bodies will also undergo different changes due to adapting to different energies.
These Turing root magic arrays were also designed by Leo for Sylvia when he was in Vanaheim. If my guess is correct, the three goddess statues on the top of the mountain should be three totem poles.
The original design of this Turing root array was mainly to allow the people of the Crack Plains tribe to spontaneously stimulate their blood. However, it was later discovered that those who were stimulated in this way had no marks that could control them, so it was invalidated. Unexpectedly, Sylvia would use it for her believers and monks. Moreover, from various details, Sylvia not only directly applied it, but also modified it on the basis of the original. Now the Turing root array in the inner city should have some connection with the outermost totem pole forest. Once it is fully activated, this array may exert unimaginable power.
Although Leo has not seen Sylvia yet, judging from the array in the city, Sylvia's mastery of mysticism should have been greatly improved.
After Leo entered the inner city, he scanned the city a little and soon found the location of the big library.
This large library was built on the hillside facing the Goddess of Civilization. A relatively small statue of the Goddess of Civilization was also erected in the square in front of it. All the monks in the library were women, with no men. Perhaps because of some kind of religious practice, they all kept themselves in a state of silence, and communicated entirely through sign language. The library was also extremely quiet, and all the people who came here to read books also followed the silence rule. Only the sound of flipping books sounded in the empty space of the library.
According to the rules of the Redemption Order, not everyone can read the books in the large library. Even people living in the inner city are not qualified. Only those monks who have passed the trial of the Goddess of Civilization are qualified to enter the large library.
There is no guard at the entrance of the large library, and there is no gate. Those who are not qualified can only wander outside the door and cannot step into the library. It is said that the moment the large library was built, the Goddess of Civilization appeared in the library, blessed the large library, and set up a qualification ban.
The monks of the Goddess of Civilization did not give any response to this statement, so the outside world was somewhat skeptical of this statement, believing that this was a lie deliberately fabricated by the believers of the Goddess of Civilization.
Although the three goddesses and the Lord of Redemption are one and the same, the believers of the three goddesses secretly have some considerations and want to compete for superiority and inferiority. However, this behavior is just a small move by the low-level monks or believers below. There is no such disagreement among the real high-level monks.
However, in Leo's opinion, the rumor should be true, because he can feel Sylvia's energy fluctuations in the library. This energy is somewhat similar to the witch's energy, but not exactly the same.
The restriction at the door did not have any effect on Leo. Leo easily passed through the restriction and entered the library. He did not intend to pick up the books one by one, but found a seat in the library and sat down. Then he used the mental network to scan the entire library's collection and recorded all the contents in the brain database.