Chapter 671 Can This Be Called Technology?
The package of information Beatrice had brought had been opened. When Zoe came over to see it, several technical priests of the Imperial Truth were already studying it. When they saw her coming, they all greeted her.
"Miss Zoe."
"How's it going? Is everything okay?"
"It seems there should be no problem. At least the content is correct."
The technical priest's tone was a little hesitant. Zoe came over and looked at the information. She soon understood why they were so confused.
"What the hell is this?"
Although Zoe is a civil servant, she works in a city with a strong industrial atmosphere like Castel, and she usually interacts with people like engineers. Therefore, she felt particularly uncomfortable when she saw this information.
"Ritual? Sacrifice? Burning lubricating oil? Eating slag? Dancing while hitting the furnace with a wrench? And a frequency of three hertz?"
Zoe looked at the people around her in confusion, and their expressions were equally strange.
"I thought it would be some bio-transformation surgery plan, or at least the technology to fuse flesh and blood with machines, but these..."
Zoe suddenly remembered the time when she summoned the first version of the machine spirit, when Chloe Gaia, Monica and the other two were dancing around the steam engine.
At that time I thought they were just joking, but it turns out this is really the orthodox ritual of the Mechanical Temple?
Yet, they managed to create such a sophisticated mechanical body.
There is a kind of beauty in it, as if a heavy machine gun was picked up by a primitive tribe and then shot at with a slingshot.
"Wait, that's not right. How can all these mechanical structures just dance out of existence? Those gears can't mesh on their own, right?"
Zoe suddenly realized that these mechanical limbs could not be that simple!
"Indeed, there is special information on transformation surgery here, but..." The Crusader on the side handed over a piece of paper with an indescribable expression on his face.
“???” Zoe was a little confused. There were several thick booklets written about various rituals, but the transformation surgery was just a piece of paper?
It was indeed just a piece of paper, and Zoe finished reading it in no time, and even understood it - remember, her mechanical level was basically at the "amateur" level.
Now she had an expression on her face that was hard to describe.
The transformation operation of this mechanical temple is actually very simple.
It was under the requirements of those thick booklets that an extremely complicated ceremony was set up in the operating room, and then the parts were placed on the human body one by one.
The correct parts will be "blessed" by the ritual, and then you can choose which parts to use for the transformation.
The people who would then undergo the transformation surgery would have to be [Sages] of very high status. During the surgery, they would take a drug that, combined with the special incense made by the Mechanical Temple, could allow people to enter "a sacred state."
According to Zoe's understanding of the supernatural, it was basically a hallucinogen that put people into a semi-crazy state. The ritual could also weaken the influence of the wall of reality, bringing people closer to the sea of unconsciousness.
If it were a transcendent, it would definitely be out of control, but the mechanical priests of the Mechanical Temple are all mortals, and their natural resistance to pollution is higher than that of transcendents.
They performed the surgery in this crazy state, and it was actually successful.
After realizing what she had seen, Zoe felt terrible.
This Mechanical Temple clearly worships machines so much, but its core technology is like this?
If Beatrice wasn't still vomiting, Zoe would have wanted to ask her if she had made up something to trick them.
It's really too outrageous. This thing doesn't look out of place on Nini's newspaper.
"So, the technology of the Mechanical Temple is to allow the machines to assemble and operate themselves through various rituals?"
"It seems so at the moment." The technical priest of the Skitarii was speechless.
Zoe was silent. She felt that she seemed to understand the Gear Sage. If she had taught for hundreds of years, she would have produced students like this.
"Never mind, never mind. As long as it works, it's fine. By the way, is there any technology that can help Miss Beatrice right now? Her condition doesn't look promising."
"Yes." The technician flipped through the booklet. "I have to say that most of the technologies Miss Beatrice selected are quite practical. Many are exactly what Castel needs. It's just that the implementation methods are a bit outrageous. I found it!"
He pointed to a section of densely packed small print in the booklet.
"Looking at this ritual, it can please the spirit of the machine and enhance the effectiveness of the machine. If my guess is correct, it should also be useful for pleasing the machine spirit."
"Miss Beatrice is now relying entirely on the steam engine to suppress the pollution in her body. Enhancing the steam engine's effects is also a form of treatment for her, although I don't know which aspect of the steam engine's effects are being enhanced."
Zoe rubbed her chin and nodded slowly.
Castel's summoning of machine spirits originated from the rituals of the Mechanical Temple. Maybe it will really be useful.
And there's no harm in trying.
Soon, the airship's crew cabin became lively again.
Zoe and Gaia pushed open the door and walked out of the house, looking at each other awkwardly.
The two of them now had several mechanical symbols smeared on their faces with motor oil, and behind them followed a team of mechanics holding wrenches and screwdrivers.
"Are you really going to come? This ceremony seems like a lie!"
"I can't help it. I also think this ritual is a bit outrageous, but who knows which step in the middle will work? Maybe it's these outrageous operations that work in an unimaginable way."
Zoe's face twitched, and the lines she had just drawn on her face became a little crooked.
"Okay, let's try it."
Gaia nodded. She didn't feel much shame. After inventing the Machine Soul Summoning Ceremony, Xius asked her to follow Monica to summon the Machine Soul every day. She was used to it.
So a group of people slowly walked out of the room, posing in all kinds of weird poses and singing around the steam engine and Beatrice.
Beatrice wasn't stopping talking yet. She was spitting pollution into the fuel barrels placed on the ground and looking at the new song and dance troupe with an expression of disbelief.
Zoe was in a terrible state.
She danced with a wrench, using exaggerated movements to simulate repairing machinery while singing the "hymn".
The Mechanical Temple's "Hymns" are carefully worded, and mostly contain ancient and poetic words.
But if you understand it simply from the meaning, it is actually very straightforward.
Basically, the embarrassing lyrics like "The steam engine is so powerful, it's so hard to work every day, come on, come on" made her unconsciously dig her toes into the ground. Since she couldn't stop the movement, she gradually started to stand on tiptoe, and she almost invented ballet in this world.
And the steam engine seemed to have really fallen silent.
(End of this chapter)
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