Struggle in the Steam Age

A petitioner is a very special kind of soul. Although like ordinary souls, petitioners maintain their existence through energy, they still have some characteristics of their own.

For example, the reason why these petitioners eat and drink there is very simple, because this kind of eating and drinking can make them feel the taste of food, which in turn makes them feel a sense of happiness.

For petitioners, their faith in their own gods has been fixed. But if they feel that they are happy, then they can naturally gain some power of faith beyond the foundation.

"After all, one of the most important reasons why those believers offer their faith is to get better treatment after death." The little puppet whispered in Lawrence's ear.

"In fact, I have always been adhering to a fair idea. Since these believers have always believed in me, then I naturally have to fulfill my promise to them—"

According to Nora, the kingdom of God possessed by some old powerful gods is not much different from the real world. It has facilities that are not much different from the outside, as well as the normal alternation of the sun and the moon, and the cycle of four seasons.

"I think you have these things here too!" Lawrence recalled the sky he saw just now.

"Those things are just stickers. If you go all the way, you will find this fact." Nora shrugged her shoulders and said. "Didn't you find that the roof of my temple is a little bit higher and you will reach the ceiling of the Kingdom of God?"

"I didn't realize it just now." Lawrence shook his head. He just thought that Nora's world looked very much like the picture on the Windows screen saver, beautiful but lacking in vitality. Didn't realize those were fake.

"Well, your observation is indeed not detailed enough." Nora shrugged, and then said while looking at the petitioner who had finished lunch in the distance. "They're done eating, we can go over now and have a look."

After discovering that the group of petitioners were eating, Nora took Lawrence and hid in a lounge not far from the entrance. According to the puppet, if they appear now, those people will definitely not even be able to eat well.

After all the petitioners were in their positions, Lawrence and the little puppet looked at the core microbiological research hall below through the glass in the corridor.

"It seems to me that there are more jackals." After carefully observing the hall for a few minutes, Lawrence suddenly turned his head and said to Nora beside him, "After looking for a long time, it seems that there are not many humans here."

"You're right, the ratio of jackals to humans among petitioners is 20:1." Nora said with a soft sigh.

"Because the time for my faith to spread among humans is too short, there are really very few humans who can accumulate enough faith to come to my kingdom of God."

"What's worse, because of the level of education, it is difficult for this group of jackals to accept some emerging knowledge. Although they, as my disciples, can directly obtain knowledge through the crown, but in terms of knowledge, they don't just need the empowerment It can be done."

"And to let this group of ancient jackals master modern thinking, I think it may take me 5 to 10 years to reverse their old thinking."

"Don't you say that you can give empowerment? Could it be that this kind of empowerment can only impart knowledge and not change the three views." After hearing the little puppet's bitterness, Lawrence asked a little strangely.

"That's true, because the petitioners are all in the state of the soul, and self-knowledge is the core of maintaining this state. So if I forcefully instill the Three Views, it may cause their souls to become unstable and then integrate into the Kingdom of God in advance. "

"It does sound bad, and I think that's why you want to increase the education of jackals now." After the little puppet's answer, Lawrence showed a clear expression, and then asked.

"But you just said that the group of jackals are not very suitable for this kind of work, so what happened to the few jackals working here?"

"These jackals belonged to the priests, scribes, or witch doctors among the jackals in the past. They have a certain cultural foundation, so after acquiring new knowledge, they only need to go through simple sorting to complete general research work. "

Nora watched the jackal closest to everyone on the other side of the glass carefully draw a few drops of liquid from the test tube with a dropper and put it on the glass slide, and said to Lawrence after observing it under a microscope.

"At least in this kind of biological research, especially the initial stage of microbial research. All we can do is to induce changes in those microorganisms through environmental induction and divine power as much as possible."

"For these research-type petitioners, their task is to screen out the microorganisms that evolve in the direction we want from these changed microorganisms, and then carry out the next round of induced evolution and screening."

"Don't look at this place as very high-tech, but the work being done now is very simple. That is to cultivate some microorganisms with various uses based on those of us combined with the characteristics of this world."

After speaking, Nora took out a list from her body and looked at it for a while, then raised her head and said to Lawrence.

"The ones I rank first are mainly a series of toxins that can be used as antibiotics. At least according to the samples I have collected recently, there are things like penicillin or erythromycin in this world."

"However, these things have serious problems in their original state. Either the drug effect is too poor, and it has no effect except to cultivate the disease resistance of certain bacteria, or the side effects are too strong, and the concentration of the drug has not reached the therapeutic level. The side effects are already killing people.”

"And our next work is to focus on these prototypes of antibiotics, in order to enhance the active ingredients as much as possible while weakening those that are ineffective or even cause side effects."

This kind of repetitive and tedious work is already the limit for those petitioners, and it is completely impossible for them to propose some new ideas or new directions.

Fortunately, Lawrence brought enough knowledge from another world, allowing the petitioners here to follow the guidance of these ideas to study for a long time, enough to wait until the group of truly professionally educated believers died to come here Take over the job.

In fact, judging from the current situation, these low-level petitioners are more suitable for the current situation. Because the core of these works is mainly to try and repeat certain experiments according to Lawrence's thinking, and it does not require too many inspirations.

And when those real scientific research forces take over, Lawrence's ideas are probably basically exhausted. Next, it is time to carry out the renewal and upgrading of the entire system.

After observing through the glass for a while, Lawrence and the others left this corridor and headed to the next location. Compared with this small research room, the next place is a huge and dark hall.

The whole hall looks about two stories high, with some iron shelves on both sides. These iron shelves are divided into many layers by layers of iron plates, and on each layer are placed a large number of petri dishes and culture media filled with things.

"This is the Microbiology Cultivation Center." Nora pointed to the huge room in front of her and said to Lawrence, "Considering that there are not many people, I put all the microbiological cultivation work here."

"Aren't you worried about cross-contamination of this thing?" Lawrence stared wide-eyed after seeing the citizens who obviously belonged to different microbial cultures being placed in the same place.

"Ah, my lord brother, this is my kingdom of God." The little puppet said proudly, "so as long as I don't want it to be polluted, then there will definitely not be any pollution."