Mysteries: Arcana Wars

With a strange movement, the electromagnetic track delivered the goods to the room of the three people.

"It looks like the real thing... but it's probably a copy from hundreds of years ago."

The detective took the two pieces of paper, flipped through them, and then handed them to Klein.

Compared to the line-by-line writing in Roselle's diary, the biggest feature of Manstein's notebook is chaos. Each of Manstein's notebooks is filled with a large number of sketches and texts written in completely different directions and languages ​​by the couple.

The same is true for these two notebooks. Most of the four pages of the two notebooks are covered with sloppy mechanical sketches, and there are even several sketches stacked in the same place on one paper. The dark and thick lines and the blurred handwriting over time make these sketches more difficult to read.

Klein had no idea what this complex and sophisticated machinery was like. To him, who had not experienced the explosion of steam technology in the Sixth Epoch, some of the ancient technologies written in history books were like magic. In comparison, the words in Manstein's notebook were more valuable.

Like other notes, the text on these two notes is a mixture of various languages, as if the couple had no time to care about the order of language in their chaotic and rapid thinking, and wrote whatever they thought of. Various mixed texts that are understandable and incomprehensible are written on the weird sketches, and the reading direction is crooked, making the entire note seem even crazier.

Klein read the text carefully. He identified Loen, Intis, Feynapot, some native languages ​​of East Balam, and some languages ​​he couldn't identify. Interestingly, Klein also found many familiar old languages, including Roselle, Neon, Ying, and even some languages ​​that he couldn't identify but were definitely from the old days.

"I don't think it's feasible, my dear wife, at least for now."

"Why? Because? Maybe you are right. At least under the conditions in Loen, this thing cannot be mass-produced at all."

"But we can think - Rama! Our Rama! Think about it! If this can really be realized, only one thread is needed... No! Maybe not even one thread is needed! Our Rama can reach every corner of this world in an instant!"

"Yes, we have to think about it now. Some problems can be left to future generations to deal with, but some things must be dealt with by us ourselves."

"Without needing anything, our Rama can roam the world! Do you know what this means, wife? It means that our Rama will be free! She will no longer even need those steam engines, or those sophisticated differential engine systems. She will truly be dragged away from her material metal body and live forever in the 'central network'!

"Oh, Rama! Our Rama! Our fruit! Our life-long incarnation! Rama (the handwriting is messy)"

"How many times have I told you not to get mad here? Next time you see this, go take your medicine. It's here. After you take it, go pick up our (scribbled handwriting) from school.

"But you are right. Our Rama differential engine is far from advanced enough. To build a 'central network', it is not enough to just use the Rama differential engine...

"Wait, is that thing really called the 'Central Network'? Is it called the 'Dimensional Network' or the 'Information Network'... My mind feels a little confused, but my subconscious tells me that it was definitely not called this in the old days... Is it the 'World Wide Web' or the 'Internet'? Yes, my brain, my thoughts, my...

"It's all paste, all chaos! My poor husband, I think the boundary of reality begins here too. What is a dream, what is a memory, what is an illusion, what is reality, what is...ah, I can feel that we are getting closer...

"While I am still awake, I will record our future direction. I think we will not see the establishment of a real 'Neural Network', nor will we see Rama living in the 'Neural Network', but we can continue to develop the Rama-type difference engine. We need a more sophisticated structure, more movements, more... like ''."

"I saw your message, my wife. I have taken all the medicines according to your instructions. I think in the long run, they have no effect on curing this madness. At most, they are only temporary...

"I want to write a few more before I go pick up the kids. I miss you. We want to leave a prototype of a Rama-type difference engine that can move and live on its own for those who come after us. I know this cannot be mass-produced, and we may not be able to do it, but we can... (written words erased) But research and development itself is a kind of happiness! That's it!

"As for the energy problem you mentioned, I was thinking that it would be great if the 'electricity' used for telegraphs could be used... Perhaps we can discuss this issue with (the handwriting is unclear). And I think from now on, regarding the research on the 'central network' and the related Rama-type difference engine, we have to stay away from the Steam Church..."

Klein could only make out these few paragraphs. Most of them were a mixture of the Old Language and the Sixth Epoch Language, with all sorts of grammar mixed up. Without being proficient in multiple Sixth Epoch Languages ​​and at least two Old Languages, it was impossible to read them. Klein even saw some traces of the grammar of some Old Language programming languages ​​in them.

Even these barely decipherable words were mixed with many words that Klein could not recognize. Some of these words could be roughly guessed by the letters, but some were really undecipherable. The remaining paragraphs were filled with various old languages ​​that were beyond Klein's cognition, or they were so blurred that they could not be deciphered at all.

Most of the problems could be solved by immediately consuming a large amount of spiritual power to extract an old-time translator, but Klein gave up after thinking about it. In a dungeon with ever-changing situations, it was more important to retain spiritual power to deal with possible dangers.

However, just the interpretation of these contents has provided a lot of information.

Although it is impossible to determine at which stage these words were written, during this period, the Mansteins were imagining using the difference engine to realize Internet technology in the steam age!

They are not even satisfied with rebuilding the Internet, they have even envisioned some kind of autonomous robots or even digital life!

...This is a really crazy idea...

But from the text, it seems that at this stage, the Mansteins have gradually begun to move towards unknown madness. They seem to have a vague memory of the old days, and even can't remember the name of "Internet" and call it "central network". It may be because of this unknown madness that has affected their thinking logic and memory.

In addition, judging from the "picking up the child", the Mansteins may not have completely disappeared from this world as the public believes. Perhaps like Emperor Roselle's son Charles, they secretly left behind unknown descendants in this world.

However, the most important news for Klein is:

Somewhere unknown to the Church of Steam, the Mansteins may have left behind a very advanced prototype!