Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 384 Doesn’t this world need aliens?

On March 1856, 3, after a week of flight, the Cloud Whale landed safely on the Siqiliya Peninsula.

Looking down from the sky, you will find that the shape of this peninsula is quite special, a bit like a claw, reaching out from the wild wolf Metosh to the beautiful and rich sea between land and sea, trying to grab all the life and wealth within the sea area. The island still retains a relatively primitive natural landscape, with undulating mountains, overlapping green waves, and complex and varied topography, so that civilized towns are scattered among them, as if they have become a natural embellishment.

To the north are the Shiqilia Mountains that separate the peninsula from the inland hinterland, to the south are many seaport cities headed by the "City of Cold Lanterns" Martial, to the west is the cold and humid Xugen Swamp, and to the east are the tallest peaks on the peninsula - the "Twin Mountains" Mittal Peak and Craig Peak. The capital of the Pulprosta Province of the Federal Republic of Metosh Cities and also the largest city on the peninsula, the Harbor of Rain, is located on this mountain, overlooking the endless hills and fields.

On the day we landed on the island, the Adria Sea happened to be hit by a storm. The rain was pouring down, and the huge waves in the sea rolled up high into the sky. The terrifying momentum seemed to swallow up the lightning that shuttled through the clouds. Amid the deafening thunder, the cloud whale flapped its huge wings and flew through the misty rain. The gloomy and heavy humidity instantly lingered over the entire sky island. The sound of the rainstorm hitting the branches and leaves brought people back to the noisy rainy season in Rostin City.

The girls who were chatting by the flower field were drenched to the bone before they could react. They had no choice but to hide in Yieta's windmill tower room. The small room was suddenly crowded with people, so much so that there were not enough chairs and sofas. Ellie took over Yieta's big bed without any hesitation, and took out her game console, enthusiastically inviting everyone to play games together.

"Rainy days and playing games are a perfect match." She said so, but unfortunately no one could appreciate the beauty of this combination, so the response was not so enthusiastic.

Olvera lay by the window, looking at the newly sprouted violet seedlings in the flower field with a melancholy face, praying in her heart that the sudden rainstorm would not drown them all; Shemi sat on the dressing table, blowing hard on her transparent butterfly wings that were wet by the rain, as if this would dry them out; Saint Charia took a towel and gently wiped the rain off Metien's cheeks and hair. The pink-haired girl seemed to be sitting obediently, but in fact she was very worried: Did Lingge, who was reading a book by the pond, avoid the rain? There are so many trees in the forest, he shouldn't get wet, right? If he gets wet, he might catch a cold, which would be terrible...

As for the real owner of the house, Ieta, she did not stay with her friends. She walked up the spiral white staircase, passed the rooms on the first floor and the bathroom on the second floor, and came to the storage room on the third floor. In fact, there was nothing stored in it, so it looked empty, and her footsteps on the dilapidated wooden floor would make a creaking sound.

The view here is very good, and you can overlook the panoramic view of the island. Yieta likes to come here to enjoy the scenery when she has nothing to do. The scenes that she was tired of in the past now seem fresh to her. Occasionally, the shouts of travelers and fairies or the bleating of a lamb can be heard in the forest, which makes her feel very safe.

But that feeling has disappeared. Now there is only the sound of heavy rain outside the window. The thick and dark rain curtain blocks the view, making it impossible to see the shape of each drop of rain and the trajectory of its fall, let alone the more distant places. The scene has become blurred like a watercolor painting with too much ink, full of all kinds of indescribable colors and lines: the towering mountains are clusters of inky shadows, the endless forests are deep green curves, the dark swamps are cold wet marks, and the light from the port lighthouse is stretched into pieces of colorful puzzles, flickering faintly through the rain curtain, but it cannot be seen clearly.

For some reason, although the temperature in the house was still spring or summer, Yieta seemed to have entered autumn early. She slowly wrapped her clothes tightly and murmured softly, "It's so cold..."

The huge wooden windmill was spinning at high speed under the howling storm. Every time a blade passed by the window, it reflected muddy ruts in the eyes of the angel girl, just like the wheels of a car running over a flooded path after rain, splashing up water droplets in the mud. The cold and wetness that came to her face penetrated into her bones.

Later, this became everyone's only impression of this country, this region, and even this city.

……

After all, the place they were about to go to was called: City of Cold Nights, Harbor of Sad Rain.

This rain was not completely without benefits. At least the Cloud Whale could land on the ground without being noticed. Ling Ge looked at the nearby terrain for a long time, and finally, at the suggestion of the proprietress, he decided to land the Cloud Whale in a valley near the Xugen Swamp. The terrain here was complex, the vegetation was dense, and there were cliffs around to block the view, which was very suitable for hiding.

Most importantly, after leaving the valley, walking forward for about half an hour, you will reach the absolutely forbidden area on the Siqiliya Peninsula: the Hungen Swamp. It is deserted and even local residents rarely set foot here, let alone tourists and travelers, so there is no need to worry about being discovered by anyone.

As for why the Virtual Root Swamp has become a forbidden area on the Shikilia Peninsula... of course it's because it's very dangerous. The fact that you can ask this question shows that your intelligence level is probably on the same level as Shemi, because she asked the same question. "If it were two hundred years earlier, I wouldn't actually recommend you to hide here, because at that time, this was the most dangerous place on the entire peninsula." Shesta said to the people who came to the hotel to warm themselves by the fire, "Since the dark cleansing in the 16th century, most of the surviving aliens on the Shikilia Peninsula have hidden in the swamps to survive, including the five oldest families. The Inquisition moved its headquarters, the Sanctuary of Judgment, to the Harbor of Desolate Rain in order to monitor the movements of these remnants of aliens and plan to completely eliminate them.

"In the past two hundred years, there have been no less than a thousand operations to suppress the Void Root Swamp. At the most frequent time, you could even hear the sounds of fighting and killing for eighteen hours a day. Later, the overseas colonial wars intensified and gradually became the focus of the work of the united cult. They slowed down the oppression of the Void Root Swamp and transferred most of the arbitrators and judges away from here, giving the aliens in the swamp some breathing space.

"But by this time, the number of alien species on the peninsula has also been greatly reduced, and they no longer pose any threat to human civilization. The number of alien populations during this period is probably only about the number of aliens in the heyday—" Shesta slowly stretched out a slender white finger and whispered a few words: "One percent."

Lingge was silent.

In other words, since the dark purge in the 16th century, the Inquisition has massacred % of the aliens on the Shikilia Peninsula in two hundred years.

I have to say, this is a terrifying number, enough to make one shudder.

As far as the young man knows, even the most terrifying, cold-blooded, and cruel tyrant in human history would not massacre more than 99% of the local residents after conquering a region. Although this is a war between races, don't there exist friendly groups like traveler fairies among the aliens?
Ultimately, it still comes down to the same question: Why is it necessary for the religious order to exterminate all alien species?

Is it to make humans the only rulers of the world?
But humans are already the only rulers of this world, and with the existence of a united religious order, it is foreseeable that, at least in the next three thousand years, aliens who have lost their civilization, heritage and habitat will not be able to shake human rule.

Or is it that their vision is so far-sighted that they have seen the world three thousand years later?
"I feel so miserable." Alice muttered, "I am even worse than the aliens in the Thorson Mountains."

Linger took a deep look at the talented player, but the latter didn't seem to notice and was still sighing that a big villain like the Order Union must be dealt with heavily... or something like that.

Linger actually had another idea: Could the "human supremacy" prevalent in the cult union be related to the philosophers of the witch society who had mixed in? Were they secretly spreading this idea and using it to promote the cult union's brutal purge of aliens?

The only reason for him to have such an idea was that he had heard Alice say that there were no aliens on earth.

Whether it is vampires, werewolves, traveler fairies, or alien races such as silver elves, light elves, and feather elves, they are all just illusory legends, folk tales, and fantasy stories on Earth and do not actually exist.

The philosophers of the Earth believe that this world is the same as theirs—

Don't you need outliers?

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)