Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 119 How can knowledge be considered stealing?
As the boiler burned, the water in the steam chamber gradually boiled, the piston made a few strange noises, and slowly began to move.

Soon, the flywheel started turning.

Ken let out a long sigh and smiled.

"Sir, we succeeded."

Did it work? Perhaps, but now was not the time to relax. Hughes still held Ken's shoulders tightly.

The normal operation of the steam engine is only the first step, and the most important thing is to prevent pollution from occurring in the future.

"Attention everyone, the steam engine has started running, be careful and alert."

"yes."

There are quite a few banshees in the test field here. On the one hand, they are for security, and on the other hand, they are also doing scientific research.

This group of students had also received some hints and knew that there were other people placed here by the lord. Zeus planned to test their attitude first. If these students accepted it well, he would consider publicly announcing the existence of the Banshee.

Xius is quite confident about this. These students are specially selected because they are interested in learning and scientific research, and their ability to accept is relatively good.

I think it shouldn't be a problem to disclose the Banshee's affairs.

Connor, Alexi, Zoe and others had gotten along well with the Banshee before, so Zeus was quite optimistic about this.

But this matter cannot be rushed. Xiu Si plans to test it step by step and take it slowly - if he is too hasty, he might break their cognitive barriers and cause pollution.

In addition to the Banshee, there are many other things, such as how to prevent pollution, cognitive interference and cognitive barriers, and he plans to find an opportunity to make them public.

The steam engine ran for a while and then turned off. The trainees went forward to check the steam engine and the fixing devices. After confirming that there was no problem, everyone smiled sincerely.

Xius stepped forward, clapped his hands to get the students to look over, and then announced with a smile:

"The ignition was successful! Everyone's efforts were not in vain. I'll have some food delivered tonight and we can have a celebration banquet here!"

The students cheered. Hughes had told them before that they needed to stay here for a whole day to prevent cognitive interference.

Speaking of which, the Fire Moths seem to have more complete measures to deal with pollution, so I might as well ask them for advice.

Hughes looked at Chloe in the crowd.

Yes, Chloe has also joined the advanced class and is now attending classes with the students.

Hughes had a brief chat with Chloe, and the result surprised him a little. Chloe was very clear about the structure of the steam engine and even proposed an improvement direction for the multi-stage utilization of exhaust gas.

This surprised him somewhat. If all the members of the Fire Moth Cult were at this level, they could definitely cooperate on a deeper level.

He provided the venue and shelter for the Fire Moths to conduct their favorite scientific research. As long as they didn't spend all day thinking about summoning an evil god, all these things could be discussed.

As for their loyalty? Actually, this is not a problem that needs to be worried about. The world is big, and there are not many places where the Fire Moth can stay.

According to Chloe, they even tried to establish a settlement in the uninhabited wilderness, but later had to give up - the experimental materials they needed still depended on human society.

In fact, the reason they came to Castel this time was to try to find a small island as the base camp for the cult to develop. Their idea was to find an island with relatively rich resources and then contact the outside world through caravans. This way, they would be away from human society but would not be unable to obtain the materials they needed.

It must be said that their ideas coincided with Hughes's, and this was how Hughes built Castell.

Feeling Hughes's gaze, Chloe moved closer unnoticed. "What's wrong?"

"I want to know how you avoid being contaminated by knowledge. I want to summarize a set of rules for accessing dangerous knowledge."

"You still need this?"

Chloe was a little surprised. "I told you so much about the dangers before, but you are fine. I was wondering how you avoided the pollution."

"That's different. I'm special. I have the means to purify pollution."

"Purify the pollution!?"

Chloe's eyes were red: "That's great."

If they had the ability to purify pollution, they wouldn't have to go to so much trouble to summon the evil god, and so many people wouldn't have died.

She could hardly control her desire to ask, but unfortunately, they probably couldn't afford the price for such valuable knowledge.

Zeus was also a little puzzled by this. He didn't know why the pollution was purified as soon as it entered his body, but it had to be said that this ability had saved him more than once.

This ability can even be shared with the Banshee. If it is developed well in the future, perhaps it can be used by more people.

After all, the runes drawn with his blood could solidify the contamination in the boiler.

"If I could find a way to purify pollution, wouldn't I be able to learn whatever I want? How happy would that be?"

Chloe whispered, jealousy practically dripping from her eyes.

"Actually, your current teaching method is very good. You impart all the knowledge from the beginning without interruption. This is actually the best way to solve the problem of knowledge pollution."

"Oh? Then I'm lucky. The reason I gave such detailed instruction at the beginning was simply to avoid cognitive interference."

"Cognitive interference? That's an accurate description." Chloe nodded. "Most of the contaminated knowledge consists of ancient secrets or overly cutting-edge research and development results. If you can truly allow these students to learn from the very beginning, theoretically you can avoid the contamination caused by knowledge."

When Chloe said this, her eyes dimmed a little, as if she thought of some bad memories.

"Unfortunately, this requires a complete teaching system and long periods of uninterrupted study - which is almost impossible."

Why couldn't this be done? Zeus frowned. Theoretically, large churches and even the imperial family all had this foundation. Why couldn't they do it?

Most problems can be solved by investing money, right?

Oh. Wait, maybe they already have their own internal academy and trained a group of technical personnel, but they just haven’t made it public?

"Large organizations are catching bugs: hoarding their own knowledge and monopolizing it?"

"Yes."

Chloe nodded bitterly. "The knowledge we've gained by risking human lives might seem like common sense to them, but these techniques are sealed away, accessible only to the organization's most core members. Even if we manage to steal a little, we can't learn from them. The prerequisite knowledge is too much."

Indeed, this kind of systematic professional knowledge cannot be learned without long-term study, even if someone throws a paper in your face. Wait, why are you still stealing knowledge?
Xius's eyes turned unfriendly.

(End of this chapter)