"What did Mr. Pisco say to you?"

"He told me that I want to stay here and help a man whose middle name means a savior. Only by helping him can I be truly free. Last time you went too eagerly, I didn't have time to tell you about it. "

　　 The last time it was because a craftsman would blast in the ground caused a big earthquake, even if Jenkins didn't want to go, it was impossible. If he hadn't become a mouse temporarily and was rescued by Chocolate, maybe he would really not be able to leave.

　　 "Mr. Pisco asked you to help me? How would you help me? Don't tell me to let you out. Since I have strengthened your seal, I will never lift it."

　　 He shook his head slightly.

"I don't have strong force. Even if you lift the seal that restricts my activities, I can't help you with strength. I am just a large machine built to assist in calculation and storage of data, so I can answer Some of your questions."

　　 What Jenkins needs is that it can answer questions, and other things are not the focus now. He hesitated for a moment, and asked with some hesitation:

　　 "Well, I want to know, what is that thing deep in the ground under our feet?"

"Do you want to ask its name? The ancient maker gave it a simple number and letter number as its name. I think you may not be interested in it. But it was discovered and used by humans in a few short periods of time. During the period, it gave itself a name "Great Wisdom"."

　　 "So this is really its name, I thought it was a metaphor..."

　　 Jenkins thought to himself that he decided to use "differential engine" to describe the other party in the future.

　　 "The name doesn't matter, I want to ask, in principle, what is it? Function, ability, energy, and even manufacturing materials, and whether it is evolutionary. I need these materials."

　　 The expression on the man's face in the beam of light was still stiff as if it were a dead person, and there was no answer from the machine. But since Jenkins came here, he heard the sound of gears running and bearings pushing from under his feet for the first time.

This means that the body of the [A4 type arithmetic auxiliary external machine] is not only a metal altar that can be observed on the surface, it should still have a huge volume in the soil, Jenkins speculates that what is in front of it should be something like the core. Otherwise it makes no sense that Mr. Pisco just asked him to seal this place.

　　 He could imagine that after he asked questions, the metal structures hidden under his feet, around, and even in the soil above, bite and turn, push, pull, press, and spin and flip in the dark. This is completely different from the previous world, but the same high-level creation of science and technology. Although it is not the crystallization of human wisdom created by pure materialism, it is an artificial product created by human beings with their own wisdom, no matter what kind of power. It is worthy of admiration for Jenkins.

　　 This silence was maintained for about twenty minutes before a voice came from the inside of the machine again:

"I searched an earlier database. Because of the aging of the metal, part of the gear storage array was rusted and rotted. My birth came from underground machinery. It is known that it has the ability to create things like mine, assist calculations, and calculate divination. Function. I can’t judge its material. It’s a very special alloy. The forging process involves extraordinary and mysterious participation. Coupled with the power given by time, if contemporary humans can’t recognize what it is, then it represents those alloys. The formula has been completely lost."

　　 Jenkins has guessed these things a long time ago, what he needs is not this information:

　　 "What kind of energy do you use? Why are you able to keep running after being sealed underground for so long? Can you get energy from the soil?"

"Yes, we are metal machines. We can get metal from the soil to supplement energy. But because we can't move, this method is not far away. Me and all machines of the same type as me, including the original model, which is underground The big guy, our main energy is information, which is data. When the stored energy is insufficient, we will consume our stored information to maintain operation, and at the same time enter a hibernation similar to..."

　　 "Standby."

　　 Jenkins suddenly gave this vocabulary, and the metallic voice paused:

　　 "At the same time enter the standby state to reduce energy consumption."

　　 "Do you feed on civilization?"

　　 "No, we don't lose information, we just store it, copy it, and consume it."

　　 metal voice corrected, and then added:

"The easiest way to destroy us, in addition to destroying the body or core, is to wait for our stored energy and information to be completely consumed. Once the operation is completely stopped, with our design structure, even if the energy supply is regained, there is no possibility of operation again. Sex."

　　 "So, is it possible for a machine like yours to change the energy source?"

　　 "The mechanical structure allows this."

　　 "Is it possible to use steam as an energy source?"

　　 There was almost no pause, the mechanical voice gave the answer:

"In fact, the deep underground machinery has already done this. Although in principle, the energy conversion efficiency of steam is very low. After all, along with the generation of kinetic energy, there is still a lot of heat loss. But humans in your age I found a very clever way to greatly improve the efficiency of the steam engine, making the development and evolution of steam technology possible."

　　 This is where the world's technology tree deviates from the Jenkin world. In his original world, the steam engine has not been developed to the point where it is now enough to become most energy sources.

　　 "What kind of changes will the mechanical replacement of energy in the ground bring about?"

"Many changes have been discovered and used by humans many times in the past years and then buried deep underground. The use and efficiency of energy has evolved to a level that we can't imagine. It only needs to be replaced. In theory, It can control all the machinery that makes a living on this energy. Its computing power and control power have far exceeded the limitations of the design itself. Redampute, you can understand it as, after absorbing the fruits of countless civilizations, it completes A wonderful sublimation.

　　 With steam energy, it is the king of machinery in this era. "

　　 was silent for a moment:

　　 "Is there a way to defeat it?"

　　 "To defeat it, you must first know what it is going to do."

　　 The voice reminded that Jenkins immediately felt that he was stepping into a conversation trap, and the other party’s conversation skills were no less than his own:

　　 "What is it doing?"

　　 "It has had enough in countless epochs, countless times to be discovered, buried, and used, so it wants to be truly free."

　　 "Same purpose as yours?"

"No, I just want to go out and see what the world has become, and with my abilities, it is not enough to pose a threat to humans, but it is different. It is the original omnipotent with infinite possibilities. Sex.

　　 It cooperated with human beings, and saw the right time at the end of the era, intending to make itself an immortal beast of disaster, let itself become the inducement of this era's disaster, so as to make itself incarnate in the end and get rid of the shackles forever. "

　　 Jenkins takes a step back:

　　 "May I know, how do you know these things?"

Chapter 1852 The Lies of Life and Freedom Chapter 1823

　　 There is no flowing air in the narrow underground space, and it is extremely dry. The cane appeared silently in Jenkins's hand, his expression was serious:

　　 "How do you know this information?"

"It once contacted me, and the chain tentacles protruding from deep underground connected to my structure, allowing us to realize a short conversation. If that can be called a conversation...please keep your weapons, I did not cooperate with him.

I learned a few things about it, and it confessed to me that it was not worried about failure, because destiny and the world are doomed to the end of this era. It is helping to promote and participate in this process, so it will never failure. "

　　 "Does it want to cooperate with you?"

　　 "Yes, I emphasized it again, but I refused."

　　 Although there is no hint of lying to the priesthood, Jenkins does not know whether the priesthood is useful for soulless mechanical creations, so he remains extremely vigilant.

"My function is very weak. The other party only proposed to merge with me and let us become one because he needed to repair himself. I want freedom, but I don't want to become something else, so I refused. It can't force it. Fusing me, after all, I am still in the seal. It is not worth it to break this troublesome seal with great effort for the sake of my body and structure."

　　 This is reasonable, but Jenkins doesn't know whether he should be trusted. There is no hint of lying to the priesthood, so he must determine whether the priesthood is useful to the other party. Therefore, he needs to raise a question that he knows that the other party will lie, but the other party still lies and thinks that he does not know it will lie, to verify whether the priesthood of lying will be triggered.

　　 "How do you want me to trust you? Sorry, since you are in touch with that big guy, I think you have to come up with a way to make me trust you."

"what are you going to do?"

"I want to look at your core, the mechanical core, that is, once destroyed, you will completely die. I know that machines like yours have this structure. In winter, I defeated your kind in a snow-capped mountain. , But it seems to be a bit more advanced than you..."

　　 He didn't intend to get the other party to agree. This is a negotiation technique. First put forward harsh conditions, and then take a step back. But unexpectedly, the other party actually agreed.

　　 The light beam trembled and then disappeared, and then a column about the radius of an adult man's waist rose in the center of the flat metal altar. The cylinder splits on all sides with the axis as the center, revealing a floating sphere. The surface has a very complicated hollowing process. In the hollowed inner center of the sphere, light blue light is scattered dots.

　　 Even if you don’t understand ancient mechanical creations, Jenkins knew that this was the core at the first glance.

　　 "This is my core, right in the shell sealed by you. If you find that I am not loyal, you can destroy me at any time. Your cane is enough to break it."

　　 Its frankness made Jenkins a bit at a loss, but Jenkins remained vigilant:

　　 "If you do this, don't you worry about your safety?"

　　 "Everything is for freedom."

　　 "Are you not afraid of death? For you, are you not afraid of complete demise?"

　　 was silent for a moment:

　　 "Don't be afraid."

　　 This is a lie, but Jenkins is particularly happy, because the priesthood of lies is also useful for the other party. In fact, think about it carefully, since it is a priesthood linked to the rules of the world, it is not normal if there are limitations.

　　 The machinery in front of him, the lies made between freedom and life, made Jenkins feel something strange. This sounds romantic, quite the style of a novelist, but this kind of humanized performance is a bit scary:

　　 "Do you have your own soul?"

　　 "Everything has a spirit, and the spirit can give birth to thoughts and souls, but I don't have a soul, at least not now. Something underground may give birth to a soul, and therefore greed, but I have no evidence to prove it."

　　Although there are still some questions to ask, Jenkins can't help but ask an irrelevant question:

　　 "Then do you dream? If you can dream, is it possible for you to dream of a mechanical gear sheep?"

　　 This strange question, whether it is the machine that talks to Jenkins, the cat on Jenkins's shoulder, or the coachman in the carriage listening to the conversation, did not expect it. None of the three are humans, but I have never thought of such a tricky problem.

　　 [A4 type arithmetic auxiliary external machine] did not immediately answer, Jenkins heard the sound of metal collision and operation from the surrounding walls again. The sound lasted for even longer than the time of asking for the information of the differential machine just now. He even felt that the temperature here was rising, which was probably the result of frequent metal work.

　　 "I can't answer. I have never dreamed. I tried to calculate this possibility and almost got stuck in a permanent calculation loop."

　　 In the end, the machine replied this way. This gave Jenkins a new idea. Next time I see the difference engine, maybe I can ask the other party this question.

　　 After this, Jenkins learned from [A4 type arithmetic auxiliary external machine] that from the beginning of this epoch, the underground machine had foreseen the changes that would occur at the end of the eighteenth epoch. After all, it had already witnessed many apocalypses. However, the machinery that was determined to implement the plan at the end of this era only lurked underground throughout the eighteenth era, and did not reveal its own power. It only used the damage of the seal to "propagate" its own gear structure. With Nolan as the center, it gradually spread to every corner of the material world.

　　 Of course, this is impossible. Even if it is the 1866th year since the beginning of this era, it is not enough for the sealed differential machine to wrap the entire world, otherwise the seal would be meaningless.

　　 What it does now is to spread the gear tentacles with low density to other parts of the world with Nolan as the center. With the help of humans who are proficient in gear technology, this work began more quickly, but it was only less than a year.

　　 [A4 type arithmetic auxiliary external machine] believes that the underground machine wants to occupy the world with its own tentacles, so as to assimilate the world, promote the arrival of the end, and realize its own sublimation at the moment of the end. They are mechanical creations, as long as the computing core is powerful enough, no matter how large the body is, it can be manipulated. So the difference engine intends to assimilate the world and assimilate the fog of doomsday.

　　 The idea of ​​becoming the beast of evil in the Eighteenth Period is the most feasible way, and it is about to succeed now.

　　 Jenkins does not intend to stop this, and cannot stop it. The beast of calamity always appears, and it is better to let the thing that you know the information be the beast of calamity than to know nothing about the enemy.

Chapter 1853 Chapter 1824 Chapter Wrench and Sin Coin

　　 After trying to understand the relationship between himself and the difference engine, Jenkins continued to ask:

　　 "So, what that machine is doing now is to assimilate the world through underground actions?"

"The tentacles of the underground gear make its influence all over the world; by changing the energy supply, it makes itself a steam-powered device, with the help of dense fog to spread the disaster force on the ground; at the same time, it seems that it intends to make mankind its own relay station and become The anchor of the transmission spirit, I hope you can understand the meaning of this word. The approach seems to be to make humans a machine, but I don’t know the specific way of action."

　　 The specific method is to curse the corpse mechanically, this Jenkins knows.

"This is how it affects the world, so what does it intend to do in the city above us? This is the last stage of the Eighteenth Epoch, and all the stories will be staged here. As the place where its own body is buried, it cannot fail Do other things... Recently, there has been an anomaly in space near Nolan. Does it have anything to do with this matter?"

"I don't know this. It doesn't tell me too much detailed information. But you are right. If you want to assimilate the world and turn the entire material world into a world where only steam machinery exists, just rely on Its own power is not enough. Even if it becomes a beast of disaster, it is not enough to accept the power that I can't describe. It needs to defeat the savior and let the end come before it can truly affect the world. Only the end when destiny is destined to happen. Possess the power to affect the entire material world, otherwise, no matter how strong an individual is, it will be nothing but a thing."

　　 "How does it want to defeat the savior?"

　　 The conversation reached this point, and finally touched the core. I thought the answer was ‘don’t know’, but the machine gave the answer:

"Retrograde the way of salvation. This problem is very simple, especially for our way of thinking. To defeat the savior, we only need to go retrograde. It is an ancient ritual and it has no meaning for any other creatures. , It only makes sense for lunatics who are interested in destroying the world and destroying themselves-do you know the life-destroying ones?"

　　 Jenkins has certainly heard of it, this was only proposed by Alexia not long ago, and helped him to awaken his memory of last fall by the way. Alexia thinks that the person called "Mr. Destroyer B" is from the tree house, and it seems right now.

　　 "Is the Rebels a ritual?"

　　 He almost asked in a mumbling way.

"Yes, a very large, very complex, and very demanding ritual. In fact, a ritual of this scale cannot be called a ritual in the strict sense according to the human definition of ritual. But what is certain is that the inverse The rite of death is the core of the underground mechanical action. This is not a recent plan. From the beginning of this epoch, when the plan was to gain true freedom in this epoch, it began preparations. During this period, Although it cannot walk on the ground, the humans who help it can prepare some necessary conditions on the ground. In the past year, there have been more human co-workers, so the action is going smoothly. I feel that during the recent frequent earthquakes When it reaches the underground, the part of the machine protrudes out of the ground, and the structure of that part is very weird. It is very likely that it is the core part of the ritual of the Destroyer."

　　 "What is the principle and function of this ritual? Is there any way to break the ritual?"

　　 The mechanical voice was silent again, and it took a long time to give the answer:

"The Destroyer Ceremony is the data stored in my oldest database. That part of the data was deemed useless when I was made, so when I was made, the first omnic under the ground gave it to me. Used as a reserve energy source. That part of the gear library has been damaged."

　　 "Can't read the data?"

　　 "Yes, it cannot be read."

　　 "If maintenance is performed, can the data recorded in the gear array be read out again?"

　　 Unconsciously speaking, the speed is much faster.

　　 "In theory, if it can be completely repaired, it is possible to read the data again...You seem to be familiar with my principles?"

　　 Jenkins shook his head without answering, he thought of the wrench. After Mr. Pisco's death, there are only two messages to him so far. It's hard not to connect the wrench to this incident.

　　 He thought for a while before saying to the metal altar:

"I will find a way to repair you as soon as possible, hope you will not let me down. And I can promise you, in the name of the savior-if I can defeat the underground machinery and save the Eighteenth Century, then I will give you freedom ."

　　 "Savior, I believe in you."

　　 Said the machine, after the core was stored, the human face appeared in the beam of light again:

"But anyway, I'm just a machine, and I can't provide you with direct help. The human who showed me the pages of "Epic of Time" also said that no matter who it is, it is not necessary for the savior. , All that is necessary is you, Redampute. If you compare this world to a game, only your actions are the main game line, and the help of others is all side stories that may or may not be available. Regardless of the material world If history progresses in the future, it is only you who decides all this."

　　 The short conversation gave Jenkins the biggest discovery in six months. The candidate for the beast of calamity was finally determined, and at the same time he clearly understood the purpose of his opponent. Although the motives of action such as assimilating the world and mastering the world are very clichéd, in reality, facing such enemies, the pressure is not light at all.

　　 After the conversation, Jenkins already knew what he was going to do recently. He needs the wrench that can repair the machinery, he needs to get a few more coins, and next time he needs the coachman to send himself down.