The more he thought about the difference engine, the more afraid he felt. I couldn't think about it any longer, so I asked the goblin directly:
"Does it have a soul? Does that machine have a soul?"
"No, if it has a soul, it will not lose control due to its huge computing power. It is disordered and chaotic, but it also obeys its own calculation rules. I don't know what rules the long years have given it. I know, but I know that when each generation of ancestors discovers and uses it, it can rely on its own computing power to absorb human civilization to upgrade itself."
Jenkins can also fully understand this passage. If the difference engine that was sealed at the beginning was version 1.0, then after countless generations of sublimation of civilization, it may already be version 16.0.
"So… "
"I can't answer the question about the end of the era, this is the most basic rule, even if I have made me now, I can't get around it. Sorry..."
The goblin took back his paper, then looked at Jenkins with wide eyes:
"The future is not here yet, and even I'm not sure if the proximity of the underground is the ultimate disaster. After all, the unusual fog around this city also has such potential. You must understand that although fate has already written everything , but the future only has directions without details.”
After saying this, she continued in a tone of eagerness:
"So, what kind of knowledge do you want to exchange with me?"
Jenkins had plenty of otherworldly knowledge to add to the exchange, but the Goblin couldn't answer most of his questions. Much to Jenkins' disappointment, the Goblin refused to reveal anything about the Williams family, claiming that the secret had something to do with a great being and that she would die if she did.
But the book goblin born from the broken pages of the [Treasure Book of All Things] possesses more than just that knowledge. In the end, Jenkins shared some of his memories of "Das Kapital" with the goblin, and the goblin gave Jenkins a chance to add blank ability bubbles for him.
It was now in the valley near Loen City, there was a hidden space under a certain water pool, and there was something Jenkins wanted in it.
"I won't lie."
The goblin thought that the information he provided could not be immediately identified as true or false, and was worried that Jenkins would be suspicious, so he swore with his fingers up.
Jenkins believed her and didn't dwell on the issue. But before the goblin left, he asked the goblin how to contact her again, maybe he still has something to ask the goblin for help in the future.
"Sorry sir, I don't think we can meet until you encounter the final disaster. I can't interfere with the present, I can only record the present, today's conversation has broken the rules..."
As she struggled to carry her paper behind her back, Jenkins offered her a piece of yarn.
"But after that, can I follow you?"
she asked with a smile.
"Follow me?"
"Yes, after everything is over. I want to be by your side, I want to understand the knowledge you have, and I am willing to contribute everything I have to you."
She bowed to Jenkins in the air:
"Thank you again for letting me know who I really am. Goodbye, sir. I wish you a smooth achievement of your great cause on the last day. Oh, and, your next goal is related to [disaster]. Ha~ I can Didn't say anything. Looking forward to our next meeting, goodbye sir."
After she finished speaking, she quickly dispersed into light spots and disappeared into the air. The light spot that hadn't dissipated for a long time finally entered Jenkins' body, representing the ability of [reading and writing], the light spot jumped a bit, but there was no qualitative change.
"So I'm so popular?"
He touched his face and thought, wishing in his heart that he would be able to pass through the last day smoothly as the goblin said.
Because the place where he obtained [Stranger] was his basement, the doomsday documents would naturally be nearby.
After sending away the goblin in the book, Jenkins looked around, but he didn't see the aura representing the slate.
"Let me think about it. In the past, every time the Doomsday Slate was obtained, it was near the place where the Savior's ability was obtained. There has never been an exception to this... So the Slate must be near the basement, um..."
He suddenly had a new idea, so he left here and returned to the first floor of the house, and then re-entered the basement from the other side of the first floor.
Yes, Jenkins' house has two basements, because the house he lives in is actually two. He had gone on vacation with the girls to that ill-fated Blizzard Mountain House a few months earlier, during which time the two unoccupied houses were under construction and merged together.
But the original basements of the two houses were not merged, because the widow's basement contained many traces of strange rituals. These ceremonies were prepared to assist the birth of the evil god, the child of the evil god, and after the incident of the child of the god, the church dug up a lot of strange things from it.
The traces of those rituals were difficult to remove immediately, so for safety reasons, the basement on the side of the widow's house was temporarily sealed, and the church asked Jenkins to wait for the twisted spirits to disappear before opening it.
Therefore, before the Shenzi incident, Jenkins was too weak to see the ritual aura, and now after the Shenzi incident, he was unable to distinguish the characteristics of the aura because the aura in the basement was too mottled.
"Aha~"
He said while turning the key to open the iron door, but after touching the switch of the gas lamp by the wall and making the fire light jump, he didn't see the stone slab standing obediently in the center of the basement waiting for him.
Building materials and a large cauldron were stacked in a corner of the basement, and the walls and ceiling were covered with notes written with wise words. These notes, together with the sealing ceremony on the surface of the wall, imprisoned the strange spirits in the basement. Although these spirits cannot affect Jenkins, the cats and nearby neighbors are ordinary creatures, and this is a measure taken to protect them.
"Let me take a guess..."
He closed the door behind his back, knocked on the wall with his fingers and found nothing, so he walked to the building materials in the corner. A monocle appeared in the eye socket, which allowed him to better observe the characteristics of the aura.
"Sure enough, it's here."
With a wave of his hand, a flame fell onto the planks and stones, burning a large hole in the accumulated building materials. The quaint stone slabs were placed in the pile of stones. Under the light of the flames, the words on the stone slabs seemed to be shining.
Just like before, the moment he saw the slate, he began to read aloud uncontrollably.