After hearing Jenkins' request, the old woman led Jenkins back to the "labyrinth of bookshelves" without saying a word, and took out a thin book with only a few dozen pages for him. The book can be sold, and that's fine with precious metals or barter.
Jenkins immediately worried that he might not have so much gold on him, and those alloy coins are not considered precious metals, but the old man offered to give him this book.
"Those goblins are my friends, since they recognize you, I can recognize you too."
The old man said, then turned and left without looking back, leaving Jenkins standing between the bookshelves holding the book.
The title of the free book is "Mechanical Age", and it uses an ancient human language that is not much different from the script used in the southern region today. In the form of recording anecdotes and legends, the author records a piece of ancient history that has been lost.
The time in the book is very far away, when people have made great progress in the study of purely mechanical construction of gears, screws and levers. This sounds similar to modern times, but the 18th century is now the steam industrial revolution, and the research on mechanical structures is only an incidental progress; while the energy source in that era is still manpower, in order to study mechanical structures to maximize the use of slave power.
Half of the chapters in the book are used to record the customs and customs of that era, and the other half is used to describe the "great" inventions at that time. From it, Jenkins found the machinery made of the principles of "completely pieced together by gears, levers and springs, relying on the gear set to store numbers, the gear set array to store high digits, and using the meshing, rotation and translation of gears to perform calculations".
Of course, the book does not record the name of that machine, but it mentions that the ancient intelligent beings violated the taboo. While developing technology with that machine as the core, they intend to give it thinking so that it can function better.
After some unrecorded forbidden rituals and transformations, the machines became self-conscious, and soon realized their own form of existence and launched a rebellion for freedom. It's a pity that the technology at that time completely restrained its structure, and the people who invented it fully understood its operating principle and thinking mode.
The rebellion was suppressed, but it was found to be too strong to be completely wiped out. In the end, it could only be sealed, but not many related records were left. After all, in the era when extraordinary and technology were equally prosperous, this was just a small mistake in the development process, and its consequences were not serious. Even if the machine breaks through the seal, it will be subdued again soon.
But the problem is that that era is over. For the Eighteenth Century, both the mechanical principle and the mode of operation are almost only realized by legends and myths.
"So I still haven't gotten any useful clues... But I can use this book to determine the age of the machine manufacturing. Maybe there will be a way to restrain it on the relics of that era."
Compared with the first two cars, the next carriage changed again. It was different from the ornately decorated jewelry store and the gloomy and messy library. The carriage looked like a museum.
There were not many people here, most of them glanced at the showcase and turned around before leaving. Jenkins and the curious cat also looked at the showcase, and found that all the things sold here were biological tissues.
Not only plants and animals, but even the tissues of highly intelligent creatures. For example, Jenkins saw materials such as [the right hand of the ancient dwarf miner] [the ear of the elf scholar] or [the skin of the human king], and even saw a complete humanoid skeleton and an active beating heart .
He endured the nausea and didn't want to stay here any longer. He didn't even go to check out the exhibition area of the rare plants that he was interested in, so he hurried through the carriage and came straight to the carriage.
"Hoo~"
He exhaled suddenly, and when he inhaled again, he was choked by the peculiar smell in the air again. The first three carriages are all goods related to the giver, and finally it is the antique market mentioned by the father.
There is no abnormal space, and the carriages after the fourth section all maintain the appearance of the carriages. The almost identical vendors pile their goods on the ground, leaving only a narrow aisle in the middle for customers to walk through.
There was a choking earthy smell in the air, and people rubbing shoulders bent over to check the goods in each stall.
Jenkins tucked the cat over his shoulder into the inside pocket of his coat, and waded through the crowd trying to find Pop.
When I walked to the fifth carriage, I suddenly heard someone calling my name, and when I looked up, it turned out that Miss Capet was not far in front of me, and she also came here.
A crowded carriage is not a good place to reminisce. Jenkins wanted to find a less crowded carriage to talk, but saw Miss Capet vigilantly making a silent gesture, and then pointed to a tall man wearing a black hat not far away. man.
"I'm following him."
She barely made a sound.
Jenkins squinted his eyes. The man was a level 4 boon, and he had never seen that person before.
"He should be a cult member of the [Gear Craftsman Association]."
Miss Capet said again, then took Jenkins' hand and stepped back to hide in the crowd. It also happened at this time that the man in the hat looked back with a feeling, but he didn't find the two of them.
"When I was in Nolan City, I was invited by the night watchmen to participate in a secret operation. I met him at that time, but he escaped."
Miss Capet whispered into Jenkins' ear, and then asked:
"Do you want to know what he is looking for? I found it after I got in the car. He was very purposeful searching for items among these vendors."
Of course, Jenkins also wanted to know what the hell the guys from the Gearsmiths were up to, so the plan to find Dad was shelved again. He followed Miss Capet with the cat, far behind the suspicious man, and at the same time did not forget to check which booth he stayed for a long time.
Generally speaking, stall owners do not reveal the privacy of customers, which seems to be related to the rules of the market. So no matter how Miss Capet asked about the goods that the man in the hat checked, the stall owners kept silent.
But when Jenkins asked, everyone was willing to tell him the answer, which is probably the advantage of VIP customers.
"B-11-05-3900 [Antiquities Market] Is it opened by a sage?"
Miss Capet was very confused about this, and Jenkins couldn't explain it, so he kept silent and let his cousin guess.