There is no moving air in the small underground space, and it is extremely dry. The cane appeared silently in Jenkins' hands, and his expression was very serious:
"How do you know this information?"
"It once contacted me, and the chain tentacles protruding from the depths of the earth hooked up with my structure, allowing us to have a short conversation, if that can be called a conversation... Please put away your weapons, I did not cooperate with him .
I learned something about it, and it confessed to me that it is not worried about failure, because fate and the world are doomed to the end of this era, and it is helping to promote and participate in this process, so it will definitely not fail. "
"It wants to cooperate with you?"
"Yes, I repeat, but I say no."
Although the priesthood of lies didn't give any hints, Jenkins didn't know whether the priesthood was useful for soulless mechanical creations, so he was still extremely vigilant.
"My function is very weak. The other party only proposed to merge with me and let us become one because of the need to repair itself. I want freedom, but I don't want to become something else, so I refuse. It can't force it Integrate me, after all, I'm still in the seal, and it's not worth breaking this troublesome seal for the sake of my body and structure."
It was a reasonable statement, but Jenkins didn't know whether to trust it. The priesthood of lies has no prompts, so he must determine whether the priesthood is useful to the other party. Therefore, he needs to ask a question that he knows that the other party will lie, but the other party still lies and thinks that he does not know that it will lie, to verify whether the priesthood of lies will be triggered.
"How do you want me to trust you? Sorry, since you are connected with that big guy, I think you have to come up with a way to make me trust you."
"what are you up to?"
"I want to see your core, the mechanical core, that is, the kind that once destroyed, you will die completely. I know that machines like yours have this structure. I defeated your kind in a snow mountain in winter , but it seems to be a bit more advanced than yours..."
He didn't intend to get the other party to agree, it's a negotiating technique, first put forward harsh conditions, and then take a step back. But unexpectedly, the other party agreed.
The beam of light trembled for a moment and then disappeared, and then a cylinder 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 suspended sphere with a very complex hollowed-out technique on the surface. In the hollowed-out inner center of the sphere, light blue lights are dotted around.
Even if he didn't know much about ancient mechanical creations, Jenkins knew that this was the core at the first sight of the thing.
"This is my core, 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 little overwhelmed, but Jenkins remained vigilant:
"Aren't you worried about your own safety if you do this?"
"It's all about freedom."
"Aren't you afraid of death? For you, aren't you afraid of complete demise?"
There was a moment of silence:
"Not afraid."
This is a lie, but Jenkins is very happy, because the priesthood of lies also has an effect on the other party. In fact, if you think about it carefully, since it is a priesthood linked to the rules of the world, it is not normal to have limitations.
The machine in front of him, the lie between freedom and life, made Jenkins feel a little strange. This sounds romantic, quite in the style of a novelist, but such a humanized expression is a bit scary:
"Do you have a soul of your own?"
"Everything has an anim, and a spirit can give birth to a mind and a soul, but I don't have a soul, at least not yet. There may be something underground that gives birth to a soul, and therefore greed, but I have no proof of this."
While there were still some questions to ask, Jenkins couldn't resist asking an irrelevant question:
"So can you dream? If you can dream, is it possible for you to dream of a mechanical gear sheep?"
Neither the machine talking to Jenkins nor the cat on Jenkins' shoulder, nor the coachman listening to the conversation in the carriage had expected this strange question. None of the three are human, but they have never thought of such a tricky question.
[A4-type arithmetic auxiliary external machine] Without an immediate answer, Jenkins heard the sound of metal colliding and running from the surrounding walls again. This time the sound lasted even longer than the time when he asked the difference engine for information 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've never dreamed. I tried to calculate the probability and almost got stuck in a perpetual calculation loop."
In the end, the machine replied that this gave Jenkins a new idea. The next time he sees the difference machine, he may ask the other party this question.
After that, Jenkins learned from [A4-type Arithmetic Assisted External Machine] that from the beginning of this era, the underground machine had foreseen the changes that would occur at the end of the eighteenth era. After all, it had witnessed many doomsdays. However, the machine that was determined to carry out the plan at the end of the epoch just lurked underground throughout the 18th epoch, and did not reveal its own strength. It only used the damage of the seal to "reproduce" its own gear structure, With Nolan as the center, it gradually spread to every corner of the material world.
This is of course impossible. Even if it is the 1866th year of the beginning of this era, it is not enough for the sealed difference engine to wrap the entire world, otherwise the seal will be meaningless.
What it's doing now is just spreading the gear tentacles with Nolan as the center to other parts of the world in a low-density manner. And after getting the help of humans who are proficient in gear technology, this work started more quickly, but it only took less than a year.
[A4-type arithmetic auxiliary external machine] believes that the underground machine wants to use its tentacles to occupy the world, thereby assimilating the world, promoting the coming of the doomsday, and realizing its own sublimation at the moment of the doomsday. They are mechanical creations, as long as the computing core is powerful enough, even a huge body can be manipulated. So the difference machine intends to assimilate the world, assimilate the fog of doom.
The idea of becoming a beast of disaster in the eighteenth century is the most feasible path, and it is almost successful now.
Jenkins wasn't going to stop this, and couldn't. Beasts of calamity will always appear, and it is better to let someone who knows the information become a beast of calamity than to know nothing about the enemy.