The old man had indeed heard of the place name Shewei Lane. After Jenkins asked, he casually pulled out the city map from the counter and circled the location with a pen. The name of the alley is not marked on the map, and it is useless even if Jenkins went to the post office to buy a tourist map.
"Tell me honestly, what are you going to do?"
Before Jenkins left, the old man behind the counter asked without raising his head. He was wearing a monocle and checking a golden ring under the gas lamp.
"Um… "
Hearing that Jenkins didn't want to answer, but he didn't want to lie to himself, Dad knew that he must be doing something dangerous.
"you are always like this."
Dad sighed, but didn't stop him from doing things. Although Jenkins has only studied with him for less than a year, this apprentice is already qualified to be a teacher. Dad knows that since Jenkins wants to do it, it must be reasonable:
"Be careful."
Although there are thousands of words that cannot express his concern, but in the end, this is the only way to say it.
Jenkins saw what his father was thinking, nodded solemnly to him, and touched the cat on his shoulder:
"You see, I'm carrying chocolate. I'm sure I'm not going to do something dangerous."
In fact, Chocolate's mental resistance is probably stronger than that of Jenkins. When facing the monster with Jenkins, the cat seems to only occasionally show weakness when Jenkins shows weakness.
But the old man didn't know about it, so he was a little relieved, thinking that Jenkins was just busy with things that were inconvenient to talk about.
Shewei Lane is a very common alley in Norland City, located between an antique collectors club and a private clinic. The alley is so short that Jenkins can walk from one end to the other at a normal pace in three minutes. The two ends of the alley are connected to two main roads, and there is nothing in it except garbage and suspected excrement, which is basically in a state of being unobstructed.
Jenkins walked out of the fog into the alley, stood at the entrance of the alley to look around, and suddenly frowned:
"It turned out to be like this again."
He whispered, just as he was about to take off the cat on his shoulder, he raised his head suddenly and saw two men suddenly jumping off the roof of the clinic. The clinic is a two-story building, not very high. Before the men jumped down, they didn't expect that there were still people standing in the alley.
The two sides looked at each other, and Jenkins pulled his hand out of his pocket before the other could recognize him, and the seed shot to the ground in the distance.
"No, this is from the Church of the Sages..."
The other party really recognized Jenkins, and the man who was taller than Jenkins turned around and ran away, while his companion, a man with a sleepy face, rushed towards Jenkins.
The morning glory seeds that touched the ground grew rapidly into vines under the stimulation of vitality, and the fleeing man was entangled within a few steps. The man who rushed to Jenkins was not tied up by the vines because he did not escape.
Jenkins then drew out his cane and went up to him.
Both parties seemed unwilling to make too much noise. While Jenkins swung his cane down and pulled it down, the man just raised his right arm to meet him:
Clang~
It was obviously the sound of the cane hitting metal.
"It really is you guys."
He complained softly.
The tired-looking man was steaming outwards, especially when he got close to Jenkins, the feeling of the heat wave hitting his face was even stronger.
His cane couldn't smash the opponent's modified mechanical arm, but on the second knock, Jenkins forced the opponent back a step only by relying on strength.
"If you can tell you why you are here, I think I can not kill you."
Instead, it is handed over to the church.
As he said that, he didn't tap the cane for the third time, because during the first two taps, he had already fully understood the mechanical structure in the opponent's arm by relying on the strength of the [Mechanic]. Just like the enemies I encountered some time ago, this is also not a pure mechanical arm, but a structure mixed with flesh and blood.
Although Jenkins felt an instinctive sense of discomfort and nausea when seeing those internal structures relying on "mechanical hearing", which was the disgust of the World Tree seedlings for unnatural and profane creations, but he still firmly remembered the structure of the arm.
The other party did not follow Jenkins' advice, and did not intend to surrender or speak at all. Seeing that Jenkins did not make the third tap, he immediately opened the front of his jacket and pointed at Jenkins.
It wasn't because of sudden madness, there was actually an eyeball embedded in the man's chest.
"Magic eye?"
Jenkins had rarely seen the Eye on his enemies since the men of the Eye Collection left Nolan. It was a blood-red eyeball, and at first glance there was nothing unusual, but when Jenkins looked away from the eyeball itself, he actually saw waves of red blood rushing towards him along the alley behind the man.
This is not like an illusion, whether it is the sound, the vibration of the ground, or even the damp breath before the tide hits the face, it is all very real. Jenkins' eyes blinked. With his real eyes, what he saw was actually a man with a magic eye inlaid on his chest, turned and ran towards his companions. There was no wave of blood in the alley at all.
"It really is an illusion."
Thinking of the right hand move in his heart, the iron-gray book that symbolized the ability of the [Mechanic] immediately appeared in his hand. As the pages of the book unfolded, two bronze-colored mechanical birds with a rather classic style flew out of the book and landed on the shoulders of the two people respectively.
Immediately, whether it was the man struggling in the vines or the man with the magic eye who wanted to rescue his companions, they all froze in place. The bodies of the two trembled rapidly, as if they had suddenly suffered from a serious illness, and they seemed to be fighting against their own bodies.
This time luck is not bad, both enemies have carried out a certain degree of mechanical transformation on the vital heart, so Jenkins can subdue them so smoothly.
He threw a seed again, trapping the man with the magic eye. Only then did he loosen his control over [Machinery] slightly, allowing the enemies to regain their ability to speak:
"Well, I'm still the same question. What are you here for? The one who speaks out first will live, and the other will die."
"Williamette, what the hell is this?"
The enemy uttered the first sentence, and looked at the mechanical bird on his shoulder like a living thing in horror. Made of all brass, only mechanical parts such as gears are used to move, and there are arcs jumping between the wings.
"It doesn't matter what it is, do any of you want to answer my question?"
"This is impossible! This kind of power, how can you have such power?"
The man with the magic eye asked again, looking like he was about to break down, but Jenkins didn't remember that his ability had a mind-disturbing effect. His companion frowned and said nothing, as if he was also troubled by the problem.
"You are a member of the Orthodox Church, and you are a seedling of the World Tree. How can you have mechanical power?"
The Difference Engine already knew that Jenkins Williams was a World Tree sapling, so it's no surprise that the cultists who worked with him knew that.
"Is this power rare?"
Jenkins asked.
"You stupid people will never understand what kind of wisdom we have seen! The future of mankind, the future of the world, lies in comprehensive mechanization and mechanical immortality! Viscount, since you also have the talent of machinery, how about..."
Jenkins controlled the vine around his mouth, then looked at his companion:
"What do you want to say?"
"It's so strange. I thought machinery and nature were incompatible. Viscount, do you have any secrets?"
The man who spoke looked older than his companion, and his speech was more mature. This may be the reason why he chose to escape immediately, while his companion rushed to Jenkins head-on.
"Answer my question, what are you here for?"
"I can answer, but you also have to answer one of my questions. After this, I don't care what you do with us."
The gagged companion immediately struggled in the vines, trying to stop it, but the metal bird on his shoulder flicked its wings, and he couldn't control his body again.
"Okay, I agree, but you have to answer my question first. Are you here by chance, or do you have other purposes."
"The high priest conveyed the instructions of great wisdom, let us wait nearby, waiting for two women who escaped from the strange situation. It is not just the two of us who came here, we were just assigned to the vicinity, the great wisdom gave The scope is too large."
This is similar to what Jenkins thought. Now he can interrogate the enemy without panic and regardless of time, because he saw the entrance of the strange place when he came to the alley. As expected, Miss Windsor and Miss Magic, who were being chased by monsters, should have entered a strange world. But Jenkins didn't see the black aura nearby, and he didn't know where the monsters chasing them went.
"It's my turn to ask, William of the Church of the Sages, the selected seedling of the World Tree, please answer me, what is the name of your mechanical ability?"
This was not the question Jenkins expected. He didn't intend to answer the other party's question, but since it was this kind of question, he didn't mind. After all, he didn't intend for the two to live to see the others:
"Mechanic."
he said.
The tall man nodded:
"I see."
"What's the meaning?"
"An ability that I have never heard of, with a high probability, this is the ability you created yourself?"
Jenkins didn't know if this was his original ability, but judging from the form of expression, it really didn't look like an ability that existed in this world itself. Most of the newly created abilities are unique and can only be born in accordance with the rules of the times, so most of them are slightly stronger than the existing abilities. And because of their rarity, and most of them do not have the possibility of being learned by others, it is not something worth making a fuss about.
"I don't know if this is an original ability. Is there any problem with it?"