In fact, Hathaway, who was at the center of the battlefield, was sheltered by chocolate, so she didn't see how tragic the battle took place in the short three minutes.
At this time, the strange celestial phenomenon of black light and golden light can be seen on the west coast of the entire continent. The fog dispersed in the sky showed an unstable situation, and the fire in the southern forest exploded violently, but came and went between advancing and retreating.
During this period of time, countless steam machines had various problems that should not have occurred in principle. Even the animals crawling in the evergreen forest gathered under the central tree as if they were looking for a refuge.
When it was all over, Hathaway felt the light, felt the light on her face. She suppressed the instinctive impulse to tremble, and slowly raised her head to look at the sky.
The sky seemed to have been pierced with a hole. Behind the hole, the sky was blue, the sun was shining brightly, the sky was bright and the air was clear, and the wind was breezy. Big chunks of white clouds, as white as the marshmallows Jenkins got somewhere to feed the cat.
She didn't understand the meaning of the battle just now, but she was still grateful from the bottom of her heart:
"it's over?"
Of course it didn't end, and soon dark clouds poured in from the sky to fill the hole in the air, and because of the influence of the erupting spirit of the battle, the gray mist that was temporarily expelled also flooded back into this area. The raindrops fell little by little, and everything seemed to be back before the battle started.
Hathaway hugged the cat and stood up while leaning on the hot sandy ground to look around. Chocolate struggled to "escape" from her arms, then jumped and jumped in the rain, and ran towards the man who was walking with a black umbrella in the distance.
Because the eyes were stimulated by the strong light just now, even though the man got closer and closer, Hathaway still couldn't see the man's face clearly. But at least she saw that the black cat belonging to the God of Lies turned black and white immediately after jumping on the man's shoulder.
She saw Jenkins approaching, and she saw the unicorn in the sky descend with concern, rubbing against the back of its owner's hand. She saw Chocolate lying on Jenkins' shoulders, and then wrapped her tail half around the man's neck affectionately. I also saw the last ray of golden brilliance on Jenkins' body melt into the air, his right hand was dripping blood, the blood slipped out of the sleeve, and fell into the puddle that appeared on the pitted ground at some point, causing circles of ripples .
She saw Jenkins with a serious face, approached and let the umbrella cover both of them from the rain.
He looked at Hathaway, Hathaway looked at him, and the cat on his shoulder yawned.
"I was careless and failed to seize this opportunity. It does have fatal structural flaws, but I did not expect that although it cannot be repaired, it can be transformed into a trap to lure the enemy. The door itself is Part of the trap, but fortunately, before the final battle, I have already stepped into this trap.
This is not the end, I have a second chance. I've broken it, and it knows who I am. The next time it appears in front of me, it must be a decisive battle with the determination to succeed. "
There was some smile on his face:
"There is still time, and I will succeed."
She saw blood oozing from Jenkins' forehead too, but it wasn't serious, and she saw herself reflected in Jenkins' charming eyes, so small.
"Who are you?"
She asked, her voice was so hoarse that she finally trembled uncontrollably. At this time, I felt the weakness of my whole body, but before I fell, I was supported by the man in front of me again.
Opening his eyes, he saw the cat on Jenkins' shoulder, angry in vain.
"Hathaway, who do you think I am?"
"you… "
Although there is an umbrella on the head, after all, I just stood in the rain for a while. Raindrops with some body temperature dripped down along the long hair against the cheeks.
She hugged Jenkins tightly, as if afraid of him running away, as if afraid that he would disappear suddenly, as if afraid that he would become someone else. With red hair on his chest, he asked after a long time:
"Will you explain all this?"
"Of course, you will know everything you want to know. You don't need to wait until everything is over. I want to understand. There are some things that you are entitled to know."
The battle does not necessarily end in one victory and one defeat. For example, after Jenkins in the deified state directly rushed into the door, there was actually no victory or defeat.
Because what he saw was not the complete core of the difference engine, but only a part of the core.
It was a half-sphere with incomplete beauty, and the uneven cut surface was covered with huge gears, levers and bearings. Its beauty is beyond human imagination. That kind of delicate and trembling incompleteness has a maddening charm stronger than Venus with a broken arm.
Half of the sphere has what Queen Windsor called "structural defects", but at the same time, this brass door is also a trap created by the Difference Engine.
Jenkins didn't expect that the other party would have the courage to split the core, and only let the defective part emerge from the ground alone. This is even crazier than normal people splitting their souls to avoid death. Therefore, he was caught off guard and did not completely leave the opponent before the divine nature burned out. The opponent's home field was inside the door. He had to consider his retreat after the divine state ended, so he couldn't make a full shot.
And the difference machine did not expect that the first time it came out of the ground, it would bump into a real god with killing intent.
No matter how superb the defense measures are, no matter how exquisite the trap is, under the action of the mighty power of the gods, a quarter of its cores will be permanently scrapped. destroy.
It's hard to say which side wins and which side loses. Jenkins' sudden action this time exposed the secret of the God of Lies. Although it will not let the other party know that God has always been in the material world, it will not let the other party associate Jenkins with the believers of lies. But the difference engine must have known that believers of lies can summon gods at any time.
From now on, it will never appear above the ground as easily as this time. Jenkins wants to meet such a good opportunity before the final battle, the probability is already equal to zero.
Just like what he and Hathaway said, he has already alarmed the enemy, and the next time he encounters the difference engine, it must be the last day.
The Difference Engine paid the price of a quarter of the core damage, while Jenkins paid the price of the hard-earned divinity being consumed.
At the same time, when he and Hathaway were in the rain, the blood that flowed from his arm was not because he didn't treat him deliberately to win sympathy. Rather, the body has really suffered damage that cannot be healed temporarily.
It wasn't that he was injured in the state of a god. In the state of a god, his soul turned into a god, and his body was still under the ruins. The head-on fight with the difference engine did not hurt this body. The damage to his arm was caused by the giant cannon in the door. He never expected to face such an attack all at once.
In order to protect the unicorn and his cat, he did not protect himself at the moment of the impact of the spirit, but threw the cat far away, and then canceled the summoning of the unicorn.
Because of this, he was almost head-on to the mansion that was bombarded to the ground by the cannonball. The physical damage caused by the bombardment and falling can be easily healed, but the power injected by the difference machine into that shot is completely different from the human body, that is, the spirit representing the ultimate mechanical power, but it stubbornly hinders the path of life. spiritual healing.
Hathaway accepted Jenkins' request to confess after returning home, and the two hurriedly bid farewell on the battlefield outside the scorched town of Honeywood.
Although the Eye of Reality confirmed that the difference machine had completely fled underground, he was still worried that the enemy hadn't left and would attack Hathaway after the two separated. So when Hathaway leaves, let Chocolate be by her side and go home with her.
This does not mean that Jenkins thinks that his cat is stronger than the red-haired lady, but that even if something goes wrong, at least he can get the information immediately.
"Meow~"
Chocolat looked a little reluctant, but seeing Jenkins' miserable look, he jumped off his shoulder unwillingly. Flicking his tail, on the watery ground, he turned his head and meowed at Jenkins, as if to reassure him.
"Come back as soon as possible."
Hathaway just left this sentence and left.
Jenkins held the umbrella and watched her and the cat go away, then turned to look at the area affected by the battle, and Honeywood Town not far away, which seemed to be hit by a magnitude 10 earthquake and typhoon together, and then used [Real Phantom ] Returned to the quiet room in the small town of Beketuo.
The battle between the God of Lies and the Difference Engine not only affected the nearby town of Honeywood, but also affected the entire west coast of the mainland. The earthquake centered on the battle between the two and spread to the entire continental shelf. In addition, the abnormal spiritual fluctuations also made Nolan and the givers in the surrounding area extremely uncomfortable.
After Jenkins returned to the quiet room, he first drew some bandages and bandaged the bleeding part of his arm so as not to arouse others' suspicion. Then he left the room to join the church members, and then went to Honeywood Town where the abnormality appeared to investigate.
Of course, there were no clues left. The impact of the battle directly destroyed the hill where the mansion was located. Except for Jenkins, no one could reconstruct what happened here this afternoon. Even the difference engine could not know what happened in the mansion. all situations.
But according to the remnants of the spirit, the church deduced that the God of Lies once appeared. They found remnants of mechanical birds and chains near the closed cracks, and even found some metal fragments from the cracked brass gate.
Under the guidance of a caring person, that is, Jenkins, the church deduced that the war with the God of Lies was the difference engine hidden deep in Nolan's underground.
But no one could tell why it appeared on the ground, let alone why the God of Lies was able to block it so coincidentally.
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