"Speaking of which, since this is a dream..."
Seeing that the destination was in front of him, Jenkins temporarily stopped, trying to imagine an apple falling in front of him, but this fantasy did not become a reality. It stands to reason that [reading] + [creation pencil] can play a more convenient role in dreams, but the facts at this moment remind Jenkins that this is not an ordinary dream.
Continuing to move forward, the bottom of the huge floating metal city appeared little by little. The bottom of the floating palace is about ten floors above the ground. There are hundreds of elevators on the ground connected to the palace. The elevators on the edge of the palace's huge shadow can allow goods or passengers to board the outer periphery of the floating palace, while the elevators in the shadows allow users to enter the interior of the palace.
Those metal elevators looked extremely crude, which even made Jenkins doubt the principle of this thing. From the outside, the entire structure of the elevator has only five parts, four of which are four slender metal rods placed in a square, connecting the ground and the palace above. The fifth part is a huge metal plate connected to it horizontally in a metal rod.
There is a slightly raised part in the center of the metal plate, like a button that has been magnified dozens of times. When Jenkins sees goods or people, as long as he steps on or presses the bump, the metal plate resting on the ground will automatically rise.
If it weren't for the wonderful texture on the surface of the metal plate to show its extraordinary performance, Jenkins would even suspect that this dream world does not conform to mechanical principles at all.
Fortunately, it seems that at least the superficial idealism and materialistic rules are still the same as the real world. This means that although the difference machine in the dream is not completely awake, it is not completely dreaming. It is definitely the same as Jenkins at this time, at least Some of them know that this is a dream.
Jenkins chose the lift on the edge, stepped on the metal plate, and lightly stepped on the round brass-colored button raised in the center. After a heavy sound that didn't match the volume of the button itself, the metal plate shook violently, and then carried Jenkins upwards at an extremely fast speed.
Overlooking Nolan from above, because of the intertwining of pipelines, the familiar city has an unfamiliar appearance. Even though the city has a large population and stronger and more factories, Jenkins inexplicably feels that everything he sees is lifeless.
This may have something to do with the dim yellow sky, which made him feel that the city in his dream was gradually decaying.
The elevator went up extremely fast, and after a few tens of seconds, he was already standing in the corridor outside the palace, touching the sloping and straight walls around him, and confirmed once again that this floating pyramid-shaped palace building was made of pure metal.
Out of curiosity, he tapped the wall lightly with his fingers. But probably because this is a dream, he did see some internal structures, but only on the shallow surface, and the deeper ones seemed to be shrouded in a thick gray fog. He knew that there were deeper ones but he just couldn't see them.
Proceed horizontally along the lane, and after a while, you will see the stairs that can go up. In this way, like walking in a cube maze, constantly circling upwards, it took him a while to finally reach the top floor.
The top floor looks like a standard triangle from below, but you can only know it after climbing up. The periphery of the triangle is a phantom-like wall. You can’t see the inside from the periphery, but you can see the outside from the inside.
Touch the seemingly solid red-brown stone brick wall with your hands, and then it seems to have passed through a layer of warm water film, and finally reached the top floor.
The top floor is a huge sacrificial venue, and when Jenkins came here, no one stopped him. He dawdled and looked inside where the wall was, and after making sure there was no danger, he stepped onto the floor tiles made of parallelogram metal blocks.
On the platform stood square pillars of different heights, and there were gear-shaped runes on the surface of the pillars and floor tiles. In the very center of the platform, there is a raised round platform that resembles a sealed [A4-type arithmetic auxiliary external machine]. Unintelligible runes and symbols of symbolic significance flicker on the surface of the round platform.
However, at the bottom of the round platform, dozens of pipes, no thicker than a little finger, are deeply embedded in the floor tiles, like blood vessels. The material of these slender pipes cannot be distinguished by the naked eye, but they are translucent, and Jenkins can see the rusty yellow ** continuously flowing from under the floor tiles through the pipes to the round table.
He thought for a while, then walked to the round platform and reached out to knock:
"Is anyone here?"
After speaking, he took a step back immediately. The symbols and runes on the surface of the round platform gradually converged to the center of the round platform while Jenkins retreated. The light of the rune disappeared instantly, and at the same time, dots of blue fluorescence appeared on the entire table.
Then pillars of white light burst from the altar, glowing against the decaying yellow sky. In the beam of light, a human head slowly emerged. Of the facial features of the human head, only the ears are clearly outlined, the eyebrows are unmarked, and the eyes, mouth, and nose seem to be covered with a layer of paper.
In other words, this is a faceless man.
"You finally woke up."
Before the other party spoke, Jenkins spoke first, and then before the other party asked a question, he spoke again:
"After such a long time, I finally saw you. How, how is this dream?"
"very good."
The sound of mechanical rubbing forms the word.
"So, do you know now that you are dreaming?"
"of course I know."
"So, did you know that you have been trapped in a dream for thousands of years?"
"have no idea."
Probably because the main body is a machine, it doesn't have too many emotions, even when faced with such surprising words, it simply gives its own answer.
The simple conversation made Jenkins understand that his guess was correct. The difference engine was half awake in the dream, aware of dreaming but not reality. This is probably the price. If you want to fully experience the dream and give birth to your own soul, of course you have to pay a price.
"You are probably in a half-dream and half-awake state right now? You know that you are awake, but you can't fully understand the world."
If the other party was fully awake, Jenkins would have absolutely no chance to board here, but should be chased and killed by countless monsters in the dream world, scurrying around in the city.
"Then who are you, have you come to wake me up?"
The mechanical voice asked dully.
"No, I didn't come to wake you up."
Jenkins doesn't believe that if the difference in chance enters the dream rashly, he will think that no one can break into the dream. Since it didn't fully know everything at this moment, the other party must have guarded against the possibility of being attacked from the dream when he was briefly lost in the dream. So, Jenkins couldn't say anything that might provoke hostility.
He wants to change the way, try to see if the other party is easy to deceive.
"As for me, I am you."
He said frankly.
"Then who am I?"
"You are Jenkins Williams, more precisely, you are Jenkins Williams' ego, I am Jenkins Williams' superego, the completely subconscious 'id' still in the dream bottom of the
"I do not understand what you are saying."
There was an unnatural gleam on the surface of the surrounding cylinder, and Jenkins thought he was approaching the limit of hostility.
"According to my research theory, that is, Jenkins Williams, the human spirit can be divided into three parts. It is very troublesome to explain in detail. You can simply understand that the "id" represents desire and is suppressed by consciousness;" Ego "Responsible for dealing with the affairs of the real world; the 'superego' is the conscience or inner moral judgment."
The mechanical voice was silent for a few seconds before giving the next sentence:
"Interesting theory."
"Yes, so, because of something, the individual Jenkins Williams fell into a deep sleep. We are actually the same person, but different aspects of the spirit.
The id is trapped in the deepest dream, which I used to call the edge of loss; you, the main part of consciousness, trapped in the main dream, partially understand the truth of the dream; and I am another part of consciousness, less Partly because I, Jenkins-Williamette's psychic defense mechanism, knew the most. All these years, I have been looking for you in my dreams. "
The story goes on and on, and maybe Jenkins really has a gift for lying.
"Very interesting story, so why did I fall into a deep sleep?"
"Have you forgotten even this? It seems that the situation is worse than I thought."
He frowned and said:
"Finally, the battle has come to an end. Because I cannot defeat the enemy, I, Jenkins Williams, chose to let myself fall into a deep sleep and seek inner strength for a short moment. Because of the difference between dreams and reality, we spend time in dreams. It has been thousands of years, but the reality is just a blink of an eye. Although your memory of reality is very vague, you can also feel that you are becoming stronger in the dream, right? This is the reason for entering the dream, but we not only need to grab power from the dream, It's my job to wake up."
"But my memory of reality is different from what you said."
"Of course, we fell into a deep sleep at the last moment of fighting the enemy. The enemy will also affect us. It is impossible for it to do nothing. Speaking of which, it is really a strong enemy."
"If you can't convince me to believe the reality you said, I can only helplessly destroy you."
The difference engine is not as easy to deceive as Jenkins thought, but Jenkins has already thought of a countermeasure:
"The opponent has the same power as us, so in the dream, you can lose the 'self' you represent. You should remember the word "enemy and friend have the same origin", right? Well, it seems that you have forgotten. We and the enemy, We all use the sinful power of the eighteenth century, and we are all masters of machines."