"That's right, if this kind of refuge ship doesn't have some special capabilities, it's impossible to carry so many people to escape. After all, it's the background of the disaster, so it's right to be cautious."
It is not impossible to search for the target in the wreckage of the piano without direct contact. Finding a bamboo pole and stretching it over the head of the refugee can also have the same effect.
That's what Jenkins ended up doing, but it's extremely time consuming. And the fire-breathing mouse that attacked Jenkins was actually among the wreckage of the piano. It popped up again and again to disturb Jenkins, and burned the bamboo pole he had found so hard.
The mouse was quite agile, and quite irritating. Unbearable, Jenkins allowed the bamboo pole in his hand to take root and sprout again, breaking through the growth limit of his own race. The top of the bamboo pole turned into a root to wrap around the mouse, and then wrapped it in it.
Jenkins didn't plan to do anything to the mouse, because his cat didn't have the habit of eating mice, so Jenkins threw it into the river, which was considered a way out for it, after all, he remembered that mice could swim.
So, after dealing with the unfriendly mice, I finally discovered the target this time. It was a very beautiful and gorgeous blood-red rose, which was,, inserted in a glass water bottle. Probably the water bottle was placed on the piano that had turned into wreckage before, so it came here with the piano.
After giving the roses to the little girl, the girl also proposed the information she could provide, and Jenkins could only choose two of them:
"You can ask why I am here; you can ask my understanding of the end; you can ask where this ship is going; you can ask how to get more information."
Men who like fish choose two out of three, while girls choose two out of four. Just like before, Jenkins wanted to know every piece of information, especially where the ship was going. He was even more curious.
Before the girl mentioned this, he thought that the ship was just the place where the story of the strange land took place, but he didn't expect that it was also part of the background of the world.
But he must restrain his curiosity and choose more favorable information. Without much consideration, he chose the first and fourth items. On the one hand, he believed in his intuition, and on the other hand, because when Jenkins was thinking, the girl who was still a little afraid of him secretly gestured with her fingers one and four.
[Guardian of the Flower Girl] Although the priesthood has a narrow scope of authority, it is definitely not completely useless.
"I can't remember the initial memory of this disaster clearly. After all, I was not very old when the indescribable thing that descended from the sky appeared."
This means that the source of the disaster appeared several years ago, and the collapse of civilization is not without any resistance.
"He is very powerful. Not only is he powerful, but he can also transform life into its minions and inanimate objects into its tools. I followed the adults to many places, and people around me died one by one. Until not long ago, someone Tell us that civilization is coming to an end, and that something great descending from the sky will take over our world completely and become the world he wants to see. Yellow light will cover everything, and the only way to survive is to climb up Go to the 'Ark of the Last Survivor' to meet the saviors who also came from the outside world."
"The background of this strange situation is really interesting."
Jenkins said in his heart that it has nothing to do with Jenkins for the time being as to whether what the girl said was what she really experienced or what she thought she had experienced.
The information the girl said seemed to be highly consistent with the information provided by the fish-loving guy, but the subtleties verified Jenkins' guess. He didn't know the appearance and ability of that indescribable thing, but the profile description was enough.
"Who told you about this ship?"
"I don't remember, probably died on the way to find this ship."
said the girl.
Jenkins nodded and did not continue the topic:
"So how can I get more information?"
"If you want to break through the limit of only three people you can ask, you must find—"
"Can this also break through?"
Jenkins really didn't expect this. Based on his rich experience in the strange world, he thought it was a fixed rule of the strange world, which could never be changed.
"This world...is different, the transgression of the unspeakable comes and breaks some fixed rules, so you can break some fixed rules too."
Although he still spoke timidly, this sentence... Jenkins looked at the girl's drooping head, and raised his eyebrows in surprise:
"Since this is the case, how can I break the rule of fixed three?"
"Simple, you need credentials. What you do is limited to the ship, so..."
"Shut up!"
The metal head placed on the deck chair that hadn't spoken for a long time suddenly spoke, and Jenkins turned around with a displeased expression on his face, which he rarely had:
"What does it have to do with you when we talk? Besides, is it really the right thing to scold children casually?"
The chocolate on the shoulder also catered to "meow~".
"Savior, please abide by the rules here."
"rule?"
Jenkins thought about being forced to face worms in the magma, being caught illegally by the metal skeleton in the cemetery, fighting the old butler in the old castle, playing cards with random card printing guys in the wax museum, The town clearly came to an end but was still stopped by the blacksmith's hammer. In other words, only the witch is a fun person, and the guy in charge of the furnace obviously took the difference machine as a fool, so it is not too much to violate the rules:
"You know the rules too? You better keep your mouth shut, or I don't give a shit about the rules. Do you know how many messy guys I've dealt with in my crawl here?"
As he spoke, he took out the metal that had been processed in the furnace not long ago from his backpack and raised it. Not knowing which words of Jenkins worked, the metal head closed its mouth and eyes and stopped talking.
"Go on."
He touched the cat cheering for him on his shoulder, and Chocolat squinted obediently and rubbed his little head against Jenkins' hand. Then he turned and said to the girl, and the girl continued the topic just now:
"Your event venue is this ship, so if you want to go beyond the rules, you must obtain the consent of this ship. Among all of us here, there is one person who is actually the boatswain of this ship."
Jenkins squinted his eyes, he really couldn't think of this kind of operation. But thinking of his guess about this strange situation, it seems that this kind of thing is not surprising.
"Find the boatswain, he must have a way to help you break through the limitation of only asking three people."
"Which one is the boatswain?"
Jenkins asked again, but the girl shook her head, then dropped her head and said nothing more.
"It seems she doesn't know either."
Jenkins turned and walked to the position next to the metal head in the middle of the deck. The head opened its eyes and looked at him, wondering what he was going to do again.
Jenkins summoned all of his abilities. After the adventurous journey, there are not many abilities left for him to use. This is not the time to cherish abilities.
Focusing the mind, along with the emission of the evil thoughts in the body, further strengthens the effect of the ability that is also affected by the evil thoughts:
"Aura of Fear!"
This ability, which doesn't distinguish between friend and foe at all, is likely to cause trouble if it is not carefully controlled when it is used. After Jenkins' physical transformation, it was also affected. The World Tree itself is not a mortal thing. Although it is not scary, the awe of the World Tree and the distortion of the spirit are real.
The aura of fear superimposed the essence of the world tree, forming a substantial black aura that bloomed under Jenkins' feet, and quickly covered the entire ship.
It not only affected the asylum seekers on the deck of the ship, but also affected the areas of the ship where Jenkins could not set foot, and then it affected the water.
The scope of this strange land is not just as narrow as the deck. After all, the border of the strange land is defined by darkness, but what Jenkins sees in all directions is thick fog. Therefore, the effect of such a large-scale ability will naturally affect the water surface and underwater around the river, and even the city blocks on both sides of the river.
But what is very strange is that while the refugees on the boat trembled and even groaned because of the fear that seemed to be engraved into their souls, there was no movement at all under the boat, under the water, or in the fog, and even the waves did not rise .
This once again confirms Jenkins' guess about this strange situation, so that it is in line with his evaluation of the "very innovative" difference engine, and the other party can indeed always come up with some new tricks.
Of course, the [Aura of Fear] ability is not a disadvantage when used here. The difference machine itself has no fear, and this trick has no effect on the difference machine, so it is most suitable to use it at this time.
The ability continuously affected the surroundings, the dark halo even suppressed the strength of the deck itself, and even dispelled the thin fog around the ship.
What Jenkins did was walk around the deck, watching the expressions of everyone here. Even though the deck is not big, since most people have their heads bowed or covered, they can only be judged based on body twitches or subtle movements.
Finally, he stopped in front of a fat middle-aged woman who smelled of alcohol and had two green wine bottles tilted beside her. This was very close to the rear edge of the deck. The woman was hiding under the same blanket with three middle-aged women who were about her age. The four of them didn't look much different.
Jenkins stops the effect of the fear halo:
"Unexpectedly, the bosun of this ship is actually a woman."
It's not that he discriminates against women, but it's really hard to imagine in this era.
Everyone around was trembling, only the woman was leaning against the railing behind her so Jenkins could find her.