Although the one-legged old man was smoking a pipe, there was obviously nothing in the pipe.
Seeing Jenkins approaching, the old man who was originally leaning on the rotten wooden box with his shoulders slanted slowly sat up straight.
"I want to know something."
Jenkins said while putting away the coins, the old man raised his head and gave him a blank look, then reached out and took the pipe out of his mouth, and took a puff of smoke:
"Do two things for me."
"Where did the smoke come from? Well, it doesn't matter, what do I need to do?"
So far, there is no abnormality in this person, he looks very ordinary. As for that smoke, although Jenkins is not sure, it seems to be the ability of the old man, which is not an ordinary person.
"Two simple things, the first one, stay here until the boat docks. The second one, after the boat stops, take me to the shelter. As you can see, I lost a leg, several When fighting off the sea monster an hour ago, I lost my crutch again."
Jenkins frowned:
"Sorry, I'm in a hurry, can I change the condition?"
"In a hurry? It's okay."
The old man said with a smile, this is very strange, because so far, no one on the deck has laughed like this:
"There are still five minutes to arrive at the destination, so you can't waste too much time. If you are bored, you can continue to go fishing."
"five minutes?"
This is the information that Jenkins wanted to know, but has never been able to know, but he got it for nothing, and it is still the truth.
He immediately turned to look at the bow of the ship, but the fog in the direction of the ship was extremely thick, and he couldn't see anything ahead.
"Yes, five minutes. After sailing for so long and sacrificing so many people, this ship will finally reach its destination successfully. Since you are also on board, why don't you follow us to witness the destination?"
"Sorry, I can't go to the destination, I just want to know what's going on in this world."
I'm not sure about the other party's purpose for the time being, so I'd better behave politely.
"But when you reach your destination, you will know the truth of this world."
The old man looked up into his face and said.
"What's the meaning?"
"Literally, young man, don't go too fast, sometimes slow down a bit so you can see more."
He put the pipe in his mouth again and took a puff, took it away and exhaled again, not forgetting to explain:
"I'm quitting smoking recently. After all, tobacco is hard to find."
The old man is obviously trying to persuade Jenkins to stay and wait for the boat to stop, but Jenkins is not sure which side the other party belongs to. Fortunately, he still has a sure way:
"So, may I ask a question? It has nothing to do with this world, so you can answer whatever you want. I want to know, do you know a lot of things?"
"Yes, of course, so my information is very valuable. I dare say that I am the person on this ship who knows the most. Of course, that head is not a person."
"Since you know all this, honestly, do you think I should leave the ship now?"
"Leave? No, you don't know enough."
The old man said meaningfully, these are the truth.
"Oh well."
He thought for a while before nodding. After all, Jenkins is not the only one who is good at playing word games:
"Is the figurehead trying to slow me down the same as you trying to slow me down?"
He hadn't forgotten that the figurehead had lied to him.
"I want you to slow down because it's better for you. As for the figurehead... It must ensure that you can stay until the ship reaches its destination, because it doesn't want to perish. This ship was deliberately let go, otherwise How could there be so many surviving…”
"If you go any further, you're breaking the rules."
The head who hadn't spoken for a long time finally spoke, so the old man could only shrug his shoulders:
"You see, this involves the background of this world, so I can't say. But in my opinion, you should agree to my two conditions."
Jenkins shot him a look, then nodded silently. But instead of going fishing, he picked up his backpack and checked that everything he might use was in a location he knew.
Chocolate probably also understood that Jenkins was preparing for the battle, so he didn't bother him. The cat yawned and turned to look ahead of the boat. The dense fog could not cover Chocolate's eyes, and it could see what was waiting for them.
Although there were still five minutes to reach the destination, after only two minutes of driving, Jenkins saw a black shadow in front of him, and it was getting bigger and bigger. By the time it was two minutes before landing, he could already clearly distinguish that the shadow behind the fog was a giant tree.
The size of the tree is not inferior to the giant tree in the middle of the evergreen forest. The canopy of the tree spreads in all directions like an umbrella cover. Just seeing this vague shadow, one can know how huge the tree is.
The metal head on the chair, when Jenkins looked at the tree in the fog, reminded:
"Are you really not going to leave now?"
"I don't know the content of the disaster yet, and it's impossible to leave."
He didn't know what was working with the Difference Engine.
"I guess, there is no one on the deck, who can provide me with complete information about the disaster in the strange world, right? The difference engine is forcing me to stay on the ship and dock."
Jenkins said again.
"No, savior, this time you guessed wrong. The rules of the Paradise cannot be changed, and it is impossible to pass the Paradise. There is indeed someone on board who can tell you the last piece of the puzzle, but you didn't find out That's all."
"oh?"
Jenkins turned to look at it:
"Could it be you?"
"Of course not, I'm not an asylum seeker. In fact, it doesn't matter if I tell you, that person is still hiding in the crowd, and he doesn't know what he knows. Not only do you need to complete the task he gave you, but you also need to wake up his memory , to enable the hidden information option."
"very funny."
Jenkins commented.
"Of course, there is actually a way to wake up memory, and I can tell you right now. First, you need the figurehead to wake up, and then you have to fish and find at least five different fish in the river to sacrifice to the figurehead. Then, in the In the garbage pile on the deck, find 13 brass parts and splice them into a memory extractor invented by our lord. The splicing method of the machine is hidden in the space under a certain deck. , as the energy source of the extractor, and then find the 'priest' professional hidden in the crowd, and learn the incantation to turn on the machine, so that you can get what you want to know."
There are less than two minutes left in the time, even if Jenkins knows now, it is impossible to do so many things.