"Let me remind you that there are various purposes for the existence of treacherous realms. You have seen many types of treacherous realms along the way. There is one type that floats in the endless void outside the material world and is used to seal The space fragments of some dangerous monsters. Because there is a problem with the seal, people in the material world will be drawn to repair it."
"Like that blood therapy town?"
Jenkins thought of the town not so long ago.
"Yes, you walked through the town, consumed and explained the [blood], which is equivalent to penetrating the blocked circulation of spirit and energy, and indirectly strengthened the seal. And this strange place is actually some kind of seal, The person sealed here is not an ordinary guy, but a part of the past disaster. This time, my lord did not inject any external disaster into it, because the disaster itself is here.
In this way, don't the options left to you become a lot less at once? "
The head said, this sentence is completely true and does not contain any lies.
Jenkins turned his head and supported the old man to continue walking:
"In this way, I almost understand."
The cat on the shoulder shrugged its little nose hard, and it also understood.
When it was Jenkins and the old man's turn to get close to the boat, the people in front had already left. The guide who held the oil lamp did not wait, but held the lamp high when the people left the boat about two-thirds of the way, and led the people who disembarked first towards the giant tree in the dense fog.
Although the light was not particularly bright, the light could penetrate the thick fog, so people who followed could also see the direction of the light and catch up.
"How are you going to catch up in a while?"
Jenkins asked the old man, who was holding onto the rope, waiting for Jenkins to let him down.
"You don't have to worry about this, I have my own way."
So Jenkins didn't ask much, and after saying goodbye to the old man, he carefully put it on the pier under the boat. He couldn't leave the ship, and he didn't want to leave the range of the ship, so he couldn't stick his head out to see if the other party touched the ground.
He didn't let go of the rope until the old man shouted that he had "landed" safely. And the old man also told Jenkins from under the boat the name of the most powerful creature of the sojourner here as agreed. Of course, it cannot be the real name. The real name of the beast of disaster is not something that people in the material world dare to mention. What the old man said was just a simple name:
"It's ants, the ants here are the most powerful!"
[Golden Ant Eating the World Tree], this is the name of the beast of disaster that Jenkins knew when chatting with his father a long time ago. Before he entered the nine-story tower in the city center, the church also found some information about it.
This beast of disaster is not a single individual, but a whole group of 666 in total. The number will never increase, and it will never decrease. Even if one of them is eliminated, the remaining golden ants will reproduce a new one; even if only one is eliminated, that one can reproduce the whole population .
This kind of beast of disaster that exists in the form of a population can never be completely eliminated, which is reflected in their "unpredictable" characteristic. That is, it is never possible to know the number of existing golden ants in any way. In other words, the upper limit of the total amount of golden ants can be known, but the remaining number can never be determined.
The church has very few records about this dangerous creature. Even among all the beasts of disaster, except for the disasters of the first three periods that are completely unrecorded, the records about golden ants are the least.
Even for the most mysterious moon-swallowing civet, the church at least knows the characteristics of disaster, it knows that it sleeps and waits outside the material world, and knows that it has had conflicts with the lost butterfly population, but for the golden ant, the church only knows that it is extremely dangerous and has been After it was sealed, there was no more news.
Although the information provided by the church was vague, when Jenkins thought of this creature at this moment, the gift of the leaf given by the World Tree suddenly lit up in his spirit, and then he learned about a past event.
[Golden Ants Eating the World Tree] It was originally just a group of ordinary ants living near the root system of the World Tree. The age of their existence coincided with the decline of the World Tree itself in order to completely get rid of all the disaster forces.
The world tree has declined, but some branches and leaves contain the power of disaster and turned into strange things. And it was during that period that the group of ants unconsciously absorbed the power of disaster by gnawing on the roots of the World Tree, and thus slowly ate most of the World Tree's body, leading to the premature demise of the tree.
Of course, this is also voluntary by World Tree, otherwise it would take a lot of effort to separate itself from the power of the original Calamity Beast.
In short, the appearance of [Golden Ant Eating the World Tree] is different from most disasters. It is not transformed by the disasters of its era, but has the ability to swallow the disasters of this era after absorbing the disasters of the past era. Calamity became the official Calamity Beast, which is somewhat similar to the Difference Engine.
Because they ate most of the world tree, and those ants had the "golden disaster" of their era, they were named [golden ants that ate the world tree]. Moreover, devouring the world tree is something they did, so this group of ants really has a special damage effect on the world tree.
This effect is not only useful for the real world tree, but also for the seedlings of the world tree, that is, Jenkins, of course.
Jenkins didn't know whether the savior of that era was successful. He only knew that when sealing these ants, in order to prevent the gathering of racial forces, he specially sealed 666 ants separately. The number of ants in each individual seal is not fixed, so even if a small number of ants escape, it will not cause too much consequence.
Obviously, this strange land is one of the seals, and the last refuge of human beings is called the "Steel World Tree". I am afraid it is not the bad taste of the difference machine, but the name in the background of the strange land. After all, the residence of the golden ants is the world tree.
"So you understand?"
asked the head on the ship.
"Understood, the difference engine that fell from the sky and called itself 'Great Wisdom', together with the golden ants that already existed in this world, transformed the world into a complete metal form. Flesh and flesh creatures became geared robots, and other inanimate matter transformed into Metal, the city turns into brass, the jungle is no longer alive, the earth and the ocean are frozen into shiny metal. Steel swallows everything, and gears transform everything. This world is the "Steel Land" where mechanical gears and golden ants coexist... Speaking of which, the golden ants are not really made of gold, are they? That’s why they are willing to cooperate with the difference engine, which is also made of metal.”
"Savior, you are smarter than I thought."
said the head.
"I'm done, and I think I'm right. Where's the door?"
Jenkins asked, looking at the metal head on the chair, the head gave an imaginary answer:
"Just like what you've already experienced, this time I'm going to cheat again."