Dominate the Treacherous Realm

　　 Chocolate sniffs in the air. Jenkins knows that this cat's sense of smell is very sensitive, almost equivalent to a peculiar ability, so he also learns its appearance and sniffs in the air.

　　 The peculiar moisture when it rains was first perceived, and then the smell of the gray mist that filled Nolan around. But this is not surprising, the two flavors are very common.

　　 "Did you notice something?"

　　 He asked his cat again, Chocolate nodded and answered Jenkins’s question with a "meow" voice. It's a pity that he still can't understand the idea of ​​chocolate. He can only be roughly certain that this time the cat perceives something unusual again.

"What could it be?"

　　 In this case, he didn't dare to touch the spirits gathered in the space because of the ritual with his spirit, and he even flew farther away deliberately, far away from that area.

　　 "Since I don't know anything, I might as well give it a try."

　　 thought of this in her heart, pointing her finger to the sky:

　　 "Call the wind and call the rain!"

　　 A bright white flash appeared in the air, and the heavy thunder pillar smashed down. It wasn't until a huge "hole" appeared in the air that the rumbling voice came from a very high place.

　　 When the summoned thunder passed through the ritual node, the power contained in the thunder seemed to break a certain balance. An irregular large hole appeared in the sky like a broken mirror, and inside the hole was a colorful dreamlike color.

　　 This is obviously not a paradox, nor is it that the space wall of the material world is simply shattered, but something that was originally hidden is torn to disguise.

　　 Considering that the position of the node given by Miss Magic’s friends and the church together, there is a slight deviation from the actual position. Perhaps the truth of this ritual is not just a sacrifice to give more power to the difference machine.

　　Miss Magic has always been quite outstanding. Although the asking price is expensive, the research commissioned by her has never had a big problem. But as long as it is a person, it is possible to encounter a small probability event, not to mention that it involves a huge amount of calculation machinery.

　　 Now Jenkins has two options, one is to approach the hole in the air and deal with it alone. The second is to stay in place to signal to the church, and then wait for the church to deal with it.

　　 He himself is not willing to take risks, and his character has always been cautious, so of course he has to choose the latter. Just about to fall back to the ground, using a triangle spell to convey a message to the church, I suddenly heard a strange sound like glass shattering in my ear.

　　 turned his head and looked back, only to see that the hole cut out by thunder and lightning expanded to the outside again. In the colorful illusion, there seemed to be a huge whale-like thing flashing across it, without giving Jenkins a chance to capture its specific appearance.

　　 "What do you mean?"

　　 Before I had time to think about it, a burnt-yellow hand stretched out abruptly to grab the edge of the broken edge of the irregular polygon, and then the dimly burnt-yellow human-shaped body appeared sideways in the hole.

　　 "Black aura."

　　 There is no need to hesitate now, as he put on his black robe, a black shadow with a wild laugh appeared behind him. With the strange sound of dripping, the twin demons drew an arc in the rainy air and rammed straight into the hole in the sky.

The loud explosion left a color like black flowers in the air. After Jenkins became a [World Tree Sapling], it seemed that all other savior abilities had been enhanced. He attributed this to the sublimation of his soul and body. .

　　 The exploding twin demon successfully blasted the scorched horror figure into the cave again, but at the same time it also made the opening of the growing area bigger.

　　 Jenkins in the air shook his nose. He smelled the smell of burning tobacco, which was naturally the huge hole. Before he proceeded to the next step, scorched hands appeared on the edge of the hole again, this time there were dozens of pairs.

　　 Those humanoid monsters cling to the constantly broken hole like a spider. They seem to be aliens with their skin and real muscles exposed, but the color of the muscles is dirty burnt yellow and black.

"What exactly is this?"

　　 More and more humanoid monsters appeared from the entrance of the cave. When Jenkins took out his sword from the air, the monsters who had crawled all over the edge of the entrance were ready to jump down into the city.

　　 "Sword Dance·Spinning."

　　 Two bright white flashing rings are patched together, accurately cutting the monsters who want to leave the hole. They did not leave their bodies after their deaths, but turned into yellow smoke with the smell of burning tobacco, which melted into the air.

　　 Jenkins cut a sword mark with the sword in his right hand at the entrance of the cave. After confirming that this would only make the entrance of the cave bigger and bigger, his left hand pointed at the rain in the sky:

　　 "Ning Bing!"

　　The white cold air spread around him and the high stool. The water on the ground freezes first, and then the rain that falls on the ice continues to increase the height of the icicles.

　　 This is like a rising ice tree, finally reaching a very high sky, sealing the hole inside the icicle. The falling raindrops finally made the icicles growing from the ground seem to be holding a huge hockey puck.

　　 Although it failed to completely prevent the expansion of the cave entrance, at least the monsters inside were temporarily unable to come out.

　　 When Jenkins was doing this, three people flew in the distance. They were demigods of the Orthodox Church, but these three Jenkins were not familiar with them.

　　 "Sorry, did you see Jenkins Williams?"

　　 They didn't ask about the current situation first, but looked for the trace of Jenkins. It is Jenkins who is in charge of handling this node, and he should be here.

　　 "Williamt? I saw it, but you have to tell me first, what is this?"

　　 Jenkins points to the hole in the puck. Its temperature seems to be very high, melting the inside of the puck.

　　 "Just now we received a report, not just this place..."

The middle-aged man headed by 　　 said, this is the demigod Mr. Jaeger from the [War and Victory Church]. This is a thin man, but he looks unusually strong:

　　 "But you dealt with it best. We don't know what it is at present, but it is a channel that connects to the dream world."

　　 "Dream world?"

The star realm and the shadow realm are real spaces that have materiality, energy, and spirit; the mirror realms and dream realms corresponding to them are just from the knowledge of the unknown concepts of the intelligent beings in the material world. The extension is a world without authenticity.

　　 The world in the mirror and the world in the dream, although much more real than a complete illusion, is far from the extent of real existence. The reference for the formation of the mirror world is the real world, and the reference for the formation of the dream world is the illusory dream. Therefore, compared to the world in the mirror that Jenkins has ever reached, the world in the dream is more illusory and more elusive because of the influence of different cognitions.

　　 Even, there are indeed a small number of researchers who recognize the existence of the "mirror world", but almost no one recognizes the existence of the "dream world".

"The church believes that behind the real space where Nolan City is located, there is a world formed by intertwining dreams. It is extremely large, and the power accumulated in it is so terrible. This ceremony is very likely to be related to this. When the node was smashed, the weak barrier between the two worlds was accidentally broken. Those monsters and those lights were all materialized from dreams...Excuse me, where did Jenkins Williams go? ?"

Chapter 2036 Chapter 206 The Dream of the Difference Engine

　　 "Relax, Williams is not in danger. We ran into him just now, and he couldn't deal with the problem here, so he threw the matter to me. He is probably holding an umbrella and rushing on the road to go back to church, he looks very embarrassed."

　　 Jenkins sitting on the high stool said, turning to look at the hockey puck held by the icicle:

　　 "I don't care what you are going to do, I leave it to you here. I still have things to do, but if you can't handle even such trivial matters, you are welcome to come to us to deal with the trouble."

　　 said, he jumped down from the high stool. As the high stool disappeared, the falling Jenkins was steadily caught by the unicorn, and then taken by the little beast, flying towards the sky like a white arc.

　　 He landed in an alley one block away from the church, then deliberately threw down his umbrella, and ran back to the church in the rain without an image. People did not doubt his relationship with the lie believer, and in fact, no one cared about this. Now Nolan is again facing a disaster that may lead to the destruction of the entire city.

　　 Jenkins heard about the whole thing from Alexia, because he chose the most important node to be the last one, so he was not the first person to discover the dream channel.

　　 After receiving the news, the church communicated with the believers of the **** of ritual again. This time Alexia also helped a little, confirming that the purpose of the ritual that took the entire Nolan as the base and caused various supernatural accidents as the core was indeed a sacrifice.

　　 But the purpose of the sacrifice is not to provide more power to the differential engine, but to make the dream entangled with Nolan's real world, not to interfere with reality because of the power of the dream owner.

　　 "But where did that dream world come from?"

　　 Jenkins wondered:

　　 "The dream world must be supported in order to become a reality. Whose dream is this? Is it the tobacco smokers again? But I...cough cough."

　　 Considering that this is a church, he changed his view:

　　 "Isn't the lie believer sure that those dreams will only be beautiful dreams? Just now I saw the disgusting thing that came out of it with my own eyes."

　　 "There is no definite conclusion, but there are vague conjectures. Do you remember that you asked the question about the underground machine? I want to appreciate that question."

　　 Alexia asked.

　　 "I have asked a lot of questions...wait, you mean..."

　　 Seeing that his expression changed, Alexia knew that he had thought of it, so he repeated the question that Jenkins had asked:

　　 "Then will you dream? If you can dream, is it possible for you to dream of a mechanical gear sheep"

　　 There has not been a very precise definition of what a dream is. [A4 type arithmetic-assisted external machine] It has been guaranteed that the difference machine does not form a complete soul at least for now, but no one can answer whether there is no soul or not.

　　 Those special tobacco smokers jointly constitute a dream, in fact, the church has not discovered its true purpose for a long time. Now, this secret has finally been revealed to the church.

　　 It doesn't matter if you have a huge mental power without a master, those who dream don't matter, and those who are rooted in the soul and spirit of addiction don't matter. What the differential engine really wants is just the dream.

　　 It is mechanical and cannot be dreamed. But if there is a huge dream of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, it can also enter the dream through extraordinary means.

　　 So, the difference engine, which should have been unable to dream, had a huge and weird dream. Because the difference engine itself is too powerful, this dream is entangled with Nolan, its core location, and it can directly interfere with reality without even having to do anything.

　　According to the church's speculation, the time when the differential engine fell into a dream state should be after being seriously injured by the **** of lies. The cultists specially organized today's ceremony in order to prevent the church from being aware of the difference in the difference engine.

　　 In other words, the purpose of the ceremony is not to make dreams come true, but to conceal that the differential engine is dreaming.

　　 "But what is it all about? Why does it want to dream?"

　　 Jenkins still didn’t understand, Alexia tilted her head and thought for a while, then gave her own conjecture:

　　 "Maybe, it just wants a soul of its own."

　　Jenkins can't think of what happens when the differential engine has a real soul. But he understood very well that once the other party really upgraded from pure mechanical intelligence to mechanical intelligence, then maybe it could be directly sublimated into a beast of disaster.

　　With the soul, the living body is complete. Although there will be many weaknesses due to this, the soul is the core of creation, and the soul is the most precious wealth of wisdom.

　　 Generally speaking, the body and the soul are two entities with completely different properties. The physical nature of the body is extensive and passive. The nature of the soul entity is capable of thinking, not taking up space, and being active. Having both "body" and "soul" at the same time is complete, and only "complete" is qualified to be great.

　　 At the same time, in the sense of mysticism, letting oneself go from "without soul" to "with soul" is equivalent to transforming from mundane to transcendent, and from transcendent to greatness. Because Jenkins has seen the alchemy materials of the Carmel family, he can control life to a limited extent, so he understands how terrible the consequences will be if the difference engine succeeds.

　　 This will make the differential engine "complete", from incomplete to complete, from intelligence to intelligence, which is enough to evolve into sublimation.

　　 He had thought before, whether he should ask about the topic of dreaming when he encounters a differential engine. Unexpectedly, the other party thought of it directly by himself, and also made preparations early.

　　 The tobacco thing, but Jenkins has happened before he came to this world, so it will not be [A4 type arithmetic auxiliary external machine] that leaked the content of that conversation.

　　 Jenkins knew it was scary, and the church also knew it was scary. Even though the idea that the difference engine is trying to create its own soul is just a guess of the church, no one dares to bet that this guess is wrong.

　　 Regardless of the purpose, the most critical thing to do now is to wake up the differential engine, or destroy the bizarre dream.

　　 It just so happens that although the Twelve Orthodox Church does not have a special research topic on dreams, but the pseudo-sacred sect that came to participate in the negotiation this time, there happened to be believers of the pseudo-god [Lord of Fantasy Dreams].

Most of these people who believe in the **** of dreams are engaged in psychotherapy, magician and other professions. The delegation who came to the church this time, like the Music Order, also had more than 20 people. When they appeared at the door of the church, they used an extremely ingenious The illusion ritual, this matter has been remembered by many people.

　　 When the church found them in the lounge, most of the group of people were in deep "meditation" in the quiet room. In Jenkins's understanding, it means sitting and sleeping. After simply obtaining information about what is happening now, three suggestions were immediately given.

　　PS: The thing that has been mentioned since the beginning of this book: the expensive tobacco of yellow smoke, finally revealed the purpose: to make the difference machine dream, and let the machine produce the soul.

Chapter 2037 Chapter 207 Black Cat and Dreaming

"If you want to destroy the dream in a short period of time, combined with the information you gave, there are three ways: first, take the initiative to enter the dream, seriously injure or even kill the dreamer, or at least make it have a violent intention to escape the dream. ; Second, try to awaken the dreamer in reality, such as making it feel dangerous, or killing it directly, the dead will not dream; third, since what you are talking about can rely on the dreams of thousands of people to make it a Your own dream, then you may be able to usurp the ownership of the dreamland again. If you can completely master the huge dreamland, you can definitely expel the goal you said."

The three methods provided by the believers of the **** of dreams sound very dangerous. Actively entering the dream state of the difference engine is equivalent to fighting against the opponent's home court on the spiritual level; awakening the difference engine requires at least finding the opponent's current position; and It is even more difficult for the difference engine to seize control of the dream.

　　Fortunately, the believers of the God of Dreams promised to do their best to support the Orthodox Church. After leaving out the option of finding the difference machine body, the church decided to try at the same time from entering the dreamland and robbing the dreamland.

　　 It’s almost three minutes away, but most people's energy has been transferred from the negotiation to the next battle. The joint action of the twelve churches was fully supported by many false gods that have reached the Church of the Sages. This is exactly what Jenkins hopes to achieve through negotiations.

　　Although the differential engine is protecting the dream, because there is an entrance to the dream, and with the help of the believers of the **** of dreams, the church can send up to ten people into the dream. This is almost a foreseeable adventure, but there are still many warriors who are not afraid of death willing to go.

　　 Of course, Jenkins was included, and his application was naturally rejected. Even if the difference engine really makes itself possess a soul through dreams and thus sublimates into a beast of disaster, humans may not really be unable to defeat it. But if Jenkins died in this accident, the church would really lose a card.

The reason why Jenkins is confident is that there is still a drop of divinity in his hand, and the potion given by "Sigrid" in the flowery horror that can make him jump in a short period of time is still there, so regardless of any problems, he Self-confidence can be safe and sound.

　　 These two reasons cannot be told to the church, so I used an excuse to talk to Alexia about something, and then went over the wall and left the church again, and came to the church again after turning into Mr. Candle.

　　 "I am really tired today!"

　　 He thought in his heart when he jumped off the wall in the rain.

　　 came to the church as a believer in lies, and then declared that he already knew the current situation, so he wanted to enter that dreamland to find out.

　　 The church does not care much about the life and death of believers of lies, but it is also an important fighting force on the human side, and the church has not agreed with the demands of believers of lies. Even if you want to let the lie believers reduce their staff in the fight for the savior, they must never make such a sacrifice. This is meaningless.

　　 Seeing that he can't enter the dreamland no matter what, Jenkins can only temporarily give up the action and find something else to do. Although he had the ability related to dreaming a long time ago, he actually only uses this ability as a tool to "soul out of the body", and he doesn't have an in-depth study of dreams.

　　 Alexia didn't have much research on dreams, but she suggested that Jenkins talk to those believers in the **** of dreams. Even if you have to cooperate with the ritual to enter that large-scale dream, talk to them, maybe you can find another suitable method.

　　 So, while the church was arranging the treatment of dreams, Jenkins found the believers of [Lord of Dreams] at 1:20, 40 minutes before the official start of the negotiation. Through the introduction of the church, those people also knew that this was the visit of the sage son, so they showed great importance.

　　 Except for the chief priest who was cooperating with the church in the dreaming ceremony and could not leave, other important members participated in the next conversation.

　　 Jenkins didn’t directly ask about the way of dreaming. Instead, he started with the topic of dreams in a roundabout way. Finding the topic is actually very simple:

"I don’t have anything important, but I have always had a strange dream. The content of the dream is not exactly the same every time, but the form is the same-I will dream that a huge giant appears in front of me. Black cat, and then it fought with me. After waking up, sometimes the details of the dream were very clear, and sometimes it only remembered some vague plots."

　　 "Meow~"

　　 The chocolate on his shoulders swept Jenkins's neck with the tip of his tail embarrassedly.

　　Meng’s believers did not think much about what he said, but asked more deeply;

　　 "If a gifted person like you repeatedly dreams the same type of dream, then it must be abnormal. How long has this situation lasted? Is it frequent?"

　　 "It has lasted for almost a year. In terms of frequency...not very often, but there are always several times a month."

　　Chocolate looked down at the cloth on Jenkins's shoulders.

　　 "This is weird..."

The middle-aged woman headed by 　　 said that she was wearing a scarf, and she had a scent pickled with spices. She looked like a senior dream interpretation expert or fortune-teller, or a member of a circus.