The Master of the Strange Realm

"I can't describe its name or its appearance, otherwise it will detect it. But I can tell you that the original intention of it being created in the Third Age was to assist calculations."

The goblin waved his hand, and dense mathematical symbols appeared on the top of the parchment. There may be something wrong with the fairy girl's mathematical literacy. These symbols have no logic at all.

"Auxiliary calculation?"

"Yes, auxiliary calculation. The Third Age lasted for a long time, and the civilization of the mortal race spent a long time in peace, which allowed them to maximize the power of steam. I know that people in this era now Everyone thinks that those were barbaric times, but in fact, they have gone further than they have gone now.

Because of the overdevelopment of steam technology, the ancestors gradually realized that their computing methods could not keep up with the computing requirements. Under the premise that they could not change the calculation method from the basic mathematical rules, they created a tool that could assist calculations and boldly gave it extraordinary power. This was the beginning of a runaway..."

Jenkins opened his mouth subconsciously, without even realizing it. The description of the goblin in the book reminded him of a strange machine in the past world. He organized his thoughts and asked before the goblin continued:

"Is that machine completely made up of gears, levers and springs? It relies on the gear set to store numbers, and the gear set array stores high-digit numbers; it uses the meshing, rotation and translation of the gears to perform operations, and uses punching..."

"Please stop talking!"

The goblin hurriedly interrupted Jenkins:

"That thing will find out. Its computing power can calculate almost all 'nows'. Please stop talking...how do you know this?"

What Jenkins is describing is not the knowledge of this world, but the so-called "difference engine (note)" in the previous world, a wonderful idea that was proposed in the steam industry era, but due to various reasons, it was not actually built. Real objects that can be used.

"The Difference Engine... I should have thought of it a long time ago. What could be more dangerous than this in the steam-themed 18th century? This is an idealistic world after all. Once a machine with a huge amount of calculation is contaminated with the supernatural, The power...oh, it's so terrifying."

PS: It was hinted at in Chapter 561.

Chapter 1261 Chapter 1240 New Doomsday Document

The more he thought about the difference engine, the more scared he felt. I couldn't think about it anymore and asked the fairy directly:

"Does it have a soul? Does that machine have a soul?"

"No, if it had a soul, it wouldn't be out of control because of its huge computing power. It is disordered and chaotic, but it also obeys its own calculation rules. I don't know what rules the long years have given it. I know, but I know that when each generation of ancestors discovers and uses it, it can rely on its own computing power to absorb human civilization and upgrade itself. "

Jenkins can also fully understand this passage. If the difference engine that was sealed at the beginning was version 1.0, then after countless generations of civilizations have been sublimated, it may have been version 16.0.

"So......"

"I can't answer questions about the end of the era. This is the most basic rule. Even if I become who I am now, I can't get around it. Sorry..."

The goblin took back his paper, then looked at Jenkins with wide eyes:

"The future has not yet arrived, and even I am not sure whether the things underground are the ultimate disaster. After all, the unusual fog around this city also has such potential. You have to understand that although fate has already written everything , but the future only has direction and no details.”

After saying this, she continued with a longing tone:

"So, what kind of knowledge do you want to exchange with me?"

Jenkins had a lot of otherworldly knowledge to add to the exchange, but the goblin couldn't answer most of his questions. What disappoints Jenkins the most is that the goblin refuses to reveal any information related to the Williamt family, claiming that the secret is related to a great being, and that if she tells it, she will die.

But the book fairies born from the broken pages of the [Treasure Book of All Things] possess more than just knowledge. In the end, Jenkins shared some of his memories of "Das Kapital" with the goblin, and the goblin gave Jenkins an opportunity to add a blank ability bubble to him.

It was in the valley near Loen City now. There was a hidden space under a certain pool, and there was something Jenkins wanted in it.

"I won't lie."

The goblin thought that the information he provided could not be immediately identified as true or false, and was worried that Jenkins would become suspicious, so he raised his finger and swore.

Jenkins believed her and did not dwell on the issue. But before the goblin left, he asked the goblin how to contact her again. Maybe he would like to ask the goblin for help in the future.

"Sorry sir, I think we can't meet before you encounter the final disaster. I can't interfere with the present, I can only record the present. Today's conversation has broken the rules..."

She struggled to carry her paper behind her back, and Jenkins provided her with a piece of yarn.

"But after that, can I follow you?"

she asked with a smile.

"Follow me?"

"Yes, after everything is over. I want to be by your side, I want to understand the knowledge you have, and I am willing to contribute everything I have to you."

She bowed to Jenkins in the air:

"Thank you again for letting me know who I am. Goodbye, sir. I wish you can achieve great things smoothly on the last day. Oh, and your next goal is related to [Disaster]. Ha~ I didn't say anything. Looking forward to our next meeting, goodbye sir."

After she said this, she quickly dispersed into light spots and disappeared in the air. The light spots that had not dispersed for a long time finally entered Jenkins' body, and the light spots representing the ability of [Reading] jumped for a while, but there was no qualitative change.

"So I am so popular?"

He thought while touching his face, and wished in his heart that he could smoothly pass the last day as the fairy said.

Because the place to obtain [Stranger] is his basement, the doomsday document will naturally be nearby.

After sending away the fairy in the book, Jenkins looked around, but did not see the aura representing the stone slab.

"Let me think about it. Every time I got the Doomsday Slate, it was near the place where I got the Savior's power. There has never been an exception to this... So the slate must be near the basement, um..."

He suddenly had a new idea, so he left here and returned to the first floor of the house, and then re-entered the basement from the other side of the first floor.

Yes, Jenkins' house has two basements, because the house he lives in now is actually a combination of two houses. A few months ago, he and the girls went on vacation to the unfortunate Blizzard Mountain Villa. During this period, the two uninhabited houses were under construction and merged together.

But the original basements of the two houses were not merged, because there were many traces of strange rituals in the widow's basement. These rituals were prepared to assist the birth of the evil god Shenzi. At that time, after the Shenzi incident, the church dug out a lot of strange things from it.

The traces of those rituals are difficult to eliminate immediately, so for safety reasons, the basement on the side of the widow's house was temporarily sealed, and the church asked Jenkins to wait until those twisted spirits disappeared before opening it.

Therefore, before the Son of God incident, Jenkins was too weak to see the ritual aura, and now after the Son of God incident, he cannot distinguish the characteristics of the aura because the aura in the basement is too mottled.

"Aha~"

He said as he turned the key to open the iron door, but after touching the switch of the gas lamp on the wall and letting the flame jump, he did not see the stone slab standing obediently in the center of the basement waiting for him.

Building materials and a large pot were piled in the corner of the basement, and the walls and ceiling were covered with notes with sage mottos. These notes, together with the sealing ritual on the surface of the wall, imprisoned the strange spirits in the basement. Although these spirits cannot affect Jenkins, cats and nearby neighbors are ordinary creatures, and this is a measure taken to protect them.

"Let me guess..."

He closed the door with his backhand, knocked on the wall with his fingers, and found nothing, so he walked to the building materials in the corner. A monocle appeared in his eye socket, which allowed him to better observe the characteristics of the aura.

"Sure enough, it's here."

With a wave of his hand, a flame fell on the wooden boards and stones, burning a big hole in the piled building materials. The simple slate was placed in the pile of stones. Under the light of the flame, the words on the slate seemed to be shining.

Just like before, the moment he saw the slate, he began to read uncontrollably.

Chapter 1262 Chapter 1241 The Professor's Fright

"Purple stars twinkle in the night sky,

Strangers dance in the mortal world;

Who is crying?

Mortals never understand loneliness.

The one falling from the sky is an angel,

Greed will eventually cause disaster;

The one flying far away is an angel;

The gentleness of the flower is known by the gods.

The fifth act ends in sadness,

The gods overlooking the world,

knowing that the future will be even sadder

-

That is a disaster."

Jenkins uncontrollably read out this poem that he had roughly understood. At the end of the poem, his mood suddenly became extremely bad, because the "crying" and "loneliness" mentioned above seemed to refer to him some time ago.

"Did I perform so badly?"

He asked himself, and then gave the answer "Of course not".

"But the slate hints that the next keyword is 'disaster'. Miss Bronion said something similar not long ago... It seems that since I became Jenkins, I have been constantly encountering disasters. Is this referring to something specific next, or is it a general description?"

He couldn't figure it out, but the most urgent thing was to send the slate to the right place. Although it could be left at home, Jenkins didn't think he needed such a hot potato.

"Last time it seemed to be pretending... No, I am the black robe man. Last time it seemed to be a black robe man, throwing the slate into the estuary, and destroying a boat to attract attention. This time I can't do that. I don't want to attract Nolan's hidden criminals by messing around with things again."

As the sky gradually darkened, Jenkins carried the slate on his back, and the unicorn carried him on his back. Flying into the sky again. Originally, he planned to send the slate to the prophets for processing, but halfway through the flight, he saw Professor Burns walking along a remote alley to the south of the city.

"Oh, professor, long time no see."

He whispered hello in the sky, observed the terrain, and then let the unicorn land slowly.

The professor, who was a little free this Sunday, had originally planned to visit his gravekeeper friend in the cemetery in the suburbs at night after training those students who might have to postpone graduation in the afternoon.

Thinking that going through the alley was a shortcut, he suddenly took off his hat and looked up at the sky halfway through, but found nothing.

"Why do I seem to hear Jenkins' voice?"

The professor, who was extremely sensitive, muttered and put the black round hat on his head again. There was a fork in the road ahead, and Professor Burns chose the one on the left. After going out from here, it would take another 20 minutes to leave the city. He was still wondering if there was hot tea to drink in the cemetery.

After turning the corner, a half-person-high stone slab stood in the middle of the road. The professor hesitated, and he looked around in confusion to make sure that this was not a stonemason's workshop. Then he bent down carefully, picked up a stone from the uneven ground and threw it over.

The stone hit the stone slab and made a slight sound. The startled professor immediately turned around and ran, then realized that it was a normal sound.

"Hehe, the older you get, the more vigilant you are."

He said self-deprecating words, rubbed against the wall to the other side of the stone slab, and then found that there were words on the other side. Just like all people who saw the new content [Doomsday Document] for the first time, when his eyes came into contact with those words, he read all the words on it uncontrollably.

"Huh?"

After reading the last word, he also said a question word to express his confusion about the current situation.

The puzzled expression on his face gradually solidified, and a serious and surprised expression appeared. He took a few quick steps and wanted to touch the stone slab directly with his hand, looking overjoyed, but then quickly stepped back, lowered his head and closed his eyes to draw the holy emblem on his chest.

He looked around to see that there were no pedestrians nearby, spitted twice into his palm, then came to the stone slab, picked it up, and then walked towards the alley entrance.

Jenkins, who was hiding on the roof of a nearby house, was relieved until the professor got on the carriage and drove towards the church. He quietly apologized in his heart for scaring the professor, and then summoned his unicorn to fly into the sky.

He had originally planned to visit his senior sister Miss Stiver, but now it was dinner time, and there were still people waiting for him in Rune.

"Meow~"

As soon as he appeared from Rune, the cat's cry came over. Jenkins reached out to take the chocolate that flew over from the table, rubbed its little head hard twice, and then looked at Alexia who was sitting on the sofa reading a book.

Rune was approaching night, and only the last ray of the setting sun was left in the sky, but it still made the frozen city in the distance sparkle. The living room was brightly lit, with gas lamps and crystal chandeliers above providing light. Alexia looked beautiful while reading under this light.

She seemed to have been sitting here all day, keeping the same posture as when Jenkins left.

"Good evening, Jenkins, we're about to have dinner."

She heard the cat's meow, so she closed the book and looked at the young man, then asked playfully:

"From your appearance, this day should be very colorful, right? Let me guess, you have met Miss Hathaway Hesha and told her about Rune."

"That's right."

"So, what was her reaction?"

"I have revealed these things before, so she is not as angry or upset as I imagined, and it seems that she doesn't want to pay attention to me because of this..."

Jenkins thought for a while: "But I originally wanted to invite her to Rune today, at least to meet you, but she said she would wait for a while."

"Miss Hesha is a good girl... but you are such a big fool."

The short lady sighed and commented.

At dinner, Jenkins finally saw Dolores again. Her Royal Highness seemed to be in the same mood as usual, but once Jenkins looked at her, her cheeks would turn slightly red, which must be related to the "proposal" last night.

At the dinner table, Jenkins told them what happened in Nolan today. Alexia was concerned about his conversation with the fairy in the book, which she thought was very important; Dolores was more concerned about Hathaway's affairs. When she heard that Jenkins was going to invite her to Loon, she was still worried about how she should welcome her.

"Miss Hesha is only the daughter of the Earl, and your meeting is a private meeting. There is no need to worry about complicated etiquette."

Julia reminded her attentively.

"That won't do. This is a very important matter."

Dolores said in annoyance, and then wanted to seek help from her teacher, but found that Alexia was secretly observing the cat eating sausages on Jenkins' left hand.

PS: Today is the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, and tomorrow will be the first day of the Lunar New Year. There will be 10 more chapters, a total of 12 chapters. I wish you a happy new year in advance.

Chapter 1263 Chapter 1242 Alexia and the Difference Engine