The Master of the Strange Realm

Chocolate sniffed the air. Jenkins knew that the cat had a very sensitive sense of smell, which was almost equivalent to a strange ability, so he also sniffed the air like it.

The first thing he sensed was the unique dampness of rain, and then the smell of gray fog that filled Nolan. But there was nothing strange about it, these two smells were very common.

"Did you notice anything?"

He asked his cat again, and Chocolate nodded and answered Jenkins' question with a "meow" sound. Unfortunately, until now, he still couldn't understand Chocolate's thoughts, and could only roughly determine that this time the cat once again sensed something unusual.

"What could it be?"

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

"Since I don't know anything, why not give it a try."

Thinking this in his heart, he raised his finger to the sky:

"Call the wind and rain!"

A bright white flash appeared in the air, and a heavy lightning column struck down. It was not until a huge "hole" appeared in the air that a rumbling sound came from a very high place.

As the summoned thunder passed through the ritual node, the power contained in the thunder seemed to break a certain balance. An irregular hole appeared in the air, like a broken mirror, and inside the hole was a colorful dream.

This was obviously not a strange place, nor was it that the space wall of the material world was simply shattered, but something that was originally hidden was torn apart and disguised.

Considering that the location of the node given by Miss Magic's friends and the church was slightly different from the actual location, perhaps the truth of this ritual was not just to sacrifice more power to the difference machine.

Miss Magic has always been quite outstanding. Although the price is expensive, the research commissioned to her has never had any major problems. But as long as you are a person, you may encounter a low-probability event, not to mention that it involves a machine with a huge amount of calculations.

Now Jenkins has two choices, one is to approach the hole in the air and deal with it alone. The other is to stay where he is and send a signal to the church, and then wait for the church to deal with it.

He himself is unwilling to take risks, and his character has always been cautious, so of course he has to choose the latter. Just as he was about to fall back to the ground and use the triangle spell to convey information to the church, he suddenly heard a strange sound similar to glass breaking.

He turned his head and looked back, only to see that the hole struck by lightning expanded again. In the colorful illusion, it seemed that a huge whale-like thing flashed through it, without giving Jenkins the opportunity to capture its specific appearance.

"What do you mean?"

Before he had time to think more, a burnt yellow hand suddenly stretched out from the edge of the irregular polygonal shattered edge and grabbed the edge, and then a dark burnt yellow human body appeared sideways at the hole.

"Black aura."

There was no need to hesitate now. While putting on the black robe, a black shadow with wild laughter appeared behind him. With the strange sound of dripping, the twin demons drew an arc in the rainy air and crashed directly into the hole in the air.

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

The exploding twin demons successfully blew the horrible burnt-yellow human figure back into the cave, but at the same time, it also made the hole, which was already growing in size, even bigger.

Jenkins in the air twitched his nose and smelled the smell of burning tobacco, which naturally came from the huge hole. Before he took the next step, burnt-yellow human hands appeared on the edge of the hole again, and this time there were dozens of pairs.

Those humanoid monsters, like spiders, clung to the constantly broken hole. They seemed to be aliens who had lost their skin and exposed real muscles, but the color of the muscles was dirty burnt yellow and black.

"What on earth is this?"

More and more humanoid monsters appeared from the hole. When Jenkins took out his sword from the air, the monsters crawling all over the edge of the hole were ready to jump into the city.

"Sword Dance·Spin."

The bright white two flashes formed a circle, accurately cutting the monsters that tried to leave the cave. They did not leave corpses after death, but turned into yellow smoke with the smell of burning tobacco and merged into the air.

Jenkins held the sword in his right hand and slashed a sword mark at the cave. After confirming that this would only make the cave bigger and bigger, he pointed his left hand at the rain in the air:

"Freeze!"

The white cold air spread out with him and the high stool as the center. The accumulated water on the ground froze first, and then the rain that fell on the ice continued to increase the height of the icicle.

This is like an ice tree that keeps rising, and finally comes to the sky at a very high altitude, freezing the cave entrance inside the icicle. The raindrops that keep falling eventually make the icicle growing from the ground like holding up a huge ice ball.

Although it failed to completely stop the expansion of the cave, it at least prevented the monsters inside from coming out for the time being.

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

"Excuse me, have you seen Jenkins Williamson?"

They did not ask about the current situation first, but looked for Jenkins's trace. Jenkins was responsible for handling this node, and he should be here.

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

Jenkins pointed to the hole in the ice ball, which seemed to be very hot and was melting the inside of the ice ball.

"We just received a report that this appeared not only in this place..."

The middle-aged man in the lead said, this is Mr. Jaeger, the demigod of the [Church of War and Victory]. He is a thin man, but looks unusually strong:

"But you handled it the best. We don't know what this is at present, but it is likely to be a channel connected to the dream world."

"Dream world?"

The star world and the shadow world are real spaces with materiality, energy, and spirit; and the corresponding mirror world and dream world are just extensions of the cognition of those unknown concepts by the intelligent life in the material world, and are worlds without reality.

Although the mirror world and the dream world are much more real than complete illusions, they are far from the level of real existence. The reference of the mirror world is the real world, while the reference of the dream world is the illusory dream. Therefore, compared with the mirror world that Jenkins has reached, the dream world is more illusory and more elusive because it is affected by different cognitions.

In fact, there are indeed a few researchers who admit the existence of the "mirror world", but almost no one admits 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 the interweaving of dreams. It is extremely huge, and the accumulated power is so powerful that it is terrifying. This ritual is very likely related to this. When we smashed the node, we accidentally broke the weak barrier between the two worlds. Those monsters and those lights are all products of the materialization of dreams...Excuse me, where did Jenkins Williamite go?"

Section 2036 Chapter 2006 Dream of the Difference Engine

"Don't worry, William is not in danger. We just ran into him. He couldn't handle the problem here, so he left it to me. He is probably running on the road with an umbrella, preparing to go back to the church. He probably looks very embarrassed."

Jenkins, who was sitting on a high stool, said, turning to look at the ice ball held by the icicle:

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

As he said, he jumped down from the high stool. As the high stool disappeared, Jenkins was caught steadily by the unicorn, and then he was carried by the little beast and flew into the sky like a white arc of light.

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

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

After receiving the news, the church re-communicated with the believers of the God of Ritual. This time Alexia also helped a little, confirming that the purpose of the ritual, which was based on the entire Nolan array and centered on causing various supernatural accidents, was indeed sacrifice.

But the purpose of the sacrifice was not to provide more power for the differential machine, but to prevent the dream that was entangled with Nolan's real world from interfering with reality because of the power of the dream master.

"But where did that dream world come from?"

Jenkins asked in confusion:

"The dream world must have a support to become reality. Whose dream is this? Is it those tobacco smokers again? But I... cough cough."

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

"Didn't the believers of lies ensure that those dreams would only be beautiful dreams? I just saw the disgusting things coming out of it with my own eyes."

"There is no definite conclusion at present, but there is a vague guess. Do you remember the question you asked about the machine underground? I think I appreciate that question."

Alexia asked.

"I asked a lot of questions... Wait, what do you mean..."

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

"So do you dream? If you do, is it possible that you dream of mechanical gear sheep?"

There has never been a very precise definition of what a dream is. [A4 type arithmetic auxiliary external machine] once guaranteed that the differential engine, at least for the time being, has not formed a complete soul, but whether there is no soul to dream, no one can answer this.

The church has never discovered the real purpose of the dreams formed by those special tobacco smokers. Now, the secret has finally been revealed to the church.

It doesn't matter if there are huge ownerless mental powers, dreamers, or addictions rooted in the soul and spirit. What the difference engine really wants is just that dream.

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

So, the Difference Machine, which should not have been able to dream, had a huge and strange dream. Because the Difference Machine itself is too powerful, this dream is entangled with Nolan, the location of its core, and can directly interfere with reality without even doing anything.

According to the church's speculation, the time when the Difference Machine fell into the dream should be after being seriously injured by the God of Lies. In order to prevent the church from noticing the abnormality of the Difference Machine, the cultists specially organized today's ceremony.

In other words, the purpose of the ceremony is not to make the dream come true, but to cover up that the Difference Machine is dreaming.

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

Jenkins still doesn't understand. Alexia tilted her head and thought for a while, and gave her own guess:

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

Jenkins can't think of what will happen if the Difference Machine has a real soul. But he knows very well that once the other party really upgrades from pure mechanical intelligence to mechanical intelligent life, it may be able to directly sublimate it into a beast of disaster.

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

In general, it is believed that the body and the soul are two entities of completely different natures. The physical nature of the body is extensive and passive. The physical nature of the soul is that it can think, does not occupy space, and is active. Only when you have both "body" and "soul" at the same time can you be complete, and only when you are "complete" can you be qualified to take great steps.

At the same time, in the sense of mysticism, changing yourself from "no soul" to "having a soul" is equivalent to the transformation from ordinary to extraordinary, and from extraordinary to great. Jenkins, because he has read the alchemy materials of the Kamel family, can control life to a limited extent, so he understands even more how terrible the consequences will be if the difference machine succeeds.

This will make the difference machine "complete", from incomplete to complete, from intelligent machinery to wisdom, which is enough to evolve into sublimation.

He had thought about whether to ask the difference machine about the topic of dreaming when he met it. Unexpectedly, the other party thought of it directly and made preparations in advance.

The tobacco incident had already happened before Jenkins came to this world, so it was not the [A4 type arithmetic auxiliary external machine] that leaked the content of that conversation.

Jenkins knew it was terrible, and the church also knew it was terrible. Even if the idea that the difference machine was trying to create its own soul was just a guess by the church, no one dared to bet that this guess was wrong.

Regardless of the purpose, the most critical thing to do now is to wake up the difference machine, or to destroy that bizarre dream.

It happened that although there was no special research topic on dreams in the Twelve Orthodox Church, there happened to be believers of the false god [Lord of the Fantasy Dream] in the false god cult that came to participate in the negotiations this time.

Most of these people who believe in the God of Dreams are engaged in professions such as psychotherapy and magicians. The delegation that came to the church this time, like the music cult, also had more than 20 people. When they appeared at the door of the church, they used an extremely clever illusion ritual, which was remembered by many people.

When the church found them in the lounge, most of the people in the group were in deep "meditation" in the quiet room, which Jenkins understood was sitting and sleeping. After simply obtaining information about what is happening, three suggestions are immediately given.

PS: The thing that has been mentioned since the beginning of this book: the expensive tobacco with yellow smoke, finally reveals the purpose: to let the difference engine dream and let the machine have a soul.

Chapter 2037 Chapter 2007 Black Cat and Entering Dreams

"If you want to destroy dreams in a short period of time, there are three ways based on the information you provided: first, actively enter the dream, seriously injure or even kill the dreamer, or at least make it have a strong desire to escape the dream; second, try to wake up the dreamer in reality, such as making it feel dangerous, or directly kill it, the dead don't dream; third, since what you said can rely on the dreams of thousands of people to make it your own dream, then maybe you can usurp the ownership of the dream again. If you can completely master that huge dream, you can definitely expel the target you mentioned."

The three methods provided by the believers of the God of Dreams sound very dangerous. Actively entering the dream of the difference machine is equivalent to fighting with it in the opponent's home field on the spiritual level; awakening the difference machine requires at least finding the opponent's current location; and snatching control of the dream from the difference machine is even more difficult.

Fortunately, the believers of the God of Dreams promised to do their best to support the True God Church. After giving up the option of finding the Difference Machine, the Church decided to try both entering the dream and robbing the dream.

Now it was three minutes to one, but most people's energy was transferred from the negotiation to the next battle. The twelve churches acted together, and many false god cults that had already arrived at the Sage Church also fully supported it. This was exactly what Jenkins hoped to achieve through negotiations.

Although the Difference Machine was protecting the dream, because there was already an entrance to the dream, and with the help of the believers of the God of Dreams, the church could send up to ten people into the dream. This was almost a foreseeable adventure with no return, but there were still many warriors who were not afraid of death and were willing to go.

Of course, that included Jenkins, and his application was naturally rejected. Even if the Difference Engine really acquires a soul through dreams and is thus sublimated into a beast of disaster, humans may not really be able to defeat it. But if Jenkins died in this accident, the church would really have no cards left.

The reason why Jenkins is confident is that he still has a drop of divinity in his hand, and the potion given by "Sigrid" in the flower world that can make him jump up in a short time is still there, so no matter what problems arise, he is still there Be confident that you can stay safe.

But these two reasons cannot be told to the church, so he used an excuse to talk to Alexia about something, then climbed over the wall and left the church again, and came to the church again after transforming into Mr. Candle.

"I'm really tired today!"

He thought to himself as he jumped off the wall in the rain.

He came to the church as a lie believer, and then declared that he already knew the current situation, so he wanted to enter the dream to find out.

The church doesn't really care about the lives of lie believers, but after all, it is an important fighting force on the human side, and the church has not agreed to the demands of lie believers. Even if you want to reduce the number of lie believers in the fight for the savior, you must not make such a sacrifice, it is meaningless.

Seeing that he couldn't enter the dreamland no matter what, Jenkins could only give up the action temporarily and find something else to do. Although he had the ability related to dreaming a long time ago, he actually only used this ability as a tool for "soul separation" and did not study dreams in depth.

Alexia didn't do much research on dreams, but she suggested that Jenkins talk to the believers of the dream god. Even if you have to cooperate with the ritual to enter the large dream, if you talk to them, you might be able to find another suitable method.

So, while the church was arranging to deal with the dream, Jenkins found the believers of [Lord of Dreams] at 1:20, 40 minutes before the official start of the negotiations. Through the recommendation of the church, those people also knew that this was the visit of the sage and the Son, so they showed great importance.

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

Jenkins did not directly ask about the way to enter a dream, but 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 always have a strange dream. The content of the dream is not exactly the same every time, but the form is similar - I will dream that a huge giant appears in front of me. The black cat then fought with me. When I woke up, sometimes the details of the dream were very clear, and sometimes I only remembered some vague plot.”

"Meow~"

Chocolate on the shoulder was embarrassed and brushed Jenkins' neck with the tip of his tail.

After hearing his words, the believers in the dream did not think much, but inquired more deeply;

"If a gifter like you has the same type of dream repeatedly, it must be abnormal. How long has this been going on? Is it very frequent?"

"It's been going on for almost a year. In terms of frequency... it's not very frequent, but it happens several times a month."

Chocolate lowered his head and looked at the fabric of the clothes on Jenkins' shoulders.

"This is very strange..."

Said the middle-aged woman in the lead. She was wearing a gauze scarf and had a scent of spices on her body. At first glance, she was a senior dream interpretation expert or fortune teller, or a member of the circus.