Dominate the Treacherous Realm

　　 And as the ships continue to sail in, the trees on the island can also be seen. It was a plant with a silver-gray appearance of steel alloy, and its color was consistent with the [mental blocking metal] that also exists in the real world. The trunk of this tree and part of the root system protruding from the ground occupy the entire area of ​​the island.

　　 Therefore, there are no other ground structures on the island, and the bare ones can only see the ups and downs of the root system. But Jenkins was not curious about the shelter of the refugees. After all, the exaggerated diameter of the tree trunk was enough to build an apartment in it. Not to mention the tall steel canopy that stretches out, the dense steel obviously hides buildings and rooms that are invisible from the outside world.

　　 "Only by taking this boat can you see this tree when you approach."

　　 The metal head on the chair introduced, Jenkins glanced at it:

　　 "So, in the background of this treacherous environment, the differential engine has long known the existence of this refuge?"

　　 "Of course, my lord is omnipotent."

　　 The head said in a very calm tone.

　　 "It's really amazing, it can penetrate the treacherous realm to such an extent."

　　 Even Jenkins must lament the omnipotence of some enemies.

　　 "The higher the level, the more carefully designed by our lord. This is the power of our lord. Savior, you have talent and ability. Why are you not willing to accept the kindness of our lord?"

　　 The head was bewitched again, but this time Jenkins did not answer because the speed of the ship began to decrease.

　　 Slowly approaching the pier on the edge of the island, the refugees on the boat also realized that they were about to reach their destination. Although people are still shrinking there and unable to move, it is still possible to turn their heads and try to look at the bow of the ship.

　　 Jenkins picked up his backpack, soothed the chocolate, holding the magic sword in his left hand, and came to the old man.

　　 "It will be docked soon, you are sure, as long as I drop you off the ship, you can tell me the information I want, right?"

"of course."

　　 He took out the pipe in his mouth and spit out another puff:

　　 "My words count."

　　 "But I can't leave the ship."

　　 "It doesn't matter, you send me to the ladder and put me down with the rope."

　　 Jenkins nodded, which is reasonable.

　　 So taking advantage of the last time the ship was preparing to dock, he found ropes and planks from the deck to make it look like a swing. Although the old man is missing a leg, both hands are still intact. After a while, he sat on the wooden board and held the rope with both hands to maintain his balance, and he could land well.

On the pier of Hexin Island, someone came to greet the ship, but there was only one person, standing there with a kerosene lamp in his hand, shaking constantly, as if guiding the ship to dock.

　　After the thick fog, the person's appearance is not clear at all. Jenkins looked at it and confirmed that the thick fog also exists on the island:

　　 "Is this your first time here?"

　　 He asked Xiang Xiang, who was holding a pipe, and wanted to try to see if there was any other information to understand.

　　 "No, I came here two years ago."

　　 "There was also fog on the island at that time?"

　　 "Of course, there is fog everywhere in this world."

　　 "Don't you know, these fogs are..."

"of course I know."

　　 The old man nodded and looked up at Jenkins:

　　 "I know what you want to say, but what about that? Whatever the reason, that thing allows this island and this tree to exist, and allows all people on the island to survive, that's enough."

　　 The old man seems to know more than Jenkins thought:

"When I first landed on this island, there were not many people. These years, I have been outside, trying to save more people and get more people here. So it doesn’t matter what exactly this place exists for. Yes, as long as I can protect people for one more day, I love it deeply."

　　 "So, the so-called refuge is not a safe refuge at all, it is just a corner where the survivors and the difference machine are in a tacit understanding?"

　　 "Yes, we don't have such a powerful force as you. As long as we can live, people don't care why they can live."

　　 This island should be prepared by the differential engine for Jenkins. It does not destroy mankind and preserve the island. There is even this ship in order to make Jenkins come here smoothly in the background of the story. Although these things may have never happened before, they are all true to the people on this ship. Their existence is just to let the disasters that descend on the world and the outsiders who descend on the world play a role. It's just a game.

　　Thinking about these people in the deception is indeed worthy of sympathy, but even Jenkins can’t tell whether these mortals in the deception are real or fake.

　　 "What else is there besides trees and people on the island?"

　　 "There are many other lives, both wise and unwise. Everyone is a survivor of this world."

　　 said, stretched out his hand for Jenkins to support him. The ship shook slightly and landed.

　　 As if some restrictions were lifted, all the people who had curled up moved. They spontaneously found a ladder on the deck, erected it with the help of a picker on the pier, and then lined up to leave the ship.

　　 Because the old man’s legs and feet are inconvenient, Jenkins and him are in the last position.

　　 "Since I have left the ship to dock, can you tell me the first piece of information?"

　　 Jenkins asked.

　　 "Yes."

　　 "Then how much information can you provide?"

　　 "Two. You can know the name of the most dangerous enemy on the island, and you can know where the controlling core of that indescribable thing is."

　　 "How do you know this information?"

　　 Jenkins asked, the information that people know is in line with people's identities, and the other party knows too much.

　　 "Because I lived long enough, I said that I was the first group of asylum seekers to come here. No one on this ship knows better than me..."

　　 "Well then, I will choose the second one."

　　 Choosing the first one means that it is possible to know the answer to leaving directly, but it is more likely to get the name "Great Wisdom".

　　 "The core of control is the head."

　　 Jenkins raised his eyebrows:

　　 "Sure enough, it's just that part of its combat body is here, and the real core is still hiding deep in the ninth layer."

"what did you say?"

　　 The old man could not understand this sentence.

"It's nothing."

　　 Jenkins shook his head, then turned around slightly and said to the head:

　　 "What's the point of doing this? You know that if it's only a part of the body, it won't stop me at all. In this way, it is better to save all the combat power to the ninth floor and fight with me."

　　 "Of course it makes sense, I just want you to see what my ideal world looks like."

　　 The head is still smiling:

　　 "Don't let you see, you will never understand the world I want."

　　 "What do you want is this dead world? I saw these cities behind the fog. The tall buildings and houses along the river are very nice, but it's too quiet."

"Silence? No, all you see is this ship, all you see is the shadow of the riverbank. When they are all down, I will show you what is going on here. William, welcome to me The world of, I left the core on the ninth floor, fusing the prototype of the steam engine and the heart of the machine, and the huge body used for combat invaded this world, just to show you all this.

　　 The world is so boring. For tens of thousands of years, you are probably the only person who can understand my thoughts. So before you are killed by me, it is necessary for you to see all this. This is the meaning of the eighth layer. "

　　 "I don't believe that the eighth layer is just showing me, what is the thing that originally existed in the treacherous realm?"

　　 Even if the differential engine can make itself a part of the paradox, the basic rules cannot be changed, otherwise it would be a complete beast of disaster. In other words, there is no difference engine in the slyland, there is also a disaster in the slyland background, and that thing is the key to preventing Jenkins from being able to leave now.

Chapter 2185 The Golden Ant

"I can remind you that there are many different kinds of deceitful realms, and you have seen many types of deceived realms along the way. There is one type that floats in the endless void outside the material world and is used to seal it. The space debris of certain dangerous monsters. Because the seal has a problem, people in the material world will be drawn to repair it."

　　 "Like that blood therapy town?"

　　 Jenkins thought of the town not long ago.

"Yes, you walked through the town, consumed and explained the [blood], which is equivalent to piercing the blocked circulation of spirit and energy, and indirectly strengthening the seal. And this treacherous state is actually a kind of seal, The seal here is not an ordinary guy, but a part of the past calamity. This time, my lord did not inject any external calamity into it, because the calamity itself is here.

　　 In this way, the options left to you will be reduced a lot, right? "

　　 said the head, this sentence is completely truthful and does not contain a lie.

　　 Jenkins turned his head and helped the old man to continue walking:

　　 "In this way, I almost understand."

　　 The cat on his shoulders moved his little nose hard, and it understood.

　　 When it was Jenkins and the old man's turn to approach the boat, the people in front had already left. The receiver holding the oil lamp did not wait, but when the people left the ship almost two-thirds, they held the lamp high and led the people who disembarked first toward the giant tree in the dense fog.

　　 Although the lamp is not particularly bright, the light can penetrate the dense fog, so subsequent people can 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 clutching the rope tightly, waiting for Jenkins to put 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 ship. He couldn't leave the ship, nor did he want to leave the ship's range, so he couldn't stick his head out to see if the opponent had touched the ground.

　　 After the old man yelled that he had "landed" safely, he released the rope. According to the agreement, the old man shouted the name of the most powerful creature of the sojourner here and told Jenkins from under the boat. Of course it cannot be the real name. The real name of the beast of calamity is not something people in the material world dare to mention. The old man only said a simple name:

　　 "It's ants, the ants here are the most powerful!"

　　【Golden Ants that gnaw at the World Tree】This is the name of the beast of calamity that Jenkins knew when he chatted 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 calamity beast is not a single individual, but a whole group of 666 in total. The number will never increase or 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 entire population. .

　　The characteristic that the beasts of disaster in the form of populations can never be completely eliminated is reflected in their "unpredictable" characteristics. That is, the number of golden ants that exist can never be known in any way. In other words, the upper limit of the total number of golden ants can be known, but the remaining number can never be determined.

　　 The church has very few records of this dangerous creature. Even among all the beasts of calamity, apart from the unrecorded calamities of the first three eras, the records about golden ants are also the fewest.

Even the most mysterious moon swallowing civet, the church at least knows its catastrophic characteristics, that it sleeps and waits outside the material world, and that it had conflicts with the stray butterfly population, but for the golden ant, the church only knows that it is extremely dangerous and is After the seal, there was no more news.

　　Although the information provided by the church is very vague, when Jenkins thought of this creature, the leaf gift given by the World Tree suddenly shined in his spirit, and then he learned of a past.

　　[Golden ants that gnaw the world tree] Originally, they were 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 body in order to completely get rid of all the disaster forces.

　　 The World Tree decayed, but some of the branches and leaves contained the power of disaster and turned into deceit. And that group of ants unconsciously learned the power of disaster by gnawing on the root system of the world tree, thus slowly gnawing away most of the body of the world tree, leading to the tree's premature defeat.

　　 Of course, this is also voluntary by the World Tree, otherwise it would take a lot of effort to separate itself from the power of the original beast of disaster.

In short, the appearance of [Golden Ants Gnawing the World Tree] is different from most calamities. It is not transformed by the calamities of the era it is in, but after the calamities of the past era is absorbed, it is capable of devouring this era. Calamity has become an official beast of calamity, which is somewhat similar to a differential engine.

　　Because they ate away most of the world tree, and those ants have the "golden calamity" of the era they are in, they are named [Golden Ants that ate the world tree]. Moreover, devouring the world tree is something they have indeed done, so this group of ants really have a special damage effect on the world tree.

　　 This effect is not only useful for the real world tree, but also for the seedling of the world tree, which is Jenkins, of course.

　　 Whether the savior of that era succeeded Jenkins did not know, only knew that when sealing these ants, in order to prevent the gathering of ethnic forces, 666 ants were specially sealed separately. The number of ants in each individual seal is not fixed. In this way, even if a small number of ants escape, it will not cause too many consequences.

　　 Obviously, this paradox is one of the seals, and the last refuge of mankind is called the "steel world tree". I am afraid it is not the evil taste of the differential engine, but in the background of the paradox, it is the name. After all, the home of the golden ants is the world tree.

　　 "So do you understand?"

　　 asked the head on the boat.

"Understood, the differential engine that claims to be'Great Wisdom' falling from the sky, together with the golden ants that exist in this world, transforms the world into a complete metal form. Flesh creatures become geared robots, and other inanimate substances are transformed into Metal, urbanization turned into a brass color, the jungle no longer had vitality, and the earth and the ocean were frozen into shiny metal. Steel swallowed everything, gears transformed everything. This world is the'land of steel' where mechanical gears and golden ants coexist. ..... Speaking of it, wouldn't the golden ant really be made of gold? That's why I am willing to cooperate with the same metal differential engine."

　　 "Savior, you are smarter than I thought."

　　 said the head.

　　 "I'm finished, I think I'm right, where's the door?"

　　 Jenkins asked, looking at the metal head on the chair, the head gave the imaginary answer:

　　 "Just like you have already experienced, this time I'm going to cheat again."

Chapter 2186: Jenkins and the Ant

　　 Of course, the door that left did not appear because Jenkins completed the mission. Instead, the ship appeared strange.

　　 As the ship's deck trembles, it slowly sinks toward the surface of the water. When the deck of the ship was almost as high as the pier, Jenkins swiftly jumped over the deck guardrail and came to the pier.

　　 The dock is real, not as a phantom background. The head of the man sank to the bottom of the water along with the boat, but its voice seemed to be coming from all directions:

　　 "Of course you have to fight those ants this time. But before that, just like I said, how about visiting my ideal world?"

　　 the voice of the head asked, and added by the way:

"Before you finish the tour and give your opinion, I can guarantee that no one will disturb us. On the boat, although you understand what happened here, you haven't read my masterpiece completely and understand my thoughts It’s a pity for me."