Elliot looked thoughtfully at the card on the table.
The [Holy Scripture]'s information delivery system was certainly ingenious, but what surprised him even more was that his Difference Engine had actually displayed all of this directly. Yes, what Vanessa and the others saw was the content of the [Holy Scripture] copied out by the illiterate Clara, but on Elliot's end, a [Clue] card had popped straight out of the Difference Engine, with the contents plainly written on it.
It had specifically mentioned that this information could not be recorded, or it would be altered. Yet the Difference Engine had displayed it outright, and it showed no signs of having been altered.
Elliot could not help dwelling on this.
If there really was a Great Being monitoring everything and falsifying the world, then it seemed that this being could not deceive the Difference Engine.
His Difference Engine was far from omnipotent, but in the things it could do, its priority was always the highest, completely ignoring any rules and restrictions. He could not help looking forward to it: if he really obtained the Difference Engine Core from [The Thinker] beneath the Night Watch Bureau, what would his Difference Engine become?
Would it gain more functions?
Such as... detecting [Evil Names]? Or even detecting more?
Just like this being that could monitor everything, noticing whenever anything was recorded or spoken.
Shaking his head, Elliot gathered his thoughts and turned his attention back to the Fog Horn Fraternity.
Elliot knew a little more about the Fog Horn Fraternity than Vanessa and the others did.
Not long ago, at the Salon hosted by the Fourth Prince, he had encountered Lillian, that lunatic from the Rose Cross.
She had not known that Elliot had already learned the truth about the Theater through the Difference Engine,