Lillian was utterly numb.
No matter how powerful the Great Being was, even if he could subdue these Dream Creatures, she could at least understand that.
But under what circumstances would anyone need to transport a Difference Engine to the bottom of the Sea of the Moon, then move it into a dream?
"The Great Being's plans and strategies truly are beyond imagining."
Lillian sighed.
A Difference Engine could easily weigh dozens of tons, and it was a precision machine that could not be transported roughly.
Sending something like that to the seabed? And the bottom of the Sea of the Moon, at that?
Lillian was even beginning to suspect that the Great Being was having a laugh at her expense.
Unfortunately, later that day, an enormous metal crate fell down, landing squarely near the open passage.
The crate was astonishingly large, genuinely big enough to hold a Difference Engine.
With a numb expression, Lillian moved the Difference Engine through the passage.
She no longer wanted to guess at the Great Being's plans, or just how vast a force in the Present World it would take to deliver a Difference Engine here.
Naturally, Elliot had dropped this Difference Engine down from the Shallow Zone.
This was also why he had opened a passage in the dream.
[The Thinker] could only perform calculations for the Present World and could not be used in dreams, so Elliot also wanted to try using a Difference Engine in his own dream.
Ascending from the seabed was naturally fraught with difficulties. Even the Dream Creatures that ruled this place were not exempt from the ascent curse.
Elliot even suspected that it drained health proportionally, so even the powerful could not escape it through sheer strength.
Descending, however, was much easier. To drop this Difference Engine