When Catherine stepped on the ground, there was a slight tingling in her feet. She looked down and saw where she landed a thick patch of broken parts.

The Ice Bear Abyss climbed down after Catherine. As soon as he landed, he stretched out his hand, and the chess piece of life appeared in the palm of his hand. The chess pieces moved, not knowing what they were calculating. The Kamiyama shaman stared at the changes in the chess pieces of life, and did not raise his head until the chess pieces stopped moving. He pointed ahead and said, "Look, Gear City is there, and based on the size we have seen with our eyes, it will take at least five or six hours to get there. After saying that, he flipped his hand, and the chess piece of life disappeared again.

Catherine followed the Ice Bear Abyss towards Gear City. The shattered parts beneath your feet are as vast as a desert, and you can't see the end when you look to the left and right. They lay between the gear city and the machine wall for I don't know how many years they have existed, and every time you step on it, you will feel a faint vibration from the thick parts under the sea of sand, as if something is moving underground.

Catherine told the Ice Bear Abyss about her feelings, and the Kamiyama shaman crouched on the ground with a solemn expression, pressing his palm against the broken parts.

"Something is moving, and it's coming towards us, but it's still quite far away. Ice Bear Abyss judged the distance and time, "We'd better speed up, no matter what it is, it's definitely not something we can deal with." ”

The two picked up their speed and trotted towards Gear City. Catherine takes the opportunity to ask the Ice Bear Abyss if she knows what happened before they entered the cavern in the machine wall. Ice Bear Abyss shook his head and said, "I was also groggy at the time, and when I woke up, I was already in the cave. In fact, no matter what happened, the dark shadow must have known. But he didn't want to talk to us before, so we'll ask him the next time we meet him. ”

After running for more than two hours in one go, Catherine was already a little tired. Even in the form of the soul will, there is no need to eat, drink, or sleep, but the fatigue still exists. According to the Ice Bear Abyss, it has to do with the spiritual strength of each soul. As a shaman of the Divine Mountain, the Ice Bear Abyss has accumulated for hundreds of years, and has reached a fairly high intensity in the cultivation of spiritual will, so he is not very tired.

However, the Ice Bear Abyss learned about Catherine's state and suggested taking a short rest. The two stopped and sat down on the floor. The black-pressed Gear City ahead was already discernible in silhouette, with towering spires and a row of behemoths that were oddly and gigantic, iron-toothed discs. It resembles a deformed but thriving forest, with tall trees that grow into the sky and pierce the canopy, spires that are its stems, and iron-toothed discs that are its leaves.

Looking behind him, there was only an incomparably deep shadow cast in the direction of the machine wall. The shadow that hung over everything foreshadowed the height and width of the machine's walls beyond measure.

"Let's keep going. The Ice Bear Abyss stood up, "I feel like that thing is underground isn't far away, it's too fast. I guess it's definitely going to catch up with us before we get to Gear City. ”

Catherine felt the same way, the tremor under her feet had become obvious, and she could send out such a distant vibration just by moving, what kind of monster could it be?

After a short break, the two recovered, especially Catherine's form. This time, their speed increased again, and although they knew that most of them would not be able to reach Gear City smoothly, they still tried their best to hurry.

Two hours passed in the blink of an eye, and Catherine's feet were numb from exhaustion. A huge shock came through the shattered parts, and the sharp remains of the parts stuck to the soles of her feet, but Catherine was unaware. Things are getting worse and worse, and on the horizon at either end of the parts desert can already be seen "black rain" rising into the sky, a storm of broken parts set off by some kind of giant being as it moves underground. Before seeing those "black rains", Catherine couldn't have imagined that there were things coming at them in both directions on the left and right.

Gear City was ahead, and even the fortress-like metal walls could be clearly seen. It was a robotic puppet snail with a head over the hills. The snails stand side by side, and the walls are forged out of their shells. Their bodies poked out of the city, boredom bouncing around.

"I can't make it. The Ice Bear Abyss dragged Catherine with one hand and held the chess calculus of life with the other, "You can run to Gear City in another hour, but the things on both sides will meet in a maximum of forty minutes." ”

"If you can't catch up with the front, is there a chance to run up?" asked Catherine.

"Up?" Ice Bear Abyss looked up at the sky. There is no end in sight to the gloomy sky. Occasionally, a lightning-like burst of fire with a rumbling sound would light up a stretch of sky, revealing a monstrous giant iron-toothed disc embedded in the firmament.

"There is only hope of escape if you fly to the sky. Catherine stopped suddenly, gasped twice, and lifted the steel ball in her hand.

"Can you wake up the bull's eye?"

In fact, as early as the previous break, Catherine had tried to awaken the bull's-eye demon's instinct. However, the bull's-eyed demon instinct that turned into a steel ball did not respond to his call at all.

"Not yet, but this is the only chance. Catherine stared at the steel ball in her hand, "Unless you expect that dark shadow to come to our rescue." ”

"No way. Ice Bear Abyss shook his head, "Then you can try it, I'll be on my way." ”

The old barbarian put away the chess pieces of life, grabbed Catherine's waist with both hands, and lifted the mage to his shoulders with all his might. "You sit down. "The Ice Bear Abyss stretched out his legs and ran towards Gear City, no slower than just now.

Catherine sat on the shoulders of the Ice Bear Abyss, intently fiddling with the steel ball. She spun back and forth with the steel ball, the soul shackles that bound the bullseye demon still in action. Catherine could sense that her thoughts could be transmitted smoothly to the big eyeball. It's just that the bull-eyed demon instinctively fell into a strange state, between sleeping and awakening, and his thoughts seemed to be weakened after passing through, so that the bull-eyed demon could not fully awaken.

Catherine recalls being in the cavern of the machine wall. When the black shadow pulled the bull's-eye demon instinct into the cave, it followed a "click" sound, and then the huge eyeball became the size in front of it. The Black Shadow claims that the bull's-eyed demon's instincts have been modified by him, and the effect of the transformation is to change from a normal giant eyeball to a steel ball the size of a head.

"I thought of a way to maybe try it. Catherine stopped the Ice Bear Abyss, "You let me down." ”