As a psychologist, it is the basic skill to avoid triggering a stress response by trying to explore and grasp the patient's psychological bottom line through dialogue in treatment.

Su Ding once had a thorough grasp of people's hearts because of listening to evil thoughts.

It's not difficult to test the bottom line of these people.

After a few words, Su Ding concluded that they didn't dare to do anything to themselves at all.

Sure enough, the other party argued with Su Ding for a long time but found that he couldn't get any news.

simply angrily took Su Ding to their workshop.

They all work in a place called the 'Pendulum' workshop.

As the name suggests, this one produces pendulums.

One of the core components of the pendulum is the small wheel axle produced by Su Dingjia, and the key lies in the 'urn seal' on the axle.

The workshop, which is smaller than its own backyard, houses three machines that are more than two meters tall.

One end of the machine is connected to a steam pipe, which is clearly where the power comes from.

Su Ding circled around three times curiously.

As a liberal arts student, he studied the history of the First Industrial Revolution and the Second Industrial Revolution.

It is also known that steam power, as a very low energy efficiency use, withdrew from the vast majority of the stage after the advent of electricity.

The world looks like it's a little crooked from the tech tree.

Huge and complex steam machines, with exposed bearings and huge gears of various models, make these machines look cumbersome and have a unique heavy industrial beauty.

Su Ding noticed that there were several parts on the machine with strange patterns similar to those on the 'shroud' and the bearings at home.

Occasionally, these patterns flash with an unsettling black glow that is reminiscent of last night's gray mist.

Is this the 'Seal'?

Su Ding didn't quite understand why these machines had a relationship with the transcendent, mysterious and obviously malicious 'Demon Lord'.

Su Ding turned his attention to the pendulum they produced.

The so-called pendulum is about the length of an adult's forearm, and one end is a cylindrical hammer structure, and the other end is a swing device connected by axles and bolts.

Su Ding recognized at a glance that the axle on it and the semi-finished product he saw in his home studio yesterday were of the same type.

The bald head pushed the pendulum over and said coldly: "Look at the 'urn seal' on it yourself." ”

Su Ding had some impressions of the lines on the axles he saw at home yesterday, and he found a difference when he compared them.

There are many unnatural fractures in the lines on the pendulum, and it is clear that if there is a problem, this is where it is.

If it is broken, it will not be carved back su ding muttered in a low voice and stretched out his finger to touch whether the texture of the texture on it was consistent with that at home.

The five people standing behind showed frightened expressions at the same time: "Don't touch!"

"Huh?" Su Ding looked back in confusion, his fingers were cold and piercing, that kind of cold was not metal cold at all, it was like ice cubes.

The corners of the bald head trembled: "You don't want to die!"

Su Ding was about to speak, when his temples suddenly thumped a few times.

I vaguely heard a curse-like roar in my ears.

But it soon disappeared again.

The coolness of his fingertips lessened, and in a trance, he found that the Taiji diagram in his brain, which was almost entirely covered in black and red, was actually slowly turning, and the countless tentacles coiled around the periphery of the Taiji diagram were slowly agitating like the breath of a living thing.

Su Ding was stunned, and his eyes focused on the axle at hand again.

How do you feel that some of those virus-infected antennae are so similar to those on the axles?

Su Ding subconsciously made a few strokes according to the lines of the tentacles.

That's right!

The tentacle patterns in the Taiji diagram are more complex, but they do have some correlation with the axle.

Su Ding's divergent thinking ability is very strong.

He instantly connected the clues in his hand.

The Taiji Diagram appeared due to the absorption of the power of the gray mist last night, and the black and red blood marks and the surrounding tentacles must be inseparable from the Lord of the Gray Mist worshiped by the cheap father.

And the texture of those tentacles happens to be similar to the 'gong seal' on the wheel axle produced by the family.

Are the two the same mystical force?

Su Ding put down the pendulum, and if he wanted to determine this, he still needed the five old brothers in front of him.

Before Su Ding could speak, the five of them retreated again and again as if they had seen the plague god.

"You, are you okay?" said the bald man's voice.

Su Ding was inexplicable: "What can happen, didn't you say that my family's 'Seal of the Ring' has become invalid? ”

"But, even if it fails, this is also the trace left by the great being in the world, and it is crazy to touch greatness. ”

Su Ding was shocked in his heart, and then remembered that the power of the gray mist of that big guy had been absorbed by the buddy's evil thought space, if he was angry, he should have played himself to death, right?

Su Ding put his mind at ease, smiled at the five old buddies who were as frightened as quails, and casually amplified the cannon: "It's okay, it's okay, my father has a good relationship with the old man, and he won't hurt the juniors." ”

The five of them looked at each other, how could they not have heard that the great being whose name could not even be said directly had such a human side?

Several people were extremely surprised, and even their attitude towards Su Ding was a little more in awe.

"Several, to tell you the truth, I was in a coma because I was looking directly at the idol of the worship god. But it seems that being able to survive should also be the favor of the great being. But now there is a memory loss, and I don't remember a lot of things, and my father doesn't know where he went for a while, and I hope you will explain some doubts. ”

"Little brother, you say. "The attitude of the bald brother is much better, and he can't be too respectful to be able to contact indescribably great people.

"Is there a library or anything like that in the town. Su Ding asked.

"Library, what's that?" the bald man wondered.

"It's a place where you can read books. ”

"Reading?" The elder brother suddenly realized: "We are afraid that such a precious thing is only available to rich and noble families, and we have never heard of the library that the younger brother said." ”

Haven't heard of it?

Su Ding had a bad premonition: "Are books precious?"

The five of them nodded: "That's not it, I heard that Lord Wang Fugui's house was also rewarded because his brother-in-law entered the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. ”

"How many of you haven't read a book?"

The old buddy showed a sincere smile: "Just know your own name, what are we ordinary people doing to read and write." ”

Sudin headache.

He has so much to know about the world, and books are the best way to understand the world.

But I didn't expect this world book to be so rare.

Whether the underlying reason behind it is knowledge monopoly or information control, it is important to explain the importance of instructions.

In this way, the cheap dad who can skillfully use words to write letters is really not an ordinary person.

Su Ding could only ask questions one by one according to the context he had sorted out in his heart.

The results speak for themselves, and the old buddies' understanding of this mysterious world is limited to knowing that some existences are great, unspeakable, unpeepable, and untouchable.

They don't know why machine parts need to be 'sealed', they only know that without seals, they can't produce parts that the government is satisfied with, and they can't get wages.

Vaguely, Su Ding saw an invisible chasm.

This chasm uses knowledge, mystical power, and strict hierarchy to build an impenetrable iron curtain.

If you can't pass through this iron curtain, you won't be able to understand the truth of this world at all.

After a long day of work, it seems to be back to square one.

If you want to know more, you still have to rely on your own people.

Thinking of this, Su Ding raised his head and smiled: "The last question, what is the ...... of 'calamity'?"