The man surnamed Ta did walk away after meeting the old man. That man was a former protégé of the man surnamed Ta, and he was also a citizen. There are still construction teams of border people in the inner city of Sunset City, but in the council, without exception, they are all citizens. The man surnamed Ta used to have a good time with this person, and he was also friends.

"Long time no see, Tower Ash."

The man said to the man surnamed Ta.

Ta Ash lowered his head, cowered, his eyes dodged, his head turned sideways, bent over, and did not dare to look directly at the noble person in front of him.

"Grace, Lord Grace...... You're now, you're now a high-ranking officer in the Criminal Affairs Division of the 24th Division. ”

The man known as the Virtue was thin and tall, with high cheekbones, short hair combed back to his head, and a white robe with two ribbons. Say it's two, but it's actually one. The ribbon resembles a long silk scarf, carved with a textured texture and gilded edges, worn across the back of the neck, dangling over the shoulders and falling straight to the ground at both ends. If the two ends fall parallel to each other, they are called two.

He strode through the corridor of the twenty-fourth division of the council, and Taash followed him with his head bowed.

"I was fortunate enough to be appreciated by the Venerable Master, and I was only able to succeed occasionally."

Said Jade.

This made Ta Ash's head bow even lower.

Once a guest of his house, he is now his unattainable existence.

The corridor is alabaster white, and there is no other color. There are hanging paintings in every line of hundreds of steps, and in the paintings are the heads of the outstanding officials of the 24 divisions, as well as their aphorisms.

Ta Ash saw a "famous saying" written next to the fat head of the chief of the gold department of the original twenty-four divisions:

Learn to accept it, and the world will be beautiful.

He lowered his head and walked silently.

The corridor in the building leads to the outside, and it becomes a glass corridor, and you can see that the night outside is as dark as darkness. Distant buildings are hidden in the dark, elusive. And everything near was faintly visible in the light of the glowing tree. Inside the glass walkway and outside the glass walkway, a large number of heavily armed people are guarding the most forbidden place in Sunset City.

Passing through the glass corridor and leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs, you will come to the semi-circular building of the Criminal Affairs Division. Grace talks to Ash as he leads him to his office.

In the office, he personally poured a glass of water for Tower Ash.

Ta Shen hurriedly got up, stretched out his hands in fear, so that he could hold the water glass with both hands, and then splashed some water on his body in a trembling manner.

"What's wrong with you?"

Ta Ash didn't know what was wrong with him, so he only pandered to one sentence:

"I'm so excited, I'm a little obsessed."

He laughed, then changed the subject and said:

"Anyway, you said you went into the inner city with the inventor of the bicycle."

"Yes."

"That's interesting." "The inventor of the bicycle is also a topic that has been discussed a lot in recent councils. ”

He took a sip of water.

Taash was shocked and suspicious, he didn't know why Bad was mentioning this at this time.

"That's why, Your Majesty paid attention to him."

He whispered softly, like the sound of a whisper.

After speaking, he raised his glass of tea and drank lightly, his eyes stared at the lost soul on the face of the man who had been his employer, and said:

"Tonight, don't go back, I'll stay with you, and I haven't seen my old friend for a long time, if you talk a little more, you may not have much chance in the future."

Ta Gray was still happy when he heard the front, but the half sentence of "no chance" in the back made him fall into an ice cave.

Indeed, he may not have a chance to enter the inner city again, and it is impossible for him to make a comeback.

He could only say yes and no.

"Okay......"

Ta Ash said.

So until the next day, when he was about to visit His Majesty, Gu Chuan did not see Ta Ash again. He asked the maid, who had left in a hurry, and came back with a strange countenance:

"That citizen friend of yours is now being summoned by his old friend, a Master of the Criminal Division, and he has asked me to tell you that you need not worry about him, and that he will come and meet you again when you return."

"Then when can I visit His Majesty?"

The maid replied:

"It's time to prepare, you're waiting for a quarter of an hour, you need to go to the Central Prohibition Palace, waiting for the summons of His Majesty."

When Gu Chuan heard this, he pulled the lapel of his shirt and said calmly:

"I'm ready to go."

So the convoy hit the road again.

Gu Chuan didn't sit in the car either, just sat outside the car and stared at the sky.

The eternal sunset continues to remain unchanged on the skyline, covering everything in this world with a hazy fire-colored brilliance. Gu Chuan saw that the sundial tower in the distance was straight into the sky, passing through the shadow of the sun, and it was a straight thick black line in the red sun.

The twists and turns of the sun, and the eternal twilight, make the thousands of strange buildings in the inner city pull out hundreds of reflections together. The water is iron-blue, and the gray-feathered birds are shining brightly. All the symbols of the eyes carved into the building seem to be shining.

The wind that always had the right temperature in Sunset City blew Gu Chuan comfortably, and he raised his head, and under the guidance of the maid, he saw the existence of the Central Forbidden Palace.

Sitting in front of the sundial tower, under the eternal sunset, the base is square, the whole is like a pyramid, but its surface is not flat, there is a drop, like a staircase, from the bottom to the top of the staircase.

At the top, it is not the tip of a pyramid, but a square temple-like building.

Its height is innumerable, it may be thirty or forty stories.

Its breadth cannot be said lightly, Gu Chuan compares it to the analogy, I am afraid that it will be able to match this "pyramid" if dozens of sphere buildings of the council are added together.

And it was in the twilight, shadowy, as if the bottom had disappeared into the infinite darkness of the wilderness. Only the square temple on top was left, and it was blood-red.

"Is that the Central Forbidden Palace?"

Gu Chuan muttered.

The palace that only exists in the mouths of the border people has never been seen. Even in Mr. Keyto's information, there is no mention of when the Forbidden Palace was built, only that the Forbidden Palace is the residence of the supreme ruler of Sunset City.

The maid who led the way said:

"Yes, my lord, this is the palace where His Majesty lives, and please be sensible."

This is a strange statement.

Gu Chuan pretended to be annoyed:

"I have infinite admiration for His Majesty, and infinite love for the glory of Sunset City, and I don't need you to talk about that."

The maid shook her head and said politely:

"It's not that I doubt the adult's heart for Sunset City and the crown of his fist, it's just that the adult's audience has never learned or practiced a set of etiquette, so it is inevitable that there will be occasional offenses."

Gu Chuan needs to arrive in advance, but His Majesty does not have to arrive in advance.

As soon as you enter the Central Prohibition Palace, you will see three corridors leading to it. All rooms and passages have carved reliefs on the walls. Gu Chuan silently remembered, after walking a hundred meters, there was no duplicate part of the relief, and there was no repeated part of the relief for another hundred meters, and when he arrived at the waiting room, the waiting room was also carved with many strange reliefs, and there was nothing wrong.

Among them, there are the mountains and rivers on which the Sunset City leans, the Rizhao River, the countless villages outside the Sunset City, and the Sunset City and the people in the Sunset City.

Moreover, these are time-splitting. Some of them are now, some of them can obviously be seen that it was the time of the twilight war before the hundreds of solar terms, and some Gu Chuan couldn't see it just by relying on Mr. De's quick historical knowledge, and he was only ignorant, realizing that this was a photo of the history of Sunset City.

There is a chandelier on the roof of the waiting room, which illuminates all this very brightly.

He and his retinue of hired men waited here. And the gift he was about to offer was packed in a box by them, and he checked it over and over again.

The squire who led the way stood in the doorway, like a statue of a lady. Without saying a word, without saying a word, without looking at a word, until at the end, she said:

"Meet."

So the room seemed to be full of echoes of the maid. Gu Chuan raised his head, stood up, tidied up his clothes, and said refreshingly:

"Please lead the way."

The maid shook her head, and called some more attendants in:

"Wait, your retinue of hired workers needs to stay here, if you have any needs, please tell us."

Gu Chuan was stunned, secretly annoyed that this group of people didn't say it earlier, and only reluctantly said:

"Then please bring with you the box I am going to offer with three strange things."

The maid said:

"Yes."

The maid walked in front, Gu Chuan walked behind the maid, and a dozen attendants carried three boxes and followed behind Gu Chuan. There were guards every few steps in the corridor, and a whole row of guards stood there like statues, motionless.

Gu Chuan memorized the location and found that the group was walking along the corridor to the center of the first floor of the giant building.

Sure enough, the attendant said, "The nave has arrived." ”

I saw that the end of a large corridor suddenly opened up and was full of light.

As soon as I entered, I saw the tall pillars and the many lampstands on the side of each pillar, reflected by the mirrors, and the candlelight was shining all over the room.

The four corners of the palace are lined with statues, and beside them stand solemn guards. Gu Chuan glanced around, cautiously glanced at the center, and saw no throne, no minister, only one person...... A young girl stands beneath a huge mural directly in front of her. And then...... His eyes were drawn to the huge mural.

There are three things painted on the mural.

The first thing is a golden sunset.

The second thing is the siege under the sunset.

The third thing is a man sitting in the city between the sunset and the siege.

A man who has nothing on his face but only one eye.

A left eye in the center of his face, with a small hole in it, from which it seems that someone is staring at him.

That eye, Gu Chuan felt familiar at first sight.

After only thinking for a moment, the maid in front of her bowed to the mural and saluted, saying that she would see the crown, and all the attendants behind her put down the box and bowed directly. Gu Chuan was nervous, and quickly bowed and spoke like a maid, and then figured it out-

This eye is nothing else...... It is the symbol of the eye painted on every wall of Sunset City, the emblem and coat of arms of the supreme ruler of Sunset City.

"Now His Majesty is listening."

The girl standing on the left side of the mural said:

"Now, Your Majesty said, excuse me."

This was the etiquette that Gu Chuan knew for the first time. None of the people who knew or did not know before could or would have told him that the crown was like this.

With great curiosity, he slowly raised his head again.

The girl stood quietly beside the mural, her hair black and shiny, pouring down her shoulders like a straight waterfall that had branched off. And the whiteness of her glass gauze clothes is like the snow on the top of the mountain covered by white clouds in the sky. She wore a pair of sandals that showed most of her feet, which was unconventional, and proved that she had a certain privilege in this house, the privilege of being as she loved.

The maid whispered to Gu Chuan that what she said was what Her Majesty was going to say.

Her eyelashes are long, so when she speaks, they occasionally flutter slightly, as if she is pouring out her thoughts. Her eyes seemed to be made of crystal, and when she blinked, she reminded Gu Chuan of a star she hadn't seen for a long time. Her skin was like ice and snow, excessively white and tingling with an alluring fragrance. But Gu Chuan only looked at her for a moment, and he didn't dare to look at her directly—because he felt that the person was also looking back at him.

She seemed to be looking at everyone, but not at anyone.

She said calmly:

"Your Majesty knows that you have come to talk about banking, and that you have brought three gifts. As for these three gifts, Her Majesty has already learned from the council the list of 'magical things' you are going to offer, and she is also interested in seeing them. ”

At this time, the maid stepped back and asked Gu Chuan to stand in front of her.

In the glorious hall, Gu Chuan felt an unprecedented pressure, as if he was standing in some closed temple.

He bowed his head and said:

"Your Majesty, it's my pleasure."

It's just that the more the girl spoke, the deeper Gu Chuan's doubts became, where did the girl hear Her Majesty's voice? In what capacity is she here to convey her thoughts and will? And why has everyone acquiesced to all this?

This kind of incomprehension, he could only force the bottom of his heart, and then he heard the girl who passed the word continue, her voice was as flat as boiled water:

His Majesty said that he saw from the list that there were three gifts, right? He asks you which one are you going to start with? ”

Their own hired workers were left in the waiting room. Then you can only go on it yourself.

Gu Chuan took two steps back, came to the edge of the largest box, and asked another attendant to help him open the box together.

The so-called miraculous things are naturally not strange things.

A strange thing that can be presented to the supreme ruler of Sunset City, Gu Chuan asked himself that he could not find it, and he could not break the monopoly of the inner city family.

But he was very happy when he heard that a hundred solar terms ago, the "calculation clock" invented by a mechanic called his crown.

It was a pre-electronic creation that embodied the ultimate in gear mechanics.

Therefore, Gu Chuan thought of a "clock" made by a clockmaker that was slightly later than this era, but was roughly at a similar industrial level, and he saw it in the Forbidden City in his last life.

The taller than human chests had come a long way, and now the locks on the top were unlocked, and the walls of the boxes on all sides fell to the ground with a clatter. The soft rubber used to cushion the unloading force was taken away by Gu Chuan and the attendants.

So a bell, a bell taller than a human being, with a four-story pavilion in the shape of copper and gild, was unveiled for the first time in front of the people of this world.

The details of the four floors are clearly visible. Resplendent and lifelike.

In the circular pavilion on the top floor, there are two small metal figures alive, each holding a cylinder in a dancing shape.

The second layer is the chronograph part of the clock, with a disc engraved with twelve scales, and the hour hand is now slowly turning.

As for the third floor, there is a metal man, who is responsible for playing the bell bowl.

As for the bottom floor, there is also a robot, with a portrait of the Sichuan Bank uniform, kneeling on one leg, lying on the desk with one hand, and holding a quill in the other.

Gu Chuan raised his head and saw that the maid who had been leading the way for a long time was also surprised, and the girl on the top blinked curiously, and he said with a smile:

"Your Majesty, the time is just right, please see."

In less than a few moments, the hour hand was pointing to six o'clock, and the bell bowl was striking the time like a sundial. At the same time, the two metal figures on the top floor turned around to widen the distance, holding the cylinder and unfolding it into a banner, with a book of longevity.

As for the low-level mechanical villain, in full view of everyone, he wrote eight Sunset City language symbols on a blank piece of paper on the case, such as "The world returns to the middle, and the sunset is Yongchang".

The maid couldn't help but look forward, only to see that the handwriting was neat, and while writing, the head of the mechanical villain actually swayed with it.

Gu Chuan looked around and saw the surprise of all the attendants, his eyes were blazing. He turned his head, looked at the fresco's eyes, arched his hands upward, bowed his head:

"This is the first gift I would like to give to His Majesty, which I call the 'Writer's Clock.'"