Neither the sky nor the sun could be seen, it was low, dreary, dim, except for a few lamps hanging from the pillars that shone dimly, and from the haystacks, the dark places where the fungus grows, and the water stains in the corners of the walls, came a foul, suffocating smell of excrement.

Gu Chuan didn't know that after he was knocked unconscious, he had been thrown into prison.

Sunset City, of course, has prisons. It's just that Gu Chuan, the prison in the inner city, has heard that it is a place where citizens are detained, there is good food and shelter, and there is a special person to clean it, which is not like what he sees in front of him now.

"This is a prison that is not known to the people of Sunset City." Will Mr. De know about this?

He sat on the cold stone slabs, looked around in the dim light, and saw in the darkness the outlines of many fixed buildings and railings or other utensils, as well as many strange shadows that were not fixed.

He tried to yell a few times, saying that there was anyone? Is the jailer there? But no one responded to him, only a few pairs of eyes that seemed to be shining behind the outline of the deep prison bar, turned to look at him, and saw that Gu Chuan was covered in hair, and he didn't dare to say a word. Fortunately, after only a moment, all eyes turned back and disappeared into the vast darkness.

He wanted to scream again.

At this moment, a muffled voice came from beside him:

"Stop screaming! Don't scream! There is no one here...... Only by locking people in and out, can bad people come. ”

It's the toeless man.

Gu Chuan turned his head. The Toeless Man was separated by only two levels of bars, and was the closest prisoner to him. The man, with his unkempt and tousled hair hanging down from the floor, looked very old, and his voice was muffled and his tone was even more eerie.

It was simple to write, but Gu Chuan at that time was inexplicably uncomfortable listening to his words, and he almost couldn't understand it.

After a while, Gu Chuan remembered his primary school Chinese pronunciation knowledge, and found that this person pronounced strange sounds, first of all, there is no light labial sound and supralingual sound, for example, f is a light labial sound, and zh and ch are supralingual sounds, which are two of the various pronunciations determined by the structure of the human mouth and throat. The languages of the world, as long as they are like human mouths, can be seated here.

In Chinese, for example, when this person pronounces the sound chu (pronounced made), it is closer to tu (pronounced as abrupt), and when he goes out, it becomes abrupt, which makes Gu Chuan very uncomfortable.

Secondly, there is almost no change in tone in his words. The only barely recognizable thing is that he speaks in a throat that gurgles a bit like an upper voice, and the rest is one tone with no change. Fortunately, what the toeless man said still had the characteristics of Sunset City's language, and he could barely understand it by relying on his brain.

Sunset City also has a dialect, but Gu Chuan has never heard of this dialect, and when he remembers that this person has no nails, many terrifying imaginations arise. He pursed his lips and asked cautiously:

"Excuse me, where is this?"

The people over there were also stunned for a while.

He may not understand Gu Chuan's words, Gu Chuan learned his tone and repeated it once or twice, he understood the meaning, and said in a dull voice:

"This is here, there is no ...... here"

He didn't understand Gu Chuan's words, and said that 'where' and 'here' were Gu Chuan's voices. But he doesn't know the tone, and his tongue is almost knotted in imitation! The words he uttered were particularly strange.

As he spoke, he adjusted his body to reveal the shackles on his legs. His legs fell limply to the ground, and Gu Chuan saw that his exposed bare feet had no nails, just like the limbs of a frog or a toad.

The nails of vertebrates have an ancient name called claws.

One thing that the finger claw has in common is that it grows constantly, and animals such as cats wear it out, and humans cut it off.

According to Gu Chuan's biological knowledge, the existence of claws is not natural, it is also the result of random mutation and natural selection.

While reminiscing, Gu Chuan carefully asked another question:

"What's your name?"

"What's my name......"

The prisoner, who had lived here for a long time, fell into a terrible silence. His expression was neither painful nor sad, but a confused.

The cage was dim, and Gu Chuan couldn't see his expression clearly, only guessing that he either didn't have a name, or he just didn't want to say it.

Gu Chuan had already made a plan, so he said:

"And where were you born?"

The toeless man still couldn't understand the sentence.

Gu Chuan changed his sentence and asked:

"Have you been looking at this, looking at this all the time, only looking at this place?"

The toeless man understood.

He nodded happily:

"That's right."

And Gu Chuan exhaled a long breath, and his heart was beating suddenly. He leaned against the wet wall, barely buried his cold hands in the warm pockets of his coat, curled up in a ball, and said:

"Well, in the first place, who's here to take care of you, friend."

"What does it mean to take care?"

"He who told you to say these things."

The toeless man hadn't spoken for a long time, and when he first met a man who could speak, he seemed to be very excited, and he said with a grin:

"It's Big Daddy and Big Mommy!"

Gu Chuan's gaze fell into the darkness that could not be seen even further. The light of a lamp shone just on the bars between him and the toeless man.

Near the bars, he and the toeless man were illuminated by the light, and their shadows hung on the mossy ground, dancing with the light, and occasionally blending into the darkness.

The bars don't look very strong, and if they're thin, they might be able to get through.

He asked:

"And where are your big mom and big daddy?"

The toeless man is stuck again. He couldn't answer, confused:

"Where ......?"

He seems to have difficulty understanding the more abstract concept of spatial orientation than entering and exiting.

"How long ago was the last time they spoke to you?"

Gu Chuan asked him again.

The Toeless Man frowned:

"Last ......"

Recently and how often were concepts in time, and he was vague and couldn't tell.

Gu Chuan turned another corner and asked:

"And what was the last thing your big dad and big mom said to you?"

"I see! I see......" said the toeless man, "they say eat, and you must not starve yourself." ”

These words reminded Gu Chuan that the people regard food as the sky. He pursed his lips, stroked his tense abdominal muscles, and asked cautiously:

"What do you usually eat in this cell?"

The Toeless Man Says:

"What ...... to eat?" Eat everything! ”

Then Gu Chuan saw that he had a pair of terrible eyes open, and his fingernailless hands began to grope on the ground. He stepped closer into the darkness, and there was a creepy sound of hands hitting the floor and teeth colliding with the ground.

Is there anything on the ground that can be eaten?

Gu Chuan looked around, only to see that in the dripping place, there were dense mosses and mushrooms.

He felt that he had recovered from his previous coma, so he stepped on the ground with two feet, staggered up against the wall, explored the surroundings, and found that it was a small room of a few square meters, one against the wall and three fences, it was indeed a complete prison.

There was still the sound of feasting nearby, and there was a rumbling sound in his stomach.

Gu Chuan swallowed his saliva, he was also hungry, but the imagination of getting sick and poisoned after eating these wild plants swirled in his mind. Gu Chuan was really hungry, so he could only think about what to do, and at the same time calm himself down by reviewing what happened before:

"The council may have been at a time when I was resorting to tuition fundraising...... You've already paid attention to me. Later, when I started a bank and raised funds, I probably annoyed them. But...... The Yaoshi family, the Yaoshi family also founded a bank! ”

Matters involving finance and the economy must be major events in the city, and they will indeed be resisted by the authorities. This is something he has already thought about, and he has also thought about communicating with the council.

PharmaBlock is both a competition and a reassuring pill. One of the original eight banks in the inner city began to make a bank, and it must have been in the council to find out.

He had heard from Mr. De that there were many private collectives that had cooperated with the Council.

In fact, at that time, he was in a hurry, and it was not his idea to dedicate the Sichuan Bank to the council. The dedication of Chuanshui Bank can be used as a foundation for his life in Sunset City, to grab wealth and spread his contacts, and then give him more room for development, which he thinks is enough.

"It's just that I didn't expect that. Could it be that the Yaoshi family has also been calculated......? The foreign affairs secretary I bribed is the Shimino family, a long-generation ally of Yakushi...... He didn't seem to want to see His Majesty directly. He leaned against the wall, "Let's say it's not the bank's business...... Is there any other reason, or is it that my gift itself reveals something? What might have angered you? ”

Participating in the compilation of the encyclopedia gave Gu Chuan enough knowledge of Sunset City.

The Writer's Clock is indeed an ingenious creation.

The ice cubes are surprising, but there are precedents.

For example, practical rubber is the main production area that has now been renamed Rubber Village, which was presented to His Majesty in person and appreciated.

If something happens, it could be the Sandbox and Marco Polo's Notes.

But if Gu Chuan wants to satisfy his desires, wants to encourage the people of Sunset City, wants to organize a voyage expedition, and participates in the trade of strange things, he will inevitably get involved with the council.

Gu Chuan originally wanted to make this encounter famous and make it more legendary in this dedication, and then spread Sunset City widely and raised funds with it.

"And then, it all seemed to be over."

He smiled sinisterly, and his heart could no longer endure the contempt for the council and the so-called crown.

And the terrible famine was about to fall on him.

In the dark, Gu Chuan lost his perception of time, it may have only been a moment, and it may have been more than half a day.

He also doesn't know how long he was unconscious.

The toeless man next door had already finished his second meal. When the toeless man finished eating, he looked curiously and saw that this young-looking strange man who looked very different from him seemed to be thinking about something.

At that time, Gu Chuan lowered his head, grabbed a handful of moss, and saw that there were crawling insects on the moss.

A terrible weakness clenched his brain from the depths of his stomach or stomach. On the day when he bathed and changed his clothes and prepared for the audience, Gu Chuan didn't eat anything, because the maid said that he couldn't eat anything that would get a bad smell in his mouth.

He can wait until he starves to death, and no one will come to his rescue.

"But there's nothing particularly scary about it."

He began to eat.

And the toeless man was just ordinary, and asked with a giggle:

"What's scary, what's it? Friends, friends. ”

This old man, with a childlike heart, knew very little things. The friend also retold Gu Chuan's syllables.

Gu Chuan said sullenly:

"It means that you don't want to approach something, and if you do, you have to drive it away."

The toeless man didn't understand well, he leaned against the railing, and tried to reach out to Gu Chuan, but he couldn't touch anything. On the side, he thought for a long time before he suddenly realized:

"Then I don't have anything to be afraid of!"

Gu Chuan felt stomach cramps when he ate it, he pursed his lips, looked at the toeless man, and diverted his thoughts so that he didn't think about the tumbling in his stomach.

It was an unknown prison for the council or the private family of the crown, and it contained the toeless people. They're tortured...... Or are toeless people born with cripples?

"What does it mean if it is tortured?"

Gu Chuan lowered his head and fell into his first sleep in prison.

When I woke up, nothing had changed in the world.

He was still in the dark.

Then the toedless man cried out in amazement:

"Why don't you have leg cuffs?"

Indeed, Gu Chuan's feet were not handcuffed.

The toeless man was shackled to his feet, and he was locked in a prison and couldn't get out. The shackles didn't think about unlocking.

Gu Chuan asked:

"Have you ever seen someone without leg cuffs before?"

The Toeless Man Says:

"Yes, they're all dead soon."