"Hatsuun, I have a serious question for you."

"What's the problem?"

Chu Yun looked back, her eyes were exceptionally bright, giving people a refreshing and clear feeling.

"Do you hate stealing?"

Gu Chuan asked her.

"You're going to steal those gloves?"

Chu Yun said bluntly.

"It's not." Gu Chuan shook his head and said, "That glove is probably the treasure of this tribe, and it is also the ...... that this tribe maintains The basics of the face-swapping ritual. I don't want to offend the tribe and I don't have the idea of taking something important from someone else. What I wanted to take away was one of the sacrifices they burned - the Gear Man we saw earlier. Isn't it a pity that that the thing is left there, and sooner or later they will have to be swept away? ”

The skin of the gear machine has been burned to ashes, and the gear machine itself has been buried in heavy soot, which is inconspicuous compared to a glove.

He thinks the tribe doesn't care much about where the sacrifices go.

Gu Chuan said seriously, but Chu Yun felt puzzled, and she asked:

"But why are you asking my opinion on this?"

"If you don't like it, I won't do it."

The young man smiled and said calmly.

Gu Chuan's answer surprised the girl, she put her hands behind her back, thought for a while, and then said:

"What you do, I haven't particularly hated yet. But I would like to make a suggestion. ”

"You say."

"How can you be sure that the burned stuff is something they don't need, that is, it's not important, and they won't be angry about it? The important and the unimportant are ambiguous, and their modes of action ......" Hatsuyun said seriously, "We don't know! ”

"This ...... Yes, indeed. ”

Gu Chuan retreated in his heart. He cares a lot about the robot made of gears, so he wants to take advantage of this opportunity to give it a go, but he doesn't care so much, and after recognizing that there is a senseless risk inside, he is willing to take this risk.

But Hatsuyun's next words surprised him.

She lowered her voice and said quickly:

"It's all risky...... Why don't we take the gloves away too? It was undoubtedly a remarkable curiosity...... It made me very curious......"

When the metal gloves took off the faces, Hatsuyun reminded Chu Yun of the punishment she had suffered, which was a means of transferring and changing a part of the human body.

She was inexplicably concerned about the function of this strange object.

Perhaps this strange object would help her confirm something that she had always been puzzled about.

Gu Chuan didn't answer. It took him a while to remember a fact that always made him forget inadvertently—the girl in front of him was not pure on the outside, she was a moral vacuum in a sense. Gu Chuan often looks forward and backward, but for Chu Yun, many things are just done because he wants to do them.

And there are very few things she cares about, how about ...... Handful. One of them is already dead. Gu Chuan didn't know if there were others, if there were, it wasn't in this world, but in Sunset City on the other side of the mountains.

"Can I do this?"

After the girl finished speaking, she asked Gu Chuan's opinion. She said:

"If you don't want to, I won't do it."

This is what Gu Chuan just said to Chu Yun before, and now he has been fed back by Chu Yun again.

Gu Chuan did not refuse.

The moth crescent moon hangs close to the surface, at the end of the valley, pouring moonlight on the altar in the rain. The moonlight is like washing, but the fog and shadow are hazy, which is a natural stealth method. In the darkness of the world, in the mist, everything is not clear. The two men lowered their footsteps and approached in the direction of the middle altar.

The altar had been plunged into darkness, and only a vague silhouette and smoke could be seen in the moonlight.

When did the ritual of face swapping originate? And how long did it last.

Where did this group of aliens find such a strange thing that can take off their faces, and why did they use it to exchange people for faces?

There must be a very secret custom in this.

The birth of customs may be traced back hundreds of years, and the cracking of customs in a historical sense may have to wait for the more distant future, the possible heyday of civilization, Gu Chuan thought.

But that won't be now.

The two men crept over to the altar. The surface of the rock is a deep black color cooled by the rain, and only a few spots can be seen that the original burn is red.

The altar is not small, as large as a medium-sized stage, and can accommodate dozens of people to step on it.

It was definitely the deep ashes that could be accumulated once or twice that were tired under the hollow of the altar, which made Gu Chuan feel that maybe there was a big hole under the altar. But the hole has been filled in with firewood and ashes from dead animals.

They cautiously stepped onto the altar.

Hatsuun walked over to the glove, which she saw reflected from a distance, but a closer look confirmed that it was not hard, but closer to some kind of silky with a metallic sheen.

She just touched it, and there was a feeling of touching the needle.

She still wanted to grasp it with her own hand, but there was a more violent pain, as if she had put her hand into the fire. And this synaesthesia does not come from gloves, but ...... Derived from her own skin.

It's some kind of conflict that comes from strange things.

Chu Yun didn't know what strange things were on her skin or hands, and she didn't care, so she forcibly put her hand between the strange things of the alien race, and then raised her hand...... I pinched the acupuncture points next to my ears with this glove.

Sure enough, she felt a strange power to tear the dough off completely.

"If that's it, maybe you can peel the skin off my face...... Let me see a more real ...... Myself? ”

At that time, such a strange idea was irrepressibly born in her heart.

Chu Yun dares, she dares to face any form of herself, as long as it is true!

For her, truth is the pinnacle of beauty.

She used her strength.

But Hatsuun, who tried his best, couldn't tear his face off with the help of this strange object. The strange thing inside her resisted it.

She abruptly put the gloves back in their original positions.

And Gu Chuan didn't notice Chu Yun's movements, and only after a long tour did he find the gear machinery buried in the middle of the burned flesh and blood.

The gear machine was indeed made to resemble a human. There are also chainring-like protectors between a large number of gears and shafts, which are supposed to be covered by a thick layer of human skin. The technology contained in it, judging at first glance, Gu Chuan could conclude that it was already higher than the most ingenious mechanical craftsman in Sunset City.

Whether it was a counting clock that he had only seen once or twice, or a writing clock that he had assembled with his own craftsmen, it was not as technical as the sacrifice that was casually burned.

"Is this also some kind of curiosity?"

This gear man was extremely heavy, Gu Chuan put his hand into the ashes, hooked the gear man's legs and feet, and wanted to pull it onto his back, but he sank suddenly, but fortunately, Chu Yun supported him from in front of him in time.

"Can you carry it?"

Hatsuyun was silent, only moved his lips.

"Yes."

The girl showed a surprised expression, Gu Chuan's strength had really increased unusually.

Gu Chuan was also puzzled:

"Didn't you take that strange glove?"

"I don't want ......"

Hatsuyun shook his head.

Gu Chuan didn't understand the changes in Chu Yun, but he didn't go to the bottom of his heart, but said.

"Let's go."

Hatsuun hummed happily and quietly.

The tension of the process gives them a sense of stimulation that has never been seen before. The two of them did not hesitate, and after the things were in hand, they cautiously went down to the altar.

The canyon was big, the wind was heavy, and there was light rain, everything muffled their movements. When they reached the woods outside the canyon, they hurried towards the place where the cave was.

Darkness is the natural protector of hidden activity.

The only problem was the footsteps they left in the mud, and even if it rained, it was not something that could be erased by a sleeping time. Therefore, they must be transferred as soon as possible.

These two people are already considered senior fugitives, and they didn't hesitate too much, and after coming to the cave where they were originally located, they ate while eating.

The fire had not yet been extinguished, and some of the venison had been roasted and charred, while others had been cold, giving off a gagging stench.

Chu Yun picked out some parts that she seemed to be edible, but her little face wrinkled in one place, and she said to Gu Chuan:

"It's not tasty......"

Gu Chuan also ate more or less to fill his stomach.

"I don't think it tastes good either, haha, I'm sorry!"

Chu Yun said seriously:

"This must be your fault for rushing out to track down, listen to me next time, and besides, I'm going to bake it myself!"

"Okay, I don't have to worry about it."

Gu Chuan laughed and stuffed the barbecue into his bag as a reserve of food.

There are very few things that the teenagers need to pack, and the biggest thing is the almost human-sized gear machine that they carry back. Although it was not a glove, Hatsuyun said that there was no problem, and no one knew what kind of sacrifice these "sacrifices" were, and whether they would attract terrible reproach.

After a while, the two walked out in the night, carrying the gear machinery on their backs.

Nearby roads have been discovered during the previous search for materials. They continued south along the grove. The mountain road is rugged, and the terrain goes all the way down.

The mountains no longer repeated, the woods became thinner and thinner, and the woods became worse and worse, until they came to an end. When they got out of the woods and reached a place with a wide view, the endless desert fell into their eyes, and they were only separated by a few rocks.

The desert is as rugged as the mountain roads, but there is no life in this desert. Gray grit, glowing dismal in the moonlight. This desert is grayish-white, a clean grayish-white. It is silent, and it is extremely silent, it has nothing superfluous, unlike a mountain with all kinds of trees and all kinds of rocks, not like a river with flowers and plants, and small fish.

It only has sand, and only sand itself is a scary thing - because it doesn't give people any illusion visually, and it doesn't actually leave people with any resources.

Only the undulating sand dunes prove that there is still a movement of natural forces there, not a complete nothingness. But the sand moved by the wind is enough to make people fearful. For this is the most savage and terrifying majesty in the universe of this silent night.

In the distance, it is impossible to see clearly, and it is slightly as if you can see a huge tornado, walking on the sandy sea.

"Why are there still trees on the mountain, and so barren down the mountain?"

The desert is a terrain that Hatsukumo has never seen before.

Gu Chuan thought for a while and replied:

"Maybe it's because of the sun."

"The sun?" Chu Yun was stunned, "There's no sun here...... There is only one moon. ”

"yes, that's the problem." Gu Chuan smiled, "Chu Yun, have you thought about it?" What do plants thrive on? ”

Sunset City has temperature changes and yin and yang transitions, so it's not like this area is in the void of eternal night.

Sunset City has also realized the importance of growing plants - that is, sunlight and water.

When Chu Yun heard this, he understood.

"Because it's only the moon, aren't there any plants here? And the place we have walked before is the dividing line between the sun and the moon...... So, escaping from this law? ”

"I think so...... Actually, no, I can't confirm either. ”

Gu Chuan still said with reservations.

Who knows, the plants in this world will not rely on some kind of supernatural effect to grow, in fact, they don't need sunlight and water at all.

The young man didn't want to walk in the desert, so he took Hatsukumo's hand with a gear machine on his back and walked around the desert along the edge of the desert. The foothills were bleak. The footprints left behind were blown by the wet sand, and as soon as the soil was buried, they disappeared.

"Another reason may be that the moisture is ......"

Gu Chuan continued.

"I think there's still a lot of water on the mountain."

"It's because there is so much water in the mountains that there is less water in the desert. When the wind carrying abundant water vapor reached the end of the mountain, it stopped because of the movement of the air, and turned the water into rain and sprinkled it on the mountain, so that there was no water in the desert? ”

Gu Chuan guessed confusedly, but Chu Yun nodded thoughtfully when he heard it.

The former doesn't know if he's right, and no one knows if what the latter thinks is the same as what the former wants to say.

On the edge of this desert where time has passed, the two of them stopped and stopped, and they didn't know how long they walked, but fortunately, the group of aliens never appeared, which made Gu Chuan settle down.

So only one question remains.

They are now walking on the edge of the desert, with the mountains on the left and the desert on the right, and there seems to be no end to both, and there is no other world.

"We need to find a temporary, safe place to rest."

"Hmm."

After about the fourth break, the two found a new cave.

The cave may have been dug by some animal, and it was a dirt cave overgrown with weeds. When they went in, they saw the bones of some unknown beast inside. The cave is neither deep nor shallow, there are no curves, it is a long straight strip.

These two people are now considered to be masters of the arts, they have seen all the dragons, and they are not afraid of ordinary beasts, and they use this earth cave as a temporary shelter from the wind and rain.

Then, he placed the gear robot on his back on the ground, ready to observe.