According to Sunset City's calculations, it could be the third or fourth day, and they were still trudging through the wilderness, and all they saw was the still dim soil.

And, with each step forward, the wind and sand raised become larger, and the monotonous repetition gradually extends to the boundless. I seem to be able to hear the murmur of the great wilderness.

Cutting and bleak at first, it only moved forward for a moment before it became torn and fragmented, and then there was a shocking, cutting sound of blowing, and the aftermath continued.

The Cogwheel Man said in Sunset City language:

"The wind is getting stronger. We want to be small. ”

"Keep going, the wind won't beat us."

Gu Chuan said.

This guy made of iron didn't seem to care about Gu Chuan's answer, and walked ahead by himself after speaking. It fearlessly raised its head, clasped its hands in front of its chest, and made a strange gesture every few steps. This reminded Gu Chuan once again of the most devout pilgrims on earth, and their religious rituals of bowing at five steps and kneeling at ten steps when they went to the holy land.

Gu Chuan took Chu Yun's hand and walked behind. Their clothes were tied with straw ropes so that they would not get into the sand. They also have the strength to go against the wind, so that they will not be swept away by the wind. The only problem is that you can't see the distance.

And the stronger the wind, the less you can see the distance.

Not to mention the distance, the moon behind him has also disappeared. Boundless clouds of dust rose freely above the earth, like a bird with outstretched wings covering the heavens and the earth.

They soon walked into the darkness of the wind and dust of the great wilderness.

This darkness is not ethereal, it is not nothing in space, it is not invisible at night with the lights off, it is like the deep sea, it is tangible, and terrifying.

Every step into the sand is like a quagmire. Boundless particles of dust are passing through one's body, either carrying the force of the wind to destroy people's bodies, hindering people's movements, and refusing to retreat, but to blow people up completely, and become a part of this darkness. But once it became a part, it also announced the end of life.

Gu Chuan felt as if he was in a completely lightless cloud, and it was difficult to walk in this dust storm, only the first cloud was clean and cool, and his right abdomen was hot.

There is no end in sight to the top, no end to the left and right, and everything under the feet, everything that should be solid, and the earth seems to be draining and changing, like a wave like water.

"We—We may be on the brink of a storm!"

Gu Chuan said loudly.

They don't know when the dust storm of the Great Wilderness started, and they don't know when it reached them.

Hatsuun didn't hear him at all, only felt that there were forces striking her from all sides. But she was undaunted and asked:

"What are you talking about?"

Gu Chuan didn't hear Chu Yun's words, he only moved a little closer to the direction of the gear man, grabbed the gear man on the shoulder with one hand, and asked the gear man:

"Is the city you live in the middle of this storm?!"

The Gear Man didn't speak, just confused as if listening to something. But the wind is so strong, what sound can it hear?

Although Gu Chuan thought that it might have some kind of way of connecting with its companions and might harm them, he didn't bother it rashly, but just continued to ask it loudly.

The Gear Man, with its eerie tone, turned back and said:

"Believe me."

It grabbed Gu Chuan's hand violently and pulled it down, and the iron guy immediately curled up in the sand, like a big brick. Its other hand is inserted into the sandy bottom, as if to fix its position.

Gu Chuan trembled, hurriedly grabbed Chu Yun's hand tighter, and then lay down with the gear man together. A curiosity drove him to look up with a hood that only showed his eyes.

He saw a wonderful light shining in the darkness.

It was a scaly claw that accidentally leaked out of the moon's light in refraction.

But the place where he looked was probably hundreds of meters high, and the boundless dust in the air blocked the moonlight at most, and the outline of what thing refracted the moonlight uniformly?

"Yes, 'wall'."

The cogwheel man at the bottom said in the words he had learned before.

"...... the wall?"

Gu Chuan was puzzled, he could only see a dark area of tangible changes, but he could soon feel with his body what the wall in Cog's mouth meant.

It was a cloud of sand and dust that blew up on the great wilderness, thousands of meters high, and the dense darkness below completely engulfed all the land he could see. The boundless dust was collected into a terrifying and twisted mass by the air currents of the Great Wilderness. But the wind did not stop, and continued to tear it apart, to throw it up, to blow it away, until the dust formed a strange silhouette in the continuous shaping of the atmospheric flow, like a wall, rising from the ground.

When the rumbling wind was loud, Chu Yun and Gu Chuan hurriedly held their breath, and completely pulled down their hoods, completely covering their faces, and leaning against the sand bottom with the gear man.

In the next moment, the violent wind and sand immediately washed away the explorer who dared to step into the wilderness.

The walls of rolling torrents of dust obscured the sky and the sun, pushing all the way from unknown places, carrying all kinds of things along the way, running over everything on the earth, and then running and dissipating into the other depths of the great wilderness.

The wall of sand formed by the dust storm is moving.

This is the extreme climate that Sunset City and the earth have never had, and Gu Chuan, who closed his eyes tightly and didn't dare to open his mouth and nose to breathe, his whole body tensed.

He felt as if his whole body was losing sensation, only the heat in his chest and abdomen woke him up, and his grip on Hatsuyun tightened.

Hatsuyun was not afraid at all, but in a sense of being fluttering and ready to take off, while trying to describe the difference between this storm and all the winds she had blown before—it was indeed very different—and thought calmly:

If I let go, I might not know where the wind is blowing! It may blow to a far, far away, place that no one knows, like a school of fish in the Huai water that has been carried away by the torrential rain.

Isn't that also wonderful, according to what she's learned?

It's just that the boy's hand was so tight, she also grabbed Gu Chuan's hand without thinking, and thought:

"I can only forget it now, because I can't let go of his hand yet."

The "wall" of the dust storm is gone.

After leaving, another half day or a day may have passed, and the aftermath dissipated.

"Hey, are you all right?"

Two travelers and a gear man were buried in the sand, and it took a while for Gu Chuan to stretch out a hand from the sand.

This hand was originally holding the Gearman, and he let go of the grip on the Gearman, and the Gearman obeyed and let go of his hand. Then, Gu Chuan stretched out vigorously with this hand, until he felt that he was reaching into the void air.

Then the young man struggled out with a strange fire in his body, and came out into a much cleaner air. Hatsuyun also digs upwards on the other side. Together, the two strange creatures broke through the thin barrier, each peeking out of the sandy bottom.

After revealing his head, Gu Chuan opened his mouth and spat out sand. There were a few grains of sand stuck to his tongue, making him uncomfortable. He took a sip of the water from the water bottle and continued to fight with the sand, which he was going to dig out of the sand.

Hatsuyun didn't move, but looked straight up and looked in the direction of the mountains.

The moth eyebrow moon is gone.

The edge of the mountains she saw was a dust storm that had just crossed, like a wall, no, like a tree growing from the ground, blooming, and rising to the sky, obscuring the figure of the moth eyebrow.

And the world here, the desert here, have been liberated from the previous fierceness, like a child who does not know the world is tired of crying and falling asleep.

Everything appears clean and fresh.

It's just that...... At that time, Hatsuyun suddenly thought of ...... Since the dust storm blocked the moon at the other end, the moonlight should not shine here at all.

The world here deserves to be plunged into absolute darkness.

Gu Chuan was digging the gear man, so she didn't notice it, but she realized it, and said blankly:

"Why is that?"

So she looked up, and for the first time she saw the night sky, a spotless night sky, and for the first time, a world without any clouds.

The clear night is boundless and vast.

"What are those?"

She asked, bewildered.

Is it the starry sky that the booklet talks about?

But...... It doesn't seem to be the same.

The great wilderness, all the silence.

At that time, Gu Chuan took a lot of effort to get the gear man out of the sand. The gear man didn't say a word, it didn't thank you, but just made a gesture of listening.

Gu Chuan was thinking that it was not good for him to loosen the gears, and he was about to see how Chu Yun was doing, when he heard Chu Yun's question.

"Look at the sky, Chuan."

Chu Yun said anxiously again.

"What do you see? Do you see the stars? ”

Gu Chuan said with a smile.

When he talks about the stars, he doesn't know whether to expect or refuse. He looked up in a heartbeat and apprehensive from overexertion.

The sky and the earth that had been washed by the sandstorm were exceptionally clear and clear, and there was not a single cloud, but the clouds were gathering, and the sandstorm was dissipating, and the moon was about to come out, so the sky was about to dim and fade.

Gu Chuan raised his head, like an explorer tens of thousands of years ago, and like an adventurer tens of thousands of years later, curiously looking at the dome of this world, only to see that there were no stars on the dome of this world.

The glow wasn't the brilliant stars and a brilliant Milky Way like the night sky of the Earth he was familiar with.

The stars seen on Earth are dotted, like grains of sand scattered randomly in the night sky.

But there was no dot in the heavens at that time, or at all, there was, but it was only an insignificant ornament, but it was only a mundane of countless shapes. Gu Chuan saw that the sky dome at that time was full of brilliant and strange pictures composed of bizarre curves, lines, circles, polygons, hollow circles or hollow polygons.

Some are fantastical blues and purples, others are bright yellows and reds, and they are combined in a variety of shapes to radiate brilliance in the night sky, like unpredictable clouds, and also like the reflection of clouds in the water. They are combined into a variety of forms, so much so that people can't stop thinking about them in their minds.

He looked in the opposite direction to the north, which was prescribed by the compass. He saw the wall of dust formed by the storm, but he didn't care, he only cared about the moon and the stars now.

The moon in the northern sky has been obscured by a wall of dust. The blue sky above the sand wall is like a water bottle of pouring water, which is composed of various shapes of glowing segments or glowing polygons.

"What is this?"

Is it a constellation?

But he had never heard that the horoscope would be like this.

He slowly shifted his gaze to see that there was more than one giant pattern like this on the inverted vault of heaven.

The central sky is slanted like a curved spoon, no, not so much a curved spoon, perhaps closer to a fish with long tentacles?

The southern sky, on the other hand, is an extraordinarily large disc with two horns, frozen at the edge of the world, light and dark, as if it were jumping and expanding, as if it were not.

These scenes are light and light to the extreme.

When the walls of sandstorm dust weakened and no longer obstructed the moon, when all sorts of clouds continued to float in the sky, all sorts of clouds from nowhere, all these wonderful colors disappeared.

Gu Chuan heard the gear man behind him pat his body and shake off the grit, and then it said:

"Huang, Dao."

These are the words that Gu Chuan has translated in his mind.

In the study of the city where the Cogwheel people lived, these scenes were originally called the shadows of the glowing sky.

Then, the Cogwheel Man said in Sunset City:

"It's coming."

It walked forward.

Chu Yun and Gu Chuan still wanted to see more in the sky, but there was nothing left in the sky. Everything fell again in the light moonlight, and the wilderness was infinitely vast.

"How many big graphics do you see?"

"There are five of them...... How many do you see? ”

Gu Chuan counted:

"I'm the same as you see. They seem to be unevenly distributed, and a large area of space is completely dark......"

They walked as they spoke, leaving a series of footprints on the sea of sand.

After the dust storm, the relationship between the gear people and them may be much better, probably, maybe, in short, Gu Chuan feels so.

"I still feel very good, but I can't tell you what the facts are."

He introspected.

At least the Gear People have become more active in their communication.

After walking for about another day, Gu Chuan heard the booming sound again. His heart tightened, and he thought of the dust storm again, and hurriedly said to the gear man, and took the gear man's hand and prepared to lie down.

The Gear Man shook his head and said:

"That, yes, someone else. They, yes, go ......"

The gear man thought about it for a long time before he came up with how to describe it in Gu Chuan's language:

"Beatings, animals."

"That's hunting, huh?"

Gu Chuan looked at the dust running on the other side from a distance, and inside the dust there were the shapes of large gears and shafts looming. They're going around in circles somewhere.

The Gear Man didn't answer and continued to walk forward.

Gu Chuan found that the Gear Man didn't seem to care much about the group of companions who went hunting.

After Gu Chuan and Chu Yun's water and reserve grain had been exhausted, they were about to dig some strange plants or animals from the sand to eat, and the cogwheel man's pious steps finally stopped.

He stood at the beginning of a huge basin. The shape of the basin looks a bit like a V-shape.

"Arrived?"

Gu Chuan asked it.

The soles of their feet are the cliffs around the basin, which are also V-shaped. From Gu Chuan's point of view, they were standing at the bottom right of the V-shape.

The Gear Man nodded, then said:

"I'm leaving."

Gu Chuan didn't stop it, he saw it hook the corner of the cliff with his hand, then turned around, fell to the bottom of the cliff, shook it in, and suddenly disappeared.

"It jumped!"

Gu Chuan and Chu Yun hurriedly looked at the bottom of the cliff together, and saw no gear man, only to see a few sand streams like water flowing from the top, hitting the structure, and finally falling to the bottom of the basin.

But the structure is not rock.

The cliff wall is a metal wall.