When Ziyuan and Zheng Twenty were not there, Gu Chuan told Chu Yun about this characteristic.

There was a thoughtful look on Hatsukumo's face. But when she showed this look, she probably didn't think about anything. No one knows what is going on in her head at this time - the future, the past, or the language teaching that just happened.

Everything is a mystery.

She was stunned for a few moments before she squeaked. Only then could Gu Chuan know that she was listening, so he could continue to express his thoughts:

"When I think of numbers, I think of numbers...... Maybe it means the order in which they came into this world. ”

"Will everybody's name be a kind number? What about other people's names? ”

"The guy we saw earlier with a head like a tube is named Kyo Kyoh-koo."

In the language of Jiecheng, Jing is the twenty-fourth power of ten, and 垓 is the thirty-second power of ten, both of which are far less than the counting units of Zihezheng.

Correspondingly, Kyoka-kyu had a clear higher status in the city than Ziyuan, who could command many other residents. However, the status of Ziyuan and Zhengxi can't tell who is higher and who is lower.

Hatsuyun unexpectedly rose to the starting point in high spirits.

Because she remembered the words of His Majesty - names are used as a means to distinguish things that can be copied. Something that can't be replicated, something unique, doesn't need a name, it just needs ...... The only honorific title.

In addition, Chu Yun also learned a little bit of the governance of the 24 divisions:

"As you might guess, the ruling class of the city naturalized all those born and gave them a unique number...... In other words, they have a very strong management of the city. ”

Gu Chuan agreed with Chu Yun's idea.

"Yes, the strength of this management may imply that we should try to avoid conflict with the ruler of the city."

Before he could finish speaking, the sound of gears turning.

Gu Chuan thought that Ziyuan was back, and turned his head away, wanting to say hello. As a result, there was another cogwheel man standing at the door.

The cogwheel man was dressed in a young man's skin. It's just a pair of heterogeneous glass ball-like eyes, lenses in the eyes, and metal arms that are exposed to the skin, revealing his identity.

"Who are you? How did you guys end up here! ”

His skin was probably only fourteen or fifteen years old, and he wore a fur coat over a human skin, a pair of black tubes, and the lenses in his eyes were a little grayish-blue. And the outer glass of the clothes and even the eyeballs has many traces of sand, which looks gloomy. This is already fatal pain for humans, but it is not worth mentioning for the Gear Man.

His expression was extremely serious, but he also knew that any living beings that existed in Answer City were all those who had entered through the approval of Master Yuyu.

Gu Chuan stumbled to identify himself in the language he had just learned for a few days:

"We are foreigners who were brought by our sister to learn the language."

"People who come here from afar ......"

Gu Chuan saw that he thought for a while, and then couldn't help but grin, naturally smiling happily.

"Where are you from?"

The boy raised his eyebrows, his eyes widened, and he couldn't help but ask curiously.

Gu Chuan knew that he could get along well with him.

He said that his name was Zijin, and he was born with Ziyuan, so he lived in an indoors. According to the information left behind by Zheng Twenty, Gu Chuan knew that Jin was seventy in the language of the answer city, and it was indeed an adjacent number to the circle.

It is worth mentioning that Gu Chuan did not know whether the gear man had a gender.

The outer skin of Zijin and Ziyuan can only be said to be more masculine or feminine in clothes, which does not mean gender. Gear people may be genderless.

When Zi Yuan came back and opened the door, he saw Zi Jin squatting on the edge of the haystack like a puppy, listening to Gu Chuan talk about some things related to Sunset City. After Gu Chuan showed that he was learning the language, he picked out some unimportant things that he could say and could say in words to communicate with Zijin.

Zijin listened surprisingly seriously, his eyes were motionless, all on Gu Chuan's body, and he let out a series of exclamations for what caravans, what planting, what fish and flowers he had never heard of:

"You guys are so idle...... Don't you have to answer questions? ”

"Some people are idle, and some people are busy. Some of the time will be free, and some of the time will be busy. ”

Gu Chuan said.

All of this made Zijin feel dizzy. He began to learn about the different modes of operation of another society, and the study of this model has long been in the archives sealed in many problem areas, but only ...... Nothing to do with the gear guys.

Ziyuan's face sank.

She put down her food supply for the visitors and patted Zijin on the shoulder. Zijin turned her head impatiently, called Ziyuan's name, and asked her what she was going to do?

On the surface, the relationship between the two of them is very poor.

"You're back from the hunt?"

"That's right...... I didn't live up to your expectations, I didn't die outside. ”

When it comes to hunting, Zijin seems to be particularly proud.

Ziyuan didn't say a word, and only forcibly pulled Zijin out of the door. Gu Chuan couldn't hear what they were saying, only that when Ziyuan came in, Zijin was locked out of the door and didn't know where he went.

In the gear room, there are no compartments.

Ziyuan didn't need to lie on anything, she didn't need to eat or drink, she sat on the side and was in a trance.

Gu Chuan asked on the other side:

"What is 'hunting' like to you? Doesn't it have anything to do with answering questions? ”

Zi Yuan glanced at the temporary outsider, and said slowly:

"It's an extremely rare mental illness. People who are addicted to hunting refuse the responsibility of answering questions. This is not the right thing...... The responsibility to answer questions is natural and has been there from the beginning. ”

"Psychotic?"

The so-called "disease" is an "abnormality" compared to normal.

"Yes, sick, sick. Zijin has suffered from this disease, and he has lost his ......," Ziyuan emphasized. Halfway through her speech, her voice was faint, as if she was considering the words, thinking about how to explain to the visitors, "He has lost the ability and responsibility to work, and he no longer has the ability to create value." He became ...... People who don't make sense to us! He's a wreck! ”

"I don't think it's that serious...... Hunting is to fight with animals, which is not very common and simple......" Gu Chuan found that he didn't know how to say the word entertainment in the language of Jie Cheng City.

Ziyuan didn't wait for him to finish and explain, and stated solemnly:

"He is more qualified than I am, and should have been the answerer of the Fourth Question Kingdom. But since he became obsessed with hunting, he stopped obeying the orders of the seven gurus, and went aimlessly and disorderly to other corners of the earth with the other sick people, who began to take pleasure in finding something special. But what they do doesn't help answer questions...... We were born with a noble mission. Those who have failed to live up to this noble mission...... That is, depravity and betrayal. He was not destined to have a good death. ”

"This ...... Why is it your noble mission to answer the question? ”

Gu Chuan understood the reason why Ziyuan was angry and he couldn't understand.

"Then why are you alive? And why did you come here instead of staying where you were? ”

Ziyuan asked him flatly.

Gu Chuan choked suddenly, he thought for a while before giving an answer:

"I want to see more things that I haven't seen before."

Square walls, dim glimmers, pipes where no one leads, and gears connected to some machinery.

Ziyuan continued:

"Okay, you want to see more things you haven't seen before. So what are the things you want to see? Is it because it's pleasant? Suppose it's because it's pleasant, why do you feel happy? ”

This is a loop of unsolvable questions, and if he continues to ask and answer, Gu Chuan thinks that he may only be able to answer "This is a biological instinct", he doesn't know or "It's not important to ask this thing".

Chu Yun, who was feasting on the side, didn't care about their conversation, he just felt that both of them were sick.

Gu Chuan thought for a while, and began to think about how he should answer if he traced back to biological instinct. But he couldn't think of it, so he looked at the resources again and asked:

"Is that the question you're working on answering?"

"Yes, this is the kingdom of the seventh problem, and I only learned about this original problem because of an exchange of materials." Ziyuan said calmly, "The general form of the question is: What are we going to do? And what should I do?

Speaking of this, Ziyuan didn't seem to be ready to continue communicating with Gu Chuan or Chu Yun, and only added two sentences:

"If he comes to you again, you'd better not have more contact with him. The hunting activities he does often make people stop thinking. ”

To stop thinking is to die. The hunt itself is probably like playing with water drowning.

Gu Chuan thought.

Sooner or later, they will have to leave, and it is indeed better not to cause further trouble. But then again, before they leave, they want to gather enough travel resources, and preferably recruit some helpers.

It's a pity that compared to the loose Sunset City, the high-level control over the bottom seems to be much stronger, and I'm afraid that the Gear People are not allowed to be recruited by outsiders.

"It's not very strong, is it?" Chu Yun scribbled on Gu Chuan's palm, and said in one sentence, "If it is really strong, how can it allow the ineffective activity of 'hunting' in production to happen at will?" ”

Sunset City can even control the discussion behavior of any place, and although it took a long time to prohibit the private minting of currency, it was basically a success in the solar terms after Gu Chuan entered the city.

"That's true......"

The young man was uneasy and sank into a foreign dreamland.

He struggled in his dream for a while, dreaming of a toeless man running in the Daling Mountains.

Then in reality, someone knocked him on the back.

"Who?"

He was about to make a sound almost immediately.

Chu Yun on the side rubbed his eyes sleepily, and together with Gu Chuan, he saw a pair of gray-blue eyes shining in the dim light.

This is Zijin sneaking into the house again.

Ziyuan remained motionless on the side, falling into a state of sleep similar to suspended animation.

"You've told me so much about the outside world...... I'm going to repay you too......"

Dressed in a young man's skin, Zijin shimmered with excitement in the dark room.

"Would you like to see the rest of the city called the Quest for Answers?"

He seemed a little shy, his hands hanging behind his back, rubbing them repeatedly.

He said quietly, for fear of frightening Ziyuan.

"In the outside world, we don't have permission, and if we go out, we will be arrested immediately." Gu Chuan tried to ask Ziyuan or Zhengxi for this incident, but they all refused, saying that they did not have the permission of their mentor.

"The person in charge of monitoring the entry and exit behavior is Tutor Yuyu, and Tutor Yuyu will take a break of a sixth of a standard hour at this time, so don't worry about it now! Its surveillance only monitors the movement behavior, that is, you move from one place to another, and if you disappear while it is resting, it will not be recorded if there is no movement for it. ”

Zijin knew that Gu Chuan's answer was not spoken well in Chengyu, and he also tried to state it in the simplest sentences. Despite this, the logic of Yuyu's behavior in his mouth also made Gu Chuan feel confused.

But the young man and the girl looked at each other, and both sensed each other's active thoughts of death.

Gu Chuan no longer hesitated and said:

"Let's go."

So Zijin laughed:

"Quick!"

Three people slipped out of the gear door. When he slipped out, Ziyuan turned around, as if he was looking out, and Zijin was so frightened that he quickly closed the door. Ziyuan fell into the darkness behind the gear door. And in the darkness with a little light, the three of them walked alone.

When I came, I didn't have time to observe the long gearing room.

When he was in a hurry, he saw that on the wall of the corridor, which was constantly bending and seemed to have been dug out of the rock, there was a rice symbol with two vertical bars.

"What is this?"

Gu Chuan remembered the sign of the tenth problem area he had seen earlier.

"This is the sign of the Twelfth Question Kingdom, and there are twelve strokes in total."

Zijin replied.

Zijin's mechanical hand has a ring of glass that glows with neon colors, and he illuminates the symbol.

Gu Chuan suddenly realized. The two-circle symbol with the two bars removed, and only ten strokes, is the symbol of the kingdom of the tenth problem.

Zijin took a particularly strange route, first taking two turns along the cogwheel corridor before coming to a wall. If you look closely at the wall, you can see that there is a part of it painted with four shallow trace lines, enclosing a square. Zijin gently pushed the square away. Inside was a much larger room than the entrance, with a small table and a glass book.

"Enter."

Three people walked into the room.

Zijin closed the square again, and out of nowhere, there was a strange noise, and the small room began to work. This enclosed room is a bit like an elevator, but it's not straight up and down...... Rather, it follows a curved trajectory.

Although it cannot be seen outside, it can be sensed from the direction of acceleration felt by the body.

From this point of view, it is more like a Ferris wheel...... A Ferris wheel built on giant gears.

"Where are you taking us?"

Gu Chuan asked Zijin.

Zijin said proudly:

"I know what Ziyuan said, this group thinks we're mentally ill, but we're not...... We're going to be much more normal than they are! It's that they're not normal! I'm going to take you to the corner of these seventeen kingdoms that no one knows about, and that belongs to our group of mentally ill people, are you afraid? ”

Gu Chuan said:

"We have escaped from Sunset City with great hardship, and we are not afraid to go to your hidden corners! But I heard that you were originally answering the fourth question, what is the fourth question? Why did you give up? ”

Zijin did not show his disgust with the responsibility imposed on this group of gear people by the city of this answer, as Gu Chuan expected, but straightened up, and inexplicably, in the light of this small room, there was a wordless solemnity.

"The general form of the fourth question is described as—"

He made the same pious gesture as Zi Yuan, almost as a pilgrim, and then said solemnly:

"Do we have a choice to do anything?"