Can we choose what to do?

This is the mission that Zijin has learned since he was born and that he wants to answer.

The elevator on the gears descends in an arc, and the enclosed room is lit up with faint lights, which shine through the glass books and illuminate several portraits of clocks.

Gu Chuan asked:

"Then why did you choose to give up?"

Zijin muttered and replied:

"It's not like giving up...... I just didn't follow the instructions of the instructors, I am, I'm working on another problem now! ”

"How many questions?"

"Nothing! It's just that I'm thinking about it alone, and they don't believe me. Zijin said, "I saw it...... Ghosts and ghosts! If you have to count...... Maybe the kingdom of the sixth problem is thinking about this. But I don't have much to say to them, they don't believe me at all. ”

Gu Chuan began to regret that he didn't have a glass book to burn a dictionary to bring out.

He didn't understand the meaning of ghosts and ghosts in the city's language.

Luckily, Zijin seems to be trying to convince the two outsiders to believe his words. The boy-looking cogwheel man began to talk at length about the meaning of ghosts.

He said that shortly after he was born, he went to the depths of the Great Wilderness with the team of the fourth and twelfth questions. There are bazaars where the Cogwheel and other tribes engage in "bartering" practices.

Just as medicine needs clinical trials, people often need samples of the human body. In most cases, they don't need to hunt themselves, they only need to provide some convenient living materials, and other tribes will naturally take the initiative to come and sell their newborns, the elderly, and the young and middle-aged.

These people may have been taken prisoner by their fire and wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible, or they may have been bloodlines lost in some primitive struggle for power, and they could have been proudly exchanged for supplies by the victors.

Gu Chuan realized that this was a primitive slave market.

At that time, Zijin slipped out of the slave market, trying to find the remnants of the savage tribe of the Great Wilderness Oasis recorded by the Gear Man. As a result, I stumbled upon something that appeared and disappeared for a while, like a cloud and a mist hallucination.

The wind swept across the wilderness, sweeping the boundless gravel, obscuring the moonlight and the sky. And when the moonlight disappeared, something like clouds or mist entered Zijin's eyes for the first time. He saw the thing float up the desert, all the way southernmost, until it hit the huge rock high above the dune, and then disappeared without a sound.

Zijin heard his own screams of excitement or fear.

But for a moment, the yellow sand no longer obscured the sky, and the moonlight fell back on the earth. Then he couldn't find any traces.

"I was so frightened that I hurried back to tell the powerful disciples, but no one believed me, and Ziyuan didn't believe me, they said that I might have seen a ghost—something that didn't exist—and I became one of those with a rare mental illness."

Zijin lowered his head, but the lens was on the top of his eyeballs, secretly observing Gu Chuan's reaction.

He found that the stranger was not in a hurry to refute, but showed a contemplative look, and he was apprehensive, and somewhat anticipated the stranger's opinion. Gu Chuan never made a judgment about truth or falsehood, but asked:

"Have the people in your particular area seen ghosts and ghosts like you?"

"It's not." He shook his head, "They all have different symptoms. ”

One of the gears in the doorway no longer turned, which meant that the large gears on which the chamber depended had stopped.

Zijin opened the door, and the brilliant lights outside filled the room.

Gu Chuan saw all kinds of gear people dressed in different skins, crowded and wandering here, lively like a huge market, and the indistinguishable music and people's shouts and conversations converged together into the most noisy and prosperous world. On the walls, on the pillars, and on the cogwheel people, there are strange slogans written in various colors of paint in the language of the city. This kind of slogan made Gu Chuan feel intimate—he remembered that when he was a child in his previous life, he saw pieces of paper on telephone poles, banners on the wall, or notes on the ground and in the sky.

He also saw that there were also signs and symbols similar to the rice character here, which were several strokes less than the rice character, and the specific strokes were not clear. Because all the symbols are drawn into a small blurred piece.

"Let's go."

Zijin had already run over.

Gu Chuan and Chu Yun glanced at each other and held their hands to prevent them from getting lost. It's just that as soon as they walked in, they were almost fainted by the pervasive stench.

Metals don't rot, but hides can smell bad, whether they're not tanned or cleaned well. The gear man has a bad sense of smell and can't smell. The two villains could only cover their noses and paced carefully through the crowd, like two children who did not know anything about the world for the first time on the Internet, came to a bar, or other crowded place, and began to meet countless different people.

Zijin didn't lie, the "psychosis" of the gear people here are indeed different.

They followed behind Zijin and heard a cogwheel man dressed in an owl-like feather fur talking about the moon.

Gu Chuan's pace slowed down, he was very concerned about the affairs of the sun, moon and stars, but he heard the owl's gear man say that the moon lived immortal life. Because the moon is not hot, they stay on the moon all the time.

If one day the moon gets hotter and hotter than the earth, these terrible moth-like beings will fly to the colder world, and their cold breath will freeze everything that moves on the ground and turn it into ice sculptures.

Zijin found that Gu Chuan seemed to be a little concerned about this, so he sneered inexplicably and interjected:

"This man is really mentally ill, and he is all his cranky thoughts. I was involved in the tenth question, and in the tenth question, I had already seen the surface of the moon with the help of strange objects and light, and it was frizzy like an ocean, and there was no sign of anything moving. What's more, how could the ocean be inhabited by flying moths? Do you put it on? ”

The young cogwheel man looked at the owl cogwheel man with contempt.

"There's no way there's a giant ghost crashing into a rock in the desert!"

The owl retorted loudly.

Whether Zijin was right or not, Gu Chuan didn't know.

But he can confirm the fact that this group of psychopaths will despise each other, and still use the word "really mentally ill" to despise each other. They themselves do not admit that they are mentally ill, but believe that everyone around them is mentally ill.

As they walked on, they saw a geared man with a head like a globe standing on a table. This man said aloud to a large crowd that it could tell the purpose and destination of each person who came into the world, and knew what was going on in life and death.

"Divination?"

Hatsuun blinked, curious.

Zijin didn't understand the word, Chu Yun was pronounced in the language of Sunset City, and Gu Chuan explained the meaning of divination to Zijin.

"Cut!" Zijin let out another sneer, "If it really had this ability, it would have answered all the most important seventeen questions a long time ago!" The fact that it is here now shows that it can't change its situation at all. I asked it before, and it told me that I was a dead person in the eternal world, and I would become the king of the city of Answers in the future! However, the city has never had a king, and that is a backward system that only barbarians can have! ”

Gu Chuan walked forward with great interest and asked where the gear man with the head of the globe came from.

The gearman with the head of the globe looked at him only and said:

"The question is simple, you are a messenger from the Void World. What is the important thing that you are here? I don't know much about the Void World, if you want to ask about our world, you can take a look at my price list! ”

Their conversation drew the attention of the gear people around them. A tiger-headed gearman asked the globe gearman:

"Paranoia! What kind of world does the Void World look like? ”

The globe means that there are no eyes, no ears, only a huge axis piercing the entire head, on which some strange marks are drawn. No one knows how it hears the sound or where it sees the visitors.

He said:

"The Void World is a world where there is nothing, an empty world, it is completely dark, so it can also be called the Dark Void World."

His words caused a burst of laughter:

"How can there be something moving in a world where there is nothing?"

This globe gear man said hardly:

"Because there is dust floating in the void, and people can live on the dust! But even if I tell you now, you haven't seen it, you certainly don't understand it, and you don't believe it, how can I say it clearly? ”

The gear people were more cheerful, and some people began to dance. They all knew that this guy just couldn't speak. It used to say to an ordinary cogwheel man that it would become the king of the world. As a result, on the third day, the cogwheel man fell into the testing ground of the tenth problem, and was torn to pieces by the gale. It once used the answer to the fifteenth question to trick a disciple into completing a task for it, that is, working for it for nearly a thousand standards, but when it turned back and could not give any answer, the disciple was so angry that he reported it to the naturalist.

Before this, Gu Chuan had already sneaked back to Chu Yun and Zi Jin's side.

Hatsuun was observing a gear man who set up a stall selling all kinds of gadgets, and it was very deserted and unpatronized.

"Do you have a crush on something?"

Gu Chuan was thinking that if Chu Yun took a fancy to something, he might be able to find some way to exchange it and get it.

"No, I'm watching to see if it's sleeping...... Gear people are so convenient, close their eyes anytime and anywhere, as if they are sleeping. ”

Chu Yun said.

Speaking of this, the gear man opened his eyes and asked the people around him in a loud voice:

"Did the moths on the moon come and destroy the world?"

"There's no such thing!"

Someone shouted at it.

It closed its eyes again in boredom.

"Does anyone really believe in moths on the moon?"

Gu Chuan asked Zijin absentmindedly.

Zijin Says:

"You change it to a dragon that you can't see or touch, and it believes. It's just waiting for something that destroys the world, it doesn't matter what this thing is, it doesn't want to do anything anyway, it keeps its eyes closed, so it's really mentally ill. ”

Zijin, who was buried by Ziyuan in every way, is actually the most motivated guy in this group of gear people - at least it is still out hunting, not just close your eyes and lie down, the world has nothing to do with you.

They walked on, past an acrobat who claimed that a chameleon would be a chameleon if he kept cutting it ten thousand times, and he kept cutting the chameleon, all the while cutting his fingers off, and he didn't care. They also walked past a cogwheel man who claimed that he was not originally a cogwheel man, but a wheel flying in the sky, and because he couldn't spin, he fell into your cogwheel team.

There was a cogwheel man to their left who kept pouring sand out of the bottle and out of the bottle, saying that it had seen the sand disappear after pouring it into the bottle, but now it was unresponsive. But the potential of this bottle could destroy the entire wilderness. Now you only need to produce a small piece of crystal, and I will sell you this bottle that I can't see for the time being.

There was a cogwheel man on their right, much more clever than the one on the left, who climbed up on a table and began to explain that the ring it had dug out of nowhere actually inhabited an omnipotent elf, and that when you wore it enough to meet your wishes, you could see this omnipotent elf grant your wishes! Even if it's a desire to destroy the world, you can do it!

These true and false, unconfirmed words are confusing. When there is a standard, it is a question whether the civilization of the gear people is that long.

"Don't they think they're ridiculous?"

Gu Chuan couldn't help but ask Zijin.

Zijin shook his head:

"If they think it's ridiculous, they're normal! It's not psychosis! And answer the questions above! Some psychopaths are really paranoid, and I can't stand it, so we have to be careful to stay away from them......"

Speaking of which, Gu Chuan thought that Zijin really didn't think that the ghosts and ghosts he saw were ridiculous.

The hall has seventeen elevator-like compartments, each with a sign on each exit that has not been crossed out. This means that the answers to the city's seventeen questions are connected to the kingdom.

"Our organization is huge!"

Zijin said inexplicably proudly.

Zijin obviously has other friends here.

After taking Gu Chuan and Chu Yun to wander around for a while, it walked to the corner of a partition wall, and a small room was set up at the end of the corner.

There's a cogwheel man in the room. This gear man is even weirder.

Its head is a U-shape that resembles an opening upward, as if two metal horns had grown directly from its neck. The inside of the U is hollow, and it has no eyes, no face, and no head, and from this end you can see behind it.

"Here I go again! Kyunggay. ”

This hollow gear man is called Jing Yuan by Zijin, which is very similar to the name of the mirror tube man called Jing Yuan Jiu.

Zijin said that Jing Yu had been on a mission with him, he was a hunting partner, he had seen the netherworld in the Great Wilderness together, and he was also a normal person in mental illness.

Jing Yu said hello to Zijin calmly, and asked about the existence of these two visitors.

"Are they different from us?"

Zijin said that they were visitors from a foreign land who had crossed the mountains and came here, and that they were learning the language of the city under the consultation of the mentor and disciples, and were waiting for the follow-up exchange.

"I see...... But weren't you pursued by the dragon? ”

Jing asked sideways.

Gu Chuan didn't know where to look at Jing Yuan, if he looked at Jing Yuan's head, he would have to see directly through the hole on the other side of the wall.

"...... Qilong? Is it a giant snake with long legs? Gu Chuan gestured in surprise.

"Yes."

"I've seen this strange beast side, and it didn't hurt us and we left. It may not have seen us. ”

"It's rare...... The dragon kills anyone it sees trying to climb over the mountains. This is a phenomenon that has been handed down in the city since a long time ago.

Despite this, Kyunggai didn't particularly care.

He called Zijin this time for other purposes.

"You know what? The answering team of question 10 can't wait to start another experiment, and soon they will be obscured by the first quarter moon, and we will have a chance to see ghosts and ghosts to prove ourselves. ”

Zijin's eyes widened and he said excitedly:

"Okay!"

Zijin thought about it, turned his head again, and said to Gu Chuan:

"Are you interested, just right, we can take you to have a look!"