After talking to the Q&A team on celestial bodies, the two strangers also delivered an additional paper book with more detailed explanations of celestial phenomena such as the sun, demon stars, and atmospheric clouds.

They get something good for it.

"The observations you have provided of the phenomena of the movement of the celestial bodies have shown us a sight that we have never seen before, and have undoubtedly brought us closer to some eternal and unchanging truth, thank you very much for your cooperation."

Ziyuan relayed the notice from the Celestial Questions and Answer Group, and opened his hand, revealing many solid blocks that resembled crystals.

When viewed closely, these crystals are a bit like purified color-changing stones, reflecting different amounts of light at high and low temperatures. It has no effect in normal Cogwheel society, as non-psychotic Cogggers do not engage in general trade, but can be used in several Cogwheel markets to exchange with other tribes in the Great Wilderness.

The other tribes all recognized the standard of some general equivalent set by the Cogwheel Man.

After the two were given these crystals, they wanted to go to the trade rally again, but Ziyuan told them:

"It's windy outside."

The three of them came to an exit from the city wall and looked out into the sky. Through the unblocked cracks of the ghost ship, you can see the sky full of flying sand, like a boundless flame blown up by the wind, scorching the heavens and the earth. The sky was already dark, but now it is even darker.

The makeshift pontoons that the Cogwheel had built to repair the walls were all shaken in the wind, and the sand that had just been shoveled off the ghost ship was piled up again for a moment, becoming a garrison for the sandstorm. Gu Chuan saw that on the ghost ship, there were many gear people gathered in the house, as if they were discussing something, but the wind was too strong for him to hear clearly.

The sound of the boundless wind is like a mournful whimper when it is low, and like a mad scream when it is high.

The oncoming sand made the young man barely open his eyes. He stepped back and asked:

"Didn't the wind tunnel experiments used by the Celestial Questions Answering Team dissipate the storm?"

After the Great Wind Tunnel experiment, the night sky of the Great Wilderness was enough to make the ecliptic phenomenon manifest, as if it had been completely swept clean.

"If you ask me, I can't answer you...... The Wind Tunnel experiment was shared by several question answering groups, but not with question 12 to which I belonged. Ziyuan's eyes seemed to be looking far away, and she said indifferently and emotionlessly, "I've only heard from the naturalist that this experiment may have side effects and can't be started often." Dr. Kyoh-gu has done a lot of work for that that we don't know very well. ”

Gu Chuan nodded thoughtfully and changed the topic:

"I've often heard you talk about mentors, what kind of existence are your mentors?"

Ziyuan turned his head and saw the pure curiosity in the young man's eyes.

The three of them walked in the narrow alley. Recently, there seem to be fewer gear people on the road, but Gu Chuan doesn't know where they are, so they may all have gone on a mission.

Except for the large gathering of mentally ill gear people, Gu Chuan seemed to have never seen other gear people, or open places of the square type that belonged to normal gear people.

Either it was a specific experimental site that was not allowed to live for a long time, or it was a small room, or it was a dense and criss-crossed path like an anthill outside.

The dim light always makes young people worry about whether it will hurt their eyesight.

Ziyuan was silent for a long time, but suddenly the passage came from a distance and now, and what he had thought was some kind of decorative crystal emitted light.

Then, as if getting some kind of signal from it, she said:

"The mentor is special...... They have been here for a long, long time, probably in the early days of the city's construction. All of the parts of the Gear People originally came from the gurus and did not belong to us. ”

"And where are all these mentors?"

Gu Chuan asked.

Ziyuan pointed to a glowing light bulb. Gu Chuan followed her fingers and saw her pointing to small light bulbs one after another. These bulb-like things have been neatly embedded in the walls and ceilings, and they have never emitted light, which once made Gu Chuan feel that these only played a decorative role.

But in the next moment, from the invisible bulbs in the corner of their forefront, all the bulbs suddenly flickered mischievously, flickering on and off, as if the keys of a musical piano were moving up and down in black and white. The flickering of the light illuminated the whole body of the three of them, as well as the appearance of the other cogwheel people walking, and it was like waves of waves, the farthest place lit up, then the nearest place lit up, the farthest place dimmed, and then the light bulbs around them lit up to the extreme, and the farthest part continued to glow, and the middle was already dimmed.

The boundless rushing light waves overwhelmed them, making Gu Chuan instinctively cover his eyes.

"The naturalist is watching us. Naturalist tutors are everywhere. ”

Ziyuan said calmly.

Her words startled Chu Yun. Chu Yun turned his head and hurriedly asked:

"Did this mentor say anything?"

"Mentor asked, why haven't you left yet?"

Ziyuan continued to walk forward, and she saw the young man and the girl freely in the reflection of the mirror of the light bulb shell.

The young man laughed awkwardly.

"We're looking for a vehicle that can carry us and the food we need, like a cart, or a domesticated beast of burden, and some of your machines here are good, but you won't give it to us - we'll have to figure it out ourselves, we'll have to stay a little longer, and we can help you!" Didn't you just have an exchange on celestial issues? ”

Since the naturalist did not drive them away, but only asked, it showed that it did not have much malice, and it was closer to a kind of ridicule.

As a result, Ziyuan didn't speak for a long time.

Gu Chuan looked at the rows of light bulbs on the ceiling above his head, and then at the light bulbs on both sides of the wall at his feet, they were still glowing in waves.

This suggests that this "naturalist tutor" may not have left yet.

But Zi Yuan suddenly didn't say a word, and there was no sound from other places, which made Gu Chuan feel uneasy.

A sea of soft light overwhelmed them, and they continued to walk forward, coming to a position close to Ziyuan's house, and the light was still chasing them.

Until the door, Ziyuan suddenly stopped, turned around, and said:

"The mentor just asked, why don't you leave on that ghost ship? Isn't that a good ship? ”

"Is this the naturalist talking?"

Gu Chuan asked her, and said:

"The pilot light of the ghost ship was removed by you and transported to an unknown place, and this ship was not discovered and surrendered by us, we have no right!"

The Gear Man in front of her seemed to be immersed in some kind of horror about something unexpected, and instead of answering, she opened the door.

Zijin is inside the door.

It didn't wear the skin, but shimmered with metal, and the gears turned in silence.

Ziyuan didn't say a word, and he didn't seem to be very willing to see Zijin. Gu Chuan approached and said hello:

"What are you doing? I haven't seen you in a while! ”

Zijin, who exposed his gears, proudly raised the skin in his hand, and pointed to some bottles and cans, brushes, strange needles and pens he had brought back, and said:

"I'm fixing something important to me."

"Isn't there a worker who specializes in skin repairs?"

Zijin said awkwardly:

"Those who don't repair this kind of thing are just replaced with new ones...... I don't like that. ”

I don't know when, the lights have dimmed again,

Zi Yuan stepped forward and said with a terrible bluntness:

"This is a typical mental disorder, with a great willingness to place an interest in ordinary things. This will, they don't even want to figure out why. ”

Zijin put away his skin and asked in a cold voice angrily:

"Then are you going to report me to the Desire Liberation Mentor?"

"I won't do that, I want you to take the initiative to report your psychic symptoms."

Ziyuan said extremely seriously.

Zijin only said:

"Obviously, we were born in the same batch, in the same place, and our bodies are all from the hands of the same generation, why are we so different? Isn't this also a big problem? Isn't it? ”

Their conversation undoubtedly proved Gu Chuan's guess.

These two gear people with close numbers were indeed born together.

"In the twelfth question, there is an answer to the evolution of personality traits, and it's just that our experiences are different—but we have to fulfill our natural duty to complete the final answer to the remaining seventeen questions."

Ziyuan placed his hand on Zijin's shoulder.

Who knew that Zijin opened his hand, and then ran out, and when his hand touched the door, he turned his head back and said loudly:

"I don't bother to care about you!"

"Hey! Wait a minute! ”

This is not Ziyuan, this is Gu Chuan. Gu Chuan still had something to discuss with Zijin, and now when he saw Zijin's hurried figure, he hurriedly called him behind his back. But Zijin rushed out of the door holding his skin, and soon disappeared into the deep darkness of the passage.

Gu Chuan wanted to chase after him, but he lost it in a few steps and had to return the same way.

Except for the grass pile and the sundries brought by Gu Chuan, there was nothing unusual in the room.

Ziyuan sat to the side unresponsively, as if asleep.

But Gu Chuan knew that she hadn't slept yet, so he just stopped moving. He sat down on the haystack and said angrily:

"Why don't you talk to him gently? Even if you don't agree with him, you don't have to be so harsh, right? Do you want to get rid of him? Zijin won't hurt you, will it? ”

Gu Chuan didn't expect a reply, but he heard Ziyuan's voice:

"You're right, he's not going to hurt me, and he's not going to hurt any of the gear guys."

At that time, Ziyuan raised his eyes, and his glass-like eyes shone with a wonderful brilliance. She wasn't looking at Hatsuun, she wasn't looking at Hatsuun, she was looking at the depths of darkness. There was nothing in the depths of the darkness, just like the surface of the moon that she had seen with the light, and there was nothing but the shaking light, not too much.

But feeling pity for what is sure to disappear only adds to one's own suffering. His actions will only consume him too quickly. ”

She stared at the darkness for a long time, and she felt warmth in the darkness of this small room.

Ziyuan's words made Gu Chuan tremble suddenly, and he couldn't sit still:

"You have, you have what you call the symptoms of a mental disorder, don't you? Isn't it? ”

But Ziyuan didn't answer anything at this time, she was quiet as if she was asleep. Gu Chuan thought that she didn't want to talk anymore, so he pulled Chu Yun and prepared to continue looking for Zijin. The naturalist tutor's words helped him to make up his mind to get the complete right to use the ghost ship from Zijin, Jing Yuan, and the Lion's Head Gear Man, and put the pilot light back on the ship.

It's an amazing oversized curiosity.

It's just that......

"I wonder where Zijin will go?"

Gu Chuan said a little bitterly.

Chu Yun was just about to talk about her thoughts, when Zi Yuan, who had been silent for a long time in the corner behind them, suddenly spoke:

"If you want to find Zijin, you should go and see the big square where the psychopaths are hiding below. Zijin should know where the pilot light is placed. ”

This is also the idea of Hatsuun.

Someone said it, so she didn't mention it much.

Gu Chuan also agreed with this guess, but as soon as he stepped out of the door, he suddenly stopped and turned his head, looked at the surface of the gear reflecting the cold light from Ziyuan, and said:

"Have you ever thought about doing anything else?"

Ziyuan remained silent.

When Gu Chuan was about to close the door, he heard Ziyuan say as if talking to himself in the shadow of the door closing:

"Every part of me is soaked in expectations, and we can't leave until we fulfill them."

At that time, it happened to be one-sixth of the standard time that Zijin said that the Yuyu Mentor would be dormant.

They sat in the chamber and followed the Eternal Gears down to the psychopath's square.

In the square, all kinds of heads, human skins and glass, and even the steam coming out of the head swirled around the dome and turned into clouds. This is the second time Gu Chuan has come here after a long time, and he found that the number of gear people here has increased unprecedentedly, but the atmosphere is not the same as before.

He took Hatsuun's hand and walked through the cracks. He discovers that the Gearman with the head of the globe no longer predicts the future of man, and the Owl Gearman, who declares that the moth of the moon is about to die, is silent and drowns in the crowd.

But the sleeping vendor was still waiting for the moths on the moon to descend into the wilderness and freeze everything.

In the original square space, countless bizarre thoughts and speeches are like a sea of sounds, where everyone is trying to convince others, no one has a common mission, no one is maintaining order, all people are arguing and even fighting.

But now, the voices of these psychopathic gearmen have diminished, as if all the psychopathic gearmen are waiting for something.

This wait made Hatsuyun feel uneasy.

Seventeen Ferris wheels hidden in the walls kept sending more and more gearmen from the seventeen problem kingdoms, and they came here in all kinds of forms, dressed in all kinds of skins, and waited for something.

Gu Chuan didn't care, he just wanted to find Zijin as soon as possible and leave here.

As they approached the room, they heard Zijin's particularly loud voice: "Do you have to do this?" I'm a little scared ......."

"Don't be afraid, kid......" it was Kyokai's voice, "the mentors are very slow, and they have almost dismantled themselves in the process of making us. ”

"But the mentors know everything."

"No, they don't know! They don't answer those questions either, do they? Jing Yu sneered and began to count, "How does the moon move, and why did we become like this?" What can we choose to do? What does the future hold for us? Why do we use language to communicate? Where is the boundary between imagination and reality? …… Hehe, they can't even ask an unmistakable question. ”

Zijin still seemed to be hesitant, but Jing Yu was more patient, he had been waiting for a long time, and it didn't matter how long he waited:

"Don't be afraid, I'll leave everything to me, okay? Just do what I say, and if something happens, I'm willing to bear all the punishment. Now, there are friends here, and we have to settle them first. ”

Gu Chuan and Chu Yun knew that they had been discovered.

They appeared generously, and Jing Yu and Zijin sat on either side of a small table, looking at them. Gu Chuan asked about the borrowing of the ghost ship.

Hatsuyun scanned the room without a trace.

She saw that it was densely packed with different gear people. The different heads cover each other and cannot be seen clearly. Chu Yun didn't know it, but there was a telescope tube in it, and a dozen lenses in the lens tube were levitating, radiating colorful light.