The still dim light, the shadows of countless gear men inside and outside the wall, and a table in the middle, two people on the side of the platform. One is seeing, and what one sees is not seeing.

"It's easy...... The boat will float into the distance......"

The skinned Zijin smiled, his thinking circuit was pure and thorough, he knew that these two special travelers wanted to travel far away, and he was willing to support them.

As Gu Chuan imagined, the gear man said that he didn't care about the large strange thing, and he didn't care much when he said he cared.

For Zijin, this is just an object used to prove its existence. As for the Cogwheel Man, this is just a trophy that can be used for research, not that it cannot leave the City of Answers. of national treasures.

What's more, after the naturalist passed the word, he suddenly realized that he could also try to join the team of the cogwheel people.

Ziyuan has mentioned the "world problem", which is a question of what the world is. In a sense, this coincides with what Gu Chuan or Chu Yun are doing. These are all negotiable. He thought it might be some kind of hint from the naturalist teacher. Maybe he could even take some of the Gear People as his own helpers.

And the problem lies in other aspects -

The young man held his breath, looked in all directions, and finally settled on Jing Yuan's body. Gazing at the capital is like gazing into the void.

Like the conversation he just heard.

Sure enough, after Zijin finished speaking, Jing Yuan, who was sitting opposite Zijin, raised his head, and the two horns that converged the void directly connected to his neck seemed to be sandwiched endless space.

"But, now, friend, we're doing something important. This has nothing to do with you, but it may have some unexpected effects on you, so to be on the safe side, can you wait here quietly for a while? ”

He said politely.

Hearing this, Zijin's pleasure disappeared in an instant. The sad expression is like a cloud that obscures the sun. His movements became restrained and his mind froze, and he said yes, friends, you have to wait a little longer...... We have something else, very important, to do.

Neither Gu Chuan nor Chu Yun refused, and were taken to another room by a gear man. This room already exists, and there are new Gear Men who are being sent.

Among them were the sleeping cogwheel man who had been waiting for the world to be destroyed, and there were also a few cogwheel men who had cut themselves to pieces, leaving only half a head or a piece of chest.

These gear people basically don't speak, or don't speak anymore, and lie on the side, no one knows what they're thinking, and maybe they're not thinking about anything either.

And at the last moment before entering the house, Gu Chuan saw that they had already left the house.

Zijin walked in front, Jing Yuan walked behind him, and the rest of the people in the original room walked behind Jing Yuan.

"Remember, you don't have to be nervous." As Jing Yu walked, he said to Zijin, "You have proved that the crux of our problem is not the crux, but the suppressed cognition. We've all seen it, and we know better than any other than that, you're doing it right! ”

Their skin was still covered with the same standard clothing, and the moment they walked into the crowd, they were hugged by the crowd, and disappeared into the clusters of gear people, like flowers held up by boundless blades of grass.

The gearmen with globe heads staring at them in the crowd. Owl Gear Man, who sells moon moths and anxiety, looks up to them in the crowd. There are many more Gear People who are asking them about their next move.

"Hold off, my fellow citizens. Now ......"

At that time, Jing Gao's tone was first high, and then low to the extreme:

"The time has come."

It seemed that some of the cogwheel men agreed with his words, and discussed them repeatedly in a dim light with different tones. Soon, the sounds of various machines converged and became one, boiling over the entire space.

Now, why not rejoice? Fellow students! Because our lives are coming to an end – and new life is about to ...... Begin. ”

Jing Yu held Zijin's hand and raised it together as a banner of resistance.

The dim light shone on Zijin's metal hand like a ring of lights, reflecting a terrifying, blurry scarlet color.

The scarlet illuminates the twin horns of Kyogaku.

The voice behind it, Gu Chuan couldn't hear it, they were locked in the door, and they could only hear the silence outside the door, and a whispered low voice was speaking a complicated and complex answer city language that he didn't understand. The phonemes he couldn't speak were like some kind of ancient code, as if mixed with some additional language that didn't use sound, telling secrets that no one could think about.

At last the whispering sound disappeared and became the words of Qiqi, and the words of Qiqi turned into waves, and soon they also dissipated, and became the sound of footsteps, a terrible footstep that seemed to be about to go to hell.

"What are they going to do?"

Chu Yun leaned against the door, and asked Gu Chuan with an incomparable curiosity and confusion among a group of gear people who were too lazy to get up.

The young man's smiling face outside quickly froze as he entered the house, his hands trembling, and he wondered what role the two strangers would play in this incident. Hatsuun, who was beside her, clenched his hand, felt his restlessness and heat through his skin, and heard him say stiffly:

"What they are doing may be equivalent to the border people trying to kill His Majesty to re-establish the new laws of a city and an era. We...... Got involved in something unexpected. ”

When did it start?

And what did it germinate?

Which coggs have been planning for a long time, and how did they realize the timing of certain cogs to unite with other cogs?

And could this timing be the incident of the ghost ship?

The young man didn't know, he leaned against the door, only to know that the cogwheel people outside were pouring into the seventeen passages like a tide. And they could only stay in this locked room with a group of psychopaths who didn't speak.

Hatsuun saw that the world outside the door quickly dimmed to an extraordinary degree. The entire square has been cut off from the light source, and there is absolute silence.

It's already dark.

Outside, I'm afraid things have just begun, like dusk is approaching.

This is something that the cogwheel people who don't have mental abnormalities have never even thought about. In their naïve and pure thinking, they still think that all the Gear People are consistent companions to each other in order to solve problems.

Therefore, for them, it was absolutely impossible to think about dealing with the attack of the cogs who burst out from within.

But they were not unaware.

Because the gears are spinning faster and faster.

This shows that the distribution of personal tasks controlled by the Equalization Instructor is increasing abnormally with the sudden decline in the number of Gear Men - in other words, a large number of Gear Men have openly quit the workforce and have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. And the remaining cogwheel people were forced to take on the labor they shared.

But it doesn't mean anything special to the Gear People until people actually come here.

"Seventeen questions represent seventeen kingdoms of questions. These areas are not blocks on civilians, nor are they blocks by block, they are made of tunnels that extend in all directions to form a complex irregular anthill, which then entangles with each other and then descends into the ground in turn. We are going to reach the deepest part of the First Problem Kingdom. ”

Kyunggai walked plainly on the path of the Seventh Problem Kingdom that he had never entered.

All the lights in the passage around him lit up.

"The question to be solved, I remember, for the Seventh Kingdom is, what should we do? Naturalist, are you watching? Do you think what we're doing right now is what we should be doing? ”

This question is also known as the question of morality.

Kyo raised his head and looked at the endless glowing light bulbs.

It's a pity that the naturalist didn't answer it.

The light of the bulb suddenly disappeared and went somewhere else.

Kyogai was not in a hurry and continued to walk, knowing that as long as he continued to move forward, he would definitely see the teachers as they are now. The Gearmen he led were not in a hurry, and they were not prepared to massively destroy the city of answers built underground. What they had to do, judging from the information that Jing Yu had obtained from the ancient Gear People, was very simple.

They split into many teams, choosing from multiple passages to approach the deepest part of the city. Kyung-dung led the team alone.

"Kyokai...... What are you going to do with a dozen people? ”

At that time, the Ph.D., who was working on the behavior of the various races searched by the Biology Question Answering Group, opened the door.

The group of cogwheel people who answer the seventh question is very special, and they are all made up of cogwheel people who are dressed in the skin of an unintelligent animal.

At that time, the doctor who was stationed in the seventh problem was named Zhaoxi.

Zhao Yan is a very old cogwheel man, probably the oldest of all the disciples who have not yet dismantled themselves.

It is clothed in the skin of a cow.

"Are you going to meet with Guru Junping to settle some kind of dispute between you?"

It pushed the special vision glasses it hung on the cow's head.

"Yes, Dear Doctor." Walking in the passageway, Kyunggai said, "We see the Grim Reaper wandering the earth, so we should warn Mentor Junpei. ”

Zhao Yan showed a confused expression:

"But you shouldn't have submitted the notice in advance, I can write the notice for you, can you wait a while?"

Kyogai seems to be pleasant, and although it has no head, only horns, the slightly shaking horns may also prove that it is full of smiles.

"No need to write, no need to write, we don't want to waste time."

He went straight to the end of the Seventh Problem Kingdom. It was where Master Junping lived, and then he pushed the door open, and his figure was reflected in a bright white space.

He saw again the long pillars that floated and swirled in the void in the air, with nowhere to come from or to go.

It was one of the teachers who had performed the self-dismantling and was left with only the necessary thinking component, and it was the result of all psychiatric cogwheel diagnoses.

"It's been a long time, Mentor Junping, do you remember when you thought we were wrong about seeing the ghost ship?"

Kyo greeted politely.

On the long pillar appeared the words of the Gear Man:

"You've proven you right."

"But you're still hurting me, aren't you? Mentor. ”

Kyung said calmly.

"Do you want some kind of special compensation?"

The text above says this, but it's not really about compensating, because the vast majority of things for the Gear People are shared, and there is nothing to compensate for.

Lubricants can be supplied endlessly, skin can be renewed, and if you have the tools you need to get on a mission to answer a question, you have it all.

Wanting to be compensated is often some kind of precursor to a psychopath.

"Yes, I do want some kind of special compensation."

Kyo was blunt.

With his hands behind his back, he gestured, and several of the cogwheel men already knew what he meant, and moved the heavy object they were carrying to the door.

"Poor boy...... You're suffering from some kind of mental illness again. ”

Junping Tutor said.

"No, Mentor Junping...... You seem to have misunderstood something, and question 7 has proven that people are not expected to do the same things at different times. Now, then, I'm going to tell you," Kyogai was even more pleasant, and he said in his usual tone, "that from now on, we will be in the normal state that all gear people should be." ”

He waved his finger again, and the leather that was draped over the weight was lifted by a gearman, revealing an irregular mass of black-gray with dense holes in the shape of a coal honeycomb or crystalline boron.

Zhao Yan led a few gear people to rush here, and when he saw something bigger than three or four gear people hugging him, he immediately realized which strange thing this corresponded to in the gear man kingdom:

"This is a strange artifact that fell from the moon, and it should have been lost after being requested to be used in a mission......"

Until this time, Zhao Yan had not figured out the situation.

It may have lived for hundreds of years, but it is also ...... The first time I saw the scene today:

"Why are you using this cavity vibrating mold to face the Equalizing Master?"

Kyunggai slowly withdrew, knowing full well that Mentor Junping's vision was extremely limited due to the disassembly of the device, and he couldn't see outside the door.

He said:

"Of course, that's for the use of the equalization tutor, and it can be opened."

The cogwheel people removed all the covering of the cavity vibrating mold and pushed it into the white space.

The huge pillar representing Master Junpei circled around in the air, sensing all the holes in the irregular crystal's exterior inhaling and deflating rapidly.

Then, together with the air, and the dust in the air, all the matter that makes up all things shakes irrepressibly.

"You've rebelled—again, now, a thousand years later."

A new word appeared on the pillar of the Equalizing Master.

In the blink of an eye, violent vibrations began to destroy the inner form of matter. Massive destructive force reaches the ceiling and underground. The collapse blew up the dust and smoke of the boundless fragments of matter, and rolled towards the door.

Zhao Yan immediately retreated, it had no plans to deal with so many gear men.

The secondary partition wall was completely torn open in an instant by the force of the cavity vibrating mold. However, the pillar of the air that Master Junping had placed on him did not suffer any damage, and only the air currents that erupted in the narrow space were pushed away from afar, and they could no longer float in the void, but were carried by the terrible power, smashing through the ground and sinking into the buildings under this white space.

And the mold fell into the lower layer as the floor collapsed, along with the level teacher.

The moment the pillar that could not see the material collided with the ground, it pushed away everything around it with the power of blasting, and was caused by the collision to cause rubble and gravel. The flying fragments flickered in the continuous impact, and when the conditions for ignition were reached, a terrible flame rose like a dancing shadow. At the same time as the flames rose, there was a collapse of the water pipe, shooting out columns of water and sprinkling them into the sky.

Gu Chuan, who was locked in the room, woke up from the loud noise, raised his head suddenly, and listened with his ear against the door. All I could hear was the sound of large rocks falling on the room.

Incredible fluctuations in the air, in an instant, pierced through the small, non-load-bearing partition wall, destroying the house. The tremendous force was like a heavy fist smashing into the vulnerable place of a person, and it was like a terrible gust of wind that wanted to push a person away from all over the door he was leaning on.

Sure enough, after a moment of unresponsiveness, the wooden door broke.

"Be careful!"

Hatsuyun stretched out his hand and blocked the front with unimaginable strange force, like the wings of a young bird, shattering all the stones and metal that flew in it one by one.

Under the cover of Chu Yun, Gu Chuan barely opened his eyes and saw that the center of the mentally ill square, which should be lively, was quietly deserted, and all the gears that were originally running had come to a standstill. A huge hole was cut in the ceiling. The floor was littered with rubble, crystals, and metal falling from the sky.

All this is a sign that this peaceful, safe city in the middle of the desert is about to ignite the terrible smoke of gunfire.

In the light of the fire, a huge stone pillar that fell flickered brightly.