And at that time, the sandstorm outside intensified. The moonlight still shines on the wilderness, which still enjoys tens or millions of years of longevity, trying to illuminate the rolling hills, the oases dotted with stars, and the creatures that look out therein.

Sandstorms are strong in one place, and strong in another. Braving the storm, several old emissaries of the alien race led the young heirs of their tribe to the market run by the Cogwheel people to see what they thought to be the most prosperous place in the world.

The market was built in the style of the Gear Man, with most of it hidden in the sandy bottom.

The alien ranks brought new slaves, who were born out of a contest of disagreement within the clan, with the new patriarch ascending to the throne and the old patriarch being sold to the Cogwheel by the decision of the new chief. In addition to slaves, they also brought with them new and strange things. Some of these strange things fell from the sky, some were dug out of the ground, and they could be exchanged for all kinds of fresh knick-knacks or convenient daily necessities in this bazaar supported by steel bars. This rudimentary trade relationship with the Gear People, which they have maintained for thousands of years. In their records, there are still legends of murderous chelicerae that roamed the wilderness a long, long time ago.

The reason why a legend is a legend is that they have never seen it in modern times.

The most popular among the aliens living in the Great Wilderness are clocks and mechanical instruments made by the Gear Man. The former was used for timekeeping, the latter for entertainment, such as singing, such as dancing, and the oldest of them remembered the strange joy and inferiority that sprung up in his heart when he first saw a mechanical instrument in this bazaar.

And when the mechanical instrument plays a beautiful sound, the joy and inferiority disappear for a short time, and he is left with the purest joy.

Only this time it's a little different. They had just returned to the slave bazaar, only to find that there were only a number of different and unfriendly people left in the bazaar, and that the cogwheel people had mysteriously disappeared.

"Where did they go?"

The young heir was ready to meet the Gearmen and learn to communicate with them. Now that his attempt had failed, he curiously asked the old man whose tribe had already had three living patriarchs.

The old man couldn't give an answer either.

It was the first time he had seen an empty market without the Gear Man, and he guessed:

"Perhaps...... Maybe it's the city that seeks answers, and something unexpected happens. ”

However, the Cogwheel Man's supplies were not taken with them, and were left in the warehouse locked in the bazaar. This makes the aliens and slaves want to move.

Only a few people knew that this was the Gear People scattered all over the Great Wilderness, and they all got the signal from the sound tower and returned to Answer City. When the returning Cogwheel Man arrives at the city wall, he will find that all the entrances and exits of the city have lowered temporary gates-

They couldn't go back, they could only escape the storm and scatter all over the ghost ship.

The Antlers man's statement is not only a statement, but also a real action.

He's striding in the Thirteenth Sector. The man walked in front of him strongly, and the young men, carrying a half-geared man on their backs, saw that the gear doors were locked everywhere, and that a large number of passages had been cut off, so they obediently walked behind.

"I've heard about you, and I've told you a little bit about it."

At that time, the antlers man known as Dr. Shoichi said.

"You're from the other side of the primordial mountains, you're strangers from the heavens, and you're staying here now, but you want to go to a distant place that no one knows, right?"

"Yes."

Gu Chuan said.

"That's a pity."

"What a pity?"

"It's a pity that you two explorers who can climb over the mountains will sooner or later suffer from mental disorders in the exploration of the world."

Gu Chuan was speechless for a while.

Is this the level of speech of a doctor of language problems? It's so flattering.

The Antlers said blandly:

"Practical solutions to the world's problems, the loss of gear people is innumerable. This phenomenon itself has become the main subject of the sixteenth problem. ”

"Yes...... Our behavior is indeed to try to solve the world's problems in practical operations, maybe we can cooperate with you," Gu Chuan said, "I don't know if we can communicate with your world problem solving team, or act together." ”

"The people who are still alive to answer the world's problems are a bunch of idiots, and you wouldn't want to do the same thing with them."

The doctor of the language problem said mercilessly.

In his eye, there was a lens that glowed with a pale cyan glow. Now that the lighting system was turned off, a flashlight-like thing peeking out of his large robe illuminated the front and set off the strange light in his eyes.

The light paced in the darkness, just encroaching on the front, and being chased by the darkness behind. There was a faint tremor felt throughout the city from time to time, and perhaps there was an explosion or a fight somewhere.

After walking for a while, everyone smelled a peculiar fragrance. At first glance, this fragrance smelled like nothing, as if it came from a distant place, like Zhilan, but after a long time, I felt stinky, and my whole body was uncomfortable, as if my blood was going to coagulate.

The antlers' face changed, and his pace increased.

Gu Chuan and Chu Yun followed him, turning three or four corners and fifty or sixty meters of corridor, and came to the same corridor, with gear doors on both sides of the corridor. This is one of the temporary gathering places designated by Yuyu Instructor.

They saw that the gear men who were originally stationed in the corridor were also unconscious, and they did not know whether they were dead or alive.

The antlers slammed open the door, only to see that the cogwheel men in the room were all unconscious. The antler-man bowed his head, and after pushing several of his victims one by one with his antlers, he turned over their bodies, and when he saw that their metal appearance had all changed color, he stood up sharply, hurried to the door, and said sternly before leaving:

"Enemies have come here, and they've all been forced to hibernate. You guys wait here for me, I'm going to investigate. ”

His hurried departure, where could he convince Chu Yun and Gu Chuan.

Gu Chuan asked the halfling. The halfling also struggled to answer this question, claiming that it did not know.

"All the doors and exits are locked, and we're stuck here."

Gu Chuan put the halfling down, and he tried to rummage through the gear man and the storage box in the room to see if he could find something special.

Chu Yun was silent, caressing the walls, measuring the strength of the doors and walls. That's when she realized that the load-bearing walls here were made of extraordinary materials.

"Azure ......"

"You mean the metal on top of that metal? No wonder such a majestic city can be built underground......"

Gu Chuan was slightly impressed.

"Yes...... I can't break this material. ”

Chu Yun frowned, thinking of something unhappy.

When the metal is melted, there is a natural need for containers that can carry the melted metal at high temperatures. This kind of container is azure gold in Sunset City, and any method of firing in Sunset City has never been able to deform the azure gold, let alone melt it, only occasionally making it glow a sky-like azure color. The full name of lapis is lapis alzurite, which is usually a small piece of the metal vein that has existed for a very long time. Whatever it dug up, it always was, and Sunset City couldn't make any changes to it.

This substance was used to imprison her body when Chu Yun was punished by heaven, preventing her from unconsciously wielding brute force and causing the medical staff to lose their lives.

Gu Chuan searched from one room to another, but he didn't find anything, but accidentally determined the characteristics of a gear man.

"The Gear Man's quarters are empty."

He said.

Ziyuan's room was very empty, almost non-existent, and the haystack existed to take care of the two physical people.

"They don't need to eat, they don't need a table, they don't have to lie down or sit, they don't need a chair or a bed, they don't need a centralized supply, they don't need a cabinet to put it, they don't need to excrete, and they don't have toilets. They have a noble mission and a fulfilling life. ”

Chu Yun said, and followed Gu Chuan into the third room.

The halfling was dragged to the ground by her, and it didn't hurt either, and her two eyes shone brightly.

Gu Chuan...... ...... Hatsukumo? ”

Gu Chuan looked for prestige, and saw a gear man lift the sheet-like thing that covered him, revealing a chubby, hairy body underneath, and two glass eyes looked up at the two of them.

"Teacher Zhengxi...... You okay? ”

The gear man hiding here is the one who taught Gu Chuan's language.

"I'm fine now, so good that I can just tear it down."

The big cat spits out a strange test strip and tears open the test strip that is attached to many parts of its body with its paws. The test strip had already grown plaque, which made it startled. These test strips belong to a category, and they are all soaked in a special solution that softens the laryngeal bone, and are drugs used in the study of language problems to treat or destroy the vocal organs of humanoid organisms. In addition to this property, this liquid can also adsorb macromolecular substances in the air in a short time, achieving an effect similar to that of a mask.

The cogwheel man does not have a delicate flesh and blood nerve, but it will be affected in addition.

Previously, when the change just happened, he was transporting a batch of supplies with his companions. At that time, he was keenly aware of the color change on the bare metal body of his companion in front of him, and knew that there was something strange and subtle in the air attached to the metal in large areas, and may even be multiplying on the metal.

And it concentrated its wits on it, took the sticker it was going to do the experiment and pasted it on a few exposed parts of its body, and then rolled into its room before it collapsed, and wrapped itself in a bag.

Gu Chuan asked about the fragrance, and as soon as he told him about it, he pasted several new test strips on himself, and said:

"I don't know anything about it...... I haven't read about it in the public catalog, but it's probably a strange thing that has been kept private. You say you came with Shoichi, so where did he go? ”

"I don't know...... When he went out, he disappeared. ”

Zheng Twenty had never encountered such a scene now, it had not received a signal from the mentors, and the disciples were not around, what the enemy was - it was not clear to Gu Chuan yet, what to do, it was also at a loss.

After only thinking about it slightly, it took out a strange thing from its arms and handed it to Gu Chuan. Gu Chuan saw that it was nothing else, it was the dragon heart horn that the mirror tube man wanted to smash on his head at the beginning.

After the young man caught the dragon's heart horn, he miscalculated the weight, and his hand sank, and the strange thing almost fell to the ground.

"In addition to the mind sensing function, this strange object is also extremely hard, which can be used for self-defense." Zheng Twenty explained, waving the other dragon heart horn in his hand.

But at this moment, suddenly a cracking sound reached their ears, causing everyone to be frightened, and instinctively retreated away from the source of the sound.

The next moment, the two walls of the corridor exploded, and the torn metal crashed into the rest of the walls at an exaggerated speed. A large number of damaged gears and shafts were scattered all over the place.

The rest of the wave lifted the young man and landed on the floor again, rolling several times in succession. And the halfling didn't know where he was swept up, the light of the light flickered indiscriminately in the darkness underground, and as soon as he wanted to look up, he noticed that countless metal fragments were about to fly overhead, so he hurriedly raised the dragon's heart horn to protect his forehead to resist the aftermath of the matter.

When the soot subsided slightly, Gu Chuan opened his eyes and saw the antlers crawling out of the rubble.

This is...... The battle of the Antlers against the enemy.

His gaze slowly shifted to the enemy, and he saw a familiar figure standing outside the torn metal wall.

"Tube Man...... Kyo Kyo Koo! ”

The man's barrel head was facing exactly forward, locking onto the Antlers' position. Under the sight glass, more than a dozen lenses of different colors are emitting different lights. The weapon that Hatsumo felt threatened was used just now.

"I didn't know you were also mentally ill, senior...... You should seek a trial from Guru Ping and wait for him to order you to be diagnosed. ”

The Antlers seem to be acquainted with the Mirror Tube Man.

When it stood up, Gu Chuan clearly saw that its body was pierced in many places.

Smoke from the shattered material curled up from the hideous hole. Wisps of skin drifted with the smoke of gunpowder.

"I thought that would force you to stop." "I have no intention of killing you, and I have avoided your center of thought." I hope you can sleep peacefully until we close the Desire Liberation Guru. ”

The Gear People will also encounter brute beasts, and they will also meet ferocious alien races, and naturally there will be disputes, and when there is conflict, a means of overcoming disputes will be born.

The method of the mirror tube man is undoubtedly one of the most violent.

But the antler-clad man only said calmly:

"I don't understand why you're doing this? Aren't you already very close to the answer to the question of celestial bodies? You may become another being in history who has been elevated to the rank of Guru. ”

Among the large pieces of broken gears and shafts, Gu Chuan crawled cautiously and went to the other side, wanting to meet Chu Yun.

"I failed."

The Mirror Man said calmly. More than a dozen lenses line up in a straight line. Due to the structure of the lens tube, his field of vision is limited, occupying only about 60 degrees in front of him.

Previously, he would carry mirrors to make up for his lack of vision. Now, he relies on a partner behind him who is also aiming for the same goal.

He said:

"And I'm coming to the end of my useful life, and I need to disassemble myself."

"You are terrified of this because of your mental illness? You should know that it is not death, but only the beginning of a new life. ”

Mental illness in the Gear Man does not have a single problem, but is included in the study of multiple issues. Dr. Shoichi Antlers also heard a little about it, and heard the researchers of the sixth question claim that one of the mental illnesses stems from the fear of death.

"No, I've only discovered that we should be eternal species, and we should not die because of the rules that have been set for a long time."

The mirror reflected the figure in action in the room, flickering with fluorescence.

The Antlers looked at the fluorescence and were ready for the next onslaught.

His damaged body was useless filler, and his original body had been removed for the birth of his next generation.

It said blandly:

"I don't think your reason is too new, it's a vulgar answer that doesn't even have reference value. Generally speaking, in a foreign race, a king who does not abdicate will be called a small person. The metal of your mind is about to be permanently deformed, you are about to lose the ability to understand the truth of the world, everything and everything, why should you live boringly in the ugly posture of not being able to understand the truth? ”

Before the words fell, the invisible light poured out for the second time.

At the moment when Gu Chuan couldn't see it, he broke through the second wall, went straight to the deep gear space, and broke through the wall behind the gear space. No one knows where this invisible power has penetrated.

It wasn't until a blink of an eye, in the aftermath of the dissipation, a strange white light that shone in all directions, illuminating the countless wreckage in the ruins, and the eyes of the young man.

At that time, Gu Chuan thought that he was only one step away from death.

Who knew that the Lens Barrel Man stopped attacking.

He recognized Gu Chuan and Chu Yun.

"Didn't you have a conversation with Zijin and Kyungga, you're their friend, why are you on Jeongyi's side? And why did you leave the shelter? Why don't you come to our side soon? ”

Gu Chuan was dumbfounded and looked in the direction of the antlers.

The antlers didn't know what means they used, but they actually resisted, but there was a big hole in his body. In the bright shadows, the antlers are like branched branches.

His mind seemed to be out of the cogwheel man's body.

He also looked at the young man.

With a scrutinizing gaze.