Chapter 22: Be a Stone
Heterochromatic lights shone in all directions in the cage of matter, showing one after another faint spots of light on the walls or on people. Some are hazy yellow, while others are fluttering red, whether red or yellow, they are all the eyes of the cogwheel people.
The young man had just been dyed a faint reddish-yellow, and when the antler-clad man looked at him, he was covered with a layer of blue.
The cogwheel man had a different line of sight, and an infinite number of strange colors flipped over his body, trying to dye him in all sorts of different shapes.
"Is that so? Twenty, what's going on with them? β
The antlers grow in strange shadows, like a tree growing on either side.
It's a strange thing stripped from the body of a living being. It has a very peculiar function, which can entrust the spiritual mind of living beings. The Antlers were experimented with, in order to try out the full functionality of the antlers.
I look at one side and look at the twenty.
The big cat is crawling out of the ruins on the other side, and the fur on his whole body is rotten. It first looked at the lens barrel man in surprise, and was still confused:
"Zijin and Jing Yu are also your companions? You and Jing Gao were born one after another...... Is this a common strategy of your twenty-fourth generation? Not ......"
Zheng Twenty shook his head violently and looked at Gu Chuan:
"They, they are indeed the ones who went out hunting with Zijin, Kyogai, and Zaiyi, and hunted the ghost ship...... And it made a big impact in our cityβ"
As a result, the cogwheel people began to recognize certain ideas that were originally considered delusional, and they became irrepressibly suspicious of the judgment of the equalization teacher.
Speaking of which, it suddenly occurred to Zheng Twenty that these changes had occurred from these two strangers who came here along Ziyuan......
Its mindset has changed.
Hatsuyun silently leaned behind the young man, and she pinched her fingers, feeling the wind fluttering near her skin. The young man stood up and looked to both sides.
Cogwheel people also have a certain sense of morality.
"Have you become some kind of enemy that you don't share? Do you want to kill each other? β
At that time, Gu Chuan asked.
"We are not enemies." The Nine Elders were there, and the Gear Man behind him made up for his lack of vision, saying, "It's just that they are too constrained to understand our actions and will try to deny us access to where the mentors are...... This is a bad thing. Stranger. β
Hearing this, the antlers looked at Jing Yujiu, and the filling in its body kept flowing out, like intestines flowing out of a person's body. Step by step, he stepped across the piercing floor, walked in the direction of Jing Yujiu, and smashed his fist into the head of the mirror barrel man.
The Mirror Tube Man was pulled by the Gear Man behind him and flew into the hallway as if he were floating.
The Antlers then said:
"Dr. Kyo Kyo Koo, do you remember where the parts of your body came from?"
According to the twelfth question, in the myths and stories of the Great Wilderness, all creatures are differentiated from the corpse of a giant.
However, for the gear people who have a complete record, this is a complete falsehood, and it is indeed half a true sentence in another sense.
"According to ancient records, the first four generations were the product of the dismantling of the mentors themselves."
Kyung replied calmly.
"Yes, yes, so you should be aware of the fact that no part of your body is yours! Suppose the Mentor doesn't exist,......" the Antlers looked up, "you don't know where to eat yet!" What is the betrayer proud of? There is no faith, no honor, no pursuit, no hope. The sins you are about to commit now will never be paid for now. β
Jing Yu Jiu sneered, turned his head and shouted to Gu Chuan and Chu Yun:
"Aren't you coming to us quickly? He will hurt me, and he will be blamed on you. I can't fight him while protecting you. β
After speaking, he also said threateningly:
"I'm irritable right now."
The smoke and dust fell back to the ground.
In the distance of the messy corridor, there were more sounds of fighting. This shows that the Mentors' response is also timely, and they are instigating the normal gear people to fight back.
Hatsuyun's thoughts were ethereal.
She remembered many things about the Twenty-Four Division. The chief and adjutant of the 24th Division often need to make a choice between approval and opposition on a major position. And this choice often determines the attitude of the crown towards them next. At that time, she had always been puzzled as to why Her Majesty had already thought about whether she was in favor or against something...... But instead of saying it, she waited for the twenty-four divisions and the twelve families to make their choices, and then punished the families who made the opposite choice to her, and encouraged the families who made the same choice as her.
She asked in a whisper:
"What are we going to do? Which side to be on? β
Gu Chuan clenched her hand.
The young man's hands are big and warm. He said:
"Do you believe me?"
"I believe it."
"And whatever choice I make next, will you approve of me?"
Gu Chuan continued to ask.
Hatsuyun was a little confused, she said:
"I don't really care about these things, I can do whatever I want. Just do it...... I listen to you. β
"That's good."
The young man smiled. He raised his head, looked at the two doctors, Shoichi and Kyogaku, and said:
"I'm sorry, you guys!"
Zhengyi didn't dare to look sideways. Jing Yujiu had companions, so he turned his head, and more than a dozen lenses became layers of overlapping appearances:
"What do you mean? People from a foreign land. β
The young man puffed out.
In other words, taking sides is actually a good behavior, at least protected by one party. If you don't take sides, you will likely face accountability from both sides.
All kinds of thoughts, as well as the experiences of Ziyuan or Zijin, and Jing Yuan or Jing Jiu, all swirled in his mind.
He calmly exclaimed in the language of the cogwheel man:
"I mean, your business has nothing to do with me, I don't want to interfere, I don't want to get involved. It seems to me that this argument of yours is also really ...... It's boring! β
His words echoed through the room, clearly reaching the ears of the cogwheels who were still present.
The Antlers looked back in amazement, his long branch-like horns shaking happily. And Jing Yujiu's surprise was that the dozen or so colorful lenses were concentrated.
No one knows what Kyung's vision looks like.
Seeing that his attention was diverted, the Antlers closed the distance between him and coldly smashed the metal shard he held in his hand forward. Jing Yujiu was smashed several times in a row, but he couldn't distract himself, so he had to return to his sight and hurriedly retreated.
But by then, it was too late.
The antlers grabbed the slender neck under the barrel of the Nine Mirrors.
"You're athletic beyond my imagination, did these antlers bring you?"
The Barrel Man's barrel stared at the Antlers' head.
"Assuming that your mind organs have indeed shifted and are no longer in the original metal of memory, can it be assumed that you are no longer of our kind in the traditional sense?"
The thinking circuit of the antlers is not polite.
"You go to the prison and want to go!"
With his other hand, he slapped Kyung Kuo-koo's head, then grabbed the man's neck and was about to smash his head against the wall. He knew that all he needed to do was twist his neck, or the special mechanism in his neck. The person loses control of the barrel and becomes blind.
But at that moment, the guy who had been standing behind the barrel twisted its head.
With a twist of one hundred and eighty degrees, he looked at Shoichi from behind the lens barrel man.
His eyes glowed cold.
If Gu Chuan still looked at it, he would know that it was the owl skin gear man he had seen before.
Gu Chuan and Chu Yun had long since stopped looking at their brutal battle, but took advantage of this opportunity to jump into the gaps in the large gear mechanism in the wall and escape into the vast gear space again.
Gu Chuan said to go, Chu Yun followed beside him, and said blankly:
"So when you encounter this situation, do you want to leave directly?"
It seems that no one in the Twenty-Four Division has ever dared to leave.
Gu Chuan Zhenzhen has words:
"I don't do things I don't want to do. None of them have anything to do with me, and their views can't move me, so why should I support either of them? β
They crawled and walked among countless huge and tiny gears and shafts, until they found the exit on the other side, carefully groping their way.
It was only then that they felt all the gears they touched vibrate.
"What happened?"
What the hell are these cogwheel men using to fight-
None of this is known.
It wasn't until a moment after the invisible impact passed over their heads that an unimaginable light spread rapidly, illuminating their surroundings and feet.
"Is this a laser cannon on?"
The infinite depth of the faint whiteness met his eyes.
Although the impact did not directly harm their bodies, it did cause a change in the structure of the gears in the space.
The change of the gear structure means that the original anti-deformation frame fails, and a huge gear is smashed down immediately, and the huge gear drives more than ten gears to fall together. This kind of fall is not a complete destruction, but with the power of Qianjun, with an unprecedented approach, the upper gear and the lower gear bite after the occurrence, and the gap in the middle is completely crushed.
It's like the mouth of a giant beast.
The teeth are closed, the mouth is pressed down, and the tongue is licking upwards, and there is nowhere for those in between.
Chu Yun threw Gu Chuan forward, jumped forward synchronously, and jumped forward.
Gu Chuan pursed his lips and walked with the wind, only to hear the sound of destruction breaking the silence of the original world. They didn't fly far, but fell from one floor to another, their bodies hitting the ground, and the debris fell down one after another, falling on them one after another.
They had barely dug themselves out of the rubble when they heard the footsteps of another cogley man, attracted by the sound.
So the two men were cautious, trying to avoid contact with the cogwheel people as much as possible.
"As I recall, the gear people had a special way to connect."
Gu Chuan touched the abrasions on his bare calves and said intently.
So, right now, all the gear people may not be very friendly to them.
The only good news is that a small number of cogwheel people are fighting each other, and at most some of the cogwheel people are all asleep by a strange gas, and these two strange people are currently able to move freely, despite smelling the aroma, without abnormal blackening and sleep.
They cautiously groped and found that they were in the twelfth problem area, where Ziyuan was. They are a little more familiar with the road here.
With several roads blocked by improvised gates, they made several circles, avoiding several groups of cogwheel men who didn't know what they were searching for. As we walked, the promenade became more familiar with the surrounding environment.
Lying in the corridor was a large area of blackened, plaque-growing Gear Man.
They walked cautiously, and between the twists and turns, I don't know whether it was accident or necessity, they came to a door that they were familiar with.
This door leads to the place where they were staying.
The door is closed, but Hatsukumo can be opened.
Inside, as they could see, it was dark, and there was only a subtle inaudible sound, and at first, Gu Chuan mistakenly thought it was coming from somewhere far away.
He went to the haystack where he had slept for a long time, and began to pack up what they had bought.
"The halfling said that the matter here will not be over for a while, so we must leave as soon as possible...... Even if there is nothing, you have to go quickly. β
Otherwise, they too will be drawn into the whirlpool of strife. When the time comes, the deeper and deeper you fall, you won't be able to leave if you want to.
Chu Yun didn't seem to be listening to Gu Chuan's words.
Puzzled, she asked:
"Did you hear anything?"
"Do you mean some kind of twitching, vibrating sound?" Gu Chuan communicated with Chu Yun in the Sunset City language, "That's from a distant place, right?" Just like the previous shock. β
"No, no...... I feel ...... I felt ......"
Hatsuyun walked forward and slapped the haystack away. The long dry blades of grass flew out in a clatter, draped over Gu Chuan and Chu Yun's bodies.
Hatsuyun stared at the haystack:
"It's coming from here."
And in the haystack, a man who looked like a human girl was holding his chest, raising his head incredibly, and a pair of gloomy glass-like eyes without any emotion, looking at the first cloud in front of him.
She immediately lowered her head and returned to her original state.
It's just that at this moment, a voice sounded beside her-
A muffled voice that was not the answer to the city's words:
"One plus oneβ"
The beautiful little man's body trembled, and the gears rubbed against the dead blades of grass in a series of noises. She was extremely reluctant to open her mouth, but this instinct that had been trained for many days, she had not forgotten it, and reacted to the voice.
She said:
"Two ......"
Hatsuun sat down, sat beside her, and touched her hand curiously and quietly. And she trembled, as if she had been electrocuted, and trembled.
When Gu Chuan saw her like this, he already knew what she was doing:
"Ziyuan, you're pretending to be dead again, aren't you?"
This room is none other than Ziyuan's room.
And this person naturally will not be someone else, just Ziyuan who has put on his own skin.
At that time, Ziyuan was silent.
This kind of silence is common.
It was as if she had been buried by Gu Chuan and Chu Yun before, as if she had been burned by the aliens who had done the ritual earlier, and as if she had been used by a large number of aliens as some kind of delicate machine instrument before.
All animals in the world feel pain.
But if you can be like a stone, silently, without thinking, forever in the same place, let the water flow, let the wind blow, you will not feel tormented at all.
Rather, you can calmly act as a bystander.
Then, calmly continue to exist in the group of Gear People, as if he was always exactly the same as them, always ...... It's no different.