And under the moonlight, the wind and sand are like snow-white waves on the earth.

In the extreme depths of the city, Gu Chuan looked at the words engraved on the stone, and the words left by the creatures of some era were passed on to the future. And at that time, Chu Yun squatted in another corner and shouted to Gu Chuan proudly:

"Ah, Chuan, I found it!"

"Oh, oh...... I know. ”

Gu Chuan absentmindedly pressed the floor, stood up, and walked towards Chu Yun's side. He saw a lattice larger than four or five people, with the pilot light squarely placed.

At first glance, the pilot light looks very large, but in fact it is very light, and you only need to get a small rope to drag it behind and take it away. Gu Chuan took out the rope from his backpack and tried to tie it. When tying, his gaze wanders, always observing the four directions. Unconsciously, he looked at Ziyuan again.

At that time, Ziyuan squatted on the side of the door, hugged his legs tightly, and almost curled up in a ball.

After the rope was tied, Chu Yun took the pilot light and watched Gu Chuan approach Ziyuan.

The young man said to the cogwheel man,

"What are you doing now?"

"I'm waiting for the end of the matter." Ziyuan said in a dull and sluggish voice, "If the naturalist gives me orders, I will do what the naturalist instructs. ”

Hatsuyun unhappily stomped a few steps on the floor. The hollow floor made a series of brisk noises, and her attention was drawn to the floor beneath her feet.

"Everyone here is down, and if you get hit by those guys who are raising the flag, you're going to get the stickers peeled open and infected with those weird spores, right?"

“……”

Ziyuan fell into a strange silence.

She kept her head in her lap so she couldn't see anything else.

After a while, she seemed to be afraid that Gu Chuan would pronounce the password of one plus one again, and said:

"It doesn't matter, I'm ready."

She wasn't afraid of that.

"This ...... Now that this Yuyu Mentor on one wall has fallen, but the person who defeated Yuyu Mentor is not there, is it Zijin and Jing Yu who have gone to the deeper Problem Kingdom? ”

Ziyuan did not answer.

She suddenly stopped talking.

Maybe the affairs of the mentor should not be discussed with outsiders.

The young man hid his loss and said:

"Sorry for the interruption...... Thank you for helping us a lot all the time......"

Then, he waved his hand to Hatsukumo. Hatsuun, who was tap-dancing on the floor, quickly hid her posture and suddenly froze on the floor, as if pretending that she had never made a noise when she was jumping around.

She dragged the pilot light and walked generously.

The existence of Ziyuan indicates that there is objectively a path that can lead directly to the twelfth problem area above.

The two of them worked together to push the gear gate again.

The geardoor rattled again, and the light from the fallen gearman re-entered the room. So the colonies on the wall and the boundless stone pillars were all revealed, and one after another the light circles were imaged up and down.

It's just that things don't always go as planned.

Outside the door, there are people.

A familiar shadow stood at the edge of a dozen lights, the glowing barrel of the head aimed at their heads.

The young man's hand immediately stopped at the edge of the gear. He looked at the haunting cogwheel man in disbelief and muttered his name:

"The Nine ...... of Jingyuan"

This cogwheel man who has fallen into madness, his body is in tatters, and all kinds of machinery have ejected his body, like iron needles sticking out of his body.

In such a situation, there is no mechanical beauty to be seen, only eerie horror.

The monstrous monster said coldly:

"This newcomer can't answer your questions, I can. I'll tell you! The Celestial Masters and the Celestial Masters dwell in the deepest part of the City of Answers, and my people are about to change the face of the City, and you will not be able to leave. You are about to face the most complete hunt for you by me and my fellow citizens. ”

And the surface of his objective lens is shimmering with bottomless fluorescence.

Few people know how deep the city of answers is and how complex its path is.

Those who are not responsible for the gears of the first and second questions will not step into this depth of the city of answers, and those who have not mastered the gears of the discipleship level will know very little about the structure of the city of answers.

Kyo Kyung-koo's statement did not lie.

At that time, the ranks of the rebel army were at the soles of Gu Chuan's feet.

At the bottom of the fourth problem area is the beginning of the first problem area.

After the fall of Mentor Yuyu, Jing Yuan's team, together with Zijin and Lionhead's team, was able to converge from two directions, and successfully reached the deepest part of the city, the first problem area.

"But I never knew what the first problem was!"

Zijin, who was looking around, was curious about this, so he asked Jing Yuan.

Zijin knew that Jing Yuan was the first problem solver, and because of his pioneering contribution to the solution, he achieved the most special "doctor" rank among the disciples.

And the layout of the First Problem Kingdom that he saw with his own eyes was the same as all the other Problem Kingdoms, which made Zijin feel inexplicable regret and loss. He had always thought that the first question, the first of the seventeen questions, would be very different.

"The first question is very mundane, and if you knew, you would get bored."

Jing Yu touched Zijin's head and smiled.

Many of the rebellious Cogwheel people had arrived in the depths for the first time, and they had conducted a carpet search of the area under the command of the psychopathic Cogwheel who had previously worked in the First Problem Area.

The original cogwheel people in the first problem area also fell to the ground, falling into a long boundless dream.

"Tell me!"

Zijin asked enthusiastically.

"Okay, okay, actually, the statement of the first question is very simple."

Standing in the beams of light of different colors, it is like walking in a sea of dreams. The boundless light illuminates the surface of the wall, making all the textures clear.

He said the first question was:

"How did the process of our understanding happen?"

What can we know?

Or, how is it possible to know.

Wandering in the midst of the flying shadows of the walls, the Lion-headed Cogwheel men soon reported that they had found a recorded hiding place. The two of them walked forward and saw that it was a small chamber hidden in the wall.

The layout is the same as the chambers leading to the psychiatric plaza in each problem area.

The space in the compartment is small and can only accommodate two people.

If you force a squeeze, you can sit in the third or fourth gear man.

"You can stop and wait for good news from us."

Jing Yu said to everyone.

The psychopathic cogwheel people didn't want to go down, so they stood aside and saw Zijin and Jing Gao, as well as the lion-headed cogwheel man entering.

Then there was a loud noise, and the enclosed chamber began to descend.

The compartment doesn't follow the trajectory of the arc gear, it doesn't look like a Ferris wheel.

It goes straight down.

At first it was darkness, with only the fluorescent glow from the bulb eyes of the three cogwheel men illuminating each other. Soon, however, a little fluorescence flew out of the glass-like walls, polishing the cables of the power supply that were next to the compartment.

The fluorescence that flew from outside the wall made Zijin feel uneasy.

Kyunggae, on the other hand, remembered what he had seen when he first went to the Psychiatric Plaza.

"People claim to be able to see through the future only because they know exactly what they are about it...... Nothing. ”

He thought.

After coming to the lower level of the psychopathic gear man, Kyoka has rightfully seen the globe gear man. At that time he asked it:

"Now that you know the cause and effect, now, I ask you, what world did I come from?"

"You're from a barren world." The gearman with a globe-like head said, "And has died many times." ”

"Haha, what will my future become?"

The gearman of the globe was silent for a moment, with a thoughtful expression.

At that time, the people watching the excitement next to him laughed:

"Haha, later, he'll say that your matter is very complicated, and he doesn't know what you want to ask! You're good to go. ”

The globe gear man was unhappy, and he began to mumble that the consequences of each soul's past life were very complicated, and he spent his whole life not being able to explain even the affairs of one person. He said unhappily:

"Alright, alright, let me tell you, sooner or later you will turn into dirt in the sea."

Sea?

The cogwheel people only have the concept of crossing the sea in the records.

But...... Turned into dirt?

Jing Yu was momentarily amused, recalling with interest how he had replied at the time. But halfway through his thoughts, Zijin, who was confused, curious, and frightened to the extreme, let out a strange cry:

"It's getting brighter and brighter!"

The narrow chamber cascades endlessly down the staircase that no one knows, like a stone falling into a deep, dark well with no bottom or water.

When it fell to a certain point, there was a faint upward light flickering everywhere. Bit by bit, clumps and clusters, like fireflies, like the rippling moonlight reflected in the water.

The boundless moonlight swept upwards as the chamber descended rapidly, deducing many bizarre scenes, as if ink had been soaked into the water and the boundless scene was scattered.

"Don't be afraid, enter, we're heading below the body interface, that's normal. Below the body interface, the propagation velocity of the probe waves used by the world's problems increases significantly, in other words, the density of matter here is much greater than that of the rocks on the surface of the earth. ”

"But, these things are obviously liquids! I feel like they're flowing next to this room......"

Zijin's face was pressed against the glass-like walls of the chamber. He saw a number of sticks floating above the departing body. These sticks are geared machines, and as they float, they have limited detection of the nature and movement of liquids.

"Did the answerers of the questions of matter and the question of the world tell you that the density of a liquid must be sparser than that of a solid? Or, has someone ever told you that what moves has to be liquid? Enter. ”

Jing Yu held his horns and asked quietly.

Zijin was stunned.

On closer thought, this was indeed his own vain conjecture, and no one had ever been able to tell him with certainty that he had either of these two points.

"You know a lot, Kyokai."

Zijin couldn't help but sigh.

The average Ph.D. is nothing more than the knowledge of everything he needs to know about the questions he needs to answer. And Kyung's knowledge had gone far beyond that boundary, making him think of the omniscient mentor.

"It's not a big deal, as long as you live long enough, all knowledge is at your fingertips."

He said.

Without saying a word, the Lion-headed Cogwheel Man leaned against the wall, looking out over the other side of the boundless world. This cogwheel had served directly with Guru Junpei, so he knew that they were in what Guru Junpei called the "ladder of descent", that is, the "well" dug by the diggers of the world's problems to the bottom of the world.

A well that may be hundreds of kilometers or tens of millions of meters long.

When the glass-like thing reached the bottom, it flashed a burst of red-blue light, indicating that the people sitting in it had arrived.

"Naturalist, are you there too?"

He saw the flickering of light and asked.

"Kids, your performance has always been in my eyes."

The flickering of the lights conveyed a complex language that only the Cogwheel Man knew.

"Are you disappointed with our performance?"

Kyo knew that the naturalist had dismantled all of his body a long time ago, so the current naturalist was just a strange signal wandering through the city that had been constantly renovating for thousands of years.

The Lion-headed Cogwheel Man remained silent and silently followed behind Kyokyo.

And Zijin was frightened and a little curious and walked in front of Jing Yuan.

At that time, the naturalist said with great sadness:

"I'm sorry, kid, I don't know what I'm going to say to you right now."

Whether it's life, or death, whether it's the truth of our love for you, or the love we have received as Creators, maybe it's all the same, but I don't know where I should begin.

"It's all right, naturalist, I am very grateful to you for allowing us to be born into the world and giving us life, something precious."

Kyunggai walked forward.

At the end of the deepest room in the depths of the earth, there was a huge stone tablet, densely packed with all kinds of words written in a language that Zijin could not understand.

In front of the stele is a small altar with the head of a goat.

The sheep's head was grinning at Kyoka.

The two empty and dark eye holes attracted Zijin's gaze.

"What's that? Kyunggay. ”

Jing Yu said calmly:

"It was an ancient animal that lived as long as it died, discovered and made into our greatest mentor in the last time of the Tempest. The name of this mentor ......"

Jing Yu Says:

"We usually call them celestials."

Celestial Mentor.

Zijin froze in place, thinking that he had seen a god.

All Gearmen were born under the witness of the Celestial Mentor and were given a name by the Celestial Mentor.

In this sense, the Celestial Master is the father of all Gearmen. And the father of a race is undoubtedly the god of that race.

Zijin saw Jing Yu respectfully kowtow in front of the goat's head—

Signify a supreme piety.

But the goat's head seemed to be amused by Kyo Gao.

It bared its teeth, and the gaps between its teeth were filled with liquid left by something of unknown age.

"If you want to defeat us, why do you bow down before us? Get what you have to do and go back - your road is longer than ours. ”

It said silently.

Thousands of streams of light float in the boundless darkness. The lowest part of the Gear Man world is as transparent as crystal, so that no one can tell whether the flowing light is originally there outside, or the bright interior brings to the outside world, and can only see the brilliant flow constantly becoming bigger and bigger, bulging up, and then like a cloud hanging from the sky, it becomes ethereal.

"Now that I've come here, I'm fully prepared, Celestial Master, and I ask you to rest in peace. I'm just expressing my respect for you in an era. ”

Kyo stood up and pulled out a strange black box from the altar under the goat's head, with a clockwork stuck in it, as if it were the key to open the box. According to the knowledge left by the ancient gear people, the principle of the black box is not explained, but these black boxes are indeed the most core part of the seven masters.

The first mentor, the Celestial, with the help of other mentors, dismantled his entire self to make the Gear Man. And the dismantling of the last mentor will naturally not be completed by the mentor, but by the first batch of gear people.

In the end, the instructors are left with only the parts necessary to perform their functions.

These sections vary.

The only thing that is connected is the black box, which is equivalent to the heart.

"On the great wilderness, you have seen hundreds of alien races change their rights, some alien races have weakened and perished since then, and some alien races have taken advantage of the situation to rise and become the overlord of the area again, and the cycle of movement will make people feel bored."

Celestial Mentor said.

"I didn't expect that at this time, we would be finished by offspring. I thought it would be a little longer to see at least one of the seventeen responsibilities we have been given an answer. ”

The naturalist spoke lonely.

Under the gaze of Zijin and Zaiyan, Kyunggai used his own hand to grip the clockwork of the black box.

"Yes, the cycle of movement, and the stagnant movement, can be boring, now, let's get started."

His horns hung low, like the most devout believer, holding a supreme canon in his hand.

"Our times have changed, and we no longer want to submit to the order you have established."

You must know that nothing will be immutable, and those who expect to be eternal in matter will only be betrayed by the times in the end.

In the past, Kyokyo, who was faced with the globe gear man, replied like this.

However, life or death is a trail. Even if your words are true, and I will become the dirt in the sea, my existence will bring an indelible mark to me before this, for the gear people, for the great wilderness, and for this world.

Now, the time has come.

God is going to die.