When Kyunggay saw them, he stepped back and asked another gearman to take care of the work here. He then led them through a cloister that was being renovated. This corridor is littered with remnants of the vandalism of the Mirror Tube Man. A couple of gear men are cleaning. When Gu Chuan was thinking about what they were doing to clean up here without the order of their mentor, Jing Yu said:

"I'm so sorry for what Nine did to the two guests."

His tone was still as usual, but Gu Chuan didn't dare to communicate with him casually anymore.

It turned out that Jing Gao was just one of the cogwheel people's order, but now he represents the creation of a new order...... Although no one knows what this new order will become, and it is not known what the fate of the Gear People will be.

The young man only said:

"You're so polite...... Don't get in the way, it's none of your business, he's been punished. ”

There is a room with a special sign at the end of the cloister. In this room, bookcases are embedded in three walls, and glass books are placed on each cabinet. The glass book at the top is a ladder for some gear people.

There are lights on the top. At this time, the lamp no longer kept a moderate brightness, but shone on the glass books on the three walls with all its might, which was refracted by the glass books, so that the boundless words and patterns of the glass books were reflected on the walls, and it was colorful and dreamy for a while, as if there were countless schools of fish roaming in the light in the walls.

The school of fish is a reflection of the words and patterns engraved on the glass book.

There are several gears in the middle, which act as chairs.

Jing Yu asked the two to sit down, and Gu Chuan carefully sat on the gears. Chu Yun didn't sit down, she was looking at the projection of thousands of glass books.

The faceless and headless gear man didn't care, and only said:

"I've heard about you from Zaiyi, are you going further south?"

"Yes."

The young man has never been accustomed to Jingyuan. The two horns of this headless strange man, in the boundless light and shadow, seemed to hold up a transparent cup, volatilizing smoke that could not tell whether it was chaos or dreams.

The light was deflected where he was supposed to mimic a human head.

He asked Gu Chuan if he was ready, had all the things left behind been found? The things that were left behind were like prisons, and Gu Chuan said that they had all been found and collected.

Subsequently, Jing Yu said:

"And do you know what the southernmost part of the Cogwheel exploration looks like?"

This question fell on the young man.

"I want to hear about it."

"It's a special area, vast enough to rival the Great Wilderness, and its depth is bottomless."

"What does it look like?"

"We say that the great wilderness is made of sand." Jing Yu recited the name of the topography of this area, and he said, "This area is called 'Netherworld.'" The 'Netherworld' is similar to the Great Wilderness in this respect. It's all made up of liquids and gases. ”

Gu Chuan pondered for a long time what the pronunciation of 'Nether' meant, and when he heard Jing Yu's explanation, he suddenly realized:

"It's the sea!"

Secluded means deep and profound.

And the dark is the meaning of water.

In the language of the Gear Man, the Netherworld is a deep and endless water.

Isn't that what the sea means?

The young man could not help but begin to conceive of the voyage at sea with great interest.

He hadn't seen the sea of this world yet, and Chu Yun hadn't seen it either, and he had only read the concept of the sea from the booklet Gu Chuan had written. So the amorous maiden immediately forgot about the glass book, and settled aside, listening intently to their conversation.

"Hai, I understand what you call it in your language." "But the nature of the Netherworld is slightly different from that of water, and it is the furthest that the Gear People of the past can reach. The cogwheel people of the world's problems have mostly lost contact with them after entering the Netherworld. Right now, I don't think you'll have a hard time navigating the Netherworld. ”

Gu Chuan didn't speak.

He knew that since Jing Yu had said this to him, he must have something to say.

"But we can prepare a boat for you. The ship was intended to be activated in the original world question, and it was proven to be able to navigate the Netherworld. ”

Sure enough, Kyunggai then said their plan.

"This is a great gift that we can't bear, is there anything you need us to do together? I think we are on the same page in answering the world's problems. ”

Gu Chuan was calm and demure, and did not immediately express joy.

Who knows, Jing Yu shook his head.

He said:

"The solution to the world's problems is no longer a necessary and collective task that we must undertake. It was reduced to a personal interest. And very few of us have that interest...... Some things are wasted if they are stored for a long time. You are our friends, and we are willing to make amends for Nine's faults. But personally...... As a friend, I have a small thing that I want to ask for. ”

Gu Chuan smiled:

"Tell me, we'll listen."

Kyungyo got up from his gears and took down three of the special glass books from the shelves. The three glass books were apparently newly manufactured, with smooth and neat surfaces without any signs of use.

After Gu Chuan took it, he found that the three glass books were locked, and the light was shining on them, so it was impossible to project the contents of them. These three books have the same name, which can be roughly called the Arazuka Collection.

"These are three historical records, all written with the same content, and all three are the same."

He said.

"So what are we going to do?"

Gu Chuan looked at Jing Yu in a daze, as if he had reacquainted with him.

And he stood in the midst of the scattered light and shadow, remembering the question that the Celestial Master had asked him.

The long-planned cogwheel man had no face, only the limbs of the cog, and he could not express happiness or sorrow, so that no one would know whether he was happy or sad, but could only hear his usual whisper:

"What is engraved on it is a story about the city of answers, there is a past, there is a present, but there is definitely no future, and Arazuka is our history. Chuan, and Yun, from the standpoint of friends, I want you to do something very simple-"

He said.

That is to take the Arazuka set away.

It is better to take it to a distant place, a place that all the gear people cannot reach.

As you travel, the Arazuka Collection will surely come to an end, and it will be illuminated by the foreign sun in the distant future, and then show an interesting and unknown distance and many things that have happened.

Jing Yu didn't say what it was for, but the more Gu Chuan listened, the more serious he became, and he accepted the copies of the three Arazuka Collections with great solemnity and almost solemnity.

Then he promised:

"I can assure you that I will carry the Arazuka with me until the end of my journey."

Although he still didn't have anything to observe, Gu Chuan at that time felt as if Jing Yu was smiling.

That's all Jing Yu had to say in this conversation, Gu Chuan and Chu Yun left the room with Arazuka Ji, and Jing Yu sat back on the gears.

He knew he was now ready to start dealing with what the mentors were doing.

Those things, no gear man has ever touched. However, through the observation of the aliens, some of the Gear People, including Kyogaku, have a rough idea of what it looks like.

He looked intently at the wall,

On the walls, the light and shadow are dappled, and countless swims and changes, like a good daydream.

"I still have a very long career ahead of me, so I need to be patient."

He said to himself.

And when the young men went out, they bumped into another young cogwheel who was still waiting.

"Zijin!"

Gu Chuan called out the name of the young gear man in surprise. Zijin laughed:

"You're done!"

Gu Chuan likes to get along with Zijin, Chu Yun doesn't, she thinks that this gear man is too clingy and noisy, which will remind her of the junior citizens who visited the crown with their elders. She walked behind the two of them, and followed them unconcernedly to the room where it had been.

Gu Chuan said to Zijin.

"yes, that's it, so what's the matter with you?"

"Can't I look for you if there's nothing to do?" Zijin was not very happy, and he didn't know what mechanism to pass, but the skin he was wearing actually puffed out his cheeks, and he said, "I heard that you are going to answer the world's questions, right?" ”

"That's right, it's about to go."

But the plans can't keep up with the changes, and they can take more things with them.

"Sure enough...... So you're gone, will you come back? ”

Zijin asked eagerly.

Gu Chuan said:

"It's hard to say, but most likely it won't work."

"Oops......" Zijin couldn't hide his loss at all, he opened the door of the room, squatted to the side, saw Gu Chuan's face on the side of the grass, and asked, "Will there be people like you from far, far away places in the future?" ”

"I think there will be."

The young man remembered the rumors of Sunset City that many ancestors had come to this land from far away, and that the great wilderness might sooner or later meet distant migrants.

It's just that the path they are walking is by no means straight to the south like Gu Chuan.

Zijin sighed even more:

"How could it be...... In the history of my race, there are very few records of strangers, and in my life cycle, I am afraid that you are the only ones......"

"But the mentors who forced you to dismantle yourself have all stopped, and your race no longer has the troubles of the life cycle, and you can live as long as you want."

Gu Chuan turned over on the haystack, crossed Erlang's legs, bit a straw, and said casually.

Who knew that these words made Zijin even more sad.

The young cogwheel man said excitedly:

"I'm starting to feel like it's a bad thing for the mentors to stop...... If the mentors still existed, I would, definitely go with you! ”

These words scared Chu Yun, who was just a little sleepy, stupid.

Gu Chuan turned his head and saw the determined light in Zijin's clear eyes.

But for a moment, the light dimmed, and he lowered his head.

Zijin is very sad, but the gear man will not cry. He said:

"I've heard that you want to recruit gear people to act together, but I really want to go with you...... If the tutor is still there, I just need to apply to participate in the answers to the world's questions, and other things have nothing to do with me, but now, now, there are a lot of messy things, I really don't understand, why...... Are there so many gear men going to fight with us? They can do what they like, so why hide in the alleys, hide in the walls, and go against us? ”

At that time, because of the large amount of resources, now they are in your hands, you will naturally be a thorn in the side of the disgruntled cogwheel people! Strange things and the city of answers are all things they want to fight for, how can they simply let go?

These words rolled in Gu Chuan's mouth for a long time, and he didn't say them.

He didn't know how to comfort this simple gear man, only to see Zijin hugging his legs and chattering:

"Ziyuan is also ...... Why did Ziyuan steal the ghost ship and run away? Where is she going...... I obviously told Jing Gao and Zai Yi that I would lend you the ghost ship...... I broke my promise......"

Most things, Zijin can be regarded as not caring. Only breaking his word, only being considered lying, is unbearable for him.

He started saying sorry loudly.

Hatsuun covered his ears with his hands and hid to the side.

And Gu Chuan smiled and said:

"What are you apologizing, that damn thing, it didn't belong to us in the first place...... If you don't lend it to us, you don't lend it to us, and you don't owe us anything. ”

Even if it is Ziyuan, there is no debt.

On the contrary, Gu Chuan was wondering if this was the retribution for the sin he committed by abusing Ziyuan in the first place.

"But ......"

"No, but!"

Zijin's mental illness lies in this kind of dead end. He will be incredibly convinced of his feelings.

Gu Chuan tried to lure him to the side to divert his attention:

"Besides, we're leaving, do you want to hear that? Don't you want to hear about the sun, the stars, and the sea? ”

"Sun...... ...... with the sea"

When Zijin heard a few words, he was fascinated.

He silently propped his head up with his hands. At that time, he was no longer like the original frizzy psychopath cogwheel who sought the miracle of the Great Wilderness, but like Ziyuan...... He was sitting in Ziyuan's original position, listening as lonely and quietly as Ziyuan.

He knew the sun from the answers to the questions of the celestial bodies.

He asked:

"Is the sun really eternal?"

At that time, Gu Chuan replied:

"Maybe, maybe not. I haven't seen the end of the sun with my own eyes, but I've heard about the end of the sun elsewhere. Even the seemingly eternal celestial bodies hanging high in the sky will come to an end. Their way to the end is to burn and glow until it burns out. ”

"Is the moon too?"

"Moon...... Perhaps. ”

The young man propped his head in one hand, his body shining in the bright light. The girl, on the other hand, lowered her palm covering her ears and rolled around on the haystack.

Her gray eyes fixed on the young man's body, and did not look away.

"In short, a celestial body that will shine by itself will also go to the end of extinction after counting, counting, and countless generations of life. The precursor to their extinction is that they turn red first and then become larger. Here they are, like gaseous fuel, and the whole world here will be plunged into a fiery red twilight of despair and dead silence, and everything on the ground will be charred in the heat, and it will no longer be the same. And such a situation may continue for an unknown number of tens of millions of years, and we will definitely not see it. ”

Outside the city of the Gear Man, the first quarter moon is still hanging high in the sky, watching all the warmth and coldness in the world. People nest on a small haystack, but their minds follow the knowledge from another world, put on wings, fly to the green underworld, and pay attention to the end and beginning of everything.

"But the enlarged sun is not the end of the celestial bodies. Their end point is a phenomenon called a 'nova explosion' or a 'supernova explosion'. Everything that the life that the original celestial body has passed through will burn and shrink again, but this time it will be very fast, only in an instant, it will completely burst out. And the light at that time was enough to illuminate every corner of the world, illuminate all places in heaven and earth. ”

After a long and long burning wait, the curtain will come to an end in the most splendid and spectacular way.

People will refer to that time and those people as the stars of history.

In this desolate and isolated world of eternal darkness, will there be such stars, in the midst of long and short storms, which will eternally and completely change life's perception of everything and everything, and become a great microcosm of long history?

The young man stretched out his right hand in confusion toward the light above his head.

In this day and age, no one knows about it.

Because history is quietly waiting for people to come.