Standing on the platform, you would think that this ship is small compared to the huge hull of those on the water of Sunset City, but when you get closer, you can realize the length and depth of this ship.

It is larger and larger, hidden in the dark and the boundless water.

As for this underground shipyard, it is even larger, and it is the result of the cooperation of the Gear Man's original Eighth Question and Ninth Question Answering Group. The erection of a large number of chimeric gears resembles an intricate three-dimensional labyrinth, and the water surface under the pontoon is reminiscent of a large man-made lake.

There are illuminated lights on this side and searchlights on the other side of the lake. Through a special arrangement, the light evenly illuminates the entire "shipyard room". The surface of the water glows with a wonderful color.

In terms of its fully enclosed construction, it is closer to some kind of submarine. Considering the cross-section, it is similar to a train, and its size is also between the train and the nuclear submarine that Gu Chuan knows.

Gu Chuan kicked the suspension bridge hanging on the water from the platform. The bridge is solid. He walked confidently to the side of the line of writing, which was also in front of the door. A door is considered a door because it is protruding. In the gap between the door and the hull, there are traces of a gear mechanism.

He saw that the metal of the hull had hardly any traces of welding or other connections, and it was almost flawless, like a whole piece of black jade gem, which shone with a metallic luster in the light.

The ship is completely black.

Black is a good color, the young man thought, in the words of the designer, solemn, mysterious, and a little, a little cool.

The hand didn't listen to his brain, and took the initiative to take the risk, and went straight to the black jade case. The surface of the hull gives a cool, smooth glass touch that is pleasant to the young man. He struck a few more times, but no sound came out, as if it had been sucked into the black metal made of an unknown material. It was the hand he used to knock the case that went numb.

Death or Birth, let's call it Death or Birth, is the most exquisite industrial crystallization of the gear man. The mystery hidden in it may have long since transcended the common sense of the 21st century.

He rubbed his numb hand with his other hand, but he was even more excited. Gu Chuan said firmly:

"It's a great ship, I'm afraid it's stronger than all the ships in my hometown."

Zaiyi, who came over, hid his pride very well, and pretended to be calm and said:

"But the ship probably hasn't left the port, so it's probably risky to fly it."

Chu Yun walked behind Zaiyan, she was different from Gu Chuan, she really felt that the boat and the boat, even if they looked different, were not too different, and the ordinary boat in Sunset City could not be said to be good or bad.

Could it be that the young man saw something she didn't see, and thought that the ship would be able to complete the voyage?

The girl guessed blankly.

Gu Chuan stood next to the name of the ship, which was about the same size as the etching of the name of the ship. He smiled back and said to the approaching lion:

"Then we'll have to see what the risks are! By the way, how can we get in? ”

Zai Yan was dumbfounded, and he didn't know.

Gu Chuan laughed heartily:

"Let's find out if there's any more explanation."

They retreated to shore and dispersed, searching for the workbench left behind by a few cogwheel men. Jae-chan soon found a glass book, and when he looked at it with his own eyes, the words of the glass book were fully reflected on the workbench.

"Is there a way?"

The other two, who had found nothing, gathered around.

"There is no method in it, it is a design report, and it will not be written on how to open the door. I'm looking for the design part of the door. ”

Zai Yi saw quickly:

"I'm afraid it's a bit of a hassle to open this door, because by design, it's seamless, and it prevents all outside matter from entering it through the channels of purification."

He led the two of them back to the pontoon.

"If you want to open it from the outside world, you need to rely on what should be an inductive mechanism, a special thing called 'child and mother substance', this substance, even if it is separated, but if you hit its fragments, the other fragments will also vibrate as if they were hit. This step-over response can also be used for door opening codes. As it is written, the code is a series of vibrations that I will teach you later...... But it's best if you also read the design manual roughly, and you can tell me if there are any words you don't know. ”

Hearing this, Chu Yun's brows furrowed.

The description of the substance reminded her of a strange thing called the Earthquake Stone in Sunset City.

She didn't have time to think about it, and heard Gu Chuan ask Zaiyan again:

"But we don't have this kind of substance? Does the booklet say where the parent substance is? ”

"That's not written in the design manual...... We may need to open the door manually...... Fortunately, the door is protruding, because in this state, it can be opened directly by force without the need for a key. If it closes completely, we really won't be able to open it. ”

Speaking of which, there is still a blessing in Zaiyi.

Gu Chuan and Chu Yun felt that they could always find a way, and they only said yes.

Then, for a moment, he observed the gears in the gap, then opened his arms and leaned his hands against the two slits in the door, snapping into the position of two of the obvious transmission gears. With a muffled grunt, steam began to emerge from the whole body, and all the subcutaneous mechanisms were turning as hard as they could.

He was pulling at the door of the hull with all his might.

The boat itself remained motionless, and the pontoon shook violently as he exerted his force. The water rippled, splashing ominous flowers. Then the finger-thick probe pin, which hung on the water, also began to swing. The readings in it are variable.

Gu Chuan and Chu Yun leaned against the railing and saw the silent giant ship make a noise for the first time, which was the accidental rotation of the gears that were supposed to rotate silently under the force of the load. They heard Zaiyi shouting again:

"Step back."

Then, too, he stepped back, and the door, under the influence of the gear mechanism, began to continue to protrude outwards until it hung over the pontoon.

As for the long-dusted space inside, it appeared for the first time in the eyes of three visitors who were about to travel far away.

It was a simple layout style that conformed to the aesthetics of the gear man, there was no superfluous trace, all the walls, floors and ceilings were a clean silver-white close to glass, and even seemed to be able to see the depths of the walls, there were looming etching-like wires.

They cautiously walked inside, and found that the depths of the hull were dark, without any protruding glass bulbs—a kind of lighting device commonly used by cogwheel people, and their glass ball eyes were about the same principle.

"No lights?"

"Wait a minute......," Zaiyi took out the glass book, his eyes lit up, and searched, "Yes." ”

His hand tapped against the silvery, glassy wall.

Gu Chuan didn't understand this action at first, but he soon knew where the light would come from.

It's the building itself.

All the walls, all the floors, all the ceilings, were dim at first, but with the regular tapping of the sudden, there was a sudden light.

At first, there was a flickering light, like a light bulb warming up, but after a few breaths, a steady and bright fluorescence illuminated the three of them.

The brightness of this light may have maintained the usual gloom of the Gear Man, but because it was emitted evenly from all walls, ceilings, and floors, it was more than enough to meet the brightness requirements of the two Sunset Cities.

"It's beautiful......"

The young man muttered.

The silvery-white walls were spotless as usual, except for the floor, which was stained with unclean dust as the three hurried travelers entered.

This peculiar display of delicacy often made him feel as if the Gearmen and the Sunset City people were not creatures of the same world at all.

Hatsuyun blinked, feeling a little fancy.

If you take a few steps forward, you will see a fork between the left and right, and there is a large road leading to the unknown head and tail.

Zai Yan said to the design book that it was a large walkway that ran through the hull.

"There should be a staircase."

He tapped on the symbol of a piece of gear embedded in the wall. With a loud sound, a wall with no visible gaps slowly moved, revealing a stairwell that could accommodate three people to stand, both upward and downward.

"The ship has three floors...... It's not strictly hierarchical, some rooms are side-by-side, because they need to be built with enough height. ”

Zai Yan led the two of them to the top floor. There is also a large corridor on the top floor that runs through the entire ship.

"According to the design document, the bottom layer is generally the control module, the drive module and the breeding module of the waterwheel and sail, which are related to the direct operation of the hull. And the top level has very complex functions that are related to the needs of the World Problem Solving Group, including water quality detection, gas detection, solids analysis, and a ...... Something you should really like, Kawa, friend. ”

"Why do you say I like what I like, how do you know it's what I like?"

Gu Chuan was curious.

"Because you didn't like that telescope very much?" "There's an identical one at the front here." ”

They reached the end of the hallway and opened a standard gear door. Inside the door was a huge telescope that travelers had been familiar with.

"It's attached to the eye-like symbol of the bow of the ship!"

Gu Chuan immediately realized this, and walked forward, putting on the eyepiece, but only saw darkness.

"This thing hasn't started yet, and even if it does, we're still underground!"

Zai Yan said.

"Indeed, it is so."

The young man laughed a few times, and let go of his hands merrily.

"Is there anything else to do?"

"Search as many rooms as you can," Jae-chan suggested, "perhaps, the extra baby and mother substances are placed somewhere." ”

They walked back, room by room.

Not only are the rooms in two rows on the left and right, but there are also rooms on the top and hidden rooms underneath, each with a different purpose.

But their role is all part of the research of the cogwheel people. The expected occupancy size of the Gear People is 300 people, which is more than enough for the Gear People to live comfortably.

This was also the minimum number of individuals that the World Questions Group had decided at the beginning to warrant the voyage. Three hundred people need to be responsible for the maintenance and operation of the entire ship and its inhabitants, as well as the observation of the answers to the world's problems, and the personnel of the manual believe that it is still tight, so they reserve the interface for expansion. ”

Zai Yi explained.

Then, the question goes back to the old way -

The cogwheel people who answer the world's problems are crazy too much, and they can't even make up three hundred people, let alone more people.

Neither Gu Chuan nor Chu Yun had any concept of this number, so they didn't know how exaggerated and more than enough this ship that could carry three hundred people and had the ability to expand was for their careers.

At that time, they just searched for the child and mother substance all the way, and found nothing along the way, and then they began to feel that the real size of the inside of the ship had gradually exceeded their imagination, and even a little empty and terrifying, as if they were deep in some unknown labyrinth.

The never-ending curves are as terrible as the narrow space and the vast wilderness.

Huge spaces are scary, and small spaces are scary.

The former is the infinity in which oneself is submerged, and the latter is the finite in which oneself is bound.

At that time, Hatsuyun's gaze wandered left and right. She always had a lot of surprising intuition. The more she walked, the more lonely she felt, and she couldn't help but say:

"Could it be that this ship is hiding some mentally ill cogwheel man we don't know?"

Since there are many people who have gone crazy with the answers to the world's problems.

The unifying characteristic of the mentally ill cogwheel people is that they can no longer continue to carry out the labor activities arranged by the seven great teachers.

"My compatriots who suffer from mental disorders...... It can't be. Zai Yan said unhappily, "Don't look at this base is so empty now, it turns out that there are hundreds of people here, these people are staring at it, how can anyone avoid our gaze?" ”

He said as he opened the door.

The room inside this door is nothing special, just a few storage compartments.

Each of the three of them came to a storage box, ready to open the storage box and search for it.

Gu Chuan saw that in the storage box he had opened, there were neatly placed more than a dozen crystal clear broken stones. With a slight shake of the box, the rubble rolled and collided with each other with a crackling sound.

Then, he immediately laid the box flat.

It stands to reason that once the stone has reached stability, it will no longer collide and make sounds.

But these stones ...... It doesn't seem to be the same.

One stone vibrates, and all the stones vibrate in sync.

These vibrations interfere with each other, so that the stones that vibrate synchronously will collide with other stones that have already been shaken. In this way, the stone that has been shaken again begins to vibrate, and the other stones replicate the vibration and begin to shake.

All the rubble is shaking, as long as they are placed together, and they are not a whole, they will shake endlessly, until they become a whole again in a small space, in the collision of matter with matter.

This unusual and astonishing transmissibility gives a phenomenon that dazzles young people. He exclaimed in amazement:

"This ...... This should be the substance of the child! ”

But no one responded to him.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw Chu Yun's face was troubled, and Zai Yan's face was ugly.

So Gu Chuan dragged the box of the alphabet substance and walked in their direction, and saw that in the two boxes opened by the two people, there were hands, feet, torn skin, gears, and a head that could barely be seen to be wearing humanoid skin.

These parts are all independent, and no two things are connected.

It was the corpse of a Cogwheel Man, and it had been dismembered.