The wind howls across the wilderness, striking the stones that the Cogwheel Man has built up as an icon. The change of clouds and fog is unpredictable all year round, like a never-ending dream.

Of the seventeen problems studied by the Cogwheel Man, the sixth is called the death problem.

The study of death is so simple that anyone can understand it, and the general description is: "What will become of us when we die."

Since the body will rot into mud, is there some kind of metaphysical soul-like information body that is detached from physical existence? If so, where will this information drift away? Or dissipate on the spot. If it dissipates on the spot, how is it born and how is it dissipated? If not...... Then it has to be linked to the third question, how do people become aware of themselves?

For a long time, he was the answerer of the question of death.

This weird Mr. Chaos, who speaks in the language of the Gear Man. And every word contained in this death-seeking egg that came out of his words surprised Zaiyan who came back from the stairs.

"What is reincarnation? What is Ten Rounds? What does it mean to die well? Is your word saying that the continuum of life and death, which has been circulating in the mouths of aliens, really exists? ”

He asked impatiently.

A pair of glass eyeballs directly met the small eyes in the center of the egg, and the lion's face and fierce expression frightened the hard-boiled egg. Instinctively, it shrank back, and said to itself:

"A noble soul fearless ......"

Then it moved with the pot and rolled over the ground.

When Gu Chuan held it up, it no longer knew the north, south, east and west, head and buttocks...... Maybe it's the head and the buttocks, but the upper and lower positions have been changed. It staggered to its feet against the iron pot, and stuck to Gu Chuan's thigh with something like a small suction cup that might have been formed by egg white liquid.

Gu Chuan's body has been warm since that accident, and the temperature that came out made Mr. Dandan feel comfortable, and he shook his head against the iron pot. Then, the boiled egg said inscrutablely:

"This is what is written in my genetic memory, and if you have, it should be written in your genetic memory. Why ask me? There were a lot of people who asked me, but they didn't dare to die, they only dared to say that I was lying. ”

"What is genetic memory?"

Zaiyan's impatience made Gu Chuan, who was clinging to the boiled egg, look up at Zaiyan. He didn't know much about the deeper human beings.

The boiled egg rubbed against the young man's thigh and said:

"It's something you're born with...... You see, those animals, when they are born, can also breathe, right? If they can't breathe, the animal cubs will suffocate to death. A stillborn child is a disease of genetic memory loss. ”

"I see, I understand what you're talking about...... The innate instinct that you would mention in the Biological Question. I don't have this part of my innate instincts, only those aliens will pass on the continuum of life and death by word of mouth. ”

With one foot in front and one foot behind, he squatted down and looked at the chubby boiled egg, which was less than the height of a young man's knees:

"You know something, can you tell me? This may be crucial. ”

The hard-boiled egg rolled his little eyes, and made up his mind, and said:

"What are you going to do if you don't tell you?"

Jae-sin fell into deep thought.

He asked politely:

"Is there anything you're particularly afraid of? According to the methods of our people, we will try to threaten you with these methods. ”

This method is exactly the same as Gu Chuan's threat to Ziyuan at the beginning.

"I'm not particularly scared, or ...... Or if you threaten me, you will eat me, you see, and I see, most of the threats are threats by killing someone, cutting off hands and feet. This is normal. "But I am a noble man who would rather die than give in, so I will die rather than tell you, and then you will eat me, and we will all be happy...... Ah, no, no, I didn't gain anything, and you benefited the most, you ate a delicious egg, and I died under your threat. Isn't that very reasonable? ”

Zai Yan thought deeper.

The innocent conversation between these two guys made Gu Chuan laugh.

He withdrew his feet slightly, saving himself any bad problems caused by contact with unknown creatures, and wondered how to solve this farce.

But what he didn't expect was that the fourth soul present actually joined their thinking:

"Indeed, Mr. Chaos. So we can't threaten you with death, because you're not afraid of death, but you also told us earlier that you feel miserable to live, that is, you're afraid of pain, so we're going to start with how to torture you, but not with death. ”

Chu Yun was unexpectedly a little interested. The girl, who seemed to have seen through all the world, sat quietly on the side, and spat out the most innocent and cruel words:

"Are you afraid of the oil pan? In the inner city of Sunset City...... That is, my hometown, if I have committed a very big crime, I will be thrown into the oil pot in public, this kind of punishment is called oil cooking, and it is usually used to punish the people who started the rebellion, they will be skinned, and then thrown into the cauldron and fried alive with turbid oil, like you, it should be cooked in more than ten minutes. ”

"More than ten minutes...... the eyes of the boiled egg first darkened, and then immediately lit up, "Isn't that right?" Ten minutes of bombing is no better than hundreds of thousands of years of torture in this cage...... The longer the good things are, the better, and the bad things are generally bad, and naturally the shorter the better. ”

"We can lower the temperature of the oil and fry you for a lot of time......"

Chu Yun said.

The boiled egg said politely:

"I can't feel this pain. Your skin must have taken tens of millions of years for animals to slowly adjust, and of course it hurts. Actually, I'll give you another idea, you should put the lid on the pot, so that the prisoner can't see the outside world, only a darkness, and can only feel the stuffy frying, so that it will be fried until it naturally fails, and that will be enough for my current pain. ”

The bastard actually said the method of torturing himself indifferently, and still looked triumphant, as if his imagination had overcome the two stupid mortals in front of him.

"If you say that, maybe Zaiyi will do it and force you to speak."

Chu Yun said seriously. The squatting Zai pondered for a moment and nodded.

"That'...... This...... You're just underestimating me! The boiled egg panicked at first, and then said arrogantly, "Or maybe you think too highly of yourself!" How can you control the temperature of this oil pan? I want to be tortured for a long time, but I won't die. Why don't I give you an idea, you throw me into the closed iron pot, put dense man-eating insects in this iron pot, and bury this iron pot in the invisible ground...... That's torture enough! I may be forced to choose between self-destruction, or die of old age......"

The more Gu Chuan listened to it, the more wrong it became, and he interjected:

"If you can kill yourself, and you want to die, and start your life again, why don't you kill yourself? Isn't this still a fear of death? ”

"Then you don't know that the theories in our genetic memory are very complete." Mr. Dandan, who was holding the iron pot, raised his head, his round waist bent out of the crease of a warm pillow, and he said eloquently, "Old death is a rare, but mediocre death, it can be regarded as a middle death, but it is not good." Suicide, on the other hand, is a kind of evil death...... It's the lowest death, and it's going to fall into the last round, and that's trouble, it's troublesome......"

Gu Chuan knew that religion would also refute suicide as a bad thing. This is because religion about the afterlife usually preaches the afterlife while at the same time requiring people to work in this world—it would be terrible if the labor force committed suicide to find the next life!

But the strange creature apparently suffers from it, and its concern for death is an interesting thing.

"What kind of trouble is it? Will you cast a more uncomfortable fetus than you do now? Mr. Chaos. ”

"Do you know what reincarnation means?"

The hard-boiled egg was taken aback and bent over his head. And then its hands and feet...... Or rather, the four tentacles formed by the liquid could no longer support the weight of the rounded body.

It suddenly lost its balance and fell to the ground, and the iron pot flew out of its head and smashed behind it. It lifted its small, incredulous eyes to look at the young man.

Gu Chuan stood in the light and said calmly:

"I guess what this means is that your spirit will not be destroyed, at most you will lose some of your memories, and then you will ...... Under the influence of some mystery, it becomes a larvae of another life, such as a fetus still in the body of an animal, such as a seed blown out by a dandelion, or a bug egg on a leaf......"

The hard-boiled egg was obviously even more surprised, and it trembled and picked up the metal pot and put it on its head, as if terrified: "You also have genetic memories?" From which world are you sacred? ”

Gu Chuangang wanted to refute it, this was nothing more than his knowledge, derived from the myths and stories of many peoples in his previous life.

But just as he was about to say this, the young man paused.

Yes...... Previous ......

Now, with all the knowledge he possessed from another world, could it not be said that it was the inheritance of some special soul?

And he ...... Gu Chuan almost forgot that he was also a reincarnated person.

He kept his mouth shut about his own past.

Hatsuyun took the young man's performance in his eyes, and Zaiyun didn't know anything about their situation, only his own knowledge:

"There are often gossip rumors of reincarnation among the flesh-made aliens, but there has never been any life to prove it conclusively...... Many have been exposed as scammers. ”

"There must be a lot of fakes. You must know that since you claim to be reincarnated and reborn, but you are not willing to die quickly, there must be a problem! How uncomfortable it is to live in this broken place, to die quickly, to be reincarnated as a powerful and powerful thing, isn't it happy? If it is uncomfortable again, wouldn't it be happier to die again? Those people who claim to be reincarnated but refuse to find some death are very strange! Do they feel that their life is too good to be better? But this is impossible, and in terms of their situation, most of them are not as good as the children of the rulers of the Eternal Empire......"

The perception of the boiled egg is completely contrary to people, it wears an iron pot, as if it has the courage again, puts aside the topic, and says to Zai Yi in a calm tone:

"And how happy it is to be reincarnated! It's like gambling, in case you win an unprecedented trump card...... Maybe the next day, I'll be the supreme authority of some world! But don't learn from me, maybe you only have one life, that's very pitiful......"

His remarks surprised Gu Chuan. In Mr. Dandan's eyes, reincarnation may be like a gacha that doesn't require kryptonite, and death is a fast-forward to the gacha process. It may be through life and death, wanting to pursue the best card drawn, at any cost...... The only price may be that it wants to choose a good way to die and increase the probability of the next card draw.

This remark confused the young people.

"But ......"

He snorted and tried to retort.

"There's nothing but a better death. Since you know about reincarnation, I don't know what your reincarnation is like, but my genetic memory clearly proves that a better death can make you reincarnate well. "So eat me at once, while I still have a good taste." I'm afraid that when I grow up, I'll stink...... No one likes me anymore...... Alas, at that time, it was either eaten by an ignorant beast, and not voluntarily sacrificed. Either die of natural exhaustion...... It was eaten by microscopic creatures...... That's all bad. ”

"But," Chu Yun took Gu Chuan's words, "what if you are poisonous?" We don't dare eat you, I think it's better to leave you here. ”

"This, look at my white and tender body!"

The hard-boiled egg wanted to shake itself and show its infinite white beauty, but it seemed that the fall just now had exhausted its strength. Originally, it had no substance, as if it relied on the clear fluid secreted by the body to support itself.

It said bitterly:

"The cogwheel man in the animal skin didn't mention it. I think I should be very in line with the aesthetics of you egg thieves, such as bird eggs, dragon eggs, fish eggs, eggs flying in the sky, eggs growing on the ground, egg thieves like you, at least tens of millions of years of evolutionary egg eating history, can you keep strengthening your desire to be a perfect egg like me, can you have no appetite? Fair-skinned body, I know you all like white ...... Delicate skin, I know you all like it too, don't hide it anymore, gentlemen......"

"But we don't eat talking things." Hatsuyun said in disgust, "Those eggs won't talk like you, you're too weird......"

Chu Yun dares to eat anything, dares to eat insects, dares to eat mice, and dares to eat wild vegetables, but she doesn't eat things that can talk and communicate, and her views also represent Gu Chuan's views.

From the eyes of the two people, Mr. Dandan suddenly lost all his strength and lay down on the ground:

"I fell in love with you at first sight, and your race called human beings should have a much more appetite for me than those races...... How so? ”

It took a lot of effort to find two people who looked like the descendants of egg thieves when it was thrown into the sand, and threw them away...... No, it's wrong, it's the dedication and sacrifice of one's body in this life.

Jae-sin wanted to ask it what it had said, but Mr. Egg-and-Dan was clearly not interested in the cogwheel man, and he closed his eyes and didn't want to say anything superfluous to Jae-sin at all.

"Let's lock it up here for now."

Gu Chuan said with some dizziness.

"We also need to search the ship as soon as possible to ensure the safety of the dead or alive."

The three of them put the hard-boiled egg in a black box according to the words before the boiled egg.

The hard-boiled eggs began to bang desperately on the box:

"It doesn't make any sense, you might as well eat me in your stomach and don't waste my time, it's really boring right now! Friends! There is no point in you doing this! ”

But without listening, they opened the door of the shipyard again, and went to the room where the dead or alive stored the body box.

Gu Chuan glanced at it and was about to prepare to search the ship.

But Chu Yun said calmly:

"Less."

"What's missing?"

"Four palm-sized gears are missing, and one of the largest shafts."

The girl nodded calmly, she remembered everything in it.