The air aboard the Dead or Alive was exceptionally dry, or more precisely, suffocating.

No amount of moisture from the outside world could invade the Cogg-Man battleship. It is mentioned in the manual that the air circulation of the dead or alive number is cut off, and this is because the cogwheel man does not strictly need to breathe. The main gas circulation joints are in aquaculture, metallurgy and other places that require air, where outside air is pumped in, purified and dried.

The dreary environment is manic, and the missing corpses are horrifying.

At that time, the girl's gaze was particularly serious, she sniffled, glanced around, and asked:

"Why is it gone?"

The two men present were unable to answer her question.

Gu Chuan didn't know how to take it, but carried it...... Jae-yi and they have always been together.

"And at the moment, apart from the three of us, we only know that Mr. Chaos, we have infiltrated this base for a period of time that we don't know......" Detective Hatsuyun frowned, she said, "but it's obviously unlikely...... It doesn't look like it's lying about its own statements, either. ”

"Indeed."

Gu Chuan agreed with Chu Yun's opinion.

As far as the information goes, Mr. Chaos' egg-like body has a hard time carrying the gears...... Even if it was willing and capable, the shipyard door was locked, and the ship's door was locked. ”

"Perhaps, as you expected," Zai said with difficulty...... "there may be a psychopathic cogled man hiding here, and relying on the intricacies of the terrain here, it has never been discovered. ”

"Whatever the facts, we need to search the ship immediately."

The young man said categorically:

"And we have to be prepared for everything, the three of us can't simply be separated."

They immediately went into action. Before searching the ship, they had closed the door of the ship. After that, the gas valve, which was originally used for metallurgy, was opened.

The purified and dry air began to flow into the cabin, and the purified gas carried a floral fragrance of Wada flowers, which made people feel refreshed.

They are acting in accordance with the design guidelines. Every time a room is opened, every door to each room is checked, and after a room is searched, a mechanism is set up at the door with a substance to leave a mark.

"As soon as the door moves, the child and mother matter will transmit vibrations, and then we will know which door opens and closes." Zai Yan said.

The amount of the child and mother matter is barely enough, and if necessary, they can block only a few key roads.

They searched all the way, going from room to room, familiarizing themselves with all the functions of the ship and understanding the delicate layout of the Dead or Alive, which belonged to the Cogears.

Metallurgy, aquaculture, or oil refining...... Everything the gears need is in an orderly manner on the upper floor. In many places, it can also be seen that there is no tidying, only one or two boxes are placed in the corners of the small room. When you open the box, you don't know what to put together.

The gears, large and small, rotate endlessly in a form that is extremely accurate, while the glass-like walls ripple with the movement of people.

The upper level contains a lot of treasures.

Upon opening a small room, they stumble upon an icosahedral crystal crystal, immaculate, floating in the chamber marked as timekeeping. The room is specially furnished with more than a dozen mirrors. Light is reflected back and forth between mirrors to form a specific path of light until it is emitted from the six slices of this icosahedron.

At the edge of the icosahedron, there are six facets inlaid with unnatural gears, indicating that this is not a natural miracle, but a man-made wonder.

On the face directly facing the doorway, there is a count, with 11 written in the symbol of the cogwheel man.

Zai said that in the other direction of this thing, there should be five more counts, for a total of six counts.

"So what is it?"

Gu Chuan asked him.

He replied reverently:

"This thing is the Eternal Bell made by our Doctor in the original matter of time."

Attempts to use the Eternity Clock to explore the eternal and unique time have failed, but the Eternity Bell itself can be used for an accurate count of time inside a ship. As a result, the Eternity Bell is still enabled.

They turned and left the time chamber and came to the glass study opposite. The Gear Man glass book hadn't been moved into this room yet, Gu Chuan thought about it, took out the three glass books that recorded the early history of the Gear Man "Wild Tomb Collection" from his backpack, and carefully placed them on the shelves above.

The signs in the rooms further down are even more dangerous.

There were several rooms where weapons were stored, but the weapons had not yet been moved in, only a few boxes existed, and there were also rooms that detected the air, and the readings on them showed that the microscopic creatures present in the Netherworld Atmosphere have exceeded the normal value of the Great Wilderness by more than a hundred times.

In a room with slices, it is not taboo to preach that the Gear Man will conduct physical observation and research on the alien race, and in severe cases, it will lead to the destruction of the body structure.

He said:

"Those people were sold to our people, and we will make a 'trade.'" It's like the aliens in the wilderness who sell their vanquished as slaves to the cogwheel people.

Gu Chuan was noncommittal, and only said:

"Hatsuyun and I are probably not interested in this."

Chu Yun nodded quietly.

Zai Yan will know.

Finally, there is a very large room that spans the upper, middle and lower floors. This is where the Cogwheel Man makes repairs to the Dead or Alive, and also contains another exit from the outside world.

This exit, unlike the small door that could be accessed, was responsible for transporting large quantities of goods.

There are many boxes placed inside, and when you enter at first glance, the space is large and the people are small. They stood on the edge of the upper floor, like walkers overlooking a rolling mountain.

Sailing above the netherworld is not a great wilderness on land, nor is it on the edge of the great river of Rizhao, which cannot be left on hold, nor can it be ashore, and the normal operation of the ship must be guaranteed at all times.

"Is there a lifeboat?"

Gu Chuan asked.

"Lifeboats?"

"That's it...... A small boat that can also carry people to escape when something happens to a large ship. Gu Chuan danced and gestured, "Stay away from the danger zone, there will usually be daily necessities in it, for you...... That oil. For us it's fresh water and food. ”

Zai Yi understood, and he asked rhetorically:

"But the really well-prepared ships have sunk, and in the lonely barren and savage world, do you want to escape alone in a small boat?"

This lion-headed gear man said really righteous words, and Gu Chuan was speechless for a while.

But at that time, Chu Yun intuitively ...... for Gu Chuan may be to relieve Gu Chuan's siege:

"But Zaiyi, aren't you also an individual who escaped from the City of Answers alone?"

Suddenly, the ontology of the metaphor and the change of the metaphor caught the young man off guard.

They walked between the boxes, opening them one by one, and peeking inside. And the glassy ground reflected the shadow of three people together at the end of the civilized world.

And above their heads is the beginning of a new savage world.

The shaggy feet of the man stepped on the ground, and the reflectivity of the glass changed, and the shadows of the people were blurred. He closed a box, looked down at his vague shadow and said:

"Hatsukumo, you may be right, lifeboats, as far as I know, should not exist, but if you need to, we can do ...... Everything is made......"

"Yes, everything is made."

The young man smiled:

"We'll do it together and make something good to come out. If we can't do it, we can find someone to do it for us, okay? ”

"You can say that."

Zai Yi calmly put down a piece of the child-mother substance and said:

"It's time for us to search the middle level."

The middle level is unremarkable, mostly where gear people maintain themselves and stop working. The rooms were also empty one by one, and Gu Chuan looked at how many rooms he had chosen, to see which rooms were suitable for becoming a more suitable living place for them.

Making a fire for cooking, washing and bathing, these things can't be demanded in the wilderness, but they can try them now that they have a boat.

The Gear Man originally had a water quality monitoring and control system, which was mainly used to study the nature of liquids in various parts of the Netherworld. Water, on the other hand, does not require drinking water, but it requires industrial water, including washing, boiling hot water or cooling of waste materials.

Zai Yi said that if you need to make a small change, you can connect the pipes to do the water circulation, and there are two ways. The first method is to connect the original industrial water to the water quality testing system and filter it in the way used for research. The second method is distillation, which collects the evaporated water. In the former, it is also difficult for them to make it, and the arrangement of the pipeline is very complicated. But the latter is simple.

Joy washed away the gloom of the missing body of the Cogwheel Man.

"I finally don't have to defecate in the open."

The young man's shame had long since disappeared, and Gu Chuan said happily.

Chu Yun only felt that these were not too much, and only glanced at the young man, not knowing where this person's happiness came from.

The sudden joy and sorrow of the young man was a great mystery to her.

She was lost in thought.

And when Gu Chuan saw Chu Yun's appearance, he suddenly thought that he had been with her for so long, but he had never seen some big metabolic behaviors, but only small metabolic behaviors.

He also fell into deep thought, and his clean face rose with some unnatural evil flush.

The two men's contemplation accompanied them until the completion of the mid-level search.

At the same time, there is no reaction of the parent-child substance, indicating that there has been no change in all the places where the parent-child substance is arranged.

"Then there's only one last layer left."

The young man shook his head, fled from his strange imagination, and secretly scolded himself for his dirty thoughts, and his face became serious.

"Yes," said Zaiyan, "the lower deck is also this one...... The most critical layer of the Dead or Alive number. ”

The lower level is the basis of the ship's operation, and it is the ship's greatest reliance on being able to sail on the Netherworld. As soon as you enter, you will notice that the long walkway here has become much narrower. Neither the floor nor the walls directly glow, but a thorough, cold metallic black.

The long strip of light is the main lighting tool here.

Walking here is like walking in the city of answers.

"This is where it was built first, and the upper two floors were built later." Zai Yan said.

The craftsmanship of the gear man says magic, it doesn't seem to be particularly magical, it is a bit of a principle, but when it comes to science, it is full of black boxes that cannot be explained. These black boxes cannot be opened, and once opened, they may become invalid. In fact, they couldn't disassemble it, only from the glass book knew that they had been made in the city, and the transportation along the way was kept secret.

These large-scale, large-scale, hard-working creations, which exist peacefully in the lower layers, are covered with a little haze due to the early departure of the Gear Man.

They checked room by room, and all they saw were black boxes. The black boxes are marked with their respective names.

Every name is a problem.

For example, the first black box they saw had the words "How does the ship work?" ”

This black box is the largest, occupying the entire room, and even across this room, it becomes part of the load-bearing structure, and then relies on pipes to stretch out countless facilities and equipment.

Black box pens like this are all over the place.

As a result, the lower level is incomparably narrow.

The only place that can barely be considered empty is the breeding ground for two strange things, "waterwheels" and "water sails". The trio walked cautiously and saw that in the vast transparent vessel, probably larger than a standard swimming pool on earth, all the waterwheels were connected to the roots of the sails, all the way to the top pipes, along the hidden structure, leading to the upper level.

"By design, the waterwheels and sails that grow upwards will be burned."

Zai Yan said.

Gu Chuan said that he knew, so he continued to walk forward, and when they came to the end of the boat, there was another auxiliary observation room, and there was a "telescope" one size smaller than the main observation room facing the bottom. It doesn't start, and nothing can be seen in the eyepiece.

"And that's the end of it?"

Gu Chuan asked.

There aren't many rooms on the lower floors, or a black box is a room.

Answer:

"Further on, there's a general maintenance room that runs through three floors."

Gu Chuan stepped forward and opened the small door at the end, and sure enough, he saw the shadow of a large number of material boxes in the maintenance room. He took out the substance of the child and mother on his body, but the substance of the child and mother never reacted, and did not move.

"Did you find any of them?"

Both Zaiyun and Hatsuun shook their heads.

"Then it's a big problem. The corpse of a man with gears is a trifle, because it may have been done by someone who has already been evacuated...... But why are there fewer parts? ”

The young man looked at Zai Yan differently. His gaze fell on Chu Yun's eyes, making Chu Yun think.

They kept the material arrangement, evacuated the ship, and left the Dead or Alive.

They tried to search for a more empty shipyard, but found nothing.

The search was a tiring job, and the three of them withdrew from the shipyard to prepare dinner for the day.

At that time, they broke it apart. The silly lion-headed cogwheel man went to the warehouse to continue sorting through the boxes, considering what could be moved to the Dead or Alive, and what was not.

And Gu Chuan was in the "kitchen" preparing to cook soup with that strange thing.

Mr. Chaos was still locked in a box by them, as if he was tired of shouting, and had fallen asleep, making a whirring sound.

The ripples on the top of the disc shake in a straight line, and the water is boiling at the bottom of the disc.

"Surely you and I won't take this gear man's severed limb, will we?"

Gu Chuan looked at the timer and said hesitantly.

Chu Yun boldly broke Gu Chuan's conjecture:

"You think it was Zai Yi who took it himself?"

"A little bit of intent." Gu Chuan said, "I don't know why he did this...... And I can't figure it out no matter how I think about it. But now that it has come to this point, the most unlikely may also be considered. I decided...... Pick it up and ask him later. ”

Chu Yun frowned and said:

"Is there really no other possibility?"

"You mean ......?" The young man scratched his head, "Or is that gear man well hidden?" Walked through a special pipe that we didn't know about, and that wasn't written in the glass book. It's possible...... After all, the Gear Man may have been one of the ship's builders, and he may have hidden some information. ”

"No, it's impossible, the system of the cogwheel people dictates that they won't do that......"

The first clouds under the light are exceptionally bright.

"What if all the cogwheel people who were here were the perpetrators?"

The young man said.

This conjecture is even bolder, and it surprises Chu Yun:

"It's not impossible...... But what I think is, perhaps, the person who took the body is not moving...... It hasn't moved. ”

As she spoke, her brow tangled.

"Not moving......? But we searched everywhere and found nothing. ”

At this time, there was a sound of turning over from the box.

Then, Mr. Chaos, who was in the box, whispered:

"Stupid."

Gu Chuan immediately opened the box and saw that Mr. Chaos was leaning against the corner of the box, looking at the young man who opened the box on the top with a small eye.

It said lazily:

"You've been babbling here for so long, haven't you thought that it might be part of the ship that is committing the crime? This part is not in the shape of a normal cogwheel man, so you ignore it and think it is part of the ship. ”