The indescribable smell then mixes into the air and into the nose.

And the blood of the human beings seemed to be unable to stay on the plant and the cube, but only fell along the smooth outline of the leaves and thorns, and strangely accumulated at the bottom of the inner box.

The young man retracted his hand and licked his bleeding fingers. He was thinking about how to take it off when he heard the sound of some kind of fastener loosening.

"What ......"

He hadn't reacted yet, but in the next moment, the sound of breaking the sky hissed through the air. Instinctively, he fell in the direction of the air flow.

At that moment, a long strip of sharp object that glided at high speed almost grazed the tip of his nose, and he thought that the thing was about to attack him, and hurriedly used his hands as a shield to protect his chest.

But...... No.

The sharp object just skimmed in front of him, and finally returned to the edge of the core, where it stood still.

Hatsuyun kicked away the assistant's gear, and Zai quickly caught it. Then, Hatsuyun reached straight out, clasped his fingers together, and grabbed another sharp object that slipped in front of her. Gu Chuan fell to the ground at that time, and after he got up again, he finally saw the true form of the thing.

They were two simple and harmonious mechanical hands, not yet with complex shapes, not even fingers, in other words, not yet able to grasp objects. Because the joints are too long, the steering of this manipulator is also stiff, and it will sweep out a semicircle, which swept over the tip of Gu Chuan's nose just now.

"The hinge that made this thing...... It could be the reels that were lost earlier. ”

Hatsuyun saw through the shape of the components buried in it at a glance.

It was originally located in a narrow space in the inner layer of the telescope case, between the material plates and the material plates. One can see that at the rectangular exit of the robotic arm, there are splints that spread out, which are the original fixtures.

The cogwheel man's corpse was used to make a robot.

And the core didn't move for a long time, only the three people present, you look at me, I look at you, all facing the mystery and knowing nothing.

Gu Chuan intends to break this deadlock:

"Hatsu, let go, let's see what it does."

Hatsuun let go.

At the same time, the loose mechanical hand shook, they thought it was going to attack them, but instead of coming, they retreated, but in front of the room where the little plant-covered core was located...... Cross each other, and then stop moving.

It did not hurt the outside world, nor did it try to repel the attackers, but scrambled like a child with his arms around him, hiding in a corner, shivering.

"Is it protecting itself?"

Protecting oneself is a complex instinct.

I don't know why, Gu Chuan read a flustered feeling.

He looked sideways, took a few steps back, kept a safe distance, and asked the person behind him:

"Zaiyi, do you know the structure of the Gear Man? Do you know how your body works? If it's classified, you don't have to tell me. You can do it yourself and communicate with this thing...... We'll get out of the way. ”

Zai Yi wanted to say that he knew, and he could do it alone. Because he would never want the secrets of the Cogwheel Man to fall into the hands of strangers, but he really didn't know.

"It's a mystery."

The lion-headed gear man said calmly:

"According to the naturalist, we do not rely on a core, but on the structure of a whole. Although I am involved in the study of afterlife, I really don't know the structure of my race. ”

He knew the bodies of ordinary higher animals.

A variety of organs, which bleed, excreta and bodily fluids, dense ducts and complex bones, have a high degree of functional differentiation. But the Gear Man does not have a unique core other than imitating the appearance of humans.

"We are in the process of dismantling, and we naturally lose our functional ......"

Zai Yan said lonely.

Gu Chuan took out gauze from his bag and wrapped it around his injured finger. His gaze fell on what was in Zai's arms:

"Could this gear machine be the perpetrator?"

"No...... There is nothing out of the ordinary about this gear machine. Zai Yan looked at the little thing in his arms, "It should be what I said and cherished my clan's creation." ”

"And what the hell could this thing be?"

Gu Chuan turned his head and looked at the strange structure with two manipulators that was protecting itself, growing together with the waterwheel and the water sail.

Zai Yan could not give an answer.

Its hands carefully tried to pick up the cover on the ground as the three of them stepped back, sealing itself back into the depths of the telescope's core.

The boat is on the water, and the top is lit up. The light is reflected in the stagnant water, and it is a beating golden rainbow. In the glass-like interior, the light is everywhere, and the shadow of a person is only under his feet.

Hatsuyun turned around and re-grasped the assistant gear machine that was being controlled by Zaiyu. The gear machine was still fluttering its propellers, trying to fly into the air, but was pressed to death by Hatsukumo.

It whined, and its four small feet, which were much smaller than its chubby body, were flicked away by Hatsukumo's fingers. Then the glass book in its arms reached Hatsuun's hand.

The glass book was thin, small, and lightweight, in other words, not much was etched into it. She motioned to Zaiyi, and Zaiyi blinked his eyes, and with the strong light of his eyes, the words of the glass book were reflected on the same glass-like wall.

There is very little text on it.

The gears etched in the glass book are careless.

The first paragraph of the three of them read: He did not work, but secretly hid in the waterwheel, which was my ideal test subject.

This sentence made Zai Yan shudder.

And Chu Yun and Gu Chuan's expressions were even more unsightly.

Refusal to labor is a psychotic characteristic of cogwheel people. In other words, there was at least one psychopathic cogwheel who hid in the Dead or Alive number, out of the sight of the other cogs.

But here's the problem...... Who is the writer?

What did the writer do to the psychopath after he caught him?

"He probably left this record according to the Gear Man's habit of keeping records."

Zai Yan does not calmly illuminate the next paragraph.

The second paragraph has only a short line: The gear assistant reported me.

Although all three of them realized that the gear assistant described in the article was not necessarily the one they had now captured, they were really, and at the moment, they were the only one who was suspicious.

Hatsuun shook the gear, and the gears whined again. It seems that the little guy with a bit of wisdom and humanity has hugged himself tightly, like a wounded young beast licking its body.

It's a pity that it encountered Hatsukumo. Hatsumo is indifferent to the cuteness of this inhuman creature. She picked up a small piece of propeller of the gear machine even more harshly, hoisted it in the air, and watched it sway from side to side, and said with great interest:

"This thing could be his assistant."

Gu Chuan nodded, his gaze returning to the glass book.

The glass book was their only clue. The third paragraph above is even simpler, with just one word:

Bother.

"That person may have been in a lot of trouble?"

Gu Chuan said.

They don't know. I only know that in the not-so-distant past, in the forward base of this gear man, there was a gear man who was very likely to be secretly hiding in a dark corner, and did some things that the mainstream gear people did not allow him to do.

There was no response. The light from its glass eyes continued to move downward.

In the next fourth paragraph, there is a sentence that has nothing to do with the above:

More than a minute after my arm was separated from me, my ability to sense and associate with external space seemed to be weakened. This is an interesting phenomenon that needs more confirmation.

"What the hell is he doing?"

Gu Chuan couldn't help but let out a sigh of surprise.

Zai Yan also hurriedly looked down.

But below is just a large and obscure word. The so-called blurring refers to the fact that there were originally some words, but these words were crossed out, leaving only the traces of the etching on the inside of the glass book that had been smoothed by the writer or user with a needle.

You can see some strokes that may be about cutting and reloading.

And these words are vague. But when he looked at the whole text, he saw with the other two that all the smoothing had actually created a symbol of a giant cogwheel man.

A fork.

Zai said that this is a symbol that indicates the wrong one.

As a result, the detectives' gaze descended to the bottom of the glass book. If you write it here, it's a little bit more. But it's even more difficult to accept:

If you want to know what you are, you need to experiment with yourself. I finally realized that nothing else could solve my doubts, and that my only way to answer them was always in front of me. Now, I will have nothing to fear. And my results are myself.

The room was empty, and the three of them were speechless to each other.

Instinctively, he continued to look down. The light only passed the edge of the glass book and hit the floor in the fog. The floor glows slightly, like a night light. There was a subtle, barely audible sound from the intersecting air, and Mr. Chaos, who cautiously slipped into the Dead or Alive, saw the three guys stunned in the outer observation room, and quickly rolled behind him.

It muttered:

"Where's the killer that the fools call it? Come and kill me, if you eat me...... It's even better. You've got a delicious egg, and I finally don't have to be an egg. We all have a bright future. ”

This is the end of the record of this past death or life incident. They searched again on the Dead or Alive, but did not find any further additions.

Judging from the information available from the glass book alone, it is only known that this person may have used himself to conduct experiments in order to pursue the question of "what is himself". Why the hell is the core of this weird gearman-like thing, and the gearing machine hidden in the telescope tube, people still don't know anything.

The lack of information makes everything general.

At that time, Chu Yun took the lead and said to the other two:

"It's still a bit of an interesting guy."

Zai Yan shook his head, he suppressed his anger at this past person, and said:

"He's also a psychotic coggyman. Since he said earlier that he had caught an ideal test subject, in other words, this 'he' is most likely a cogwheel man, just a mentally ill cogwheel man. He must have done something wrong. He needs to be judged! ”

"Before he is judged, though, I would say that he may be a sincere seeker."

Gu Chuan whispered.

When Zai Yan pursed his lips, racked his brains, and thought about the rebuttal sentence, Gu Chuan said again:

"It doesn't matter. What did this man do, he was handed over to the city of answers, wasn't he? ”

"Yes."

Zai muttered. He didn't know what the current Answer City would do with this information.

"You can leave a record, or send a message to the people in the city to inform the people of the city that something has happened here...... But that man is dead, and what that man has done has no absolute relevance to the 'solution to the world's questions' that we are trying to do. ”

Zai Yan tilted his head and stopped talking.

"The important thing is, what is this thing that exists here now?"

"It should be, some kind of ...... left behind after the man dies products, right? ”

Zai Yan said with no certainty.

"Yes, so, our problem is not solved yet."

Gu Chuan raised the dragon's heart horn again and tentatively placed it on his forehead. Then the infinite darkness, and the infinite circle of light that sprouted at the end of the darkness, returned to his eyes, entered his visual nerves, and formed countless strange images in his brain.

"What are you going to do?"

Zai asked Gu Chuan.

Gu Chuan only sighed and motioned for Zai Yi to shut up.

Then he lowered his head slightly, held the dragon's heart horn in his hand, and put his head on the dragon's heart horn, and the forked horn tip was aimed at the core surrounded by countless waterwheels and sails.

Like the antler velvet of a young deer, a strange thing left behind from nowhere and obtained by the Gear Man, in the path of the vision of the 'mind', gently pierced into the thinking body that was shining brightly.

At first, this contact was quiet, and Gu Chuan seemed to hear the sound of quiet breathing.

But that's not breathing.

He realized that this realization was the result of his brain filling in the uncertain facts.

He felt as if the thing was gently following the fluctuations of the waterwheel and sails, breathing in the netherworld gases and keeping itself moving.

Outside, Chu Yun saw that the horn on the top of his head that was held by Gu Chuan had completely touched the core of the silver-white metal.

"Is this a new usage?"

And what the young man saw was far beyond the imagination of those outside. If Zai Yan knew, he would understand that this is an induction that only happens between the dragon's heart horn and the dragon's heart horn.

At that time, a simple, intermittent, fearful feeling slowly flowed through Gu Chuan's nerves.

It was as pure as a clear spring water flowing slowly through the dry earth, so primitive that it was like the chirping of a bird that had just come out of its shell and couldn't even open its eyes.

It's so simple that you can see it at a glance and touch its depths.

It doesn't know anything, so everything feels strange.

At the same time that the instinctive "almost preset" fear gradually dissipated, Gu Chuan began to realize that it began to feel new to Gu Chuan's contact, and its thoughts became cheerful, as if it was constantly asking-

Who are you?

But this is incomplete, because it has not yet established that complex concept, but is a simple, pure proximity to something.

Eventually, it began to compare itself with the young man in the world of thought, as if it were trapped in an endless labyrinth, and as if it was looking for countless different heresies on top of two infinite puzzles. As the comparison continued, the little budding newborn consciousness felt tired, and it dozed off—

It is a way of resting that resembles the gear of sleep.

Gu Chuan let go of the dragon's heart horn. And all that contact vanished like a cloud, and disappeared without a trace.

The thing in front of me was still a piece of cold metal.

The young man asked:

"Zaiyi, I heard Ziyuan say that you will disassemble and regenerate yourself, when did it start? How did you learn that? ”

Jae-sin had gone into the deepest depths of the Gearmen's secrets with Kyokyo, so he surprisingly knew more about this matter than the other Gearmen. But he still didn't know whether to answer or not, so he only said thoughtfully:

"I don't know, but that's been it from the beginning."

"Will your old memories disappear after dismantling?"

"Yes, it's completely dead, and there's nothing else to do."

The young man nodded thoughtfully:

"Then I'll know what this thing is......"

"What is it?"

Jae-sin asked impatiently.

The young man said that this is a descendant of the cogwheel man who sought to explore the self and was bound by the instinct of its ultimate self after dismantling the self.

As for the corpse, it is unclear which one it was between the subject and the experimenter who used himself as an experimenter.

Probably both.

Whoever steals the gears and shafts is ...... Gu Chuan glanced at the things in Chu Yun's hand.

The little machine began to flutter its own propellers.

Hatsukumo let go, and the three of them saw the gear machine flying in the air with a propeller, heading towards the box where the body was stored.

As for the rest, it is shrouded in the smoke of history. No one who is still alive will know why the dying life was arranged in such a way that it was the way it is.

I only know that with the sound of the wind and the water, the ship is about to hit the road.