Chapter 14: The Sea of Water and the Sea of Air
If the peace of nature is like a person lying peacefully on a couch, then the tyranny of nature is like a person getting up and setting fire to a house.
The turbidity waves that flow into the sky are also between liquid and air, and for a while the fog is dispersed, turning into a white veil covering all things, and for a while the condensation water flies high, it is a bridge to the sky, and then, sputtering out countless chaotic fluids.
The bright light of the Dead or Alive light refracted and reflected in the countless splashes of liquid and the volatile mist around each splash of liquid, causing the young man to see a brief rainbow in several places.
The light of these rainbows was not the seven colors of the earth, but the result of the precipitation of the light of the Death or Life Trumpet, and the young man could not see clearly, except for a dozen different colors that appeared and disappeared in an instantaneous manner among the empty waves.
In just this moment, the waves are already higher.
Thousands of waterwheels and sails beneath the ship stretched out as best they could, propped up on the volatile water, like ballerinas tiptoeing on the misty ice stage, and like the hands of faithful believers reaching out to the surface of the water in refusal.
Then, in the confrontation between the two sides, the body of the ship was swept up by the wrath of nature, and went to a higher place, upside down. Between heaven and earth, everything roared violently, and the waves and the destructive sound of the ships seemed to perform the most savage ritual of burnt offerings to the heavens.
Beside him is the Netherworld of endless motion, and below him is the death or life of the transverse sky.
At that time, the brave man was on the hull of the ship, calmly looking down in mid-air over the dark mouth of the endless abyss, and continued to climb upward.
The movement on the hull of the ship is as difficult as climbing the steepest cliff of the Daling Mountains.
Fortunately, when you climb back, you can go back along your own safety rope.
He knew that Hatsuyun must be in the boat, clutching the safety rope tightly, so he was extremely relieved.
But as he climbed, the fluid that looked like droplets of water splattered from the Netherworld brushed over his still young body from time to time, leaving some traces of erasure.
The young man immediately shuddered, and shuddered:
"It's cold!"
This coldness seemed to be the cold of the underworld and hell, and in the moment he didn't notice it, it penetrated the protective suit, and then the young man almost lost the perception of his back, leaving only a burning pain.
Then, the mist dissipated from his back and in all directions.
But he felt a little better because of it, as if the loss of temperature had been cut off in this brief mist.
The wind was whistling on his dome, and he had already caught the position of the exhaust chamber hatch.
The distance of that hand is like an insurmountable moat. The updraft on the outside drives a sharp descent of the surface airflow from the dead or alive. The wind blew in through the gap between the dome and his clothes, blowing the suit as if to choke his nostrils.
By that time, the waves had completely reversed the waterwheel and the sails. The Dead or Alive is almost in line with the direction of gravity, standing in the air, and is about to fall backwards.
It was at this moment that the crisis arose.
"Go back as soon as possible!"
The temples of young people are agitating. He took a deep breath and tensed his whole body, his solid boyish arms revealing the outline of Hong's biceps. He grabbed the edge of the hatch and leaped inside the hatch before the ship capsized.
The world is spinning, and I can't tell the southeast and northwest. But at this time, it is the most dangerous.
He hid in the cabin. And all the air in the exhaust chamber was sucked out in the violent movement of the ship, because of the wind, and because of the difference between the inside and outside temperature. He rolled over and pressed his entire body against the original ceiling.
And the Death or Life trumpet is completely reversed.
It doesn't matter if you flip, it's important not to be completely immersed in the water, so that you don't lose perception of the waterwheel and the sail.
"Are you ready?"
The young man shouted.
Unexpected problems arise at the same time. The safety rope is too long! When he jumped into the cabin, there was still a long section of the safety rope left in the hatch, perhaps it was catching the snow, or maybe the wind was tearing out. Gu Chuan felt the suction from the long rope that had been left outside, and wanted to suck him out of the exhaust room again from the ceiling that had been turned.
The rope left outside also made it impossible for the hatch of the gear mechanism to be closed again, but to be reopened.
It was an experience and experience that he had never had before.
"I need time to finish focusing."
Zai's anxious words made his mind turn slightly, not realizing this instantaneous killing opportunity.
The gap between the dome and the garment was blown open by the wind, and it flew down.
And the thin hair on the young man's head was itched and ached by the ghostly windβ
He didn't realize it.
His upper body was pulled out of the hatch by a safety rope and a strong wind.
The young man, who was weightless and floating in the air, was dazed at the sight of the Death or Life Horn still flipping. When he saw the snow piled up on the roof of the cabin, he flew to the ground like silver threads. As for the bottom of the original Death or Death, and now the upper side, it belongs to the top of the waterwheel and the sail, and the ghostly tide pours on the hull like a mist, which is the most magnificent waterfall in the world.
The impact distance of the waterfall can be hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters.
The villain floating in the air no longer knows whether the sky is above or below, and the earth is below or above.
Everything in the world is chaotic like Ouroboros connected to each other, all things in the underworld.
Heaven and earth, and all the nature in it, are all embellished with each other in an infinite and vast lens, as if they were a reincarnation dream seen in the Wanhua mirror.
And he is tethered to this infinite abyss.
Danger and trembling, sinking and destruction.
"I, am I going to die? βββ
A man who has had the memory of death, muttering to himself on the verge of death.
The thread on his body came with an even more terrifying power.
He was pulled back.
He saw Hatsukumo who had opened the door to the exhaust chamber and was standing at the door holding the rope and pulling it. The maiden, wearing a little yarke, frowned, as if she had heard the young man's muttering, and pouted her lips unhappily.
Chu Yun stood at the door, staring at the people flying in the wind, and stated in a tough tone:
"You're the one I saved."
Therefore, until I promise, you can't die, and you can't feelβ
I'm dead.
The rope was pulled back along with Gu Chuan's people.
This is something that the young man has already calculated.
Then he took him in his arms.
This is something that young people have not thought about.
A little earlier than that, the carrier had already turned on the telescope.
"Shooting light six, it can indeed carry out bombing operations...... But it's a matter of tight focus. Zai Yi was also extremely nervous, and he said to himself, "The so-called focus, for the light six, is to concentrate the power at one point. Its power, in this external observation system, is dispersed, uneven, and extremely fine. β
This kind of thinness, so fine that it can only make a small hole in the substance that can apply the principle of small hole imaging.
In most cases, it will not be used for attacks, but only for breaking down the observation barriers of long-range observation systems and strengthening the line of sight.
If you want to concentrate its power in one point...... Zaiyi hadn't done it, it wasn't mentioned in the design notes, and perhaps only the cogs who had bonded multiple strange objects together to complete the system would understand how to re-release the Shooting Six as a destructive weapon.
He opened the inner box, found more buttons, and tried his first idea, which was to rotate the telescope's field of view closer, perhaps to bring the light closer to the closer.
But it failed immediately.
After the telescope looked at the surface clouds, the light also stayed on the surface clouds and did not go deeper. Even if you turn the gears and make the telescope look forward a little, the light only breaks a small hole.
At this moment, the Death or Life was once again almost upright in the air, about to flip.
Forced to change the pattern of his steel arm, he hooked the base of the telescope and hung himself in the air like a puppet hanging on a hanger.
Compared to activating the telescope, the Death or Life is more difficult to be lifted by the Netherworld.
There is simply not a stable ground that can stand for long.
The propeller gear machine floats in the air holding Mr. Ball. Mr. Dandan was silent, and the propeller gear flew around, as if it understood the difficulty of the situation, but it didn't know what it could do.
When he was hanging in the air, Zai Yi heard Gu Chuan's shout, he reluctantly replied a word, and the wired microphone was disconnected at the moment when it was completely flipped.
Somehow, his heart panicked.
"Could it beβ"
The Dead or Alive number was completely reversed. The propeller flying in the air also crashed headlong into the foot of the original table. As for the original table and chairs, they all smashed together in the corner of the wall.
"Did something happen to that alien?"
As the waves rose and fell in the air, the canopy hanging on the base hit the floor several times, and the violent concussion made the parts in his body make strange noises.
"Suppose something happens to him...... So what's the point of me following him? β
He muttered to himself.
"How far can I go?"
He didn't know, he just didn't want to do what he was doing now. He had been in this state once, when the mentor was shut down, and he was empty, as if he had lost an important goal and didn't want to do anything.
But at that time, Jing Gao gave him an order to recover the mirror tube people who were wantonly destroying the city.
The dark waves crashed against the window, and then, turning into countless waves of smoke, everything outside was so small that it could no longer be seen.
"Or rather, my trip away from Kyokyo...... Have you reached some kind of end? β
He was numb and wanted to continue focusing on the telescope, but he couldn't think of an idea or an idea.
At the moment when the possibility of death was born, the courage and firmness in the heart of this lion-headed cogwheel kept disappearing.
Until, he heard a cracking sound.
It was the sound of a young man holding his head and knees being thrown from the sky by Hatsukumo.
The destination where he was thrown was nowhere else, but the body of the lion-headed cogwheel man. Almost immediately, the young man cried out in pain from the collision on his head.
The ship was still flipping, everything inside the ship and everything outside the ship were shouting violently in a fierce collision, but the hesitation in Zaiyi's heart suddenly dissipated, and he grabbed the young man who was about to fall to the ceiling with one hand, and said unconsciously:
"You're still alive......"
The propeller gear machine looked in the direction of Gu Chuan together with Mr. Dandan, which it was holding.
They all saw the young man show his white teeth and smile heartily:
"I'm not going to die easily!"
"But......" Zai Yan felt ashamed, "I haven't been able to crack the use of the telescope...... I can't break the netherworld waves that accumulate in the air. β
The Death or Life crumpet fell heavily on the base maelstrom of the tower-like cloud that had formed. Above its head was a mixture of Netherworld liquids. And underneath it, another wave of evaporating clouds.
Enough netherworld matter to reach the realm of visible clouds seems to have reached the boundary line between the waterwheel and the sails, and the cause is forced to rise.
Everything in the world seems to be too ruthlessly burned by the sun, and endless smoke is emitting.
Even though the world is obviously dark, the only light is the lamp in his hand.
"It's okay, you didn't think it didn't matter, I thought of a way."
The young man said briskly.
In the flipping of heaven and earth, he showed Zai Yi a thing that Zai Yan did not expect-the dragon's heart horn.
"What's the point of this?"
"Its function is to ......," explained the young man, who put his horn on his forehead, "and its function is to convey our thoughts to one of our lovely young friends." β
Then he pressed his horn against the door of the black box at the base of the telescope.
Then he saw the familiar curiosity that existed here.
"Do me something, okay?"
In the bubbling flow of thought, the inquisitive consciousness fully accepted the existence of the outsider. It listened in bewilderment to the waves of information that had been extracted from the language of the Cogwheel Man, and gradually understood the thoughts of the being that made it feel relatable.
"I ...... I see. β
It answered.
The existence of the newborn alien gearman who lives here, made by the gear people of the past, understands all the uses of the telescope better than all the people on the outside.
This is because all of the telescope's gears are connected to the body of the telescope, which has been made into a small piece of integrated core.
But for Gu Chuan, it was just a gamble.
If you win, you solve the problem.
If you lose, that's a method of losing.
He withdrew from the dragon's heart, and in the flipped field of vision, he saw a train-like front of the telescope connected to the Death or Birth, emitting a circle of bright light.
The light shines on the outside world and also on the space inside the ship.
Then, with the power he knew enough to wipe him into dust, he spewed out towards one of the Netherworld's mouths, blasting the Netherworld waves that the tower-like cloud was about to close out an exit for a boat.
Without the need for human drive, the waterwheel and sail will choose the direction with the lowest material density.
The Death or Life made its way forward, soaring among the netherworld clouds, and was forced to fly high into the heavens.
They were right to guess that the nascent towery cloud was thousands of kilometers in diameter and that its upper part was much larger than its lower part.
The boundless clouds resemble the murky waves in the sky, supported by the density of matter, supporting the waterwheel and sail to rise.
"Seems to be a little safer."
At the very least, they will no longer be threatened by the waves at the bottom of the netherworld. At any given moment, they could at least blast a way beyond the netherworld.
The tired young man poured into boundless sleepiness.
He already wanted to rest.
It was only at the last moment that he closed his eyes that all the creatures that existed on the Death or Life Signal saw a little extraordinary light. It was a neon-like glow mixed with more than a dozen colors, flashing through the sky.
Then they lifted their eyes, and in the direction of each other's gazes, they saw that in the very high part of the sky, which had been pierced by the six rays of light, something that did not look like a cloud, but seemed to be glowing a glimmer, was moving.
It only takes a short look to see what is going on before the clouds and mist close with the sea......
"A giant serpent with wings."
A giant serpent with wings, unlike a long-legged serpent.
Unlike rocks, its body is covered with a rainbow-like texture.
The winged rainbow serpent hovers in the sky like an eternal river, flowing endlessly along the rugged river.
In the blink of an eye, the clouds closed and the evaporating netherworld below set off higher waves and air, and the ship was forced into the upper echelons of the tower-like clouds.