The winged iridescent serpent appeared for a moment, and in the blink of an eye it vanished behind the mist. As for the storm and dark clouds, they still interpret the natural sound between heaven and earth.

The hull of the ship was jolting, following the trajectory of the wind and clouds, and still being pushed higher into the sky. It is no longer clear whether the flow of netherworld matter is upward or downward, to the left or to the right. All directions disappear in eternal motion at the same time. Everything is just going with the flow.

Death or life cannot tell whether it is safe or dangerous.

The safety lies in the fact that the dark waves will never completely submerge the hull of the ship, and the Dead or Alive will no longer be overturned by the waves.

The danger lies in the fact that the nature of the netherworld in the sky is unknown. Also, if there is a shortage of Nethermatter, the waterwheel and sail will spontaneously fall to the bottom.

At that time, the people on the ship will surely usher in even more thrilling destruction.

"We may need to slow down our forward sailing to prevent us from getting out of the tower. Only after this tower-like cloud has stabilized can we begin to descend into the netherworld water and move on. ”

Zai Yan suggested.

Gu Chuan looked at the continuous vertical and horizontal cloud belt not far away, and nodded sleepily.

Natural disasters can be relentlessly raging for a month and a year, but people cannot last a week without sleeping.

After the death or life number stabilized, they agreed on a time to rest and continued to be on duty in rotation. The propeller gear machine and Chu Yun wiped Gu Chuan's body together. Then the exhausted young man fell on the bed, lay down on his back, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The wind and snow clouds outside continued to roar cruelly. But Gu Chuan had a sweet dream, in which his mothers in the two lives knew each other for some reason. And, after they got to know each other, they naturally accepted the situation and became like a family of sisters.

He was by the side of his relatives, as if all parting had never happened.

Only then, he saw Hatsuyun, who lived in the same place as him in the same ordinary way. The young man immediately realized that it must be a dream and woke up from it.

On the familiar ceiling, the flickering lights stimulated his sleepy eyes.

He closed his eyes first, and when he was more comfortable, he turned his eyes and saw that the sky was still cloudy outside the window. The silhouette of the clouds in the sky under the searchlight resembles the mountains in the depths of the mountains.

The netherworld clouds are always calm from afar, but when they get closer, they know how violent they are.

And man can never find any original sky.

At that time, Hatsuyun was standing at the door, staring at the young man who was looking sideways. Her hands hold a plate of sticky oatmeal-like porridge that she has made herself. It's a staple in Sunset City. Gu Chuan found her for a while, and asked in surprise:

"Why are you standing there?"

She said apologetically:

"Did I wake you up? I'm sorry. ”

She thought she had woken up the young man, so she didn't dare to take a step forward and make a noise when she pushed the door open.

"It's not."

Who knew that Gu Chuan blinked playfully and said briskly:

"I dreamed of you and realized I was going to wake up."

You must know that dream and reality are a pair of lies that are entangled, and you can tell who is right and who is wrong? He only heard the girl in front of him say:

"Oh......"

The girl's voice was elongated. The light also illuminated her cleanly washed face, and a thoughtful look on her face.

She was still staring at Gu Chuan, which made him a little shy.

He looked down and said:

"I've thought of a lot of reasons to go with you."

The young man struggled and sat up from the quilt, which slid down his texture, revealing his naked upper body. Chu Yun was used to this, and he didn't feel any different. Her gaze quickly focused on the near-fibrotic scar on the young man's abdomen.

The scar has not disappeared or healed, and has always remained its original appearance, eternal, unchanging, and weird...... Terrible, and similar to her.

She sat on the edge of the bed, and Gu Chuan stretched out his hand to prepare to take the bowl. But she frowned, and said succinctly:

"Don't move, I'll feed you."

He froze.

This mode of getting along made him dream back to each other in the cave. The young man looked at Hatsuyun's gray eyes, as if he could see his own reflection. He chose to give up all his resistance and obediently opened his mouth.

The sound of the clouds and snow beating the dead or alive became more and more intense, and the wind and rain of the underworld were restless all day and night, and they continued for thousands of miles. And the Death or Life is a flat boat on this boundless sea, drifting with the wind, flying with the water, sometimes lifted to a high place by the wind and rain, and sometimes sinking down.

However, for the two of them, whether it is a cave in a rainstorm or a flat boat on the sea, it is all warm.

He swallowed it urgently, and a few puffs of hot air flowed from his mouth all the way to his stomach, which was warm and his back was itchy with comfort. An unexpected sense of happiness filled his heart, making him a little stunned and unwilling to think about anything.

The sound of the abundant nature stirred up the shocking tide, but he suddenly gave birth to a childish and ridiculously fear—

It suddenly occurred to him that Hatsuyun had been trying to cook delicious food on his own recently, so would Hatsuun never like the food he made again after completing his studies.

If Chu Yun knew about this question, he would definitely laugh at this person for not knowing priorities and starting to make fools about inconsequential matters. But it was true, at the time, that he was extremely distressed, even uneasy. On the contrary, for the major matters of his real life and death, he can ask in a tone that is nothing to do:

"Did anything special happen while I slept?"

Hatsuyun carefully handed over the spoon, and when he saw the young man's wandering gaze, he knew that this person's thoughts were definitely not in his words. She said:

"When you slept, the Netherworld wasn't at peace, but nothing serious happened. The only thing worth mentioning is that when he was repairing the ship, he found something unexpected, which was floating from the clouds. He took those things to the tail cabin, where he also observed. ”

"I see."

Gu Chuan nodded, and then said in a tone that could not be refused:

"You can rest too, I'm going to get up."

"Okay."

Hatsuyun replied easily.

The two alternated, everything was ordinary, and there was nothing else to say.

There was no eye damage to the hull of the Dead or Alive. A few simple cracks could have been repaired by climbing onto the hull of the ship on its own.

But just as he was crawling on the hull of the ship, carefully grinding away the dark snow, something that was not clouds and snow fell from the clouds, rain and snow.

Some are elongated, others are a board, a shell.

There was an exit in the tail compartment, which he did not dare to open. Fortunately, the exhaust chamber is very close to the tail compartment. He took all the "debris" that fell on the hull from the exhaust chamber and the propeller gear machine to the aft compartment.

When Gu Chuan walked along the large corridor, he could still see the shadow of the propeller gear machine flying around.

As it flew, it made a strange gurgling sound that no one could understand.

And Zai Yi was carrying boxes in the tail compartment.

Gu Chuan stood on the platform on the upper floor, walked down the stairs and asked him:

"I'm awake! Hatsuyun said that something fell on the ship, where was it? ”

Zai Yan raised his head and looked at the alien, he hid his complicated thoughts, and reluctantly said calmly:

"I was afraid of the boat jolting, so I put all those things in a big box."

The aft compartment is the largest room and contains the most boxes, although most of the boxes are locked, and some of them have fixed locks. But as the ship capsized several times, most of these boxes flew around with impunity, smashing together, hitting the wall, or even hitting a dent, which was the main source of the previous collision sound in the ship.

When Gu Chuan went below, he helped Zai Yi move the boxes together. However, there are different ways to move, the smallest box can be carried by hand, a little larger, you need to use a small car, and the largest batch of boxes with wheels.

Zai Yi said as he moved:

"I'm going to lock them all in a chained manner with a lock strap so that they don't have to move around as the ship moves."

"Okay."

Gu Chuan is not indispensable.

Zai Yan continued to silently sort out the boxes in the ship. The ship was jolting, and the people were rocking with it. Gu Chuan followed him and put a box and a box in place continuously.

The lion's skin didn't ooze any sweat, and the Gear Man's machinery was as calm as ever. Instead, the young man wiped the sweat from his forehead and felt that his spirit was a little better. In silence, Zai Yan pushed the box to the corner with a cart, when he suddenly spoke:

"What would happen to you if I died suddenly?"

"What are you talking about, how did you suddenly die?"

But he was serious:

"Then another person, if you were killed by the wind and waves during the previous exploration, what do you think will happen to us next?"

His tone was serious, not fake.

Gu Chuan was confused by his sudden strange question, and even had the urge to punch him to see what was going on in this elm's head. He said:

"Are you trying to ask me what I know about you?"

The Lion-Head Cogwheel stood silently and pushed another larger box with his cart.

Gu Chuan was frightened by his question, and he said:

"It shouldn't have any special effect if I'm dead, right? Will you die with me when I die? ”

Speaking of this, the young man laughed heartlessly:

"I guess it's impossible! I don't have that much charisma. Nothing particularly has changed in that case, you're still alive and still on the boat. As for where the ship will go in the open sea...... That's something I can't control and don't know! ”

The movement of the cart stopped.

And Gu Chuan continued:

"But whatever? Ships always have to go down, right? It doesn't matter if you go back or forward, are you still standing here, motionless? Haha, as for the direction, then I really don't know! ”

Jae-chan remained silent, and without saying a word, continued his unfinished activity of moving the boxes.

Gu Chuan's words reminded him of the mentors who had died.

It made him feel a shiver.

He couldn't see all of this, he didn't even know what he was thinking, the only thing he could be sure of was that the rumors were still there.

The height of each tower-like cloud is unfathomable, and the widest cross-section is not known for tens of thousands of meters. The Dead or Alive travels between a newborn tower-like cloud, as if traveling in a shallow sea.

In the young man's intuition, he instinctively realized that the sea was still the sea. The density of the sea is highest in the deepest places, while the density of the sea in the shallow air is thinner.

The storm caused by the density of the matter was particularly violent, and the hull of the ship was constantly rattled. And the outside scene reflected in the walls is full of countless fine pieces of snow.

Gu Chuan even saw something similar to an iron piece falling with the snow onto the Dead or Alive. At that time, the propeller gear machine was clinging to the hull with its little short hand, carefully approaching the iron sheet on the outside.

Gu Chuan beckoned to the propeller gear machine. The gear machine did not return to it. Only then did he remember whether this was a real mirror or not, but a one-way way of receiving light from the outside world.

Several people worked together to sort out a large clean place, and the propeller gear machine that carried the bits and pieces had gone back and forth several times.

In this way, Gu Chuan also knew the location of the box for a long time.

"Did you find anything?"

"It's not a long time, and I don't know anything."

Zai Yan said.

They opened the box together, and Gu Chuan saw that there were many bits and pieces in the box, most of which were metal, and a few were like glass or ceramics.

He picked out a piece of iron and looked at it, and saw that there were some words densely engraved on it, and some of the words were actually the same as the language of the Gear Man.

"What's going on?"

Zai Yan shook his head:

"I don't know. And I would say that although these words are the same, they are not meant to express the meaning of the words of the Gear Man, and you will know our language as soon as you read it. ”

Gu Chuan looked more carefully.

Sure enough, he couldn't read the sentences.

"But I guess there's always a connection to the Gear Man, right?"

Zai nodded silently, acknowledging the connection.

Gu Chuan flipped through a few more pieces and said:

"Could it be Ziyuan? When Ziyuan escaped on the ghost ship, I remember that the strange ship left a lot of tools for your coggs. ”

Zai Yan shook his head and said:

"Ziyuan is unlikely. Our tools are shattered and will not be broken like this, there should be more slices of gears, but these are all pieces of iron. If I had to give an answer. ”

His face was unusually silent.

"I think it may be the answer to the world's problems of our previous generation, exploration ships."

The ships of that generation have completely lost their way in the Netherworld, and no one will be able to find them again. The only evidence of its existence is the Eternal Bell brought back by the Cogwheel Man's strange artifact, and several of the Cogwheel Man's lifeless corpses.

The answer to the unknown doesn't always have to be immediate.

Because the clues are scattered in various places that people do not know.

For travelers, they are still more concerned about where the ships drifting in the wind will be swept in the nascent tower-shaped clouds.

It only took a few days for the Dead or Alive to approach the edge of the tower-like cloud. They are ready to descend along the edge of the tower.

There is no need to go into detail about the dangers involved. Because the height of their involvement is more than five thousand meters from the lowest Netherworld, and any creature will be shattered at this distance.

And as they descended from the sky, they encountered the first large animal they had ever seen in the Netherworld.

It was a transparent creature like a giant umbrella or a cloud.

Each one is much larger than the size of the Dead or Alive.

However, their density is quite low, perhaps only slightly higher than that of the cloudless Netherworld, and about thinner than the density of normal water.

This was discovered because the Death or Life numbers fell into their bodies.

A little earlier, the travelers were still ignorant, but they noticed that the movement of the waterwheel and the sail was different, and the movement was so intense that the Death or Life began to circle in place. The cause of this anomaly was not found in the maintenance of the lower level.

So Gu Chuan was about to open the exhaust chamber and go outside to take a look at the situation, but found that as the hatch was removed, an unknown colorless liquid with a little fishy smell rushed into the exhaust chamber and soaked his feet.