As the creature that could presumably become a jellyfish continued to fly, more of its kind approached it and flew alongside it to form a dense swarm that made travelers much troubled.

"Speaking of which, you call this huge body of water jellyfish?"

A little later, Zai Yan asked Gu Chuan.

After being swallowed by the giant jellyfish in the abdomen, the dead or alive flew with the giant jellyfish for tens of thousands of meters or hundreds of thousands of meters, and this state may last for a day, or it may have been several days, or even ten days.

Assuming that Sunset City still has the concept of some kind of temperature cycle biological clock, then since the south of the Great Wilderness, the concept of Gu Chuan's biological clock as a human body has been completely lost.

Sailing through the netherworld, the time to sleep or the time to eat depends only on the intuition of the respective body.

The only thing that can serve as some kind of standard is probably the Eternal Clock of the Gear Man.

Gu Chuan went to see the Eternal Clock more and more time.

However, every time he thought he was going to see the Eternal Clock at the same time, the reading on the Eternal Clock was always different. He thought it was five, but sometimes it was three, sometimes it was four, and the most exaggerated time it was one.

"Yes, I think they're all made of water, so that's why I call them jellyfish. What's wrong, is the word jellyfish bad? Or do you remember that the records of the Cogwheel Man have a record of this huge floating body of water with 'skin'? You've got a name. ”

Gu Chuan asked curiously.

Zai gently pushed the gears of the lifeboat and shook his head.

The job in his hand was the lifeboat that Gu Chuan proposed before setting sail. Originally, there was a concept of a separate mission ship in the gear world, but now it is not difficult to change it. Zai Yan is a natural master of engineering, and the meticulousness of the gear man surpasses all manpower, and I am afraid that only the real machine of the industrial society can stabilize the pressure with one hand.

At that time, Zai Yan looked up at the sky outside the wall, and after breaking away from the cloud of the tower-like cloud, the refractive index of light of the jellyfish body fluid that enveloped the dead or alive was also abnormally obvious.

"I don't have any such records in my clan, I just think jellyfish is a meaningful name."

The color of the water swayed outside the window. The fire of the ship shone brightly in the water, and the reflection of the scaly clouds flying in the fire of the ship resembled a flock of birds flying.

Due to a lack of equipment and personnel, the explorers abandoned their research-oriented imaginations, such as a more detailed analysis of the bodily fluids of the dreaming jellyfish. This analysis may provide a perfect means of autonomously escaping from jellyfish.

Their current strategy is to observe the movement of the giant jellyfish and decide on their own next move based on environmental conditions.

In a meeting of three people and an egg, everyone agreed on this aspect:

"If we move near a large cloud, we use six shots to break the jellyfish and force it out of the jellyfish. Assuming that it is still in a thin cloud band with few clouds, as long as the direction does not deviate more than 10 degrees to the south...... Let's just wait and see what happens, and let it drift. If the direction is too far away and there is no large cloud...... Then you need to be prepared for the worst. ”

Everyone agreed with Gu Chuan's opinion.

At present, the giant jellyfish are drifting due south.

Therefore, they did not panic, just enough to use the power of this air jellyfish to carry them through this journey.

It's just that I don't have a fixed place, and if I am not down-to-earth, I am naturally uneasy.

"But perhaps, the earth we thought we were stepping on was actually floating in the air, and it could collapse at any time...... It's like an earthquake! ”

Gu Chuan, who was on duty in the external observation room, thought while flipping through the glass book:

"Isn't the so-called down-to-earth fantasy of my own acquainted experience in the past?"

You know, the earth is a material entity hanging in the void.

Isn't it also a terrible thing to imagine a ball in the dark world of nothingness and a ball standing on top and hanging upside down below?

His imagination drifted away.

Mr. Dandan's sleeping box hits the door at this point. So the propeller gear machine hurried to open the door. Mr. Dandan came in slowly:

"It's time, kid!"

When the young man heard this, he couldn't help but smile at this imposing egg, and Mr. Dandan was stunned for a moment, and saw him pick up the book and walk out of the main room, first went to the study to put back the glass book, and then went into the room and rested.

At that time, the number of death or life was considered to be safe. The air parade of jellyfish seems to depend on the direction of some kind of air current. And when the waterwheel and sail swayed from side to side under the Death or Life horn, unable to highlight the jellyfish's bodily fluids, they tended to sleep and rest, curled up together, and no longer struggled.

Snow blocks and debris in the air that are easy to break down must first fall on the surface of the jellyfish, either not falling into the jellyfish's body, or before sinking to the position of death or life, they will follow the flow of body fluids, fly to the bottom of the jellyfish, and disappear from the other side of the skin.

The world was silent for a moment, except for the slight sound of the water.

For Gu Chuan, this is undoubtedly the best sleeping environment, and there is even some indescribable kindness and love.

He grew up near the water all his life, falling asleep and getting up to the sound of the water.

He hugged the sheets and fell into a deep sleep.

But this time he didn't wake up naturally, but was woken up.

It was the propeller gear machine that eagerly woke him up.

"What happened?"

He got out of bed first, then immediately followed the direction of the propeller gear machine and looked out the window. Outside the window, it was still foggy, and the light and shadow were scattered.

He saw a floating black shadow in the light outside the window.

The shadow was as thin as a cicada's wings, wandering in the light of the water, as if watching the march of the Death or Life Trumpet.

There are no flying objects in the sky. Wherever the fire shines, there is no solidity. And the shadow appeared suddenly, like a terrifying ghost in a ghost story.

Frightened, he immediately rushed into the Exterior Observation Room. Hatsuun, Zaiyi, and Mr. Dandan, have been standing there for a long time. Shadows floating in the water can also be seen in the walls and windows of the exterior observation room.

All of the shadows are of different sizes and shapes, but most of them are similar to the body types of travelers.

While the young man was looking, the egg sat in the sleeping box and said triumphantly:

"As soon as I found out about the shadow, I informed the whole ship without any delay."

"Okay, okay, I see, you're doing a great job!"

The young man smiled and asked:

"But where do these shadows come from? Have you seen it? ”

Mr. Dandan's spirit is even more domineering:

"It was from another jellyfish."

"Swimming from another jellyfish?"

"Yes! There are more jellyfish, more and more of them. ”

It hurriedly began to talk about its previous discoveries. It turned out that when Gu Chuan was asleep, the number of dreaming jellyfish continued to increase.

"I can't say enough, I can't say enough. I found this to be very simple. "Because, the refractive index of light is getting weirder and weirder." The scene brought about by the occasional arc light in the clouds, in the refraction of the heavy water, is really twisted and bizarre, making the outline of the cloud like a large cake spread out. I looked closer to the window and turned on the searchlights of the Dead or Alive even brighter. ”

"And then?"

Gu Chuan asked as he turned on the telescope. Two robotic hands in the telescope unfold outward from the base at the right time, lifting his body. The cooperation with this new gear consciousness brings a new benefit to the young people, which is to save a chair.

Light Six is enough to open up a world for the telescope's field of view. He easily looked at the edge of the jellyfish's contact with the jellyfish.

When the near-transparent skin touched, he could clearly see something as thin a shadow passed through the jellyfish's contact surface and sneaked here.

He moved his telescope slightly, looking further down the edge of the jellyfish swarm.

The jellyfish were unusual, still drifting towards the oversized cloud band in the distance.

"And then, those shadows appeared!" Mr. Eggball exclaimed, exaggeratedly, "I saw that they must have come from where some other jellyfish were......"

Both Hatsumo and Zaiyu had used binoculars and had a rough idea of the origin of the shadows.

"Do you guys have any ideas?"

After Gu Chuan read it once, he had a slight guess in his heart. He didn't say it first, but asked Chu Yun and Zaiyi.

Jae-sin shook his head.

However, Chu Yun gave a bold guess:

"Could it be a parasite in a jellyfish?"

Gu Chuan was surprised, but Zai Yi didn't know what the parasite was, so he hurriedly asked Chu Yun for advice.

With the medical knowledge he had learned from the two doctors in the past, Hatsuyun explained to him:

"It's a small animal that hides in other animals. The big animals prey on food, and the small animals absorb nutrients from the larger animals and grow. ”

With the knowledge of the earth, water is the most susceptible to parasites. And around the Rizhao River, there is no shortage of parasites. Mother Sichuan once told Gu Chuan about parasites, saying that when swimming, you must protect your ears, nose, mouth, and buttocks, otherwise the insects in the water will get into it.

These words scared Gu Chuan, who had not awakened the memories of his previous life, for a long time, and he never dared to enter the water, for fear that the insects in the water would get into his asshole or indescribable eyes.

In the history of Sunset City, Mr. De's pamphlet once recorded that many people were sick with parasitic diseases at one time. The Yaoshi family once made a lot of fame and money by curing parasitic diseases with pasted herbs. It is said that the Yaoshi family has always called the parasite "Gu".

Speaking of this, Zai Yi also understood.

The Cogwheel Man's research on living things has led them to find shadows of other creatures in the animals, but these parasites in the wilderness do not resemble snake-like insects, but more like some kind of lump, or flattened myriapods lying on their internal organs.

"I don't think it's a parasite."

Gu Chuan shook his head, looked at the turbulent scene in the water, and said:

"Generally speaking, parasites should not have such a strong subjective initiative. And you don't find that they seem to gather in the light, they are attracted by the light. ”

Hatsuyun, Zaiyi, and the egg all looked away.

As the young man said, the shadows, like moths gathered around the lamp, slowly swirled around the ship's fire. The shadow in the water seems to have no purpose and no pursuit, just drifting, waiting together with the flight of the jellyfish.

"Perhaps, these parasites also like light?"

Chu Yun said.

"Although...... They are ...... parasitic in an organism"

Gu Chuan was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile on the side of the telescope:

"Indeed, perhaps, this parasite did like light at some point in its growth, and this liking even forced them to cross the barriers of their respective parasitic jellyfish to the Death or Life where we are...... Before we make any guesses, let's measure whether they like the light or not. ”

This measurement is very easy.

The shadows of the outside world cannot see anything inside the Dead or Alive. The traveler inside the Dead or Alive, on the other hand, can observe everything outside. They only need to gently change the direction of the opening and closing of the lights on the hull of the Dead or Alive.

The test naturally splits into two parts.

The first part is a qualitative test of sensitivity to light.

The lights of the Dead or Alive have two parts, one is the main searchlight and the other is the maintenance light under the hull case.

Zai first flicked the former's lights, and he deliberately fanned them out in front of him.

The whistle of the Dead or Alive whistle chirped, and the direction of the searchlight, embedded in the telescope's massive hole, slowly shifted.

Three people, an egg, and a propeller machine, distributed in five directions.

"But look closely!"

Gu Chuan shouted.

One after another, they began to report directly the movement of the shadows in the directions they were observing.

Based on the observations of the five people, the movement of the shadows began at a certain point. As the light moved, it was probably a shadow in front of the left that started to move first, so all the shadows in front of the left began to move, and they gradually moved to the bottom of the light.

"There seems to be a certain lag in this movement. The shadows don't seem to start immediately. ”

Their faith was undoubtedly boosted by this. And the sensitivity of the shadows to light has also been somewhat determined.

The second part is a quantitative test of the intensity of light.

The test was a little more complicated, and they didn't know if it would work.

The carrier first turned on all the maintenance lights under the hull, so that the whole body of the Dead or Living was bright and all the lights were emitted, so as to maximize the light to the outside world.

When they reach their maximum, the shadows move strangely. They began to slowly swing and circle around the trumpet of death or life, swimming in a whirlpool, like people dancing around the sun in the sky or a bonfire on the earth.

The strange movement of all things in nature is like a music and dance without a score, surrounding the hull of the ship, like countless drifting dark lamps, quietly lighting the lights on the top.

Then, the load began to extinguish the lights from the tail section to the bow section by section.

This was a cruel act for the shadows, and Gu Chuan seemed to be able to see the shadows at the end of the darkness suddenly fall into panic.

They began to scatter like fish that had just gathered on the shore and were frightened away by the intruders, and a few of them ran away at once, while many of them swam away in a circle of the same place, and then swam to a place of light.

Then the light of the Dead or the Living kept going out, and the more shadows ran forward, and they became a stream of darkness, like a formation of formations, persistently gathering towards the light, so that as the range of the light became smaller and smaller, they gathered densely in the little corner in front of the bow.

Then, Zai turned off the last searchlight.

The surroundings were plunged into absolute darkness.

The travelers in the ship could not see clearly because of the darkness, and the outside world could not see them.

The darkness became a terrible barrier.

After a while, when Gu Chuan finished reading a glass book with very little content, he said:

"Let's pull away, let's see how they're doing?"

Zaibi nodded and flicked the gears.

And so the Death or Life trumpet shines brightly again.

They saw that the shadows did not leave because of the disappearance of the light, but remained waiting near the Death or Life Trumpet, and began to whirl again with the light, like a dance to the gods.

You know, it's better to find a new light than to rely on your own strength...... Expecting what was once bright to shine again has always been a more worthwhile and effective thing for living beings.

The shadows of the underworld are no exception.