The turbidity current backs up in the exhaust chamber and flows through the drainage pipes, giving out a gurgling sound.

There is an empty room near the exhaust chamber. There was originally some clutter in this room, but after being cleaned up by Zaiyi, it was used as a cage for this toeless man.

"Isn't the cage too ugly?"

Mr. Dandan, riding in the sleeping box, shook his head, and transported the toeless man with Zaiyan, and after hearing Zaiyan's narration, he suddenly said:

"I think it must be a lucky thing for it! To know...... It has come from its primitive state to your extravagant ship! Maybe she'll be able to eat cooked food and take a hot shower! There's no end to this enjoyment...... If she likes cooked food and hot water...... She might have thought this was the paradise she could reach when she died! ”

With that, it cautiously poked its little head and eyes out of its sleeping box, and stole a glance at the toeless man.

The wounded toeless man was still unconscious after being caught in the Dead or Alive, and its body was wrapped in an impermeable but transparent plastic-like paper. There are several holes in it for ventilation. Zai Yan told Gu Chuan that this was to prevent his or her bodily fluids from coming into contact with the ground, so Gu Chuan wrapped the toeless man in the exhaust chamber.

This is a lesson that has been passed down from generation to generation by the Gear people.

When he was still in the Great Wilderness, he had heard from the mission statements of the other cogwheel people that the bodily fluids of various creatures could have a corrosive effect on objects, and he himself had seen similar animals and disposed of their carcasses. As a result, he had become very accustomed to separating this flesh and blood creature.

Zai Yi said:

"Your idea is interesting."

"It's not funny, it's a very likely reality!"

"But it seems to me that there are two other people, and if you ask them what they are, they will only say that it is a kind of captivity. We temporarily imprisoned her and wanted to get information from her mouth...... That's all. Your thoughts don't make much sense. ”

After they transported the toeless man to the cell, Zai Yan thought about it and pushed out a large transparent glass coffin from the warehouse on the ground floor and brought it to the cell. Then, together with his gear assistant, he turned the toeless man wrapped in transparent paper into the transparent coffin.

The toeless man swung his arm and lay down in the transparent coffin.

The material of the coffin was not glass, of course, but a translucent metal similar to the hull of the glass book or the dead or alive, which was commonly used by the gear people.

"You spec...... It's okay to close the living corpses. Mr. Dandan, lying leisurely in the sleeping box, smacked, "Are you too cautious?" ”

Zai Yan glanced at the boiled egg, knowing that it didn't care about prudence at all, and prudence didn't have any special meaning with it. The egg was just bored here looking for someone to talk to, and when he happened to do something, it pointed out, hoping that he would say something, so that their conversation could continue, and send the egg that it wanted to end as soon as possible.

Zai Yan didn't bother to pay attention to it, but called the propeller gear machine, let the gear machine enter the transparent coffin to act as their siblings, and then sealed the transparent coffin. Who knew that this inexplicably annoyed Mr. Dandan.

"You can't let it do such a dangerous thing! What if it gets killed by this blue-skinned monster? ”

The propeller gear machine was flying around in the middle of the air, and when I was quite moved, I heard the next sentence of this egg:

"Why don't you change me?"

Zai Yan really doesn't want to pay attention to it. He couldn't guess the egg's thoughts, but he glanced at it with contempt, and said:

"You...... You can't do anything. Can you lubricate the transparent paper with the clear liquid you secrete? The case of the phone is harder than mine, and judging by the intensity of their struggle, there is nothing particularly surprising, so you don't want to look for death here. ”

As a result, the egg was endless, chattering here and there, until Hatsuyun entered the door, and the egg sensed the dangerous breath and stopped its noise.

And Zai Yi also put out the thought of putting the entire sleeping box upside down on the floor.

Hatsuyun has a purely theoretical medical knowledge of the human body in Sunset City from Sunset City, and Zaiyun has a ...... from Answer City Knowledge of all sorts of things.

They all have insights into the current state of the toeless man.

Gu Chuan took off his hood, took off his protective clothing, and washed his body before leaving the side chamber of the exhaust chamber. Then, under the guidance of Zaiyan, he arrived at the prison and asked Chu Yun again:

"So, is this toeless man still alive?"

After speaking, he strode two or three steps to the side of the transparent coffin, knowing that this was the arrangement of the coffin. After a slight explanation, he readily agreed, and then asked again:

"Is this man's injuries serious? Still alive? ”

As he spoke, he had been observing the toeless man. The Toeless Man calmly looked like a dead corpse. His or her skin, which had been blue, was now even more dead ash, like a stiff piece of iron. She opened her human-like mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't.

Dirt from nowhere filled its body, and its skin was wrinkled, as if a man's hands had been soaked in water for a long time.

Chu Yun stood at the other end of the transparent coffin and said calmly:

"She's not dead yet...... The reason for this is that her skin has a breath-like phenomenon...... I think it's a phenomenon of life. ”

Gu Chuan hurriedly put his face on the glass, and only then did he see through the thin layer of tissue paper that her skin was rising and falling slightly, like ocean waves, constantly puffing and purging her air.

Subsequently, Chu Yun said:

"But she may be dying. The reason is that she has unstoppable bleeding in her abdomen, you see......"

With a finger from Chu Yun, the gear machine that entered the transparent coffin lifted the transparent cellophane, revealing the skin of the toeless man's abdomen that was constantly oozing blood.

I don't know if it's group malnutrition or simple innate talent, after many days of observation, Gu Chuan found that this toeless person has an exceptionally slender body and almost no extra meat.

The same is true of the toeless men lying in transparent coffins, the outlines of their skin almost completely revealing their muscles and skeletons, and the lines are clearly visible.

The gear machine wiped the blood oozing from her skin, revealing her bleeding skin. Gu Chuan couldn't tell the difference between this skin and other skins with the naked eye. But after a moment, the skin oozed with beads of blood the size of beans, like dew condensed on a tree branch in the morning, which quickly filled, and finally overflowed, flowing irrepressibly along the texture.

Zai Yi added:

"The structure of their skin is as strange as that of jellyfish...... It didn't look unusual, but it was bleeding all the time. Bleeding is never a good thing. ”

This represents a massive loss of bodily fluids, as well as a breakdown of the internal environment.

"Have you tried to stop the bleeding?"

Gu Chuan asked.

Hatsuyun said she tried some of the usual methods of stopping bleeding in Sunset City, including wrapping gauze around and having a pinion machine perform local compressions, but to no avail.

"On the contrary," Jae-chan added, "if you try to cover the bleeding area with paper, the bleeding area will become larger, and their blood will be weird, difficult to wrap, and will be dialysis from the edges." ”

Not to mention that none of the three of them are professional doctors, let alone Sunset City and Answer City, even if there are a few doctors on Earth, I am afraid that they will be powerless to deal with the damage to life in this other world.

The toeless man in the transparent coffin made no sound, and the blood covered the transparent paper, staining it a bright red of dusk.

Toeless people have skin similar to that of fish, but unlike fish, they have eyelids – eyelids that protect the eyes and can be closed.

This means that they also often survive in environments other than liquids, where there is a high risk of eye damage.

The pinion machine followed Hatsuyun's order and lifted the toeless man's eyelids one after another, revealing its strange blue-purple eyes.

His eyes were motionless and devoid of any sparkle, like a fish lying motionless on a chopping board.

"Purely from a medical point of view...... There's nothing we can do. ”

Gu Chuan propped his hands on the transparent coffin and said.

"You shouldn't bring it in. We can't save it...... And disposing of its corpse, it can be very difficult. ”

Zai Yan stood aside, his huge glass-eyed gaze focused on Gu Chuan's body.

"You're right, we can't save it, we can't cure it...... Yes, yes......" Gu Chuan turned his head sideways, and a pair of bright eyes met Zaiyan's gaze, "but the question became...... Toeless, this toeless man, is it so barbaric? Perhaps, the problem before us、It is not a medical problem。 ”

"What do you mean?"

I can't figure it out.

Gu Chuan turned his head and faced the toeless man who had fainted and was dying in the transparent coffin, watching her blood follow the texture and turn into blood on the glass in the transparent coffin.

"Obviously, there are strife among the toeless people, and their strife may be immediate, it may be instantaneous, and it can be anywhere. In the midst of such strife, they would easily kill a young-looking companion and throw them on a stone to kill themselves, would it be so? ”

He said.

Zai replied calmly:

"Anything is possible for aliens, and we can't speculate on their thoughts and just record their phenomena."

Gu Chuan shook his head and raised his gaze to look at the window of the wall.

Outside the window, the toeless people shouted at the Death or Alive, but none of them wanted to come near the ship anymore. When the Netherworld-dwelling creatures realized that this was not a glowing stone, they poured out from a conjecture of extreme security to another terrifying fear, and began to believe that it was some kind of evil beast that no one had yet discovered.

The boat returned to its original state of silence and alienation from the world.

The swarms of jellyfish have moved far away from the crab clouds, and the snowflake-like material thrown by the clouds has also become sparse, mostly silently accumulating on the surface of the jellyfish, and as the jellyfish extends, some fall into their bodies and disappear silently, while others are bounced away and fly in all directions.

There are small toeless people, who are catching the snow flakes that have fallen into the jellyfish, like children on an autumn night putting out fireflies.

Gu Chuan said:

"No, I mean...... Wouldn't it be easy and quick for toeless people to look smooth and soft, with no hair or scale-protected skin, and only to be injured by punches and kicks? …… Assuming that's the case, I don't think it's possible for us not to see them in modern times. They must have been wiped out before they could communicate, didn't they? ”

"While they may have a strong ability to heal themselves, the toeless can be very badly injured. Isn't it normal to miss too much in a dispute? ”

Zai Yan insisted.

The young man laughed when he heard this:

"That's true, but I always think that they may have a key to self-healing, and this self-healing ability may have some conditions, but it is easy to meet, so it is easy to recover them from a simple injury. But if the conditions for self-healing are not met, they will continue to bleed like this. ”

Hatsuyun didn't listen to this at all, she stared at the toeless man's eyes and wandered inexplicably.

Zai Yan does not understand:

"Then what do you think are the conditions for them to heal themselves?"

"The condition should be simple...... I have two guesses. ”

The tall young man said calmly:

"One is the netherworld clouds, and the other is the bodily fluids of jellyfish, and if one condition is met, their bodies will show the ability to heal themselves at least not inferior to that of a flesh-made person like me."

"Why these two?"

Jae-chan asked him.

The young man turned his head, and smiled triumphantly at the idea that he had come up with in a flash of inspiration:

"Because what we see them is either in the clouds or in the bodily fluids of jellyfish! These two are the most suitable living environment for them! ”

And the dry dead or alive, a transparent coffin without any netherworld matter, is not.

This kind of pride is dangerous, because it can easily be turned out to be a mistake and become a kind of arrogance.

Zai Yan met the eyes of the young man.

Gu Chuan continued:

"Let's try it together."

He was silent, remembering Kyung's comments on the different gear people. Kyo believes that psychopathic gear people are more qualified to answer questions than those who follow the rules. This evaluation, even though he is undoubtedly a member of the psychopathic gear man now, is always unconvinced. He thinks that's incomplete.

After a while, Gu Chuan almost thought that Zai Yi was angry for some reason, and Zai Yi replied:

"Yes."

The two men got into action.

The bodily fluids of jellyfish are not difficult to introduce. Nether matter, they had also saved some snowflakes that had been piled up on the Dead or Living in their previous activities.

They put these substances into the transparent coffin in utensils, and finally filled the entire transparent coffin.

The transparent coffin is a brilliant water color, and there are wonderful snowflakes floating in it.

And the blood that had accumulated at the bottom of the coffin spread upwards.

After that, the explorers had nothing to do but observe regularly.

They didn't wait long.

About the second or third day, in the transparent coffin, the toeless man opened his eyes and blinked.

It was only then that the ignorant and unknown toeless man let out a high-pitched scream, and then pursed his lips in the transparent coffin, and slammed his shoulder against the entire transparent coffin, thus making one thump and thump sound after thump.

It smashed itself all over its body, but it still couldn't escape the cage of the crystal, until it hurried out the door, and a few ...... Two different living forms that were seen for the first time in this area or in this era without toes.

Its violet-like eyes widened, thinking it was in the afterlife.

It's just that the world after death, unlike the dreams it once had, and the stories it once told, is a cold, dry human world made of luminous transparent walls that cannot be passed through.