It is said that birds and insects cannot see glass.

Or there is no concept of glass, they think that if they can see the other side, it means that they can pass through.

That's why flying birds and insects keep hitting the glass and smashing all over their bodies, not because they're brave, but because they don't know, so they can always run fearlessly to impenetrable walls.

The Toeless Man was not so stupid, and after it hit its body and felt weak, it stopped hitting the transparent coffin. Its intellect is sufficient to support its understanding that this is an entity that can pass through light, but it is absolutely impossible. And it's surrounded by these walls, and it's not going anywhere.

And where it was, it could smell its blood, and it could smell the extraordinary netherworld. The smell of this netherworld made it feel strange and extremely thin. But for it, it doesn't matter much whether it's light or thick, because in most cases, it doesn't have a choice. Now, it seems, it still has no choice.

It's like being taught a lesson by your own people just now, and it's like falling into a dead world now.

It lay in a coffin in glass, just silently waiting for the Grim Reaper to act.

And there is only one thing it can do on its own initiative without getting itself hurt, and that is to carefully raise its head in the transparent coffin and observe with its own eyes the people standing outside this transparent wall.

It heard a voice from someone outside:

"Hello."

It didn't understand the meaning of the word, and only saw a jade-colored face of a different race than its race reflected in the glass window, and winked at it.

It blinked.

The young man outside the transparent coffin smiled. He said to Zaiyan:

"Did I guess right?"

"You're right...... You are right. ”

Zai Yan was still calm, he handed the dragon heart horn to Gu Chuan, and Gu Chuan took a few steps forward.

The distance is shortened, making it effortless for the toeless to observe them. And what it paid most attention to was neither their skin, nor their faces, facial features, or palms, and later, Gu Chuan knew that the toeless people were most concerned about the long hair on their bodies at that time.

When it was first kicked out of its parents' lair, an old man of the clan who was dying told it an unlucky prophecy from ancient times, saying that a hairless naked man would give birth to a hairy man, and that hairless man would end the history of their tribe once and for all, and there would be no hairless nude people again.

Through this legend, the toeless man is even more convinced that this is an afterlife.

People with hair have not yet been born. Those who have not been born can obviously only stay in the world of death, waiting for the opportunity to be born.

It thought as it shrank back again, feeling suffocated in the murky water.

Gu Chuan took another step forward, and it shrank by another inch, wanting to bury its head in its own body.

"It looks like it's scared of you, it must be that you're too ugly."

Mr. Dandan, riding in the sleeping box, followed behind them, said.

"It's okay to be afraid, the main thing is whether you can communicate smoothly."

Gu Chuan said nonchalantly, weighed the weight of the dragon's heart horn in his hand, and then raised the dragon's heart horn with one hand and placed it in front of his forehead.

For the two explorers from a foreign land, the encounter with this toeless man and the encounter with Ziyuan have turned the world around, and the situation is very different.

At the time of Ziyuan, it was necessary to painstakingly study how to communicate, but now it is only necessary to ...... As the young man thought, he gently touched the other end of the dragon's heart horn on his forehead to the edge of the glass coffin, and the world of infinite thoughts appeared to him again

At the end of everything was a circle of radiant walls, countless soul-like fires floating near and far, and a faint light glowing purple and blue in front of him.

That's the mindset of a toeless man.

He spoke again to the light that was afraid of the unknown world:

"Hello!"

This time, the toeless man understood, which meant hello.

Then it looked up in amazement and incredulity, and at that time it did not think much about it, but wondered who was talking to it, so it searched for the bodies of the people in front of it with its beautiful eyes, but found that none of them seemed to be the source of the sound, as if the sound was directly sounding in her heart...... It's like an apocalypse.

Soon, however, a definite direction began to emerge in her mind, and the figure of the speaker gradually merged with the figure of the hairy and horned figure in front of her.

When Gu Chuan communicated with her, he thought he was an alien, and he was catching an innocent and cowardly earthling who was studying it.

He first asked:

"Where are you from?"

The voice was a direct thought, flowing into the mind of a toeless man.

At that time, it thought it was the afterlife, and it would also examine the tribes before the living. It couldn't give an answer on its own, but its mind quickly flashed over the place where it lived, and this simple part of thought flowed through the dragon's heart horn through the young man's mind for him to see...... Instead, you experience a cold, moist watery world.

There was almost no light there, only occasional flashes of arc light that flew brightly. There were the contours and touches of large swaths of substance, soft as fluffy bread. The toeless man likes nothing more than to hide in this fluffy bread-like substance, while at the same time, a subtle, clean noise rings in his ears.

Gu Chuan guessed that this might be the appearance of the crab-like cloud from inside.

Because the toeless have no light source, what they see, hear, and feel is everything that flows into their thoughts.

But it's not a termination.

There is more than one hometown for the Toeless.

It may have only been a matter of less than a second, and as the toeless man made unintelligible words in reality because of the association of questions, more scenes began to flow into the dragon's heart in its mind. These scenes contain clouds that are more bizarre than crab clouds, void currents that drift through the air, and ruins of buildings that surprise young people, the materials of which are clearly inorganic solids. But all the scenes were fleeting, as if the lanterns were spinning and watching the flowers, and more and more flashes of the places where they lived in their thoughts made Gu Chuan frown and feel the pressure.

The toeless man may not belong to a constant homeland...... They may have been trekking and drifting in the netherworld. This state of affairs began at least when the toless man was born, and has not stopped until now.

And in reality, the toeless man has been talking for a long time. The language of the Toeless Man unexpectedly dried up, not to mention that compared with the language of the Gear Man, even compared with the language of Sunset City, it lacks complex phonemes and independent words, which seems extremely simple, but no matter how simple the composition is, it is not something that the explorers can understand just by listening.

They don't understand, and naturally they can't respond.

The toeless man felt fear in the unresponsive silence - why didn't they answer it when it understood the voice—the birth of fear took over the original imagination of where it came from, and shocked Gu Chuan's thinking, making him feel angry and funny.

Fear is still an impactful emotion in the end.

He tried to say mildly:

"Don't be afraid, we're friendly beings."

…… A friendly presence?

At that time, the toeless man whispered in his heart.

Gu Chuan didn't see it hugging himself tighter. He said:

"Yes, we won't hurt you, we're here to help you."

The young man did not lie, and exchanging some materials or knowledge for netherworld information was an easy, even very willing thing for them.

They are not stingy in sharing any knowledge and materials, as long as they can complete their exploration and navigation.

The toeless man in reality fell silent.

In the world of thinking, Gu Chuan suddenly heard the flow of a voice:

"Anafinta—"

At that time, it remembered that many, all kinds of things were calling for it.

It's a female name, it's her, and the syllables of her name are joined together, and the pronunciation on the lips is Anafanta.

He heard the imagination in her mind:

"We are your friends."

And after the imagination of this sentence, more concepts and images can no longer be stopped rushing out of the minds of the toeless, and transformed into countless images of the various races that may inhabit the netherworld, like a continuous flashing slide, from the tower-like clouds where dozens of tribes of the toeless people of different shapes once traveled.

It was the first time that a young man had encountered such a strong fluctuation of thoughts in the Dragon's Heart Horn, as if he were being overwhelmed by the waves of images, sounds, touch, and all other feelings.

The images from different tower-like clouds vary, some are still humanoid, similar to toeless people, and even the same in the body of a giant jellyfish, he sees that his hand is stretched out to him, some are not human at all, at first glance, it is a dense swarm of crawling ants, when hugging each other, it looks like a big black ball, and more are not even animals, it looks like just a cloud, a piece of snow, or...... A tree, a stone, or a long rope connected from end to end.

For a moment, he seemed to exist in multiple time periods, in the bodies of multiple human bodies.

Some said it to him, while others said it to his companions.

He saw Anafita herself, and he saw others from Anafanta's point of view, and everything that the toeless man had ever seen reflected each other like crystal faces, and galloped from his mind like the wind. There are plant seeds that have been swallowed in the body that have grown vigorously and grow from their mouths, and there are countless ants crawling in his body, transporting cellular material in his body, like carrying nutrients for the queen ant, and finally eradicating them by soaking them in acidic enough water to tear all the skin. And when he eradicated, he saw that the companions she had grown up with had been eaten to the point where only a thin layer of skin remained.

All kinds of colorful memories recalled that the unprepared young man was shocked, and he was forced to choose to disconnect and take a few steps back with a painful face.

The dragon's heart horn fell from his hand at the same time, and was caught by the keenly perceiving Hatsuyun.

Chu Yun asked her worriedly:

"Did the side effects of this strange thing hurt you?"

Gu Chuan cupped his forehead and said in disbelief:

"I'm fine...... It's not a side effect of the dragon's heart, and after using it for the second time, I don't feel many side effects...... The important thing is that this toeless person and the imagination in her memory startled me. ”

"What's wrong with this toeless man?"

"I told her that we were friendly beings of goodwill."

But...... But...... What this no-toe man thinks is a friendly presence has all had bad consequences for them in the "friendly exchange". And most of them are related to parasitism.

There was not a single one that would not enter the body of it or its companions, and in the end, one by one, they were covered in bruises.

Chu Yun breathed a sigh of relief:

"I thought you were seriously injured again."

After listening to this, Zai Yan said:

"In this way, can't you use the dragon's heart horn to directly convey goodwill and communicate?"

"It's not that we can't communicate...... Gu Chuan took the dragon's heart horn and said, "It's just temporary, this toeless man should face us with a frightened attitude." Dragon's Heart Horn can only be used as a support. ”

Because of a communication failure, they abandoned their original attempt to release the toeless man named Anafanta.

Anafanta spent the next few days in a transparent coffin.

The transparent coffin was changed several times by the explorers. With each change of water, Anafunta behaved much better, leading them to believe that the water contained a certain ingredient that contributed to the survival of the toedless people.

"Maybe through practical actions, we can get closer to her, ease her fears a little, and re-establish communication with her."

Gu Chuan thought.

Anafinta, on the other hand, remained silent in a transparent coffin, melancholy like the corpse of a little mermaid.

Zaiyan's energy was quickly shifted, and he was more concerned about the direction of the jellyfish's flight.

The jellyfish, unaffected by the toeless in their bodies, continued to fly south on their own. And in front of them, the wandering clouds resemble a large wall of smoke. Zai thought that the cloud belt might be an important place for nether creatures to gather.

In this way, Gu Chuan was the only one left to change the water for Anafitta.

The appearance of Anafanta that he saw every day was similar, depressed in the transparent coffin, at first, she also hit the transparent coffin, and then it was no longer impacted.

And every time he tried to communicate with the Dragon's Heart Horn, Anafanta's terrifying memories flooded in, causing him to stop abruptly to prevent his mind from being impacted.

This makes the young man begin to doubt his need to capture this toeless man, which not only achieves his own purpose, but also ruins one's freedom.

It wasn't until about the seventh or eighth day that he was about to change the water of the transparent coffin again, but he saw that the direction of the transparent coffin had changed-

It was Anafanta's intense struggle that caused the transparent coffin to deflect slightly.

He saw that Anafinta was not facing the door with them, but with another exterior glass wall.

The glass wall reflected the scene outside, and in the clear bodily fluids of the jellyfish, the toedless people began to quarrel again. And this quarrel caused them to start hurting each other by force.

Anafinta kept looking at the toedless people outside, without any shift in her gaze.

She seemed to be crying, but she couldn't see it because she was in the water.

But she kept her eyes open, and the young man did not understand the expression of the toeless man, but he thought he saw a deep sorrow.

He didn't understand this kind of sorrow at the time.

He just used a small tube connected to the transparent coffin to pump water from the transparent coffin. Awakening from her confused and desperate dreams when she felt the change in the water, Anafinta turned her head abruptly and looked at the young man, thinking that she had hope, and anxiously knocked on the transparent wall, and pointed her finger at her forehead.

The young man was confused at first, but soon realized that it was Anafinta who wanted to communicate with him.

He happily put on the dragon's heart horn, this time Anafanta didn't think about those horrible memories of friendliness, in her thoughts, Gu Chuan felt as if she was sitting in a movie theater...... Sit at the back of the cinema with Anafinta.

And that wall and the infinite light and shadow in that wall are alienated and distant like the screen of a movie, and the drama on the screen.

It was only then that the young man realized what Anaerofinta thought he was in.

She mistakes the world inside the Dead or Alive for the world after death.

And what was reflected on that wall was the shadow of the world of the living.

Holding her body, she mustered up the courage for the first time to say her request to the self-proclaimed friendly being:

"Lord of Death, Great Master, can you let me go back to that world? It will only take a while, just wait until our puzzle is complete...... I'm not going to be greedy for time and I'll come back on time. At that time, everything I have will belong to you. ”

Because in my world, there are still things that I can't give up and want to accomplish......

Then, as if she was afraid that the "master of death" would not agree, she solemnly declared:

"If I don't come back, you will drain all the water in this box after I die again, and leave nothing to me, and I will never covet a drop, or let me die again, and let my soul fly away—"

I know this is an overly greedy demand that a dead man should not have.

She thought.

But I'm willing to trade everything I have, if I have any value.

And if I have no value, then please destroy me, and stop me from seeing everything I am attached to, this is also my request.

Or is it the sight itself...... It is the foolishness and iniquity of my life...... Torture?

She bowed her head in pain again because of her own conjecture.

Her purple, blue-tinged eyes, gradually revealing the water as the water pumped, like two small, fragile gems, as if they wanted to glow, but knew they couldn't shine.