Then, the side doors were locked, and the interior of the ship fell into darkness. The remaining hornmen fumbled for the remaining gears on the wall, and the cogwheel man was able to activate the last glowing mechanism that could still be used in the ship. The wall here is half brighter, and the ceiling over there is a little lighter.

There was a piece above Gu Chuan's head that could still glow, and when the piece of glass lit up, he thought that he was under the street lamp in the middle of the night, the surroundings were pitch black, and ghosts were wandering, and his shadow was dragged out by the light, just enough to accommodate his whole body under his feet.

The interior of the ship, which was once used for the voyage of the Netherworld, has now completely changed, and the original arrangement of the Gear People is no longer there, but mostly the property of the Horned People, as well as the weathered feces left behind by the Horned People and the strange insects raised by the Horned People.

Other than that, the corners of the wall are full of bones. Gu Chuan didn't know if it was the people they had died, or the "things" that the horn people had eaten.

If the dragon's heart horn does not lean on the forehead, nor does it directly touch the object, then the ability to think and communicate is weak.

He could barely read the rest of the horn people, mainly the children and the mothers who cared for them, discussing whether the puzzle would succeed or not.

The lineage of the Horned People is not as broken as that of the Toeless, so they have a clear idea of what their predecessors did in the puzzle. And in the team that went to today's puzzle, there were also two old people who had experienced the puzzle of the previous generation. They have experience.

Those two old men are the treasures of wisdom in their herd. The knowledge they passed on originated in the old past, and one of the pregnant women of the horned people said nostalgically that the clouds were not as heavy as they are now, and that their ancestors did not know how long ago their ancestors lived in the bright moonlight, and only occasionally encountered the winds and clouds that swept the whole world.

"Where does all the glory in the sky go?"

"Because we have made mistakes, the wonderful world was destroyed in a gale. But just wait...... The world will be reborn in flames. ”

The women chattered about legends that had long since been unrecognizable in their people.

They couldn't tell the difference between history and mythology, and Gu Chuan didn't know if the myth here was a kind of history. The young man saw only the crawling horned child playing with the new beautiful "stone" they had found in the ship's grave.

That's a piece of gear.

"That's a long way off! It's just a lie to the child. ”

The other horned man shrugged off these vague legends, gently caressing her severed horn, more focused on the present and more on the many groups they saw.

"Let's think about whether those monsters will solve our puzzle!"

Fear and contempt appear in them at the same time.

They sighed and began to pray to the spirits of their ancestors as they talked about the grotesque and ridiculous physical features of the hornless men, laughing at their ugliness, and fearing the unknown knowledge and puzzles they might have.

Gu Chuan and Zai Yi stayed by the wall.

Zaiyi tried to call softly in his mind:

"What do you hear?"

Gu Chuan tried to use the dragon's heart horn to relay what he heard to the explorer of the gear man.

The Horned People's heritage has not been broken, and their conversations have much more information than the Toeless.

He remembered Anafantita, who was obsessed with puzzles, and who had been separated from him by a wall, leading the toedless race to the shipwreck.

The smell of bugs and horned people wafting through the air informed them of the belonging of the territory. Therefore, they turned cautiously to avoid the road next to the wrecked ship.

The toedless people who are not in peace are like a small, cold star, on the edge of the huge hot stars, forced to meet the light they did not think.

"That's a lot of people!"

Gulsu said to Anafita.

Anafinta nodded blankly, letting her grasp her shoulder.

Then, she hugged their puzzle pieces tightly. This puzzle was a piece that she and a few toeless people had scraped together in a short period of time by searching for a variety of materials from the ship's graveyard. Most of the toeless people did nothing, some encouraged them, some said nothing, some said that they would fail as soon as they learned the true meaning of the puzzle, and some had been looking for food in the graveyard and were ready to leave.

"Their puzzle is so big! I can't hold it alone. ”

Gu Lisu smacked his tongue.

"Yes."

Anafinta looked far away in the scattered circle of toeless people, and saw horns, spots, fat, thin, one more pair or one less organ, no nose and only nostrils, no ears but only ear piercings, and mouths that were divided in three directions, or very similar to them, but differed in color.

They had seen some of the fires in the past few days, but they had never seen such a vast scene.

The rolling stream of people made them dazed more than the netherworld worm disease they had ever seen.

The seeds of uneasiness have long taken root in the heart. What was a small excitement mixed with a huge tension and fear disappeared.

The firelight reflected in the sky, and the clouds leaped like a leap. The deep red shadows of the clouds lead to the invisible depths of the netherworld. And the solid structures they didn't understand protruded horizontally in the air, like messy tombstones on mass graves. The beast of death fell behind them and in the setting sun, and the alien round creatures inside gave a deep gaze to the beings that walked.

"What will happen to us?"

Gulsu asked softly behind Anafinta.

Anafanta didn't know what to say to Gulsu, maybe she didn't think about anything, she didn't think about anything, she just walked the last part of the road in a state of confusion and fear.

The road was filled with gravel or glass slag, and a few of them pierced the soft skin of the toeless man in the water, leaving a trail of blood, which dragged a long strip through the ground as they walked, and it took a few moments for the wound to congade, and the blood stain disappeared.

Once again, they were in front of the path that led to the underground. The team of toeless men froze in front of the cave entrance.

Batu roared and said:

"Let's go."

Anafinta woke up as if from a dream, grabbed the puzzle pieces in her hand, and said:

"Let's go, we will succeed, our ancestors bless us."

Her words instilled a surge of courage in the rest of the Toeless, and they formed a column, with the first few men moving down.

When Gulsu heard Anafanta's words, she was originally happy, but when she stood outside, she saw the shadows of people everywhere who were about to enter the ground, or waiting on the ground for the underground, and suddenly it occurred to her that they seemed to be the same ancestor, once brothers and sisters.

So the ancestors, will they bless the toeless, or someone else?

Anavirta shouted to Gulsu.

Gu Lisu hurriedly ran down.

As she ran, she saw the infinitely dim red fire in a limited world, and the ugly faces of their companions under the fire.

It's a pity that the explorers never really participated in the jigsaw puzzle, and they never got to see the strange and absurd true face of the jigsaw puzzle.

I only know the origin of the puzzle is no longer known. Even the longest-lasting ancient clan can only give an answer similar to Anafanta's, which comes from a promise of their ancestors.

The brigade of the Toeless Man remained on the ground.

When Anafinta and Gulsu, along with Batu and one or two of the toeless men reached the ground, the first thing that attracted them was not the crowd, nor the eyes still carved into the walls, not the creations they had posed so much larger than their creations, but the texture of the ceiling and floor that they had not noticed before.

At first glance, it was just a huge disc with two small horns.

Mercury, which used to flow in the ditches of the floor, now flows from the ground down the walls to the top, crisscrossing and attracting their attention.

"The above is the ancient road map left by the ancestors, and the gift of the jigsaw puzzle is the road map on top."

Anastrofinta learned this fact from the mouths of others.

The humans around her are just as emaciated as she is, and this male is characterized by several dense scales growing in several places, and their pupils are a light gray color, not the same color as Anafinta, which is between blue and violet.

"But the current route has been traveled many times, and there have been changes, and these changes are known only to the respective ethnic groups."

But it can also be used as a map.

"Have you ever succeeded in a jigsaw puzzle before?"

Anafinta asked him.

"It's hard to ......"

The male said:

"I wasn't born when my clan last puzzled, but it's said we've failed many times......"

"I see...... We're not too much ......," said Anafinta, who innocently spoke of the poverty of their course.

Then the man's eyes were filled with disappointment, and he said:

"Our migration route was supposed to be okay, but something big happened and it caused a dense pest infestation, and we had to change paths in this puzzle."

Said the gray-eyed scaly man.

"That's why we've been preparing for a long time."

Then, he walked forward, into the center, smiled confidently at the crowd, and then lifted the curtain of the object on his chest, showing the pieces of the puzzle of his clan to the Netherworld.

It was a wheel-like object, in the shape of a ring, and the ring had a line of steel wire radiating outward from the center.

The Scaly Man held it aloft, and when it was displayed, he pulled a wire out of the wheel. Then the whole wheel, which had been intact, collapsed, and every wire line in it was pulled out, and the whirling ring of metal, which had been found out of nowhere, was split into four halves.

They watched as each part parted and closed, and Anafanta clutched what she had come up with in her hand. She was dazzled by the delicacy of the puzzle pieces in front of her

Large parts and small parts are piled up on the swept floor. The scaly man couldn't tell whether he was confident or panicked, and said:

"I'm done showcasing, and I'm going to ask the next challenger to restore the puzzle."

The wheel puzzle caused a whisper among the people of all races below.

The success or failure of the puzzle is carried out in a way of defending and challenging. Whoever stands on the stage and wins in the end has the most choices, and then he can choose the route first, and leave the fire first. The rest of the people then challenge each other to decide the next person to leave the fire.

Usually the second process will be much shorter, because if you can't spell it, you can't spell it, and if you can spell it, although you have only gone through it once, if you are smart enough, it is enough to secretly reproduce.

As a result, the jigsaw puzzle quickly evolved into creating puzzles that would never be put together, or that only they knew how to put together.

According to what Guli Soda heard, some of the puzzles kept by some ethnic groups were not solved after several sessions, so they won all battles. The only intellectual activity that people who know the whole process of jigsaw puzzles do in their leisure time is to conceive more complex and difficult puzzles to crack, and to solve puzzles of other races.

This kind of wacky mind game usually takes years to get started with the human-like intelligence of the Netherworld. The rules are so simple that there are almost no restrictions. And it's complex enough to feel lost.

It is said that the original puzzle pieces are just pieces one after the other, arranged neatly in a certain order on the same large base.

But soon, in order to ensure the invincibility of the puzzle between the human systems, they went from single-sided puzzles to double-sided puzzles, and finally to almost infinitely complex three-dimensional puzzles.

Mastering the puzzle requires keeping in mind the possible combinations of each solid with the others, and then rearranging, arranging, and merging the strongest and most complex materials you can find in your hands. And the best part is that this is not a task that can be done by one person alone, usually in order to ensure that the puzzle of their own race is invincible, there will be multiple people working together with each other to navigate the infinite changes.

The Scaly Man's Wheel Puzzle survived on the stage for a while, and they were cracked by the Horned Man. The leader of the horns stood on the stage and clutched the box where the puzzle pieces of his own clan were located. And the rest of the corner people were on the ground, wire by wire to change the wheel puzzle back to its original appearance.

The Scaly Man's face turned pale and gray, and he trembled as he took the pieces of the puzzle from the Horned Man's hands and stumbled back into his group.

The horns took their puzzle pieces, a strange cube divided into three rows and three columns on each side, each of which could be rotated independently.

As the horns opened the puzzle, Anafinta saw that there were many reels inside. At that time, she didn't look closely, she only looked at it, and then she felt dim, and said that she needed to be prepared to come back later.

Toeless people don't need to wait there all the time, just one or two people are there to watch. You don't even need to watch it, you just need to appear at the right time.

The jigsaw puzzle may take two or three days, and they have plenty of time.

She hurried out until she reached the back of a glass curtain wall that stretched across the sky invisible to the toedless people, and she became a tiny broken step in the shadows.

She held the puzzle pieces she had come up with and walked simply.

But before I knew it, I had walked back a lot, until I got back to the position of the wrecked ship that was close to the temporary stronghold of the horn people.

As a result, behind her, Gu Lisu called her:

"Anafinta, stop! Where are you going? ”

Anaerofinta turned around, tears had rolled out of the corners of her eyes, she wiped them again, then shook her head, and said that she would not go anywhere, but as soon as the words fell, more sourness came out of her heart, and she almost cried out loud.

As for the previous leaders, the return of the underworld, the chosen, the sages, and the people who were crowded, the legends and mythical illusions and fluttering emotions brought by them all disappeared without a trace. She only felt a huge gap between her race and the rest of the race.

She only realizes that the puzzle pieces are completely different from what she imagined.

"That's a lot of people...... Didn't do the puzzle...... So they don't know, but you know, we do it...... Yes, how shabby...... We haven't done it before, so how can we win against someone who's been thinking about how to put together a puzzle? She could barely utter a complete sentence.

The fire was still raging, and in the red light of the sky, the dead beast was still staring at the Three Realms with its single eye on the top of its head.

At that time, Hatsuyun had just woken up from the pathological sleep she had to have, and she saw Mr. Dandan, who was looking into the distance with a telescope, and asked:

"What are you looking at? Gu Chuan, and Zaiyi, haven't you come back yet? What exactly do they want to do......"

Or did you really suffer some kind of hardship?

Hatsuyun intends to go out. But as soon as she went out, the only ones left behind were Mr. Dandan and the gear machine assistant. Neither of these is a particularly stable existence. Especially the former for the sake of a good death, I don't know what he will do.

Mr. Dandan pushed open the binoculars and his sleeping box, and said:

"Aren't I observing, what is the situation in this strange place, when will the two of them come back? I'm tired of waiting, and I want to go out early, so as not to miss the opportunity. ”

"Timing?"

Hatsuyun leaned his hands against the window, his eyes looking down on this grotesque land. The land does not seem to be alive, but rather as if it has been separated or separated from the sea of time and darkness.

The light here is not even seen by Zaiyi, or Zaiyi is more familiar with the darkness of the netherworld. Only Gu Chuan and Hatsuyun, who have truly seen the sunset of the world, will compare it with the sun and day.

At that time, Mr. Dandan said in a prophetic tone:

"I think this netherworld, this group of people who look like you, is coming to an end. I think you'd better leave as soon as possible! ”

She saw the two toeless men who had traveled far away, and blurted out in a trance:

"They look like they're going to do something amazing."

As Mr. DanDan spoke, the swarms of jellyfish were fluttering across the sky. In those huge bubbles, at some point, there were many smaller bubbles. Many bubbles flashed in the air with a deep fiery red light.

The shadows of the buildings do not follow the same direction.

The light came from all directions, and the shadows were uncertain, dancing under their feet with the light of the fire and the reflected firelight.

"We can't go back to the jellyfish and follow our old migration path...... Where you go from, you have to go back......"

Anafinta said with her head bowed.

Gulsu stood in front of her and said:

"Well, I think you're right. But in that case, you don't have to do the puzzle, do you? Are you going to throw away the puzzle you've made? ”

Anafanta was silent for a long time.

She was good for a while and said:

"Let's go."

The voice fell on the fire-lit heavens and the earth, and the earth trembled slightly in the air with the fire.

They supported each other and walked along the same path as they had walked to the mouth of the cave and to the ground again. The toedless people are waving to them and making way for them. And there are also toeless people who hope for this saint who has returned to the underworld, thinking that she can defeat even death, and she will definitely be able to defeat wisdom.

At that time, the defenders were still horned people, and there were fat people. The horned people and the fat people can't crack each other's puzzles, so at the moment, it's the state of sharing first.

They don't want anything from the status quo, and they know that the best two routes are not much different, as long as they can keep their good routes.

Anafanta came to the stage with the puzzle pieces she had come up with with a painstaking meditation.

She didn't have a box to cover, just a rag to cover it.

The toeless man, who didn't know the truth, was still preaching Anafinta's wisdom, and was so excited that he thought he could change his path.

And Anavirta calmly lifted the rags.

Many people saw that inside the rag was a simple metal knot, made of three flattened pieces of metal meshing together to form a cross cube.

The surface of the metal was as cold as the metal she had rubbed against her cheek when she first saw the solid.

Holding her metal knot, she stood in front of the Horned People's intricate puzzle of reels and cubes, and ended the puzzle game of the Toeless Ones.