It's getting brighter.

What was once a dim path is now an intoxicating pink, and the outline of each cloud is shining with gold. And the sun set on the east of the sea of clouds, and stood still, revealing only half of its body, and then it was red, radiant, and almost spurted.

Before it could fully emerge, the dark cloud ribbon had already collapsed, scattering into countless wisps of heaven and earth, leisurely and in different directions.

Looking back, the netherworld clouds still hung down to the sky, piled up to the invisible heights, and still bottomless downwards, extending to the left and right to infinity.

A cloud of water floated in the brilliant white clouds, as if fleeing from a mountain. And the boat was in the water, and with this water, its quiet shadow fell in the bright sea of clouds below.

The morning light passed through the clouds and sprinkled on the water. For the first time, the sun shines on the hull of a ship that has lived in darkness for a long time.

The young man stood in front of the window, falling in the warm sunshine. The feeling of warmth in the body relieves hunger in the stomach. He couldn't help but gaze at the rising sun in the distance, and stretched out his hands almost reverently. Assuming that Gu Chuan did not have the materialistic knowledge of the earth in the twenty-first century, he had no doubt that he would become the most loyal believer of the gods of the sun just because of the warmth of the sunrise this time.

The mighty wind blows all things, and the clear water waves shine under the sun.

At this moment, a pair of cool hands covered his eyes from behind him. And the soft body was already covering his back, so hungry that he almost staggered.

"Chuyun, what are you doing?"

Gu Chuan didn't have to look back, he knew that this was the only possible person.

"You can't look directly at the sun, your eyes can hurt."

Hatsuyun whispered in his ear.

Hatsuun's reminder is not false. The light stimulation of the young man's eyes did not disappear with the obscuration, and he still left blurry spots of light and spots of light in the world of closed eyes.

"You're right! I'm impulsive......"

The young man realized his recklessness. He pulled Hatsuun's hand down and held it in his own, and at the same time turned his back to the sun, and smiled at him when he saw the girl in front of him shining in the sun.

Now he had no distress, only a vague sense of happiness.

Hatsuyun said to him:

"And the last bit of food, let's go, it's time to eat it now."

There is no doubt that they have come out of the netherworld.

It's just that what the world after the Netherworld will be like, and whether they will be able to get food right away—animals that can run or plants that grow in place, they will be known for a while.

But whatever comes next, it won't be more terrifying than this trip through the netherworld to the point of near-starvation.

A new world beckons to them, and the future is slowly approaching them.

In order to soothe the hallucinations of the cloud belt, the explorers had turned off the light transmission function of the hull a long time ago, and now Zaiyi turned the gears again, opening all the hulls, so that the light returned to the ship, and the sun shone on the Death or Life.

"You seem to be surprised by the light?"

There was still some time before he could completely get out of the netherworld, and Mr. Dan Dan came to play cards and chess with Zaiyan, only to see the lion-headed gear man standing by the window, looking at the light and shadow cast by the sun in the water.

Zai Yi was silent.

It's not that the lion hasn't seen the light.

There are man-made lights in the world of the Gear Man, enough to illuminate a certain corner of the room, so that all the darkness has nowhere to hide. As for the recent ones, he has also seen fires. The brightness of the fire was extraordinary, and he was taken aback.

But he had never seen the sun, and he never knew it was like this.

As soon as he noticed the light, Mr. Dandan heard him let out a whimper, which sounded like a helpless child was about to cry. Then he stumbled backwards.

"I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it, after all, it's a layer apart. It turned out that both of those people grew up in such a light...... They must have had a very hot time......"

Zai Yan said.

After a few moments in the light, he felt like his whole body was heating up, like it was in a fire, and every piece of metal seemed to soften a little.

To the Cogwheel Man, this is nothing, and it doesn't cause illness or death. He said blankly:

"Just fresh, fresh."

On the chessboard, another sunspot fell, and this one became a momentum and slaughtered the big dragon in the upper right corner of Mr. Dandan.

Mr. DanDan was about to repent of his moves, saying:

"Do it all over again, do it all over again."

Zai Yan glanced at it and said:

"You're not nervous."

Mr. Dandan raised his little eyes:

"Hmph, as long as there are more dead and alive, not to mention the sun and moon, it is all dark, even a more rare scene can be seen! It's just too tired and bitter, and when I saw it, I quickly gave up my life, and I was too lazy to think about it. ”

Jae-sin notices that Mr. Dandan's seems to have changed a little. Its will to die no longer seems to be overflowing.

After sunrise, the lion-headed cogwheel man's mind was filled with all sorts of strange thoughts, some of which he had accomplished in a way that the world's problems had not been able to accomplish, some of which were fears of the future, and some of which were worries and observations of his companions.

Feeling tired, he allowed Mr. Dandan's remorse. The egg is happy. He asked the egg again, saying,

"I see you say that, then you still know a little, do you know what's under the sun?"

"...... under the sun?"

Mr. Dan Dan said:

"Well, nothing new, it's business as usual."

It was one of a series of words it had said to the "shorter" immortal dead when it met another immortal dead in the past, the "longer-lived" immortal deceased.

The jellyfish continued to fly forward, and the clouds became more and more dispersed, and gradually ceased to form a force that covered the sky and the sun. After walking so many roads and passing so many hours, the sun did not mean to rise too much, and still stopped at the edge of the sea of clouds.

This does not panic the explorers.

They are accustomed to staying in the middle of the sky forever with the sun or moon. They know that as long as they keep going, the sun will always go up a little bit and rise a little more.

It only took a short moment for Chu Yun and Gu Chuan to share the last bit of food they had left, but the finger-sized food was not enough to fill their stomachs, and they were even more hungry and panicked.

Chuyun says:

"What if I still don't have anything to eat?"

It was difficult for Gu Chuan to answer this question. He curled up in the corner with Hatsukumo. Gu Chuan raised the dragon's heart horn, and the jellyfish lifted the death or life horn and lifted it straight to the position where it fit the top skin. The sunlight invaded the ship unbridledly, illuminating the two acquaintances.

Perhaps it was the light that gave the young man courage. He thought for a while, and suddenly said:

"Then you can eat me."

"Eat your ......?"

Hatsuyun showed a blank expression. Her past teachings told her that what she could talk about was not to be eaten, and she intuitively realized something beyond life and death.

At the time, she gave a question that probably only she could have given:

"Why eat you, and not me?"

The young man was amused by the liveliness of these words:

"What do you think is the reason?"

Chu Yun thought about it seriously, and she said with a pure and flawless food consideration:

"You probably think you're taller, have more meat, and have a smaller appetite, so eating you will allow me to live a little longer?"

This was a harsh reason without any emotion, and it actually persuaded Gu Chuan.

He nodded earnestly:

"It seems to be true."

It was only then that Chu Yun retorted solemnly:

"But I don't think that's right, because you have the flesh of eternal life, and the flesh of eternal life will hang your life. So maybe you eat the same thing and maybe last a little longer...... This requires mathematical, mathematical proof. ”

Ever since she had mastered mathematics from Gu Chuan, she had become superstitious about this mysterious metaphysical weapon. If it weren't for the young man's stop, she would have really had to calculate who eats who would have lived longer.

"What kind of math it is, it needs empirical proof." The young man began to raise the bar, "You want to collect the time that people like you can last when they eat meat of my quality, and the time that people like me can last when they eat meat of your quality, don't you?" ”

"It seems like this......

As she spoke, she closed her eyes in the sun, like an angel asleep.

It's time for her to sleep.

Gu Chuan used his last strength to carry Chu Yun back to her room and her bed, and then came to the external observation room, found Zai Yan, and asked Zai Yan:

"Will the telescope work?"

Zai Yan shook his head:

"Our equipment doesn't work very well in such bright light...... It will take a little time to adjust the lenses, and I think the 'telescope' will be done soon. ”

He called the pinion man in the telescope by telescope.

Gu Chuan nodded, signaling that he knew. Without a blood-colored lip, he said:

"I don't have the strength right now, can you take me outside to have a look?"

"Outside?"

"The top of the boat. I told the jellyfish to send the dead or alive very close to the top of it. ”

"I mean, why go outside?"

The young man's answer was simple and straightforward:

"I suddenly don't want to be in the boat, I want to see the outside world with my own eyes, and the water body is always separated by a layer...... After all, it's been a long time since I've been outside. The last time was a short trip to the fire. ”

He didn't say that he himself, locked in that ship for maybe months, or a year, maybe more than a year, could do nothing, go nothing.

At that time, Mr. Dandan, who was riding the load and was paying attention, asked the pinion machine to steal black chess for him. The gear machine was not happy and kicked Mr. Ball. Mr. Dandan fell back into his sleeping box in a daze, and lay down for a while before he heard the young man's words.

It suddenly realized that although the man had never complained about boredom as much as it did, and even brought several table games, it might ...... Indeed, I look forward to fresh air.

Gu Chuan insisted on not wearing protective clothing, Zai Yan obeyed his advice, put on the protective clothing and picked up the weak young man on his back, opened the hatch door in the exhaust chamber, and then walked to the top of the Death or Life number, also above the jellyfish.

The world has been liberated from a small cage.

The breeze carried the fragrance of the lion and the boy softly, and it seemed to be able to touch the clouds around them. The bright morning light caressed the world with just the right temperature, and the warm and fresh air filled his body.

The young man was indeed at ease. Under the blue sky, he was almost blown away by the wind after getting off the back of the stalker. He laughed out loud and let out a long shout. The sound walked far into the sea of clouds and fell into the world that was within reach.

The clouds are indeed getting thinner and thinner, and they can no longer block their view.

Looking back, the shape of the band of clouds where they had once been was clearly visible again, with a reddish and white dawn behind them, as if it were an impassable wall.

This means that they have indeed left the Second Cloud Belt.

Gu Chuan raised his head, wanting to use the sunlight to see the direction of the cloud belt, but he only felt that the boundless white clouds seemed to have drifted into the endless distance of the sky, passing through the entire world.

And the sea of clouds stretching on both sides is like a guard to see them off.

"We did come out."

After that call, he had no strength, and only whispered that quietly.

He took him by the hand and said:

"Yes."

Zaiyan's focus is different from Gu Chuan's, always above the sun. His eyes could look directly into the fiery sun. When he got out of the boat, without windows or bodies of water, he could see it unhindered. But the more he looked, the more dizzy he felt, and he wanted to immediately use his binoculars to take a good look at the surface of the sun.

He pointed to the sun and asked Gu Chuan:

"That's what you said to Kyo in the question and answer about the celestial bodies...... Eternal, burning, ever-glowing celestial bodies? ”

"yes."

The young man then looked at the sea of clouds.

With the help of the canopy, he cautiously walked forward until he reached the very front of the Death or Death. Beneath him was a huge black jade-like ship, with jellyfish water to the left and right of the ship, and a vast sea of clouds below.

The dissipation of the sea of clouds gradually brings the vision of a new world.

And the whole picture of the new world, they will soon be able to see.

They waited calmly on the roof of the ship.

For Zaiyi, it is the truth of the world after the netherworld that the gear people have been looking for for a long time. For Gu Chuan, it is his own vision.

But at the time, their conversation was bland to the extreme.

Zai asked:

"Is it coming out?"

Gu Chuan replied:

"Yes."

They were keenly aware that they did represent the epistemic frontier of a great wilderness civilization and a great river civilization.

All the pain and suffering disappeared without a trace, and there was silence all around, except for two pairs of sincere eyes from a foreign land.

The disappearance of a cloud brought a purple earth, and the reflection of a light brought a floating gravel. The earth, which was first revealed to them, floated in the air.

Both the light-lit upper part of the Sky Island and the unlit lower part of the island are covered with a primitive, purple, moss-like creature.

Soon, however, more and more floating land appeared in front of them, and when they looked down, they could see a purple covered earth still splitting and throwing huge moss-covered stones upward.

Everything is moving, even the earth itself is dividing and moving. It's not like a fixed planet, it's like an asteroid belt.

The empty jellyfish soon floated into the discrete world, floating among the land groups.

Then, the explorers from afar saw the first creatures of the new world.

That's what they're familiar with...... A giant serpent with long legs.

"...... Qilong?"

The young man spoke in confusion.

But the body of the perched dragon is covered with rocks, and the body of the creature that is no larger than the perched dragon is soft leather, with the edges of the epidermis and many more superfluous spiny skins that resemble sails and bags.

There is more than one of them.

Soon, the explorers found two, three, and four...... Or species that can be called dragons are everywhere here. And when the wind suddenly changed and the sky screamed, dragons with feathered wings flew into the air, and then more and more, and more and more different creatures they had never heard of, never seen, and even more different, began to be active in this land of eternal light, quietly telling the primordial secrets of another world.

The history of the future is dawning.