The dungeon is in the rock, with no windows and only airways built in a few crevices for ventilation. The stinking air lingers indoors and is suffocating.

Several prisoners gathered around the door that had just been opened, probably to get some fresh air, but the cell was hidden deep in the rocks, and there was no fresh air outside the door. The prison is surrounded by a glowing stone, by which the prisoners can identify each other's figures.

Before leaving, the soldiers outside asked in a friendly manner:

"What can you two eat?"

Gu Chuan could only read their language with the dragon's heart horn, he didn't know how the snake was arranged, and he didn't know if the snake informed the soldiers of the fact that he could read the mind, so he only replied tentatively:

"Comfrey is fine."

Then there was silence outside the wall, and the soldiers stopped talking, probably gone.

Gu Chuan guessed that this special way of communication might be extremely familiar to this group of soldiers.

The prisoners in the walls were silent, grim faces, and most of them focused on the explorers, but did not speak. Faced with two new prisoners, the first to speak out was a small man.

Actually, it's not particularly small, but compared to the tall Zaiyan, or the other prisoners in the stone prison, it looks small and thin, and looks like a person, and it is surprisingly closer to the human system of Sunset City than the group of painted people. He doesn't show his age on the outside, but he is not very old, his body is very thin, and his skin is dark. A thick shawl and hood was tied behind him, covering his cloth bag and blanket. He had several scars on his face, his clothes were nothing more than rags, and his shoes were worn out. His eyes are beautiful, but he looks a little sad.

Gu Chuan felt close to his appearance, and he was naturally surprised to see people similar to him, he made many gestures, and said while gesturing:

"Hello, why did you come in? Do you understand what I'm saying? How's it going out there? ”

Judging by the pronunciation, the man did not speak the language of his race, but the language of the group of people who painted their bodies outside the door. But compared to the people outside, he said it a little more bluntly.

Gu Chuan roughly understood his inquiry from the dragon's heart.

He slowly moved the dragon's horn from his wide protective suit to his shoulder, close to his head, and replied tactfully:

"We both came in for some harmless reason...... They said we should be able to get out soon. ”

The little man was taken aback by the words ringing in his head. Gu Chuan saw a series of associations from his thoughts, and in those associations, there were scenes of snakes or other snakes similar to the long-legged snake.

The little man muttered:

"That's how snakes communicate......"

He wasn't so close or surprised anymore.

He said coldly:

"Before we were locked in, we thought we would be able to get out soon. They spoke fast enough for me to learn their language. They're still talking about it soon...... Then, you will understand 'soon'. ”

Some strange pictures of his travels began to flash in his mind, and Gu Chuan couldn't read clearly without the dragon's heart horn directly touching his brain.

The lion-headed Zaiyi stood behind Gu Chuan, didn't speak much, and only silently observed the Quartet. The cell was dug out of the rock, and the only way to get out of the cell was to dig through the rock. In the dim corner of the stone light, there were four or five prisoners with hairy animal skins similar to him roosting outside. This group of orc-like guys probably set off together.

And in the light, in addition to the little man in linen, there were three other things wrapped in thick clothes who couldn't see clearly, and another thing with no human form that looked a bit like a long thorny egg was sitting face to face, and his hands were waving at each other, probably some kind of board game, and he couldn't understand it.

As for the prisoners in the darker places, Zai Yan didn't want to open the glass eye to shine, so he really couldn't see it.

There are a lot of people in this stone prison. The appearance of some people reminded Zai Yan of the alien race in the Great Wilderness. But in the eyes of the gear man, it is not surprising. It's just that the two or three of these prisoners are huddled together, and the eyes of each other patrolling make Zai Yi a little irritable.

He heard Gu Chuan say:

"Do you mean they're lying to us? Our companions are still waiting for us to go back......"

The young man's solemn countenance pleased the little man, who was slightly shorter than him:

"Then I can't tell, I didn't say they were lying to you, you guessed it yourself."

He asked again:

"How long have you been here?"

"Time...... No one can possibly know the time in a dark cage. The little man patiently replied, "But I can tell you that the next time they bring a meal, I'll have eaten a hundred meals." Of course, I don't know if you want to eat or not, if you can understand it, you can understand it, and if you don't understand it, you don't understand. ”

The little man said this, and a man wrapped in a thick cloth raised his head. The thick-clothed prisoner asked him gloomily, in the language of a lame, staccato painter:

"You talk to yourself, how did he talk to you?"

The little man said:

"He has the ability to resemble a snake. He can probably read what you think now. ”

"Could he be a prisoner of the Hanging Garden? Not like us? ”

"This ......," the little man hesitated, "if you're a prisoner of the Xenosaurs, you shouldn't be locked up with us, right?" ”

Their imagination developed rapidly, and Gu Chuan's conservative way of dialogue led him into a situation of suspicion.

Realizing this, the young man hastily replied:

"We have nothing to do with snakes, we are explorers who have come here from far away to understand the boundaries of distant worlds. We had just been here, in the comfrey, when we were caught by the snake and its men. ”

The little man raised his eyes to look at him, Gu Chuan did not wear a glass ball cover, and his bare face made the little man feel kind. Even though they are of the same lineage, although there are still certain differences, such as the fact that their people usually have a wider forehead and a more rounded chin, there are very few people in this world who are so close to their race.

And the young man's statement did not make him doubtful, but made him satisfied for a while. He said:

"Sure enough, you're also a foreigner. I said that this cell was specially used by the villagers outside the Guan, and they still had to let us go after all. ”

"It's not been a few days since we came here, and when we were caught by the snake, we realized that there was such a civilized world here......"

The little man was a talkative person, and when he told Gu Chuan's origin, the prisoners' gazes at the young man were no longer stern. They each bowed their heads and did their own thing, as if they no longer cared about their fellow inmates, who were also locked in a stone cell.

Gu Chuan and Zai Yan sat down against a wall. Zai Yan didn't speak, claiming that he didn't like to talk.

And the little man still cared about their origins, so he sat opposite Gu Chuan and asked him:

"Where did you come to Qiongqiu?"

Qiongqiu, the little man said, is the name of this purple land in the language of the dragons. The Hanging Garden is a relatively high place on Qiongqiu, but the little man doesn't know where the Hanging Garden is, he came to this place by walking the road below, avoiding the land that flies from time to time.

Gu Chuan said:

"I come from the edge of a big river."

"...... by the River"

The little man was caught in the attention of the word.

Gu Chuan continued to say unhurriedly:

"My hometown is on the banks of the river, and there's a city made of stone, metal and wood called Sunset City, and it's a beautiful place. I live outside Sunset City, what about you? ”

When the little man heard this, he suddenly stood up, revealing a solemn expression. He scrutinized the young man as if to seek from his eyes or cheeks for the truth or falsehood of what he was saying.

After a while, the little man said solemnly:

"I haven't heard of Sunset City, I haven't been to that place...... I'm from Hiksha. Have you heard of Hiksha? You can call me Seeking Water, and Seeking Water is my name. I'm also an explorer, I've been looking for places with abundant water and grass, and I've been walking a lot of land for a long time. ”

Searching for water, as the name suggests, is to find a source of water, which sounds like a pseudonym.

And Rixia, Gu Chuan didn't hear of it.

He shook his head.

At that time, the round thing covered in thorns saw the expression of the water, and asked the person who was wrapping the cloth in the dim light.

"Why are you excited to find water?"

The man who wrapped the cloth said:

It must have been the man's voice that said something in his heart. He probably heard about water, and he would be like this when he heard water. ”

Xun Shui didn't care about the discussions of these fellow inmates, just stared at Gu Chuan and asked:

"Does a great river mean a wide flow of water?"

Gu Chuan said yes.

He smiled unexpectedly brightly:

"Can you tell me about your hometown? Where is it? A place with a lot of water should be beautiful, right? ”

The young man nodded, and asked him again:

"Do you like water?"

The smile of the young man like him was even bigger.

"I like it...... I don't know if you want to drink water, but I need to drink water to live. "But my hometown is a place where there is a lack of water, and everyone is digging and digging down into the ground to dig out the water...... I had enough of that, so I ran out and tried to find water. ”

The stone prison was large, but quiet, except for the sound of people clapping their hands or moving their bodies. The light outlined the faces of the prisoners, all in the corner of the wall, and heard the incessant words of the search for water.

Some people laughed at him, while others secretly complained that his voice was too loud to disturb them. Communal life in enclosed spaces was unbearable torture for a considerable number of prisoners. But the search for water is already familiar. He looked at the young man earnestly.

The young man pondered for a moment, and then asked for water:

"Have you been traveling for a long time?"

Xun Shui took a few steps, also leaning against the wall, that is, leaning against the two new inmates, and said:

"It's been a long time. But I haven't seen the 'big river' you said yet! So, when I hear you talk about the river, I wonder where it is. ”

Gu Chuan couldn't recognize the direction here, couldn't point to the north, and said after a while:

"When you came here, did you see a sea of clouds?"

Xun Shui blinked and said:

"I know, people say, all the clouds fly from there."

In the face of explorers who are also curious, Gu Chuan did not hesitate to share:

"Then you see, go in one direction, go through the clouds, and you will reach a place full of fog and water, and through the clouds, you will be a place full of sand. When you pass through a place full of sand, you will see a place full of dirt. After passing through the earth-covered area, you can see a wide river. The river shone with the beautiful golden light of the sun, and on both sides there were green or golden waves of wheat, and that was my hometown. ”

Xun Shui showed a wistful expression:

"That's it...... That's pretty good...... All right. ”

Gu Chuan said proudly:

"The place where I was born is naturally the best place in the world."

"Then why did you come out?"

Xun Shui asked curiously.

Gu Chuan also smiled, and he said:

"The reason is simple, because man, at least me, can never bear to stay in one place until he dies and do one thing to be old."

Xun Shui showed a dumbfounded expression, he didn't quite understand the meaning of his words.

There was a moving sound from the stone door, and a crack opened.

It was the soldiers who arrived with the prisoners' food for the day.

Gu Chuan walked over, and just wanted to ask the soldiers in the gap about the snake and the summons, but only got an indifferent refusal face.

He knew that things were going to get worse just as Seeking Water had said.

He is not afraid of a short prison sentence, he has the patience to wait for the snake to match, and he is confident that he will seize some momentary opportunity to escape.

The main concern is that the dream of life, death or life is still ...... Hatsuun.

This new world of purple is anything but peaceful, in other words, it is not simple. Assuming that it is true here, that there is a premeditated and rebellious war, then death or life is also dangerous.

The group of islands floating in the air is not as calm as it seems.

In the dense comfrey grass, a large number of soldiers, or soldiers who had just been drafted as soldiers, were marching cautiously. They were laying out their traps and defenses in the comfrey.

Occasionally looking up, the group of soldiers saw again the huge body of water floating out of the depths of the clouds.

The bodies of water reflect a golden glow in the sunlight.

At that time, Mengsheng had just drifted back to the place where the Oval Island was, swaying from side to side, but he didn't see any figures. The world fell silent.

Hatsuyun has just woken up.

When she woke up, the ship was empty. And when she opened the door, the long-awaited cogwheel made a continuous scream, like a crying child, grabbed Hatsukumo's shoulder, pulled Hatsuun and told her to go to the outside observation room.

Hatsuyun said calmly:

"Take your time, one by one, it doesn't matter."

The pinion machine can't speak, but it can read and understand human speech, so it points to the words on the glass book and spells out a sentence.

"Neither Zai Yi nor Gu Chuan have come back, and they can't be found, are they?"

Chu Yun's face became more serious.

The pinion machine nodded hurriedly. It knows that this is the language of action of people made of meat.

The other problem is that Mr. DanDan is not there.

Hatsuyun walked all the way and soon found a glass book left by Mr. Dandan's in the exterior observation room. This glass book was the card it used to play. On it, it called the pinion machine to engrave a line in the language of the gear man:

"I'm going to die, and you don't have to worry about me. Thank you for your continued care~ Mr. Chaos. ”