The time for the exchange was fleeting, and a light rain fell on the hanging garden. The sky was dim, and the mountains and land in the distance had lost their distinct outlines, and they were hazy in the smoke and rain. However, the continuous light strips and the leaping cable car still keep drawing light in the air, folding a wonderful rainbow halo.

There were no clouds in the sky, and no one knew where the water came from, only that it came down from outside the sky.

When the delegation returned to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the female officer in charge of this area was talking with her colleagues about the declining world, the people's hearts, and the destruction of culture.

"It's still Bu Zi, and those places in bluestone are good." The female official leisurely drank a cup of tribute tea, and there was a snack on the table from the savage country, "The folk customs are simple and have a fine tradition." ”

Gu Chuan thought to himself that when he was in Buzi, he lived in a rough and dim cave, he couldn't see the light, and he couldn't drink tea, was it so good?

The female officer's colleague has been sitting here since dinner. He shook his head, and said something very simple in a much more complex Qiongqiu language than the female officer's mouth:

"Bu Zi's current situation is not quite the same as usual predictions, and it may invite unknown events to come."

The female officer said in a low voice:

"That's also when the people feel the power of some kind of conflict, and the prices of trade there are still high, and the old squire of high morality is executed according to the idea of the National Assembly, and the situation is different, isn't it, heh......"

She ate another leaf cake and ordered it as soon as she ordered. Turning his head, he looked at the foreign guests.

"You're back?"

"Yes."

The clerk who led the tour laughed.

Gu Chuan stood behind the leading official, and just now he heard the leading official secretly spitting, saying that the two had never left Qiongqiu in their lives, and they all read the news from the newspaper.

The female officer's gaze swept around the crowd and said:

"When you left with your guests, we received an important notice. In a week's time, Elder Black may want to chat with the guests from foreign lands and talk about the situation in your respective hometowns. ”

The female officer also said that with a cold expression towards everyone, she said that Qiongqiu and the Hanging Garden were hospitable, and that the National Assembly missed the outside world a lot and had a strong desire to learn.

Gu Chuan's mind was blank, he hadn't figured out how to face Elder Hei yet, he originally wanted to communicate with Tian Liao a few more times first, and by the way, contact the second mission target to see if he could get help.

At that time, the consular officer stood beside the female officer, who continued:

"Therefore, we also want you to communicate more, and we will set a good rest tonight after the candle is burned, and I hope that when the time comes, you will not hesitate to teach you about foreign lands."

Gu Chuan's gaze was slightly surprised, he understood that for the Black Elder Yilong's communication goal, the first exchange was obviously not necessary, and it was definitely not the step it proposed.

In other words, this was a preliminary demining trip by the Department of Foreign Affairs, and they wanted to know all the possible conversations that were about to take place between the Black Elder Dragon and the outsiders, probably in order to have some "confidence".

So here's the problem.

Is it just a routine? As a subordinate, do you have to understand the situation more clearly than your boss?

Or is there something they are afraid of?

By the time the officials of the Foreign Affairs Department began to take notes of their one-on-one conversations, it was raining in the sky. Dozens of islands and dozens of large pits are now filled with clear rainwater. The water splashed out of the cave and flowed from the island to the bottom of the island in a gravitational trajectory, without the waterfall-like phenomenon that was originally claimed by the water.

Heavy rain affected the buildings inside the cave, and young people could hear the sound of running pipes in their dreams.

And after a while, the long pipe, which stretched out a few meters from the surface, began to spray water outside. The rain can then be sprinkled into the lower part of the world, to the very bottom.

The one-on-one conversation with Gu Chuan was a female official.

The female officer was almost defenseless in front of Gu Chuan.

She didn't ask much about distant foreign lands, Gu Chuan thought that this should be what the Black Elder Dragon was more interested in in theory. She asked mainly about what the annual traveler had seen along the way.

The traveler's account was slightly different from when he faced the soldiers and guards, saying that he had come to Buzi with a "boat", because the ship ran aground, and it was bad, and the ship was broken, so he fled to the town alone.

He also hid what the young soldier named Xinfen said, saying that the border was very peaceful, and that the innkeeper of the fire road told him that the national army gave much more money than the original dynasty army.

The female officer put down her pen and smiled:

"Everything was fine. All difficulties cannot be stopped. ”

Gu Chuan didn't know that the second half of the sentence had an allusion, it was said aloud by a member of the National Assembly in the square when the sixth island was occupied.

They continued to talk, and the bell rang. The female officer went out as if the Foreign Affairs Department had summoned all the interlocuting officials to discuss or issue some new rules. When the female officer came back, Gu Chuan asked her:

"Did something happen?"

The female officer is careless:

"There are a few outsiders who say they are not feeling well and can't talk to Elder Black anymore."

The sound of rain outside is dripping, and the water in the pipes inside is rushing, and there is no intention of stopping.

The young man smiled and pretended to be shy to bring up a topic:

"I don't know, can you tell me about Elder Black? If you ask me about me, can I know how this elder is? I think everyone says this is an alien dragon at the top of the hanging garden? I was a little nervous. ”

The female officer was stunned, she didn't have much resistance to good-looking people.

She turned her head sideways, looked at the door, and thought that there should be no problem with passing the rest of the time, but it was not a good effect, so she lowered her voice and said:

"That's a long story. You should also know that the Allosaurus race has a long lifespan, and the Black Elder has a much longer lifespan than me. When it was born, my great-grandmother's great-grandmother's great-grandmother hadn't landed yet. ”

The young man said uneasily and ignorantly:

"How long is that?"

This cautious sense of uneasiness and curiosity is exactly what the female officer wants. She touched Gu Chuan's hand and said with a smile:

"We call people here a generation, from birth to childbirth, then, Elder Black may have lived for a thousand generations."

This was the information that Gu Chuan had already known, and he pretended to be taken aback.

The female officer continued:

"I don't really know much about Elder Black. The so-called elder is a high-ranking position that Qiongqiu, Hanging Garden, and the Old Dynasty, the monarch Long or the Grand Duke of Long will hold after his abdication at the end of his term. If you don't count Azure Azure, then the Black Elder is the shortest-reigning Monarch Dragon, and it has probably only ruled for more than ten generations. During its reign, it became obsessed with electricity, a phenomenon of flashes of light that could be found by chance in the sky. ”

"Thunderbolt ......"

"Yes, Thunderbolt. At that time, Elder Black believed that electricity was the spirit of the world. This spirit may be common to animals. It attempts to accurately measure the lifespan of the soul through the study of the phenomenon of electrical discharge. ”

"Is the soul the kind of soul that the flesh is talking about?"

"Yes, that means we may have a long-lasting thing in our body, this kind of thing, our mind, our heart, everything, will manipulate our body."

The female officer triumphantly explained the concept of the soul.

Liars pretending to be ignorant are just over there listening.

However, it quickly abandoned this idea and turned to physiology, and the Black Elder wanted to use the phenomenon of physical physiology to solve a major problem in the knowledge of the allosaurus. The question is what form of the soul exists between the body, which I just told you. However, his research was criticized by another elder, Long Tianheng. The female officer said.

"Where did they contradict each other?"

"That's an easy answer." The female officer knew that the time had come for her to behave, and her private school teacher when she was a child told her a joke, and she told this joke as if it were a real thing, "Their differences can be summed up in about two sentences." ”

Elder Black asks Tianheng, how do we recognize souls?

Tianheng only said that I can't answer your question, because all I have to answer is how I can not know the soul, and how I can't know the soul.

The Silver Elder Dragon gave a merciless taunt to the Black Elder Dragon's attempts to explain the soul with various phenomena.

The female officer laughed to herself.

In her opinion, the two arguing elder dragons were stupid, and there was no more stupid thing to argue about such a thing.

Gu Chuan didn't understand her laughter, so he laughed with her on the side.

"Elder Black has abdicated, and he and Tianheng have been arguing and arguing, and their quarrels are even more strange later. The dragon of Tianheng believed that the noble soul determined the strength of the body, but the black elder believed that if there was a soul, then the soul of each living being must contain the whole of the world, which dates back to before its own birth, it is one, but it contains all animals, whether it is an alien dragon or a human spirit. ”

The female officer indulged in these old anecdotes and laughed as she spoke:

"How is this possible? Do I still have the soul of a monkey or a bird in my body? What connection do I have with the Allosaurus? ”

Gu Chuan didn't care much about Qiongqiu's ancient arguments, according to the history of the earth, he could give at least ten or more soul theories, and use the knowledge of Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism or other beliefs, legends and philosophies to refute these dragons speechlessly, but at least they could come and go.

Even though they have lived for a long time, the history of the earth's civilization is not short, and the number of people participating in the discussion is even greater.

He was more concerned about other events, such as the event, which marked the change of government in Hangpu, the execution of the young monarch Long Tianqing by a referendum in the National Assembly. The teachers said that there were still dragons of 'power' at that time, and only Elder Black and Tianrime voted in favor. He wanted to get some clues from the female officer.

But then, the bell rang.

The female officer touched the young man's hand again, and he continued to endure.

She said:

"The conversation is over. After that, the Foreign Affairs Department will be a little busy, and it will be difficult to take care of you. ”

"Can we get out?"

"Yes, someone will arrange to go with you, but try not to." After all, imprisonment doesn't sound good in the National Assembly.

The female officer said mildly.

The goodwill is genuine.

The young man smiled and said sincerely:

"Thank you."

He made up his mind to go out. He borrowed an umbrella from the Foreign Affairs Division, filled out the exit form, and set off on the cable car on the 23rd island.

Between the land, the wind blew loudly, and the rain and mist blew in a hazy manner, wetting the cable car that rattled on the rope.

The cable car swayed from time to time, and he and the guards on the car were speechless, staring sideways at the neon light and shadow in the mist. The land, suspended in space, is slowly moving, so all the light is moving.

The wind blows the leaves of the distant world, and the leaves drift in, tired on the near-transparent cable car. Below is a bottomless canyon.

Later, the cable car rushed into the ditch of the 19th island and fell silent.

The guard said:

"Here we are."

"Okay, thank you."

Gu Chuan said, then got up and walked out of the cable car, standing in the empty underground square and looking around. It's much more lively here than Twenty-Three Islands, with people coming and going. As soon as the cable car stopped, someone walked in and soon took off along another rope. A row of cable cars is in the ditch, going forward and backwards, and the water flows out of the pipe of the ditch, gurgling under the ground.

The guards followed Gu Chuan.

Gu Chuan was not in a hurry. The place I went to this time was a little special, it was a private clinic. This clinic is slightly well-known on the 19th Island, and the head doctor is an alien dragon.

Most of the allosaurs that chose to cooperate were not liquidated during the dynastic change. One of them was originally a well-known unpaid doctor in the Hanging Garden, who saved the lives of several current councilors, and now he is alive and well.

He didn't go far in the large circular corridor, and according to the impression conveyed by the rime, he saw a much wider gate. On the door hung the words of Qiongqiu in the language.

There was only one assistant to the chief doctor. According to Tianri, on the one hand, the Hanging Garden is supporting a new thing called "publicity", including public transportation and public medical care. On the other hand, after the coup d'état, the chief doctor reduced the number of patients treated, and most of the people who treated him were extraordinary, and several serious diseases often required long-term care, and he also needed to be on call at all times, so his energy was insufficient.

"And it's become a political den. Several parliamentarians who have been cured by it, even if they are not sick, like to come here to talk privately about their illness. However, in the past few days, there have been major matters in the National Assembly that need to be voted on in a referendum, and the members of the National Assembly are not available. But if you encounter one, be flexible. ”

That's what Tianrime said at the time.

When the assistant saw Gu Chuan, he didn't raise his head, but said:

"What's the problem?"

He said:

"Full body check."

The assistant raised his head, looked at him in surprise, and then seemed to see something, put his finger on his chin, and said:

"Where is the body?"

He smiled awkwardly:

"Do you want me to take off my pants now?"

The assistant looked at one side and said:

"Go in, I see."

The guard was just about to go in, but before Gu Chuan could speak, the assistant asked him first:

"He's a foreign guest?"

"Yes, sir."

"You want to see his ...... Well, the buzzword seems to be a diseased dragon? ”

The guard's face turned pale, disgusted by his own imagination. The task wasn't very important, and it didn't need to be so tight to go to the toilet together, so he just sat outside and waited.

The chief doctor's room has a compartment with the outside room. The young man had already seen the swaying dragon tail, and he was about to go in when the hand of the assistant who had followed him from outside fell on his shoulder.

The young man paused, turned his head and looked back.

The assistant asked softly:

"You...... Is it a person, or something else? Or are you going to be cured, or is it something else? ”

"You ......"

The rain outside was quiet for a while, and gradually it began to fall again. The sound of the heavy rain drowned out the voices of ordinary people.

The assistant pushed his glasses and said calmly:

"Don't get me wrong, this is critical information, and you'll have to tell me sooner or later. Because the dragon in it is my partner, an expert in curing people, and I am an expert in curing dragons. ”