What Kiriyama saw from the last image of the constantly flipping monitor was the clear sky, and the gears above the sky, on the other side of the atmosphere, constantly meshing and moving.

The glittering cubic octahedron reunited with the metal in the process of falling, reforming into the appearance of a small plane, stabilizing the downward trend, and flying back towards Ah Guang and Kiriyama.

Ah Guang also saw the gears looming in the sky, but he didn't know what it was, he only felt some kind of strange texture.

But the Foggy Mountains have seen it before.

During his last mission to the school, he had glimpsed the gears hidden behind the canopy, as if something had wrapped around the planet, and whatever it was, it meant that there was something beyond human comprehension above the dome.

"The appearance of the god is an airplane."

Kiriyama muttered.

"Extrapolating from the form of a machine dragon, it can be judged that the god is also a mechanical life."

"Why does it go on and on?"

Ah Guang watched the wreckage of the machine dragon fall into the deep forest, and he fell into thought.

The appearance of the god did not surprise him in particular, but he had such an idea after learning about the machine dragon, artificial intelligence, and mechanical life.

It's not the phenomenon that matters, it's the essence of why it's the way it is.

At this moment, the sky that had become clear because of the giant beast roaring past had changed its appearance in Ah Guang's eyes.

The originally vast and vast sky is now like a cage.

Ah Guang lowered his gaze to the poultry he had raised in the fence.

He thought of something.

In the past, there were also poultry who tried to break free from the fence and fly out to regain their freedom, but later, Ah Guang had to raise the fence, and when the height of the fence reached a certain level, those who had tried to escape repeatedly hit the wall and gave up the struggle.

Later, when the poultry laid eggs, the newborn birds, who lived in the fence from the beginning, never tried to escape again.

At that time, Ah Guang would feed these birds regularly every day, and over time, these birds formed a certain habit of standing by the fence when Ah Guang was about to come, waiting for Ah Guang's arrival.

But one day, when he had delayed feeding because of something else, when he arrived, he found that the birds were waiting on the other side, and they did not gather in a hurry until they appeared by the fence and made a sound.

If there had been a wise man among the birds, he must have summed up some universal "truths" in those days, including the fact that every morning at nine o'clock the food would accompany the giants from the sky.

By analyzing the truth, he led the birds through the day after day safely.

But one day, the food did not arrive as scheduled, doubts spread among the birds, and the position of the wise man was precarious and crumbling.

The birds are constantly guessing when and where the food will come from.

At this moment, a young bird noticed the giant on the other side of the wall, and he immediately called to the others, and soon they got the food they wanted.

In this way, the young bird became a new wise man, guiding everyone to survive.

"The people of the town live day in and day out, enjoying canned food from the canteen and not having to make any effort to survive, like birds in a fence."

Ah Guang said in a steady tone.

"It's just that some people wonder what that thing passes by in the sky from time to time, and some people call it a god, and some people don't believe it."

"But in the end, they all came to the same end."

The young man fell into a long silence.

Kiriyama understood what Hikari meant, because in his mind, the whole event had been connected in series.

"Why do birds fly, you say?"

Ah Guang suddenly opened his mouth and asked.

"Because if they can't fly, they'll never be able to leave the fence where they're trapped."

Kiriyama replied.

"I have always believed that thinking is our means of transcending the mundane, even if the body will be injured, will age, even if there is an end to the horizon, as long as we can keep thinking, there will be a day to surpass ourselves."

Hikari did not comment on Kiriyama's answer.

"But in fact, my thinking is just the product of some kind of guidance, I thought I was thinking, but in fact, it was because of the guidance and permission of others that I had my own thinking."

He muttered.

"If it were really a god, it would have been fine, but in reality, it was not a revelation from God, but"

Guang's gaze passed through the stratus clouds and looked at the large, clear gears in the sky.

Qiao Dui's flashlight shone on a strangely shaped iron box.

The iron box shimmered like some kind of signal was being channeled through it.

In the line of sight, crimson words appeared.

[A machine, it monitors everything within the walls, everything can't escape its eyes, beware, it's watching you!] 】

"Two, I suggest you keep your distance from that thing."

Suddenly, a quiet voice came from behind the iron box.

Qiao Dui's flashlight shines back and she finds a movable surveillance camera there.

The red light of the surveillance camera turned on at this time, as if it was a concrete gaze, looking at Qiao Du and Light Cloud.

"Who is you?"

Qiao Du had something to say and immediately asked.

"In words that two people can understand, I am a . Observer. ”

Its voice is calm and waveless, and although it does not have the buzzing texture of machine synthesizes, it gives the impression that it does not belong to a human being.

"What are you observing?"

Qianyun frowned slightly and asked.

"I think you two should already know the answer to that question now that you're here."

The surveillance camera was motionless, only the red light in the camera, flickering slightly, as if a person was blinking.

"You're observing the humans inside the walls?"

Asamu spoke his mind.

"To be precise, I'm observing a civilization made up of creatures called humans in most exotic lands."

Obviously, the camera doesn't represent a human being.

"You made that thing in the sky too?"

Qiao Du asked.

"Exactly, as you both said, that's the variable I added to this observation."

The sound of the camera is very common, and it is a sound that is immediately forgotten if you don't listen to it for an hour.

"Variables. Are you experimenting? ”

Compared to Qianyun, who was still thinking about what variables meant, although Qiao Du had not gone to school, he also understood what the camera was saying.

"As I said, I'm just an observer."

The red light of the camera flickered slightly, like a person touching his chin.

"When you add variables, you trigger thinking, and I try to do this by reaching the result first and then thinking about the principle."

"What do you want to achieve?"

Qianyun comprehended the conversation between the two and asked.

"Civilization."

The camera utters a word.

(End of chapter)