Chapter 352 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Gongshujia

The airflow generated by the airship was discharged to both sides, and the "flying birds" were directly built into a suspension ladder.

Because of the rift between Gongshujia and Mohism, even though he knew the advantages of airships, there was no airship airport built in the Six-Ring Mechanical City, so he had to use this method to connect.

After entering the largest of the Xuanniao ships, Zhou Tieyi met Gongshu Ting. This elder of the Gongshu family was not tall, but his legs below were completely integrated with a floating platform, allowing him to adjust his height at will.

His facial features were stern, his nasolabial folds were extremely deep, and his left eye was completely hollowed out and inlaid with an extremely precise metal eye socket. The metal eye socket was deep and empty, and contained a layer of space in itself. Even Zhou Tieyi's [real vision] could not see the end of it for a while.

And when Zhou Tieyi looked at the deep eye sockets, Gongshu Ting also chuckled, and the next moment, a spherical object flashed in his deep and empty left eye. Zhou Tieyi vaguely sensed that it was an extremely complex mechanism lock, in a spherical shape, and it no longer existed only in three-dimensional space, but was like a mechanism lock composed of multiple spaces. The mysterious mechanism took the initiative to show itself to Zhou Tieyi.

For a moment, the complex and exquisite space rotated, coupled, penetrated, and changed with each other. The precise spatial rules contained therein made him dizzy for a moment, just like looking at a rotating kaleidoscope.

"Zhou boy, do you see clearly? I have studied 'Return to the Void' for more than a hundred years. If you want to learn the way of 'Return to the Void', you can stay in the Mechanical City. I will definitely teach you everything I know."

Above Gongshujia's third-grade 'Creation' is the second-grade 'Return to Void'.

The most outstanding schools of thought among the hundreds of schools of thought will inevitably involve corresponding research on the rules of time and space in the end.

Miaoyu had reminded Zhou Tieyi at the beginning that the eclectic school was best at changes in time and space, but the eclectic school was only good at changes in time and space, while the Gongshu school studied changes in time and space.

A mathematical school that advocates absolute reality will naturally begin to study the nature of space and time and the basis of reality when it reaches the second level.

In this world, Gongshujia has even proposed the concept of "imaginary numbers" and expanded the concept of imaginary numbers, believing that everything is imaginary, and the appearances and rules of all things can be explained and deduced through imaginary numbers.

Heaven and earth evolve the dragon code, and humans master imaginary numbers!
Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "If Master Gongshu is willing to teach me, I will certainly learn from him."

Although his concept of time and space was limited to a few mathematical thinking videos he had seen, he was a person who had received modern education after all, and had a large amount of information accumulated in his memory. This information began to become gradually clearer as his strength increased. If someone could guide him, it would naturally be a good thing. Moreover, in the field of time and space research, even a small progress would be of great benefit to practice.

"Good good!"

Seeing that Zhou Tieyi was willing to learn, Gongshu Ting said "good" three times.

Most of the people he met before were fools. He disdained to tell them the mystery of everything returning to nothingness. They couldn't even understand and accept the existence of "imaginary numbers", so how could they be qualified to hear about the supreme truth.

Even though a small number of Gongshu family members have accepted the existence of imaginary numbers since childhood and believe that imaginary numbers can construct the world, their talents are limited. Professor Gongshu Ting realized in a few days that they could not touch the "return to emptiness" and gave up.

But Zhou Tieyi is different. From the first moment he saw Zhou Tieyi, Gongshu Ting believed that Zhou Tieyi could touch the realm after "Return to Void" and lead Gongshu Jia to see the deeper essence of the world.

The black bird broke through the clouds and did not rush to lead Zhou Tieyi and others to land. Instead, it circled at a low altitude over the six-ring mechanical city for a while.

Tianjing was built on a mountain, with Yujing Mountain at its back, evolving into one mountain and four cities.

The six-ring mechanical city is a city stacked on top of mountains, with the mountains following the city.

The entire mountain is completely hollowed out, with self-propelled cars, small spider towers, and wooden horse traffic on the six huge ring roads. The ring roads are connected by complex cloud bridges, and huge cables connect the sky boats in between, going up and down, connecting the entire six-ring mechanical city as a whole. Every mechanical structure on it is running, making the whole city emit a huge and noisy roar like a machine in a trance.

Only at this moment did Zhou Tieyi truly understand why the Mo City mentioned by Sun Shiheng was far superior to Tianjing.

If Jiga City is like this, Mo City is not much worse.

It was already late at night. Seeing Zhou Tieyi's astonished expression, Gongshu Ting couldn't help but smile and continued, "Boy Zhou, although Tianjing is high, it was only built for three hundred years, while our six-ring city took a full thousand years to build!"

Then, while Zhou Tieyi was amazed and had no time to speak, Gongshu Ting stretched out his fingers and made a crisp snap, which was like some kind of signal.

The next moment, the huge ground vein formation continuously drew power from the veins of the earth. These powers were transformed into pure light energy through the complex mechanism array. Beams of ground lamps rose from the ground, and the bright lights ignited the entire six-ring mechanical city from the layers above the earth.

In just about thirty breaths, the soft orange-yellow light lit up the entire mountain, tinging the originally gray-iron six-ring mechanical city with rosy clouds.

Just like a towering tree growing on the earth, stretching out its iron branches and blooming with golden flowers. Zhou Tieyi's eyes reflected the gold, and after a moment, he retracted his gaze. He had never seen the Mechanical City and Mo City, and even if he had been to Tianjing before, he could not imagine how prosperous they were.

He turned to look at Gongshu Ting, and seeing the smug look in the old man's eyes, he immediately realized that he was showing off to him.

As expected, Gongshu Ting stretched out his finger and said with a smile, "How is it? It feels good to snap your fingers, right? Even though I have been doing this for fifty years, I still feel unsatisfied. Do you want to try this feeling?"

Looking at the smug smile on Gongshu Ting's face, Zhou Tieyi realized that he was being tricked.

The mechanical bird finally landed on a high tower at the core of the Sixth Ring. Because he had inquired about Zhou Tieyi's habits before, Gongshu Ting did not rush to discuss business with Zhou Tieyi. Instead, he let Zhou Tieyi rest for a day and get used to the bed.

In the dark night, Zhou Tieyi couldn't sleep, so he got up and wanted to go for a walk in the Machinery City himself. During this process, the disciple of Gongshu family who was serving outside gave Zhou Tieyi a good suggestion, which was the Ghost Market in the Machinery City.

Another excellent thing about the Machinery City is that it is the only city known to make use of the underworld, and its Ghost Market is completely open to the outside world, which even Tianjin cannot compare to.

Zhou Tieyi did not ask to take a special passage, but dressed up as an ordinary tourist and entered the Ghost Market through the corridor.

In ordinary netherworld areas, people from the yang world have a certain chance to enter, but after entering, their energy and spirit will quickly dissipate in the wind of decay and eventually disappear.

The Mechanical Ghost Market is different. Although it makes use of the underworld, it is not located in the underworld. Instead, it is a ghost market built in the gap between the world of the living and the underworld.

Zhou Tieyi instantly thought of imaginary space.

Between two existences, create a space of non-existence.

Moreover, the ghost market can not only couple the world of the living and the underworld, but it also connects the gaps between the world of the living and the underworld.

This means that in addition to the entrances and exits to the Machinery City and several other cities built by Gongshujia, you can also randomly choose another entrance and exit to the world of the living. Many entrances and exits are random, and even the Machinery Ghost Market itself cannot control them.

Therefore, the Ghost Market of the Machinery is the most free trading place except for the Taixuhuan Realm. Everyone is accustomed to wearing hooded ghost masks. The Machinery City itself does not investigate everyone's identity and only levies huge taxes.

Qin Yu, who was following Zhou Tieyi, saw the scene and sighed softly, "My mother said before that the prosperity of Shantong Prefecture is no less than that of Tianjing. Today I know that what she said is true."

Zhou Tieyi nodded slightly. Apart from the fact that the constructed space was refreshing to Zhou Tieyi, there was nothing new about the trading rules and trading items of the Ghost Market itself. After a tour, Zhou Tieyi prepared to go back.

Suddenly, he heard a loud shout from the side, "Catch that little thief!"

Then he saw someone rushing towards him and trying to escape. Zhou Tieyi had originally not intended to get involved in such trivial matters, but the Gongshu family disciples around him would not let a thief bump into the Gongshu family's distinguished guest.

A disciple cursed his bad luck in his heart. He stretched out his mechanical arm, and the mechanical force passed through his arm. The whole arm was immediately dismembered into three delicate floating mechanisms. The mechanism was like a falcon flying through the sky at high speed, and it caught the thief in an instant. The next moment, the mechanism released an electric arc, and after a burst of white light, the thief was knocked to the ground.

He spread out his soft palm, revealing what he had just stolen. It was a new mechanical arm, but it did not look like it was for adults. It was only three-quarters the size of an adult's arm.

At this time, the stall owner behind caught up. He first looked at Zhou Tieyi and his group, especially seeing several mechanical men clearly guarding Zhou Tieyi in the middle, he immediately understood that this was an important person visiting incognito, so he walked up to them without being arrogant and thanked them, "Thank you for your help, otherwise I would have really lost a fortune today."

Then he looked at the man who had been electrocuted and said, "This thief just robbed people in the market openly. It's really despicable!"

Zhou Tieyi took a look at the mechanical arm that fell to the ground. He looked at the stall owner, pointed at the mechanical arm and asked, "Isn't this mechanical arm for adults to use?"

He had heard before that the Gongshu family was into human body modification. This kind of human body modification was not welcomed in Daxia. There were even explicit regulations prohibiting ordinary people other than the Gongshu family's mechanical monks from performing human body modification.

But Zhou Tieyi had never thought that Gongshujia was so "advanced" that he could carry out mechanical transformation on children and teenagers. If this was true, he would have to inquire about it.

The stall owner replied subconsciously, "This is to treat organ disease."

(End of this chapter)