Chapter 23: Kimono (Middle)
"It seems to have arrived." Xiang Ling began to clean up the chess game, "Do you want to record it and continue next time?" β
Hua Jiuxi shook his head: "No need - it's all said that this is divination of national fortune, let time prove everything." β
"Look, sir! It's spectacular. Xiang Ling saw that the red film of the window was open, and glanced outβthe air was really cold.
Hua Jiuxi also took a look, what scenery made Princess Xiangling feel spectacular.
Just look at a huge, chaotic bird's nest-like structure in the distance, but if you look closely, you will know that the structure has its own patterns. And by proportion, the nest is at least the size of a medium-sized city.
The spaceship gradually approached the bird's nest, and after a while, Hua Jiuxi could clearly see the building materials of the bird's nest - it was really a boxy wooden pillar, but the curvature of the wooden pillar seemed to grow naturally.
Before he could sigh, a gray-brown rope flew out of the gap in the nest, ending in a hook.
"What, it's the finger claws of the big bird." Hua Jiuxi found that the rope looked exactly like a bird's claw, and the hook was actually the claw at the end of the finger. But apparently, there are no bones and joints in this finger.
This "hook" fixed the boat of Hua Jiuxi and the two, Xiang Ling motioned for him to wait for someone to interrogate, and Hua Jiuxi nodded obediently.
After a while, two growing figures flew over, both of them covered in black soft armor - Hua Jiuxi could only call this kind of clothing soft armor, although it looked very soft and shiny. The masks of the two are very peculiar, and there is a protruding part in the mouth that looks like a long bird's beak, and Hua Jiuxi vaguely remembers that the epidemic prevention doctors in the European Middle Ages were dressed like this.
The two women (of course) jumped into the cabin and shouted, "Don't move! Routine check-ups. β
Hua Jiuxi and Xiang Ling raised their hands and let them grope - Xiang Ling was naturally not embarrassed if she was a girl, but Hua Jiuxi always felt weird when she saw that they were touching a big man up and down.
"Looks like you've got a lot of weapons on you......" said one of the women.
"I have a letter of proof, so I can show it to you." Hua Jiuxi didn't want any misunderstanding to happen, so he poked Luo Yue's letter again.
The two of them looked at each other slightly, and said, "Don't call it out sooner!" β
Hua Jiuxi smiled bitterly: Are Gu Won Birds so hard? He continued: "In that case, the two sisters let us get off the boat, right?" β
"No, you haven't had a medical test yet." The women said.
"Then check it out." Hua Jiuxi was already a little impatient, and saw a woman on the left take out a round thing, which was connected to an object that looked like a bird's beak and a needle at the same time: "Reach over." β
Hua Jiuxi spread out his hands and was stabbed by it.
Xiang Ling did the same.
"Strange - this gentleman, the number of germs on your body is scarce to a certain extent - except for a few symbiotic colonies that are essential to the human body. There are such people in the Nether. The woman was amazed.
Hua Jiuxi smiled slightly and said, "That's right, so I naturally passed." β
After Xiang Ling's blood was drawn, the round instrument sounded chaotically, and the woman in charge of the inspection said: "The parasite exceeds the standard......
For the first time, Hua Jiuxi saw Xiang Ling's face so red and incoherent: "No, it's not what you think...... Actually, it's because of that, it's too big...... In fact, according to the same size of creatures, it is definitely very clean. β
The two soldiers listened to her defense, and only said: "It's okay, there is no such thing as a malignant disease." In this case, we will be able to cure you. β
As they spoke, they took out another boiled egg with the shell peeled - of course, "boiled egg" was just a random name for Hua Jiuxi.
The two women used the egg to roll around Xiang Ling's face, and the egg turned moldy green.
"Okay, Miss, all the germs in your body have been sucked out." They said.
The blush on Xiang Ling's face had not subsided, and he only replied: "Okay." "I went up to the huge bird's nest with Hua Jiuxi.
"Xiangling, have you been here before?" Hua Jiuxi said as he breathed in the extremely clean air in the sky.
"Of course not, or I wouldn't have expected to be so humiliated." Xiang Ling said that after all, she was a girl with strong self-esteem, and today she was so ugly in front of Hua Jiuxi.
Of course, Hua Jiuxi didn't think so, but she couldn't think of any words to comfort her.
I just feel that although it is high in the sky, the temperature is not low at all, and it is not even difficult to breathe. Perhaps, as Hua Jiuxi guessed, this is an independent space that has been transformed.
The two women from before led them to a junction, and when they registered, another woman who was exceptionally taller than Xiangling and Huajiuxi led the way. Because she knew that it was Luo Yue's honored guest, she didn't dare to slack off.
After passing through the periphery of the bird's nest made of countless chaotic trees, the pavement at the foot of Huajiuxi has changed into another kind of carpet shape paved with fine grass, which is very comfortable to step on. The women walking in front of them were all barefoot.
Because Gu Hou bird flies most of the time, things like shoes and socks seem a bit redundant. Hua Jiuxi went to the administrative center of the Bird's Nest, and they didn't have time to see any places like houses.
"By the way, sister, where does the power of such a large floating building come from, or the ability to levitate?" Hua Jiuxi asked the guide.
"Huh? Someone would ask such a question. She felt that she had already tacitly accepted the existence of youkai, so what was impossible?
"I don't understand the principle - because it's all from the power of the gods." There is a noticeable pause in her sentence when she mentions the "great god".
"Who is the great god?" Hua Jiuxi asked.
"It's right under your feet." The woman said.
Hua Jiuxi subconsciously jumped and said, "So, this bird's nest itself is a huge creature?" β
"It depends on how you understand it, but we think he's a god anyway." The woman said, "When you go to Luo Yue Niangniang in a while, you will naturally be able to get a glimpse of his face." The woman didn't explain much.
Luo Yue's office and residence is a palace-like building with four huge wooden pillars extending from the base of the bird's nest to form its basic framework, and then a lighter and more complex structure is built on top of it. Hua Jiuxi's style of art is described as "ancient and simple".
Hua Jiuxi and Xiang Ling were led into the front hall.
Luo Yue sat upright on the throne, which was extremely tall, and the periphery was decorated with the gorgeous feathers of dozens of big birds, and the style of color matching was not bad. Luo Yue didn't have an attendant around herβbecause she wasn't an absolute monarch in the bird's nest, but just an elected leader.
"Ah, Xiao Xiangxiang and Huahua are here~ Welcome." Luo Yue is not a serious person, seeing Hua Jiuxi and them coming, he jumped down from the seat, "I've been waiting for a long time." β
She almost flew to the two of them, and Hua Jiuxi felt a huge force coming, and she was almost knocked down.
It was easy to stand firm, Luo Yue had already taken Xiang Ling's hand, and his face was full of smiles.
It seems that she is in a good mood today, and I don't know why the smell of gunpowder was so strong when she met Xiang Ling last time. Hua Jiuxi didn't want to listen to the greetings between the two, so he said straightforwardly: "Luo Yue, what clues did you find, can you let us see ......?"
Luo Yue said "ah" and said, "I didn't expect Huahua to be so solemn, and no one is allowed to have a little leisure effort......
Hua Jiuxi said with a smile: "What's the matter, after all, it's a race against time, if we delay here for a while, the enemy there may start." β
Luo Yue nodded: "Okay, I'll take you to have a look." β
As he spoke, he walked to the apse, which was Luo Yue's resting place. Hua Jiuxi saw that the furnishings along the way have not changed significantly - unlike the girl's boudoir, maybe this is the culture of Guhou Bird.
In front of me is a very large courtyard, with many high hanging wooden poles, and the top of the wooden poles has something similar to wood carving. Because the sun is dazzling, Hua Jiuxi can't take a closer look at what the situation is.
It's just that some of these wooden poles have a lot of clothes hanging from them, and they are expected to be used by Luo Yue to dry. Just look at these clothes, wide robes, large sleeves, and colorful, which are completely different from the tight-fitting and revealing little gown that Luo Yue is wearing now.
"I can't see Luo Yue, you have a lot of clothes......" Hua Jiuxi said.
"Nope." Xiang Ling said to Hua Jiuxi, "Luo Yue only wears one piece of clothing all year round - these can't be hers." That's the weirdness you're going to show us, I guess? β
In Xiang Ling's words, Luo Yue smiled and said: "That's the case-these poles you see are a tool used to subdue the ghosts and gods, and of course, the people who have made mistakes in this bird's nest must also be suspended from the top to be punished." β
"The clothes you see are the monsters we caught." When Luo Yue said this, his voice suddenly fought, startling Hua Jiuxi.