Chapter 659: Cloud City

After flying through the vast sea of clouds, with the griffin team led by George and led by Maria, the griffin team finally vaguely discovered the outline of a city in the sea of clouds in front of them, and after passing through the last cloud, they saw this huge city hidden behind the clouds.

The so-called Cloudsdale, including the other 6 that were captured by the Human Alliance before, and finally merged with the unconquered Angels after returning to the surrendered Angel Clan, that is, the 6 Cloudsdale in front of them, is actually a group of 7 huge floating islands connected to some small floating islands, as for what these islands will float in the sky, it is because these islands are actually composed of a kind of rock called floating stone, as long as this strange rock reaches a certain amount, It will lift everything up and make it float to a height of about 1,200 meters above the ground.

"Is this Cloudsdale? It is rumored to be one of the most beautiful cities. Looking at the fairyland-like city in front of him, Leo, who was riding on the royal griffin, couldn't help but admire, and at the same time, he also became the first in the empire where the sun never sets to cover the three wonders of Cloudsdale City: the so-called three wonders are "Painted under the Island", "Sky Spring" and "Caixia", the first two of which are carved by the skilled craftsmen of the angel clan with their skillful hands.

The so-called "painting under the island" actually refers to the carving and painting with the style of the angel clan under the floating island where the city in the clouds is located: in ancient times, the angel clan and the elf clan are the same, because they live in an area where almost no intelligent creatures have set foot, so the carving skills of the angel clan and the painting skills of the elf clan are known as the two treasures of the art world of the king continent.

Although most of the components of the floating island are floating stones, after all, the floating stones cannot be composed of a single element, so about 70% of the floating islands are floating stones. And the rest is granite or marble and other stones, as a high-quality carving material, Le Zhong and the angel clan who combined art and carving together began to carve exquisite rock murals at the bottom of the floating island, borrowing these natural sites to start carving exquisite rock murals, this kind of rock murals that do not rely on pigment to decorate under the transformation of those skilled craftsmen of the angel clan, become able to rely on the sunlight to conjure up various colors, so the rock murals of those angel clans under the floating island have "island painting" This name compliments the peculiar sight of the rock paintings, which themselves have only white and gray tones, but turn into color pictures in the sun.

The "Sky Spring" is a wonder built by the craftsmen of the Angel clan using the principle of floating stones: as a city in the sky, one of the biggest disadvantages is that it lacks cultivated land and sufficient water. And the former because of the special body structure of the angel clan, the angel clan has little demand for food, plus some members of the angel clan have the ability to shrink their wings, and can run to the ground to disguise themselves as merchants and use the statues carved by the angel clan members to buy food, so food is not a big problem for the angel clan, but as the source of life that all bodies need - water. The angels, however, had to drink enough water every day to survive, just like humans.

However, there is no merchant in this world who sells water like the Primordial Water Company, after all, it is even a desert like the Southern Continent. In general, intelligent species do not lack water sources. This is because the southern continent, which looks like a desert, is actually covered with underground rivers that resemble human blood vessels.

In such a situation, the skilled craftsmen of the angel clan immediately thought of a way to collect fresh water from the clouds, but the effect was not good, because the large fresh water in the clouds was too small to supply the needs of the angel clan with a population of hundreds of thousands, and when this fresh water was used and turned into domestic wastewater, it would make the environment of Cloudsdale worse because it could not be easily discharged, so after thinking about it, the skilled craftsmen of the angel clan used the principle of floating stones and floating stones. A water recycling system called "Sky Spring" was built: the so-called "Sky Spring" consists of two large pools and a system of urban canals scattered throughout the floating island, in which the main part of the urban canals is to deliver fresh water to thousands of households like the urban canal system on the ground, of course, because some of these canals use floating stones. In many areas of the canal, the wonder of water flowing vertically upwards can occur.

The two pools are called the Pool of Hope and the Pool of Purification, the former is an ordinary pure rock island with floating stones at the bottom, which resembles a hollow cone, and is called the Pool of Hope because the members of the Angel Clan will bring fresh water collected from the clouds to provide life for the inhabitants of the floating island. The Pool of Purification is actually a floating island where all the domestic wastewater in Cloudsdale flows to, which is the same as the Pool of Hope in appearance, but the composition is all composed of floating stones, here, the floating stones will drag the domestic wastewater to a higher place, so that the sun can directly irradiate all the wastewater, in this case, the high temperature formed by the continuous irradiation of the sun will make these floating into the air to form a huge ball of domestic wastewater, which will become water vapor in the high temperature. This water vapor will be guided by the Angel Clan members who control the direction of Cloudsdale's movement, and will become clouds that move to the Pool of Hope, where it will be recollected into fresh water by the Angel Clan members and given to the inhabitants of Cloudsdale.

Such a peculiar water circulation system, coupled with the fact that this water circulation system will use the ability of floating stones in the process of transmission, to make those transported fresh water rush in the air, forming a turbulent stream without a riverbed, or a waterfall without cliffs, such a strange landscape will of course be called "Sky Spring".

As for the last naturally formed wonder - Caixia, it can indeed be considered a gift from nature in some ways, but it can be regarded as a man-made object in other ways, and the reason why it is said is because the formation of Caixia has an inseparable relationship with the Spring of the Sky: since most of the members of the Angel Clan do not know how to smelt steel, the urban system of the Angel Clan is composed of right rocks, and the Angel Clan only has floating stones on hand, So this leads to the strange spectacle of water flowing in the air in the process of transporting water in the urban system.

As we all know, sunlight will produce color after hitting the water surface, and the floating water will be in a state of change in the process of flowing because of the buoyancy emitted by the floating stone, resulting in a part of the fresh water overflowing in the process of flowing, and this part of the water will be very likely to turn into water vapor, and when the sunlight hits these water vapors, it is very likely to produce a beautiful rainbow, so whenever the sun rises to set, because the sky spring in Cloudsdale has been in the form of clouds, So that there are always beautiful rainbows in the surrounding area of Cloudsdale, or other beautiful scenery similar to the combination of light and water vapor, which is the so-called Caixia in Cloudsdale.

"Your Excellency General George, the King of Angels is already waiting on the reception tower at the top of Cloudsdale, please come with me." Following the direction of this Maria, a team of about 100 griffins, including George and the diplomats on whom the sun never sets, finally witnessed the difference between Cloudsdale and the strange humanistic customs of the angel clan, such as the angel clan is actually an atheist race, they do not believe in any religion, the reason why the people on earth will regard angels as one of the symbols of religion is because of the humanity of the angel clan: the angel clan is a race that likes a quiet environment, but they have a soft spot for bell instruments, In addition, the people of the Angel Clan can be self-sufficient, resulting in the concept of a commercial district in the City of Clouds, and even in the minds of the Angel Clan, so the Cloud City of the Angel Clan is as solemn as a religious shrine to outsiders, and they don't know that it is just because all the members of the Angel Clan are listening to the melody played by the bells and instruments in the city.

Another example is the saying that the angel clan is a holy race in the world, which is completely nonsense: the people of the angel clan pursue pure love, which is the so-called platonic love, so the angel clan has no trace of sexual desire in terms of love, and many angel clansmen rely on their dozens of times more than human beings, almost the same life span as the elf clan, and they are looking for and waiting for the other half of their lives in the clan, and even if they find the other side, they will not show their love directly. Instead, they are willing to pay for the other half of their lives in the dark relationship and silently protect it, so although the angel family has a lot stronger fertility than the elf family, its population growth rate is similar to that of the elf family, and this platonic way of love is also mistaken by those travelers who have seen the humanity of the angel family as the angel family pays attention to the so-called "place", and the holiness in disguise.

"Arrived" under the leadership of Maria, George and others who rode griffins also finally landed in front of the square of a huge snow-white palace made of a large number of white marble bricks. The snow-white hair of the angelic male was forced to end after the floating. (To be continued......)