She was back in Cloud City.

Different from the traditional cities on earth, the name of Cloud City can be described as worthy of its name, and it fully deserves the reputation of the city in the clouds. Because below and around the entire Cloud City, there is no other scenery except clouds and clouds.

She lay on the carbonaceous glass of Cloud City, looking greedily at Yunjing, as if she wanted to suck them all into her lungs. Before the crossing, she never imagined that one day she would find them so spectacular, so cute.

This is her home. A place full of warmth and happiness, always open to welcome the returning wanderers, and bring them a sense of security.

"I'm back." She felt tears roll in her eyes, and everything she saw became blurred. "I'm finally, I'm finally home."

"No, you haven't come home yet."

She spun around sharply, clenched her fists and stepped into a defensive stance. Years of life-and-death fighting in the arena have made her a habit, and as soon as she heard an unfamiliar male voice behind her, her body did not wait for her brain to distinguish whether the comer was friend or foe, and she had already reflexively responded.

The man was a young man with a dry build. He has a long face and big ears, a delicate appearance, and black black hair draped over his shoulders. He was wearing the same silk tights as hers, and he held up his hands to her, and the birthmark on the back of his right hand was particularly eye-catching.

"Relax, girl, I'm not an enemy."

She didn't relax, she was still hostile. She clenched her fists and stared at the face. He looked familiar, I must have seen him, she thought to herself. I must have known who he was, I knew he was dangerous, otherwise I wouldn't have instinctively feared him.

The other sighed, lowered his hands, and walked over to her. His pace was neither hurried nor slow, and he was calm and relaxed.

She suddenly realized that she could not move, as if she had been filled with heavy lead. Seeing the man getting closer and closer, she screamed, "No, don't come here!" ”

The next second, the man hugged her into his arms.

The contact between the two made her a little confused for a while. His slender arms contained a strength that was disproportionate to his appearance, squeezing her twin peaks with a faint ache. The man lowered his head, the tip of his slippery tongue picking open his teeth, and easily broke through her defenses.

"Hmm~, hmm~."

She no longer felt scared, and her tense body completely relaxed. She closed her eyes, basking in pleasure, oblivious to the fact that her hands had already recovered, caressing the other's back and buttocks as he did to her.

The man stopped kissing and smiled at her, "Remember?" Girl. ”

She remembered that the man in front of her was called Bamboo Pole, and he was a single-rank samurai. He has a rare ability to create illusions that are incredibly real.

With this ability, he killed seven of them, five of whom were second-order samurai who were higher in rank than him.

Fear gripped her heart again, and she struggled to break free from his embrace, backing up until she hit the solid glass wall.

The pain in her back was so real that if she hadn't known about it, she wouldn't have believed she was in a fantasy right now. Is this man really just a single-order person?

"Calm down, girl, calm down." In order to appease her, the man also took a few steps back, and opened up a distance from her that was enough to show his kindness. "Keep thinking, don't stop. You'll remember that I can't hurt you. ”

Yes, I remembered it all, you have been captured and are now our slaves. The High Priest wants to gain a deeper understanding of your abilities and often orders you to do so in her presence

Cast your illusions and test the limits of what you can reach. And I am the object of your illusion, for I am the High Priest's personal bodyguard and her confidant.

You can't hurt me, and my three sisters are putting their spears to the back of your heart right now.

Thinking of this, her legs went limp, and she slid down the curtain wall and sat on the ground. The bamboo pole walked forward quickly and grabbed her shoulders. "Are you alright?"

"Me? I'm fine, and since it's all hallucinations, what can I do bad? ”

Bamboo pole shook his head, "Hallucinations are also dangerous, if you are too addicted to them, your consciousness will never regain consciousness." You will keep dreaming until your heart is no longer beating. He picked her up by the waist, "Let's go to the row of chairs over there and sit down first." ”

Dreaming to death? That's good, I don't want to go back to that hellish world anyway. "And what are you doing in my dreams?"

"What am I here for? Let me remind you that there is less than a minute left in the test, and if you're smart enough, take the time to enjoy the feeling of being home. When you wake up, the psychological gap is too big, and you will only be in a daze like a stone. I've seen a lot of people like you high priests in my previous life, and they don't have the patience to ask a stone. If you miss the right thing, you and I will have to be whipped. ”

The man's words warmed her heart, but her mouth was still in a cold tone, "One minute? What can I enjoy in this time? You'd better wake me up now. ”

"Ahem, I mean one minute in reality, converted into a dream, about half an hour."

Being able to spend another half hour in the dream was much more than she expected. Moved, she involuntarily stretched out her arms and hugged the neck of the bamboo pole.

There are many parks of different sizes in Cloud City, and the bamboo poles are the closest to them and the smallest one. There was only a tree, a row of chairs, a small pink lawn and a few hundred fragrant flowers. His illusions could even falsify his sense of smell, she made a mental note of it.

"To be honest, when you told me your hometown was called Venus, I thought it was just the name of a community." He put her on a row of chairs and sat down next to each other. "I didn't expect you to really come from Venus."

The bamboo pole looked up and looked around. The city is actually a balloon with a diameter of five kilometers, filled with oxygen and nitrogen, which allows it to float in the atmosphere composed mainly of carbon dioxide. Layers of circular corridors are embedded in the inner wall of the balloon, which are the industrial area, commercial area and leisure entrance of Cloud City. The hollow part of the balloon is crossed by numerous cables, and strings of shiny and dazzling dwelling pods are tied to the cables, like gourds of various shapes. At the bottom of the balloon is a giant cistern for ecological circulation, which occupies about a tenth of the space. At the top of the balloon is a spaceport, a spaceship that is used to moor between planets.

"It's spectacular, I don't feel like I'm in a sealed space at all. Colonizing the Hellstar, the people who can come up with this way of operating are awesome. ”

"That man's name is Jeffrey Lantis," she said lightly, but there was still a bit of a city guy talking to a hillbilly about popular science, "He's a veteran at NASA's Grand Research Center, and he's a good science fiction writer, and every cloud city in Venus has squares and streets named after him." ”

"To be a writer, his emotional intelligence must not be low. How many cloud cities are floating on Venus? ”

"Before I crossed, there were almost 10,000 seats, and each one averaged 100,000 people."

"A billion people?" The bamboo pole was surprised, "There are so many?" What do you feed yourselves on? Touristy? ”

"No, it's a small business. We mainly extract carbon from the atmosphere and synthesize high-purity graphite. ”

"And diamonds?" The bamboo poles looked at the shiny houses again.

"That's right, diamonds. From industrial equipment to engagement rings, we meet nearly eighty percent of the needs of the entire solar system. She laughed, and her smile was very sweet.

"South Africans must hate you." Bamboo pole nodded and said, "But have you ever thought about what you will do when the carbon on Venus is gone?" ”

"Venus has 1,000 tons of air per square meter on the surface, and each ton of air contains more than 200 kilograms of carbon, and it takes a long, long time to extract it all. By that time," her eyes lit up, "my world should be able to master the time-traveling technology, and the existence of the Space-Span-Space Federation has proven that this technology is feasible." As long as we build a quantum computer as advanced as the Federation and the Ring of the Sun High Energy Particle Collider, Minecraft will have a chance to build a civilization as powerful as theirs. ”

"I think it's more likely that the Interplanar Federation will come to the door before that and give your leaders a choice to either join or be beaten. They can kidnap you from your world, which means that your world has long been registered with them. They didn't move you because your current level of technology doesn't put a competitive pressure on them. Of course, my world is the same. ”

"You're right, this is the future that is more likely to happen to us." Her eyes dimmed, and at the same time she vaguely felt that something seemed wrong in the man's words, she always felt that he should not have said such things, but she didn't know why he shouldn't.

Forget it, let's throw these brain-burning things to the high priest later.

"Let's change the topic lightly, if I jump outside from Cloud City, what kind of death will it be?"

She laughed again, "Definitely not a fall." ”

The two talked and laughed and opened their hearts to each other. He became no longer terrifying in her eyes, and she was even more charming and moving in his eyes.

They were surrounded by imaginary crowds, tall and short, thin men, women and children, hurried or leisurely passing by, dressed in the same silk tights. Outside the glass curtain wall, the clouds are unpredictable, like a cloud beast waving its claws, revealing its cloud teeth, arching its cloud body, and erecting its cloud tail. Farther into the depths of the sea of clouds, the sun is gradually sinking in the east, casting their figures to the west.

"Uh, bamboo poles. Can I call you that? ”

"Of course, my moon." He mischievously changed his title, "What's the matter?" ”

"Can you, um, conjure up my parents?" I miss them so much, let me hug them again, feel their presence, please don't turn me down.

He didn't disappoint her.

When she returns to reality, she finds herself once again snuggling up to the man's arms and kissing him. Only this time the silk tights of the two were gone, and they became naked again.

"It's a romantic way to wake up," the high priest's voice drifted from above. "Guards, put away your weapons. You, lock his abilities back up, and repeat what he had just experienced in the illusion. ”

The samurai obeyed, her hands pressed on the forehead of the bamboo pole with an extraordinarily gentle movement.

"Thank you." She whispered to him.

"You're welcome, it's my pleasure." He replied softly, too.