The two of them walked down the mountain road and walked down the Frost Temple, Qi Xiao looked at the city that was getting closer and closer, and he was dazzled by everything in front of him.

The whole city is built in a huge valley with ups and downs, in other words, Qi Xiao's hometown is "two mountains and one ditch", there are some farmland that is the most suitable for cultivation even in the whole continent, there are also rich timber resources and pastures suitable for raising livestock, and there are also frost steel mines that are of great significance and incomparably precious for the whole planet.

However, the descendants of the goddess of radiance founded the city of Lagash in this place, and survived in this valley for nearly 7,000 years, building it into a magnificent, huge, and beautiful city.

Now, the god of death, Negar, has set his sights on this valley, and a bloody battle is about to be staged, and the history of this war is even older than the history of mankind......

"It's so dilapidated now that it's almost completely a city built for war." Nyingmar looked at the town in the distance and said in a low voice.

"Our location is the best lumber farm in Lagash, while the west is where the animals are tamed and the east is the farm. The northernmost part is our excavation site, where the Frost Steel veins are located. And in the very center, there is the center of our town, where the business district and the best blacksmith shops are built. Nyingmar Qixiao introduced.

"Lumberyards, animal training grounds, farms and mines, with a blacksmith shop in the middle, sounds like the ...... of the Arathi Basin" Qi Xiao nodded, he found that Nyingmar was tired, but there was a glint of hope in his eyes, and that look seemed to be a desperate person who had a second life.

He understood that Nyingmar had a deep attachment to the land and its people, but that the endless war was always exhausting and there was no hope in sight.

And now, with his arrival and the Earth Army, a powerful "ally", Lagash's predicament may be changed because of this.

An end to this war is now Nyingmar's strongest desire.

However, Qi Xiao was not interested in this at all, he came here to make friends and learn about the planet, not to win over a god weaker than himself and form an alliance with him.

Even though they have a common enemy, Qi Xiao's behavior philosophy has always been to protect the Earth Army and find the key to the stargate, which is what he needs to care about as an extraordinary being.

As for Lagash?

He felt that he could cooperate, and that the Earth Force might welcome it. But those endless negotiations, and the various competing interests, are by no means good at it.

What's more, this matter does not only involve himself and the permanent member of the United Nations that he represents, but requires the entire expeditionary force to make a decision, and he alone does not count.

Doing what you are good at and not meddling in your own affairs has always been the criterion of Qi Xiao's life.

He could hear the other party's plea from Nyingmar's words, but quickly changed the subject: "Tell me about your frost steel?" ”

The eagerness in Nyingmar's eyes dimmed a little, and she nodded, "I'll take you to the Blacksmiths' Guild to visit our best blacksmith master, the Furnace Keeper." ”

The two of them walked along the mountain road to the town and into a wide street.

It is a place full of passages, staircases, stairs, terraces, and the whole place looks carved out of the foundation of a huge cavern, and many of the floors are natural rock. This gives the impression that within this street, it is the natural landscape that has been improved rather than replaced or reconstructed.

The surface of the building here is a smooth material made of a natural icy stone mixed in a strange way, like a master carver carving a stone to make its own texture deeper and more beautiful.

Nyingmar told Qi Xiao that the stone was the rough stone from which the frost steel was smelted.

It is everywhere, and the dazzling array of stone carvings may explain why it is so prosperous, because only when there is a full stomach and a place of leisure and elegance can so many carving masters be produced, but according to Qi Xiao's harsh vision, compared with the great stone carving buildings on the earth, the skills of the people here are still quite far from the master artists on the earth.

And in the middle of those stone carvings, there are blacksmith shops.

Unlike the traditional blacksmith shops Qi Xiao saw on Earth, there were no furnaces for calcining iron embryos, no bellows for whirring and smoking, and no coal and charcoal for furnaces.

Some of the blacksmiths, shirtless, with one or two apprentices, each in four strokes, picked up the hammer, threw off their arms, and clanged against the metal.

Each of these people performs their own stunts, attracting crowds of people who come and go to watch.

From time to time, people take damaged farm tools or blades and find their favorite blacksmith to repair them.

"Members of the Blacksmiths' Guild come from various cities on the continent, and at this time of year they gather in Lagash to solicit business and recruit new apprentices; Merchants from all over the continent will also come here to place orders during this month, and the orders that ordinary blacksmiths take in a month at the blacksmith club are enough to be busy for a year. Nyingmar said.

"Hmm." Qi Xiao nodded, looking at the surrounding environment in a big way: "This place looks similar to our workshop in the past. ”

Qi Xiao looked at the surrounding environment, except that there was no forge, everything here was actually no different from the blacksmith furnace on the earth.

Those frost steel rough stones were like gray-white marble blocks, unremarkable, unpretentious, like a smooth stone, cut into strips, and the surrounding frost steel weapons, the blades on them all shimmered with light blue brilliance, smooth as ice blue gems.

The tools used by blacksmiths to make metal were large hammers, small hammers, anvils and clamps, and Qi Xiao felt that he might be able to be a blacksmith.

The two of them came to a blacksmith's shop, which was empty, and there was not even a single customer.

Nyingmar looked at Qi Xiao: "Here is our best master blacksmith, Gatumdog, the steel sculper. He ......"

Qi Xiao smiled lightly: "Go in and have a look." With that, he walked into this seemingly ordinary blacksmith shop.

As soon as he entered the door, Qi Xiao saw a rough and strong man, with knotted muscles, a white beard, sweat on his forehead, his bare upper body, his broad chest and arms with ice-blue branding, and a huge mallet in his hand, beating the metal on the anvil fiercely.

The crisp sound of striking iron, the vibration of the silent air, the ice blue frost steel, flashing dazzling red light from time to time, a few splashes of ice blue sparks, flying on the ground, more and more this windowless hut is dark.

The blacksmith struck the frost steel in front of him with a strong and rhythmic beating, the ice-blue metal, gradually extending and deforming, revealing bursts of red light, from time to time there was a hot steam rising around the anvil, the steam slowly rose, but the cold cold wind transmitted by each blow quickly blew the steam away.

Qi Xiao looked at the strange scene in front of him and couldn't help but be amazed.

The blacksmith on the opposite side raised his head, and looked at Qi Xiao who was standing in front of him with a little confusion.

"It's that little cub who dares to enter my territory!" When the strong man saw Qi Xiao, he shouted loudly, Qi Xiao only felt a gust of extremely cold wind blowing, and he was suddenly cold.

"Master Gatumdog, this is a messenger from the earth, and he has come to learn about Froststeel." Nyingmar hurriedly walked in and explained.

"Earth?" Gatumdoge stared at Qi Xiao in disbelief with his huge bronze bell-like eyes.

"Hi, hello." Qi Xiao looked at Gatum Dog with a smile and said hello.

"Are there any survivors of the weak earthlings?" The corners of Gatumdog's mouth widened, he squinted at Qi Xiao, revealing a sarcastic smile, and his voice sounded like a bell: "I said earlier that we don't need to pay attention to those weak guys, we don't need those worthless bugs at all, we can defeat Negar!" ”

"Nyingmar, you let him in this sacred place, and now you have brought him here, you have disappointed me so much."

"But he alone wiped out 2,000 of Negar's men, and even wiped out his Death Corps." Nyingmar explained, "He and his companions wiped out the entire army of Arutalis, as I saw with my own eyes. ”

"What?" Gatumdoge was stunned, he looked at Qi Xiao in a daze, and only nodded for a long time: "Okay, you have won my respect, but you ...... How exactly did you defeat them? ”

"It's just a fluke." Qi Xiao replied.

He looked at Qi Xiao and keenly saw the Chixiao Sword on his body that was loose and sloppy on his belt.

"You're a swordsman? A master of swordsmanship? Gatumdog was immediately interested.

"Actually, I'm not a master of swordsmanship, you see I'm thin and small, in fact, I'm not suitable for front-line combat, I should be considered a scout, an infiltrator......" Qi Xiao "modestly" introduced: "But occasionally I don't mind letting my sword stain some blood." ”

"Can you see your sword?" Gatum Dogg was clearly interested in the Red Sky Sword far more than Qi Xiao's.

"Absolutely."

"Oh, the smell of brimstone and fire, this disgusting fire elemental!" Gatumdogg drew his sword, and the red-hot light made him frown.

"Hehe......" Qi Xiao smiled and looked at this stout man so embarrassed.

"But he's still a good sword." Gatum Dogg returned the sword into the sheath, handed it to Qi Xiao, and made a fair evaluation, and then he asked, "On Earth, do you also forge your own swords yourself?" ”

"Of course, but we have some mechanized equipment, and a lot of the processes are automated."

"Automatic?" Gatum Dogg was stunned.

"Yes, enter the raw materials here, and then the sword blank will come out here, and then change it according to your own preferences." Qi Xiao said casually.

"However, metal needs to be forged repeatedly before it can ......" Gatumdog quickly understood what Qi Xiao meant, but he still didn't understand.

"The machine can repeatedly forge the sword blank hundreds of thousands of times, and it doesn't need a human at all." Qi Xiao said with a smile.

Gatumdogg stood there stunned for a long time without speaking, and after a while, he spoke: "I have seen your machine, and it is indeed very ingenious. We are trapped on this planet, and everything can only rely on our own continuous exploration, learning, invention and creation, and continuous improvement of technology; But it's slow, because we have to do everything ourselves......"

"We never find any objective reasons for our weakness." Qi Xiao replied calmly.

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