Chapter 167: Rice Fields on the Clouds
Who would have thought that on this giant tree that reaches into the sky, a group of people will continue to climb upwards in the form of a country?
Among them were farmers, butchers, teachers, merchants, and even small categories of professions, such as barbers, tailors, and winemakers. It can be said that this group of people is completely self-sufficient on top of the giant tree, even if they are allowed to climb like this for 10,000 years, they can do it.
But how is it all done?
Lu Lie couldn't help but ask: "This is a 10,000-meter-high altitude, there is no fertile land and pastureland, how can you grow cereals and raise livestock to meet the needs of the population of such a large country?"
Mu Xiaobai tilted her head, obviously, for people like her who were born in this country above the giant tree since she was a child, these phenomena have long been commonplace, and she can't answer them when she asks. Tang Yan explained with a smile: "On this giant tree, there are often some monsters such as giant bulls and three-headed eagles attacking us, and people were very scared at the beginning, and they all suffered heavy casualties during the battle. But after gradually figuring out the habits and patterns of these monsters, our ancestors began to try to domesticate them as domestic animals...... After hundreds of years of taming, a group of beef cattle and meat hawks have been born for food......"
Lu Lie was speechless: "Domestic animals also need to eat grass." On top of the giant tree at a height of 10,000 meters, people can't eat enough, where does the grass come from for so many animals to eat?"
Tang Yan went on to explain: "On top of this giant tree, there are some special walls that can be used as rice fields for people to cultivate. When our mystics covered the bronze walls, they left them behind to sow seeds for the peasants. ”
He pointed into the distance: "Come on, come on, I'll take you to see it." ”
The trio jumped into a small, flat box nearby. Two thick iron chains tugged on both sides of the small box, leading to the heights like two railroad tracks. At the front of the bronze box sat a short, muscular man, boredly smoking a cigarette pouch. Seeing them jumping up, he greeted Tang Yan familiarly: "Yo, old Tang, I'm going to the Phoenix Pavilion to relax again." ”
Tang Yan's old face flushed: "No, isn't it...... Old Song, you take us to the No. 1 Continent, and I will take the new adventurers to see the fertile fields planted in our tree country. ”
"Okay!" Old Song shouted happily, swinging the wheel with both arms, like rowing a boat, and the bronze box slowly sailed into the distance along the iron locks under his feet.
From beginning to end, he didn't bother to look at Lu Lie. Obviously, there are countless adventurers who climb to this tree country every year. The inhabitants of the land of trees are no longer surprised.
Walk through the clouds and mist along the way. Lu Lie faintly saw that countless bronze boxes were carrying people, wandering back and forth under the guidance of the iron locks, and countless passengers passed by them.
At an altitude of 10,000 meters, the residents of the Land of Trees are also very convenient.
Before Lu Lie could come back to his senses, he heard a bang, and the bronze box under his feet seemed to hit something heavily in the white clouds. The ship stopped, and the destination arrived.
Mu Xiaobai jumped again with joy, and jumped directly from the boat into the white steam in front of him in the midst of cheers. Seeing that Lu Lie behind her was frightened, for fear that she would remember the wrong direction, and as soon as she stepped down, it would be an abyss. Such a terrifying scene did not appear, after Mu Xiaobai jumped into the clouds, after a while, her two little ponytails quickly emerged from the white, and it seemed that she had successfully landed.
Mu Xiaobai landed on the artificial land in the clouds, and seeing that there was no movement behind him for a long time, he couldn't help but be a little impatient, and beckoned to Lu Lie, who was still on the boat: "Why haven't you come yet?" Aha, you must be like those adventurers who came here for the first time, afraid of stepping on the air and falling into this abyss?" A mischievous disdain appeared on her face, "It's a shame that you are so much bigger than me, what a coward, come down quickly!"
Lu Lie shook his head helplessly, and could only follow the example of this little girl and carefully jump into the clouds. As soon as he fell into the clouds, although Lu Lie's eyes couldn't see, he only felt that his feet were sinking, as if something huge was shaking slightly. He knew that he had also gone ashore, and he couldn't help but have his heart hanging in mid-air finally falling to the ground.
The third person to get off the boat was Tang Yan. The man named Lao Song turned the bronze box under his feet and quickly disappeared on the other side of the clouds. From beginning to end, the boatman did not charge Tang Yan half a penny, or any other currency. Lu Lie saw it in his eyes, and secretly said in his heart: The transaction methods of the residents of this country on the tree are so strange, don't they need money? Could it be that everyone is Lei Feng, like Lao Song, who serves them for free?
Before he could solve the doubts in his heart, he was already being pulled forward by Mu Xiaobai. Within a few dozen steps, everything in front of him suddenly became clear, and countless overlapping clouds and mist dispersed, revealing a huge black yellow square iron plate under his feet. The iron plate is as big as dozens of football fields side by side, and the arm-thick iron chain hangs upside down on the edge of the iron plate, supporting its weight and providing countless bankers with upper bodies to walk on it.
On the other side of the iron plate was the shadow of the giant tree wall. To Lu Lie's surprise, the vast and boundless rice and wheat actually grew vertically on the wall of the giant tree, and when the wind blew, the rice rustled all over the sky, and the golden yellow patch was dyed yellow for half the sky.
Is this a dream?
It's a strange sight that never appears in a dream.
Lu Lie looked at the vertical rice field and was stunned for a long time. Now, he finally understood what Tang Yan meant by the sentence "On this giant tree, there are some special tree walls that can be used as rice fields for people to cultivate".
It is literally the farmers of the country here who cultivate the fields directly on the tree walls!
Before Lu Lie could react from his exclamation, two men dragged a car of strangely shaped, gun-like iron lumps and walked over: "Little brother, let me go, you occupy our place." ”
Tang Yan hurriedly pulled the stunned Lu Lie aside. Under Lu Lie's gaze, the two men opened the lid of the "cannon barrel" and aimed at the "rice field" above them. I heard a bang, and a waist-thick column of water gushed out of the barrel of the cannon and landed evenly on the rice field. Countless droplets of water were scattered one after another, and even Lu Lie and the others, who had already been standing on the side, felt a burst of coolness coming to their faces.
Tang Yan on the side took the initiative to introduce Lu Lie: "This rice field suspended in the air can't irrigate and divert water from nearby rivers like rice fields on land. So the inhabitants of the area had to water them regularly in this way to prevent them from dying. ”