Leaving the town of Ice, crossing more than 100 kilometers of snowfields, when approaching the villages of the Bailong Dominion, it is like entering another world. In the territory of the Bailong Dominion, there are evergreen coniferous trees covered with snow, through which you can see giant ice sculptures everywhere in the wilderness, each ice sculpture is carved in the shape of a dragon, and the dragon sculptures in various postures are full of wilderness, and if you don't know if you walk here, you may mistakenly think that you have strayed into the lair of the ice dragon.

The villages of the Bailong Dominion are relatively small, basically only forty or fifty people, and the largest villages do not exceed the size of more than 100 people, they live in the villages, farming and hunting in the summer, and when the ice period arrives in the winter, they begin to habitually collect ice and snow to carve ice sculptures of dragons. Every dragon worshipper is a master of carving, or at least a master of dragon carving, and they often choose only a certain dragon carving that they have seen with their own eyes throughout their lives, and this is the case every year, and they continue to carve until the end of their lives. These believers believe that this will bring them closer to the dragon they worship, and that they can connect their spirits with the dragons.

Outsiders could not understand this belief, and felt that their ideas were only imaginary and impossible to realize, but in fact, all the people in the Dominion of Bailong who had received the gift of the dragon and possessed some of the dragon's abilities were extremely devout believers, and without exception, they carved them with great seriousness, as if they were engaged in a sacred work.

For thousands of years, it is not without the envy of the abilities they have acquired from the outside. Impersonating believers and moving into the village, hoping to get a glimpse of how the Worshippers gained dragon powers, they finally found out. This way does not exist at all, the people here just live like that, and those abilities will naturally appear in them. There are others who wish to pretend to worship the dragon as much as everyone else, who do the same thing every day as everyone else, but still get nothing, and some who have received the dragon's gift before them, and they still get nothing.

Many years later. People from the outside have finally given up their stupidity, and they see the people here as aliens and don't interact with each other much. There are only human villages on the snowy plains, and they still maintain a minimum level of contact with the Bailong Dominion.

A group of seven people whizzed through the interior of the Bailong Dominion on a sleigh, passing two villages in a row. According to McWillin. There were no towns in the Dominion, only villages, and if there was nothing important, the villages often had little contact with each other for a generation or two, and only occasionally met with people from other villages at the decennial gatherings. Although there are no cities, their Dominions have their own core area similar to that of a city, which is the Golden Dragon Village, which is closest to the Warcraft Forest, where the decennial assembly is designated. And when something important happens, the elders of each village will also choose this place when they need to hold a meeting. However, it is considered a central area. It is only because it is the closest to the Dragon Mountains, which are considered sacred places by the dragon worshippers, and the others are no different from other villages in terms of size and population, with the only exception being that the dragon altar of the dragon worshippers is located here.

The dragon altar is not like the altar in the temple of the outsider church, where rituals are performed every day to praise the gods, and the dragon worshippers worship the dragon. But it's not a belief in dragons, so it doesn't treat gods like they do. They incorporated the chanting and worship of dragons into their daily lives, so that the dragon altar was only used for ten years of gatherings, and the rest of the time it was just lying quietly in the center of the golden dragon village, and no one would touch and climb it. As for the small altars in the villages, they often go unused for decades.

Due to the appearance of a liaison, Jinlong Village had to specially appoint a reluctant elder to be responsible for this matter, and after the end of each liaison's term, he needed to come to Jinlong Village to make a report. Of course, in fact, there is nothing to report, basically the situation of five years, you can explain it clearly within three minutes, and then the elders who listen to the report spend another 30 minutes to completely forget about it, and all the process is just a formality. But this time is different, this time during McWillin's tenure, he encountered creatures with the aura of guardian enemies, and brought back their heads, which is a very important event for the Bailong clan, and it is estimated that it will soon cause a sensation in Jinlong Village, and then spread at a gathering held in an unknown year.

"But let's just rush all the way to Jinlong Village?" Catherine asked in a loud voice as she slid to Pennis, facing the cold wind blowing on the snowy field, "Don't you need to familiarize yourself with the various conditions of the Dominion in advance, such as etiquette and customs?" ”

"Not at all. Pannis replied similarly, "Each of them is an individual, and you feel like an elder of the village chief, but in fact there is no difference between ordinary villagers, so you can treat him the same way you did with McWilling." ”

"Is that really the case?" Catherine asked in surprise, "And if there is any dispute, who will handle it?"

"There are basically no disputes in their village, just like dragons, everyone lives their own lives. "Even if it's a rare small dispute, it's good that the eldest person in the village can handle it," Pannis explained. Our request this time, if nothing else, will have to negotiate with this elder. ”

"It's really trouble-free. Catherine found it difficult to understand this way of life, and said with a wry smile: "So, let's just find him directly, and then take out your token and explain the situation to him?"

"Yes, nothing else. Pannis nodded, "It's actually that simple to get in touch with the people of the Bailong clan. ”

"The front is coming quickly. McWilling's slow, deep and distinctive voice came, "Golden Dragon Village, our destination." ”

McWilling's words were not an exaggeration, and the group of seven people went around a snowy hill and avoided several unfinished dragon ice sculptures, and saw a village not far away. The buildings of the Dominion are made of stone, much higher than the buildings in human villages, and they look much larger than human buildings in terms of gates and windows, and entering the village is like entering the land of giants. The architecture of these houses is very rough, the exterior has not undergone any decoration and rest, as if it was randomly piled up with boulders, and a careful observation of the position of the doors and windows can be seen that the houses are all one-story buildings, and it is estimated that the interior of the rooms is higher than many temples. Seeing this, Catherine remembered the information she had looked up about the dragons when she set out, they liked to live in spacious caves, and the dragons must have been infected by this habit, and they intended to build this style when building their houses.

The village appears to have no plans or functional buildings, except for the houses scattered around the center of the village, each at a distance from each other, and it is almost impossible to find buildings within thirty meters of each other. This is also the habit of the dragons, although they live in groups, but usually live as individuals or families, and the caves between each other will be very far apart, so although the number of dragons is very small, but the entire dragon mountain range may almost see their caves, which boils down to this reason.

The conspicuous structure in the village is the two altars, the dragon altar is located in the very center of the village, five meters above the ground, more than 100 meters in diameter, enough for an adult dragon to sleep on it, the altar looks like it is made of ordinary boulders, and there is no decoration other than smoothing the surface to smooth the altar. Seeing this altar, it is easy to think that at the decennial gathering, it is likely that a certain dragon will come down and prepare an altar of this scale. As for the other altar, not far from the Dragon Altar, this second altar was significantly smaller, and should be no different from the smaller altars in other villages.

Although it was covered in snow, there should be a road in the village, but the road didn't seem to have been planned, basically starting from the house and extending around the dragon altar. However, again, unlike Icy Town, the snow on the roads has not been cleared at all, and there are not even footprints on the snow in front of some houses, indicating that the owner of the house has not been out of his room for so many days and has been staying in his own home.

Seven people slid into the village, and not a single person in the village could see it, as if it was a deserted village. However, the girls do not have such misunderstandings, they have studied the habits of the dragons, and they know that the dragon is a creature that does not like to move, as long as the conditions allow, they will never leave their lair, and presumably all the dragon worshippers who imitate the dragon have also learned this habit, and when they do not need or are not suitable for work, they will also stay at home and not go anywhere.

Entering the center of the village, McWilling looked around, it had been five years since he left here, but there was no change in here, as if time had stood still here.

"These rooms all look the same. Freya looked at the houses in the village and said, "And there is no pattern, can you really tell the owners of these houses?"

"Absolutely. The imminent offloading of the task seemed to put McWilling in a good mood, and even spoke a little faster: "Maybe you look at these rooms the same, but in our eyes, there is a big difference between them." Come with me, the elder I am handing over should be the same person you are looking for. ”

As he spoke, McWilling led the members of the party to a room and knocked heavily on the wooden door, which was two feet tall