Chapter 15: Castle in the Sky
Time passed slowly in the light of the small stone window, and on this day, Liang Ke felt that the pain in his body had subsided, although it was not completely good, but it did not affect his activities. So Liang Ke put on a coat www.biquge.info put on a long-lost cowhide boots, held on to the edge of the bed, and tried to walk a few steps, although it was a little difficult, but he could barely endure it. Liang Ke wanted to try to pour himself a cup of tea, but at this moment, the stone door creaked open, and the dwarf Tucker walked in from outside with a food box, and was startled when he saw Liang Ke holding the table.
"Master, why are you up? Lie down, didn't Master Narondo tell you to come to see you yesterday, you still have three days to get off the ground!" Tucker put down the food box and quickly helped Liang Ke to sit on the bed.
"Hehe, where is it so precious, it's okay, you see I haven't walked a few steps just now, I feel good, it doesn't hurt or itch, but I've been lying down for a long time, the muscles on this body are not very obedient, and the injury is no longer in trouble. ”
"Does it really not hurt?"
"Of course, what are you lying to? I've been asking you to take care of me these days, and I've been working hard for you. I happened to be a little hungry, and after dinner, you took me to see my pet, and I don't know how he is. ”
Liang Ke ate some rye bread, a piece of meat from an unknown animal, and a cup of milk from an unknown animal, and felt that his strength had recovered a lot, so he walked out of the stone gate for the first time with Tucker's support.
Liang Ke had imagined what the world outside the house was like countless times during the ten days he was in bed, and through his communication with Tucker, he also had a general understanding of the appearance of the "holy city" where the dwarves were, but when he saw the world inside the mountain with his own eyes, he was still stunned by everything in front of him.
At this moment, Liang Ke stood on a stone corridor, four or five meters wide, which allowed two carriages to run side by side, and the stone corridor was obviously artificially excavated from the mountain wall, extending in a circle along the inner wall of the mountain to both sides, until it went around to the opposite side and overlapped together. On the mountain wall, there are countless stone chambers that are exactly the same as those where Liang Ke lives, and such corridors spiral upwards from the bottom layer by layer, and the diameter gradually shrinks from large to small, until it is close to the dome and can no longer allow people to stand on it. Each layer of stone corridors is five or six meters high, and there are some lampstands regularly distributed on the edge of the stone corridors, which are filled with animal fat, and the wicks are covered with grease and burning, illuminating the entire inner space of the mountain with a diameter of six or seven hundred meters and up to two hundred meters as bright as day. In the center of the vast space is a stone pillar full of twenty meters thick, and each level of the cloister is connected by six thick chain suspension bridges, through which the dwarven craftsmen walked to the small piers built on the stone pillars, and then dispersed to the various levels in the round-the-clock steel cable baskets. The design of those hanging baskets is also quite exquisite, with a total of three layers, Liang Ke can transport at least sixty people at a time, and if the six hanging baskets are fully loaded, one hundred and eighty dwarves can be transported up and down at one time.
"This is what you call the city in the sky, the holy city of the dwarves?" Liang Ke rubbed his eyes, trying to see more clearly.
"Well, you can understand it that way, but rather, this is a major part of the Holy City, the living quarters where most of our dwarves live. ”
"Oh, isn't that all there is to the Holy City?"
"Yes, the smelter you fell from is not here, and there are many places such as the council hall where the elders deliberate, the animal farm where the demonic beasts are raised, and the warehouse where the supplies are stored. Master, come and see. Tucker helped Liang Ke to walk a little to the right, up a few steps, and then leaned on the railing by the cloister and pointed down to Liang Ke.
Liang Ke looked down in the direction of Tucker's finger, and saw that the corridor near the ground was even wider, bustling with people, and many dwarves gathered together without knowing what they were doing.
"What are those people doing?"
"That's our morning market, and I bought your breakfast there. There are also some different markets, hospitals, and schools in different places, and we have a complete fire brigade and security team here," Tucker patiently introduced the situation in the Holy City to Liang Ke.
Liang Ke and Tucker walked and talked, crossed the drawbridge from the cloister, then rode the hanging basket, and in a few minutes came to the surface, through the square where the children played, and then over a tall stone cave, to the animal farm. Along the way, familiar dwarves greeted Tucker frequently, and Liang Ke could read respect and curiosity in the eyes of those people, and seemed to be quite puzzled by this human who had the next patriarch as a guide, but because of Tucker's special status, no one came forward to ask impolitely.
"Tucker, they all seem to respect you!" Liang Ke took it for granted that the reason for this respect was Tucker's identity.
"Thanks to you, Master!" said Tucker sincerely.
"Oh, thank me?"
"Yes, I used the martial arts you taught me to take the golden axe of the Naronto Festival Dabi a few days ago, and my father said that I was the youngest golden axe in this thousand years. It turns out that those stinky farts don't dare to call me Little Tucker anymore," Tucker explained to Liang Ke proudly.
"What is a golden axe?"
"It's our reward for the first place in the tournament, the axe is shining gold, and it is said to be a relic of the god of work, but we dwarves regard it more as a recognition of ability. Only by passing the competition and getting the golden axe can you be qualified to compete for the position of the patriarch. ”
"Why? Isn't the patriarch hereditary?"
"Hereditary? Only cowardly humans need to rely on hereditary inheritance to gain wealth and power, and the power and status of dwarves have always been earned by strength. Tucker was so excited that he forgot Liang Ke's human identity, making Liang Ke feel that there was a black line hanging on his head.
"Ahem...... Tucker, where is my pet?" Liang Ke quickly diverted the subject.
"It's right behind the stone house in front. Tucker led Liang Ke through the barn to a small cabin surrounded by a fence.
"Aunt Bellena, are you home?" Tucker shouted as he craned his neck into the cabin.
"It's Tucker!" As soon as Tucker finished speaking, a tall dwarven middle-aged woman with a floral headscarf on her head and a blue floral dress stepped out of the cabin, of course, this height was limited to ordinary dwarves.
"Aunt Belina, this is my martial arts teacher, Master of Aragon. Master Aragon, this is Aunt Belena, and the entire animal farm is taken care of by the aunt herself! Without Aunt Belena, we can only nibble on rye bread and don't want to eat a little meat. Tucker earnestly introduced Liang Ke to this extremely important figure to the dwarves.
"Hello, Aunt Bellea, you are amazing! In such a dungeon without sunlight, it is not easy to make the beast grow healthily. ”
"Hello, Master Aragon. Tucker, this stupid boy, always talks about you, it seems that you are really amazing, do you also have research on animal breeding?"
"Where do I have any research? It's just that animals get sick if they don't receive light, and some diseases are contagious. ”
"Common sense? We dwarves have studied this common sense for five hundred years, and it has taken another five hundred years to figure out which livestock and beasts survive without light. Aunt Belena watched Liang Ke say what they thought was a profound theory so calmly, and felt that Liang Ke was even more unfathomable.
"Haha, I only know a little bit about it, and I can't compare with a professional like you who has a lot of practical experience. After all, practice makes sense!"
"Practice makes you really know, what you say is really good! The master is indeed a master, and he speaks so orderly!hehe!" Belena covered her lips and smiled, showing a little shyness that was not commensurate with her age.
"Aunt Berena, is my demon pet okay, take us to see it!" Although Liang Ke knew that the fool had recovered much faster than himself, he was still a little worried.
"That big guy of yours is very good! Ever since it came to me, my meat beasts have been trembling with fear, and they don't dare to eat it, and I have to say, it's so smart, it seems to know that it's too scary, and then it's been lying in the pen and pretending to sleep, which makes my meat beasts better. ”
Belena turned to close the fence door and led Liang Ke to a pen behind the cabin. This pen may have been used to raise small meat beasts such as pigs and beasts, the diameter of the pen is not large, the teeth lie in it like a hill, the butt overwhelms a fence, and the nose arches over the trough. Having just been lying in the animal pen and pretending to be asleep, he heard Liang Ke calling to himself through spiritual connection, and stood up from the ground, shook his big head, kept hot lava saliva, and obediently came to Liang Ke and sat down, and gently touched Liang Ke's forehead with his nose.
"Are you all right?" Liang Ke reached out and touched the mane behind his teeth.
"It's been okay a long time ago, are you okay, my lord?" Tooth nodded his head and lay on the ground, so that Liang Ke didn't have to struggle so hard to reach his ears.
"I don't have your perverted recovery ability, and I may have to rest for a while, and my liver is broken this time. How do I feel like you're a little taller. Liang Ke praised the strength of the low fence, climbed onto the back of the tooth, and then motioned for the tooth to stand up and walk around.
Running a few steps in the small fence with his big ass dangling, Liang Ke confirmed that this guy was indeed a little taller than the original.
"My lord, you came too early, if it were another ten days and half a month, I would be taller, and my appearance would be very different, you touch the right side of my neck. ”
Liang Ke jumped down from the teeth, leaned over and touched the neck with dense manes, and found that there was a fist-sized lump on the right side, but the neck of the teeth was already thick, and it was really not visible from the appearance.
"Didn't you say you're all right? According to the memory of the previous life, the tumor is divided into benign and malignant, benign is fine, a knife to solve the problem, if it is malignant, then it will be over, not to mention in this strange space with little medical treatment, even on the earth, the chance of survival is minimal.
"What kind of tumor? That's my second head, it's just growing. Tooth is helpless about Liang Ke's ignorance.
"What's that? You can grow a second head?"
"I'm supposed to have three heads as an adult, and that's just the beginning. ”
"Nezha?"
"What is Nezha?"
"Ahem...... He's a mischievous kid. How do you have three heads?"
"I should have had three heads! My lord, I'm a three-headed dog of hell, and I'm on duty in the palace of the god of hell. The master is in the infancy, and so am I, as if the maturity of your human teeth is synchronized with the maturity of the body. When I grow up, the average dragon won't necessarily be my opponent. Ya once again despised Liang Ke's superficial understanding of himself.
"Then when will you be able to grow three heads?" Liang Ke is extremely longing for the scene of riding the three-headed dog of hell to scare children in the future.
"Didn't you say it just now, if you don't come to see me, the second head will grow in ten days, and it's hard to say now. Tooth gave Liang Ke a complaining look.
"What's the situation? I came to see you and delay your old man's growth?" Liang Ke replied with an angry look, it is really difficult to be a good person in these years.
"My lord thought of me in his heart, and his teeth were grateful and touched. But since you've all gotten me up and performed a lap, I can't pretend to be sick anymore. Don't you know, these dwarves are in the way of your face, but that's really good to me, that aunt named Belena sends me delicious meat beasts every day, they are all monsters, I can awaken the second soul so quickly, so that I can grow a second head! However, if I continue to eat like this, I am really embarrassed, Belena's beast pen is obviously empty. Tooth was grateful and shy, looking at Belina and the pen a little reluctantly.
"You big stomach, I'm afraid I've eaten all the meat for other people, hurry up and get out of here. This time, you almost killed you by three superfluous actions, and you will have three heads in the future, I think, I will call you 'Sanduo' in the future. Liang Ke confirmed that the tooth was not only fully recovered, but also a blessing in disguise, and immediately took the tooth to leave.
"Aunt Belina, I'm really sorry that you've been taking care of my demon pet these days. I see that its wound is completely healed, so I won't bother you anymore, and I'll take it away. Thank you again for taking care and goodbye. With that, Liang Ke bent down to Belena and saluted, then motioned for Tucker to leave.
"Brother Tucker!" Liang Ke was just about to leave when a dwarven warrior came from a distance and called Tucker.
"It's little Dobby, is it finished with jerky again?" Belena greeted the dwarf with a smile.
"Aunt Belina, Dobby came here today because of something important, and he didn't sneak out to play. The dwarf looked like a child with his blushing little face, and bequeath.
"Dobby, you seem to have grown a lot stronger lately, do you have anything to do with me? Tucker patted the dwarf the shoulder.
"Brother Tucker, would you like to be lighter. Little Dobby hurriedly sideways away from Tucker's thick clutches.
"Excuse me, you're Master Aragon, aren't you?" Tucker rubbed his injured shoulder, and then bowed respectfully to Liang Ke.
"I'm Aragorn, do you have anything to do with me?"
"Grandpa sent me to visit you at your place and said that if you feel better, please visit him once. I just went to your place, and I heard that you and Big Brother Tucker were here, so I hurried over. Master, are you feeling better?"
"Your grandfather is ......?"
"Master, Dobby is the youngest grandson of High Priest Narondo. Tucker explained.
"Oh! I don't have a problem anymore, you see, I can't move around anymore. Since the high priest has something to summon, let's go now!" Liang Ke patted his big head and let it follow him.