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I thought that although the world merged, the position of things would change, but at least the relative orientation would not change much, so I would look for my hut in this direction like a map.

But now I found that the cloud stream surrounding the holy city was separated from it, and although it was "not too far away", it still gave me a headache. This means that the place of things after the worlds merge is likely not to follow a pattern, and it is even more difficult for me to find my cabin.

I stayed at the back of the group and followed them to the wall of clouds.

Different from the previous experience of crossing the cloud stream, this place seems to be full of people, and it has a lively feeling of the inner gate of the holy city.

After looking closer for a while, it turned out that someone had built a permanent cloud bridge here, which was solid and could ensure the safety of people crossing the bridge.

Now that there is a cloud bridge, the big guy doesn't have to build a temporary cloud bridge by himself, which is not only tiring, consuming materials, but also dangerous.

However, since there is a cloud bridge, shouldn't everyone line up to cross the bridge? Why are they gathered outside one by one, and there is no point in queuing at all.

I walked over to the cloud bridge and found the answer.

It turned out that although the cloud bridge was strong, it was too narrow. In a cloud curtain of high-speed white flowers, only a few finger-wide paths were opened, let alone passed, and it was estimated that it would not even be able to transport goods stably.

Well, maybe a small smart machine can get through safely.

Looking at the narrow, flat passage, I fell into deep thought. As I got closer to the passage, I heard a strange musical sound coming from the other side of the bridge, which seemed to be played by some kind of instrument. It seems that the land on the other side is not desolate when the bridge was crossed.

Next to the cloud bridge are two people wearing standard armor, who seem to be gatekeepers.

"Can I get through?" I asked the gatekeeper if I needed to pay tolls or something.

The gatekeeper looked at me and shook his head: "If you think about it, then pass." But looking at the way you look, you can't get by. ”

"So, why did you build the cloud bridge like this?" I was puzzled, "Isn't the cloud bridge just used to pass people?" Even people can't get by, so why can't it be expanded? ”

If you cultivate like this, who can pass?

The gatekeeper didn't speak, and his eyes behind the armor seemed to look at me with some pity. The orchestra on the other side of the bridge grew louder and louder, covering my doubts for a moment.

Another gatekeeper patted me on the shoulder and pointed to the side.

I looked in the direction he was pointing, and it was the pilgrims, mostly human, making strange movements that looked like they were squeezing their bodies.

"If you want to cross the bridge from this road." The gatekeeper said, "That's how you have to do it." If you practice it, you can naturally pass it, and if you can't practice it and want to get through it, it's not that there is no way, and waiting until a capable smart machine forcibly breaks through the cloud wall and takes you over is also a method. ”

But obviously, there are only a few intelligent machines that can break through the cloud wall, not to mention the powerful intelligent machines that can travel through the high-speed moving clouds, which are even more rare, not to mention those who have the ability to cross the bridge, they must have passed a long time ago, let alone come to help people cross the bridge.

To sum it up, if you want to go through, you have to practice this strange skill, compress yourself into small ones, and then you can wear them.

"Oh, look at the one over there, he's almost successful." The gatekeeper pointed to a gray-robed man not far away.

The man looked like he was no longer human—this is not an accurate description, it should be said that there were only two directions in which he looked human-like—his whole body looked like a leaf, thin, and the wind could blow him away when it felt like it was blowing.

I was skeptical that if I ripped off his robe, the body underneath would really look like a piece of paper.

In my solemn gaze, the piece of paper... No, the flat-shaped man twisted around with vigorous footwork, and the scene was very discordant.

I curiously moved away to see how this was going to cross the Cloud Bridge - from the fact that he couldn't walk in a straight line, he shouldn't be able to move around the safe area of the Cloud Bridge.

As he moved, the look in my eyes gradually changed from curiosity to confusion, and then to shock.

He slowly compressed himself into a flattened body, rolled it up, and turned it into a bunch. Then, probably because he restrained his body, he didn't fall down so easily, and he rushed over against the crack in the cloud bridge with his rolled feet.

I looked through the passage of the Cloud Bridge, which was described as a gap and was completely fine, and looked at this fierce man, speechless for a while. The other party walked quite steadily, and ran to the opposite side as soon as he slipped through the smoke. After landing, he immediately stretched out his body and began to coil his body back.

“...... So does that make any sense? Why can't the road be widened? I couldn't help but say.

"If only anyone could enter the Holy City," said the gatekeeper, "what would that look like?" You have to roll up to get through, otherwise why is there a cloud stream outside the Holy City? ”

"......" I was speechless for a moment, but soon realized that something was wrong: "Wait a minute, you say, Holy City? ”

"That's right, the Holy City is located in the cloud stream, don't you know?" The gatekeeper looked at me warily, as if I could make some kind of mess with my body.

Inside the cloud stream is the holy city...... That's fine, but isn't the Holy City ruined?

I was in a mess again.

Just then, a familiar voice came from behind me.

"Hey, I didn't expect you to arrive first."

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