Zikad later learned that the Nibelungen could leave the Land of Mist.

"I'm scared." The boy stammered.

Even with the aid of Awakening Mint, he still does not speak fluently, and many places require gestures to assist in expression.

Zikad could have understood.

People trust familiar places more and are apprehensive about the unfamiliar outside world.

As a new kingdom, it took a lot of time and courage for the Resurrection Kingdom to take steps to the outside world. Not to mention an extremely closed place like the Land of Fog.

"To live outside, you have to have a name."

Zikad said, "You have to pick a name. ”

The teenager showed a kind of confusion about the name.

The Nibelungen does not distinguish between each other, because eventually they will all become one, so there is no such thing as a name, and there is no need to distinguish between them.

Seeing that he didn't understand anything, Zikad named him Bernie.

"Bernie."

"Who?"

"No, my name is Bernie, you have to react to it by calling you again."

"Bernie?"

"Me!"

"That's right."

"Father!"

"I'm not your father."

"Mother?"

"You're going to call me Teacher."

"Teacher!"

……

The Nibelungen are born to be the darlings of the ice elementals, and their blue blood is highly toxic to most life, and this race can only exist in Niforheim, the land of fog.

Young Bernie gestured, his blue eyes glittering with pride: "We were born from the inexhaustible spring, and then flowed into all places, and fell asleep until we woke up." ”

Zikad asked him, "Why are you sleeping?" And why did you wake up? ”

"Sleep...... Because he was weak, he grew up and woke up. ”

Sleeping on ice will cause the Nibelungen to grow rapidly, and sleep will allow them to merge into the twelve glaciers of the Land of Mist, absorbing the ice elements and toxins within, transforming from babies to children.

But once Bernie enters the growth period, he will feel an ancient calling.

That's instinct, and it's the only way to keep evolving.

The Nibelungens will approach and merge with each other, like the roots of a tree intertwined and coalesced into one, their consciousness intertwined, their bodies embedded in each other, and then grow into giants.

The Nibelungen as the core will be the heart and brain, he is the main body of the giant, and the rest of consciousness will become his branches and auxiliaries.

The giant is the adult Nibelungen.

The Nibelungen is the juvenile form of the giant.

This is how the inhabitants of the Land of Fog grew up.

Bernie munched on bighorn lamb ribs and mumbled, "The Nibelungen either sleeps or waits, that's how it is." ”

Upon learning of this truth, Zikad was in a state of annoyance.

It's not sure if it's right or wrong to bring Bernie out.

According to the ancient traditions and physical needs of the Nibelungen, they must merge with each other in order to break out of their infancy and grow into giants who stand tall in the sky. Otherwise, it will always be in the form of a child.

But the growth of a fully formed giant represents the loss of the Nibelungen's self and the transformation of a part of an adult giant, is it still alive?

Zikad couldn't think of an answer.

It asked Bernie, "Do you regret leaving the Land of Mist?" If you regret it, I'll send you back. ”

"Don't."

Bernie shook his head and nibbled on the leg of lamb in his hand: "It's delicious here." ”

That's it.

Bernie left the Land of Fog and came to Sand City, where he stayed forever as a teenager.

The Nibelungen teenager became Zikad's assistant. He followed Zikad from side to side, from street to street, carrying bags and suitcases, and people soon became familiar with such a gray-haired boy.

Bernie loves coral crystals.

When Zikad was writing his story, he would carry the coral and try to take pictures with discarded projection crystals.

Zikad discovered that Bernie had a talent for photographing crystals, and that he genuinely loved it. So, it allowed the child to use coral crystals for real photography.

Just by watching himself operate the device, Bernie learned to use the tool.

It didn't take long for the teenager to shoot a clearer and brighter picture than Zikad. Bernie has a keen eye for stop-motion images and is always able to capture those fleeting moments.

Like the smiling of lovers, the moment when a hungry man nibbles his first bite of wheat cake, the moment when a drinker shouts of joy, the softened eyes of war cats when they see their children, and the posture of a cactus walking alone in the desert......

These may be scenes that everyone has no intention of disagreeing with, but by keeping them frozen in the crystal, it has a kind of momentary eternal power, which can make time stop in the crystal picture.

"I just thought it was good, so I took a picture."

Bernie said with some embarrassment.

Zikad asked him solemnly: "How did you do it?" ”

"Just see it and shoot it......"

"I mean the way those crystals are taken." The skeleton picker grabbed the thin piece of crystal framed in walnut on the table, and looked at the boy opposite with his black hole.

"Well, it's the use of lenses."

Bernie carried the main device of the coral crystal phase with both hands, carefully placed it on the table, and said with a little restraint: "The inside of the crystal phase depends on corals and mirages, but the capture requires crystal lenses, and imaging also depends on projection crystals...... Polishing of crystal lenses. ”

According to Bernie's observations, crystalline imaging is very unstable, sometimes blurry, sometimes dim, in addition to the unstable light, another reason is that the clarity is different because of the different distances.

Because it is hand-polished by craftsmen, each crystal lens has a subtle curvature.

Bernie's solution was to replenish the lenses.

White gas began to linger on his fingers, and the ice elements gradually shaped, condensing into a thin sheet of ice that had been polished and smoothed.

Bernie fixed it to the crystal lens: "I control the ice element, and I can constantly adjust the curvature of the ice elemental lens, so that I can find the most suitable distance and angle, and the image from the mirage will be clearer." ”

Zikad tinkered with the coral crystals for a while, verifying that Bernie's maneuvering and understanding was completely correct.

"Bernie, your discovery is of great significance and will rewrite the way everyone uses crystals. You are someone who was born with extraordinary talents, but I want you to take into account ordinary people...... The vast majority of people in this world can't control the ice elemental, not even the Ice Trolls, who are as accurate as you. ”

"Ordinary people?"

Bernie had a puzzled look on his face: "Is it okay for us to be the only one who knows?" Teacher. ”

"Bernie."

"Your favorite foods, including lamb, beef, grapes, sour raspberries, potatoes...... The tribal chess you usually play, as well as the books you read, "Pawa's Bizarre Adventure", "The Crystal Empire", the clothes and shoes you wear, and this coral crystal. ”

The skeleton collector pointed to the large red coral.

"It's all the fruits of ordinary people's labor."

"Everything we have now stems from the protection and divine revelation given by Lord Yaoshen, but the development of Yao civilization depends on people sharing knowledge and experience with each other."

"Bernie, whether you mean to share it or not, I want you to understand that the strong do not rely on strength to suppress others to show themselves, and the real strong are the ones who lead everyone forward."

Bernie's eyes were full of surprise: "Why? It's too hard. ”

"Why?"

Zikad's bony face showed a hint of pride: "This is the Yao clan, we have always done this, we will always challenge the strong and look ahead." Our heroes have been passed down from generation to generation, our prophets are everywhere, our apostles have always sheltered the people, and our gods have shone on us as we march. ”

Looking at the boy who seemed to understand whether he understood or not, the skeleton collector gently patted his thin shoulder.

"So we are never afraid to embark on any unknown path, and any accident - whether it is luck or danger will become our motivation."

……

Five years later, Bernie completed an invention.

In the name of the newspaper collector, he cooperated with two Shacheng scholars to lead the production of the [Rotating Lens].

This rotating lens consists of several crystal lenses that can be rotated to adjust the lens to make the subject sharp enough.

While still not comparable to the accuracy of Bernie's own borneol, this is a major upgrade to coral crystalline from a technical level.

Along with it, Bernie also improved the coral crystals.

He retains the main coral structure with two mirages as the core, greatly reducing its weight and volume, and wrapping it with a square box to protect it.

This new device, named "Wind Collector Crystal", can be fastened with a rope, hung around the neck, or straddled diagonally like a backpack, which is very convenient.

One day, Bernie suddenly said to Zicard, "Teacher, I want to go back to the Land of Mist. ”

"There are still a lot of Nibelungen people over there, and there should be some of them like me, who don't want to grow up and want to stay like this."

"I want to tell them what I've been through so that they can follow the path they want."

Zikad was stunned.

The appearance of the young man in front of him has not changed in a few years, but he seems to have changed again.

There are many, many people in this world, and different people have different ideas.

Some people do everything they can to become giants, while others want to get rid of giants and keep themselves.

The same is true of Zikad. When a large number of Bone Ancestors enthusiastically combined with the Barnyard Grass Monster to obtain the ability of the Bone Barnyard Giant, it still adhered to its original skeleton body.

There is no particular reason.

It's just that it's lighter.

……

After six years, Zikad took Bernie back to the Land of Mists.

Standing on his native soil, Bernie took a deep breath, and then he let out a strange whirring sound, like the cold wind of winter, and like the howl of some kind of beast.

At his call, children emerge from the underground ice. The Nibelungen children crawled to the ground like moles, scurrying towards Bernie.

However, they were stopped by the big boy waving his hand - he didn't want to be giants.

The children all looked at Bernie curiously.

Bernie said something to them with an open arm.

Many ice elements outline the scenes in the sand city in the air: the sand and rose garden like a steel jungle, the tall tree people and the small elves, the fierce battle in the martial arts conference, the magnificent colossus of civilization, the bamboo people playing the standing long jump, the war cat that switches forms, the swaying white bone ancestors, the sun, the yellow sand, the lake, the heavy grapes and the lazy camel......

Soon after.

One child was brave enough to walk out of the ice fog. He stepped barefoot on the hot sand outside, then looked up in amazement at the blazing fireball in the air.

Then he walked out step by step.

Only three of the children followed Bernie into the new world this time, but it was already a big step for the Nibelungen to step into the outside world.

Zikad suddenly noticed a gentle white light lingering on Bernie's body.

It's an oracle!

Bernie reacted and fell to his knees, chanting softly in his mouth to thank the gods for their gifts.

When Kamui was gone, he stood up and ran excitedly to Zikad.

"Teacher, I'm a prophet!"

Zikad grinned and patted the child on the shoulder: "Good job, take everyone forward!" ”

"Yes!"

Seeing the youthful spirit, Zikad felt happier than if he had become a hero.

It finally understood what Andrei had said.

Children will take our shadows and reach our invisible future.

As parents and adults, we need to be good role models for what we are now.

(End of chapter)