151. The legend of the Heavenly Veil Behemoth
Late at night, the rain became heavier and heavier.
Jiangcheng is also occasionally affected by typhoons, and Qiao Dui happened to have a typhoon edge before entering the Chosen Game this time.
Much of his knowledge of this megastorm is limited to the jokes of online migrant workers eager to take a typhoon vacation.
Normally, the eye of the typhoon center is a depression, and the wind is calm, and there are no clouds, let alone rain.
There was also a movie where the temperature in the center of the typhoon was very low, and in extreme cases, it could even drip into ice, as for whether it was true or not, Qiao Duan couldn't know.
Therefore, he is also very strange why there is such a strong rainfall in Hongdao.
Anyway, it's not Qiao Dui's pot.
Looking out the window, Qiao Du saw that most of the rain had formed a small stream on the barrier formed by the sacred tree, falling into an endless sea of clouds, between the clouds that enveloped the island, deep lightning jumped, he had never been so close to the thunderstorm clouds before, as if he could touch the dancing electric light with his fingertips as long as he stretched out his hand.
As a result, there was only a light drizzle on the island, dripping and falling on the crops in the yard, which nourished all things.
A bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, followed by a roaring thunder, and the rain blurred the barrier of the sacred tree, obscuring the view, but Qiao Du felt that behind the lightning and thunder, it seemed that some behemoth was slowly loaming.
[It's the master of the storm, don't try to reason with this guy, it's just a thunderbolt that kills you!] 】
The bright red words dripped little by little along the trail of the rain.
"Did you see that?"
Qiao Du asked, pointing to the huge shadow.
"What?"
Noah was packing up his things, and when he heard this, he followed Qiao Dui's finger and looked out the window, but he only saw the same torrential rain, even if it was illuminated by lightning, only dark clouds shrouded him.
"Do you know the legend of the Heavenly Veil Behemoth?"
At the other end of the room, Captain Isaac yawned and spoke softly.
"Heavenly Veil Behemoth?"
Ah Xin asked with interest what she might have seen from between the storms, glancing out the window from time to time.
"I've heard of the King of the Sea of Clouds, the Lord of the Storms, the Ancient Behemoth that existed where this world was born, but that's just a legend, right?"
Enya said that she had read many books related to the sea of clouds and adventures in her own library, some of them were out-of-print exploration manuscripts, some were fabricated anecdotes from the streets of Ishii, and there were official investigation reports, and she used to look forward to the adventure in the sea of clouds, but now, when she was really in it, she understood the danger here.
"Legend has it that the place where this world was born was only endless wind, when there was no sky, no earth, no islands, no water, and even life had not yet appeared, and later, under the light of the goddess of the moon, the wind gave birth to wisdom and the first life, that is, the heavenly curtain beast."
Captain Isaac said as he recalled.
"The number of Heavenly Curtain Giant Beasts has reached a certain level, and the fight is inevitable, it is said that the sea of clouds under our feet, these floating islands, are formed after the fall of different Heavenly Curtain Giant Beasts."
"This should only be some scholars' speculation about the reason for the formation of this world, and there is no actual evidence."
Enya retorted that it wasn't that she was unreligious, but that she felt it was a bit irresponsible to blame everything on the Moonlight Goddess.
"Of course, because so far, no one has really witnessed the legendary Sky Veil Behemoth, the largest creature known to mankind is the rainbow whale, the largest whale is much larger than the government army's battleships, but even the smallest Sky Veil Behemoth is far larger than the rainbow whale."
Captain Isaac said faintly, and a thunderclap exploded in the sky, illuminating the room.
"People build towns around the floating islands around the maelstrom, but over the years, we have only explored a small part of the sea of clouds, and at the end of the skyline, no one knows if there is a sky curtain beast sleeping, just like this storm, all the scholars and explorers in the past have never recorded it, and we don't know where it is, maybe there really is a sky curtain beast here."
Unlike the world in which Qiao Dui lives, the Valley of the Wind has many restrictions on its exploration of the world, and it is not even possible to peek into the whole picture of this world, although there are ships, guns, and civilizations close to modern times, but humans know very little about this world.
"Maybe this storm was created by the Heavenly Veil Behemoth, and this is just its lair."
Captain Isaac laughed self-deprecatingly.
Suddenly, from his hand, a mushroom grew.
It was amazing, and although Qiao Du had heard of places where a single rain could cause mushrooms to grow on wood, it was the first time he had seen it so quickly.
Captain Isaac had mushrooms at hand, and the walls were soon overgrown, colorful, with red umbrellas and white poles, which could make people lie down at a glance.
"What is this?"
Enya tried to reach out and touch the mushrooms, only to find that the mushrooms were not disembodied, but resembled clouds, only unreal touches.
"It's a dream, too."
Noah explained unhurriedly.
"I've said during the day that people's dreams are connected, and you can see other people's dreams even when you're awake, especially on rainy nights."
Qiao Du heard that there seemed to be movement outside the window, and he looked over and saw a team of people and horses in costumes singing and dancing, stepping towards the sky, and actually lined up in mid-air, playing a cheerful and simple melody.
Men and women dressed in old-fashioned costumes are dancing in the rain, and strange animals are jumping and jumping, and the modern and the wild seem to blend with this moment.
There seemed to be movement in the next room, and Noah stood up and opened the door slightly.
His mother was sleeping soundly in bed, but at the table sat two translucent figures, illusory and ethereal, noticeably younger.
"This is my father."
Noah said in a deep voice, and when he saw the two figures, a man and a woman, talking at the table, he silently closed the door.
"My father died when I was very young trying to explore the storm, and since then, my mother has been seeing him in her dreams a lot, and at least the two of them can meet in their dreams, and it's fine."
Under the protection of the sacred tree, in the light rain, a city of memories rises from the ground.
The buildings of the past, the people who have passed away, the people who have been reborn in the dreams constructed by memories, the great-grandfathers playing with their granddaughters who have never seen them, the old people who have become grandfathers crying in the shadows of their young parents, everyone knows that after the heavy rain, everything will be washed away, but everyone is indulged in this fleeting dream.
Captain Isaac saw a man in military uniform standing outside the door, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a resolute expression.
Enya saw the gentle parents she had never seen before, embracing herself as a child.
Qiao Du looked at Ah Xin.
He noticed an illusory cat walking around the girl's feet.
(End of chapter)