Chapter 115: Castle in the Sky
The kingdoms in the astral plane generally refer to civilizations from the galaxy as alien races, and also as "aliens", "aliens", or "aliens".
The "star" here refers to the astral plane.
"Aliens, stop!"
A coquettish cry came.
Ji Xinghuo didn't want to show weakness, so he asked the Silver Wing Pegasus to slow down and hover in mid-air.
He looked at the female wingman who gave the order, the other party had bright red wings, a petite and delicate figure, only a little over 1.5 meters, and looked very young.
Most of the winged people are matrilineal and do not have a marital relationship.
Each family has a female wingman at its core, who is the bond between all family members, usually the mother and her many children.
Female wingmen are more talented in flying than men, and develop earlier and faster, so they can easily suppress men of the same age, hold most of the rights, and generally have a higher social status than men.
This wingwoman is clearly the leader of the entire squad.
They saw that Ji Xinghuo stopped, and after approaching more than a hundred meters, they dispersed to form a three-dimensional formation.
However, he did not show aggression for the time being.
Ji Xinghuo was a little relieved, looked at the female winged man in the lead, and said, "Good afternoon, sons of the sky. ”
The female wingman's pupils showed a little surprise, "You can speak the Celestial language?" ”
"I speak the Celestial Clan in general, please forgive me." Ji Xinghuo responded modestly, "It's already my honor that you can understand." ”
The Wings all had a look of pride on their faces.
"Giggle......
The Winged Man laughed, "You've said it well, though there are still some flaws. She looked at Ji Xinghuo, "Earthling, where are you going?" ”
She had already recognized Ji Xinghuo's race.
Bloodthorn City is only more than two thousand kilometers away from Olympia, and the winged people who live here naturally know about the alien races in the forbidden area of the two Star Gates not far from their homeland.
Earthlings are also humans, and they are very similar in appearance to many astral terrans, but Ji Xinghuo's clothing and equipment still reveal his origin. In particular, the compound bow on his back is completely different from the bow shape commonly used by the astral terrans, which is a manufacturing technique that only aliens can use.
"Sky City." Ji Xinghuo replied truthfully.
"Oh?" The woman's eyes lit up, "You're going to attend the Queen's birthday celebration?" ”
Ji Xinghuo's heart moved.
Birthday celebration?
He immediately understood something.
The average lifespan of an ordinary winged person is about 40 years, one year is one season, which is equivalent to 1.85 years, and there are two seasons in a astral year, which is equal to two years. Therefore, the 40-year-old of the winged people is equivalent to the 74 years old of the earthlings, which is not a particularly long life in comparison.
Every time life evolves, lifespan increases.
Wing people who live to be 100 years old are called "100 years old", 200 years old are called "dragon shou", and living to 500 years old is "yuan shou", second only to "day shou" who lives to 1,000 years old.
To live to the end of life is the supreme pursuit of life for all wing people, and they die without regrets.
The longevity of the day is equal to 1850 years on earth.
And Yuanshou, which is only half of Tianshou, is 925 years old.
Ji Xinghuo remembered that it was written in history textbooks that Queen Ayaqi, the supreme ruler of the Tianyu Royal Court, was already more than four hundred years old at the beginning of the opening of the Star Gate, and after careful calculation, it is now exactly five hundred years old, which is equivalent to 925 years old on the earth.
For such an important birthday, as the queen, she must have a grand operation.
It is also known as the "Yuanju Festival"!
The "person" who was suspected of carrying the fragments of the Vientiane Star Pupil came to Cloud City, and he should have participated in Queen Ayaqi's birthday celebration.
"Yes."
Ji Xinghuo reacted very quickly, nodded and said: "Your Majesty the Queen, I heard that there are many celebrations going to be held in Cloud City, and all ethnic groups are welcome to go and pay respects, so I want to see the world and add a bit of excitement to the Queen's celebration, and I wish the Queen a long life and eternal health!" ”
Tianshou Yongkang, this is the best blessing of the Wing people, which is equivalent to longevity on the earth.
Hearing Ji Xinghuo's words, the winged people all lowered their vigilance.
"You've got a heart."
The female wingman's tone softened, and her face showed regret, "I also want to go to Cloud City, but unfortunately I can't leave." ”
"As long as you pray for the queen, even if you don't go to Cloud City, you still participate in the Yuanshou celebration." Ji Xinghuo said with a smile.
He majored in Celestial in college, so he knows quite a bit about the festival customs of the Winged People.
"You're right." The female wingman nodded happily, "Earthling, then I won't delay you, you can do it." ”
"May the winds shelter you." Ji Xinghuo saluted with his right hand and made a soft gesture.
"May the winds shelter you." Several wingmen responded in unison.
Ji Xinghuo was about to leave after greeting, and the female wingman suddenly said, "Wait a minute." ”
She took out a processed feather from the bag around her waist, injected star power into her hand, and the feather glowed with light blood as if it were stained with blood, and then raised her hand to send out a wind that blew in front of Ji Xinghuo.
"This is the token of the Bloodthorn City Guard, Bloodthorn Ling, if you meet my clansmen later, you can show them it, and it won't embarrass you, but it can only last for ten days."
Ji Xinghuo caught the feather and said gratefully, "I don't know if I can be lucky enough to know your name." ”
"My name is Qianling."
"Thank you for the token of Qianling Weiji, it helps me a lot."
Ji Xinghuo sincerely thanked him, he had already seen that the status of this female winger in the Bloodthorn City Guard was not low, at least at the level of the guard, and her strength was equivalent to the top group of people in the Super Inhumans.
Qianling shook her head indifferently.
After saying goodbye again, Ji Xinghuo clamped the horse's belly and let the Silver Wing Pegasus continue to fly northwest.
It wasn't until he couldn't see these winged people that he breathed a sigh of relief, but fortunately he knew a lot about the winged people and resolved the crisis.
The winged people of the Heavenly Feather Royal Court did not have a friendly attitude towards the aliens in the Thousand Peaks Abyss Forest.
They consider themselves masters and are quite arrogant.
If you show the slightest disrespect, it is likely to lead to conflict. With his own strength, he has a great chance of killing these eight winged people, but he will inevitably attract the pursuit of Bloodthorn City.
Silverwing Pegasus has difficulty hiding their whereabouts and is not as fast as the Winged Man, so it is impossible to get rid of them.
The most important thing is to lose a lot of time.
Now with Bloodthorn Feather, you can reduce a lot of trouble later.
On this day, Ji Xinghuo flew another 2,000 kilometers and camped in the middle of the night to rest.
For several days, Ji Xinghuo flew over the boundless forests and mountains, trying his best to avoid the hanging cities and tribes along the way, avoiding conflicts and battles. There was really no way to detour, and when he met the winged man of the Heavenly Feather Royal Court, he took out the blood thorn feather, and sure enough, just like Qianling said, the winged people didn't embarrass him anymore.
Six days later.
The 12,000-kilometer journey was about to end, and the closer he got to Cloud City, Ji Xinghuo slowed down.
In the last thousand kilometers, his Vientiane Star Pupil interface continued to open.
Keep an eye out for changes in the arrows.
Now, the arrows are almost five times larger, and that sense is extremely clear.
Ji Xinghuo can even directly locate the other party's location.
Although it had been determined before that the other party could not sense the existence of the Vientiane Star Pupil, and this connection was one-way, Ji Xinghuo did not dare to guarantee that when he was very close to the other party, there would be no accidents.
The most fearful thing is that the other party is also aware of this connection.
The Silverwing Pegasus is still flying.
The distance is getting shorter.
When it was about five hundred kilometers, Ji Xinghuo let Pegasus land, waited quietly for a few hours, confirmed that the other party had not moved, and then continued to move forward.
Every hundred kilometers, he stopped to observe.
Three hundred km.
Two hundred.
Hundred.
In the last fifty kilometers, Ji Xinghuo looked ahead, and he could already vaguely see a magnificent hanging city in the sky.
Sky City!
The location pointed by the arrow was in the heavenly city, and Ji Xinghuo looked at it for a long time, but the other party still did not move.
From time to time, winged people flew in the sky, and on the ground, there were also many villages and towns of winged people.
Not all Wingmen live in the Hanging City, only those who have undergone two life evolutions, or are born into noble families, are eligible to enter the Hanging City. Most of the winged people live on the ground, with many villages and towns, as well as treehouses in the forest.
The closer you get to Cloud City, the denser the Winged People settlement.
Eventually, a huge city with a population of more than 20 million was formed under the Sky City, which was called the Lower Sky City.
The city has no walls and covers an area of thousands of square kilometers.
Highway stretches out from the city in all directions, and most of the people who can't fly come and go on these roads.
The Desolates, the Dans, the Highlanders, the Forest Rangers, the Headhunters, etc., and many other strange races.
Most of the various human subspecies.
Ji Xinghuo had already replaced the pottery steel armor and compound bow, put on a simple set of leather armor, concealed his characteristics as an alien, and let the Silver Wing Pegasus fly at a lower altitude.
Sky City grew larger and larger in view, revealing its full picture.
Even though Ji Xinghuo had already heard of this peculiar city in the sky, he was still shocked when he saw it with his own eyes.
Dozens of hanging mountains are connected and fixed by thick chains, forming a huge floating island with a diameter of more than 20 kilometers, more than 5,000 meters above the ground, covering the sky and the sun, casting a large shadow from the sky, looking from afar, like a mirage, but it is real.
Suspended above the clouds, this city is home to a continuous stream of beautiful buildings and lush greenery, with only the tip of the iceberg visible from the ground.
Even so, it's fascinating.
"It's a city in the sky!"
Ji Xinghuo was sincerely admired.
He saw a team of winged people patrols taking off from Sky City and flying around Sky City, and as far as the eye could see, there were at least tens of thousands of wingmen protecting the airspace of Sky City at all times, with a protective range of more than ten kilometers.
These winged men are the royal court guards.
They are an elite army selected from the Winged People, and it is said that there are as many as a million in number, and they are at least third-order Winged People, and they are only under the orders of Queen Ayaki.
Ji Xinghuo looked up at the city in the sky, feeling a little helpless.
The position pointed by the interface arrow of the Vientiane Star Pupil was in the Sky City, and the distance between the two sides was only less than thirty kilometers, and he could feel the guidance at all times.
However, looking at this situation, how to enter the Sky City by yourself is a big problem.
"One step, one step."
Ji Xinghuo let the Silver Wing Pegasus descend to the ground, and along the avenue, like an ordinary astral terran, entered the Lower Sky City on the ground.
(End of chapter)