Chapter 22: Into the Valley of Kings
The lizard cart walks in the transparent forest. The trees looked more and more like ice sculptures, and the image of the lizard cart was reflected on them, twisting into strange shapes. After passing a certain area, the tree returns to its original state. The atmosphere around him changed, the air seemed to be very quiet, and Xi Ke felt that his body had become lighter.
"Walking through the gates, through the wall of opposition, we are on the outskirts of the city. Ah Sa said.
Xi Ke saw that there were many small colored mounds in the woods, and when he looked closely, he found that there were many super little goblins coming in and out of them, and they were almost no more than five centimeters tall, if he were not wearing bright clothes, Xi Ke would not have noticed it at all.
When he looked up, he saw small ball-like houses on the branches, with layers of scaly, nail-sized colored tiles hanging outside, and the little goblins who lived there hovered around their aerial streets in bat-like flying machines.
Under the orange balloon, a strip of white road signs with fairy words on a green background floats at the intersection. The lizard cart walked towards the "Green Fruit Avenue", passing a road covered with short light yellow grass on the ground. The lizard cart ran over it, but the grass didn't hurt at all. Walking on the grass, the car itself is less bumpy. Rick guessed it was the goblin version of live tar.
Then they passed by the "Sleepy Afternoon Lake". The lake itself is not very big, and the weather is good today, so you can easily see the opposite shore.
There are many boats glued to a single 10-meter-long leaf on the surface of the lake, and fairy fishermen are dozing off with fishing rods. Underneath them, there are large creatures in the lake that form dark shadows under the surface of the water. A creature that big shouldn't live in such a small lake. When Nick suspected that the bottom of the lake was leading somewhere else, as if confirming Nick's suspicions, the creature dived deeper and disappeared.
There are relatively few trees in this area, and the view is wide. Rick found that no matter which direction he looked, he would end up seeing mountains, not the horizon.
Let's go through the "Tweet Town" again. Asa asked Tsik if he wanted to plug his ears. Rick refused.
There's no one to see in the town, it looks like an empty normal town, and the architecture is even quite human-style. There's a lot of sound here. The sound of people walking, the sound of talking. And with some buzzing, hissing sounds, objects moving, clothes and shoes being put on, and even coins being traded with each other in the market. The Wind Elves live here, and most of the time only they can see each other, and others can only hear them. Strictly speaking, they are not goblins, they are said to have migrated from another world, and the local goblins have taken them in.
Chill was so dizzy by the incessant and inexplicable sounds that he could only plug his ears in the end.
He saw a stone monument in the square in the middle of the city, and said he wanted to see it, and Ah Sa also parked the car there for a while.
It was a stone tablet in the goblin language, and although there were some words that Xike couldn't understand, the meaning was roughly known. It says that the fairy spirits of the wind should not forget the scenery of their homeland, and not forget that they were once man's best friends in their own world. Because the authorities there suddenly began to deny the existence of the Wind Fairies, and tortured and killed humans who said that they could see the Wind Fairies, they could not bear to be hurt like this, and feared that their existence would be the cause of their victimization, so they had to leave the place with their whole clan. But they have been waiting, and one day when the inhuman ones who persecuted people disappear, they will return to man.
The lizard cart walked and walked past a rather modern human-like square building. Through the glass curtains, Xi Ke saw a large number of goblins of the same height and physique on the first floor, wearing white uniforms, hats, and masks that enveloped their bodies, packing and handling ingredients on dozens of production lines with robot-like neat movements. Rick looked up and saw a horizontal sign on the top of the building that read: "Apple's Dream Central Kitchen". The balloons floating at the intersection say that there is a brewing center, a bakery, and a jam center on the other floors...... Rick kept smelling all kinds of food.
The lizard cart continued to walk in front of the smaller, two-story Apple Dream Distribution Center next door. The ground floor there is an open space with about thirty doors that look a lot like refrigerator doors, each with a flop number table. Every time the door opened, revealing the white space behind it, the white-clothed goblins stuffed in a batch of packaged ingredients and closed it again. The sign on it will snap and change into another string of numbers. When the white-clothed goblin opened the door again, the ingredients they had put in were gone, and they stuffed a few more boxes inside.
The lizard cart continues to walk, and a large hill appears in front of it, full of trees and buildings. At a glance, he could see that there was a large building at the very top. The building was all green. The walls are the bright green of the leaves in summer, the hundreds of windows are decorated with yellowish green when the sun is reduced, the tiles are the warm green of the grass, the roof tiles are the serious and cold green of the high-altitude forest, and the glass is the green of the lake...... It itself looks like a large and short tree. The roofs are stacked on top of each other like a canopy of trees vying for their heads, making it unclear where the main hall is. It covered the land at the very top of the hills, and crouched there like a bird with its wings and neck bent. The tall building in the middle and low on all sides has roof tiles that look like neat feathers, spreading out from the center.
Xi Ke stared very carefully, and only then did he realize that there were a lot of real trees mixed in the green. The roots of those trees clinging to the walls, stretching on the roofs, and the branches and leaves cover the courtyards and roads that should be open-air.
Wick inhaled to ease his excitement, the view matched the description he had seen in the book, which was the legendary fairy palace "Green City". He never thought he could see it with his own eyes.
"You're lucky, Greentown usually covers it up. Today happens to be the day of drying tile leaves. Asa said, "We're home, soon." γ
"It took more than a day. Rick said. If you come directly from the place where you got on the train, it will only take you a few hours by train.
"When we departedβ" Asa said a calendar date that was not clear to Seal, "-four forty-three in the afternoon, and now it is-" She said the same date: "-Two and eleven in the afternoon." Isn't it fast, you see?"
Rick rubbed his face. If this is true, it is so unscientific that it can turn back time by almost two hours after walking more than a day.
"Can you always get anywhere so quickly?" asked Rick.
"Of course not, you can't walk until the road is open. Asa said as a matter of course.
Xike thinks that human beings will probably not understand which way to open for the rest of their lives. Xi Ke remembered what Ami said before, it was the governor who said that the road was opened, and they set off for the Valley of the Kings. "Who are the governors, mayors, and governors you were talking about along the way?"
"He's the adult. Ah Sa said.
Rick asked another question: "Does he have another name?"
Ah Sa thought for a moment, "Why do the people of Duozhou call them? The name of the mayor is translated into the Duozhou language, and then translated into the Aitaro language as 'guardian saint'. There are also many mayors in Inzhou, but they are not called guardian saints. It is not legal for the chief of the island to be the man, and it is said that the rulers of the human race do not recognize the chief man as an adult. Ah Sa said to Xi Ke very seriously, "The man who grows in is the man who grows in the middle, and the human race does not recognize him as the man who is still the man who grows in the middle. Many humans don't want to admit that they have a housekeeper, but the housekeeper will not change. γ
Nick knew a little, but it wasn't his area of expertise, so he gave up on exploring the matter and instead made small talk, "Is there a bigger adult than the Governor?"
"Yes, the Elder Governor and the Continent Adult. Ami leaned over and replied, pointing to the sky and the ground with the other, "Planet grown." γ
Rick blinked, "Is there anything bigger?"
"Yes. His name is not in any language. Ami replied in a loud voice.
Raising an eyebrow, Asa said to Syk, "Some humans wanted to take him for themselves, so they gave him a name, and as a result, humans themselves became slaves to that name. Fighting, dying, exploiting and being exploited for that name, deceiving oneself, persecuting others to lie, and not repenting until they are in eternal calamity. γγ
He wanted to ask if he was referring to what the Holy See had done in the past, but he quickly figured out that there were many names, some of which might not be considered names by modern human standards, and even he had heard some of them.
The lizard cart approaches the big hills. Humans would cut down trees to make room for houses. But the goblins did the opposite. They built the house in strange shapes in order to take advantage of the space between the trees. Therefore, the most common construction here is to hang the roof between several trees with thick ropes, and then build the walls with mats made of bamboo, planks and long grass between the trunks of the trees. The goblins didn't care that such a house was easy to break, and from time to time Xike could see goblins demolishing the house, preparing to modify it according to the growth of the tree.
The road is wide enough for a lizard cart to move forward. It stands to reason that some trees must have been cut down to make such a wide road, but they did not cut a straight path, and the road was winding and often turned in front of a particularly large tree. It is not known what criteria they use to decide which trees cannot be cut down.
A green-skinned goblin with leaves on his head jumped from the tree to the roof of the car, sang a few words that Xik didn't understand, and then jumped away again like a birdsong.
A whole group of goblins with skin like stones crouched on the side of the road, making a clattering sound around a small barbecue stand, and the small tuft of green hair on the top of their heads looked like grass. Rick figured that if they were lying in the grass, he would not find out.
There are also goblins that look like humans. A group of goblins who look like human females wear clothes made of countless layers of veil, light red, light yellow, light purple, light blue...... The gradient tulle is layered to form a maxi dress. They sat in the shade and chatted. The skeletons of those goblins are very thin, as if they would shatter when touched, and at first glance they look like very thin women, but if you look closely, you will see that they have flesh on their bodies, but their bones are too thin, and their shoulders and hips are much narrower than those of humans. Aside from the fact that the skeleton didn't look like a human, if it weren't for the bizarre silver-blue and silver-green hair, Rick would have thought they were human.
"There's still some time, we have a very curious human with us, where should we take him to visit?" Asa asked.
Ami suddenly became very excited, she clenched her hands into fists and said, "Love Road!"
Ah Sa turned to Syk and said, "Young girls love this. Do you want to see something else?"
"I'm fine. Rick said. Nothing here is new to him.
As a result, Ah Sa told Ami to park the car and take Mr. Ekinawa to rest. Ami couldn't hide her disappointment and did so.
Ah Sa walked on the road of love with Xike. The so-called Love Road is a special route around this hill. As she walked, Asa introduced to Rick, "This is our elf tradition. The newcomers should follow this path one after the other, and accept everyone's blessings along the way. But it's not goblin marriage season, so the road is empty. γ
"Why one before and one after?"
"It's natural to run and chase. γ
He couldn't understand it, but he respected the way different cultures celebrated it.
Suddenly, something slammed into Rick from behind, causing him to take a step forward. He looked back and saw that it was the girl with short black hair in the lizard cart. Her eyes widened, and she grabbed Rick's clothes very excitedly.
Nick paused and reached out to try to grab her, but she ran away. Running five meters away, he found that Xi Ke had not caught up, and slowly approached.
"The naughty child snuck down. Ah Sa shook his head helplessly: "Forget it, let her come along." γ
Ah Sa took the black-haired girl's hand and walked slowly with the three of them.