Chapter 514: The Eternal

City The Kingdom of Mist is a foggy ice field, with visibility much lower than that of the Sand City.

Fahai followed behind Batty.

The only sound in the air was the thumping footsteps of the Frost Giant.

Everything here was covered with ice, there was ice on the rocks, water crystals, and even some wisps of mist were solidified in the ice.

As Fahai walked along, the ice under his feet became thicker and thicker. He had to use his walking stick to knock away the ice from time to time to prevent his legs from becoming too heavy and clumsy.

"You're not afraid of the cold, that's good. Many people who come here think it's too cold and don't want to stay any longer."

Batty said: "If you are not afraid of the cold, the Land of Mist is a very comfortable place. You can mold ice into various shapes. Ice is a very obedient thing and can be made into armor, furniture and houses. As long as there is ice, you can do anything."

Fahai noticed that there seemed to be living things frozen in some ice cubes nearby.

There is a shell man in the nearest ice rock.

The face of the man in the ice was wrapped in layers of scarves, and his body had a natural shell similar to a chest armor. He leaned against a large wooden box, his hands in his arms, his head lowered, and he seemed to be sleeping.

Not far away, there was a man in double armor, like a ghost. In front of him was an old-fashioned gas stove, as if to keep warm, but both the man and the stove were sealed in ice.

There are many ice corpses like this nearby, all frozen in the thick ice.

"Is there no one to collect the bodies of these dead people?" Fahai exhaled a breath of white air.

"Yes. We brothers collected the bodies scattered on the ice field and asked the people in Sand City to identify them and take them back... There are always people who come to the Kingdom of Mist and die here because of carelessness and accidents."

Batty stopped, opened his mouth repeatedly, sneezed loudly, and blew out a cloud of icy mist.

"Those left here are unclaimed, and no one knows who owns them. If you want to claim them, you have to break them into pieces, but breaking them into pieces doesn't feel good, so just leave them here."

"Every time Brother Barras tells those who come in to be careful, they never listen. What can we do? We can't always save them."

Fahai thought so too.

Tall, smooth ice walls can often be seen on the ice field, with slogans such as "Beware of danger, keep warm, and do not drink from the poisonous spring" written on them in the Yao language and the Resurrection Kingdom language.

It seems that the Frost Giants are also having a headache.

After walking for a while, Fahai followed Batty to the core of the Kingdom of Mist, the City of Eternal Youth.

The Eternal City is the only city in Niflheim. It is built around an inexhaustible spring. The city walls, houses and streets are all made of large ice bricks.

The residents of this ice city are children from the Nibelungen, with blue eyes, silver hair, and glowing white skin. The children gather in groups of two or three, either talking in low voices or running and playing.

Noticing Fahai holding the bamboo stick, the Nibelungens came over like birds, chattering in unison.

"Uncle Batty, did you bring anyone back?"

"Well, this is Uncle Fahai."

"Uncle Batty, didn't you go to fight? Did you win?"

"It's not a fight, it's a contest of strength! I win!"

"Uncle Monkey, your fur is so black!"

"Hello."

"How rude! Am I a monkey?" Batty said angrily, "Call me Uncle Fahai."

"oh……"

"Uncle Fahai, are you a monkey?"

Batty grabbed the child, yelled "Go!" and threw him into the air. The child let out a sharp scream and disappeared into the fog in the distance.

The giant raised his hands to his eye sockets and looked into the distance with satisfaction: "This is more effective."

Such a hard-core teaching method shocked Fahai.

"Will the child be okay?"

"It's okay. The Nibelungs are very tough. He will just lie in the ice for a few days at most. He will wake up soon. He knows the way back."

“…”

"Let's get down to business first. Come on, let's go. Children, please make way and go play. We adults have serious matters to attend to."

Batty strode over the children's heads, and Fahai followed nimbly with a bamboo stick in his hand.

Soon they came to an icy lake.

The surface of the ice lake was smooth and flat, and it was obvious that it had been carefully polished. At both ends of the ice lake there were a lot of large ice balls, each as tall as Fahai.

"This is called smashing the ball. The three of us brothers play it often."

Batty grabbed a puck and weighed it gently in his giant hand: "The way to play is to hit each other with the puck. Neither side can dodge. See who can catch the most pucks without breaking them."

"Look! It's coming!"

Batty throws with one arm.

The ice ball whizzed towards Fahai.

Fahai transformed into a giant black-haired ape with his giant Dharma form. He opened his arms, caught the ball with both hands steadily at his waist, and then smashed it towards Batistuta's forehead with his backhand.

The puck was caught by Batty with both hands again.

The two giants fought back and forth, then they threw two balls at each other, and then more ice balls were thrown at each other. The wind whistled on the ice lake, and ice and snow flew.

After a battle, Barty still won.

“Hahahaha, this requires a lot of proficiency.”

The Frost Giant grinned: "I have invented a more interesting one..."

He suddenly looked towards the middle of the Eternal City and gestured with his thumb. "Big brother asked us to come over for dinner. Let's eat first. Today is the once-a-month extra meal day. I came back on this day just for this meal."

The sound of bells ringing rang out in the air.

Fahai followed Batty all the way to an open space in the city.

Batty introduced to Fahai: "This is my eldest brother, Barras, and he is also the mayor of the Eternal City."

"Welcome here, friends from afar."

Baras, wearing a red woolen hat, waved to Fahai as he got off a large ice boat that was spewing ice steam, but the boat looked like a pony under the size of the frost giant.

He opened the rear cabin and took out boxes wrapped in cloth one by one. Names were written on each box with black smoke ink, and many of them were steaming.

"Qiao Li, this is your box."

“Thank you Mayor Barras!”

"Hogg, take yours."

"Hey, mayor, is there any jam in it?"

"Open it and you'll see. Okay, next one, Jack."

"arrive!"

…

Balas distributed gift boxes containing various Sand City foods to the children one by one.

The remaining dry wheat cakes, dried meat, pickles and beer were enjoyed by the giants who were adults.

Fahai was chewing on a wheat cake when he noticed the third giant.

"Who is that?"

"That's my brother, Barto."

Batty wiped the residue from his beard with his palm, stuffed the dried meat into his mouth with one hand, and grabbed a bucket of wine with the other hand to pour it into his mouth. Due to the heating of the steam stove, the wine did not freeze.

Fahai looked at the youngest frost giant.

Compared to his two brothers, Barto was shorter in stature. He carried a large box on his back, wore crystal goggles and a specially made windproof metal helmet, and had a gold chain around his neck, which made him look a bit different from the fashionable people in the Eternal City.

Barto was tinkering with a large iron stove, surrounded by a circle of Nibelungen children. The children looked at him eagerly, as if they were quite expectant.

Batti said: "Bato is an inventor. The sweet and icy drinks he made are not only loved by people in Old City, but people from Sand City also send people to buy them in large quantities every day."

Fahai moved closer to take a closer look.

There was a fire steam stove on the left side of the big iron stove and an ice steam stove on the right side, the two stoves formed a connection. The main stove in the middle made a clattering sound and kept emitting hot steam.

Barto grabbed the crank handle next to it and squeezed it, and a sticky white paste of ice came out of the spout of the stove.

He used an ice bowl to hold the ice cream, filled it up, then poured sour raspberry jam or honey on it and finally handed it to a child.

The Nibelung children dipped their popsicles into the sweet and icy treats and ate them with great satisfaction, while other children continued to line up, waiting for their own portion.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"A large part of the income of the Eternal City depends on Barto's sweet and ice." Batty grinned: "He is a smart guy, I am not so good at this. Come on, I will take you to see the fun things I made."

The two came to an ice field behind the ice lake.

Batty broke open an ice cave sealed with ice rocks and took out a stack of thin round ice disks from it.

"Watch it."

He threw the ice disk into the air.

The ice disk suddenly shot into the sky and flew diagonally upwards.

Batty immediately grabbed the ice ball beside him, leaned back slightly, and threw it into the sky. The high-speed ice ball accurately hit the gliding ice disk, breaking it into a pile of ice.

"Cool!"

The giant swung his arms vigorously.

"Brother Fahai, this is called a flying disc. Come and try it."

Fahai took the ice plate handed over by Batty, threw it into the sky like a giant, and then chased it with an ice hockey puck. He threw several balls in a row but failed to hit the target.

"Hahahaha, you haven't mastered the trick yet at the beginning. You need to consider the obstruction of wind and predict the flight path of the plate."

Batti shared all his experience with Fahai, helping him adjust his posture and reminding him to seize the opportunity.

Fahai managed to hit the target with great effort.

The moment the hockey puck smashed the frisbee, Fahai felt an inexplicable sense of relief and couldn't help but burst into monkey laughter.

"What do you think of this thing?"

"It's more exciting than just competing in arm strength!" Fahai said sincerely.

"Really? I was saying, this is something everyone should try."

"But that push ball..."

Fahai thought for a while and said, "It's better to make the ball-smashing game smaller and use the ball to hit other targets, such as a hole in the distance. People who are not so strong should be able to play it."

"That makes sense." Batty nodded: "I'll think about it."

He ran directly to the ice lake and started trying a new way to play the ball-smashing game.

Fahai started practicing Frisbee.

This game is not complicated, but it has a fascinating magic.

Fahai played for a whole month.

However, during a frisbee battle between him and Batty, a small accident occurred.

Fahai's ice ball did not hit the flying disc, but hit something in the mist in the air. The moment the ice ball shattered, the thing in the air fell straight to the ground.

Fahai and Batti rushed over to take a look and found that it was a strange device.

The device was severely damaged and deformed after falling. All that could be seen was that the main body was some kind of box, and the top was a pile of debris and glass shards.

A little man was thrown out from inside and was unconscious.

It has a metal body, and a dim, flickering light comes from its head. The impact of the fall caused both of its legs to break, and no one knows where its left arm flew off to.

"A member of the Lantern Clan?"

Batty was stunned: "They want to play Frisbee too?"

Fahai: “…”

Batty's mind is indeed not so ideal.

On the day of the accident, a team of people from Shacheng came to us.

Leading the way was the Prophet Blackforge.

He said in a heavy tone, "This was originally a top-secret test flight, but unexpectedly the wind direction changed and the sandstorm blew the sky lantern here, causing it to fall. Unfortunately, Dengshi was seriously injured. It will take at least two years for him to fully recover and be able to fly. The plan has to be postponed again... Please keep this matter confidential."

Fahai blamed himself and said, "I am really sorry, this was actually my mistake. I am willing to take responsibility and compensate for it."

He spoke candidly about how he shot down the sky lantern.

"...I can only say that I'm not very lucky."

Heidan suddenly thought of something, and looked at Fahai with shining eyes: "Fahai? You are the disciple of Master Ye, right?"

"It's me."

"As I recall, you seem to possess the dual abilities of earth and water."

"Yes."

"Then you come be a pilot!"

"ah?"

"You can do it. You have a strong physique and can definitely adapt to flying!"

…

Heidan took Fahai to a secret underground base outside Sand City.

The prophet then told him the truth.

"Fahai, you will face the most difficult challenge that the Yao clan may have ever faced, but you will also have the opportunity to accomplish a cause that generations of people have dreamed of."

"We plan to use a flying boat to go out into the sky."

Fahai was stunned: "Outside the sky?"

"That's right."

Black Forge said confidently: "Cross the world border and enter the vast world group outside! This is the flight we want to make!"

"You will be the first pilot of our Yao clan to fly into outer space!"

Fahai was a little dazed.

We have just come down from Qianyuan Mountain and haven’t walked far, but now we are going to take off directly?

Thanks to: The cat in the teahouse, 丿, for supporting 1,100 Qidian coins.

(End of this chapter)