Chapter 514 The Eternal City

The Country of Fog is a foggy ice field, and the visibility is much lower than that of Sand City.

 Fahai followed Batty.

 There was only the thumping footsteps of the frost giants in the air.

Everything here is covered with ice, the rocks are covered with ice, the water flow crystallizes, and even some strands of mist are frozen in the ice.

As Fahai walked, the ice on his soles became thicker and thicker. He had to regularly use his stick to remove the ice to prevent his legs from becoming too heavy and clumsy.

“It’s good that you’re not afraid of the cold. Many people who come here find it too cold and don’t want to stay longer.”

Barty said: "If you are not afraid of the cold, the Kingdom of Mist is a very comfortable place. You can squeeze ice into various shapes. They are very obedient things and can be made into armor, furniture and houses. As long as you have Ice can do anything.”

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

 There is a shell man in the nearest ice rock.

 The face of the man in the ice is wrapped in scarves, and his body has a natural shell similar to a chest and back. He was leaning against a large wooden box, with his hands in his arms and his head lowered, as if sleeping.

Not far away there is a man wearing double city armor, who looks like a ghost. There was an old-fashioned steam stove in front of him, as if to keep him 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 let out a white breath.

"Yes. Our brothers will collect these corpses scattered in the ice field, let the people from Sand City identify them, and then take them back... There are always people who come to the Kingdom of Mist and die here due to carelessness and accidents."

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

“The ones left here are all unclaimed, and I don’t know who they are. If I want to claim them, I have to break them into pieces. Breaking them is not good, so I just leave them here.”

“Every time, Brother Barras says, tell these people who come in to pay attention to their safety, but they always refuse to listen, what can we do. We can’t save them every time.”

Fahai thought the same thing.

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

It seems that the frost giants also have a headache.

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

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

The residents of this city of ice are children from Nibelungen. They have blue eyes, silver hair, and glowing white skin. The children were in twos and threes, chatting in low voices, or running and playing.

Noticing Fahai holding a bamboo stick, Nibelungen came close to him like a bird, chirping in all directions.

 “Uncle Batty, have you brought someone 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 won!”

 “Uncle Monkey, your hair is so black!”

"Hello."

 “That’s not polite! Is he a monkey?” Batty said angrily, “My name is Uncle Fahai.”

"oh…"

“Uncle Fahai, are you a monkey?”

Barty grabbed the kid, yelled, "Go away," and threw him into the air. The child let out a sharp scream and disappeared into the distant fog.

 The giant raised his hands and put them on his eye sockets, looking into the distance with satisfaction: "This is more effective."

Such a hard-core teaching method shocked Fa Hai.

“Is the child going to be okay?”

"It's okay. The Nibelungs are very tough. They can lie in the ice for a few days at most and they will wake up soon. They know the way back."

　　　…”

“Let’s get down to business first. Come on, let’s go. Kids, give way and go play with yours. We adults have serious business.”

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

 Soon the two came to an icy lake.

 The surface of this glacial lake is smooth and flat, obviously carefully polished. There are a lot of big ice **** at both ends of the ice lake, each ice ball is as high as Fa Hai.

“This is called ball smashing, and we three brothers often play it.”

Barty grabbed a piece of ice hockey and weighed it gently with his big palm: "The way to play is to hit each other with ice balls. Neither side can hide. See who can catch the most ice **** without breaking them."

 “Look out! It’s coming!”

 Barty makes a one-arm throw.

 The ice ball roared into Fa Hai.

Fahai transformed into a black-haired giant ape in his giant form. He opened his arms, held the ball steadily at his waist, and then hit Barty in the head with his backhand.

 The hockey puck was caught by Batty with both hands again.

 The two giants were going back and forth, and then it became a matter of throwing double **** at each other, and then more ice **** were smashing towards each other crazily. The wind howled and the ice and snow splashed on the frozen lake.

 After a fight, Batty still won.

 “Hahahaha, this is very demanding on proficiency.”

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

He suddenly looked towards the middle of the Eternal City and gestured there with his thumb: "Brother asked us to come over for a meal. Let's eat something first. Today is the extra meal day once a month. I came back because of this day. This meal.”

The sound of bells rang in the air.

Fahai followed Batty to an open space in the city.

Batty introduced to Fahai: "This is my eldest brother, Balas, who is also the mayor of the Eternal City."

 “Welcome here, friends from afar.”

Wearing a red velvet hat, Barras got off a large ice ship that was spraying ice vapor. He waved to Fahai. But under the size of the Frost Giant, the ship looked like a pony.

He opened the cabin at the back and took out boxes wrapped in cloth. These boxes had names written on them in black smoky ink, and many of them were steaming.

 “Qiaoli, this is your box.”

 “Thank you, Mayor Barras!”

 “Hogg, get yours.”

 “Hey, mayor, is there any jam in it?”

 “You’ll find out when you open it. Okay, next, Jack.”

"arrive!"

 …

Barras distributed gift boxes to the children one by one, containing various Shacheng foods.

 The remaining dry wheat cakes, dried meat, pickles and ale were enjoyed by the giant as an adult.

Fahai was eating wheat cakes and noticed the third giant.

 “Who is it?”

 “That’s my brother, Baator.”

Barty wiped a handful of 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 and poured it into his mouth. Due to the heating of the stove, the wine did not freeze.

Fahai looked at the youngest frost giant.

 Compared to his two brothers, Ba Tuo is short. He carried a large box on his back, wore crystal goggles and a special windproof metal helmet, and had a bunch of gold chains hanging around his neck. He looked a bit different from the fashionable people in the Eternal City.

 At this time, Bartow was working on a large iron furnace, surrounded by a circle of Nibelungs. The children looked at him eagerly, as if expecting something.

Baty said: "Bato is an inventor. The sweet and ice he makes is not only liked by everyone in the Old City, but also in Shacheng. Every day, people are sent to buy in large quantities."

 Fa Hai came over to take a closer look.

 On the left side of the big iron furnace is a fire and steam furnace, and on the right side is an ice and steam furnace. The two furnaces are connected. The main stove in the middle made a gurgling sound and kept emitting hot steam.

Bato grabbed the rocking handle next to him and squeezed it, and the spout of the stove squeezed out sticky white creamy ice.

 He placed an ice bowl underneath, filled it with ice cream, poured it with sour raspberry jam or honey, and finally handed it to a child.

The children in Nibelung dipped the popsicles in sweet and ice-cold treats and looked satisfied. Other children continued to line up, waiting for their share.

"A large part of the income of the Eternal City depends on Batuo's sweet and cold food." Batty grinned: "He is a smart guy, and I am not very good at this. Let's go and take you to see what I have made." It’s fun.”

 The two of them came to an ice field behind the glacial lake.

Barty broke open an ice cave sealed with ice rocks and took out a stack of thin round ice trays from inside.

 “Look good.”

 He threw the ice disk into the air.

The ice disk suddenly jumped into the sky and flew diagonally upward.

Bati immediately grabbed the ice puck on the side, turned slightly sideways, and then threw it into the sky with all his strength. The high-speed ice ball accurately hit the gliding ice disk, shattering it into a pile of ice cream.

"Cool!"

 The giant punched hard with both arms.

“Brother Fahai, this is called a Frisbee. Come and give it a try.”

Fahai took the ice plate handed over by Batty, threw it into the sky like a giant, and then chased it with the ice ball. I threw several **** in a row but failed to hit.

“Hahahaha, you haven’t mastered the trick at the beginning. You need to consider the obstruction of the wind and predict the flight path of the plate.”

Batty, on the other hand, imparted all his experience to Fahai, adjusting his posture and asking him to seize the opportunity.

Fahai reluctantly managed to hit the target.

The moment the ice ball shattered the Frisbee, Fahai felt an inexplicable sense of joy and couldn't help but let out a monkey laugh.

 “What do you think of this thing?”

 “It’s better than just fighting with strength!” Fahai said sincerely.

"Really? I just said, everyone should come and play with this."

 “But that putt...”

Fahai thought for a while: "It's the smashing ball. Why not make it 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 go and 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 obviously not complicated, but it has a kind of fascinating magic.

 fahai played for a whole month.

 And during a fierce Frisbee battle between him and Barty, a small accident occurred.

Fahai’s puck didn’t hit the Frisbee, but something in the mist in the air. The moment the ice ball shattered, the thing in the air plummeted to the ground.

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

The device was severely damaged and deformed after it fell. It was only visible that the main body was some kind of box, and the top was a pile of fragments and glass slag.

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

It has a metal body, and its head emits a dim and flickering light. Its legs were broken due to the fall and impact, and its left arm flew to no one knows where.

 “People from the Deng Clan?”

Barty was stunned: "They also want to play Frisbee?"

Fahai:"…"

 Barty's mind is indeed not that ideal.

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

 The leader is the prophet Black Forge.

He said in a serious tone: "This was originally a top-secret test flight. Unexpectedly, the change in wind direction and the sandstorm blew the sky lantern here, causing it to fall. Unfortunately, the lantern key 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'm really sorry. This time it was actually my mistake. I am willing to take responsibility and compensate for it."

 He spoke candidly about the process of shooting down the sky lantern.

“…It can only be said that my luck is not very good.”

Hei Duan suddenly thought of something and looked at Fahai with bright eyes: "Fahai? You are the disciple of the wild mage, right?"

"it's me."

“I remember that you seem to have dual abilities of earth element and water element.”

"Yes."

 “Then you become a pilot!”

"ah?"

“You can do it, your physique is very strong and you can definitely adapt to flying!”

 …

Heimai brought Fahai to a secret underground base outside Shacheng.

The prophet then told him the truth.

“Fahai, you will face perhaps the most difficult challenge in the history of the Yao people, but you will also have the opportunity to accomplish what generations of people have dreamed of.”

"We plan to use a flying boat to sail to the sky."

Fahai was stunned: "Tianwai?"

 “That’s right.”

Heimao said firmly: "Crossing the boundary of the world and entering the vast world group outside! This is the flight we want to do!"

 “You will be the first pilot of our Yao tribe to fly into the outer world!”

 Fahai was a little bit unable to come to his senses.

We have just descended from Qianyuan Mountain. We haven’t gone far yet, and now we are about to take off?

  Thanks: Mao Pi in the teahouse supports 1100 starting coins.

　　

 (End of this chapter)