I am God!

Helfas searched for a long time and flew around in the sky, but he never saw the shadow of the so-called building on the clouds.

He saw a settlement on the ground and was going to ask the people in these settlements. Even if these bird-man settlements had no written heritage, those who had lived here for many years might have some information and had even seen the so-called... Buildings on the clouds.

Even though he has great power, sometimes power is not omnipotent.

However, there is another reason why Helfas cares so much about the buildings on the clouds. When he thinks of strange clouds and objects in the sky that can move, Helfas will naturally think of something.

Helfas stood in the sky and looked at the vast land of clouds. He once again thought of the scenes he had seen in the photo machine of the Tower of Babel, the trains running above the sea of ​​clouds in the sky, and the thousands of people in the tubes. Moving airships, magic carpets, flying props.

"A ladder to the sky."

Of course, he would not think that the thing floating on the clouds was a floating city. If he had been there before, he might have thought that the city floating in the sky appeared on the Gate of the Earth, but after experiencing the Tower of Babel and his party, he It was found that the height of the Kingdom of Gods and the Floating City was obviously not the sea of ​​clouds. It could be said that they were in the world of stars. The height of the sky was far beyond the imagination of mortals.

Of course, looking for the Sky Ladder is not just to see that strange thing.

The world of dragon people has mountains that wrap around the world, and the world of bird people is no exception.

Helfas had found the boundary of the birdman world many years ago. It was also blocked by the mountain that entangled the world. And across the mountain that entangled the world, Helfas probably felt that there was a dragonman on the other side. world.

And this mountain peak was the mountain he saw at the northernmost part of the dragon world when he passed through the mountains.

He wanted to climb over this mountain before, but in the end he found that he couldn't fly over it with his own strength. But after seeing the ladder in the sky, he suddenly had another idea.

"If we could find the Sky Ladder, would we be able to open this barrier and find the true connection between the worlds of birds and dragons?"

The buildings in the settlement of Helfas were all made of stones. The tops of the houses were covered or supported with the skin of a giant lizard, which is a common animal in the Cloud Kingdom. It is also the main prey of the birdman settlement here.

"That's the man."

The dark-skinned child in the settlement pointed to someone sitting in the wilderness and said to Helfas. The child was wearing animal skins, and what he said was not the language of the Kingdom of Rain. However, the problem of communication was very important to Helfas. Saying it was never a problem.

Helfas walked over and saw a man dragging a small canoe forward. The canoe obviously slowed him down, but he still refused to give up.

"Canoe?"

To be honest, he couldn't imagine what use a boat could be in such a desolate place.

Occasionally there will be small oases in this wilderness, but the water sources that most settlements rely on for survival do not require boats. However, these thoughts only appeared in his mind for a while, and he still acted in the direction of Walk towards that person.

The male birdman noticed someone approaching, and he immediately stopped and looked at the person.

He noticed that this guy, who was equally strange as him, was wearing a thin dark red shirt with golden patterns on it and black trousers on the lower body. The overall dress was very close-fitting.

He is very young, with short black hair and a pair of black eyes, which is full of a strong sense of foreignness to him.

But what mainly made him feel strange was that the other party wrapped his feet with a strange thing. Wouldn't this feel uncomfortable?
The other person: "I heard that you have some strange experiences, can you tell me about them?"

He glanced at the other person and said, "I'm not free."

The other person: "If you tell me about your past experiences and what you are doing, such as what you want this canoe to do, maybe I can help you send the canoe to the place you want."

He immediately became hesitant. It would be good if someone could help him drag the canoe, and he happened to be tired and really wanted to stop and talk to someone.

He: "If you don't think it's ridiculous, I can tell you."

The other person: "This world is inherently bizarre, and anything can happen."

The two of them sat down under a stone, and he took out the breadfruit, broke it open, and took a few bites.

"I came from the Kingdom of Rain. I originally came here to buy the leather belts of earth lizards and sell them back. My family has been traveling on this route for generations to do business of buying and selling."

As soon as he opened his mouth, he told his origin.

He: "But six years ago, I encountered a magical thing on the way here."

Black-haired man: "What magical thing?"

He said: "When I was resting at night, I was in a wilderness, surrounded by extremely barren land, with no water sources and no trees."

"But suddenly clouds kept pouring out of the sky, layer after layer, filling the sky."

"I just couldn't sleep at that time, and I was even more overwhelmed when I saw this shocking scene."

As he spoke, his voice became excited.

"Finally, those clouds fell from the sky."

"Then the whole world changed."

Black-haired man: "The world has changed?"

He: "Yes, didn't I just say that I was still in a wilderness, but in the blink of an eye everything around me disappeared."

"I seemed to have left this world and entered a secret realm of incredible beauty."

"The surrounding desolate land turned into an endless lake, the endless water jungle behind it turned into the high wall of the secret realm, and the endless clouds fell from the sky and turned into mountains."

“The cloud mountains connect to the sky, and the blue lake water presses down.”

"It's an incredible scene. I believe that anyone who has seen that scene will never forget it."

Black-haired man: "Could it be an illusion, like the mirages that people often see in the distance when traveling?"

He: "Impossible, that's definitely not an illusion, it's real."

Then he stated his reasons very seriously: "Because when I fell into that magical secret realm, my tent and my cargo were also swept into the water. I kept struggling in the water and almost almost Drown in it.”

"If it is a mirage as you call it, can it do such a thing?"

However, Helfas did not completely believe the other party's words at this time. It was not that he thought the other party was lying. It was too simple for him to distinguish a mortal's lie.

But even if what the other person says is true, it is only true in his eyes and does not represent the truth.

He knows that some extremely clever illusions can not only blind people's eyes, but also blind people's five senses. It can make people taste delicious food, let people hear sounds, and can also make people's skin... Touch can give back the feeling of actually touching an imaginary object.

If false things reach this level, can a mortal still distinguish between true and false?
But Helfas did not interrupt and continued to listen to what the other party said.

"And just when I was struggling and trying my best, I saw a ship sailing out from the high wall of the secret realm tangled in the jungle."

"My eyes were immediately attracted to the ship, and I looked at it with all my strength. Only then did I realize that among the groups of swamp trees that had turned into walls, there were some huge trees growing slanted and crosswise, and their branches were intertwined with each other. It turned into a door and a secret passage.”

"And the ship just slowly passed through the passage and the door of the secret realm, and entered this mysterious realm."

"I guess you can't imagine how big and gorgeous it is. It's like a palace moving on the water."

"I was about to drown at that time. I screamed helplessly towards the boat, asking the people on the boat to save me."

"And right now."

His originally passionate expression and excited eyes became quiet at this moment for some unknown reason.

His eyes became a little absent-minded, as if he had seen something beyond the ultimate beauty in the world. It was so beautiful that he forgot to be excited, and it was so beautiful that he didn't know how to describe it.

His words became a little stumbling, and his hands and feet were gesticulating helplessly, as if he wanted to try his best to describe what he saw to the listener, but the more he spoke, the more he felt that his description seemed pale, at least there was no description. express his personal feelings.

"A window opened on the top floor of that gorgeous palace on the ship. Do you know what that feels like for me?"

"It felt as if a hole had opened up in the dark cloudy sky, and then light slanted down and just fell on me."

"I saw the kingdom of God in death, and even death was no longer scary."

"In front of the palace window, there was a person looking at me with pity as I fell into the water and was helpless. That person was so beautiful that she seemed to be shining, her temperament was so elegant that she was like the clouds in the sky, and the clothes she was wearing were like woven rays of light. "I saw her smiling at me and waving to me."

"Then everything around me disappeared, the clouds returned to the sky, and I was saved."

However, the expression on his face was not at all overjoyed that he had been saved, but rather because of the immense loss of having briefly passed by that beautiful figure.

"What a beautiful person!"

"I thought I must have entered the kingdom of God and saw the maid of the gods."

"She must have saved me from drowning in the water and brought me back to earth."

He stopped talking, as if his body had left that beautiful and magical secret realm, but his soul remained there.

After listening to the story he told, the black-haired man seemed to understand what he meant by bringing the canoe.

"So you have been wandering here because you want to re-enter the secret realm, and you prepared this canoe so that you can catch up with the ship in the water. You want to get her."

But he seemed to be extremely frightened by the other party's words and began to retort.

"No, how dare I think that, I just want to see her again."

"If I can, I want to say thank you to the person who saved my life."

"later."

"I occasionally heard rumors about clouds falling from the sky, so I immediately rushed in that direction. Unfortunately, I never entered that secret realm again and never saw that figure again."

The story is over.

The reason for taking a canoe through the wilderness without water is now known.

The two people sat quietly, and the scene became somewhat silent.

Helfas did not fully understand the other person's feelings. He had been searching this land for six years just to say thank you to someone he had only met once, as if he was possessed by a man, but he had no reason to accuse him. Or ridicule.

Because he has seen many people in this era who are extremely dedicated to one thing, such as people who travel across thousands of mountains and rivers and risk death to leave their hometown just to see the Kingdom of Bread and Trees in the distance and end up dying on the road. There are kings who went against the grain and threw away their own country for a painting, and craftsmen who went completely crazy and died in madness just to learn a certain skill.

People in this era are not very well-informed, they own very few things, and they don’t meet many people.

Many of them have never left their hometown and eaten any decent food in their lives, even the so-called kings.

They don't have many choices in life, and it's hard to see anything too beautiful.

So once they see those beautiful things and hear the stories that they yearn for too much, it is easy to give them everything they have, and the same goes for the person in front of them.

Just what he saw.

What a beautiful person.

Their behavior may seem ridiculous to some people, but this is what they have devoted all their emotions to, but what they are pursuing does not seem worthwhile in the eyes of the world.

And Helfas also suddenly thought of something. Isn’t everything he has been working hard and persevering as insignificant and unnecessary in Anissa’s mouth?

Helfas sighed and said to the man dragging the canoe.

"There are always some things in life that do not belong to you, and there are always some regrets that cannot be made up for."

"No matter what, six years is too long for an ordinary person. Everything in the secret realm may not have changed, but the world that belongs to you has long since changed."

"It's time for you to return to your world and withdraw from that beautiful secret realm."

The man dragging the canoe did not answer, but asked: "What are you doing here? You probably don't belong here!"

Helfas: "I heard there is a building floating on the clouds here, so I wanted to come and have a look."

He said: "Aren't you also chasing illusory things?"

Helfas: "I'm different."

He was a little dissatisfied: "What's the difference?"

Helfas: "I have a lot of empty time, which is suitable for chasing these illusory things, and everything around me has long changed. It is difficult to lose anything."

"And you still have family, friends and relatives, and you have the best years."

He stared at the black-haired man blankly. He looked much younger than himself, but when he spoke, he seemed to be completely beyond the age of this body, just like the young man. It's like there's another person living under the skin.

The black-haired man stood up and said to him.

"You can't find it if you search aimlessly like this. Even if the entrance to the secret realm you mentioned appears again somewhere, it will have already disappeared by the time you rush over."

"If you want to enter that secret realm, you must find the pattern of the appearance of that entrance, and then arrive at that location in advance when the next entrance appears. But with your speed, ability and resources, it is difficult to do such a thing."

"But this is not a problem for me."

"Thank you for the information you gave me. I will look for this secret place you mentioned. Maybe it has some connection with what I am looking for."

The black-haired man turned around and said the last words.

"If I find one."

"I will take you and your canoe over there to fulfill my promise to you."

After saying that, he left like this.

After the figure disappeared, he suddenly remembered that the other party had not helped him tow the canoe at all.

But he raised his hands and leaned quietly against the stone. He didn't seem too disappointed. Perhaps deep down in his heart, he didn't have much hope for the destination of this trip.

Instead, he felt much better after telling his story.

"What kind of person is this?"

"it's wired!"
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According to the other party's experience and the memory of the other party that he saw through mind reading, Helfas also began to collect the locations of the so-called secret realm from the surrounding settlements and rumors, looking for whether there was some kind of pattern in the other party. .

He pulled out a map of the Cloud Kingdom.

Then began to mark places and times on the map, some of which date back hundreds of years.

"It can almost be determined that it appears once a year, usually during the period called the rainy season in the country of rain. Those that do not appear may be because they have not been observed by humans."

"The places they appear are indeed regular. Although they seem to be very large, they are always within one area, which makes them much easier to find."

Helfas drew a circle on the land, and it can basically be found that these anomalies are all within this range, but the location is different every time.

"But it seems that everyone sees something different. Why is that?"

"Some people saw a lake, some people saw an island, some people saw a swamp forest, some said they saw strange figures, and some said they saw some kind of building?"

"Is there really a so-called huge secret realm? The entrance is different every time, so the picture you see when you enter is different?"

But there is no result in thinking this way. Only by actually seeing it can you know what it is like.

after analysis.

Helfas did find the pattern and roughly calculated the location where the opponent might appear next.

"The rainy season should be only a month away!" (End of this chapter)