novelraw #612 - Chapter 610 Qitian Floating City
#612 - Chapter 610 Qitian Floating City
“The angel statues on the first level can be activated by the Sky Feather Token, turning them into extremely powerful puppets to protect Sky City. However, they can't move too far, I guess it's an energy issue.
Sky City is like a wireless charging station, supplying the statues with the energy they need to operate.”
Ten minutes later, Miao Kui explained the functions of the first three levels of the tower to Qi Jing and his teammates who had just emerged from the lower labyrinth:
“The bird nests on the second level can repair defects in embryos, such as congenital diseases. Just place them here, and they will slowly improve.
Bird eggs are easy, but for humans, pregnant women would have to live in the bird nests themselves.
I don't know the principle, but it can be seen that the original builders of Sky City really cared about the next generation.
The magic circle on the third level can strengthen the embryos placed on it, giving them stronger bodies, higher talents, and longer lifespans after birth.
But not by much. Injecting it for a year only adds about ten years to their lifespan. Based on the ten months of pregnancy for humans, it's about ten years.”
This information about Sky City was found by Miao Kui in Copper Old Feather's memories.
There's other information too, but most of it is speculation. After all, they only have the lowest level of access with the Sky Feather Token, so they don't know much. Even the birds that entered the second trial didn't come out alive.
Qi Jing stroked his chin and pondered:
“So, the first three levels of this Sky City are almost useless to us. The statues can't move too far, and this is the top of the sky, so it can't help the outside world.
The child-rearing functions of the second and third levels are even more irrelevant, as we don't have any children.
Anyway, Zha Yin and I don't have any plans to have children in the next few years. Old Yan, when are you planning to have kids?”
Yan Cheng, one of the only two people here with a partner, silently shook his head:
“Whenever you do.”
“Whenever I do? Can this matter depend on me?”
Qi Jing narrowed his eyes and looked at Yan Cheng.
He noticed that this guy had been tense since they came in, speaking less than usual, as if he was holding in his pee. It seemed like there was something here that made him afraid.
His eyes were darting around, his toes were gripping the ground, and his breathing was erratic.
Anyway, he was acting strange.
What's wrong with him?
Did he have a fight with the class monitor?
(Yan Cheng: Want to see our chat history?)
Qi Jing, who had completely forgotten about it, said to them:
“Who among us has the ability to pass the Sky Feather Token's trial and reach the nine thousandth floor, about five thousand meters from the intercepting membrane?”
The Sky Feather Token can be handed over to the research institute for dismantling, and the first three levels can also be sold to the management bureau, but they can definitely take down its trial first and test its functions.
If the second trial is easy, the fourth level and beyond might have good stuff.
Even if there isn't, he can't sell it all. He needs to keep some for himself.
For example, all the suspended stone foundations of this Sky City, and the remaining ordinary houses.
This is the initial building of his [Qitian Floating City]!
In the future, he can build a tavern, a dormitory, a hero statue, a training ground, a barracks, a warehouse, a construction hut…
A perfect start!
“How much? Five thousand meters? No, no way.”
Song Jiang shook his head.
He had ridden the White Dog Cloud over the intercepting membrane before. When he exceeded that invisible plane by five meters, his heart would beat faster. At twenty meters, his face would turn purple. At fifty meters, he couldn't breathe.
Let alone five thousand meters.
Although his body might be the weakest among these people, the others probably weren't much better.
At most, five hundred meters?
Qi Jing looked at the others, especially the two senior sisters, Han Yinuo and Zhu Qing'an, and found that they were all shaking their heads.
Okay, besides himself, no one can pass this difficult trial.
“By the way, how did the patriarch and the little elder of the Void Spirit Birds pass it?”
“Let me see.”
Miao Kui pointed the remote control at the “dazed” Copper Old Feather again.
After searching through his memories for a while, he said:
“After discovering the content of this trial, their patriarch and the little elder led some birds to practice flying above the intercepting membrane every day.
At first, they didn't fly very high, but after more than two hundred years of effort, they barely reached a height of five thousand meters.
Moreover, they also discovered that using mental power to pull themselves up during the ascent would reduce a lot of pressure.”
The lifespan of the Void Spirit Birds slowly increases with the growth of their mental power. The older ones in their clan have lived for at least seven hundred years.
But only five elders remain.
This means that, apart from those who died in the battle for territory in those years, all the rest died on the way to the top of the sky.
And that was when the other four, besides the little elder, didn't participate.
If they really went, it is estimated that only the old patriarch and the little elder could survive, which shows the difficulty of this trial.
Qi Jing raised his eyebrows:
“What? Two hundred years? Forget it, forget it, let's dismantle this tower and hand it over to the research institute for research. Let Brother Xiao and the others take the trial. By the way, can the Sky Feather Token control our floating city to fly around?”
“Yes, but you need to pass more of its trials and obtain higher permissions.”
Hearing Miao Kui's words, Qi Jing nodded.
Indeed, if Sky City can't move, then building it is just making a living target.
Only when it can move will it become a strategic weapon!
Our King Qi really picked up a big bargain!
Speaking of picking up bargains, he remembered that he seemed to have a purpose for coming out this time?
What was it?
Oh, right, to find the treasure containing the power of life and death!
It's all because our Qitian Floating City is too big.
There are too many treasures to pick up~
~(~￣▽￣) ~~
Tan Zuoyin summarized:
“So, our plan for this Sky City is to sell the central tower on it to the research institute, and the rest is ours.
The requirement for selling it is that they crack the control mechanism of the Sky Feather Token and hand it over to us, so that we can control it to fly freely.
And if there are any benefits in the upper levels of the tower, we want a part, or some priority, right?”
As expected of our vice-captain, she's good at summarizing.
Qi Jing nodded:
“Yes, that's right! We can contact Brother Xiao now.”
If they negotiated themselves, they might not be able to take the entire Sky City, but if Brother Xiao went to negotiate, it would definitely work.
This is the bond between him and Brother Xiao!
“By the way, where is the treasure we're looking for?”
“On you.”
Zhu Qing'an had already used the compass in her hand to search for the treasure. She was very surprised when it kept pointing at Qi Jing.
After silently circling Qi Jing for a whole circle, Zhu Qing'an finally confirmed that the compass was pointing at him.
“On me?”
Qi Jing threw the Sky Feather Token to Tan Zuoyin, and then asked:
“How about now?”
“Still there.”
Qi Jing threw out the corpses of the little elder and Demon One.
“How about now?”
“Still there.”
Qi Jing threw out all the Void Spirit Bird corpses he had scavenged from this level, piling them into a small mountain, and asked:
“How about now?”
“Still there.”
“Still there? Ah?”
Qi Jing looked at the walnut-sized red bead he had been playing with in his left hand.
Is it it?