"Okay, it's so stuffy..." He groaned: "But, can you not stick it so tightly..."
"Huh?" The little fox Bailey also woke up. He loosened his arms and hugged Elaine tightly: "Oh, I'm sorry, big brother."
Elaine lifted the quilt and got up, and found that he was covered in sweat. Bailey was like a small heater attached to his body. It was strange that it wasn't warm during his nap.
"My hair has all become sticky," he complained.
"Me too, hehe." Bailey took off his shirt and rubbed the fox fur on his body that was still dripping with sweat. Because his body was covered with sweat, their hair became strands.
"So, don't stick to me for naps from now on." Elaine wondered, changing from a white bear to a white lion boy.
The upper level of Atlantis was originally a "greenhouse". They were still sleeping in this greenhouse-like tent, and they slept together. It was strange not to break out in a sweat.
"What about tonight?"
"It's late, it might be cold at night, it doesn't matter..."
"I understand. Then I will sleep with my big brother at night. Big brother can take a nap during the day without turning into a bear."
A drop of sweat broke out on Elaine's forehead. Is the cause of the problem on him? The White Bears are indeed a tribe of orcs living in the polar regions. Not to mention the thick hair on their bodies, they are also like a big heater when they sleep, emitting high heat.
"I really want to take a bath." The little fox wiped his body with the shirt he took off and said, "Is the fresh water you brought enough? Wouldn't it be luxurious to take a bath here?"
"City, there should be a pool or something in the city." Elaine replied.
The outer crystal walls of Atlantis, which are used to absorb ultraviolet rays from the sun, cannot seal the entire city tightly. At least not yet.
They are currently controlled by the system and open to a fixed angle to capture sunlight. Only when they sink into the deep sea will the outer walls be completely closed.
In other words, there must be some gaps in the sky that allow wind, snow or rain to seep in and turn into water droplets and fall into the city. If there is a water storage structure similar to a pool somewhere in the city, the water from the outside will gather there. That water should
It's fresh water, maybe you can take a bath directly in that pool.
The worst case scenario is to get water from the fresh water reserve brought by Elaine and the others. Queeg seems to have stored a lot of fresh water with Luna silica gel particles, which should be enough for them to drink for several months. Be extravagant and use part of the fresh water.
A shower, or at least a body scrub, should be acceptable.
"A pool?" the little fox waggled his tail: "Okay, let's go explore this uninhabited city. Anyway, Uncle Red Lion hasn't joined us yet. Maybe we can take a bath before he comes."
"Ha, haha..." Elaine smiled bitterly. Although he had agreed to wait for Edmund to come, wasn't that guy too slow? What the hell are you doing?
It is now 12:45 noon, almost one o'clock in the afternoon. If the guy doesn't come, Elaine plans to abandon Edmund and head to the dungeon alone.
"Are you awake?" Queeg saw Elaine and Bailey walking out of the tent shirtless and sweating profusely, and asked, "Did you sleep well? Did you wake up because of the heat?"
"Well... I want to take a shower." Elaine rubbed her shoulders and said, "Let's go and look for a pool nearby."
"Pay attention to safety." Queeg said, as if he was planning to stay at the camp. He took out another bag and took out a small, milky white translucent cube: "If there is no water, use this."
"How much fresh water is stored in it?" Elaine took the piece of Luna silicone that was smaller than a finger and asked.
"One hundred liters, about?" Queeg estimated: "I don't know. I haven't used it yet. There are still many more."
"Are you kidding me?" Elaine knew that the small particles used space compression technology to store liquid, but there was actually a hundred liters of fresh water in the finger-sized particles. Is that such an exaggeration?
Moreover, those Luna silicone particles can continue to be stuffed into storage pockets for storage. In other words, the compressed space can be compressed again.
As long as it can be stuffed into a storage pocket, it is not a problem to store tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of liters of water. Elaine does not have to worry about drinking water, there is enough water to squander it at will.
"No kidding." The cloud-patterned leopard waved his hand: "Hurry up and take a bath, I'll be on guard."
"You, you seem to have not taken a shower for several days..." Elaine complained.
"It's okay." Queeg said with a straight face: "It's not dirty, so I won't wash it."
So cats are afraid of water...
"You, when you sleep in the tent, don't bring all your smell into the quilt?" Elaine also made a serious face.
"No. Let's go quickly," Queeg urged.
Elaine then left the camp with Bailey. The surface layer of Atlantis was actually very safe. There were no sea beasts to invade, and no monsters came out from below to attack people. There was no point in guarding the camp. As long as Queeg liked it.
.
Ignore the dirty cat. If you want to find a pool for bathing in the ruins of the city, you should search in the center of the city.
The upper crystal wall opens like a rose. There must be a gap at the top of the center of Atlantis to allow snow from the outside to enter. The ice and snow melt into water inside the greenhouse and drip vertically from top to bottom, like local light rain.
It should be placed somewhere in the center of the city. If there is any pool-like structure there, the water will accumulate.
But it should be cold water. But cold water doesn't matter. Elaine took out a small dagger and spread some flame rosin on it. Use this to boil hot water for bathing, just like what she did before.
"Hey, I have this too." Bailey took out his small dagger and said show off.
Although the dagger in his hand was given by Elaine.
The dagger in Bailey's hand was only coated with a very small amount of flame rosin, and then it was placed in the sheath and slowly released heat, almost like a small body furnace. The magic power of the rosin was released very slowly, and it was actually still generating heat.
"You, you were wearing this when you were sleeping just now?" Elaine asked in confusion.
"Because I'm afraid of the cold." The little fox grinned.
(No wonder they are sweating... there should be a limit to being afraid of the cold?)
"Ah, it's raining over there." the little fox said, pointing to the city in the distance.
As Elaine expected, the area in the center of the city was being soaked by the melted ice and snow on the dome. A very small drizzle was falling there. What was sprinkled was more like mist than water droplets.
The water mist turned into a faint column and poured down from the sky, looking like an ethereal waterfall.
Then the midday sun hits the mist waterfall and turns into iridescence. The scenery is quite stunning.
"Okay, that's amazing..." Elaine exclaimed.
This waterfall cannot be seen from a distance. It is too ethereal and can only be seen clearly when you are close enough. But when you really see it, the scenery is so beautiful.
——It's so beautiful that people almost forget that this is actually a city of death full of murderous intent.
It seems that the city's crystal outer wall has some kind of structure to prevent ice formation. Ice and frost cannot adhere to it, and will be broken up into particle-like structures by some high-frequency vibration and scattered in all directions. This kind of water mist waterfall will be formed.
It just happens that that location is the intersection point of the outer edges of multiple crystal outer walls.
The water mist that was originally broken up into extremely fine mist-like particles merges with each other as it continues to fall, turning into larger water particles. It then changes from mist to rain powder, then from rain powder to water droplets, and finally falls on the
On several buildings in the city center.
Because of the barrier of the crystal outer wall, the air flow in the city of Atlantis is very slow, and there is no strong wind to deflect the water mist waterfall. It seems that the probability of finding a pool near the buildings in the center of the city is extremely high.
"Ah!" Bedivere suddenly exclaimed: "Look there, there is green!"
"Green...?" Elaine initially thought that Bailey had seen some strange-colored building, so he followed the point pointed by the little fox's finger. What he saw was not a building, but a low-rise building on the first floor.
The fresh green on the roof of the building.
...It’s a leaf! A leaf of some kind of plant!
There was a fence on the roof of the house, so the fence enclosed a pool. And there were plants growing there.
Atlantis, which slept for a long time at the bottom of the sea and only floated to the sea once every thousand years, was almost synonymous with death.
Not to mention animals, even plants cannot survive in the dark and lightless deep sea for thousands of years, and they should die.
But there are plants growing here, miraculous plants.
"Hold on, hold on to me, fly over and have a look." Elaine picked up Bailey, transformed into a white dragon and flew up.
He jumped up, flapped his wings to help fly, and reached the roof with the pool in an instant.
There are indeed plants there, and they are very beautiful plants.
...Lotus! It’s lotus!
The plant survives tenaciously in this city of death, not only opening its branches and leaves, but also growing flowers. The white water lily petals are opening slightly shyly, and there is a circle of lovely tender yellow inside.
This pool is a lotus pond on the roof of the building, where at least ten water lilies grow. They enjoy the nectar falling from the sky, and then bloom quietly in this secret and isolated place.
"How, how is it possible..." Elaine was very surprised.
Could this water lily really survive a thousand years at the bottom of the ocean without sunlight until Atlantis surfaces again?
What amazing vitality...!
"It's a lotus seed." Bailey explained: "The seeds of the lotus can sleep in the soil for thousands of years, until suitable conditions are met, they will sprout again and turn into lotus flowers. There used to be such a legend that the Egyptian expedition team was in ancient times.
Ancient water lily seeds that were more than a thousand years old were found in the tombs of the Pharaohs. When the seeds were replanted in the pond, they could still grow safely."
"Really, really?" The white lion boy was quite surprised.
"This water lily is just like a big brother." The little fox came close to the lotus and gently stroked the petals: "No matter how bad the adversity is, he never gives up. Even if he sleeps in the darkness for a thousand years, he still has hope.
, waiting for the dawn. This is... the holy flower that represents unyielding and eternal life."
"I, I'm not as good as you said..." Elaine transformed back into the white lion boy, took off his clothes, and sat down in the waist-deep lotus pond.
There is a very thin layer of soil at the bottom of the water, and below that is the hard and almost indestructible roof of the stone building. God knows how these water lilies get nutrients from such a small amount of soil. If it can survive, it is already a huge
Miracle.
Lotus?...
Maybe the lotus seeds were brought by the human army that was stationed here. It was the same army that Queeg followed four thousand years ago. When they retreated, they left the lotus seeds on the roof of this dead city, probably.
Then Atlantis finished charging and sank into the deep sea. The lotus seeds slept in the darkness for thousands of years, waiting to be reborn. Thousands of years later, the ancient city floated to the surface of the sea to recharge. The lotus seeds broke out of their shells and turned into lotus flowers.
Then it had to multiply for more than a month, produce new lotus seeds again, and fall into the soil. It succeeded. The ancient city sank into the deep sea again, and everything would die under unrelated circumstances, except this water lily.
The seeds fell asleep again and survived.
Thousands of years later, the ancient city floated up, and once again, the lotus seeds burst out of the shell and passed into nirvana like a phoenix.
Again, and again, and again. A cycle every thousand years.
This water lily is indeed a symbol of eternal life, and its mere existence carries a certain sacred meaning. Elaine gently stroked the petals of one of the water lilies and was impressed by its strong vitality.
"Hey." At this time, the little fox also took off his clothes and came close to Elaine, with most of his body soaked in the water: "Bathing in a pool full of water lilies...it's so elegant."
"Water, isn't the water cold?" Elaine asked, "Would you like to heat it up a little?"
"No need." Bailey stood close to Elaine's shoulder: "The water temperature is just right. It's best not to damage the growing environment of this water lily."
"Wouldn't taking a bath destroy their growth environment?"
"It's okay to take a bath. Isn't the sweat on our bodies just the fertilizer the lotus needs?" Bailey stuck out his tongue: "But big brother, please don't pee in the pool."
"No, no way!" Elaine replied with a blushing face.
After making a joke, Bailey chuckled and played with the water with his hands.
Some fine raindrops in the sky continue to fall, replenishing the water in the lotus pond. The excess water seeps out from the edge of the pond, flows outside the building, and finally drips onto the ground in the ruins of the city. The whole world is filled with
There was a slight but uninterrupted sound of gurgling water.
"It would be great if this city didn't sink to the bottom of the water." Bailey suddenly said: "Maybe we can live in seclusion here forever. Just me and my eldest brother, live a quiet life."
"Stupid, stupid. If there is no food here, you will starve to death."
"There is fresh water and sunshine here, so we can always grow something to eat. We shouldn't starve to death." The little fox continued to think.
"Well..." Elaine hesitated for a long time, and finally plucked up the courage to speak out: "Bailey... if we can go back alive this time, are you willing to be my adopted son? I, I will be my adopted son when you grow up."
.Before others, try your best to take good care of yours."
"Well, no." After hearing Elaine's words, the blue fox boy stuck out his tongue.