Elaine came back to her senses and found herself floating in darkness.
Without a body, he was floating in the darkness of the vast universe, surrounded by faint stars, and his body seemed to melt into the universe and become one with it.
It should have been a terrifying experience to suddenly become like this. But for some reason, he didn't feel panicked, and he clearly felt that he was still himself.
And he is not alone. There are countless people in this seemingly empty universe. Although Elaine can't see them, they talk, they walk, they laugh, they do exist, and they fill this world. This world
There is no place in the dark world that is not filled with these transparent people, just like the world is filled with invisible and intangible dark matter.
"You are never alone." It was as if someone was saying to Elaine: "We are with you."
"you……?"
"Be more confident." More voices were saying: "When the universe was destroyed, only a few people could be saved. Those wandering souls who were not qualified to be saved should have been destroyed together with the entire universe."
But you stepped forward and accepted them. You are the ark of the soul and the ferryman.
You gritted your teeth and survived the most painful and difficult times, bringing them from the old universe to the new universe.
You have saved countless souls.
And now...it's time for them, for us, to save you."
There was a certain warm feeling surrounding Elaine, which gradually made him feel at ease, floating alone in the darkness. Without a body, he seemed to feel that there were many pairs of invisible big hands holding him in his arms. He felt
To feel the warmth from thousands of people...the warmth of being held.
He felt that his suffering and pain had come to an end, and tears burst out of his eyes involuntarily.
Then he suddenly woke up.
"Hmm...?" Elaine, who was still very weak, climbed up from the bed. It was a simple bed covered with animal skins on the ground, and another piece of furry animal skin covered him, acting as a quilt.
"Brother, are you awake?" The little fox Bailey was tinkering with a pot of stew: "The broth is almost ready, you can eat it soon."
"How long have I been sleeping?" Elaine climbed out of the bed and asked in a low voice. There was still a smell of blood on his body, and there was still some blood on the foot that had been cut off, and there was also on his shoulder. It was obvious that there was blood.
Someone wiped his body a little while he was sleeping and wiped off most of the blood, but there was no way to clean it more thoroughly.
"It didn't take long, I slept for about two hours." Bailey replied, "Brother, don't move around. Just sit there and rest. After all, you were so seriously injured."
"Um……"
"Please listen to His Highness Bailey's instructions, Your Highness the Prince." Blood Lion Edmund also approached from behind and handed Elaine a cup of hot tea: "His Royal Highness is still very weak now. The most important thing is to supplement nutrition and recover from the losses.
The blood is replenished."
"Okay, okay." Elaine took the cup of hot tea and took a sip.
It had a strange smell, like rust. He looked again and saw that the tea was different from the black tea he usually drank. It was dark red. He had heard before that the Vikings living nearby would use some kind of tea.
Tea is made from polar moss. The bright red moss is rich in iron and vitamins and is essential for the Vikings to survive in extremely low temperatures. This may be the moss tea, given that Edmund learned from the Vikings
A large amount of supplies were obtained by fraud.
But this tea was extremely unpleasant to drink. Even Elaine, who had no sense of taste, could smell the strange smell in the tea. But in order to supplement his nutrition, he had no choice but to drink the moss tea.
There was a strange feeling of coagulated blood spreading in his throat. He was even glad that he had no sense of taste, otherwise he would definitely experience this strange smell further and spit it out...
Bailey has also cooked the broth. It looks like beef stew, and some finely chopped basil leaves are added for seasoning. It smells quite fragrant. Red meat contains a lot of iron and protein, which should be used to replenish blood.
It couldn't be better.
"Brother, drink slowly." Bailey carefully brought the broth to Elaine: "Also...the blood stains on your body haven't been cleaned up yet. Do you want me to wipe it for you?"
"I, I'll take a shower later." Elaine took a sip of the soup and replied. The fragrance of basil and the mellow aroma of beef spread in his mouth, and he was happy to use this smell to wash away the taste of the moss tea just now.
Weird smell.
"Okay, big brother and I will go for a swim together, hehe."
"Is there a place to take a bath here?" Edmund asked curiously.
"City, there is a lotus pond in the center of the city." Elaine replied: "Yes, do you want to take a dip together?"
"That's a good suggestion. I also want to take a bath. In a Viking village, well... there are no opportunities to take a bath." Edmund replied with a blushing face.
So how long has it been since this guy took a shower...
"Qui, do you want Queeg to wash it too?" Elaine looked at Leopard who was packing things aside.
"I'm clean. I don't want to wash it." The cloud-patterned leopard flatly refused.
So how much does this guy hate bathing...
"But Uncle Queeg has a strange smell. Well, it seems to be called musky smell?" Bailey said as if he was deliberately teasing Queeg.
"Huh? Is there..." Leopard, who usually looked calm, suddenly looked a little embarrassed.
Elaine didn't say anything, but muttered in her heart, "It does." In this era, many men like to use cologne with a very light smell and antiperspirant function to cover up their body odor. And that kind of cologne has
The most common scent is musky. Elaine had always thought that Queeg wore cologne, although he didn't quite believe that the leopard was such a dainty guy. So it turned out that Queeg didn't wear cologne, it was just him.
Is it just body odor?
When I think that this might be the case, I feel a little sick...
I really have to drag this leopard, which doesn't like bathing, to have a bath no matter what.
"Ah, I see. Mr. Queeg probably feels inferior because the size of the words is relatively small, right?" Edmund seemed to be able to read Elaine's thoughts and began to tease Queeg.
"Hey, hey!" But this teasing was a bit too much, especially when Bailey was present. Elaine quickly stopped him and said: "There are children here, don't, don't talk nonsense!"
"Huh?" The little fox tilted his head, as if he didn't understand the whole process: "What about that?"
"You, you don't have to understand," Elaine said hurriedly.
"Is it the one you take out when you urinate? Isn't it bad that it's small?" But Bailey guessed it after all: "I'm very small too, what should I do, big brother?"
Elaine covered her face: "You, you are still young and still growing, so it doesn't matter..."
He glanced at Edmund fiercely by the way. The blood lion looked away with an apologetic expression.
"Not a small talent." Quigg blushed and replied, "Anyway, I won't wash it. You wash it first, I'll do it later."
It's really suspicious that you're still so stubborn after all this.
At this time, along with the vibration, the whole city suddenly heard a loud noise.
"Huh? What, what's wrong?" While Elaine managed to steady himself, Bailey had already hid behind him.
As the dome of Atlantis, the huge crystal walls used to absorb sunlight suddenly moved.
The entire city was originally like a rose in bud, and those crystal walls were the petals of the rose. Now these "petals" are expanding, and Atlantis is like a huge crystal rose in full bloom.
The expansion of the crystal wall means that there are larger gaps between the inside and outside of the city. As Elaine expected, the cold wind gradually poured in from the gaps between the crystal walls outside the city and rushed into the city. It was originally supposed to be a greenhouse, which was quite large.
The warm underground city of Atlantis was gradually invaded by a cold current.
This had never happened before and Elaine was a little frightened.
But in fact, he has not stayed in Atlantis for too long. How deep can he understand this city? Everything here is unknown.
More sudden changes followed. White smoke gradually gushes out from the city's drain-like pipes and continues to rise into the sky.
Elaine's first reaction was to cover his nose and Bailey's nose. He thought the white smoke was poisonous gas.
In fact, his worries were unnecessary. The white smoke gradually filled the surroundings, and it had a moist and hot feeling.
This is water vapor. Extremely hot water vapor emerging from the depths of Atlantis.
The water vapor immediately adhered to every inch of the floor and walls in the city, and also adhered to everyone's bodies, quickly making their hair wet.
It was as if they had entered a sauna, and it was a very unorthodox "wet steam room".
"Huh..." Bailey said with a long face.
This water vapor does not seem to be toxic, it is just water vapor with high humidity. In fact, even if it is toxic, Elaine and the others have nothing to do with it. They have inevitably inhaled a lot of it.
What the hell is going on...
Being steamed in this way, everyone was soaked to the skin. Moreover, the damn water vapor came out very quickly and dissipated very quickly. They quickly rose to the sky above the city and disappeared into thin air. More cold wind surged from outside the city.
Come in, that is the authentic cold wind from the Arctic, which makes people feel chilled.
"Sneeze!" Bailey sneezed.
Elaine was also cold, but he knew Bailey was colder, and the child had asthma and couldn't catch cold. So he immediately hugged the little fox and kept him warm. However, they were all soaked, and this method of heating was honestly not efficient.
.
"Hmm... we can't. If we continue like this, we will freeze to death! We must find a place to take a bath immediately... a hot bath!" Edmund shivered from the cold: "How about we go to the lotus pond you mentioned?"
"That, that is cold water." Elaine replied tremblingly. Moreover, the distance from where they camped to the lotus pond in the center of the city was really too far.
But Edmund reminded Elaine. Since the roof of the house in the city center has enough depth to store a pool of water, and has good enough drainage performance to prevent the pool water from leaking and escaping, does it also mean...
He transformed into a white dragon man and flew to the rooftop with Bailey in his arms.
Sure enough, the structures of houses in this city are roughly the same, and the top of this house also has the same wide and strong guardrails, which are watertight.
Elaine took out a piece of Luna silica gel that she had received from Quigg before, and squeezed it hard. The fresh water stored in the silica gel pellet continued to gush out and began to fill up on the roof. Soon, it was filled with a
Pool - just deep enough for Elaine to lie down and soak her belly.
This is naturally a cold pool. But it doesn't matter. Elaine has already enchanted the Luna steel scimitar with flame rosin, and quickly heated the pool water with the scimitar lit with magic flames. The pool water next to the scimitar began to boil and bubble crazily.
, and the heat is constantly transmitted. In less than a minute, the pool water is heated to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, which is just suitable for taking a bath.
Because his whole body was soaked and very cold, Elaine took off her and Bailey's clothes without thinking much and soaked them in. Before soaking in, he transformed back into the appearance of a white lion boy, because the white dragon people
The body takes up too much space.
"Quick, come and take a dip." He waved to Edmund and Quigg downstairs: "The water temperature is just right."
"Then it's better to obey orders than to be respectful, Your Highness." Edmund took off his shirt as he climbed to the top of the building.
Queeg still stood there trembling stupidly: "I don't need it. You first... sneeze!"
"Idiot." Elaine looked at the leopard with a long face: "Come on! You, you will really die of cold!"
Leopard also frowned, probably realizing that there was no point in continuing to be emotional, so he sighed, took off his shirt and came to take a bath.
Then, Elaine finally knew the real reason why Queeg had been avoiding taking a bath with everyone.
The leopard's chest is losing hair. The area on his chest close to his lower abdomen, about half the size of a palm, is hairless. The bare, gray and slightly pink skin is exposed, and there are dozens of red rashes.