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Blazer saw an employee staggering and immediately reached out to support him.

"Mom... I'm so tired..."

"Ahem." Blaze coughed awkwardly. The employee was startled and stood up straight. After looking at the person in front of him clearly, he touched the back of his head awkwardly.

"Sorry, I'm a little too tired."

"I understand. It's okay. You should go to bed early." Blaze waved from the warehouse, took out a golden fruit from the sea of ​​golden apple trees and placed it in the hands of the tired employee.

In order to prevent employees from refusing, he said that it was arranged by President Herbie and that every employee had one.

After distributing the fruits, Blazer sighed helplessly. The situation of the employees was not very good. Working for 24 hours straight was too much of a burden.

The fruits of the Golden Apple Tree Sea have powerful vitality. Eating them can restore health points, but fatigue is not an abnormal state that can be offset.

Even someone as professional as Greenland will enter an energy-saving state after being active for more than ten hours - that is, the consciousness is blurred, but the body is still active.

Blazer believed that Herbie must have given appropriate compensation and training, and it would be inappropriate for him to interfere and give comments.

He sat in the floating island inn for a while, waiting for the employees in the inn to complete the handover. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but the sea of ​​clouds seemed to invade the inn.

Because there was no sunshine, the clouds made the entire station look very gloomy and sleepy.

"Is it due to the environment?" Blaze waved his hands vigorously, trying to disperse the uncomfortable fog. Unfortunately, the fog was like a dog-skin plaster. Even if it was waved away, it would come back soon.

A female employee saw Blaze waving and immediately came over to explain.

"There's no way to dispel this fog, haa ...

The female employee had just finished speaking when she yawned unexpectedly. She immediately covered her mouth and waved her hands at Blaze embarrassedly.

"Sorry, I yawned right after I got to work."

"It's human nature." Blaze waved his hand indifferently and began to understand the situation of the floating island.

As the nearest station to the teleportation point, it naturally has quite complete information about the floating island, ranging from the culture of the indigenous people to the ecological environment, which is almost the same as Hebina's.

But he was not wasting his time, as the intelligence from Hebina did not say that these employees were drowsy.

This could be a perfectly normal situation, but it could also be a sign that something unusual is about to happen.

Even if it's not a big deal, it means that the employees of [Hermes' Traveling Hat] were found to be unable to adapt to the work mode of one day on and one day off, and adjustments need to be made.

After Blaze took note of this, he bought a map and an atlas of the floating island's ecology and left the inn.

Judging from the map, the entire floating island is roughly in the shape of a huge disc. In addition to the central disc as the main island, there are also circles of rings surrounding it as subsidiary islands.

The central island is naturally where the sky giants live, and it is also the location of the temple dedicated to the [Remnants of the Sky].

Needless to say, the temple, or the place where the [Remnants of Heaven] are enshrined should be in the center of the entire floating island.

In addition to the sky giants, there is also the ecosystem of the floating island. The floating island is not a world in a special space, so the monsters living in it are not as special and extreme as those in the vertical abyss and the falling abyss.

But if it was just an ordinary ecosystem, it would not attract foreigners to explore, so [Hermes' Travel Hat] took the initiative to do business.

This world is very magical, and any region will produce a corresponding environmental ecology.

There are sea fish in the sea, and there are also flying fish in the sea of ​​clouds.

"Feather fish, thunder fish, wind speed fish, oh! There are quite a rich variety of species." Blaze widened his eyes with interest. These rare monsters that live in the clouds and are absolutely impossible to encounter under normal circumstances are appearing in large numbers on the floating island.

The reason is simple, just like birds are life in the sky, but they cannot fly infinitely and always need a place to rest. Even sky fish living in the sea of ​​clouds need a place to rest.

The island-country-level floating island is naturally a Feng Shui treasure land, gathering a large number of sky fish.

It is said that on the day when the sky fish lay eggs, there will be a very shocking scene of sky fish all over the sky. The scales of the sky fish will emit sunlight, making the entire floating island look like a huge gem sparkling with countless colors.

Unfortunately, this spawning day is called the "Disaster Day". Sky fish don't care about the "doomsday number". They just focus on spawning, and fish spawn in tens of thousands.

When the eggs hatch, it will be another disaster. The hungry young sky fish will attack everywhere. The carnivorous sky fish will hunt the livestock of the sky giants, which are already few in number, and the herbivorous sky fish will eat the vegetation. It will be a disaster anyway.

Therefore, every year during the breeding season of sky fishes, the sky giants would risk their lives falling from the floating islands to eradicate the eggs laid by the sky fishes on the cliffs.

The biggest advantage of opening the floating island to foreigners now is that there is a group of people who are not afraid of death to eradicate the eggs, and they don’t have to be paid.

"[Doomsday Number] Ah...it seems like everything revolves around this."

Chapter 1605: Survival of Civilization

Blaze cares a lot about the [Doomsday Number]. Everything in the Sky Giant culture revolves around this number.

Even if the center [Remnants of Heaven] leaves, the influence of [Doomsday Numbers] will always be there.

It is indeed a problem that the floating island will fall because it reaches the [Doomsday Number]. Perhaps all problems can be solved by simply letting the floating island fall.

The Sky Giants are not a race that can only survive in the sky. On the contrary, their physical abilities are no worse than those of the Giens, which makes them feel restricted when living on the floating island.

The sky giants who came to the ground seemed to have been suppressed for a long time and were running and laughing freely as if their nature had been liberated.

But this simplest and most brutal way to solve the [Doomsday Number] is undoubtedly the worst method. The culture of sky giants will disappear, and the difficulty of hunting sky fish will increase.

Blaze's ears twitched and he turned his gaze away from the map. A quarrel came from the clouds, followed by a series of hurried footsteps.

"Who wants to stay in a place like this?"

A young sky giant rushed out from the clouds. Although he was called a boy, he was much bigger than Blaze. One could only judge from his immature face that he must be young among the sky giants.

In addition to the undisguised heavy footsteps of the sky giant boy, there was also a series of more anxious and lighter footsteps.

Blaze raised his foot and tripped the Sky Giant boy, then before the Sky Giant boy fell, he grabbed the Sky Giant boy by the collar and made the Sky Giant boy fly into the air and spin several times like a windmill before lying on the ground.

"Ah." After doing all this, Blaze realized what he had done. His body moved subconsciously and knocked down the sky giant boy.

A few seconds after the sky giant boy was knocked down, an even bigger figure appeared, a female sky giant.

The classic attire of the sky giants is a skirt and pants made from the scales of sky fish, and a top made from the fur of livestock. It is primitive and violent.

Blaze slapped his face. It was all because of what Kullene had told him about fertility worship. He would subconsciously look at those parts before he forgot about it.

"Sir, please, please let my son go." The sky giant woman said breathlessly. She noticed the map in Blaze's hand with the seal of "Hermes' Travel Hat", so she spoke very politely.

"Ah, sorry, I saw you wanted to stop him." Blaze released her hand that was pressing on the sky giant boy's chest, and the sky giant woman immediately helped the sky giant boy up.

Compared to the nervous Sky Giant female, the Sky Giant boy was full of energy. He didn't care about being knocked down at all. Instead, he was very interested in the fact that Blaze was able to knock him down despite being so short.

Blaze's eyes flickered between the two men; he had heard Herbie talk about this troubling situation.

This is a problem between the old and new generations. Although the old generation has accepted the opening of the floating island, they have become accustomed to the inconvenient life on the floating island, but the new generation yearns for the earth more.

The sky is vast, but they can only survive in its small space; the earth is limited, but they can run as much as they want.

After leaving the floating island, the sky giants living on earth under the arrangement of [Hermes' Traveling Hat] are all of the new generation, and their age is about the same as this sky giant boy.

The new generation that came to the ground were all unwilling to return to the floating island, and conflicts therefore arose with the older generation.

The old generation of sky giants definitely did not resist the ground. During the negotiation with [Hermes's Traveling Hat], there was an issue regarding the resettlement of the new generation, and it was the old generation that took the initiative to let the new generation leave.

But letting the new generation leave does not mean that they have to sever the culture of the sky giants. For example, the idea of ​​directly lowering the floating island to the ground is actually the idea of ​​the sky giants who came to the ground, which is said to have made the old generation very popular.

Judging from the education Blaze received, there are many cultural dregs of the Sky Giants.

Strict restrictions on population, activities, and food intake, and the daily mission of risking falling from the sky, are like the life of an ascetic.

However, Blaze could also understand the older generation's thoughts. No matter how bad the culture was, it was there for them to survive on this floating island. It was like a second mother to them. How could they just give up on it?

Herbie also understood this, so he was awkwardly stuck between the two generations and could only try his best to satisfy the ideas of people on both sides.

The sky giant boy seemed to be a group of new generations who had not left yet. He was very curious about everything on the ground and kept asking questions around Blaze, who answered them one by one.

"Mom! I want to go to the ground! It's so interesting on the ground!" The sky giant boy looked at his mother and puffed up his face.

The female sky giant looked at her son somewhat at a loss. After hesitating for a long time, it was Blaze who spoke up and said that the [Hermes Travel Cap] could guarantee his safety. Then she nodded slowly.

Of course, Blazer knew clearly that the mother was not worried about her son's safety, but that once her son left, he would not want to leave.

The sky giant boy cheered, and as if he was afraid that his mother would go back on her word, he immediately wanted to run towards the teleportation point of the post station.

But as soon as he took a step, the familiar feeling of dizziness appeared again, and he fell to the ground with a thud.

Blaze pressed the sky giant boy's chest and nodded at the sky giant woman who had a dejected look on her face.

"You don't want to say goodbye to your mother?"

"Ah, I forgot!" The sky giant boy was thick-skinned and tough, and apart from being a little confused, nothing happened.

At Blaze's reminder, he immediately stood up and said a formal goodbye to his mother.

Although the sky giant woman was reluctant, she had no choice but to watch her son leave.

Only when her cheering son disappeared in the clouds did the sky giant woman withdraw her gaze and bow to Blaze in gratitude.

"Thank you."

"No, there's nothing to thank you for. I didn't succeed in stopping your son from leaving. At best, I just made him say goodbye before he left."

"For a mother, that's enough."

"is it?"

Blaze scratched his hair with mixed feelings. Whether to stop it or not, it was not a good choice.

So he would occasionally choose to avoid the consequences and change the subject with serious matters.

"...I am a representative of the [Hermes' Traveling Hat], and I want to discuss the matter of the stone. Can you go to the high priest on my behalf?"

"I am."

Only then did Blaze realize that the sky giant woman's right arm was empty.

Chapter 1606: Omniscience called Routine

Megana, the high priestess of the sky giants, is also the leader of the sky giant nation. This structure where the high priest is also the person in charge is not uncommon among primitive nations with a small number of people.

Blaze naturally knew about it before coming to the floating island. After all, the high priestess Megana was the person he wanted to meet. He just didn't expect the meeting to be so dramatic.

Originally, he thought that he needed to use the identity of the spokesperson of [Hermes' Traveling Hat] and go through layers of notifications and reviews before he could meet the high priestess Megana.

Now it seems that he was overthinking. The number of the sky giants is only a few hundred people. In order to prevent the arrival of the [Doomsday Number], they frequently patrol and inspect around the floating island. They don't have the manpower to arrange so-called guards.

"What's wrong?" High Priest Megana led the way in front. She could feel Blaze looking at her.

"It may be a little rude to say that... I thought you would be a stronger woman. I also know that this has nothing to do with strength, it's just a simple stereotype." Blaze touched the back of his head embarrassedly.

In fact, he didn't care about this matter. As for the weight of [The Remains of the Sky], it was not a question of gender or strength, but whether one had enough faith and will.

Not to mention holding up the [Broken Wall of Heaven] all the time, just holding up your hands all the time would require enduring incredible pain and suffering.

It is precisely because generations of sky giant high priests have such will that Blaze feels that his thoughts are dirty.

Originally he didn't have any idea, but because Kullene kept making the [beep] sound, he felt uncomfortable no matter whether he saw a man or a woman holding the [Broken Wall of Heaven].

Blaze clasped his hands together with a snap, trying to use this gesture to drive away the dirty thoughts in his heart.

Who knew that the high priest Megana explained quite seriously.

"If you are too strong, your weight will increase and get closer to the [doomsday number], so we will control this aspect as well."

"Is it the [Doomsday Number] again?" Blaze was silent for a moment and did not continue with the question.

"Actually, this time I came here to ask about a special ore. You should have heard something about what happened on the ground recently."

"Well, although [Hermes's Traveling Hat] has no intention of letting us know about troubles on the surface, the children who occasionally come back will tell me about major events on the surface."

The high priest Megana leaned sideways and made an invitation gesture. They arrived at the center of the floating island, the temple where only the high priest of the sky giant could live.

Although the fog was so thick that it completely blocked her vision, she was very familiar with this road that she had walked countless times and could walk it correctly even with her eyes closed.

"The teleportation tower network on the ground has collapsed. We need an ore that can serve as the core of the teleportation tower. That ore is available on the floating island."

"That's not true. We have collected enough Ica Black Stones to repair the transmission tower network on the ground. But for some reason, it is best not to use Ica Black Stones on the lost continent of Atlantis."

Blaze looked around as he spoke. The sky giant did not arrange any procedures for entering and exiting the temple dedicated to the [Remnants of Heaven]. As I said, there was no extra manpower.

Although the sky giants are quite primitive in many aspects, they are extremely efficient due to the strict rules of survival.

To be honest, Blaze also thought that the temple did not need guards.

Now the [Remnants of Heaven] is no longer in the temple. The temple serves more as a record of culture. If it were in the past, there would be no need to worry about it, because the one sitting in the temple is the high priest Megana holding the [Remnants of Heaven].

Blaze exchanged words with High Priest Megana and explained his purpose. As expected, High Priest Megana showed an embarrassed expression.

"This...I'm afraid it's hard for me to agree to this."

Blaze nodded. He was not surprised. He never thought that the mineral that could replace the Ika Black Stone would be such a casual thing.