As soon as they heard that there would be a celebration ceremony in the afternoon, Shallow Shallow and Lin Xue, who were always eager to see the world in chaos, immediately took action and went to freshen up. Women were really hard to understand creatures. They could always stay at home and dress up for half an hour just to go out for fifteen minutes. Even a strange girl like Shallow Shallow had the hobby of playing with her hair. Anyway, I couldn't understand this kind of behavior. However, there were also people around me who didn't need to prepare, such as Sandora, who never had the habit of dressing up. She was busy asking Fina about the Atlantean newborn. Fortunately, she was prepared when she went over to surprise the newborn's parents.
After a series of inquiries, there was nothing to pay attention to. No matter how many classes there were in a society, the birth of a newborn was always very fair. It would belong to whoever was born. There would never be a situation where a Mr. Leader would appear just to catch up with the first diapers of the new century — that was simply too unscientific. The newborn who was about to receive the blessing was an ordinary Atlantean civilian. Her or his parents (Fina wasn't too sure about the gender of the child. This mechanical queen who was used to calculating numbers was not interested in these slightly emotional things) were the guards of a small temple at the foot of Mount Olympus. The family members were very ordinary from top to bottom. The only extraordinary thing was that this lucky child was about to enjoy the first diapers of the new era of Atlantis.
"In order to adapt to the war back then, the old Empire also made changes to their reproductive system," Sandora said with a hint of emotion. "The gestation cycle of the Atlanteans is very short. The embryo can develop to a quite mature state in a very short period of time in the mother's body. Furthermore, when it was born, it would have the basic ability to move. It may be a little inappropriate to say this, but the next generation that they gave birth to is really like a beast with a strong adaptability. If an Atlantean baby and a newborn tiger were placed together in the primeval forest, only the baby would survive in the end. Their newborn would even start physical stimulation in the third month after it was born. "
I also searched for information on the racial characteristics of the Atlanteans in the updated public database. I also saw more detailed explanations of the things that Sandora said. Those things were shocking.
The old Empire's transformation had reached the point of complete tool. In order to ensure the population, shorten their birth cycle, and ensure that every Atlantean had strong combat power, their newborn would be injected with catalysts at the age of three. In order to produce more "sub-gods" with the power equivalent to an officer-level apostle, newborns of only six months were placed in crystal cabins with excessive radiation. In the end, the Atlanteans became the powerful carbon-based weapons that they were now. They only needed two months to conceive a baby, and a one-year-old child could learn to kill the enemy. Children who were still unable to win against beasts after the age of three would be branded with a mark of shame. Every Atlantean's life was spent learning how to fight and participating in battles. Their military career started from the first time they stood on their own and ended when they could no longer stand and fell on the battlefield. No wonder Leonidas said this to me when I went to the Temple of Valhalla.
"None of the Spartans can withstand their training."
At that time, I didn't understand what he meant. Now I understood. It seemed that Leonidas often drank with the Atlantean patrols.
"Are you done? If you are, let's go! " I craned my neck and shouted towards the second floor. I wondered why Qian Qian, who was usually careless and carefree, was acting like a girl today. She was usually a carefree and carefree person.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" Shallow Shallow shouted as she appeared at the staircase. She swung her legs elegantly, sat on the staircase's handrail, and slid down elegantly. When she slid to the bottom, she smashed the decorative metal ball at the bottom of the handrail. The metal ball then smashed into Liliana, who was running around in the living room. "Ah Jun, you're going to participate in someone else's celebration. At the very least, you should dress up a little, right?"
I never thought that my Shallow Shallow would have such a mind. I looked at the energetic girl in front of me in surprise.
"Otherwise, how could you have the nerve to freeload off him!"
I was wrong. I was wrong from before the thirty-third rune. I shouldn't have believed in Shallow Shallow's train of thought!
My elder sister felt that we should give her a surprise, so when we set off, we didn't inform Avalon. When our majestic family rushed to Monster Town, there was a lively and joyous atmosphere. Strange buildings had been built by the monsters beside the quaint and natural town. There was an especially large auditorium, which was probably prepared for the Atlanteans, who had an average height of three meters. There was also a square platform made of stone that was more than ten meters tall. I had no idea what it was used for. From afar, I could see many monsters busying themselves on the platform. Rhododendron Spp was jumping up and down in the cracks between the stones. She was probably commanding something. Previously, I heard from Purple that this vixen was in closed-door training at home to grow her tail. Looking at it now, it seemed like it wasn't time for her to come out yet — out of Blue's nine tails, three and a half were listless, and the fur on them was still white.
I searched the crowd for Orange Meow, who also had an uneven tail. I let out a long sigh in my heart. Raising an unlucky child is really … She's even more troublesome than Mercury Lamp.
The scene in front was only the scene on the ground. There was something even more spectacular in the sky: the Atlantean floating city had already moved to the sky above Monster Town, and it looked like it was hovering. The mechanical structure at the bottom of the city extended out from the soil and boulders, projecting many pattern-like objects below the floating city. I observed for a while and realized that the monsters below were actually busy on the auditorium and the stone platform below according to these patterns. Every time a new pattern or light beam appeared, a large group of monsters would run to the position indicated by the light beam and get busy. Ibuki Suika was one of the best among them. She had great strength. She carried a large pile of stone slabs and ran around the scene like a gust of wind. Because she was so small, at first, I thought that the stone slabs were floating in the air …
The abnormally tall Atlantean giants were walking among the groups of monsters that looked like children. They guided the latter in building the platform or personally arranged some key ceremonial items. Don't ask me why I knew that those strange things were ceremonial items. There were four words written on the boxes on the ground that were half a meter tall: "For Ceremonial Use."
I didn't expect that there would be so many monsters coming to help during the Atlanteans' celebration. At first, I didn't pay much attention to the many monsters that were busy building things for the Atlanteans in Avalon. I thought that this group of happy fellows had found something new to cheer up. But now, it seemed that they were treating the Atlantean celebration as their own big festival. They seemed to be very attentive.
"Wow! You guys are here! "
Just as we were observing the monsters finishing the construction in an inconspicuous place far away from the construction site, a rash voice suddenly rang behind me. I turned around in surprise and saw a small girl holding a basin of ice cubes. Her sparkling blue eyes peeked out from under the basin, blinking as she looked at our family.
Short and small, with blue ice wings, rash actions, and the habit of running around with a large basin of popsicles on her head. Needless to say, the one in front of me was Eleanor.
We greeted the ice fairy, who wasn't very smart, and then each took a popsicle from her basin. Although it was winter outside, Avalon and Shadow City were using warm early summer themed packages. Plus, our family wasn't afraid, so Eleanor's popsicle was divided up in the blink of an eye.
"Eat more, this is a Golden Apple." As I ate, I stuffed one into Lin Xue's hand. "Back then, Hercules almost got people to train to death for this thing."
Eleanor stared blankly at the group of people who snatched half of her goods without saying anything. It took her a long time to react, and she shouted at me to ask for money. This girl knows that when a group of people appears, the one in charge of paying is always the man. Of course, it could also be because I was standing the closest to her.
I used about seven seconds to make Eleanor think that we had already given her money. In the end, my elder sister couldn't stand it and gave the poor Circle Nine some change. Finally, this idiot didn't lose everything. With this interruption, Eleanor suddenly became confused. She circled around me with the basin on her head. "Oh yeah, what are you guys doing here?"
"Shh!" Shallow Shallow immediately gestured for Eleanor to keep quiet. "We'll go in secretly, don't make a sound …"
Giruno nodded dumbly. As soon as we relaxed, she threw the basin away and rushed to the construction site while yelling, "Oh no! The landlord is here to collect protection fees! Fox, fox! The violators are here!! "
I chased after her angrily and shouted, "What the heck! Who taught this little b * stard these things?! "
Eleanor's mindless shouting ruined our plan to sneak into the village. Although she wasn't big, her voice was really out of the ordinary. The moment she shouted, almost everyone heard her. A group of monsters rolled down from the top of the stage and the auditorium like stones rolling down a pyramid during an earthquake. They scattered like birds and beasts. A few seconds later, we were surrounded by a few familiar fellows. Ling Meng, Blue, Cui Xiang, Youyouzi, Demondream, and a few other Atlanteans, such as Ares and his daughter who was three to four times older than me. Ba Yunzi didn't appear — she was probably still hibernating.
A few of the monster girls who were more familiar with each other came up to greet Qian Qian and the others. They laughed and joked around with each other. My gaze fell on Blue out of habit. Her large golden tail was always eye-catching. Noticing my gaze, Blue immediately reached out to cover her back nervously. Her big tail shrunk into a big dumpling. "That … hair is going to grow out soon!"
The fox girl was embarrassed that her tail was stuck with hair gel. Her embarrassment was quite strange. When she was first picked up by us, she ran around the room naked once, and there was a man at the scene. In the end, this fox was completely fine. Now, only a little hair on her tail had fallen off, but she was so shy under the gaze of others. I couldn't help but sigh at how strange the difference in species was. Actually, I felt that Blue's tail was pretty good now. Although it wasn't as fun as it used to be, three of the tails still had traces of a sword mound. No matter how I looked at it, it was full of black gothic metallic colors. In this day and age, there were people who pierced their faces, pierced their noses, and inserted nails into their backs. This fox had a twenty-four armed tri-edge bayonet on her tail. Wouldn't it be the same if she called herself a performance artist?
My mind was racing. Blue almost didn't dare to raise her head. Even the fox girl's ears drooped. After a long time, she muttered softly, "Are you here to investigate illegal construction?"
Everyone was speechless.
We hurriedly stated our intentions, saying that we wanted to see the newborn of Atlantis. This immediately made Ares a little uneasy. The 2.8-meter-tall giant (in our eyes, Ares would be considered a second-class cripple compared to the other Atlanteans) rubbed his hands nervously. He muttered softly like a primary school student who had done something wrong, "This is just our small gathering. I didn't expect the Great God to come personally."
Presumably, from Ares' point of view, the birth of an Atlantean civilian child, no matter how special this child was, was just a celebration among the "servants". No matter what, it shouldn't disturb the "Great God". This should also be the most common thinking of the other Atlanteans. In the end, it could only be said that the Old Empire's rule and transformation of them was too perfect. However, we didn't have such troublesome concepts of class. Liliana stepped forward and patted Ares' calf and belly carelessly (she couldn't reach any higher). She giggled and said, "Alright, alright. Looking at the time, the baptism should be starting soon, right? Today, this is the lucky one to receive my personal baptism and the personal blessing of the Goddess! "
Ares was overjoyed when he heard that. He quickly led everyone to the large open-air platform.
When we arrived just now, the monsters were already finishing up the scene. They placed the huge ceremonial items on the altar and wrote blessings in certain places. The next step was to take the newborn out of the "greenhouse" and send it to the ceremonial platform. On the way, Ares patiently explained the process of the ceremony to us. It was a little strange, but it also made people curious. Even the restless Shallow Shallow was listening with great interest. The first big house that the monsters built was called the "greenhouse". The newborn and its mother would stay in the greenhouse for a total of seventy-two hours. The greenhouse was filled with clean food and "holy water" that had been irradiated by a psionic crystal (Alright, I think that the blue liquid should be considered radioactive water). During this period of time, no one was allowed to enter the greenhouse. It was said that this process was to isolate the newborn child from all evil in the mortal world. After three days, the Atlantean baby would have complete immunity and adaptability to the environment. At that time, they would think that the child had sealed his soul with a pure body and could resist the evil in the mortal world. Thus, the newborn would be sent to the baptism platform in front of the greenhouse to receive the next step of baptism.
When we arrived, everything was ready. The newborn was about to come into contact with the first ray of sunlight.
Sandora and I, along with a bunch of family members, were treated as the most sacred guests. We were invited to the baptism platform and stood at the position where the priest who was supposed to host the ceremony would stand. Behind us, there were already three giants.
Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon.
These three were the most powerful carbon-based warriors created by the old Empire. Their ten-meter-tall bodies gave me a lot of pressure. This pressure was indirect. First, they pressured Pandora and her sister. Then, Pandora and her sister pressured me. Finally, I forced them to sit down. Although the three brothers kept saying that it was disrespectful to sit next to the great god during this kind of ceremony, they could at least lower the temperature of Pandora and her sister's foreheads a little when they sat down.
"Where's the child? Where's the child?"
Liliana jumped up and down on the incomparably spacious platform in silence. She was surrounded by a circle of solemn Atlantean priests and the monsters who didn't even dare to breathe loudly. The priest in black who was hosting the ceremony originally wanted to say more according to the prayer, but when he saw me winking at him, he could only shrug helplessly. Everything was simplified and he quickly asked the people to bring the newborn and the child's mother up. Liliana was already scratching her ears and cheeks as she spoke incoherently, "Hurry up and bring them up for me to see! I've never seen a baby in my entire life! Let me see if it's square or flat … "
As soon as her voice trailed off, a team of assistant priests finally walked up from below the platform. They were all wearing black robes and silver masks that were compulsory for formal ceremonial occasions. Walking at the front of the team was a young Atlantean woman. Obviously, she was the child's mother. This happy new mother had a ruddy complexion. Her appearance was as dignified and beautiful as all Atlanteans. Her steps were strong, and her eyes were full of spirit. It was impossible to tell that she had just given birth a few days ago. Well, this was the victory of the biochemical technology of the old Empire.
The newborn's mother had the honor of walking at the front of the team. Behind her was the child's father. Since he was a handsome man with a height of 3.1 meters, I decided not to waste any more words on him.
Behind them were the priests who carried two small golden cushions and walked steadily onto the platform.
Two small beds?
My eyes suddenly focused on the two identical small beds. Ares saw my confusion and immediately bent down to explain in a low voice, "God, a soul has descended into two bodies."
Liliana rolled her eyes, "Twins, can you not talk so mysteriously?"
I was speechless.
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