Chapter 29 Jinlong Village
Leaving Bingjie Town and traveling through more than 100 kilometers of snowfields, when approaching the village of Bailong Autonomous Dominion, it seems like entering another world. In Bailong Autonomous Dominion, there are evergreen conifer trees covered with snow everywhere. Through these trees, you can see giant ice sculptures everywhere in the wilderness. Each ice sculpture is carved into the shape of a giant dragon, and dragon sculptures of various postures are filled with the wilderness. If people who don’t know walk here, they may mistakenly think that they have entered the nest of the ice and snow dragon.
The villages in the Dragon Dominion are relatively small, with basically only forty or fifty people, and the largest village does not exceed one hundred people. They just live in the village, farming and hunting in summer, and when the winter ice is ice-cold, they begin to habitually collect ice sculptures of dragons carved by snow. Every dragon worship believer is a master of carving, at least a master of carving dragons. They often only choose a dragon carving that they have seen in their own eyes in their lives. Every year, they continue to carve until the end of their lives. These believers believe that this can bring themselves closer to the worshipped dragons and connect their spirits with the dragons.
Outsiders cannot understand this belief and think that their ideas are just imagined and cannot be realized at all. But in fact, all the people in the Dragon Dominion who have obtained the gift of the dragon and possessed some of the dragon's abilities are extremely devout believers. Without exception, they are extremely serious when carving, as if a sacred work is being carried out.
For thousands of years, it is not that there are no outsiders who have envied the abilities they have obtained. They impersonated believers and moved into the village, hoping to see how the worshiper clan gained the abilities of the dragon, but they finally discovered that this method does not exist at all. The people here just live in such a plain manner, and those abilities will naturally appear on them. Some people hope to pretend that they worship the dragon like others. They do the same thing every day, but they still gain nothing. Some have received the gift of the dragon than the people who later came later, but they still got nothing.
Many years later, people from the outside world finally gave up their stupid behavior, regarded the people here as aliens and no longer had more contacts. Only the human villages on the snow field still maintained the minimum level of contact with the Bailong Autonomous Lord.
A group of seven people drove a sledge and passed by the territory of the Bailong Autonomous Dominion and passed by two villages in a row. According to McVillin, there are no towns and only villages. If there is nothing important, the villages often have little contact with each other for one or two generations. Only at a ten-year gathering can they occasionally meet people from other villages at gatherings once a year. Although there is no city, their autonomous region also has its own core area similar to the city, which is the Golden Dragon Village, which is closest to the Forest of the Warcraft, where the ten-year gatherings are designated here. And once something important happens, the elders of each village will choose here when they need to hold a meeting. However, this is regarded as the core area. It is only because it is closest to the Dragon Mountains, which are regarded as a holy place by the Bailong clan. Others are no different from other villages in terms of size and population. The only exception is that the Dragon Altar of the Bailong clan is set here.
The dragon altar is not like the altar in the temple of the outside church. The dragon worships the dragon clan worships the dragon. However, it does not believe in the dragon, so it does not treat the gods like they do. They incorporate praise and worship of the dragon into their daily lives. Therefore, the dragon altar is only used at the ten-year gathering. The other time is just lying quietly in the center of the Golden Dragon Village, and no one will touch and climb. As for the small altars in each village, no one will use them for decades.
Due to the emergence of the contact person, Jinlong Village had to specifically select an unwilling elder to be responsible for this matter. After each contact person's term ended, he needed to come to Jinlong Village for a report. Of course, there was nothing to report. Basically, the situation in five years can be explained within three minutes. Then the elder who listened to the report spent thirty minutes completely forgetting. All the process was just a formality. However, this time, during McVilling's term, he encountered creatures with the aura of the guardian enemy and brought back their heads. This was a very important event for the Dragon Borough clan. It was probably a sensation in Jinlong Village soon, and then it was uploaded at a rally held in unknown years.
"But, let's rush all the way to the Golden Dragon Village?" Catherine slid to Panis and asked loudly in the face of the cold wind blowing from the snow field: "Don't you need to be familiar with the various situations of the Dominic lord in advance? For example, etiquette and habits."
"No need at all." Panis also replied loudly: "Each of them is an individual. You think they are the elders of the village chief, but they are actually no different from ordinary villagers, so just treat him like when they are with McVilling."
"Is that true?" Catherine asked in surprise: "What if there is any dispute? Who will deal with it?"
"There are basically no disputes in their village. Just like a dragon, everyone lives their own lives." Panis explained: "Even if there is a rare small dispute, it will be handled by the oldest elder in the village. If nothing unexpected happens, we will have to negotiate with the elder."
"It's really easy." Catherine found it difficult to understand this lifestyle and said with a wry smile: "So, let's just find him directly, take out your token and explain the situation to him?"
"Yes, nothing else needs to be done." Panis nodded and said, "It's actually that simple to contact the people of the Dragon Bible clan."
"There will be soon ahead." McVillin's unique voice came: "Golden Dragon Village, our destination."
McVillin's words are not exaggerated. A group of seven people walked around a snow hill and avoided several dragon ice sculptures that had not yet been completed. They saw a village not far away. The buildings of the Dominion are stone-like and are much higher than those in human villages. It seems that both the doors and windows are much larger than human buildings. Entering the village is like entering the kingdom of giants. The architectural styles of these houses are very rough, and the exterior has not been decorated or rested, just like they were piled up with huge stones. If you carefully observe the location of the doors and windows, you can find that the tall houses are all one-story buildings, and the interior of the room is probably taller than many temples. Seeing these, Catherine remembered the information about the dragon tribe I found when she set out. They like to live in spacious caves. I believe the Dragon Tribe was also infected by this habit, and they deliberately built this style when building the house.
The village does not seem to have any planning or functional buildings. There are only houses scattered around the houses in the center of the village. Each house is separated by a certain distance from each other, and there is almost no building within thirty meters. This is also the habit of the dragon clan. Although they live in groups, they usually live as individuals or families, and the caves between them are very far apart. Therefore, although the number of dragon clans is very small, they may almost be seen in the entire Dragon Mountains. This is the reason.
The conspicuous buildings in the village are two altars. The dragon altar is located in the center of the village, five meters above the ground, with a diameter of more than 100 meters, which is enough for an adult dragon to lie on it and sleep. The altar looks like it is made of ordinary giant stones. In addition to smoothing the surface and making the altar flat, there is no decoration. Seeing this altar, it is easy to remind people that at the ten-year gathering, a dragon clan may come to prepare an altar of this size. As for the other altar, not far from the dragon altar, the second altar is obviously much smaller, and it should be no different from the small altars in other villages.
Although covered with snow, there should be roads in the village, but the roads seem to have not been planned. They basically start from the residence and extend all the way around the Dragon Altar. However, again, unlike Bingjie Town, no one cleanses the snow on the roads, and there are not even footprints on the snow in front of some residences, which means that the owner of the residence has not left the room for so many days and has been staying at his home.
Seven people slid into the village, and no one could see it in the village. It seemed that this was a deserted village. However, the girls would not have such misunderstandings. They had studied the habits of the dragon clan and knew that the dragon was a creature that did not like to move. As long as conditions permit, they would never leave their nests. I believe that all the dragon worshipers who imitated the dragon had learned this habit. When they were not needed or were not suitable for work, they would also stay at home and go anywhere.
Entering the center of the village, McVillin looked around and left here for five years, but there was no change here, as if time had stopped here.
"These houses all look the same." Freya said in distress at the village houses: "And there is no rule. Can you really distinguish the owners of these houses?"
"Of course." It seems that McVilling was in a good mood and even spoke slightly faster: "Maybe you see these houses the same, but in our eyes, there is a big difference between them. Come with me, the elders I handed over the position and the one you are looking for should be the same."
Chapter completed!