Cloud Thinking

Although Beavis was very reluctant, he finally joined the queue to open the "blind box". After all, everyone has a gambler gene, who can resist the fun of opening a blind box?

Helia would occasionally compete with others to see who could open bigger and more beautiful bones, to show that she was favored by luck. This childish game became more and more intense after Beavis joined, and even Drummond and Helia began to fight over the wooden box.

"I was the first one to see this box, let go!" Helia pulled the wooden box towards her.

"You're talking nonsense. This is clearly placed in my row. Why are you coming here to grab it?" Drummond pulled the wooden box back unconvinced. He didn't think there was anything wrong with him and Helia snatching someone else's urn.

Two childish ghosts... No, two high-purity divine golds that can't be found even in panning for sand...

Beavis was standing behind them. He felt that the quarrel was meaningless. Without saying a word, he raised his wand and smashed the wooden box in their hands. The shattering was so sudden that Helia and Drummond fell to the sides under his strong force.

"If you don't know, you might think there's gold in there. What's there to steal..." Beavis walked forward speechlessly, picked up the bone from the pile of feathers, and without paying any attention to the two people who fell to the ground and screamed, he turned around and threw the bone onto the pile of bones.

"Beavis, if you break my old bones, I'll break your bones and give them to me!" Helia rubbed her arms and half of her butt. She fell really hard and felt that her bones were injured. The pain spread from the inside out, in waves.

Drummond probably fell hard, but after he got up, he was kind enough to help Helia and pulled her up. Seeing her frowning and pouting as she kept talking, he suddenly found it funny. He patted her clothes that were covered with dust and comforted her, "Then I'll help you take his bones apart and put them on your body."

This sentence originally had no special meaning, but it suddenly enlightened Beavis who was standing next to the pile of bones, "Wait, take apart the bones? Put the bones together?"

"Do you think this pile of bones can be used to piece together a person?"

Helia, Drummond, and Britney:? I don’t know?

"Even if we can really puzzle, we can't do it. I don't even know how many bones I have in my body." Helia spread her hands helplessly. Opening a blind box does not require any technical skills. At most, it depends on luck, but puzzles... are really not suitable for someone like her with a poor brain.

"I seem to have a magical power that can automatically combine parts based on the existing layout." Britney suddenly said.

"Ah? What kind of strange magic is this? Where did you learn it from? Is it difficult to learn? Can you teach me?" It was the first time Helia had heard of this kind of magic, and her eyes lit up.

"When I was in school, I always broke things, but I didn't have enough money to buy new ones, so I had to repair them. But I didn't have the skills. By chance, I bought a book called 'Magic You Don't Know Is Here', which recorded this magic, and it helped me a lot." Britney explained.

"This magic is not easy to learn. If you really want to learn it, I will give you a copy of the book someday."

"But I haven't used this magic for a long time, and I can't remember the spell for the moment. I have to find something else to try first."

"What are you waiting for? Open the remaining boxes!" Helia rolled up her sleeves and got to work.

Nothing is more suitable for use as an experimental subject than the wooden box that they smashed. Britney used her foot to sweep the opened wooden box beside her aside and reminded her, "Remember to leave me a complete one for reference."

Drummond threw a wooden box directly to her with his back to her, not afraid of hitting Britney. Although she caught it, she gave her a resentful look in return.

The teachers outside the venue who were watching this scene: ...?

No?! What good student would open someone else's urn! Even if it's not an urn! But since you know there are dead people's things inside, you shouldn't continue to open it! Why are these guys getting more and more excited to open it!

Sure enough, have these children been oppressed by the threats of the black magicians to the point of being mentally abnormal, and can only relieve stress and distract their attention by doing these perverted things?

Damn the black magician! How hateful!

"Poor little princess, she has been reduced to tearing up other people's urns to find food. If His Majesty Claude knew about this, we old bones wouldn't be able to defeat him!" One of the teachers said sincerely while wiping away tears. If you didn't know, you would think he was worried about Helia, but he was just worried about his own life.

"Not really, even if she did find something to eat, how could the little princess eat something that was left behind by a dead person?" another teacher retorted. After all, she was a noble lady from a wealthy family, how could she do such a wicked thing, stealing food from a dead person? Not to mention a princess, even a child from an ordinary family would not do that.

"You never know... People are starving to death, why do you care what that thing is? It's fine as long as it's edible. You can't really starve to death in it, right?" Levita didn't think so. He felt that the person who just said that was just pretending to be noble. If one day he fell to that point, he would probably even dare to eat shit...

"If the little princess is really hungry, the first ones to suffer will be the group of feathered people blocking the door." Levita added.

Although he had little contact with Helia, based on the few opportunities they had, he quickly confirmed what kind of person Helia was. It could even be said that he knew her too well.

"Yeah, she will definitely say that she has never eaten winged people in her life, so she has to try what they taste like. Anyway, they were the ones who came to cause trouble first, so the opportunity is now and will never come again." Mobichues echoed expressionlessly.

If Helia was here, she would definitely quarrel with him again. She was obviously a good student who was obedient and gentle. How could Mobicius describe her as a perverted murderer! Or Hannibal from the Different World Branch? Oh no, Hannia!

The perspective switched again. Helia, Drummond and five others were surrounding the pile of bones. Except for the box that Britney used as a reference, all the other blind boxes had been opened. In other words, all the bones were here. The number and size of these bones did not look like they belonged to one person.

Looking at the tiny pieces of bones scattered around, Helia felt familiar with them. After a moment's recollection, she remembered that these seemed to be the wing bones she had seen in the sarcophagus in the side hall. Then she muttered softly, "If I had known earlier, I would have taken the bones of the winged man as well..."

But the main hall was very quiet, and the five of them were so close together that the other four of course heard what she said, but they all mistakenly thought that Helia was regretting that she couldn't get the feathered man's bones, which could be sold for a lot of money.

No, you don't look like you're short of money, so why are you thinking about the bones of a dead person...

Drummond & Britney: What? Is the princess so poor that she has to sell dead people's things to survive? Is Claude too stingy or is the treasury empty? I haven't heard of it?

"This should also be the corpse of a winged man, but it seems to be much larger than the one we saw outside. Could it be a mutant?" Helia was completely unaware that the eyes of others were changing when they looked at her, and she spoke to herself.

"There are so many bones, there must be more than one person." Drummond continued.

"A winged person is no different from a normal person except that he has wings and feathers. I need to piece together a human skeleton first, so who among you is willing to be my model?" Britney stepped forward, holding the magic wand in her hand, and looked at the people around her.

Almost in an instant, except for Helia who was still observing the pile of bones, everyone else quickly stepped back several steps, as if fleeing, leaving Helia and Brittany looking at each other in bewilderment.

Helia turned her head to look at her partner who had betrayed her, then turned back to look at Brittany. Her eyes widened little by little, her neck slightly bent forward, with a look of doubt and uncertainty, she slowly pointed at herself and said in confusion, "Me?"

"Don't worry, I'm very familiar with this magic, I just never practiced it on humans. It's very likely that you won't die, so don't worry!" Britney patted Helia's shoulder, and the look she gave her showed not only the affirmation of being entrusted with an important task, but also a hint of guilt, and this guilty conscience was immediately caught by the sensitive Helia.

"Are you sure it's overripe?" Helia pointed at the failed experiment product that was crushed by Britney until only powder was left on the ground, then pointed at herself, shook her head and pretended to be sad: "You let me be the first guinea pig, Britney, you really don't love me anymore, right?"

"You know, we have always been using each other, so where is the love?" Britney not only did not deny it, but also stabbed Helia in the chest again. What a cruel woman!!!

"I'm hurt, and I've decided not to talk to you before I leave!" Helia covered her chest and took a few steps back, looking hurt.

She held the wand in one hand and grabbed Helia, who was trying to escape, with the other hand. She put her hand on her shoulder and said soothingly, "Okay, okay, it will be over soon. I'll start now."

Without waiting for Helia to prepare herself mentally, she felt a surge of magical power flowing into her body, taking care of every bone from head to toe. Then, she felt a sharp pain all over her body. Her body stiffened and she was about to fall backwards, but Britney held her tightly. Seeing this, Drummond also stepped forward to support her.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! It hurts! It hurts! My bones hurt! Ah..." The shrill screams and roars echoed throughout the main hall. As if afraid that others didn't know there was someone here, Drummond quickly covered her mouth, and then she bit him mercilessly at the base of his thumb.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaa! It hurts so much!!!

Drummond wanted to scream, but he held back. He just stood there, sweating all over his face. The arm that was covering Helia's mouth was shaking, and blood was dripping down his palm. His other hand was tightly around Helia's waist, fearing that she would struggle and cause magic to explode in her body. As a result, he couldn't even insert a hand between the two of them, because they were too close.

Britney didn't expect it to hurt so much. After all, when she used this magic before, she didn't ask the tables and chairs if they hurt. Even if they did, she wouldn't know!

Until Britney let go of her hand, Helia felt her eyes go dark and she was about to faint, leaning crookedly in Drummond's arms. Beavis and Karlzer wanted to take over Drummond, who was bitten and bleeding, but Drummond did not let go. The two of them could only watch from the side, and the more they watched, the more they felt that something was wrong.

Helia felt like she had no strength left in her body and her bones were about to fall apart. No, it was as if the bones in her body were forcibly pulled out. It was as if there were no bones left in her body and she couldn't even stand.

"Wow, what neat teeth marks. Look at what you have done." Drummond wiped the blood and Helia's saliva from his palm casually. Looking at the teeth marks that were so clear that it hurt to look at them, he put his hand in front of Helia and let her take a look at his masterpiece.

Helia gasped in pain and had no strength to speak. She raised a thumb with her trembling hand in front of her, indicating that she was satisfied with her neat teeth.

"Ouch, I almost went deaf from that howl just now. Not only do you have good teeth, you also have a loud voice." Drummond didn't even bother to treat his wounds, but insisted on sticking to Helia, mumbling to himself, and no one knew what he was trying to do to make himself known.

"Hey, are you still in pain? Why don't you try my healing magic? Karzer doesn't have much magic power left now, and the magic you gave me still has a lot. Do you want to try it?" Seeing that Helia ignored him, he started to promote himself again.

Beavis cast a suspicious look, his gaze moving back and forth between Drummond and Bellelay, as if he had guessed something, and revealed a strange smile.

"Dramon, do you know that you are very much like that kind of..." Helia was annoyed by his noise and was about to say something, but when she looked up and met Dramon's eyes, she was stuck and the rest of her words just disappeared silently into the air.

She wanted to tease him, saying that he was like those immature primary school students who expressed their affection by bullying others. But when she turned around, she saw Drummond's smiling face even after being bitten. The dimples on his cheeks made her want to poke them. His hand was not yet honestly hooked with her fingers. She was so confused by such an intimate action that her brain suddenly stopped working.

Drummond almost had the word "like" written on his face.

Helia felt inexplicably embarrassed, and immediately looked away, struggling to stand up. As if to cover up something, she lowered her head and touched her face, scratched her nose, and rubbed her ears.

Drummond saw that Helia's ears turned red, as if she had thought of something, and he looked away embarrassedly, but he was white, so his blushing was particularly obvious, not to mention that there was a big chandelier above her head, making it difficult for people not to notice it.

Kalzer didn't understand the strange atmosphere between the two people, and he just inserted himself in. With the belief of a nanny saving all living beings, he cast healing magic on both of them, and then retreated silently, like a ruthless self-service nursing machine.

Beavis, on the other hand, looked at the two people who were somewhat embarrassed with an auntie's smile on his face. He said nothing, but just watched with his hands folded. He was watching with such relish and enjoyment.

Just a few minutes after the four people fell into an eerie silence, Britney, who was working diligently, said that she had finished her work and called them over to take a look: "Hey, it's done, come and take a look."

Helia rubbed her face, forced herself to calm down, and walked to the pile of bones. She was a little surprised that with so many bones, she could only piece together a human skeleton. And judging from the skeleton, this person was very tall when he was alive, at least 2.5 meters tall, almost twice the size of a human.

There were a lot of broken bones scattered around. Compared to the bones that made up the skeleton, these bones were quite small, but there were a lot of them.

"Only one? I thought there were many." Drummond rubbed his palm, which had healed but still had teeth marks, and asked in confusion.

"Yes, judging from the structure of the human skeleton, there is only one," Britney confirmed.

"What are these bones?" Helia picked up one of them and looked at it carefully, but her knowledge was not enough to support her to come up with an answer.

Beavis looked at these tiny pieces of bones, then glanced at Helia, and a flash of inspiration came to his mind, and he said, "Could it be the bones of the wings?"

Helia had said before that this looked a bit like the skeleton of a winged man, and now that they had pieced together the human part, what was missing was the wings! And these tiny pieces of bones were somewhat similar to the wings of the winged man skeleton they had seen in the side hall, so it should be correct.

"But, we can't tell how many pairs of wings there are. How do we put the wings together?" Helia couldn't even put together a human skeleton, so don't expect her to remember the structure of wings.

"I don't know." Drummond replied truthfully.

After Helia realized that Drummond had a crush on her, she also belatedly noticed his special responses to her. For example, whenever she spoke, he would always reply very quickly, at least not letting her words fall on the ground; when a group of people stood together, he always liked to stand close to her, and would always find ways to dart in front of her to attract her attention, and so on.

She was not sure when Drummond's behavior started, whether it was intentional or unintentional, and whether a child of his age knew what love was. Perhaps it could only be described as a kind of adolescent ambiguity. But as a spiritually mature person, Helia did not develop any emotions other than friendship even though she really liked Drummond's appearance.

Helia felt that now was not the time to think about these things. She shook her head, threw away these strange thoughts, and focused on the current situation. She stroked her chin and thought for a moment. She raised her head and was about to look around to relax, when the huge statue came into her sight.

"Wait." Helia felt that she had thought of the answer. She did not dare to look up at the face of the statue. Her eyes only stayed on the part below the head of the statue, especially the six pairs of large wings overlapping behind it. When she thought about the layout of this place, the answer was already obvious.

"Could this be the remains of the sky god Adalesi?"