imagination tested, get confused by the expression while reading a novel ，Anyone knows what it refers to？

Hi Everyone， what is the “sky-belly”here ？Can’t figure out its meaning， got me carzy. The original sentence is like this: “Two hundred ghost bows bent. Fifty hands tried to find some sky-belly to grab. ”

a black pod means what？

 It’s a <a name="OLE_LINK37">black pod </a>with all-wheel drive, a panoramic windshield, touchscreens everywhere, and Tesla’s Falcon Wing doors. Anyone knows what does the "black pod" mean here? Thx!

Does anyone know what this mean? "a kind of relish in enormity" The whole sentence is like this: “Yes,” she said, with a kind of relish in enormity. “Beaten her black and blue.” Thanks!!!!!!

Does anyone know what "fallen-on-evil-times"mean? The phrase is taken from this sentence "It was not the fallen-on-evil-times look of the house"

Help！ I really cannot understand what this paragraph means！ So the paragraph is as follows，“ Larborough was bicycles, small arms, tin-tacks, Cowan’s Cranberry Sauce, and a million human souls living cheek by jowl in dirty red brick; and periodically it broke bounds in an atavistic longing for grass and earth. But there was nothing in the Milford country to attract a race who demanded with their grass and earth both views and tea-houses;” It seems to me that the first sentence is talking about that Larborough is stuffed with all those things. But what does " in dirty red brick" mean? And the last two sentences? What they are talking about? I cannot get the point. Somebody helps me, plz!!