Vol 5 Chapter 81: "Kingdom" deep in the earth (Part 1)

The dwarf's words echoed in the cave for a long time, and the three subconsciously followed him into the cracked "gate", looking at everything around them with torches and fluorite lamps.
What I saw in front of me was a very spacious room comparable to the round table hall of the Red Blood Castle; the whole space showed the shape of a ring, with a huge cylinder in the middle, and a round arch design above the head, like a direct cover Same as above.
Very peculiar.
Lucien and the Oath Knight turned around a few times, groping on the walls from time to time, and actually found several "murals" on these walls-the color has faded, but it can still be seen roughly The lines come.
There are several grid-shaped cutouts around the wall, which look like decoration, but according to the speculation of the gray pupils, these may be the vents of this hall.
The gray pupil suddenly reacted. The place where he stood was deep in the earth, but he didn't feel any difficulty in breathing, his mind was sober, and there was no slight depression in his chest.
It ’s hard to imagine—if this hall appears in the castle of the empire, it ’s probably just the living room of a shabby lord ’s house ... but it ’s in the mountains, what about the five-headed little elves Can it be done? !
"Master Loren, what are you doing?"
The incredulous gray-eyed boy accidentally glanced at his eyes, and found that the dark-haired wizard was half kneeling on the ground, groping for the floor under his feet, and his expression immediately became more dignified: "Did you find something?"
"It's nothing." Lolling up the dust, Loren stood up. "Just a little curious."
Old floor tiles, surrounding walls, and dust deposited on it ...
This hall has a history of at least a few hundred years, at least dating back to the age of the ancient kingdom ... In other words, the history of this fortress is not inferior to that of the dragon kingdom.
In the era of the Dragon Kingdom, the birthplace of the Yunling dwarves, the earliest Mithril Mine ...
Loren felt as if he had touched some key places, and was about to find out the real reason why Farnesses appeared in this fortress.
"An exquisite and ancient building, but not our purpose here." The oath of the oath knight sounded: "I still don't see where the entrance is. Is this really the entrance to the Silver Helmet Mine?"
"Yes, this is the place." The dwarf replied sullenly, his tone hard like a stone: "As for the entrance ... this is where you stand now."
Where to stand?
"I told you before I came in that the cave was formed naturally due to the collapse of the support column." The dwarf continued: "And we will repair the tunnel here only to repair the collapsed part ..."
The gray pupil on the side first touched his head, and his face suddenly changed.
"Wait, you mean that this is not yet ..."
"Of course it's not a pit here, it's just an entrance." Then, the dwarf Paulis pressed his right hand on the column in the center of the hall, and pressed a thing that resembled a machine gate.
"clang--!"
Suddenly a loud noise!
Along with the sound of the machine, the whole hall started to vibrate, dust and gravel continuously slipped from the top of the head and the walls on all sides, and the shaking was getting more and more intense.
The indifferent dwarf still stood beside the column, motionless; the astonished gray pupil and the vow knight stood on the spot, staring at the surrounding walls.
No, no, not from around ...
It's underground.
Looking down, the dark-haired wizard widened his eyes and opened the "spiritual horizon" without even thinking about it.
Soon, the endless roar came from under the floor ... At first it was very weak, if there were none, but soon it became more obvious and more and more intense.
The next second, I saw that the column in the center of the hall began to slowly rotate, and the sound of the machine and countless gears continuously came from it. The roaring sounds around it immediately covered all the movement.
"Stand up—!" The expressionless dwarf Paulis suddenly shouted:
"We are leaving!"
let's go?
The astonished gray-eyed boy hadn't figured out what he meant, and felt the floor under his feet suddenly fall, as if it had fallen directly!
The oath knight beside him also widened his eyes, squeezing the corner of his mouth tightly, his expression extremely nervous.
Only the dark-haired wizard didn't change his face, just twitching the corner of his mouth.
Yes, this huge hall looks huge, it is actually an elevator!
Of course, whether it is an "elevator" remains to be debated. With the blessing of "spiritual vision", Loren can only roughly realize that the "disc" at his feet is operated by countless large and small gears and levers, and he has not seen The existence of any circuit, or similar circuit.
But the next second, he was no longer in a mood to guess what was missing.
"Holy Cross ..."
The dumbfounded gray pupil was so shocked that he couldn't speak. At this moment, his expression was almost the same as when the dragon king city Niederhog was discovered on the glacier wasteland.
Presented before them is a magnificent underground kingdom.
Countless "elevators" descended along the mountain wall, and countless spiral steel tracks hovered in mid-air; the huge gear above the head not only twisted the "elevator" underneath, but even turned around with the surrounding tracks and cylinders;
Above their heads, there are large and small, brick and stone "platforms" suspended and fixed in mid-air, like a pendant decoration on a balcony, one after another, connected by stone tracks and stone bridges made of obsidian;
Innumerable fluorite and moonstone covered all orbits and platforms in accordance with certain rules. Looking up, Hao Ruo night sky, like stars.
And when the three turned their eyes to their feet, a huge "steel arch" was gradually appearing in front of them as the disc dropped.
"This, this is Silver Helmet Mountain, this is the true face of the Yunling Kingdom?" Lusien's face was unbelievable, his throat twitched nonstop: "I, I know short ... Yunling Kingdom's forging and engineering skills are superb, The empire was unmatched, but it was too ... "
"No, you misunderstood." The dwarf Paulis said in a deep voice: "This is not the fortress town of Silverhelm Mountain, nor is it even part of the fortress."
"You mean ... it wasn't you who built it here?"
"No, I mean it's not even a city here ... In your empire's terms, it's probably equivalent to the wilderness outside the countryside, and the deserted mountain villages, right?" Paulis shook his head:
"This is the outermost pit area, and it is also an abandoned pit area."
"..." Lucien.
The disc stopped steadily, a burst of smoke and dust.
"Then why was it abandoned again?" The oath knight suddenly asked: "Because there are not enough minerals?"
"That's just one aspect, a small aspect."
The dwarf Paulis took the step and left the "Disc Hall" first, holding the torch in his hand and walking towards the steel arch: "More importantly ... The Yunling Kingdom has not maintained the strength of such a huge underground city. . "
"The colony that opened up territory to Bayern because the uprising mobilized too much labor; the ensuing civil war also caused countless people in the Yunling Kingdom to fight each other;
When we recovered and used the settlements to fill the vacancies in the mine, we lost the supply of the colony and could not feed all the people;
So the old dungeons can only be abandoned one by one, and the extra residents are used to fill the vacancies in all the fortresses ... all of this comes from a surname;
... Turin ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Feeling the gaze from the front, the dark-haired wizard just smiled and shrugged.
Is this another version of "Knight Legend"?
The direction leading to the steel arch was a long stone masonry road, which surprised the three people that there was a series of neat guardrails on both sides of the road.
But when the gray pupils stepped forward, they found that it was not a guardrail at all, but a grave with an iron pick.
Side by side, row by row, countless graves.
"The laws of the Yunling Kingdom, the nobles with surnames will have their own urns, civilians, especially miners, will be buried near the mine, for future generations to look at their names ... because they only have names."
The figure holding the torch stopped in front of the steel arch. The nameplate on the door flickered under the fire. Loren narrowed his eyes and looked at the text.
Platform No. 43, Nine Road.