Dawn of the Grey Tower

The stone-carved owl is different from the bird of prey that cheese turned into at night. The long-eared owl made by cheese, or other similar owls, has a frightening look at night and can be seen in the sun. Not disgusting. After all, even the most docile animals are terrifying when they are in the dark, late at night, even humans themselves.

But the owl carved by the statue in front of Kailas is not. In the corridor with sufficient light source, there are a large group of hungry dogs under the pillars, and the appearance alone can make the cat goblins fear. It's not easy to get another level up, because fear can numb people, but it still did.

This is of course because the owl of the statue has a difference in appearance from the bird in Kailas’s impression, and this difference is not caused by the carelessness or lack of skill of the carving craftsman. On the contrary, the workmanship of the statue is very good. Exquisite, even the lines on each feather are vivid.

Because of this, its shape makes people feel the overflow of malice, as if it was deliberately carved into this terrifying shape.

The head of the owl portrayed by the statue has almost no hair, neither fluff nor feathers, only a few tentacles or other things that are asymmetrical and irregularly growing loosely on the top of its head and face.

This is uncomfortable enough, but it's much more than that. The statue’s eyes were about half larger than the ordinary owls. The huge eyeballs were replaced with two pitch-black spheres inlaid in them. I don’t know what kind of gems or minerals they were. They just made people feel lifeless, as if they were Look at a pool of stagnant water that has been stagnant for hundreds of years. And under the huge eyeballs, there was a huge open mouth.

The reason it is said to be a huge mouth is because the mouth has exceeded the proportion of the mouth of a bird such as an owl, and it is still open, which is even more disturbing.

And in that open mouth, there is still a human face. This face is the first element of Kailas’s fear, but he soon discovered that the so-called human face is actually just the pattern of the growth of the lower and upper chambers of the depicted bird, not the actual human face. .

But this only made the cat goblin's fear of this sculpture become uneasy. The feeling of being like a light on the back, the stiffness of the joints and the if there is no coldness have not disappeared, but there is a faintly stronger trend.

It stands to reason that as a person whose biological age is far beyond his appearance, or as a fairy who travels between the two worlds, and who has seen the existence of the worm evil spirit with cheese, his ability to accept may have been so strong that ordinary people can't imagine. , That is, tomorrow the sun will become the moon, and the moon will become a wheel, he estimated that he could calm down in the shortest time.

But even so, he could not deny the impact of the statue in front of him at this time. Malice, hatred, contempt, and banter can be found on the face of the statue, and when it appears in front of him as a whole, Like a pair of invisible cold hands, sliding gently against your spine.

Kailas took a bit of effort to resist the urge to drew his sword to hack the statue. His reason told him that this thing would definitely not only serve to frighten people and mock people, this is the base camp of the mage, except for the ability to move. , The statue must have other functions.

As if to confirm the speculation of the cat fairy, the filthy and odorous liquid began to flow out of the opened beak. The liquid was so thick that it felt like a stone statue was vomiting.

But those liquids were not poisonous or soft creatures. The cat fairy quickly realized that it was just a mixture of rust stains and grease produced when the mechanism in this statue hadn't been operating for too long.

As for the method of judgment, Kailas’s nose records at least thousands of odors he has smelled. Even in the most critical situation, his head can still retrieve accurate information from the odor memory bank in the first place. .

"Oh...puff!" Fear was diluted by recognizing the smell. Although the strange feeling did not disappear completely, Kailas still calmly avoided the sticky thing that squirted out of the statue's mouth. .

But the hounds below are not so lucky. An elf dog yelling at the cat and fairy happened to eat the black unidentified substance, and the barking immediately turned into a scream, lying on the ground trying to spit out what was in its mouth. .

"So, what the **** is this? If it was a crossbow bolt that should have been shot out of the mouth, the angle is not right. According to this angle, it can only shoot to a target with the same height at the top of the column."

Kailas curled his mouth, and the sand blade in his hand gradually took shape. He was considering whether to wait for the statue to start normally, or if the statue could not start normally, would it be better to push it down now? choose.

However, what was vomited before seemed to be the last threshold blocking the movement of the statue. After removing it, the statue's mouth began to emit melodious music. The music had never been heard by Kailas, but it seemed to have been heard. Although it came from such a horrible statue, he still couldn't help feeling relaxed and happy.

Not only the cats and fairies, but the elves under the pillars gradually calmed down after hearing the music, and even got down into a state of rest. Music, or sound, can indeed affect the behavior of the creatures heard to a certain extent, but the current situation is not so easy to explain.

"Magic, no, if it's magic, it doesn't make sense to affect me. What is it?"

As an excellent warrior, Kailas immediately noticed the changes in his body and mood. He knew that the source of this change was obviously the statue in front of him, but what he couldn't understand was how the statue worked.

Could it be that the mage here has mastered the magic that can affect the fairies? Combined with the appearance of the elven dog, it seems that it is not completely impossible. In the final analysis, what is the reason for the resistance of the elves to the spells of this world? For the reason, there may be a way to crack it.

"Calm down? Dear guest. UU reads www.uukānshu.com." The music in the statue slowly stopped, replaced by an old voice. The sound reminded Kailas of the sound of wind blowing through the dry tree hole.

"Guest? I have never heard of the hospitality of keeping guests in a cell and sending hounds outside to guard them." The cat goblin said coldly, and the sand blade in his hand has not yet dissipated.

"Sorry, although I guessed what you should have said, this statue does not have a radio function. It can only convey my words. So if you have anything you want to say, please talk to me in person. "

When the statue finished speaking, he turned his head and fell silent. At this time, the mage in charge of the hound finally rushed under the pillar out of breath and looked up at Kailas glaringly.

The cat goblin tilted his head, thought for two seconds, and then flew down, facing the opponent's neck with a blade of sand in his hand!

Just when the latter raised his arms to defend, Kailas had already tapped his head with his toes and landed gracefully on the ground behind the wizard. He turned the sword of sand into a crutch and leaned on it with one foot.

"Take me to meet your boss, kid."