Dawn of the Grey Tower

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Under the light of the lantern, the dark tunnel revealed its true appearance. Not far from the gray robe modifying the saddle, a cave like a beast's den appeared on the wall of the tunnel. The light that entered the breath was swallowed up, and he was still not satisfied.

Cheese stopped Xiaomei again, turned over and got off the lizard and came to the side of the hole. He could feel the slight wind blowing into the main road of the tunnel along the hole, but if this was a ventilation hole in the tunnel, it would be too much. Too large, such a large ventilation duct with a single internal structure, is it not afraid of accidents such as accumulation of water or collapse?

"Have you seen these holes before?" Cheese stroked Xiaomei's head with one hand, and put the lantern into the hole with the other to try to see deeper.

These holes are not big, at least not enough to allow people to walk in, but they are not too small, at least they allow Cheese to stick his entire upper body into them, and the top of his head will not touch the upper edge. A hole of this size would never have been created arbitrarily.

Of course, the monitor lizard couldn't answer Gray Robe's words, but stuck out its tongue to lick the moss on the rock wall on the edge of the hole. Where moss grows, it means there is water, and it stays moist for a long time.

Sure enough, the light illuminated the inside of the hole, and Cheese saw a thin layer of water at the bottom, but the water was turbid. Although there was no odor, it was definitely not clean. The stagnant water that stayed here for a long time.

Cheese looked in the depths again, but he couldn't see a clear direction such as an end or a bend. He should be able to enter this hole by lying on his stomach or curling up, but now is not the time for cave exploration.

However, the mage is not an ordinary explorer after all, and there are other ways for him to get a glimpse of the places where ordinary people would stop. Gray Robe gently opened the lampshade of the lantern, took out a small piece of kindling paper, lit it, and threw it into the hole.

The burning paper turned into a light fire butterfly, staggering forward by the heat generated by its own combustion. Due to material constraints, this illusory butterfly can't go very far, but it's enough.

"The traces of artificial excavation, and they were excavated from the depths here." Gray Robe was not a professional miner, and only one obvious excavation trace could be identified in the limited area illuminated by the fire butterfly.

When the butterflies were scattered and turned into a few sparks, he noticed more, because the sparks did not fall on the bottom surface of the hole, but were carried by a wind and flew into the depths below. .

"Down ventilation? Or is this tunnel feeding air somewhere?" Cheese frowned slightly and looked up at the top of the tunnel, but it was too high for the current light intensity to illuminate. detail.

Gray Robe looked at the monitor lizard gnawing on the moss leisurely beside him, and sighed, "Okay, Xiaomei, it seems we can only rest here. Come on, take me up."

Hanging upside down on the lizard's back is not an ideal position for observation. After all, the physiological structure of human beings cannot be violated. Cheese can feel the subtle excitement and groggy feedback when his blood is poured into his brain.

But before he gave up thinking, the light of the lantern still illuminated something, the actual ventilation holes that supply the air to this tunnel, and they were scattered at the top of the tunnel, each about the size of a fist.

The lizard started running again. Cheese was thinking about the purpose of the hole he just saw on the saddle that was much more comfortable. At the same time, he also consciously asked Xiaomei to move along the angle between the top and the side in order to find More similar holes.

As far as the results are concerned, Cheese with similar holes has also seen two or three, but he only has one lantern and Xiaomei doesn't know what is called exploratory advancement, so the scope of gray robe's detection is actually very limited. Cheese can be sure that there will never be just a few similar holes on this route.

In addition, the smooth internal tunnel network of the City of Ten Thousand Laws also shocked Gray Robe. It's not that he hasn't seen similar structures. For example, the rat people of Valley City have built their own new city underground, an underground city entirely constructed by excavation and reinforcement.

But compared with the dungeons excavated by the rat people, the tunnels in these mountains are more reasonable and easier to understand. Their direction, distribution, structure and shape all reveal a sense of norm, which has left the stage of protesting against nature. , it has become that people rely on their own will to change and dominate natural things. However, considering that this place will eventually rise to the sky, it seems that the problem of the tunnel is not a big deal.

"If the library directs energy to the lift-off device inside the mountain, is it possible for these pipes to lead there? Well, it would be nice to locate the location of the big library. Unfortunately, I have no sense of direction here."

The monitor lizard's footsteps kept on leaving a slight noise in the tunnel. Cheese turned off the lantern, realizing that if those holes were really paths for things to and from, he might get into trouble if he swaggered through like a shooting star.

For the creatures that use this place, the passing of monitor lizards should be a common occurrence. uukanshu.com and most of the passengers on them are also incapacitated in the hellish turbulence, not a threat.

To be honest, even after remodeling the saddle, Cheese walked very vaguely in the second half of the journey. When he saw the sunlight at the end of the tunnel again, he didn't know whether to cry or faint.

"Oh, you look pretty good," said the station guard at the end of the tunnel as he helped Cheese off the monitor lizard. Apparently what he said was not bad was based on the standards of other passengers.

"You look very similar to the person who recommended this mode of transportation to me." Gray Robe resisted the urge to vomit. He was right, this mage is indeed similar to the mage of the Totem School Outpost.

"It's normal, Xiaomei's words, you came from the Totem side. The station guard there is my fellow brother. At the same time, he is also a researcher of domestication and application of monitor lizards." The mage said, and went to sort out Xiaomei's body. saddle, and his eyes were immediately drawn to it.

"I've made some small adjustments to it, and I'm willing to pay if there is compensation. But I think it's an optimization of the structure."

"Indeed, it hints at an avenue for improvement that favors..."

In normal times, Cheese wouldn't recommend talking to the other party more about how to improve the lizard saddle, but now he has more important things to do, so he quietly slept while the other party was still carefully studying the saddle. gone.

Leaving the inn, the rich breath of life in the air shows that the school is not far from here. Looking at the sky, it is still some distance away from dark.

"Looks like there's enough time, so let me fix a little trouble first."