Dawn of the Grey Tower

Latest URL: Yoni thought he would never be surprised again. There are two reasons for this. The first is his past experience. As a waif, he has no clear world view, and the whole world is strange to him.

For example, people can walk on two feet, use four limbs, and even use their head to move. This is not surprising, because he has seen them all. In this grotesque world, there is no time to be amazed, to marvel at such acts, to comprehend what one sees, to determine the next course of action, without hesitation.

Those compatriots whose brains turned a little slower have disappeared into the darkness, and gradually even their voices and faces have faded away in Youni's mind. Until the arrival of the cheese, the gray-robed mage brought order to the apprentices with a strong posture, a clear set of world views and what is normal and abnormal.

So did order make Yoni learn to be surprised? not at all. The person who gave him order was not a secular scholar. As a gray robe, cheese's view of order itself is something between chaos and rationality, and even a unity of opposites between the two.

In addition, Jian Qi and his qi also had an impact on Youni during that time, which is another way of thinking that cancels the separation of body and mind and generalizes the world. Adding the two together, Yoni's inclusiveness of foreign objects has no boundaries.

This kind of boundaryless cognition is different from the initial numbness, which means rejection and non-acceptance, and achieves stability through self-enclosure.

Boundless is not the case. Boundless means formless, borderless, and can merge with anything that comes close. In the process of merging, Youni will have his own feelings and thoughts. He truly accepts and feels certain things, and truly accepts other things.

That's why he shows unique emotions to some people, such as cheese, such as Elsa, he knows that they treat him very well, and he will not ignore them.

So what surprised Yoni with such a special state of mind? The answer is the city in front of him, this valley city built underground.

Perhaps the name of the valley is no longer suitable for it. According to the naming principle, it should be called Xidi City or Valley City, but the residents are still used to the name of the valley and renamed the aboveground city with this name as the old district or ruins.

Perhaps it is also true that a city without its inhabitants can no longer be called a city, considering that the first function of the city is to be inhabited.

"What's that?" Youni asked, pointing to the sunken stratum obliquely above. Around the formation, rocks were used to build a ditch-like track, and there were stone pillars at equal intervals below to support it. But it is not a bridge, and there is no exposed water flow.

It is not his teacher who is beside the apprentice now, but Elsa who is entrusted to take care of him during the handling of various affairs. Sha didn't know the Ratman city well, at least eighty percent.

Therefore, she could answer this question without thinking, "That's a dark river. In addition to the Dragon's Blood Creek, there are several underground water veins under the valley, and they have caused considerable obstacles in the process of urban expansion."

Dark rivers and rock formations, these are the two biggest obstacles that plagued the Ratman excavators. Yoni looked at the long river, and the stone ditches clinging to it that disappeared into the walls. "It must have taken a lot of work."

"That's right, but it's much better than being helpless." The person who spoke was an old rat man sitting in the shadows. Compared with Gray Man, his body was slightly stronger, but his aging was already obvious. Most of the old man's words will be persuasive, and if he carries an iron pick on his shoulder, his persuasive power will be even stronger.

"In the beginning, we couldn't do anything about them. We couldn't change the river course, and we couldn't smash the stone. The crypt could only be dug according to the outline of the ground, there was no planning at all, and it couldn't form a city. The master mage told us that we could use The stones strengthened the river, and the dwarf Grand Duke told us how to dig the rock formations, and this is how the city looks like today. In this city, the artisans and workers are the most amazing. Even those noble lords cannot make us kneel."

The Rat Man's tone was quite proud, which was why he was happy to tell the history of this period of city building.

Elsa thanked the other party for his explanation and affirmed his statement. The excavators and architects in the Ratman city are indeed the most important group of people in this society. Without them, the cave cannot expand safely, and the planting area and the number of ethnic groups cannot be guaranteed.

This is the biggest difference from the creatures living on the ground, that is, the ratman society is to some extent a society that relies heavily on technology, which makes them very close to dwarves. Both the mountain-digging dwarves and the ground-digging ratmen survive by opening up non-residential areas. Maybe thousands of years later, the ratmen will be dominated by old craftsmen like the dwarves, and replace the current blood with a similar system system.

But only if they can live until that day comes without stronger external guidance.

"How do you feel now? The roof here is very low, and many people who come here for the first time will be out of breath." Elsa looked up at the top of the passage, which may be only half a body away from the top of her head , Low passages can create a sense of oppression.

"Fortunately, I think it's very comfortable here. Are there other humans here?" The dark area of ​​Riverrun City where Yoni once lived is also in the mezzanine below the main deck. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com To a certain extent, the sky scare him.

"Yes. There may be more than you expected. Humans have abandoned the Ratmen, but the Ratmen have not abandoned humans. Some recognized refugees, and people who have settled here for various reasons, they all live outside The core of the ring, there is a separate exit passage there. We are going there."

As I said before, some criminals finally chose the Valley City as their destination. Many of them have no actual sins, or the evils of this era are not all produced from the evil in their hearts, such as poverty, hunger, ignorance, etc. Factors make them leave their homes.

Among them, those who can accept the rat people and are accepted by the rat people become the human residents of the dungeon. And one of their main tasks is to maintain the so-called outer ring core, which is an area for non-ratmen visitors to settle down, which is equivalent to an embassy in an above-ground city.

Before Elsa finished her explanation, Yoni spontaneously stood in front of her.

There was no other reason, from the passage ahead, three people and three women walked towards them. The antlers on the apprentice's head slowly elongated, which was his subconscious reaction when he noticed the caster.