Dawn of the Grey Tower

The sun moves towards the west unknowingly at work, and myths often describe the rotation of the sun and the moon as two carriages cruising round and round, or wolf dogs and other creatures that chase each other but can never touch them.

Eternity is often endowed with similar symbols. The sun and the moon are obviously constantly changing, and they never stop for a moment, but the intention of the sun and the moon changing has become an ancient totem because of its unshakable regularity. What a baffling and natural thing to do.

However, people who engage in various activities for survival or a better life are often not in the mood to lament such commonplace and moaning stupid things, because when they look back, it will be dark.

"Hello! Are there any guests coming?" Helen at the bottom of the tower grabbed the railing of the elevator with one hand and shouted into the brass horn on the side. This horn goes all the way up, and eventually it will reach the pulley operation room at the top of the tower, which is where Uni is now.

This is also normal. The elevator of the Tower of Cheese is limited by the space and does not take the form of a counterweight. Someone at the top needs to manually pull the cable to raise the basket. However, due to the ultra-high-efficiency pulleys made by the gray robe, the biggest difficulty in controlling the elevator is not how to pull it with strength, but how to make it go up or down smoothly.

"There should be a group of guests. They don't need the elevator, I'll go down and tell you." Yoni's voice came in a semi-distorted form along the speaker, followed by a shake of the elevator's main cable.

Helen leaned on the pillar, watching with great interest a dexterous shadow gradually descending along the cable in the yellow-red sunset, of course it couldn't just slide down like this, it would hurt his palm due to friction.

A better way is to descend a certain distance, find a good foothold, release the palm to buffer, and then repeat the previous process.

And since the elevator doesn't have such a preset foothold, the whole process of descending becomes tossing and turning, jumping up and down between square inches, like some kind of weird dance.

The human figure is not good for dancing this dance. Youni was able to complete this series of movements only by transforming into a macaque. In addition, he has done this several times today, and the whole process is extremely fast.

Yoni returned to human form from his macaque state and put on the packed clothes in his hand. The longer he was out of shape, the more redundant he felt that humans needed clothes. But in the cold north, it is definitely not a wise move to reduce clothing.

As for Helen, she was already numb. Today, she has seen too many grotesque creatures, and the human body is no longer enough for her to have any other thoughts.

This is also the process that mages will inevitably go through. With the broadening of their horizons and contact with aliens, no matter what their origins are, their sense of shame and human morality will gradually fade away.

"Who is the last group of guests?" Helen stretched her waist. At the end of the day, no matter how much she paid attention to her manners, her body had reached the limit of following etiquette. Her casual tone and sluggish movements revealed her exhaustion.

"The Edward family, the largest ghoul tribe in Cangshi." Youni took out the visitor list that Elsa gave him at noon from his clothes as if confirming it, and said in a deep voice, looking at the last name. This may also explain why they came so late, and the ghouls are not within the range of activities during the day.

"The Edward family? I remember the bone we dealt with before..." Helen still remembered that Cheese mentioned this name when he introduced the arm bone of the Ghoul King to them. The original owner of the bone came from this family.

"It should be their previous patriarch. I don't know who will come today." Youni put away the list, pushed open the door of the mage tower, and tried to keep his back straight. Going out from here, what they want to represent is the facade of the gray-robed mage. This is not what the cheese asks them, but the influence that today's visitors bring to them.

Night is coming, and the cold is its herald. The cold air broke out from the snow, lingered in the air, sucking every living thing out of the protection of the warm environment equally.

The shadows of the two children were stretched by the setting sun and blended with the leaning tower behind them, as if they had become a part of the mage tower.

Slowly, a group of visitors came out of the dilapidated city. Unlike the ghouls that many people think of, the Edward family of Cangshi is one of the few tribes that abide by the precepts. They refuse to eat living creatures, endure the desire for fresh flesh and blood, and even pray before eating.

These ascetic-style scavengers are dressed like ordinary people, but they are wrapped in many white cloth strips. It is not so much used to conceal the characteristics of the body surface that are different from humans, but more like a warning to others that they are different from them.

The veil of most ghouls will spread to the bottom of the bridge of the nose, which seems to seal their mouths, except for the one who takes the lead.

The leader of the Edward family has disheveled hair, showing a gloomy face. On the contrary, his body is very strong. Under the wrapping of the white cloth, you can still see how the muscles support the whole body. Every step can give people strength at any time. a feeling of.

But contrary to this rough appearance, the other party's demeanor is very gentle, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is simply elegant. A troop of ghouls approached, leaving the shallowest footprints in the snow, and moving most freely, without slowing down or curtailing his stride for fear of slipping.

He kept looking at the two children from a distance, and there was no obvious emotion in the dark hole of the child.

"We are envoys from the Edward family, requesting to meet the gray-robed mage." The man stopped twenty steps away from the tower gate, and then whispered in an unusually humble tone.

"The space in the tower is limited, please choose representatives to enter." The same situation has been encountered many times today. Starting from the Harpy in the morning, there were at least three to five people who visited, and Cheese's library could only accommodate one or two more people at most.

"Understood. Then please guide me to meet the master." They obviously had similar plans long ago. It seemed that except for the team leader, the other ghouls had no intention of entering the room at all, so they all stopped and raised their hands. Standing silent.

Youni could feel some kind of subtle discomfort from the opponent, not hostility, but more like touching a piece of cold ice. Just when he was hesitating, Helen said gracefully, "Then please come with us."

Helen led the way, Edward was in the middle, and Youni was in the rear. The three of them walked up the spiral staircase quietly, without saying a word along the way. Every visitor today has a personality, but the ghoul in front of him really left a very vivid impression on the two of them with his quietness.

"Teacher, the representative of the Edward family is here." Helen knocked on the door of the library three times and said to the gray robe inside.

The door opened by itself, Cheese sat behind the desk and looked at something, he seemed to have been in this position since the morning, "Please come in. Helen, Youni, you can go to Elsa for dinner first."