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Regarding Clayton Bello's three questions - "Are there other hidden residents in this country?", "Are there other countries in Wonderland", and "Where does the dark wizard Edwards usually go?", Lewis got it earlier than him. Answer.

The Scarecrow shows another side of this kingdom for the priesthood.

Louis was dragged into an inconspicuous narrow cave in the forest by the dwarf. The violent collision between the back of his head and the rock caused him to pass out. When he woke up, the scenery in front of him was completely different from the previous surroundings of this country.

The sky was gone and they were underground.

In front of me is an underground tunnel that leads to nowhere, but it doesn't look dim. Many luminous crystals of different colors grow disorderly upwards from the underground.

Every moment, the sound of countless chisels hitting the stone, far or near, can be heard from far away or even further below. It seems that there are many miners working here.

Louis was stunned. The Scarecrow had put him down, but he didn't even realize that he had to stand up.

"I think you should be with us and that's why I brought you here." The scarecrow came to his face and brought him back to his senses. The dwarf's eyes were bloodshot and his tone was chilling: "Don't let me down. "

Louis smelled the scent of mole in his beard: "I know."

The dwarf nodded with satisfaction, and he pulled Louis up.

"Follow me."

"I have some questions."

"Of course you do. Every outsider has a lot of questions. Let me think about where to start - when the dark wizard Edwards stole this country. But before that, I will first Tell me something about me, and then you tell me about yours, how about it?"

Louis had no objections.

Although the dwarf pulled him into the hidden side of this country, he did not fully believe him, so he could not tell his real name. Louis could only continue to use the name "Scarecrow" for the time being.

Different from the first scene shown by the Scarecrow to Louis and his party, this dwarf had a considerable status in this country before receiving punishment.

It should be noted that this status is not one that Edwards can change at will.

This status comes from technology.

Edwards needs the help of Scarecrow and his kin, who are miners.

This country was originally an underground kingdom built by the Morel people (the scientific name of the dwarves). The part that the priesthood sees now is only a small corner of this country.

Wonderland is not an empty and desolate world in the eyes of people on the surface. Its underground is full of all kinds of magical substances that can be used to make strange objects, and those crystals that can glow are one of them. These materials are very rare in reality, and some have even never appeared in the world. The alchemists of the Morel people excavate these "minerals" underground, trying to find new alchemical raw materials, and even the naturally synthesized fifth element.

When the shallower layers were judged to be worthless, the Morel continued to dig downwards. A depth of one thousand meters was not the limit for their race.

So far, this superb excavation skill is only possessed by Morel people.

The dwarves believe that this is a cause worth their eternal sacrifice, and the immortal power here allows them to eat without food, and the workers can dig downward forever.

At this point in the story, Louis could still understand it, but the Scarecrow's version of what happened next was completely different from the information he learned from other people, or it provided another perspective.

At a certain time, the natural environment of Wonderland showed a strange growth phenomenon.

A large amount of mysterious substances grow upward from the ground. They flood the mines and precipitate on the surface, forming plants, water flows, rocks and other forms. Coupled with the power of immortality in the fairyland, these phenomena have caused a sensation among all religious groups.

People believe that Wonderland is an unformed world that is growing rapidly. If someone can seize the opportunity, they may be able to become a "god" here.

With the funding of religious forces, more and more explorers are arriving in Wonderland through secret methods, trying to find the truth about the formation of the world.

It was at this time that this country appeared in the world's sight.

"I still remember that there were two moons in the sky at that time." The Scarecrow said fondly. His palms stretched out to the side and rubbed against the rock wall as he walked, making a hoarse friction sound: "Facing the visitors at that time, We were not stingy, but let them join our work, and those people settled on the surface of this country. However, their bodies were too weak, and they soon turned into evil creatures. Instead, they blocked the tunnels and made our Work is slow and only a few people can do the same as us.”

Judging from his tone, it seems that transformation into evil objects is not a common thing among the Morel people.

As they moved along the tunnel, filled with ore fluorescence, Louis noticed that the slope had never recovered.

They were making their way down.

The passage here is not shaped to facilitate return.

"Then how did you resist corruption?" The priest followed the scarecrow and squeezed through a small cave.

"Excellent craftsmen and warriors can resist this kind of power. Or as those who come later say - Blade Secret?"

Lewis didn’t ask any more questions.

The name esoteric means secret and unknown to ordinary people. Even many people with esoteric knowledge do not know that they have mastered this power, and those without esoteric knowledge cannot correctly describe and recognize them.

"In short, we got along very happily with the plainsmen and Pointy-Ears during that time. Until later." The dwarf sighed: "You outsiders should also know what happened later. One of the moons disappeared, and those magical A lot of the material also dissipated, and only a small part remained on the surface, but it was also transformed into a form that could no longer be used. We tried to dig deeper, but we could only find a little bit underground. "

"But I see a lot of unusual things here." Louis said, pointing to a black smoke-like substance. "Are we still not far from the surface now? They are already very common. Or are they not what you are looking for?"

The smoke came out of the cracks in the rocks, swaying like water plants, but it was not a gas. When the priest brought his hand closer, it consciously retracted in.

Not far away, a piece of crystal expanded its body like breathing.

The scarecrow stopped and looked at Louis solemnly.

"They are, but that's the problem. Because it's only happened in the last six months,"

"About seven months ago, these materials spewed up from the ground again. Edwards believed that this was a sign that the gate to fairyland would be reopened, so he restarted the excavation project. He needed us remaining workers to help him collect them, Provide funds for his return to the world to recruit troops."

"Huh?" Lewis felt like he didn't understand.

"What are you doing?" Scarecrow said impatiently: "He wants to have his own country in reality. Is this a strange thing?"

The Priesthood admitted: "It's very strange."

These days there is no extra land for establishing a country, and all land belongs to its owner.

The dream of contemporary people has unknowingly changed from building their own country from scratch to entering into a marriage relationship with the heir of an existing country. This is also a helpless change.

Unless the New World was discovered, Lewis did not believe that Edwards' dream would ever come true.

The Scarecrow waved his hand: "Whatever, everyone in our era had similar desires anyway. This is not surprising. By the way, did I mention how Edwards stole our country?"

Louis shook his head.

"This has something to do with that damn demon next to him. That little bastard can not only make people resist corruption, but also make people intensify corruption. Our old king was turned into a weird-looking poisonous snake by that thing, and he is still in the tunnel now. Crawling in it." The dwarf spat, and as the tinkling sound in their ears got closer and closer, his attitude became more and more carefree.

"This guy Edwards probably came in shortly before the closure of Wonderland. It is said that he failed in his pursuit of power in this world and was wanted by some church, so he escaped here."

"Since he came to this country, he has been persuading everyone to accept the power of demons to resist corruption. At that time, some good players were slowly turning into evil creatures. We thought it was the environment in the fairyland that had changed. Even we None of these morel elites could resist, so they all took refuge with him.”

"Later we found out it was his fault, but by then there was nothing we could do."

"Wonderland has given us the power of immortality, including Edwards. We couldn't kill him. He easily used the power of demons to divide us into two groups of people, drove us underground, and then found a group of people from nowhere. He drove away all the people of this country who originally lived on the surface, formed a new country, and then betrayed these allies, driving them into confusion and treating everyone as his own plaything.”

As he went deeper into the ground, Louis gradually smelled a smell like a mixture of sulfur and blood.

They turned a corner and Louis finally saw the first dwarf underground.

He was dressed in rags, barely covered with a few pieces of cloth, and his untrimmed beard hung down to his waist, becoming a new fig leaf.

When Louis and the Scarecrow passed by him, he didn't react at all. He just carved a stone with a chisel, trying to take out the fish embedded inside.

"It's hopeless. He's almost as idiotic as the people on the surface." The Scarecrow looked at this fellow human being with anger in his tone rather than pity.

"He was afraid that other demon warlocks or outsiders would come here to take his place, so he sealed almost all the entrances and exits underground and above ground, leaving only his own private door. The entrance we just entered is a newly excavated one by me. Come out, hope you don’t remember it.”

"If you ask me to forget, I will forget it," said Louis.

"There are not many foreigners who are as knowledgeable as you." The Scarecrow lamented, and they walked around the crazy dwarf and continued to move forward.

In front of them, countless forks and luminous crystals made the priest feel dizzy, but the Scarecrow was still able to find his target accurately.

"Now tell me about yourself."

Louis was very honest about this. He told almost everything about himself, including the way he came to Fairyland. This honest attitude made the dwarf very fond of him.

"Very good. You look more trustworthy than when Edwards first came. I hope you can continue to do so." The Scarecrow walked in front and nodded with satisfaction: "Where are the two foreigners traveling with you? I heard that inside One became king."

"That's true."

"Is he in the same group as you?"

"It should be said that he wanted to get rid of Edwards' control. It was he who asked me to liberate you."

This answer exceeded the Scarecrow's expectations, and he repeated with a smile: "Very good, very good."

Lewis still remembered Clayton’s instructions, so he asked about another thing.

"The guy who sent us in may have also passed through this country. Have you ever seen such a person passing by on the post road?"

He described Chud Osmar's appearance in detail, but the Scarecrow shook his head and he dropped the subject.

The tunnel in front of him still had no end in sight, and clear cracks began to appear on the surrounding rock walls. Dark red light and heat shot out from the inside, evaporating all the water in the priest's body. If it weren't for the fact that people wouldn't die in Wonderland, Louis would give up and go on.

And in front, more and more strange things poked out from the ground, growing randomly like coral, blocking the entire corridor.

The dwarf cursed and took his guest back to the fork in the road, taking another detour.

The Scarecrow's destination soon arrived, which was a huge cavity underground. In the corner of this rocky room were piles of luminous crystals that Louis had just seen in the passage as lighting tools. Brighten up the room.

Many dwarves are sitting here to rest, clustered together like mushrooms. They seemed to still be sane. Some were sitting around talking in low voices, while others were holding slates and carving.

In this colorful light, everyone's face looks dark.

A dwarf suddenly saw Louis' presence and stood up excitedly.

"Why is a plainsman here? Edwards' new overseer?" His tone was not very friendly, and his eyes quickly turned to the scarecrow: "Homemer, you brought him down? Is this why you reduced your sentence?"

"I did not reduce my sentence. It was this new outsider who put me down. I think he and his companions may be able to help us in the next plan." said the scarecrow named Homeoma.

The dwarf who just spoke was furious: "You even told him this?!"

These other dwarves also stood up, carrying axes and pickaxes, their eyes shining like wild beasts, and their uncomfortable gazes swept around the priest.

The Scarecrow was not surprised by this situation. He said calmly: "Not yet. I brought him here just to hold a vote to see if our plan requires new outsiders to participate."

Another dwarf with a mopping beard asked maliciously: "What if we don't agree?"

"Then bury him alive in a deep area, where Edwards's overseers can't find him." The Scarecrow said without thinking.

There was silence in the room for about ten seconds, and all the dwarves sat down again.

A dwarf who looked particularly old waved to the priesthood: "Come sit here and let's talk."