Uni once thought that he would no longer be surprised. There were two reasons for this. One was his past experience. As a wanderer, he had no clear world view, and the whole world seemed strange to him.

For example, people can walk on two legs, use limbs, and even move with their heads. This is not surprising, because he has seen it all. In this bizarre world, there is no time left to be surprised and lament such behaviors.

, understand the scene you see and determine the next action to be taken without any hesitation.

Those compatriots whose brains were slower have disappeared into the darkness, and slowly even the voice and face have disappeared from Uni's mind. Until the arrival of cheese, the gray-robed mage gave the apprentice a strong gesture

It brings order, a clear worldview and what is normal and abnormal.

So did Uni learn to be surprised by order? No. 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, even between the two.

Some kind of unity of opposites.

In addition, the influence on Uni during that time was Jian Qi and his Qi. It was also a way of thinking that abolished the separation of body and mind and generalized the world. Adding the two together, Uni was not tolerant of foreign objects.

boundary.

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

Boundless means no body, no borders, which means that you can merge and blend with anything that is close to you. In the process of merging, Uni will have his own feelings and thoughts, and he truly accepts and

Feel some things and truly accept other things.

That's why he shows unique emotions towards certain people, such as Cheese and Elsa. He knows that they are very kind to him and he will not ignore them.

So what surprised Uni, who had such a special state of mind? The answer was 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 principles, it should probably be called Xidi City or Valley City. However, the residents are still accustomed to the name of the valley and renamed the above-ground city that originally had this name the old district.

or ruins.

Considering that the first function of a city is to be inhabited by people, it may be true that a city that has lost its residents can no longer be called a city.

"What is that?" Yuni asked, pointing to the sunken formation diagonally above. A ditch-like track was built around the formation with rocks, and there were equally spaced stone pillars supporting it below. But it was not a bridge.

There was no exposed water flow.

The person beside the apprentice now is not his teacher, but Elsa who is entrusted to take care of him while handling various affairs. As the diplomatic ambassador of the Frost Guard, she is also Gloria's friend who maintains non-power relations.

Sha knew this rat-man city well, at least eighty percent.

Therefore, she could answer this question without thinking, "That is an underground river. In addition to Dragon Blood Creek, there are several underground water veins underground in the valley. They have caused considerable obstacles in the process of urban expansion."

Underground rivers and rock formations were the two biggest obstacles that troubled the ratmen excavators. Uni looked at the long river channel and the stone ditch that disappeared into the wall close to it, "This must have taken a lot of work.

"

"That's true, but it's much better than being helpless." The speaker is an old rat man sitting in the shadows. Compared with the gray man, his body is slightly stronger, but his age is already obvious. Most of the old people will have this.

Persuasiveness, if he carries a pickaxe on his shoulder, his persuasiveness will be even greater.

"At first, we couldn't do anything about them. We couldn't change the river course, and we couldn't break the stones. The crypts could only be dug according to the contours of the ground. There was no planning at all, and there was no way to form a city. The master mage told us that we could use

Stones reinforced the river, and the dwarf prince told us how to dig out the rock formations. This is how the city looks like today. In this city, the craftsmen and workers are the most amazing. Even the nobles cannot make us kneel down."

There was a bit of pride in the Rat Man's tone, which was why he was happy to tell the history of this city building.

Elsa thanked the other party for his explanation and confirmed what he said. The diggers and architects in the rat city are indeed the most important group of people in this society. Without them, the cave cannot safely expand its planting area and population.

Quantities cannot be guaranteed.

This is the biggest difference from the creatures living on the ground. To some extent, the society of the rat people is a society that relies heavily on technology, which makes them very close to the dwarves. The dwarves who dig mountains and the rat people who dig the ground are both.

To survive by opening up non-residential areas, maybe thousands of years later, the rat people will be led by old craftsmen like the dwarves and replace the current blood system with a similar system.

But the premise is that they can live until that day comes without being subject to 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 breathless." Elsa looked up at the top of the passage, which was probably only half a body away from the top of her head.

, the low passage will make people feel oppressive.

"Fortunately, I think it's very comfortable here. Are there any other humans here?" The dark area of ​​Riverrun where Uni lived was also on the mezzanine below the main deck. To a certain extent, it was the sky that frightened him.

"Yes. There may be more than you expect. Humans have abandoned the rat people, but the rat people have not abandoned humans. Some recognized refugees and people who have settled here for various reasons are all living outside.

Ring core, there is an independent exit passage there. We are going there."

As mentioned before, some criminals finally chose Valley City as their destination. Many of them had no actual sins, or the sins of this era were not all caused by inner evil, poverty, hunger, ignorance, etc.

factors caused them to 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 underground city. And one of their main jobs is to maintain the so-called outer core, which is used for non-rat people visitors to stay.

Area, status is equivalent to an embassy in a city on the ground.

Before Elsa could finish her explanation, Uni spontaneously stood in front of her.
Chapter completed!