Gu Tie stepped into the heart of the furnace, and Zalin Kubotu followed behind expressionlessly, "Brother, why are they ignoring you? What's the secret?" Gu Tie couldn't help but stop and asked this strange fifth-level person. Doppelgänger.
The dwarf looked at him blankly, "I don't know, maybe, it's related to me, maybe,",, it seems that there were too many divisions, which caused this guy's brain to become a little unclear. The Chinese shook his head and climbed onto the narrow The steps of the iron gangway were too narrow for him, and the distance between the handrail and the wall was too close, so he had to awkwardly move sideways and climb slowly.
He has been trying to talk to Yona since just now, but the fluctuations in the 17-year-old boy's soul are getting weaker and weaker, until they completely disappear from his mind. Gu Tie thinks of the relationship between the staff Xiela Pina and the power of the soul, from the belt He took out the staff and held it in his hand, trying to call out the name of another personality, but he didn't get any feedback until he reached the new top of the furnace.
In front of him was a steel door covered with rivets. Two pink-hatted dwarf guards lowered their spears and bowed respectfully. Then they pushed the door open, and a spacious room appeared in front of Gu Tie. To say it was spacious was to say that it was barely spacious. At a height that allowed him to stand upright, Gu Tie bent down and walked through the door. "Welcome, descendant of Lord Gilbernion," several pink-hatted dwarves came forward.
With just one glance, Gu Tie figured out many problems. The Presbyterian Church seemed to be composed of six or seven Flores people. These people also wore black robes and pink hats. The seven ribbons on the hats represented the highest class. The biggest difference from ordinary pink hat dwarves is that these people all have beards, black beards, white beards, yellow beards, and gray beards. Each elder has a beard that reaches down to his feet.
Gu Tie suddenly realized that all the Flores people he saw with fair faces and good looks along the way were women. Only here did he see a few men. It seems that this isolated race has extremely serious gender problems. Unbalanced, the scarcity of male members leads to a natural division of social status, with older men becoming the rulers, while younger male members like Zarin Kubotu have lofty status and almost unrestricted power.
Sure enough, several people from the Presbyterian Church turned a blind eye to Zarin Kubotu, and pulled the astrologer to sit down on the soft couch. They served various fruits and snacks on small plates, surrounded by a group of wrinkled children. , Gu Tie felt very strange. He picked up a toy-like tea cup between his fingers, drank all the black tea in it, and said seriously: "Um, everyone, I have a mission here this time,"
No matter how many secrets are entangled in reality and the game, since I have the identity of Baron Ekbatana, a third-level astrologer, I must complete the mission given by Emperor Isaibaink. This is the spirit of RPG and role-playing. .
Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth, an elder with the longest beard immediately replied: "We know that there is no fundamental conflict between the Tocharian Empire and us, the descendants of Lord Gilbernaion. Ecbatana can compete with Gold." city to become a close partner, but as long as you help us solve a problem,"
"Question," Gu Tie threw two pieces of snacks into his mouth and chewed them. They tasted like meat, but he didn't know what kind of ingredients they were.
"Don't eat too much black gold gopher meat, descendants of Lord Gilbernaion," another elder reminded, "Ever since Lord Gilbernaion visited Ecbatana, he has brought this wonderful food to you. Brought to the country of volcanoes, the black golden gophers we have bred for hundreds of years have been able to meet the food supply of all residents. This is his greatest achievement besides conquering the Ekla volcano,"
"Oh," Gu Tie immediately threw the snack back on the plate. The tragic experience of the 17-year-old boy in Cherry Crossing made him feel the same, and he felt a little scared when he heard the name.
The third elder sighed leisurely: "And Lord Gilbernaion's greatest achievement, the space-time star formation that saved Ecbatana, has finally reached a time when its effectiveness has weakened. This is the biggest problem facing the Volcano Country. :The Ekla volcano is about to erupt,"
"What?" Gu Tie suddenly stood up, and the back of his head hit the ceiling with a "bang", which made him groan in pain.
"Please follow me," the fourth elder walked to the window with his hands behind his back.
The astrologer hunched across the room and walked to the floor-to-ceiling glass window. The lookout window, which was made up of a single piece of hemispherical glass, protruded from the top of the furnace. From here, you could have an unobstructed view of the flaming crater. "Yes." It's begun," the fourth elder turned around and said.
"Okay," the fifth elder nodded and walked out of the room.
Gu Tie squatted in front of the window in confusion, watching the fiery red magma gurgling and black bubbles popping up in the crater. The entire space was distorted in the hot air. Countless pipes were buried deeply in the magma, using unknown methods. Absorbing the heat of the volcano, there are two equally huge buildings on both sides of the furnace. According to the elders, the left is the pouring tower and the right is the forging tower. They are both places where large steam puppet mechanical parts are manufactured.
Suddenly there was a faint vibration under the feet, and the surrounding temperature began to rise, indicating that some kind of powerful energy fluctuation was weakening the effect of the temperature control magic array. "Please look over there," four or five pink hat dwarves stretched out their fingers to the right, Gu Tieyi looked around and saw a huge shadow slowly rising in the gap between the mountains and the buildings, and his body was gradually illuminated by the light of the volcano.
The "golem" has been famous for a long time. At this time, we finally saw the true form of Ecbatana's steam puppet. As the highest achievement of the Flores people's steam puppet technology, the golem is a mechanical product that is strictly prohibited from leaking and spreading. Its The manufacturing and maintenance methods are all controlled by the male members of the Council of Elders. Not to mention the human steam puppet warlocks, not even the Flores female senior craftsmen have access to the secrets of the golem.
"Chichi..." Snow-white steam shot into the air from the eight jets behind it. The tall demon puppet slowly walked toward the melting pot with heavy steps. This steam puppet was about thirty feet tall and strong. The body is covered with smooth silver metal armor leaves, the head is a transparent crystal glass operating room, with lifelike limbs and joints, each hand has three flexible fingers, and the soles of the feet are covered with soft cushions, although every time it lands, it causes a tremor of the earth. It vibrated, but did not cause a dent in the ground.
The elder with the longest beard showed a proud expression: "This golem is a high-temperature model made 140 years ago to detect the Ekla volcano. It is also the only steam golem that can enter the crater so far. You see Here we are, the descendant of Lord Gilburnion, Ecbatana possesses 500 combat golems of similar models, 140 flying golems, 80 alien golems, and countless steam golem power weapons. ,The steam firearms in the entire southern continent are basically products of the Volcano Country, including the 'Midnight Star' steam carriage that we presented to the Tocharian Empire.,,That is a very old work, as you can see, Ekbatana was not afraid of threats from anyone, be it Tochar or Veda, and even fought against the entire world on his own,"
Gu Tie turned to look at the somewhat wild old man, "War is not that simple, elder. Weapons cannot decide everything. In the final analysis, war is a confrontation between people. Ecbatana needs more than just puppet operators." , and even more of a ruthless warrior,"
While they were talking, the demon slowly walked to the crater and climbed up the rock with hands and feet. Suddenly, the armor leaves on its body closed with a "bang bang", and the exhaust port on its back also flipped over and was hidden under the armor. The crystal on its head The observation window is covered with a black protective layer. There are no gaps in the metal giant's body. It looks like a humanoid statue made of mercury. It hugs a heat-conducting pipe with both hands. The devil slowly sinks into the hot magma lake. From its feet The legs, body, and head eventually disappeared into the boiling magma. A string of bubbles emerged from the viscous liquid and turned into scorched green smoke.
"What are we going to do now?" Gu Tie was a little confused about the situation.
"Presenting you with evidence of the coming disaster," an elder replied solemnly.
A group of people gathered in front of the observation window, quietly looking at a pool of red liquid that was boiling like hell. Time seemed to have stopped. Only the bubbles that appeared on the surface of the magma one after another and burst quickly showed that every second passed. "In the past one hundred and forty years," an elder finally spoke, "in the past one hundred and forty years, the temperature of the magma has increased by 390 degrees, the liquid level has increased by 17 yards, and the core pressure has increased by 200 percent. The strength of the star array has dropped by 70%. The space-time star array left by Lord Gilbernaion can no longer suppress the power of the Ekla volcano. It will soon run out of energy, and it is more terrifying than any previous eruption. A volcanic eruption is about to occur. According to estimates, it will completely destroy the city of Ecbatana and even affect the landscape of the entire southern continent."
"It's like..." There seems to be a similar scene in the astrologer's memory.
"Just like the disaster in the northern continent that completely destroyed the ancient homeland of the northern elves, the 'Dawn of the Second Era,'" several elders sighed deeply, "and we are completely powerless about it."
At this time, the boiling of the magma began to intensify, and a smooth head emerged from the liquid surface, followed by the entire body of the high-temperature-resistant demon doll. It held a gray-white pillar in its arms, which was about the thickness of four people's arms. What kind of material is it made of? It is not affected by high-temperature magma. The pillars are engraved with dense lines. Hundreds of emeralds string the lines around the pillars to form an extremely complex and extremely beautiful ancient star array.
"Is this the time and space star array of the first generation of mentors?" After the Ghost Bahama, the astrologer saw Gilberto Gilberto Nairnion's handwriting full of mysteries of the starry sky for the second time. Through Yona's memory and knowledge, Gu Tie was able to I feel that this star array contains very powerful power, but the long years have obliterated the function of the space-time star array. Cracks appear on the surface of the stone pillars, and the emerald appears dull. It is getting weaker and weaker like a twilight old man.