Chapter 22: The Cave Spider
"This seems to be the door, am I hallucinating again?"
Harvey suddenly thought that the torches on both sides of the wooden door wall in front of him were the wooden doors that appeared in his hallucination after he and Meng Meng were in the elven territory and were sucked into the ground by the stone statues.
Harvey reached out and picked up the torch on the left wall, whether it was a hallucination or not, Harvey felt the need to go in and see, he thought that there must be some reason for this coincidence.
Pushing open the door, it was still dark inside, Harvey did not hesitate, and walked directly in with a torch.
Soon he saw the exit, and Harvey quickened his pace and hurried forward.
The exit is on a cliff face, sixty or seventy meters above the ground. And under the cliff is a city, and the whole city is only distributed with a few dim points of light, and the whole city can be vaguely seen.
The buildings in the city are almost all made of wood, and in the middle of the city there is a tower about as high as the entrance, and on the opposite side of the cave is a huge clock dial, on which the second hand has stopped, and the hour and minute hands are stationary at ten o'clock.
Harvey, who walked out, was stunned to see everything in front of him, "There is a city here!"
Harvey searched the cliff for a while, but there was no way down.
"Alas, I'm probably the most incompetent rank 8 great magician. Harvey smiled wryly. His magic power and spiritual power have reached the realm of an eighth-level great magician, but he did not go to the Magicians Guild for grading assessment, and he naturally did not record the magic book of eighth-level magic without passing the assessment.
Starting from level eight, the way of new magic in the past is the corresponding level of magic book, which records all the basic magic of the current and other departments, and there is also a great magician's signature magic in the eighth-level magic book-Flying Technique.
Luckily, Harvey had access to multiple spells, and he walked to the edge of the cliff and jumped off.
The speed of the fall was fast, and Harvey flew half the distance.
"Storm!"
The strong wind rushed straight to the ground from top to bottom, and under the effect of the reaction force, Harvey's descent began to slow down rapidly, and he kept driving the magic in his body to maintain this storm technique, so that he could descend slowly. After a few minutes, Harvey finally landed smoothly on the ground.
Harvey looked up at the top of the cliff, "Looks like it's a problem to go up." "It's too long, the storm spell is not enough to support him to fly up again, and he can achieve enough power with hurricane spells, but hurricane spells are uncontrollable attack magic.
It doesn't really matter if you can't go up, Harvey came here just to find an exit, and there is no other way out except for the waterway at the bottom of the dark lake, and Harvey doesn't plan to risk going to the waterway for the time being.
Turning around, this strange dungeon had no walls, and naturally no gates.
Harvey was in front of the main street, and he didn't rush to get there, this strange dungeon was dimly lit everywhere, but it was surprisingly quiet, so quiet that Harvey could hear his breathing.
As it stands, Harvey doesn't know why, but it's already certain that it's a dead city. Why these dim lights are still on has become a huge question in Harvey's mind, and the lighting facilities of the entire continent are nothing more than fires, candles, and oil lamps. Of course, sometimes magicians also use magic to illuminate, and these lighting methods are only possible with talents, and all methods of lighting have a limited time. But this above-earth city that has been silent for an unknown amount of time, and these dim lights that have existed for an unknown amount of time, are an incredible thing in themselves.
"Is there still someone here?" said Harvey, questioning, into the streets of the city.
On both sides of the main street are wooden houses, which, regardless of the size of the structure, have flat roofs, after all, this is a dungeon, and there is no way for rain to fall overhead.
Harvey walked a few hundred meters forward to a street lamp, he used the storm spell to fly more than three meters high, and then removed the lampshade, inside was an unknown gem, which was glowing dimly at the moment. Harvey reached out and picked up the gem, and the moment it left the base, it went out, Harvey thought it was amazing, so he put the gem back on, and the gem lit up again after it was placed in the base.
Harvey picked up the gem and tried hard to remove the base to see what was underneath it, he now suspected that the gem's energy came from under the base, but no matter how hard he tried, the base didn't move. It was not a solution to keep going like this, so Harvey received the gem into the spatial ring and continued to walk forward.
Looking at the buildings on both sides of the street, Harvey always felt that something was wrong. "By the way, it's a door!" All the buildings around the street have no doors in the direction of the street.
Harvey deliberately walked around several buildings and found that all of them not only had no doors or windows, but were walls on every side.
"There are no doors and no windows, so how can the people on the roof get in, how can the people in the house get out? Is it on the roof?", but Harvey quickly dismissed the idea. If the doors and windows were really open on the roof, the people who lived in these buildings would have to jump around every day, and those buildings with several floors and more than ten meters high would have to bounce to be able to jump up.
Moving on, Harvey came to the very center of the dungeon. Just now he saw a huge bell tower standing here on the cliff wall, it is not the same as other buildings, it is built of wood, the whole bell tower is built with huge stones, three main streets converge here, the formation of the three sides of the bell tower, this is a triangular bell tower, each side still has no door, but there is a giant sculpture more than three meters high twenty meters in front of each side. These giants have full beards, helmets with two sharp horns on their heads, and they are wearing armor, their hands on the handles of the hammer on their chests, and their eyes fixed on the front.
"Dwarves!" the sculptures were dwarves, and Harvey remembered that there were dwarves in the General History of the Continent. It says that dwarves and goblins are the same ancient race as elves. However, according to records, the dwarves perished hundreds of years ago. Now it seems that the dwarves did not perish in the first place, but for some reason, they came underground and established this dungeon. So the question is, where do the dwarves go now?
Since they have moved underground and established this dungeon, there must be a way to survive, and outside is the dark forest, and the dwarves are not short of food and water, what is the force that makes them disappear again?
There were too many questions to be answered by just wandering the streets, and Harvey thought that he would have to go inside the buildings and take a look, and maybe find the records left by the dwarves.
Harvey found the largest building next to the triangular bell tower, and based on the size and structure of the building, he deduced that it should be the town hall.
Several sharp blades of wind landed on one of the walls of the town hall, cutting the shape of a door into the wall. Harvey walked over and pushed it with his hand, and the cut wooden door fell straight inward to the ground.
Harvey walked in, it was very bright, and there was a large piece of that unknown gem hanging from the roof, and this was not a town hall, but a tavern. The wine rack behind the front desk is lined with a variety of wine glasses and drinks, and it seems that it is true that dwarves like to drink.
The few buildings that Harvey continued to explore, there was nothing, not even a piece of paper or parchment scroll.
"Dwarves, as craftsmen, should often use drawings and the like, and shouldn't not even find a piece of paper or a parchment scroll?" Harvey thought he must have missed something.
After finding nothing, Harvey decided to go to the triangular bell tower to have a look.
"Who!", Harvey saw a dark shadow flash as he walked out the door. He hurried after him, but when he reached the bottom of the triangular bell tower, the black shadow suddenly disappeared.
Harvey searched under the bell tower for a while, but found no trace of the shadow. But suddenly there was a lot of "hissing" around it.
"Cave spiders!"
More than a dozen cave spiders approaching two meters tall appeared on three streets. Harvey remembered that cave spiders could only grow to more than half a meter in height at the largest, so how could these spiders in front of him be so big?