Chapter 531: Empty City

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The empty city is particularly bleak, and the most you can see is the cats and dogs walking on the streets, as if they don't know anything, leisurely crossing from one end of the street to the other, looking for food that they don't know where.

In addition, this city has not changed from the appearance in Lu Tao's memory, but because there is no trace of people, it is as if it has encountered the end of the world.

Lu Tao walked all the way through the street, directly to the south gate of Praar, was about to step out of the city from this road, thought about it, and retracted his feet, he did not recognize the road of another city, although along the road extending outward, one day he could find a new city or a new village, but even if it was verified that there were other people outside, it did not make any sense, just like even if it was verified that there was no one outside, there was no meaning.

After returning to the palace after spending the same amount of time, Lu Tao began to search for the secrets they had hidden, and more specifically, what Lu Tao wanted to find was the crystal crown from Princess Sophie, and the culprit who caused everyone to disappear from here.

Lu Tao wasn't sure if there was anything else besides the crystal crown that was part of these effects, so he temporarily divided them into two parts, in short, if they could find the real thing, since that one or two things could make all the people disappear, then they would definitely be able to use it in reverse and turn all the people back, just like the big change of the living.

Oh, maybe these are more high-end than magic?

There is also good news that the royal palace in Praar, the capital of Harias, is not very large, even if a castle is found, you can always find some clues, of course, Lu Tao plans to check the largest castle in the middle first, after all, what do you think, if there is any secret, it is safer to put it in the castle where the royal family members are, and besides, whether it was Prince Carlin or Proyas, who led this matter before, they are the main members of the Harias royal family, and they also live in this castle, which increases the possibility of what secrets are hidden in this castle。

In the city without people, in just one morning, it seems that even the feeling has changed, which makes Lu Tao feel a little lost, probably the feeling that I am the only one left in the world.

When I came back to the largest castle in the palace, although I had been there yesterday, I had just taken a candle and looked casually around the palace, and finally tried the hardness of the throne, although it was useless.

Without any one to guard it, Lu Tao came directly to the top of this castle, this castle and the surrounding castles seem to be different, a large space has been opened up on the top of the castle, planted some flowers and plants, and turned into a very large garden, Lu Tao circled around the garden, and did not find anything unusual, but there was a sculpture standing in the center of the garden, which looked quite familiar, and made him think about it carefully, it seemed that he had seen a similar sculpture in the palace of Issos before, and a mechanism could be opened by moving an indescribable position...... Well, there's not a similar mechanism here, right?

Lu Tao walked up to the sculpture and took a closer look around the sculpture

Son, is this really another mechanism? What the hell did Mickey do in the first place?

Looking at an indescribable part, Lu Tao really felt that he couldn't get his hands down, so he finally gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, stretched out his hand to grab it, and twisted it vigorously.

"Click!"

Broken? Actually broken?!

Lu Tao was stunned for a moment, threw the remaining half of his hand on the ground, clapped his hands, and then left the garden casually.

Well...... It doesn't seem to have a mechanism here, although it's a similar sculpture.

Lu Tao walked around the upper part of the castle and found a place that might be the king's bedroom, maybe the prince's bedroom, or maybe the princess's bedroom, so after thinking about it, Lu Tao remembered that he didn't know if Harias had a princess, and he should have asked Proyas if he had known it, or he could ask anyone, but this is also a trivial matter, no matter what kind of room it is, that is, the window is bigger, the bed is more comfortable, and the surrounding decoration is better, Lu Tao doesn't plan to sleep here, he is not used to sleeping in the bed that others have slept in。

After wandering around the whole castle, Lu Tao returned to the position of the entrance, there was originally a gate at the entrance, but it seemed to be open all the time, and I don't know whether I forgot to close it, or this door has always been open, behind the door is a hall that can accommodate many people, and the throne of hardness that Lu Tao tried yesterday, there is a door in the other direction, but the door is locked, and the locked door is an iron door, even with Lu Tao's strength, there is no way to open the iron door, and in the end I can only give up, thinking that in case I can't find any clues, I will find a way to open the door and talk about it。

The stairs up and down are behind a door to the left behind, but there is no way down, this time Lu Tao came down from the castle, directly into another door, sure enough, in this door he found the way down, it is still a black marble staircase, faintly able to see the bulb extending downward, but because there is no power supply, there is no way to relight it.

Lu Tao didn't care so much, he took out a few candles from his pocket, found the longest one to light, and then walked down the stairs, these candles were found by him from the previous room, most of them were used for decoration, and I don't know how long they haven't been lit, the slender size of the candle itself makes Lu Tao not know how long these candles can be lit, and there are even some golden candles, although they look very beautiful, but they feel hard to the touch, and there is no feeling of any candle, for the sake of insurance, Lu Tao brought one out。

Follow the stairs all the way to the end, there is a passage to turn left, there is still a light bulb connected to the head, but now it is useless, it is better to decorate the torches around, which can also make Lu Tao more relaxed.

The passage to the left did not last long, and soon came to an end, blocked by a closed iron door, Lu Tao pushed it gently, but the iron door was not locked as expected, but was easily pushed open, Lu Tao looked at the dust on the ground, and found that there should be people here often, and people often clean the road, Lu Tao couldn't help but be a little excited

,No matter how you look at it, there's a problem here.,Maybe what he's looking for is right here.,That's really a lot of work.。

Holding the candle in his hand, Lu Tao carefully pushed open the iron door, not worried about who was inside, after all, the city and the people in this world might have disappeared, he was just worried about whether there would be any mechanisms here, even if the unique reaction was fast, it was not as fast as those mechanisms controlled by mechanical structures, it was better to be careful.

Fortunately, after this door, there seems to be no mechanism, Lu Tao held the candle in his hand, and it was easy to see a strange object placed in the middle of the room, and walked in to observe carefully, this seems to be an iron tower, and it seems to be an incense burner, the candle in Lu Tao's hand is too thin, and the flames burning on it are really not enough to illuminate this narrow space, and the strange object in the center of the room is particularly complicated, and there are layers of net-like structures illuminated outside, and it is impossible to see what is inside, Lu Tao thought about it, and directly learned what he looked like when he was a child, and took out another candle from his pocket, and found a flat place on the strange object, dripping a few drops of wax on the burning candle in his hand, and then gluing another candle that he had just taken out, and finally lighting it, and the half-burned candle in the same hand did the same thing, and then stuck to the other side of the strange object.

Then, Lu Tao wrapped his hands around the object, which was both like an incense burner and an iron tower, picked it up with all his might, and remembered not to let the candles on it tip over, and returned to the hall on the first floor the same way.

The hall on the first floor is finally much brighter, and he hugged the things up, Lu Tao breathed a deep sigh of relief, and by the way, he extinguished the two candles that were still burning, lest they accidentally cause a fire, there are carpets on the ground here, and there are a lot of wooden structures, so when the time comes, find a fire, but it is difficult to extinguish, at least Lu Tao alone is completely unable to extinguish here.

With enough brightness, Lu Tao can finally take a closer look at what this thing is, those hollow shells seem to be layers of metal cages, imprisoning what is in them, Lu Tao Xi'an didn't care about what is imprisoned in it, but carefully observed whether there is a place where a crystal crown can be placed in the position of the shell, but the final result made Lu Tao a little disappointed, there is no place on the surface of this strange object that can just let the crystal crown be inlaid in, and there is no other place that seems to be able to place anything, and finally Lu Tao can only shake his head and begin to disassemble the complicated shells outside。

According to the color, Lu Tao guessed that there were at least three metals, copper, silver and gold, and a layer of black metal shell, Lu Tao couldn't guess what kind of metal it was, after all, there were a lot of black metals, iron was also black, manganese was also black, and chromium was also black...... Hawkers, it's also possible that Lu Tao is thinking too much, this is just iron.

At the end of the dismantling, Lu Tao finally saw what kind of object was in the innermost, which was placed in the middle was a golden metal ball, with complicated patterns on it, which was a little cold to the touch, a little smaller than the size of a bowling ball, but much larger than a table tennis ball.