“…… Because of their genetic instability and long-term living in cramped caves, the offspring of this group of people soon began to grow taller. Of course, even if the genes are unstable, this change has lasted for more than 200 years. The descendants of the early group of inhabitants all carried some kind of gene, so they became shorter and shorter, and later even if the hole was dug higher and the place where they lived was wider, their height was fixed. ”

Cheng Shanjun said this, smiled, and said: "This is the origin of the Nanshan dwarves, even if there are other more fantasy or science fiction stories, they can only be heard as stories, the truth of the matter is so simple and ordinary." ”

"At present, among the more than 300,000 people in the city, at least half of them are the descendants of the group of people six hundred years ago, and it was they who dug the first cave that gave rise to the future Nanshan City. It can be said that only Nanshan dwarves are the indigenous inhabitants of Nanshan City, and those of us who are of normal height are all outsiders. ”

While telling the history, a few people strolled through the wide sunny avenue.

As Chengshanjun said, in a city where the dwarves of Nanshan are the majority, there are adults who are generally about one meter and one or two everywhere.

They walk in groups or in groups, except for their short stature, they are exactly the same as normal people, and there is no difference.

Women are okay, after all, although they are short, they are mature, they should be convex and convex, so they can be distinguished from ordinary little girls at a glance, but men, if they shave off their beards, they can't take off their pants to compare the size, then it's basically the same as an ordinary little boy, if someone is mistaken, wouldn't it be embarrassing?

However, as if to avoid this embarrassment, the dwarven males deliberately grow beards, even if they are not very dense in a large handful, they will not be too clean, and they will be repaired, which looks very small and delicate.

In this way, it is easier to distinguish, after all, the little boy is immature, but he does not grow a beard, and the one with a beard, who looks like a little boy, is naturally a dwarf.

Well, maybe there will be a little boy who deliberately pretends to be mature and puts on a fake beard himself.

Just as Rob was turning his bad mind, he unexpectedly saw a female dwarf being held in his arms by a normal person like a child, and the two kissed very boldly from time to time, which attracted a lot of attention.

I'm going, isn't it? Can ordinary people marry female dwarves? After raising this question, Cheng Shanjun smiled and said, "What's not to do? Dwarves don't have any other problems except being shorter. And I have to say, perhaps because condensation is the essence, in the Nanshan dwarf group, the men are more handsome, and the women are more beautiful. It's normal to attract suitors. ”

"Well, I don't have any prejudice against this, I just want to know, if the two sides are combined like this, where will the offspring be born?" Dwarves are short and genetically deep, in short, they are born like this, and unless the genes in the body change again, they will always be like this.

In this case, if you marry a normal person and have children, where will you get offspring?

"It's hard to say. ”

Cheng Shan Jun said: "Among the many people I know, there is a combination of dwarves and humans, but the offspring they give birth to, some are tall and some are short, it seems that the genes of both sides are random, it does not mean that marrying a dwarf woman or a man will definitely give birth to ordinary people." But if a dwarf marries a dwarf, the offspring will definitely be a dwarf. ”

"So now there is a business among the dwarf community that encourages marriage and children with ordinary people, hoping to be able to achieve a normal height after a few generations. Of course, such a point of view, some people support it, some people oppose it, and it is often noisy. ”

Rob thinks it's normal to think about this, just like the skin color battle in another world, there will always be people who feel that they are superior to others in terms of skin color, or they will feel inferior because of their skin color.

Anyway, there are a huge number of human beings, and they can't unify their thoughts, so there are many natural ideas, and the phrase 'there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people' perfectly interprets this pluralistic idea of human beings.

Even when it comes to this time, it's the same.

The four of them wandered around the Sunshine Avenue until they finally came to a small fountain square in the middle of the avenue.

Due to the width of the Sunshine Avenue, this fountain square is naturally not very large, but if you continue to walk inside, there are three or four such squares, all of which are set up for the convenience of tourists and residents who walk and play on the avenue.

The square is planted with small trees and flowers, and in the central fountain is a rockery three or four meters high.

There are pavilions on this rockery, sheep intestine paths, and there are also a lot of very small plants, which look lifelike, as if the mountains outside have shrunk and placed here.

Since it is a fountain square, there is naturally water, and this water simulates a waterfall flowing down from the top of the mountain, constantly washing the mountain wall, and finally flowing to the base of the rockery, and then converging into a river around it, and finally flowing into a deep hole at the foot of a rockery.

"This water is the water that slipped from the Gudong Spring. Cheng Shan Jun said.

"Is that it?"

Rob was a little surprised, he had heard that one of the main specialties of Nanshan City was this Gudong Spring, and many cities, including the North Acropolis, would sell a large amount of Gudong Spring water from Nanshan City, but he didn't expect that this water would flow here so directly.

"There's something to drink, you can go over and try it, it's sweet and sweet, it's still very good. Cheng Shan Jun understood Luo Bu's surprise very well, anyone who heard the legend of the Gudong Spring would be very yearning, but when he arrived at Nanshan City, he would naturally be surprised to see this Gudong Spring flowing outside like ordinary water.

According to Chengshanjun's instructions, Rob and Muzi couldn't wait to go to a drinking point, aimed at the water spraying upwards, directly caught it with their mouths, and drank a few sips, as Chengshanjun said, it was very sweet.

Although Rob was surprised, he was an adult after all, so he naturally had more thoughts, and he knew that since this Gudong spring water was flowing like this, it was obviously not a simple matter.

However, Muzi was still a child, and after drinking the Gudong spring water, he exclaimed excitedly: "Is this spring water able to cure Bailu's illness?

Hearing this, Cheng Shanjun shook his head and said, "It's not that simple. I think, since Xiaoxue told Rob that Gollum Spring can cure demonization disease, then it should also be said that ordinary Gollum Spring Water is ineffective, right?"

In fact, at this time, Rob also remembered that Mo Zhaoxue had indeed said such a thing, he didn't think about it carefully, Chengshanjun would use such a cute title like 'Xiaoxue' to call Mo Zhaoxue, and only said to Muzi: "I remember that Mrs. Mo said that the demonization disease is only useful if it goes to the source of Gudong Spring, and these things that flow over an unknown distance have no effect." ”

Rob's words undoubtedly poured a basin of cold water on Muzi, which made her look very disappointed, but this is not unacceptable, after all, didn't they come here to find the source of Gudong Spring?

Seeing that Yu Minghai, who had never spoken to the question of spring water, said with certainty at this time: "This should be a matter of timeliness." In this regard, not only the Gudong Spring Water, but also many high-level materials for making magic soldiers, have a time for the best effect, and if you miss this time, the effect will be greatly reduced, and it may even fail directly. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to stir in the water of the drinking pool: "To be honest, it is not easy for the Gudong spring water to flow down from the mountain for many kilometers and ensure a certain effect, but even so, this kind of ornamental spring water should have no effect, right?"

"The effect is still there, but it's very weak. Cheng Shanjun shook his head and said, "Actually, the Mo family is also worried now, in addition to the fact that the effect of the Gudong spring water is getting weaker and weaker, that is, the spring water has recently dried up. ”

"It's already starting to dry up?" Yu Minghai obviously didn't expect it to be so serious, and his tone felt a little surprised.

"In the past two or three years, there have been several times. ”

"In the recent year, there has been a situation where there has been only a trickle, and although the amount of water has been restored soon after, it is also obviously weaker and weaker each time. It probably won't be long before it really dries up. Nanshan City is about to lose Gudong Spring. ”

This is also the reason why the Mo family is so eager to search for the source of Gudong Spring again.

For Nanshan Castle, Gudong spring water is not only a specialty, but also a huge income, because it has the effect of repairing the light path, so it is very popular.

Although its effect must be to continue to drink for a long time, the key is that its repair method has no sequelae, and what is even more rare is that if it is drunk for a long time, it will also have the effect of strengthening the light path wall.

The former can be replaced by many other medicines, but the latter enhances the effect of the light path wall, but it is the only one in Gudong Spring Water, which also causes the sale of Gudong Spring Water to become one of the largest incomes in Nanshan City, and even faintly exceeds the income of ore.

And now, Gudong Spring may dry up, how can the Mo family not be in a hurry?

Leaving the fountain square, the four of them walked around the neighborhood again, and seeing that the time was not early, Chengshanjun suggested going back, it was almost time for dinner.

In this regard, Rob and others naturally have no opinion.

After everyone agreed, Cheng Shanjun said with a smile: "Forget Narumi, after all, I have been to Nanshan City many times, but it is the first time that Rob and Muzi have come to Nanshan City, I don't know that Nanshan City also has a feature, called a zipline, right?" Although we are not far from home, but in order to let you experience it, let's take the zipline car back!"

"What is a zipline?" Seeing Cheng Shanjun say such an interesting look, Rob asked curiously.

"You'll know when you get there. Yu Minghai smiled, and did not dismantle the bottom of the mountain monarch.

So, under the leadership of Chengshanjun, Rob and Muzi walked towards the edge of Sunshine Avenue with curiosity, and soon, the four of them got into a passage.

This passage is not long, about two or three meters long, and it takes a few steps to come to the end, and then I realize that this is a tunnel in front of me.

The tunnel is wide, with five single rails on the ground, stretching to the left and right in the direction where there is no end in sight, but what is even more surprising is that there are many small cars with almost only one iron frame running through these five tracks.

These cars are large and small, the big ones can hold four or five people, and the small ones can only be one person, but no matter how many wheels there are, these cars are each running on a single train of rails.

And such a car does not have seats, people can only stand on it, chat and laugh, or look down to read a book, wear headphones to listen to songs, etc., but it looks very comfortable.

After Rob and others came in, they could still see that from time to time, large and small rail cars were constantly changing tracks with the single rails on the ground, joining or leaving the tracks, and passengers were used to going up and down.

After the car was stable, the people above pushed open the fence-like door, got out of the car, and left the place along the passage where Rob and the others had entered.

"This is the zipline?"

The railroad track is not uncommon for Rob, after all, the other world does not have the anti-gravity technology of this world, and the train is still running on a fixed track, which is the rail car running on this railroad track, which feels very interesting and makes him feel very curious.

Muzi is different, she is indigenous, accustomed to high-tech anti-gravity floating cars, but today is the first time she has seen such an ancient rail car, and her expression is even more exaggerated than Rob's.

"Hmm!"

Cheng Shanjun said: "There are two means of transportation in Nanshan City, one is this kind of rail car with more characteristics, and the other is a long train floating car similar to forest insects. Generally speaking, zip lines are the most convenient if you are not traveling very far, and if you are going to a long distance, you can take a long line of floating cars. ”

"The long train of floating cars surrounds Nanshan City, the speed is also fast, and the departure is also very dense, so it will not delay time. Cheng Shanjun said with a smile: "Of course, if you have to take a zipline car around Nanshan City, it's not impossible, but its speed is relatively slow, and the short distance is nothing, and after a long time, you may feel bored." ”

"And how do you get there?" asked Rob excitedly.

"It's very simple, go to the rental car over there and pay the money, and then report your address. ”

Cheng Shanjun led Rob and the others to the exit point, and said, "Do you have a money card? You can choose from single, double, or multiplayer. The price is only related to the number of people, not the distance. In other words, if you are alone, you can use one person's money to take a zipline car around Nanshan Castle. ”

When the four of them walked to the rental car station, there was no one in front of them, so Rob and Muzi rented a zipline car each under the guidance of Chengshanjun, and then lined up and walked up one by one.

As soon as the people got up, the zipline car immediately turned into other tracks during the lane change and began to speed along the tracks.

(End of chapter)