Behind the beech forest is the towering highland mountain wall, along the way the solid mountain wall is intermittently carved with reliefs of Alex, the god of centaurs, in various postures, these reliefs of the face all show a heroic face, although the relief because of the power of time climbed some vines or occasionally hung upside down some cobwebs, but still can not stop his majestic momentum.

On the mountain wall facing the highland mountain road, Alex's relief came to an abrupt end, as if to highlight the huge mountain rock door frame that was at least ten feet high, and the edges and beams of the stone door frame were carved with vivid wave patterns, which seemed to be incompatible with the scenery of the highland mountain, but it was undeniable that such a strange carving on this tall stone door frame did look a little majestic. The majestic stone door frame carved with wavy patterns seems to tell this group of strange visitors a history that all Gilberg family members will never forget. The heavy gate was covered with vermilion paint by centaur craftsmen, and on the rock wall about five or six feet high above the door, the centaur craftsmen actually carved out a defensive bunker made of a firing hole and a throwing hole, and the edge of the defensive bunker was inlaid with sharp wooden stakes embedded in the solid mountain rock wall, and through the shooting holes and throwing holes of the defensive bunker, you could see the Gilberg centaur spear throwers and archers standing guard in the bunker passage, It is like forming an impregnable mountain and rock wall defense line.

"Dear Mr. Alec, I have known you for more than ten years, and you have never invited me to visit your Gilberg dwelling, and I have seen it today with the blessing of Monacana. But I wonder why your door frame is carved with a wave pattern instead of other tree patterns and horseshoe patterns. Sheffield can always see the tree pattern and unicorn pattern that the wood elves worship. What's more, your Alex has always been described by you as a warrior of light and flame. Like those Alex reliefs we saw earlier on the rock face. Teucer asked Alec curiously.

"I'm sorry, Teucer. We centaurs don't like to expose our secret strongholds, we just want to live quietly in this highland mountain. If anything, it goes back hundreds of years. For the vast majority of people, they don't even know that our people exist, but it's a good thing for us in peacetime. Alec spread out his hands and replied faintly to the curious Teucer, "As for the carving of this wave, it doesn't match the fire of Alex that we worship, and it makes you feel strange, right?" In fact, it is only to commemorate our homeland, and the dream of returning to the distant Isle of Mist can continue to live in our blood. ”

"That Isle of the Mists must be a very beautiful place." Teucer's eyes were fixed on the flames jumping from the torch at the top of the door, as if lost in thought about the fire.

"Yes, like the torch you look at, once it is burned out, there will always be a new flame for it. The Isle of the Mists is indeed a very beautiful place, because it is not only the land we miss but also the blood and tears of our people. Alec and Teucer looked at the torchlight at the top of the door, their voices still calm.

"Mountains as castles, rocks as barriers." Walking behind the centaurs Alec and Teucer, Glenn marveled at the sight, "I've never seen the craftsmanship of such a built settlement. ”

"No, as long as there is enough food hoarded here, this level of defense is difficult to breach no matter what. No matter how powerful the walking corpses were, they couldn't knock down a highland mountain. Alec's reply was full of confidence, "Alright, everyone, my children Tatek have opened the gates of the Highlands for us, and we welcome you to the honor of being one of our first visitors. ”

As Alec approached, the thick door covered with vermilion paint slowly opened, revealing a mysterious glimpse of a cave palace before everyone's eyes.

"Welcome back, Parent Alec." Alec walked in the lead, and the centaur warriors outside the Highlands nodded to Alec.

Under Alec's guidance, Teucer and his members of the Wood Elf Einsatzgruppen entered the secret palace-like caves of the Highland Mountains. Teucer and his team seemed to look around, almost mesmerized by the sight before them, and a gentle blue light shimmered in the entire palace-like highland mountain cavern, like a peaceful breath from a deep sleep. Under the reflection of this gentle blue light, the dream of the cave of the entire highland mountain is presented in front of everyone's eyes.

They were following Alec's guidance on a paved pathway, a wide road paved with a layer of dry dirt, and the ground in the middle of the road was tightly embedded with pebbles of similar size that stretched into the distance, looking like a sign of the road. On both sides of the open road are the similarly sized 'rock wall stone houses' carved out by Gilberg's people in the cave walls, and through the hidden doors, the animal skins that symbolize the honor of centaurs hanging on the cave walls of the houses loom in the sky, all revealing a trace of primitive atmosphere, and every twenty paces or so are very symmetrical round stone pillars carved with patterns, they are like rows of majestic honor guards along the gradually rising terrain to the square of the highland cave. The cobblestone pillars carved with wave patterns and flame crests were adorned with rusty iron torches, but the light in the torches did not come from the flames, but from the kind of stone they contained, a stone that glowed pale blue, and because it illuminated the whole cavern in a deep, serene blue, but not at all dull. There are centaurs in the caverns that bring new ore specifically for these torches, and the centaurs who have taken the old ore are smiling and nodding to them.

"Dear Mr. Alec, I can't believe that there are so many blue fluorites in your cave. I finally understand why you traded a gold coin for my father for that bag of blue stones that I loved to play with as a child. Teucer was amazed at how many of these blue fluorites shimmered with a faint blue glow.

"Now that the iron ore in the Iron Ore Ridge has been exhausted, there are fewer and fewer stones full of light power. If it were now, I would be happy to exchange two gold coins for the pocket that your father found you. With gentlemanly elegance, Alec replied to Teucer with a smile.

"But why do you still have to keep replacing these strange ores?" Glenn's eyes flashed with a slight glint of excitement, "How beautiful this stone is, I remember, this thing is called blue fluorite!" Right? We also have iron ore veins in Ervinia, but we have not found such strange and beautiful stones. ”

"No, not none, but rather rare, I'm sure I saw one when I was a kid, one of the Wood Elves miners of our place found in the Nikolai Iron Mine in the Snowdan Mountains, but the stone was soon bought by our druids there as a sacred treasure! As for the fact that I followed my parents to Sheffield, I really haven't seen anything like this! Meke was almost captivated by the blue fluorite contained in these iron torches.

"Although blue fluorite is associated with iron ore, most of the iron ore veins do not contain it. Although the iron ore veins in Iron Ore Ridge are not large, they are the richest veins we have ever seen containing blue fluorite. Alec looked at the envious gaze cast by his wood elf guests, looking a little fluttering, "Blue Fluorite must absorb sunlight in order to slowly release the energy it contains, so we have to let our Tatech warriors change the Blue Fluorite at any time, if this place is too much in your eyes, then when you arrive at our square, you will definitely be shocked by the blue fluorite that we Gilberg have." ”

"Your Highland Mountain Cave and Square!? It's unbelievable. Teucer's eyes widened and his mouth wide open, what was here was hard for him to believe.

"It's been more than a hundred years since we came to Gudebai, and can't Gudebay go from a barren mountain saddle to a small town, and for us centaurs, isn't it just to build a cave like this?" Alec guided Teucer and his Einsatzgruppen to what he said was a square that would surely shock the Wood Elves.

"Wow!" The members of the Wood Elf Einsatzgruppen of Traucher screamed in unison, the wide cave square was full of tower-shaped blue fluorite piles, and the blue light they emitted illuminated the whole square, looking up, a large beam of sunlight drilled through the huge hole in the sloping roof, and impartially slanted on the blue fluorite mine pile in this square, and below the huge hole in the sloping roof was the cistern dug by Gilberg, in which some female centaurs in the bath held the stout ' The gecko's was smiling shyly at the strange visitors, and it seemed that the purpose of the plaza was not only to stack the blue fluorite that needed to be recharged, but also to provide water for the entire cavern.

"This is our 'source of light'. Don't be too surprised, he's just the name of the square. Aptly named, right? Alec listened happily to the screams of the wood elves, and for a split second, he already thought that Gilberg was the richest family in Erwiniari.

Passing through a hinged stone hut on the north side of the square, a sudden sharp staircase led the group to the second level of paved horse path carved out by the centaurs in the rock wall, which at the end of the staircase split into two paths, one leading to the guarded passage and bunker outside the cave for the use of the Gilberg Tatech warriors guarding the highland caves, and the other to the upper dwellings of Gilberg Tarik and Tarkel.

"It seems that the stone house excavated from this second floor must be a place for important members of your family to live, which is completely different from the stone house next to the square." Teucer watched as he walked.

"So to speak. My room is almost there, too. Alec raised an eyebrow, and said proudly, "That's it, gentlemen, please come in." ”

Alec pushed open the door, leading Teucer and his Wood Elf teammates to a rather spacious rock-walled stone house, where a full white tiger skin rested on a flat feldspar table, not a single chair next to the feldspar table, except for a single piece of deerskin on the ground around it.

"Dear Mr. Alec, this is your room? It's not much different from the room layout in Goodbay Town! Teucer asked directly, like his old friend Alec.

"My father's chamber in the Highland Mountain cave, to be exact, and I inherited it." Alec nodded. "I was born here and came back here. Doesn't it feel like life is like Alex's joke? ”

"But I can't figure it out, why don't you all go to Gudebay to live? But you and your father are the only ones who go to live in Gudebai? Teucer asked Alec puzzled, asking him questions that he had previously struggled to understand.

"In order to preserve our family's bloodline and continue the life of our race, we don't like to let other races pay attention to us, because our ancestors warned us that these wanderers from the Isle of Mists should live in seclusion, otherwise they will be punished by the scourge star Telemy." Alec said lightly, "This mountain is the last place my grandfather chose to migrate, and under this mountain there is the town of Gudebai, which is an iron ore town, and no one takes the existence of this town seriously. At the western foot of the town is a large mountain known as the Highland Mountains, with dense beech forests and abundant animals for us to hunt, and there are some wandering centaurs from other wandering or destroyed families to recruit in the town, and of course, the rich associated ore of the Gudebay Iron Mine, which is needed by our centaurs, which shimmers with a pale blue light, the blue fluorite. So, this is why I would like to be an ordinary townsman in Gudebai, where the young men of my family regularly deliver some of the venison, wild boar, and rabbit meat they have hunted to my house, and then the iron ore and blue fluorite that I have bought from the sale of venison, wild boar, and rabbit meat are sent by the younger descendants of my family to the highland caves. It has been built since before I was born. My father disguised himself as a centaur merchant and took me to buy a decent house in Gudebai, and we gradually integrated into the ordinary and chaotic life of Gudebai, which was coarse and bland, and chaotic was goblin raids, and we didn't show our muscles, because the goblins were just a small threat. In this way, until my father died, I took over as the head of the family. Even if well-informed people might know that the towering Highland Hills next to the town of Gudebai might be a gathering place for centaurs, they have no way of confirming this rumor. ”

"No wonder everyone in town says you centaurs are a mysterious and incomprehensible bunch." Teucer made fun of Alec, who listened to him tell him about the past of Goodbye, and whenever he talked to Alec about the past related to Goodbye, it was like picking up those yellowed memory shells, although the memories of the past were not very good, "If it weren't for today's chance encounter, maybe I wouldn't have been able to unlock the secrets of your Gilberg centaurs in my life." ”

"Luckily, you're lucky. You haven't become one of the sporadic "resurrectors" who dare to break into our territory, or I wouldn't have hesitated to kill you. Actually, my spear was only an inch away from your throat. Alec slapped the stone table and laughed.