According to the existing data on the exploration of dwarven cities, most of the dwarven cities are semi-underground, that is, some buildings are located on the surface, while the other part is buried deep underground, and according to the tendency of the dwarves in different regions, the proportion of surface and underground buildings is also different, but most of the dwarven cities have more underground buildings than above-ground buildings. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Alftande, as one of the pearl cities of the dwarves, the city is more inclined to underground buildings, the surface buildings of the entire city only occupy a tenth of the total construction area, and after the dwarves disappeared, with the passage of time, the surface part of the land was gradually swallowed up by glaciers, and the whole city was buried underground.

It wasn't until the Fourth Age 196 that a slight earthquake caused Elftander to reappear and was discovered by an expedition team from Cellodiel, which hired some men in nearby towns to develop the dwarven ruins, but in the winter of 4E197, after the expedition leader led people to make the last supply in the town, he completely disappeared, and the people of Cellodiel, whether it was a nearby town or a person from Cellodiel, never saw the laughing Cellodil explorer again.

In the summer of 203 A.D., an elite army visited the glacier again.

"We should probably hire a few professional explorers."

Walking on the glacier as far as the eye could see, a swordsman at the front of the group muttered.

"The legendary sword cultivator is even scared?"

The elf who walked in the front made a sarcastic remark, which immediately attracted the dissatisfaction of the swordsman: "It's not all you!" How did I know to enter the Dwarven Ruins! ”

"It's no wonder I'm not going to know it, we made it clear when we were at the outpost, but you didn't listen carefully."

Sawyer shrugged his shoulders, and when he implied to Septin about the exact location of Elftande, the two of them mentioned words such as dwarves and ruins more than once, but Hunter didn't listen carefully.

Seeing that Hunter wanted to say something more, Sawyer hurriedly raised his hand to stop Hunter's words: "We have arrived." ”

The team turned around a mini-iceberg and a small camp appeared in front of everyone, sorry, "small" may not be the right word to describe it, but to be precise, a large camp buried by a glacier with only a little debris exposed.

Only one wooden house built on a boulder in the entire camp was still intact, and most of the remaining tents, fences, and even flagpoles were swallowed up by the glacier, and all that remained on the ground were a few tent tips, fence stakes, and a half-cut flagpole.

Judging from the size of the camp, the number of the original expedition team should be around sixty to eighty, which is just enough for three shifts of non-stop excavation for the excavation of ruins, but for Sawyer and the team he led, this is a bit insufficient.

"The others will rest on the spot first, and I'll take a look around first."

After Sawyer gave the order, he walked around the wreckage of the camp, but after a long turn, he didn't find the entrance that had been dug out by the expedition, so he had no choice but to use a stupid method: dig!

The camp was built on a glacier, and in order to facilitate the movement of the workers and prevent accidents, the road leading to the ruins must be paved with wooden planks and other things, and although a few years have passed, the frozen road will not be damaged so quickly.

But a stupid way is a stupid way after all, even if Sawyer specially asked the soldiers to bring digging tools in order to prevent this situation, but in the face of the hard ice, the soldiers still dug for more than three hours, until the sun went down, they dug up the ice where the expedition team camped and found a well-preserved road.

By the time the warriors dug open the glacial crevasse leading to the ruins, it was already dark.

"Everyone, camp and rest on the spot, and enter the ruins tomorrow morning."

After Sawyer gave the order, he looked at Serana and the others: "Serana, Ah Huan, and Hunter, the four of us will go first to explore the way." ”

"Good!"

The eyes of the three of them lit up, and they immediately responded in unison, and entered the ruins in turn.

As a sword cultivator, Hunter took on the task of opening the way, the weaker Sawa and the crispy illusionist Ah Huan were protected in the middle, and the strongest in the team, Serana, walked at the end to guard against a sneak attack from behind.

The location developed by the expedition team should be a certain tower located in the surface structure of Elftander, the expedition team entered the tower from the middle and upper floors of the tower, as long as they walked all the way down, they could enter the underground building of Alftander through the tower, as for the entrance to the black fall, it was completely up to luck.

After all, the underground buildings of Dwarf City extend in all directions, and Sawyer only remembers that the entrance to the Black Fall is located in the depths of the Elftander Cathedral, but which building is the cathedral, Sawyer can only spread his hands to express helplessness.

Exploring the tower all the way down, there are a lot of bedding rolls and daily utensils along the way, and on several tables, there are some dismembered dwarven robot spiders and research notes, but many places are stained with black-brown blood.

However, as a few people continued to go deeper, the traces of life along the way gradually became fewer, replaced by traces of various battles, and there were still black-brown marks left in the stone cracks on the ground, but there was not a single corpse nearby, whether it was a human or a snow elf, or even a part of a dwarven machine, but in the cracks in the wall, there were some fluorescent oocysts, which immediately made the four of them vigilant.

But when the four of them made it all the way to the bottom of the tower and entered the underground city of Elftander through the gate, it was a different scene.

The plaza directly opposite the tower's gate was littered with dwarven parts, the remains of some mechanical guards, and even a tall dwarven puppet lying in the center of the plaza, with two brass-colored arms unloaded and tumbling down next to an overturned cart.

In addition to various dwarven parts and wreckage, the stone cracks in the square were also filled with black-brown blood, but after such a long time, these blood stains had long since dried up, and there was a layer of green fluff on them, which looked extremely disgusting.

In addition, Sawyer also found some black things in the square, and along the distribution of these things, Sawyer's eyes gradually spread to the depths of the dungeon, and his heart suddenly pushed out the experience of this battle.

"Poor and greedy fellow, and an unprofessional expedition leader."

Sawyer sighed, in the dwarven ruins, in addition to the enemies of the expedition in addition to various dwarven traps and mechanical guards, the greater threat was the snow elves who used to be dwarven slaves, but this expedition team obviously did not realize the existence of the latter, so they fell into the trap of the snow elves.

And the current battlefield, it is estimated that when the expedition team worked hard to destroy the dwarven mechanical guards in the square, and was about to collect parts to take to study, they were ambushed by the snow elves who had been lurking next to them for a long time, and the back road was cut off, and the expedition team had to fight and retreat, and fled all the way to the depths of the ruins.

And those wounded and workers who stayed above also fell into bad luck, they didn't have much combat power, they couldn't even resist, and after being slaughtered by the snow elves, even the corpses were dragged deep into the ground and became the rations of the snow elves.