I walked around the house twice, but still found nothing, so I simply opened the latch and walked out through the door.

"How? Did you find anything? ”

It was Niu Kelian who asked, and I shook my head and recounted my findings.

Niu Kelian was surprised: "The door is locked from the inside?" It's really weird. ”

Green waved his hand, beckoned us to the car, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the barracks first, it's useless to dwell on this, maybe ask them to find out why." ”

The boundary of Shuangjieling is very wide, and the oasis at the foot of the mountain is naturally very wide, and there are many people scattered on the road, and we have temporarily accepted that this is an uninhabited village, so all the doors of the houses on the road are closed, and we did not get out of the car to knock on the door, but went directly to the military station.

It is precisely because of the wide range that we walked for at most an hour, and the houses around us gradually became denser, and from the perspective of housing density alone, this is definitely a relatively prosperous town, but unfortunately there is no one, and after a long walk, there is a barracks in front of us.

Fortunately, this place is finally no longer deserted, and a small group of black-armored soldiers with long axes appeared in front of the gate.

Seeing that we were approaching the barracks, two soldiers stepped forward and stopped us.

"Stop, who are you?"

Niu Kelian said with a smile: "Two military masters, we are passers-by. ”

A soldier in the leader's attire stepped forward and wondered, "Passerby? Where are you from? ”

Niu Kelian pointed to the left and said with a smile: "West." ”

When the team leader heard this, he shouted: "Nonsense, the west is an endless desert, there are no official roads, no towns, are you easy to bully as your own officials?" Honestly, who are you? Where did it come from? If you don't recruit from the truth, you can go to prison with me. ”

Niu Kelian sneered: "We really came from the west, we are people from Rock City, but Rock City was ambushed by a large number of marching ants, and we fled to come here." ”

The leader looked us up and down for a moment, and then said suspiciously: "Your Excellency the High Priest said before that the western frontier was in great trouble and was attacked by marching ants, and at first I didn't believe it, but according to what you say, is this true?" Are you really from the Western Frontier? ”

This time, without waiting for Niu Kelian to answer, Green jumped out of the carriage directly, handed a booklet to the team leader, and said, "Open it and take a look." ”

The team leader opened the booklet suspiciously, only glanced at it, and hurriedly and respectfully returned the booklet to Green.

"It turned out to be His Excellency Earl Frey, and I am the centurion of the Black Armor Infantry Regiment of the Shuangjieling Ridge."

Green took back the booklet and asked the leader, "You just said that the high priest used to be here?" ”

The leader replied, "Yes, about forty days ago, His Excellency the High Priest led his secret order, the Hummingbird Knights, to come here, and he said that he had suffered a great disaster in divination to the western frontier, and this time he had come to relieve the disaster. ”

Green asked, "So where is the high priest now?" Did you go to the Western Xinjiang? ”

The leader hesitated for a moment, shook his head, and said, "The high priest didn't go, he ordered the Hummingbird Knights to go to the rescue, and he stayed here." ”

"Oh? So where is he now? Take me to him. ”

The team leader pointed to the peak of the Twin Realms Ridge and said, "He's in the Ice and Fire Magic Tower. ”

"What? Tower of Fire and Ice Magic? He's crazy? What's going on, what's crazy about him? What do you do in there? ”

The team leader replied: "Oh, that's right, as early as three months ago, His Excellency the National Teacher went to the Ice and Fire Magic Tower for trial, and was originally scheduled to leave the customs in a week, but he didn't think that there was no news for more than a month, and the commander was afraid that the National Teacher would have an accident in the tower, so he sent someone to report to Mengdu, and on the other hand, he entered the tower with three hundred soldiers and the magicians stationed here, trying to find the national teacher. ”

Green frowned and shouted, "Nonsense, can you enter the Ice and Fire Magic Tower casually?" ”

"The High Priest said the same when he heard the news."

The leader continued: "As soon as the commander walked in with his front foot, His Excellency the High Priest came here with his hind foot, and the High Priest thought that the soldiers would not be able to chase back not long after they entered, so he walked in to save people and let the Hummingbird Knights go to the disaster relief on their own, until today, we have not waited for any news from Mengdu, let alone the news of the Ice and Fire Magic Tower. ”

Green was silent for a while, and sighed helplessly: "It's a big trouble now." ”

After a pause, Green continued, "There's a question for you. ”

The team leader responded, "Your Excellency, please speak." ”

"Why are all the homes we pass by uninhabited?"

The team leader hurriedly replied: "That's right, a few days ago, the magic tower sent out a fluctuation of instability, and the people of the magic guild followed up the magic tower, and we don't know what happened, so we can only let all the people hide in the underground protective measures from the tunnels of each house." ”

Green frowned and thought for a while, then analyzed: "Maybe there is something wrong with the spirit symbol on the periphery of the magic tower, so let's take us to the magic tower to have a look." ”

The team leader responded: "Yes! ”

The leader led us to the barracks, Green was silent all the way, I heard the conversation before, I asked Green, but he didn't say a word, we just walked to the foot of the barracks.

On the mountain wall, there is a cave dug out by hand, several soldiers are guarding here, inside the cave is an iron box made of pig iron, the leader sent us in, and said at the door: "Everyone, go up, I will also be responsible for the defense of the barracks, so I will not go together, and someone will naturally answer from above." ”

As soon as we stepped into the iron box, a fence fell from the top of the iron box and locked us inside, and just as I was startling, the whole iron box suddenly shook, and with a clattering sound, the ground in front of us became low.

It turned out to be an elevator.

After about half a minute, the elevator suddenly stopped, and the fence opened in front of me, revealing a platform in front of it.

Guided by a soldier, we continued some distance, but we were confronted by another identical iron box, an elevator as before.

We took more than 40 elevators in a row, and it took about half an hour, and just when I almost got sick for the first time in my life, a wide passage appeared in front of me.

A soldier stood guard at the entrance of the passage, pulled us out of the iron box, and said, "Get out of this passage, and there is the peak above." ”

Xiao Nan jumped in front of the soldier and asked, "How high is this mountain?" ”

The soldier replied: "More than four thousand meters." ”

I exclaimed, "More than four thousand meters? ”

Thinking about it, there is no concept of altitude in this world, and the more than 4,000 meters he said is naturally the distance from the ground to the peak, and if you count the altitude, this altitude is a bit terrifying. Even if we take our proportions into size, the mountain is thousands of meters high.

In addition to the steepness of this dangerous peak, I am still sighing, how did these more than 40 elevators be built? Even in the original world, this is a difficult task to complete.

Green walked forward first: "Let's go, let's go to the top and have a look." ”