Chapter 58 String of Glass IV
It's not that Shen Yan doesn't like the bronze dwarves, but that no one looks at them in the entire bronze fortress.
Shen Yan said that except for his funny personality, a larger background, a little more golden thighs, and a beautiful girlfriend, he is actually no different from ordinary young people. Therefore, I usually like to squat and brag with a group of soldiers, and scold whoever I talk about.
When he said that he was smooth, he even scolded himself.
At that time, he followed a group of soldiers to scold the bronze dwarves, pay attention, they were just bronze dwarves.
It stands to reason that the Bronze Dwarves helped the Human Empire build the Bronze Fortress Tianguan, and then supplied weapons to the fortress endlessly, and they also helped (pour molten iron) during the Demon Tide War, so it stands to reason that this race should be very respectable.
However, the Bronze Dwarves have a very bad habit, and that is to ...... Death costs money!
To what extent does it cost to die? The empire could not afford to pay for the construction of the fortress, so it had to cede eighty percent of the underground and thirty percent of the ground of the fortress to the dwarves to pay off their debts.
The defenders of the fortress would rather send weapons to the front line from the distant imperial capital than directly from the bronze dwarves. Because buying dwarves is more expensive than transporting them all the way, and the quality is not as good as those produced by other people's hill dwarves.
What is especially hateful is that occasionally because the magic tide is too big, the fortress is irresistible and needs a lot of weapons and materials. When the fortress gritted its teeth and procured from the bronze dwarves...... As a result, they actually increased the price! And it's doubled! And there are all kinds of conditions such as purchasing grain at a low price!
If they don't, they'd rather sit back and watch the fortress fall than sell a weapon - not even a 99% discount! It is said that the temper of the dwarf is as stubborn as stone, so the temper of the bronze dwarf is as stubborn as gold......
If the previous one is forgivable, then the last one is already a naked war profit. Warmongers, no one will like them, especially the warmongers who hide as soon as the tide comes! Coupled with their collusion with the nobles, collecting tolls and so on, everyone hated the bronze dwarves.
Common sense inferred that their weapons are sold so expensive, and they also have unique equipment made of oraldrite, and the bronze dwarves should have gathered a lot of money! These riches are rarely used by bronze dwarves, and the money does not flow back to the market.
So what are the bronze dwarves doing with all this money? Independent statehood? Monopolizing the market? Nurturing the next generation? This has always been a mystery.
Now that Shen Yan saw the inside of the ruins, he finally knew what the dwarves were doing with the money - they melted the money and cast it into two large gold statues of pure gold! One is like a patriarch, and the other is like an elder...... What a pit you have!
Shen Yan could now monitor almost all the activities inside the fortress walls, and when he focused a little, he heard the patriarch and elders of the bronze dwarves gathering together to discuss the "conspiracy". Then Shen Yan listened to it and found that the hero saw the same thing, phew! Not a hero!
In short, these two old villains are actually fighting the idea of the fortress! Their idea is also to let the demons drive the empire away, and then they will use the mechanism that has been laid in ambush to drive the demons in the city away, and finally the bronze dwarf will become the owner of the fortress.
After the builder built the house, he didn't leave or talk, and he wanted to turn over and become a homeowner...... It's really ambitious.
The Bronze Dwarves were originally just hill dwarves who built fortresses, but in the process of rebuilding the ruins, they accidentally broke into a broken secret passage and obtained a secret treasure around the city. Since then, the dwarves have become more and more greedy. They continued to build fortresses on the surface, but in fact, most of their energy was spent on underground treasure hunting. And by deceiving the Empire, he spent a lot of money to buy a magic device that can detect treasures......
By now, their greed can no longer be satisfied, and they even want to completely swallow this fragment of the ring city that is more than fifty kilometers long! I'm not afraid to die!
"Then let me help you realize this dream, and from now on, the Bronze Fortress will belong to your family!"
Shen Yan entered the open passage in front of him and placed the crystal ball on a stone pedestal, covering it with his hand.
In an instant, the entire huge ruin seemed to come to life and began to tremble slightly! Not only the 100 meters on the ground, but also more than 30 kilometers buried under the soil!
"Earthquake?!" The dwarves, who were familiar with the geology, sat on the minecart and hurried back to their homes along the tracks. What they couldn't see was that at the "fractures" at both ends of the ring debris, the fractures were smoothed, and the exposed passages were sealed and blocked;
Inside, the secret passages dug up by countless generations of spies around the city are approaching the center, like bubbles in the water. The small ones merge with each other, and the big ones devour the small ones......
The bronze dwarves who lived underground were horrified to find that the walls around them suddenly squirmed, as if they were living in the stomach of a big monster!
Fortunately, the big monster did not eat them, but closed the space opened up by many dwarves towards them, and transported the dwarves' furniture, food, metal ingots, weapons, etc., and "spit" them in this space.
The only exception is oraldrite, whether it is oraldhal, which is cast into weapon armor, or ordrichal, which is cast into ingots, or which is alloyed...... As long as it contains the material of oralmost, it will all be ruthlessly confiscated by the foundation of the ring city! Even the armor they put on!
Among them, of course, also includes the two golden statues - gold alone can not be cast so large statues, doped with olivetal bronze can make the statues not deform for a long time.
So it was also confiscated......
"We're on the rise!" One of the dwarves said in fear, feeling the ground under his feet go up.
When the dwarves and their belongings are gathered together, the space that encloses them begins to "float". When the top of the dwarves' heads opened like bubbles and they saw the starry sky above them, they realized that they had been sent to the bronze fortress!
It's just that there are ruins everywhere......
When they came to their senses, there were no bubbles or passages. Beneath them was a flat mountain of copper ground, surrounded by endless ruins of the fire, and except for a small patch of the sky, which was covered by pouring rain in the distance...... The past 100 years of the bronze dwarf have been like a dream!
They looked up at the starry sky and felt terrified!
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The bubble that "sent" the dwarf away was only one of the smaller ones, and more bubbles were converging towards the center of the fragment, and the bubbles naturally contained what had been hidden inside...... Eventually, the fragment of the ring became a large underground space with a long strip at its core, which could hold a town, and in which countless treasures were piled up with the people of the ring city.
The rest of the fragments are all oraldrich.
This time, if the dwarves want to dig in again, even if they are given 80,000 years this time, don't even think about it!
After completing the first step, I am sure that the gods will not be able to detect this place, no matter how powerful they are. Shen Yan started the second step of work, and Huancheng began to twist back and forth with the command......
When the earth first began to vibrate, the Demon Monarch Borgarin had already noticed. Out of "caution", he ordered all the demons to continue to retreat! Her order provoked great resentment, but it wasn't long before the demons became speechless.
As the long walls twist like snakes, countless lava erupts from the cracks in the earth's crust! Outline the ruins like the serpent of creation!
The magma gushed out in two directions, backwards, blocking the Empire's path to the fortress; Forward, flooded a small half-shovel-shaped plain. The demons were extremely glad to have evacuated before, otherwise I am afraid that a large number of demons would have been lost here. Even high-level demons can boast of bathing in magma.
"Boom! Rumble! ”
It was in this apocalyptic scene, with the eruption of the volcano, that the ruins of the ring city were being raised little by little, and finally they were level with the mountains and rose for thousands of meters before stopping!
Borgarin is going to despair! She looked at the extremely high city wall that stood like thousands of feet, and looked at the city gate hanging in the air, like a small black dot, and the so-called "fortress" was still above it! The Demon Monarch only felt his brain dizzy...... Detour, must detour...... Whoever fights such a city is a fool!
At this height, the empire can't go up, so what can the demon do even if a few elite soldiers go up? But at this time, it was the dwarves above who were the most desperate...... Xiande Fa Ge, how are we going down?!
Seeing this, a certain demon poet wrote another poem, "Those above want to come down, and those below want to go up." ”
No, I was finally beaten this time.