Lukka and his crew returned home at lunch, fleeing in a panic in the face of the seemingly sumptuous delicacies on the table.

Daniel grabbed Luca and whispered, "Can you bring me some food and water on time?"

"Of course, that's fine, but," Lukka said in a low voice, "don't you need to eat?"

"No, but they don't know," Daniel pointed to the gnomes behind him, "in case they regard the need not to eat as a human race, and if anyone comes here in the future, won't they be starved to death?"

"I'm not going to choose any of them!" Luca was very resolute, "Eat and drink will be brought to you on time, and you have to explain to them what is the food that humans should eat." ”

Daniel stayed in the ballroom for the next few days, and with his height, it was not easy to find another place on the island that could accommodate him.

Despite his best efforts to act like a normal human, he still left some strange accounts in Mayor Finch's books, such as the absurd record that "when the ribs, armpits, or soles of the feet are touched, the body will be blurred to varying degrees".

Either way, Mayor Finch had most of the data he wanted, and the obvious spellcasting on the petroglyph facsimile was something he didn't know anything about, and of course he couldn't ask about it.

Seven days later, Luca and the others returned to the banquet hall at the appointed time.

Mayor Finch looked much haggard than before, and in the past few days, he had not wasted a second, but the doubts he had received far outweighed the gains.

If he wanted to extend the time, Lukka obviously wouldn't agree, and Mayor Finch could only put the doubt back in his stomach, hoping that he would be able to ask more questions on the way to the ruins with the group.

"My deal went well, why don't you have a party to celebrate?" said Mayor Finch.

"Don't!" Luka would rather eat dry food than slam it again.

"Alright," Mayor Finch pushed over the pile of petroglyph copies that had been on the table for a long time, "I'll leave these things to you, and, according to our agreement, I'll take you to the ruins myself, and your ship can withstand a level 3 air surge, right?"

"Surge?" Lukka was not a novice to sailing, but this was the first time he had heard the word.

"It's those bubbles in the sea, some of them are more, some are less, and we divide these situations into ten levels. Mayor Finch explained.

"So, what level is there in the white mist that surrounds this sea?" asked Luca.

Mayor Finch's eyes widened, "Are you kidding? that place is long beyond what can be described in terms of air surge levels!"

"Then you don't have to worry. Now, can you tell us where it is?" replied Luca.

"I'll take you," Mayor Finch rolled his eyes twice, "if I told you the coordinates first, maybe you'd sneak in, I don't want to miss the encounter between humans and the ruins." ”

Luca didn't have much of a problem with that, and it was far more convenient to have a guide who had been there than just one coordinate. He nodded and said, "Okay, we'll leave early tomorrow morning, you'd better ......"

A loud "boom" interrupted his conversation with the dwarf.

This was followed by a series of incessant roars, followed by a shrill alarm in the center of town.

Earthquakes, shelling, and Luca's mind quickly ruled out these two options.

The shaking of the ground is the result, not the cause of the loud noise. And these roars, apparently, came from the ground, not from the sea.

"Those goddamn little green mongrels again!" Mayor Finch spat out a rare expletive.

There was another roar, this time the location was very close to the banquet hall, and everyone inside was almost unsteady on their feet, and Zhuo Ye had to stagger.

"What the hell is going on?" asked Luca as he stepped over the long table that had fallen to the ground and walked over to Mayor Finch.

"What else could it be?, raid, robbery!" Mayor Finch said angrily, "Those green debris under the ground run up and plunder every ten days and half a month!"

"Is robbing by robbers a common occurrence in your area?" Lukka said, surveying the banquet hall around, calculating a safe route out of the trap. Of course, you must take this mayor with you when you leave, he is the guide to the ruins.

"Don't worry, it's no big deal. Mayor Finch quickly adjusted his mood, "They're going to wreak havoc on the streets at most, don't worry, they won't let them through a single door!"

Luca has now discovered that the ballroom is more than just a giant semi-basement. As sirens rang from the center of town, several walls suddenly parted to the sides, revealing a dense network of gears, rods, wires, and the like.

The changes outside the building are not small, looking out from the window, a layer of metal baffles pops up from under the ground on the periphery of the building, followed by several sounds, layer by layer of metal baffles stretching up from the front one in turn, and in less than a minute, the entire banquet hall is covered in this metal shell.

The sirens in the center of town gradually stopped, and the cacophony of shouting and the sound of things being knocked down and broken was still heard in the streets.

"I told don't worry, the defenses are in action, all the buildings are protected," Mayor Finch said confidently, "and the most they can do is vent on the garbage cans in the streets, and then they'll be back underground in a few hours." ”

"Well, it looks like I'm going to have to wait here for a few hours. Lukka said, finding a chair and sitting down, "What do those robbers look like? You said they were green?"

"Yes, green, ugly, greedy, cunning!" Mayor Finch was eager to use all the derogatory terms he knew.

"According to what you said, they live underground, and they can't grab anything when they come up, so why do they keep running up?" Luca felt that he had some experience in robbery, and the essence of this thing was that your purpose must be to grab something, and it was not called robbery, it was full of food.

"They don't care about that! They just don't like us. "Mayor Finch's reasoning is obviously a little flimsical.

Another roar came, this time next to the banquet hall, and not only that, but a few minutes later, a violent explosion came from the direction of the main gate of the banquet hall!