"Drip, drip, drip. The target creature, unknown, goblin similarity, 47 percent, the gold family similarity, sixty-nine percent, and the primate monster similarity, forty-three percent, judged to be an unknown organism. ”

"Hello Drip Unidentified Creatures, you are about to enter the Clockwork City controlled area, please show your identification within thirty seconds. If you do not identify yourself within the time limit, the Legion War Colossus will be activated. ”

"Drop, the timer begins. ”

"That's it. Pannis repeated, "That's all the goblin language just now, but I'm glad I understand it." Looks like we've arrived at a place called Clockwork City. However, I have never heard of this city in history, so I guess it is a small city. ”

"I'm more curious about one thing than Clockwork City or something. Seeing the new things, Lina had long forgotten to shout tired, and asked curiously, "What is the Golden Clan?

"No, the Golden Clan refers to the Divine People of the First Age. Moore explained, "In the Goblin Age of the Second Age, there were still some survivors of the Divine People who survived. They have been living with the goblins, but these are not the strongest of the gods, so the divine punishment at the end of the Second Age did not survive them, and they all died at that time, and the Golden Clan ceased to exist. ”

"Well, that means that the humanoids of our generation are very similar to the Golden Clan of the First Age. Lina nodded, "Sixty-nine percent similarity." ”

"The appearance is very similar, but the essence is far from the same. Pannis sighed, "Even the weakest among the gods is very powerful for the current humanoids. ”

"I mean, you're not focusing on the right thing. Ben, who was a little short-tempered, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said loudly: "What I care about now shouldn't be the Golden Clan, what I should care about is the legion-level War Colossus, although I don't know what it is, but it sounds very powerful, is it really okay if you are so indifferent?"

"Ben, read more in the future. Teresa said dissatisfiedly, "The Legion-level War Colossus is a kind of war machine for goblins, and it doesn't just sound powerful. It's actually very powerful, and it's said that it has legendary combat power in some aspects, which is quite terrifying. I don't know how to be a qualified church guard? You are punished with reading miscellaneous books for an hour a day. ”

"Yes......" Benn hung his head with a sad face, "but what does a qualified church guard have to do with a goblin puppet? ”

"It is a giant metal golem that is eight meters tall and weighs more than ten tons. Pannis explained, "The hardness is very high, and the defense can be close to the strength of the legendary high-level Douqi shield. The attack power is also very high, and it is also equipped with a medium-power goblin bomb, a very powerful kind of puppet. But don't worry, this kind of puppet has one of the biggest weaknesses, that is, it is very slow, and under normal circumstances, it is impossible to keep up with our actions, let alone catch up with us who want to avoid it. ”

"Isn't that bad?" said Lina, "We're going to have to find a place to camp, and if this thing keeps chasing after us, it's impossible to stop and rest." Ahhh Hurry up and find a way for me to rest, you incompetent servant, hurry up. ”

"Don't worry, as long as we enter the confines of the city, we can get rid of it. Pannis didn't care about the puppet at all, and replied lightly: "Goblins aren't stupid enough to let metal golems wreak havoc in the city they live in, so there must be restrictions on golems and won't let them chase them to the cities above." ”

"That...... I don't want to bother you, but I have to ask a question. Marcia, who had been carrying out the instructions and waiting for the meal to start, suddenly said, "It's been four or thirty seconds now. What about the puppets?"

"Hmm, really, what about the puppet?" Pannis was stunned for a moment, and looked at each other blankly: "Why hasn't it come out yet?"

"It seems like there really isn't. Moore tried to discern the sounds in the sewers. After a while, he shook his head and said, "I can't hear it at all nearby, so it can't be broken." ”

"It's unlikely, don't forget the cleaning golems. Pannis said, "But it's also true that the giant puppet didn't appear, maybe for some reason, it was stuck in a certain position, and there was no way to get over." But that's just right. Let's easily enter Clockwork City. ”

Along a pipe that clearly felt inclined upward, the group quickly stepped out of the range of the lower water and saw the ancient goblin city for the first time. With a permanent population of 6,000 and an area of seventeen square kilometers before the fall of Clockwork City, this city is a relatively small city for both goblins and humans. But after 10,000 years, this group of people who set foot on the territory of this city for the first time were shocked at the first sight of the city, because they saw nothing.

Because of the presence of fluorite belts in the sewers, there is no need for other lighting facilities. But when they climbed up a ten-meter-deep shaft and lifted a manhole cover made of goblin metal, it turned pitch black until Pannis hurriedly turned on the high-powered Crystal Lamp, and everyone got a glimpse of what the city looked like.

For 10,000 years, due to geological changes, most of this ancient city was covered by hundreds of meters of soil. And about one square kilometer of it, for some unknown reason, was lucky not to be completely covered in the earth, but left a hollow about five meters high at the highest point, giving people the opportunity to see it again. The city is small, but it is full of high-rise buildings unique to goblins. The tops of these buildings, which are often more than 100 meters high, have been swallowed up by the earth, leaving only two floors of space at the bottom for future generations.

"Huhu, is this the city of goblins?" Lina stood in the city, which should theoretically be silver-white, and looked at the visible range around her by the light of the crystal lamp.

The location of the people should have been a relatively prosperous street in the city 10,000 years ago, the street was seven or eight meters wide, and there were a few crystal locomotives scattered on the street, and on both sides of the street were two rows of sparse crystal energy street lamps, and there were a few shops that could not understand the name of the two sides a little farther away.

But the most impressive thing on the street is not these, but the corpses in various postures. The small corpses belong to the relatively short goblins at first glance, and there are not many corpses, but they are quite messily distributed. These corpses are often still in their previous positions, and those who were driving have fallen in the middle of the street, and those who were in a hurry have fallen on the sides of the street. Those who were working collapsed at work, and those who were resting collapsed on their beds. The city in front of me seemed to fall into a deep sleep for a moment, and without giving the inhabitants any time to prepare, all of them fell into death at about the same time. There were no wounds, no struggles, no advance preparations, just in an instant, death came.

"Why is this happening?" Teresa covered her mouth and exclaimed when she saw this, "Even if there is an irresistible natural disaster, people will have a few seconds or even tens of seconds to struggle for their lives, but the people here don't even have these few seconds, it's like there is no process, directly from the state of life to the state of death." ”

"Remember why the goblins perished?" Pannisy moved the crystal lamp in his hand slightly, so that the range of the light continued to move forward: "The goblins perished by divine punishment. ”

"What exactly is divine punishment?" Lina asked incomprehensibly, "I always thought it was a natural disaster that befell the whole world. But that doesn't seem to be the case now. ”

"I don't know what divine punishment is, after all, I've never experienced it. Pannith shook his head and said, "But judging from everything in front of him, divine punishment is not a natural disaster, but an instantaneous attack on the soul. Such an attack would cause people to die without warning and without knowing why, as these goblins do. ”

"It's a terrible thing. Lina obviously thought of something more: "Under divine punishment, the number of goblins has shrunk from 2.1 billion at its peak to less than 100,000 in an instant, and these 100,000 people are still scattered all over the world, and there are often only one or two survivors in a city. What do you think it would be like for those who survived?"

Everyone subconsciously shuddered, unable to imagine what it would be like when they woke up one day and found that they were the only living person in the entire city, and other people, relatives, friends, and even enemies, were inexplicably caught in death, but compared to maintaining sanity and not going crazy, it was already a manifestation of spiritual perseverance.

"Hey, don't be emotional. At some point, Pannis was already crouching next to several corpses rummaging around with them, when he waved his hand to everyone, "Come and see, what I found." ”

Perhaps because the area was relatively dry 10,000 years ago, these corpses miraculously did not decompose, but were naturally dried and dehydrated, forming something similar to mummies. The corpse's original clothes appeared to be in good condition, but when a person approached, a breeze blew through the clothes that looked like they were finished into powder. Although the clothes of the corpse before his death have disappeared, some of the items originally carried by him have been retained, such as some metal items such as keys, jewelry, gadgets, etc.

But that's clearly not what Pannis was referring to, and Pannis was holding a thin card made of hedron for everyone to show.

"What is this?" asked Lina curiously, "It looks like something quite important." ”

"I don't know what it is, but these corpses, each of them carries it. Pannis touched his chin and said slowly, "Obviously very important. Remember the identification that we mentioned in the beep when we were down there? I suspect that's what it is. (To be continued.) )