As soon as the king finished speaking, Rosalie said, "No, you can at least go and see it yourself, right?" ”

Wang: "I originally wanted to see what my predecessors had done, and then I would look at it purposefully, at least through the efforts of my predecessors, to remove the ones I had already practiced. This allows me to go on field trips with ideas that no one has tried before.

"It's called targeting."

He paused and patted the book on the table: "As a result, all my ideas were rejected by my predecessors, and they tried them all. They tried even the ones I hadn't thought of. But you're right, I should go to the scene to see, would Your Highness be willing to be a guide? ”

The fourth princess turned her head and asked Elizabeth, "Has he always been so impertinent?" I even said to one of my princesses, 'Do you want to be a guide?'" ”

Wang: "Why, it's an unseemly thing to be a guide in Monrovia?" This is the first time I've heard of it. ”

Rosalie raised an eyebrow: "What? No, how did you get here? ”

Elizabeth: "I'm used to his different way of thinking. ”

When she said this, Elizabeth was still a little proud.

Wang: "I just deduced it logically. If the result I deduced is incorrect, it is also the wrong condition you gave. ”

Elizabeth: "I know, I know, it's not my fault anyway." So now shall we go to His Majesty the Emperor, or shall we go to the bottom of the tower? ”

Rosalie stood up: "Go to the Tower, I was going to go out today, and the car was ready, but my brave and fearless fiancé ran back to his country."

"Really, if we don't stop the orc frenzy, Odath will suffer too. He didn't stay here to learn the orc's tactics, and ran away! ”

Elizabeth: "Okay, let's take His Highness's carriage?" ”

Wang: "No, I'm going to go on horseback." This way you can see the situation on the street, Langdon's enemy came too quickly that time, there was basically no pre-war atmosphere, today I want to see with my own eyes the ecology of ordinary people when the war clouds are thick. ”

Rosalie stared at the mage, "You...... It's really indifferent. ”

Wang: "It's called reason. ”

"No, no, I've seen a lot of rational people," Rosalie shook her head, "you're just indifferent, like a cold-eyed spectator." ”

Elizabeth: "Yes, it's better than when he first walked into the Tavern of the Three Boars, when he was simply a little boy whose long-awaited outing had finally begun. ”

The king looked at Elizabeth, "I didn't expect you to hold such a grudge, little girl. ”

Apparently, both remembered the first time they saw three wild boars.

Rosalie interjected into the soon-to-be-formed world of two: "Alright, stop! I know you've built up a lot of bonds. If I ask people to arrange horses, will the dwarves also have one to ride? ”

The dwarf who had been drinking silently in the corner: "No, no! I'm not going! ”

Wang: "You have to go, after all, you are a dwarf and have your own unique views on masonry techniques. Maybe you can crack the secret! ”

Flint sighed: "How is it possible, Minos has a dwarf neighborhood, and the craftsmen who came to this place to beg for a living back then are basically first-class masters." So I don't have to go, I'm just here to read......"

Flint looked at the bottle on the table.

"Uh, wine tasting!" He changed his tune.

Wang: "Wine tasting at the Wang Li Library?" ”

"Yes! That's how there is an atmosphere! We dwarves love to drink wine in the sea of books! Flint was adamant, "The pastor of Kaylin never lies!" ”

The king raised his eyebrows: "Okay, Your Highness, you don't need to prepare baskets." Also, I don't ride horses. ”

As he spoke, he patted Xiaobai's head: "Get up, I'm leaving." ”

Xiaobai: "It's time to eat?" ”

"No, but I can give you a ham on the way."

"Ham!"

**

At the same time.

The Emperor of Monrovia, Bernal Melward, was studying the situation with his generals in a sandbox.

"Our contact with the Frontier of the Northeast was cut off three days ago," said Connaught, the gray-haired Clover Knight, worriedly, "and it is possible that the army of orcs has crossed the border. After all, the wolf cavalry has penetrated deep here, plundering the plains around Minos for a long time. ”

The title of Knight of the Clover comes mainly from the coat of arms of the Duke of Connaught's family. If you despise the old man because the title of "Clover Knight" looks weak, you will definitely suffer.

In fact, Duke Connaught was the military governor of Monrovia, commanding the standing army and the Knights of Monrovia, and even the Holy Knights, who nominally belonged to the Lancelot Church, could not ignore his orders.

"There are now many refugees from the surrounding villages," continued the Duke of Connaught, "and I propose that rationing should be adopted at once, and that all the food in the city be collected. The orcs are menacing, but we didn't gather our forces in the spring because of spring ploughing! ”

Bernal glanced at the duke: "Priority spring ploughing is what I meant. Correspondingly, I have hired a trustworthy mercenary group. ”

"Your Majesty, you are still young and don't understand, the mercenaries are okay to play war games between human lords, and when it comes to really facing the murderous orc troops, they are the most untrustworthy people. Thirty years ago, when the last orc invasion ......"

Benal: "I was twenty years old at the time, and I went into battle to kill the enemy. I think you're confused, don't you remember? I know mercenaries are unreliable! ”

Duke Connaught: "And you still are?" ”

"But they are at least more reliable than the peasants with spears. Most of the mercenaries I've hired this time are archers, and I've also hired mercenary groups that specialize in orc hunting, and they wear orc teeth as ornaments.

"I also hired the Sasaris cavalry regiment, they are all archers, they were in place three days ago, and they began to clear the wolf cavalry around Minos, the effect is remarkable, and they can send back a hundred pairs of orc ears every day!"

At this time, an attendant walked in, did not announce, ran directly to the emperor's side, and whispered a few words.

These are the emperor's cronies and close attendants, and they are the emperor's eyes and ears.

After listening to the report, the emperor frowned and said, "Did they really go to the giant tower?" Did you find a solution? ”

The squire shook his head, "The Drow Elves of the Salvation Squad are experienced wanderers, and we can't sneak into the Royal Library to eavesdrop. The loiterers have already killed all three of us. ”

Emperor: "She's a killer like this?" Don't give any face? ”

"Yes. But I guess the other side will reasone, I don't know where these spies come from. ”

What about the facts? Does she know? ”

Squire: "It should be known that the corpses we found all have traces of torture, but she can say that these dead soldiers are all good, and she didn't say a word." ”

The emperor scolded, then stood up: "Several, I'm going to go to the tower to have a look." ”

Duke Connaught was shocked: "At such a critical moment? ”

Bernal: "Send griffon knights to scout the border." According to the experience of 30 years ago, the orcs would plunder the territory of the border lord after conquering it, and there was not a month that they would not march. We raised the frontier so fat just for this day. ”

Bernal's words, though seemingly ruthless, are the consensus of the human army. The orc army is strong in combat, but it is undisciplined, and when it comes to conquering new territories, it will be looted until there is nothing left to rob.

Orc armies generally do not have baggage teams when they first set out, and the larger the baggage team, the more baggage teams there are, the less mobile they are, and they will eventually be defeated by humans due to their slow movements.

And the orc warriors who are scattered will find ways to return home with the fruits of their plunder.

Therefore, the orc army should not be fortified, it will allow them to advance quickly.

Connaught, a veteran who had lived through the last orc invasion in its entirety, certainly knew that.

So instead of preventing the emperor from leaving, he turned around and began to give various orders in the name of the emperor. Since Bernal's accession to the throne, Connaught has been his military governor, which can be regarded as a tacit understanding between him and the emperor.

**

The king turned over and climbed onto the little white wolf, and heard the knight of the guard next to him chewing on the root of his tongue: "Before, my team encountered the orc wolf cavalry, and the horse was so scared when it smelled the smell of the wolf, and the wolf horse of the mage went to smell it!" ”

Wang: "This is a druid-turned-wolf, of course it's different. Animals naturally get close to the druids. ”

Several knights made an "oh" sound.

The king continued: "Have you met the wolf cavalry outside the city?" ”

"It's strange not to meet it."

Wang: "I should have submitted the location of the camp of the orc wolf cavalry to the emperor's military director, Duke Connaught, didn't he send people to encircle and suppress it?" ”

Several knights looked at each other, and finally the one who was the leader spread his hands: "I haven't heard of any encirclement and suppression, maybe Duke Connaught doesn't believe your information?" ”

The king cursed, but what became of Monrovia had nothing to do with him. He was just passing by to inquire about something.

He patted Xiaobai's head, and the giant wolf strode up.

Rosalie hurriedly caught up with him: "Do you know how to get there?" ”

The king pointed to the tower: "Isn't it over walking towards the tower?" ”

Rosalie laughed, "Really? Then you lead the way, and I follow. ”

Wang didn't pay attention to the meaning of Rosalie's smile at all, and directly drove Xiaobai to leave.

**

Twenty minutes later, Wang looked down at his hand-drawn map: "Strange, you should be able to walk out?" Is the city planned? ”

"The answer is no." Rosalie laughed, "Before Melward I destroyed the monsters entrenched here, this was a ruin, and this ruin has passed for I don't know how many centuries, different species occupy this place, and rebuild it according to their own needs. ”

As she spoke, she pointed to something like a doorway hole in the gutter next to her: "See that dog hole?" The Royal Institute of Architects believes that it was actually the cloister of the owner of the house from a certain era. ”

Wang squinted at the dog hole: "So short? Flint has to bow his head when he walks here! ”

Rosalie: "Right? When humans occupy this place, it becomes a drainage ditch. That's how I think about this city, I don't know what race left a huge wall, and the other races saw it and thought it was good, so they moved in one after another.

"And then after so many years of tinkering, it became like this. It's almost impossible for an outsider not to get lost. ”

Wang was speechless, and then sincerely apologized to Rosalie: "I'm sorry, I'm too arrogant, please Miss Rosalie—please show the way to Her Royal Highness." ”

Rosalie: "I like your honest approach of apologizing for mistakes." ”

When she said the words "I like it", Rosalie looked at Elizabeth with a hippie smile.

Elizabeth held her head high, looking like "you can jump around, as long as I take it to heart, I will lose".

"This way, please!" Rosalie snapped her fingers, gave her a gentle kick in the belly, and then pulled the reins to turn the horse.

In the next ten minutes, Rosalie magically led everyone to the foot of the giant tower.

Wang: "Is there a wall under the tower?" ”

Rosalie: "You can't do it without a wall, the city has formed a strange belief in the giant tower, that the tower is the master of this world, and they are divided into many factions, some think that as long as you draw on the tower, you can change your fate, and some think that climbing the tower is a test given by the true God."

"When there was no wall, many people would fall to their deaths every day under the tower."

The king's mouth opened wide, and he looked up at the smooth surface of the giant tower: "Climb the tower? Can this thing still climb? ”

Rosalie: "They really climbed, it was as if the founder of the sect had learned a little bit of qigong from a certain warrior monk, and after improving it, he used qi to glue his hands and feet to the tower, and climbed up little by little.

"He also gave this technique a name, what is it called Ripple Qigong, saying that you can feel its ripples and climb up by grasping the ripples."

Wang: "Did the founder climb on his own?" ”

Rosalie: "He claimed to have crawled and now his duty is to teach this qigong on the ground. In the past, there were people who fell to their deaths because of practicing this skill, and their relatives asked him to settle accounts. ”

Wang: "And then?" ”

"This is a half-hung method from a warrior monk, where can ordinary people help him. But he claimed that after climbing to the top of the tower, he understood the nature of the world, so he obtained miraculous skills.

"When the wall was built, he became even more unscrupulous, and formed a large-scale order in the city."

Elizabeth: "Isn't this just a charlatan?" ”

Rosalie: "yes. ”

Wang: "Your Highness, please let the guards open the door, we can't study the giant tower through the wall." ”

"Leave it to me."

**

A few minutes later, the king was at the foot of the tower.

At his feet was a pedestal rebuilt by the dwarves, the whole of which was made of boulders, a little darker in tone than the tower itself, and it was as white as the walls of Minos, and the pedestal was gray.

Moreover, there are no traces of erosion on the tower at all, but the pedestal made of boulders is already mottled.

The king cautiously approached the tower and reached out to caress its surface.

Elizabeth did the same thing.

She said, "It's so cool. Obviously I have been exposed to the scorching summer sun, but my hands are not hot at all! ”

Wang squatted down and touched the ground, but was so hot that he immediately retracted his hand.

He muttered, "If it weren't hot enough for the tower to float in the air, I'd suspect it was solar-powered." ”

At this moment, an announcement was heard in the distance: "The Emperor of Monrovia has arrived!" ”

There was no such pomp and circumstance in Kosania, and when the emperor came, at most he would ask the messenger to deliver a letter, and if he did not send a letter, he would not have reported it so loudly.

Bernal Melward rode his horse to a distance of seven or eight steps from the members of the Salvation Squad and dismounted, and then asked expectantly, "After so many days of soaking in the Royal Library, have you found a way to open the giant tower?" ”

Wang: "No. I've looked at all the records that Monrovia has been up to now, and I've read them very carefully. Then I found out that I had no clue. I was going to report the abandonment directly, but your daughter, Rosalie, the Fourth Princess, suggested that I come and see this thing live. ”

Bernal: "What about after reading it?" ”

Wang: "Let's give up." This stuff is beyond my comprehension at the moment. I'll probably come back to work on this puzzle after I'm nine rings. ”

The mage paused, and as he spoke, he recited the Cyclops proverb on the long bridge: "The absence of an answer is also an answer." ”

After reciting, he turned his head to stare at the tower for a few seconds.

The tower was completely unresponsive.

Wang: "Damn, I thought it would be the most cliché unfolding, and if you think about it, there must have been quite a few people who have recited this proverb in front of it, but this kind of behavior is not worth recording at all." ”

Bernal did not hide his disappointment at all: "Then it seems that we will not be able to facilitate the salvation team." In fact, the situation is very bad now, and several border areas in the northeast have been missing for three days, and refugees are coming from this direction one after another.

"Maybe the orc army has crossed the border."

Wang: "As you said before, I can't solve this puzzle, so I doubt my identity as a disciple of the legendary archmage, right?" I noticed that Master Mel came with you as well, and I think I can attest to that now. ”

Mel: "Do you want to get those magical items of yours and the book that contains all the spells known to your Mage Tower?" In fact, we already know that you have an extraordinary background, and maybe your teacher is not the one you said, but it is certainly not much worse.

"Your Majesty is just looking for an excuse to make you work harder. And the king is true to his word, so now he will not change his words. You won't get official help here, unless you open this mage tower. ”

Wang was speechless: "I see, I'm still thinking, you didn't even get the information about the magical equipment in my hand, it seems that the shadow thief and your military intelligence department are not very good." Now as soon as you say it, everything becomes reasonable. ”

Rosalie: "Didn't you realize it before? ”

Wang: "No. ”

Elizabeth said in a very understanding tone: "His logical thinking depends on mathematics, and he cannot reach conclusions that mathematics cannot reach." It's too hard for him to expect him to grasp this subtext. ”

Bernal: "Anyway, and I would like to remind you that if you don't want to be surrounded by orcs, leave as soon as possible, no matter where you are going, and don't stay in Minos City." ”

King: "How long will it take for the orcs to arrive?" ”

Bernal: "Depends on how long it takes them to plunder those frontier territories." Judging by the orc invasion I experienced when I was twenty years old, you should have a month. ”

Wang: "That's enough. I have one more idea now, though. ”

When Elizabeth heard him say, "I have another idea," she had a "I knew it was coming" look on her face.

Bernal looked at Wang suspiciously: "Didn't you give up?" ”

"Yes, but I can ask my teacher. He is very fond of puzzle-solving. ”

(End of chapter)