Chapter 419: Clay Making
After coming down, I found that the height of the city wall here was even more exaggerated than I imagined, and it had already caused the illusion that everything in the city was so small when I saw it on it.
I thought that this was really a place where ordinary humans lived, but when I fell to the ground, I saw a different situation than I imagined.
The open space between the city wall and the building had been beyond Fan Wu's expectations, and every piece of so-called gravel here was larger than Fan Wu's, and the distance seen on it was not far away, and when he came to the scene, he found that it was several miles away.
And when he walked closer to the building, he saw clearly that although the building here was not the kind of place where tens of meters of giants really lived, it was not the size of an ordinary person's residence.
Most of the houses here are one-story bungalows, but all the roofs are more than 10 meters high, and no matter how you look at it, it is not the height that ordinary human houses should have.
With such a high roof, the width of the house naturally has corresponding proportions, and the size of the whole house is a bit similar to the school auditorium when Fan Wu was in college.
Although it is not to the extent of exaggeration, it is certainly not the residence of ordinary humans, but according to this size, the human beings living in it should not be at the level of giants, how can the city here be of this scale?
The ten-meter-high house, the creatures inhabited in it are at most about 5 or 6 meters high, and compared to the towering city wall, such creatures are actually not much different from Fan Wu in terms of proportion, and it is estimated that they will not be the main force defending the city.
Because there were no stairs on the walls, it was almost impossible for them to go up, so there was no point of fighting.
The buildings in front of Fan Wu were basically this size, and although most of them had collapsed to the ground, some of the walls were still standing tenaciously.
Fan Wu walked over to one of the walls and examined its structure carefully, and found that the walls were similar to the structure of the earthen walls he had encountered before, indicating that they must have been built by the same people.
Even the hardness is about the same, although it is a mud and stone structure here, but it is only similar to the fifth wall, and even the sixth stone wall is not as hard.
Seeing the situation of the walls, Fan Wu was even more sure that this was definitely not a place inhabited by human beings, and it was impossible for human beings to make such a building, for human beings, such a building was shoddy, and it did not conform to human aesthetics and standards at all.
Now that he was sure that this was not a human city, Fan Wu began to wonder what kind of race of creatures could have such a huge city, what kind of place was this, and which world did it belong to?
Generally speaking, only human beings have this concept of establishing urban settlements, and even those of other races will have their own style and will not build cities.
In addition to the huge architectural style here, it is actually very similar to a human city, and if it weren't for Fan Wu's confirmation that there are no humans of this size, he would definitely not think that it is a place of other races.
It's a pity that there is nothing of value left here except for the decay, and Fan Wu has no way of verifying what kind of city it is.
The point is that the vibrations that attracted him all the way before have disappeared, and Fan Wu has no goal, so he can only wander around in this huge city.
The wreckage of the houses along the way tells the story of the destructive power of the battle, and the further you go to the center of the city, the less complete the houses are visible, and by the time you get closer to the center, the houses here are basically in a state of smashing.
Of course, this kind of crushing is only relative to the surrounding houses, for Fan Wu, even if the houses here are broken and restored to the state of materials, the stones are not called fragments.
Because the small stones used for construction here are larger than ordinary people's heads, Fan Wu does not feel like he is moving through a pile of debris, but is climbing a mountain, climbing a stone mountain without any rules.
Another characteristic of the house here is that there is no other material, except for the stone is earth, even wood is rare, only the door of the whole house is made of whole wood, and even if there is wood in other places, it is only used for necessary transitions, and there is almost no wood used for decoration.
It is also possible that the wood has decayed and disappeared over the long years, in short, Fan Wu just didn't see much wood in the process of 'climbing the mountain'.
Although there is no wood, it cannot be said that the architecture here is simple and rough, because the place where wood should be used in Fan Wu's mind is replaced by a strange kind of mud here.
Originally, he would not have discovered it because of natural weathering, but in a rare two-story building in the center of the city, Fan Wu saw a strange box, not wood or stone, it was actually made of mud.
It was not fired into porcelain, and it looked like an ordinary clay shape, which was spared because it was located right next to the wall and avoided the collapsing roof.
Fan Wu just felt strange when he saw this box, and he didn't think too much about it, and directly wanted to open it to see what was inside, but when he suddenly opened the box, the entire clay box suddenly scattered all over the ground and turned back into dirt.
It turned out that this clay box had been weathered for many years, and it would crumble back into the dirt state after a little touch, but Fan Wu was not an archaeologist and did not feel much regret about this, but it was a pity that he did not see the original appearance of the box clearly.
However, he also knew that this race was so strange, and it could also be said that it was powerful, and it could actually be used to shape a box of things from clay, Fan Wu believed that this was definitely not a separate craft, and it definitely had a practical use.
It's no wonder that I haven't seen any furniture items in these houses along the way, maybe all of them are made of clay, and even if they haven't been damaged in the war, they can't withstand the invasion of time, and they have been weathered back into dirt like the boxes just now.
Before, Fan Wu thought that although the scale was very large, it was only used as a front line of the war, similar to the concept of a modern military camp, so there would be no normal household items, but now it seems that it is a misunderstanding, it is not that there are no furniture items here, but these things are made of clay, and they have long been destroyed under the joint destruction of war and years.
The box just now should be one of the lucky ones, but it was also accidentally destroyed by himself, so this is not a barracks-like existence, but a city where people really live normally.
It's just that this race is strange enough, not only does it only use mud and stone to make houses and household items necessary for life, but it can also be seen that there is almost no ordinary life, because Fan Wu doesn't seem to see the existence of similar markets and streets along the way.
Despite the size of the buildings, the distance between them is narrow, and there is hardly any place for leisure activities other than the normal road.
From this point of view, it is quite like a military facility, and only places such as military barracks or field fortifications will not have any places for recreation and leisure.
Even the barracks will have places such as stadiums for sports and relaxation, which are only set up in this way by those pure front-line fortifications, and it can be seen that no matter what race this city is, it should have been on the front line of the war back then.
However, what makes Fan Wu feel strange is that this is not a dangerous place, why is there such a stubborn type of city set here?
Although everything here is huge, it is still just a lonely city standing in the middle of the grassland, and there is no need or value to defend it.
Although Fan Wu didn't see how far the rear of the city stretched when he was high in the sky, the situation in front and on the left and right sides was basically seven, seven, eight, eight.
The city stands alone, surrounded by boundless grasslands, and nothing else, let alone other buildings, even the trees are scattered around.
Why would such a lonely city be designed to be heavily defended? Because the scale of these walls and moats is too large, it will certainly not be a fortification that can be completed in a short time, so there is no such thing as a temporary building that was forced by the enemy to be in a hurry.
If there were no other facilities in the rear of the city, or if there were no gates in the other three directions, the enemy would not have to attack the city at all, and would have won the siege alone.
Curious, Fan Wu continued to move deeper into the back of the city, and he was not surprised to see the huge fragments of buildings along the way, but some of the clay furniture that was occasionally spared aroused his great interest.
It turns out that there are still a lot of furniture that have not been completely destroyed on the back of the road, probably because it is located at the back of the city and belongs to the center of life, so the number of furniture is relatively large, and the survivors are correspondingly a little more.
But the so-called survival is only relatively speaking, and most of them have also become lumps, but they are just in vain.
And neither in the rubble pile nor in these surviving pieces of furniture, there seems to be nothing left, is it because of the war that there was nothing superfluous?
Or was it because of the war that everything was taken away when retreating? In this situation at the scene, Fan Wu did not think that the defender had won, except for the city wall, the entire city was destroyed, and there was hardly a complete thing left, the absolute defeated side, and it was still completely defeated.
But since it was defeated, how could there be time to take everything with us? Something had to be left behind, it didn't look like it had been looted by the enemy, otherwise the furniture wouldn't have been saved.
Just like the box that was smashed by the anti-five just now, I didn't see anything in it after it was smashed, could it be that all the things used by the guys here back then were made of clay?
Fan Wu thought about it carefully, in fact, this possibility is quite large, although it sounds a bit unbelievable, but since even the furniture is made of clay, then it is nothing that other supplies and utensils are also made of clay.
But what kind of creature is such a race?