This is a huge stone tower made of khaki-yellow square boulders of unknown composition. From a distance, the entire tower looks like a bloated pillar reaching into the sky. Wu Ming walked to the top of the tower. After carefully studying the outer wall, he was surprised to find that there was no adhesive between the huge stones of this high tower. It was completely made of stones stacked on top of each other. What surprised him even more was that even if the height reached It has reached at least two hundred meters (by Wu Ming's visual inspection), and the boulders at the bottom of this high tower have not been overwhelmed by cracks or deformation due to the huge pressure from above. This kind of thing is weird no matter from which angle you look at it. It's so weird - not only is its architectural style and materials completely different from the cement urban scenery next to it, but its existence challenges people's common sense and physical rules, and the broken earth and the deep ravines extending from the bottom of the tower to divide the surface are also It shows that this tower was not originally from here.
"Forget it... let her fall asleep first..." Wu Ming glanced at Zhao Sida, who had not woken up Elizabeth no matter how much she shook, and asked doubtfully: "It's not a shallow area? What do you mean?"
Zhao Sida nodded and let go of Elizabeth very obediently, leaving her to stand aside and continue to sleep soundly: "Normally speaking, this kind of thing with obvious style of the deep area of the shadow world will not appear in the shallow layer... …”
"Deeper things? Isn't the Shadow Realm a replica of the scenery in the real world?" Wu Ming was stunned. He felt that his mind was full of question marks and there were so many questions that he couldn't figure out. He pointed at the tower in front of him. Gao Ta: "How does this evil thing look like a replica of the scenery in the real world?"
Wu Ming didn't feel at all that this tower was a scenery that could exist in the real world.
Zhao Sida patiently explained to Wu Ming: "Strictly speaking, whether the deep area belongs to the shadow world, whether it is extraordinary creatures or secret societies, or even organizations have not come to a conclusion, just because there can only be It can be reached through fixed passages in the shadow world, and it is defined as shallow layer and deep layer for the convenience of distinction."
"In order to facilitate understanding, you can first understand the shadow world as a planet similar to the earth..." Zhao Sida said using simulation calculations to project a small sphere in her hand, and then made a mark on the surface of the sphere: " This is a shallow layer of the shadow world adjacent to the real world, while maintaining the same scenery as the real world.”
"We are already in adjacent different worlds, and we still stick to the concept of 'planet'? Can't it be more innovative and have a setting of a round sky and a square place?" Seeing the small ball in Zhao Sida's hand, Wu Ming muttered for no reason. A sound.
Zhao Sida obviously didn't get the point in Wu Ming's words, or even if she did, she wouldn't complain: "The most superficial level is the shallow area where the shadow world reproduces the real world. In the same shallow area, there are also paths leading to a deeper level. There are specific passages in the deep areas. My database has recorded many explorations of the deep areas of the shadow world. The current exploration results include that in addition to the surface layer, there are at least one or two deep areas in the shadow world. The scenery will change as you go deeper into the shadow world. It has to be as twisted as a nightmare, crazy, indescribable, and... dangerous."
Under Zhao Sida's demonstration, small holes began to appear on the surface of the projected ball, which were signs of the passage leading to the deep area. Through those small holes, Wu Ming could vaguely see that there seemed to be something hidden under the surface of the ball. A smaller sphere, and there seemed to be some holes on that sphere leading to the lower area just like the surface sphere.
——Well, as expected of Lao Zhao, a model that is so easy to understand that even a sardine can understand it.
Wu Ming nodded to show that he generally understood, and then a new question arose: "But what's the danger?"
"There is a strange creature named 'Nightmare Body' in the deep area, but unlike the originally docile and inert shadow monsters, these monsters are very violent and have extraordinary power." The projection sphere in Zhao Sida's hand began to change, and then turned into a The vague black shadow of an amorphous group: "They have certain intelligence and communication capabilities, but they refuse to communicate with any living creatures. If you want to explore the depths, you will inevitably be attacked by them. If you encounter a large group of nightmare entities, you will likely suffer battle damage." "
"I understand, it's basically not much different from the current situation." Wu Ming frowned and pondered: "Judging from the coordinate axis, the last signal transmitted was in the area on the third floor of the tower. Compared with the entire tower, We don’t need to go too deep, so we just need to avoid a large number of nightmare entities and proceed carefully. Besides, our purpose this time is to save people, not fight, so try to avoid fighting..."
"Understood, I will always pay attention to the surrounding situation and detect hostile units that may be approaching."
After entering the huge stone tower, Wu Ming found that the situation inside the tower was much better than he expected. They were not caught by the dog with three heads as soon as they entered the door, and then had a thrilling forced BOSS battle. , and he was not so unlucky as to encounter the nightmare body that Zhao Sida mentioned as soon as he entered the door. As soon as he entered the door, he was jumped on the face by more than ten or twenty nightmare bodies and got hammered.
The interior of the first floor was severely damaged. Many of the walls used to separate rooms and corridors had large holes punched through or the entire wall was flattened by some terrifying force. This saved Wu Ming and his party a lot. thing - at least they don't have to open the doors one by one to confirm whether there are stairs leading to higher floors. The traces of the battle in the central rotunda are even more serious, and almost all the floor tiles were smashed by something. But here it is the same as before, except for the traces of damage caused by the battle, nothing else is left.
Perhaps because there had been a battle here before, Wu Ming and the others did not encounter the troublesome nightmare body. In addition, the walls of each room were destroyed and fell outside, so they could confirm the situation inside the room. Not long after, Wu Ming and the others successfully found the stairway leading to the second floor in a small room located in the northeast of the hall and climbed to the second floor.
Then Wu Ming and the others met a strange middle-aged European man.
The middle-aged man with a Chinese character face, a beard, and a small braid with white hair and beard was dressed like a standard 19th-century European old gentleman, wearing a white shirt with a pointed collar, a gray vest, and a striped tie underneath. His overly burly figure made his clothes bulge, giving people the feeling that his clothes would collapse into strips if he exerted any force. He also wore a knee-length black coat, which made people a little worried. Will wearing such tight clothes cover up prickly heat in hot weather? Wu Ming could vaguely see many shiny knives engraved with strange runes hanging inside the coat, as well as a flintlock pistol with a very period feel.
The middle-aged gentleman has an ugly scar that cuts diagonally from his left eyebrow to the right side of his face, and his eyes as big as bells are filled with a soul-stirring and fierce light, which completely destroys the gentlemanly look brought by his clothes. In the scene, illuminated by the flickering candlelight on the wall, the smile on his face looked particularly ferocious and twisted.
"Are you here to hunt too?"
