As soon as Wang finished speaking, Rosalie said: "No, at least go to the scene and see for yourself?"
Wang: "I originally wanted to see what predecessors had done first, and then look at it with a purpose. At least through the efforts of predecessors, I would eliminate those things that they had already practiced in my conception. In this way, I Then you can go on field trips with ideas that have never been tried before.
"This is called being targeted."
He paused and patted the book on the table: "As a result, all my ideas were rejected by the predecessors. They tried them all. They even tried methods that I didn't think of. But you are right, I should Let’s go to the site and see if His Highness is willing to be a guide?”
The fourth princess turned to Elizabeth and asked: "Has he always been so unreasonable? He actually said to me, a princess, 'do you want to be a guide'!"
Wang: "Why, being a guide in Monrovia is a disgraceful thing? This is the first time I've heard of it."
Rosalie raised her eyebrows: "What? No, how did you get here?"
Elizabeth: "His thinking circuit is different from ordinary people, and I'm used to it."
When she said this, Elizabeth was still a little proud.
Wang: "I just deduced it logically. If the result I deduced is incorrect, then it is because the conditions you gave are wrong."
Elizabeth: "I understand, I understand. Anyway, it's not right. So now should we go to see His Majesty the Emperor, or should we go to the bottom of the tower to have a look?"
Rosalie stood up: "Let's go to the tower. I was planning to go out for fun today, and the car and car were all ready, but my brave and fearless fiancé ran back to his country.
"Really, if we hadn't stopped the orcs' frenzy, Odas would have suffered too. He didn't stay here to understand the orcs' tactics and ran away!"
Elizabeth: "Okay, let's take His Highness's carriage?"
Wang: "No, I plan to ride there. This way I can see the situation on the street. Langdon's enemy came so quickly that time, and there was basically no pre-war atmosphere. Today I want to see with my own eyes the ecology of ordinary people when the clouds of war are thick. ."
Rosalie stared at the mage: "You... are really indifferent."
Wang: "This is called rationality."
"No, no, I've met a lot of rational people," Rosalie shook her head, "You are just indifferent, like a spectator watching indifferently."
Elizabeth: "That's right. It's improved compared to when he first walked into the Three Wild Boars Tavern. At that time, he was simply a little boy whose long-awaited outing had finally begun."
Wang looked at Elizabeth: "I didn't expect you to be so vindictive, little girl."
Apparently, both men remembered their first meeting with Three Wild Boars.
Rosalie intervened in the world that was about to be formed for the two of them: "Okay, stop it! I know you have accumulated a lot of bonds. I will ask someone to arrange a horse. Do the dwarves also want to ride one?"
The dwarf who had been drinking silently in the corner: "No, no! I won't go!"
Wang: "You have to go. After all, you are a dwarf and have your own unique insights into masonry technology. Maybe you can crack this secret!"
Flint sighed: "How is it possible? Minos has a dwarf neighborhood. The craftsmen who came to this place to make a living were basically first-rate craftsmen. So I don't need to go, I will just read here..."
Flint looked at the wine bottle on the table.
"Uh, wine tasting!" he corrected.
Wang: "Wine tasting in Wangli Library?"
"Yes! This creates an atmosphere! We dwarves all like to taste wine in a sea of books!" Flint said firmly, "Kailin's priest never lies!"
The king raised his eyebrows: "Okay, Your Highness, there is no need to prepare a basket. Besides, I don't ride a horse."
As he said that, he patted Xiaobai's head: "Get up, let's go."
Xiaobai: "Is dinner ready?"
"No, but I can give you a ham on the way."
"Ham!"
**
at the same time.
The Emperor of Monrovia, Bernard Myhrvold, was studying the situation on the sand table with his generals.
"Our contact with the border lords in the northeast was interrupted three days ago," the white-haired clover knight Connaught said worriedly, "Maybe the orc army has crossed the border. After all, the wolf cavalry has penetrated here, and in Minos The surrounding plains have been pillaged for a long time.”
The title of Knight of Shamrock mainly comes from the coat of arms of the Duke of Connaught family. If you despise the old man because the title "Clover Knight" seems weak, you will definitely suffer.
In fact, the Duke of Connaught was the military governor of Monrovia, commanding Monrovia's standing army and knights. Even the Holy Knights, who nominally belonged to the Lancelot Church, could not ignore his orders.
"There are many refugees from the surrounding countryside in the city now," the Duke of Connaught continued. "I suggest that a rationing system be implemented immediately and all the food in the city be confiscated. The orcs are coming fiercely, but we are in the middle of spring plowing. There was no massing of troops in the spring!”
Bernal glanced at the Duke: "I want to prioritize spring plowing. Accordingly, I have hired a trustworthy mercenary group."
"Your Majesty, you are still young and don't understand. It's okay for mercenaries to play war games between human lords. But when they really face the brutal orc troops, they are the most untrustworthy people. The last orc invasion thirty years ago when……"
Bernal: "I was twenty years old at that time, and I went into battle to kill the enemy myself. I think you are too old and confused to remember clearly? I know mercenaries are unreliable!"
Duke of Connaught: "What about you?"
"But they are at least more reliable than farmers with spears. Most of the mercenaries I hired this time are archers. In addition, I also hired a mercenary group that specializes in hunting orcs. They will hang orc teeth as decorations. On the body.
"I also hired the Thasaris Cavalry Regiment. They are all horse archers. They arrived three days ago and began to clear out the wolf cavalry around Minos. The effect is remarkable. They can send back more than a hundred pairs of orc ears every day!"
At this time, an attendant came in and ran directly to the emperor without announcing anything, whispering a few words in a low voice.
These are the emperor's close servants and 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 they find a way to crack it?"
The attendant shook his head: "The drow of the salvation team is an experienced rogue. There is no way we can sneak into the Royal Library and eavesdrop. The rogue has already killed three of us."
Emperor: "Is she just going to kill you like this? No face at all?"
"Yes. But I guess the other party will argue that they don't know where these spies come from."
"What's the truth? Does she know?"
Attendant: "You should know that the corpses we found all have traces of torture, but she can say that these dead soldiers are all good people without revealing a word."
The emperor cursed and then stood up: "Guys, I want to go to the tower to have a look."
The Duke of Connaught was shocked: "At such a critical moment?"
Bernal: "Send the gryphon knights to investigate the movements on the border. Based on the experience of 30 years ago, after the orcs captured Border Bo's territory, they would plunder wildly and not go for a month without marching. We have made Border Bo so fat. , just for this day.”
Although Bernal's words may seem ruthless, they are the consensus of the human army. The orc army is strong in combat, but undisciplined. When they conquer new territory, they will loot it until there is nothing left to rob.
Orc armies generally have no baggage trains when they first set off. The larger the baggage trains are, the more the baggage trains will be, and the less maneuverable they will be. In the end, they will be defeated by humans due to their slow movement.
The orc warriors who fled the country will find ways to return to their hometown with the harvest of their plunder.
Therefore, the orc army should not be fortified and clear, as this would allow them to advance quickly.
As a veteran, Connaught had completely experienced the last orc invasion, and he certainly knew this.
So instead of stopping the emperor from leaving, he turned around and started issuing various orders in the emperor's name. Since Bernard came to the throne, Connaught has been his military controller, which can be regarded as a tacit understanding between him and the emperor.
**
Wang turned over and climbed onto Xiao Bai's transformed wolf, and heard the guarding knight chatting: "My team encountered the orc wolf cavalry before. The horses were frightened when they smelled the smell of wolves. The wolf horse of the mage is still alive." Go over and smell it!”
Wang: "This is a druid transformed into a wolf. Of course it's different. Animals will naturally get close to the druid."
Several knights said "oh".
The king continued to ask: "Did you encounter wolf cavalry outside the city?"
"It would be weird if I didn't meet you."
King: "I should have submitted the location of the camp of the Orc Wolf Cavalry troops to the Emperor's military director, the Duke of Connaught. Didn't he send someone to encircle and suppress it?"
Several knights looked at each other, and the leader finally spread his hands: "I haven't heard of any encirclement and suppression. Maybe the Duke of Connaught doesn't believe your information?"
Wang cursed, but what happened to Monrovia was none of his business. He was just passing by to inquire about something.
He patted Xiaobai's head, and the giant wolf started to walk with pride.
Rosalie hurriedly caught up with him: "Do you know how to get there?"
The king pointed at the huge tower: "Isn't it just a matter of walking towards the tower?"
Rosalie smiled and said, "Really? Then you lead the way and I will follow."
Wang ignored the meaning of Rosalie's smile and directly drove Xiaobai to walk away.
**
Twenty minutes later, Wang looked down at his hand-drawn map: "It's strange, you should be able to walk out? Has this city been planned?"
"The answer is no." Rosalie smiled. "Before Myhrvold I destroyed the monsters entrenched here, this place was a ruin. I don't know how many centuries have passed in this ruin. Different species occupied this place according to their own needs. Feel free to modify it.”
As she spoke, she pointed to something like a doorway above the drainage ditch next to her: "Did you see that dog hole? People from the Royal Institute of Architects believe that it was actually the cloister of the owner of this place in a certain era."
Wang squinted his eyes and looked at the dog hole: "So short? Flint has to lower his head when he walks here!"
Rosalie: "Right? When humans occupy this place, it will become a drainage ditch. This is what I think about this city. I don't know what race left the giant wall. Other races saw it and thought it was good, so they moved in one after another. .
"After so many years of tinkering, it became like this. It's basically impossible for outsiders not to get lost."
The king was speechless, and then sincerely apologized to Rosalie: "I'm sorry, I'm too arrogant. Please Miss Rosalie - please show me the way."
Rosalie: "I quite like your honest approach of apologizing when you make a mistake."
When she said the words "I quite like it", Rosalie looked at Elizabeth with a playful smile.
Elizabeth raised her head and looked like "You can jump around as much as you want, as long as I take it to heart, I will lose."
"This way, please!" Rosalie snapped her fingers, lightly kicked the horse's belly, and then pulled the reins to make the horse turn.
In the next ten minutes, Rosalie brought everyone to the foot of the giant tower like magic.
Wang: "Is there a wall under the tower?"
Rosalie: "It won't work without a wall. A strange belief in the giant tower has formed in the city. They believe that the tower is the master of the world. They are also divided into many factions. Some believe that as long as they draw pictures on the tower, they can change themselves. Destiny, some believe that climbing the tower is a trial given by the true God.
"Without this wall, many people would fall to death under the tower every day."
Wang's mouth opened wide. He raised his head and looked at the smooth surface of the giant tower: "Climbing the tower? Can this thing still be climbed?"
Rosalie: "They really climbed. It seems that the founder of the sect learned a little bit of Qigong from a certain monk, and after improving it, he used Qi to stick his hands and feet to the tower, and climbed up bit by bit.
"He also gave this technique a name, called Ripple Qigong. He said that you can feel its ripples and grab the ripples to climb up."
Wang: "Then the founder climbed up on his own?"
Rosalie: "He claimed that he had climbed over it, and now his duty is to teach this qigong on the ground. In the past, someone fell to death because of practicing this qigong, and his relatives wanted to settle the score with him."
Wang: "Then what?"
"This is a half-baked technique he got from a monk. There is no way ordinary people can do anything about it. But he claimed that he understood the essence of the world after climbing to the top of the tower, so he obtained the magical power.
"When the wall was built, he became even more unscrupulous and established a large-scale religious group in the city."
Elizabeth: “Isn’t this just a simple charlatan?”
Rosalie: "Yeah."
King: "Your Highness, please let the guard open the door. We can't study the giant tower through the wall."
"give it to me."
**
A few minutes later, the king had arrived at the foot of the giant tower.
Under his feet was the base rebuilt by the dwarves. The entire base was made of huge stones. The tone was a little darker than the giant tower itself. It was the same white as the city walls of Minos, while the base was very gray.
Moreover, there are no traces of time erosion on the tower, but the base made of huge stones is already covered with mottled spots.
The king cautiously came to the giant tower and stretched out his hand to touch its surface.
Elizabeth did the same thing.
She said: "It's so cool. I've been exposed to the scorching summer sun, but it doesn't feel hot at all!"
Wang Ze squatted down and touched the ground, but was so burned that he immediately retracted his hand.
He muttered: "If this little heat wasn't enough to keep the giant tower floating in the air, I would doubt that this thing is powered by solar energy."
At this moment, an announcement came from the distance: "The Emperor of Monrovia has arrived!"
There is no such pomp in Kuosania. When the emperor comes, he can at most ask the courier to deliver a message. If he comes directly without sending a message, he will not announce it loudly.
Bernard Myhrvold rode his horse to a place seven or eight steps away from the members of the Salvation Team, dismounted, and then asked expectantly: "After spending so many days in the Wangli Library, have you found a way to open the giant tower?" ?”
Wang: "No. I read all the records from the establishment of Monrovia to the present, and read them very carefully. Then I found that there was no clue. I originally wanted to report directly and give up, but your daughter, the fourth princess Rosalie It is suggested that I come and see this thing on site.”
Bernal: "What happens after you see it?"
Wang: "As expected, it's better to give up. This thing is beyond my understanding at the moment. I may come back to study this puzzle after I reach the ninth ring."
The mage paused, and when he spoke again, he recited the proverb of the Cyclops on the Long Bridge: "The absence of an answer is also an answer."
After memorizing it, he turned around and stared at the tower for a few seconds.
The tower didn't respond at all.
Wang: "Damn it, I thought it would be the most clichéd development. Thinking about it carefully, many people must have read 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: "It seems that we can't provide convenience for the rescue team. In fact, the situation is very bad now. Several border towns in the northeast have been out of contact for three days, and refugees are coming from here one after another. running in the direction.
"Maybe the orc army has crossed the border."
Wang: "About this, what you said before was that since I couldn't solve this puzzle, you doubted the identity of my disciple of the legendary Archmage, right? I noticed that Master Mel also came with you, I think I will do it now You can prove it.”
Mel: "Do you want to take out those magical props of yours and the book that contains all the known spells in your Mage Tower? In fact, we have known for a long time that you have an extraordinary background. Maybe your teacher is not the one you mentioned. , but it’s certainly not too different.
"Your Majesty is just looking for an excuse to make you work harder. And the king is true to his words, so he will not change his words now. You will not get official help here unless you open this mage tower."
Wang was stunned: "So that's it. I was still thinking that you didn't get any information about the magical equipment in my hand. It seems that the Shadow Thieves and your military intelligence department are not good either. Now that you tell me, everything becomes reasonable. ."
Rosalie: "Didn't you realize that before?"
Wang: "No."
Elizabeth said in a very understanding tone: "His logical thinking relies on mathematics, and he cannot draw conclusions that cannot be drawn by mathematics. It is too difficult for him to expect him to understand this subtext."
Bernal: "In short, that's it. In addition, I would like to remind everyone that if you don't want to be surrounded by orcs in the city, set off as soon as possible. No matter where you are going, don't stay in Minos City."
King: "How long until the orcs arrive?"
Bernal: "It depends on how long it takes them to plunder those border territories. Judging from the orc invasion I experienced when I was twenty years old, you should have a month."
Wang: "That's enough. However, I have another idea now."
When Elizabeth heard him say, "I have another idea," she had an "I knew it was coming" look on her face.
Bernal looked at Wang doubtfully: "Didn't you give up?"
"Yes, but I can ask my teacher. He really likes solving puzzles."
(End of chapter)
