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Li Guang: "He who does evil first is an evil person. Giving the evil person a chance to live is a good deed."
The non-staff member, old man Minsk, said, "I think that's too kind. They are all high-level mages after all. After they wake up, they might find a way to escape. I don't think that's appropriate. The best strategy is to just kill them."
Wang: "We are the salvation team after all. We can't kill them if they don't attack us openly. Even if they try to kidnap me and Elizabeth. But you are not a member of the salvation team! You also have a grudge against the Austrian Federation for killing your father. I mean, the master is also a father!"
Minsk blinked and said, "Hey, you do make sense. In order to steal my master's unique spell, the Union of Arcane Law killed our entire Mage Tower. Even the girl I had a crush on died tragically at their hands. Okay, you exile them, and I'll kill them."
Marika: "You didn't tell us this! We didn't know! You did it quietly."
Minsk: “I carried it out quietly.”
Wang: "Okay, then exile the people from the Federation first, and then take off. Rosalie, you make the arrangements."
**
after an hour.
Old Mrs. Hasher stood behind the newly built fence in the north of the floating island, looking at the ground gradually getting farther away, and sighed: "I originally thought that there was nothing worth fussing about in this life. I didn't expect that I would become a resident of the sky.
"I originally thought that heaven was where the gods lived. How did an old woman like me end up living there?"
A naughty kid next to him said, "Grandma Hasher, maybe in the stories of future bards, the city lord will become a god, and you will be the archangel, and I will become an angel too!"
Hasher laughed: "You are still a little angel! Good, young man, you have ambition. But I always have a premonition that something terrible will happen in this world. I don't know how many of us on the island will survive when everything is settled."
As he looked up, he saw the city lord riding his druid mount, leaving the still rising island and flying towards the north.
The child who had just declared that he wanted to be an angel shouted excitedly: "The Lord Mayor is going to do something important!"
Hashir watched the city lord's figure getting smaller and smaller, and replied in a deep voice: "Yes, he is going to do something important. I just hope that this event will not cause too much aftermath and affect us mortals."
Chapter 239 Unveiling the Statue
After taking off from the floating island, Wang's next move was to re-explore the two colossi in the Morado Valley.
Because this task should be relatively simple to complete, they have all seen the two statues and there is no danger. Master Li Guang does the splits on the bald heads of the statues every day and nothing has ever troubled him.
Therefore, Wang judged that the re-exploration of the statue could be easily completed without fighting.
Because of this, after the floating island flew to a safe height, he set off alone riding on the griffin that Xiaobai had transformed into.
The distance from the floating island to the Morado River Valley is not far, mainly because the Principality of Frank is not very big, and the territories of all the countries in the river basin are about the same as the territory of Monrovia.
The Principality of Frank was about the size of a duchy of Monrovia - perhaps even smaller, because duchies can be large or small, and the territories of border lords were generally larger.
Circling the two giant "door gods" in the air, Wang exclaimed: "I never thought we would come back to study these two big guys."
Xiaobai barked twice in response.
King: "I don't understand the cry of a griffin. If you cast the Speak with Animals spell on me, can I talk to you?"
The griffin cried out.
King: "Well, forget about that. Let's get closer to the chest of the giant in the west. Maybe we can find the maintenance passage of the colossus through the gaps between the vines."
The basis of these two colossi is one of the five golems that Nelenis was going to awaken in the First Age. Although they are called golems, they are actually mechanical life forms from a highly technologically advanced plane.
Since it is a machine, it should naturally have a maintenance passage - Wang took it for granted.
When the human empire in the Second Age converted these two golems into statues, they probably also built passages or something in order to adjust the golems' limbs.
Xiaobai approached the colossus, and Wang easily found a location where a large number of vines gathered.
"It should be there. The vines are all converging there, which means there is a relatively large opening there."
Xiaobai rushed over, and the moment he touched the statue, he changed back into human form, and landed lightly on the protrusion of the statue's armor.
“If we really find a maintenance hatch, are we going to just go in?” she asked. “I’m not good at dealing with plants. If these vines form vine men, I won’t be able to appease them.”
Wang: "Vine Man?"
Xiaobai: "Yes, since there are tree people, there must be vine people, a kind of forest spirit."
Wang: "If you had told me earlier, I would have prepared a few more cone of fire spells."
Forest spirits are generally afraid of fire, but high-level forest spirits are generally not so easy to ignite.
While the two were talking, Xiaobai took a few steps forward and came to where the vines gathered.
There was indeed a hole leading to the interior of the Colossus.
King: "Let the vines make way, Druid."
"Just say I don't know how to deal with plants! You'd better set it on fire!"
Wang silently took out the fire glue from the dimensional bag.
Xiaobai: "Why don't you set the fire yourself?"
"My spell slots are very precious! I'll use Fire Alchemy if I can." As he said that, Wang raised his hand and threw the Fire Alchemy onto the vines that blocked the entrance.
The moment the bottle broke, flames came out.
Because there was a lot of moisture inside the vines, the burning produced thick smoke, which directly forced Wang and Xiaobai to retreat together.
Seeing that the fire caused by the fire glue was not big enough, Wang took out a bottle of kerosene and threw it into the fire.
The fire grew bigger in an instant, and Xiaobai jumped up and turned into a griffin to keep some distance.
Seen from the air, the fire Wang set looked like a heart sticking out of the chest of a giant statue, and the swaying of the flames looked like the beating heart.
Wang threw another bottle of kerosene, but his aim was too poor and the kerosene landed on the waist of the giant.
But I don’t know if it was a spark or a flash fire caused by the high temperature, but a ball of fire suddenly caught on the waist of the colossus.
Xiaobai circled around the giant statue with two balls of fire on its body.
The fire is getting bigger and bigger. Maybe it's because the rainy season has recently turned into the dry season, and the vines on the colossus are drier than expected because they can always get sunlight?
Soon the vines on the entire surface of the colossus began to burn, and the vines that had been burned to ashes kept peeling off the colossus.
Soon after, some of the stone surface of the Colossus began to fall off, revealing the original shell of the Colossus underneath.
Wang was shocked: "Wait a minute, this thing won't suddenly move?"
Xiaobai turned into a human form: "Isn't that perfect? It means there is still an energy core inside."
Wang: “We’re about to fall!”
Xiaobai: "Hey, calm down!"
As she spoke, she turned into a griffin again and flapped her wings a few times to stop her falling trend.
Then she flew to the top of the colossus at the other end of the river, and changed back into human form after landing: "Anyway, there is no way to get close to the burning colossus now, and there is no need to circle around it, so it's a good opportunity to land here and rest."
Wang turned over and got off Xiaobai's neck, stood on the bald head covered with vines on the giant statue, put his hands on his hips and looked at the growing fire on the opposite side.
Xiaobai took out some dried meat from his dimensional bag and touched Wang's hand: "Do you want some?"
Wang looked down and took the dried meat. Then the two of them ate the dried meat together and watched the fire burn.
Quite pleasant.
When night fell, the fire was finally extinguished. Wang kicked Xiaobai, who was already lying down, and said, "Okay, it's time to go over and take a look."
Xiaobai: "Okay!"
**
The fire almost completely cleared the vine-blocked opening in the colossus' chest.
The big and small kings could just squeeze in by crouching down, and Xiaobai could even walk in with a swagger.
So Xiaobai took the lead, and Wang followed behind, and the two of them went into the opening.
After walking a few steps along the narrow passage, Wang was already covered in dust. Xiaobai looked back and laughed: "How did you become a black man?"
Wang: "Stop talking nonsense. Let's go."
The two walked forward for a while, and the whole space suddenly became clear.
Maybe due to the lack of air, the vines inside were not burned much, but even so, the entire space was quite open.
The king took out the dragon head staff, and the entire space was illuminated as if it were daytime.
Xiaobai: "It looks like a dormitory. Look, there are stone bunk beds here. So these colossi are the military stations of the Second Epoch Human Empire?"
King: "In the Second Age, the Human Empire had been resisting the invasion of the northern subhumans. At that time, Monrovia was dominated by various subhumans. The subhumans were tribal, living wherever there was water and grass. When they ran out of food, they would attack the Human Empire to get grass and grain.
"It was precisely to intimidate the demihumans that the Empire transformed the ruins of the First Age into colossi. So it is only natural to station troops here."
Xiaobai: "I see. Maybe they took the core of the Colossus."
Wang stroked his chin and said, "It's possible. But the passage we came in through shouldn't be a proper passage. The humans in the Second Epoch Human Empire weren't that small. We should have come in through the ventilation duct. If that's the case, there should be a proper entrance."
Xiaobai: “Are you talking about this?”
Wang Chao looked in the direction that Xiaobai pointed and indeed saw a door.
He frowned slightly. "This door... the words on it are not from the Second Age Human Empire. This mark is the symbol of Nelenis."
Xiao Bai snapped his fingers: "Great, after all, my visit was not in vain!"
243. Heavy rain cut off the power supply
Heavy rain cut off the power box
Take a day off.
It’s not for saving drafts for Starry Sky.
Chapter 240: Groping Forward Inside the Colossus
Wang was about to open the door, but suddenly stopped.
Xiaobai: "What's wrong?"
The king did not answer, but directly picked up Xiaobai and used her as a shield in front of him.
Druids gain spells by understanding nature, so they have strong perception abilities and are much better than the wizard Wang in detecting traps.
Xiaobai: "You idiot! This place has been invaded by vines for so many years, and the traps have been destroyed."