The two mages discovered the changes in the tomb almost at the same time. The changes were not on the walls or the dome, but in the tombs used to store relics and bones. In the deepest tomb, under the flicker of phosphorus powder, there was a

It has become extremely deep, showing an obvious difference in depth from other tombs.

Although there was a corpse placed in that grid, its appearance now looked quite suspicious. Cheese and Curse Crow looked at each other. This time, Cheese took the lead. He stretched out his finger,

Very cautiously, as if afraid of being bitten by the corpse, he touched it gently.

"Wood."

One moment was enough to expose this subtle lie. Perhaps most people would doubt their own sense of touch and judgment in such a cold and depressing environment, but Cheese would not. He grabbed the arm of the mummy with his backhand, then leaned closer and slightly moved to the side.

One pull.

Sure enough, the structural characteristics it showed were different from those of biological remains. Those seemingly fragile bones did not appear to be harmed at all, and the whole body was pulled and moved a few minutes.

Such a reaction further proves that what is there is not a corpse at all, but a very lifelike wood carving that can be vividly reproduced under the light.

"The person who carved this thing must be a weirdo."

Cursed Crow helped move the wood sculpture to the ground. The solid wood that is the size of one person is not very light. Considering the center of gravity problem caused by carving, it does require the joint efforts of two people to move it easily. As for the person who carved this wood sculpture

Whether he is a weirdo or not, this question has actually been discussed by people in many periods.

Since ancient times, beauty has been pursued by art. Whether it is painters or sculptors, they all take beauty as the first goal of their works. But along with them, there will always be problems with abnormality in any historical period.

, the creation and pursuit of weird, even crazy and ugly things, which probably cannot be summarized by simple psychological distortions.

It can only be said that in the subconscious of intelligent creatures, there is some kind of conscious or unconscious love for corruption and chaos that is closely related to the yearning for order. However, the latter often only exists in a very small number of people.

"The workmanship is amazing. The person who made it must have put a lot of effort into it. Maybe he is a friend of the teacher."

Because of Roland's existence, Cheese knew that when the First Gray Robe was young, he also had a group of good friends in the world, at least they had been friends for a while.

People who can be friends with the most powerful mage in the world in Cheese's mind are obviously not ordinary people. It is not surprising that a carver who can make such grotesque works is among them. But wood carving is just wood carving after all.

No matter how fake it is, it cannot be used as a source of energy. The real secret is in that tomb.

"I can't imagine how the teacher crawled in before. Can you imagine? The teacher crawling around in this hole like we are now?"

This is indeed a questionable thing, because the size of the tomb is obviously only enough for an adult male to pass through in this way. Considering that there is no other passage here, people who want to go deep into this tunnel will definitely have to go through it this way.

So the two gray-robed mages could only crawl into the stone pipe in despair, like mice in a bottle. If they hadn't checked in advance that there were no mechanisms or magic at the entrance of the cave, they would never have dared to break in so recklessly.

This is a suspicious cave.

The dark and narrow environment is always painful. Even under the light of the breath of dawn, things don't get much easier. This passage was dug in a very rough way. Judging from the traces of the digging, although it was from the outside in, it was more like

It was punched out by a bad-tempered miner with a chisel at will, and it is full of irregular bulges that look like venting.

If the lighting is not good, the process of crawling will be enough to make people's palms dripping with blood. Even under the light, the stalagmite-like things hanging from the top of the head from time to time are unsettling, as if this is not a real safe road at all.

The roads for traffic are the same.

"Be careful, there is a slope ahead." Cheese's voice came from the front, and then the light on his waist quickly went down and left the narrow passage. The cursed crow instinctively wanted to raise its head to express its disapproval of its companions for their own actions.

Helpless, he accidentally hit his head.

"Don't say anything." A few seconds later, Cursed Crow slid down the slope, covering his forehead with one hand and pointing at the cheese who was about to speak.

The latter spread his hands, turned around and raised the lantern. At this time, the two of them should be in a space located in the rock formations under the frozen soil. The cold air was floating above, but the rocks under their feet were somewhat warm.

.Other than that, it's very empty, there's nothing there.

"So, the energy the teacher uses comes from underground? Magma or high-temperature groundwater?"

Cursed Crow pressed his palms on the stone under his feet, feeling the faint temperature coming from it. Ordinary people have no way or ability to use the heat in the ground. In fact, most of them are not aware that there is a never-ending heat flow in the ground, even if they get close.

People who live in volcanoes also lack an objective understanding of lava and often regard it as the anger of the earth or the god of the earth and the blood of the gods.

This is not their fault. Even the mages, with their limited knowledge, are unable to explain the hot fluids in the formation.

"No, this is a wilderness. There are no volcanoes or hot springs. The underground here is as dead as the ground. The temperature we feel does not come from heat in the physical sense. It is the vitality of this land."

Cheese knelt on the ground and closed his eyes slightly. He learned the knowledge about land and life from the grassland. The spirits told him this and let him know that the land itself has its own life, this invisible energy.

It will breed a different ecology and environment. And losing it means that a place will completely become a dead place.

This sounds scary, but in fact it is just the opposite. The birth of life is strange to this world. Although from the perspective of life itself, everything seems to be giving birth to life. There are bugs in the mud and fish in the water.

.

But this is problematic, because life will discover life, which is the instinct evolved by living things in order to eat and survive. From a higher perspective, life is very accidental.

"This land was once overflowing with power, and humans, plants and animals could live here. Some kind of change destroyed everything it contained and turned it into what it is today. But no matter what it was, what it did was

Not thorough enough. Beneath our feet, the land is recovering."

Cursed Crow quickly understood which theory the cheese was talking about, and followed his train of thought, "So the teacher is drawing blood? Taking away some of the energy from this land that has not yet died?"

"Yes, that's wrong. I'm afraid that the existence of the Gray Tower will indeed consume the vitality here, but the Gray Tower itself will also bring something. Have you tried electrocuting the recently dead corpses? There is a chance of reviving them. I think the Gray Tower
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