Chapter 580 Crystal Castle (Part 1)
The architectural style of the dwarves is heavy, solid, and rough. You don't care whether it is exquisite or not, just say whether it is useful or not.
What I saw before, except for the initial gate and maze, were all dwarven styles. Even Yue Luo said that this was a dwarven relic from the Five Kings Mountains.
But what's the matter with this style now?
Walking down the stairs, the first thing that caught my eye was a huge translucent crystal structure, reflecting a light blue glow, looking like a crystal castle.
There was a round hole facing the three people. To be honest, it looked a bit like a sewage pipe, but no matter up, down, left, or right, it was all a whole crystal structure, and there was not even a trace of splicing.
This is not something that dwarves can make.
So, is it an elf?
During the most developed period of the elf's magic civilization, this natural crystal structure was once quite favored for a period of time. If it is taken out alone, it is not surprising that it is the creation of the elves.
But this is under the dwarf ruins.
It is true that the elves and dwarves appeared almost at the same time, but the prosperous period of the elves' magic civilization was thousands of years away from the Five Kings Mountains.
The decline of the elves occurred 12,000 years ago, while the Five Kings Mountains period was 7,000 to 8,000 years ago. The two should not have met.
Aoerdai is now more and more curious about who built this relic. Perhaps the most reasonable explanation is that this relic has been expanded by many races, otherwise there is no way to explain how things with such a big difference in style are put together.
Looking to the left and right sides of the "Crystal Castle", you will see a large area of mushroom forests, which should also be connected to other underground cavities. The three even saw a group of furus floating between the tall glowing mushrooms.
This is a monster that looks like a jellyfish, with two eye stalks inserted at the top. At first glance, it looks a bit silly and cute.
The threat level is indeed not high, and generally it will not actively attack people, but their appearance is not good news.
Where Furu appears, it can generally be said that it has entered the deep underground. In such a place, it will have a great impact on the teleportation spell. The teleportation spell is likely to fail, or be teleported to a place far away from the original destination.
This influence is called ground vein radiation, which is equivalent to a super strong interference. Teleportation spells that are not optimized for it must not be used.
This is equivalent to blocking Aoerdai's retreat. After all, in the worst case, the wizard can teleport away, which is the last resort.
However, Aoerdai will not retreat. The three of them just waited at the door for a while, and then went into the passage opposite without hesitation.
The more mysterious the place, the more excited Aoerdai is. If it weren't for finding the Demon King's Ring, Aoerdai would probably spend several years searching every corner here.
After entering the passage, you will see that all the places above, below, left and right are made of crystal material, as if the whole building was polished out of a whole piece of crystal. This construction technology definitely involves special abilities such as magic.
However, these crystals are not reflective, but have a high light transmittance. The three people walking in this passage feel like walking in an aquarium and looking at marine life through glass.
From time to time, some underground creatures will flash past the crystals. Their real location may not be where they are seen. The light passes through the special refractive surface inside the crystal, which may refract the scenery far away from Ao Dai and the others.
Such attention to detail enjoyment, this operation has made people suspect that it is the creation of elves. They are like this, especially like to stick to details.
Continue to move forward along the passage, there is no fork in the road, just turn a few corners, and Nimia, who is walking in the front, suddenly signaled to stop.
The three people looked out from the corner, and at this time they saw a row of round things on the opposite side of the passage, about ten meters away.
Looking closely, they found that it was the head of some special creatures.
The skin of these creatures is purple, and there are a lot of tentacles where the mouth and chin should be. The slender head is a bit like the classic alien image in the movie, and also a bit like a deep-sea creature.
Nimia trembled a little and whispered:
"Could it be..."
"Yes, it's the mind sucker. To be precise, it's the head of a dead mind sucker."
"..."
The mind sucker is a race that specializes in eating human brains. Although they have high intelligence, they are completely unacceptable to mortal society and are classified as monsters.
These guys will use their minds to control the victims at night, and take the initiative to put their brains over for the mind sucker to eat. Their mouths hidden under the tentacles are very similar to the mouth structure of the nautilus. Like a crowbar, they can easily pry open the skulls of intelligent creatures.
If these guys simply eat brains, it's fine. Animal brains are also brains, but they only eat the brains of intelligent creatures, which makes people hard to accept.
And the reproduction method of the mind sucker is even more unacceptable.
They would fish out the worm-like tadpoles that were kept in saltwater pools and place them on the mortals they controlled. These tadpoles would enter through the eyes, ears, or nostrils and burrow into your brain, devouring the gray matter while replacing it with their own bodies.
Before long, the unfortunate person would be directly transformed into a tadpole in a painful twitch and psychic fluctuations.
This kind of creature that feeds directly on mortals of other races is of course not welcomed by people. Even in many fairy tales that are used to scare children, the mind sucker is a boss with a high appearance rate.
This is why Nimia was frightened on the spot.
The last time I went to get the Demon King's Ring, I also encountered a mind sucker and even a conch ship. This time, there was a mind sucker.
However, this time, the mind sucker seemed to have been chopped off first, and the head was placed on the ground as a decoration.
"Don't be afraid, no matter how scary the mind sucker is, this thing is just a pile of rotten meat when it dies. Let's go and take a look."
Although Nimia didn't really want to get close to this purple octopus head, but...
Okay.
The three of them came out from the corner and approached the mind sucker heads arranged in a row. The strange thing was that the further they walked, the higher the height of those heads.
At first, I thought it was because the distance was far, and the mind sucker's head was placed at a relatively high position. When you get closer, it will naturally become higher in the field of vision.
But when the three of them continued to approach, they found that the heads of the mind suckers were not in this passage, they were just refracted images.
When the three of them walked to the other end of the passage, the heads of the mind suckers had already run to the top of them. Looking up, they could even clearly see the rough cross-section of the cut, as well as the trachea and esophagus of the mind suckers, just like looking at the specimen through a glass plate.
This should be the influence of environmental factors. It was mentioned before that the surrounding crystals would refract images from far away.
This discovery made the three of them feel a little relieved, but then again, who can kill more than a dozen mind suckers and tear off their heads as decorations?
