quicksilver blood

Chapter 550 Abandoning the Country
A sandy storm.Iron dragon.

The magnificent scene that caught Roland's eyes can only be described in this way.

It's like a modern building—no, it's a building that is greater than a modern building, and it can be called a work of art.

There are buildings with melodious curvature like a dragon's spine and a harp-like shape; there are also huge shells like artworks, or huge buildings that are hundreds of meters high like budding flower buds .

And more, it is a winding corridor like an overpass bridge that overlaps repeatedly.They surround other buildings, and from Roland's perspective, he can even see the transparent passages connecting them with other buildings.

They are all painted with a silver-gray metallic coating, and they look like metal pythons entrenched and sleeping.

But Roland noticed one thing—that is, there is no city wall here.

The so-called city wall is the line of defense to protect the town, and it is a place for the people to have a shelter when facing the enemy's aggression one day in the future.A city wall is to a town what armor is to a human body.

However, Elcate has no walls - because they don't need walls at all.

If a man's muscles are stronger than steel, then armor will only serve to slow down his movements.From the beginning, no buildings in Elkart were exposed to the atmosphere. Everyone walked in closed and solid metal pipes. From the beginning, the city had no meaning for the existence of city walls.

These one-way transparent pipes are densely packed, the lowest one has long been hidden under the desert, and the highest part is even hundreds of meters long.And inside the pipe, it is a powerful preservative.They can ensure the greatest degree of inhibition of insect activity, keep the space clean, and at the same time greatly reduce the rate of decay.

Under the yellow sand, everything is hidden in the desert.This is why some explorers view Elqat as a relic of an older civilization.

That's right, Roland realized from the very beginning that the professor's flaming light could not harm Elcate himself.

You know, this is the old blessed land, the kingdom of fairies.Once the center of the world.

The so-called goblin is the incarnation of Gaia.To put it less romantically, it would make no difference to describe them as mushrooms growing from Gaia's corpse.

Now that Gaia is dead, these little guys can be said to be the guardians of the earth and the guardians of the throne.

Although they are innocent, kind and weak, all life born from the ground will not try to attack them.Their blood even has some characteristics of Gaia's blood, which can make all life full of vitality.

At the same time, they are remarkable wise men and inventors.Fairies are knowledgeable and interconnected, so although their lifespan is very short, even if they awaken the origin, they cannot live to be 70 years old, but they never think that fairies are stupid.

This is because, although they are the incarnations of Gaia, their birth is inseparable from the tree of life Kabbalah.Except for those winged goblins who are direct descendants of Gaia, all wingless goblins are imitations created by Kabbalah, imitating the action mechanism of saints and the characteristics of elemental life, from the lake of goblins An auxiliary developmental humanoid life that was born.At the beginning of their birth, they existed to be the envoys of the saints.

These goblins are good at inventing and creating.Of course, they will follow an iron law that Kabbalah warned them—that is, every time a new invention is born, all goblins must vote for this work to decide whether it should exist in the world and whether it will bring new benefits to the world. Can any destructive impacts make this world a better place?

The goblins invented a folding crossbow that is far more technical than this, and the speed of the arrow is greatly accelerated by electromagnetic , and the spiritual resonance equipment that can connect the hearts of all soldiers together.But the goblins believed that this "too convenient weapon of war" would amplify the adverse effects of war, so they destroyed this invention with three-quarters of the votes.

The existence of goblins has given Elkart a technological power that can be said to transcend the times.

Whether it is a city that operates autonomously, an unmanned court, a cyborg peacekeeper, a curtain device that hides Elcate, or even potions and machines that produce modern undead, they are all new things invented by fairies.It is designed for today's Elcatel, and it is a creation that fully conforms to the current situation of Elcatel.

A large shortage of slaves and labor, no longer suitable for ordinary people to live in, the absence of supremacy to maintain the law, complex and fierce factional struggles... and most importantly, how to continue to expand the group of undead after the loss of the Silver Queen, will Fresh blood and thoughts were brought into this pool of silent stagnant water, and temporarily muddied the water surface a little.

The undead don't need food, water, or air.Their bodies have long lost their proper functions, and they are just a corpse driven by their souls.If there were dolls that looked like real people, these undead would only need to install simple driving equipment to make them move, which was even far more comfortable than using such a fragile and short-lived body.However, the problem is that the body of inorganic matter cannot resist the decay of all things with negative energy at all, and it will not reduce the lifespan, but directly start to decay.

A body with a lifespan of 60 years has lost two-thirds of its lifespan, but it can still be used; while a wooden board has decayed two-thirds, but it is already fragile and shatters at the touch of a finger.

Without the two attributes of constitution and will to save, the mentor's power is absolute for everything.Therefore, the undead can only choose artificial corpses that decay quickly.

As long as it is not treated accordingly, the body of the undead will decay very quickly.The negative energy from the Sleeping Master flowing in their veins will lead their bodies to death-the flesh will rot, and the bones will decay.Without insect repellant, worms could even lay eggs inside their bodies, maggots would emerge from under the skin, and stomachs would swell with gas from rotting internal organs.

The most frightening thing is that during this process, the undead still have feelings for themselves.

Even if it is cut into minced meat, as long as there is no major problem with the workmanship, it may be able to move if it is sewn up and kicked.Even if completely burned to ashes, the blood-stained clay and rock will thus have a new consciousness and stand up again.

For the undead with this characteristic, it would be strange if the society they formed was no different from the human country.

In today's Elcate, there are no villages, no farmers, no workers.In other words, all mechanical labor has lost its meaning here.The city will run on its own, taking care of everything that doesn't require intelligence.

But because of this, the daily life of the undead is as funny as a pantomime.

They develop new ideas, create new things, use services and capabilities to earn money from others, and then spend the money—the money flows within the city, forming a closed cycle.

But the undead knew they had to.Only in this way will their cold and indifferent hearts not be so empty that they will go crazy.

This is the abandoned place.A place of misery in a perpetual locked loop.

Here is Elcate--

"...Elucard, follow me."

Roland looked at the sad miracle hidden in the sandstorm, and after a long time, he said softly.

(End of this chapter)