Chapter 110 The Wise Man Has No Feelings

From the temporary stronghold of Justus, there should be nothing to investigate.

This kind of double-layered building that looks like a round cake and a crown, he also saw it in the coal barren more than ten years later.

This is called a "stronghold room". It is a very popular architectural form in underground cities.

The entrance on the first floor is the reception desk and the lounge. The lounge has seven doors leading directly to the kitchen, a storage room occupying two rooms, a power room and four residences. After going up the stairs on both sides of the ring, there are eight more rooms upstairs, a total of twelve houses.

Generally, this type of stronghold will be built first in the wasteland where it is not clear whether to build a city or not, and whether people will come.

This kind of building with complex functions belongs to the one that will not be demolished preferentially anywhere, and can also be placed anywhere. Even if there are more residents behind, it can be converted into a bar, hotel, shop, warehouse, dormitory or safe house.

This can be regarded as the initial "population building".

Taking five or six shots in a row is enough to accommodate the use of the pioneering stage.

Generally speaking, the higher the proportion of stronghold houses in a city, the lower the degree of development of the city.

After Annan followed Justus out of the stronghold room, he saw an extremely desolate street.

Compared with the coal barren land ten years later, there is probably not even one-tenth of the area here. It's not so much a city, it's more of a camp in the wilderness...like a rundown town from a western.

Not even the sky is so bright. This is because the corpses of the light ants here are not too thick, and there is no light ant layer that can emit light for a long time.

The ground here is dark brown after the lava has dried up. There are only three streets with two horizontal and one vertical. The number of buildings can almost be counted with two hands.

The streets are now empty. Apart from Annan and the two of them, there was nothing - no people, no insects, no monsters... not even the wind, and it was unusually quiet.

"Looking at the furnishings in your room, you should have been here soon."

Annan raised his brows and turned his head to look at Justus: "Is the Coal Ash Barren always so quiet?"

"how is this possible."

Justus frowned: "Before it was submerged by lava, it was a famous gold mine and coal mine. Later, it would be submerged by lava and destroy the city. It was also because of the misoperation of the workers that the leylines were dug through.

"You may not know that right above this...is the Furnace Mountain in the province of St. Felix."

"I remember Furnace Mountain is an active volcano."

Annan raised an eyebrow.

Of course he knew the name.

Frederick, as a Winterman, should also know.

Furnace Mountain is one of the few mountains in the Principality of Winter that is not completely covered by snow, and it is also a gambling place for those who were driven out of the city. If you are lucky, you can dig through a thin layer of snow and you can find the predecessors. Left windbreak cave.

There is natural floor heating in the cave of Lushan, which can also heat the snow to obtain fresh water, barbecue meat and boil water in it, so that it can survive safely even in winter. In the harvest year, Lushan is a famous hot spring area in the Principality of Winter.

The only problem is... Lushan is not an extinct volcano, but an active volcano that has always been active. This is also the reason why there are no cities near Mount Lu.

"Usually when Lushan is about to erupt, the Tower of Storms will be responsible for suppressing it. But this only delays the eruption time and provides evacuation time for nearby town residents... Lushan still maintains an eruption every fifteen to twenty years. rules."

Justus sneered: "But do you think... where did the magma squeezed down by the Tower of Storms go?

"—Cinder Barrens, that's how it was destroyed."

"But it's now rebuilt again."

Annan said calmly.

He and Justus walked the streets slowly and warily, not too far from the reliable teammate.

Justus looked around like a falcon.

As he looked for the anomalies around him,

While sneering: "Who makes it produce gold?

"Compared with human life, the diggers and wise men obviously believe that the gold here is more valuable. Therefore, an investigation report appeared... The report shows that the probability of the volcano erupting again near the coal barren is extremely low, and it is recommended to resume the prospecting operation. ."

"Very low?"

"Very low - very low, of course. Before it was 'Cinder Barrens', when it was called 'Black Gold Field', the last safety report was simply 'safe'. In fact, if it weren't for the Storm Tower It's going to be shot, it's really impossible to have an accident... But who can say such a thing?"

Justus laughed, took out the jug from his waist and took another sip.

He muttered in a low voice: "When the volcano is about to erupt, it is impossible for the Winter people to inform us in advance that 'the volcano is about to erupt, and we have to let the Tower of Storms take action'."

"They don't have the time."

Annan said softly.

Justus sneered silently: "Even if the Winters have this time, the Council of the Wise will not inform us. The Wise have no feelings.

"—Because the cost of disaster relief is too high.

"If they knew that this place could be destroyed at any time, it would be impossible to send a mercenary group to enter and lead the residents to evacuate... Because it is illegal to hide this kind of information, and if you disclose this kind of information to the mercenary group, you will have to pay extra.

"No one knows what the scale of this disaster will be. Will the leylines collapse? Will the mining area be destroyed? Will lava flood in, and if so, how much will it flood in, and will it destroy the town? Or will it just fill the ground? Or will the city be submerged?

“If they rescue, they can only rescue everyone together. The cost is too high... At the same time, if the disaster is not serious in the end, then the mine owners and miners will be the first to complain about 'making a fuss'.

"Because the evacuation has seriously delayed their work ... it may even result in their equipment being stolen, vandalised or damaged by the disaster.

"Those wise people in the Council of the Wise will not do this. If Winter's people really issue a warning, they will not pass it on... They may even send mercenaries to re-stop those who escaped - especially the mine owners. go back.

"In this case, the 'mining license' sold in the city can be sold again; since the owner of the mine is also dead, there will be no compensation. Everything is just an accident... Then no one can sue , things will end here.”

Justus kept complaining.

His words were full of sarcasm...and an inscrutable hatred.

Annan paused.

He was going to take a risk.

So Annan said slowly: "You still can't forget Ingrid."

Hearing this, Justus turned around and stared at Annan behind him.

Annan did not meet his gaze.

Instead, he continued to walk forward with no expression on his face.

Because Justus was much taller than Frederick, Annan's hood pulled down to hide most of his expressions. It made his emotions elusive.

After a while, Justus followed.

"……Yes."

Justus said in a low voice, his tone unusually calm.

"I will make them pay sooner or later..."