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"Well, you said a lot, the way for human beings to maintain their hearts from being distorted by desire is self-control, that is, will, so no matter what, you can't let go of your heart, let yourself become a monster of desire, and use it as the foundation of your life." Li Yi likes the straightforwardness of dwarves very much, if they all speak in this way, judging from his tone, he denies the existence of the elixir, but think about it carefully, if there is really such an elixir, the boss of the human kingdom will definitely not hesitate to destroy the dwarf kingdom to obtain this elixir. The Dwarven King's long life seems to have another reason.
"It's your human flaw, just like our height, and we know it's a flaw but we have to tolerate it." Alfonso said.
"Flaws? No kidding, as if we were supposed to have them, these desires were imposed by the gods who created usโbroken hearts, endless desires. The heart needs to believe in them because it is broken, and the heart is full of desire so it is easy to control, this is a curse, it is a sad fate! Li Yi retorted.
Alfonso's face visibly changed color at the mention of the deity, as if here, it was a taboo word.
"I see, it's pitiful!" After a long time, he sighed and stopped talking.
I don't know why the atmosphere became heavy, such an ethereal thing as a god suddenly became a potentially huge threat, and it was a stupid and inconceivable act to regard such an invincible existence as an enemy, but Li Yi had to be an enemy in order to survive.
The green and damp water vapor steamed, and it accompanied them all the way to a huge flat mirror.
"The simple principle of mirror imaging actually deceived me," Li Yi looked up at this special piece of glass with a length and width of thousands of meters, "The craftsmanship of the dwarves is really amazing, if a human makes such a large piece of glass, it will not be able to bear its own weight and break." โ
"It's just a little trick." Alfonso wore a mustache and said cheerfully, like a craftsman who had heard praise from others.
"Our purpose is to get the medicine, and we are not going to stay here too long, because the lord is anxious for us to go back, and I wonder if the procedure for you to get the medicine is lengthy?" Li Yi asked, he always felt that there was something hidden under the dwarf's smile, maybe it was some kind of crisis, a crisis that was inconvenient for outsiders to know.
To put it simply, there is a lot of trouble here, and I hope it doesn't involve me, but there is no windfall without trouble.
Bypassing this huge glass, another black forest appeared in front of him, and Li Yi keenly felt that the temperature here was much higher than before, the volcano was more real, and there was a little purified sulfur smell in the air.
"This volcano is the key to our smelting, so we don't have to build a blast furnace to make steel, and some precious metals can melt in the volcanic black flames." Alfonso said, pointing to the volcano.
"Well, yes, do you know anything like a firebolt?" Li Yi took out the fire gun used by ordinary people from his arms.
"It's popular." Alfonso glanced at it, not knowing what Li Yi meant.
"I want to order a red-class metal firearm and ammunition, what is the procedure and how long does it take?" Li Yi was going to let Felder's shotgun change, the original gold-level firearm was no longer usable, and the gold-level primary-level spirits were all killed in Felder's hands, and the remaining large pile of ammunition was not used, not even to fight birds.
"Red?" Alfonso was a little embarrassed, "There is no shortage of materials, as long as you can afford the price, but it is difficult for the Volcanic Black Flame to melt the red-grade metal, it is estimated that it will take half a year, I don't know if you can wait, and the cost is also very high." โ
"Don't worry, of course I can afford to pay this price, so the payment and filling of the medicine and my order will depend on your guidance, thank you." Li Yisai gave him a bag of gold-level spirit crystals as a tip.
Alfonso smiled, not greedy for money, but a smile that made Li Yi embarrassed for a while, everything in the world, it seems that only human beings are creatures with all kinds of unsatisfying desires in their hearts, no wonder they can occupy a large area of land and sea.
"Have a great trip to the Dwarven Kingdom!" Alfonso said with his sincere blessing.
Alfonso made out the sign on the iron tree, "This is passage sixty-two, someone will open the door for us in a moment." He said.
A quarter of an hour later, the Iron Trees parted in both directions, revealing a path.
Felder looked left and right at the iron trees with sharp leaves as thick as stone pillars, and his heart palpitated, "Chief, once these trees are closed, we will all die. โ
"Can you not think of such a boring question?" Alger was annoyed.
"Haha, no, we dwarves also need human resources - butter, pasta, dairy products, legumes, rice, vegetables, we are not proficient in agriculture, so we can only rely on imports, and this place is not suitable for the development of planting, so I don't want to be too stiff with humans, there have been large-scale battles with you humans in the past, it was a long time ago, don't listen to my voice I am very young, in fact, I am eighty years old, according to the age ratio of you humans, I am a fifty-year-old uncle."
"Large-scale battle" Li Yi thought thoughtfully, it seems that this trip to the dwarves will not be too smooth, there will be sacrifices if there is battle, there will be hatred if there is sacrifice, and things will not be easy to handle if there is hatred.
At the end of the Iron Forest, a city full of sunshine appeared in front of me.
The mottled stone walls of the monuments are covered with blue-black stone skins and moss, stacked one by one, and there are animal statues on the walls, most of which are nearly half weathered, and the best preserved ones are blurred.
The sun in the sky was broken down by a huge prism and sprinkled evenly on the street like a waterfall, rather than a golden disc seen outside. The stone bricks on the street were tinkered, and in some places a large piece had sunk down, grass and ferns grew in the brick cracks, and snails could be seen crawling on it, **** moisture and moss.
At the end of the street are often several stone wells connected together, and the edge of the well is grossed out by cables, and some of them are simply worn off and bare. Ropes hung from the well, and several dwarven women brought up the fruit soaked in the well, and a fresh fragrance came to their faces.
These dwarven women have fair faces and tender skin, just like shrunken human beauties, it is hard to imagine that dwarves and humans are two species, originally saw Alfonso with wrinkled faces, and thought that dwarves have this face, in fact, they are no different from humans, but they are different in height and bones.
"It's amazing, it looks like an ordinary old town, aren't you built on machines? Why don't you see the mechanical product? Li Yi felt eye-opening, such a village, warm and quiet, as if isolated from the world, if everything is solved, when he is tired, he will take Mani to such a small town, live in seclusion, perhaps, you can kiss her.
"Chief, you just wanted to take Mani into seclusion, right? You miss Mani, right? Sure enough, you can't refuse your own thoughts! Isabella said with sparkling eyes.
"You think you can peek into my heart? No way, you did guess wrong. Li Yi flatly denied it.
"Hmph, although I don't know what you really think in your heart, but you must be thinking about Mani in a daze, no matter how much you deny it, it's useless." Isabella didn't seem ready to stop there.
"Hmph, what a boring extrapocalypse, Alfonso, do you have any potions here to erase memories of someone?" Li Yi suddenly turned his head and asked.
"There are things that can make people lose their memories completely, but memories are difficult to erase at a fixed point, unless you forget them yourself." Alfonso shrugged.
"Li Yi! Why are you so ruthless?! Isabella screamed.
"You can shut up, it's my business." A burst of irritability in his heart for no apparent reason made Isabella shut up with a contract.
"By the way, don't look at this is a quaint town, in fact, it is full of mechanical knowledge and pharmacy knowledge, the city wall you saw just now, those weathering are actually old, the stones are steel supports, those well water is actually from the pure water pipes, we all live on volcanoes, deserts and volcanoes, where does the well water come from? There is not a drop of water, and every year it has to carry water from thousands of miles of lakes to sustain itself. Alas, it used to be a forest, and the great war turned the swamps and lakes into deserts, and at least half of us dwarves died, which happened to my grandfather's generation. Alfonso smiled wryly.
Li Yi's heart jumped for a while when he heard this, fighting like this with humans, wouldn't that be a deep feud in the sea of blood? He suddenly wanted to pull his legs and run.
"Ah, that war with you humans is just a minor friction, and the war of destruction I just said was a battle with the servants of the gods, and you humans call them the Chosen One, but in fact they are nothing more than a bunch of monsters." Alfonso hurriedly added.
Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief, although this place is full of dwarven primitive life scenes restored by mechanical technology, but walking on the stone road, looking at a bush of sheep's tooth fern growing out of the cracks in the bricks on the side of the road, smelling the damp earthy smell and the sour smell of plants will still make people feel happy.
Led by Alfonso, they turned the corner and saw the black sign of the pharmaceutical factory hanging outside, a small courtyard with no one nearby, and a sign on the fence that read "Danger Heavy, No Entry" was painted in red paint.
"Can we get in?" Li Yi stopped and asked.
"It doesn't matter, the most important thing for us is the medicine field, this is just a place for refining and dispensing the medicine, and the sign outside is to prevent an ignorant young dwarf from sneaking in and accidentally ingesting any medicine, which is very troublesome." Alfonso explained.
A few people walked into the pharmaceutical factory, there were some dusty abrasives outside, Alfonso took out an identity card, swiped it in a hidden groove, and with a rumbling sound, the stone door in front of him rolled into the wall next to it, and a smell of medicinal incense and Laisu water came to his face.
Andelu frowned, and his body shook twice, as if he was about to fall, "I'm sorry, I'm allergic to the smell of disinfectant, so I won't go in." โ
"Well, then let's just go around town, don't go to dangerous places, be careful of losing your life." Alfonso cared for it and led Li Yi into the production workshop.
The stone door behind him was closed, it was pitch black inside, you could feel the hardness of the iron ground under your feet, and there was a suspicious rumbling sound in the distance, Alfonso groped around the wall twice, found a handle, and he pulled the lamp.
The white light suddenly spread down, and a silver metallic luster appeared in front of him, this is a large workshop, and the five assembly lines are silently advancing forward.
"It's spectacular!" Felder let out an exclamation, and countless gears and bearings rotated at a constant speed, pulling a small mechanism to make a certain part protrude, although it was mechanical, it did not feel dull, as if every part was alive, and the friction and impact of those metals were their words.
Pieces of green-grade and even gold-grade and red-grade medicinal materials are crushed by the machine to remove the slag, and then directly packaged or added with other agents, mixed in glass containers to produce a chemical reaction, and extract the filtrate or steam.
Some are peeled off the epidermis, while others are taken out of the roots, and the medicinal fragrance is emitted from these broken herbs.
"This is just an ordinary potion production workshop, there is no dwarf, fully automatic, every once in a while there will be technicians to rest, really high-level drugs are produced by hand, when you take the medicine, you see those potion masters, you have to be careful, they have a strange temper, because of their age!"
"It's really advanced, I really want to see how those top-notch potions are produced, do you want to make the same as cooking?" Li Yi thought about it, he had never had a clear understanding of the potion, and felt that it was nothing more than a treatment of wounds, and the increase in spiritual power was not ideal, but seeing such a large-scale production, if it was a large-scale battle, the increase in the potion would have a great impact on the battle situation, as for the high-grade potion, he had seen the curse powder of Dark Rock City, which could turn people into rats, this was no longer an ordinary medicine, and it was reversed from the essence of biology.
In the back, it finally looked like a military plane, the tightly bitten iron door, painted with striped red paint representing danger, and the disinfection of layers of medicines, they gradually went deeper into the ground, and the atmosphere was also gloomy, the smell of medicine and darkness made people easily think of the morgue of the hospital.
Walking through the last corridor, the green light at the top interval gradually blurred, and there was a faint white light in front of them, they came to the exit of the corridor, only to find that this was a huge basement, a rectangular space with a length of more than 100 meters in length, width and height, and white glass bricks were like mosaics all over this underground space, and the ground was spotless. There were many people in it who were busy, there were about hundreds of people, the most of them were apprentices in green dust suits, doing the work of processing medicinal herbs, followed by managers in red dust suits, debugging machines, doing some simple dispensing work, they were all doing some minutiae, and the real potion masters, there were only five of them, wearing white doctor's uniforms, and each of them was old enough, with twice as many wrinkles on his face as Alfonso, like air-dried apples. (To be continued.) )