If you look at it from a human perspective, the architectural style of the elves is very strange. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAccording to human habits, whether it is the Neville Federation or the Farrar Empire or the Neutral Land, or even the human lands in the Sea Country and the mages who distinguish themselves from humans on the Bout Plateau, as long as the race is originally human, then although the architectural style is different, the foundation is the same. In the human architectural style, the walls tend to remain straight, no matter how strange the shape is, but the inside of the building is often a square and neat structure, even if it is a polygon, each side of the house is straight. Moreover, in a building complex, the size and scale of the buildings will not vary too much, which is more in line with human aesthetics.

But the architectural structure of the elves is completely different from that of humans, or most races, and their buildings are not so much houses as distinctive works of art, and their buildings, almost no two are the same. Elves generally take trees as their home, even if they build their own buildings, they are all relying on trees, built on the canopy rather than on the ground, so their architectural style is strictly restricted by the canopy, according to the shape of the canopy and the direction of the branches and the strength of each branch to design the structure of the house, so their buildings do not have a fixed style, and compared to human buildings, the inclined center of gravity, crooked wavy walls, windows of different sizes, irregular roofs, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom without doors, these are fatal flaws for human architecture, almost every house of the elves are reflectedIf such a house were in the human world, I am afraid that no one would dare to live in it, but the elves lived in peace of mind, and even the royal palace was built in this style.

However, one of the most powerful things about the elves is that they can turn these characteristics, which are flaws even from an aesthetic point of view, into advantages through their own retouching. The undulating roofs are embellished like the waves of the sea. Walls of varying lengths are decorated like the legs of giants kneeling on one knee. After adjusting the color of the windows, the original side-by-side windows visually add a sense of hierarchy, and it seems that the visual effect is different only because of the difference in distance.

In the process of construction, the designers of the elves brought their artistic talents to the extreme in the construction process, the entire palace, although each house still looks a little inconsistent after being retouched, but once these houses are combined into a building complex, combined into a palace, all the sense of disobedience is made up by the rest of the buildings, and the overall appearance is extremely harmonious, and even even if it is just a little change in the shape of a house, it will destroy the beauty of the whole building.

Their artistry is by no means limited to this degree, every building, every pillar, even a window lattice and a doorknob, even the most inconspicuous corners, the most inconspicuous parts, have been carefully carved by the builders, and they are covered with exquisite patterns, most of which are plant-like, so that every house seems to be built among flowers and grass. Of course, even without these patterns, the palace was still built surrounded by plants, surrounded not only by the branches and leaves of the World Tree, but also by a large number of vines, on which flowers of all colors bloomed, and a faint fragrance filled the entire palace. The scents were not as strong as those found in the flower paths of the swamp, but a delicate fragrance, like the elves that gave them, noble and elegant, but eternally distant.

Since the palace is built in the canopy, there are a large number of branches and vines in the middle to block the view, so it is impossible to see the overall shape of the palace, but it is guessed that the world tree is the center of the circle and the upper and lower layers are distributed in a circle, and the trunk of the tree where everyone is standing now is the main road leading to the palace.

It was only then that the maidens discovered the existence of the City Watch. Since entering the elven royal court, the girls have been observing everywhere, and they have indeed seen a lot of elven civilians along the way, but in addition to the guards around them, they have never seen an elven forest guard who serves as a city guard, which always gives people a feeling that there is no law and order and defense in this city. When they got to the palace, the maidens finally saw the guards. These guards did not patrol around like other cities, but only stood guard at some nodes where tree trunks intersected, and indeed, with the peculiarities of the royal palace, as long as these nodes were controlled, it was enough to control the traffic of the entire air network, and not let any suspicious person pass.

"In fact, there are still a lot of guards in the elven court, not only concentrated near the palace. Pennis noticed the curiosity and confusion in the hearts of the girls, and explained in a low voice: "But those guards are all served by the elven forest guards, and the forest guards are all rangers. It's not easy to find traces of an elven ranger's presence in a forest, and there are some powerful rangers lurking, and even if I try to find them, it takes a lot of effort. In fact, there were quite a few guards along the way we just passed, but they were all hiding in the trees. ”

"Why are you hiding?" Catherine asked, puzzled, "According to common sense, a large part of the purpose of the existence of the City Guard is to deter those who commit crimes, not just to capture them. In other words, the city guards exist to prevent crime, not just to fight crime. ”

"How many people would commit a crime in a city where all intelligent beings are above the silver level?" Pannis asked rhetorically, "Will anyone who has the courage to do such a thing be able to be deterred by some gold-level city guards?"

"Well, probably not. Catherine was stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, it's hard for me to imagine a city full of high-level professionals, and even if you count it, only the city of elves has this level." ”

"Well, only Elven City is like this, after all, the starting point of this race is too high. Pannis nodded: "Actually, there is nothing special about such a city, the biggest feature is that there are very few criminals, the security of the city is very good, and it is very safe to live in this kind of city." ”

"Strange, I once read a study on urban policing. Vivien woke up from her contemplation and said suspiciously: "According to their research, if a city has more powerful people, then the city tends to be less secure, and to a certain extent, it will even fall into chaos. ”

"That's because they didn't dig deeper. "If you study it, you'll find out how wrong you are," Pannis explains. (To be continued.) )