Create a sandbox world

In the study, Lin Tuo stared at the sand table seriously and solemnly, frowning.

On the virtual panel, although the ether concentration is still "low-level", the bright red falling arrow at the end is still a bit frightening.

The ether did not fall all morning, but it did not last long.

In most of the time, it is rising.

But right now, the situation is obviously something wrong.

"Where is the problem? It stands to reason that the current social situation is still on the rise, and there is no reason to fall.

It can't always be a spiritual genius who is born out of the world, and absorbs ether too fast, which makes it too late to replenish it, right?"

Lin Tuo thought suspiciously. At the same time, he manipulated the virtual panel with his mind, opened the running log, and began to read some recent information, trying to find the reason.

At a glance, there were no words such as "war", "famine", or "disease", which made him even more puzzled.

After browsing several times, Lin Tuo finally focused on one of them:

[World Evolved in the year 3,652, the Northern Church promulgated the "Heritage Trial" decree, and wanted to hunt and kill a group of wizards in the Kingdom of Drai]

"Heretry trial?" Seeing this, Lin Tuo suddenly smelled an unusual breath.

It is not obvious that this piece of information is contained in the log. If it is normal, Lin Tuo will probably only regard it as a kind of religious war and power struggle.

But combined with the situation of falling ether, it deserves his serious attention.

"Could it be that the decline of the ether stems from the hunting of wizards?"

If he guessed correctly, the wizard group should refer to the descendants of evolutionary people with extraordinary abilities, or a group of higher life levels than ordinary people through practice.

It stands to reason that such groups should be in the upper echelons of human society. Even if groups of different forces are fighting, they can never be described as "catching and killing". It sounds like an imbalance.

In fact, referring to the contents of the operation log, it seems that the wizarding community has indeed enjoyed a high degree of authority in the past millennium.

As for whether it declined later, there is no clear record, and Lin Tuo doesn't know.

"It's always a suspicious point. Let's not discuss the reasons behind it. It is assumed that the quality of life of the wizard group is indeed far superior to ordinary people.

Then their mass deaths in a short period of time offset the upward momentum of the slow development of civilization and caused the ether to decrease, which is logically explained."

While thinking about it, Lin Tuo immediately closed the virtual panel to avoid its interference with the field of vision, and then slowly approached the sand table, trying to observe the distribution of the etheric cloud on the north and south continents inside the enclosure.

And as Lin Tuo's vision swept past, the wisps of green and white air floating in the sky slowly reflected into his vision.

They cover the sky above the human kingdom.

The more large-scale and prosperous the city, the denser and more conspicuous the ether above it. As for the remote places, where there are few people and people, if you don't observe them carefully, Lin Tuo will even ignore their existence.

Looking at the northern and southern continents, the northern continent is more dense to the naked eye, and among the northern countries, the sky over the Drei Kingdom is the most dense and impressive.

This is also the main source area of ​​Lintuo's collection.

At this moment, the cloud of ether is hanging in the high altitude calmly and flowing slowly. Since the time flow rate has been adjusted to 1:1, its reduction is not very large.

This also proves from the side that the reduction of the ether in the sandbox is not a short-term cliff-like drop caused by natural disasters, but more gentle.

When Lin Tuo's gaze swept across the sky, strands of illusory filaments also became clear.

Each one means an individual who is practising the Qi-suppressing method. Among them, the capital of the Draé Kingdom has the most silk threads, densely packed, and connected together.

Every second, many silk threads are broken and new silk threads are growing.

It's just that when Lin Tuo tried to compare it with the observations made in the morning, he found that the thicker, that is, the more talented silk thread was significantly less.

"Is it really related to hunting and killing wizards?"

Lin Tuo raised his eyebrows, hesitated, and finally decided to investigate.

He still doesn't know the whole story. If it's just factional fighting, it's okay, it's part of the development of human society, but he is vaguely disturbed and always feels something is wrong.

In contrast, it is better to find out.

"I hope it's just that I think too much."

Laughing at himself, Lin Tuo did not delay, immediately raised his hand and summoned the clone.

After thinking about it, instead of reaching the capital city directly, he chose the nearest small town with ethereal threads and slowly dropped his right hand.

At the same time, the "zoom" capability is turned on.

In his field of vision, the entire sand table map quickly zoomed in on this point, and the originally tiny town gradually became clear and concrete.

...

...

spring.

No matter where you are, spring is always a happy season for most races.

In the northern continent, east of the sunset plain, the tail of the pale mountain range turns here, the towering mountains resist the cold wind blowing from afar, and the Yinma River flows under the mountain.

The turbulent flow that had already thawed early spread along the ancient river to the entire plain, nourishing countless lives.

Along the way, there are many human towns scattered around.

Oak Town is located here.

The name of the town is quite simple, and it is said that it dates back to the pioneering era, which is very different from the fancy style that is now popular in the Draé Kingdom.

Oak Town is not small, even if it is placed in the entire kingdom, it is considered to be above the middle.

Various facilities, such as churches and monasteries, are readily available. There are poor slave laborers, as well as wealthy merchants and nobles, especially the closer to the town center, there are also many glamorous people and impressive buildings.

It's just that the old city walls on the periphery are drenched in wind and rain. They are in disrepair for a long time and are seriously aging. Looking at it from a distance, they always reveal a shabby look.

"My Lord Baron, before this winter, the city walls must be renovated, especially in the southeast section, where the collapse is serious and it can't be repaired."

When Baron Carter walked expressionlessly along the corridors of his castle, through the garden, and slowly walked into the study where he handled his daily affairs.

I saw my housekeeper and deputy holding a copy of the repair document drawn up last year, and said.

He was in a trance for a while, then came back to his senses, nodded, and said blankly:

"Understood, let it go, I will see later, is there anything else."

"There is really one. In the morning, the church sent someone a letter. Well, because you haven't gotten up yet, and it doesn't seem to be very important, so I put it away. Here it is."

The housekeeper heard the words, and soon handed over a document along with the repair document.

However, Baron Carter did not answer.

It's just that the whole person stays in place, motionless, his body is stiff, it seems to be in a trance, or something that he is worried about finally happens, and his unhappy face suddenly pales.