The dwarf ruins is one of the main plots of "Half-Blood". At that time, the protagonist left the Elf Forest and began to travel around the Chaos Continent to start his revenge. For convenience, the protagonist went to the Mercenary Guild to register as a mercenary. The newly registered mercenaries are all E-level, and can only take some very simple E-level tasks like running errands. Then the protagonist saw the "Explore the Dwarf Ruins" mission without a level. As long as he brought back an S-level material from the dwarf ruins, his mercenary level would be able to rise to A at a rocket-like speed, and all permissions would be greatly improved, and he could even form a mercenary group.

After the protagonist accepted the mission, a mercenary team that was also heading to the dwarf ruins invited him. There, the protagonist met his lifelong enemy. However, because both parties concealed their identities at that time, they cooperated quite happily and even developed a feeling of mutual appreciation for each other. It was also from that time that a group of ladies discussing philosophy appeared in the comments of "Half-Blood". Du Ze seriously suspected that the doujinshi in his hand was the result of their discussion. It was so nifty.

The dwarf ruins are divided into two cities, the inner and outer cities. The outer city is the main production area of ​​the dwarfs, and the inner city is the living area of ​​the dwarfs. In the fourth century, the dwarfs were all-powerful, and a steady stream of materials and treasures were sent to the dwarf city. This steel city is the core of the entire Chaos Continent. Since the disappearance of the dwarfs, the dwarf ruins have been developed into a treasure dungeon by other races. Although there are many traps inside, as long as you get a little bit of the dwarf heritage, it is not a problem to get rich overnight. The mercenary team where the protagonist and the old enemy are is very powerful. They even broke through the outer city and rushed into the inner city.

In the inner city, they found a very magical door, but they couldn't open it. Everyone was convinced that the dwarf's treasure was inside, and they tried their best to open the door, but they returned in vain, until the protagonist touched the door, and in front of everyone's shocked eyes, the protagonist was sucked in by the door. After waking up, the protagonist found that he had awakened the dwarf bloodline, and then learned that this door was called the Gate of Wisdom, which was the place where the dwarfs stimulated their forging talents and learned skills-only after completing all the courses, the protagonist could leave here. When the protagonist left the Gate of Wisdom, he had already mastered the dwarf language and learned to make artifacts.

“Click, click, click…”

The sound of footsteps approaching from afar interrupted Du Ze's memory. Du Ze and Xiu looked at the other end of the street, and a tall figure slowly walked over. It was an old mechanical puppet, and you could hear its parts clanking with every step. It looked even worse than the one-star mechanical puppet behind Du Ze, but on its chest, there were five stars.

The one-star mechanical puppet stood upright and said to the old mechanical puppet in a low voice: "No. XH17178 has sent the lost individual to its 'homeland'."

The old mechanical puppet's voice was also electronically synthesized, but Du Ze felt that it had a more human touch: "Stand by."

“Ding—accepted, switched to standby mode.”

The one-star mechanical puppet put Du Ze and Xiu down and quietly stepped aside. At this time, the old mechanical puppet looked at Du Ze and Xiu. When it saw Xiu in dwarf form, the blue light in its eyes flashed suddenly, and even its voice trembled.

"Welcome back home, kid." The blue light of the old mechanical puppet gave people a gentle feeling. "You can call me Old John."

Seeing that Xiu didn't understand at all, Old John muttered to himself: "Have you been lost for too long, kid?" He turned to the one-star mechanical puppet and gave an order: "Take him to the Gate of Wisdom."

"Ding - accepted."

The one-star mechanical puppet reached out and grabbed Xiu in his hand. The movement was big but gentle, but Xiu held Du Ze tightly and refused to let go. The mechanical puppet paused for a moment, then grabbed Du Ze in his hand and took him away.

On the mechanical puppet, Xiu's eyes widened: "What are they going to do?"

Just sending you to school.

Du Ze replied calmly: "Let you learn the dwarven language."

As they were talking, they had already arrived at a circular square. The square was empty, with only a tall metal door half-suspended in the air. The door was floating in the middle of the square so abruptly, without any walls to support it, which was very strange. The mechanical puppet stopped in front of the Gate of Wisdom and put Xiu and Du Ze down.

Xiu looked up at the metal door with great curiosity. There were some strange runes and patterns engraved on it, which seemed to contain some kind of truth and wisdom that was difficult to understand. He couldn't help but want to reach out and touch it, wanting to know more.

A suction force came from his fingertips, and Xiu came to his senses instantly, realizing that he had been sucked into the door without realizing it, and the suction force from the door was getting stronger and stronger, as if it was going to swallow him whole. Xiu turned his head in a panic and found that Du Ze was already some distance away from him.

"What's going on?"

The panicked look on the little boy's face really made people want to hold him in their arms and protect him. Du Ze began to comfort his child: "Don't be afraid, you will become stronger after you go in."

"Aren't you coming with me?"

"I can't get in."

Hearing this, Xiu pulled out his hand with all his strength, stepped back several steps, and grabbed Du Ze's right hand. However, Xiu's hand still could not be pulled out of the metal door. The metal that sucked Xiu's hand stretched like a QQ candy but kept falling off, and then suddenly retracted, snapping and pulling Du Ze and Xiu to the Gate of Wisdom. The little phoenix was smashed directly on the door and slid down dizzy. Du Ze was fine, he just felt hit by the metal door, and the places where Xiu touched the metal door were stuck, sucking him in bit by bit. Even so, Xiu still held Du Ze's right hand tightly, and Du Ze only felt pain where he was grabbed. "Let go."

"No." Xiu's amber eyes flashed with an almost obsessive light: "You can't leave my sight."

You are too willful, naughty kid! You are the one who needs to study hard and make progress every day, not Xiaosheng! Mom, what's the matter with this little brat who is clamoring for his parents to accompany him to school for the first time! ?

At this time, the little phoenix finally woke up from its dizziness. It flapped its little wings, watched this tug-of-war of the century and shouted.

"Chubby, chuubby, chuubby."

Seeing that Du Ze and Xiu were so entangled that they had no time to pay attention to it, the little phoenix flapped its wings vigorously, flew up without being very skilled, and stumbled to Du Ze to seek a sense of existence. Du Ze only felt that his nose was hit hard, and all he could see was the trembling fur. The little phoenix lay on his face and cried happily.

"Jiubi."

Naughty kids + cute pets = a disaster.

No matter how much Xiu didn't like it, the increasingly strong gravity pulled him into the door. Xiu's small hand slid from Du Ze's wrist to his palm, and finally pulled the doujinshi in Du Ze's hand tightly. Du Ze, who had finally shaken off the little phoenix, saw this scene and immediately had a bad premonition, and then with the sound of the book being torn, his premonition became a reality.

After sucking in the flax-haired dwarf, the Gate of Wisdom gradually returned to its original state. Only a certain idiot was standing in front of the gate, staring blankly at the incomplete doujinshi in his hand. Thousands of words condensed into one sentence: WTF!

The little phoenix sitting on the ground saw the sinister glance of its "mother" and spread its wings and made a cute sound: "Chibi~"

Calm, that is the protagonist's cute pet, don't touch it.

Du Ze took a deep breath and trembled as he flipped open the doujinshi. The doujinshi had 40 pages in total, and Xiu had directly torn off 1/5 of them. Du Ze took a look and found that the content that was taken away was mainly masturbation, oral sex, and human play - should he thank God again for not letting the protagonist see the transformation? Du Ze hugged the doujinshi and wanted to cry: When will this day of worrying end?

“Click, click, click…”

Only then did Old John wander into the square. He looked at Du Ze, who was alone, and his blue light flashed: "He went in, didn't he?"

Seeing Du Ze nodding expressionlessly, Old John laughed. It was strange that a machine could laugh so happily.

"That's great. I thought I would never have the chance to see these little masters again - no, no, no, you can't say they are small. They always don't like words related to 'short'." Old John laughed: "They are always awkward and cute, aren't they?"

The little phoenix seemed very curious about Old John. It flapped its wings vigorously and tried to climb onto Old John's shoulders. Old John squatted down and let the little phoenix step on its slightly rusty shoulders. It stood up and looked at the metal door. "It takes 300 days for a dwarf to master forging. There is a second hand of the Wheel of Time in the Gate of Wisdom, which passes faster than the time outside. The time ratio is 60:1. He can only come out in about 5 days."

Du Ze knew this from the novel. The amazing thing about the dwarfs is that they not only control space, but also time. According to Yi Ye Zhi Qiu's description, if the dwarfs were given enough time, they could even invent a machine that could travel through time and space. However, what the dwarfs lacked the most was time. Due to unknown reasons, they were lost in the long river of history without knowing it.

At this time, Old John extended an invitation to Du Ze.

"Would you like to visit our 'home'? Dwarf friend."

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Xiu woke up and found that he was in a silver-white enclosed space with no exit and no entrance - he was sucked in by the door.

Just as Xiu was about to stand up, his clothes slipped off. He looked at his hands with wide eyes. They were no longer the slender hands of an elf, but a pair of small hands like a child's. Not only his hands, but his entire body had shrunk by nearly half, as if he had been cast with a magic of rejuvenation.

Xiu hurriedly dragged his clothes to the wall. The silver-white wall vaguely reflected a... dwarf. Xiu looked at the dwarf with short flax hair and a pair of fairy ears opposite him, and reached out his hand hesitantly to touch the wall.

This is... me?

Suddenly a blue light flashed by, and a short figure appeared in front of Xiu. Xiu subconsciously became alert, and then was stunned, because the short man who appeared opposite him was a dwarf, a dwarf like him.

"Welcome to the door of wisdom, child." The dwarf smiled at Xiu. "Don't be nervous. As long as you study hard, the courses here are very simple. Do you have any questions? You can ask them now."

Xiu stared at the person opposite him and asked, "Are you a dwarf?"

“No.” The short man shook his head: “I’m just a projection set up here.”

Indeed, if you look carefully, you will find that the other person's body is not physical.

"Where is this?"

"The Gate of Wisdom, where you can master your innate skill: forging."

"How do I get out?"

The dwarf took out a long piece of parchment. "As long as you complete these courses and pass the exams, you can go out."

Xiu looked at the length of the parchment and remained silent.

"Any other questions?" The dwarf smiled. "If not, we can start our lesson."

"The last one." Xiu looked at the dwarf: "Where is the dwarf's treasure?"

The dwarf still maintained his programmed smile and pointed to his head. "Here."

"Wisdom is the greatest treasure of the dwarves."

——Excerpt from "Mixed Blood"

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