A quarter of an hour later, Wang took the lead and entered the stone fortress.
"It's quite cool." He immediately commented, "And you can obviously feel the flow of air."
Flint: "Although it is a human building, I have to admit that the ventilation design is half as good as that of us dwarves."
Elizabeth was relieved.
Marika handed over her skin water bag, and the princess immediately took it, pulled out the cork, and started drinking. A few restless drops of water dripped onto her chest.
Wang took out the water bag and drank a few sips himself, then handed it to Xiao Bai: "You are drooling so much, please add some water."
With a more heroic attitude than the princess, Xiaobai drank almost a whole bag of water, then wiped his mouth and exclaimed: "It feels good to drink now. It's better to be in human form, and you can sweat all over your body."
Wang: "The human form can also use the skin to dissipate heat, which is of course cooler."
At this moment, the iron gate in front of everyone opened, and a brown-haired man with a serious expression led a group of soldiers out. The man's breastplate has the coat of arms of Earl Ximu tattooed on him. He should be the Earl's son.
He glanced at everyone and stretched out his hand to the mage: "I am Ralph. My father has sent someone to inform us that Langdon's special envoy will join us to resist tonight's attack. Are you the special envoy?"
Wang let go and said with some embarrassment: "I'm not. Elizabeth Langdon next to me is. I'm just the captain of the team."
Ralph looked at Elizabeth with confusion: "Your surname is Langdon? So you are the Duke's sister? I didn't know that the Duke's sister would come to visit us. After all, this is just a dilapidated earldom that is about to be finished."
Wang: "Indeed."
The earl's son was stunned. Apparently he had never seen Wang speak in such a straightforward manner.
But he immediately decided not to care about this kind of thing, but said to Elizabeth: "Your Highness, what are you doing here? If you want to use our soldiers to overthrow the duchess's crazy uncle, you should talk to my father ."
Elizabeth: "Our main goal is to deal with the crisis of annihilation. Specifically, it is to find trouble with an evil cult. We suspect that the caveman's ground attack is related to the cult."
Wang: "There is no direct evidence to prove the relationship. It may also be that there is something more evil and terrifying underground that crowds out the cavemen's living space. This has happened before. For example, the ogres in the Second Age were forced to leave. Their traditional place of residence because their home was taken over by evil dragons.”
Elizabeth pointed at the mage: "That's what he said. Just talk to him directly. Although I am the special envoy, he has the final say."
Ralph, the earl's son, looked back and forth between the two of them suspiciously: "What do you mean?"
Elizabeth: "After all, I'm just the silly, sweet warlock in the team."
She paused and added: "Responsible for launching scorching rays."
Ralph was greatly shocked and looked at the mage again with a strange look: "This is so new...then who will be responsible for your results?"
Wang and Elizabeth pointed at each other: "He/she!"
Ralph: "You confused me. Forget it, it's not important. In short, just tell the mage everything, right? Maybe it's because I have met fewer adventurers. This is the first time I have seen a mage. Captain’s team.”
Wang: "Let's go back to the cavemen. Recently, the cavemen have launched many attacks on the fortress from underground, right?"
"Yes. To be honest, I was not born when we broke through the cavemen's lair. We have been living in peace with them for so many years. Now they suddenly seem to be possessed, pouring out of the cave to attack the surface."
Wang: "It looks very much like something terrible has taken over the ground and chased them up."
Elizabeth interjected: "Is it the Order of the Mother of Life?"
Wang: "This is exactly what we want to investigate. If you preset the answer before investigating, you may mislead yourself."
Ralph: "What is this order? Sounds like a variation of Lamashtu."
Wang looked at the Duke's son with some surprise: "You actually have some understanding of religion?"
"I understand that it was forced. During the battle against the cavemen, we found that the cavemen gave up their ancient shamanic magic and began to believe in Lamashtu, the protector of all disgusting monsters. But consider Judging from the appearance of the cavemen, I'm not surprised that they believe in Lamashtu."
Wang frowned: "Did this change of faith happen simultaneously with their attack on the ground?"
Ralph: "The cavemen don't look like they have just converted to the faith. The symbols of Lamashtu are often found painted in blood on their armors and shields. Apparently, believers in Lamashtu are widely distributed throughout the caveman tribe. ."
Wang glanced at Xiaobai, and then asked Ralph: "Did you see any unusual monsters when you were fighting the cavemen?"
This is the information Xiaobai got from the animals.
Ralph: "Yes, we killed some."
"Is there a body?" Wang immediately asked excitedly.
"Follow me." Ralph immediately gave way and made a gesture of invitation.
**
When entering the morgue, Xiaobai immediately vomited.
Wang knew why she suddenly vomited without asking Xiaobai: the stench in the air was so terrible that he even wanted to vomit. For Xiaobai, who has a more sensitive nose, standing in this room is probably a kind of torture.
The werewolf druid turned around to run away, but was grabbed by Wang and pulled back.
Xiaobai: "I'll bite you!"
Wang: "You have to help me identify what these creatures are originally. If the situation is the same as in Langdon Territory, these creatures must have turned into this form from some ready-made animals."
Xiaobai let out a scream of unknown meaning: "Ooohhhhh!"
Elizabeth obviously relented and patted Wang on the shoulder: "You can just identify it."
"Although I am good at anatomy, I am definitely not as good as a druid. Let professionals do professional things. Even though she is miserable now, as long as she stays in the stench for a long time, her brain will actively ignore the stench. The smell, this is what is called 'getting used to the smell'."
Xiaobai burst into tears: "I don't want to get used to this!"
King: "Gotrick, hold on to her, don't let her escape."
Gotrick looked embarrassed, but finally came over and caught Xiaobai.
Xiaobai made the kind of "whimpering" sound that a dog would make after being wronged.
Wang suggested with a serious face: "You can become an animal with an insensitive nose."
Xiaobai immediately stopped screaming: "Yes."
The next moment she turned into a hen.
Xiao Bai: "Gu Gu Gu Da. Gu Gu Gu Gu Da!"
She was flapping her wings while calling, and she looked very happy. She probably had a chicken's sense of smell and was not afraid of the stench in the room.
Wang Momo took out the lancet he had used before from his dimensional bag, then took out the leather gloves that were used to cast Bigby's Disruption Palm and put them on his hands, and then pulled out a monster from a pile of corpses. , start the dissection.
As the lancet pierced the cyst on the monster's body, an even more terrible stench filled the room.
Elizabeth covered her mouth and turned around to run. As a result, she ran to the door and couldn't hold on, holding on to the door frame and vomiting wildly.
The dwarf took out his pipe and covered the stench with the strong smoke.
The barbarian also silently took several steps back.
Only the drow stood aside with a normal expression, carefully observing the monsters dissected by the mage.
"It doesn't look like a known creature," she said. "At least not like any wild or magical beast I've ever hunted."
Wang: "Indeed. Taxonomically speaking, this thing is different from most of the currently known beasts. My personal feeling is that this thing is more like the product of a failed magical experiment to create living creatures."
Marika: "So it goes with what you just said, doesn't it? There is a terrible mage underground who is conducting magic experiments and creating terrible monsters."
"No, these things came to the surface together with the cavemen." Wang said as he continued to dissect. "To be honest, this doesn't look like existing magical beasts."
The dwarf nodded: "It's different from most of the underground residents I know. His eyes don't look very developed, but look here!"
The dwarf pointed at the organ that the king had just removed: "I bet this is some kind of hearing organ. This guy doesn't have good hearing. Is it like the worms raised by the dwarfs, which detect the enemy by vibration?"
Marika immediately showed disgust when she heard "dwarf worm": "Forget about those disgusting things, the dwarfs actually domesticated them into mounts. The dwarf worm cavalry is the funniest thing I have ever seen. Son."
King: "As far as I know, the dwarf's worm cavalry has achieved brilliant results."
"Humph, it's just a brilliant victory for a dwarf. You know, dwarfs are not good at fighting." Marika said disdainfully.
At this time, Wang finally dismembered the last piece of rotten flesh. He stood up and looked at his masterpiece from an overall perspective.
Wang: "This thing seems to have completely failed as a living thing. It should not be able to survive on its own in nature. Xiaobai, what do you think?"
Xiaobai: "Gu Gu Da."
Wang: "If you don't want to change back, do this: if you recognize what kind of creature it is, just coo. If you've never seen it before, just coo five times."
Elizabeth, who had just returned from vomiting, was shocked: "Why five times?"
"To prevent misjudgment." Wang replied, "Xiaobai, let's get started!"
Xiaobai: "Gu Gu Da X5"
Wang: "She hasn't seen it either. This explains the problem very much."
The mage turned around and said to the son of the local lord who was already hiding outside the house and peeking out quietly: "Sir Ralph, how did the cavemen use this kind of monster when they attacked?"
Ralph: "They threw stinking carrion at us, and this thing came here by following the smell. By the way, this thing was very difficult to kill because you didn't know where to cut it. In the end, we poisoned them to death. We started from Munro The poison for the wanderers ordered by the White City of Via has already depleted our family’s fortune.”
Wang: "Isn't this thing resistant to poison? When I was in Langdon, I didn't catch a few mutated cats to test whether they could tolerate poison."
He stood up, put away the lancet, took off his gloves and threw them directly on the ground, and then said: "Okay, I probably know the situation. We are going to try to catch a live one tonight, and I want to test his ability to detect the positive direction." Energy response.”
(End of chapter)
