As several soldiers from Ximu Town locked the chubby caveman in the interrogation chair, Wang couldn't help but say, "This looks so funny."
The interrogation chair is designed for humans. Although cavemen and humans have four limbs and walk upright, the body shape of cavemen is very different from humans. It is really funny to be locked in a chair for humans.
Ralph: "The prisoner has been locked up. How do you plan to interrogate it? Can that rhetorical skill you just mentioned allow you to interrogate the caveman?"
Wang: "Of course."
As he spoke, he took out the ceramic step pyramid again.
Elizabeth asked doubtfully: "What is that?"
"Pyramids, trolls from some planes can build these things, but trolls from this plane probably can't. The trolls from that plane have the same name as the trolls from this plane, but they are actually completely different things. I The interrogation is about to begin.”
Ralph made a sign of invitation.
The king recited a mantra and made several gestures. The palm of his hand holding the ceramic pyramid shone with a burst of light, and then he touched himself with this hand, and the light disappeared.
Everyone waited for a few seconds, and Marika couldn't help but ask: "Failed?"
Wang: “No (underground language).”
Everyone had question marks on their faces. But as he said these words, the pyramid in his hand turned into powder, and ceramic powder flowed down from his fingertips like fine sand, fell to the ground and then disappeared.
The dwarf suddenly realized: "The spell was successful. After he said the first word in the language given by the spell, the casting material shattered."
The king looked at the caveman.
The caveman heard the king's voice and was "looking" at the king. Its visual organs have completely degenerated, and its tiny eyes can't seem to focus at all.
Wang circled around the round caveman, and its head kept moving with him, with its forehead pointed exactly at him.
The mage stopped turning in circles and began to move back and forth to adjust his position with the caveman, and then found that the caveman's eyes had basically remained unchanged.
Wang: "I can confirm that my eyes are not focused. This guy is using his hearing to determine where I am. Hearing has limitations, no matter how sensitive it is, it has limitations."
The words he spoke were in the language of cavemen, so neither his team members nor the earl's son responded.
But the caveman spoke up: "Sight is just a burden to us, Sunshine Man."
Wang: "Judging from his speech, he has normal intelligence."
The caveman bared his teeth.
Xiaobai was bored watching the judge chattering in a language he didn't understand. At this moment, his ears suddenly perked up and he sniffed hard.
Wang: "I observed bared teeth, which may be an expression of disdain."
Caveman: "This is an expression of disdain. I am the warrior chief of the great Gernika tribe! The warriors of my tribe will never surrender to the Sunshine Man!"
King: "Your Excellency, Warrior Commander, you have been living underground all this time and have never been on the surface. Why have you been surging toward the surface recently?"
"Humph, I won't tell you."
Wang: "This is strange. The book I read said that cavemen have no concept of honor or so-called loyalty. You are just a group that gathers together for survival, and sometimes you become the devil or the devil's subordinates."
"Hmph, what does Yang know!"
Wang: "Then let me ask you something that doesn't involve honor. This way you can ensure your survival and keep your honor at the same time."
After saying this, the mage stopped and carefully observed the changes in the caveman's facial expressions.
The caveman was tangled—probably for a few seconds. Its facial expression was completely different from that of humans. After all, their vision was very weak, so their expressions naturally played no role in communication: how could they not see it?
At this time, Xiaobai sniffed and shouted, "It smells weird."
Wang immediately turned to look at Xiaobai: "Are you sure?"
He realized the underground language he used and immediately changed the language: "Are you sure?"
Xiaobai nodded: "Sure. Strange smell."
Wang: "Did he smell anything just now?"
Xiaobai: "When he grinned just now, he smelled like fish that had been left out for a long time. Now it smells pungent and spicy!"
The other humanoids in the room looked at each other. Elizabeth looked at Malika and then at Flint, who spread his hands.
Wang was lost in thought: "When you grin, is it when you show your teeth? It seems that cavemen may express emotions through smell (*). Now we need to know which smell is which emotion."
Then the mage turned to the caveman and switched back to the underground language: "Our werewolves smelled it, you hesitated!"
Caveman: "Then she must be mistaken!"
Wang looked at Xiaobai.
Xiaobai: "The smell has become stronger!"
The mage was speechless and continued to express his speculation in common language: "This is strange. I really thought that this smell meant that he was hesitant, so I tested it like this. Why has the smell become stronger? It can't be more hesitant? Could it be that the taste has become stronger? The shades of do not represent the intensity of the emotion, but do they have different meanings?"
After thinking for a few seconds, Wang turned to Ralph and said, "Sir, I need multiple rooms like this, each containing a caveman."
Ralph asked in surprise: "What are you going to do?"
"Experiments, of course, to determine what emotions the caveman's scent represents."
Ralph: "Is that important?"
Wang: "It's very important. This is our new discovery of caveman ecology! It will fill the gap in our magic tower!"
Ralph hesitated for a moment and then said: "Is this...really more important than the life and death of our entire earldom?"
Wang was stunned, and then said after a moment: "Oh, yes, sorry. Now is not the time to do research."
He turned to the caveman.
Unexpectedly, this time the caveman took the initiative to speak after hearing the sound of him turning around: "If you want to ask about something that has nothing to do with honor, just ask."
Wang looked at Xiaobai.
Xiaobai: "The smell is gone."
The mage was silent for a few seconds and decided not to study the smell for the time being. He said to the caveman: "Then let me ask you. How old are you?"
Caveman: "Water drops fell from the tip of the stalagmite five hundred and seventy thousand times."
Wang: "Is this a timekeeping method?"
Caveman: "What else?"
Wang: "Then let me ask you, is it a recent thing that some cavemen can't eat mushrooms and can only eat moss mixed with sand and gravel to satisfy their hunger?"
Caveman: "Of course not. When I was a child, there were very few people in the tribe, and everyone could eat mushrooms, even the old, weak, sick and disabled! At that time, there was no need to ration mushrooms. You could just go to the cave to pick them by yourself every day. "
Wang: "Can't you pick mushrooms freely now?"
"Of course, now the caves where mushrooms grow are guarded by the strongest guards. The guards themselves can eat mushrooms until they are full, so they will not steal them! Only strong warriors can eat mushrooms! There are also shamans, and the mother of monsters The angel!
"Untouchables can only eat moss! Every time a baby is born, the angel will check his condition. The weak and useless ones will be classified as untouchables! They can only use their hands to dig the earth and expand caves! Untouchables eat moss, Eat dirt! Noble warriors eat mushrooms!"
Wang glanced at the others, but the others could not understand the caveman's language and could only look back at him blankly.
The dwarf tried to speak: "Well, I heard a few words, pariah, warrior and so on. It's really unlucky that some words in the language of these evil things have the same etymology as the dwarven language!"
The king switched back to the common language: "I am speaking the underground language. It is the common language of the evil creatures living underground. Maybe the language of your dwarves does have the same origin as this ancient language."
"I don't admit it!" Flint said immediately, "Bah! Even you can't slander us!"
Wang ignored it and continued to ask the caveman: "When did such a change begin?"
"Before water drops fell from the tip of the stalagmite 270,000 times."
The mage was speechless: "Pretend I didn't ask. Do you know why such a change happened?"
Xiaobai: "The smell just now is there again, the smell you said was hesitation!"
Wang looked at the silent caveman and then at Ralph.
——The cavemen's previous beliefs were mainly shamans and spirits, but now they are Lamashtu. Something must have happened in the middle.
Thinking of this, the mage said to the caveman: "To be more specific, what I want to ask is, how did the blessing of Lamashtu come to your tribe?"
Xiaobai: "I smell a new smell. This time the smell is very similar to the first one, just a little smellier!"
Could it be that the better a caveman was in a mood, the worse his smell?
The mage himself can't smell the subtle smell of the caveman, so he can't tell.
Caveman: "Lord Lamashtu's grace changed everything! Before the water dropped two hundred and seventy thousand times, the patriarch discovered Lamashtu's temple! Since then, with the grace of the Holy Lord, the soldiers of the tribe, and the untouchables, There’s a lot of them!”
King: "The patriarch discovered the temple of Lamashtu? Then your population increased?"
Caveman: "Lamashtu gave birth to the people of the tribe!"
Wang: "Is this a metaphor, or is it describing a fact?"
Caveman: "What's a metaphor?"
King: "So it's true that new cavemen, whether warriors or pariahs, emerge from the temple of Lamashtu, right?"
Caveman: "The Holy Lord has personally shaped us. We are His most proud works. We have occupied the entire underground, and we will surely occupy everything under the sun!"
Xiaobai announced loudly: "A new smell has appeared! This is a stronger smell than before! Ah sneeze! Ah sneeze! It's so pungent! I can't stand it anymore!"
With a snap, Xiaobai turned into a hen with an insensitive sense of smell again.
Xiaobai: "Gu Gu Da."
Wang withdrew his gaze from Xiaobai and looked at the caveman. After thinking for a short time, he asked: "Where did the Holy Lord shape you?"
Caveman: "In the sacred fetal temple, of course!"
When it said this, Wang's nose suddenly felt sore. He couldn't smell the strong smell Xiaobai mentioned, but his nose felt sore. When he couldn't help but sneeze, others started sneezing too.
But the excitement ended quickly.
Maybe the caveman's intense inner emotions have calmed down.
Caveman: "I found out! The cunning Sunshine Man is playing tricks! You want to enter the Fetal Movement Palace! You want to steal Lamashtu's sacred objects!"
Wang: "So there is another sacred object?"
Caveman: "I won't tell you!"
It seems that although cavemen have spiritual intelligence, their intelligence is not very high.
Wang snapped his fingers and looked back at everyone: "I think I have figured out the source of the problem. The current intelligence is that the cavemen discovered the temple of Lamashtu and found a sacred object. This sacred object may be It is very big and cannot be moved casually in a place called the Fetal Movement Hall. The explosion in the population of cave dwellers and the shortage of food are inseparable from this sacred object."
Elizabeth nodded: "So this sacred object was given by the Black Hand Order, right! Just like Erwin's time!"
The king stopped and looked at the princess with a frown.
Elizabeth: "Uh... isn't that right?"
Wang: "I don't know. Maybe it is, maybe it's not. We can't make a judgment based on the current information. We have to go to the Fetal Movement Hall to see what the holy object is."
The dwarf exclaimed: "You mean, you want us to fight into the caves that are already filled with cavemen?"
Wang: "Of course it's not just us. I think Lord Ralph will organize elite infantry to go down with us."
Ralph immediately shouted: "No, no, no! You have also seen our infantry! Although we have always dreamed of restoring our former glory, dreams and reality are two different things. I also felt at the beginning that our soldiers were well prepared. As long as they are ready You can kill it underground.
"But I realized in the recent battles that we fought so hard at the entrance of the cave with preset positions and sufficient light. Once underground, we can only become bait for cavemen! No amount of troops can fill this hole!"
King: "If you have enough armor, you should be able to do it."
Ralph: "But we don't. Most of our soldiers only have leather armor and animal skin skirts."
Elizabeth suddenly said: "Wait a minute, there are a lot of mercenaries in Watergate Town who have nothing to do. We can hire them and use Langdon's money."
Wang: "I do have a lot of operational funds given by your second brother in my dimensional bag. Do you really want to use this money to hire these mercenaries? I guess it won't be cheap."
Elizabeth said resolutely: "Our goal is to deal with the crisis that causes the positive energy to mutate! There are people suspected of being members of the cult in the underground, and of course we have to hire them."
Marika reminded: "Your Highness, we can actually hire sailors and mercenaries to cooperate with the wizard brother's dragon to conquer the castle. After repelling the assassins sent by Stoker last night, I feel that we can only rely on sailors and mercenaries. Strength is enough.”
Elizabeth half-opened her mouth: "This...but now we have found clues that may be clues!"
Xiaobai: "It's a bit difficult to pronounce."
Marika: "Okay, I understand. But does the mage agree to do this? Wouldn't it be a waste of time?"
King: "That's the temple of Lamashtu! There's also the Temple of Fetal Movement! With that name, don't you want to go and see it? There's also a sacred object!"
Marika looked at the excited mage with her mouth wide open.
Flint looked at the drow's shocked look, slapping his legs and laughing.
(*) The content about cavemen here is all compiled by me based on my needs, and is not the content in the monster manual.
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