While the group was discussing, the lizard man standing guard on the watchtower spoke up: "Li Guang, why did you bring outsiders into the tribe again?"
Wang raised his eyebrows and asked their guide: "Do you still bring people back often?"
Li Guang: "After all, I am standing in that position, and there are quite a few people who will come to talk to me. But the strange thing is that most of the people who talk to me have the ability to fly."
Wang: "Nonsense, you can't fly in that position. It would be difficult to talk to you."
The monk nodded: "What you said is absolutely true."
Xiaobai: "Are you going to feel so smart and wise again?"
Before the monk could reply, the lizard man on the watchtower shouted again: "Answer, if you don't tell me clearly what these people are here for, I'm afraid I can't let them in. The tribe doesn't have enough food right now, and we don't have the energy to entertain these people." An outsider."
Wang: "Has the food problem reached a point where we cannot entertain a team like ours?"
Counting the rowing sailors, the entire exploration team only had 12 people in total. For such a large lizardman village to even provide a meal for twelve guests, it shows that their food problem is already very serious.
Flint: "Maybe they know there's a big eater in our team."
Xiaobai: "Ah? Me? I can hunt by myself. They said they don't have enough food, so I will hunt some by myself."
While the team members were chatting, Li Guang said to the sentry: "These guests are here to solve the negative impact of positive energy. This is more serious than the elders imagined, and is a precursor to a world-ending crisis. These guests are here to solve the problem of positive energy. Travel to solve this crisis!"
The sentry sighed: "Rather than growing some feathers, eating is more important. If these guests can make us magic props that can produce food, I would be happy to let them in."
Li Guang: "Open the door Sople, maybe these guests can help your sister regain her beautiful scales."
Wang: "His sister?"
Xiaobai exclaimed: "You want lizardmen too? They don't have big bobos!"
Flint added: "And you can't get into the lizard female's hole."
Wang: "Who do you think I am! I just want to ask about this lizard lady. Judging from the context, she should have feathers."
Li Guang: "She grew a lot of feathers. Because when the mutation first appeared, this poor girl happened to be burned. So the witch doctor directed positive energy to treat her, and the result was that all the burned skin grew feathers. Originally, the witch doctor directed positive energy to treat her. Treat the girl you marry well, and suddenly no one cares about you."
The sentry on the watchtower shouted: "My sister is not an ordinary girl waiting to be married, she is a flower in our village! Now - now she has literally become a flower."
Wang frowned: "Are there enough feathers to be compared to flowers?"
Li Guang nodded.
So the king raised his head and said to the lizardman sentry in dragon language: "Open the door, let us go in and see your sister."
The sentry shouted: "Don't think that using dragon language can make us obey. We are lizard people, not kobolds. But, okay, I will open the door for you. Maybe you should be allowed to come in and meet the elders and shamans. , after all...there are more and more feathered species in the village, which looks quite disturbing."
Wang: "I see. In the aesthetics of the lizard people, beautiful scales are the most beautiful thing. For them, scales turning into feathers is probably on the same level as a human girl being disfigured by strong acid, which is a tragic accident on the same level."
When Wang said this, the sentry on the watchtower was calling others to open the door.
So the water gate of the village was slowly pulled up, and the boat captain immediately ordered the sailors to row the boat through the gate.
As soon as he entered the door, Xiaobai frowned: "It stinks!"
Li Guang: "This is the smell of the livestock we raise. They are rather smelly."
Wang's sense of smell was not as sensitive as Xiao Bai's, so he focused on the lizard warrior operating the winch next to the door.
This lizard warrior's left arm is covered with feathers.
"this
Is that an exaggeration? Wang muttered softly, "In Langdon City, the feathers that grow are very small, and some don't grow feathers at all, but have exaggerated scabs."
Flint: "If it were just the situation in Langdon City, even the lizardmen probably wouldn't be so vulnerable to the enemy, right?"
Manzi: "Yes!"
Xiaobai: "This feather is about a hundred times as exaggerated as Langdon City. Wait a minute, if we are injured here, if the dwarf treats us, will we also end up like this?"
"I guess so," Flint touched the Holy Emblem, "But it's so strange, my Holy Emblem feels normal."
Wang: "Your feeling is correct. I suddenly realized that this matter is unreasonable."
At this time, the boat arrived at the shore - even the lizardmen had to live on the shore. After all, they were only amphibians, not aquatic.
Wang quickly jumped to the shore, then turned back to his companions and said: "Think about the stages of crisis that my teacher said. The next stage should be the emergence of a large number of cheap healing scrolls and potions. However, if positive energy is used, If the result after treatment is like this, most people will not choose to rely on treatment.
"After all, you see, the Holy Light is not something ordinary people can enjoy under normal circumstances. Ordinary people have many ways to treat wounds, such as herbs and bandages. If they are treated by healing techniques in the next stage, they will turn into this bear. In this way, even if there are cheap scrolls, few people will buy them.”
Xiaobai also jumped up to the shore quickly and picked up the topic: "Maybe some people think it looks good like this?"
Wang: "Maybe a few people would think so, but most ordinary people wouldn't want to turn themselves into birdmen."
Flint: "I'll still buy it, after all, it might save my life...hell, I'm not sure anymore."
At this time, he also wanted to go ashore, but he missed the step and almost fell into the water.
Manzi quickly caught him with quick eyesight and put him ashore.
Nini jumped onto the shore as if to highlight the dwarf's embarrassment, and then easily picked up the topic: "So you think this is not caused by our annihilation crisis?"
Wang: "I'm not sure. I'm still in the stage of doubt now. I taught you to make bold assumptions and be careful to verify. I'll think about how to verify... By the way, Li Guang, this symptom of feathers appeared all at once. Is it? I mean, when this symptom first appeared, were the feathers so long? Are there any patients with milder symptoms in your village?"
Li Guang shook his head decisively: "No. This was already the case when we discovered this symptom."
Wang: "So, has your village been settled for a long time?"
Li Guang: "My grandfather's generation settled here."
Dwarf: "Oh, I have been settled here for a long time."
King: "No, the average lifespan of a lizardman is only thirty years, and their childhood is only about five years."
Flint said "Oh" and then looked at the monk with pity: "I'm sorry."
Li Guang: "I have gained peace, so it doesn't matter to me. In five years, I will accept my death calmly. But, yes, it is best for immortals to be careful in their words and deeds in the village. Especially When facing the old man."
As soon as he finished speaking, the king spoke: "The biggest reason why the lizard people have such a strong reproductive ability has not been spread out is that their life span is too short. Many of their skills lack inheritance. The craftsmen who accidentally master the skills will die. The craftsmanship is passed down.”
Everyone was silent.
Flint cleared his throat after a few seconds and said, "Don't blame me for not warning you. There are at least 20 lizardmen within sight here. They are different from the kobolds. They are very powerful in combat. If they become hostile, We may not be able to leave."
Wang: "It's okay. I haven't used Ultimate Dragon Transformation yet today."
Flint: "Don't think of massacre as the default option!"
The lizard man warrior next to him probably didn't understand Common Language, so he just cast a strange look at the dwarf's words - probably because he was wondering, "Why is this dwarf so noisy?"
The lizard man who opened the door for the team understood Common Language, but he obviously regarded it as
Joking: "Hahaha, if you can, try it. Come on, I'll take you to see my sister."
The king asked doubtfully: "Don't you have to stand guard?"
"I'll let someone else take over for the time being, and I'll just help him back in when the time comes. We lizardmen have always been very flexible in this regard," the sentry said.
Wang nodded, and while following the lizard man, he continued to ask Li Guang: "So, you have lived here for thirty years, but you have not discovered the primary form of this phenomenon?"
Monk: "That should be it. The phenomenon suddenly appeared, and then after positive energy treatment, there will be such long feathers."
Wang was stunned: "Then maybe this phenomenon has nothing to do with the crisis we are solving. Let me ask another question, these treated people only grew feathers? They didn't grow any more tumors or anything else."
In Langdon City, most people who have been treated with positive energy only have ugly scabs, a few have feathers, the size of fingernails, and a very few lucky ones have tentacles growing out of their wounds. The same "extra limbs". Read the book
Li Guang continued to shake his head: "No, only feathers."
Wang looked at Nini: "Listen, now we can almost conclude that this has nothing to do with the crisis of annihilation. Of course, we still need to conduct further verification."
Nini had a thoughtful expression. After a brief thought, she asked: "Is it possible that it is Lamashtu? The Lamashtu Holy Emblem we hold will also have this effect."
Wang: "Indeed, Lamashtu's holy symbol can also make people grow feathers or other strange things, but the effect of the holy symbol can be solved with the restoration spell."
The king turned to the monk: "Have you ever tried to use restoration spells on people with feathers?"
Li Guang: "I tried it, but it didn't work."
Flint: "Look, now we're sure this isn't the crisis we're dealing with. This is something new!"
Xiaobai imitated Liguang's tone and said, "All the donors are very wise!"
No one paid attention to her teasing, not even the monk himself.
Wang: "So how long has this incident lasted?"
Rimitsu: "It's been two weeks."
The king stopped and looked at the monk in confusion: "It's only been two weeks? Why does your statement always give me the illusion that this situation has lasted for a long time?"
Tachimitsu: "For a lizardman whose lifespan is only thirty years, two weeks is a long time."
Wang couldn't help but raise his forehead: "That's reasonable."
Nini said: "Let me try to analyze it using the way of thinking taught by my teacher. Because this phenomenon started to happen two weeks ago, and we happened to be trapped in Minos, the capital of Monrovia, and at that time We have obtained information from the Royal Institute of Architects in Monrovia and our next stop is Yisonzo in the River Kingdoms.
"So this feathered incident may be aimed at us to mislead the direction of our investigation - is my guess correct?"
Wang: "Yes, but this is just a hypothesis. Make bold assumptions and verify carefully."
At this time, the lizard sentry who was leading the way said, "Come on, that's my sister."
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and saw a lizard man who was about to turn into a birdman.
Xiaobai: "It's literally like a flower."
Wang: "Like badminton - oh, this is a popular sport in our Mage Tower, an imported game learned from a certain plane."
After saying that, he took a step forward and extended his hand to the lizard-man female: "Hello, I am the Mage King of the Salvation Team."
The sentinel lizardman next to me said, "My sister doesn't understand Common."
The king immediately switched to the lizard human language: "Hello, I am the savior... Qian, how do you say savior in the lizard human language? Forget it, I am the mage king, I will find a way to cure you, please answer truthfully my question."
After the mage finished speaking, the female lizard man smiled - no, I'm not sure if it was a smile, but there was a clear change in her expression anyway.
Wang turned and asked Li Guang: "Is she laughing?"
Li Guang nodded: "I want to laugh too."
Wang: "Why? I didn't tell a joke just now. What's the point of the joke?"
Li Guang: "Your accent is very strange, and your words sound like an elder of the tribe. Usually young lizardmen don't speak like this."
Wang said "Oh".
At this time, Xiaobai suddenly asked: "Scare me, I'll think you're sexually assaulting a female lizard man."
"Don't make me look like a seasonal cat."
"But I can't understand lizard language. This language is so weird. It sounds like a series of hisses at different levels."
Wang: "Ah, the lizard language is like this. This is to adapt to their vocal organs.
"Lizardman language mainly relies on rhythm and a combination of long and short sounds to express meaning. This is a very labor-saving language for them.
"It's very difficult for the lizard people to speak Common Language, mainly because their lips are not that flexible and their tongues are too thin.
"On the other hand, the fact that Lizardman Language is so suitable for Lizardmen made my teacher put forward a hypothesis: that is, Lizardman Language was not formed naturally, but was specially invented by a wise man based on the characteristics of Lizardmen's vocal organs, and then Taught to the lizard people."
After listening to Wang's words, Li Guang immediately praised: "Your teacher is also..."
Xiaobai grabbed Bai and said: "There is great wisdom, or the root of wisdom. Or it is the root of great wisdom."
