Just when Lily was about to find a chance to try it out, Xiao Hei suddenly revealed a shocking secret.
"It's not going to happen. I didn't write the three laws of automatic dwarfs from the beginning. Last time I rushed to the rescue immediately because the situation was urgent and I didn't have time to think too much."
"Huh?" Tila really hadn't imagined this possibility.
Yes, the makers of Xiaohei can even make hamster-driven things, and canceling the three laws is nothing.
"What if other automatic gnomes encounter similar things? 』
Lily asked relentlessly, she was really curious about how this easy conflict would end.
Hearing this, Xiao Hei muttered: "A normal automatic dwarf... the situation has come to this, and the only option is to self-destruct."
"Do the dwarf's creations also have the ability to self-destruct?" Chen Zhou was confused.
"It depends. At least I have it."
Xiao Hei will self-destruct after loudly shouting "have a magical day!" under certain circumstances. However, it has been given a "Construction Enlightenment Technique (strongly effective)" by the creator, so this function has not been used so far. .
"By the way, the thumbs on my arms and feet can also be fired as cannonballs."
Xiao Hei said as he removed his right arm, revealing the injector hidden in it.
After the arm is fired or the palm is opened, it can use the function of spray arc.
Seeing this, Chen Zhou felt complicated, always feeling that Xiao Hei's creator was not in his right mind.
"He is a dwarf after all."
After appreciating the wonderful functions of the automatic dwarf in the team, the group gradually left the road and went deep into the wilderness.
As they moved away from human-infested areas, the sparse vegetation on the land gradually disappeared and was gradually replaced by strange substances that exuded a foul odor.
Those are the waste materials produced by alchemy. Before the portal technology was mature, the Norton Kingdom often discharged them into inaccessible wilderness.
Over time, after nearly two hundred years of being infiltrated and polluted by alchemical waste, the wilderness outside many large towns often has extremely harsh and dangerous environments.
Although the Nortons have banned discharging waste into the wild after the portal technology has matured, the damage to the environment will still take hundreds of years to recover.
Because of this, druids who were dissatisfied with Norton (such as Druid Councilor Tia from the Great River Territory) left here one after another, leaving the locals to bear the consequences.
Druids don't necessarily have to assist people in restoring nature - having those who destroy the environment in turn be betrayed by the environment will be better for their future views on nature in the long run.
"But it is said that Norton did not care about the accusations of the druids." Chen Zhou recalled the information he got from Tia, "Although the Kingdom of Norton has explicitly prohibited the discharge of pollution into the wilderness again, the people below actually did not fully comply with it. "
First of all, garbage collection is extremely difficult for people in this era, and secondly, opening portals to other worlds requires money.
For most officials in the Norton Kingdom, reducing the frequency of opening portals not only avoids a lot of trouble, but also allows the money allocated from above to be used for other purposes.
There is an inverse correlation between the frequency of portal opening, the surrounding environment, and the official's income.
Officials in inland cities may still need to carefully manage this relationship, but coastal cities in the Norton Kingdom have basically adopted easier sewage disposal methods.
Is the portal open?
If open.
"So these bumpkins from the material plane have no long-term vision and have not considered the future at all."
Most races in the outer world are born immortal. How to continue to exploit and profit over the long years is a required course for every Dorval Penguin.
But after all, human lifespan is only a few decades. After death, there will be floods, but if it doesn't work, isn't it possible to use the wealth collected to moisten the star world?
As long as there is a way, the price of the "Transportation" scroll is only a few thousand gold coins.
As for others?
The gold coins in the hands of other people are of no use.
The initiator is no longer known, and the Norton Kingdom is simultaneously polluting the environment and discharging pollution to other worlds.
As the special envoy of the Monopoly Alliance, Tira still has to investigate the matter thoroughly to evaluate the alliance's attitude towards Asta.
Looking at the alchemy substances everywhere on the barren wasteland, Chen Zhou suddenly felt something.
"How about we just shoot Norton down?"
You wouldn't know it unless you come out, but the Great River Territory is the well-deserved uncrowned king in the field of competition.
Already winning before the competition even started?
"Zhushu thinks it's okay."
"Lily thinks it's okay too. 』
After hearing this, both the sleeping dragon and the phoenix chick thought that Norton should be beaten.
It's just that the Great River Territory hasn't even unified the grasslands yet, so it would be troublesome to bypass the earl and go south.
Even if it is successfully defeated, the Norton Kingdom is still an enclave that is difficult to manage.
Chen Zhou was thoughtful, could it be that he had to unify the grassland first?
"Plane war?" Tila misunderstood Chen Zhou's words, "No, no, do you know how much it costs to fight a plane war and how many people die?"
Even if the monopoly alliance could kill Asta indiscriminately with its eyes closed, it would not be able to spend the money on war.
Instead of relying on war to solve problems, the Alliance prefers to send high-level professionals from the sky to negotiate with local rulers.
Starting from the top, they signed contracts one by one or negotiated through magic, and everything was done without anyone noticing.
When the Monopoly Alliance began to rule the Norton Kingdom and continuously harvested resources from its territory and sent them to the outer world, ordinary people did not even know that they had become a colony of the outer world.
Chen Zhou said that he had learned it, and through his clone, he asked the parliament to start thinking about peacefully regaining the grassland and making the Norton Kingdom a vassal.
Before that, they still need to search the goblin tribe in the wilderness, take revenge and recover the props they lost during their hasty escape.
"It's almost there."
About half a day later, the group came to the trail where the investigation team was ambushed by goblins.
No corpses of adventurers were found anywhere in the field of vision. It was thought that they had been thrown elsewhere by goblins, or eaten as food by goblins or wild beasts.
Considering that the goblins had used wolves to deceive them, Tira felt that this was not impossible.
"It's easier to resurrect if there are bones. If even the bones are eaten by wolves, then I'm afraid only the highest level of resurrection spells can save them."
Adventurers are accompanied by death. Even astral adventurers who are resurrected like drinking water cannot avoid accidents such as lack of money, desecration of the body, or simply no body, resulting in the inability to be resurrected.
"It doesn't matter, as long as there are still bones, you can be resurrected."
When Tila heard this, she immediately smiled confidently, as if someone was going to recharge her membership in the next second.
"Alchemy is also a required course for lamp holders. I have the ultimate potion that can replicate the body of a humanoid creature through bones!"
(End of chapter)
