"What should we do with these people? Master Raphael?" Yolande asked.
The captured halflings looked very thin, and with their short stature, they looked like children from poor families. They were staring at them with frightened expressions and kept screaming "squeak". There seems to be a certain pattern.
Yolande guessed it was some kind of language they didn't understand.
"Leave it to you Tika!" Raphael looked at the psychic wizard who was communicating with the magic bat.
Tika immediately stepped forward, grabbed the head of one of the halflings, and used [Memory Retrieval].
The remaining halflings were all stunned, their faces turned pale, and their shouts became even more intense.
About five minutes later, Tika opened his eyes again after exploring his memory, and the halfling's unintelligible words gradually became clearer.
"Let Maka go, humans! Otherwise the high priest will not let you go!" "Great Moon God, please save us..."
Tika glanced at the halflings who either had faces of fear or were praying sincerely, and spoke rather disdainfully.
"Your god is dead!"
Even though the aboriginal language that Tika had just learned was very poor, several halflings understood it. All the threats, curses and prayers suddenly stopped, and everyone stared at him with frightened and desperate eyes.
Tika ignored them and turned to report to Raphael. "Master, these people are natives of a foreign land and believe in Diana, the God of the Moon."
"That dead god?" Raphael also glanced at several halflings, and then continued to ask. "Why did they appear here by such a coincidence?"
"This is not a coincidence. In fact, this halfling settlement has been watching here for several years." Tika explained.
Raphael paused for a moment, with a look of surprise on his face, but fortunately he quickly came to his senses. "Is it because of the church's expeditionary force?"
Tika nodded. In this cold, dark foreign land, obtaining food is a huge problem, and every time the church's expeditionary force cleans up the nearby monsters, a large amount of body parts and flesh are always left behind.
Sufficient food and the smell of blood not only attracted the rest of the monsters to enter, but also attracted the attention of this halfling tribe. Although their strength is very weak, their advantage lies in their wisdom!
The previous two times were to take advantage of the window period after the church's expeditionary force left and before powerful monsters entered the valley to do some post-war processing. Each time, they were able to obtain enough food for the entire tribe for several months or even one or two years. food.
This low-risk, high-return method of obtaining food has plunged the halflings who are almost going crazy from hunger into it. However, they do not know when the next expedition will arrive, and they dare not risk contact with this group of people who are more powerful than Warcraft. He is a cruel and dangerous existence, let alone entering the time and space gate of this gang's lair.
So we sent several spies to stay here all the time, waiting for the next big harvest!
It is worth mentioning that this tribe sent not four, but five people to investigate. One of the halfling spies had already reported the news in advance after discovering the abnormal movement of the time and space gate!
"Isn't this what Speaker Lin En said about sitting back and waiting?" Raphael couldn't laugh or cry for a moment. Now that the church has been destroyed by them, if they didn't need to enter again to explore the information about the Lord of the Undead, these halflings would It is impossible to wait until death for the arrival of the expeditionary force.
"Is there any other important news in his mind? Especially about the Lord of the Dead..." Raphael asked again.
"Unfortunately, no, but I saw some low-level undead creatures in his memory, far away on the other side of the mountains." Tika shook his head regretfully and continued. "These people know so little...I think their high priest must know more."
"Then go find the high priest!" Raphael said decisively.
Judging from the performance of the few people in front of them, there should be no strong people in this halfling community, otherwise they would not be reduced to making a living by picking up corpses.
What is slightly noteworthy is that the high priest, but without the protection of the gods, the other party may not even be able to use divine magic. In all likelihood, he will be just the same.
Raphael estimated that with sufficient food and absolute power, they were fully capable of controlling this tribe.
To a certain extent, they were very lucky... Although they were attacked by two [Sand Worms] as soon as they entered the door, they also found an opportunity to learn more about this world.
Thinking of this, Raphael's frowning brows suddenly relaxed, and he already had a rough plan in his mind for this exploration of foreign lands.
"Tikazhi should write a report and throw it to the other side of the time and space gate together with this halfling. This way, there is no need to send anyone back for the time being." Raphael ordered in a deep voice. Since there is already a halfling, If they go back to report the news, it will prevent the other party from escaping and migrating, so they must set out immediately to block this tribe.
According to the original plan, if they could not receive electromagnetic communication, three of the nine of them would need to return to the time and space gate one by one within a day, report the situation here one by one, and decide whether to send more reinforcements depending on the situation.
Now it seems that there is no need to return to the two places so frequently. They can completely use these indigenous halflings to go out to explore information. This way they will not be so conspicuous, and they will not need to apply for more support from the parliament in the short term.
Tika nodded and quickly wrote a report on a roll of animal skin. Then he grabbed one of the halflings, tied him up, stuffed the animal skin into the man's mouth, and threw it heavily. Inside the time and space gate.
…
At the same time, Lin En and others who had sent the exploration team away were not in a hurry to leave, but were waiting for news from the other side.
In order to ensure that the exploration team really entered the foreign land smoothly and was not taken to some other weird place by the time and space gate, or even got caught up in the space turbulence and killed, Raphael and others will conduct a half-hour After preliminary exploration and confirming that there were no problems, one of them was sent back to report the situation.
In contrast, they will send another person over to exchange and confirm the information with each other.
Due to the difference in flow rates between the two times, the half hour there is about three and a half hours based on the time here.
However, it has been a full four hours now, and there is still no movement in the space-time gate.
"We can't wait like this. Master Raphael should know the importance of the first contact. We'd better send another group of people in." Vittorio frowned. He suspected that he was entering the space-time gate exploration team. We encountered some big trouble, otherwise we would not have missed the time to send someone back.
"Wait a little longer." Lin En shook his head. Unless a six-ring great wizard had a bad face and directly ran into an extremely powerful legend or the Lord of the Undead, he would not be killed. Instant kill.
According to their speculation, this space-time door should be relatively safe.
Although the rest of the members of the exploration team are not very strong, they are more comprehensive. They have almost all the elements including detection, treatment, melee combat, long-range combat, magic, and technology. If they really encounter something that they cannot deal with, they will not be able to deal with it. You can return to the space-time gate.
"Fifteen minutes...if there is still no movement after fifteen minutes, we will send a second group of people in." Lin En said solemnly.
Vittorio nodded and waited patiently.
As time passed by, the numbers on the quartz clock were constantly changing, and the wizards present were extremely anxious.
Fifteen minutes arrived quickly, and just when Lin En began to wonder if Raphael and others had really encountered something unexpected, the surging time and space gate was activated again!
"Here we come!" Vittorio's expression immediately became serious, and golden rune chains surrounded him in all directions, surrounding the area near the space-time gate.
Lin En was also ready to take action at any time.
After all, the time does not match the agreement, and no one knows what will happen next. It may be that Raphael sent someone back, or it may be an invading enemy!
While everyone was watching, a bound figure flew out from the surging space-time gate, and was then tied up again by the rune lock.
Vittorio became increasingly dissatisfied with Raphael when he discovered that the person who came out of the time and space gate was not a member of the exploration team, but a prisoner who had lost the ability to resist.
"This should be a halfling." Lin En recognized it immediately. He had had a lot of contact with Lydia and others, so it was naturally impossible for him to admit his mistake. Then he also saw the animal skin in the other person's mouth. .
Paper pages are difficult to preserve and may be torn into pieces by the space-time gate. Electromagnetic wave signals cannot communicate across the two realms, so the exchange of information can only be recorded on the hard Warcraft leather.
With a thought in Lin En's mind, under the influence of [Mage's Hand], the animal skin quickly expanded, with encrypted text written using magic power on it.
Tika recounted what he saw and heard after entering the space-time gate in as concise words as possible. For example, the other side of the space-time gate is also a valley, and the temperature is about minus 20 degrees... and for example, they encountered the enemy as soon as they entered. The attack by two [Sand Worms] also revealed the surveillance of several indigenous people. They wasted a lot of time in dealing with these troubles.
In addition, they have now set out to surround the halfling tribe. At this time one day later, they will send people back to report more news.
One day there is just one week after their world, so there is still plenty of time.
"Very good, it seems that things are going very smoothly." After reading these encrypted messages, Vittorio nodded, and his previous dissatisfaction with Raphael disappeared.
When you discover that you are being watched, you can't send people in and out rashly. It is normal to delay some time to solve the problem.
Lin En was considering who should be sent to exchange information inside the time and space gate. Tika said in the letter that they did not need too many manpower for the time being, but the MPs could not really send some useless people in.
"How about we also send a few halflings there?" Vittorio suggested. Since the halflings are the indigenous people there, it is naturally more convenient to act in this capacity.
Linn nodded. This was also his idea. Judging from the information Tika extracted from the captives' minds, although this tribe is a believer in Diana, the moon god, most people don't seem to be so firm in their beliefs. …
But after thinking about it, it was right. It has been a long time since the death of the Moon God. No miracle has appeared yet, and no matter how firm the faith is, it will always waver.
What's more, the life span of halflings is not long, even lower than that of normal humans. It is usually only about sixty years. Those staunch believers in the past should all be dead by now.
"Since everything is fine here, it's time for me to return to the capital." Lin En turned to look at Vittorio. "What about you, Chancellor Vittorio?"
"I want to stay here and continue to study this space-time door and figure out the impact of the speed of the influx of magic power on time." Vittorio said with a raised brow.
He can also prevent some abnormal situations from happening here.
As for the alchemical formation that strips away tritium and deuterium elements, Vittorio had already completed it three days ago. The efficiency had increased by about five times, and the rest could be left to the alchemists.
Lin En nodded, and after saying goodbye to Sean and others, he turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the sky.
"Get some psychic wizards to come over and take this halfling down for interrogation!" Vittorio ordered as he looked at the halfling who was firmly tied on the ground with a frightened expression.
This native is weak, but his value is great. They can use the other party's memory to decipher the language and learn a lot of basic information about the foreign land. This is the reason why Raphael specially sent him here.
…
About forty minutes later, Linn returned to the royal capital. He took the time to talk to Harrov and Aurora about the information he had learned during the trip. He also called a wizard who was responsible for managing the information and asked about Lydia. The location of others.
Speaking of which, he hadn't seen Lydia for a while. He had been busy studying the application of magic power at the micro level and had no time to pay attention to her. When he wanted to, he found that she had disappeared and she was not there. In the newly built air force base.
"Lady Lydia may be in the Alchemy Research Institute now..." the wizard said hesitantly.
He heard that Master Dennis was recently studying a brand new explosive propulsion device to be used on new fighter aircraft. In the past few months, there had been several accidents, and the parliament had received many letters of complaint.
"Explosive propulsion device?" Linn suddenly became interested.
This is going to be a jet plane.
No wonder Dennis didn’t even attend this year’s academic seminar…
(End of chapter)
