I pouted my ass and crouched in the sweltering cavern, sweat dripping from my forehead on the rocky floor with a faint crunching sound.Looking at the delicate lines carved on the metal chests, I didn't expect that such metal boxes were very common, and it seemed that the goblins liked to use these parchment drawings with certain parts drawn on them, and pad them at the bottom of the chest.It's a pity that some of the drawings are not so well preserved, some of the lines on the parchment have become a little blurred, and some are simply missing a corner, or some kind of small worm has eaten some holes, but for the drawings of these mechanical parts, I still decided to keep them safe, if I have the chance, I want to bind them into a book, in the Grimm Empire, no one pays attention to these mechanical technologies, but obviously magic has developed to a bottleneck.If you want to improve productivity, I think it is difficult to rely on those expensive magicians alone, maybe you can combine some mechanical structures and power sources made of magic rune plates to make some exquisite magic machinery, which is the future development path of the magic industry in the Grimm Imperial Capital.If it is said that the Grimm Empire is at the forefront in this regard, it is naturally the processing and manufacturing of magic caravans, and the magic airships can only be barely counted, but these airships are all customized from the dwarf country, I have to say that in some areas, the dwarves are ahead of the Grimm Empire, although they are not good at magic, but some magic equipment is from the dwarf country, such as airships, muskets, clocks.The magical magic sweep can only be regarded as a special item for magicians, and there is no way to become a means of transportation in the daily life of ordinary people for the time being.I put the parchment drawings away, and there were no extra shirt mat boxes, so I had to rummage through my magic fanny pack for some blank magic parchment, lay them underneath the metal boxes, and then put the malachite back into the boxes.The dwarven warrior Bernd approached the mouth of the cavern warehouse and asked Karantso, who was holding a torch, "What the hell is our lord doing?"
”Karantso glanced at me, who had overturned all three jewel chests, and said to Bernd with a smirk: "He just wanted the blueprint under the chest!"
”"So you just poured all the gems out of the chest?"
Bernd asked, confused.Karantso glanced down at the dwarf Bernd and said arrogantly, "Or do you think?
”As the leader of an orc tribe, she had some disdain for this dwarf.The hatred between orcs and dwarves stems from the gray dwarf bandits.It was the spiritual leader of the orcs, Lord Kulebaolos, who launched a nationwide campaign against the gray dwarf bandits, and coincided with a once-in-a-century famine, that caused Karantso and these orcs to be displaced and transferred to the Grimm Empire, where they lived a hard life."
Hahaha!"
Bernd laughed heartlessly, and then added, "I thought he wanted to fill the box with something else, or wanted to find a piece or two of these malachites and give them to his favorite girl!"
”Karantso put away the smile on his face, glanced at Bernd with a nonchalant expression, inserted the torch into the groove of the stone wall, and walked away coldly.Bernd looked blankly at the back of Karantso's departure, stood at the door of the cave and said to himself: "Why did she suddenly become very angry, what did I say wrong?"
”Finally, with the help of the two beast girls, all the angular malachites were packed back into the box.Then he straightened up, patted Bernd on the shoulder, and said to him, "You have a good rest, I'll go first!"
”Leaving behind Bernd with a confused expression, he chased after Karantso, who had already walked away.Gigirous finally arrived in time for us to set off with the magic bronze, and the copper ingots were neatly placed together.However, I wondered how the goblins used weights and measures, so I asked Gigiru, "Is the bronze you brought with you as much weight as your slaves?"
How do you do that?
Did you just take it a little bit?
”Gigiru stood on the edge of the pool and said to me, "Lord Giga, you have wronged me, although our tribe does not have a large enough scale, but we have other methods, I will drive all the slaves into a large puddle, and then mark the water mark in the puddle, and then let the slaves climb out of the puddle, and throw copper ingots into the puddle until the water level rises to the scale. ”His imperial Chinese language is very poor, but with the body language, I can finally understand what he is saying.Gigirous told me proudly: "All the copper in the puddle is yours." ”I looked at Gigilul a little speechlessly, no wonder I felt that these magical copper ingots seemed to be a little outrageous.He began to complain to me again, saying, "It took me a lot of effort to dry that pool of flowers. ”"And in order to move those copper ingots here in one go, this time, I have brought a lot of Pandawang's goblin warriors, and I hope you will allow us to follow in your footsteps and make a contribution to your journey to the underworld.We can help you clean up the battlefield and do some manual work. ”Seeing that I didn't agree or object, Gigirous began to convince me again: "Don't worry about what we have to hide, I will assure you that when we leave, we will not take a single bit of metal with us, I only hope that you will allow us to buy the following goblin slaves, and please allow me to pay off the magic copper I owe you later." ”It says, "Just give me a little bit of time to mine!"
”I saw that the cowering goblin warriors were carrying a lot of rope on their backs, and there were no weapons such as swords and shields, so I glanced at Gigiru and asked, "These ropes are the ones you use to catch slaves?"
”Gigilul, on the other hand, smiled at me with a sly look in his eyes, and nodded smugly.The goblin has a very obscene and disgusting appearance, with a short body, looped legs, and a neck that always likes to stretch forward, and walks like a wild duck running on the shore.Watching a whole team of goblins walk through the cave, I felt like I had a fly swallowed in my throat and couldn't spit it out.The goblins, on the other hand, felt good about themselves, and lined up in a row with their chests held high, carrying bundles of hemp rope on their backs, and followed behind with their toes proud.I didn't even have any sense of crisis, and I even felt that cleaning up the goblins of other tribes was a war that could achieve supreme glory.Gigiroux was at the front to show us the way, and he was very familiar with the terrain.The goblin villages encountered along the way usually lived in large circular caverns, and some dilapidated shacks were set up in a flat area, and the goblin tribes usually did not put up any resistance, and under the fire of the orcs' crossbows and muskets, they eliminated the main resistance and then entered the time period when the Gigillu goblins captured slaves.Seeing the goblin warriors under Gigirous torture and kill the goblins who dare to resist, I realized how cruel the goblins can be to the losers, perhaps because they are a little twisted in their hearts, and often take the trouble to tie those goblins with ropes, and then let the captives line up collectively, let the strongest goblins chop off the heads of each goblin with a single-edged axe, and pile them together, while the corpses are piled up in another pile like dry firewood, and finally, next to the pile of corpses, some dry and flammable roots and branches, Then light a fire as you go.We left this goblin tribe through the raging fire.And this goblin tribe will be completely wiped off the map of the underground world of the Xinliu Valley, and the young goblins and mother goblins who have given up their resistance are tied together by hemp ropes, carrying the red copper and copper ore we have seized from the tribe, and weeping as they walk.There are usually not many metal ores in the new goblin tribes, which usually have only a few thousand people, but some tribes have some moldy wheat flour hoarded in their warehouses, and there is even a large oak barrel in one goblin tribe, and the empty barrel has been converted into a cozy cabin by the crazy chieftain, and it is unknown how they smuggled the barrel back.The goblin tribe that originally lived near the blood pool of demon blood had been cleaned up by us before, and this time there were some small tribes left around, and in order for us to be able to clean up quickly, some small tribes did not search very carefully, only Gigilul was very enthusiastic to ask those goblin slaves, so that they could hand over the hidden treasures so as not to be abused.After cleaning up several tribes in a row, I finally arrived at the cave where the demon's blood was buried, and after passing through the huge bottomless rock crevice, I remembered that it took a lot of effort to kill the poisonous spider in the first place.Stepping on the tough cobweb, feeling the cold moisture blowing from below the abyss, Gigiru's face turned pale, and even though he knew that the poisonous spider was dead, he still did not dare to stand on the web.Not many people knew that the precious demon's blood was stored here, and Gigirous only knew that there was a bottomless abyss under this cobweb, and the cave on the other side was a demon cave where goblins could fall, and he didn't seem to know much about what was in the cave over there, so Gigiroud and the goblins stayed on the other side, while I only led the orc warriors across the huge cobweb.He heard Gigirous stand on the other side and say to his men in a very soft voice: "They are a group of devils, and whoever dares to cross this bottomless hell will become devils, and if you drive these slaves back, we will migrate to the depths of the cave, a place where they will not find us." ”It seems that Gigilul has a high reputation in the minds of these goblins, and his words brought tears to the eyes of many goblin warriors.The orc warriors were left outside the cave by me, and I just walked into this mysterious cave with Ruka and Karantso.When I opened the cave blocked by the stones again, the stone wall that once had a wound on the demon bird still stood there, and in front of the stone wall there was a two-meter square pool of blood, and there was a dark purple scab around the blood pool, and the bright red demon blood in the blood pool was constantly boiling.Ruka and Karantso could feel the eerie atmosphere in the stone chamber.None of them asked me, but the doubt in their eyes couldn't be hidden, so I said to the two of them, "There used to be a connection to hell here, but I destroyed that passage, so there is still a smell of hell here!"
”Next to the pool of blood, I took out a round-bellied and thin-necked bottle, filled it with five vials of demonic blood, and put it in my magic waist bag.Then he took Karantso and Ruka out of the secret room, and then sealed the secret room with stones, arranged some magic traps of frost scrolls in the tunnel, and then said to Karantso: "When I am not there, help me come here from time to time to check the magic traps, and you must help me keep an eye on those goblins, and you must not let them enter here at will." ”"Got it."
Karantso said.The goblin tribes around the blood pool cave leading to the underground warehouse were cleaned up, and instead of returning to the underground warehouse with a large amount of loot, they continued to clear the goblin tribes along the cavern leading to the underground exit.The goblin tribes encountered along the way were all vulnerable, and they never encountered the new depravity.
The goblin bandit force that became a goblin made my heart secretly impatient, and the goblin tribes I met along the way, although they also had some strong goblin warriors, but in the face of several rounds of crossbow fire from orc warriors, and then a rainstorm of musket fire, the goblin warriors who could survive and resist with weapons became a handful.At this time, Gigiru and the goblin warriors of the Pandawang tribe began to clean up the entire battlefield, first brutally executing the old goblins and some strong and authoritative goblins, then carrying out a slave hunt, while looting the entire goblin tribe's property, and finally tearing down all the shacks and burning them together with the corpses of the goblin warriors.At this time, the orc warrior Kentoya would stand up with oil barrels on his back, spray corpse fire oil on the piles of corpses with a blank face, and then quietly wait for all the goblin slaves to evacuate first with supplies on their backs, and after the goblin tribe's cave ignited the flames of the corpse pile, the last orc team also left quickly, and finally sealed the exit of the cave to the main passage with stones.Then the whole bloated procession, in the mournful cries of the goblin slaves who had lost their homes, continued to the next goblin village, and the goblin slaves who were strung in strings of hemp rope numbly carried magical red copper on their backs, stretching for kilometers in the dim cave tunnels, and those Pandawang goblins became complete watchdogs.Unexpectedly, those Pandawang goblin warriors actually took pleasure in killing goblin slaves, the more cruel Pandawang goblin warriors, the more obedient those goblin slaves under his command became, and the dark side in the hearts of Pandawang goblin warriors was completely stimulated, and everyone had the blood of countless goblin slaves in their hands.And the servility of those goblin slaves and their infinite pessimism about life make them numb to face all this, numb to watch their relatives die silently by their side, numb to see their homes burned down, to see those underground passages exits completely blocked by boulders Pandawang goblin tribe is the goblin tribe closest to the underground exit, the first goblin tribe that our expedition team met when they entered the underground world was the Pandawang goblin tribe, at that time their tribal leader was still a wise old goblin, I didn't expect three years later, the once young goblin Giru, has become the new leader of the Pandawang goblin tribe.When I came to the Pandawang goblin tribe again, I found that the original low shacks had disappeared, and the huge cave was full of wooden huts, which had been stained with the entire huge cave, and I saw that the stone walls of the cave were lit with torches, so that the whole goblin village was bathed in a glimmer of light, and I finally knew how the Pandawang goblins were different from other goblins.These Pandawang goblins really know how to live.They no longer live the primitive life of drinking blood, but have begun to have the simplest social structure.This is a large tribe of more than 20,000 people, it is far more prosperous than I imagined, looking at the smoke rising in front of the tribe's cabin, I guess they have even learned how to make fire, these goblins are very strong learners, and they live tenaciously in this time and space that the gods can't see.Standing at the entrance of the cave, looking at the incomparably prosperous goblin village, my face was a little cold at the moment, because in my heart, reason and commitment were at war.Reason tells me to wipe out this great tribe before they hide in the depths of the burrow.The promise is based on reason, and he wants me to maintain my original promise and let these goblins live, as a magician nobleman, promise and reputation are extremely important, as a nobleman of the Green Empire, you can't be a treacherous villain.Gigirous looked at my uncertain face with great apprehension, like a prisoner on trial, and he looked at the thousands of goblin slaves tied back by hemp rope behind him in a panic, and wanted to say something to me, but he couldn't say anything.The orc warriors around him also looked at such a complete goblin village in front of them with a surprised expression, and were speechless in surprise.It seems that the orc warriors have never noticed that in the underground world not far from their village, there is a goblin village dozens of times larger than the small orc tribe, and there are tens of thousands of goblins living here, and they don't even know it.Karantso and Ruka stood by my side, I knew that as long as I gave an order, twenty orc warriors would use their crossbows to completely cleanse this goblin village, I was hesitating, for those false names and the glory of the nobility, I value more the peace of Xinliu Valley in the future, as well as the peace of these orc villages, so I thought: I should let this prosperous goblin village completely disappear in Xinliu Valley, which is the best interest of Xinliu Valley.So I turned my head and glanced at Ruka and Karantso, who had clearly understood what I was thinking, and Gigirous on the side was even more pale and desperate, apparently having guessed my thoughts.Just when I wanted to give an order to Karantso, I suddenly saw a team of goblins coming out of the goblin village, and the two young goblins walking in front of them carried something like a door panel, and on top of it lay an extremely old goblin man, his body was covered with a soft line.
The soft blanket, its complexion was very poor, its eye sockets were deep, and it looked terminally ill.I looked closely at its face and recognized that it was the old goblin I had seen three years ago, and I didn't think that although it had given up its position as leader to Gigiru, it was not dead, but it was not too far from death.But when he remembered what he had done at the beginning, he still couldn't hold back, and drew a magic pattern circle in front of him, and the hydrotherapy technique appeared on the old goblin.In the next moment, his dead gray face became a little green, and he opened his eyes with difficulty, looked at me deeply with gratitude, and then gently told the young goblin who was carrying the door panel to lift it in front of me and put it down.Behind them were sixteen goblins carrying eight metal boxes, which were also placed behind the old goblins one after another.The old goblin lay in front of me with a sad face, looking at me quietly, and before I could speak, he preemptively spoke: "I know that when I see you again, it will probably be the time when our Pandawang tribe is destroyed, and no goblin will ignore the fact that a poisonous weed is quietly growing around him, and if it is about to grow, it must be pulled out. ”"Unfortunately, although I expected this outcome, I was unable to convince Gigiru to move to the depths of the earth with the Pandawang tribe, and he always wanted to fight and bring back some new slaves for the Pandawang tribe."
As soon as the old goblin said this, the goblin Gigilul standing on the side turned even worse, obviously he had seen the situation, and his face was full of remorse.The old goblin looked at me with wide eyes, he forced his body to endure the pain with his mouth open, and asked me, "If I say now, I will take the Pandawang goblin tribe to the deepest part of the underground cavern and never come out again, can you let us go?"
”I shook my head silently.Gigilu fart.
Sitting on the ground, its body became wet, and it was obviously covered in cold sweat.The old goblin was not surprised at all, he turned his gaze to the eight huge metal chests, motioned to the young goblins to open the eight chests one by one, revealing the piles of magic gems inside, and then asked me, "If I say now, if you can let our Pandawang goblin tribe return to the underworld, then I will give you these eight chests of gems, and then every year we will give you a box of these gems and some red copper, can you let us go?"
”I shook my head silently again, without even the slightest hesitation.Gigirous seemed to have lost all his strength and collapsed to the ground.The old goblin smiled bitterly and muttered, "I knew it, I knew it!"
This is a calamity for our Pandawang tribe, and it is the messenger of God who has come to clean us up!
”Suddenly, his eyes flashed again, widening like big frogs, and his lips trembled as wrinkled as teethless.
Trembling asked me again, "If I now use the previous inheritance of the Pandawang goblin tribe in exchange for a way for our tribe to survive" He raised a root cane in his hand with great difficulty, it was sixteen young goblins calling loudly, they spoke goblin language I couldn't understand at all.In Gigirous's astonished expression, he saw in the distance a large fire was lit in the cave, and in front of the bonfire lay a pile of parchment scrolls.On either side of the scroll is a group of goblin warriors, and it looks like the goblin warriors will throw the sheepskin scrolls into the fire if I make the slightest move.The old goblin looked at me with a pained face and asked, "If I were to use the scrolls left by my ancestors in exchange for a promise and a way for our tribe to survive, would you agree?"
”I asked the goblin old man, "What's in those scrolls?"
”Unexpectedly, the old goblin shook his head and said, "No one can understand the meaning of those drawings, but I believe that you can, those are the glory of our goblin clan!"
”When I heard the old goblin count the drawings, I didn't hesitate at all, and resolutely agreed: "Okay, I promise you, as long as I get those drawings, I will allow you to go deep underground and continue to live, but don't forget that you still owe me thousands of goblin slaves for ransom money!"
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