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The Earl frowned. "What a mess! Isn't positive energy a gift from Lancelot?"
The dwarf priest immediately shouted: "Who said that? Kailin can also let me guide positive energy!"
Before the Earl could say something, Xiaobai came back.
As soon as the werewolf girl transformed back, she shouted, "The cats, dogs, and sparrows said there was no sign of that. But they said something interesting. They saw strange monsters moving around at night, and blind creatures underground were with them."
Wang: "This blind creature, could it be that it is referring to a caveman?"
Xiaobai: "I don't know. The animals said so, and they can't speak the common language. I'm translating their words."
The king scratched his head and asked the earl again: "Since the earl has sent his son to guard the exit of the mine, have they ever resisted the attack of the cavemen?"
"Several times," replied the count, "all at night."
Wang: "Then please let us act together with Master Ling tonight."
Count: “No problem.”
Chapter 84: Caveman Monster
A quarter of an hour later, Wang took the lead and entered the stone fortress.
"It's quite cool." He commented immediately, "and you can clearly feel the air flowing."
Flint: "Although it is a human building, I have to admit that the ventilation design is half as good as ours."
Elizabeth was relieved.
Marika handed over her water bag, and the princess immediately took it, pulled out the cork, and drank it. A few drops of restless water even dripped onto her chest.
Wang took out the water bag and drank a few sips himself, then handed it to Xiaobai: "You've been drooling so much, you should drink some water too."
Xiao Bai drank almost a whole bag of water in a more heroic manner than the princess, then wiped his mouth and exclaimed: "It feels so good now. It's better to be in human form. You can sweat all over your body."
Wang: "In human form, you can use your skin to dissipate heat, so it's definitely cooler."
At this moment, the iron gate in front of everyone opened, and a serious-looking brown-haired man led a group of soldiers out. The man's breastplate was engraved with the coat of arms of Earl Ximu, so he must be the Earl's son.
He glanced at everyone and held out his hand to the wizard. "I'm Ralph. My father has sent someone to inform us that Langdon's envoy will join us in resisting tonight's attack. You are the envoy, right?"
Wang let go of his hand and said awkwardly, "I'm not. The one next to me, Elizabeth Langdon, is me. I'm just the captain of the team."
Ralph looked at Elizabeth in confusion. "Your last name is Langdon? So you are the Duke's sister? I didn't know the Duke's sister would come to visit us. After all, this is just a run-down earldom that is about to go to ruin."
Wang: “Indeed.”
The Earl's son was stunned. It was obvious that he had never seen the king speak in such a straightforward manner.
But he immediately decided not to care about such things, and said to Elizabeth: "Your Highness, what are you doing here? If you want to borrow our soldiers to overthrow the Duchess's crazy uncle, you should talk to my father."
Elizabeth: "Our main goal is to deal with the crisis of world destruction. Specifically, we want to find trouble with an evil cult. We suspect that the ground attacks of the cavemen are related to the cult."
Wang: "There is no direct evidence to prove this. It is also possible that there is something more evil and terrifying underground that has squeezed the living space of the cave dwellers. This has happened before. For example, the ogres in the Second Age were forced to leave their traditional habitats because their homes were occupied by evil dragons."
Elizabeth pointed at the wizard and said, "That's what he said. Just talk to him directly. Although I am the special envoy, he has the final say."
Ralph, the Earl's son, looked back and forth suspiciously at the two men: "What do you mean?"
Elizabeth: "After all, I'm just the silly sorcerer in the team."
She paused and added, "Responsible for emitting the scorching rays."
Ralph was shocked and looked at the wizard again with strange eyes: "This is so new... Then whose credit will it be when you get the results?"
Wang and Elizabeth pointed at each other: "He/She!"
Ralph: "You've confused me. Never mind, it's not important. Just tell the wizard everything, right? Maybe it's because I haven't met many adventurers. This is the first time I've seen a team led by a wizard."
Wang: "Let's get back to the cavemen. They have launched many attacks on the fortress from underground recently, right?"
"Yes. To be honest, I was not yet born when we broke through the cave dwellers' lair. We have been living in peace with them for so many years. Now they are suddenly like possessed, pouring out of the cave to attack the surface."
Wang: "It looks like something terrible has taken over the underground and driven them up."
Elizabeth interrupted, "Could it be the Order of the Mother of Life?"
Wang: "This is exactly what we want to investigate. If we pre-set the answer before investigating, we are likely to mislead ourselves."
Ralph: "What is this cult? Sounds like a variation of Lamashtu."
The king looked at the Duke's son with some surprise: "You actually have some understanding of religion?"
"I understand that they were forced. In the battle against the cave dwellers, we found that the cave dwellers gave up their ancient shamanic magic and began to believe in Lamashtu, the protector of all disgusting monsters. But considering the appearance of the cave dwellers, I am not surprised that they believe in Lamashtu."
Wang frowned. "Did this change of faith happen at the same time as they started attacking the ground?"
Ralph: "The cave dwellers don't look like they've just converted. Lamashtu's symbol is often found painted in blood on their armor and shields. It's clear that Lamashtu's followers are widely distributed throughout the cave dweller tribe."
Wang looked at Xiaobai, then asked Ralph: "Did you see any unusual monsters when you were fighting the cavemen?"
This is the information Xiaobai obtained from the animals.
Ralph: "Yes, we killed some."
"Is there a corpse?" Wang asked excitedly.
"Follow me." Ralph immediately made way and gestured for invitation.
**
When entering the morgue, Xiaobai immediately vomited.
Wang didn't ask Xiao Bai, but he knew why she suddenly vomited: the stench in the air was so terrible that he wanted to vomit. For Xiao Bai, who had a more sensitive nose, standing in this room was probably a torture.
The werewolf druid turned around and tried to run, but was grabbed by the king and pulled back.
Xiaobai: "I'll bite you!"
Wang: "You need to help me identify what these creatures originally were. If the situation is the same as in Landon Territory, these creatures must have evolved from some existing animals into this form."
Xiaobai let out a meaningless scream: "Woooa ...
Elizabeth was obviously moved and patted the king on the shoulder: "Just come and identify it."
"Although I'm good at anatomy, I'm definitely not as good as a druid. Let professionals do professional things. Don't look at how miserable she is now. As long as she stays in the stench for a long time, her brain will actively ignore the smell. This is what is called 'getting used to the smell'."
Xiao Bai's eyes were filled with tears: "I don't want to get used to this!"
Wang: "Gottrick, grab her, don't let her run away."
Gao Trick looked embarrassed, but finally came over and grabbed Xiaobai.
Xiaobai made the "woooo" sound that a dog would make when it was wronged.
Wang suggested seriously, "You can turn into an animal with a dull nose."
Xiaobai immediately stopped screaming: "That's right."
The next moment she turned into a hen.
Xiaobai: "Coo-coo-da. Coo-coo-coo-coo-da!"
While calling, she also flapped her wings and looked very happy. Perhaps with her chicken's sense of smell, she was no longer afraid of the stench in the room.
Wang silently took out the scalpel he had used before from his dimensional bag, then took out the leather gloves that were used to cast Bigby's Disruption Palm and put them on his hands, then dragged a monster out from a pile of corpses and began to dissect it.
As the lancet pierced the cyst on the monster's body, an even more terrible stench filled the room.
Elizabeth covered her mouth and turned to run, but when she reached the door she couldn't hold on any longer and held onto the door frame while vomiting violently.
The dwarf took out his pipe and covered the stink with the strong smoke.
The barbarian also silently took several steps back.
Only the drow stood by with a normal expression, carefully observing the monster the wizard was dissecting.
“It doesn’t look like a known creature,” she said. “At least not like any wild or magical beast I’ve ever hunted.”
Wang: "Indeed. Taxonomically speaking, this thing is different from most of the beasts known so far. I personally feel that this is more like the product of a failed magical experiment to create a living being."
Marika: "Then it matches what you just said, doesn't it? There is a terrible wizard underground who is conducting magical experiments and creating terrible monsters."
"No, these things came to the surface with the cavemen." Wang said as he continued the dissection. "To be honest, this doesn't look like an existing magical beast."
The dwarf nodded. "He is different from most of the underground dwellers I know. His eyes don't look very developed, but look here!"
The dwarf pointed at the organ the king had just removed. "I bet this is some kind of hearing organ. This guy has poor hearing. Is it like the worms the dwarves raise, and can it detect enemies by vibrations?"
Marika showed a disgusted expression when she heard the words "dwarf worms". "Forget about those disgusting things. The dwarves actually tamed them and made them into mounts. The dwarf worm cavalry is the funniest thing I have ever seen."
King: "From what I have heard, the dwarf worm cavalry has achieved great results."
"Humph, it's just a brilliant victory for the dwarfs. You know, dwarfs are not good at fighting." Marika said disdainfully.
At this time, Wang finally dismembered the last piece of rotten meat. He stood up and examined his masterpiece from a global perspective.
Wang: "This thing seems to be a complete failure as a living thing. It should not be able to survive on its own in nature. What do you think, Xiaobai?"
Xiaobai: "Cuckoo."
Wang: "If you don't want to change back, do this: if you recognize what kind of creature it is, make a coo once. If you have never seen it before, make a coo five times."
Elizabeth, who had just returned from vomiting, was shocked: "Why five times?"
"To prevent misjudgment." Wang replied, "Xiaobai, let's get started!"
Xiaobai: "Guguda x5"
Wang: "She hasn't seen it either. That's very telling."
The wizard turned to the local lord's son, who was hiding outside the house and peeking in, and said, "Sir Ralph, how did the cavemen use this kind of monster when they attacked?"
Ralph: "They threw stinking carrion at us, and these things followed the smell. They were hard to kill, by the way, because you didn't know where to cut, so we ended up poisoning them. We ordered the poison for the wanderers from the White City in Monrovia, and it cost us all our money."
Wang: "Isn't this thing resistant to poison? When I was in Langdon, didn't I catch a few mutated cats to see if they could resist poison?"
He stood up, put away the lancet, took off his gloves and threw them on the ground, then said, "Okay, I roughly understand the situation. We are going to try to catch a live one tonight. I want to test his reaction to positive energy."
Chapter 85: Alienation of the Caveman
Ralph looked at the wizard suspiciously at the door: "You... do you really have a way to deal with these things? Because of this thing, we lost a lot of people. The priests use light magic and channel positive energy in almost every battle. If they are 'done', we can only rely on bandages and medicine to save people.
“There’s not enough medicine lately.”