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Nini wanted to say something, but Wang suddenly touched her thigh.

"Ahhh!" she screamed and jumped up, but she jumped too high and hit the ceiling.

The king carefully studied the sticky substance on his hands and nodded, "Well, her legs are covered with sweat, and elves don't like sweating. She is actually very afraid of Marika."

Nini: "I didn't! Well, actually I did, this evil creature gives me the creeps!"

Marika: "Then you'll just have to get used to it slowly."

Chapter 92 "Black and White War"

Marika seemed to have lost interest in her new teammates and turned directly to Wang: “This is the registration form for the mercenaries I brought. I think based on my observation of the combat effectiveness of the cavemen, such a force should be enough to go underground.

"I also bought some poison. Although the quantity is not much, it should be enough to support us in completing the entire offensive operation."

As she spoke, she took a step forward and handed over the list, but the elf, who was still far away from her, took three steps back and stuck to the wall.

Wang glanced at the list and nodded: "Thank you for your hard work and a great job."

Marika continued, "There are some mercenaries who have not yet confirmed their intention to join the operation, but have also come along. They want to make sure we have a detailed map of the underground."

The king looked at Ralph.

The latter replied: "My grandfather kept all the mine maps well, as well as the maps they drew when conducting underground reconnaissance operations. But these are data from before I was born. I'm afraid you will need to find your own way down there."

Wang: "We have dwarves."

"What?" Flint was shocked, and stopped putting tobacco into his pipe. But he nodded immediately, "Oh, don't worry, we dwarves are first-class at finding our way underground! Uh, yes, first-class!"

Marika: "I told these skeptical mercenaries that I was once a member of the drow army. When I was still serving the mistress, I also learned to identify the location underground by the soil texture of the rock wall. But they are not very convinced. I need a detailed map to let them join."

The drow society is basically a matriarchal society, and the drow society is composed of families. Each family has a "mistress" who has the final say.

"Sir Ralph," the wizard gestured to the Earl's son, "Please pick out the maps that are in the best condition and look the most detailed and give them to me."

Ralph: "You really want to rely on this to explore? It's older than me, and according to the information you got from interrogating the cavemen, haven't the cavemen recently expanded underground?"

The wizard smiled and said, "No, I just used this to convince the mercenaries. In fact, I have already thought about it. After the next attack by the cavemen is over, we will follow the smell deep underground. What we really have to rely on is Xiaobai's nose."

Ralph: "This is ridiculous. The mercenaries won't be reassured."

"That's why we need a map. I will hold the map and ride on Xiaobai's back, pretending to be looking at the map, but in fact, Xiaobai will follow the smell and move forward."

Xiaobai: "Then I need enough meat."

"Don't worry," said Elizabeth. "I'll give you enough to eat."

The elf girl who was leaning against the wall suddenly said, "Are you trying to deceive the other mercenaries? You are indeed liars. I want..."

Wang: "Don't quit now! I have included you in the whole plan. I need your archery skills and you to shoot poisoned arrows into the monster's eyes. Only you can do it. You are our trump card when we encounter monsters in the underground team.

"If you quit now, my entire plan will go to waste. The elves are not a race that goes against their word, right?"

The elf girl hesitated for a few words, then gave up: "The elves are trustworthy. I promised to go down with you. But I only promised to help solve the problem of the cavemen. Once the problem is solved, we will go our separate ways. I have learned from you how humans can deceive others."

King: "What about the world-destroying crisis? You are the representative of the elves who can solve the crisis! Do you want the bards to write poems saying that the elves withdrew from the team that solved the crisis because of their suspicion and arrogance?"

Nini opened her mouth halfway, unable to speak.

Elizabeth said, "You clearly said that we are a voluntary team. Since she wants to leave, let her leave."

Nini immediately said, "Yes! The principle of voluntariness! You said that! You also said that your cat rangers can leave if they want to! You can't break your promise!"

The king glanced at Elizabeth and said, "You...we need rangers."

Elizabeth: "Then you can look for someone else later. That's what you said when Misha Sara left. Or did you feel so choked up by her long legs that you had to be with her?"

Nini looked down at her legs, rubbed her thighs gently with her hands, and then looked at the sweat sticking to her fingertips.

Wang Ze didn't even look at the elf. He frowned at Elizabeth and said, "The elf is a very good archer. You have seen her strength. If our opponent is a cult that can easily produce a seventh-ring spellcaster, we will need elite soldiers and strong generals."

Elizabeth: "But they don't trust us. Just like the saying in your Eastern hometown, a forced melon is not sweet."

Wang was silent for a few seconds, then nodded. "You have a point. Forcing her to stay may cause problems in the future. Okay, Miss Nini, let's solve this caveman crisis and then go our separate ways - I mean, if you insist on doing so."

The elf was distracted as he looked at the sweat on his fingertips.

Wang: "Ms. Nini?"

"Ah?" The elf girl raised her head. "What?"

Wang: "If you insist on parting ways after I say this, we can just say goodbye."

"Oh, this is very good, very good!" The girl nodded.

The drow looked at his mortal enemy and suddenly asked, "Excuse me, how old is this elf?"

Flint: "A hundred years old. You'd look like an old woman compared to her."

Marika looked as if she understood. "Oh, so she's traveling to confirm her name? I think we should just let her go. There's no place for a fledgling on a journey to save the world."

The elf immediately frowned and stared at the drow's dark skin: "I can't pretend I didn't hear what you said!"

"Come on," Marika said, "You probably only saw the drow in the stories of the elders, and you think we are all evil beings who eat raw meat and drink blood. You are so scared that you are sweating. Why, does your mother often scare you, saying that elves who don't sleep well will be caught and eaten by the drow?"

The elf girl blushed: "No! I'm not afraid of you!"

The king looked at her legs and tried to reach out again, but was blocked by Elizabeth.

Elizabeth: "Stop touching girls' legs! It's rude!"

Wang: "But the elf's sweat is really fine, and you can't tell if she is sweating just by looking at her."

"It's none of your business whether someone is sweating or not!"

Nini looked at Elizabeth gratefully.

Marika: "Miss is so protective of you, I have no objection to you joining for her sake. If you want to destroy an evil creature like me, you are always welcome to do it. If I fight back and accidentally kill the poor little elf girl, I don't think Miss will blame me."

Elizabeth: "Well, stop scaring her. I think as you get to know her more, she'll understand that you're different from other drow elves. Drow elves can also be kind."

Nini stared at Elizabeth suspiciously, "Is that possible? I've never heard of a kind drow!"

Elizabeth: "Well... I think so. The world is so big..."

Wang: "Yes. I have seen in the documents in the tower that there was a drow elf who was born full of sin. As the third son of the family, he was supposed to be offered as a sacrifice to the spider goddess. As a result, a vendetta occurred in the family just before the sacrifice. He was no longer the third son of the family, so he survived.

"Later, he was trained as an elite drow elf. However, his father soon discovered that his son had a pure and beautiful heart. This purity made him let go of the surface elf girl who was captured by his family.

"His behavior caused the entire family to be abandoned by the Spider Goddess, and they lost the magic bestowed by the goddess. For this reason, the family matriarch decided to sacrifice him to gain the goddess's forgiveness. But his father, in order to protect the rare pure hearts of the drow elves, voluntarily sacrificed his life in exchange for his escape.

"From then on, he continued to struggle with the nature of the drow, living his life as a good ranger. (*)"

Nini looked at the wizard: "I have never heard such a story! Never!"

"Because it's not a story from this plane." Wang shrugged. "The Mage Tower built by my teacher has people from all planes of the multiverse, and professors often travel to various planes of the multiverse. So we have gathered knowledge and history from all over the multiverse."

Nini: "I... wanted to doubt it at first, but after seeing your dimensional bag, I think it's quite believable."

Marika: "Don't worry, I'm not the kind-hearted drow the wizard said. My essence has not changed because of my loyalty to Elizabeth."

"Malika!" Elizabeth exclaimed, "I think you are a good person. There is no need to emphasize your evilness so repeatedly."

Marika looked at Elizabeth with a kind expression, as if a grandmother was looking at her granddaughter: "No, my dear lady, I am burdened with sins that you can hardly imagine. No good god will accept me, no, lady.

"Just like what the wizard said just now, I have also hunted those fair-skinned cousins, and quite a few of them. I have broken the necks of countless girls like this elf girl and dug out their beautiful eyes to make ornaments.

"When I was still loyal to my mistress, I wore these ornaments proudly on my chest. Later, I betrayed my family for revenge, and I pawned the ornaments to raise money for my journey. Now, maybe a necklace made of elf eyes is hanging on the chest of someone who has a morbid interest in elves."

Nini trembled slightly, but this time it was obviously not out of fear, but anger.

Nini: "One day, you will pay the price."

Marika: "I'm ready. You have the right to take revenge on me, but you don't have the ability to do it right now, girl."

Elizabeth shouted, "Malika! Stop provoking her! At least we're teammates now!"

In this atmosphere, Wang suddenly said, "I remember that because the elves' eyes are very beautiful, some planes will crystallize the elves' eyes and sell them as gems."

He stared into Nini's eyes as he spoke: "I used to think this was just a rumor and just put it out of my mind. After all, I have never actually seen an elf. After seeing it today, I understand it. It's true that practice makes perfect!"

The originally tense atmosphere immediately became a joke after Wang stirred it up like this.

Marika sighed, "Damn it, Wang, you made me look like a fool when I was so serious just now. If I didn't know you have no emotional intelligence, I would have suspected that you were deliberately making jokes to stir up trouble."

Wang: "Ah? You can continue. I just speak my mind."

Elizabeth, who was originally busy trying to reconcile the conflict between the black and white elves, was now staring into Nini's eyes.

Then she looked at Nini's secondary sexual characteristics, the base of her thighs, and finally her gaze returned to Nini's eyes. For some reason, her expression looked a little desperate.

And Nini stared at Marika and said, "I can't kill you now. My instinct tells me so."

Marika: “You have a good intuition.”

"But," Nini continued, "if I find you doing something evil, one day in the future, I will kill you with my own hands to uphold justice."

Wang: "I think back to my experience working with Marika. Some of her actions are indeed very evil, and she has a tendency to kill indiscriminately. But the people she kills are bad guys in the first place."

For example, the wanderers of the Wanderer Guild.

Marika: "If it were a paladin, he would definitely consider my behavior evil. After all, although I killed bad guys, I didn't go through a trial. So, let me say it again, elf girl, if you want to kill me, just do it. I'm mentally prepared. The killer must be prepared to be killed."

Nini nodded seriously: "I will."

Xiaobai: "I'm hungry. Is it time for dinner?"

Everyone looked at the druid, who couldn't read the atmosphere just like the mage.

Elizabeth: "Of course! Let's eat!"

**

This evening.

All the mercenaries willing to participate in this operation gathered behind the underground fortifications, and after waiting for the cavemen's attack to end, they went underground and headed straight for the temple of Lamashtu.

Some mercenaries were actually worried, thinking that when the cave dwellers did not dare to attack the ground, the regular army of the local lords could not do anything to the cave dwellers. However, when they saw the condition of the local soldiers, they immediately felt that the cave dwellers were not a big deal: after all, such soldiers could kill so many cave dwellers in front of the underground fortifications.

As agreed before, Wang took the map provided by Ralph and claimed that he knew the way.

Because he always had a matter-of-fact expression no matter what the situation was, he managed to deceive many experienced mercenaries.

Of course, it is also possible that he claimed that the treasure in the Temple of Lamashtu followed the principle of whoever finds it owns it, which made many mercenaries tempted.

In short, most of the mercenaries who came were ready to go underground and see what was going on.