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Xiao Bai: "Are you going to feel that you are very smart and wise again?"
Before the monk could reply, the lizardman on the watchtower shouted again: "Answer me! If you don't tell me clearly what these people are doing here, I'm afraid I can't let them in. The tribe doesn't have enough food right now, and we don't have the energy to entertain these outsiders."
Wang: "Has the food problem reached the point where we can't even host a small team like ours?"
Including the rowers, the entire exploration team only had 12 people. For such a large lizardman village, they had to worry about even providing a meal for guests, which showed that their food problem was already very serious.
Flint: "Maybe they know there's a big eater in our team."
Xiaobai: "Ah? Me? I can go hunting by myself. They said they don't have enough food, so I can go hunt some myself."
While the team members were gossiping, Li Guang said to the sentry: "These guests are here to solve the negative effects of positive energy. This is more serious than the elders imagined. It is a precursor to a world-destroying crisis. These guests are traveling to solve this crisis!"
The sentinel sighed. "Compared to growing some feathers, eating is more important. If these guests can make us some magic props that can conjure up food, I'd be happy to let them in."
Li Guang: "Open the door, Sopur. Perhaps these guests can help your sister regain her beautiful scales."
Wang: "His sister?"
Xiao Bai exclaimed: "You want the Lizardmen too? They don't have big boobs!"
Flint added, "And you can't get into that hole of a female lizardman."
Wang: "Who do you think I am? I just want to ask about this lizardwoman. Judging from the context, she should have feathers."
Li Guang: "She grew a lot of feathers. When the mutation first occurred, this poor girl happened to be burned. So the witch doctor channeled positive energy to heal her, and the result was that feathers grew all over her burned skin. The girl who was originally ready to get married suddenly became unpopular."
The sentry on the watchtower shouted: "My sister is not an ordinary girl waiting to be married. She is a treasure of our village! Now - now she has literally become a treasure."
The king frowned, "Are there enough feathers to be compared to this?"
Li Guang nodded.
So the king raised his head and said to the lizardman sentry in Dragon Language: "Open the door and let us go in to see your sister."
The sentry shouted, "Don't think you can make us obey you by speaking dragon language. We are lizardmen, not kobolds. But, okay, I'll open the door for you. Maybe I should let you in to meet the elders and shamans. After all... there are more and more feathered people in the village, which is quite annoying."
Wang: "I see. In the lizard people's aesthetics, a body covered in beautiful scales is the most beautiful. For them, scales turning into feathers is probably as tragic as a human girl being disfigured by acid."
When Wang said this, the sentry on the watchtower was calling on others to open the door.
So the sluice gate of the stockade was slowly pulled up, and the boatswain immediately ordered the sailors to row the boat into the gate.
As soon as he entered the door, Xiaobai frowned: "It stinks!"
Li Guang: "This is the smell of our livestock. They are quite smelly."
Wang's sense of smell was not as sensitive as Xiaobai's, so his eyes were on the lizardman warrior operating the winch next to the door.
This lizardman warrior has feathers growing all over his left arm.
"Is it so exaggerated?" Wang muttered softly, "In Landon City, the feathers that grow are very small. Some don't grow feathers at all, but just have exaggerated scabs."
Flint: "If it was just the situation in Langdon City, even the Lizardmen wouldn't be so nervous, right?"
Barbarian: “Yes!”
Xiaobai: "This feather is about a hundred times as exaggerated as the one in Landon City. Wait, if we get injured here, will we become like this if the dwarf treats us?"
"I guess so," Flint touched the holy symbol, "but it's so strange, my holy symbol feels normal."
Wang: "Your feeling is correct. I suddenly find this matter unreasonable."
At this time, the boat reached the shore - even the Lizardmen had to live on the shore, after all, they were only amphibians, not aquatic creatures.
Wang jumped onto the shore in one quick step, then turned back and said to his companions, "Think about the several stages of crisis my teacher talked about. The next stage should be the appearance of a large number of cheap healing scrolls and potions. However, if the result of using positive energy to heal is like this, most people will not choose to rely on healing.
"After all, you see, under normal circumstances, the Holy Light is not something that ordinary people can enjoy. Ordinary people have many ways to treat wounds, such as herbs and bandages. If you are treated by healing magic in the next stage, you will become like this. Even if there are cheap scrolls, not many people will buy them."
Xiao Bai also jumped onto the shore and continued the topic: "Maybe someone thinks it looks good in this state?"
Wang: “Maybe a small number of people would think so, but most ordinary people probably wouldn’t want to turn themselves into birdmen.”
Flint: "I'll buy it anyway. After all, it might save my life... Hell, I'm not sure anymore."
At this time he also wanted to go ashore, but he missed a step and almost fell into the water.
The barbarian quickly grabbed him and put him on shore.
As if to highlight the dwarf's embarrassment, Nini jumped onto the shore lightly, and then took up the topic freely: "So you think this is not caused by our world-destroying crisis?"
Wang: "I'm not sure. It's still in the doubt stage. I taught you to make bold assumptions and carefully verify them. Let me think about how to verify it... By the way, Li Guang, did the symptom of growing feathers appear all of a sudden? I mean, when the symptom first appeared, did the feathers grow like this? Are there any patients with milder symptoms in your village?"
Li Guang shook his head decisively: "No. It was already like this when we discovered this symptom."
Wang: "So, has your village been settled for a long time?"
Li Guang: “My grandfather’s generation settled here.”
Dwarf: "Oh, you have settled here for a long time."
Wang: "No, the average lifespan of a lizardman is only thirty years, and their childhood is only about five years."
Flint said "Oh", then looked at the monk with pity: "I'm sorry."
Li Guang: "I have already achieved peace, so this does not matter to me. In five years, I will calmly accept my own death. But, yes, the immortals should be careful in their words and deeds in the village. Especially when facing the elderly."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang said, "The biggest reason why the lizardmen have such a strong reproductive ability but have not spread it is that their lifespan is too short. Many of their skills lack inheritance. If they are not careful, the craftsmen who master the skills will die and fail to pass on the skills."
Everyone was silent.
Flint cleared his throat a few seconds later and said, "Don't blame me for not reminding you. There are at least 20 lizardmen within sight. They are different from the kobolds and are very powerful. If they become hostile, we may not be able to leave."
Wang: "It's okay. I haven't used the Ultimate Dragon Transformation yet today."
Flint: "Don't make massacre of the whole village your default option, please!"
The Lizardman warrior next to him probably didn't understand the common language, and just cast a strange look at the dwarf's words - he was probably wondering "Why is this dwarf so noisy?"
The lizardman who opened the door for the team understood the Common Language, but he obviously took this as a joke: "Hahaha, if you can do it, just give it a try. Come on, I'll take you to see my sister."
Wang asked doubtfully, "Don't you have to stand guard?"
"I'll let someone else take over for the time being, and I'll help him back when the time comes. We lizardmen have always been very flexible in this regard." said the sentinel.
Wang nodded, and as he followed the lizard man, he continued to ask Li Guang: "So, you have lived here for thirty years, but you haven't discovered the 'primary form' of this phenomenon?"
Monk: "That should be it. The phenomenon appears suddenly, and then after positive energy treatment, feathers will be this long."
Wang was shocked. "Maybe this phenomenon has nothing to do with the crisis we are trying to solve. Let me ask another question. Do these people who have been treated only grow feathers? They don't grow tumors or anything else."
In the city of Langdon, most people who were treated with positive energy only had ugly scabs, a few grew feathers the size of fingernails, and there were very few lucky ones who grew "extra limbs" like tentacles on their wounds.
Li Guang continued to shake his head: "No, only feathers."
Wang looked at Nini and said, "Listen, now we can almost conclude that this has nothing to do with the world-destroying crisis. Of course, we still need to conduct further verification."
Nini looked thoughtful. After a brief thought, she asked, "Could it be Lamashtu? The Lamashtu holy emblem we hold will also have this effect."
Wang: "Indeed, Lamashtu's holy symbol can also make people grow feathers or other strange things, but the effect of the holy symbol can be solved by restoration."
The king turned to the monk and asked, "Have you ever tried using the healing spell on a feathered person?"
Li Guang: "I tried it, but it didn't work."
Flint: "Look, now it's clear this isn't the crisis we're dealing with. This is something new!"
Xiaobai imitated Li Guang's tone and said: "All donors are very intelligent!"
No one paid any attention to her teasing, not even the monk himself.
Wang: “So how long did this incident last?”
Li Guang: “Two weeks.”
The king stopped and looked at the monk in confusion: "Only two weeks? Why do you always give me the illusion that this situation has lasted for a long time?"
Li Guang: "For a lizardman whose life span is only thirty years, two weeks is a long time."
Wang couldn't help but hold his forehead: "Makes sense."
Nini said: "Let me try to analyze it using the way of thinking that my teacher taught me. Because this phenomenon started two weeks ago, and we were trapped in Minos, the capital of Monrovia at that time. At that time, we had already obtained information from the Royal Institute of Architects of Monrovia, and the next stop was Isonzo in the River Countries.
"So this feather incident may be directed at us to mislead the direction of our investigation - am I right?"
Wang: "Yes, but this is just a hypothesis. Make a bold hypothesis and verify it carefully."
At this time, the lizard sentinel who was leading the way said, "Come, that's my sister."
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and saw a lizard man who was about to turn into a birdman.
Xiaobai: "It really is like a flower in the literal sense."
Wang: "Like badminton - oh, this is a popular sport in our Mage Tower, an imported sport learned from a certain plane."
After that, he took a step forward and extended his hand to the female lizardman: "Hello, I am the Mage King of the Savior Team."
The sentinel lizardman next to him said, "My sister doesn't understand the Common Language."
The king immediately switched to Lizardman language: "Hello, I am the Savior... Shit, how do you say Savior in Lizardman language? Forget it, I am the Mage King, I will find a way to heal you, please answer my questions truthfully."
After the wizard finished speaking, the female lizardman smiled - no, she couldn't be sure if it was a smile, but her expression changed obviously.
Wang turned around and asked Li Guang: "Is she smiling?"
Li Guang nodded: "I want to laugh too."
Wang: "Why? I didn't tell a joke just now, what's the funny part?"
Li Guang: "Your accent is very strange, and the words you use are very similar to those of a tribal elder. Young lizardmen usually don't speak in such a pretentious way."
Wang said "Oh".
At this time, Xiao Bai suddenly asked: "You scared me, I thought you were in heat for the female lizard man."
"Don't make me sound like a cat in season."
"But I can't understand Lizardman language. It's a very strange language. It sounds like a series of hisses of different pitches."
Wang: "Ah, that's how the Lizardmen speak, it's to suit their vocal organs.
"Lizardman language mainly relies on rhythm and the combination of long and short sounds to express meaning. This is a very labor-saving language for them.
"Lizardmen have a hard time speaking Common, mainly because their lips are not that flexible and their tongues are too thin.
"On the other hand, the fact that Lizardman language is so suitable for Lizardmen made my teacher come up with a hypothesis: Lizardman language is not formed naturally, but was invented by a wise man based on the characteristics of Lizardmen's vocal organs, and then taught to Lizardmen."
Li Guang, who was standing nearby, listened to Wang's words and immediately exclaimed: "Your teacher is also a..."