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"Where is the last ingredient?" Wang asked anxiously.
The witch doctor took out a basket filled with crushed dregs: "This is it."
"noob!"
Xiaobai immediately came forward and sniffed: "Yes! There is a smell in it!"
Wang: "There are two possibilities now. First, the witch doctor is the criminal. As the village's main healer, he does have the opportunity to do this. Second, someone secretly planted bacteria in this material. I personally am not very good at observing people's expressions, so I can't tell whether the witch doctor is the criminal based on his attitude just now."
Flint comforted the wizard: "It's not your fault. I think even if we replace those cunning humans, they will not be able to do anything to the lizardmen. I think we can seek the advice of some cunning lizardmen."
Upon hearing this, Wang looked at the elder and asked, "What do you think?"
Elder: "You are just finding ways to call me cunning, right?"
King: "No, I just think that as the oldest lizardman in the village, your wisdom is trustworthy."
Nini: "Although the teacher is not good at reading people's expressions or lying, at times like this, he will say something very thick-skinned and very shameless."
The elder sighed, stared at the witch doctor for a long time, shook his head and said, "No, he would not do such a thing. Other people in the village would not do such a thing either. We lizardmen would not harm our own village. This must have been done by an outsider."
The king nodded. "Then I will trust your judgment. So the question is, are there any lizardmen in this village who are good at detecting stealth?"
Elder: "There are lizardmen who are good at tracking prey. Detecting stealth and tracking prey are the same thing, right?"
Wang: "But when they are in their own settlement, they won't use their skills to track prey, right?"
The elder was silent for a few seconds, then answered, "Yes. Warrior-chief! Get the best hunter! Have him check every inch of the village!"
Wang: "It's best to start from where Xiaobai found the handful of soil with bacteria."
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Ten minutes later, Xiao Bai found the place where the soil was sprinkled with bacteria. After carefully checking the ground, the village hunter chief stood up with a strand of hair in his hands and said, "This enemy is very cunning. Everything is covered up, including footprints. But he left his hair behind.
"I guess he had his hair tied up with a bandana or something, so he got careless."
Wang moved closer to the hair, observed it for a few seconds and said, "It looks like human hair?"
Chief Hunter: "It's very likely."
Wang: "Can you track the movements of these humans?"
The hunter shook his head. "If the tampering was done two weeks ago, there would be no trace left outside. The dense forest itself is very good at covering up past traces. After all, it is too full of life."
Wang was shocked: "How could this happen? Isn't this the end of the clue?"
At this time, the chief hunter said, "But you can ask the shaman to perform a ritual to ask the spirits of the forest."
The king raised his eyebrows: "Can the spirit have this effect?"
“Yes,” said the elder.
Chapter 153 Lord Dragon God, I will use your tiger skin
Later, under the leadership of the elder, the rescue team came to the shaman's bamboo shed.
This bamboo shed looks much bigger than ordinary bamboo sheds.
When the king saw it, he asked, "Why is this bamboo shed so big?"
Li Guang explained: "This bamboo shed is actually the gathering place of our village. Sometimes when we find large prey, we will gather hunters here to discuss the hunting plan and have a full meal so that we can have the strength to go hunting."
Wang: "So there are no cats in your gathering that can cook?"
Li Guang had a face full of question marks.
Wang: "There is a plane where hunters eat food cooked by cats before going hunting, and then they will gain a buff effect like a blessing. My teacher almost developed the romantic relationship he dreamed of in that plane."
Flint protested, "You can get a blessing by eating? I can't accept it! If this technology is passed on to our plane, priests will be half unemployed!"
Wang: "Don't worry, our Mage Tower only collects knowledge and technology from various planes, but does not popularize it. I have said this before."
As he spoke, the elder had already lifted the curtain at the entrance of the meeting hall and gestured for invitation.
As Wang walked into the bamboo shed, he looked at the curtain: This was a curtain made of many tiny beads strung together, and it looked quite valuable.
He asked, "What are the beads used for this curtain? They don't look like pearls."
Li Guang replied: "This is something that is condensed from the sap of a tree. Every night, make a shallow cut on the bark, and the next day there will be a lot of these beads on the cut, but they are not completely solidified. You can take them out and put them into a wooden mold for further shaping.
“The string between the beads is also threaded in at this time.”
Wang reached out and touched the beads, and exclaimed: "It looks very beautiful."
Xiaobai: "Do you know what beauty is?"
Wang: "I said beautiful, not good-looking or other more subjective words, because I don't know if it is good-looking. But I am sure it is beautiful. It is indeed beautiful."
Wang and Xiaobai entered the bamboo shed while talking, and Xiaobai pinched his nose: "What's that smell? It smells like fire!"
Wang: "They lit some incense! It should be used to repel mosquitoes."
As he spoke, he pointed to the two incense burners placed in the bamboo shed.
Between the two incense burners, a masked lizard man sat cross-legged on a bright red cushion.
Xiao Bai stared at the masked lizard man for several seconds and said, "This lizard man...why is it not moving at all? I can't hear any breathing sound. Is it dead?"
Wang gave Xiao Bai a slap on the head: "Don't just say someone is dead. Even if he is really dead, we still have to respect him."
Xiao Bai: "Your words aren't much better than mine, right?"
After saying that, she jumped up the king's back, onto the wizard's neck, and patted his head.
"Reciprocity!"
At this moment, the masked lizard man suddenly made a hissing sound of air leaking.
Li Guang: "Actually, this is the laughter of us lizard people."
Wang: "I've learned that! I will smile like this in front of the lizardmen from now on."
Xiao Bai: "I thought it was leaking air and was going to become flat."
Flint: "Stop it, you two guys! Stop being so rude!"
The elder said, "It doesn't matter. Whatever the Dragon God's messenger says is right!"
Wang: “Not really.”
At this time, the masked lizard man spoke: "The spirit has told me that a distinguished guest is coming. I am ready to cast spirit spells to track down the bad guys who poisoned the village."
King: "Well, please come in. This druid and I would like to see the legendary spirit magic. I am just seeking knowledge, but she has always been indifferent to your spirit magic."
Xiaobai looked upwards: "I don't have it!"
As she spoke, she pulled Wang's hair hard.
The shaman made another hissing "leaking" sound.
Flint looked at the shaman's legs carefully and asked, "Is there something wrong with your foot?"
"Yes, I was cursed when I was young because I disobeyed the spirits," the shaman replied. "No matter what kind of magic I use, my feet cannot be healed. They will never feel or move. Over time, they have shrunk to this size."
Wang was shocked: "It sounds like spirits have personalities. Will they be disobeyed?"
The shaman nodded. "Of course. Some powerful spirits can even manifest themselves to ordinary people."
Wang stroked his chin and said, "Can I show myself in front of ordinary people? My teacher and my uncle have dealt with lizardmen before, but none of them recorded this."
Shaman: "I only heard my father and grandfather say so. I guess they have never seen a spirit appear before an ordinary person."
Wang said "Oh", and then urged bluntly: "Let's not talk about this anymore, cast a spell to track him down, he is the criminal who endangers your village."
Shaman: "The spirits are already searching."
"Ah?" Flint was shocked. "You just started looking like this? No ceremony or anything? Not to mention no ceremony, but you didn't even make a gesture or chant a spell or something?"
Shaman: "We communicate with spirits directly through the resonance of the soul."
Wang: "The resonance of souls. We in the Mage Tower have always believed that this phenomenon is related to quantum mechanics."
Xiaobai: "Is quantum mechanics delicious?"
She thought the foreign word meant food.
Nini: "What is quantum mechanics? Will it be taught in class in the future, teacher?"
"Will...right? This already involves the cutting-edge of our Mage Tower's research. The professors don't quite understand it. I doubt if I have the ability to teach you this." Wang wanted to shrug, but failed because Xiaobai was riding on his neck.
He also strained the muscles near his shoulder blade and looked painful.
At this moment, the shaman announced loudly: "Found it."
Wang: “So fast?”
Shaman: "Because this man carries an ominous aura and is out of place in the forest. The spirits say that anyone who gets close to him will go crazy and become no longer themselves.
“He disturbed the pulse of the forest just by passing through it.”
Xiaobai: "The forest still has a pulse?"
Shaman: "So, the Druid's perception of nature is still superficial after all."
Xiaobai immediately made the hissing sound of a cat threatening someone: "What did you say!"
The king patted her thigh. "Calm down! Business is more important. So, Master, where did the attacker come from? Is he still in the River Kingdoms?"
Shaman: "He is still here. The spirits say that he came from an unnamed ruin 150 miles northeast of here, and then returned to the same ruins."
Wang touched his chin and said, "Is that so..."
Flint clenched his hammer: "Let's go to the door now!"
"Wait!" Wang shouted to stop the dwarf, "I don't think something is right. Don't you think this is too easy to see through?"
Flint: "How can it be easily seen?"
Li Guang also agreed: "Without you, we may have been kept in the dark for our entire lives - although the life of a lizard man is very short."
Nini: "Teacher, if you continue like this, your cautious personality will turn into suspicious."
Wang: "No, I'm a prophecy mage. My premonitions are always right. If I feel something is wrong, it is most likely really wrong."
Flint: "You even made a parallelism? Although it's just a loose parallelism, you can just add some rhyme and the bard can sing it."