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Wang continued, "And my teacher immediately understood what happened when he asked about the situation. Maybe he had dealt with the Blasphemer in some other dimension."
Flint suddenly clapped his hands. "Wait a minute, in the legends your teacher left behind in this world, he did prevent several world-destroying crises. Those should be the stories before he became a planeswalker."
Wang: “Are there any of them that are very similar to our current situation?”
Flint spread his hands. "I don't know. Those epic poems were written hundreds of years ago. Some of them were probably written quite a long time before your teacher's adventure. Maybe the people involved are all dead.
"Even if he really dealt with Ragnora once, the process would be distorted beyond all recognition by the bard. Bards are creatures that seek to achieve self-realization through their works, and it is common for them to ignore the facts and exaggerate."
Wang: "I see. Regardless of what the teacher says, we now have a new idea. Those strange, niche religions that worship monsters are also the subject of our investigation. We may find traces left by the Blasphemers."
As she was talking, Marika entered the warehouse carrying five heads in her left hand and a butt in her right hand - oh no, it was the butt directed at the person in front of her.
Whether it was the butt or the head, they all had the same skin color as her.
And they are all women.
Wang: "I knew you could handle it cleanly and neatly."
Marika: "I captured a commander. This all-female team is well-trained, but unfortunately still a little young."
The Drow are basically matriarchal societies, where women have a very high status. A team composed entirely of women must be the most elite team in the family.
Marika: "If I'm ready to interrogate, I'll wake this guy up."
Chapter 331 Interrogation
After the king expressed his readiness, Marika slapped the prisoner's neck so hard that it twisted.
Flint: "If I hadn't heard the sound of her neck snapping, I would have thought you had beaten her to death."
"She has received strict training. If she wants to survive, she will not die. She will be injured just right." Marika said, "It is a good thing that Her Royal Highness the Princess can't see it, so I can give full play to my skills."
Wang: "So you were deliberately restraining yourself before."
Marika was about to speak when she suddenly turned her head and glared at Furu.
"I didn't eat!" Franca said hurriedly, "I didn't eat!"
Marika nodded.
The king's attention was on the drow captive: "Why isn't she awake?"
Marika: "She's awake, and she's pretending to be asleep to observe the situation. This is what we are trained to do. And you, stop looking for the needle hidden in your flesh. I pulled it out."
The latter sentence was obviously addressed to the prisoners.
The captive then opened his eyes and glared at Marika fiercely, "How shameful! You actually mixed up with surface creatures! Where's your pride?"
Marika: "Pride? Drow have pride too? Are you kidding me?"
Wang: "Semantically, there is no contradiction between pride and shamelessness. A shameless person can also be very proud, even arrogant."
“Thank you for your explanation,” Marika said.
The captive glared at the king fiercely: "Who are you? How did you manage to keep this drow so obedient? Slavery magic? Psychic powers? Are you a mind flayer disguised as a human?"
"If that's the case," Wang smiled an evil smile, or at least he thought it was evil, "then you should be thankful, because you will suffer less."
Franka: "Even if you try hard to act like a villain, I still can't see any evil in you."
As usual, the captives didn't notice the air jellyfish, and she sneered, "Come on. I'm fully trained in torture, and you won't get what you want!"
Wang: "But, isn't that a loss? You are suffering here, while those who sent you out are sitting back and relaxing, even eating strawberries in a luxurious house."
Marika: "Drow nobles don't like strawberries."
Wang: “What do you like?”
Flint: "Child's fingers!"
“No,” Marika rolled her eyes, “That’s not right either. We are not goblins, and human meat is actually not delicious. Even if a famine breaks out in a drow city, you will be the last to be eaten.”
Wang: "Do goblins eat people?"
"Goblins eat everything, and they love roasted dwarves the most."
Wang: "Then what should I have said just now? I need a kind of food that only drow nobles can afford to eat, to highlight the difference between the upper and lower classes of drow."
Marika: “You could say eating sour dates in a big house.”
Wang: "Sour jujube?"
"Yes, this kind of food produced on the ground is quite popular. And because it has to be picked on the ground, it is relatively expensive. In addition, there are very few sour things underground, and it can supplement some rare nutrients."
Rare nutrients probably refer to vitamin C.
The king immediately turned his gaze to the drow captive: "You suffer here, while the people who sent you are eating sour dates in the big house!"
Marika: "There are dozens of male servants around."
Wang: "There are dozens of male servants around him!"
The captives were confused: "What exactly do you want to say?"
"I mean, you should backstab the person who sent you, plot against her, and then take her place. That's the way of the drow, isn't it? Keeping your mouth shut like a proud paladin and enduring the pain of torture is not like drow at all!
"Paladin sees everything as a test. Do you want to take a test too?"
The prisoner frowned: "You... it seems to make sense."
Flint: "Damn, I've seen you 'interrogate' people so many times that I wonder why you can't use the enchantment spell well."
"Because I'm not controlling them. I'm reasoning with them. Except for a few fanatics, reasoning is the universal way of persuasion!"
After refuting the dwarf, the king looked at the captive again: "What do you think? Cooperate with us and give your mistress a hard time. When all the guys before you in the succession order are dead, you will be the new mistress of the family. You can eat sour dates while being served by a large group of male servants."
Xiao Bai: "I don't think this is very tempting. It would be better if I could just eat meat every day."
The captive sneered: "What strength do you have? You still want to kill the mistress of the family? But what you said is not unreasonable. I will suffer here and no one will reward me. But the problem is that if I do something detrimental to the family here, the mistress will kill me.
"In fact, if someone reveals that I'm working with you guys, I'll be dead for sure."
King: "Don't worry, we don't want any information that will harm your family. We just want to know who bought a large number of slaves from you. Like the one who is entrenched here."
Prisoner: “No more.”
The king looked at Franka.
Franca immediately said, "I don't know if it's true, but I'm sure he has no evil intentions to deceive you. By the way, I suggest you don't have to go through so much trouble to interrogate her. Just arouse her evil thoughts and let me have a taste of it, and you'll have all the information you want."
Everyone in the rescue team looked at the air jellyfish together.
Wang slapped his thigh and said, "That's right, we have Furu, why bother to interrogate him?"
Franka: "No, no, no, I can only capture the evil thoughts of evil creatures and read their thoughts and information. If you want to extract information from good creatures, you still have to torture them."
Xiaobai: "We are not evil, why should we torture kind creatures?"
Wang: "Sometimes it's for your own good."
At this time, Franca said, "We're done eating. What do you want to ask?"
Before asking the question, the king checked the state of the drow captive: her eyes were dull, her mouth was slightly open, and she looked innocent and harmless.
Wang: "Will Zhuoer become like this after all his evil thoughts are eaten up?"
Marika: "After all, most of my compatriots' heads are filled with evil thoughts. If they are eaten up, won't they become empty shells?"
Franka: "Actually, I usually don't eat so thoroughly. After all, if many people enter this state, the evil creatures will have problems braking, and then they may find me. But this time I was afraid of leaking information, so I ate more thoroughly. You guys go ahead and ask."
Wang: "Just the same question, where else does this Zhuoer family sell slaves?"
Franka: "Let me see... there is another big buyer. It takes about half a day to walk from here. The purchase quantity... wow, it is one order of magnitude less than the Mind Flayer. Could it be that it is not a Blasphemer?"
The king snapped his fingers. "That's right. It's most likely a Defiler. The Mind Flayers have the ability to control a large number of slaves and manage a large number of beacons. Other Defilers may not have such a large team. In addition, the two bases are only half a day's journey apart. I reasonably suspect that the rift through which the Defiler invaded this plane is within this range."
The next update will be later, I discovered the fun of Total War: Pharaoh... I will definitely update before twelve o'clock!
Chapter 332 Disaster
"Calm down," Flint said, "Even if we know the intelligence, we can only go tomorrow. Today's consumption is too severe."
Wang: “That’s right.”
Xiaobai: "But we just had lunch, aren't we going to have dinner soon?"
The rescue team looked at each other.
Marika: "Sometimes I envy Xiaobai's carefree state. He eats and sleeps, and then eats."
"Aren't these the only two meaningful things in life?" Xiaobai asked back.
"Uh……"
Before Wang could speak, Xiaobai added: "Oh, yes, and having children."
Nini: "What a simple point of view, very simple and natural."
Xiaobai raised his head proudly.
Flint: "It's just past noon, we can explore a little more. Maybe we can pick up some good equipment. Our team seems to often pick up equipment that we can't use. The barbarian is still using that ordinary iron axe."
Wang: “And you.”
"Kaelin's horns! But you're right, and me," Flint swore, "this five-headed flail can only work in this way in our hands, otherwise I can hardly reach the enemy."
Who told you to only move twenty feet in six seconds? Xiaobai turns into a wolf and covers this distance with one big jump.
The dwarf continued to mutter: "There are also ogre power gloves. Those are ogre power gloves, second only to mountain giant power gloves. Our team actually gave them to the mage."
Marika crossed her arms and said, "You know what, the Ogre Power Gloves have been used more than once in the hands of the mage. And the Pathfinder as well."
Wang: "It's because you have never been to a certain plane and don't know the story that happened in that plane, so you think it's strange for a mage to use a two-handed sword. In that plane, the mage can not only wield a two-handed sword with one hand, but also dual-wield it, holding a staff in the other hand!"
Several physics majors in the team frowned.
Marika: "Don't lie to me, there's no way you can swing a long staff in one hand and a two-handed sword in the other."
Gotrek nodded: "It's hard to coordinate."
Flint: "I have never used a two-handed greatsword, so I cannot comment on it, but I have traveled with warriors who used two-handed greatswords. The center of gravity of that thing cannot be controlled with one hand."
Wang spread his hands and said, "If you don't believe me, forget it. One day in the future, when we have resolved this crisis, we will travel across dimensions together. Help me earn points to exchange for materials to upgrade you. Then we can go and see that dimension."