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Everyone was confused by the sudden prospect of the future and looked at each other in confusion.
Marika: "You should have said this when Her Royal Highness was still alive...er, I mean, still conscious. She would have been so happy."
Wang: "Then I will tell him tomorrow when she recovers. Okay, aren't we going to sweep up the small fry and search for equipment? Hurry up."
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Five hours later, Wang looked at the mountain of equipment in front of him and asked Flint, "Is there anything...we can use?"
"No." The dwarf shook his head. "But if we plan to form a dwarf army on the floating island in the future, these armors can be used. Of course, they are a little big and need to be modified. The dwarves are so clever and skillful, they should be able to modify them quickly."
King: "Is the dwarf army capable of fighting?"
He couldn't help but think of the dwarves on the floating island who were creating explosions all day long, and he expressed his doubts.
Dwarf: "Yes, at least the Worm Knight is still very strong, especially when underground. Of course, the strongest ones are mainly the worms, and the dwarf is just a pendant responsible for screaming on them."
What the hell.
King: "Are there no troops in the Thorn Islands?"
"Yes." This time it was Marika who answered, "You have seen the main force of the Thorn Archipelago dwarf army at the dock of Shallow Water City. When they are not out of control or malfunctioning, those iron lumps are very powerful and difficult to deal with."
"What about when it's not out of control?" Xiao Bai repeated, "Then the question is, is there a time when it's not out of control?"
Flint: "It's still possible. There's about a 50% chance of it getting out of control. But the dwarves have also developed a corresponding combat method, which is to let this thing rush into the enemy group. If it doesn't get out of control, it will kill the enemy. If it gets out of control..."
Wang: "Or kill the enemy."
"Correct."
The king scratched his head, looking at the armors on the ground that were too small for humans and lizardmen to wear. "Forget it, just take them with you. My dimensional bag has unlimited capacity anyway. When I have a furnace in the future, I can melt them down and reuse them."
Flint: "Then you'll have to hire some dwarven craftsmen. Dwarven craftsmen are... less reliable. They always like to come up with all kinds of fancy new designs that cause explosions."
Nini was shocked: "Can armor explode? Isn't that a lump of iron?"
"That's a good question, but if the dwarves were to forge it, it would explode. Perhaps they wanted to use chemicals to enhance the quenching effect? I don't know."
Wang picked up the dimensional bag and began to suck up the equipment on the ground.
After dealing with the armor, the king turned to the various bows and arrows on the ground: "What about this side?"
Nini shook her head: "The quality varies. The arrows shot from most bows have very little power. It takes a lot of shots to break through the defensive arrows."
With just three arrows fired from Nini's compound bow, it will definitely break through the defensive arrows. It is a top-notch strong bow.
The king originally thought that if these broken bows had half the power of Nini's bow, they could be used immediately, but it turned out that they were completely unusable.
However, muskets are being manufactured on the floating island. Once the muskets are put into service, we will have the means of long-range attack.
Of course, the floating island can only be equipped with smoothbore guns now, which basically cannot achieve accurate shooting, so accurate shooters still need to use bows. But now there are accurate shooters other than Nini on the floating island.
Nini pointed at the waste bow on the ground and said, "The bow cannot be recycled. Both the bow and the bow string can only be discarded."
The king nodded and turned to the barbarian: "Did you find an axe you can use?"
The barbarian held up a small axe. To Flint it was a normal axe, but to the barbarian it looked like a toy.
Gotrek: "This is the one I picked that works best."
King: "Okay, I get it. We killed so many gray dwarves and Kuo-Toa, and all we got was garbage."
As soon as the words fell, all the sharp-eared people in the team turned their heads and looked in one direction.
Wang silently took out the spell materials for the Phantom Killer.
Then a tree appeared - or rather a tree covered with various parasitic ferns.
Mushroom man.
Wang: “Uh…Excuse me…”
The first fungus-man that came into view ignored the king and walked straight towards the pile of corpses. At the same time, more fungus-men appeared.
Nini walked silently to Wang's side and stood close to him.
Marika: "Calm down, the myconids are peaceful."
"Dark Elf." Myconid spoke, "We recycle the corpses, the forest needs nourishment."
Marika explained: "They want to use the bodies to increase their numbers."
Wang asked doubtfully, "Is there a mushroom forest nearby?"
The mushroom man replied: "No."
"Why would the mushroom people go so far away from the forest to look for corpses to expand their population?" Wang continued to ask.
The mushroom man paused, as if thinking about how to answer, and then said simply: "Disaster."
Xiao Bai held his head and yelled, "Ahhh, I can't stand it. Why do they all talk like Gotrick?"
Chapter 333: Song of the Mushroom Man
"Disaster." The king stroked his chin, "Is someone going to attack you?"
The mushroom people didn't shake their heads, after all, they had no necks, but they waved their hands gently: "Monster."
Wang frowned, took out a notebook, and quickly drew a creature "blessed" by Ragnora, and showed it to the mushroom man.
Xiao Bai exclaimed: "It looks quite similar. Do you have this skill?"
Wang: "I'm practicing drawing engineering drawings. Don't interrupt me, I'm asking about something important."
The mushroom man had opened his mouth, but when he heard Wang say "Don't interrupt", he slowly closed his mouth.
Wang: "Please speak, you can speak!"
Fungus Man: “That’s it.”
Wang nodded: "That's right, tell us where the monsters come from, and we will find out the source of the monsters."
The mushroom man was about to move the corpse from the ground, but stopped when he heard what the king said.
The eyes of these vegetative patients were mixed with the eyes of the moths on the epidermis, making it impossible to tell where they were looking, but Wang always felt that their gazes were focused on him.
Suddenly, the leading old tree made a singing-like sound.
king:"??"
The other mushroom people also responded and started a grand chorus.
Wang: “…What’s going on?”
Marika: "Myconids don't have emotions in the usual sense, but when they want to express emotions, they do so in this way. It's similar to how Furu uses colors to express emotions."
Wang: "Oh~ Waltz~ Let's all enjoy the music!"
The old trees ignored the king and just used melody to express their emotions.
Nini listened for a few seconds and said, "They are expressing their gratitude."
Wang: “Can you hear it?”
Flint interrupted, "She is an elf, and elves all have musical talents."
As soon as the dwarf finished speaking, a tiny tear suddenly slid down Xiaobai's eye corner.
Wang Du was shocked: "Not really?"
Xiao Bai wiped his face vigorously with his hands: "Not really, not really, I'm just moved."
Flint: "That's not surprising. Druids have a very high sense of perception in order to interact with nature. There's a saying that when the wind blows through the woods, the rustling sound is like the woods singing."
Everyone looked at the dwarf.
"What?" The dwarf looked puzzled.
Wang: "Kaelin is the god of wine and pleasure, not poetry, right? Although he is indeed regarded as the patron god by many bards."
"Couldn't I have learned this from traveling with the bard?"
At this time, the chorus of the mushroom people ended, and the mushroom person who just started said: "Mushroom people, welcome, friend."
Wang: "You're welcome, but we are not going to destroy the source of these monsters for you. We are a rescue team and we are traveling to save the world. We believe that these monsters are the masterpieces of the mastermind who wants to destroy the world.
"If they are not destroyed, these monsters will lure an evil being named Ragnora to land on Gralia."
The leading mushroom man looked back at his companions. At this time, Wang discovered that there was a large piece of yellow moss on the "back of its head" - probably the back of its head - which made it look like it was wearing a yellow hat.
He frowned sharply: "Your... skin looks a bit problematic, is this normal?"
Yellow Hat Fungus Man: "No, it's normal. Monsters appear and we become ugly."
Xiaobai and Nini both frowned, but Wang signaled with his eyes that they should stop complaining and hold it in.
Wang actually understood them very well, because from the aesthetic point of view of surface creatures, mushroom people were ugly.
Wang: "None of the monsters we encountered before could infect other people. If they could infect us, they would have done so long ago. Can you give us some of this ugly skin? We'll study it when we get back."
Marika frowned and looked at the king as if she had something to say.
Obviously she had something to say that the mushroom people couldn't hear.
After Wang realized this, he winked at Franka.
Furu sucked away Marika's evil thoughts, and then told Wang telepathically: "Marika is thinking that if this cortex will turn the mushroom people into that kind of monster, then she will slaughter all the mushroom people's villages and burn everything down."
The king frowned. To be honest, he couldn't accept the idea of taking action against the friendly creatures that he had just expressed his gratitude to with songs. It felt like a prince who massacred a city to stop the plague.
However, if there is really no other way, he cannot rule out using this extreme method. But now is not the time.
Wang: "We have treated lizardmen with epidermal lesions before. This condition is still within our scope of treatment. The medicine used by the witch doctor was poisoned. This time the situation may be similar. Once we figure it out, we can treat it."
The king paused and reminded the mushroom man: "By the way, don't use healing spells on this kind of 'trace'. It's useless."
The mushroom man raised his hand and made a bending motion.
When the king frowned, Marika explained, "This is their nodding gesture. It is said that this gesture was specially developed for communicating with other races."
"Hey, that's pretty impressive." Xiao Bai said, "Maybe he's smarter than Big Popo."
As soon as he finished speaking, the mushroom man began to sing again.
Wang: "Uh, although I'm sorry to interrupt you to express your gratitude, but...can you tell us where the source of the monsters is first?"