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Chapter 83 Small Problems in Ximu Town

A group of people went down the mountain and walked towards Ximu Town along the mountain road. Before they could get close to the wooden city wall, the guards on the city wall shouted: "Stop!"

Wang patted Elizabeth on the shoulder.

Elizabeth urged her to take a step forward, and said loudly, "I am the younger sister of the Duke of Langdon. I was ordered by the Duke to resolve the crisis of annihilation. When I was about to pass through the River Valley Territory, I was stopped by Stoke, who claimed to be the Duke. Count Ximu asks for help."

The guards on the wooden city wall glanced at each other, and the captain with the feather on his helmet shouted: "I sent someone to report to the count. We have not received any notice that the princess is coming."

Elizabeth: "We set off in a hurry yesterday, and Stoke wanted to arrest us, so there was no time to send an envoy to report."

Besides, the Princess Squad doesn't have any manpower to do the reporting. Xiaobai can do it, but she doesn't know how to read a map, so she may not be able to find out where Ximu Town is.

The captain of the guard continued: "Then please wait a moment, the Earl should come out soon."

"I'll wait here." Elizabeth said while fanning lightly with a folding fan in her hand. Today's temperature seems to be higher than yesterday's. Although Elizabeth came here on horseback, she was sweating all over.When she was fanning the wind, the sleeves of the skirt slid down, revealing the arms wearing the wristbands, and the sides of the wristbands were covered with sweat.

In fact, it was the drow who were the worst. When Elizabeth was speaking, the drow, as a guard, put down the cloth that had been holding up as the sun for the sake of dignity.

After all, the pure black complexion of the drow is simply a natural sun absorber.

The same is true for other people.

Wang is the kind of person whose skin is particularly prone to sunburn. After yesterday afternoon and today morning, his bare skin has completely turned into wheat color, and it should not be long before the skin should peel off—the superficial skin has been sunburned to death.

Xiaobai was dressed in white, and after turning into a wolf, he had fluffy fur as an insulation layer, but he was still so hot that he stuck out his tongue, and the sweat dripped from his tongue.Xiaobai has been fed water several times along the way.

Gao Cuik seems to be very resistant to heat, probably because of the cool clothes he wears?

Shorty was in the frame, and no one could see him except Gotrick.

The group waited in the sun for a long time before seeing an old man with a white beard appearing on the tower.

"Princess Langdon, hello." The old man said, "I am Earl Brookwood."

Elizabeth: "Hello. We are..."

"You don't think that I will forget what you did to our lord because of the conflict with Stoke, do you?" the earl interrupted Elizabeth, "If you came to me to overthrow Stoke, then Just come back, please."

Elizabeth was stunned for a moment, glanced at the king, and suddenly had an idea: "We came because we heard that you want to clear the cavemen occupying the mine. As you can see, our team has drow and dwarves, and they are experts in underground combat!
"And you may not know that in the underground of Landon City, we have wiped out the troops behind this crisis of annihilation. This army is composed of goblins and kobolds, and has a certain similarity to cavemen!"

After speaking, Elizabeth looked at the king again.The mage gave a thumbs up.

Earl Ximu looked at the team under the city again, and said, "I saw the evil drow, where are the dwarves?"

Flint stretched out his hand from the frame cursingly: "Here it is! Here it is!"

Earl Ximu stroked his beard and thought for a few seconds, and then said: "I guess the price for helping us take back the mine is to let me send troops to overthrow Stoke, and let the deputy sent by that damned treacherous kid in your family be here." The leader of the river valley is domineering!"

Elizabeth: "But when you regain the mine, it will return to its former glory. You can even dismantle the water gate, because the ships will berth in the lakeside city again, and the pilot station that has been abandoned will come and go again."

Earl Ximu: "It's really tempting, but it's not enough to make me betray my lord!"

"He is not your lord! Your lord is the Duchess Ruth! She is preparing for her wedding half a year later in Landon City! Sir Stoke is the usurper! Jurisprudentially, he is the one who should be condemned. "

Earl Ximu sneered and said, "The younger sister of the person who did such a treasonous thing as assassinating a guest actually accused Stoke backhandedly! Heh heh, I am so alive that I can meet any thick-skinned people."

Elizabeth sternly corrected her words: "No! The Duke of the Old River Valley was punished by the Imperial Council for cooperating with the former Duke of Steyr to launch an attack on our Langdon Land, which caused huge casualties! He will die because he resisted arrest with arms. !"

Wang raised his eyebrows, and looked at Elizabeth, who was lying without changing her expression, in surprise.

Earl Ximu on the city wall couldn't be fixed by Elizabeth's words.

He probably didn't expect the number one beauty in Kuusania to be so thick-skinned.

But in this matter, we should pay attention to a tacit understanding.The rest are all considerations of interests, which are in line with their own interests, that is, the old Duke of River Valley deserves to be punished.

Earl Ximu is not a white lotus either. After a short thought, he said, "What if I send troops and you regret it?"

Elizabeth looked at the king again.

The mage nodded.

So Elizabeth said: "We will solve the caveman problem first and help you regain the mine."

Earl Ximu snorted: "It's really easy to talk big. You don't stop outside the door, isn't the door open? You should come in and go to the castle to find me, so as not to be exposed to the sun outside."

Elizabeth: "We are an official diplomatic mission, so we must follow diplomatic etiquette and ask the host before entering the city."

The earl nodded: "I won't meet you in such a remote place as the reception room. Come to my study, and I'd like to see what the 'professional underground combat experts' have to say."

After saying that, the figure of the count disappeared from the city wall.

Elizabeth immediately turned her head and asked the king excitedly, "How am I doing?"

Wang: "It's much better than the time in Shuimen Town. At that time, you still want me to remind you of the next sentence."

Elizabeth: "I learned Bruce in the first half, and I learned you later!"

Malika: "We can talk about this later, let's go in first."

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Earl Ximu's study is different from his castle, it is actually a stone building.In fact, after entering this wooden castle, I realized that the core part of the castle is a masonry structure, and the external expansion part is wood.

In short, the whole castle stands out as a makeshift.

In the earl's study, through the window, you can see the all-stone fortress on the other side, and you can clearly see the flag of the Earl of Ximu family hanging on the fortress.

As soon as Wang entered the room, he asked directly: "Master Earl, I heard that the stone fortress facing the window is no longer inhabited. Why is the flag still hanging?"

The count looked at the king, and asked the princess suspiciously, "Who is this?"

It seems that the Earl doesn't know about the king's deeds, which is normal. It doesn't seem like there will be bards visiting Ximu Town, after all, this place is in decline visible to the naked eye.

There was no visit from the bard, and the earl didn't look like he could afford to keep a spy in the duchy next door. It's understandable that he only knew the superficial details of what happened in the duchy of Langdon but didn't understand the details.

Earl: "My son is stationed there. Recently, the cave dwellers don't know whether it's because of the lack of food, or what is going on, and they have started to come out of the mine to attack the humans on the ground."

Wang frowned: "Cavemen started attacking the ground? This is unheard of."

Earl: "But this happened. Look at this, this is the list of attacks this month. They will appear in the middle of the night and attack households scattered in the fields. Sometimes they will go to villages with dozens of households to kill."

Wang: "Cavemen seldom leave their burrows to come to the surface. They are integrated with the underground ecology. They mainly feed on lichens such as moss and fungi such as mushrooms. Unlike kobolds, cavemen hardly eat meat. , Their visual organs have also degenerated.

"Dwarves and drow have dark vision. They can gain an advantage in underground battles, but their vision on the ground will not be affected. The cavemen are different. They rely on their developed hearing to locate underground, and they will suffer on the ground. "

The count shook his head, took out something from the drawer, put it on the desk, and pushed it forward gently.

"Look at this. It's what you know when you pour melted wax into the strange footprints the hunters found and it solidified?"

Wang looked at it carefully, shook his head, and passed it to Marika beside him.

Malika said affirmatively after seeing it: "It's cavemen. These weak and evil creatures in my hometown were driven to the corners of the underground tunnel network to linger."

Said the drow gave things to the dwarves.The dwarf also made a judgment immediately: "It is indeed a caveman. When I was a child, the kingdom's security forces always patrolled the mine tunnels and drove these guys back deeper into the ground. They are hardly afraid of strong light. Because you can't see it at all.

"They use a strange spirit spell, kind of like a shaman spell, who knows where they found the spirit underground."

The spirit is the representative of natural will, and the shaman believes that the magic of the druids is also bestowed by the spirit, but the druids scoff at this statement.

When Xiaobai heard the word spirit, he showed his disdain very openly.

Wang rubbed his chin: "Cavemen began to attack the ground. Tsk, I ask a seemingly unrelated question, Your Excellency Earl, have the cats and dogs in your territory decreased?"

The count looked at Wang inexplicably: "What are you talking about? Does it matter?"

Wang turned to Xiaobai and said, "Ask."

Xiao Bai immediately turned into a sparrow and flew out of the window.

Earl: "What the hell is going on? What's the difference between cats and dogs? I've got plenty of hunting dogs, and I'll know if they're missing."

"It's not your dog, it's the wild cats and dogs out there," Elizabeth said.

"Wild cats and dogs? What does this have to do with taking back our minerals?"

Wang: "If the number of wild cats and dogs has decreased, it means that the same thing happened in your territory as in Langdon Territory. Someone is performing an evil ritual to change the positive energy in your territory. Once he succeeds, the people on your side will Positive energy therapy may directly kill some frail old people."

The earl frowned: "What's the mess? Isn't positive energy a gift from Lancelot?"

The dwarf priest immediately yelled loudly: "Who said that? Kailin can also let me channel positive energy!"

The Earl wanted to say something more, but Xiaobai came back.

As soon as the werewolf girl transformed back, she said loudly, "The cats, dogs and sparrows said there was no such sign. But they said something interesting. They saw strange monsters moving at night, and blind creatures underground with them. "

Wang: "This blind creature, is it a caveman?"

Xiaobai: "I don't know. The animals said that, and they can't speak a common language. I'm translating their words."

The king scratched his head and asked the count again: "Since the count has sent his son to guard the exit of the mine, have they resisted the caveman's attack?"

"It was blocked several times," replied the count, "it happened at night."

Wang: "Then please let us act together with Young Master Ling tonight."

Earl: "No problem."

(End of this chapter)