mage's dating rules

Chapter 87 Water drops from stalagmites 27 times before
"This looks so funny," Wang said, as several Brookwood soldiers chained the chubby caveman to an interrogation chair.

Interrogation chairs are designed for humans. Although cavemen and humans have four limbs and walk upright, cavemen are very different from humans in terms of posture. It is really funny to be locked on a human chair.

Ralph: "The prisoner has been locked up. How do you plan to interrogate him? Will the trick of tongue you just mentioned allow you to interrogate the caveman?"

Wang: "Of course."

As he spoke, he took out the pottery step pyramid just now again.

Elizabeth asked suspiciously, "What is that?"

"Pyramids, some trolls from the plane can build this thing, but the trolls from this plane probably can't. The trolls from that plane have the same name as the trolls from this plane, but they are actually completely different things. I The interrogation is about to begin."

Ralph made a gesture of please.

Wang chanted a mantra and made a few gestures.The palm of his hand holding the clay pyramid glowed for a moment, and then he touched himself with it, and the light disappeared.

Everyone waited for a few seconds, and Malika couldn't help but ask, "Failed?"

Wang: "No (undertone)."

Everyone has question marks on their faces.But as he said these words, the pyramid in his hand turned into powder, ceramic powder flowed from his fingertips like fine sand, fell to the ground and then disappeared.

The dwarf suddenly realized: "The spell was successful. After he spoke the first word in the language given by the spell, the casting material shattered."

The king looked at the caveman.

The caveman heard Wang's voice and was "looking" at Wang.Its visual organs have completely degenerated, and the tiny eyes can't see the meaning of focusing at all.

Wang circled around the round caveman, and its head kept moving with him, the forehead always facing him precisely.

The mage stopped circling and began to move his position back and forth to adjust his relationship with the caveman, and found that the caveman's eyes basically did not change.

Wang: "It can be determined that the eyes are not in focus. This guy is using his hearing to determine where I am. Hearing has limitations, and no matter how sensitive it is, it has limitations."

The words he said were in the language of the cavemen, so neither his team nor the earl's son answered.

But the caveman spoke up: "Vision is a burden to us, Sunshine Man."

Wang: "From his speech, he has normal intelligence."

The caveman bared his teeth.

Xiao Bai was bored watching the teacher babble in a language he didn't understand, when suddenly his ears perked up and he sniffed vigorously.

Wang: "I observed the baring of teeth, which may be an expression of disdain."

Caveman: "This is an expression of disdain. I am the warrior captain of the great Gurnica tribe! The warriors of my tribe will never bow to the Sunshine Man!"

Wang: "Your Excellency, Warrior Captain, you have been living underground all this time, and you have never been on the ground. Why have you been rushing to the ground recently?"

"Hmph, I won't say it."

Wang: "This is strange. The books I read say that cavemen have no concept of honor, nor do they have the so-called loyalty. You are just a group gathered together for survival, and sometimes you become demons or subordinates of demons."

"Hmph, what do Yangren know!"

Wang: "Then let me ask something that doesn't involve honor. This way you can guarantee your survival and keep your honor."

After saying this, the mage stopped and carefully observed the changes in the caveman's facial expression.

The caveman struggled—perhaps for a few seconds. Its facial expressions were completely different from those of humans. After all, their vision is very weak, and expressions of course play no role in communication: they can't see how they work.

At this time, Xiaobai sniffled and shouted, "It's giving off a strange smell."

Wang immediately turned to look at Xiaobai: "Are you sure?"

He realized the underground language he used, and immediately changed the language: "Are you sure?"

Xiaobai nodded: "Sure. Strange smell."

Wang: "Did he smell anything just now?"

Xiaobai: "When he grinned just now, it smelled like fish that had rotted after a long time. Now it's a pungent and spicy smell!"

The other humanoids in the room looked at each other. Elizabeth looked from Marika to Flint, who spread his hands.

But Wang was lost in thought: "When you grin, is it when you show your teeth? It seems that cavemen may express emotions through smell (*), and now we need to know which smell is which emotion."

Then the mage turned to the troglodyte, and switched back to the underground language: "Our werewolves smell it, you hesitate!"

Caveman: "Then she must be mistaken!"

Wang looked at Xiaobai.

Xiaobai: "The smell has become stronger!"

The mage was speechless, and continued to express his speculation in the common language: "This is strange. I really thought that this smell represented his hesitation, so I tried this way. Why did the smell become stronger? It is impossible to become more hesitant? Could it be that the smell The intensity of the emotion does not represent the intensity of the emotion, but each has a different meaning?"

After pondering for a few seconds, Wang turned his head and said to Ralph, "Sir, I need several rooms like this, one for each caveman."

Ralph asked in surprise, "What are you going to do?"

"Certainly doing experiments to determine what emotions the caveman's scent represented."

Ralph: "Is it important?"

Wang: "Very important. This is our brand-new discovery of caveman ecology! It will fill the gap in our magic tower!"

Ralph hesitated for a moment before saying, "Is this... really more important than the life and death of our entire county?"

Wang was stunned, and said after a while: "Oh yes, sorry. Now is not the time to do research."

He turned to the caveman.

Unexpectedly, after hearing the sound of his turning around this time, the caveman took the initiative to speak: "If you want to ask something that has nothing to do with honor, just ask."

Wang looked at Xiaobai.

Xiaobai: "That smell is gone."

The mage was silent for a few seconds, decided not to study the smell for the time being, and said to the caveman, "Then let me ask you. How old are you?"

Caveman: "57 drops of water fall from the tip of a stalagmite."

Wang: "Is this a method of timing?"

Caveman: "What else?"

Wang: "Then let me ask you, is it a recent occurrence that some cave dwellers can't eat mushrooms and can only satisfy their hunger with moss mixed with gravel?"

Caveman: "Of course not. When I was young, there were very few people in the tribe, and everyone could eat mushrooms, even the old, weak, sick and disabled! At that time, there was no need to ration mushrooms, just go to the cave to pick them every day. "

Wang: "Aren't mushrooms free to pick now?"

"Of course, the caves where mushrooms grow are now guarded by the strongest guards. The guards can eat mushrooms to their fullest, so they won't steal them! Only strong warriors can eat mushrooms! There are also shamans, and the mother of monsters Angel!
"The untouchables can only eat moss! Every baby is born, and the gods will check his status. The weak and useless ones are classified as untouchables! They can only use their hands to dig the earth and expand the cave! The untouchables eat moss, Eat dirt! Noble warriors eat mushrooms!"

Wang glanced at the others, but they couldn't understand the caveman's language, so they could only look back at him blankly.

The dwarf tried to open his mouth and said: "Uh, I heard a few words, untouchables, warriors, etc. What a pity, the etymology of some words in the language of these evil things is actually the same as that of the dwarves!"

The king switched back to the common language: "I speak the subterranean language. It is the common language of the evil creatures living underground. Maybe the language of your dwarves does have the same origin as this ancient language."

"I don't admit it!" said Flint at once. "Bah bah! Even you can't slander us!"

Wang ignored it and continued to ask the caveman, "Since when did such a change begin?"

"27 drops of water before falling from the tip of the stalagmite."

The mage was speechless: "I didn't ask. Do you know why such a change happened?"

Xiaobai: "It's the smell just now again, it's the smell you said was hesitation!"

Wang looked at the silent caveman, then at Ralph.

——The beliefs of the cavemen were mainly shamans and spirits before, but now they are Lamashtu, so something must have happened in the middle.

Thinking of this, the mage said to the caveman, "To be more specific, what I want to ask is how did Lamashtu's favor come to your tribe?"

Xiaobai: "I smell a new smell, this time the smell is very similar to the first one, but a little smellier!"

Could it be that the better the caveman's mood, the more stinky his smell?
The mage himself couldn't smell the subtle smell from the caveman, so he couldn't judge.

Caveman: "Lord Lamashtu's grace changed everything! Before 27 drops of water fell, the patriarch discovered the temple of Lamashtu! Since then, the favor of the Holy Lord, the soldiers of the tribe, and the untouchables have all been a lot. !"

Wang: "The patriarch discovered the temple of Lamashtu? Then your population increased?"

Caveman: "Lamashtu, gave birth to the people of the tribe!"

Wang: "Is this a metaphor, or is it describing a fact?"

Caveman: "What's a metaphor?"

Wang: "So it's true that the new troglodytes, whether warriors or pariahs, emerged from the temple in Lamashtu, right?"

Caveman: "The Holy Lord shaped us himself, we are His most proud creation, we have occupied the entire underground, and we will surely occupy everything under the sun!"

Xiaobai announced loudly: "A brand new smell has appeared! This is a stronger smell than before! Ah-choo! Ah-choo! It's so pungent! I can't take it anymore!"

With a snap, Xiaobai turned into a hen with an insensitive sense of smell again.

Xiaobai: "Cuckoo."

Wang looked away from Xiaobai, looked at the caveman, and asked after a short thought: "Where did the Holy Lord shape you?"

Caveman: "Of course it's in the sacred fetal movement hall!"

When it said this, Wang's nose suddenly became sour. He couldn't smell the strong smell that Xiaobai said, but his nose became sore.As he couldn't help sneezing, the others started sneezing too.

But the excitement was over quickly.

Maybe the strong emotions in the caveman have calmed down.

Caveman: "I found out! The cunning Sunshine Man is playing tricks! You want to enter the Hall of Fetal Movement! You want to steal the holy relic of Lamashtu!"

Wang: "So there is still a holy object?"

Caveman: "I won't tell you!"

It seems that although cavemen have spiritual intelligence, their intelligence is not very high.

Wang snapped his fingers and looked back at everyone: "I think I have figured out the source of the problem. The current intelligence is that the cavemen discovered the temple of Lamashtu and found a sacred object. This sacred object may be It is very large, and it cannot be moved casually in a place called the Hall of Fetal Movement. The skyrocketing population of cavemen and the shortage of food are all inseparable from this holy object."

Elizabeth nodded: "So this sacred object was given by the black hand sect behind the scenes, right! Just like Erwin's time!"

The king stopped and frowned at the princess.

Elizabeth: "Uh... isn't it?"

Wang: "I don't know. Maybe it is, maybe it is not. The current intelligence cannot make a judgment. We have to go to the fetal movement hall to see what the holy object is."

The dwarf exclaimed, "You mean we're going to kill a crypt already full of troggs?"

Wang: "Of course it's not just us. I think Lord Ralph will organize elite infantry to go down with us."

Ralph immediately shouted: "No, no, no! You have seen our infantry! Although we have always dreamed of restoring our former glory, dreams and reality are two different things. I also felt that our soldiers were fully prepared at first, as long as they are ready You can go underground.

"But in the recent battles, I realized that we fought so reluctantly in the caves with preset positions and sufficient light. We can only become bait for cavemen when we go underground! No amount of troops can fill this hole!"

Wang: "If you have enough armor, you should be able to do it."

Ralph: "But we don't. Most of our soldiers only have leather armor and leather skirts."

Elizabeth said suddenly: "Wait a minute, there are a lot of idle mercenaries in Watergate Town. We can hire them with the money Langdon received."

Wang: "I do have a lot of operation funds given by your second brother in my dimensional bag. Do you really want to use this money to hire these mercenaries? I don't think it will be cheap."

Elizabeth said resolutely: "Our goal is to deal with the crisis that causes positive energy to change! Now there are people who are suspected of cults in the underground, and we have to hire them as a matter of course."

Malika reminded: "Your Highness, we can actually hire sailors and mercenaries to cooperate with the mage brother's dragon to conquer the castle. After repelling the assassins sent by Stoke last night, I feel that only the sailors and mercenaries can be Strength is enough."

Elizabeth half-opened her mouth: "This...but now we have found a clue that might be a clue!"

Xiaobai: "It's a bit of a mouthful."

Malika: "Okay, I see. But does the mage brother also agree to do this? Will this be a waste of time?"

Wang: "That's the holy temple of Lamashtu! There's also the Hall of Fetal Movement! Don't you want to go and see the name? There's also a holy object!"

Malika looked at the excited mage with her mouth open.

Flint slapped his legs and laughed when he saw the shocked look of the drow.

　(*) The contents about cavemen here are all edited by me according to my needs, not in the monster manual.

　　
　
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