lizard lord

Chapter 141 Underground City (Combined)

Generally speaking, the result is quite satisfactory, but Tang Zhao felt a sense of powerlessness throughout the process, because the strengths of the two sides were not aligned. The anti-magic stance of the main eye made it impossible for fourth-order spellcasters to attack. It seemed that he spoke kindly to Tang Zhao, but in fact Tang Zhao had no room for rejection.

[Let’s not talk about anything else, next time we should bring everyone together, we can’t underestimate any place.]

Tang Zhao now regrets that he did not bring a team of dwarves. Their magic resistance is very good, and their physical fitness is also top-notch among humanoids. Equipped with suitable weapons, it can completely make the beholder afraid. He is indeed very Difficult to deal with, but not without weaknesses.

Needless to say, he still underestimated the city of Luford, and also underestimated his own ability.

It's useless to think so much now, Tang Zhao finally said a few polite words to the beholder with a smile on his face, and then he became smaller to three meters long, and left the ground with Andrea on his back.

Going out from the back door of the store, there was a carriage waiting in place early on. Besides the driver, there was also a human male who passed out. Look carefully, it was Christian, the leader of the former Cyclops Chamber of Commerce, and the meaning was obvious. up.

The coachman didn't say anything, Tang Zhao entered the carriage silently, and let the coachman drive the carriage to the door of Andrea's small building.
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Back at the temporary stronghold, Tang Zhao asked the ranger to call Klein back immediately, and he told Klein in detail what happened underground.

After hearing that there was an adult beholder underground, Klein's expression also changed. He admitted frankly that he was a pure spellcaster and it was difficult to deal with the beholder.

He didn't comment on the scapegoat part. In his opinion, the insignificant foreign race has nothing to do with him. He is special among the elves. He has a strong sense of mission for the same race, but he can be said to not care about the foreign race.

Regarding the part of the scroll, he quite agrees with the transaction itself, which can indeed solve the problem with the smallest loss, but he expresses concern about the collusion between the demon and the hobgoblin. In fact, the hobgoblin and Oran do not border each other. The Everlook Mountain Range and Ya Delong Forest, they can make such a big movement behind the scenes, and the elves who directly border the hobgoblins and are enemies with the hobgoblins may not be able to please, and the winter is basically small-scale God knows what kind of offensive the hobgoblins will have in the coming spring.

[Now we need to clarify a few points. The beholders who are helping the evil are not the target. We have no ability to manage the affairs in the east. First, we should eliminate all threats in the west of Oran, so as not to get out of control and spread to the forest. 】

Tang Zhao cares more about human affairs than Klein, which affects his subsequent development, but now he can only clean the door for himself.Although he didn't want to admit the matter in eastern Oran, as the beholder said, human beings have the ability to solve it by themselves. A few demon scrolls can't shake the foundation of a country, at most it will cause a little trouble.

Oran is a country that is strong in the east and weak in the west. There is a seaport in the east, a large fertile plain suitable for farming, and it has to face the orcs. The military and economy of the entire country are concentrated in the east. The marquis has a reorganized elite army under his command, scattered demons can't make a difference at all, they have the ability to kill threats in the cradle.

Of course, Tang Zhao felt sympathy and pity for those civilians who might die, but it was not his fault. Fundamentally speaking, it was the royal family and nobles who failed to supervise them. He would not take this responsibility on himself. He had done his best. Can, with a clear conscience.

After figuring out the follow-up countermeasures, Tang Zhao sent Christian to the Church of Heim, without saying much, only saying that he was the leader of the Cyclops Gang they had captured, and asked them to interrogate as usual.

Everything was going according to plan. Christian, as the beholder said, pleaded guilty after undergoing severe torture, and confessed the information of two buyers in Luford City. Afterwards, he admitted that he was the mastermind of the case. No word about beholders.

He was thrown into prison, and Bo Ke aggressively stated that Tang Zhao should not meddle in the next matter, and that the internal affairs of human beings should be resolved by the human beings themselves. One of the two people was a mage who was trained in the Oran King Legislative Academy, and the other was a small local. Not a small nobleman, no Tang Zhao wants to offend, and it is just what he wants for Boke to do this kind of work.

Pulling down the suspension bridge over the moat of Helm Church, hundreds of heavy armored knights rushed out of it, divided into two teams and directly arrested them. Since there was no news in advance, the two of them were caught straight away. A dozen servants of the nobles were weak The sorcerers couldn't stand against the Church of Helm at all, and all the personnel from both parties were put in prison. After the Church of Heim ransacked the house, they actually found the demon scroll in it.

Needless to say about the rest, the church of Haim did it without actual evidence. It is really overbearing. It would be ugly to be accused of the earl and the king, but once the devil scroll is found, the situation will be completely reversed. Haim No matter how radical the church is, there is nothing wrong with it.

In fact, Tang Zhao reckons that the beholders did some tricks in it. Maybe he arranged for the two people to get the scroll, and the purpose is to put it in today's place, and use it as a smoke bomb, so that the scroll can be directly searched out, maybe There is also something strange, but it's hard to say, Tang Zhao can't go to the beholder to question him.

Tang Zhao was not interested in those trials and investigations, so he started looking for Boke instead, asking him about the current situation in the capital.

This autumn, the orcs routinely tried to invade Oran, but the scale was not large. There were legions ready to go and a large number of border fortresses in Oran. They still failed to break through the first line of defense of the Oran army. This is their No. It's been like this for 12 years.

However, according to Bock's understanding, there has been some commotion in the capital recently, and the military movements of the legion are frequent. He does not belong to the aristocratic circle in the capital, so he has no way to know the truth.

Tang Zhao happened to meet those orcs who had infiltrated, and knew that hobgoblins were probably behind them providing training and weapons, so he could vaguely guess something.

He took advantage of the opportunity to ask Bock to write a letter to inform the Church of Heim over there to strengthen their defenses. After all, there are so many traces of demonic activities in the east of Oran, and the richer and more core east may also be targeted. Bock has a deep meaning Glancing at Tang Zhao, he replied lightly, "The letter is already on the way, thank you for reminding me."

Obviously, the Church of Haim is not an idiot, they can detect something, but they don't tell the whole story, similar to Tang Zhao.

The goal has been achieved, Tang Zhao didn't say much, as long as there is a tacit understanding between the two parties, he left Helm Church alone and prepared to return to Andrea's small building.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived near the small building, he smelled a smell of human blood, and immediately had a bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, he ran back to the small building and saw that there was a row of eight human corpses on the open space in the courtyard in front of the small building.

Tang Zhao was handling matters at the Heim Church, while Klein was in charge of the hotel to protect the elf civilians. In the small building, apart from Andrea, there were only three elf rangers specially arranged by Tang Zhao to be in charge of security.

Facts have proved that Tang Zhao's prudence is correct. Without the protection of the three rangers, Andrea would be in danger today.

Her expression was calm, and she didn't seem to be frightened. Now she was turning over the human corpses. This calmness made Tang Zhao quite satisfied.

Tang Zhao was a little scared by the beholder thing, and Taichao Gang didn't blame her. This kind of courage is actually okay. Not every human being dares to come into close contact with a dead body that has died.

[What did you find? 】

By now, Andrea can actually know that this mysterious sound is related to a lizard, but she hasn't fully figured out that her boss is actually this lizard, and she thought that this lizard was actually an incarnation, a demon. As a pet, thug, microphone, etc., her real boss must be an elf, and I don't know if it is the inheritance of the elf's proud blood.

"I can't confirm the identity of the gangster who collects money and works, but the ones who came back to attack me at this time, I think there are only a few families, and I already have some clues."

[You still have one hour to list the suspects as much as possible, and then I will let the ranger do it. 】

Andrea nodded, and continued to examine the corpses, hoping to find some clues from them.

After working hard for a long time, Andrea really found something.

She stretched out her hand and pointed to a gold coin: "This kind of person will not carry such a large denomination of currency with him. Most of them are commissions. The gold coins of the Marquis of Caen in the East will often use this kind of gold coins to pay for transactions. Only those few companies, among them Most of them are in the chamber of commerce, and only one is active in the port area, the Golden Hand Chamber of Commerce, jokingly called the Monkey Hand."

I dare not say it is this chamber of commerce, but its suspicion is definitely the biggest. Tang Zhao still knows something. The man who watched the small building before also received money from this chamber of commerce. This time the matter is basically a certainty. This Chamber of Commerce does it.

It is not Tang Zhao's style not to fight back after being beaten. An hour later, the whole team of elf rangers rushed to the scene.

[The goal is this chamber of commerce, capture the leader of the chamber of commerce alive, infiltrate with poisonous arrows, try not to cause death, and grasp the scale. 】

The elves were actually very displeased with this kind of behavior. They had no objection to Tang Zhao's order, and they accepted it happily and prepared to act that night.
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It must be too conspicuous for the whole team to move and kidnap people back, so Tang Zhao planned to change his method.

It is said that Lufford was developed on the basis of the ancient Ostia city. It is not known whether this is true or not, but one thing is certain-this city has indeed inherited some of the best features of the Ostia Empire, such as the sewer system .

Relying on the productivity brought by rivers and magic, Luford, a city of 10 people, has an excellent sewer network in the eyes of the ancient world.

Tang Zhao wanted to transport the captives through the sewers. Anyway, the sewers eventually lead to rivers. If there are rivers, you can find the port area. It is not difficult to do without a sewer map.

After the elves learned about this incident, they showed extremely obvious resistance. When they thought about what the sewer was for and they had to walk on it, they felt disgusted. This is a race with a cleanliness, and there is nothing they can do about it.

Tang Zhao talked all kinds of things, but he didn't move. In the end, it was a compromise plan. Tang Zhao walked down the sewer with the stunned captive on his back. The elves first created chaos to attract attention, and then they broke up into parts and assembled outside the city. Meet at the meeting point in the city.

There is nothing wrong with this proposal. Tang Zhao doesn't mind going down the sewer, and is now surveying the terrain in advance to prepare for the night's operation.

However, after entering it, Tang Zhao didn't go far when he smelled a familiar smell.

Not excrement and sewage, of course, but the smell of kobolds.

【Interesting, city kobolds.】

Relatively rare, but not non-existent.

As we all know, kobolds have superb mine construction technology, which is more than enough to repair sewers. Compared with dwarves and gnomes, they have a very, very obvious competitive advantage-the asking price is low, and a little more is added on the basis of management. Things that can attract kobolds.

Because of this, even if humans despise such weak and humble creatures, many people still choose to hire kobolds to build sewers and other "unattractive" projects, and the results are generally very good.

In this case, as long as humans don't expel them after the completion of the work, a considerable number of kobolds will actually choose to settle in the sewers.

Because human cities can avoid the persecution of ferocious beasts for them, and at the same time provide them with a lot of food and living materials, just like many animals in modern society.

Tang Zhao didn't comment much on this behavior, but he is really envious of these kobolds now, the entire kobolds in Insula have been absorbed by him, and no big settlement can be found anymore. Now this settlement can bring A lot of labor.

Thinking about it this way, he still had plenty of time, so he gave up exploring the way for now, and started looking for the kobolds' underground residences. Anyway, they must be familiar with the underground. If they found them, they would also find the way, killing two birds with one stone. matter.

After getting smaller, he walked through the sewer. Tang Zhao still had a bottom line. He didn't swim in the unspeakable sewage. The speed was a little slower but it didn't affect anything. Following the scent trail of the kobold, he successfully found a place. The abrupt hole.

Although the place is flat and flat, there are no stone bricks, no drains, and the height is not high. Humans have to bend down to enter it. Tang Zhao is very familiar with these things.At first glance, it looks like a crypt built by kobolds.

Following the cave all the way down, he came to an underground open space, and was a little shocked by the scene here, which can be called a city of kobolds.

As far as he can see, there are all kinds of caves, which form a complex network system. They are not magnificent, nor dirty and chaotic, but orderly, small and exquisite. He thinks it is very kobold style. They dig holes It's always been that way, unlike dwarves and gnomes.

(End of this chapter)