lizard lord

Chapter 184

This time, the mayor finally smiled from the bottom of his heart: "No problem, just nod and agree."

【One last question, is this Yintao City's idea or Earl Sterling's idea. 】

"Is it that important?"

He didn't get the news he wanted from the mayor, but Tang Zhao wasn't angry, and after arguing with him, he left the mayor's mansion with the excuse that he was going to bask in the sun.

In fact, it was already dark now, but no one cared what Tang Zhao's excuse was.

Back at the temporary camp, Tang Zhao briefly held a meeting with everyone, the content was about food transportation.

He dared to agree directly for a reason, and this matter was not difficult for them.

It has never been stated explicitly, but the high-level officials in Oran basically know that Karak Solma cannot be self-sufficient in food.They have always needed to buy a large amount of grain, especially after the war ended, they bought a large amount of grain and livestock at one time, and after that, they would come to import a batch of grain every two or three weeks. The amount of imported grain varied, but Each time the amount is huge.

This was done intentionally by Andrea and Tang Zhao, to prevent the other party from calculating the exact amount of grain imports and not to disclose such information. In addition, there was also a sign of weakness in it.

Facing a force that cannot be self-sufficient in food and needs to rely heavily on human imports, Oran will not feel too much fear.

In fact, Karak Solma's food production has greatly improved, and it is expected that after this year's autumn harvest, it will be basically self-sufficient.Not to mention the private transactions with those feudal nobles, most of which are settled with grain, which is enough to feed the entire settlement for half a year.

They are still importing a large amount of food, on the one hand, for strategic reserves, and on the other hand, to sell to the other two neighbors. The elves can’t take care of production during the war, and the dwarves’ winemaking is a bottomless pit of food.

I just roughly made a plan and wrote a letter to Andrea about the relevant content, and she will deal with the follow-up questions.

It is not the carrier pigeons but the vultures who are responsible for delivering the letters. The distance between the two places is six to seven hundred kilometers. With the physical strength of these carrier pigeons, they may have to rest once in the middle, and accidents may happen after a rest. Large, extremely long-distance flying vultures.

Birds are really amazing animals, relying on things like magnetic fields, they can find their way home hundreds of kilometers away.

"You asked us to pay attention to the matter of Earl Stirling, and we haven't found anything yet. However, there are some details about the sea wolf, which you may be interested in."

The human sailor handed over a wooden box in a serious manner, opened it, and there was a row of scales lying inside.The overall color is turquoise, a bit transparent, and each scale is about the size of a fist.

At this time, an elf druid stepped forward and said, "This scale was bought from a fisherman. I'm sorry that we don't have knowledge about aquariums, so we can't recognize what kind of creature it is."

Tang Zhao looked around at the scales and probably had an idea.

First, judging from the thickness and size of the scales, the size of this creature should not be too big. If it is exaggerated, it is estimated that it will not exceed five meters. Normally, it should be around three meters.

Second, these are obviously fish scales, not only in the shape of tiles, but also with growth rings similar to tree rings. The age of a fish can be judged by the number of growth rings, and even a fish can be judged by the shape of the growth rings. The nutrition intake status, but he doesn't know such advanced skills, so he can only recognize that these are fish scales.

[I think the owner of this kind of scale is most likely a fish, but we should be more cautious and do more relevant investigation work.Send some people to the Haim Church, saying that they want to help them find the murderer of the missing persons case. Now that they are in short supply of manpower, they should not refuse. 】

"After the members of the Haim Church agree, what should they do?"

The elf druid who asked the question had an expression of "I understand".

[Just do it like this, find the murderer of the missing case, and at the end, find some traces to see if it was done by sea beasts or demons, then we can act openly. 】
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It will take some time for Andrea to transport the food. Tang Zhao took advantage of this spare time to continue exploring the sewers of Yintao City, hoping to have unexpected gains.

The devil likes to be active at night. He deliberately staggered the time with the other party and searched for traces of the devil during the day—the result was a bit bad. There were similar traces everywhere in the sewers in the city. Judging from the size and time period of discovery, Obviously there is more than one demon, not even two or three, the number is likely to be astonishingly double digits.

This is a Berserk Demon, whose strength is above the fourth-level human fighters. Double digits are an exaggerated number. The sum of the fourth-level fighters of Luford and Karak Solma is only this number.

He began to assess the risks, calculating whether he needed to bring reinforcements over. Too deep water was not good for him.

In addition, the investigation of the disappearance case in the city has also made progress. Judging from the traces, the perpetrators used magic, not those Berserkers hiding underground. They are similar to Tang Zhao, spell-casting idiots.

The other party was very cautious. Neither the Haim Church nor the security team in the city found any flaws. Tang Zhao's people had nothing to do with them in a short time. They could only say to continue to follow up and wait for the other party to commit crimes again.

After judging the current situation, Tang Zhao resisted the idea of ​​doing something, and continued to wait for Andrea's grain ship to arrive at its position.

It's just that before Andrea arrived, the commander of the Helm Church came first.

He came to ask for help, and hoped that Tang Zhao's sailors could help out and solve the pirates together with them.

Tang Zhao considered the time and felt that it was still too early for Andrea to arrive, so he agreed.

Because these people have helped him before, they also participated in the war against the bloodfist hobgoblin, and even fought side by side with the lizardmen on the Dewar River for a while.

The next day, on the warship of the Church of Heim, a group of people were looking at the sea, each with their own thoughts.

Although in ancient times, both the Ostians and the elves and dwarves used their own unique technologies to tinker with advanced weapons such as submarines and airships, but now humans mainly use galleys, because there are no artillery and no weapons. Ocean sailing needs.

Even if the Vikings were able to row a similar boat to Greenland, it cannot conceal the fact that the seaworthiness of this kind of boat is not very good. When encountering larger winds and waves in the inland sea, there is a possibility that the boat will be destroyed. , daily use can only be done near the coastline.

Fortunately, the sea conditions near Yintao City were good, and they deliberately chose a good weather to go out to sea, so it was not a big problem, except that Tang Zhao looked a little scared, mainly due to guilty conscience and a little seasickness.

[You have a very strong ship, and the quality of ordinary sailors and sailors is also very good. With the high-quality weapons we provide, it should be more than enough to deal with ordinary pirates. Why do you ask us for help? 】

"Because the pirates we are dealing with are not humans, they are a group of murlocs. No matter how good our sailors are at water, they can't compare to creatures with long tails and fins that can breathe in water."

That's why he asked for help. He had fought the black lizard people head-on before, and he knew that the lizard people were very capable of underwater combat.

[Murloc?What kind? 】

"Sahuagin, hateful marauders."

The ocean has a huge area, and there are naturally many kinds of intelligent creatures inhabiting it, from humans living on islands to mermaids hiding in underwater caves, to tortoises and whales as huge as mountains, with different appearances and abilities. All in one.

One concept needs to be emphasized: Mermaids and murlocs are two related but not many intelligent creatures.

The murloc has a fish head, and the lower body is not much different from that of a human. There is an extra fish tail behind it out of thin air. It has fins and webs to assist swimming, like the deep divers in the Cthulhu Mythos or the little ones in the XX League. Murloc.

The lower body of the mermaid has turned into a fish body, and the upper body is almost the same as that of a human being. This form is very well-known, like the mermaid in fairy tales.

Looking at the examples given, we can see that one is just beginning to take human form, and the other is generally as beautiful as a fairy.The Creator God of this world also has evil tastes. From the perspective of human aesthetics, most evil creatures do not look very good, while most of the kind or neutral creatures are not bad.

Merfolk are neutral creatures similar to lizardmen, while murlocs are fierce predators. The sahuagin that Tang Zhao and the others are about to face is one of the more difficult branches. They are strong and strong. At the same time, the sahuagin believe in The shark-god Sekora, favored by it, has the habit of training sharks, the ferocious predators.

This kind of creature usually lives in bottomless trenches, but they will go out to plunder all over the world, from other places in the deep sea to small cities on the coastline.

What Tang Zhao and the others were about to face was not the main force of the sahuagin, but a group of bandits. It stands to reason that they could not win easily, but they were not difficult to deal with.

Suddenly, Tang Zhao thought of something, and asked his subordinates to bring the wooden box, and showed the scales inside to the commander.

[In the legend of the fishermen of Yintao City, there is a monster called a sea wolf. These are the so-called sea wolf scales we collected. Please check for us, whether it is from a sahuagin. 】

Although the members of the Haim Church are not scholars and experts, they have excellent professionalism. They deal with creatures in the water at the beach every day. Maybe they know some information.

The commander was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't refuse: "Tile-shaped fish scales, with small green spots on the back, irregular wavy growth rings, and rough serrations on the outside of the fish scales. This is what a sahuagin left behind. , but according to my observations, the sea wolves that fishermen talk about are actually moray eels, which after some processing have become monsters that everyone fears."

[How long ago did this scale come out of the sea? 】

"About two weeks ago, it is said that when the fishermen were fishing, the fishing nets were dragged up." Seemingly aware of the seriousness of the matter, the sailor beside him hurriedly told the truth.

The commander looked serious: "Is there a specific location for fishing? Fishermen's boats are basically small boats, and they can't go to the far sea. Fishing within a few kilometers of the shore is already the limit. They shouldn't be able to compete with the sahuagin. intersecting."

"It's not far from the shore, some distance away from Yintao City, and next to a fishing village under it."

[Personal suggestion, proceed carefully in the future, don't capsize in the gutter.After returning this trip, ask your regiment commander to write a letter to the royal family, transfer a group of sailors from the military port, and ask for another infantry regiment, it would be best to have the Vulture Knight. 】

You can also tell from the commander's expression that this kind of thing was unexpected. The number of sahuagin may be much more than imagined, and they all seep into the faces of humans.

The commander discussed with Tang Zhao, but in the end they did not decide to retreat, but continued to carry out the suppression.

The sahuagin are different from the extremely volatile humans. Their lower limit is high and their upper limit is relatively low. The most powerful existence in the clan, that is, the fifth level, may not be defeated by Tang Zhao's current ability.

Now it's a small-scale conflict, and it's good for the opponent to reach the fourth level, so Tang Zhao doesn't panic.

Inform everyone to be careful, they encountered the enemy in half an hour.

A large group of poorly dressed creatures holding tridents and harpoons and fish-headed creatures are rapidly approaching from underwater. There are also a large number of small and medium-sized sharks beside them. The lizard people who are in charge of vigilance under the water immediately report the situation to them. .

In fact, there is no need for them to say much. With such a large group of people approaching, everyone can see clearly. Helm church soldiers with bows and arrows came to the deck, and the ballista was also loaded. They were aiming silently, waiting for the commander to give an order .

【The lizardman disembarked with me, just stay behind me and protect the boat, don't rush too far forward. 】

In fact, the only terrains that lizard people are really used to are swamps and flat lands. For underwater combat, they are just doing it reluctantly by relying on their racial talents. They have not experienced complete training, and their combat literacy is just like that.

To consider buoyancy, all the lizardmen are light-packed and don't wear heavy armor, which seriously reduces their defense ability. Tang Zhao doesn't want to see his own people suffer too much loss, and he feels distressed every time one of them dies.

A depressing ominous bass sounded - this was the sound of the sahuagin's hunting conch horn, which represented the official start of the hunt.

Tang Zhao then jumped into the water and grew to the largest size. With a little force on his thick and powerful tail, he swam quickly on the water like a boat.

The group of murlocs headed by him did not dare to push him too big. In the water, they were much more flexible than Tang Zhao. Tang Zhao had more speed but not enough dexterity, so the murlocs avoided him one after another.

Tang Zhao was also prepared for this, using his spiritual power to slow down the actions of several of the murlocs, and then opened his mouth and bit them directly while they were unable to dodge.

The blood spread in the ocean. Tang Zhao's skull was more than two meters long, and at the same time, he had muscle strength that was difficult for ordinary creatures to match. This made his bite force so exaggerated that the murloc was almost crushed by him.

With a flick of his head, Tang Zhao threw the murloc's body away, and rushed into the crowd of murlocs, attracting firepower for the warship behind him.

(End of this chapter)