153. Chapter 151 The outline of the conspiracy is gradually revealed
153. Chapter 151 The outline of the conspiracy is gradually revealed
Author: Gushan fishing snow
Chapter 151 The outline of the conspiracy is gradually revealed
Wang gave Xiaobai a head slap.
Xiaobai held his head: "Why do you give me a break?"
Wang: "I didn't hit hard either. What I meant was that you were almost done. Let's talk about business here."
Xiaobai pouted: "Okay, let's get down to business."
Wang: "Go and smell this feathered lizard man, and then walk around the village to see if there is any place that smells similar. I mean, except for those who also have feathers."
Xiaobai: "Do you suspect that someone is using magic to cause mischief?"
"We're not sure yet. Let's use all the investigative methods we can think of first, and then we'll summarize the information."
Xiaobai nodded, then jumped a few times and came to the female lizard man whose whole body was almost covered with feathers: "Let me smell you."
The girl's brother translated it again, and the girl nodded.
So Xiaobai unceremoniously got into her feathers and sniffed them. After a few seconds, she pulled out the head and wandered away while looking around.
Nini asked in a low voice: "Is it okay if she just wanders around like this? These lizard people don't look so hospitable."
Wang: "Don't worry, Xiaobai can change into animals and is very adaptable. Apart from not being able to dismantle traps, she is a perfect candidate for investigation."
As he spoke, he turned to Flint and said, "You can try the restoration technique later to rule out the possibility that the restoration technique used by the lizard people is irregular."
The dwarf nodded.
The king turned to the monk again: "Where is the first person in the village who showed such symptoms? Call him over."
Monk: "I'll do it right away..."
At this moment, the lizard men watching suddenly stood up straight and looked respectfully in the same direction.
Wang also looked over and saw a rickety lizard man.
Li Guang also stood up straight like the others and said respectfully: "Elder."
Wang: "Well, apart from bending down, the only difference in appearance is the color of the scales. This should be the external characteristic of aging lizard people."
As he spoke, he glanced at Li Guang: "And monk, your scales are still very bright."
Li Guang: "I haven't started to age yet. The aging of lizard people is a very rapid process in the eyes of you humans..."
"Liguang!" the elder said, "you have brought outsiders into the village again."
Li Guang: "This team can help us solve the problem of growing feathers."
"You have your reasons every time, but except for the traveler who made us a repeating crossbow, when have these outsiders not betrayed your trust?"
The lizardman monk remained silent.
The elder continued: "When you left the village to pursue the path of a warrior monk, our life was very peaceful. Although life was tight, and although other tribes came to provoke us from time to time, generally speaking, we lived a very comfortable life."
Liguang: "But..."
"You always say that a short life should burn brilliantly, but we don't want to burn. We just want to spend this short life quietly here.
"You always say that active contact with the outside world can bring about changes. I admit that the Liannu is indeed very useful, but the bamboo hat brought by the same outsider is of no use."
When Wang heard what the elder said, he said apologetically: "I'm sorry, that's just my uncle trying to satisfy himself."
The elder looked at the mage with a surprised look on his face: "Who do you belong to?"
Wang: "My nephew, in fact, he is also my teacher and taught me a lot. But my teacher insisted that I call him uncle, and I only keep the name teacher for myself."
Elder: "Oh, that is indeed a distinguished guest. That one is the only one among the travelers brought in by Liguang who has had a positive impact on our lives. The other travelers either want to kidnap our girls and sell them to someone.
There are some wealthy human merchants with special tastes, or they are coveting the wealth of our lizard people."
Wang looked around: "Wealth? Are you sure?"
Elder: "Of course we don't have wealth, we even use the pebbles by the river as 'money', so the foreigners Li Guang brought back cursed and left when they saw the situation in the village.
"Obviously he has been taught so many lessons, but Liguang continues to bring outsiders into the village."
The lizardman monk argued: "You also admit that outsiders have brought good changes to the village. If they can bring about the first change, they can bring about the second change."
The elder retorted: "Since it can bring about good changes, it can also bring about bad changes. Even the symptoms of feathering may be caused by the travelers you brought. Can you refute?"
The monk fell silent.
Wang interjected: "We will investigate this symptom. First we want to meet the first person who developed this symptom."
As soon as the elder heard what Wang said, he said to Li Guang: "Did you hear that? They just investigated this symptom and did not say to help us solve it. These outsiders especially like to play with these words. After all, the common language is also their language, we lizards
People can only be fooled by them."
Wang: "No, I didn't say we won't solve it, but we need to investigate first before solving it..."
"Look at his words!" The elder expressed admiration, then glanced at Li Guang, "They are bullying honest lizard people like you."
Wang (switching to dragon language): "Can you fucking listen to what people say?"
The effect of dragon language was outstanding, and the elder stopped chattering for the first time and looked at the king in astonishment.
Wang (still in Dragon Language): "Of course we have to solve this problem, because the initiator of this problem may be the religious group we are looking for. But before solving this problem, we need to investigate and find out how the problem occurred. Understand
Is it done?"
The elder nodded: "I understand."
Wang switched back to common language: "Now go and find the first person who shows this symptom. I want to question him."
The elder immediately turned his head and said a few words to the guards behind him in lizard language.
The guard left immediately.
At this moment, Li Guang whispered to Wang: "Thank you."
"You're welcome. I just hate idiots who don't listen well to others, or don't understand what others say." Wang replied.
When the elder heard Wang calling him a fool, his eyes widened and his skin began to turn red.
Wang pointed at him and asked Li Guang: "Is the scale turning red a sign of anger?"
Li Guang nodded: "Yes."
Flint hurriedly rushed in to smooth things over: "Well, don't argue with our captain about this elder. He is more academically research-minded. After all, he is a mage. Mages are too smart, so much so that they are a bit lacking."
tendons.”
Wang nodded: "Indeed."
Nini praised: "As expected of a teacher, he has a clear self-awareness."
Wang: "Others praised me for being smart, but I didn't want to be too modest, so I had to answer like this."
Flint pointed at Wang and said to the elder: "Look, what I said is right, right? So don't argue with him!"
The elder looked at Wang, and his blood-congested skin returned to its original color.
"Okay." He said, "Since you really want to solve the problem for us, then my attitude is biased. The main reason is that we have been tricked by outsiders too many times."
The dwarf breathed a sigh of relief, and then muttered: "Damn, why should I do this kind of communication work? Find a bard!"
King: "You are Kailin's priest. You can also tap dance, so you are half a bard. Come on, cast the restoration spell quickly."
Flint took hold of the holy symbol and began to pray.
The lizard girl had been standing nearby obediently. When she saw the dwarf's holy symbol starting to glow, her eyes widened.
Flint pressed his hand wrapped in light on the lizard girl's skin.
However, those feathers did not change at all.
Flint said firmly: "Yes, the restoration spell is not effective on this thing."
Wang got closer and observed the feathers: "Strange, this thing is similar to the feathers that Nini grew due to the influence of Lamashtu in the Fetal Movement Hall. If they are the same thing, the restoration technique should be useful."
At this time, Xiaobai came back, holding a handful of soil in his hand: "I found that the smell of this soil is very similar to that of this girl."
King: "Soil?"
He turned from the lizard girl to Xiao Bai, took the soil in Xiao Bai's hand, studied it carefully, and then had a confused expression on his face.
He asked: "Are you sure this soil has the same smell?"
"Yeah." Xiaobai nodded.
Wang continued to ask in detail: "What kind of smell? Describe it."
Xiaobai frowned: "Just...this is so hard to describe."
Wang: "Look for a similar smell. It would be best if it is a similar smell that we have also smelled."
Xiaobai said "Hmm" for a long time, then suddenly his expression lit up and he said: "Like stinky cheese!"
"Stinky cheese?" Wang muttered.
He brought the soil in his hand to his nose and smelled it: "It's true what you said... I want to ask, what kind of work in the lizard man village will have a smell like smelly cheese?"
Li Guang: "First of all, cheese is not eaten in the village. I have eaten cheese in human society, and I don't think we lizard people would like the taste. If you want to ask what kind of work here has the smell of smelly cheese, my answer is no
.”
Xiaobai: "But I smelled a smell ten thousand times worse than stinky cheese in the village. Over there."
Liguang looked at the direction Xiaobai was pointing and said, "Oh, you may be talking about Makuta."
Wang: "What is that?"
Li Guang: "There is no corresponding word in common language, so I can only pronounce it according to the pronunciation. This is a method of stuffing a sparrow into the belly of a live alligator, then sealing its anus, and hanging it for pickling.
Ready-made food.”
Wang: "Alligator, seal the anus? Is it so wild? And this is lizard food that I haven't seen in the folklore written by my teacher!"
The lizard man elder said next to him: "This is a way of eating that a passing Archdruid taught us a long time ago, saying that it can replenish a life element that is difficult to obtain for us. We started making and eating it
After eating this kind of food, the number of sick people decreased significantly.
"So this method of making food has been passed down by us. We are a short-lived species, and the inheritance often breaks down. Other villages also learned this method of making from us."
Li Guang said loudly: "Look, isn't this the benefit that outsiders bring to us? So what I did is not wrong!"
Wang Ze touched his chin and muttered: "Seal the anus and pickle it... It sounds like fermentation, life elements... I feel that this supplement should be vitamins. Let me ask, do you lizard people... know how to eat fruits?
"
All the lizardmen present who understood Common Tongue had expressions of rejection.
Wang: "I understand. So the disease cured by this food is sepsis? I mean..."
Wang described the symptoms of sepsis.
The elder nodded: "That's it."
Wang touched his chin: "This druid has a wide range of knowledge. Theoretically speaking, a druid should have no way to obtain knowledge from other planes."
Even the most powerful druids cannot travel freely outside the plane. Their highest achievement is to become the incarnation of nature, a semi-divine existence.