The night the decision was made, Malika and the soldiers from Ximu Town escorted a carriage carrying a box of gold to Watergate Town.
This is a deposit for mercenaries who are interested in taking this job.
When Malika set off, Elizabeth was still very worried: "How about we go together? With so many gold coins, Malika may not be able to keep it alone."
Ralph: "Don't you believe in my soldiers? I have chosen the most loyal ones. Since the mining industry failed, many people have left the Valley Territory. They all really regard this place as their hometown, thinking that one day they can return to it again."
A man who has gained glory."
Elizabeth: "That's a box of gold."
Ralph: "Even now, as a lord, you can still collect a box of gold. My father is still an earl after all, not a baron and viscount!"
Elizabeth was silent for a few seconds and apologized solemnly: "I'm sorry."
Wang clapped his hands vigorously: "Marika has gone far, let's go to bed. It's already very late now. If we hurry up, we can still sleep for four hours."
Elizabeth nodded.
But Xiaobai had already fallen asleep standing up, drooling while sleeping.
**
Early the next morning, the spellcasters met in the hall of the fortress after preparing today's spells.
Elizabeth looked obviously sleep deprived. She yawned greatly when they met. Then she smacked her lips and asked the king: "Marika should be able to arrive at Watergate Town tonight, right? So it will take tomorrow for us to gather the troops needed to attack the underground?"
Wang nodded: "That's more or less it. So today we have time to do the experiments mentioned before."
"experiment?"
"Yes, it is an experiment to study the smells released by cavemen when they are in different emotions. Eat more, Xiaobai, you will be needed today!"
Xiaobai was holding a large piece of bacon and nodded when he heard the Master's words: "Okay! If you don't tell me, I will eat more. This way I can carry it for a while longer when I am hungry in the future."
The mage turned to look at the druid: "Have you ever been hungry?"
"I didn't. But the elders of the tribe said that there was a large-scale drought. Animals died in droves. Werewolves could not catch prey. They were so hungry that they could only eat starch. Bah, I don't want to eat starch.
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Elizabeth looked at Wang: "So... do that experiment today?"
"Yes, this is a pioneering study of caveman ecology. After the experiment is completed, I will write the report on the paper my teacher gave me."
Elizabeth: "Paper?"
"Yes, it is synchronized with another piece of paper in the Mage Tower. Whatever you write on the paper in the Mage Tower will appear, and then it will be printed on other paper. Our apprentices who go out to study in the Mage Tower will bring this prop to share their findings at any time.
Send it back to the Mage Tower."
Elizabeth's mouth opened wide: "This... can it only be used to communicate with the Mage Tower? Can't it be used for other things?"
"cannot."
Princess: "You have so many good things in the Mage Tower. You can bring about changes in any plane you go to, right? Why have you always stayed in the Mage Tower?"
Wang looked at her doubtfully: "Why should we initiate changes?"
"Huh?" Elizabeth was asked immediately.
Wang: "We believe that we should try our best to ensure the original state of each plane. Although the study tours of people in the tower will affect each plane to a greater or lesser extent, we do not want to raise the civilization of each plane to the same level.
My teacher thinks that would destroy the diversity of the planes."
Elizabeth: "Uh... But this will allow us... to make the lives of the people in the plane better."
Wang: "Technological progress may solve old problems, but without exception it will bring new problems. Your material life may indeed improve, but the problems you face will also become bigger. At least in my teacher's opinion, this is the case.
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"Of course there are people who don't agree with the teacher's views. They have now left the Mage Tower. I may also leave the Mage Tower in the future, but now I have no opinions that contradict the teacher's views."
Elizabeth took a step back subconsciously: "That's right, so in your eyes, we are just research materials, right?"
Wang: "You are still my friend. Specific issues need to be analyzed concretely, and each individual cannot be generalized."
Elizabeth looked at the mage with a complicated face.
At this time the dwarf said: "Your Highness, you don't need to think so clearly about some issues. You are traveling together now. It is enough to know this."
Elizabeth: "That's right. Well, it's enough to know this."
Xiaobai: "Another bone!"
**
That evening, Wang put down his quill and put away the magical paper.
"Okay, that's it for the research on cavemen's emotions!" He stretched out greatly and glanced at Xiaobai who had a bulging stomach next to him, "Have you remembered the form I gave you?
?You can tell how emotional a caveman is by looking at a table!"
Xiaobai: "I don't remember. I don't want to smell cavemen anymore. They are either smelly or spicy. I almost choked to death! You are bullying me!"
Wang: "Didn't I make it up to you? Look at all the meat!"
Xiaobai: "This is from Dabo!"
Wang: “I asked her to give it to me!”
While the two were arguing, "Da Bo" spoke up: "You are indeed bullying Xiao Bai too much. In order to prevent her from turning into a chicken and escaping, you threw rice in front of her."
The druid who turned into a chicken would peck rice as a conditioned reflex when he saw rice. However, Xiaobai hated rice and would change back to "bah bah bah" after eating rice. So she had to smell the smell of cavemen for a day.
Wang: "This is a great discovery! Maybe it will be included in Tali's academic annual journal this year!"
Elizabeth looked suspicious: "Just by smelling the caveman?"
Wang: "Uh...his, if you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem like that important academic research."
Xiaobai made a threatening purring sound: "I'll bite you!"
Wang: "It's still quite important, but I guess it won't be published in an academic journal. Well, it definitely won't be published. After all, it's just a new habit of a common species."
At this time someone knocked on the door.
"Come in." The mage responded.
Ralph opened the door and came in. Before he took his hand off the doorknob, he said, "Hey! Come up to the gatehouse of the fortress. There is a rare visitor!"
Wang looked at the colorful members of his team and asked: "Are they rarer than us?"
Ralph: "A level of rare."
Everyone looked at each other. The dwarf knocked his pipe on the table, put it away and stood up: "Then let's go."
**
By the time we reached the tower, the last ray of sunset had disappeared and it was completely dark.
The torches on the tower could not be found below, and the people below did not light torches at all.
Wang looked down from the tower and could only see someone riding a horse below. The only person in the team with dark vision was too short and was currently moving boxes, so he had no time to look down.
The mage took out his old friend's scepter, and in an instant, the radiant light dispelled the darkness.
The guards on the city wall had long been experienced, and they all averted their eyes in advance. The people under the city wall were not surprised to be blinded, and could only raise their hands to cover their eyes.
The person below is riding a white horse and is wearing brown leather armor. The leather armor has straps that cross to the left and right, and there are many props hanging on it. Judging from this costume, this person is either a ranger or a wanderer.
The mage stared at the leather armor and muttered: "Has leather armor now begun to have a bulletproof appearance like plate armor?"
Elizabeth: "Those are people's secondary sexual characteristics!"
Wang: "Really?"
At this time, the rider on the white horse, who was blocking her sight with her hands, finally moved her hands away, so everyone could see her face.
It was an exquisite face that complemented her long pale golden hair.
At this time, the dwarf finally got his box. He climbed up on the box, lay down in the gap between the battlements, looked down, and then immediately cursed: "Caris Newman's belly button! I definitely don't agree with her joining the team!"
Having a drow in the team is already uncomfortable enough! Another elf would be terrible! Besides, the drow and ordinary forest elves will definitely beat their brains out!"
The elf below frowned: "Drow? I only knew there were cavemen here, but I didn't know there were drows! So this is the drow elves driving the cavemen to do evil, right?"
Wang Fu'e: "This... no, that's not the case. The drow are our teammates."
The elf girl immediately raised her bow at super speed: "So you are doing evil? You have already killed the lord's son, right?"
Ralph: "Uh, no, I'm still alive. And they're here to solve the caveman problem."
Wang: "We have also proposed a solution. If it is convenient, could you put away your bow and arrow and come in first to listen to us explain the situation?"
The elf girl thought for a moment, put away her bow and arrows and nodded: "Okay."
Ralph: "Open the door! Can you take her into the room where you just had dinner?"
"Okay." The mage nodded.
At this time, the elf girl had already entered the door on horseback and disappeared from sight. As soon as the mage was about to leave the tower, Elizabeth grabbed him and asked seriously: "Do you want to travel with her?"
Wang: "Think about it. You see, her first reaction was to use a bow and arrow. She was so smooth with the bow, and I saw that in addition to the quiver on her back, she also had a quiver on her waist. She must be a ranger, and she is very good at it."
A great ranger."
Elizabeth: "I'm not asking that... I'm asking, do you want to drive a carriage with her to do business?"
"Ah, that's what you're talking about. I don't want to. By the way, I don't want to turn into a lamb and be beaten by her with a whip, and she doesn't blush at all. I don't want to fall in love with her yet."
Elizabeth was relieved immediately, but then asked: "Then do you want to have sex with her?"
Wang actually thought for a second before replying: "I don't want to. I think it's strange that the Duchess of the Valley is also a beautiful woman, but I have no idea of having sex with her. The elf just now is even more beautiful than you,
I don't have that idea either. Is it because your secondary sexual characteristics are the most obvious?"
Elizabeth was speechless for a long time.
Xiaobai said next to him: "The smart guy is indeed a fool. No, it should be said that the smart guy is really smart. Well, that's the right way to say it."
Wang retorted seriously: "I am thinking about the problem. If I have the opportunity in the future, I will do a quantitative analysis to see how old my body is before I have the desire to mate. But for now, I do have sex with Miss Elf.
The possibility of developing a romantic relationship.”
Elizabeth: "..."
Flint laughed loudly: "I thought I had seen all kinds of human beings, but I didn't expect that my vision was narrow. It's a pity that the roaring cat person is not there, otherwise she will definitely be happy to die."
**
A moment later, Wang's team met the elf girl in the meeting room specially provided by Sir Ralph.
The first thing the king said when he saw the elf was: "Why are your legs so long?"
Flint: "Who are you calling short legs?"
Elizabeth: "Don't be so sensitive. It's hard for others to tell. He definitely has no intention of despising you."
The dwarf took out his pipe: "Same."
The elf frowned: "What was that just now? Some kind of provocation?"
Wang: "No, I'm just asking why your legs are so long and they look very developed."
"I am a forest elf. I need to jump on the trees. Without such muscles, I cannot fly across the treetops of Sevu Forest."
Wang: "You are from Severin? Isn't that on the other side of the World Mountains?"
"I climbed over the mountains of the world." The elf replied, as if he had just stepped over a small dirt bag.
King: "Do you want to take the shield path?"
"No, many parts of the Shield Road are underground. I don't really like passing through the dwarf's mountain kingdom." The elf replied.
Wang: "So you haven't passed through Langdon Territory either?"
"No. I want to avoid human big cities as much as possible. I..." The elf hesitated for a moment, then said, "I'm not very good at recognizing human lies. I'm afraid of being deceived."
Everyone looked at each other.
Flint put tobacco into his pipe and said, "Then you've come to the right place. We have a captain here who won't lie."