Chapter 177 Believers of the Evil Queen (please subscribe)
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This devil man in a suit spoke in the Common Tongue of the Abyss.
This allowed Matthew, who had the language proficiency effect on him, to understand the content of the other party's words.
He and Little Patton looked at each other and both parties were interested in going.
After all, they are here to investigate the source of the sulfur mine, and the mining truck in front of them is likely to point to the sulfur mine factory, which is the Stuluk Industry mentioned by the devil.
At Matthew's signal, little Patton asked in a pretending to be naive:
"So what do we do?"
The devil opened the car door boldly and straightened his tie:
"My name is Simmons, and I am a senior manager at Stuluk Industries.
I think you two have great potential, just join our company's mineral group and work directly.
Don't hesitate, this is a rare opportunity, just get on the bus."
He then pointed to the tipping bucket at the back of the mining truck and motioned for the two of them to sit on it.
The two stretched their necks and discovered that in addition to a batch of sulfur ore, there were also several mercenary-like devils sitting in the dump truck.
The mercenaries were holding a handful of hand crossbows that glowed with lightning, and their expressions looked fierce.
The appearance and body shape of these people are very similar to Simmons, with white eyes and extremely strong upper body muscles.
As far as Matthew knows, this white eyeball is called "Eye of Chaos" and is a symbol of demon blood.
With his rudimentary knowledge of the abyss, he could only tell that they were a mixture of violent demons and humans.
"Let's go! Get in the car quickly!"
The mercenary boss urged impatiently.
Matthew felt something was wrong.
Little Paton was also very smart. Seeing that the situation was not going well, he immediately showed a simple smile to Simmons:
"Then how much remuneration can we get if we join Stuluk Industries?"
Simmons put his hands on his hips impatiently:
"remuneration??
Start with a weekly salary of at least 100 gold!
You Minotaur looks a little smart, but not much -
Salary is only the smallest reward of joining Stuluk Industries.
If you ask anyone on the street, you will know that joining us will mean your career will be skyrocketing!
As long as you work hard, it won't take long for you to become a supervisor like me, with your own driver, maid, lover, gardener, etc.
But the premise of all this is.
You have to work hard enough!
Before you ask what Stuluk can give you, you'd better consider what you can give Stuluk!
The current situation in Escana can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye.
In the past ten years, rapid changes have been taking place in this land. Isn't all this brought about by Stuluk Industry?
The Buru tribe is transitioning in the direction of the Buru Empire, and as members of the tribe, if you cannot keep up with the pace of the times, you will only become the tears of the times.
Forget it, with the Minotaur's intelligence I really shouldn't have to tell you so much.
Now, get in the car, I guarantee you will make a fortune!"
The people listening to Simmons' eloquent persuasion were stunned for a while.
Matthew and the two haven't said anything yet.
An unkempt Minotaur next to him suddenly pounced over:
"They don't want to let me go, okay?!"
"I am willing to shine and dedicate my life to Stuluk Industry!"
Simmons immediately kicked the Minotaur in the stomach.
The latter suddenly fell backwards and fell to the ground.
The cloak used to cover the body was opened in an awkward manner, revealing rows of needle holes on the Minotaur's thighs.
He looked so weak and thin that Simmons' kick kept him from getting up for a long time!
Simmons cursed in disgust:
"Stay away from me, you loser!"
As he spoke, he said to Matthew and the other two:
"Look, look, this is your compatriot, a waste addicted to sulfur all day long. After you join Stuluk Industries, you can't be like him."
"Get in the car quickly!"
Simmons' patience seems to have reached its limit.
Matthew glanced at the data column.
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"Warning: You saw through Simmons' bluff.
You realize that everything Simmons said about Stuluk's treatment was a lie!
Your "anti-fraud factor" +10 (fraud field)"
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He was planning to find an opportunity to shirk Simmons' invitation.
Little Paton has already spoken, but he still has that naive tone:
"We can't go to Stuluk Industries yet."
Simmons has a bad look:
"Why?"
Little Patton said with a smile:
"How can we, two brothers, do such a good thing?
Please leave us an address and a token.
I will go and inform our younger brothers and sisters outside the city, as well as other friends, to join Stuluk Industries.
Don’t worry, the people I brought are all healthy minotaurs like us, not this old sulfur-addicted waste!”
Simmons' eyes lit up when he heard this:
"Okay, okay.
You walk along this road to the center of Bigfoot——
Did you see that big chimney from a distance?
Just go in that direction.
Stuluk Industries is everywhere.
This glove is my token. If you use it to find any official employee of Stuluk, you can find me.
Get out of the city now!
If it’s too late and we’ve recruited enough people, we might not have room for you.”
Simmons threw a smelly glove into Patton's face, then got in the car and drove away laughing.
The mining truck rumbled away with black exhaust fumes.
"You are very smart and have not been fooled."
When the mining truck went away, the Minotaur homeless man groaning on the ground suddenly jumped up with a carp thrust.
His skills are strong and he no longer looks weak at all.
The Minotaur wore a huge hood, its face hidden in the shadows, and its voice was extremely deep:
"If you go with them, you will be greeted by a life like purgatory.
In the beginning, they will indeed give you preferential treatment, give you good food and drink, and allocate accommodation in a unified way.
And the price of all this is just some hard work.
This will make you feel that coming to Stuluk Industries is really a perfect choice.
It won't be available for long.
They will increase the intensity of their oppression of you.
All the delicate work that the construct cannot do will be left to you.
In order to complete the impossible task targets, you will have to start working overtime and staying up late, and your body will become weak.
At this time, you may feel like giving up.
But Stuluk Industries will not let go of any available talent.
They will secretly infect you with sulfur sickness while you are working.
Do you know what sulfur sickness is?
Sulfur was originally a necessity for abyssal creatures, but the sulfur essence highly purified by Stuluk Industries has become a terrifying potion that makes demons addicted and can easily give them an experience of ecstasy and death.
Once you've tasted this feeling, it's hard to quit.
In order to obtain enough sulfur extraction liquid.
You have to work day and night for Stuluk Industries.
But under the influence of sulfur, your brain becomes more and more idiotic, your body becomes more and more weak, and you are simply unable to cope with the increasingly heavy tasks!
In this vicious cycle day after day.
You will fall down one day.
But this isn't your end at Stuluk Industries.
They have specialized doctors to deal with this situation.
If you wake up in better physical condition, continue squeezing;
Almost sent to the laboratory and turned into test subjects;
Only those who have completely lost their value will be thrown onto the street and become homeless people one after another.
Bigfoot City is full of people like this, and the Minotaur, Bigfoot, and Deergod, the three groups that originally took root here, have suffered greatly from them.
The only profiteer is the Devilman who took refuge in Stuluk Industries first.
Stuluk Industries has destroyed the lives of countless of our compatriots, and the most hateful thing is that he also claims that we have allowed ourselves to fall!
You should have seen a lot of Minotaurs dressed similarly to me along the way, right?
They all worked for Stuluk Industries.
He was obviously framed and contracted sulfur sickness.
However, Stuluk promoted him as a typical example of the Minotaur clan who did not want to make progress and were willing to degenerate.
Do you think it’s sad?”
After listening to this introduction.
Both Matthew and Little Patton had surprised looks on their faces.
Little Patton stared at each other:
"Who are you?"
The other party replied:
"My name is Conley, and I am a ranger. I know that Minotaur Rangers are not common, but these days the demons have been castrated into useless people who work obediently for Stuluk Industries, so Minotaur Rangers should be normal."
"Are you two minotaurs from out of town?"
"Remember not to wander around on the street during the day. The person you met is Simons. He holds a high position in Stuluk Industries and he still has some respect. If it were another small boss, I'm afraid he would kidnap you directly!
After all, there aren’t many health demons in the city.”
When meeting each other, they also use the common language of the abyss.
Matthew boldly spoke:
"How do you know we're lying to fool him?"
Conley said calmly:
"I have long been familiar with the Minotaur tribe near Bigfoot City. Even in the suburbs farther away, I can't escape my ears and eyes. I haven't heard that a new Minotaur tribe has moved nearby, so you can only be lying.
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Okay kids, I don't have time to answer your questions all the time, I still have a lot of things to do.
Remember, Bigfoot City is no longer what it used to be, and the demons have all fallen——
Damn it, why do we still have room for depravity despite being demons?
Anyway, be careful and don’t go out during the day, be careful of Stuluk Industries!”
With that said, he made a gesture to leave.
Little Paton grabbed him:
"Mr. Conley, we are the McCowen brothers who came from a far away place to join relatives. He is the elder brother and I am the younger brother.
But after entering the city today, we realized that the place has changed drastically. We can't find our uncle and can only live on the streets.
Can you show us a place to stay?
As long as it can provide shelter from the wind and rain.”
Conley gave them a disgusted look.
There seemed to be an ideological struggle going on in his heart.
A few seconds later.
Seeing another mining truck coming from the distance.
Conley quickly waved to the two of them:
"Come with me!"
As he spoke, he rushed to the alley across the road. In a corner of the alley, he deftly lifted the cement cover, revealing a dark passage.
The entrance to the passage is large but the space inside is very cramped.
The three of them ducked in one after another.
Conley was first responsible for cutting off and hiding the cement cover, and then walked in front of the two of them.
"I will take you to the revivalists' camp, but you must swear not to reveal the location of the camp, otherwise I will not be able to spare you."
"You don't need to be too happy. I don't have much say in the camp. Whether I can stay or not depends on the "prophet"'s wishes."
As he spoke, he deftly stuck out his butt and walked towards the depths of the sewer.
“What is a revivalist?”
“What really happened in Bigfoot?”
"Why did the Minotaur here become like this? Isn't this very different from what we heard before?"
Along the way, little Paton skillfully phrased the words.
This guy could always think of something to do with Matthew. At first Matthew would interrupt once or twice, but later he simply let Patton ask questions alone.
He was concentrating on analyzing the information provided by Minotaur Conley.
Conley's voice echoed slightly in the sewer:
"You can tell by the name, kid, we are a group of frustrated people, a group of old people trying to revive the blood of demons.
You may not know what Bigfoot was like a few decades ago.
But I still remember it fresh.
The situation at that time may have been very bad, and our civilization was very backward, but when facing outsiders, everyone was bloody and dared to hold up weapons and give them a head-on attack!
At that time, Bigfoot City was a chaotic city-state ruled by three demonic races: Bigfoot, the Minotaur, and the Deer-headed Demon.
There are fights every day in the city.
Every day, demons are disemboweled, their intestines torn out, and their bodies rot beside the stinking ditch.
oh.
That's really nostalgic.
One day later.
The airship from Stuluk Industries is parked on the walls of Bigfoot.
At first, the demons in the three cities fought several battles with Stuluk's mercenaries.
Although the results were tragic, they still prevented their invasion.
But later, Stuluk changed his infiltration strategy.
They began to try the upper-level route, bribing, controlling, and inciting rebellion against the top leaders of the three major races.
Things started to change little by little.
Finally six years ago.
Most of the demons in Bigfoot City were tricked into drinking the "Tame Potion" provided by Stuluk Industries——
That potion is said to be able to eliminate the violent elements in demon blood.
It can free the demon clan from endless disputes and battles.
This statement is true.
I have witnessed the terrible effects of that potion with my own eyes.
Demons who take the potion will become rational and peaceful, and they are particularly reasonable.
But is the fucking reasonable devil still a devil?
A friend of mine is a guy who does not believe in evil. Before taking the potion, he was an executioner who would not be happy if he did not stab people for a day.
As a result, the second after the potion entered his stomach, he seemed to have turned into a holy warrior who understood the oath of the sage!
Can you believe it?
He actually started crying and confessing to me his past sins of killing!
But this is not the most terrifying effect of the potion.
The demons lost not only their ambition and desire to kill, but also their blood and backbone!
The demons who took the potion became timid and fearful.
Obviously we are the most frightening and violent race in the world.
But they began to consider banning fighting in the city.
The reason is that it affects civilization.
Fuck civilization!
The devil's civilization is a fighting civilization.
Because I couldn't accept this kind of chemical castration, I escaped into the sewers and established a revivalist camp with others.
During this period, I was also forced to learn many ranger skills——
This world is so fucked up.
A two-meter-tall minotaur is forced to crawl in the city sewers every day.
For this reason, I even learned the bone-shrinking technique from a devotee of Babasha!
I'm going too far, cough.
You can guess the development behind Bigfoot City with your buttocks.
The demon who lost his wild nature became a slave of Stuluk Industries.
This city gradually became the world of demons.
The three major races in the past had to be on tenterhooks every day.
On the contrary, we stinky rats living in the sewers should live more freely.
Stuluk's men tried entering the sewers.
But we have the blessing of the "God of Sewers", and the terrain here is complicated. After paying a painful price several times, they have never interfered with the underground world again."
Conley is a typical cold-hearted guy.
On the surface, he disliked the "McIlvaine brothers" who had just arrived and didn't understand anything.
In fact, they have been eager to help.
Not only risk taking them to your own camp.
He also talked a lot about the background and common sense about Bigfoot City.
If this knowledge were converted into Margaret's infusion standard, it would be impossible to get even 10,000 gold coins.
Think so.
Matthew felt in his heart that he had earned his blood.
And along the way.
He also recalled why the word Stuluk was so familiar——
That is the hometown of the female orc Clegg.
It should currently be occupied by a wandering Necron force from the Antu Empire.
It seems that Stuluk Industries has something to do with them.
The three of them walked in the dark in the sewer for thirty minutes.
After jumping over a smelly pool.
The terrain ahead suddenly became clear.
An extremely open underground space appeared in front of them.
There are several guards on the high ground on both sides who are watching the intruders vigilantly.
"Old Hei, it's me, Conley."
The Minotaur Ranger's rich voice sounded.
The guard leader is a dark-skinned demon with huge antlers.
He looked at Matthew and the two with an unkind expression:
"You came back to camp with a strange face again, Conley. You always don't follow the rules, even if you set the rules yourself."
Conley shrugged:
"I want to take them to see the prophet. Is the prophet in the tower?"
The antlered devil said displeasedly:
"According to the information from my informant, Stuluk Industries is planning to launch the fourth siege of our camp. At this juncture, we must not be arrogant and careless."
Conley scratched his head:
"Okay, I know I probably shouldn't do this, but these two children are very healthy, rare health - you should know what this level of health means in Bigfoot City. I can't look at Simon.
He destroyed them."
The deer-headed demon insisted on his opinion:
"I understand you, health is a luxury these days.
But because of this, I suspect that Simmons put out the bait.
If you don't mind, I would like to use the True Knowledge Stone on them, so that at least the possibility of transfiguration can be ruled out."
Matthew secretly cried out when he heard this.
He and little Patton looked at each other and got ready to run away.
The next second.
Without waiting for Conley's consent, the deer-headed demon took out a flashy gem from his arms and began to chant a spell loudly.
At that moment, little Paton instinctively retreated, but was blocked by Matthew.
"Don't be afraid."
Matthew suddenly whispered with confidence.
Little Patton's body immediately relaxed.
After a few seconds.
A white magical sheen shone on the two people's bodies, and their skin became extremely bright.
The deer-headed demon watched the performance of the two closely.
I saw the two of them were calm and composed.
He said slowly:
"Okay, you can pass here."
"Your bodies will all glow in the next period of time. This is nothing but a side effect of the True Knowledge Gem."
Conley snorted:
"I have already said that there is nothing wrong with these two children. I think you are clearly trying to make things difficult for me."
The deer-headed demon looked calm:
"I'm just doing what I should do."
"You better be!"
Conley warned.
Then he led the two of them into the camp.
The buildings in the camp are similar to what Matthew saw on the surface, maybe even a little behind.
What is more surprising is that there are many electric lights here.
And the electricity bill is always on as if it is free.
It's obviously a huge underground space.
Walking among them is as bright as day.
Along the way.
Little Patton took the time to ask:
"How come his True Knowledge Gem didn't see through our disguise?"
"Is your potion so powerful?"
Matthew smiled and said nothing.
on the data column.
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"Hint: You saw through the bluff of the deer-headed demon captain Lao Hei!
The captain of the deer-headed demon took out a gem of true knowledge (magic disguise).
The deer-headed demon captain used the "Light Technique" on you and Little Patton.
Not only did you see through the other party's bluff, but you also successfully managed to hide it.
Your anti-fraud factor +10;
Your Bluff factor +10;
It is detected that you have accumulated enough anti-fraud factors. Do you want to use these factors to enter the field of fraud?"
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Matthew is in no rush to enter the field just yet.
"Demons are not simple residents after all. They were defrauded twice when they first arrived. Fortunately, my anti-fraud awareness is strong enough. But if this happens a few more times, wouldn't the relevant factors be fully maxed out?"
"This camp is too poor. They can't even produce a gem of true knowledge. The captain guarding the gate can only bluff. It's quite sad to think about it. The devil in Bigfoot City has indeed declined, so it's no wonder he wants to revive it."
he thought.
The revivalist camp is certainly more lively than the city above.
The two Matthews walked all the way.
There were at least four unprovoked fights.
The demons here are more militant than those on the surface, but they all have more or less disabilities.
It probably has something to do with Stuluk Industries.
Conley is very popular in the camp.
Everywhere he passed, people greeted him.
corresponding.
Many people also asked Matthew about their origins.
For the convenience of explanation, Conley said that the "McCowan Brothers" were his nephews.
The more people ask, the more he answers.
Gradually.
He seemed to really regard the two of them as nephews.
His attitude towards the two of them also became more and more affectionate.
finally.
Conley brought the two to a tall tower with a dark appearance.
The gate of the tower is closed.
There are still a few figures waiting on the steps leading to the tower.
The most eye-catching one is a bald woman.
She is actually a human being.
There are several Bigfoots and a Minotaur nearby.
Conley warned the two:
"You just wait on the steps. I'll go in first and say hello to the prophet. Don't be nervous. No one will hurt you here."
"By the way, stay away from that woman. She is a follower of the Evil Queen Barbassa and a warrior monk. Although I learned the bone-shrinking technique from her, I always feel that she is hiding something. I can't shrink like her.
So perfect..."
However, while he was talking, the female monk walked over quickly:
"Idiot Conley! You can't shrink as perfectly as me because you have one more dick than me!"
"Who are these two people? Are they your illegitimate children? They seem to be very healthy."
While talking, the woman licked her plump and sexy lips.
Conley said seriously:
"They are my nephews, Rosie, you can't do anything to them."
"If you need anything lately, just come to me."
The female warrior monk named Rosie ignored Conley's flirtation.
She looked at Matthew with interest, her eyes flashing with reminiscence:
"I seem to have seen you before, this feeling is very familiar."
Matthew's heart started to beat faster.
He knew that the other party had not seen him before, and the reason why he felt this way was because of the special attention the Evil Queen paid to him!
Just when he was trying to get rid of the entanglement with the followers of the Evil Queen.
The door of the tower suddenly opened.
An old voice came from the door:
"Conley, did you bring those two children here?"
"Let them in quickly."
Matthew felt as if he had been granted amnesty.
The two quickly bypassed the female warrior monk and entered the tower.
The door slowly closed.
In front of them was an old Bigfoot man on crutches.
The latter said to Matthew kindly:
"What's wrong, kid? I sense that you are a little uneasy."
Matthew let out a long breath:
"It's okay, it's just the lady outside. She seems a little aggressive."
The old man said gently:
"Rosie is like this. She is a very direct girl. If she falls in love with you, she will snatch you away overnight."
"But don't worry, she is a loyal believer of the Evil Queen Barbassa. How bad can someone who believes in Barbassa be?"
Matthew felt something was wrong:
"The followers of the Evil Queen...can't be any worse?"
The old man smiled heartily and said:
"certainly."
"Look at me, I am also a believer of the Evil Queen. Do you think I look like a bad person?"