Chapter 40: Conversation in the Study
What they saw was a large number of snake people carrying all kinds of wood and tools, moving back and forth in this large room that can be called a factory, although it was not as majestic and spacious as the previous "city center", but it was also a large factory workshop of more than 3,000 square meters.
There are a lot of uncomplicated instruments in the workshop, most of them are used for cutting, and it is obvious that they are processing wood, cutting it into long strips of wood, and finally making flutes.
Some snake people are responsible for transporting wood, some snake people are responsible for transporting finished products, male snake people are responsible for manual work, and female snake people are carefully polishing the flute that is about to take shape, looking busy.
The snake people stared at them in surprise and whispered to each other.
"This hole is a hole specially used by the logging team to transport wood, how can there be a few demons here?"
"Could it be that the queen met friends in Xuanyin and invited her to come over?"
"No way, the queen never invites guests, and even if she does, she will go through the queen's exclusive passage. How did you get out of here?"
Faced with the situation he saw, Xing Zuoxin had a habitual routine for these ordinary people, that is, pretending to be a leader, which was a method he had researched in Liangjie, and had used this method when he assassinated the doctor of biology in Liangjie before, and finally escaped alive.
Now he intends to repeat his old trick: "We are friends of your queen, and we have been invited by her to come to her, but your cave is too complicated, and we are lost, can you lead us to find your queen?" ”
The snake people whispered, and no one stepped forward to pay attention to Xing Zuo's crime.
"Okay, get it under control, let's go inside. Xing Zuosin whispered to Ye Luoda and Jie, and the two of them nodded and immediately followed Xing Zuosin.
"What is the matter with a few demons coming to my little snake tribe? Our queen never invites a foreign tribe as a guest. A voice as crisp as a bell sounded, which was very good, but the words that came out really made Xing Zuo panic.
A petite body came out of the crowd of snakes, *** thin can be held by Yingying, she holds a notebook in both hands, wears a headscarf on her head, and covers her flesh hair.
Realm: "It seems that this snake man still knows that in the territory of the dark realm, the status of the demon clan is noble, and they dare not do anything to us." ”
"That's just in the bustling city, this kind of border, not just any race dares to settle down. ”
"The queen of our family never makes friends with the demons, let alone invites them to be guests, what are you here for?"
"Since there is a sensible one, it is easy to say, what is your name?" said the world as he stepped forward and faced the skinny female snake man.
The female snake man is shorter and thinner than her.
"Lord Venerable Demon, I am the Queen's assistant, my name is Nan Nan, and I will handle all the big and small things of this snake race.
This is where we work, there is a lot of sawdust and dust, and it is very noisy, if you have something to talk about, I can take a few of them to my study. ”
The real meaning of Lan Nan Nan is "This place is the important land of the snake people, and idlers are not allowed to enter", but in the face of the demons of several rulers of the dark world, she said it very cleverly.
It is not at all like the words of this civilized and backward race.
The three of them followed Nannan to her study, which was really a veritable study, with simple wooden shelves full of books, although the room was very simple, it could be seen that the books were very well protected.
Despite this gloomy underground, not a single book was found to be damp.
The snake man didn't need a chair, so he could only take some wooden stakes for Xing Zuo to sit on, while Nannan leaned lightly on the edge of the bookshelf.
"I didn't expect the snake people to have an existence like you, where did you get these books?" Ye Luoda was very curious.
"Lord Demon Venerable smiled, our snake people are indeed a backward race, but fortunately, the magnanimous Demon Venerable did not expel us, and were even willing to trade with us.
I got these books from Xuanyindu, which is not far from here, and Xuanyin is also a holy place for us to sell flutes. Lan Nannan gently stroked the books on the shelves, and it could be seen that she really loved books.
"You trade with Xuanyin, that's a place with a music capital, and it's a famous capital in the entire Underworld. "The world was a little surprised, these snake people were extremely backward in civilization, no different from primitive people, but they didn't expect to be able to trade with such a metropolis.
"There is a lot of knowledge in the book, from civilized etiquette to business and trade, I can learn from the book, and I have learned some of it from it, but it is enough for our race to develop better. ”
Lan Nannan was modest, but she was very proud, she was telling the world, this business and trade are controlled by me.
Jie nodded, admitting inwardly that this was indeed a great snake man.
"So, your so-called trade is to use the Treants as raw materials, process them into flutes, and sell them to Xuanyindu? Xing Zuoxin had a questioning tone.
Lan Nannan retracted the smug expression just now, and her eyes were a little gloomy: "Actually, I first wanted to read a book, just to investigate one thing, our queen, since one day she brought back a very, very beautiful flute from Xuanyindu, since then, her temperament has changed greatly, and she has begun to have a crazy attachment to the flute.
Originally, our relationship with the Treants was very harmonious, they were like kind grandfathers, they have always pampered us, in this barren desert, the Treants are our favorite playground, which carries many good memories of our childhood, even the queen is no exception.
The former queen was lively and cheerful, although the most important ancestral precept of our snake people was to obey the queen's orders, but she never put any pressure on us, although everyone lived a difficult life, but they were very happy. ”
"How did it come to this now?"
"This is what I desperately read and want to investigate, but what I have found so far is only one point: living things have souls, and when a soul focuses on one object, and can even disperse its soul to that object, in a long time, the object that has a little soul will give birth to wisdom. ”
"You're talking about the demon clan. Xing Zuosin listened to her description, and he could basically conclude that this was the birth condition of the demon clan, and he continued: "The demon clan is a race without territory, they can't even call it a race, and the demon is just a general term for this kind of spiritual intelligence. And their minds are different from normal creatures, they are dead things, so they don't think too much about survival. They are born because the souls of other creatures are given to them, and this part of the soul is mostly very deep obsession. It is no exaggeration to say that demons are all paranoid. ”
Liang Nannan heard the knowledge that had not been talked about in the book, and her big eyes seemed to shine, and she listened carefully to every word that Xing Zuoxin said, and recorded it all in a small notebook.
"The flute that the queen brought back is probably a demon! It is it that influences and even controls the queen!"
"A demon is a magical being, some demons will create their own bodies, and some demons will choose to occupy other people's bodies. And your queen is likely to be the latter. ”
"The Flute! It was the Queen of the Demon's control that made her what she is now, and she did not hesitate to destroy our favorite playground, even at the cost of the lives of the old treants, to make the flute. ”
"In that case, why don't you stop her? Haven't all the snake people noticed such a big change in her?" Ye Luoda became more and more angry the more he listened, he couldn't figure out how the relationship between the snake man and the tree man could become like this?
Lan Nannan sighed: "Hey~~, originally she just likes to play that flute, and the more she blows, the better she gets, and she becomes more and more persistent about the flute."
On one occasion, when Shaphosi accidentally touched her flute and fell to the ground, she was furious and severely punished Shaphosi and removed her from her three bodyguards. They grew up together, and they had a very good relationship, and, as everyone knows, Shafssi has always had a crush on the Queen, and the Queen is also good to him.
Then the queen began to make us crazy flutes, and if there was no wood, we went to the Treants to get them, at first they just asked for some fallen branches or something, and then it intensified.
And the queen has an absolute meaning for us, she can command us to do anything, she can control our bodies through words, it is a real command. So, we can only accept it.
Then, the Queen's quality of life began to improve dramatically, and she could no longer stand the dark and damp crypts, and went to great lengths to build her a palace closer to the surface, but then we were not allowed to set foot in a single step. ”
Ding Ding Ding Ding ~ The bell hanging in the corner of this study rang.
Lan Nannan's expression immediately became solemn: "It's the queen who is back." ”