Mom was unkempt, mud clumped in his beard, one eye was surrounded by bruises, and his face was bruised. The armor hung crookedly on his body, and the reinforced iron nails inlaid with leather armor had twisted in several places and become overwhelmed. In short, it looks like Mohm has been through a hard-fought and evenly matched battle, only against "a lot of big fat mice"?

"What the hell is going on?" Fitch put his hands on Mohm's shoulders and invited him to sit in his chair, then telepathize with a cup of tea. The tea had already cooled, but Mohm didn't look at it, and just took it and drank it up.

"I followed your advice to look for ...... mines," Mohm glanced at Didlet, and changed his words in an instant, "...... Where there may be monsters. The patrol went smoothly at first, but when we got to Guleigang, something happened. I found a crack in the ground, which was supposed to be a collapse caused by rain. I looked down through the crack and saw that it led to a deep cavern. ”

"I smell the scent of gems, the power given to me by dwarven blood. However, I'm just a half-blood dwarf, and I can't tell what kind of gem it is. So, I tied a rope and went down through the crack and walked along the natural cave. ”

"I'm a little careless, I should have turned back as soon as my nose itched!" said Mohm shuddered, as if recalling the situation still terrified him. "The downward passage ended in front of a slit, and I heard the voice of Hishisoso coming from the slit. At that time, my pores were standing up, and I accidentally stepped on the air, causing the slit to break, and I crawled down with the rolling belt. Then, there is the nightmarish scenario. ”

Mohm gestured hand and foot together and said, "The hole down there is full of rats! It's so big, it's as fat as a pig." They crowded together, and when they saw how many of them had been crushed to death, they pounced on them together. Red, green, purple eyes, all with long, pointed front teeth! All on my head, on my face, on my chest, and I couldn't see the edges. I drew my axe and dagger and ran all the way to the chasm, and finally climbed up the chasm, and then came back to report to you. ”

"Do you have a bite on your body? Rats can carry diseases. ”

As soon as Feige finished speaking, he saw that Mohm's face suddenly turned green, and then changed between pale, withered yellow, and turquoise. "Show me, show me! God, old Mom doesn't want to die from a mouse!"

So, Didlet was invited out of the room, and then Feige gave Mom a careful examination. "There were no bites at all, how do I see these wounds as if they were caused by blunt impact?

"I don't remember exactly, it was all rats and gray hair! Oh my God...... I'm almost suffocating. Gollum...... Gollum!"

Mom retched for a while, but couldn't spit out. Fei Qi felt more and more that Mohm's fear of rats was more of a psychological fear, not that rats were so powerful.

"Rats are not good for the territory and must be eliminated as soon as possible before they are on the ground. Feige said to Mohm, "Well, can you still show us the cave?"

"Yes! This time I'm going to bring oil to the fire, oil to the lamp, and everything else that can be set on fire, and burn the rats!"

"Calm down, ignition in a semi-confined space is prone to unpredictable consequences, and we don't know if there are other exits to the cave below, it is possible that setting fire will only make the rats dodge in the depths, and it will not eliminate much at all. Feige patted Mohm on the shoulder: "Let's go together this time and see what other tricks those rats can play!"

"Good...... All right. Mom tugged at his beard and sighed hard, "Goddess forbid, how good it would be if all the evil rats could disappear?"

"Goddess bless is true, but we still have to do it ourselves. Fei Qi became more and more convinced that Mohm had a psychological weakness of being afraid of rats, so he decided to change the subject: "By the way, has there been any progress in the prospecting matter?"

"Oh yes, I almost forgot. Mohm lowered his voice and said: "I found a coal mine, the quality is average, but the reserves should not be small, and it is very shallow, and it will not be too difficult to dig." ”

"That's good news, we'll be using it soon. Feige raised an eyebrow and asked, "Anything else?"

"Aluminum was discovered, and although it was very valuable, it has always been difficult to refine it, and unless you happen to know the corresponding alchemy, it will be useless to have it. Then I found a lot of clay from the map, piled up next to the swamp on the other side of Lake Carson. I swam over on a big log, and you know how scary it was, and there were fish in the water that kept touching my feet, and I guess I wanted to know if it was good or not!"

"Clay is a good thing too, is there anything else?"

"You're really greedy. Mohm shook his head: "I went to six places in total, and two places didn't find anything. Because the Great Prophecy Technique can't be wrong, it must be that they're buried too deeply, or I haven't found a proper way to investigate. ”

"I'm glad to find three, but I don't need to hide it from Didlet. After all, the minerals are in her territory, and they are essentially hers. As long as you don't talk about the Great Prophecy Technique. After all, this information was not obtained through normal channels, and it is not above board. ”

"I understand. So I'll talk to you first and see what to do. But the best way is for you to go and tell her, I don't like dealing with elves and women very much, and it makes it even more stressful. Mom sniffled. "Alright, Feige, I'm almost recovered, when are we leaving?"

"When you're dressed and your armor is arranged, we'll go. Feige tapped the wall of the room with his staff and shouted to the next door, "Shanny, Beni, let's go out and clean up the monsters." Bring more things for ignition and lighting, it is estimated that you need to go underground, and bring things for miners. Well...... You two do a little better to protect yourself!"

About thirty minutes later, a group set off from Collingwood and headed due east along the road. In addition to Feige, a man, two women, and a cat, plus Mom, there is also Lord Didrite and her eight elven guards. Among them are three rangers, one (as opposed to Feige) an orthodox occupant priest, and one hunter. The last elf Feige knew was Elway Hawkeye.

The group rode forward on horseback and quickly left under the watchful eyes of the townspeople, which inevitably sparked discussion. "This seems to be the first time the advisor and lord have acted together, right?

"Who knows? Maybe they've found a gang of thieves? I've heard that the elves haven't been able to find those cunning thieves for a long time, and they're really dead. But this time, with the advisor on the road, maybe it will be solved!"

"Yes, if it's Lord Feige, then there must be no problem. ”

The confidence of the townspeople comes from the potato dough stored in the mines, after all, anyone who sees so much food at one time will be shocked. The dough cold store has become a famous tourist attraction in the town, and almost everyone goes there to learn a lot. They couldn't figure out how one person could do such a thing, and they had extraordinary confidence in Feige.

However, this confidence does not directly improve Feiqi's combat ability, especially when facing rats. It's not surprising that a large number of rats gather together, but it's weird that they can all be "fat and big". Feige's first thought was the ecological question: What did these rats eat to get fat?

According to Mohm's description, the rats were all bigger than the rabbits, which was obviously not normal. Feige looked at Mohm, remembering how he was when he appeared. Well...... There were bruises, a lot of wet dirt had dried up on the hair, the armor was torn, and there were brownish-gray bristles and blood stains in the crevices, but there was still a key thing missing.

Rat droppings.

If rats that live together like ants eat fat, then their excretion must be terrible. Feige recalls what little knowledge he had about the "animal world," and that the spring season is an important time for animals to start eating. The smaller the homeothermic animals, the weaker they are at maintaining their body temperature, and the food they need to eat each day is higher than that of larger striated animals if compared to their body weight. Eating and pulling is the norm for these creatures – hamsters, chinchillas or rabbits.

Mom said he had fallen in the middle of a swarm of rats, crushed a few of them, and fought his way out. So why didn't he stick to the feces on the ground? The armor of the half-blood dwarf doesn't automatically clean up the feces, so is there any other possibility?

He's lying? Feige shook his head, very likely, or none. As a contract demon, Feige is able to discern lies by looking at souls, and while he can't be sure that they're accurate, Mohm clearly doesn't have the ability to deceive him enough. However, there is a possibility that someone tricked Mom with illusion and made him believe everything he saw very much, so he absolutely believed that he was telling the truth when he relayed it, so the soul fire would not fluctuate with lies.

Kitana had already proven herself to be a very good illusion caster, and it was inevitable that she would not run into a second one. Using the dwarf Mom to lure Feige out, or maybe catch the big fish of the lord, is definitely a good deal. But Feige was already alert, especially when it came to spells that affected emotions and created illusions, and he was very careful, and it would be difficult for the other party to succeed. When it comes to illusion, Feiqi, who interrogates all the tricks and secrets from Chitana, is not much worse than her.

Is there anything else possible?, Feige continued to think on horseback. If it weren't for illusion, if there was really no feces in the rat hole, what would that lead to? Fat mice, dense living, no or lack of feces - this is a lot like a feedlot.

"That's too fantastic, isn't it?rat farm?wait, what if it's not a mouse? after all, can a normal rat be that big?if it's a feedlot, then who's keeping it?" Feige was tempted to find a way to prove that he was just thinking nonsense, but he found that he couldn't rule it out.

Unless he knows that there is a certain kind of food that rats love to eat very much, can eat fat, and does not leave much droppings, and can even make rats break through the size limit to some extent. If there is such a thing, I'm afraid it can be regarded as a great discovery, and you can get a reward for reporting it to the cardinal.

Along the way, the more illusions and ambushes are devoid, the less likely the first one is, and the more likely it is that the feedlot will be. Feige secretly observes that Mohm is really afraid of mice, even if there is not one around, but as long as he keeps getting closer, he becomes more and more nervous. "Mom, do you need to take a break? I see you're sweating on your forehead. ”

"No, it's better to get rid of the rats as soon as possible. Mom reached out and touched his forehead, and his fingers were slippery. He looked at Feige and Didlet, then smiled wryly, "Sorry for letting you see the joke." I can fight dragons, but I'm afraid of rats, which is a nasty problem, and I know it, but I just can't change it. ”

"Why is this happening?" asked Didlet.

"My village was plagued by rats, and that was when I was very young. My mom put me in a basket and hung me from the beam of the well, and then stayed by it. Most of the people in the village died of plague and famine. I was taken to the church by my injured mother, met Boss Kiplin, and joined Icepeak. Unfortunately, my mother's wound was infected and she didn't make it to treatment, so she died soon after. Mom frowned, beads of sweat popping out one by one. He only felt that his mouth was dry, so he hurriedly took a large sip of water.

"I was too young and still in my infancy, and I heard these things from Elder Kiplin. However, I may have been very impressed by the rat plague back then, and it has been imprinted in my soul, so I am particularly afraid. Actually, if I can think of a specific situation, I might be able to overcome it. And now, I'm ...... Alas......"

"It's really not easy to deal with, and hopefully you can gradually overcome and get rid of this fear. Didrite pursed her lips, "I've never seen rats overflowing, but it's scary to think about. This must not happen in my territory, and my people, human and elven, must have a safe and warm environment. And there's no room for rats in this environment!"

"I can't fit all the pests. Feige wondered if he should talk about the "elimination of the four evils" to Didlet, and perhaps it would be better to do it when Minas Ihir was more wealthy.

A clear birdsong came from the sky, which caught everyone's attention. Feige quickly glanced around, and there was no sign of illusion, while Elway raised his hand and said to everyone with a smile, "Don't be nervous, it's the bird who sent the letter, coming to me." ”

A chubby juvenile falcon fell from the sky and almost fell into Elway's arms, and the rest of the action was not sure whether it should be regarded as rolling brakes or deliberately coquettish. "This is my fifth generation of falcons, and we are all part of the family. It's small enough to fight, but it's no problem sending letters. ”

The reason why he couldn't fight was not his age but his size, right? It's almost ball-shaped, so it's obviously not a fight but a delivery! Elway didn't care about this, he took the letter from the falcon's feet, looked at it twice, and handed it to Didlet.

Didlette read it carefully three times, and then gave the letter to Feiqi. "The Cardinal has cracked the oracle and found that thing, and it is sure to be the crystal cluster you found. The good news is that the Holy Word Sect has fully approved our request for supplies, and just wants us to send someone to receive it as soon as possible. ”

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