Worried that there would be goblins ambushed on the way, it took Liu Xing and Yin En more than ten minutes to return to the blacksmith village.

Then, Liu Xing and the others naturally went back to the inn directly.

By the way, because he entered the inn in the middle of the night yesterday, Liu Xing hadn't noticed that the inn where his group stayed was called Longmen Inn.

Well, Liu Xing doesn't want to complain now.

In the inn, Zhang Jingxu and the others were drinking tea and chatting in the hall, and it seemed that the investigation they were responsible for should be quite smooth, at least they were not attacked by goblins like Liu Xing and the others.

Looking at Liu Xing and Yin En, who had solemn faces, Zhang Jingxu and the others got up directly with a tacit understanding, after all, the hall is not suitable for talking about certain things.

randomly chose a room, and Liu Xing and the others rushed in.

"Liu Xing, what's the situation over there? And if I'm not mistaken, Yin Eun, you have blood on your body, right? Zhang Jingxu said with a frown.

Liu Xing nodded and said, "We were just attacked by three goblins in a wasteland outside the blacksmith village, and that wasteland is the entrance to that tunnel. ”

"Liu Xing, do you mean, there is indeed a tunnel dug out by a goblin in the warehouse of a blacksmith shop?" Ding Kun hurriedly asked.

At this time, Yin En suddenly said: "There is indeed a tunnel in the warehouse of a blacksmith shop, and it seems that it should have been dug by a goblin, but I think there is something wrong with that tunnel. ”

Liu Xing thought about it, there was indeed something wrong with that tunnel.

There was no smell in that tunnel.

Because the goblin clan lives in a harsh environment all year round, and they don't pay attention to personal hygiene, the goblin clan's body odor is very famous on this continent, and it can be directly linked to the fox odor in the real world.

And in that tunnel, except for the earthy smell that will definitely be there, Liu Xing really didn't smell it at all.

This is very unscientific.

After all, the tunnel is a relatively closed environment, and a group of goblins crammed into it will definitely leave a smell, even if it has been ventilated at both ends for several hours.

Liu Xing said his thoughts, Yin En immediately nodded and said: "That's right, I noticed at that time that there was no goblin smell in the tunnel, which is obviously very abnormal, especially after Liu Xing and I killed those three goblins, I also deliberately smelled the smell of them, and found that this goblin stink is really worthy of its reputation, so I can now be sure that there is a problem with that tunnel, at least that tunnel was not opened today." ”

Zhang Jingxu thought for a while and said, "By the way, Yin En, do you know why you were attacked by those goblins?" ”

After Yin En was silent for a moment, he sighed and said, "I think the reason why Liu Xing and I were attacked by goblins is basically only two possibilities, the first possibility is that those goblins came to cover the entrance of the tunnel, or just to attack the people who came to check the entrance to the tunnel, all in all, it was just a coincidence that we would be attacked; The second possibility is a bit of a conspiracy theory, that is, someone wanted to kill someone with a knife, so after my Liu Xing left the blacksmith village, that person began to arrange for goblins to attack me and Liu Xing. ”

"Yin Eun, who do you think that person will be?" Zhang Jingxu frowned.

Yin En sighed again and said seriously: "I'm not sure who it was who instructed the goblins to attack me and Liu Xing, but my first suspicion right now is the person in charge of a blacksmith shop, Shen Aotian's eldest brother Shen Dazhuang, because he recommended us to check the entrance to the tunnel, and it was he who mentioned the strangeness of those goblins outside the city." ”

Then, Yin Eun told everything he had seen and heard in a blacksmith shop.

"I see, but in this case, it seems that the mastermind behind the scenes arranged for the goblins to attack you, and it is likely that he just wanted to take this opportunity to warn us not to meddle in this matter again, after all, he could have arranged for more goblins to attack you, instead of just sending three goblins with wooden clubs to do trouble." Ding Kun put forward his own opinion.

Liu Xing very much agreed with this, because those three goblins were too Cai, and they were obviously not his opponents with Yin Eun, so now that he thought about it, the attack that had just happened should be just a warning.

However, what worried Liu Xing was that those three goblins would willingly be cannon fodder.

As mentioned many times before, goblins are weak creatures that are timid and fearful, so under normal circumstances, goblins would not dare to attack humans unless they can have absolute numerical superiority.

Based on the memories that had just been refreshed, Liu Xing knew that in most cases, goblins would never take the initiative to attack when facing adult men in good condition, unless they had a five- to tenfold numerical advantage.

Therefore, it is very rare for three goblins to dare to attack two adult men like today, and it can even be said that it has never happened in the human record of the goblin race.

"Just now, Zhang Wenbing and I went to the captain of the guards in the blacksmith village to learn about the situation, especially about the situation of those goblins outside the city; First of all, those goblins had lived in that cave before the establishment of the blacksmith village, and they had fought with the earliest blacksmiths in the blacksmith village, but those goblins were much more honest after suffering a loss, and basically hid in their own acres and thirds of land and did not dare to come out, especially after the development of the blacksmith village was getting better and better, and the empire began to send troops to be stationed here. ”

"As for why we didn't completely solve this group of goblins, the reason the captain of the guard told us is that the terrain of the cave where the group of goblins is located is too complicated, and it is too difficult to exterminate the busy goblins in the cave with the forces that can be gathered in the blacksmith village, not to mention that the number of those goblins has reached more than five hundred, so after seeing that those goblins are honest, the captain of the guard discussed with Shen Qilong and decided not to do anything to those goblins for the time being, unless those goblins take the initiative to make trouble."

"As for the recent appearance of those goblins, the captain of the guard has also heard of it slightly, because he often leads the team to patrol the situation around the blacksmith village to prevent some bandits who are not long-sighted from thinking about the blacksmith village, after all, the mineral resources in the blacksmith village are still quite valuable, and the number of coins in each blacksmith shop is not a small amount, so there have been precedents of robbers attacking the blacksmith village before, and as a result, when the captain of the guard patrolled a few months ago, It was discovered that a group of goblins were cutting down trees on a large scale, so the captain of the guard who came to be interested followed those goblins with his men. ”

After some effort, the captain of the guard found that the goblins were not cutting down trees to make weapons, but had built a number of simple wooden houses outside the cave where they lived, and there were already many goblins living in those wooden houses, but the most important thing was that there were some enclosures next to those wooden houses, and there were many cows, sheep, chickens and ducks in the enclosures, and it was obvious that these goblins had also learned how to raise herd, but probably because there were no farmers in the blacksmith village, So the goblins who didn't have the right seeds didn't get started with the farming industry. ”

The captain of the guard realized that some earth-shaking changes might be taking place in these goblins, so he immediately reported the matter to his superiors, but his superiors said that it didn't matter, after all, what kind of storm can this group of goblins stir up? Therefore, the captain of the guard did not take this matter to heart anymore; In addition, the captain of the guard also said that the theft incident was his dereliction of duty, so the captain of the guard will fully cooperate with our actions and be ready to send troops to deal with the group of goblins with us at any time. Ding Kun said.

Zhang Jingxu nodded, and said with some hesitation: "In this case, the captain of the guard should not be a believer in Bahamut, and behind those goblins there must be some Bahamut believers standing to help them, and even those goblins have become believers in Bahamut, because I have heard that those damn madmen will preach to any intelligent creature!" ”

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect that this Bahamut believer would be so wild that he would preach all intelligent creatures.

You must know that the main reason why the secret church is called a secret church is that the secret church has relatively high requirements for its followers, and basically will only preach to specific groups, such as the corpse eating sect that has the most contact with Liu Xing, they will basically only preach to middle and high-level people in European countries, and there is no interest in proselytizing to those civilians.

Another example is that it is already considered a non-mainstream in the secret church - although the Deep Diving Society has actually converted most of the people of the entire universe country into their own believers, but to put it bluntly, they are still "backdoor listing" and use the name of another serious church to preach, so those ordinary people cannot be regarded as the real believers of the Deep Diving Society, so the Deep Diving Society has actually only recruited a group of high-level people from the universe country as its own believers.

Therefore, for the vast majority of secret churches, their missionary route is to follow the elite route, and only recruit those who are good for themselves to become believers, after all, secret churches value quality rather than quantity.

If those goblins really became believers in Bahamut, then the secret church organized by this group of Bahamut believers was really a non-mainstream secret church, because they dared to accept any kind of believer.

This reminded Liu Xing of the Yellow Turban Sect in the late Eastern Han Dynasty... But then again, Liu Xing remembers that in the context of the Cthulhu Mythos, Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, seems to be a follower of the Lord in Yellow, and may even be a doppelganger of the Lord in Yellow.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing felt that it was better not to teach the black and yellow scarves.

"By the way, I once led a team to hunt down a group of Bahamut believers, and I found that those Bahamut believers not only have humans, but also elves and dwarves and other races involved, it seems that these Bahamut believers are really from all over the world, and there are all kinds of creatures." Yoon Eun sighed.

At this time, Ding Kun said with some embarrassment: "To be honest, I once had some contact with the believers of Bahamut, and that night I was planning how to encourage the villagers in the village to join me, but a group of uninvited guests broke into my home, and blindfolded me as soon as they came, and then they told me that they were believers in Bahamut, and the purpose of their trip was to attract me to join the secret church they organized, the True Dragon Society, And the goal of their True Dragon Society is to make the entire continent believe in Bahamut, so they need me to join. ”

"Of course, I decisively rejected them at that time, after all, the viciousness of Bahamut is well known, how could I be in the same league with this group of Bahamut believers, but just when I thought they would kill me, those Bahamut believers just said that I would regret it, and then they left directly, and when I realized that they were gone, I immediately checked some small institutions I had arranged near my home, but those small institutions were a thin layer of flour to put it bluntly, But this flour allows me to collect the footprints of those uninvited guests. ”

"Then I made a careful comparison, and found that the footprints of those Bahamut believers were very confusing, I not only found human footprints, but also found orc footprints, after all, those orc footprints are very easy to distinguish, in addition to this, I even found fish-man footprints, you must know that fish-people generally live by the sea, in our inland human empire, there are basically no fish-people to carry out activities, not to mention that the relationship between those fish-people and us humans is not good."

Fish-people?

Liu Xing hurriedly checked his memories and found that the setting of the fish-man and the deep diver in this world is almost the same, the similarity of appearance exceeds 90%, and these fish-man and human beings are not reproductively isolated, and the fish-man hybrid will eventually become a fish-man, but the relationship between the fish-man and the human is very poor, because the fish-man often robs the fishing village of humans, so humans have been fighting with the fish-people for thousands of years.

Therefore, for humans, the fish-people are the mortal enemies of their own race, and there is no possibility of reconciliation at all.

However, if Ding Kun didn't lie, then Liu Xing would have to raise the threat level of this True Dragon Society to a higher level, because this True Dragon Society would be able to allow humans to work with fish people.

It seems that the brainwashing ability of this True Dragon Society is a bit powerful.

"By the way, I just went to investigate the situation of the Shen family, and found that Shen Aotian's generation can be described as a brotherly wall." Zhang Jingxu said suddenly: "Shen Qianglong has a total of three sons, the eldest son Shen Dazhuang is the person in charge of a blacksmith shop, the younger son Shen Aotian is the chef of Yuelai Hotel, and the second son Shen Dafu is now dead." ”

He's dead?