Chapter 40: The Truth

I sat down silently, holding my chin with one hand, and thinking about all the details from our departure to where we are today.

I don't know why, but I always feel like there are too many coincidences in this.

Looking at Li Xue, Su Ling'er and Zhou Shuai, I asked with some doubts, "Do you think it's too coincidental?"

"Brother, did you mean you met a goblin last night?" Li Xue blinked and asked slyly.

Zhou Shuai and Su Ling'er looked at each other, and the last two nodded silently.

I thought about it and said, "It's a coincidence. It was a coincidence from the time we started coming by horse-drawn carriage. The two coachmen we met were all from this village, and we were attacked by goblins on the way, and we almost got attacked by goblins at night. And the tunnels we don't know about. Bringing it all together, this coincidence becomes suspicious. ”

I looked up and looked around, and finally said with an ugly face, "Are we facing humans or goblins?"

Truth be told, that's what I'm saying in this house because only the people in our school, and whether it's Joan of Arc or Isabella, can sense any panting beings around them.

It's just that as soon as I said this, Zhou Shuai first had a surprised expression, and Zhou Shuai asked rhetorically: "Do you say that these goblins are artificially manipulated? How is this possible? Goblins are timid by nature but they are very cunning, humans are just food and tools for reproduction of the next generation, how can they listen to human words." ”

I didn't answer Zhou Shuai's question, but looked directly at Teacher Isabella, who had been silent, and I asked Isabella: "Teacher, I want to know what conditions are needed for goblin evolution, or what does a goblin tribe need to grow?"

Isabella's tone was still flat, and she only heard Isabella say: "Goblins are also the lowest level of existence among Warcraft due to their weakness. The only way for them to survive is to form colonies. As with any life, the three main elements of goblin survival are food, water, and reproduction. Considering that the foundation of human beings in various life is relatively poor, goblins often appear in the human realm, through sneak attacks and abduction of humans to complete the two major elements of food and reproduction. According to my research, if a goblin eats any lifeform that has cultivated spiritual power, his own physique that cannot be cultivated will change, and the reason is unknown. And a tribe needs to grow, and the most important thing is to produce goblin evolutions and a large number of human females to help the tribe reproduce in large numbers. Although goblins reach adulthood at 3 months of age, it takes 10 months for a human female to give birth. ”

I nodded silently, and if I said that, then it was really possible for my guess to come true.

Zhou Shuai still asked unconvincedly, "But what does this have to do with human manipulation?"

"Bang!"

Li Xue went up and looked at Zhou Shuai's head, and said angrily: "Did my brother say this? My brother doubts whether humans and goblins cooperate well!"

I said it so obviously, Li Xue guessed that in my expectation, Zhou Shuai didn't know how normal it was except for eating or sleeping these days. But Su Ling'er still had a little bit of a reaction in her blandness, but what you said next was a little unexpected to me.

Could it be that Su Ling'er also found something?

I looked at Su Ling'er, and happened to see a smile on the corner of Su Linger's mouth, and I asked suspiciously, "Ling'er, have you already found out?"

I didn't expect Su Ling'er to actually nod and smile: "Yes, I felt that something was wrong after I came to this village." I'm a tiger and a human, and my sense of smell, sight, and hearing is several times higher than that of humans. When I came to this village, I felt that the goblin smell was a bit strong. I deliberately opened the house last night because I felt movement inside. But I didn't think there were as many as you thought, and I thought the goblins had infiltrated the tunnels. ”

It seems that the ears of this cat are not white, and the mixed race is really powerful.

I smiled and continued, "I mean, no wonder you can shoot so quickly. Last night we walked around the village, and I found that there were only 7 or 8 old men left in the village, except for the strength of the Federation team. These old people all live here alone, including the village chief. These old men can obviously leave here under the escort of the Federation, but why did these old people stay? So, Li Xue and Ling'er, the two of you form a team, me and Zhou Shuai are a team, and Teacher Joan of Arc and Teacher Isabella are a team, let's go and ask these old people what relatives they have, the reason is reasonable, see what they say, and ask the soldiers of the Federation why they don't evacuate these old people. ”

"Uh-huh, okay. Li Xue and Su Ling'er agreed, and Teacher Joan of Arc and Teacher Isabella also nodded.

I waved my hand and said heroically, "Then let's go! ”

......

After all, fewer people is the advantage of fewer people, and it took us half an hour to ask the questions in three ways.

The reason we gave was finally unified to settle these old people and show me, Li Xue and Zhou Shuai's aristocratic status and use this as a guarantee.

But these old people give us the same reason, that is, when they are old, even if they die, they will die in this place where they were born and raised.

Asking the Union soldier also got such a helpless but reasonable answer.

When asked about their children, most of the elderly people answered that their children were dead, and when asked about the cause of their deaths, they received the same answer.

Because of the goblins.

The six of us gathered together again to bring the situation together, and I sat there with an ugly look on my face and without saying a word.

None of you here are stupid, and the investigation is now very clear.

Su Ling'er was the first to hold back, and stood up angrily and was about to leave. I was in a bad mood, but I still stopped: "Ling'er!"

Su Ling'er turned her head and said angrily: "Didn't we say that we would help them? Why is the village chief still lying to us!"

Well, yes, all the evidence proves that it's a hoax.

And the leader of this scam is the village chief who has always seemed to cooperate with us.

Of course, most of our evidence is just speculation, and there is no substantial and useful evidence to prove that the village chief and the goblins are trying to harm us.

I said to Su Linger: "We're just guessing now, I just got to know Teacher Isabella about it. If a Goblin Patriarch does appear and the Goblin Patriarch's intelligence rises to a certain level, then the Goblin Patriarch is fully capable of communicating with humans and threatening them. With the relationship between humans and goblins, I think there is a reason why even the village chief deceived us. Now our business is not to ask the village chief Xingshi for the crime, but to understand the solution. Take a hundred steps back, even if the village chief wants to harm us, aren't we nothing?"

Of course, with my cautious eye, I was able to say such things entirely because I had almost thought of some unspeakable reasons.

I stood up and was about to take someone to the village chief to understand the situation, but at this moment, a cold light flashed in Isabella's eyes, and the halberd in her hand pointed directly at the door.

"Crunch ......"

The door of the old man was slowly opened, and a rickety figure appeared in front of us.

The village elder John's voice sounded in the room with a little helplessness, a little apology, and a little sadness: "I didn't expect you children to be so thoughtful. Your guess can't be right, but it's not true. ”

"Huh?" I turned to look at the village chief, and at this moment Joan of Arc and Isabella were there, and I was very confident. For this reason, I asked the old village chief suspiciously: "Village chief, since you said that we guessed eight or nine are not far from ten, then should you tell us the truth of the matter?"

It's not that I'm smart in the face of this matter, but I can only say that there are too many coincidences in it.

In addition, I am a science and engineering man, and I always like to list things one by one.

With all sorts of coincidences and habits, plus a little bit of my observation, I can roughly guess a little bit of what is going on here.

At this moment, when the truth is revealed, I am still a little excited.

The village chief glanced at me, sighed slightly, a flash of memory flashed in his eyes, and then said slowly: "That was many years ago. I was about your age at that time, but I didn't have a family like yours, and when I was your age, I had gone into the mountains to look for herbs or hunt for smaller prey to supplement my family. One day I went up the mountain to catch up with the fog, the fog was so great that even the most experienced mountain people would get lost in the forest, I got lost, and I kept going around the mountain with experience in the hope of finding a way back. I searched, searched, and finally I couldn't find the way, but I found a little green man. ”

"He was so young that he was abandoned in the woods, so I fed him a little of the dry food and water I had brought, and he slowly woke up after eating my dry food, but he was very vigilant, and when he regained a little strength, he tried his best to stay away from me. I was worried that something would happen to him, and I kept trying to persuade him with water and dry food. He seemed to understand me, and slowly fell silent. I sat there and looked at him not far away, and he looked at me like that. Looking at it, the fog cleared......"