Chapter 980: Earth Elemental Plane (9)

It is not the dark elves who live here, in fact, the books record that although the dark elves live underground in the main plane and even other planes, there are almost no dark elves under the earth element plane, and the specific reason is unknown.

What I found, to be precise, is that the dungeon that Leo found is inhabited by a group of dwarf creatures that don't have much attack power, and they have some earth-based demonic beasts with the same docile temperament as them, and they have also formed a partnership with some earth elements.

This is a dungeon, quite harmonious.

Of course, behind harmony is not happiness and beauty......

The inhabitants of this city are "farmers" who are not good at fighting, they work hard to farm, mine, smelt iron, and exchange surplus materials with others, and their lives seem to be in order.

But in reality, they live a toilful and poor life.

Growing crops in the ground is a difficult task, those luminous plants without chloroplasts, absorb nutrients and elemental energy in the soil, and convert them into their own tissues, elemental energy is actually a substitute for sunlight, and their bodies use the mode of anaerobic respiration, which leads to low energy utilization, and the conversion rate is far less than that of crops under the sun.

As a result, the output of agriculture here, including farming, is extremely low, and these subhuman creatures, which are generally dwarf in a variety of shapes, live on a subsistence level.

An alien beast, not even a powerful beast, can wreak havoc here, and the livestock they raise and the friendly and cooperative earth elementals can only serve as a simple protection or delay.

This strange scene reminds me of the sheep village on the edge of the green grassland of the wood elemental plane.

In contrast, Yangcun is actually much "stronger".

The purpose of my coming here is not to find such a leisurely and beautiful small village with hidden dangers, but I have to do something about it.

Although the lives of the busy subhuman "villagers" are not invaded by foreign enemies for the time being, they are not without struggle with each other.

A female subhuman resembling a ferret, with her children, cultivates their glowing mushrooms in a small cave of more than twenty square meters. The female is about 1.2 meters tall, and her children are less than a meter tall, and she fills a rudimentary container with water from an underground water source a few hundred meters away, and wets the walls of the cave around the mushrooms, while her children take a simple bundle of dry branch "brooms" to drive away the insects that follow the light, and slap some of the larger, fleshier insects to death and put them in their pockets and containers, which are also their source of food.

There aren't a lot of mushrooms that can be grown in such a small plot, and this is only one of the hundreds of cultivation caves that the dungeon's inhabitants have.

After sprinkling water and repelling insects, the female subhuman took the children along the narrow cave, sealed the hole with dry thorns and dead grass, carried a bundle of "dry firewood", and walked to the dwelling.

The children collected a lot of meaty bugs, and one of the "big heads" who looked malnourished quietly reached into the bag and stole a fat flying insect......

Another child screamed when he saw his sibling stealing food.

When the female heard the scream, she rushed over and slapped the big man who stole the food, and then confiscated all the children's bags and pinned them to her waist.

Then, the children made eye contact with each other.

The female subhuman seemed to be a little tired, and when she returned to her lodgings, she handed the "dry firewood" and the bag to an old man, and went to sleep.

The old man's job was probably to collect the insects, so he put them in a pot with a diameter of more than 50 centimeters and a height of about 40 centimeters.

Then other subhumans came back one after another, and they all gave him food, including all kinds of insects, rats, and many small animals that the people of the main plane had no appetite for.

Of course, these small animals are already considered to be "nutrients" for supplementing protein, and more of them are cut and washed plants, including some mushrooms and plant leaves, branches, and roots.

Then, when the adults began to rest, the old man told the children to take their containers and fetch water.

There are several water sources here, the previous one is far away, but this one is very close.

The container is not much larger than the palm of a child's hand, but fortunately, there are enough children to fill a pot with a lot of "food" without making two trips.

The children ran away, and the old man lit the fire.

The children made three trips, and the last one was the "big head" and the brother who exposed him.

The next scene that happened made me feel terrified.

The "big head" lied to his brother about something in the water source, and the brother looked out curiously to see it, and the "big head" pushed him in!

This is a slightly larger pool, which is said to be slightly larger, but in fact it is only two or three meters square, and the depth is less than one and a half meters.

But for a child who is less than a meter tall, this is a deep pool.

The "big man" had prepared a dead wood stick beforehand, and when he saw that his brother was about to struggle, he stretched out the stick and threw him into the water.

I was about to make a move, but Leo stopped me.

"There's no need to ......," Leo said lightly, "you can't save one of all." ”

"Don't take the good for nothing!" I say.

"Hehe, I poured you chicken soup myself," said Leo, "I'm going to stop you anyway." ”

I gave up: "Tell your plan." ”

"Saving a dying life is precious, but the path of change is made up of the lives and blood of countless people," Leo said. ”

I calmed down a little and watched the child being murdered by his own brother.

Although I have killed many humans with my own hands, at this moment, I still have unbearable and indignant feelings in my heart.

The "big head" watched his brother float in the pool with his back up, and unhurriedly hid the wooden stick, and then he cried and ran back.

"The acting is good," Leo said lightly, "it seems that this is not the first time, or that I learned it from someone else." ”

Before the "big head" could get to the quarters, I saw the soul of the drowned subhuman child leave his body and float up.

"It's now." Leo said.

Then, the soul was seized by an invisible hand and floated in my direction.

The soul struggles incessantly, of course, to no avail.

After seeing me, the subhuman child in the soul state wanted to scream in horror, but it was useless.

"Don't be afraid," I said in as gentle a tone as I can, "I'm not a bad person, I'm here to help you." ”

The soul naturally won't believe it, but he can't help but not believe it, after all, he can't do anything but watch.

The "big head" called a lot of people, and everyone hurried over and fished up the child's body.

After they got it, they didn't do anything like first aid or healing, and I didn't say anything when I looked at the old people who looked like priests or witch doctors.

What made me most uncomfortable was that the mother of the deceased, the female subhuman, did not react with any excitement, as if it was not her own child who died!

It's chilling to me.

"Look closely......" Leo reminded me.

After seeing the death of her child, the female slowly returned to her residence with the crowd.

When I looked at myself, I noticed that there was a new life in her belly......

Suddenly, I felt a pang of sadness.

At this time, the original food was not ready, but it was almost cooked.

The body was placed in a remote corner, and everyone gathered around the cauldron, ready to eat.

At this time, some people's eyes will drift over that corner intentionally or unintentionally, including the "big head".

I have some foreboding.

I looked at the child's soul.

The soul had been watching the scene in front of it, and now it had calmed down, and seemed to accept the fact that it was dead.

He was a little frightened when he saw my gaze, but he said something that sent chills down my back.

"They want to eat my ......," he said, "just like my sister......

I know very well that in such a primitive and wild small settlement, this situation is entirely possible.

But it still makes it hard for me to accept.

"Want to change?" I asked him.

He was visibly stunned.

"No more being eaten, no need to be hungry," I said, "and no fear of foreign enemies." ”

He obviously didn't understand the second half of the sentence, but he understood the first half of the sentence and showed a wistful expression.

"Is that okay?" He asked cautiously.

"I'll help you make it happen," I said, "but you'll have to do it yourself." ”

He didn't understand it again, and I said, "Would you like to?" ”

He subconsciously said, "I ...... Willing! ”

"That's good." I laughed.

Then, he was sucked into my right corner, and Leo got to work.

In a short time, the Asians finished their meal and prepared to enjoy the "main meal."

That big pot of food really couldn't fill their little bellies, and at most left them in a state of not being able to eat enough and not starving to death.

At this time, a fresh corpse is a rare "meal" for them......

Leo said that in the early days, earthlings also ate their own kind of people, and even, in the process of evolving from apes to humans, other branches have been killed and eaten up by humans......

However, not to mention that it is difficult for many people on the earth to accept it now, even in our world, which Leo called the primitive period, eating the same kind is also a very barbaric and bloody custom, and only low-level subhumans or demonic beasts and beasts will do this, and now it is still very uncomfortable to see it with their own eyes.

No, I don't want to see this, what I'm going to do is stop them.