Chapter 253: Homecoming
"Is this it?"
"That's right, this is it. ”
Standing on a high hillside, the white wolf looked into the distance, and all he could see was rolling hills and weeds more than half a man high.
"Where are the goblin corpses you are talking about?" the white wolf looked at Tuke.
"If I'm not mistaken, it's probably here, probably blocked by the grass," Tuke replied.
"Go over and see. ”
The white wolf rushed down the hill and began to search carefully, he knew the goblins so well that he could identify the bones at a glance even if they were eaten by ghouls.
"Wait for us!"
Seeing that the white wolf was running so fast, Dori and the others hurriedly chased after them, and by the time they felt the location of the white wolf, they were already out of breath.
Dori wiped the sweat from her forehead, after the rain stopped, the summer sun was finally able to show its power, the clouds could no longer prevent it from radiating heat to the earth, and the sun made people dizzy, at this moment, Dori actually missed those days when it rained.
"It would be nice to be cloudy all the time, with no rain and no sun. ”
This is Catwoman's most ardent expectation at this moment, but unfortunately the heavens can't hear her expectations, and it is impossible to respond, everything is as before, running according to the natural laws of another world.
"How's it going?"
Richard was the first to run to the white wolf, who was standing motionless in front of a bush, as if examining something.
"Bones. The white wolf spat out two words, then waved his paws and began to dig down, and before long, a deep pit was dug out by the white wolf, and all the weeds around it were plucked clean.
"Look, there's a lot of bones here, and they don't belong to a goblin. The white wolf pointed into the pit.
"Can you see that?" Dori also gathered around the dirt pit, and when she looked down, she did see a lot of white bones covered in dirt, but she couldn't see the doorway.
"I can see that there are three adult goblins' right leg bones in there, well... Two men and one woman. The white wolf said as he picked out a few bones and handed them to Richard and the others to watch.
"Goblins have a trait that males have thicker thigh bones than females, and the curvature of the bone surface is also different. The white wolf didn't understand the medical jargon, so he could only use the words he had come up with on the fly, plus some hand movements, to demonstrate the difference between the bones for the three humans in front of him.
"I can see that these bones are indeed different, and they should indeed be from goblins of different genders. Richard went over and over the bones in his hand, looked at others', and came up with the same result as the white wolf.
"In addition to this, I also came to a conclusion. The white wolf paused, waiting until everyone had turned their attention from the bones to him before speaking.
"I just saw a bone that happened to be out of the ground, so I dug this hole, and it turned out that I found more bones less than 1 millimeter below the surface, why were they buried in the ground? I think it's because of the previous rainstorm, and on the other hand, given that ghouls throw bones around after eating corpses, so I think that the place we are in now should be the goblin corpses you mentioned, but they have been buried by nature. ”
Speaking of this, the white wolf couldn't help but come up with another wonderful thought, what kind of creature is a ghoul? They only know how to eat and reproduce, but they invisibly help nature to dispose of the organic matter on the corpse, its effect is similar to maggots and bacteria, and it is much more efficient than them, a ghoul can eat the corpse in a day, and it takes about a month for the bacteria to decompose it.
In this way, ghouls also have their own place in the biological chain of this otherworld, they are roughly in the middle of the consumer and the decomposer, and from this point of view, ghouls seem to be more akin to a mechanism that accelerates the cycle of matter than a catastrophe for nature.
If ghouls are the result of natural evolution, then why did nature evolve such creatures? Or is it that some people and some organizations are consciously and purposefully manipulating these things?
"The land we are standing on now is a huge hybrid burial pit belonging to goblins, and under the dirt, there are about tens of thousands of goblins, think about it, what does it feel like to stand on top of so many white bones?" the white wolf smiled with some malice.
Richard didn't show anything, and Dolly and Tuke's expressions were obviously not particularly good-looking, especially Dory, her face was a little pale, and she didn't know if she was sunburned or frightened by the white wolf.
In fact, Dori did remember some bad things, after the cat-people settlement was attacked, the corpses of her people were not properly buried, and her scalp was a little numb when she thought about the friends she knew were eaten by ghouls, and the bones were thrown and buried in the earth.
"Don't scare you, let's look around here and see if we can find any valuable clues. White Wolf suggested.
"Wait... Now that you've found the goblins' corpses, can you send me back to the Southern Province first?" Tuke hurriedly asked the White Wolf.
"Now is the time for you to repay the favor, help us find clues here, I think after you return to the Southern Province, we won't have a chance to meet again, more extremely, if you fail to repay the favor in old age, maybe in the end you will be punished by the Holy Light for not being honest and trustworthy, what do you think?
Tuke was a little confused, he had never seen a guy like the white wolf, and he actually said it bluntly, as if he was talking about a deal, I gave you something, you have to repay me, from this, Tuke did not feel that lofty sense of morality, but sensed some kind of coercion.
"Tuke, you have to get used to it, this white wolf speaks like this, he won't lie to you, but sometimes what he says can be a little unpleasant. Richard said to Tuke with a smile.
"Good.. Okay, but I don't think I need to get used to it, because I can leave after all. Tuke sighed, he had fully understood the meaning of the white wolf's words, that is, if Tuke did not meet his requirements, he would never want to return to the Southern Province, and all of this was stuffed within the framework of repaying the favor, the white wolf stood on the moral high ground, from this point of view, Tuke should not have any complaints, and it was a good thing to be able to return the favor as soon as possible.
So the three of them and the wolf dispersed, each about a hundred meters apart, and they headed in a certain direction together, paying attention to their surroundings as they advanced.
The White Wolf asks the people to pay special attention to the uneven terrain, because if the goblins want to dig tunnels to the surface, they will have to strengthen the holes on the surface, which will create uneven terrain.
Everyone was in this hilly area, under the rays of the sun, from morning to evening, but let alone the cave, not even the goblin hair, although the goblin creature did not have much hair on its body.
"What should I do, will I continue to look for it tomorrow?" Dori scratched her arm painfully, in the summer, plus it had just rained, there were quite a lot of mosquitoes in this grass, and at the end of the day, she killed dozens of mosquitoes, but fortunately the clothes she wore were thicker, and they were tightly fitted, leaving no gap, and the mosquitoes would not be able to get their mouths.
However, there are still more ferocious mosquitoes that can bite people through clothes, as evidenced by Dori's now itchy arms.
"Today's progress is okay, and I will continue to look for it tomorrow. The white wolf summed up today.
"Is it okay, but we haven't found anything?" said Priest Tuke, confused, and he had been looking hard for the day, but he had found nothing, which made him quite discouraged.
"The castle is not built in a day, what we ask for is only the final result, you feel that there is no progress because you do not see a definite return, in my opinion, we tried to find it today, and this is a kind of progress in itself. The white wolf replied earnestly.
"Well...."Tuke reluctantly agreed with the white wolf's point of view verbally, but he still couldn't agree with his words in his heart, in the priest's opinion, only if the effort was rewarded, then it was considered progress, if there was no return, it could only mean that the effort was in the wrong direction, and the harder you worked, the greater the loss.
The White Wolf didn't want to know what Tuke was thinking, as long as he could end the argument and let the search continue, then his purpose would have been achieved.
In order to prevent being harassed by mosquitoes when resting, the white wolf deliberately dug a hole in the ground, and at the same time drew a few thunder element arrays near the entrance of the cave, as long as mosquitoes flew over, these thunder element arrays would split them into powder, which was not much different from the effect of an electric mosquito swatter, in fact, it was just an electromagnetic barrier.
The reason why they had to dig a hole in the ground was because the white wolf was afraid that they would not be honest when they slept, and if they accidentally rolled onto the thunder elemental circle, they would not feel good about being electrocuted.
In this way, everyone stayed underground for one night, and when they came out the next day, they found that there was a layer of gray ash floating on the surface of the thunder element array, and after careful identification, they found that these were the fragments of mosquito corpses, and it seemed that there were really a lot of mosquitoes in this place.
The white wolf put his claws on the control rune, injected an excessive amount of thunder elements into it, and burned the output rune, thus indirectly turning off the thunder and lightning circle, and then everyone continued to search this goblin graveyard according to the same arrangement as yesterday, looking for potential goblin tunnels.