Chapter 283: Diplomacy: Dwarven Observation Mission
"Log: No. 27"
"Time: Six hundred and sixty-one years after the Iron Throne, the month of the furnace, the third day, nine :07 a.m."
"Recorder: Hogg Hammer. β
"Title: A Survey of the Migration Process of the Nezumi Settlement. β
"Body:"
"We've been watching this group of nezumi for a month, and as the Furnace Captain assured, they really have no intention of turning back, and the soldiers of the Iron Furnace Guard should be able to breathe a sigh of relief. β
"This group of rat people is just like they said when they called for help, lack of food and water, we tracked down all the way, and saw a lot of corpses, most of them are yellow-skinned, skinny, and probably starved to death because of lack of food. β
"The god of the dwarves is above, just when we thought that this group of rat people would inevitably go to extinction, something magical happened, just yesterday, we found that they stopped migrating, originally we thought that they had finally found a way, and they were going to leave the underground and go to the surface to find food, but we didn't expect the truth to be completely beyond our imagination. β
"We saw a group of goblins, nothing like what the books say, well-dressed, orderly in their procession, and not at all as brutal as they had been rumored, and they began to give food to the nezumi and take them in, as if intent on containing them! These savage and inferior species have established order and started to help each other, is this still the world I know?"
"Can't record more, the distance of our observation is too close, those rat people and goblins have already noticed our presence, we can only evacuate, on the way to evacuate, we were also chased by the goblin cavalry, almost caught up, and then the regiment commander's brain turned fast, we took the path, so that the speed of the earth dragon was limited, after two days and two nights of escape, we finally got rid of the group of cavalry. β
"After discussion within the group, we came to a consensus, given that we have been exposed, the risk of continuing to observe is too high, and once caught, there will be unpredictable consequences, so in the end, the regimental commander decided to end the observation mission, return to the Iron Throne, and report the news immediately, and this record ends here. β
"Record Verifier: Kemn Copperhill (Head of the Mission). β
The dwarf sitting at the stone table put down the document in his hand and put it aside, then picked up the wooden cup on the table and took a big sip, the authentic dwarf beer left a string of white foam on his messy and hard beard, the dwarf let out a happy "ah~", and then wiped the wine foam off his beard without care.
Every dwarf likes to drink beer, after all, this is in the boring underground world, they only have this little fun to find, so the law of the dwarves, except for the production of steam engines and wrought iron, it is legal to drink alcohol at any other place, at any time, even at the desk, as long as it is not drunk, it is excusable, and there will be no punishment, in fact, if there is really a dwarf punished for this, then he will only become the laughing stock of everyone, almost all dwarves have a very good amount of alcohol, and it is not easy to get these guys who have grown up in alcohol since childhoodγ
Lille Steam, a prince of the Dwarven Realm, is the most trusted right-hand man of the Dwarven King today, and just this morning, a report was placed on his desk, presented by the head of the Nezumi Operation Observation Team sent out a month ago, and so far, there is something unusual about this report.
It's strange that the savage creatures have learned to help each other? It's really strange, Prince Lille has never heard of such a thing in his life, the porcupines are fine, they can at least communicate, but these two ..... In the books, goblins have never known only to fight and kill, while rat people only know to steal and deceive, these two creatures come together, and the final result can only be corpses all over the field, the prince really can't think of the second possibility, however, now this document on his desktop is undoubtedly telling him that another possibility does exist, and it has happened in reality.
And the strength shown by the unknown goblin kingdom also made Prince Lille secretly astonished, that is tens of thousands of rat people, want to feed them, I don't know how much rations to provide? These goblins actually took out, and they said to take it, the prince was keenly aware that they were not short of food at all, which showed the strength of the goblin kingdom from the side, a country that can support more than 20,000 people at will, its strength will definitely not be weak.
"Go and call the chief of the Steam Society, I have something to ask him. Prince Lille said to his attendants.
Not long after, the squire returned, and with him came another dwarf, whose beard was only half the length of the prince's, and even shorter than the squire's.
"I told you to go to the Chief Steamer, why did you bring me a little hairy boy?" the prince looked at his guard dissatisfied.
"Report, the chief of steam said that he was tackling a key technology and didn't have time to come, but he introduced me to this steam bachelor, and the chief said that although this bachelor is young, he has a lot of knowledge and should be able to answer your questions. The squire replied, his tone unhurried, and he did not seem to fear at all that the prince would blame him.
"This chief, when he looks for me, he always asks for money and resources, I look for him, he is always tackling key technologies, tackling key technologies, how can there be so many technologies in this world to tackle key problems, at least you should come to meet me, do you think this is the truth?" Prince Lille grumbled loudly, and the object of his last question turned out to be the young dwarf.
"It's... The Chief has been very busy lately, and if he succeeds in tackling this technology, the efficiency of the steam engine can be increased by at least another ten percent, and as far as I know, the Chief has not slept well for more than half a year for this technology. "The young dwarf is brave and does his best to maintain the image of the chief in front of the prince.
The prince was not angry when he heard this, and continued: "Since your mentor is so powerful, presumably you are not a parallel import, let me ask you, how much do you know about the goblin race?
When the prince said this, he put away that playful tone, and asked questions in a tone of talking about work, and seeing that the prince was serious, the steam bachelor thought seriously for a while before answering.
"Your Excellency, as far as I know, all the goblins in this world should be in the south, and even if there are any, there won't be too many in other places. β
"All the goblins are in the south?
"Your Excellency, it seems that you don't know much about the history of the goblin race, I can tell you slowly, I don't know if you have time. β
"Say it now. Prince Lille hesitated for a moment before replying.
"That's right, our historians have studied the history before the establishment of the Iron Throne, and have sorted out the relationship between species in that era, in the very beginning, goblins were not goblins, they lived in the surface world, but due to the squeezing of their living space by humans and other races, the goblins at that time had no choice, so they turned into the underground world.
"At that time, we dwarves had not yet developed steam technology, so it was very difficult to fight against the invasion of goblins, as well as many other species that lived on the surface. However, the war ended in our victory, and the goblins and other races were forced to leave the central pit and head to the unknown dark regions. The Iron Throne was built by the first dwarven king to commemorate the victory in this war, and it took more than eighty years to build. β
"I've heard it all. The Prince replied.
"The next thing you probably haven't heard of is what you know, we all know that if you want to go from the big pit in the middle of the underground to the rest of the place, you have to go through the furnace road that crosses the east and west of the big pothole, north and south, and the goblins walked in four ways at that time
According to historians' speculation, at that time, there was a terrible collapse of the Northern Fire Road, and probably none of the goblins that went there survived, while in the East, according to the handwriting left by the investigators at that time, we can determine that the goblins who went there were all wiped out due to famine due to lack of food, and the team going west suffered the same fate.
"Only the goblins who went south survived, they cultivated some farmland, tried to settle along our borders, but then they were beaten away by our army and migrated again, this time we don't know where they went, and there were no goblins around the dwarven country, and gradually, they became a legend, a symbol of ferocity and cruelty, and their names were forever engraved on the Iron Throne, and became characters in the story, as if we had forgotten that they were real. β
"What if I say that our investigation team found the goblins this time? The Prince of Lille said as he handed the papers on the table to the steamer.
"I think we should be cautious, what do you think about the strength on the other side? It's a little scary, but the green creatures that feed the nezumi described in these reports are indeed goblins, and that's right, I've seen the remains of goblins at the Steam Academy, just like the creatures described in the reports. The bachelor took a moment to read the document and then replied.
"I see. The Prince of Lille nodded, it seemed that this bachelor was indeed not a parallel import, and the explanation was very concise and understandable, unlike most of the expert bachelors he had met before, who always liked to quote all kinds of complicated terms when they spoke, so that people could not understand what they were saying. Read the latest chapters, stay tuned