"In that case, Hammer, tell us about your tribe and the surrounding situation. ”

"How can I believe you?" Iron Hammer asked, his question was almost impossible to answer, he just looked at Xia He's attitude.

Xia Hedao: "How much do you know about the surface world?"

"I don't know anything about it, the underground world near the southern part of the ice field, and the contact with humans, it is impossible on our side, we have to travel thousands of miles, the underground caves are intricate, and there are some places in the middle that are dangerous and impossible to walk. Some tribes are able to cut off communication between the underworlds by guarding against natural dangers. ”

"Then let me tell you, the world on the ground is very large, and close to the underground world is the Arcane Empire, and just this empire has the power to conquer the underground world. However, humans don't like to live underground, so it's better to do business with you, and you can get what humans need as long as they provide food. ”

"What do humans need?"

"Customized weapons, if the dwarves unite, can open the weapon factory, human beings need a lot of weapon parts with small errors, to build flying warships, to attack the world in the starry sky. Conquering the underground is no fun. ”

"But I've heard that humanity hasn't been unified yet. ”

"But the legend of mankind has been out there for many years. Any empire will need you dwarven craftsmen. ”

"Don't humans need dwarven warriors?" Stonehammer listened, a little annoyed.

"At least not in my army, because when I want to send a combat unit to death, I order you to go, are you willing? The dwarves will surely think that I deliberately sent you to death, not strategically. It is very difficult for human beings to reconcile similar contradictions, let alone you. ”

"Lord Asla, when will you be able to transport food if we need it?" Hammer didn't want to listen to those useless people.

"Then we have to set up a teleportation array, relying on manpower to transport food, I am afraid that you will starve to death. ”

The hammer and the stone hammer looked at each other, and for a moment they didn't know what to do. Once the teleportation array is established, the humans will definitely not let the dwarves control it, and they will have to establish a stronghold underground.

"I intend to build a human fortress in the Wastelands to protect the supplies that come and go. Anyway, this kind of place is something you dwarves don't want at all. ”

"What about the rest?"

"With my strength, I can only support you in unifying the island. If you want to expand, you have to think long-term. ”

The more Xia He and the two dwarves talked, the dwarves had been persuaded by him. Xia He doesn't want humans to live in the dwarves' sphere of influence, and if humans stay underground for too long, their hearts will be perverted.

For the underground, Xiahe requires resource sharing, that is, human beings have the right to exploit.

However, because Xia He didn't want humans to enter on a large scale, even if it was mining, it had to hire dwarves to work. Xia He's intention was to turn the underground into his own force, and at first it served as a testing ground for his own academy. Later, various dwarven factories will be developed.

Anyway, the dwarves didn't want to go out, and the humans didn't want to come in and live, and the two sides could agree on the most basic issues, which was the most important part.

The two brothers were warriors in the tribe and had a high status, and the patriarch happened to be their uncle, and the relationship was also very close. Originally, they also had the right to participate in the affairs of the tribe, so they would talk so much about Xia He here.

After the basic intention was negotiated, the two dwarves took their leave, and wanted to bring someone over for the next round of negotiations.

Of course, Xia He's empty words can't be used, but Xia He has his own documents, a letter of appointment from the imperial family, etc., and everything can't be made temporarily.

This dwarven tribe on the edge of the isolated island is still very eager to trade with Xia He.

In the Storm Corner of Xiahe, food has begun to supply itself, but he has been buying it all along. The price of grain in the empire was also stable, and the coffers were piling up. If there is no war and production is destroyed, most of the grain will have to be used to make syrup and make wine when the time comes.

Syrup and wine are things that can be stored for a long time, and they are also more valuable than food.

And these two materials, the dwarves are also very hungry.

What is very cheap in the Empire can be exchanged for more precious resources underground. This is the possibility of a strong empire and a strong state. If a country's livelihood is withering, how can it be possible to exchange food for materials.

When the dwarf left, Xia He looked at the three people around him, and asked Qiu Xuanji, "If I want to control the underground world, what is the key?"

Qiu Xuanji thought for a while and said, "Actually, adults have already made a choice to control the food. It's just a double-edged sword. If one day, my lord, your food supply is not available, and the dwarves below are afraid that they will immediately rebel. ”

"There are precious metals in the ground, all kinds of materials needed for magic, and I will not suffer a loss in exchange for food. And my long-term plan is to get the Far North right, and grow food in the Far North, and it will be very easy to transport it. ”

"My lord, I don't think the Far North will fall into our hands. ”

'Why?'

"Because all empires have the same distance to the Far North, people refuse to go because of the risk. ”

Xia He thought about it, and this is also the reason, his ability to enter and exit the far north is probably related to Nikola Mele. He gave himself a path, and if he changed to another place, I am afraid that it would not be so easy to leave at all.

If that thing dies in the future, and the Far North opens, it will not be something that you can touch alone.

Thinking of this, Xia He was a little tasteless.

"The barren land is not small, and it is possible to build a dungeon, and it is possible to garrison about 3,000 troops, and it can maintain the security of the isolated island that the dwarves say. Abigail said.

"I know, I also plan to provide mages, provide guidance to the armies of the two Hammer Brothers, let the mages control the dwarven army, plus thousands of human troops in the dungeon, guarding the teleportation array, can basically stabilize things. With the food infusion and the unification of the islands, it is possible to completely control the dwarves here. ”

Dwarves are not good at farming, as is the case in most worlds, except in the Dwarven Empire where a dynasty has been established on the ground.

"The dwarves don't have much repetition, they have a bad temper, but their words count. The next most important task is to map the island. Although it is said to be an isolated island, the area is probably very huge, and if only a few people rely on it, it will not be able to explore it in a few decades. ”

"Do you want to send someone?" asked Medirri.

"Well, we'll have to ask the Temple of Doom to help with this. ”

"Why not me?" Abigail was a little dissatisfied, the Temple of Doom came from behind, and she cooperated too much with Asra, which made her envious and jealous.

"The Temple of Doom can provide enough spellcasters, priest of the Temple of Fortune, I'm not at ease, what about you?"

Abigailden was discouraged, and the magicians who had been transferred from elsewhere were all driven away by himself. Because it's really uneasy, none of them are suitable.

"Find a suitable position, I'll set up the teleportation array, Medirri, you stay in the camp and let me know when the dwarves arrive. I took Qiu Xuanji and Abigail and went out to find a suitable location. The dwarves won't be here for a while, so don't worry. ”

"Okay. Although Medierri is reluctant to stay here, she is the only one who can communicate with Xia He from a distance.

Xia He left Medierli alone, and she didn't worry, Medierli had a lot of talismans on her body, and her combat power was also the strongest among the four people, not counting the equipment, Xia He might not be her opponent now.

Qiu Xuanji gave everyone a transmission note, and the communication time was as long as three minutes, and they contacted each other in case of danger, and then the three of them separated in different directions.

The Xia River explores to the west, and the direction of Qiu Xuanji is roughly the same, and the other direction is Abigail.

Xia He directly let go of his divine sense, looked for a path in the cave, and in more than an hour, he had already walked a distance of more than eighty miles. Then he was in a fork in a cave and found a downward branch.

This is a sinkhole-like place, with a diameter of 100 meters and a vertical drop of more than 400 meters.

There were shiny stones under the cave, and Xia He's divine sense continued to penetrate into the ground, and after almost ten meters, he found the river. The river below is narrow, less than five meters wide, and the volume of water is not large. Xia He couldn't find the entrance, so he simply used the Huangquan Escape Talisman to go down directly.

After arriving at the underground river, Xia He felt that the air was much fresher, and the wind below was not light.

The river came from the north and went all the way down to the south, Xia He thought about it, jumped on the water, followed the current, and drifted downstream.

Just drifting out of a dozen miles away, there was a huge cave in front of me, and an underground lake appeared, and in the center of the lake was a turbulent whirlpool, and the sound of the water roared like thunder.

Eyes of the Earth?

Xia He rejoiced, under the whirlpool must be the eye of the earth, if it was just a hole, it would have been filled up long ago. The Earth's Eye is a very stable special star structure, and this is the most suitable place for teleportation arrays. Xia He sensed the top of his head, and nearly a hundred meters upward, was the crypt on the upper floor.

Xia He used the Yellow Spring Escape Talisman to the upper floor, and found that although the space here was vast, there was no way out in all directions, and it was purely a huge hole hidden in the ground.

The cavity is miles long and wide, and the air is simply not fit for life.

This cave is on all sides, only the foot is the weakest point, more than a hundred meters thick. In other directions, the thickness of the rock is at least more than 500 meters.

Xia He rejoices, this place is so closed, it is the best location for the dungeon.

His dungeon is to protect the teleportation array, there is no need to communicate with the outside world, and it needs to be safe and secret enough. This cave is not big or small, as long as a magic furnace is erected, it can be transformed into a space suitable for human life.