That's right, grain!

If you were to find a random dwarf in Copperbeard Fort and ask him what the dwarves lack most now, then his answer would be food.

Although they had cultivated crops that could grow in the underworld, it was not rice or anything like that, but a special kind of rhizome.

And the taste of this rhizome is average, after cooking, it tastes like gnawing on gypsum, and the yield is very low, barely enough for more than 5,000 dwarves in Copperbeard Fort to eat daily.

So they usually go out hunting, but they have to be careful in the process, they don't want to be found by the barbarians.

The sake brewed from this rhizome still has a bit of bitterness, but it is also a rare treasure of Copperbeard Castle.

"That's right, since they have food to make wine, it is enough to show that they have enough surplus food!" the dwarven king stood up from his throne with great excitement, and couldn't help but walk up and down the hall.

"King, but we need to be wary of their ill will towards our Copperbeard tribe. Then another dwarven elder spoke.

If there was no risk at all for humans to make a trade, they would have sent the envoys of Copperbeard Fort to the human society for help.

How could he wait until Beowulf had no intention of breaking the existence of the forbidden land before he was forced to show up and make contact with them?

If it weren't for Beowulf's strength being too strong, maybe Atlin wouldn't have stepped in to stop them, so they would have been killed without seeing them.

Just like those scout cavalry in the beginning.

But he feared that Beowulf would be able to break into the deepest part of the Forbidden Lands and break through the secrets that the dwarves had guarded for thousands of years, so they stepped forward.

The elder's voice fell, and the dwarves present were silent, they knew very well what virtues humans had, although they couldn't be killed with a stick, but their bad deeds really made the dwarf elders dare not make a guarantee.

"Maybe we're thinking too much. ”

At this time, Atlin hesitated and said, "After all, humans and we were once close allies. ”

When he said this, he really didn't have much confidence, because in the epic legend, in that dark age. For a long time, humans were allies with the Hundred Tribes, but now the Hundred Races huddled in the Taron Mountains is also a masterpiece of mankind.

It's just that before that, the dwarf race, which was once one of the three major races, has declined, so there is no conflict with the human race.

"Yes, the elves were once allies of the humans, and their relationship was much closer than that of us dwarves. A dwarven elder with a big brown beard glanced at him and reminded faintly.

It's just that after he said this, Atlin was embarrassed to stop talking, because the elves had become one of the most precious goods in the human slave market after the end of the Dark Ages.

"It's hard for humans to believe, but I think we need to take the risk of reaching out to them now. Then an old dwarf with a white beard spoke.

He was the oldest of the dwarves present, and even the oldest of the Copperbeard tribe, and it was evident that the dwarven king respected him.

"Elder Yutuo, wouldn't it be too risky to do this?"

The brown bearded elder before looked at him and asked cautiously, this old man is not something he can directly slap in, otherwise the dwarf king is afraid that he will directly turn his face and drive him out, and the remaining elders promise that none of them will intercede for him, because the people present are all from this watch.

"I've lived for more than six hundred years, and I've lived enough, but watching the Copperbeard Clan gradually decline, I don't think I have the face to meet those old friends I used to have. Elder Yu Tuo touched his beard and said with some embarrassment.

He used to be a powerhouse who almost stepped into the sky level, but because he was getting older, his strength gradually began to decline.

Especially in recent years, he feels that his physical condition is getting worse and worse.

"Look at how many of the newborns in our clan are very healthy and strong because of malnutrition, and how many of them die in the middle of the journey?" he said with some sadness.

The dwarves are not like the barbarians, who can often go south to raid the weak towns of the humans, but the dwarves can only huddle underground, and they have to sneak when they go out to hunt wild beasts.

After Elder Yu Tuo finished speaking, they were all silent, and they had to admit that this situation had become more and more serious in the clan in the last hundred years, a hundred years ago, there would be hundreds of newborns in the Copperbeard tribe every year, and the premature mortality rate did not exceed two percent.

But in recent years, only a few dozen newborns have been born every year, and the premature mortality rate is as high as half of the terrifying! If this continues, it won't take five hundred years, and maybe there will be no more dwarves left in the Copperbeard Tribe.

It was as if the dwarves had suffered an evil curse, but they all knew that it was because of which rhizome was not highly nutritious.

Moreover, it is possible for the dwarves to go out hunting and collide with the barbarian hunting team, and many times the battle is unavoidable.

"By the way, King, the man told me that there was a dwarf in his camp!" said Suddenly Atling raised his head sharply and said loudly, breaking the solemn atmosphere in the hall.

"Are you serious?" asked the Copperbeard Dwarf King, his eyes widening fiercely.

All but him, all the dwarven elders looked at Atlin, and the hope in their eyes could not be hidden, because if this was true, it meant that the human could try to make contact.

In addition to this, it also means that the dwarves and other tribes live on the continent.

It's just that what he doesn't know is that Rodney is just an ordinary dwarf resurrected in Jason's long history with systematic intelligence.

It's just that this dwarf doesn't look like a dwarf because he's too tall.

"He probably wanted me to make me less hostile, but he did, and he had no reason to lie. ”

This kind of lie simply does not stand up to verification, and Atlin felt that it was impossible for that human powerhouse to be so stupid as to deceive him about such a thing.

"It's just ......," Atlin looked a little embarrassed.

"Elder Dwarf, when did you become such a mother-in-law?!" Seeing that his face was full of twists, Elder Yutuo suddenly became angry and slapped the table in front of him.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Atlin nodded hurriedly, indicating that he knew he was wrong, and then quickly repeated what Beowulf had said before, and then said with some uncertainty: "Could he be cheating on me?"

But none of the Dwarven Elders had time to answer him, they were all lost in thought, and only Elder Yuto was there muttering to himself.

If you get close to him, you will hear it, repeating the phrase all the time: "This can't be, this can't be ......"