Chapter 13: The Greedy Dwarf
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Opening his hazy sleepy eyes again, Abdul-Jabbar was stunned by what he saw.
"Hmm, MyGod, where am I now?"
The bottomless sinkhole, the spiraling staircase around the sinkhole, and the sparse little rooms on the cliff are like the dwarfs in a fairy tale.
Suddenly, a surprising and delightful conjecture entered Jabbar's mind! Did he meet the legendary dwarves? These rock-derived dwarfs are said to have lived in caves and mines all year round, and have little contact with the races outside, and seem to be only interested in what is underground, but little is known about what they have dug up.
But wait. I remember the last time I fell asleep in a cave full of mushrooms, why did I suddenly appear here when I woke up, and my hands and feet were chained again!
Look at Paladin next to him, he is also chained, and he sleeps like a dead pig.
Based on all the sights in front of him, Jabbar no longer had any doubts, and could already conclude that he had been captured by the dwarves. It couldn't be an orc, if it was an orc chaser sent by Bloodroar, they would have chopped themselves to death with an axe. And the only explanation for this underground scene is that the dwarves did it.
But why did the dwarves arrest themselves and Baladin? There is no wealth, and it is impossible to rob sex......
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Just when Jabbar was puzzled, two humanoid monsters came up from the lower corridor, and when they looked closely, they were dwarves. Much shorter than orcs, but muscular and strong, although there is still a gap with orcs. Jabbar guessed that if he hadn't fallen asleep, the dwarfs would have needed at least four or five to deal with himself and Paladin.
The dwarves chattered and chattered with each other, and although Abdul-Jabbar couldn't understand what they were talking about, he could tell by the sly look in his eyes that the dwarfs had bad intentions.
"Hey, orcs. How about we make a deal?"
Hmm, how is it that every race on Planet Herrera speaks the language of the other, and have they experienced any catastrophe before? Do all races need to unite? Need to have deep communication? Otherwise, how can they know each other's language?
As soon as the dwarf's words came out, Abdul-Jabbar was confused again.
"WhatsMiner deal?"
Jabbar replied listlessly with his hands and feet tied. If you are a prisoner again, what fair deal can you make? Alas, you can say whatever you want. Jabbar couldn't wait to respond.
"Hehe, from today onwards, you help us mine, I will give you a ration every day, the more you dig, the more rations you get. When you dig enough, you can ......"
"Wait. ”
Abdul-Jabbar had no patience to listen to these dwarfs any longer, because, first of all, it was an unequal bargain, it was a slavery, and it was so inhumane that it was a meal a day, and even the strongest man could not afford it, let alone the constant manual labor.
"You give at least three rations a day, otherwise we won't even have the strength to stand up, let alone mine. ”
Sitting in chains, Abdul-Jabbar replied kindly, and it was only then that Jabbar realized that he was sitting at exactly the height of the dwarf standing.
"You still dare to bargain with me?"
"Billy, I think he has a point. Maybe we should give them more to eat so that they can work harder. ”
Jabbar's answer instantly caused the two dwarfs to quarrel.
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There was another grunting argument, and Abdul-Jabbar sat innocently watching the two goofy creatures arguing.
"Dude, wake up. ”
While the dwarves were arguing, Jabbar tried to wake up Baladin beside him.
"Well, that's it. ”
The more funny-looking dwarf spoke first.
"You start mining today, and we'll give you two rations a day......"
Ran all the way to escape, and finally fell into the hands of the dwarves, Ya, no matter where you go, there are people who want to enslave themselves, or kill themselves, this ** is really a barbaric era, either slavery or robbery.
Either way, it's better to be enslaved as a miner than to starve to death. It's just that the hero's dream, the day of the beginning, still seems to be far away.
When the first Dwarven bunker arrived, it was more massive and sturdy than Jabbar and Paladin had imagined. Beneath this rock and steel bunker is densely packed with tunnels and pits, like the caves of the ant kingdom, where dwarves work underground all year round, tirelessly digging in search of masonry and treasure.
And years of treasure exploration and excavation, also let the dwarves all the way to the advantage of technology, they discovered the steel stone, and thus invented the Ugin armor, made of black steel stone Ugin armor is the hardest armor on the planet Herrera, the dwarves even surpassed the elves in the manufacturing process, both in the raw materials of the armor, or in the manufacturing process.
But dwarves are also a very strange race, they are greedy, but not greedy for power and life, but greedy for the unknown, curious, every time they dig a new kind of ore, they will want to find something new, the underground seems to have an infinite attraction for them.
The dwarves smelted the ore they dug up into armor and weapons, which were then sold to humans and orcs. Then use the money in exchange to buy more advanced excavation equipment, and hire workers, continue to mine, continue to hunt for treasure underground.
A thousand years ago, the greedy dwarves dug tunnels into the lair of the black dragon, and the incomparably powerful black dragon enslaved a huge population underground, this race fought with the dwarves in the underground world for a hundred years, and in the end, the dwarves relied on the help of humans to successfully contain the attack of this underground population. But the cost was also enormous, with a third of the dwarves killed in the war.
But the greedy dwarves still don't know how to stop, and a thousand years later, they will dig deeper closer to their ancestors, and no one knows what will happen next.