Chapter 176: Dudu
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Turning into a wisp of light smoke and flying high in the sky, Donghezi cautiously adjusted his color, so that the hue blended into the light blue clear sky, and near the foot of the mountain, the edge of the dense forest and the Gobi went back and forth a few times, and said secretly in his heart: "It seems that the water source suddenly disappeared after spreading outward to a certain range, so that the peripheral land could not get water, so an obvious vegetation dividing line was formed." It's really weird, what can make such a large area and so many water sources disappear together?"
It was the fourth time he had come here to investigate, and as he thought back to the terrain around him, he suddenly remembered the strange things he had seen and heard along the way: the whole country of Naintus was bluestone wilderness, and most of the area was dry and cold, and it didn't rain a few times a year. Therefore, the mountains are full of sparse vegetation and bare rocks, and a row of gray and desolate colors. However, there were a few areas rich in groundwater and a large amount of arable land available, which were divided among the local nobles and royal families. However, the royal family only divided a part of the cultivated land near the royal capital, while the dragon vein ogre nobles in various places controlled more of the peripheral arable land, and the overall strength far exceeded that of the royal family.
For example, in the village where Donghezi is located, there is a large amount of arable land nearby, but the water source is insufficient, and it is difficult to obtain water - the cultivated land is on the hills but the water source is in the depression, and the water sources are as small as wells and come and go, and the distribution is extremely scattered, and it takes half a day to walk up the hill to get water, which is difficult to support large-scale reclamation and planting. Rao is so targeted by the nearby nobles, thinking about how to squeeze this cultivated land out of the royal family's teeth.
He was thinking about it, when he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a living thing moving on the bluestone Gobi near the edge of the green forest. Slowly descending from the sky, it turned out to be a shabby-dressed, thin-skinned ko-headed lizardman, who seemed to be looking around on the uneven rocky hills of the high ground to search for some mark.
Toheko wondered in his heart: What did this kobold lizardman do in the wilderness alone instead of carrying it in the safety of the jungle? I was secretly guessing, but I saw the ko-headed lizardman on the ground in the distance suddenly burrowed into a huge pile of uneven rocks and disappeared. It seems that there is a cave. Tohezi's curiosity was aroused, so he secretly descended the clouds and floated there.
The kobold lizardman holds a dim torch. Carefully and slowly touching the cave channel that extends downward, there is a small waterhole at the bottom of this cave, which is also the only visible water source in the Gobi region. When he was driven out of the jungle by the tribe and had to survive on the dry Gobi, he was fortunate to follow the moist breath to find this small cave and the precious water source, otherwise he would have died of thirst outside.
And now he felt very thirsty again, in order to dig out the two prairie rats to satisfy his hunger. He dug the ground intermittently for most of the day, and finally forced the two fat guys into a corner of the complex tunnel, and then pierced them with one shot at a time. It was wonderful to hear them screaming and blood splattering on their javelins!
The more you struggle, the more delicious it gets!
He hadn't eaten enough for more than half a year, and finally had a good meal of fresh flesh and blood, but the blood of these prairie rats was too dry. After licking the large patches of blood that remained on his bones, he felt very thirsty. It took nearly a day to get to this water source, and now I can't get thirsty. Not only is his mouth on fire, but even his malnourished skin, his skin, is about to dry out. The tattered leather armor that leaked everywhere on his body seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, and the truth was taken off and jumped into the water!
But he didn't rush down the downhill gushing channel to the water source. Because the cave was so slippery, if you weren't careful, you would fall and roll down the sloping passage all the way down to the lowest part of the cave, the cold, little pool. The water was very good, but it was also very dangerous! Because the little waterhole was so deep that it was almost as hard to measure as a large well, and if you fell into it, you would die! To make matters worse, the space at the bottom of the cave was so small that not even a single sub-giant could fit in. The waterhole occupies most of the area, and there is a small sloping stone wall next to it, and there is no place to stand. I had to step on a few protruding rocks with difficulty and carefully fetch water with my leather bag.
After filling his old leather bag with water, he drank it beautifully. Feeling a little tired in his body, he got up and walked towards the hole above. Leaving the tribe, he can only eat alone in the desolate Gobi, a full meal does not mean that he can live a few more days, God knows when the next time he finds something, three days, ten days, or a month?
Nobody knows, and God doesn't know. At least the guy named Kutumaki doesn't know!
He slowly climbed up the slippery passage again. When you come to a relatively flat and spacious area. Suddenly I smelled something not very good. When I first came down to the ground, I was in a hurry to fetch water to drink. So didn't pay attention. But now the spirit is a little better. The sense of smell also becomes keen. Suddenly it was very bad!
He immediately raised his torch and looked back. Oh my God! a dead-stabbed spider as big as a buffalo!
This massive and vicious spider-like creature. The whole body was covered in a hard, solid crimson color, and it was covered with blood-colored thorns like thorns. It was as if a terrifying killing machine was hiding next to it. And it actually has a few bull's-eye eyes on its forehead! A few weird white and black pupils swaying back and forth. Revealing its disgust at the fire, it immediately raised its mouthparts in horror. A long thorn of blood-red stuff was revealed.
"Deathstab?!" the tired and debilitating kobaur srieked. This spider-like terrestrial creature can shoot a venom-infused spike from its mouthparts. Pierces its prey like a sharp dart. Wait until they pass out before enjoying it slowly. It can be described as a hundred shots. A hundred in a hundred all. Therefore, although there is no way to build a net. But he is still a very good hunter. It is known as the "Death Thorn Spider".
In horror. The kobold lizardman screamed and threw the torch in his hand at the large death-stabbing spider. Just listen to the "bang" sound. The death-stabbed spider let out a terrible scream - one of its eyes had been hit by a torch! Retreat again and again.
The ko-headed lizard man ran away, but the man was small and weak, and as soon as he ran far along the winding passage, the death-thorned spider behind him roared angrily and rose up with eight claws, and rushed over, like a star-shaped war hammer covered in thorns, which could beat the opponent into pulp with just one blow!
The "boom, boom" sound of eight legs hitting the ground behind him became more and more rapid and louder. Death is like an infinite shadow sweeping from behind. The kobold lizardman screamed and turned around and shot his only javelin. Then there was a soft "bang", and the sharp shell of the death-stabbed spider bounced off the ground.
Just as he was in a state of distraction, watching the angry death-stabbing spider press over like a mountain rock, a blue light as thick as a large wooden barrel suddenly flew out from the mouth of the cave, and rushed to the death-stabbing spider as big as a buffalo like a waterfall, and wrapped it on the spot. Suddenly the electric light crackled!
What is this? The kobold lizardman was horrified: a flying ooze monster that could discharge?! It was so similar! It was exactly like a blue ooze monster wrapped in a frightened and inexplicable death-stabbing spider, and the whole cave was like fireworks, and the lights and shadows flickered. After a breath or two, the hideous red spider's whole body was scorched like red charcoal, and then this evil ** collapsed on its own, turning into a burst of choking ashes!
Finally, the bright blue "smoke" turned into a short-haired human in a blue robe standing in front of him in the blink of an eye, staring at him trembling for a while, and then suddenly asked in a calm tone, "What's your name?"
"Me?" the kobold lizardman was dumbfounded for a moment, and then it dawned on him - this terrible human wasn't going to kill himself!
He thanked the god Bahamut with excitement in his heart. He stammered, "Dudu." ”
Donghezi took a closer look, and actually saw a few large pieces of emerald green dragon scales on his body - this guy is still a "dragon vein".
In the blue-gray simple cottage, Mackenzie and others gathered in the simple house of Donghezi. Surprised, he asked, "Did you really find a water source?" Where did you find the land? How many fields are enough to irrigate?" Now that Mackenzie is the "village chief" authorized by the king, if he can really manage the village well, then there is really a way to be promoted. Who doesn't want to get ahead?
Donghe Zijia sat on the bed and calmly pointed to the dog-headed lizardman, and said slowly: "It's also a coincidence, I met him on the road, so I followed him and found a waterhole." Originally, I thought it was just a small water source with a sweet taste, but when I summoned a few small water elements to drill into the water, I found that this waterhole led all the way to the depths of the earth, where there was a huge and intricate underground river!"
Lelin was a little alarmed. Holding the short sword in his hand, he hurriedly asked, "Is it the underground world passage?" as if he wanted to take someone to kill him. So Donghezi waved her hand to signal her to be restless, and said slowly: "There is no underground world, just a big underground river full of water. I guess there are successive large and small cracks between the rocks at the foot of the snow-capped mountain, and these cracks eventually bring the spring water flowing down the mountain into the huge dark river underground, so that there is no water supply at the foot of the mountain thirty or forty miles away. It's what it is now. In other words, the rivers that were supposed to converge on the ground have gone very deep underground, which is why this area is so barren. ”
Mackensia and the others were happy first and then anxious, obviously with a knife on the fat meat. But I can only smell the smell of meat. I couldn't see or eat, and I almost stamped my feet: "Then what should I do? How deep is the underground river? Can it be drilled? If there is no water for irrigation, not much land will be cultivated next year, and once the royal family stops supplying food, at least half of these three or four hundred people will starve to death!"
Donghezi muttered: "This underground river is too deep, and it goes straight to a thousand feet below the ground, and it can't be pumped up. Seeing that everyone in the house was in a state of collapse, he comforted: "Don't be in such a hurry, tomorrow I will go to the foot of the snow-capped mountain with this Dudu to search for the river." Let's see if we can draw some water from any river. The topography of our hilly terrain is at the bottom of your feet. By building a small channel, water from the foot of the mountain can be diverted to irrigate the farmland. ”
Everyone looked at each other. The edge of the green forest at the foot of the hill in this cottage is also forty or fifty miles! It depends on hundreds of hungry and thin farmers to build the canal? So Mackensey began to vomit bitterness: "We are now seriously short of food, and a few days ago I wrote to the royal family asking for some food, but there has been no news. Now the daily food supply is rationed, and everyone is half hungry and half dead, how can they have the strength to repair any canals. And it depends on a dozen of us to protect the village and the channel. That's even more impossible!"
Tohezi nodded, the problem of malnutrition in the village is indeed very strict now, and these farmers are all with chapped skin, stiff faces, numb eyes, and no sense of energy. A few other women began to deliberately contact Grimm, frequently giving him certain hints, just to eat an extra black bread and drink an extra bowl of hot vegetable soup for each meal. It's just that they really don't look good. Plus Grimm was in a low mood, so nothing worked. But the problem of hunger is not solved, and there is a lot of uncertain pressure from the outside. Sooner or later, something will go wrong if you go first. The so-called "hunger and cold steal hearts", once those local nobles take advantage of the situation, it is inevitable that there will be civil strife, betrayal, betrayal, etc., and the village will not be able to keep it at that time!
Although it is a big deal for yourself, you can run away. But the matter of psychic abilities and astral objects has not yet been settled, how can you just leave?, so after a little like Suo, he said to McKenzie, "Isn't there a big walnut tree two miles away from the village? ”
Everyone knew that there was a spell called "Fruit Mutation", and they immediately happily withdrew from the house and arranged their own affairs. As for the dog-headed lizardman who was picked up, he was arranged outside in a kennel-like wooden shed. But he was still very happy, at least the high priest had promised not to kill him, and to provide him with food and clean drinking water every day. He curled up in a sheltered kennel and dreamed of the future: perhaps this was an opportunity from the great god of Bahamut, if he could please this powerful priest. Maybe I'll be able to return to the clan and lead everyone to make my wish come true!haha, praise you. The benevolent and powerful god Bahamut.
When everyone was gone, Toheko in the room took out a thin book and thought about it while reading it in the dim light. This is a basic book of psychic abilities, and it also writes about the relationship between the mind, the stars, and the magic.
The next day, Donghezi took Le Lin and others to a big walnut tree two miles outside the village, only to see Donghezi pointing at the big tree after reciting the incantation, it was supposed to be a big tree that was supposed to be a tree man rising from the ground, but suddenly the branches were retracted, and after two or three breaths, it turned into a super-large python!
It was as wide as a vat, and its body was slightly as short and stocky as a pit viper. It is about two stories high. The bark of the tree, which was rough and easy to fall, turned into condensed scales, and the branched branches shrank into a turquoise snake head and neck, like a real super-large giant snake, whirring and rubbing against the ground as it wriggled and creepy.
But Donghezi flew up with a smug face, jumped onto the head of the high snake as big as a single bed, and commanded the strange snake to rush to the stockade with great interest, and its speed was as fast as a horse. Lelin walked down there and asked, "Isn't it the spell of the Treant Guard, why is it not a Treant but a snake?"
Donghezi sat on the head of a large snake with one or two layers of height, and laughed and said, "It was originally a tree guard. But I'm a mystical druid. After a long and careful observation, it was found that the form of the tree man land can be changed. So he adjusted the 6th-order Treant Guardian Divine Technique to the Tree Worm Change. Not only does this oversized snake attack like a normal snake, but it also has oak armor and the ability to regenerate rapidly. If it is a poisonous tree such as the Acacia Tree, then the transformed Snake can also have a poisonous attack or even a poisonous cloud technique. ”
The big snake was running so fast that Le Lin could only trot to keep up, and then asked Tohezi, who was sitting comfortably on the head of the tall snake, "Can the tree snake change? Can it only turn trees into snakes? Why don't you turn into powerful things like tigers and leopards?"
Tohezi laughed and said, "What are you kidding? It is very difficult to change a spell! Just like when you suddenly abandon your sword and use a hammer, you have to observe and test carefully, not just pat your head." It's nice to be able to turn into a snake now, and it's not impossible to change into other shapes. But the process is extremely complex. It would take more than half a day to prepare the spell, and the gains outweighed the losses! The reason why you want to change the Treant Guardian to the Tree Worm Change is precisely because the height of the Treant is too high, and it is easy to target. When it turns into a serpent, it is very low, making it easy to reach the target, especially when launching a surprise attack at night. If it were to take on a different shape, it would still be too tall and too exposed. Why bother?"
The big snake turned into a walnut tree slowly drove into the simple but wide bluestone cottage, and when the people in the village saw it, they all bowed down in horror, and kept chanting the name of the god of the air element, Akudi, begging for his protection. Although Mackensi's and other arcane warriors who came to hear the wind were also extremely surprised by this new magic technique, Donghezi also accepted it with half-belief after instilling in them countless times along the way that "wind and wood have the same origin and thunder wood belong to the same genus".
After the oversized tree snake climbed into the predetermined clearing, it thrust its tail into the ground, and with a cooing and rubbing sound, half of its body burrowed into the ground. Then the green snake's head dispersed, and some "grew" roots of sinuous branches and green leaves. In less than two breaths, it was restored to the original large walnut, and the appearance was not bad.
Donghezi also instructed McKennes and the others: "From now until noon tomorrow, I will continue to cast spells on the big tree, and no one will disturb me during this period, you and others will take turns to protect me, and don't let others interfere with me!"
Everyone and the villagers knew that he was going to perform the "fruit mutation", and they all happily agreed.
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