Ralph looked at the mage suspiciously at the door, "You...... Is there really a way to deal with these things? Because of this thing, we have lost a lot of people, and the priest will use light magic and channel positive energy times in almost every battle, and when they 'do', they can only rely on bandages and medicine to save people.

"Recently, there are not enough medicines."

Wang: "Sounds like this thing is ruining your front?" ”

"Not really! Cavemen are no threat on the ground, they have good hearing and can detect locations and launch precise attacks, but we have found a way to restrain them! ”

Wang: "Method? ”

"It's just a gong! We prepared a large gong, which was continuously struck by several strong men, and the loud noise drowned out all the sounds, and the cavemen could only keep charging in the direction of the gong, and then fell into our trap, and finally filled the trap, and rushed to our army with corpses. ”

Elizabeth exclaimed, "Filled? ”

"yes." Ralph nodded, "My grandfather tried to organize an army to resist when he first broke through the cavemen's lair, and they were even going to use alchemical explosives to blow up the cavemen's lair and bury them all inside. Records from that era say that most troglodyte armies consisted of small squads of a few dozen people, and few large armies of several hundred men acting together. ”

Wang: "The number of cavemen has increased significantly, right?" ”

"Yes."

Wang touched his chin and thought about it, and asked seriously: "Then has the body shape of the caveman changed from that of your grandfather now?" ”

Ralph: "This ...... You can check the records. This fortress was the stronghold from which the grandfathers prepared to retake the pit when they had just broken through the cavemen's lair, and did not abandon it until they ran out of money. At that time, my grandfather hired a clerical clerk to write down everything he found that would help defeat the cavemen. ”

Wang: "Let's go!" ”

Elizabeth let out a sigh of relief: "Finally I don't have to put up with this stench. ”

Xiaobai: "Goo! ”

**

The castle's stacks surprisingly don't have that musty smell of damp paper, probably because the castle is really well ventilated.

Ralph easily removed a book from the shelf: "This is a detailed account of the body structure of the caveman, and I looked through it to learn how to kill the caveman and then taught my warriors. I didn't expect the caveman to come up with that kind of monster. ”

Wang took the book and flipped through it quickly.

Xiaobai stretched out his head to look at the side, looked at it for a few seconds and complained: "You are turning too fast!" ”

Wang: "Don't worry, I'll show you the important part later." ”

Xiaobai: "How do you know what's important and what's not?" ”

At this time, the king stopped flipping through the book, pointed to the troglodyte figure recorded on it, and asked Ralph, "Sir, is the troglodyte you are facing so big now?" ”

Ralph leaned over to take a look, turned the page again, and looked at the caveman sketch drawn in the back: "The height is about the same, but the caveman we are facing is not so strong, and it looks very thin."

"I used to focus on physical weaknesses and stuff, and I didn't look closely at this diagram. I thought cavemen were so thin, and I felt like the creatures were thin. ”

Flint blew his beard angrily: "What did you say? Dwarves aren't thin! We're bigger than a big man! ”

Ignoring Flint's protests, the king pondered and muttered, "The cavemen have increased in number, but they have become emaciated...... Sir, there is no caveman who is closer to the schematic diagram drawn by your ancestors? ”

Ralph immediately replied, "Yes." The priest of Ramashtu and a small number of remnants of shamans are of this size. There are also such things from time to time among ordinary cavemen, and they are generally commander-level figures. ”

Wang: "Could it be that ordinary cavemen have a disease?" In addition to catching live monsters tonight, we also need to catch live cavemen, and it is best to catch a little bit of both thin and non-skinny ones. ”

Ralph: "The troglodyte's body from last night hasn't been burned yet, and there really isn't any manpower, so just let the priest do the ritual." Would you like to take a look? ”

"Okay."

**

Unlike the monsters, the troglodyte's corpses are piled up directly in the tunnel, seemingly ready for the next defense.

The king immediately found a thin one and a more round one, and let Gao Trick drag it out of the pile of corpses.

After placing the two bodies side by side on the ground, Elizabeth commented: "There is indeed a clear difference, this one here looks like a pillow that has not been filled with sun-dried rice bran, and the one next side is filled with velvet. ”

As he put on his gloves, the king said, "Thank you for your vivid parables. ”

With that, he took out the dagger from the dimensional bag.

Xiaobai: "Don't you use that thin claw knife?" ”

"No, you don't need to dissect this time, just look at what's in your stomach." As he spoke, the mage was about to insert the dagger, but was stopped by the drow elf.

Marika: "Let me do it, I can't do your kind of detailed dissection, but I'm good at disembowelment." ”

Wang: "Then you should take out the stomach in its entirety and then cut it open, I want to see the food that remains in the stomach." ”

Elizabeth: "You suspect that this disparity in size is due to not enough food?" ”

Wang: "No, I'm going to use the elimination method to eliminate the past one by one, and the easiest thing to eliminate is the food gap." ”

Marika: "I'm going to do it!" ”

"Let's go." The king made a gesture of please.

The Drow elves expertly disemboweled, took out the corpse's stomach, and then sliced open it in front of everyone's eyes, removing the food scraps inside.

Wang squatted down and gently played with his gloved hand: "The staple food of cavemen should be mushrooms, but this doesn't look like mushrooms, even if you eat them for a long time, the mushrooms left in your stomach can't be powdered." The peristalsis of the stomach can't be so crushed. ”

Wang picked up a small handful of black powdery stuff and looked at it carefully.

Xiaobai: "It's moss." ”

The king looked at the werewolf girl, "Are you sure?" ”

"Sure, this is moss."

Wang: "All right, Moss. And what are these granular things? ”

Xiaobai: "I don't know. They have no taste. ”

Wang carefully rubbed the granular object with his fingers: "It still feels hard, and it is not a complete powder, there are particles of different sizes." ”

He pulled out the water bag, grabbed a small handful of food scraps, and rinsed them with water, so that fine black particles appeared in his palm.

Flint leaned in and took a closer look and said, "This is the sand in the crust of the earth." It is said that the besieged city-state of Oriath was once so poor that she had to mix it with bread. ”

The king shook his hand, threw away the sand, and then said to Marika, "Tear down a few more skinny ones, and see if they are in their stomachs." ”

Marika: "Leave it to me." ”

After a few moments, the Drow Elf returned, "It's not all like this, some people still have sawdust in their stomachs. I don't know how cavemen get sawdust underground. ”

The king nodded, pointed to the more rounded troglodyte corpse, and said, "Take out this stomach and see what's inside." ”

Marika immediately complied, and after a quick operation, she poured out the contents of the rounded caveman's stomach and spread them on the floor.

Wang picked up a tiny rod: "I always felt that it was a fungus stalk. ”

The druid immediately said, "Ghost mushrooms, very tasty mushrooms, and they emit a shimmer in dark environments. ”

The king threw this away, and picked up another piece of something to show Xiaobai.

"Midnight morels, this mushroom tastes like fish, I don't like fish, so it's not delicious." Xiaobai said firmly.

Wang: "Do these two types of mushrooms live underground?" ”

"Ghost mushrooms are everywhere underground, and morels can only live on the ground."

The dwarf said excitedly: "It seems that the cavemen have entered the feudal society from the primitive society, and this mushroom-eating caveman is not their baron!" ”

Wang: "No, I think it's more likely that there won't be enough cavemen underground to supply such a large population. Underground property has always been a problem.

"The dwarves don't live entirely underground, they also grow dwarven barley on the terraces of the mountain kingdom. Dwarves also hunt on the ground, enriching their tables with the flesh of the beasts of the ground.

"They're not crops from the ground."

Flint: "You're not saying enough, we dwarves also domesticate goats. Goats are a very suitable livestock for grazing in the mountains, producing meat that tastes good, as well as goat's milk. ”

Wang: "That's right. The common so-called underground races, in fact, many rely on things on the ground to survive. The same goes for drow, who hunt on the ground. But cavemen are different, they barely appear on the ground, not even in shallow ground.

"They can only rely on all kinds of crops that grow underground, so their population has not been large, and they have always maintained a balance with food production.

"In keeping with this trait, they don't have a high birth rate and their children are prone to death. Now there are signs that cavemen seem to have solved the fertility problem. ”

Elizabeth: "Then there was a famine, and I ate all the mushrooms in the ground, and I had to eat moss mixed with sand and gravel to satisfy my hunger." In the end, they had no choice but to wage war against the surface world to seize the land under the sun. ”

Wang: "Well summed up. So far, that's about it. ”

Marika didn't seem to care about whether she could eat, and when Wang finished speaking, she said, "Is this abnormal increase in fertility related to the crisis we are about to face?" ”

"I'm going to have to gather more information on this." Wang shrugged, "Of course, it's also possible that after blocking the attack tonight, most of our doubts will be resolved." ”

Flint: "Have you forgotten that there is an angry pseudo-duke who wants to kill everyone but the princess waiting for us to overthrow him?" ”

The king seemed to remember that there was still this matter, and nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, there is still this matter." ”

It seems that his interest has been completely captured by the astonishing fact that is happening in the troglodyte community.

He was already expecting tonight's attack.

(End of chapter)