mage's dating rules

Chapter 85 Alienation of the Caveman
Ralph looked at the mage suspiciously at the door: "You...do you really have a way to deal with these things? Because of this thing, we lost a lot of people. The priest will use light magic and guide positive energy in almost every battle The number of times, when they 'dry', they can only rely on bandages and medicines to save people.

"There are not enough medicines recently."

Wang: "Sounds like this thing broke your line?"

"That's not true! The cavemen are no threat on the ground. They have good hearing and can identify their positions and launch precise attacks, but we have found a way to restrain them!"

Wang: "How?"

"It's just beating the gong! We prepared a big gong, and several strong men beat it continuously. The loud noise covered all the sounds. The caveman could only charge in the direction of the gong, and then fell into our trap. Finally Fill up the traps, and rush to our army on the corpses."

Elizabeth exclaimed: "Filled?"

"That's right." Ralph nodded, "When the caveman's lair was just penetrated, my grandfather tried to organize an army to resist, and they even planned to blow up the caveman's lair with alchemy explosives and bury them all inside. Records from that era say that most Neanderthal armies consisted of small teams of a few dozen men, and rarely large armies of hundreds.”

Wang: "The number of cavemen has increased obviously now, hasn't it?"

"Yes."

Wang stroked his chin for a while, then asked seriously, "Then, has the caveman's body shape changed from that of your grandfather's?"

Ralph: "Here... you can check the records. When the caveman's lair was just broken through, this fortress was the stronghold that grandfather and the others planned to take back the mine, and they didn't give up until they ran out of financial resources. At that time, grandfather hired clerks to Everything that was found to help defeat the Neanderthals was documented."

Wang: "Let's go!"

Elizabeth let out a long breath: "Finally, I don't have to endure this stench anymore."

Xiaobai: "Cuckoo!"

**
The castle's library is surprisingly free from the musty smell of damp paper, probably because the castle's ventilation is really good.

Ralph took down a book from the bookshelf with ease: "This one records the body structure of halflings in detail. I read it to learn how to kill halflings, and then taught it to my soldiers. I didn't expect halflings to Bring out that monster."

Wang took the book, opened it and flipped through it quickly.

Xiaobai stretched his head to the side, looked at it for a few seconds and complained: "You turn too fast!"

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

Xiaobai: "How do you know what is important and what is not?"

At this time Wang stopped flipping through the book, pointed to the caveman's size recorded on it and asked Ralph, "Sir, is the caveman you are facing now this big?"

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

"Before I paid attention to physical weakness and so on, I didn't look at this schematic diagram carefully. I thought cavemen were so thin, and felt that underground creatures were very thin."

Flint blew his beard angrily: "What are you talking about? Dwarves are not skinny! We weigh more than a tall man with a big body!"

Wang ignored Flint's protests, meditating while thinking: "The number of cavemen has increased, but they have become thinner... Sir, are there any cavemen that are closer to the schematic diagram drawn by your ancestors?"

Ralph immediately replied: "Yes. The priests of Lamashtu and a few remaining shamans are of this size. Is there such a thing among ordinary cavemen? They are generally at the commander level."

Wang: "Could it be that the ordinary caveman has a disease? Tonight, in addition to the living monsters, we also need to catch the living caveman. It is best to catch both the thin and not thin."

Ralph: "The corpse of the caveman from last night hasn't been burnt yet. There is really no one left. We just let the priest do the ritual. Would you like to take a look?"

"Row."

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Unlike the monsters, the corpses of the cavemen were piled directly in the tunnel, which seemed to be ready for the next defense.

Wang found a thin one and a rounder one in no time, and gottrick dragged them from the pile of corpses.

After placing the two corpses side by side on the ground, Elizabeth commented: "The gap is indeed obvious. The one here is like a pillow that has not yet been filled with dried rice bran, while the one next to it is filled with velvet."

While putting on his gloves, Wang said, "Thank you for your vivid metaphor."

After speaking, he took out the dagger from the dimension bag.

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

"No, there is no need for an autopsy this time, just look at what's in the stomach." The mage was about to stab it with a dagger, but was stopped by the drow.

Malika: "Let me do it, I can't do your detailed dissection, but I'm good at disemboweling."

Wang: "Then you should take out the stomach completely and then cut it open. What I want to see is the remaining food in the stomach."

Elizabeth: "Do you suspect that the difference in size is due to not eating enough?"

Wang: "No, I plan to use the method of elimination to eliminate the past one by one. The easiest thing to eliminate is the food gap."

Marika: "I'm going to do it!"

"Let's go." Wang made a gesture of invitation.

The drow skillfully disemboweled the stomach, took out the stomach of the corpse, then cut it open under the eyes of everyone, and took out the food residue inside.

Wang squatted down and fiddled gently with his gloved hands: "Mushrooms should be the staple food of cavemen, but this doesn't look like mushrooms. Even after eating for a long time, the remaining mushrooms in the stomach cannot be powdery. The peristalsis of the stomach can't grind it so finely."

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

Xiaobai: "It's moss."

Wang looked at the werewolf girl: "Are you sure?"

"Sure, this is moss."

Wang: "Okay, moss. And what are these grainy things?"

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

Wang carefully kneaded the granular items with his fingers: "It still feels hard, and it's not a complete powder. There are particles of different sizes."

He took out the water bag, grabbed a small handful of food residue, rinsed it with water, and then fine black particles appeared in his palm.

Flint leaned over and took a closer look, and said, "This is the sand in the sand layer of the earth's crust. It is said that the besieged city-state of Aurea was so poor that it was mixed in bread."

Wang shook his hand, threw away the sand, and said to Malika, "Take apart a few more skinny ones, and see if there is such a thing in the stomach."

Marika: "Leave it to me."

After a while, the drow came back to report: "Not all of them. Some people still have wood chips in their stomachs. I don't know how cavemen get wood chips in the ground."

Wang nodded, pointing to the rounder caveman corpse and said, "Take out this stomach and see what's inside."

Malika complied immediately, and after a swift operation, she poured out the contents of the round caveman's stomach and spread it on the ground.

Wang picked up a tiny stick: "I always feel that this is the stipe of a fungus."

The druid immediately said: "Ghost mushroom, a very delicious mushroom, can emit shimmering light in a dark environment."

Wang threw this away, picked up another piece and showed it to Xiaobai.

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

Wang: "Do these two kinds 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 caveman has stepped into a feudal society from a primitive society. This mushroom-eating caveman might be their baron!"

Wang: "No, I think it's more likely that the underground can't supply such a large population of cavemen. The underground production has always been a problem.

"The dwarves don't live completely underground. They also plant dwarf barley on the terraced fields of the mountain kingdom. The dwarves also hunt on the ground and enrich their tables with the meat of ground beasts.

"They don't just rely on the crops in the ground."

Flint: "You're not comprehensive. We dwarves also domesticate goats. Goats are a kind of livestock that are very suitable for grazing in mountainous areas. They can produce good-tasting meat and goat milk."

Wang: "That's right. Many of the common so-called underground races actually rely on things on the ground to survive. Drows are the same, they hunt on the ground. But cavemen are different. They hardly appear on the ground, or even in the shallow ground.

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

"In line with this characteristic, their birth rate is not high, and their children are prone to premature death. Now there are various signs that the cavemen seem to have solved the problem of fertility."

Elizabeth: "Then there was a famine. They ate up all the mushrooms in the ground, and they could only eat moss mixed with sand and stones to satisfy their hunger. In the end, they had no choice but to wage war on the surface world to seize the land under the sun."

Wang: "That's a good summary. It seems like this is probably the case now."

Malika didn't seem to care about whether she could eat or not. After Wang finished speaking, she asked, "Then is this abnormal increase in birth rate related to the crisis we are about to face?"

"I still need to collect further information." Wang shrugged. "Of course, it is also possible that after blocking the attack tonight, most of our doubts will be resolved."

Flint: "Did you forget one more thing, there is an angry false duke waiting for us to overthrow everyone but the princess."

Wang seemed to have just remembered this matter, and nodded again and again: "Yes, there is still this matter."

It seemed his interest had been fully captured by the startling facts of what happened to the Neanderthal community.

He was already looking forward to tonight's attack.

(End of this chapter)