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Chapter 96 Let them work

After cleaning up the battlefield, we will enter the cave.

Sevi walked in front with several experienced middle-aged warriors, Zhang Jingyi walked in the middle of the team, and Luna and several young werewolves protected him from behind.

The group entered the mine carefully.

The front half of the mine is a natural cave, with ventilation holes above the head and light coming through from the ceiling.

When the werewolves moved here 16 years ago, they discovered this cave and iron ore here, but they lacked smelting technology, so even though they knew there was iron ore here, they could not use it.

But the kobolds are apparently very good at mining and smelting.

In the natural caves with ventilation holes, you can actually see a few simple and rough earthen stoves made of mud.

There was still some charcoal, wood and hay left in the stove.

Zhang Jingyi understood after taking a look. The dog-headed people were using a very primitive smelting furnace, an authentic medieval smelting method, but this method was also an unattainable technology for the werewolves.

Sevi couldn't help but praise: "Although the dog-headed people are short and weak in combat, they are much better than us werewolves in smelting."

He turned to Zhang Jingyi and said, "Your Majesty, are we going to keep these furnaces?"

Zhang Jingyi nodded and said, "Of course you can keep it. I will give you better technology and equipment, but the equipment I give you is too 'magical'. If you rely too much on my things, you will not be able to make progress in technology. So you must also learn and master this primitive smelting method."

When Sevi heard Zhang Jingyi say the word "primitive", he couldn't help but think to himself: I think the smelting technology of the dog-headed people is very powerful, but His Majesty the King said it was primitive... Then how powerful is the technology that His Majesty the King wants to give us?
After passing the natural cave section, the back is the section dug out by the gnolls themselves.

They had only moved here a short time ago, but the part they had dug out was already very deep, and they roared into the dark underground cave, and the echoes continued to bounce back, all the way deep into the ground.

Zhang Jingyi took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight function.

But the werewolves next to them don't need to light up, they are nocturnal creatures and have the racial talent of [Seeing in the Dark].

Sevi took the lead and continued to go deeper into the dungeon.

"Look, this section of the cave was dug out by the kobolds with a pickaxe, and there are traces of digging all over the walls."

"Iron ore. Lots of iron ore."

"They were digging for iron ore here and transporting it to the former natural caves for smelting."

Zhang Jingyi took a closer look and found that the mine was dug quite professionally. The dog-headed people had even taken measures to prevent it from collapsing, and had built wooden racks for support every few steps.

This made Zhang Jingyi a little worried: when the wolves took over the mine to mine ore in the future, they were extremely unprofessional and might dig randomly and collapse the mine. Wouldn't that be extremely dangerous?

Just as he was thinking about this, Sevi in ​​front of him suddenly shouted angrily: "Who's there?"

Several other werewolf warriors also raised their weapons.

Luna whispered, "Your Majesty, there is a sound coming from the side cave in front of you on the right."

Zhang Jingyi turned the flashlight on his mobile phone around and shone it into the side hole.

I saw a group of dog-headed men huddled together in the small side cave, shivering.

Zhang Jingyi understood it at a glance.

They are the old, weak, women and children in the Gnoll tribe who "cannot fight".

The war just now took place outside the mine. After the Kobolds were defeated and fled, the old, weak, women and children were all left in the cave. They had no time to escape and could only hide deep in the cave and shiver. Now they were wiped out by their own people.

The werewolves turned to look at Sevi, but Sevi looked at Zhang Jingyi: "Your Majesty, how do you plan to deal with these dog-headed people, the old, the weak, the women and the children?"

Zhang Jingyi frowned and glanced over, and saw a female dog-headed person holding a child of seven or eight years old, her eyes full of fear.

Zhang Jingyi thought to himself: If the netizens were to judge, they would probably kill them all, right? Judging from the werewolves' expressions, they might also want to wipe out the roots. If I blurt out the word "humanitarianism", I'm afraid that the netizens and the werewolves will call me a saint.

Just as he was thinking about this, he suddenly discovered something strange. Behind the dog-headed mother and son, there was a green-skinned monster that was also trembling.

Looking closely, it turned out to be a goblin.

Looking further back, there was more than just this one goblin. There were many goblins mixed in with the ogres, the elderly, the weak, women and children. They were all pale and skinny, and looked pitiful.

Zhang Jingyi was very surprised: "Why are there goblins among the kobolds?"

Sevi: "Those should be their slaves. The Kobolds would capture the tribes they defeated and use them as slaves."

"Oh I got it."

Zhang Jingyi then remembered that it was mentioned in several Western fantasy novels that the Kobolds were a very primitive tribal race, they would conquer weaker races to make them slaves. Of course, they themselves would also become slaves of stronger races due to defeat in battle.

For example, in Salvador's "Dark Elf Trilogy", the dark elves in the city of Menzoberranzan captured many kobolds to be their slaves. When fighting, they would drive the slave soldiers to the front and use them as cannon fodder.

Anyway, gnolls have strong reproductive abilities, giving birth to four or five at a time, so using them as cannon fodder is really inexpensive and good value.

This was the Middle Ages of swords and magic, not the modern society where everyone is equal. Such an operation may seem a bit cruel to modern people, but it was something everyone was accustomed to at that time.

Thinking of this, he made a decision.

"Sevi, let's keep these old, weak, women and children of the Kobolds to work and help you mine. It will be safer this way. I'm really afraid that you inexperienced werewolves will dig holes randomly and bury yourselves."

Sevi scratched his head awkwardly. "Actually, I was just thinking about this. If we dig the mines ourselves, we're really worried that the young werewolves will mess around. It's a good idea to let the kobolds help us dig."

So, the matter was settled.

Sevi said to the group of kobolds and goblins: "From now on, you will be our slaves."

When they heard that they had become slaves, the dog-headed people were not sad but happy, because at least they had saved their lives.

A group of old, weak, women and children knelt down and barked to show their loyalty.

Their slave goblins also knelt down and bowed to the werewolves.

Sevi brought in a group of young and middle-aged dog-headed captives from outside. When they counted them all together, the total number was about eighty. He ordered them to be responsible for digging out the ore, smelting it into iron and handing it over to the werewolves.

This kind of thing is difficult for Zhang Jingyi to accept.

This is equivalent to someone breaking into your house, arresting you, and then asking you to continue working as before, but the difference is that all the income from your work must be handed over to others, and no longer a penny of the fruits of your labor belongs to you.

If someone treated Zhang Jingyi like this, he would definitely fight to the death rather than agree.

But the gnolls accepted it easily!

Because they have grown up in such a culture.

(End of this chapter)