Chapter 184 The bad taste of the Creator God

Author: Arion's Dolphins

Chapter 184 The bad taste of the Creator God

This time, the city official finally showed a heartfelt smile: "No problem, just nod and agree."

[Finally, let me ask, is this Yintao City’s idea or Count Sterling’s idea? 】

"Is it that important?"

He failed to get the news he wanted from the city official, but Tang Zhao was not angry. After arguing with the other party for a few words, he left the city official's residence on the pretext that he was going to bask in the sun.

In fact, it was already dark now, but no one cared about Tang Zhao's excuse.

Returning to the temporary camp, Tang Zhao briefly held a meeting with everyone, the content of which was about food transportation.

There is a reason why he dared to agree directly. This matter is not difficult for them.

It has never been said explicitly, but Oran's senior officials basically know that Karak Solma cannot be self-sufficient in food. They have always needed to buy large amounts of food, especially after the war.

He purchased a large amount of grain and livestock. After that, he would import a batch of grain every two or three weeks. The amount of imported grain varied, but the amount each time was very large.

This was intentional by Andrea and Tang Zhao, not allowing each other to accurately calculate the specific amount of grain imports and not leaking this information. In addition, it also meant to show weakness.

Faced with a force that cannot be self-sufficient in food and relies heavily on human imports, Oran will not be too wary.

In fact, Karak Solma's grain production has greatly improved. It is expected that after this year's autumn harvest, it will be basically self-sufficient. Not to mention the private transactions with the feudal nobles, most of which are settled in grain.

There is enough food to feed the entire settlement for half a year.

They are still importing a large amount of grain, partly for use as strategic reserves, and partly to sell to the other two neighbors. The elves are at war and have no time to worry about production, and the dwarves are making wine and it is a bottomless pit of grain.

I just made a rough plan and wrote the relevant content to Andrea, and she will handle the follow-up issues.

The person responsible for delivering the message is not a carrier pigeon but a vulture. The distance between the two places is six to seven hundred kilometers. With the physical strength of these carrier pigeons, they may have to rest once in the middle. Once they take a rest, something may happen, so they chose the one with stronger endurance and longer wingspan.

A large vulture that can fly extremely long distances.

Birds are really amazing animals. They can find their way home hundreds of kilometers away by relying on things like magnetic fields.

"You asked us to pay attention to Count Sterling before, but we haven't found anything yet. However, there are some details about the sea wolf that may be of interest to you."

The human sailor handed over a wooden box in a serious manner, opened it, and there was a row of scales lying inside. The whole box was green and slightly transparent, and each scale was about the size of a fist.

At this time, an Elf Druid stepped forward and spoke: "These scales were bought from fishermen. I'm sorry that we don't have knowledge about the aquatic tribe and can't recognize what kind of creature this is."

Tang Zhao looked around at the scales and probably had an idea.

First, judging from the thickness and size of the scales, this creature should not be large in size. If exaggerated, it is estimated that it will not exceed five meters. Normally, it should be around three meters.

Second, these are obviously fish scales. Not only are they in the shape of tiles, they also have growth rings similar to tree rings. The age of the fish can be judged based on the number of growth rings, and a fish can even be judged by the shape of the growth rings.

Nutritional intake status, but he does not have such advanced skills, so he can only recognize these as fish scales.

[I think the owner of this kind of scales is most likely just a fish, but it’s better to be cautious and do more related investigation work. I sent some people to the Heim Church, saying that I wanted to help them find the murderer of the missing persons case.

, now they are in urgent need of manpower, so they probably won’t refuse.】

"After the people of the Church of Helm agree, what should they do?"

The elf druid who asked the question had an "I understand" expression.

[Just do this, find the murderer of the missing case, and at last find some traces to see if it was the work of sea monsters or demons, and then we can act openly and honestly.]

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It would take some time for Andrea to transport the food over, so Tang Zhao took advantage of this free time to continue exploring the sewers of Yintao City, hoping to find unexpected gains.

The devil likes to be active at night. He deliberately staggered the time with the other party and searched for traces of the devil during the day. The result was a bit ominous. There were similar traces everywhere in the sewers in the city. Judging from the size and time period of discovery,

Obviously there is more than one demon, not even two or three, the number is probably in astonishing double digits.

This is a mad war demon, a human warrior with strength above the fourth level. Two digits is an exaggerated number. The fourth level warriors of Rufud and Karak Solma combined together only amount to this number.

He began to assess the risks and calculated whether he needed to bring in reinforcements. The water was too deep for him.

In addition, the people investigating the disappearance case in the city have also made progress. Judging from the traces, the perpetrators used magic, not those crazy fighting demons hiding underground. They were similar to Tang Zhao, spell-casting idiots.

The other party was very cautious in doing things. Neither the Church of Heim nor the security team in the city found any flaws. Tang Zhao's people had nothing to do with them in a short time. They could only continue to follow up and wait for the other party to commit crimes again.

After judging the current situation, Tang Zhao resisted the idea of ​​taking action and continued to wait for Andrea's grain transport ship to arrive.

But before Andrea arrived, the commander of the Helm Church arrived first.

He came to ask for help, hoping that Tang Zhao's sailors could help and work with them to deal with the pirates.

Tang Zhao considered the time and felt that it was still too early for Andrea to arrive, so he agreed.

Because these people had helped him before, they also participated in the war against the Blood Fist Goblin, and even fought alongside the lizard people on the Duva River for a period of time.

The next day, on the Heim Church's warship, a group of people were looking at the sea, each with their own thoughts.

Although in ancient times, both the Ostians and the elven dwarves used their own unique technologies to develop advanced weapons such as submarines and aerospace crafts, but now humans mainly use galleys, because there are no cannons and no

The needs of ocean navigation.

Even if the Vikings could row similar ships to Greenland, they could not hide the fact that the seaworthiness of such ships was not very good. If they encountered larger winds and waves in the inland sea, there was a possibility that the ship would be destroyed and people would be killed.

, daily use can only be carried out near the coastline.

Fortunately, the sea conditions near Yintao City were good, and they chose good weather to go out to sea, so it was not a big problem. It was just that Tang Zhao looked a little scared, mainly due to a guilty conscience and a little bit of seasickness.

[You have a very strong ship, and the quality of ordinary sailors and sailors is also very good. In addition, with the high-quality weapons we provide, it should be more than enough to deal with ordinary pirates. Why do you want to ask us for help? 】

"Because the pirates we are dealing with are not humans, they are a group of fish-men. No matter how good our sailors are in water, they can't compare to creatures that can breathe in the water and have long tails and fins."

That's why he asked for help. He had fought head-on with the black lizardmen before, and he knew that the lizardmen's underwater combat capabilities were very strong.

【Flocculant? What kind is it specifically? 】

"Sahuagin, hateful predators."

The ocean is a large area, and naturally there are many kinds of intelligent creatures inhabiting it, from humans living on islands to mermaids hiding in underwater caves, to black turtles and giant whales as huge as mountains, with different appearances and abilities.

One is enough.

One concept needs to be emphasized: mermaids and fishmen are two types of intelligent creatures that are related, but not very common.

The murloc has a fish head, and its lower body is not much different from that of a human. There is a fish tail behind it out of thin air, with fins and webs to assist swimming, like the deep divers in the Cthulhu Mythos or the little ones in the XX Alliance.

Fishman.

The lower body of the mermaid has turned into a fish body, and the upper body is almost the same as a human. This form is very famous, and it is the mermaid in fairy tales.

Looking at the examples, we can see that one is beginning to take on a human form, and the other is generally as beautiful as a fairy. The creator god of this world is also evil. In terms of human aesthetics, most evil creatures do not look very good, and

Good or neutral creatures are mostly fine.

Merfolk are neutral creatures similar to lizardmen, while murlocs are fierce predators. The sahuagin that Tang Zhao and the others are about to face are considered to be one of the more difficult branches. They are strong and strong, and sahuagin believe in

The shark god Secora is favored by it and has the habit of training sharks, such ferocious predators.

This kind of creature usually lives in bottomless ocean trenches, but they will go out and plunder all over the world, from other places in the deep sea to small cities on the coastline.

What Tang Zhao and the others were about to face was not the main force of the sahuagin, but just a group of bandits. Logically speaking, they could not win easily, but they were not difficult to deal with either.

Suddenly, Tang Zhao thought of something and asked his men to bring the wooden box and show the scales inside to the commander.

[In the legend of Yintao City fishermen, there is a monster called the sea wolf. These are the so-called sea wolf scales we collected. Please help us check whether they belong to the sahuagin. 】

Although the people in the Heim Church are not scholars or experts, they have excellent professional qualities and spend every day at the beach dealing with the creatures in the water. Maybe he knows some information.

The commander was stunned when he heard this, but did not refuse: "Tile-shaped fish scales, with small green spots on the back, irregular wavy growth rings, and rough serrations on the outside of the scales. This is what a sahuagin left behind

, but according to my observation, the sea wolf that the fishermen call is actually the moray eel, and after some processing, it becomes a monster that everyone is afraid of."

[How long ago were these scales taken out of the sea?]

"About two weeks ago, it was said that the fishing nets were dragged up by fishermen while they were fishing." As if he knew that the matter was serious, the sailor beside him hurriedly told the truth.

The commander looked serious: "Is there a specific location for fishing? Fishermen's boats are basically small boats and cannot go to the open sea. Fishing within a few kilometers of the shore is already the limit. It shouldn't be the same as the sahuagin.

Intersecting.”

"It's not far from the shore, some distance from Yintao City, and on the edge of a fishing village under it."

[Personal advice, be careful later and don’t capsize in the gutter. After this trip, ask your regiment leader to write a letter to the royal family, transfer a group of sailors from the military port, and ask for an infantry regiment. It’s best to have vulture knights.

but.】

You can tell from the commander's expression that this kind of thing was unexpected. The number of sahuagin may be much greater than imagined, and it has penetrated into the faces of humans.

The commander discussed with Tang Zhao and finally decided not to retreat but to continue the clearing campaign.

The sahuagin are different from the highly volatile humans. Their lower limit is high and their upper limit is relatively low. The most powerful existence in the tribe, that is, the fifth level, with Tang Zhao's current ability, may not be able to defeat him.

It's a small-scale conflict now. It's good for the opponent to reach the fourth level. Tang Zhao is not too panicked.

Notifying everyone to be careful, they encountered the enemy half an hour later.

A large group of poorly dressed creatures holding tridents and harpoons, with human bodies and fish heads, were rapidly approaching from the water. Following them were a large number of small and medium-sized sharks. The lizard people who were in charge of the underwater vigilance immediately reported the situation.

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To be continued...