Wolf King

Xiao Yun didn't quite understand before. The underground world should be dull and oppressive if the air is not circulated. How could it accommodate so many underground races? It was only when he came here that he realized that he really lacked understanding of this fantasy world...

"...This is where you lived before?"

Standing in front of a karst cave that looked like a small valley but could not see the sun, moon and starry sky above his head, perhaps it should be said to be a big pothole or a big depression, Xiao Yun was slightly amazed.

In his opinion, this cave is astonishing enough. Its size is at least two football fields. There are many strange rocks, stalactites, stone forests, and mosses emitting shimmering light on the walls of the cave. The center is relatively flat. Clumps of mushroom crops grow wildly on the surface.

At an angle of [-] degrees from the direction they came from, there are still traces of excavation on the stone wall, and on the opposite side is a deep and dark passage with no end in sight.

Baron climbed down from Ah Shan's back, staggered to the front of the team, looked at his former hometown, and said with emotion: "Well, my ancestors have lived here for many years." He pointed to the surface of the stalactite moss, "That's light moss, the last emergency food for the underground races, if the mushrooms are not enough to eat, at least licking it can save your life... It's very rare for us goblins to occupy this kind of place where the light moss is relatively dense. This place will be occupied by other races, probably because it is too close to the exit of the underground world, so no one wants to come here."

Xiao Yun walked up to a patch of light moss, opened his eyes curiously to observe... suddenly found something wrong, sniffled his nose, Xiao Yun stared at the light moss with even more surprised eyes: this thing is actually "alive"!

No, it should be said that this piece of shimmering light moss seems to be some kind of extremely vital plants. When you get close, you can feel that they are "breathing" vigorously, creating a slight scent that makes people feel refreshed after smelling it. A refreshing breeze.

The oxygen in the surface world is provided by plants and marine algae, and the oxygen in the underground world is provided by this special moss?

Subconsciously, Xiao Yun stuck out his tongue and licked it... There seemed to be a layer of pollen-like, but larger-grained substance on the surface of the light moss that he licked off.

"Bah bah bah! Why is it so bitter?!" Xiao Yun stretched out his tongue and spit.

"That's why we say it's the last emergency food. We goblins won't eat it unless it's just in case." Baron said embarrassedly.

"It's really bitter?" Ah Shan came up curiously, and licked it with his tongue, "Wow, it's so bitter! It's bitterer than the tree sap I accidentally drank before, please don't lick it!"

Xiao Yun & Yu & Rosemary stared at him blankly.

After visiting the former residences of the goblins, the group continued to walk deeper.

The passageway is still a set of grottoes, and there are also large areas of light moss growing in some areas, which provides faint light and makes the air in this section particularly fresh, attracting many small creatures such as bugs and lizards.

"We're almost at the underground river." Baron, who climbed back to Ashan's back, said with nostalgia, "The underground river is the range of activities of the gray dwarves. We haven't been there before... The gray dwarves don't want us goblins to grab the underground river." The whitebait in the river chases us away every time it sees us near the underground river."

Although it was not obvious, Baron revisited the old place this time, he did have a feeling of returning home when he was nervous... In the past, the gray dwarves guarded against them and thieves because of the thin whitebait in the underground river Same, now Baron doesn't like those little meaty things!

As one of the persons in charge of the quarry, Baron, who has worked for a long time, has the same salary as Ah Shan!

The passages in the naturally formed grottoes were not smooth, and some places required Baron to climb for half a day to get through. Those in wolf form didn't matter, they skipped them easily.

Not long after walking, the sound of ding-dong water came from a distance.

Rosemary suddenly let out a "Huh", trotted up a few steps and stood side by side with Xiao Yun: "Did you smell anything?"

"It seems to be a bit strange." Ah Shan, who walked in the front, jumped over a broken natural stone bridge briskly, sniffling, "The smell of the underground world is too messy, there are many smells that I have never smelled before."

Yu also said: "Well, I just smelled it vaguely just now, it's too weak."

Xiao Yun: "..." Nima, could he be a fake snow werewolf, why can't he smell it...

"Someone." Ah Shan said suddenly, quickened his pace and jogged forward. The two tons of fans tied to his back did not affect his activities at all.

"Rosemary, come on my back." Xiao Yun yelled softly, and spread his legs to catch up... As a cub, he only carried one ton, and the load was much lighter than that of Ah Shan and Yu.

The three snow werewolves rushed through the Daduan passage and arrived at the underground river across the passage within a few breaths...then they froze.

The residents of the underground world, who were caught off guard by them and were fetching water, were also stunned.

The rock walls on both sides of the underground river, the stones protruding from the water in the river, and the uneven rocks on the top are all covered with a lot of light moss. The gray and white skin of the local residents is particularly scary...

The arms and legs of these five or six disheveled, disheveled gray dwarves were as thin as hemp sticks. There was no fat layer on their dirty faces. The gray dwarf with two "skin bags" on it makes people instantly travel to those old black and white photos of the Republic of China.

"...When we met Balu in feelings, they were still doing very well among the gray dwarves, and they were all well-to-do?" Xiao Yun's eyelids jumped, "Oh yes, Balu and the others made a deal with the Hor tribe, the tauren definitely We can't let them live like beggars..."

Thinking about when they first arrived in the Fire Department, apart from being able to eat a little more, the snow wolves were actually not much different from these gray dwarves in terms of their appearance... Xiao Yun calmed down.

The two sides looked at each other for a few seconds, before Xiao Yun stepped forward to speak, the gray dwarves screamed and dropped the water tools, threw off their short legs and ran wildly into the darkness.

"Chase!" Xiao Yun immediately said without hesitation.

Yu ran forward and crossed Ashan, jumped over the river more than ten meters wide with his head, and quickly rushed up.

Ah Shan stepped back half a step, leaped over the river with all his strength, and followed up deftly.

Xiao Yun couldn't jump over, and walked slowly on the stones in the river...

Rosemary sitting on Xiao Yun's back: "..."

This chase lasted for several minutes... The terrain of the area where the gray dwarves live is much more complicated than the place where the goblins live. The sense of smell is useless, you have to rely on hearing to tell the direction in which the gray dwarves are fleeing...

These gray dwarves didn't seem to dare to bring the "chasers" home, they kept circling in the complicated passages, and ran desperately for a long time before being blocked in a dead end by three big wolves.

The three big wolves that blocked the entire passage approached step by step, the gray dwarves huddled together and shivered, their dirty faces were full of despair...

Then, the big wolves stopped, and one of them bent down on the ground, and a goblin sitting among the thick wolf fur grabbed the wolf fur longer than his arm and crawled down.

Gray dwarves: "??"

"Hello!" Baron waved his hand a few meters away, "Don't be afraid, I'm the goblin who lived next door to you."

The old gray dwarf with two "skin bags" hanging on his chest and protecting the other gray dwarves looked suspiciously at Baron, who was wearing a small and exquisite suncloth suit, with an expression of "you're lying to a ghost"...

Baron didn't explain that there was the simplest and most direct way to deal with the residents of the underground world—he untied the sheepskin backpack he was carrying, quickly opened the seal, took out a can of cold rabbit food, and pried open the seal with his metal claws. Pour the contents onto the lid, hold up the lid a little bigger than his palm, walk up to the gray dwarf, put it down, and said with a smile, "Eat it, this is a gift."

The old gray dwarf swallowed, stared at Baron for a few seconds, then stretched out his hand tremblingly, picked up a piece of rabbit meat and put it in his mouth.

The original cold-eating rabbit produced by the Huoyan Department is a hot commodity that is exported to the Western Continent and the Southern Continent. After eating only one piece, the old gray dwarf's eyes lit up. He hurriedly picked up the lid and distributed the rabbit meat on the lid to his fellows...

Baron turned back upside down and picked up the canned cold rabbit food, and carried the whole can over. After the old gray dwarves finished sharing, he added more to the lid, and added again after eating; when these gray dwarves took the four-jin canned cold rabbit food, All right, Baron has already mingled with these gray dwarves and sat among them to chat.

"My name is Baron. Our tribe originally lived on the other side of the underground river, and moved away to the surface world about ten years ago." Baron said with a smile, "I was young at that time, and I only remember the dark elves monitoring It suddenly stopped coming... It's strange, do the dark elves ignore us marginal races?"

"It's not that I don't care, it's because the dwarf kingdom has entered the underground world." The old gray dwarf licked his fingers and said, "The dark elves living in our village inspected and recalled the underground city, and it took more than half a year to return."

Xiao Yun, who stayed quietly not far away, met Yu's gaze.

"The dark elves are here again, are they still in your village?" Baron trembled uncomfortably.

The old gray dwarf nodded: "Their inspectors don't live in our village anymore, they come to pull ore every one or two months."

Baron breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to inquire: "How long ago was the last time you came to pull ore?"

The old gray dwarf thought for a while: "It should be more than ten days."

Baron immediately looked back at Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun blinked at him.

Baron understood, controlled his excitement, and eagerly said to the old gray dwarf: "Do you want to live with us? We goblins have found a place to stay in the earth world, and there are also gray dwarf tribes with us. Their The patriarch's name is Baloo."

"Balu? I haven't heard of it." The old gray dwarf shook his head, hesitated for a while, and said, "Isn't it a cursed place to go out from the exit here? It is said that the king's camp of the Tiger Clan there has captured many of our people... "

"The tiger clan is no longer in the cursed land, they are now fighting in the dungeon and the dwarf kingdom." Baron said confidently, "We live in a safe place, the most remote place in the cursed land. We have a lot of food, As long as you take part in the work and work hard, you will be able to eat well and eat well every day, and you will have warm clothes to wear and a warm house to live in..."

The few gray dwarves were longing to hear it, and gradually surrounded Baron, and some people wiped their hands vigorously a few times, touching the clothes Baron was wearing curiously and enviously...

"Come and live with us!" Baron enthusiastically said.

"Come on!" The old gray dwarf patted his thigh vigorously, his eyes sparkling.

Where goblins can stand tall, dress gorgeously and neatly, and give away food as gifts, of course gray dwarves can live well too~!

Baron looked back at Xiao Yun happily, Xiao Yun shook his head, and Rosemary silently jumped off his back.

"This is the cat warrior who lives with us, named Rosemary." Baron stood up and introduced to the gray dwarves, "We are also accompanied by centaurs, humans, etc., and all of us are together. Live, work every day, produce goods and sell them to the people and the forest elves... The forest elves are much better than the dark elves, they don't think about capturing us as slaves, they make deals with us fairly, and they protect us..."

The old gray dwarf led a group of people to their village, and Baron kept talking...

Goblins are quite a good sign. Centaurs are able to join them and snakes are willing to attach themselves. This has a lot to do with the Fire Ministry's kindness to goblins. After all, in other places, goblins, a weak and dirty race with a bad image, are regarded as slaves. They are also the cheapest slaves. The Ministry of Fire and Fire even value goblin labor and treat them fairly, which naturally gives other races a lot of confidence.

As for why Rosemary came forward instead of the Snow Werewolf himself, it was because without enough understanding, the Snow Wolf Clan was not as friendly as the Cat Clan... the smallest of a group of wrestlers was at the level of a heavyweight wrestler The muscle brother is expensive, it is strange that it can make people feel at ease.

The gray dwarf village is a larger cave than the goblin's cave, and the rock walls except the surface are covered with light moss; the gray dwarves deliberately planted many underground vines at the entrances and exits to block the light, if no one leads the way , People passing by here will never know that there is a large group of people hidden in this place.

Baron and Rosemary took out more than a dozen cans of cold-eat rabbits and more than a hundred catties of vermicelli from the huge leather bag carried by Feather and gave them as gifts to the gray dwarves. The scene made the gray dwarves fascinated and dizzy, and immediately asked when they could go with Baron.

Baron pointed out the way with a red face: This village is only two or three days away from the exit of the underground world. The gray dwarves packed up their things and moved out before the dark elves came to monitor them. After exiting the exit, they walked southwest You can see the new area of ​​the hills in the road; there are more than 40 duergars living there, and one of the duergars named Baloo will settle them.

Such an answer undoubtedly boosted the confidence of the gray dwarves. What could be more credible than the same race?Baron and others, who couldn't wait to go on their way, hurriedly packed up their belongings...

The three snow werewolves pretended to be "vehicles" all the way, sitting quietly like chickens watching Baron's performance...

Leaving the gray dwarf village, Ah Shan smiled and said, "It's easy. If I knew it was so easy, I would have come earlier. Barusalli and the others wouldn't have to work so hard."

Xiao Yun nodded, then shook his head again: "This is near the exit of the underground world, and the dark elves' surveillance is not as strict as before. This gray dwarf village should have planned to escape a long time ago. It's just that they are afraid of the outside world and have heard The news that the Tiger Clan captured the gray dwarves has made us undecided. Our arrival is just to add more firewood to them, and it may not be so easy to convince them to change to another place."

"Ayun's right." Baron nodded, "It's easier to convince them that they planned to escape. That old gray dwarf even asked me about the Tiger Clan at first."

Xiao Yun chuckled: "But it doesn't matter. I observed it, and the gray dwarves seem to like to live in a relatively closed place, and they live in a concentrated place. Let's bring a few more people with us when we return to the team. The next village is easy to persuade, no It's easy to convince, let's block the passage, and we have to go if we don't want to."

Feather & Baron & Rosemary: "..."

Rosemary stared at the dead fish eyes: "Ah Yun...sometimes why do I feel that you are more like the villain in the story?"

"What do you know, a black cat or a white cat is a good cat if it catches mice, and as long as it is useful, it is a reasonable solution." Xiao Yun said indifferently, "Balong came forward to fool those gray dwarves, and he clearly said that there are still snow wolves in our tribe Clan, Dragon Clan? Getting the people back is considered a success, and you don’t need to care about the details.”

After driving for a while, Ah Shan suddenly turned his head and stared at the snow leopard sitting on Xiao Yun's back seriously: "Rosemary, were you scolding Ah Yun just now?"

Rosemary & Xiao Yun & Yu & Baron: "..."

Two days later, the large team transporting vermicelli found traces of the gray dwarves' activities. Xiao Yun immediately pulled out more than [-] fighters to explore all the way, and after searching for a long time, he finally discovered the new gray dwarf village.

After carefully searching several passages near the village and confirming that the smell left by the dark elves was extremely faint, they sent Baron and Rosemary to visit.

Not long after, Baron and Rosemary were politely sent out by the gray dwarves...

The snow wolf warriors immediately blocked the entrance of the passage, quickly entered the village and controlled the gray dwarves...

After feeding a meal of vermicelli, ten warriors were assigned to escort the more than 200 gray dwarves in this village on their way back...

A group of giant white wolves stared at them, and the gray dwarves didn't even dare to cry loudly...

"Be careful, all the places we walked must be wiped with ooze monsters, so as not to leave any smell." Xiao Yun grabbed the smelly ooze monsters caught from a nearby ditch with his hands, and rubbed them on the ground vigorously. , "The place where there is wolf hair is roasted with a torch and then wiped with the ooze monster, don't leave any evidence!"

"Good!" The Snowwolves worked hard without any doubt.

"Rosemary, go and destroy the tent and wooden house we damaged in the dwarf village again, and grab the scratches vigorously!" Xiao Yun ordered again.

"..." Rosemary turned into a snow leopard, staring at dead fish eyes to help destroy the evidence.

After eliminating the "criminal evidence", Xiao Yun checked again carefully to confirm that there were no omissions. Then he led the people back to the team and continued to wander around and search for the next gray dwarf tribe...

This area is located at the bottom of the Elven Forest. Although the mineral veins are not as rich as those around the dungeon, they are still relatively dense; within a day, Xiao Yun found traces of the activities of the gray dwarves. past.

Carefully search for the scent left by the dark elves, block the passage, attack with brute force after failed negotiations, destroy other people's villages, smash other people's blast furnaces, escort the gray dwarves who dare not speak out on their way back, and then destroy the evidence of the crime... The whole set The process is very skillful.

Rosemary, the whole leopard is bad: "I really think you are a villain, and I helped you destroy the evidence..."

Xiao Yun stared: "Why so much nonsense, hurry up and get to work!"

In the inland sea, with the help of the north wind, the fleet floated towards the southern continent.

The crew of the Transport Department of the Adventurer's Association ran nervously to find the grassroots patriarch, and took the confused grassroots patriarch and Harris, the snake walker who was chatting with her, to the lowest cargo hold.

In the narrow aisle left by the cargo all the way to the top of the cargo hold, one end... about the size of an adult Alaskan wolf was lying in the middle, hugging a canned cold rabbit whose lid had been bitten off, and was sleeping soundly.

Under the buttocks of the little wolf facing outside, there are some broken fabrics, wood chips, and reed wadding, wool, etc. that are suspected to be pillow fillings.

Grassroots Patriarch & Harris: "..."

The crew of the Ministry of Transportation said in embarrassment: "We checked the cargo warehouse before sailing, and we didn't find... er... this white wolf." Swallowing, "It should be impossible for ordinary wolves to sneak into the elven port, so I think...is this the Snow Wolf Clan?"

The grassroots patriarch looked at Harris, and Harris said blankly, "...We thought that Qingcao brought Ruhua back to the Fire Department."

The corner of the grassroots patriarch's mouth twitched, he squeezed in sideways, grabbed the little white wolf by the tail and pulled her out.

"Aww——" Xiao Ruhua was woken up, she scratched with her four claws a few times, raised her head to face the serious face of the grassroots patriarch, and the wolf's face froze.

"Woo... grass, grass." Ruhua is only two years old, and she can't change into a human being yet, and she can only utter single words when she speaks. The wolf forced a flattering smile on his face.

Hearing the white wolf's human voice, the crew member of the transportation department wiped away his sweat silently... Fortunately, he knows the orc tribe better, otherwise it would be a big trouble to catch the white wolf.

The grassroots patriarch held it upside down like a flower, pondered for two seconds, and handed it to Harris.

Harris stretched out his hand to hug the little white wolf, and Ru Hua immediately put his claws on Harris' neck, flatteringly: "Ha, Li."

"... Qingcao's son will be handed over to you." The grassroots patriarch said without emotion.

Harris: "Uh..." Turning to look at the crew, "Is there an iron cage?"

crew:"??"

Ruhua struggled: "I, no, tear, home!"

"It should be locked up, and you have to pay for tearing things up." The grassroots patriarch also looked at the crew, "Is there a cage on the boat?"

crew:"……"

Qingcao, who is presiding over the winter budget conference and winter study plan in the Snake Department, did not realize that her cub had already crossed the ocean, trying to go to the distance of freedom...

Snowflakes fell in the sky, and the outdoor work of the Snake Department stopped. Most of the clansmen stayed in their houses and struggled to learn arithmetic and literacy; Do farm work and relax in the greenhouse...

Qingcao checked that it was about the same time, got up and went out to the canal and rushed upstream to look around.In winter, the water level decreases and the speed of the ship decreases. When the river surface is frozen and the ice sled can be used, the frequency of travel between the snake department and the flame department is significantly reduced.

After waiting for a while, Qingcao saw the canal boat floating down the water level which had been lowered by at least half.

"Can't wait so much?" Patriarch Ali jumped off the boat and looked at Qingcao unexpectedly.

"If you don't come again, I will go to the tribe to urge you." Qingcao smiled wryly.