Elizabeth: “You mean the branch that used the completed floating island as its base? What happened?”

“Their mission is to capture intelligent biological slaves and then perform ‘pre-processing’ on them. Even the words they use are similar.” Wang turned the seized order over again and pointed to the word “pre-processing” written in the underground common language. “This word is obviously a foreign word translated from another language. The pronunciation is basically the same as ‘pre-processing’ in the common language.”

Flint frowned, “That is to say, the cult and the enemy in front of us may have the same mastermind behind them.”

Wang: “Yes, although the current amount of information is not enough to draw a conclusion, after all, there is a possibility that this word was coined by the leader of the cult himself, but I increasingly feel that the crisis will not end even if the cult is eliminated.”

Franka: “World-destroying crisis? What happened on the ground?”

Just as the king was about to explain, he saw the barbarian coming back with a load of looted weapons and equipment, and throwing a lot of stuff on the ground.

Flint frowned. “These equipments are all very sophisticated, and they are all standard equipments with the same shape. It can be seen that they are produced by the same blacksmith workshop. It is normal for the gray dwarves to have such equipments. After all, they are also dwarves.

“It’s strange that the equipment of the Kuo Tao fishmen is also standardized.”

Nini: “Why do you say that?”

The dwarf spread his hands and said, “The Kuo-Toa will ambush the caravans of dwarves or gnomes operating underground, and then arm themselves with the weapons they have captured, so they are usually equipped with only five or eight weapons, but they are surprisingly good. Adventurers like to raid the villages of the Kuo-Toa because they can often find the equipment that the Kuo-Toa have accumulated over the years of robbery.”

Xiaobai: “Sounds like the reason why adventurers like to raid dragon lairs.”

“Yes, and there is one thing in common between attacking a Kuo-Toa village and attacking a dragon’s lair, which is that there is a high probability of death.” Flint replied, “The difference is that dragons generally don’t like to eat humans, and the corpses will be thrown in the corner to rot. Kuo-Toa like human fat very much, and often extract fat to make oil.”

When the king heard the word fat, he subconsciously glanced at Elizabeth. The princess hadn’t reacted yet, and she felt a little puzzled by the king’s gaze, but she still smiled subconsciously.

It is also possible that Elizabeth did not realize that her secondary sexual characteristics were mostly made up of fat.

Flint continued, “Now these Kuo-Toa fishmen also have uniform equipment, and can form a team with the gray dwarves to attack. It can only be said that they are indeed servants of the same powerful being.”

Franka added: “If these two evil creatures met normally, they would have beaten their brains out.”

Wang: “It seems that we made the right choice to head towards the gray dwarf ruins this time. This is the job of our salvation team.”

Franka: “By the way, you haven’t told me what the world-destroying crisis is just now!”

Wang Yan gave a concise explanation.

Franka blew out orange smoke and spiraled up into the sky: “Fufufu!”

Xiao Bai pointed at the ascending jellyfish and said, “Do you think its movements are very big when it’s surprised?”

Wang: “That’s how Furu is. After all, their race is like this… this kind of carefree state.”

The ascending jellyfish sank down again by compressing its own volume, and circled in front of the king: “What should I do! Franka doesn’t want to become a tumor-covered state!”

Elizabeth asked curiously, “If we fail, will Furu also be distorted by positive energy?”

Wang: “No creature in this world can escape this fate if we fail.”

Franka: “I’m going to tell the other Furu! Let them help too!”

Wang: “Of course you can, but don’t be in a hurry.”

Nini interrupted the conversation: “Malika sent a signal, and he dealt with the enemies at the checkpoint below.”

Wang: “Very good, we will go down and ambush the returning arrest team near the checkpoint, and confirm whether the so-called ‘pre-treatment’ of this group of ‘people’ is the same as the cult on the ground.”

Elizabeth immediately became excited: “Can I throw the fireball this time?”

Wang: “It depends on the size of the arrest team. If there are a lot of people, yes, you can throw fireballs.”

Chapter 287 Disguise

After arriving at the sentry post, Wang dumped out the bodies of the ten enemies he had just killed in the ambush from his dimensional bag and ordered, “Quick, arrange these bodies so that they look like they are sitting here and fishing. I still have some coal ash that I can use as a spellcasting material. Flint and Xiaobai, quickly smear your skins.”

Xiaobai: “I hate the feeling of coal dust on my body!”

Wang: “You can change into an animal and then change back to being pure and clean. What are you afraid of?”

Flint: “The soot will stain my beard!”

Wang: “A dwarf like you is afraid of this?”

“Although we dwarves are a bit sloppy, our beards are an exception. I even applied wax to protect my beard before I set out this morning.”

Wang: “Then trust the protective effect of wax oil.”

Elizabeth took up the coal ash and began to smear it on the little white man’s face without saying a word, while Gotrick took up the coal ash and began to smear it on the dwarf’s old face.

Marika: “Isn’t it a little strange to see only two people at a checkpoint who are not slacking off?”

The king thought about it and nodded, “You have a point. Franka, can you put on a suit of armor for the third sentinel? Just fly lower.”

“No.” Franka turned around. “It’s not that I don’t want to be smeared with coal dust, but the main reason is that evil creatures naturally won’t notice me. This is my instinct. I can’t decide whether to turn off this effect or not.”

Wang scratched his head.

Xiao Bai, who was being smeared in the face, laughed: “Hey, you also have knowledge that you don’t know!”

Wang: “It’s mainly because my teacher’s book on the customs of Gralia doesn’t contain much information about Furu.”

Marika interjected: “So how are you going to make this checkpoint look less suspicious?”

Wang thought for a moment and slapped his thigh, “Come on, let’s stick some wood into the ground as a support and see if we can stand up the relatively intact bodies.”

Marika sprang into action, pulling up the wooden fence of the sentry post and inserting it near the road, then she picked a body and tied it to the fence.

Wang frowned and looked at the “dummy”: “It’s easy to be exposed.”

Marika: “We can only bet that the other party is distracted.”

“Get a few more. Later, Flint and Xiaobai should stand a little further forward. And get a lantern.”

Dwarf: “What the hell? I’m a dark-vision underground dweller, holding a lantern? Don’t you think there’s something wrong with that?”

Wang: “But you have a light source in your hands, which can cover up the dummies behind you. Do you think it is more fatal if the dummies behind you are found to have abnormalities, or if the light in your hand is more fatal?”

“I see. This is what they call choosing the lesser of two evils.” Flint was shocked. “Here, bring the lamp.”

After another ten minutes, the ambush at the checkpoint was ready.

The king, Elizabeth, Nini, and Gotrick lay down behind the slope where the sentry post was. Elizabeth suddenly laughed and said, “If someone comes from the direction of the gray dwarf ruins, we will be exposed immediately.”

Wang looked in the direction of the ruins and patted Nini on the shoulder: “Watch out for the back.”

Nini looked at the “road” guarded by the sentry post ahead, then looked back at the ruins: “I don’t have eyes at the back of my head.”

King: “You just need to look back once in a while. Or do you want me, Elizabeth, and the barbarian to guard the back? None of us have darkvision or low-light vision. In the Underdark, we are basically blind.”

Franka: “I’ll be on guard at the back. I can sense any evil creatures that appear!”

Wang: “And you won’t be noticed by the evil creatures. Good idea. I’ll leave the rest to you. Be sure to warn them before they notice us!”

“Leave it to me!” Furu spun five or six times in the air, and its color was cute pink.

Elizabeth: “If the Furu race escapes from the Underdark, they will surely be welcomed on the surface.”

Franka: “That’s not possible. The Furu tribe has always passed down stories about Furu who came to the ground and lived with humans. Because Furu can read evil thoughts, the bad people on the ground will try every means to kill Furu.”

Elizabeth was a little surprised: “Wouldn’t the bad guys notice you?”

Franka: “But there are not-so-bad bad guys and not-so-good good guys on the ground. If there are only one or two of them, it’s okay. But if they are all these guys, Furu will be dizzy. Furu will only go to the ground when he has completely reliable good teammates.”

Then the jellyfish turned green again: “But, Franka, I really want to go to the ground and take a look. I have never seen the blue sky and the starry sky, and I don’t know what it looks like when it rains. I want to see it! I want to understand!”

Wang was overjoyed: “Then we can take you there if we have a chance.”

Elizabeth patted the king on the shoulder and said, “Be more restrained and suppress your desire to add strange races to the team!”

Franka: “Furu is not strange! Compared to that, the Aboleth is a little weirder!”

No, Aboleth would be too weird.

Rather, they felt that among all the creatures in the Underdark, only the Benthic Demons were stranger than themselves, which showed that these air jellyfish had a clear understanding of themselves.

Nini: “Shh, maybe the arrest team is here!”

Wang quickly turned his gaze from the floating jellyfish to the front of the checkpoint.

He originally held a dark vision staff in his hand, but he found that even without the staff, he could still see the capture team clearly.

Because the arrest team lit a lot of torches.

The king narrowed his eyes and looked at the long line of torches, muttering softly: “My goodness, this number is a bit too many. Didn’t they say that there were only five drow elves and three adventurers from the surface? With such a small number of prisoners, I judge that the capture team is only 20 people at most. This…”

Nini: “Because there are fifty drow elves, and there are indeed only three adventurers from the surface. But the good news is that the capture team is indeed only twenty people, so your estimate is correct.”

Wang: “The capture team only has 20 people, that’s not bad. What’s the condition of the prisoners? Is it possible for them to join the battle?”

Nini: “The captives have dull faces, a bit like the ‘pre-treated’ lizardmen we rescued in the cult branch before. I judge that they will not join the battle.”

King: “Good! Are the surface adventurers also sluggish?”

“Yes.”

Wang: “Okay, prepare for the raid.”

At this moment, the captain leading the arrest team raised his hand and signaled the whole team to stop.

The captain took three steps forward himself: “What’s going on? The checkpoint is so lax! Who is in charge?”

Wang frowned, because the enemy was still a little far away, and at this distance, Elizabeth’s fireball might explode halfway.

With Flint’s short legs, he can only cheer at this distance.

Without waiting for his instructions, the dwarf stepped forward and said as he strode forward: “There was a battle just now up there, and a few blind ground adventurers tried to take advantage. We just finished the battle! The brothers are all exhausted!”

The leader of the capture team frowned: “There is a battle up there? Then there are no adventurers grabbing the ground in the battle? Where are they?”

Flint continued to walk at a brisk pace, pointing to the ruins behind him. “Take them back. We don’t have the ability to pre-process them.”

The king finally understood what the dwarf was planning at this point, “He’s closing the distance so he can hook the enemy when he starts his surprise attack.”

Finally, the dwarf walked up to the enemy captain.

The captain frowned and said, “Wait a minute, why did you change your war hammer into such a strange flail?”

Flint: “Look at the spoils!”

He pulled out the flail and hit the captain with it.

Flint: “Kaelin’s horns!”

Xiaobai: “Ah!”