This sea lord is a bit strong

Chapter 144 Returning Kobold, Lizardman
The next day.

Ji Chen walked out of the Lord's Mansion with a refreshed face.

There is also a lot to do today.

Last night, news came from the underground cave, saying that the kobolds who had entered the mysterious cave due to the shock and then disappeared had been found.

It's just that Ji Chen was busy last night and couldn't get out.

So put this matter on hold for the time being, and deal with it this morning.

It was also the first time in his life to experience the beast ear girl, and he was too excited for a while.

Don't blame the lord for not doing his duty, just blame the beauty for being too coquettish.

Ji Chen was in a very happy mood at this time, and leisurely led Alice and the others to the entrance of the underground cave.

At this time, the entrance of the cave has been expanded many times to facilitate the transportation of mineral resources. The collected resources are concentrated here from the ground, and then transported to the territory.

"My lord!" The two kobolds guarding the entrance of the cave saw him coming, their eyes were both fanatical and awed.

Ji Chen waved his hands casually, said a few words of encouragement which flattered them, and then got to the point.

"You found those kobolds last night, where did you find them?"

"Report to my lord, I found it in a branch cave below the entrance of that cave."

Ji Chen nodded, then stopped asking and led the army into the cave.

He's going to meet the kobolds and ask for more things and details.

In the largest cave in the underground cavern.

A few kobolds with thin faces, yellow faces, withered faces, and skinny bodies were brought in front of them.

They saluted fearfully, bending their heads almost to their waists.

Ji Chen looked at them and couldn't help frowning.

Didn't he remember that more than 20 kobolds were missing?Why only these few?
With this question in mind, Ji Chen recruited a kobold consul.

"Why are there only these kobolds, what about the others?"

"My lord, when we found them, there were only a few of them left, and the rest disappeared."

"We also asked other kobolds where they went, but when they heard this question, they became emotional and couldn't continue to communicate."

Ji Chen nodded, looked at the kobolds in front of him, and waved his hands to signal them to get up.

"I have wronged you during this time."

As soon as these words came out, the kobolds immediately burst into tears, crying uncontrollably, "We have had such a hard time during this time, we can only eat the mushrooms growing in the cave when we are hungry, and we can only suck the mushrooms on the rock wall when we are thirsty." drops of water,
If we are found later, we will starve to death! "

Ji Chen was a little silent.

He had basically given up the idea of ​​looking for it before, and just sent a few teams of kobolds to look for it symbolically.

But I didn't expect these kobolds to be so fateful, and they could persist until they were found, which is really strange.

After the kobolds finished complaining, Ji Chen continued.

"Don't worry, you don't have to worry about food in the future, the territory will definitely fill you up."

"I have a question for you now. Besides you, where did the other dozen kobolds go?"

"Missing, or dead?"

As soon as the words fell, these kobolds suddenly became terrified, covering their heads with their hands, curled up on the ground trembling, and their bodies twitched.

Ji Chen was taken aback by this appearance, he did not expect such a strong reaction.

It was like thinking of something that terrified them to the core.

Just when Ji Chen was at a loss, Alice came up, "My lord, let me try to calm their emotions."

Ji Chen was taken aback for a moment, but soon understood the reason.

Alice's singing voice can bring living beings into a beautiful hallucination, and perhaps it can be used to appease these emotionally frightened kobolds.

After getting his permission, Alice took a step forward.

The singing sounded slowly.

There is no mana in it, but even so, the singing is still extremely beautiful, more ethereal than the lark's voice, and more mellow than the cuckoo's voice.

Even people who have no musical ability can feel the beauty of this singing.

Gradually, the kobold who was lying on the ground twitching no longer trembled, but listened to the singing with his dog ears up.

Seeing this scene, Ji Chen's expression brightened.

It really works!

Several kobolds stood up from the ground, and their faces gradually calmed down.

The song is over.

Alice stepped back.

At this time, most of the fear on the faces of the kobolds had dissipated.

Seeing this, Ji Chen asked again cautiously.

This time, although there was still a bit of fear on their faces, they no longer lost control of their emotions.

Under his guidance, he told about what he saw and heard that day until he was rescued.

"After the tremor blocked the way back that day, we discovered a new cave that appeared due to the collapse. We thought it was another exit, so we went down together."

"After going down, we found that it was also a cave. After going around in it, we went to a very large underground space, which is ten times bigger than here!"

Hearing this, Ji Chen subconsciously looked around.

The place where they are now is the largest underground cave in this area, the area is almost a football field, ten times bigger than here, isn't it tens of thousands of square meters?
"That cave is connected to hundreds of caves, large and small, inlaid on the rock wall, and there are obviously traces of biological life." Speaking of this, the faces of these kobolds showed obvious frightened expressions,

"Before we had time to explore, a large number of lizardmen rushed out of those caves. Seeing this scene, we ran away, but when we escaped, we got lost with other kobolds."

"Because we were not familiar with the environment, and we didn't pay attention to the direction of escape when we fled, so we got lost in the end, hid in an inconspicuous cave, and were found in the end."

"The other lost kobolds must have been eaten by those lizardmen! Woooooo~"

After listening, Ji Chen let out a long sigh of relief.

Good guy, I didn't expect such a story to exist.

Under this underground cave, there is actually a deeper cave, in which lives another race - lizardmen.

The funniest thing is that the kobolds have lived here for hundreds of years, and despite the continuous digging of caves, they failed to dig a passage to the lizardmen's cave, and the two lived peacefully for such a long time.

Until an earthquake shook a narrow passage, connecting the two caves.

And there are lizardmen down there.
Ji Chen was a little interested, and his face was serious.

"Anina, go back now and bring an army over to stand in front of that cave."

"Once you find any creature that wants to come out of it and is not a friendly unit, you will be killed without mercy!"

"Yes!"

"Kobolds obey orders!"

"Let's put down the work at hand now, and start to thoroughly inspect this cave to find out if there are other passages leading to the lizardman's cave! Once you find it, report it in time!"

"Yes! Your lord!"

If you're interested, you're interested, but right now he knows almost nothing about these lizardmen, so naturally he can't take it lightly.

Soon, under mobilization.

Anina marched into the cave with hundreds of troops.

Hundreds of kobolds went deep into every cave, even the abandoned caves, and checked them carefully.

three days later.

Check to get the result.

In addition to the passage discovered at the beginning, a passage leading to the bottom was found in each of the two caves.

One of them is even four or five meters wide in diameter.

But it seems that those lizardmen didn't notice it.

After getting this news.

Ji Chen decided to start exploring the lizardman cave immediately.

According to the kobold's description, there are at least a thousand lizardmen living in that underground space.

Such a large force that does not know whether it is an enemy or a friend cannot be ignored.

After such a long time, the channel formed by the last shock should have stabilized and will not collapse easily.

Fourth morning.

Ji Chen gathered all the troops that could fight on land and entered through the largest passage.

Go all the way down the sloping passage.

I don't know if it's his illusion, but it always feels like the temperature gets higher the further you go down.

There were still drops of sweat on his head.

After thinking for a while, Ji Chen thought of the crux of the problem.

Beneath this mountain is a dormant volcano.

Now they are going down, which is equivalent to going deep into the volcano, so the heat is quite normal.

Two hours later.

At the end of the passage, a magma pool appeared in front of him.

Under the dark rock wall, crimson magma was slowly flowing, and the air seemed blurred to the naked eye, and the gurgling magma exploded from time to time, splashing on the rock wall.

Once here, the temperature suddenly rose to a very high level.

Within a few seconds, his back was completely soaked, his forehead was dripping with sweat, and his mouth was dry.

As the tide master who controls the water, Ji Chen instinctively loathes this place.

If there is no water, [-]% of his combat effectiveness will be lost.

Not only that, but the army seems to have some problems.

Although the Naga berserkers and the dragon blood murlocs are all amphibious combat units, it does not mean that they can operate under high temperature for a long time.

Especially in this magma environment, it has been weakened a lot.

Although each of them can still maintain their combat effectiveness, they have become a little sleepy visibly.

See you come and make a quick decision
Ji Chen saw this in his eyes and said secretly in his heart.

Look around and find the way forward
This space is not complicated. There is a stone bridge above the magma pool, which can be crossed over the magma pool and continued to go deeper.

Without a moment's hesitation, he waved his hand and led the army along the stone bridge.

There are some traces of artificial carvings on the stone bridge. The guardrails are carved from the whole rock.

As he moved forward and observed, Ji Chen had a preliminary understanding of the level of civilization of this lizard civilization.

The stone bridge is not very long, and it came to the end after ten minutes, and there was no lizardman along the way.
At the end is a long and narrow corridor with a width of less than five meters.

On one side is a rock wall, on the other side is a cliff with a river of lava flowing underneath.

"The naga berserkers are in the front, the dragon blood murlocs are behind to support at any time, and the rest follow behind me."

The formation was simply arranged, and the group continued to move forward.

This aisle extends upwards, and the magma flow flowing beside it is getting smaller and smaller, and the temperature in general is slowly decreasing.

This made Ji Chen more sure of his thoughts.

They should now be on their way to that huge underground space.

After all, those kobolds didn't see the existence of magma.

This means that the place where they encountered the lizardman should be a place with relatively high terrain.

From this point of view, those lizardmen did not like too hot an environment.

Thinking of this, Ji Chen drove the army forward.

Another hour of progress.

They finally no longer saw the presence of magma.

The temperature has also returned to the tolerable range.

After passing through a passage again, a space the size of a football field appeared in front of him.

On the rock wall and the ground, there are some faintly fluorescent grass plants growing, illuminating the entire space.

A group of ugly, slender creatures with tails appeared not far away, standing on two legs.

Seeing this, Ji Chen squinted his eyes. As expected, this should be the lizardman that the kobolds mentioned.

【lizard Man】

【Race】: Lizardmen

[Level]: Tier 5, [-] stars

[Skill]: Night vision (blue skill, able to see objects in dim environment)
Dormancy (blue skill, able to enter a dormant state, greatly reducing energy consumption)
Heat resistance (blue skill, the scale armor on the body can well insulate heat)

[Soldier characteristics]: Forging (lizardmen are naturally good at forging, and the forging of their iron weapons is easy)
[The harvest of mushrooms this year is not very good, and the dormancy time will increase again]

Although the ranks of these lizardmen are Tier 5 and [-] stars, judging from their skills, they don't seem to be very good at fighting.

Anyway, the characteristics of the arms caught Ji Chen's attention.

forging?
Reminds Ji Chen of the Dragon Slaying Sword.

The dragon-slaying sword obtained from the dragon's lair on the top of the mountain could not be repaired due to the lack of skilled blacksmiths.

And since these lizardmen have such a unit characteristic, maybe they can help repair it?
Not only that, with the expansion of the size of the territory and the increase of the working population.

The consumption of various iron tools has also increased, especially iron picks, iron axes and the like.

At present, the blacksmiths of the Crown of the Ocean are all given away by the system at the beginning, and given away by the Hanseatic Chamber of Commerce.

But the number is only a dozen, and the forging speed is limited.

Now it is no longer tools waiting for people, but people waiting for tools.

If these lizardmen can be subdued and turned into workers to forge tools day and night, perhaps the current predicament can be solved.

In an instant, Ji Chen thought about the purpose and whereabouts of these lizardmen.

There was a hint of a capitalist smile on his mouth.

Without any cover, he led the army and walked slowly.

(End of this chapter)