Chapter 136 They are back! ?
"What!? What did you say!?"
Hughes stood up from his chair abruptly.
"Please repeat it again. No, you are all in the basement of the manor, right? Wait for me, I will come over soon."
Hughes threw the documents in his hand onto the table and trotted into the secret passage in the fireplace.
We met quite a few banshees along the way. They also had serious expressions on their faces, and they must have received the news as well.
It didn't take long before Zeus stood at the entrance of the underground palace, panting. Ash, Nini, and Una were all there.
"What's going on?"
They looked at each other and Ash stepped forward.
"It's like this. You gave Una the task of the Abyss Passage before, so she planned to dig a hole between the manor and the eastern test site to give it a try."
"I know that."
Zeus nodded, and the surrounding banshees gradually gathered around. They rarely put down their work and their expressions became serious.
"At the same time, she also wanted to investigate the current situation of the Abyss. Since the Abyss is now full of pollution, she asked me and Nini to go down together."
Ash's fighting power is almost the strongest among the banshees. Before the symbiotic contract, most other banshees would die if they left the sea, but Ash drifted on the sea for a long time and was picked up by a fishing boat and brought back to the port, where she met Zeus.
Later, when the banshees escaped from the abyss, the other banshees worked together to release flesh and blood magic for Monica, and she was unable to free herself. It was she who alone protected the entire banshee tribe and repelled all the polluted monsters.
Therefore, it can be said that it is basically safe for her and Nini, who is best at magic, to go to the Abyss. After all, they have a symbiotic contract, and if they are injured, they can draw vitality from the life pool for immediate treatment.
"When we dived into the Abyss, everything was normal, but when we returned from the Abyss, we encountered trouble."
Nini clenched her six hands into fists and said through gritted teeth: "We encountered the fishmen! They are back again!"
The surrounding banshees immediately started discussing with a buzzing sound, and most of them had hatred in their eyes.
They had been enslaved for so long that the two races had become mortal enemies. In addition, too many people died when they escaped. Almost every banshee had an acquaintance who died at the hands of the fishmen.
Ash's face remained expressionless, but there seemed to be anger boiling in her silver eyes.
Xiu Si took a deep breath and thought for a while before asking the question.
"How many murlocs are there? What's their condition? Where are they roughly located?"
"There are seventeen of them. We only encountered one scout and followed it to a camp where the remaining murlocs are." Ash thought for a moment and said, "They are in good condition and are resisting fiercely. They are located to the east of Castel, not far from here."
Fierce resistance? Why does this description sound weird?
No way. "Where are those murlocs now?"
"Here." Ash moved aside and pointed to the ground not far away. There was a piece of black cloth covering it, which was lifted up by the banshee next to him.
The ground was littered with twisted limbs. They were fishmen. He still remembered their ugly and terrifying appearance.
Xius walked over and roughly counted the number of people: "No one left alive?"
"Sorry, it was my mistake."
Ash lowered his head, while Nini beside him sighed, "I didn't stop her. She rushed too fast. When I got there, only her body was left."
Is Ash so strong? It seems that Ash, who is always calm, also loses his mind sometimes. Hughes was somewhat surprised.
"How many murlocs are there in total? I mean at the beginning, before they moved away."
This puzzled the banshees. They looked at each other and started discussing in a low voice.
"About five hundred, right?"
"More than that, at least a thousand."
"How did you count them?"
"It just feels like there are so many of them, there must be thousands of them."
Xiu Si frowned. "How are they usually organized together? For example, are there villages? Settlements? And then several settlements merge into a larger one?"
After hearing what he said, the banshees thought about it and then shook their heads.
"We have never seen these organizations, Lord." Nini stood up, glanced at the tribesmen behind her, and then continued to explain: "They seem to be divided into only two parts, one is the miners, and the other is the warriors."
"They enslave us and make us dig, but they also dig themselves. The warriors don't come often, they only come to patrol occasionally."
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Xius understood a little: "So when you fled into the Abyss, the ones who started fighting were the miners and supervisors?"
"Yes, their total number is not large, so we managed to rush out. The last ghost ship should be the weapon of the warriors."
"I see." Zeus nodded. Some of the fishmen were responsible for production, while others were responsible for fighting. It was a very reasonable division of labor.
As for the murlocs who do other jobs?
It makes sense that the Banshees were still being enslaved at the time and only saw these miners.
"How many of each type of fishmen are there?"
"Miners are the most numerous, probably several hundred, and the soldiers." Nini shook her head: "I have only seen their patrol teams, a team of more than a dozen people, basically like this now."
She pointed to the murloc's corpse behind her.
Hughes stroked his chin and began to think.
If there are hundreds of miners, then there should be even more fishmen responsible for finding food. Not necessarily, as getting food in the sea should not be that difficult, but the number of people of this race must be at least thousands.
Hiss, if it’s thousands, there might be trouble, right?
No matter how powerful the Banshees are, they are at a disadvantage in numbers. The healing effect of the Symbiotic Contract is almost invincible when fighting alone, and injuries can be treated immediately. However, once they are surrounded and attacked in a group, the advantage of the Symbiotic Contract is not that great.
Anyway, let's investigate first.
"Ash, you and Nini each take two teams out to investigate. Make sure you find out how many of these murlocs have returned. Are there only a few teams, or are they migrating in large numbers?"
Ash nodded, and Nini thought for a moment before asking, "What if we encounter a murloc?"
"Try to hide your body and not be discovered. If it is a small group like this one," Hughes pointed to the ground not far away, "you can destroy them directly. If it is a large group of enemies, leave as soon as possible and return to report."
"Also, if the search area is too large and out of the range of the mind link, we can leave some people in the middle to act as signal relays and report any news to the next level through the mind link."
"yes!"
(End of this chapter)