Chapter 361 360. Salian's Worries
A new batch of werewolves brought out from the tribe are lining up to receive the "naturalization baptism" by Xiaozhu and Lin Jun.
To be honest, for Xiaozhu, this job has long since changed from a coveted good job to a purely routine task.
After tasting the fine wine blessed with [Delicious LV8], going back to suck the blood of these ordinary werewolves feels like a human swallowing a bowl of tasteless batter.
It might be an exaggeration to say that it was painful, but it was definitely not a happy thing.
What's more, every time she bit the werewolf's rough neck, her mouth would be full of wolf hair, and she couldn't spit it out for a long time, which really damaged her elegant image.
Meanwhile, Xiao Lan, who had just been crowned the new Wolf King, found Karen, the only one who hadn't come to watch his "Alpha Wolf Challenge," and boasted proudly, "I'm already the Wolf King, Karen!"
Karen was rubbing her sore arm. She had just lost to Norris from Jidazhong in a head-on confrontation again.
The boss forbade sneak attacks, but Karen was getting annoyed because he couldn't defeat Norris in a head-on fight every time!
She glanced unhappily at the complacent Little Blue and the Marshal Puji, who sat calmly atop Little Blue, and suddenly asked, "Oh, impressive. Now let me ask you, who's more powerful, you, the Wolf King, or the 'Boss' sitting atop you?"
Xiao Lan was stunned and blurted out: "Uh... of course the boss is bigger!"
Karen immediately rolled his eyes at him and said, "Then you're nothing but a bullshit wolf!"
After saying that, she was too lazy to pay attention to Xiao Lan anymore. She turned around and left irritably, leaving the new wolf king standing there in a daze.
The marshal above Xiao Lan's head symbolically moved his butt left and right, as if he was touching the dog's head to comfort him.
However, Xiao Lan did not feel too disappointed because he came to see Karen with the intention of showing off his "new clothes".
His attention quickly turned to another matter. He shook his head slightly and asked the boss above him curiously:
"Boss, what does it feel like to sit on top of me?"
"Hmm? Hmm..." Lin Jun manipulated Puji to move a little, as if he was really feeling it. "It's just okay. Too much hair, a bit slippery, not very stable. Much worse than Shou's head."
"Then why do you always like to stay above me, boss?" Xiao Lan continued to ask.
"Because you are the tallest!" Lin Jun replied.
Lin Jun likes the feeling of others looking up at her the most!
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And in a small hut at the bottom of the elven city of Ithildorin.
The scout flapped its wings and flew up from between Ellaven's soft hair. When it tried to land on the head of Salian who looked more "advanced" next to it, it was blocked by the latter's slightly irritated wave of his hand.
Salian's brows were furrowed at the moment, and he had no intention of dealing with his sister's little pet. He was worried about the increasingly serious situation.
The biggest trouble the elves are facing now is undoubtedly the "madness" pollution that is spreading in the Shenmu dungeon. Although the captain of the royal guards has personally led a large number of elite rangers to conduct in-depth cleanup, the situation is far from as optimistic as it seems on the surface.
The mad monsters were indeed being eliminated one after another, and the elves' positions were also advancing steadily downwards, as if the dungeon would be completely cleared soon.
However, this is a dangerous illusion.
The spread of "madness" has never been truly curbed.
Even in the cleared rear areas, monsters would still occasionally go berserk without warning, brutally attacking supply delivery teams or retreating wounded soldiers.
It was like a tarsalgia, as if it would not stop until all living things in the dungeon were completely exterminated.
The elves still cannot determine whether these crazy monsters that suddenly appeared in the rear are the fish that escaped the previous crackdown by chance, or some poor creatures that were purified but relapsed again for unknown reasons.
This situation has given rise to panic and extreme emotions, and some people have even put forward the radical proposal of "completely burning down the entire Shenmu Dungeon."
This proposal was naturally rejected by the vast majority of rational elves, but it also reflected that the mentality of many elves was quietly changing.
Salian fully understood this emotion. Anyone who saw his comrades, friends, or even relatives being attacked by these seemingly inexhaustible crazy monsters, seriously injured or even killed, would inevitably have extreme and desperate thoughts in his heart.
Even he couldn't avoid it!
A few days ago, he received the bad news that one of his friends was infected.
Although the druids tried their best to purify him, Salian's heart was still filled with grief when he saw his friend's red eyes and mad roar.
However, he knew better that this extreme emotion was precisely the best breeding ground for "madness"!
There have been several cases where frontline rangers were inexplicably infected in the heat of battle without coming into close contact with infected individuals.
For this reason, the captain of the guards had to divide the elf troops on the front line into several batches and force them to take turns to rest in order to calm their emotions and relieve mental stress.
Although this method alleviated the impact of "madness" on the elf team to a certain extent, it also greatly slowed down the process of clearing the area downwards.
What makes Salian most uneasy is that until now, they still don’t know what the real purpose of the demons in spreading this "madness" is?
Initially, he thought that the demons were deliberately creating chaos behind the elves to delay them in order to increase pressure on the human front.
However, according to the latest intelligence sent back from the outside world, the demons have not stepped up their offensive on the eastern front recently, but have shown a posture of laying low.
This is definitely not good news for the elves.
The demons are spending so much energy and effort, they must have some ulterior motive.
Since the target doesn't seem to be humans, the biggest possibility is that it's directly targeting the elves themselves!
But at this moment they have no idea about the enemy's true intentions, and this feeling of being passively beaten is suffocating.
At this time, only resolving the problem as quickly as possible could give him some peace of mind, but the strange and unpredictable nature of the spread of "madness" made them feel constrained...
On the other hand, since a large number of spellcasters were transferred to the dungeon front, the "Monitoring Array" project that he was responsible for building had to be temporarily shelved, so the problem of the radicals could not be solved for the time being.
Just yesterday, the Elf King directly ordered his teacher Ilos to go to the Shenmu Dungeon to assist in the cleanup work, and be responsible for investigating whether some unknown changes have occurred in the dungeon itself.
Salian plans to apply to go together, as his expertise in space reconnaissance magic may be of help.
But... the situation inside and outside the city is unstable now, and he is really worried about leaving his sister, who is not good at socializing but can't sit still, alone at home.
After thinking for a long time, he finally decided to ask a colleague for help.
(End of this chapter)
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