Chapter 2530 Kou Tao Murloc
The Underdark region lacks vegetation, and wood large enough to make ships is even rarer. You can only cut down giant mushrooms that have grown for more than 30 years, and cut off the huge lignified fungus stalks to make light canoes.
The market price of the two fishing boats in Udinos is no less than two ounces of magic crystals, which is indeed a considerable loss compared to the poor income in Joan's territory.
What's more, if the fishing boat is lost, it will be impossible to catch aquatic products, and the supply of meat on the territory will also be in short supply.
It is true that Mitra is not a good thing, and he treats his subordinates very harshly, but he is quite generous in food supply. Even the slaves in the territory can eat enough, and they can eat fish stew at least once a week. Moon can also enjoy a grilled Loos steak.
After all, slaves are also valuable assets. If they are not fed well, they will not have the strength to work.
"The day after tomorrow is the day when fish and meat rice will be served to the slaves. If they can't eat this meal then, I'm afraid they will be very depressed."
Tisitea said worriedly.
In Udinos, slave riots are the first problem of public security. The root cause of the riots is nothing more than the master’s excessive oppression, and the shortage and poor food supply are the direct factors that are most likely to anger the slaves.
Mitra was not willing to give meat to the slaves from the very beginning. This is the experience and lessons summed up after suppressing riots many times.
Numerous bloody precedents have proved that providing a regular meal of good wine and meat is very important to appease the emotions of the slaves. If the meal is short, there is no guarantee that the stinky coolies will dare to risk their lives to rebel.
"Stop talking nonsense! I want to know who stole my ship, Tisitea, don't tell me I haven't found any clues!"
Joan stared at the "Eye of Gauss" coldly.
"If there is no clue, how dare I come to see you!"
Tisitea forced a smile, and took out a wet cable from the storage bag.
"Master, look, this is the evidence I found at the scene of the crime. The rope that tied the boat was cut off by a sharp weapon, and there are some special slimes attached to the end..."
Joan poked out a stalk and looked at the cable carefully. Sure enough, he saw a layer of slippery transparent mucus near the cut of the rope, emitting a disgusting smell, like the stench produced by rotten fish and shrimp.
"Master, these mucus were left unintentionally by the thief. Based on this, we infer that the thief's hands are likely to have the same viscous and foul-smelling liquid attached or secreted." Tisitea continued to analyze, "The thief is near the water. moving, with a disgusting, non-drying mucus, that's obvious."
"You mean the Kou Tao murloc?" Qiao An asked in a deep voice.
Tisitea nodded quickly, smiling all over his face: "As expected of the wise and knowledgeable Master Mitra, I guessed the suspect right away!"
Qiao An ignored this "flatterer", narrowed her eyes and fell into thought.
Kou Tao is an amphibious humanoid creature with a body similar to that of a human being, with webbed hands and feet, and a fat fish head on its short and thick neck—it looks like an iron man, but in fact A belly full of bad water, very wretched!
As early as the ancient "Flood Era", the kuo-toa fish people once spread all over the coasts and islands of the Vales world, and their power was even greater than their distant relatives, the sahuagin.
However, the good times did not last long. With the strong rise of many terrestrial intelligent creatures such as giants, dragons, elves, dwarves, and humans, the sahuagin were driven back to the sea, and the kuo-tao was even worse. The whole family was driven to the underground world. From then on, stay away from the sun and live in darkness for generations.
Since moving to the Underdark region, the life history of Kou Taoyu for tens of thousands of years is full of blood, tears and humiliation.
When the aboleths ruled the underground waters, the kuo-toa murlocs became servants of the king of the lake.
The Aboleth Empire had finally survived the decline, and the Kou-tao fish people regarded themselves as the heirs of the old masters, and tried to establish a new empire ruled by the Kuo-toa fish people on the ruins of the Aboleth devil fish empire.
At first, they developed well. When the national power was flourishing, a group of aliens originally from the astral world jumped into the dark region on a psionic battleship that resembled a huge nautilus.
At first, the Kou Tao murlocs didn't pay much attention to these guys with octopus heads and humanoid bodies, optimistically thinking that it would be easy to wipe out these strange aliens who broke into their territory.
However, the cruel reality taught them a lesson.
Please, please, don't provoke the mind flayer!
It's a pity they woke up too late.
The sphere of influence of mind flayers covers all planes of the multiverse. Whenever they occupy a new colony, they will always use psychic powers to dominate the local natives, serving as slaves, backup food, and research materials.
Since the Kou Tao fishmen themselves were sent to die, the mind flayer lords laughed at these slaves and seized their territory by the way, building many underground cities including Odes on this basis.
The mind flayer's underground empire lasted for tens of thousands of years, and finally entered a cycle of prosperity and decline.
Today, except for a few cities such as Odes, most of the dungeons built by the mind flayers have been jointly destroyed by other newly rising races in the Underdark.
The slaves who were originally under the control of the mind flayer lord also got rid of their mental shackles after the death of their master and defected one after another.
The stoneblind barbarians, duergar and derro in the Underdark all achieved national liberation in this "Great Escape" movement, and the kuo-toa were no exception.
One of the Kou-tao fish-men tribe who regained their freedom traveled thousands of miles back to the vast underground waters where their ancestors once lived, ambitious to expand their territories in this "promised land" and revive the land. The dominance of the Kou Tao murlocs.
However, before they can realize their ambitions, they have to get rid of a small problem.
Near the waters called "Triangle Lake", a small settlement called "Udinos" has been established. The residents are a group of strange-looking big eyeballs. There are only twenty or thirty of them in total. They look easy to bully If you dare to hinder the great revival of the Kou Tao Yuren, it is better to destroy them first!
So the tragedy reappeared.
Kou Tao murloc once again got into trouble with an unforgivable opponent, and was beaten to death by the first batch of "giant-eyed tyrants" who settled in Udinos, and curled up in the lake, not daring to breathe.
The Kou Tao Yuren have been pissed off everywhere for so many years, and they have learned a little lesson. When they realized that they couldn't offend Udinos' beholders, they wisely gave up their ambitions. Turning around and hooking up with the former master again, using the mind flayer clan of Odes to restrain the beholders, and at the same time using the name of Udinos to pretend to be a tiger in front of the mind flayers, instigating the two great powers to fight each other, and being in the middle.
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