Chapter 732 The Mysterious Cave
Under Joan's encouragement, Gulu plucked up his courage and walked around to the blazing bonfire in the center of the valley to observe the troglodyte sentry sitting in front of the fire.
At the same time, Joan also carefully observed the aborigines in the underground world through Gulu's eyes.
The reason why the troglodytes have the word "lizard" may be because they share a common ancestor with the "lizard people" in the surface world.
Regardless of size or appearance, the troglodyte looks like a thinner and shorter lizardman.
The human-like torso and limbs indicate that they belong to "humanoid creatures". The thick tail and ferocious head all have the distinctive characteristics of reptiles. The wide mouth is covered with two rows of sharp teeth, and sometimes spit out blue-gray forks The tongue seemed to be sniffing something.
As for the difference in appearance between the Lizardmen and the Lizardmen, there are still some differences.
The skin color of the lizardman is mostly dark green, the scales are smooth and clean, and the body exudes the smell of swamp water plants.
The skin color of the troglodytes is dull gray and white with brown or brown spots, which is more conducive to concealment in the dark underground world.
In addition, from the back of the neck to the tip of the tail, a row of bony spines protruded along the spine, which looked like sawtooths from a distance.
This special physiological structure is a bit like the dorsal fin of a fish, but similar features are rarely seen in lizardmen.
Of course, lizardfolk don't exude the suffocating stench of their subterranean cousins.
The three troglodyte sentries around the fire were gambling with bone-carved dice, playing with great concentration.
The bets of the war lizardmen were placed in a pot made of clay.
Whoever wins the next game grabs the earthen jar and drinks the liquid in the jar with his head raised. After drinking, he wiped his mouth and yelled, as if praising "exciting".
Joan noticed that the corners of the Lizardman's mouth were stained with red blood, and the liquid in the clay pot also glowed dark red under the light of the fire.
Evelyn once said that the troglodytes are more passionate about cave crab plasma than the dwarves.
Moreover, this savage race has a wilder way of drinking the blood of cave fishing crabs than the dwarves. They don't use other alcohol or spices to mix it up, and drink fresh and hot crab blood raw!
Based on this, Joan suspected that the clay pot contained the plasma of cave fishing crabs.
A few drunkards who gather to gamble are really nothing to look at.
Joan sent out a telepathy and asked Gulu to sneak into the camp of the troglodytes—that is, the caves dug into the rock wall—to take a stroll.
After receiving its instruction, Gulu turned his head and walked towards the nearest cave. He lay down at the entrance of the cave and listened, then climbed up to the ceiling against the cave wall, hung upside down in the shadows, and peeked down.
"Vision Link" has a fly in the ointment that doesn't allow Joann to borrow Gollum's ear.
Joan couldn't directly hear what Gulu heard. He could only wait for Gulu to listen to it and understand its feelings through telepathy.
This kind of "second-hand" information obtained indirectly is not timely enough, and may be distorted due to misunderstanding.
Next, Gollum dived into another cave.
In the depths of the cave was also a piece of animal skin, on which a layer of fluffy and dry lichen was added, and a thick layer of sand was spread on top of it.
Half buried in the sand were a dozen or so eggs the size of watermelons.
Eggshells are gray with brown spots.
Joan observed it and guessed that this cave was the nursery of the Zhanli tribe.
Those huge eggs are the fertilized eggs laid by the female lizard people, and they are concentrated here to hatch, which is a typical clan and tribal fertility culture.
Gulu stared at the pile of eggs, stretched his neck, and swallowed hard with a grunt.
"Master, can I steal an egg and eat it?"
Joan sensed Gulu's thoughts and resolutely rejected it.
It's not that he is too kind, but that he has seen that the distribution of magic nets around the sand where fertilized eggs are piled up is somewhat abnormal.
After a little identification through Gulu's eyes, Joan could see that a "magic alarm" had been imposed on the place where the eggs were hatched.
Once Gulu touches the eggs of the Lizardmen, the alarm will be triggered immediately, attracting a siege.
Joan informed Gulu of this discovery.
The choker was so frightened that it immediately withdrew its hand, not daring to hit those eggs again.
Joan thought more than Gulu.
Since there is a "magic alarm" in the nursery, it means that there is at least one spellcaster in the troglodyte camp.
A barbaric group like the troglodyte is unlikely to produce knowledgeable mages, and spellcasters are more likely to be warlocks or shamans (druids).
Of course, if the tribe worships evil gods, its religious leader may also be a priest.
In short, the troglodyte tribe with spellcasters in power must not be messed with!
Joan told Gulu to be more careful.
In front of unknown casters, "invisibility" may not be able to guarantee its safety.
A powerful spellcaster, there are too many ways to see through invisibility.
Gulu was a little panicked by his warning, hurriedly fled the nursery, and sneaked towards the cave where the roar came from.
Outside the cave door, there are four guards wearing animal skin armor and holding obsidian spears.
Gulu was not afraid of these majestic guards, but Joan still stopped him.
At the entrance of the cave, there is a faint magical aura leaking out, which seems to be a blessed enchantment.
This enchantment originated from natural magic.
As an arcane spellcaster, it is difficult for Joan to recognize the specific function of the magical enchantment, but the possibility of restraining invisibility cannot be ruled out.
From this point of view, the caster of the lizard tribe is more likely to be a shaman!
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