Alien Knights

Chapter 316: Griffin and bloodworm

   "Your Majesty has not seen anyone for three more days!"

   Cumberland stood in front of Huggins, widened his eyes, and shouted at him.

   The latter looked out of the window with an embarrassed expression, pretending not to hear it.

   Cumberland looked around at the chilling guards around him, and said viciously: "You all know where your Majesty is, but you just refuse to say it, right?!"

   No one answered him.

   Huggins saw the situation getting more and more deadlocked, and had no choice but to say to Cumberland: "Your Majesty is doing a very important job. He repeatedly emphasized that if it is not necessary, don't disturb him."

   The old knight became more and more angry when he heard this. He just wanted to lift his leg and kick Huggins' ass, but when he saw the other's cane, he finally restrained his leg.

   Just as a group of people stared at each other and awkwardly confronted each other, Todd, humming a minor tune, walked into the audience hall relaxedly and happily from the underground laboratory.

   Looking at these people in the hall, Todd asked strangely: "What are you all here for?"

   Hudgens winked at the king desperately, but the other party didn't notice it.

   Cumberland walked quickly to Todd, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, the officials of the kingdom are looking for you everywhere! Everyone is going crazy!"

   Todd looked surprised: "Find me? What happened?!"

   "Don't ask so much anyway, come with me!"

   Before he could take off his lab coat, Todd was led by Cumberland, leaving the palace in a carriage, and heading towards the headquarters of the Knights.

   Before the carriage reached its destination, Todd's ears already heard loud voices and harsh beasts.

  Waiting for him to get out of the car door, the crowded scene in front of him shocked him.

   "Are these people?"

   Cumberland did not answer his plan at all, and directly ordered the soldiers to separate and watch the lively crowd, so that everyone could make way for the king.

   When Todd walked into the stable behind the headquarters of the Knights, he finally understood why the officials of the kingdom were so anxious.

   Fourteen adult griffins ran happily in the stable with seven young griffins.

   A row of cooks invited from the city, hiding in a steel cage fearfully, grilling meat steaks for their lives.

   There are a few griffins waiting next to the iron cage, their eyes fixed on the barbecue in the hands of the chef. They look like an aunt and uncle attending a buffet.

Cumberland said to Todd: "Just last night, there was a group of griffins hovering in the sky over West City. Since you have given orders not to attack these beasts, the kingdom's army can only watch them. Landed in the stables."

"Because of this matter, I came to the palace with many officials last night, wanting you to come forward to resolve the matter. But the little **** Harkins, said nothing to tell me where you are!" Cumberland was indignant. He shook his fist: "And the supervisor of the stables came to report again at the time that the hungry griffins are hunting horses! As a last resort, as you can see now, we used iron cages and barbecues to attract the attention of the griffins. And took the opportunity to transfer all the horses."

   Todd nodded while listening to Cumberland’s complaint.

   He always thought that it would take at least a month for Griffon Henry to go back this time, but he did not expect that he would come back in less than ten days. And not only brought back his spouse Sonia and his children, but also led a large group of "Fox Peng Gou Friends" back.

   Todd walked into the stable and found Henry who was resting on the innermost haystack.

   Beside him, the exhausted Sonia was eating barbecue and supplementing nutrition. When Todd appeared, she just nodded.

   Under Henry's wings, there are three griffon eggs of different colors lying quietly on the haystack.

   Without waking Henry, Todd walked out of the stables and called Huggins and said, "In the north of the city, near the barracks, find a quiet location to make a home for these griffins."

   Watching an adult griffon easily swallow a large piece of roasted meat into his belly, Huggins' eyes twitched: "I will do your will."

   Cumberland walked to Todd's side and said to him: "Your Majesty, there have been no meetings for three days. We don't know the state of the kingdom mission."

   As reminded by the old knight, Todd also remembered that the mission led by Dion and Mary had not been in contact for a long time.

   After entering the soul space, Todd found all the high-ranking officials of the kingdom, and found Dion and Mary, and began to inquire about the mission's work progress.

   It was Dion, who was obviously sleep deprived, and said to everyone with two dark circles under his eyes: "The Holy Guard has sent the weapons and armors and the eliminated army horses they promised in advance to Shouwang Town."

Dion transmitted the memory to the screen, pointing to the hills of weapon armor on the screen, and said: "I have inspected these equipment. They are well maintained and of good quality. They are placed in ordinary countries and are said to be service equipment of the regular army. It's not an exaggeration."

   Todd looked at the weapons and armors in the screen and nodded in satisfaction: "Very well, where are the eliminated horses?"

   Dion's face became a little strange, and he whispered to Todd: "I don't think these things should be called war horses."

   In the memory screen, Dion lifted the tarp, and the things exposed below made everyone scream in a low voice.

   These "eliminated war horses" are not horses at all, they are not even corpses.

   A pile of horses that died in battle, the skins of the horses were stripped, the horse meat was picked away, and even the internal organs were dug out, leaving only a pile of broken flesh and bones.

   Cumberland frowned and said to Dion: "These are the horses that the Holy Acropolis has promised to sell us? This is just a pile of rubbish!"

   Dion explained: "At the beginning of the famine, when there was no food in the city, most of the horses in the Holy Acropolis were slaughtered and the flesh was used for food in order to save forage."

   Harkins said in a good and funny way: "So, these bones connected to the meat are the "eliminated war horses" in their mouth?!"

Looking at the dismantled horse bones in the picture, Todd closed his eyes with a headache. Originally, these things were to be transported to the north to make up for the lack of equipment and horses in the barbarian camp, but the Saint who lacked food. The slaughter of the war horse by the Acropolis still caused some trouble to his plan.

   After thinking for a while, Todd opened his eyes and said, "Let the convoy carry the weapons and armor through the gate of the Watchtower to the Falling Star Mountains to the north; as for the flesh and bones of those horses..."

   At this point, Todd hesitated how to deal with these things.

   Wayne, who has just completed the soul link in the past few days, stopped fiddling with the mouse in his hand, and suddenly proposed: "Your Majesty, regarding the remains of those horses, I may have a way to turn waste into treasure."

   Looking at this scholar who just joined, Todd suddenly became interested: "Tell me, what can you do?!"

   Wayne closed his eyes, called up a picture from his memory, and posted it on the big screen in the conference room.

   The bright red and sticky appearance, the mouthparts like a lamprey, and the densely entangled body.

   Looking at this terrible creature, Todd felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember for a while, what is the name of something like a large worm.

   Wayne gave the answer in time: "Your Majesty, this creature is called a bloodworm."

   Having said that, Todd finally remembered what this thing is.

  Clawrence brought two high-ranking players in the "Legislative of Discord", and one of them has the ability to use these disgusting and powerful worms.

Wayne enlarged the picture of the blood worm and explained to everyone: "This worm is a sacrificial creature. There are four pairs of glands in its mouthparts, which can discharge extremely corrosive digestive juices. "

While changing the picture, Wayne said: "This digestive juice can not only dissolve muscle tissue and dense bones, but can even corrode metals. Because of this feature, blood worms can eat almost most of the food, and Use it as your own nourishment."

   Todd listened to Wayne's introduction and nodded. It is indeed a scholar who started as a veterinarian, and he does have a certain ability in biological research.

   Hudgens asked Wayne at this time: "What does all this have to do with the remains of horses?"

   Wayne called up a video of bloodworm laying eggs.

   On the screen, a bloodworm can actually give birth to two hundred eggs within five minutes. These eggs will break out of their shells in less than a day and become larvae crawling around.

   "Bloodworms reproduce fast, have low breeding costs, and have high nutritional value. An adult can grow to a weight of about 400 grams as long as it is carefully cultivated, which can fully meet the basic food needs of an adult."

   Listening to Wayne’s introduction, Dion said with a numb scalp: "These bugs look so terrible, they must be horrible!"

   Wayne shook his slender fingers, shook his head and said, "Don't look at these bugs as scavengers~lightnovelpub.net~ but their meat is delicious, whether it's fried, grilled, fried or smoked, it tastes good."

   Todd heard this and suddenly remembered a famous ingredient from his previous life-crayfish.

   Wayne pointed to the blood worms on the screen and said to everyone: "As long as the corpses of the horses in Holy Acropolis are transported to Western City, I can try to breed blood worms and use them as a source of daily food."

   Monk Qiao was the first to stand up and express his approval: "Your Majesty, the food in Twilight City is in a hurry right now. It is when we need to expand the types of food. The cost of breeding bloodworms is low and the output is high, which can make up for the kingdom's shortcomings."

   Terrence also voiced his support for this view.

However, Huggins expressed his concern: "Your Majesty, do you remember the harm of these bloodworms? When facing the hordes of bloodworms, the successor knight did not fight back regardless of sword, shield or ability. Power. If this terrible creature is not taken care of, it will probably cause trouble to the entire kingdom."

   Wayne responded: "I have done experiments. These insects are afraid of high temperature and strong light. As long as protective measures are arranged around the breeding pond, there will be no major problems."

Seeing that the others had no opinion anymore, Todd immediately made a decision: "The convoy that transports equipment, head north; the convoy that transports horse corpses, back to West Side. Wayne, I will allocate a batch of funds for you to breed and research blood worms! "

  

  

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