Bai En stared at the fish suspiciously. It is large and looks cooked, but there are some strange places, such as it is very white, and there are no scales at all, but there is a prominent protrusion on the head. After a moment of thinking, he realized that it had no eyes.

Perhaps this is a fish similar to the blind staggered sturgeon, Bai En thought. The meat smelled good, everyone was eating, but he kept thinking about the things he saw in the waste soil, those distortions and horned beasts, and everything people told him about magic stone dust.

What if this is not a similar fish? Is it some kind of mutant fish? He just couldn't let himself eat these mutant fish, he knew that there were good reasons.

According to various accounts, mutations may be transmitted by eating mutant foods. It is said that the most severe distortion always eats the same kind, and they feed on other distortions. He didn't want to put this mutant contagious theory into experiment.

"It's blindfolded fish, human." Bane realized that Gray Rogan must have seen the expression on his face and understood what he was thinking. "This is a natural thing. The dwarves began to enjoy it long before the evil came. You can eat it."

"In fact, it's a delicacy," Warwick added. "We breed them at the bottom of dwarf cities. They live in deep pools. We feed them mushrooms and insects."

Somehow, this knowledge does not make the fish look more appetizing. Warwick did not realize his influence and continued to speak. "They live in darkness. Some master scholars think this is why they don't have eyes. They don't need these. And some people guess that the protruding part of the head is the organ that judges their direction. Try it."

Bane stabbed a bit on his knife, then lifted the meat to check. It looked white and tender. He tasted it and it tasted good.

"The food may be a bit monotonous," said Hagrim sitting on the other side of him. "We make a living from mushrooms, bugs and blindfolded fish. Sometimes, I wish I could have something different."

Bai En took a piece of beef jerky from his backpack. Hagrim looked at it suspiciously, just as Bai En examined the fish. "Try it," Bai En said.

Hagrim ate some and started chewing. Finally he swallowed it finally. "Interesting," he said cautiously.

Snowry smiled. "Now the taste of blindfolded fish is not so bad after all, is it? Come, try this and wash it down."

Snowry handed Hagrim a bottle of Kaslov's vodka. Hagrim drank it. For a while, he looked like he was actually coughing, but then he recovered, sucked his mouth, and took a few more sips. "This is much better," he said.

Bai En poured all the contents of the bag on the table. There is also bread, cheese and more beef jerky. It added mushrooms cooked with blindfolded fish oil, blindfolded fish itself and several pots of water. "Please help yourself," Bai En said after making a please gesture.

Hagrim followed suit.

The food soon disappeared, and Bane was happy because only Hagrim had dinner with them.

Bai En looked around the room. The room was furnished with thick but worn carpets and curtains, exquisite figurines, and a lot of gold and silver decorations. This is a room that once belonged to the royal family. Now every companion of Bai En got a similar room. Bai En believes that the dwarves' casualties have one advantage: they have enough space. He pushed this thought aside, thinking it was a rather vicious thought, and he realized he was drunk.

"I still can't believe that strangers will appear here," Hagrim said. From the blush on his face, Bai En can see that the captain is also drunk. "This surprised me. For a long time, we thought we were the last dwarf in the world. We thought that evil had spread to other places. We sent messengers and scouts to the wilderness, but they never came back. Everything seemed so Hopeless, and now you come here and tell us that there is a whole world outside the barren land, the evil forces have been driven back, the Marnus Empire, Gaitan Empire, Burtania and other legendary places It still exists. Without our knowledge, others have survived over the past forty years, which seems impossible! "

"Forty years?" White and Warwick asked hurriedly almost simultaneously.

"Yeah! Why do you look at me like that?"

"It has been 400 years since the last evil invasion!" Said Bai En.

Hagrim looked at him in surprise. "That is impossible!"

"Time passed in some strange way in the evil wasteland," Warwick reminded them.

"But it's too weird," said Bai En, immediately remembering what Borek told him about the strange power of this place. He was thinking, would the power of darkness distort the passage of time? Or is this some kind of strange property of the land itself?

"Trust me," Warwick said to Hagrim, "It may have only been forty years in Guntergrim, but centuries have passed beyond the wasteland, and the evil forces have really been driven back. . "

"How did this happen?"

"On this side, 'Religious Marnus' summoned many humans and dwarves to support his cause, and defeated the dark forces in the siege of Prague in Kaslov. Eventually, the followers of the dark forces were driven back The black blood pass. On the other side, I do n’t know very well. It is said that the Gaitan Empire used a canyon to ambush a large force of dark forces, and then threw incendiary from the valley and ignited them. It is said that the fire burned for seven days and seven nights. But The dying counterattack of the dark forces also caused them to lose a lot of people. It is said that the corpse finally completely blocked the canyon. "

"But no one has ever rescued us." Hagrim said, his voice sounding almost bitter.

Bai En didn't know what to say.

"Everyone thought Guntergrim had fallen. The final report said the city was occupied by the servants of the evil gods."

Guerrerogan's speech surprised him. "No one knows what happened. The army of evil gods has retreated, but this land eroded by evil forces is still advancing. They are always like this. The road to Guntergrim is cut off ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ No one can find a way to pass. I have tried it, trust me. It took Borek a long time to find the way back. "

"I believe you, Grey Logan, son of Sol Ryan, because I saw the waste soil, looking out from our highest tower, I know they extend to where the eyes can see. I have worked with Those dark warriors have fought, and I know they are as countless as snowflakes in a blizzard. Our warriors are too few, so we will soon no longer try to send messengers out. Many of them have been caught and received Horrible torture. "

"How did you survive?" Warwick asked--Ben thought, the question was somewhat unreasonable. But he was still very happy that the dwarf asked this question. He also wanted to know the answer himself.

Hagrim shook his head in pain.

"It took a lot of effort," then he finally said, smiling wearily. "But this is not a fair answer, my friends. The answer is that our enemies are divided, we hide, do our best Fight with them. "

"What do you mean?" Guerrero asked.

"Tell Snowry about the battle." Snowry also said.

"After the last big siege, when the enemy used terrible magic to destroy our walls, we retreated into deeper and deeper mine pits, determined to sacrifice our lives at a high price, and let them exchange every inch of blood for every inch. Dwarf territories. Our people are divided into separate armies according to clan and head to the secret fortress we prepared for this day. "

"Like this," Bai En said.

"Exactly. We hid underground, where we were protected by rune power, and then we appeared in the hall where there was a dispute, and began to raid and fight. We found something strange--"