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Lin Ye sneered: "Just relying on the vision and attitude of those 'meat eaters'? The world will be pilled sooner or later!"
"Yes."
The voice of the blond saint was also a little disappointed: "I didn't expect things to be so big, but they still look down on goblins..."
"After all, they failed to change their habitual cognition."
Lin Ye raised his eyes to look at the saint, and said lightly: "It's a pity that you have spent so much effort on this, Your Highness the saint."
"Well!"
The Sword Maiden was shaken all over. Although she was blind and apathetic, she could still see a look of stunned and uneasy on her face.
"You...you already know?"
"Although I'm not sure I know everything, but let's make some guesses."
Lin Ye smiled: "Your Highness, you already knew that there are more than just goblins underground, right? It's just that you only publicized the threat of goblins to the outside world, and didn't mention anything about the black hands behind the scenes."
"...Hmm." The Sword Maiden nodded obediently.
"Your Highness, you don't want the church and your worshipers to know that you deliberately blocked the news from the public, did you?" Lin Ye frowned.
The Sword Maiden clenched her chest tightly: "Yes, yes, I made a big mistake, that is, I failed those who believed in me..."
"It's good to know... Do you know how to make amends?"
"You, what do you mean?" The plump blond beauty clasped her arms uneasily, but this only highlighted a certain part of her body.
"Ha ha!"
Lin Ye's expression was very playful, even a bit evil.
"Hurry up and get me some supper, I'm starving to death!"
Sword Maiden: "..."
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"You showed your flaws from the very beginning... um."
While stuffing snacks into his mouth, Lin Ye said vaguely: "It's okay to deceive the elves, but I don't think it's right when I hear it, and Goblin Slayer probably noticed it too."
"flaw?"
The Sword Maiden and Lin Ye were sitting on the steps under the porch. The blond maiden was looking at Lin Ye suspiciously with a silver plate full of food on her lap.
"Huh... because the situation at the crime scene is not right." Lin Ye took a sip of the wine from the silver cup, and sent down the snack stuck in his throat.
I don't know if it's the ingredients or the cooking method. This thing looks good, but it's too sweet and choking...
"You said the victim's body was dismantled 'to pieces' right? Hands and feet cut off, guts gutted... Tragic, but not goblin style.
Although goblins will brutally kill their prey, this is not their main purpose of attacking humans.For goblins, women have many... pardon the vulgar word - 'use'.
Whether it is serving as a breeding mother, or as food or food reserves, there is no reason for them to kill people and leave the corpses behind.
People who were really attacked by goblins should be 'missing' or couldn't find a complete body, instead of dismembering the body like a performance art.
So at that time, Brother Kill specially asked you: Is it a Goblin?
And you're pretty sure - so you're lying! "
After Lin Ye finished speaking, he looked at the Sword Maiden with a smile, swaying the silver cup in his hand, and the bright red wine rippled in the cup.
"I deduce that you should have conducted the investigation alone, and you also know that the real murderer is someone else, that is, the 'behind the scenes' who got the goblins into the underground sewer.
But what's strange is that you clearly knew about the existence of the 'behind the scenes', but you didn't tell anyone else about it. Instead, you pushed the matter onto those goblins, and only mentioned goblins when you released the mission... Now it's my turn ask you:
Why block information? "
"..."
The Sword Maiden was silent for a long time. She didn't really want to talk about this topic. Although she was relieved, it was not something worth publicizing.She could feel the oppressive force from Lin Ye's gaze, and she also understood that if she didn't give a reasonable reason, then Lin Ye would never give up.
"Is that why you stayed here on your own initiative?" the Sword Maiden asked softly.
"I just wanted an answer in order to get my knife."
Lin Ye sneered: "Besides, it's not very appropriate to keep them here."
The behavior of the Sword Maiden to block information directly affects the difficulty rating of this mission, and it will also affect the adventurer's preparation in advance. The intentional release of this mission, but concealing important information, has constituted a deception in a sense.
In fact, this task should not be performed by the adventurer team, but should be directly handled by church professionals or the army.
The forest team is an exception, so they can survive and complete the mission safely, but ordinary adventurers... Oh, by the way, didn't some adventurers take the mission before but failed to come back?
Although they are probably not as deep as Lin Ye and the others, they just fell down when they encountered goblins. Same……
But if the Sword Maiden reminded them that there are other monsters underground, then naturally they wouldn't be so careless, right?
Even, this mission shouldn't have existed from the very beginning, and the Sword Maiden can completely notify the kingdom and mobilize the army to encircle and suppress the "black hand behind the scenes".
But she didn't do that!
Lin Ye couldn't help but get angry when he thought that this guy had deceived himself and his companions.
Lin Ye no longer remembers what she did in the "Original Book", except for her tragic past... But if the reasons she gave did not satisfy Lin Ye in this matter, then he would not just swallow it.
"I don't ask for your forgiveness." The Sword Maiden said frankly, "I did carry out an intelligence operation and concealed some facts."
"really……"
"From the very beginning, when the priestess of the temple was killed, I already knew who the real murderer was. That kind of method is definitely not goblins or other monsters, but another kind that has the same appearance as us, but is completely different inside." 'monster'."
"...Are you talking about heretics?" Lin Ye narrowed his eyes.
"Yes." The Sword Maiden nodded and said, "They seem to regard this water capital as the next attack target, perhaps to prepare some ceremony, so the 'sacrifice' was carried out in advance."
"You also know about the magic mirror?"
"It was set up by the cultists to send troops from afar here and wipe out the capital of water in one fell swoop."
The Sword Maiden paused: "But now this plan is impossible to realize."
"Ok?"
"Those cultists have been crusaded."
The Sword Maiden said slowly: "In a place that is very far away from us and has nothing to do with it, I was attacked by the 'Master Brave'."
Lin Ye was speechless for a while, and after a while he said with emotion: "Brave..."
"Yes, although the enemy is powerful, it is just another achievement of the brave."
"I heard that the heroes of this generation are women?"
"Well, and she is still very young, so she must grow stronger in the future." The Sword Maiden said with a smile.
If this generation of braves is placed in the 21st century, they are basically little girls around high school, but this JK defeated the devil at the age of 15, and is born with the ability to use spells regardless of the number of times, and the weapons in his hands are still serious The "Holy Sword".
This, is this the legendary "Huang Aotian"?
In contrast, the female hero is more like the "protagonist", while Brother Sha is the "veteran" of the border novice village, that is, the kind of instructor who is similar to the instructor in the early stage of the RPG game, but has no sense of existence in the later stage NPCs!
A cultist who can plan to "attack the water capital" and make such a big battle is definitely not a third-rate guy, but just like this, he was defeated by the brave man along the way...
Well, anyway, there is one less hidden danger, which is a good thing anyway.
"Leave the brave ones aside... I don't understand, why do you want to block the news and insist that it was done by the goblins? Although they are indeed not good things." Lin Ye asked strangely.
"Because I... want to change everyone's perception of goblins."
The Sword Maiden took a deep breath, and finally spoke out bravely.
"The threat of goblins is no less than that of other monsters, but no one can see this.
'It's a trash fish', 'Even a farmer can beat it', 'It will only hide in caves', 'Timid and fragile'-everyone evaluates goblins in this way, but it is also because of this point, they will unknowingly bring huge harm to human beings! "
As she spoke, her tone gradually became agitated, but Lin Ye somewhat understood her thoughts.
"So, you want to put the crimes of the cultists on the goblins, and there are so many goblins in the underground sewer... to warn the people, let them know that 'the danger is actually lurking around us'? "
"Yeah, that's what I thought!
【Danger is actually lurking around us】... What an apt sentence. "
The Sword Maiden said happily: "Could it be that you think so too?"
Lin Ye stroked his chin and pondered: "Goblins really shouldn't be underestimated, their individual strength may be weak, but changes in numbers will bring about improvements in all aspects.
There are only a dozen goblin caves, a medium-sized settlement consisting of dozens of goblins, a large tribe of hundreds of goblins, and the nearly militarized goblin corps encountered this time... It can be found that these guys also have The ability to learn and evolve.
If the goblins are allowed to gather to the order of magnitude that can be called a 'country', then their civilization level will also advance by leaps and bounds, and then people will realize how terrible they are. "
"...Ah, is that so?"
The Sword Maiden covered her small mouth in surprise, "looking" at Lin Ye with dull eyes.
"I never thought of such a thing..."
The goblin threat she was referring to was simply saying that if such cunning and cruel creatures were underestimated, it would cause great loss to ordinary people and adventurers.
However, she never thought that "goblins will pose a threat to the entire human society"!
But according to Lin Ye's thinking... it seems to make sense?
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Lin Ye was not surprised by the shock of the Sword Maiden. After all, she is still an aborigine in this world, and she has the so-called "level" concept in her bones. Monsters such as giant dragons must be more dangerous than elder brothers. Brin's.
It's just that a few people like Brother Slayer and the Sword Maiden are aware of the fact that goblins pose a huge threat to grassroots villages and towns.
Can it be said that the destruction of a country even threatens the entire human race?
Even Goblin never thought that Goblin would have such exaggerated power.
But Lin Ye is an exception. He has a completely different perspective from the aborigines, and sees the threat of this creature from another perspective:
Goblins are the "natural enemies" of humans and demihumans in the biological sense!
They have no self-reproduction ability, and the continuation of the race depends entirely on the abduction of human and demihuman females.
This is not only a kind of "hunting" but also a kind of "competition". It can even be said to be another kind of parasitism. Every day they live, they weaken the viability of human beings and other races.
Moreover, the goblin itself can also be said to be a kind of sub-human... Saying this will probably provoke the anger of many races, the effect is the same as Darwin telling everyone that humans and monkeys are close relatives.
But the fact is true: Goblins have a simple language system. Although there are no words, they can also convey information through patterns. have...
Usually they behave no differently from monsters, mainly because the size of the group is too small.
A lair of just a dozen members cannot support a social system, but with the increase in the number of companions and the appearance of special individuals (big ghosts, shamans, heroes, lords), goblins will present a "holistic" state of evolution.
It can be clearly seen that the jump in group size will also be reflected in individual goblins. They can learn more skills and have a clearer division of labor.
At present, Lin Ye has only seen a goblin lair with a size of a few hundred people, but there are already archers and craftsmen (even if someone has taught them), it is hard to imagine that when they gather in the tens of thousands... How has it changed?
Don't think that a group of "backward" demihumans can't threaten human beings. Barbarism conquers civilization, and backwardness conquers advanced. Such things are not uncommon in history.
(Using reproductive ability to steal the world... sounds incredible, but it happens again and again!
For example, a certain race... no matter how much they are born or how they are raised, they can grow up inexplicably. )
Although it cannot be generalized in various aspects of the different world, but in a word, it can be said that no matter how outrageous or magical it is in reality, it can happen, so you can’t be too careful!
Just as the so-called precautions against the passing of time, since goblins have this kind of "potential", they should be cruelly wiped out while they are weak, instead of almost letting go.
(Of course, there are "gods" in this world. For them who use race to play games, it is estimated that it is impossible to completely exterminate a certain race.)
Anyway, Lin Ye didn't understand. Why do these people think that dragons are more threatening than goblins?
Just kidding, no matter how powerful a giant dragon is, it would never feed on humans, but goblins only harm humans!
I don't know if a dragon is good or bad, but I know goblins are definitely not a good thing!
——Isn’t it easy to choose?
Even if there is no way to really wipe out the goblins, you still have to be more vigilant, or organize militias to exercise the self-protection ability of the grassroots, right?
But what they did was to resign themselves to fate...
After thinking about it, Lin Ye can only attribute the collective intelligence of the aborigines to the ideological seal of the "gods"...
Tsk, next time you come to this world, just bring a copy of "Militia Training Manual" from Huaxia, and then all problems will be solved for you!
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