Chapter 31 Provocation
"how to spell?"
Zhao Futu looked at the dungeon in front of him and couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
He did not expect that this abandoned underground city would be so big, with a diameter of more than several kilometers, and it was completely like a large town. Although many places were extremely dilapidated and abandoned, the central location was still very large, where it should have been the internal affairs area.
The hall is separated by a collapsed building, with the Minotaur's territory on the left and Medusa's lair on the right.
"If there is only one kind of creature, maybe there is really no way. But since there are two different creatures living, maybe we can try to find a way." An idea flashed in Zhao Futu's mind, and he seemed to have caught something.
In the underground world, living things move in circles and form an ecological cycle according to the rules of the food chain.
Just like where there are many underground mushrooms, there will be cave people living. These creatures at the bottom of the food chain can be found almost everywhere, and their numbers are huge, and their ability to reproduce is far superior to humans. The intelligence of cave people is not high, but
It only takes a few years for them to grow from birth to adulthood, and their life cycle is even longer than that of humans. If they are disease-free and disaster-free, they can live to be more than a hundred years old.
Therefore, if creatures like cavemen are not hunted by others, they will spread like locusts.
Underground cavemen are the food source for all carnivorous creatures in the dungeon, whether they are harpies, evil eyes, Medusas, minotaurs, or powerful sixth-level creatures manticores, and even red dragons and black dragons sometimes use
Cave people eat food. It is precisely because of this that the number of cave people in various areas of the underground world maintains a delicate balance.
The places where they move are often surrounded by nests of many wild creatures, and then become a fixed source of food for those in captivity.
………………
With so many creatures living in this area, they naturally need a fixed source of meat.
Therefore, Zhao Futu is absolutely certain that there should be a tribe of cavemen and some other underground species living nearby, because Zhao Futu recently discovered something, that is, Medusas like to hunt harpies. As a
Fourth-level creatures who are good at bows and arrows, they are very easy to hunt harpies. Therefore, there should be a large harpy gathering place nearby as a food source for Medusa.
"Two options."
Zhao Futu led the army back to the location of the abandoned mine, and then slowly said to the young paladin and Medusa hero beside him: "The first option is for us to break the nearby ecological balance circle and let the Minotaur
There was a conflict with Medusa over lack of food."
"In this case, they are bound to fight!"
"However, this method takes a long time. We are not very familiar with the situation here. Maybe they will have other food sources."
………………
"The second option is that we directly sow discord between them." Having said this, Zhao Futu turned to look at the Medusa hero Melina beside him. If we want to sow discord between Medusa and the Minotaur,
, let it arise due to conflict, then the Medusa hero in front of you must take action. Let her lead her Medusa elite to attack the Minotaur who is out hunting.
If you can successfully make the Minotaurs think it's the Medusa living next door attacking them, then half of the plan is successful.
"Owner!"
"Do you mean to let me sneak attack them?"
The Medusa hero turned his cold pupils and understood what Zhao Futu meant, and said slowly: "A wild lair of this size will inevitably produce leaders with certain wisdom. If we just attack them, I'm afraid it may not be possible."
Able to provoke war between them."
"but."
"Maybe I can make them fight!"
After saying that, Medusa hero Melina approached Zhao Futu and whispered a few words, and then a hint of joy appeared on Zhao Futu's face. He couldn't help but nodded in approval.
………………
the next day.
As a new day begins, various creatures in the dungeon become busy again.
Although it is an underground world, there are still many low and thick things that are similar to shrubs. The cavemen began to busy cutting down trees. Then they collected wild or self-grown underground mushrooms, each with a simple iron pot or
The stone pots are set up, and they will grind some powder from some phosphorescent stones. There is still salt in the powder, which is definitely too much for ordinary people, but they don't have many problems.
Sometimes, they even put some stones containing certain minerals into the pot and cook them with the underground mushrooms!
While the cavemen were busy preparing food, other creatures also began their hunting journey.
Relying only on ordinary underground mushrooms, perhaps cavemen can ensure that they do not starve to death, but if they want to advance themselves and make the group stronger, they also need to hunt other creatures, eat meat and collect rare
Resources, because if you want to advance to be called a Hell Cave Man, even if you eat mushrooms for a hundred years, it is impossible.
So, while the old, weak, women and children began to cook mushrooms, other caveman warriors also prepared in teams and set off to hunt other species.
Their hunting targets are mainly focused on the same low-level creatures, but even if they are hunting harpies, they have to pay several times the casualties, and then return to the tribe with a few hunted food, and
A large number of corpses of the same kind are left behind as food for other creatures. This is an invisible ecological balance, and the composition of the food chain maintains the order of this area.
but.
There must be something different today.
Because when a group of more than ten Minotaurs arrived near the cavemen's lair where they usually fight in the autumn wind, they were surprised to find that all the cavemen were dead.
Even if it is a ethnic group, it is divided into small groups internally.
In other words, Minotaurs form small family units in a large tribe based on direct bloodline, etc. Therefore, Minotaurs usually go out to hunt for food, and at most a dozen of them act together. They only encounter special circumstances.
Only then will they gather more companions. The leader of the Minotaur Elite had a puzzled expression on its face, because it didn't know who had killed all their regular food sources.
You must know that even for them, every time they hunt cavemen, they only have enough to eat!
Now they are all killed!
What will you eat next?
The leading Minotaur elite lay on the ground and smelled it, and suddenly a look of anger appeared on its face, because it smelled a familiar smell, which was the smell left by Medusa!
"Moo!"
The Minotaur Elite let out an angry roar, and its pair of bull's eyes as big as copper bells couldn't help but turn red. It roared something in a language that no one else could understand.
It probably means those bastard Medusas! They've crossed the line!
Medusa and the Minotaur have not always been in peace with each other, but they can't help each other.
In battles after battles, the two sides finally reached some compromises, which was nothing more than dividing their territories and taking what they needed. The source of food determines whether the group can grow, and Medusa's behavior of crossing boundaries is very important to them.
It is undoubtedly a naked provocation, and it is the kind of behavior where you stand in front of other people's homes and slap them in the face!
As a result, the group of Minotaurs who were out hunting quickly followed the traces left by the group of Medusas and pursued them without hesitation.
After a while.
They caught up with the group of Medusas that had crossed the border, but after seeing these Medusas clearly, the leading Minotaur elite couldn't help but shudder.
Because there are too many enemies!
There were about twenty Medusa elites. After seeing them, they nocked their arrows without hesitation, and then a wave of arrows came over them.
The first wave of arrows has just fallen, the second wave of arrows has already hit, and the third wave of arrows is already being prepared.
Maybe the Minotaurs are really rough-skinned and fleshy, but when faced with the enemy's intensive long-range shooting, five or six of them fell down at once, and the other injured Minotaurs had dark green blood flowing out of their wounds.
Blood. After the successful transfer of classes, Medusa hero Melina seems to have the ability to teach skills to other Medusas. She can let some elite Medusas master the poisonous arrow skills she originally possessed.
Before the fight even started, he was already half on the ground.
Even the Minotaur, who usually had high morale, felt a little guilty now.
and.
The opponent's number was obviously much greater than his own, and even if he forced himself to get in front of the enemy, he would probably lose his life.
Although the Minotaur is simple-minded, he is not stupid at all!
So, under the shouts of the leading Minotaur elite, the Minotaurs around it ran away again.
A good man never suffers immediate losses!
After gathering the other brothers, come over and kill these Medusas who have crossed the border!
The Medusas seemed to have no intention of letting these Minotaurs escape. After several waves of arrows, there were not many Minotaurs left.
Some of them were poisoned and couldn't run away, and were cut into pieces by Medusa who caught up with them.
………………
From the beginning of the battle to the end of the battle, in just a few minutes, there were more than a dozen Minotaur corpses left on the ground.
The only Minotaur elite that escaped also escaped with seven or eight arrows.
Even if it can come back alive, it probably won't last long!
Chapter completed!