Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 150: Are murlocs also slaves?

Domesticated pollution?
It was only at this moment that Hughes' expression became serious.

To be honest, Zeus has never considered the murlocs to be too much of a problem. After all, even the banshees who have not escaped the water pressure can fight against many at once. Now the banshees don't have to support flesh and blood magic, nor do they have to consume their lives to cast spells. Isn't dealing with the murlocs a piece of cake?
To put it another way, if they really can't win, just let the banshees go back to the shore. Zeus had someone dissect the bodies of those murlocs and found that they were not suitable for action on the shore. He could just blow them up in the water from the shore and they were not a big threat at all.

But if they domesticate pollution, it would be a completely different story.

If it was just simple pollution, then it might not be that dangerous. Hughes himself had stored several pools of solid pollution ready to burn, but if these pollutions were to be gathered together...
When Monica was polluted, her huge body, as big as a hill, made a hole when it hit the ground. Even if the banshees gathered together, they could not suppress it, and could only restrain it at most.

Although the banshees obviously held back when besieging Monica, the existence of monsters of that size would cause huge damage to Caster.

"Tell me in detail, what happened?"

Ash nodded. "We've discovered quite a few gigantic monsters among the murlocs. These are things we've never seen before when we were enslaved. They look a bit like snakes, about the thickness of a man, but their length is hard to estimate. We only saw these long snakes stretching off into the distance."

"These snakes are located in the center of the murloc's tribe. We have difficulty approaching them, but their aura feels very close to pollution. Furthermore, they are also slowly wriggling, much like pollution."

Xius pondered for a moment, then turned to look at Nini: "Have you seen this kind of monster?"

"No, we are on the other side. There are not many of these monsters, and they are close to the center of the fish-man tribe."

There are not many of them, they are extremely long, and they move slowly like giant snakes?

"Have you seen it anywhere else? For example, in the Abyss?"

Ash and Nini exchanged a glance and shook their heads. "The pollution in the Abyss takes the form of monsters, like wolves. Some of that pollution is like larger, stronger wolves, and this type of pollution is a little hard to understand."

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"My Lord, those murlocs are extremely weak. Let us charge in and kill them. We can also withdraw if we encounter any trouble."

Xiu Si took a deep breath and said, "Don't worry. I know you want revenge, but don't underestimate them. Our enemies may not be limited to the murlocs."

"Tell me in detail about the status of the fishmen, including their numbers, their current status, what they are doing, and how they divide the work. Don't leave out any details."

Ash started to tell the story without hesitation, with Nini occasionally interjecting.

Xius listened quietly at the side, and his expression gradually became more and more serious.

"So, this group of murlocs consists of warriors and miners, with almost no other personnel?"

"Yes, there's plenty of food in the sea, and a few people can gather enough to eat. So most of them are miners and warriors. Is that a problem?"

Nini wagged her tail in confusion. Her assessment of the fishmen was more about whether they could fight. As for what they were going to do - what was there to worry about?
"Of course there's a problem, and a big one." Hughes frowned. "The fishmen have been mining. What do they do with all the ore they've dug up?"

"Or to put it another way, you can mine underwater, but you can't smelt the ore underwater, right? Even if you sell it, what will you get in the end?"

The surrounding banshees looked at each other, and it seemed that they had never really thought about this problem.

The murlocs once enslaved them, and the banshees only have immense hatred for them. This strong emotion makes it difficult for them to view the murlocs as a race from a normal perspective. In the eyes of the banshees, murlocs are closer to the embodiment of the word slave owner.

Hughes' words made them begin to seriously consider the various characteristics of the murlocs, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt something was amiss. "Yes, it seems they only mine ore. I've never seen these ores being used."

"I thought we slaves couldn't touch it, but no one has seen it? That's impossible."

In the mind link, the banshees quickly exchanged information. When they were enslaved before, they did not have much time to communicate, but now after comparing with each other, they immediately found the problem.

The fish people's behavior is so strange.

"I have a guess about this."

Zeus looked at the banshees around him. They stopped arguing and focused their attention on him.

"Could it be that these fishmen exist only for mining? They don't need the ore, but they still have to dig it."

"That is to say, they are slaves just like you."

The mind link instantly became quiet.

You can hear a pin drop in the cave.

The banshees opened their eyes wide. This possibility was too horrifying. The race that enslaved them were actually slaves too?

"It doesn't necessarily involve physical slavery. It could be out of faith, or for other reasons, to allow them to voluntarily go and mine, and then send the ore somewhere."

"Otherwise, their population wouldn't be so homogeneous. These murlocs are so organized, but do they live just to mine? They only have miners and warriors. Even if they enslave other races, it's all for mining."

"So, when you were enslaved by the murlocs, did you ever see where they sent the ore?"

The banshees all shook their heads. So many of them, yet they had never seen where the ore was being sent? Such tight secrecy must have something fishy going on.

Hughes rubbed his chin, thought seriously for a while, and suddenly asked, "What kind of ores are you digging?"

"It's Black Stone."

"What is Black Stone? Is this the only kind?"

"Yes, there is only this one. As for what the black stone is." Nini was stuck.

The other banshees were also talking about it. They knew that they were digging black stone, but after communicating with each other, they found that they didn't know what black stone was.

This shouldn't be the case. Zeus looked around and had already made a judgment in his mind. Many of these banshees like to do research, and many of them have completed all the advanced classes. Many of them can even discuss engineering problems with Zeus.

In this case, they still cannot determine what the ore they dug out is, which may mean that this ore is related to pollution and the supernatural.

Moreover, in this situation, he had a vague feeling that he seemed to have forgotten something very important. But he clearly remembered that he could ask Chloe about this matter.

(End of this chapter)