The saint starts out by traveling around the world with a group of elves.

"You're welcome, everyone, come and eat, this is a high-end product that is not available on the surface!"

At the large round dining table, the Dwarf King War Hammer warmly invited Chu Yi and the others to come and enjoy the delicious food!

Chu Yi had a blank expression on his face, and Fanny also looked embarrassed for a rare moment. Xilin was even more exaggerated. The little girl directly crawled into Chu Yi's clothes on his chest, revealing her little head with a frightened expression.

The reason is very simple. After greeting Chu Yi and the others, War Hammer grabbed a fat black beetle and threw it into his mouth. As War Hammer bit it hard, the thick black juice that spurted out directly got on his face.

But War Hammer didn't care at all. Instead, he closed his eyes and chewed the food with relish.

Now let’s take a look at the scenery on the dining table. Xilin was worried about eating rats, but she was thinking too much. Let’s take a look at these delicacies on the table.

There was a large plate of beetles of the same type as the one in Warhammer's hand, dozens of huge, plump, colorful snails, huge soft-bodied creatures that couldn't be named, a basket of mushrooms that were constantly changing colors, and a large bowl of spider eggs that looked like spider embryos, etc.

Good man, this is worse than eating a mouse! Xilin couldn't help but feel scared, and such a thought flashed through her mind.

As for eating, the little guy said, "Even if I, Xilin, starve to death today, die outside, or jump off the top of this Datie Mountain, I will never eat anything on the table!"

Funi took a deep breath. As a guest, it was actually very impolite to refuse the host's warm hospitality. After all, the expression on the face of the Dwarf King War Hammer was not acted.

This table of strange food is really the delicacy recognized by the dwarves! After all, even Bass is eating there with gusto, this is absolutely true.

But Fanny really couldn't eat it. There was no meat in the elves' diet. It was okay to try some ordinary meat occasionally, but she really couldn't eat the bugs on the table!

The mushrooms in the basket were plain, but not only did they look ugly, but they also kept changing colors from red to green. Funi seriously suspected that these were not real mushrooms!

"Lord Warhammer, I don't think it's necessary to eat. Dwarven food is not suitable for elves."

After looking around and making sure that nothing looked edible, Fanny stood up, apologized politely, and then said her refusal.

Elves are like this. Unlike humans, even if they can't accept it, they will force themselves to eat a few bites for the sake of face.

War Hammer put down the big snail in his hand in confusion. Funi's tone was sincere, so the Dwarf King War Hammer did not feel offended. He looked at the snail in his hand that was half-eaten but still wriggling in pain.

That shouldn’t be the case. This good stuff is the precious stock of the dwarves. It’s soft, smooth and juicy. How could the elves not like to eat it?

But since the elves didn't like it, Warhammer didn't force it. He wiped the mucus from his mouth, looked at Bass, and saw Bass shaking his head, and spoke a little embarrassedly.

"Haha, sorry everyone, this is the best food the dwarves can come up with."

Speaking of the word "food", War Hammer sighed, but the gleam of brilliance that flashed in his eyes did not escape Chu Yi's eyes. He found it somewhat interesting that these dwarves were quite good at calculating.

"Warhammer, you don't even have any fruit?"

Xilin successfully attracted the attention, and she asked the Dwarf King War Hammer with some curiosity.

"Hey! I haven't eaten fruit in several years."

War Hammer smiled bitterly and shook his head, which made Funi have some guesses. Could it be that the dwarves lacked food?

"Sir Warhammer, are the dwarves short of food?"

With a guess, Funi did not hesitate and asked the question naturally. In fact, when Mr. Bass was walking around with a bunch of gray-toothed rats, Funi had a vague guess.

Chu Yi's face was calm, but he felt a little emotional in his heart. Fanny was indeed a little naive. Bass did it on purpose, and Warhammer also guided her intentionally, just to let Fanny raise this question actively.

The dwarves lacked food and hoped to get help from the elves, but actively asking for help and passively accepting help were two completely different things.

However, Chu Yi did not remind Funi of this idea. This kind of little calculation is not suitable for elves, and Funi has no need to learn such things.

With him around, the elves won't necessarily suffer any loss, right?

"Yes, the dwarves are indeed short of food, and it's not just a normal shortage."

The topic has been brought up by the elves, so it is now time for the dwarf king, Warhammer, to complain.

In fact, it’s not really called complaining. Warhammer was just speaking the truth. Funi and Silin didn’t say anything, but listened quietly to the words of the Dwarf King.

It is inevitable that the dwarves lack food. After all, the territory of the Dwarf Kingdom is affected by the mineral deposits. It is a whole desert. It cannot be said to be stingy, but it is not far from it.

But the dwarven territory owns 70% of the East Continent's ore reserves, of which iron ore even reaches 90%. It is true that there is a lack of food, but it can be exchanged.

The dwarves have always done this. Of course, they rarely exchange ores directly, but instead exchange them with forged weapons. The largest share of these transactions, of course, are transactions with humans.

Weapons made by dwarves are in great demand in human society. Only a little bit of worthless food can be exchanged for sophisticated iron weapons.

Many human merchant groups have made a fortune from this business!

It is known that more than four hundred years ago, an extremely greedy king came to power in the kingdom. He used iron-blooded methods to take down all merchant groups that traded with the dwarves, set up border checkpoints, and cut off trade with the dwarves.

The king also traded with the dwarves, but in the past, the dwarves could exchange a weapon for at least one month's worth of food for a family.

Now, ten weapons can be exchanged for one day's rations.

It would be strange for the hot-tempered dwarf to agree to it, and he beat up the arrogant envoy who came to trade on the spot. The king took the opportunity to make trouble and exposed his true purpose.

He was eyeing the legendary high-level artifact of the dwarves!

This directly ignited the anger of the dwarves. This artifact is the foundation of the dwarves' existence. How could they trade it for a little food?

The dwarves were tough, but the king sneered. In fact, he had this idea a long time ago, so the kingdom acted decisively. First, it forced the sea tribe to sign a contract as planned, cutting off the second largest export route for dwarven weapons.

Some small races that traded with the dwarves were warned when necessary and destroyed when necessary. In short, the dwarves were in a dilemma of being unable to exchange food.

As for sending dwarves to buy food within the kingdom, I'm sorry, the kingdom will not only execute the captured dwarves, but also the entire family of the humans who sold food to the dwarves, as well as all those who knew about it!

The king thought that the dwarves would compromise sooner or later, but until the day he died of old age, the dwarves did not utter a single soft word.

But no matter what, the hatred between humans and dwarves over the past hundred years has become irreconcilable, so there is no point in regretting it. He asked future kings not to allow diplomatic relations with the dwarves again, and to restrict the development of the dwarves to the greatest extent.

This situation lasted for more than two hundred years until the current king of the kingdom came to power in the past fifty years, when he slightly relaxed border control.

Only then did some human merchants sneak in and do some business with the dwarves. The dwarves were not proactive, but they would not refuse the food that was delivered to their doorstep.

Although these merchants are extremely greedy, the dwarves use some defective products for trading. Even the defective products in the eyes of the dwarves are rare good things in the eyes of these greedy human merchants.

The relationship between the dwarves and the human kingdom has improved a little bit during these fifty years, but of course, only a little bit.

The kingdom still has a clear ban on trading with dwarves, so these merchants who sneak into the dwarf kingdom are destined not to be able to bring much food.

These foods improved the lives of the dwarves. At least they no longer needed to use mushrooms to make wine, and could drink some cheap rye wine.

When the dwarves have food, they don't eat it. The first thing they think of is to use it to make wine. Let's not talk about this for now.

One thing that will not change is that the dwarves are indeed short of food!