There is no cheat code for reincarnation? Then I will create one myself!

Viscount Hocas really thought that he had thought highly of the kid in front of him, but in the end... he found that he still underestimated the kid.

He must treat a wise man with his attitude.

He is only 8 years old this year! An 8-year-old child is not scary. What is scary is that an 8-year-old child actually has wisdom that is not inferior to that of a wise man in some aspects!

And more importantly, he is still young!

too young!

He still has unlimited room for growth!

Viscount Hocas looked at Xiuyi with some heat in his eyes. He even wanted to say, "A doctor told me half a year ago that I can no longer have children. I don't have a son, but I have a daughter who is just 9 years old this year..."

"How did you guess it? Can you tell me in detail?"

"It seems that you don't deny it." Xiuyi looked at Viscount Hocas with some surprise, and found that this nobleman did not seem to have the arrogant problem like other nobles.

At least when he finds that the person he is facing does have real talent and knowledge, he can humble himself and be honest with the other person.

Even though the person in front of him was only eight years old.

"What makes you think that the goblins attacked three times, and the first two times were successful?"

Viscount Hocas now only wants to know what is in Shuichi's mind, one hundred and three thousand books?

Shuichi took a deep breath, "From what I understand, you started recruiting mercenaries two months ago."

In this age of underdeveloped communications, everything takes time to accomplish.

When Shuichi first arrived in Boulder Town, he actually had a wrong perspective.

He thought that Viscount Hocas had only gathered about a thousand mercenaries, but in fact, the number of mercenaries recruited by Viscount Hocas was more than fifteen hundred.

Among them, more than 500 mercenaries are permanent mercenaries who have been active in Boulder Town and more than 20 villages and towns around it for a long time.

Gathering so many people at once obviously could not be an idea that came up on impulse, but must have been the result of careful consideration.

Since His Excellency the Viscount needs to recruit a large number of people, there must be troublesome enemies that need to be dealt with.

"Mercenaries are guys who can't sit still. Although you have divided the activity space for them, you haven't restricted their freedom. Therefore, the tavern has become the best place for mercenaries to relax and have fun."

Wine and women are the things that can stimulate men the most. Unfortunately, both of these things are available in bars.

In fact, all the waitresses in the tavern are invisible prostitutes, which is similar to the maids in the maid shops in modern Sakura Country.

They don't have a clear price tag, but if the customer is willing to spend the money, they really don't mind taking on some private work.

A man's mouth is usually soft in front of a woman... especially when he is drunk...

"..."

Viscount Hocas already had a picture in his mind.

Although he had explicitly forbade the soldiers to keep silent about the goblins, sometimes it was really impossible to forbid something just because you wanted to.

After all, goblins are real monsters, not shadow beasts that sound like something out of a ghost story.

"I got a lot of clues from the mercenaries in the group who went to the tavern. They said that two villages were robbed by bandits in the past few months. There were two massacres and no villagers escaped. The knight of one village even died in the village, and another was seriously injured... This is obviously abnormal."

Killing nobles would make things very bad, and the unspoken rule of wars between nobles is that captured nobles are more valuable than dead ones.

Moreover, nobles are used to consolidating their ruling position through marriage. They don’t even need to count three generations, as they are all blood relatives… Maybe the noble B that noble A is fighting is A’s uncle…

If you are too harsh, your reputation will be ruined.

If people other than nobles massacred nobles on a large scale, it would certainly lead to the endless anger of the nobles.

This is something even the lowest of robbers knows.

Such an unruly guy must not be a local.

Viscount Horcas smiled helplessly and asked the next question: "Then how do you determine that these goblins were captured at once?"

"It's simple. The wounds on their bodies all seem to have healed to a similar degree."

Even if you are not a forensic doctor, anyone who knows how to observe or has watched some related film and television works knows that wounds will undergo different changes over time.

For example, the depth of wound color, the degree of pigmentation of scars, etc.

As long as you are good at observation, you can always find something interesting.

"Then can you guess why I am gathering so many mercenaries?"

"Because the number of enemies is constantly increasing, faster than you can imagine."

Viscount Hocas's originally relaxed smile finally fell, and he clenched his fists with a sullen face.

It is extremely rare for a mature nobleman to have such an inappropriate expression.

He quickly realized his own gaffe and quickly adjusted his mood: "Sorry, I lost my temper."

Shuichi didn't pretend that he didn't see anything, but he didn't point it out either. He just brushed aside this embarrassing topic: "It seems that these green little creatures did cause you some trouble."

"It's not just a little bit anymore." Viscount Horcas returned to his previous relaxed state: "Then, little wise man, can you tell me how many enemies you think there are?"

"That depends on how many people were abducted by the goblins in your village, and... the number of large female livestock..." Shuichi sighed. He felt his head was a bit big. It wasn't a headache, but his guess from the beginning to now seemed to have never been wrong: "If I'm not wrong, you should have never seen a female goblin, right? Or in other words, female goblins don't exist at all."

The most troublesome problem arises. There is a high probability that there are no female goblins in this world.

There are no females among the goblins themselves, so if they want to develop, they must capture females from other races to reproduce.

In addition to humans, theoretically, females of other species can also give birth to goblins.

But those female livestock must be large enough.

For example, sheep, deer, horses, cows and so on.

Moreover, the gestation period of a goblin is only about one month. A newborn goblin can be weaned in a few days. Without training, they can easily become qualified recruits simply by relying on their cruelty and greed in nature...

As for why Xiuyi could guess all this?

Because he has been reading the diary written by the bald man recently and has already read more than half of it.

If the shadow beast sealed in the relic card is left outside for too long, it will defect.

They will completely break away from the control of the Relic Cards, integrate into the world rules of this world, and become a brand new species in this world.

If nothing unexpected happens, the first goblin that appears in this world should be in the same situation.

Humans created shadow beasts for fighting, of course, and in the general perception of humans, males are generally more powerful than females in combat.

Therefore, goblins, humanoid intelligent creatures that suddenly appeared, are themselves incomplete species.

In the absence of female goblins, it is naturally impossible for male goblins to reproduce asexually alone.

But since this world has accepted goblins as a new species, the world's rules will inevitably compensate the goblins.

Heaven is cruel and treats all things as straw dogs.

In the eyes of Heaven, there is no difference between humans and ants.

Heaven does not discriminate against any race. As for why humans have become the overlord of the world while other races can only survive... this is the fault of evolution.

So the compensation that the world rules give to goblins... seems like there's no need to guess.

They can reproduce by robbing females of other races, and there might even be a setting like "Goblin's sexual fluid has an aphrodisiac effect."

Evil Fall...

Thinking of this, Shuichi couldn't help but shudder.

It would be better to die!