Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 136 They are back! ?

"What!? What did you say!?"

Hughes stood up suddenly from his chair.

"Please repeat yourself. No, you are all in the basement of the manor, right? Wait for me, I'll be right there."

Hughes threw the documents in his hand onto the table and trotted into the secret passage in the fireplace.

We met many banshees along the way. They also had serious expressions on their faces, and they must have received the news.

It didn't take long before Zeus stood at the door of the underground palace, panting. Ash, Nini, and Una were all there.

"what happened?"

They looked at each other and Ash stepped forward.

"Well, you gave Una the mission to build the Abyss Passageway, so she decided to dig a hole between the manor and the eastern testing ground to try it out."

"I know that."

Zeus nodded, and the banshees around him gradually gathered together. They rarely put down their work and their expressions became serious.

"She also wanted to investigate the current situation in the Abyss. Since it's now full of pollution, she asked Nini and me to go down there together."

Ash's fighting power is almost the strongest among the Banshees. Before the symbiotic contract, most other banshees would die if they left the sea, but Ash floated on the sea for a long time and was picked up by a fishing boat and brought back to the port, where she met Zeus.

Later, when the banshees escaped from the abyss, the other banshees worked together to release flesh and blood magic for Monica, and she was unable to free herself. It was she who single-handedly protected the entire banshee tribe and repelled all the polluting monsters.

Therefore, it was basically safe for her and Nini, who was best at magic, to go to the Abyss. After all, they had a symbiotic contract, and if they were injured, they could draw vitality from the life pool for immediate treatment.

"When we dived into the Abyss, everything was normal, but when we returned from the Abyss, we encountered trouble."

Nini clenched her six fists and said through gritted teeth, "We encountered the murlocs! They're back again!"

The surrounding banshees immediately started discussing with a buzzing sound, and most of them had hatred in their eyes.

They had been enslaved for so long that there was already a mortal feud between the two races. In addition, too many members of the tribe died when they escaped. Almost every banshee had acquaintances of her tribe who died at the hands of the fishmen.

Ash's face remained expressionless, but anger seemed to be boiling in her silver eyes.

Xiu Si took a deep breath and thought for a moment before asking.

"How many murlocs are there? What's their condition? Where are they located?"

"There were seventeen of them. We only encountered one scout, who we followed to a camp where the remaining murlocs were." Ash thought for a moment. "They're in good shape and putting up a fierce fight. They're located east of Castel, not far from here."

Is the resistance fierce?
Why does this description sound weird?

Shouldn't it be.
"Where are those murlocs now?"

"Here." Ash moved aside and pointed to the ground not far away. There was a black cloth covering it, which was lifted up by the banshee next to him.

The ground was littered with twisted limbs. They were murlocs. He still remembered their ugly and terrifying appearance.

Xius walked over and roughly counted the number of people: "No one left alive?"

"Sorry, it was my mistake."

Ash lowered his head, while Nini beside him sighed, "I didn't stop her. She rushed too fast. By the time I got there, only her body was left."

Is Ash really that powerful? It's surprising that even the usually calm Ash can lose his composure. "How many murlocs are there in total? I mean, at the beginning, before they moved out."

This puzzled the banshees a little. They looked at each other and then started discussing in a low voice.

"About five hundred, right?"

"More than that, at least a thousand."

"How did you count them?"

"It just feels like there are so many of them, there must be thousands of them."

Xiu Si frowned. "How are they usually organized? For example, are there villages? Settlements? And then several settlements merge into a larger one?"

After hearing what he said, the banshees thought about it and then shook their heads.

"We haven't seen these organizations, Lord." Nini stood up, glanced at the tribesmen behind her, and then continued to explain: "They seem to be divided into only two parts: one is the miners, and the other is the warriors."

"They enslave us and make us dig, but they also dig themselves. The warriors don't come often, only occasionally patrolling."

Xiu Si began to understand. "So when you fled into the Abyss, the first people you fought were the miners and overseers?"

"Yes, their total number is not large, so we successfully rushed out. The ghost ship in the end should be the weapon of the warriors."

"I see." Zeus nodded. Some of the fishmen were responsible for production, while the other part was responsible for fighting. It was a very reasonable division of labor.

As for the murlocs who do other jobs?

It makes sense that the Banshees were still enslaved at the time and could only see these miners.

"How many of each type of murloc are there?"

"Miners are the most numerous, probably several hundred. As for the soldiers," Nini shook her head. "I've only seen their patrols, a dozen or so people each, and they're basically what they look like now."

She pointed to the murloc's corpse behind her.

Hughes rubbed his chin and began to think.

If there are hundreds of miners, then there should be even more fishmen responsible for finding food. Not necessarily, as getting food in the sea should not be that difficult, but the number of people in this race must be at least thousands.

Hiss, if it’s thousands, there might be trouble, right?

No matter how powerful the Banshees are, they are outnumbered. The healing effect of the Symbiotic Contract is almost invincible when fighting alone, and injuries can be treated immediately. However, once they are surrounded and attacked in a group, the advantage of the Symbiotic Contract is not that great.

Anyway, let's investigate first.

"Ash, you and Nini, each take two teams out to investigate. Make sure you find out how many of these murlocs have returned. Are there only a few teams, or are they migrating en masse?"

Ash nodded, and Nini thought for a moment before asking, "What if we encounter a murloc?"

"Try to hide as much as possible and avoid being discovered. If it's a small group like this one," Hughes pointed to the ground not far away, "you can destroy them directly. If it's a large group of enemies, get away as soon as possible and return to report."

"Also, if the search area is too large and out of range of the mind link, leave some people in the middle to act as signal relays. They will report any information to the next level via the mind link."

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)