I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

Chapter 95 Physical Curse

"Help me with the experiment," Murphy said to Ya.

Ya gently stroked her cheek and forced a smile: "Doing experiments might be a bit beyond my knowledge."

She came from the court of law, not the academic affairs department. How could she possibly know all this miscellaneous knowledge?

She had never even been exposed to complex calculations, let alone conducted experiments.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you're alive."

After Murphy finished speaking concisely, he didn't immediately tell Ya to do anything, but instead ordered several little stone men to guard the place.

He went ahead and went to the core of the water.

Ya and Xiao Ya were both taken aback, and looked at each other for a while, unable to keep up with Murphy's train of thought.

"What is it going to do?" Ya turned to ask Xiao Ya.

"I don't know." Xiaoya shook her head.

"So what should we do?" Ya then asked.

"My dear Sister Number One, are you out of your mind? The mission is with you, how am I supposed to know what to do?"

Speechless at the question, Xiaoya's eyes twitched, and in the end, she could only helplessly mutter a curse.

"Hiss—I think I'm a little dizzy."

After Ya chuckled twice, there was a loud slap!

She suddenly slapped herself hard across the face.

A bright red handprint inexplicably appeared on her snow-white face.

After taking a few deep breaths, she recovered from her dazed state. After thinking for a moment, she said, "I notified the nearby church, but they seem to be busy and told us to take the person there ourselves—"

Xiaoya was used to her style and wasn't surprised at all; she simply offered a suggestion in a calm manner.

"That village down there must be quite a distance, right? Should we find a horse-drawn carriage?"

"That's fine, but the situation over there isn't very good either—or rather, the situation around here seems to be quite bad. It appears that the Kulun River has been contaminated by cursed ice element crystals brought from the north."

Ya clicked her tongue softly, clearly somewhat embarrassed.

She was purely a military unit, and happened to be seconded here.

So if it comes to matters involving violence, she might be able to lend a hand, but in this situation, she can only watch helplessly.

"Hmm? That's strange. Did you see this when you came upstream?"

Upon hearing this, Xiaoya was momentarily stunned, then her brows furrowed, and she quickly asked, "No—oh? If it came from the north, why isn't it upstream?"

Ya instantly understood why Xiao Ya suddenly had that expression.

She carefully reviewed the situation upstream again in her mind, and indeed there were no relevant reports.

It definitely takes time for ice elements to flow from upstream to this side.

Even here, a notification has been issued, but not upstream.

Either the ice crystals there haven't polluted the river for some special reason.

Either the river was polluted but then purified for various reasons, or the curse was stopped.

"Could they be dwarves?" Xiaoya suggested.

There is a dwarf city upstream of the Kulun River. If we have to find a reason why the pollution upstream has not spread, it is most likely this city.

"It's uncertain. It's possible that the curse wasn't obvious to begin with, but some special circumstances in the middle and lower reaches of the river triggered it."

Ya shook her head, not fully accepting Xiao Ya's speculation, and instead offered another one of her own.

But as someone from the Papacy, she can't very well investigate dwarves, can she?

"Let's finish our mission first, and we can talk about this later. Bishop Fina should be nearby, right?"

Xiaoya didn't want to dwell on these troublesome matters any longer, so she immediately steered the conversation back to the main topic.

"Yes, she's the one who told me that the church over there is short-staffed."

Ya nodded in agreement.

Xiaoya shrugged immediately.

"Isn't that enough? Just ask the bishop if you need anything. Why are you worrying about it?"

"Really—what the hell?"

Ya was about to say, "That's true."

But before she could finish speaking, her expression changed drastically, and she was thrown backward as if grabbed by something.

He disappeared from Xiaoya's sight in no time.

Not long ago.

Diaz looked at Siri with surprise when he heard him suddenly mention the curse, and asked in confusion, "What kind of curse can twist a person's head 180 degrees?"

"Physical curse".

Sri said calmly.

"Physical curses? There are such things? What exactly are they?"

Diaz had never heard this before and was immediately intrigued.

"Don't you need to pass through the Dwarf City when you trade?"

Sri raised an eyebrow, giving a hint.

"Yes, wait, the physical curse you mentioned, you don't mean being written down by the dwarves, do you?"

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After Diaz replied instinctively, he suddenly understood what Siri was trying to say and couldn't help but laugh.

"Judging from his appearance, he was drinking with a dwarf when the dwarf twisted his neck and turned his head 180 degrees. However, the nun you just met saved his life for a while, and he only died after seeing you."

As the saying goes, a good joke is never a joke about dwarfs, because jokes about dwarfs can't be high-class.

In other words, even though Siri doesn't dislike dwarves, he'll occasionally crack a few down-to-earth dwarf jokes.

"The captain shouldn't have ever seen dwarves before, so why would he have a grudge against them?"

Diaz frowned, somewhat puzzled.

Although dwarves are known to hold grudges, they wouldn't hold a grudge for something so trivial.

Not to mention someone you've never met before.

However, Sri didn't answer him, but changed the subject instead.

"By the way, why are so many people in your area sick, but you're fine?"

"I don't know either. If I had to say, I don't feel that my constitution is any different."

"They must have been to the Dwarf City, right?" Siri guessed. "It seems so! The ones who didn't get sick all went to the Dwarf City with me to discuss business!"

Diaz was reminded of this and suddenly realized what was going on.

Whether it was Hai Gang, that old charlatan, or the workers stationed at the docks at the time, they were all companions with whom he had a good relationship and had been to the Dwarf City.

"That makes sense. The Dwarf City must have figured out how to counter the curse in the Kulun River beforehand, which is why you were affected after you went there."

Sri nodded and shared his thoughts.

Of course, the reason why the Dwarf City was able to come up with a solution is not because the Dwarfs are more powerful than humans, but simply because they are more united and when problems arise, they report them to their superiors and someone will take them seriously.

As for humanity—they are vassals of vassals, not my vassals.

With such an independent system, if something goes wrong, it really only tests the lord's abilities.

"But I still don't understand why they wanted to kill the captain—"

Diaz still couldn't understand why the dwarves would be so ruthless. It couldn't be that they were just righteous and couldn't stand the human slave traders.

"You went to the Dwarf City to discuss business, right? Those guys hate people who don't keep their word. You're not dead, but your captain is—"

Diaz's pupils dilated instantly, and his breathing stopped.

Suddenly, he recalled the captain's "I'm sorry" before he died, and a bad feeling welled up in his heart!

Could it be that this bastard ruined my deal?!