Zongman: Start by becoming the savior of the elves!

It seems that the topic that was not concluded in the audience hall will continue here.

Chapter 5: The Elves' Banquet

It was an incredible scene.

The dark elf elders who were enjoying the pleasure of human relations with him just now were now dressed like the daughters of noble families in fairy tales, sitting like peony flowers, and being polite. It was hard to imagine that just a few minutes ago, these people were still wearing poker faces, spreading their legs and eagerly seeking sex.

After Lin Rui sat down, the seven dark elf elders left their seats and thanked Lin Rui at Olga's nod:

"Savior, our king. Please forgive us for not being able to thank you properly just now. Thank you Savior for giving us the source of life and the power of runes."

"Thank you, Savior, for your blessing."

"Thank you, Savior, for your blessing."

The dark elf elders stood like pine trees, with their hands naturally crossed in front of their dark green petticoats, slightly bent their knees, and bowed to Lin Rui in an elegant posture.

The embarrassment they had seen in the audience hall before had now been cleared up, and the dark elf elders were now exactly the same as when they had first been seen in the audience hall, with a strong smell of resistance all over their bodies.

If there was one thing that was different, it was the way the elders looked at Lin Rui.

That gaze couldn't be described as menacing, but it was at least like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey.

"Um... um... you're welcome?"

[Although he and the dark elf elders had voluntarily had sex, being thanked for having sex with someone else was no exaggeration to say that it was a dream scene in Lin Rui's previous world.

"To be honest, I was also shocked at that time. The savior was able to comfort all seven of our elders at the same time. Now there is hope for the revival of our dark elves!"

: Encouraged by Olga's words, the dark elf elders cheered loudly.

In fact, it was Lin Rui who was shocked. He himself couldn't believe that he dared to fight 7 against at that time. Especially since he didn't take drugs and didn't make any mental preparations.

There is definitely no problem for Lu Youke to settle here as the savior. As for when he can change to the identity of the Dark Elf King, the seven elders said that as long as Lin Rui is willing to stay here to help the Dark Elves reproduce, everything will be fine.

At this time, Lin Rui suddenly felt that he seemed to be suspected of bribery. But the dark elf queen Olga, who was sitting at the same table, said that it was okay, so it was easy to talk.

8 can solve the reproduction problem for the dark elves and even give them the power of runes. It is also a fact that the dark elves have a good impression of Lin Rui.

Lu: "Anyway, the result is good. That's more important than anything else."

Lin Rui, who attached great importance to the results, thought so while putting the bowl full of soup to his mouth to drink the soup. However, the moment the tip of his tongue touched the soup, he suddenly felt the touch of his tongue coating was very strange, so he took the bowl away from his mouth.

Yi took a look at the soup in the bowl and seemed to see some unknown vegetable leaves and something that looked like a caterpillar.

Private "Ah!"

3 This is not a caterpillar, this is not a caterpillar, this is not a caterpillar This is a different world, it is normal to have fruits that are different from the original world, isn't it? This is definitely not a caterpillar, this is a plant fruit! Yes! This is some unknown plant fruit!

"Ah, savior. This is a delicacy called Alba armyworm that Chloe caught outside the city herself. It's not a black bean worm."

"..."

Just as Lin Rui was using a spoon to poke at the "plant fruit" in front of him that looked like a cockroach in pupa and was constantly hypnotizing himself, Olga, with a smile on her face, casually revealed some despairing information.

Alba armyworms look like caterpillars. Although I don't hate them so much that I don't want to touch them at all, it's a different story if I eat the inside of them.

It’s not the black bean worm, the problem is far from here!

"It's always like this lately. Prey has become hard to find. Even Chloe, who is an expert at catching insects, only caught about 10 today... Everyone gets one, and the remaining one will be given to Chloe herself, the great hero. Savior, please try it. This thing is a high-end ingredient in Otoshi Castle, and it's really delicious... It can replenish your physical strength very well..."

Olga said with a smile on her face.

"Well, this bug is delicious no matter when you eat it."

The dark elf elders sitting next to him dismembered the insects as if they were biting a pig's trotter. After chewing them in their mouths for a long time and savoring them carefully, they praised the delicious meal on the plate.

The other dark elves didn't even bother to say a word and just enjoyed their meal.

I haven't eaten it and I don't want to eat it!

Lin Rui once wanted to smash the bowl on the face of the dark elf elder who had just spoken, but then he thought that as a food culture with the most obvious cultural differences, it was normal to have unacceptable aspects. Besides, this was high-end food, and he couldn't do something so impolite.

Judging from everyone's attitude, eating this kind of insects is a very normal thing here.

"Mmm! It's really delicious!"

Lin Rui said in self-deprecation, swallowing the insect that was the largest in his bowl for some reason.

The first time I tasted bugs, they tasted like diluted cornmeal dumplings.

But there's something more noteworthy going on right now than eating bugs.

"What's wrong, Lord Savior? Do the Alba bugs taste bad?"

Olga stared at the remaining insects in Lin Rui's soup bowl, then looked at Lin Rui.

Her eyes seemed to know what Lin Rui wanted to say, but she did not interrupt him.

Lin Rui said:

"No, it's not. I just feel that... Let's not talk about the bug issue for now... I don't know your eating habits here, but I want to ask if there is any reason why your soup tastes so bland and you use so little salt?"

"There is no such thing."

"Eh?"

"We don't produce salt here. If we want to eat it, we have to buy it from the traveling merchants who occasionally pass by. Of course, the price is ridiculously expensive. If it weren't for the arrival of the savior, we wouldn't put salt in the soup."

Olga's answer surprised Lin Rui. A few days later, Olga mentioned this incident when chatting with the dark elf elders, saying that she would never forget Lin Rui's expression at that moment in her life.

Otoshi Castle is located in the forest. Although there is the sea to the south, it is not within the sphere of influence of Otoshi Castle.

"So, you don't plan to mine rock salt or well salt?"

"What is that? Isn't salt obtained by boiling sea water?"

Although he had considered that the lack of universal education had caused the low civilization coefficient here, Lin Rui was still somewhat surprised by the lack of knowledge of the dark elves.

In fact, the environment here allows Lin Rui to go beyond his imagination in many ways.

"Hiccup! What is this? Is it a gravel?"

After taking a bite of the bread baked with a small amount of wheat flour mixed with fibers scraped from the leaves of a certain plant, Lin Rui suddenly felt that the texture in his mouth was strange, as if he had bitten off a not-so-sharp blade.

Before he could taste the blood, he quickly spat out all the food in his mouth into his hands.

Among the crushed food residues, there was a stone about the size of a child's fingernail mixed in.

"!"

Look left and right

Olga and the others didn't seem to care about finding stones in their bread, and even considered it good luck.

This made Lin Rui even more confused about the relationship.

He asked, "Why didn't you have any reaction when you ate the stone? What if you accidentally swallowed it?"

Lin Rui's natural question seemed strange to Olga and the others:

"Isn't it normal for bread to have stones in it?"

Lin Rui was speechless as he watched Olga and the dark elf elders take a bite of bread and spit out the stones inside the bread as if they were eating fish.

Unable to communicate and unable to understand.

He had thought that the dark elves lived a miserable life, but he didn't expect that even the royal family lived without salt.

Chapter 6 A Convenient System

“When the granaries are full, people will know etiquette.” At this moment, Lin Rui has a deep and complex understanding of this sentence.

In Yizi City, the stronghold of the dark elves, the living conditions there were so difficult that they were beyond Lin Rui's imagination.

Even a noble person like Queen Olga could only serve bland food at grand banquets, not to mention the ordinary people. It was simply the epitome of suffering.

According to a dark elf elder, most families here can only rely on collecting wild vegetables and boiling them into paste. For them, the insignificant saltiness of wild vegetables is their only taste of salt. Although there is salt in animal organs, the content is too small. However, it is still difficult for the exhausted dark elves to obtain a large amount.

In this situation, Lin Rui couldn't help but think of the thrilling "Hang Canal Boat Capsize Case" in Detective Di Renjie. In a place lacking salt, people are living in poverty, and the plight of Yizi City is even worse. Here, even the traces of salt smugglers cannot be found, and high-priced salt is a luxury.

Lack of salt is a sword hanging over the heads of the elves of Yizi City and a shackle for their survival. But for Lin Rui, the lord of Yizi City who has just arrived in this world, it is an opportunity.

Now he has great ambitions, and wants to show his talents in Otoko City and build it into a real capital of the elves. But he has just arrived, his prestige has not been established, and the people's hearts have not been gathered. The residents here even have problems with eating. The grand blueprint of building Otoko City is still too far away for them.

Although Queen Olga could command the whole city, the building of prestige and public support could not be solved by just issuing orders. So eating was Lin Rui's breakthrough.

The food supply was not tight at the moment. The dark elves' tables were mostly made up of wild vegetables and fruits, and when they were lucky, they could even eat game from hunting. At least in the current situation, it was no problem to fill their stomachs.

Therefore, the first thing to solve is the problem of salt shortage.

Without salt, even a feast of rare ingredients is like a body without a soul, with only a beautiful appearance but no taste. No matter how unpalatable the wild vegetables are, just a few grains of salt can instantly turn them into something magical, giving people an excuse to stuff them into their stomachs.

Salt can also preserve food very well. No matter it is juicy vegetables or delicious meat, as long as it is marinated thoroughly with salt, the original taste can still be locked.

Also, as a normal human being who moved from a modern country, Lin Rui really cannot live in a salt-deficient environment for a long time.

He may be able to temporarily forget the heat of chili and the unrestrained flavor of pepper; for him, bland food is torture.

I can't stand it.

During the leisure time after lunch, he confided to Olga his urgent desire to find salt, but he did not expect the response he received was almost disheartening:

"Lord Savior, do you want more salt? This is really a headache. We don't produce it here at all." There was a hint of helplessness in Olga's words.

The dark elf elders beside them also nodded and echoed Olga's statement:

"Savior, although we have dense forests and a wide variety of beasts, it is difficult to find anything of real value. In addition, due to the hostility of the surrounding beastmen and the dangerous terrain, merchants rarely set foot here. In the past, there were occasional brave smugglers who ventured here, but recently, since the Black Beast Group raised its flag at the border, even desperadoes have stayed away."

These words made Lin Ruier's heart tighten. But he still didn't intend to miss the opportunity to get Sanyan, so he continued to ask:

"Then have you not thought of other solutions? After all, if you consume too little salt, your body will become weaker and weaker. By then, you won't be able to fight against orcs, and even basic labor will become a problem."

Olga heard this and replied with a firm look: "Savior, we are not the kind of people who will sit back and wait for the land to run out. We will naturally run around looking for salt. But salt mines are not like vegetables and fruits that will grow when you plant them. If you don't have it, you don't have it."

Olga's words were clear and reasonable, which made Lin Rui realize that he might be too idealistic and ignored the cruelty of reality. A trace of embarrassment quietly climbed up his cheeks. But soon, he remembered that he probably had another artifact that he hadn't used yet.

Do you remember the words that rang in your mind when you first woke up?

"Unlock the Dark Elf Administrator Identity"

Yes! That's it!

Although no one taught him what the administrator role was, Lin Rui's intuition told him that this was a very powerful system. After silently saying "Start Dark Elf Manager" in his mind, Lin Rui felt that the environment around him had changed strangely. He felt neither cold nor hot, and seemed to be in a very comfortable space.

In front of him was a huge screen with his login name and pre-set password written on it, just like logging into an online game.

Login: Lin Rui

Password: Yukikaze destroyer

"Very good, next..."

Opening the administrator panel, in addition to Lin Rui's personal information, there is also territory information and the number of people under the jurisdiction.

Title: Dark Elves King

Territory information: Otoshi Castle and surrounding areas 3000 koku

Citizens: 8 people

Ok?

Only 8 people? But he owns a territory of 3000 koku? You must be kidding!

Why 8 people? Is it because of something I did?

Lin Rui thought for a long time, and soon he had a bold idea. Unbelievable waves surged in Luo Ai's heart. She had never expected that the thing that everyone in Yizi City dreamed of was right under her feet.

Looking at Lin Rui's concentrated figure collecting salt, the resistance and alienation in her heart seemed to be melted by the aroma of dinner, gradually becoming soft and full of anticipation.

How many more miracles will this male human create? With this expectation, Chloe stared at him like a cat hunting.

Lin Rui, feeling Chloe's complex and subtle gaze, felt uncomfortable all over, and tried to break the subtle atmosphere with a relaxed tone:

"Don't look at me like that. You should be happy that you finally got the salt you've always wanted. There are many salt mines like this near Otoshi Castle. I'll draw a map when I get back, and Chloe can pick out some people to cook the salt."

The strata in this area do not contain the sea salt common in this world, but earth salt.

The depth is just 5 meters below the surface. Because of this alkaline soil, the dark elves cannot grow crops in large quantities and can only make a living by picking fruits and hunting.

So the question is, how did the forest come into being?

Lin Rui asked Chloe, it seems that the forest here is quite special.

Chapter 7: Black Beast Invasion

Although Otoko Castle was named after the dark elves, it is actually just a wooden fortress hidden deep in the forest.