Chapter 129 Method

  "General!" A soldier walked in, timidly handing over the thing in his hand to Lang Ning. Lang Ning took it and looked at it for a moment before his face suddenly turned bright red, and he slammed his fist on the table, fortunately he didn't release his fighting energy, otherwise the table would have been smashed to pieces on the spot.

  "What's wrong?" Lei Zhe raised his head in shock.

  "Those damned cave dwellers! They're always finding ways to stir up trouble with us!" Lang Ning took a deep breath and handed the scroll to Lei Zhe: "Young Master, take a look."

  Lei Zhe took over and flipped through a few pages, his face filled with incredulity as he said: "We occupied Nuremberg without any casualties, but in the past few days we've already lost more than 200 soldiers?"

  "Yes."

  "What did the cave dweller say?" Xanthe asked in surprise.

  "Take a look." Lei Zhe handed those few sheets of paper to Xian Ni'er again.

  Xanriel looked serious, and compared to other cities, Nuremberg was a purely multi-ethnic gathering place. The most numerous were not humans, but cave people without visual organs. Cave people were the lowest in the abyssal race, while others like Minotaurs and Evil Eyes were non-productive and lived by killing. For thousands of years, the burden of labor had been on the shoulders of cave people. Whenever war broke out, they also played the role of cannon fodder. But this ethnic group had a strange personality. They showed a deep-seated slave nature to the abyssal race, while being extremely brutal to intelligent creatures on the surface.

  There are nearly 70,000 cave people in the city, accounting for almost half of the population. They resisted fiercely, far exceeding the deep-sea mermaids, Minotaurs, and evil eyes, and even female cave people and children took up arms to continuously attack the soldiers of the torrent army, which can be described as a never-ending wave of attacks.

  It's like a prostitute at the very bottom. Suddenly, using extreme violence to attack customers, the huge contrast is stunning, rather than reflecting on where they did wrong, it's better to think that they've gone crazy!

  Moreover, Nuremberg is not an ordinary city. The cave people are naturally good at digging tunnels and are accustomed to living underground. Almost all of Nuremberg's underground has been hollowed out by them. Chasing the cave people in those dense tunnel networks like spider webs would be extremely disadvantageous for human warriors.

  "Is someone secretly organizing a plot?" Xanier asked.

  "No." Lang Ning shook his head, "I noticed this aspect on the first day. If someone was really secretly plotting, it would definitely be those Minotaurs, Evil Eyes, and Deep Sea Witches causing trouble. But you go to the prisoner camp and take a look. Those guys are more honest than one another."

  "The number of missing people... has already reached four hundred?"

  "It's a disaster. We've lost many men here. The chances of survival are slim." Lang Ning revealed a bitter smile: "To be exact, we've already lost over six hundred soldiers."

  "Is this really that difficult?" Han Jin said with some confusion: "There's a cave dweller causing trouble. You kill ten of them. There are ten more cave dwellers causing trouble. You kill one hundred of them. I just don't believe it. Do they still have the courage to continue resisting us?"

  Everyone's eyes were focused on Han Jin. The scene was silent as a tomb. Only Che Guevara showed a hint of a smile. Han Jin asked strangely, "What's going on?"

  "We can't do this." Sasuke said: "What's the difference between us and Zabuza then?"

  Han Jin almost burst out laughing, but seeing everyone else's serious faces, he realized something was off: "Just killing some cave dwellers, isn't that a bit too severe?"

  "If they resist, we can execute them, but we cannot harm the innocent." Xanthe said softly.

  This is also the principle of elves. Of course, it's just a self-consoling principle, just like Guevara condemned at that time. Although the Silver Flying Horse Corps did not slaughter civilians, the number of people they directly or indirectly harmed is countless!

  Han Jin paused for a moment, then smiled: "So what do you think we should do?" It wasn't that he was ruthless, but rather because he didn't consider the cave dwellers to be human. Moreover, there was another saying: "Those who are not of our kind must have a different heart!" Even differences in nationality could create huge disparities, let alone differences in ethnicity?

  "We should talk to those Minotaurs and Basilisks, let them persuade the Cave Dwellers." Sasu said: "The Cave Dwellers are the most slave-like race, they dare not disobey the orders of the superior races in the Abyss."

  "Do you know how to solve the problem?" Han Jin sighed, "The most important thing in solving problems is to simplify complex things, not to complicate simple ones!"

  "I agree with Raphael's view," Lang Ning said: "Our time is not much, at the latest within three days, we must leave Nuremberg and advance towards Black Crow City, let those Minotaurs and Evil Eyes persuade them, is three days enough?"

  "We'll go after those troublesome cave dwellers ourselves!" Lei Zhe said, "They're just using the tunnels to counter us, with my and Raphael's abilities, we should be able to take care of them."

  "What about the tens of thousands of cave dwellers? Are we going to rely on just us?" Han Jin smiled and said.

  "What can we do?" Lei Zhe kicked the ball back again.

  "The hatred between the Abyssal and us has lasted far too long, this hatred cannot be dispelled by just a call to arms. If we want to thoroughly resolve it, there is only one way - annihilation." Gwala said slowly.

  "That's Zagunov's way, not ours." Xanthe said coldly, though she had already apologized to Gwala for her own rudeness, she still kept a certain distance from him.

  Guevara smiled and slowly walked to the door: "Lang Ning, take me to the military camp for a look."

  "Alright, sir." Lang Ning was taken aback and hastily walked over. Sometimes, it's impossible to keep a secret. After Xanier exposed Che Gwara's identity that day, the entire army knew about the dragon knight in an extremely short period of time. This had a very positive effect on stabilizing the military's morale, but also brought some unexpected trouble.

  "You sit first, I'll go and take a look." Han Jin stood up, Guevara had given him a hint just now, apparently there was something he wanted to say to him.

  Out of the door, along the street straight east, is the barracks of the torrential army, and the prisoner-of-war camp is also here. Guevara remains silent, just walking slowly forward along the street, Han Jin and Lang Ning follow behind with a confused expression.

  It was quite a coincidence that when they were still over 200 meters away from the military camp, they ran into a group of soldiers escorting prisoners. In the middle of the group were more than a dozen newly captured cave dwellers. The sturdy ropes could deprive them of their freedom, but not their ferocity. Almost none of the cave dwellers were willing to accept their fate, and they all struggled desperately, shouting unintelligibly as they did so, until the soldiers had no choice but to knock them to the ground and drag them along by force.

  "Wait," Guevara said.

  The soldiers hastily stopped, and the team leader saluted respectfully and said in a low voice: "General, sir, is there anything?" He didn't know how to address a dragon knight, so he could only use "sir" as a substitute.

  "It took some effort to catch them, didn't it?" Guevara laughed.

  The young squad leader involuntarily touched the clear wound on his face, and bitterly smiled: "Sir, our luck is not bad. Yesterday, the seventh squad's brothers were almost all wounded, and now there are still a few brothers who can't get out of bed."

  "Raphael, actually... your method won't work." Guevara said suddenly.

  "What's my way?"

  "Release that caveman." Guevara pointed with his hand.

  The young squad leader was taken aback, and looked at Lang Ning with inquiring eyes. Seeing Lang Ning nodding, he hastily turned around and walked to the side of the cave dweller, personally untying the ropes. The moment the cave dweller gained freedom, it bared its teeth and pounced on the young squad leader, but the latter was prepared, and with a swift kick, sent the cave dweller tumbling to the ground.

  The cave dweller struggled to get up, only to be kicked down again, and then got up again, repeating this process several times until he was finally exhausted, but his mouth never stopped making a string of unintelligible curses.

  Guevara walked up to the caveman and slowly placed his foot on the caveman's head, who twisted his body and then hugged Guevara's calf with both hands, opening his wet mouth and biting hard on Guevara's foot.

  "Listen carefully to his voice." Guevara said calmly.

  Han Jin and Lang Ning heard it very clearly, the cry of the cave dweller was filled with ferocity and hatred, Guevara slowly used his strength, the cave dweller's head gradually changed shape, and then burst with a loud noise, like a watermelon smashed to the ground.

  "Let that caveman go again," Guevara said.

  Every caveman repeats the actions of his companions, although they know what awaits them, and do not give in, their screams are one more ferocious than the other, their movements one more intense than the other.

  "You don't understand the cave dwellers, always using the same perspective to look at them as you do other humans. This won't work." Guevara's eyes became somewhat hollow, as if recalling something: "Neither persuasion nor intimidation are good methods!"

  "What should we do?" Lang Ning asked.

  "I've lived for over 70 years, do you know what the greatest lesson I've gained is?" Gwala said in a low voice: "Don't easily trust other races, including dragons and elves, little guy. I'm not trying to stir up trouble between you, but... our hearts are different from theirs, heart... you understand?"

  "I've been to the Underworld, I've been to Dragon Territory, I've been to Moonlight Forest, I've been to Desert, walked many places, knew a bit more, follow me, and I'll tell you some interesting stories."

  Han Jin and Lang Ning exchanged a glance, both of them could see the astonishment in each other's eyes.

  "Some things, though invisible and intangible, are above everything else." Gwala's hoarse voice came over: "For example, Dragon Knights cannot ride their giant dragons to attack the Dragon City, nor will Elves sacrifice the Fountain of Life for any race..."