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After an unknown amount of time, the centaur girl 'Ivita' woke up from the coma again.

She opened her eyes in a daze, slowly raised her upper body, and looked up around. This seems to be a small underground cave, the surrounding walls are cold and damp, and there are obvious traces of artificial excavation. All kinds of weird-looking bugs crawled around between the cracks in the walls, and from time to time, mud slipped from above, making people worried that there would be a danger of landslides at any time.

There are many whisker-like rhizomes hanging from the top of the head, the longest one is like the root of a fig tree, it grows from the top of the cave to the ground, and continues to take root through the ground.

Ivita heard that fig trees can root their roots to a distance of 100 meters below the ground, and did not know how far the cave was from the ground.

A fat centipede wriggled its dense abdominal feet under its body and slowly climbed down along the roots of the fig tree. The centipede circled the roots twice on the ground, and then headed towards the entrance of the cave. crawl.

The entrance to the cave is closed off by some rough wooden fences, making the narrow space a prison. Beyond the fence is a larger cave, the most conspicuous of which is the embers of a bonfire in the middle of the cave. The smoldering bonfire was the only light source here, and there was a very dirty large iron pot on it. The iron pot made a faint 'gurgling' sound, as if it was stewing something.

The unfamiliar environment makes the maiden feel vigilant. Where is this place? Why am I here? Iveta, who was a little confused, began to try to recall the things about the mage before the coma.

It's a 'withered monster'! My companions and I were attacked frantically by those monsters. Did they get me here? No, no, no, I have escaped from the siege of monsters with the help of Chief Sairon. Then on the way to escape, I met again..., goblins?

Yes, goblins, and gnolls! The centaur girl recalled the details of the battle at that time.

She waved the broken bow in her hand to block the enemy's continuous approach, and shouted the war song of the tribe, which swept away the nearest goblin, scaring the other goblins to keep retreating.

If the hind legs were not injured, Ivita could seize this opportunity and easily break free from the sparse siege of the gnolls and goblins. Unfortunately, she could only stand in place at that time, and it was very difficult to move half a step.

Later, the goblins attacked together with the urging barking of the gnoll. The centaur girl bowed and kicked, bursting out her only remaining potential, but she was accidentally jumped to the back by an enemy, and then hit with a stick brain...

It looks like I was caught after being knocked out by the gnolls in battle, and Ivita was frustrated with her fighting skills. The leader of Sai Rong has reminded her many times to pay attention to her back, but once our centaurs are nervous, they will involuntarily forget these things.

Iveta, who was annoyed for a moment, calmed down and began to think about the situation in front of her.

Why didn't the gnolls just kill me? The centaur girl was puzzled by this. Could it be that they are not short of food for the time being, and want to keep me in captivity like a lamb and wait until the time when food is scarce like winter?

Probably! The innocent centaur girl is confident in her guess. Hmph, wait, when I heal my wounds, I'll kill all of you evil guys one by one, and then escape from here. She pondered an escape plan in her mind.

When it comes to escaping, one must first learn about this subterranean lair of gnolls and goblins. Our centaur girl stood up from the ground, and the pain from the wound on her hind leg made her involuntarily groan in a low voice, "It hurts!"

Only then did Ivita realize that there were iron shackles tied to the four hooves of his lower limbs, which was so unlike the style of those gnolls and goblins, and where did they get this kind of shelter specially for What about the iron shackles used by the centaurs?

With full of doubts, Ivita slowly moved towards the wooden fence, dragging the iron shackles. But she just took two steps when she saw two huge shadows appearing on the wall outside the cage.

The shaking of the bonfire made the shadows even more ferocious, and accompanied by the strange sounds of "clack" and "clack" constantly approaching, our centaur girl quickly turned around and lay down on the ground, pretending to be dead like a possum... , no, it is a strategy of pretending to faint.

The weird rattling sound stopped near the fence, and then a slightly obscene voice said in Common, "Stop pretending, little mare, I already heard you shouting just now."

No, you heard it wrong, I was just talking in my sleep! Ivita turned her back to the guy outside and lay motionless on the ground, not intending to ignore it. But there was a sudden piercing pain from her injured hind leg, and it seemed that something had pierced through the fence and pierced the wound.

"Ah!!!" The centaur girl screamed and climbed to the depths of the cage, grabbed the root of the fig and stood up again, looking at the attacker with resentment.

Outside the cage stood a gnoll with a spear in his hand, and a very hideous-looking goblin. The tip of the gnoll spear was still dripping with blood, and it was obvious that this guy was the attacker who had just made her wound worse.

The goblin next to the gnoll looked very strange. It was covered with scars of various sizes, and not only did it have no ears on its round head, it also lacked an eye. Moreover, its left leg is still a wooden leg attached later, which is also the reason for the 'click' sound just now. The goblin stared at Ivita with his only remaining eye, and a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Wake up? Little Mare." The goblin waved and made the gnoll out of Ivita's field of vision, "I once read this sentence in a book 'You can never wake a person who pretends to be asleep. I don't agree with this point of view. In my opinion, no matter how much the person wants to pretend to be asleep, you just need to give the guy a hard blow to make him feel With enough pain, he naturally couldn't hold it."

Is it talking about me again? "Who are you?" Ivita asked loudly.

"Me? Hehe..." The goblin spit on his hand, and then stroked the remaining tuft of hair on his head, "You can call me 'Hugo', this is the name my former master gave me At the time they called me 'Ear Eating Hugo' because I always like to bite each other's ears when I fight."

Ivita went straight to the top of the other party's head. It looks like your ear was also bitten off by another ear-eating guy, which should be considered retribution, she thought.

"My ear? No, it wasn't bitten off by someone else, but I tore it off myself." Goblin Hugo seemed to be able to hear the centaur girl's heart, or observed it in her eyes. "Because they get in the way in a fight. Once I was bitten on the ear by another of the same kind and couldn't turn my head. I almost lost the game. Do you know the consequences of losing the game?"

Ivita didn't answer, and didn't make any inquiries, she didn't want to follow the other party's wishes.

"That's the punishment!" Hugo asked himself, "a punishment so terrible that you hate yourself for not dying in the previous battle. At that time, you will really feel that death is a kind of Release." The goblin involuntarily fought a cold war, the evil expression revealed a little fear, and it seemed that he was still afraid of the punishment he suffered to this day.

After being in a trance for two heartbeats, the goblin Hugo's expression returned to normal, "Of course, I also want to thank those punishments, after all, they made me find it again in pain..." It lowered his head and thought for a while. , spit out a word, "mind. Yes, humans like to say this word, it seems that only after you have this thing can you really be called an intelligent creature. However, you still can't control your own destiny because of it, you know this Why?"

The goblin asked Ivita another question, but our centaurs still didn't respond.

"Because you're still a slave!" The goblin looked frantic and slapped the fence with his hands, "Your destiny is to fight in a cage and earn gold coins for your master. As for the pain and scars you suffer, no one will care, No! Who cares about the fate of a goblin? Even I don't care about the lives of those of the same kind, let alone others." Hugo's expression returned to normal, and he shrugged indifferently.

The more you die, the better, best to disappear from the vast sea steppe, no, the entire continent, Ivita thought.

"No one likes such a fate. If you want to get rid of it, how should you do it?" The goblin sat on the ground and asked calmly.

Ivita remained silent.

"I heard before that the intelligence of the centaurs is not low. Why is this one I met today so stupid?" The goblin curled his lips in disdain. "Are you really considered intelligent creatures?"

"I will kill you!" The centaur girl said bitterly.

"Yes, yes, yes!" The goblin danced with joy, and the wooden legs kept colliding with the fence, making a series of 'bang bang bang' noises, "That's so right. Yes, only by killing us can you restart Take control of your own destiny, and that's what I did at the time."

After Hugo finished speaking, he slowly stood up from the ground, "After escaping from the human world, I added the surname 'Wheat Cake' to myself. Although those humans call me 'Hugo who loves ears', But what I really like to eat is something as common as oatmeal. And oatmeal doesn't need wheat, rough rye is perfectly fine for me."

He stuck out his tongue and licked his yellowed fangs, "If I'm going to tell me what I've really learned in the human world, it's only a surname other than 'cruelty'. By the way, humans call it that. Inheritance. Maybe hundreds of years later, goblins surnamed 'Wheat Cake' have spread all over the continent." It smiled proudly.

"Of course, a single goblin can't give birth to offspring. I just don't know what goblins and centaurs will give birth to. Should it be called a half-goblin then?" Hugo McBee used the only remaining eye , the centaur girl staring at us with evil spirits.

"What do you want to do?" Ivita was secretly startled, "The heroic warriors of my clan will flatten your filthy place!"

"Ha, I haven't seen any people who can walk through the ground at will." The goblin smiled disdainfully, "If your clansmen really dare to come here, I guarantee that none of them can get out!"

Ivita didn't fight back, because he knew that the other party was right. The long and narrow underground corridor is very deadly to the people and horses. If the clansmen really come here, it is really difficult to rescue her, not to mention that it is impossible for them to find this place, no one can.

Our centaur girl closed her lips and armed herself again with silence.

Seeing Ivita's frustrated expression, Goblin Hugo McBee laughed, "Don't worry, I won't do anything to you, little mare. You'll be more useful~www.wuxiaspot.com ~ It looked up and down its prisoners, "Although I don't like the look and shape of your men and horses, there are still many people who do. So you can sell for a very good price, even if not as good as the elves, but still a lot higher than the goatmen. "

"You're going to sell me to the human nation in the south?" Ivita was surprised again. She knew that many wild races on the grasslands were hunted into the human country as slaves, but she didn't expect that one of them would be her turn, and in such an unbelievable way.

"What do you think? Who will pay a higher price than humans?" the goblin asked, "You will exchange for me at least ten sets of fine metal equipment, as well as a large number of daggers, long swords and other weapons. If If I guessed correctly, you should still be a virgin, and the price will at least double!"

Ivita didn't speak, but stared at the hateful goblin full of anger. She fantasized about rushing to smash the fence and stomping it under her hoof.

"Pray to your wilderness spirit, and pray that you can meet a guy with a more normal heart." The goblin turned to fill a log into the bonfire. "That way you will suffer less. Otherwise, tsk tsk..." It did not explain the words, but walked away from Ivita's field of vision little by little.

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