The hideout Billis placed was underground.
This is a series of caves hidden ten meters deep underground. There are not only prisons for prisoners, but also warehouses for storing loot, but more of them are temporary insect breeding rooms.
Because the vent opening is too concealed, the air circulation in the hole is not very good. In addition, cultivating war worms requires a lot of fresh blood, so as soon as Greem came in, he felt the filth and stench of the air in the cave.
Billis is a bug witch, and he has also transformed into an undead bug body, so things like air, water, and food are not as indispensable as when he was in a human body. Therefore, Billis has almost no sense of the harsh living environment.
However, he didn't care if he didn't feel it, but the goblin prisoners who were imprisoned in the prison couldn't feel it.
In such an environment of lack of food and clothing, humid and stuffy air, all goblins with weak physique will die in the shortest time, and the rest are some extremely strong individuals. It's a pity that the mass death of the goblin prisoners of war still couldn't arouse Billis's worries.
The dead goblins will be thrown into the nest to become food for the larvae to evolve, and there is no waste at all. If there are too few blood food reserves, then go to the goblin settlement to plunder some more, there are plenty of them anyway. So he never had to worry about the reduction of blood food, and he would never consider improving the living environment of the captives so that they could live longer.
Of course, different levels of captives also enjoy different levels of treatment. He singled out those guys who were not well-known among the goblins and detained them alone in the "Yahao". Even in order to avoid their untimely death, Bliss also selected a few mother goblins to serve them.
This includes a senior goblin engineer, two repairers and two lower-ranking officers of the Seventh Marine Corps that he captured in the small town of Beta.
Under the torture of Billis, these goblins also revealed some information one after another. But their knowledge is limited, and the information they provide is even more fragmented, making it difficult for people to see the real secrets inside this great goblin empire.
Therefore, Billis has not dealt with them, waiting for the arrival of the owner before deciding their fate.
Greem expressed great appreciation for Billis' rigor, and interrogated the goblins one by one as soon as he came to the secret cave.
It can be seen that during these days locked in the secret cave, these goblins suffered the greatest and most terrifying fright in their lives. Every day you can see and hear slaves of all races being taken out of their prisons and thrown into the horrible hives that fill the hills of death.
The screams of the slaves before they died and the sounds of the larvae gnawing on the flesh and bones almost never stopped, lingering in their ears every moment. Although they can't see the picture of the larvae eating, what they hear and smell can stir their hearts even more.
Watching his companion being dragged away every day and never turning back, listening to the horrific chirping noise every day, sniffing the stale air with a strong smell of blood and sour corpses every day... No goblin can endure such an environment.
Many goblins didn't die of starvation or suffocation at all, but were scared to death by this terrifying atmosphere!
So when Greem interrogated these goblin nobles, he found that they spoke incoherently and looked crazy. Even if Greem had mastered the common language of the goblins of this plane through witchcraft, he almost couldn't understand what they were saying.
But Greem is different from Billis, he actually doesn't care about those so-called high-level secrets at all. He didn't ask about the origin of the mana battery, nor about the internal secrets of the mana mech. Instead, he repeatedly questioned the daily life of some goblins, the ruling structure of the goblin empire, and the basic way the country and army operate.
Although these things are trivial and too fragmented, they are of great benefit to Greem's splicing and outline of the entire goblin plane's operating system. Don't be afraid that the information is too trivial and messy, because under the guidance of the chip, every question Greem asks is the core node of the goblin plane's operating system.
And these are usually well-known common sense and humanistic ideology, and almost no goblins regard them as high-level secrets related to the survival of the goblin plane.
So when all the information was turned into data and flowed into his brain, the strange goblin empire that was originally shrouded in clouds and fog gradually revealed its basic outline.
Unfortunately, the number of goblins here is still relatively small, so most of the outline of this great goblin empire is still shrouded in mist, and we can only slowly deduce the possible situation of its core information through the vague information of a half-claw. .
Greem also identified the so-called mana battery, which indeed belongs to an energy utilization system completely different from that of the wizarding world. However, in it, Greem still found a trace of deja vu, elementary rune literature!
In the Knight Plane, the natives there can invent a rune that combines the energy of the magic crystal with their own life energy to create a unique advanced system for witcher knights. Of course, the impetus behind the dragon clan is also indispensable.
And in this goblin plane, the cowardly little goblin actually invented the relatively primitive goblin musket relying on the accumulation of knowledge and technology. This made them get rid of their status as weak races, and became the top ten intelligent races on this plane.
And what made the goblins stand out completely and overwhelm other races to become the dominators of the plane was the birth of magic equipment!
The early magic tools were simple and crude semi-metal puppets, driven by the rare magic stones in the plane. The energy inside is released by burning magic stones, and the steam device is driven to drive the mechanical gears, so that these big guys can move.
Of course, there are many problems with this method, so the early magic machines were all slow and clumsy, and the technology was so simple and crude that it was impossible to look directly at them. But relying on such primitive magical equipment, supplemented by an astonishing number of muskets, the goblins have also established their status as sons of the plane.
Although the goblin plane has low magic, there may still be some natural magic stones in some local environments. So the goblins used their powerful magic weapon army to defeat one strong clan after another, and then forcibly enslaved them to mine for themselves, dig metal ore, and dig those rare magic stones.
As for the appearance of the magic energy battery, it was a matter of nearly a hundred years. Some engineers of the goblin empire seemed to have obtained the guidance of some mysterious figures outside the world, and even applied part of the acquired mystic knowledge to magic equipment.
Therefore, the goblin empire built a huge space furnace near the capital, which can continuously absorb magical energy from the void of the plane, and encapsulate it into some special crystal prisms. And this is the origin of these mana batteries in Greem's hands.
Although the energy of these magic batteries is too rough and wild, and much more dangerous than magic stones, there is no limit on the number. So with the help of the magic energy battery, the goblin empire got rid of its dependence on magic stones, so that the goblins had an inexhaustible source of energy.
And with the appearance of the magic energy battery, more and more new weapons and equipment related to it began to appear in the goblin empire, and the overall strength was crazily rising at an unprecedented speed. However, the 7th Marine Regiment that Greem has come into contact with is still a local garrison, so they have not received the latest magical weapons.
To be honest, the more he heard from these goblins, the more ominous Greem felt.
Especially when the senior goblin engineer named Beirut drew the engineering sketch of the magic mech on paper, Greem's ominous premonition reached the extreme. During the process of storing, absorbing, and using magic energy in the Great Goblin Empire, Greem saw too many things that were the same as or similar to witchcraft runes.
This undoubtedly made him unable to help but start thinking about it.
You must know that two completely different worlds, if there is no interconnection channel, it is impossible for the exact same magic runes to appear.
Take the knight plane runes that Greem had acquired, although the runes that represent flames have the same or similar functions as the flame runes in the wizarding world, they are completely different in terms of rune writing. The runes of each world exist in a form that conforms to the laws of the plane.
Therefore, the laws of the planes are different, and the runes embodied by the laws are also different!
But in the engineering sketch drawn by Beirut, Greem saw too many runes from the wizarding world. Although they have been slightly changed by human distortion, many iconic original symbols still exist, and they are so clear.
Especially when Greem heard that Beirut talked about Prince Gazlowe, the "Father of Magic Power" of the Goblin Empire, in a tone of admiration and admiration, his face couldn't help but twitch.
Gazlowe... Gazlowe... Gazlowe...
Who could be more familiar with this name than Greem
The reason why he was able to bring Billis and Mary here was thanks to the 'Grand Duke' of Gazlowe. No, it is no longer the grand duke, but the most noble and greatest goblin engineer, alchemist and inventor of the goblin empire, and also the only prince without royal blood in the goblin empire.
According to the legend, the goblin prince completely relied on his own clever mind to suddenly invent these magical runes that could change the fate of the goblin empire. If it weren't for the goblin tradition, only the royal blood can ascend the throne of the king, otherwise it is unknown that this Gazlowe can become the great goblin master.
damn... damn... damn...
Greem asked Billis to bring the goblins down again, but he himself started to walk back and forth anxiously in this small crypt.
Only at this moment did he vaguely understand why exchanging knowledge with other planes was listed as a top taboo in the wizard rules issued by the wizard association after he was promoted to wizard. In the past, he was 'young and ignorant', and he only knew the basic knowledge of elementary runes, which was a bad street in the wizarding world, and it was not a top secret.
That's why a 'fair' exchange was made with that Gazlowe through Kirby.
At the time, this kind of exchange undoubtedly seemed to be a 'big advantage' for one's own side, but now it seems that it is really stupid!
And more importantly, I actually created a big trouble for myself 70 years later!
Big big trouble!