Aini's explanation to Xu Lai gave Xu Lai a vague premonition.
Sure enough, Aini continued: "You can prepare some dead soldiers and let them hide the poison somewhere in their bodies in advance.
According to the customs of the orcs in the stronghold, ordinary captured Human beings, such as farmers and herdsmen, will also be kept as slaves and food rations.
But if they are warriors, they will usually become the rations of ogres and Cyclops.
Behemoth. Generally speaking, ordinary humans and low-level warriors are not eaten. Middle-level or high-level warriors are the favorites of high-level giants and Behemoths.”
"You mean, using living people as poison and giving them to the orcs as sacrifices?"
The dissatisfaction in Xu Lai's tone was almost ready to come out.
Aini sneered and said: "This is the safest method. Shamans will never doubt a living person, and it will definitely work."
Xu Lai gently raised a He kicked Aini to the ground directly and said: "I'm afraid it won't work, bastard!
If you can only provide such bad ideas, then I don't mind sending you to see the God of War now. Your Highness, let’s see if he thinks I broke my oath.”
The God of War is the only belief in the empire. You can live in the empire without any faith. If you have any faith, you can only believe in the God of War.
If you want to become a noble in the empire, you must believe in the God of War. Even if Aini is just a believer with little faith, he will be under the control of the God of War after his death.
After being kicked down by Xu Lai, Aini did not dare to get angry.
As for whether Xu Lai violated his oath by killing him, Aini believes that he definitely did not violate it.
Because his proposal will not be adopted at all, it will naturally not be of any help to repel the orcs.
Of course, Xu Lai couldn't lie to him, because this was a very costly thing.
It can only be said that Aini had no good intentions in offering such a strategy.
On the one hand, he really wanted Xu Lai to defeat or repel the orcs.
Because the orcs are not repelled, the conditions Xu Lai promised him before will definitely not be fulfilled.
Aini couldn't expect the orcs to kill Xu Lai and rescue him at the same time.
He was a prisoner now. Even if Xu Lai died in the battle, there were still ways to kill Aini first.
Therefore, the best ending is for Xu Lai to successfully free himself after driving the orcs out.
But we must take advantage of the orc invasion to severely damage Xu Lai's power. It is best to defeat both sides, so as to give him a chance to rise again.
According to Aini, if Xu Lai wanted to poison a Behemoth, he would at least need to sacrifice a warrior of level 4 or above.
These are only the 7th-level Behemoth and the 7th-level Cyclops. If you want to feed the 8th-level Behemoth and the 8th-level Cyclops King, what level of warriors must you send?
Based on the food intake of these creatures, how many soldiers must be sent to fill their stomachs.
How much poison do these warriors have to carry to ensure that these giants and beasts with terrifying health values are poisoned?
Furthermore, toxin preparation is also a big problem.
Since the poison must be violent, it is best to poison these giants and beasts immediately, without giving the shamans a chance to rescue them.
However, if the toxin breaks out too quickly, it will be easily detected by the orcs, and the captives must be inspected.
At that time, all the poisonous people sent over will become free lunch.
No matter from which aspect, it is impossible for Xu Lai to agree to such a proposal.
After Aini was kicked, he obviously did not dare to speak randomly again.
After a while, Aini spoke again:
“If you don’t agree with the plan to poison people, then you can only use chronic poison to poison cattle, sheep and livestock. Poison.
If it is just a chronic poison, it will be difficult for a collective outbreak to occur depending on the individual, and there will be a huge risk of exposure.
And things like ogres and Behemoths are similar to wild beasts and have a certain degree of resistance to poison.
With chronic poison, it is basically impossible to kill them immediately.
The shamans in the stronghold are good at various natural spells, and detoxification is a spell that every shaman must learn. "
Xu Lai frowned and said, "All shamans must learn poison-repelling techniques? So can their detoxification technique be able to get rid of any toxin? ”
Aini shook his head and said: "Of course that's impossible. We have been fighting the orcs for hundreds of years, and we know very well what the orcs are capable of.
Their detoxification technique can only expel some simple toxins. For example, snake venom and bacterial venom among natural organisms are more powerful mutated toxins, or mixed toxins prepared from multiple toxins, and ordinary detoxification techniques have no effect.
However, some of their high-level shamans also have a more powerful detoxification technique.
I forgot its name. I only know that this detoxification technique is relatively powerful. It’s amazing, it can expel basically any toxin.”
"Can all toxins be expelled?"
Ani thought for a while and said: "We have not tried all the poisons, but all the toxins we have tried so far can basically expel them."
Xu Lai frowned and asked: "Is there a poison that only targets orc genes and is ineffective on other people?"
"Orc genes? What is that?"
Xu Lai thought for a while and said: "You can understand it as bloodline, just like talent. It is something that is only passed down among orcs."
After thinking for a moment, Aini said: "Yes, there is. I originally wanted to tell you.
Orcs are very savage creatures, so when they were first born, they were prohibited from preying on their own race. Yes, genes.
For them, the flesh of the same kind contains toxins, and it only affects the orcs themselves.
But this kind of toxin is difficult to kill. Strong orcs, unless they fight to death by eating it themselves,
Of course, although this toxin is generally not poisonous to orcs, if we just use it as a medicine, we can specially develop a highly toxic poison for orcs. , that’s fine.”
Xu Lai's eyes lit up and he said: "In other words, does this kind of poison really exist?"
Aini nodded affirmatively and said: "Yes, we nobles, in order to prevent others from assassinating and To poison, we hired a lot of poison masters and assassins.
Our family has done a lot of research on orcs, but we actually have such a formula. If we prepare it according to the proportion, we can kill it 100%. Orcs, but is ineffective against other creatures
And, because it is non-toxic to other creatures, even poison identification techniques cannot identify it, unless the poison is identified separately
<. br>And due to the influence of blood, even high-level shamans cannot completely dispel this poison. Only the purification and resurrection of the priest can completely eliminate the influence of this poison."
Xu Lai said slowly: "Since there are such things, and you didn't say anything before, is it because they are difficult to obtain?"
Aini smiled bitterly: "The reason why our family has this formula There is naturally a reason why it is put away.
To prepare this poison, the first thing that is indispensable is the flesh and blood of the orcs, and it must be fresh flesh and blood.
That's all. It is already difficult to satisfy. You must know that orcs eat big-eared monsters, so low-level monsters such as big-eared monsters are useless.
At the very least, they also need materials such as orc warriors and wolf cavalry. , only then.
In addition, orcs are strong and strong, so to prepare poison that can kill orcs, the level of materials required is also extremely high.
Basically, in addition to the poison, preparing a poison that can kill an orc requires at least 500 gold in terms of material cost alone. In addition, the labor required for large-scale preparation of poisons, poison masters and the like.
And after the medicine is prepared, it cannot be eaten directly by the orcs. It must be smeared on arrows and swords, or the cattle and sheep can eat it in advance and give it to the orcs.
The former is not very effective. It can only cause continuous poison damage to the orcs and increase the output, but cannot directly kill the orcs. ”
Aini was still explaining, but Xu Lai said directly: "Are the other ingredients in your formula difficult to buy?"
Aini was stunned for a moment, thought about it carefully and said: "If you configure a small amount, of course not It’s difficult to buy.
But if the quantity is relatively large, it will be difficult to say, and purchasing in large quantities will inevitably lead to an increase in the price of materials.”
Aini was stopped by Xu before he could finish his words. Laiyi waved his hand to stop him and said: "The price increase is nothing. As long as it is a problem that can be solved with money, it is not a problem.
A large number of gold coins were just seized from your house. It is conservatively estimated that there are several. Millions.
Even if a serving of poison costs 1,000 gold coins, it is almost enough for tens of thousands of servings.
If that’s not enough, don’t you have a castle waiting for me at home? ”
Aini choked immediately.
When Xu Lai captured Kaunaston Castle, he did not capture the castle immediately.
So much so that Aini was able to transfer assets in advance. Although not all of them were transferred, a lot of them were transferred.
Coupled with those that escaped outside the city and those that Aini stored in other manors and castles, it was not a small sum.
Not to mention his space ring, which also always stores a large amount of gold coins to deal with various emergencies.
The millions that Xu Lai said were only confiscated from the castle.
If the manors outside the city were also searched and another castle was knocked down, the assets of the Aini family alone would cost tens of millions.
This is just cash, excluding the antiques, calligraphy and paintings, decorations and the like collected by Aini.
Spending nearly ten million gold coins to poison ten thousand orcs may not necessarily succeed.
It seems to be an extremely uneconomical thing, but Xu Lai almost didn’t have to pay for this money.
Sell the assets of the Aini family and save hundreds of thousands of poisons to give to the orcs. Even if you only succeed in tens of thousands of poisons and poison tens of thousands of orcs, it will still be in vain.
The most important thing is that so many people died at the beginning of the war, which had a huge impact on the morale of the stronghold camp.
You must know that the morale of this world can actually affect everyone.
Moreover, the status of orcs who can enjoy fresh flesh and blood will not be low, and they are likely to be mid-to-high-level officers and mid-to-high-level warriors.
These are all mainstay characters. Let alone all of them die, even if only one or two die, it will have a big impact.
Of course it was impossible for Xu Lai not to adopt this plan, which did not require him to pay any cost but could also inflict heavy damage on the enemy.
After being angry for a long time, he finally had to face reality. Aini had to face the fact that his family property had become someone else’s.
“But there is another very important question. Where are we going to get so many orc flesh and blood?” Yu Lan reminded.
This is a problem. When Qingfeng City held an auction before, Xu Lai got to know a few slave traders.
At that time, they wanted to put their slaves on the auction stage, but Xu Lai did not agree. Instead, he negotiated a price and bought all their human slaves.
Xu Lai himself had no way to put an end to the phenomenon of slavery. All he could do was to prevent his city from participating in the slave trade.
Xu Lai was worried about the newly established reputation of his city if he robbed those slave merchants.
But if he buys according to the market price, then he himself will become the largest slave merchant, and it is estimated that many people will bring slaves to him.
As slave traders, those people naturally own more than just human slaves.
In fact, human slaves are not popular because they are illegal in the empire and can only be traded secretly.
There are two types of slaves that are more popular, one is orcs and the other is elves.
In addition to having a larger appetite, the former is really good at work. Not only does he have a good physique, he also has terrifying strength.
One orc can do the work of several humans, and his endurance is quite strong.
As for elves, it comes from the well-known reason that both men and women are too beautiful.
But Xu Lai at that time only bought all the human slaves.
Because human men and women can promote population growth, and Xu Lai has conquered so many cities and has castles everywhere, they all need people who can be trusted.
Xu Lai bought them, no longer restricted their freedom, and provided them with jobs. He could be considered a benefactor after all, and it was easier to train them into his own people.
Some of them will follow Jilong to this city and be responsible for Xu Lai's food and daily life in this castle.
Whether they are orcs or elves, they are hunted by slave-catching teams from various teleportation arrays.
Humans are not the only ones doing this kind of thing. Orcs have also done the same thing. Xu Lai also saved a lot of humans in the orc city.
Unfortunately, although they can provide a certain amount of orc slaves, the number will never be large.
Fortunately, after asking the poison master that Aini had hired, everyone knew that the flesh and blood of the orcs was just the introduction to the medicine, not the key to poisoning the orcs.
Therefore, a serving of poison does not require much orc flesh and blood. One orc can make hundreds of servings of poison.
"Very good, then, we need to do several things at the same time.
The first is to strictly block the news and create the illusion that Aini escaped from prison tonight. Yu Lan, you will handle this matter. It's a mage. If necessary, you can use spells to create chaos or illusions.
The second thing is Aini. Immediately attack all the assassins, poison masters and the like that you can find, and you will be treated well. It’s easy to say, I’ll let Roland assist you.”
Roland is the Holy Light Knight, and the paladins he leads are the ones least afraid of assassins and poisons.
If Aini wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, with the strength of Roland and others, they could control and kill him instantly.
"The third thing is to immediately prepare all the preparations for making poison, including purchasing the materials and orcs for making poison, preparing livestock for the orcs, etc.
I will leave these things to Han here. Cork will do it, but it may not be enough to collect it in one city.
So I need you to do everything you can to collect relevant materials as much as possible."
Yu Lan said immediately: " I will send a message to Sister Su Ya and Viscount Jimmy later, asking them to purchase these materials regardless of cost in all the cities we control."
Elena also followed suit: " I will also report to the temple and ask the bishops of the temple to release relevant tasks in major cities.”
But before he finished speaking, Xu Lai immediately said with understanding: "Don't worry, I will provide all the rewards for the tasks.
In addition, Yu Lan, please also inform Jimmy by the way, and tell him that I will only pay those who The nobles have the last 3 days.
If they do not surrender within these 3 days and hand over ownership of all territories and troops, I will purge their entire family after conquering their city.
At that time, all members of their family will be executed, no one will be spared!”
Xu Lai rarely does that kind of decisive thing, especially one that involves the entire family, and may even include others! of minors.
But compared to what he had to face next, he had to have a complete and controllable grassland. He really didn't have time to slowly conquer them. (End of this chapter)