OBS Chapter 231 Excavation
Chapter 231 Excavation
Before setting off, the Eldar sage took a small bottle of blood from Howard, and then he divided the blood into two parts. One part was kept for further research, and the other part was added with powder, sealed and given to Gloria.
The Blackwater Festival area is filled with orcish psychic energy. Considering the various dangers that may be encountered on the road, Gloria must carry Howard's blood in case of emergency.
As for the powder added, it is something that can keep the blood fresh. Based on Howard's limited knowledge, it is probably something like sodium citrate?
Although Gloria was seriously injured, the crisis had been resolved, so Gloria did not use the bottle of sealed blood, but directly bit Howard's arm.
"Squeak..."
Howard's arm was not thin, but the nun was not at all polite when she bit it. She bit down and pierced Howard's flesh directly, biting to the bone. Then the nun closed her mouth and scraped the meat off Howard's bones.
Howard grimaced in pain.
A bite like this is different from an ordinary cut by a sharp object. Many people think that the pain of being bitten or cut is equivalent to the pain of a minor injury in daily life magnified several times or even dozens of times. In fact, this is not the case.
When the wound is too deep, it will involve muscles, ligaments and nerves. The discomfort and pain caused by damage to these body tissues are completely different from those of a normal small wound.
When the battle sister began to tear the nerves in her hand, half of Howard's body was moved unconsciously, and the hand that was bitten was out of his control, and began to tremble meaninglessly, constantly clenching and opening.
Finally, after a sound similar to cloth being torn, Gloria finally tore off a piece of Howard's flesh.
Grass!
Howard thought to himself that he shouldn't be so pretentious. Letting the Battle Sister gnaw on him was actually a different way of showing goodwill, because gnaw directly was troublesome and unnecessary. If his flesh and blood really had any effect, he could just use the Battle Sister's dagger to cut off a few fingers and feed them to her. Howard would then suffer much less pain.
After biting off a piece of meat, the combat nun chewed it casually and swallowed it, then leaned against the wall to rest. Under the effect of the gift of the Goddess of Life, the hole on her abdomen began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the wound on Howard's hand healed even faster than the nun's wound.
Soon the wound on Howard's hand healed. He observed the nun's condition and estimated that it might take her ten minutes to recover. Howard didn't plan to sit idle. He tore off some rough and dirty cloth from the orc's body and wrapped it around his hands. Then, he held the pickaxe that the orc had dropped on the ground with both hands.
The pickaxes used by the orcs for mining were heavy and rough. A piece of sharp metal was tied to the end of the wooden handle with an iron chain and used as a digging tool. Howard took a lot of effort to lift the pickaxe, and then he hammered it into the ground.
"Bang——"
The pickaxe made a sharp sound when it struck the ground. Gloria, who had been resting, was awakened by the unusual movement. She opened one eye and looked at Howard, asking, "What are you doing?"
"Just now I saw these three orcs digging a pit here..." Howard explained to the Battle Sister, "So I guess there might be something underneath."
So the Battle Sister didn't ask any more questions.
Since the battle sister did not stop him, Howard planned to continue working. When he raised the orc's pickaxe again, a dagger was thrown in front of him. This dagger was the one that had just cut the battle sister's flesh. After cleaning the wound, Howard naturally returned the dagger to its original owner.
Howard froze with the pickaxe held high, looking at the Sister of Battle.
"Use this..." The Battle Sister looked at Howard and said, her voice sounded a little weak, not sure if it was because of helplessness or injury.
Howard had no reason to refuse the nun's suggestion. He put down the pickaxe in his hand as quietly as possible, picked up the dagger the nun threw to him, and continued to dig a hole where the orcs had dug before.
The nun's dagger was much easier to use than the orcs' tools. Although humans in this era were a bit larger than those in Howard's era, the tools were at least designed based on human usage. Howard used this dagger just like a field dagger he had bought before.
If we have to say the difference, it is that the dagger Howard bought before was broken when he was digging a hole for cooking during a camping trip, but the dagger used by the combat nun obviously would not have this problem.
Howard continued digging, but after digging for a while, he dug into the hard rock under the soil, but still did not find what the three orcs had buried there.
Howard was a little frustrated. He looked at the hole he had dug, which was neither too big nor too small. He wondered if he had misjudged it. There was nothing hidden here. Or maybe he had dug in the wrong place. Should he try digging somewhere else?
Or……
Howard looked at the three badly damaged orc corpses.
Or are these three orcs not here to dig things, but to hide things?
Howard could choose not to delve into the issue at this point, but he had nothing to do, and driven by curiosity, so he endured the stench and began to rummage through the corpses of the orcs.
The first thing Howard searched was the body of the orc whose head was chopped off by Gloria at the beginning, because he saw a dirty cloth bag hanging around the orc's waist.
Howard couldn't untie or pull off the cloth bag, so he cut a hole in the bag with a dagger and reached in.
Howard was very careful when exploring the orc's waist bag, as it might contain all sorts of strange things. His caution proved to be a good idea, as he felt something sharp just as he reached in. He carefully pulled it out, and it turned out to be a shard of glass.
So Howard continued to explore, and then he took out all kinds of outrageous things from the orc's waist bag, including a detonator, a dried... dried human arm wrapped in cloth, many different types of ammunition, and a mousetrap?
It didn't take long for Howard to take out everything in the orc's waist bag. Now when he put his hand in again, he could only touch rough cloth and sand, nothing else. And there was nothing worth paying attention to among the things that had been touched out.
So Howard gave up this goal and began to observe the corpses of other orcs. The result disappointed him because only this orc among the three orcs had storage tools on its body.
Did I really guess wrong?
Howard was puzzled. How could he explain the orcs' unusual behavior? Although orcs' behavior had always been strange to humans, not all of their behavior could be explained by "waaagh" or "existence is reasonable."
Just when Howard was about to give up thinking, he found something wrong.
The orc whose abdomen was smashed by Gloria's chainsaw sword had a bulge in the crotch of its remaining lower body.