Spellcasting Secrets?

"This diesel engine is good, but it's a bit loud, and it's a bit troublesome to start at night."

Looking at the rumbling diesel engine charging the battery, Liam had a slight headache.

After spending two survival points to repair a light bulb picked up from Shelter No. 2, there was finally stable lighting in the base.

The electric crossbow was also plugged into the power output of the diesel engine.

Generally, a generator consumed 210-240 grams of fuel per kilowatt-hour of electricity, about 0.25 to 0.28 liters. Considering the transmission efficiency, the actual consumption was 0.3 liters.

According to the base's oil storage capacity and the loss during conversion, 200L of diesel could generate about 600 kWh of electricity.

"It's enough for now!"

Nodding, Liam pulled the wire holding the light bulb to the Kobold and called Oreo over.

For some reason, Oreo had become less and less active recently. Every day after eating and playing for a while, he would lie down beside the vegetable cultivation base and look at the small opening where the light could shine in, in a daze.

Small head, big doubts.

"Well... I'll wake him up later, and you'll be the translator. Is there a problem?"

"Woof?" Oreo tilted his head in question.

"That is, what I say, you help me pass it on to this Kobold, and then when he answers, you tell me what he said."

After a simple explanation, Oreo nodded and showed a signature evil smile, indicating that he could fully take on this position.

Oh, you should have just said interrogation!

Seeing that Oreo understood, Liam helped the Kobold up and sat him on the stool. He put a wooden stick through the rope tied to his body and lifted the Kobold up.

"Hey, wake up!"

Liam reached out and patted the Kobold's face twice. As if he had hit him too hard before, the Kobold didn't respond.

Without changing his expression, Liam winked at Oreo. Oreo understood and jumped to the Kobold's feet. He opened his mouth and bit down.

"Ah!"

"Ao!"

A sound like a wolf's howl erupted in the cave, and the Kobold, who was still pretending to faint, was so stimulated that he almost knelt on the ground.

"I said that this dog's brain is really sick. He hasn't even bitten him yet, and he's already started?"

Looking at the Kobold's performance, Liam became even more curious about the Kobold race.

How could there be such a strange race without any class? This kind of creature could even make a nuclear bomb by hand, oh no, a grenade by hand?

Looking at the indignation on the Kobold's face, Liam smiled.

"Oreo, ask him if he gives in!"

After receiving the order, Oreo began to communicate in his own dog language with a smirk.

"Woof woof woof!"

"Woof!"

The Kobold made a humanized expression, and Liam and Oreo understood the meaning of this expression at the first time - disdain!

The Kobold disdained to talk to Oreo, a low-level reptile!

"You old dog, you seem to have a stubborn temper. I won't say much. I have a complete criminal law for you to choose from."

"You don't want to talk, do you?"

Seeing that the Kobold raised his head instead, Liam was not polite. He stepped forward and punched the Kobold in the stomach.

Donk~Pack~

Within 0.1 seconds after the punch hit the Kobold, tears welled up in his eyes, and he cried out.

"Do you give in?"

Seeing that the Kobold still didn't respond, Liam punched him again.

"Woo woo woo woof woo woo woo..."

The Kobold, who had been punched twice in a row, finally realized that the situation was stronger than the people. If he hadn't been tied up, he would probably have knelt down and kowtowed in the next second.

Oreo, who was beside him, also raised his chin. Although he still had to look up to the Kobold, the disdain was strong!

"Well? You still dare to glare!"

One punch!

The third punch was sweet. This time, the Kobold didn't dare to show any resistance. He cried out and nodded repeatedly to show that he had given in.

However... Liam punched him again without mercy.

"Sorry, I don't like Nongfu Spring. I like Yi Bao!"

"Woof woof!"

Oreo, who was lying on the side, heard Liam's words and looked at the Kobold who had been beaten silly. He laughed so hard that he couldn't breathe.

"Oreo, translate for him what a surprise is."

Looking at the painful expression on the Kobold's dog face, Liam finally swallowed a mouthful of resentment.

Although this Kobold looked honest, he actually looked down on Oreo from the bottom of his heart. Even the way he looked at him had a hint of contempt.

If normal "etiquette" didn't work, then he could only...

Beat him up!

Fortunately, after four punches, the Kobold became much more honest.

"Ask him why he came here. Was it specifically to look for me?"

"Woof woof woof!"

"Woof woof woof..."

Looking at Oreo and the Kobold struggling to communicate, as if one was speaking a dialect and the other was speaking Mandarin, Liam could only wait with his hand on his forehead.

It took Oreo a full four or five minutes to communicate such a simple sentence.

"Woof?"

"You said he wasn't looking for me?"

Seeing Oreo shaking his head and the Kobold's face not being fake, Liam had a headache.

"Ask him what he was looking for in the bush!"

Originally, Liam thought that the Kobold had followed the traces to find him, but it turned out that he didn't!

"It seems that I was too cautious..."

"Perhaps... the Kobolds sent out several teams to look for things, but I just happened to encounter this small team?"

After thinking for a while, Liam chose to wait for the result of Oreo's communication.

This time, it took longer. It took about ten minutes, and Oreo's lips were dry from barking before he got the news.

"Woof..."

"Woof!"

Seeing that Liam couldn't understand, Oreo simply ran to the sundries pile and rummaged through it. Finally, he took out a wooden stick.

It was the tool that the Kobold used to cast spells!

"Is there something wrong with this wooden stick? But the system can't scan its attributes at all?"

Picking up the wooden stick and putting it under the light bulb, Liam began to examine it carefully. 

As early as in Shelter No. 2, he had checked the magic wand that the Kobold was holding in his hand.

After all, who didn't have the desire to be a magician?

Unfortunately, this magic wand not only didn't have any attributes, but also didn't have the ability to cast fireballs with a wave.

Now, with Oreo's reminder, Liam looked at it carefully again and immediately found something strange.

There was a small opening at the top of the wooden stick, as if it was sealed with wood, which didn't look like something that could grow naturally.

Placing the wooden stick near his nose and mouth, Liam fanned the wind with his hand to gather the smell from the wooden stick under his nose.

"This smell..."

A familiar memory swirled in his mind.

Touching the wooden stick, Liam found a button-like thing in the middle and lower part of the wooden stick.

He pressed it lightly, and the small opening at the top of the wooden stick opened, and the smell coming out of it became even stronger.

"This is... gunpowder?"