Wolf King

Chapter 107 Blood Carnival

Alex's smug face hadn't come down, Isaac's heavy punch smashed his chin crookedly.

"You..." Alex didn't expect that Isaac would sneak up on him, and as soon as he uttered the word, he rolled his eyes and fell slowly.

Isaac glared angrily at Alex who fell to the ground, his face changed several times, but he still couldn't help himself, he pulled him up and carried him on his shoulders, turned around and strode away.

"I hope this idiot is not involved too deeply, otherwise... no, it's not abandonment, but to protect other people. Do you want to watch Arnold and Malcolm be implicated? Am I willing to be implicated by this idiot?"

Isaac could feel several pairs of eyes staring at him viciously in the darkness behind him, but this did not affect Isaac's decision.He didn't believe how close this kind of relationship maintained by short-term profits could be. The owners of those sights were not worried about Alex, but just wondering whether he would "betray" others.

"Come on, if you want to kill people here, I will let you know the price of arrogance." Isaac gritted his teeth fiercely.

There seemed to be slight footsteps quietly going away in the darkness, Isaac heaved a sigh of relief, and felt a little sorry for Alex... There is no doubt that this idiot has been abandoned.

Isaac walked all the way back to the hotel street with a livid face. As soon as he entered the block, he encountered two patrolling elf warriors.

These elf warriors on night watch were not as gentle and courteous as they looked during the day. When their eyes met, Isaac saw only indifference and alienation in their eyes, and one of them turned his eyes around the stunned Alex. , seemed to reveal... a sarcastic sneer that I didn't bother to hide.

Isaac passed shoulder to shoulder with the two patrolling soldiers in silence, cold sweat slowly slipped from Isaac's temples amidst the sound of their footsteps drifting away.

Are the elves with an average lifespan of over seven hundred years and over a thousand strong people a race of ignorance and arrogance?

no.

Human aristocrats with family inheritance have accumulated over a dozen generations of inheritance, and the idiots in the descendants are only a minority.

So, will the elves, with a longer inheritance and a longer lifespan, expose such an obvious patrol gap in their own port that is easy to be caught?

As the second son, Isaac is not qualified to receive education in aristocratic management, but he is at least eligible to enter the classics room of the Robbins family. He at least knows that for thousands of years, the battle between the beast king and the elf king has never won Pass.

Isaac glanced back secretly. The two patrolling elf warriors hadn't gone out of his sight. Under the moonlight, they walked with ease and looked leisurely.

"——This is really a trap!" Isaac quickly looked back, and the cold sweat on his back fell, "Most of the adventurers will enter the elf forest tomorrow, and the forest elves will never welcome ignorant fools to enter It’s their own lair, so they gave the opportunity to let those idiots who are about to move out by themselves—it’s better to solve the trouble here at the port than to possibly involve elf civilians in the elf forest!”

"Alex, that idiot, will implicate other people after all." Isaac smiled bitterly to himself, "Fortunately, I didn't intend to enter the Forest of Elves in the first place, otherwise... I don't know how far I would have been tricked by this idiot."

When Alex woke up, he found that he was in a hotel room. He was firmly tied to the chair. After a few seconds of sluggishness, he realized what had happened, and immediately looked angrily at Ai who was sitting on the edge of the bed. sack.

"Do you think I'm cutting off your money?" Isaac raised his head wearily.

Alex gritted his teeth: "Do you know what you did? You didn't just offend me this time, Isaac, you—"

"Enough is enough, I don't want to know who your 'new friend' is and what his name is." Isaac raised his hand to stop, "The windfall from the sky will break the neck of the farmer, and those who are keen on making a fortune will definitely It won't end well. I've said similar things countless times, but you probably won't be able to listen to it including this time... Then, Alex, for the sake of us being friends, we might as well wait patiently for one night How about seeing how many of your 'new friends' are left after dawn?"

Alex's face twisted: "You betrayed me?!"

"If I betray you, you won't be sitting in the room like you are now." Isaac felt very tired, "Let me put it another way... Everyone knows that the Association has brought at least [-] coins The gold coins are on the ship, and the cash box is placed on the first ship. Why no one has the idea of ​​​​the first ship, because the association has arranged three gold hunters to protect the gold coins, and those of us got off the ship, the three gold hunters Still on board."

Isaac paused, and looked at Alex, who made him feel very complicated: "During the half a day you left, who made you think that the Elf Port is easier to get a hand on than the Association's ship?"

Alex stared at Isaac for a few seconds, his angry expression was gradually replaced by surprise.

"You are a cautious person, Alex. Although you have a lot of bad habits, I still think you are a reliable partner." Isaac sighed lightly, "Are you serious about doing things at Elf Port?" The Internet is full of unreasonable self-confidence. Where does this self-confidence come from? I thought and thought, and it seems that the problem can only be found in the association... Is there an official from a certain association who contacted you privately and asked Do you promise that when you catch the Snow Wolf Clan fighters, you will find a way to get you a ship so that you can return early with a full load of wealth?"

"you--"

"Think about the strangeness of this matter, Alex, don't be blinded by the immediate interests." Isaac sighed, "How much the association attaches importance to the cooperation with the forest elves, how much money has been invested, is a blind man It can be seen, so why do people who have a certain status in the association and are enough to win your trust do such a thing that does not get much benefit and offends the elves?"

He looked at Alex with pity, and said unceremoniously: "Whether you want to admit it or not, you and your 'new companions' are actually just tricky for the officials of the association and difficult to distinguish from adventurers. It’s just a thorn. Let such dangerous people enter the elf forest and cause more trouble, it’s better to deal with it at the port in advance...Use the value of the snow wolf clan, or make up a non-existent elf clan Treasure, it is really in the interests of the association and the forest elves to catch you people out of the crowd and gather them together to catch them all in one go."

Alex sucked in a cold breath, and his whole body became sluggish. The panic in his expression completely replaced the insignificant anger, and big beads of sweat dripped down his chin.Although he did not have the opportunity to receive a systematic education, he was not stupid. Life in the slums when he was young taught him that the worthless part of the crowd was destined to be abandoned.At this moment, Isaac revealed a side of him that he didn't expect, or didn't want to believe, and he found powerlessly... Isaac was probably right.

Arnold the dwarf was still soundly asleep, and Malcon the orc stood by the window and looked out the window silently.In the darkness, a tiny brilliance suddenly appeared from an unknown corner, and was quickly swallowed up by the night. This short-lived strangeness was captured by Malken's powerful vision, and he immediately turned back: "Isaac, it's started."

Isaac got up and walked to the window, the moonlight was obscured by dark clouds, and under the thick moonlight, he saw nothing.The sea breeze enveloped the entire elven port, and the unwilling groans of some people at the last moment of their lives were also swept away by the cruel wind, torn apart, and disappeared without a trace. Isaac could only hear the wooden windows in front of him being blown to pieces.Occasionally, I caught whining in my ears, but it was difficult to distinguish whether it was the last struggle of a certain life, or the hearing was played tricks by the wind.

"In the inheritance records of the nine generations of the Robbins family, my ancestors have never seen anyone who became rich overnight in the true sense. The lucky ones will also disappear from people's sight in a very short period of time. And even such a person can only be one out of thousands or tens of thousands of people."

Isaac turned his face sideways and looked at his companion with his head down: "From the standpoint of a friend, I hope you will be more cautious when betting your life, Alex. You are not the only one who is unwilling to be mediocre, but since If you have the courage to fight with your own life, why don’t you even want to take a longer road.”

The orc Malken looked at his leader in reverence. When this warrior from a remote village of the orc empire became a slave, the totem of belief in the orc tribe had already collapsed in his heart. Fortunately, this young man became his The master, and later became his friend, and a leader worthy of his life.

Alex, who lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, slowly raised his head and looked dejectedly at the head of the group who was secretly jealous of him. His facial muscles twitched, and he opened his mouth to show an ugly stiff smile: "Stupid short-sighted people like me... Would you take it too, Isaac?"

Isaac smiled and spread his palms: "Who is born to know everything, my friend."

Ah Tian frowned and looked at the two human men who fell on the ground, he hesitated before walking forward, squatting down and flipping one of them over, only to see that the other party's mouth and nose were bleeding, his eyes were out of focus, and he was only half-breathed, hanging for his life The other one was even more miserable. When he fell, he seemed to have hit the steps, and his neck was directly broken. Ah Tian felt hopeless after looking at it...

Another soldier wandered around for a while, then grabbed his scalp and fell back: "Ah Tian, ​​there is no ambush around, no one."

"Weird... What are these human beings trying to do? Why did they come to attack us? I thought they were trying to lure us into a trap, but they died so easily?" Ah Tian was also baffled.

"I don't know." The soldier said blankly.

"Forget it, let's go back first." Ah Tian picked up the two human men one by one, "This man is still breathing, take him back and use Ah Yun's medicine to see if he can be rescued."

"Shouldn't you send it to the place where humans live? Hey, a lot of blood!"

"Everyone is asleep, it's not good in the past now, let's talk about so many people, we don't know who to hand it over to."

"Eh, yes."

The two returned to the night watch team, and the other three soldiers who were chasing separately had also returned, and all the humans who attacked their team just now were also captured.

"Are these all dead?" Ah Tian was startled when he saw those human beings lying on the ground in disorder, not breathing at all.

A soldier pointed nervously at the corpse: "I didn't intend to kill him. He stabbed me in the eye with a knife. I slapped his wrist back. As a result, he cut his neck open."

"I just knocked this man's head..." Another soldier struggled.

The last soldier picked up the human being he was chasing, and turned his face to everyone: "I didn't kill this one. I didn't catch up to him because he was too fast. He was already dead when I ran to the place. Look, there is a man here on his chest." Blood hole, don't know who caused it."

Ah Tian took a closer look at the wound that was obviously caused by some kind of piercing weapon, and the man with a broken neck who brought him back also showed everyone: "This one too, he fell it himself... the other one was I threw something and knocked it down, but I didn't expect him to hit it so casually, eh, are you out of breath?"

Five human male corpses were placed together, and several snow wolf warriors looked at each other.

"Well...they attacked us on their own initiative, so it can't be our fault?" The soldier who smashed someone's head said carefully.

"This...we were just patrolling around where we lived, and didn't go anywhere else at all. They ran in by themselves...and the man with the hole in the chest was obviously not made by us, but..." Ah Tian was very Confused, "It's hard to say, if someone thinks we did it on purpose, then we can't explain clearly..."

The scene was very heavy for a while.

"I wish I had known it would be lighter. Mumu's head is too hard. When she bit my leg, she wouldn't let go no matter how hard I beat her. Why is a human's head so hard!" The warrior who smashed the human head pinched thigh.

"Yeah, it's a big deal to let him stab my hand. Anyway, it will grow after two days of rest." The soldier who fought back the manslaughter also regretted it.

"In the final analysis, why do these humans attack us? They all come here tomorrow to pay for food." What Ah Tian didn't understand was this. Expensive? There's no need to come attacking us in the middle of the night and attack us so ruthlessly... Let's talk about it, we'll pay them back the money at worst."

"Is it so excessive? We have to pay back the money after eating our food?" The other soldiers were startled.

"No, he couldn't have made the blood hole in this man's chest, could he? He ran far away and I couldn't catch up. There is no reason to commit suicide."

"That's right, this person seems to have been killed by someone else."

"Someone attacked the people who attacked us? Why did they do that?"

Several soldiers chattered around the human who died so strangely, but they couldn't discuss what happened.

At this time, the flames suddenly blazed in the distance, and the soldiers all turned their heads to look, and saw many people holding torches and rushing towards this side.

Ah Tian sniffled and looked over suspiciously: "Why is the bloody smell stronger over there than ours?"

Among the people who came were elf warriors and humans, many of them were covered with blood, but they didn't look like they were injured. The old friend of the Snow Wolf Clan, Hai Lin, walked in the front.

"How are you doing here? Is there anything wrong?" Hailin waved her hand from afar and trotted all the way.

Ah Tian waved his hand to his own people and moved away from the five corpses.

"Sure enough, something was missed." Hai Lin walked closer and looked down at the corpses, "Ah Tian, ​​are any of you injured?"

"Not really." Ah Tian scratched his scalp.

Hai Lin nodded, and turned around to say hello: "There are five more, come and remove the corpses!"

More than a dozen humans ran forward to carry the corpse in twos.

"Others search around." Hai Lin shouted again, "Don't get close to the wooden house of the Snow Wolf Clan, they are more sensitive to the smell of strangers than us."

"What's going on, Hailin?" Ah Tian asked quickly.

"It's just some greedy idiots." Hailin sneered, raised her hand and pointed at the few corpses that were moved away, "These guys gathered dozens of people to make trouble at the port, and they didn't put us forest elves at all. In my eyes, the Adventurer’s Association discovered their anomaly, and we prepared to deal with it in advance. It’s just that this group of people is too loose, and they haven’t been caught all at once, and some slipped through the net to disturb you.”

Ah Tian was stunned: "...huh?"

"Don't worry, nothing will happen after it's cleaned up this time. Well, you are busy, we have to clean up the battlefield quickly. If it is here, there will be vassal races coming to clean it up later."

Ah Tian: "Oh..."

Not long after Hailin and the others left, a few vassal races came with buckets and mops, washed away the blood, and sprinkled some pollen around before leaving.

Ah Tian and the others silently watched the vassal races busy, and looked at each other... No matter how stupid and cute, they can feel that something is wrong with such a weird thing.

"Everyone keep this matter in mind first, and we will tell Ah Yun when we go back. This matter is too strange, but it seems that it has nothing to do with us, so let's not make trouble." Ah Tian urged warriors.

The soldiers nodded in unison. Although no one was injured in the accident, the atmosphere of conspiracy frightened everyone.

The streets in the port were all lit with street lamps, corpses were moved out from various places, and the blood was washed away, the battlefield was cleaned up, and they were busy most of the night.

With such a big commotion, it is strange that Hotel Street knew nothing about it. I don’t know how many people got up quietly, hiding behind the curtains and peeking at the situation on the street.

"It's really stupid... I can't control my greed when I see the snow wolves. If I enter the elf forest, I will try my best to attack the elves? How can the forest elves let them see tomorrow's sun with such idiots."

"Gold coins are a good thing, but you have to survive to spend them. Why can't these guys figure it out so much?"

"It's so stupid..."

"What an idiot."

Ms. Benjamin, an officer of the Adventurer’s Association’s Research Department, personally participated in the “suppression of the rebellion”—the purpose of this group of people was to kidnap the snow wolves and snatch the association’s ship to leave. For the association, it was indeed a rebellion—in the face of Clay The gentle and intelligent lady of General Sturt held the roster and compared the sixty or seventy corpses lined up on the rocky beach on the left side of the port. There was no trace of pity on her cold face.

"Only 73? Have all the corpses been shipped out?" After counting the number, Ms. Benjamin frowned and looked at her deputy.

The deputy does not have such a strong mentality as Ms. Benjamin. It is not bad if he can hold on without vomiting on the spot. Hearing this, he trembled and stammered: "Yes, yes, ma'am, Xue, the snow wolf clan's side, yes moved here."

"That means there are more than 20 people who didn't show up, and they were temporarily frightened." Ms. Benjamin closed the roster and said without expression, "Greed is not a bad thing. If you can control greed, you are a qualified adventurer. Now that you have managed it this time Myself, from then on, I have to be careful to imprison the disobedient beast in my heart... Humans can't swallow an elephant, if they want to live for a long time, they have to figure out their own appetite."

"Yes, ma'am." The deputy bowed respectfully with a pale face.

Ms. Benjamin turned around and waved casually to the back: "Burn these. A few more people will inform those lucky people who share the same room and team with these guys that the association's disposal of rebels does not include confiscation of property. The inheritance of the rebels is at their disposal."

"Yes, ma'am." The members of the association responded in unison.

Does the Adventurers Association have the power to decide the life and death of a group of adventurers?Naturally not, it’s okay to target a few people, the attack surface is large, and the association will also have a headache if the unruly adventurers counterattack.But given the sweetness of sharing the inheritance of the "rebels" for most people, adventurers who can even betray their companions don't mind participating in this bloody carnival if they have enough interests.

When the sky was bright, Xiaohua, who had finished her second night patrol, had just called everyone to withdraw when she heard voices coming from the direction of the square.

Xiao Hua stopped and looked over, and saw a group of people getting off from a big boat, carrying several heavy boxes, meeting the people waiting in the square, and walking towards the hotel street.

Xiao Hua went back to the wooden house to wash up and get some sleep. Just as she lay down, she heard a vassal race coming and knocking on the door of Yu's room next door, asking if the Snow Wolf Clan could sell food earlier so that the adventurers could eat enough before entering the Fairy Land. Mori.

Xiaohua already knew what happened in the first half of last night, worried about those adventurers who had no idea what they were thinking, so she quickly got up to help.

As soon as the preparations were made, noodle stalls and barbecue skewers stalls were set up again on the beach on the right side of the port. Adventurers who didn’t want to use bread to deal with their stomachs rushed to line up early, talking and laughing loudly, or jokingly joking with each other, and there were people around I went to the stall and asked if I could sell them some sauces and hot sauces. Everything was no different from yesterday, as if the terrible incident that enveloped the entire port with the smell of blood last night never happened at all.

Xiaohua and a few soldiers quickly put the meat on skewers, Hongye accompanied Mumu to collect the money, Yu stood behind the noodle stall and added ingredients according to the taste of the guests; In the crowd, everyone more or less understood why Ayun always told everyone those scary stories-the outside world in reality may be more terrifying than the dark and frightening people in the stories. .

Alex, the thief, used bread to deal with the meal yesterday afternoon. Isaac also called him to the beach early this morning.

The food of the Snow Wolf Clan is indeed very good, but Alex tastes a little tasteless.From the ventilation window of the hotel toilet, he saw the flames of burning corpses on the east side of the port in the second half of the night. Today, there are indeed many familiar faces missing in the still bustling crowd.

A valuable snow wolf clan warrior walked past him, but Alex didn't even look at it.A human being would not know how much he weighed unless he wandered back and forth between life and death. Alex, who thought he could do anything, finally realized that he was not as fearless, brave and proud as he imagined.

It was two weeks later that Xiao Yun learned about the bloody incident at the Elven Port from Hongye. He carefully asked Hongye about the details before and after the incident, and the reactions of all parties.

Such a cruel "fishing law enforcement"... really breaks the bottom line of modern people's acceptance. Although the whole process has nothing to do with the snow wolf clan, it also scared him into white hair.

"This world is indeed very barbaric!" Xiao Yun sighed in his heart, let alone dozens of deaths at once, in modern society, where a few people die at once, it is a huge issue that the whole society should pay attention to and the central government should pay attention to. Serious and important cases... A lot of people have died in this shit, and the others are just like normal people who should eat, drink, and do whatever they want, that's it!Are the nerves of you outsiders stretched by steel bars? !

Even if the dead person is not a good product, it doesn't matter so much!

"Ah Yun?" Seeing that Xiao Yun's face turned pale, Hong Ye quickly moved closer to see if he was uncomfortable.

"It's okay." Xiao Yun waved his hand, "Have you discussed this matter with Maomao, what's your conclusion?"

"Uh..." Hongye hesitated, a little reluctantly, "We feel that those adventurers deliberately let those adventurers die..."

These words were a bit awkward, but Xiao Yun could understand, nodded and said: "What else?"

"It's just... I don't know what to say, it seems that in the eyes of those people, it is a good thing for some people to die?" Hongye was very troubled, "It's hard for me and Maomao to understand, isn't it true that the more people of the same race, the better? Why, why let some people die?"

Although they are still a little reluctant to get started, at least Hongye and Mao Mao know where the "threshold" is. Xiao Yun is very satisfied with this, with a childlike face: "It is difficult for any intelligent creature, regardless of the size of the group, to be monolithic. In the Under strong external pressure, intelligent creatures will instinctively unite closely with their own kind, but if the external pressure is not enough to threaten the survival of the group, then there will be differentiation and opposition between individuals. When the continuation of the ethnic group is endangered, internal struggles will manifest in various forms."

"The human kingdom has a population of several million tens of millions. The orc empire also has countless large and small cities, villages, and tribes, with a population of at least tens of millions. The population base is large, and the reproduction of ethnic groups will not be affected easily. Naturally You won't pay too much attention to your compatriots."

"This...does it mean that the population of the ethnic group is still a good thing?" Hongye's brows were almost knotted.

"Of course not. With a large population, the ability to bear risks is strong, so the population base is very important. But there will inevitably be internal struggles when there are too many people. This does not depend on anyone's will. This problem must be solved. , or try to control the scope of the battle to the extent that the impact is the least, and people will not die if they can, that is what we, the leaders of the ethnic group, must do."

"Our tribe now has a total population of 763 people. This population base is actually enough to cause internal friction. It's just that everyone has to face heavy work every day and work hard for the next year's rations, so no one has leisure To think about who has a good relationship with me and who I have a bad relationship with is also a means of reconciling internal conflicts, so if you don’t let yourself be idle, of course you won’t have the energy to do things.”

"But this system of suppressing personal selfishness and selfish desires with high-intensity labor is unlikely to last. When we have sufficient food and the number of mouths to be fed does not increase too much, some people will definitely feel lazy It doesn't matter, anyway, there is enough food to eat, and you won't starve to death. In this case, a series of follow-up problems will follow. To avoid this situation, we need to think a lot and think of ways. For example, we discussed it in winter , to bring back the tribes in the middle of the grassland as much as possible to increase the population and maintain the demand for food; then, it is necessary to adopt various incentives, such as snack subsidies, welfare departments and other measures, to make everyone's thoughts Concentrate on the direction of working hard and you will have good benefits and treatment, pushing and pulling everyone to move forward and not letting them stop."

Xiao Yun paused for a while to let Hongye understand the meaning of his words. Seeing that Hongye's eyes began to glow, as if he had realized something, he smiled and said: "Our total population has increased to a certain level, and the labor force is more abundant. Then we will Separate people to develop new cities. Build a new tribal city from scratch, so that everyone will always be working and pursuing a better life. Think about how big the grassland is and how much land is being abandoned. For us It is said that manpower will never be idle, so how can we be as indifferent as others, how many people die without blinking?"

"Hmm..." Hongye found that what Ayun said was right. This kind of future seemed very wonderful, but she always felt that something was not right...