Before Alex's proud face went down, Isaac smashed his jaw with a heavy punch.
"You..." Alex didn't expect Isaac to attack him unexpectedly. As soon as he uttered a word, he rolled his eyes and slowly fell.
Isaac glared at Alex who fell on the ground, his face changed several times, but he was still cruel after all. He pulled the person up and carried him on his shoulders, turned around and walked away.
"I wish this idiot didn't get involved too deeply, otherwise... No, it's not to give up, just to protect other people, do you want to watch Arnold and Malken get implicated? Am I willing to be implicated by this idiot?"
Issac could feel several pairs of eyes staring at him viciously in the darkness behind him, but this would not affect Isaac's decision. He doesn't believe how close this relationship can be maintained with short-term profiteering. The owners who are in sight are not worried about Alex, but are just wondering if he will "sell" other people.
"Come on, if you are going to kill people here, I will let you know the cost of arrogance." Isaac gritted his teeth fiercely.
There seemed to be faint footsteps in the darkness quietly going away, Isaac was relieved, and a little bit pitiful for Alex... There is no doubt that this idiot was given up.
Isaac walked back to the hotel street with a stern face, and as soon as he entered the block, he met two elven warriors on patrol.
These night watch elf warriors were not as polite and courteous as they looked during the day. When they met, Isaac saw only indifference and alienation in their eyes. One of them turned his gaze on the dazed Ali. , Seems to show... an ironic sneer that is too lazy to cover up.
Isaac passed by the two patrolling soldiers silently, and cold sweat slowly slipped from Isaac's sideburns amidst their fading footsteps.
Is the elves with an average life span of over 700 years old and over a thousand strong, a silly and arrogant race?
Of cause not.
Human aristocrats with family inheritance, more than a dozen generations of inheritance have accumulated, and the idiots in the descendants are only a minority.
So, the elves with longer inheritance and longer life span will expose such obvious patrol gaps in their ports that are easy to be caught?
As the second son, Isaac was not qualified to receive aristocratic management education, but he was at least qualified to enter the Robbins family's classics room. He at least knew that the battle between the Orc king and the Elven king has never been won each other for over thousands of years.
Isaac secretly glanced back, and the two patrolling elf warriors had not yet stepped out of his sight. Under the moonlight, they walked easily and looked leisurely.
"--This is really a trap!" Isaac quickly retracted his gaze, and the cold sweat behind him came down. "Most of the adventurers will enter the Fairy Forest tomorrow, and the forest elves will never welcome idiots who are ignorant to enter. Their own lair, so they gave the opportunity to let the idiots jump out on their own-to solve the trouble here in the port, it is better than the possibility of involving the elven civilians in the fairy forest!"
"Alex, this idiot is still implicated in other people after all." Isaac smiled bitterly to himself, "Fortunately, I didn't intend to enter the Fairy Forest in the first place, otherwise... I don't know how far I will be trapped by this idiot." When Alex woke up sober. He was found in a hotel room and his whole person was firmly tied to a chair. After a few seconds, he realized what had happened, and immediately turned his head angrily to look at Isaac who was sitting on the edge of the bed.
"Do you think I'm cutting your money?" Isaac looked up wearily. Alex gritted his teeth: "Do you know what you did? This time you are not only offending me, Isaac, you—"
"Enough, I don't want to know who your "new friend" is and what their name is ." Isaac raised his hand to stop, "A windfall from the sky will crush the farmer's neck. People who are keen on making a fortune will never end well. I have said similar things countless times, but I must include this time. You can't listen to it... Then, Alex, for the sake of our friends, we might as well wait patiently for the night and see how many of your'new friends' are left after dawn. how is it?"
Alex's face twisted: "You betrayed me?!"
"If I betray you, you won't sit in the room as securely as you are now." Isaac felt very tired, "Let me change another one." Tell me... Everyone knows that the association brought at least 50,000 gold coins to the ship, and the money box was placed on the first ship. Why did no one have the idea of hitting the first ship, because the association arranged three gold medal hunters to protect this Granting gold coins, we people got off the ship, and the three gold medal hunters are still on the ship."
Isaac paused, looking at Alex, who made him feel very complicated: "In the most of the day you have left, after all, Who made you think that the Port of Elf is easier to start than on the ship of the Association?"
Alex stared at Isaac for a few seconds, and his angry expression was gradually replaced by uncertainty. "You are a cautious person, Alex, even though you have a lot of ills, I still think you are a reliable partner."
Isaac sighed softly, "You are concerned about doing things in the Wizard Harbor. The Internet is full of unreasonable self-confidence. Where does this self-confidence come from? I thought and thought, the problem seems to be the association... Is there an official from an association contacting you privately and asking You promise that when you catch the snow werewolf warriors, you will find a way to get you a boat so that you can return early with full of wealth?"
"You—"
"Think about the strange part of this matter, Alex , don't be blinded by the benefits in front of you." Isaac sighed, "How much the association attaches importance to cooperation with the forest elves, and how much capital it has invested, you can see that it is a blind man. Then the association has a certain status and is enough to win the trust For your people, why do you want to do this kind of thing that doesn't bring much benefit and still offends the elves?"
He looked at Alex with pity, and said unceremoniously: "Whether you want to admit it or not, you and yours Those "new companions" are actually just thorns that make the officials of the association feel tricky and difficult to distinguish from adventurers. Letting such dangerous elements enter the Elf Forest and cause more trouble, it is better to be here in the harbor. Dispose of it in advance... Use the value of the snow werewolf tribe, or compile some non-existent Elf tribe treasure, and catch all of you from the crowd together. This is really in the interests of the association and the forest elves. ."
Alex took a deep breath, and his whole body was wilted. The panic in his expression completely replaced the trivial 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 had already let him know that the worthless part of the crowd was destined to be abandoned. At this moment, Isaac spotted the side he didn't expect or didn't want to believe, and he found helplessly...Isaac was probably correct.
The dwarf Arnold was still asleep, and the orc Malken stood by the window and looked out the window silently. In the darkness, a small piece of brilliance appeared from an unknown corner, and was quickly swallowed by the night. This short-term abnormality was captured by Malken's powerful vision, and he immediately turned back: "Isaac, it's starting."
Isaac got up and walked to the window. The moonlight was obscured by dark clouds. Under the thick moonlight, he saw nothing. The sea breeze enveloped the entire Elf Harbour, and the unwilling groans of some people at the last moments of their lives were swept and torn apart by the cruel wind, and disappeared without a trace. Isaac could only hear the wooden windows in front of him being blown into frames. Occasionally, the wailing may be caught in the ears, and it is difficult to tell whether it is the last struggle of a certain life or the hearing is teased by the wind.
"In the records of the nine generations of the Robbins family, my ancestors in the past have never seen anyone who became rich overnight in the true sense. Fortunately, it will disappear from people's sight in a very short time. And even such a person, there can only be one out of thousands or tens of thousands of people."
Isaac turned his face and looked down. Companion holding head: "From the standpoint of a friend, I hope you can be more cautious when betting your own life, Alex. It is not only you who are unwilling to be mediocre, but since you have the courage to fight with your own life, Then why don't you even want to take the longer road?"
Orc Malken looked at his head in admiration. When this warrior from the remote village of the Orc Empire became a slave, the orc tribe's faith totem was already It collapsed in his heart. Fortunately, this young man became his master, and later became his friend, and a leader worthy of his life.
Alex, who bowed his head and remained silent for a long time, slowly raised his head, looking frustrated at the head who made him mad with jealousy in secret, his facial muscles twitched, his mouth cracked and an ugly grin: "Like me...stupid shortsighted You idiot, are you willing to accept it, Isaac?" Isaac smiled and opened his palms: "Who is born to know everything, my friend."
Atian frowned and looked at the man who fell to the ground. The two human men hesitated before stepping forward, squatting down and turning one of them over, and they saw the other's nose and mouth bleeding, eyes out of focus, and only half of his life was left hanging; the other was even more miserable, falling down. At the time, he seemed to have reached the steps, and his neck broke directly. A Tian looked at it and felt helpless...
Another soldier wandered around for a while, clutching his scalp and fell back: "A Tian, there is no ambush around. There is no one."
"Strange...what do these humans want to do, why come to attack us? I thought they wanted to lead us into the trap, but they died so easily?" Atian was also inexplicable.
"I don't know." The soldier was blank. "Forget it, let's go back first." A Tian picked up the two human men one by one. "This person is still breathing. Take it back and try with Ayun's medicine to see if he can get it back."
"Don't send it to humans." Is it over there? Hey, a lot of blood!"
"People are sleeping, it's not good now, and we don't know who to hand over to so many people."
"Hey, that's right."
The two returned to the night patrol In the team, the other three warriors who were chasing separately have also returned, and all the humans who attacked their team just now have all been captured.
"These are all dead?" Atian was startled when he saw the few humans lying on the ground all the while not breathing.
A soldier pointed at the corpse nervously: "I didn't want to kill him. He pierced my eyes with a knife. I slapped his wrist back, but he cut his neck open."
"I just knocked. Under the head of this person..." Another soldier tangled.
The last soldier lifted up the human being he was chasing, and turned to everyone: "I didn't kill this. He was fast and I didn't catch up. I ran to the place and he was already dead. Look, there is a man on his chest. The blood hole, I don't know who caused it."
Alex, who bowed his head and remained silent for a long time, slowly raised his head, looking frustrated at the head who made him mad with jealousy in secret, his facial muscles twitched, his mouth cracked and an ugly grin: "Like me...stupid shortsighted You idiot, are you willing to accept it, Isaac?" Isaac smiled and opened his palms: "Who is born to know everything, my friend."
Atian frowned and looked at the man who fell to the ground. The two human men hesitated before stepping forward, squatting down and turning one of them over, and they saw the other's nose and mouth bleeding, eyes out of focus, and only half of his life was left hanging; the other was even more miserable, falling down. At the time, he seemed to have reached the steps, and his neck broke directly. A Tian looked at it and felt helpless...
Another soldier wandered around for a while, clutching his scalp and fell back: "A Tian, there is no ambush around. There is no one."
"Strange...what do these humans want to do, why come to attack us? I thought they wanted to lead us into the trap, but they died so easily?" Atian was also inexplicable.
"I don't know." The soldier was blank. "Forget it, let's go back first." A Tian picked up the two human men one by one. "This person is still breathing. Take it back and try with Ayun's medicine to see if he can get it back."
"Don't send it to humans." Is it over there? Hey, a lot of blood!"
"People are sleeping, it's not good now, and we don't know who to hand over to so many people."
"Hey, that's right."
The two returned to the night patrol In the team, the other three warriors who were chasing separately have also returned, and all the humans who attacked their team just now have all been captured.
"These are all dead?" Atian was startled when he saw the few humans lying on the ground all the while not breathing.
A soldier pointed at the corpse nervously: "I didn't want to kill him. He pierced my eyes with a knife. I slapped his wrist back, but he cut his neck open."
"I just knocked. Under the head of this person..." Another soldier tangled.
The last soldier lifted up the human being he was chasing, and turned to everyone: "I didn't kill this. He was fast and I didn't catch up. I ran to the place and he was already dead. Look, there is a man on his chest. The blood hole, I don't know who caused it."
"Someone attacked our attacker? Why do you want to do this?"
Several warriors were chattering around the strangely dead human being, and they couldn't figure out the answer.
Is this time, the fire suddenly raged in the distance, the soldiers all turned around and saw that many people were rushing towards this side with torches. Atian took his nose and looked at it suspiciously: "Why do they smell more bloody than ours?" There are elven warriors and humans among the people who came here. Many people are stained with blood, but they seem to be bloody. It didn't look like he was injured, but the old friend Halen of the Snow Wolf tribe walked in the front.
"How is your side? Is there anything going on?" Halen waved to hello from a long distance, and ran away.
Atian waved to his own people and let go of the five corpses.
"Sure enough, there is something missing." Halen walked closer and looked down at the corpses. "Atian, are any of you injured?"
"Nothing." Atian scratched his scalp.
Halen nodded and turned around to greet: "There are five more, come and move the corpse away!"
More than a dozen humans ran forward to lift the corpse together.
"Other people search around." Halen shouted again, "Don't get close to the snow wolf clan's wooden house, they are more sensitive to the smell of strangers than us."
"What's the matter, Halen?" Atian asked quickly. "It's just some lustful idiots." Helen sneered, and raised his hand to nod the corpses that had been moved away. "These guys gathered dozens of people to make trouble in the port, and didn't pay attention to our forest elves. Here, the Adventurers' Association discovered their anomaly, and we prepared for it early. It's just that this group of people acted too loosely and didn't catch it all at once, and some of them slipped through the net to disturb you. "
Atian dumbfounded: "... …Huh?"
"Don't worry, nothing will happen after the clean up this time. Okay, you're busy, we have to hurry up and clean up the battlefield. In this case, a vassal race will come and clean up in a while."
Atian: "Oh..."
Halen and the others hadn't left for a long time. Sure enough, several vassal races carrying buckets of mops came, washed away the blood stains, and sprinkled some pollen around them before leaving.
Atian watched the vassal races in silence, staring at each other...No matter how stupid they were, they could feel something was wrong with such a weird thing. "Everyone should put this in their stomachs first, and we will talk to Ayun when we go back. This is too strange, but fortunately it seems to have nothing to do with us, so let's not get into trouble." Atian warned. Warriors.
The soldiers nodded together. Although no one was injured in the accident, the atmosphere of the conspiracy scared everyone.
The streets in the port were all lit, and bodies were moved out from various places to be transported abroad, washing the blood stains, cleaning up the battlefield, and busying most of the night.
It's strange that the hotel street knows nothing about such a big movement. I don't know how many people got up quietly, hiding behind the curtains and peeking at the street. "It's really stupid... I can't control greed when I see the snow wolf tribe. Doesn't it mean that you have to try to attack the elf tribe when you enter the forest of the elves? Such a fool, how can the forest elves let them see the sun tomorrow."
"Gold coins are good. Things, but you have to survive to use them, why these guys can't figure it out like that."
"It's so stupid..."
"It's an idiot."
Ms. Benjamin, an officer of the Research Department of the Adventurers Association, personally participated in the "rebellion suppression"— —The purpose of this group is to kidnap the snow werewolf tribe and rob the Association's ship to leave. For the Association, it is indeed a rebellion. When facing General Kleist, the gentle and intellectual lady took the roster and compared the chaos on the left of the port. The sixty or seventy corpses lined up on the rocky beach could not show any mercy on their cold faces.
"Only seventy-three? Have the corpses been shipped out." After counting the number, Ms. Benjamin frowned and looked at her deputy.
The deputy doesn't have such a strong mentality as Ms. Benjamin. It's good to be able to hold up without vomiting on the spot. He shuddered and stammered: "Yes, yes, ladies from the Xue and Xuelang clan, too. Moved here."
"That means there were more than 20 people who did not show up and temporarily stage fright." Ms. Benjamin closed the roster, expressionlessly, "Greed is not a bad thing, and it is a qualified adventurer who can control greed. Now that I have controlled myself this time, I have been careful to keep the disobedient beast in my heart from now on... People can't swallow an elephant. If you want to live long, you have to figure out your appetite."
"Yes, ma'am." The deputy was pale and bent down respectfully.
Ms. Benjamin turned around and beckoned to the rear casually: "Burn these. A few more people will inform those lucky guys who have the same room and team with these guys. The association's handling of the insurgents 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 Association of Adventurers have the power to decide the life and death of a group of adventurers? Naturally, there is no such thing. For a small number of people, the impact will be great, and the rebellious adventurers will also have a headache when they counterattack. But it gave most people the sweetness of sharing the legacy of the "rebels", and adventurers who can betray with their companions when they have enough benefits don't mind participating in this bloody carnival.
When the sky was bright, Xiao Hua, who had finished the second midnight patrol, had just greeted everyone to close the team when she heard voices from the square.
Xiaohua stopped and looked over, and saw a group of people coming off a big boat. The group of people carried several heavy large boxes, joined the people waiting in the square, and walked towards the hotel street.
Xiaohua went back to the wooden house and simply washed and prepared for sleep. Just lying down, she heard a vassal race coming and knocking on the door of Yu next door, asking if the snow wolf tribe could sell food early, so that the adventurers could enter the elves when they were full. Sen.
Xiaohua already knew what happened in the middle of the night last night, and was worried about those adventurers who didn't know what they were thinking, and quickly got up to help.
As soon as the preparations were made, the noodle stalls and skewers stalls were once again set up on the beach on the right side of the port. Adventurers who did not want to use bread to deal with their stomachs rushed to line up early, or talked and laughed loudly, or joked with each other, and crowded around. I went to the stall and asked if I could sell some of their sauces and hot sauces. Everything was no different from yesterday, as if the terrible incident that engulfed the whole port with a bloody smell last night had never happened.
Xiaohua and a few soldiers slashed meat on skewers. Hongye accompanied Mumu to collect the money. Yu stood behind the noodle stall and fed the customers according to taste; the soldiers were busy with their hands and looked at them from time to time, and they looked a little unusual. In the crowd, everyone understands more or less why Ayun always tells everyone those scary stories-the outside world in reality may be... even more terrifying than the dark and fearful hearts of the people in the story. .
The thief, Alex, used bread to deal with the meal yesterday afternoon, and Isaac called him to the beach early this morning.
The food of the snow werewolf tribe is indeed very good, but Alex tastes a little bit unsavory. He saw the light of burning dead bodies on the east side of the port in the middle of the night from the ventilation window of the hotel toilet. Today, there are indeed many familiar faces missing from the still bustling crowd.
The worthy snow werewolf warrior walked past him, and Yali didn't even look at it. A creature like a human would really not know how many catties he had if he didn't slip back and forth between life and death. Yali, who dared to do so, finally realized that he was not as fearless, brave and proud as he had imagined.
Xiao Yun only learned about the bloody incident at the Elven Port from Hongye's mouth two weeks later. He asked carefully about the details of the incident and the reactions of all parties when the incident happened. After a little thought, his heart felt a little chilly.
Such a cruel "fishing law enforcement"... it was a bit of a breakthrough in the acceptance of modern people, although the whole process had nothing to do with the snow werewolf tribe, it also scared him into a white hair sweat.
"This world is really barbaric!" Xiao Yun sighed in his heart, not to mention that dozens of people died suddenly. In modern society, where a few people die at once, the whole society must pay attention to it and the central government must pay attention to it. Serious and serious cases... This Nima has a lot of people dead, and the others are just like the okay people who should eat, drink, and do, it's literally! Are the nerves of you outsiders all pulled by steel bars? !
Even if a dead person is not a good one, it doesn't matter so indifferent!
"Ayun?" Seeing Xiao Yun's face turned pale, Hongye quickly leaned closer to see if he was uncomfortable. "It's okay." Xiao Yun waved his hand. "Have you discussed this matter with Maomao, what is your conclusion?"
"Uh..." Hongye hesitated, a little reluctantly, "We feel like those adventurers I deliberately let those adventurers die..."
This is a bit awkward, but Xiao Yun can understand, nodded and said: "What else?"
"It's just...I don't know how to say it, as if it seemed to those people. It's a good thing to die some people?" Hongye was entangled, "It's hard for Maomao and I to understand this. Isn't it better to have more people in the same family, why should we let some people die?"
Although some people are still reluctant to get started , But at least Hongye and Maomao know where the "threshold" is. Xiao Yun is very satisfied with this, and a child can teach his face: "Any intelligent creature, regardless of the size of the ethnic group, can hardly be monolithic. Wisdom is under strong external pressure. Living things will instinctively unite closely with their kind, but if this external pressure is not enough to threaten the survival of the ethnic group, then there will be differentiation and opposition between individuals. When the death of some people does not endanger the continuity of the ethnic group, Internal struggles will be manifested in various forms."
"A human kingdom has a population of millions and tens of millions, and the Orc Empire is also home to countless cities, villages, and tribes, with a population of at least tens of millions people. With a large base, the reproduction of the ethnic group will not be easily affected, and naturally, it will not pay too much attention to the compatriots."
"This... can it be said that ethnic population is still a good thing?" Hong Ye's brows were almost knotted.
"Of course not. The population is large, and the ability to bear risks is strong. Therefore, the population base is very important. However, there will inevitably be internal struggles when there are more people. This is not based on anyone's will. This problem must be solved. , Or try to control the scope of the fight to the extent that it has the least impact and can survive the death of the people. This is what we, the leader of the ethnic group, must do."
"Our tribe now has a total population of 763 people, this based on population numbers 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 the leisure to think about who has a good relationship with me and who I have relationship with. Not good for this kind of problem, this is also a means to reconcile internal contradictions. If you don't let you idle, of course you don't have the energy to engage in things."
"But this kind of system that suppresses personal selfishness and selfish desires with high-intensity labor. It is impossible to last. When our food is sufficient and the mouth to be fed has not increased too much, some people will definitely think that it's okay to steal a bit of laziness. Anyway, there is enough food and will not starve to death. In this case, there will be a series of follow-up questions. It will also happen. To avoid this situation, we need to think more and find ways. For example, we discussed in winter to bring back the tribes in the middle of the grassland as much as possible to increase the population and keep it right. The demand for food; then, it is necessary to adopt a variety of incentives, such as snack subsidies, the Ministry of Welfare and other measures. If everyone's thinking is concentrated on working hard, there will be good welfare and good treatment. Pulling everyone forward and not stopping."
Xiao Yun paused for a while to let Hongye understand what he meant. He saw Hongye's eyes glowing and seemed to understand, and then he smiled and said: "Our total population It has been raised to a certain level, and the labor force is relatively abundant, so we will allocate manpower to develop the new city. Build a new tribal city from scratch, so that everyone will always work and always pursue a better life. Think about it , How big is the place on the grassland and how much land is being abandoned. For us, manpower will never have a day of idleness. Then how can we be as indifferent as others, how many people die without blinking inside ?"
"Hmm..." Hongye found that what Ayun said was right. This kind of future seems very wonderful, but it always feels that something is wrong...