Volume 4 copy Chapter 2: People-oriented communication (Part 2)
"There are so many weird guys here, please don't come back!" At a corner, Black Aurora, who was exploring the way, yelled.
His cry sounded strange, so Changgong Sheri said, "I'll go see what's going on." He soon disappeared around the corner.
After a long time, there was no news. After we fought our way through, we saw the bodies of the magician and the priest lying on the ground.
As a spell operator who communicates directly with the soul, fortunately, the Tauren Shaman can also use the "Soul Mark" to resurrect the dead. When asking Black Aurora what he was yelling about just now, Longbow Shooting Sun explained to us very unnaturally:
"He said it's dangerous here and asked us not to come here..."
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These are just two of the simplest examples. You can imagine that the trouble caused by language barriers between us is definitely not just a little bit.
For any adventure team, language barriers may be the most desperate predicament they can encounter. But what is frustrating is that the troubles we have to face are more than that.
Another trouble came from an unexpected surprise: when the Orc Wanderer Chang Sanjiao hid his body and sneaked up to a vampire, preparing to launch a surprise attack, suddenly, he didn't know what went wrong in his mind, and he used the "theft" skill he had just learned on the enemy.
During the fight, I caught a glimpse of his looming figure reaching out to the vampire's waist bag, then with two fingers lightly hooked, he quickly snatched the pitiful two copper coins into his hand. His movements were agile enough to shame the lightest bird, and the unfortunate owner didn't even notice it - God knows how this fat man did it.
After the theft was successful, the Orc Wanderer unkindly hit the unfortunate vampire on the head with a hammer, and then stabbed him twice in the vitals with his knife. His method of first taking money and then killing him was so smooth, just like a habitual criminal who often did this kind of business.
"Hey, see, there's money, I can steal money..." Holding up two copper coins, Chang Sanjiao was overjoyed and proudly showed off to us, as if he had never seen money in his life, with a very hopeless peasant style. But he was happy for a short time, his face suddenly darkened, and he beat his chest and stamped his feet and cried in pain:
"...What a shame, what a shame. I just killed so many people in vain. How much money would I get if I stole from them all..."
I understand his feelings very well. With all his property confiscated by the city patrol, Chang Sanjiao has completely become a destitute proletariat with a clean purse than his face. In such a predicament, his extreme sensitivity to money is acceptable. However, if this sensitivity becomes an extreme paranoia, even endangering everyone's life, it is a bit helpless.
The great and sinful discovery that extra coins can be stolen from humanoids immediately twisted the souls of the Orc Wanderers. Driven by the two evil beasts of "poverty" and "greed", pickpocketing in the Yangtze River Delta gradually changed from an occasional act to a habitual one, and finally developed into a routine, as if a vampire's life would be incomplete if he had never been stolen from...
"Wow..." A vampire baron was forced into a desperate situation by me. At the last moment of his life, he chose to fight back. A thick and enchanting red light mist spread from his body. As the light mist scattered, the vampire baron, who was already very agile, immediately accelerated and became even more swift in an instant, like a red whirlwind, wrapped in a dangerous aura and rolling towards me. When I realized his threat, he had already rushed to a place less than two steps away from me, grinning with his big mouth with two sharp hollow fangs, making a terrifying hissing... well, and bursts of bad breath.
When a vampire abandons their weapons and chooses to attack with their teeth, the most primitive way, it means that they are at the end of their rope and are determined to fight to the death - and at this time, the vampire is also the most threatening opponent.
Completely subconsciously, my well-trained warrior instinct made me respond firmly to this attack. I raised my left hand, blocked his teeth with my shield, and retreated three or four steps along with the force of his attack, breaking his fierce forward momentum at the cost of 38 health points. Then, I pushed forward with my left hand, raised the long sword in my right hand while he staggered backward, and stabbed it straight into the chest of the vampire baron...
"Wait, don't kill him yet..." A tragic cry came from the side, but it was too late for me to stop.
"Puff..." A violent fountain of blood gushed out from the chest of the vampire baron. No matter that his body was filled with the blood of those innocent people, at this moment he returned them all - along with his own life.
A huge round shadow flashed past me, and before I could come to my senses, Chang Sanjiao had already laid on top of the vampire baron, and couldn't help but caressing his corpse and crying:
"Oh, I'm a step too late. Your death is so unjust. You died before I could steal from you once. What a waste, what a sin..." As he said that, he stood up with deep regret and complained to me half-seriously, "Can't you be patient a little longer? You won't die from one or two bites. It won't be too late to kill him after I finish stealing from him. He's a baron . Maybe I can steal a few more copper coins..."
Just looking at the two fangs in the mouth of the vampire baron, I felt a sharp pain in my neck. I didn't think it was a good idea to get bit by it for a few coppers.
"...Oh, don't kill him..." Not far away came the distressed voice of Chang Sanjiao, as if he wanted to use his own body to block the heavy blow for the vampire...
