Volume 5: If you are poor, you should be alone Chapter 149 Snow Wolf Tribe Training
“Cough, cough, cough!” Xiao Yun wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and pretended to be nothing. “Evelyn, this is my new disciple, Laura Phillips.”
"Hello, Laura." Evelyn lifted the hem of her robe and squatted to salute.
“Hello, Evelyn,” Laura returned the greeting by lifting her skirt.
"So why are you taking so long to come back? Even if you're busy with things, can't you just return the manuscript? The people from the Bards Guild came to my house and cried! They hugged me and cried!" Evelyn angrily hit Xiao Yun in the face again.
"Girls shouldn't get so close to men..." Xiao Yun pressed her face and pushed her away. "Anyway, it was only two months last time. It doesn't matter if it's delayed for another month this time. The Bards Association will get used to it sooner or later. Don't worry. Besides, I'm not playing outside. I'm busy with work! Oh, Mr. Sean is here too. Mr. Sean, this is my disciple Evelyn."
"Hello, Mr. Sean." Evelyn lifted the hem of her robe and squatted to salute.
"Hello, Evelyn." Sean raised his hand to his chest in return.
"Teacher Ayun, you have completely forgotten about the serialization!!" Evelyn's face changed in an instant.
"..." Xiao Yun's mouth twitched. This girl was becoming increasingly difficult to fool!
There was no other way, Xiao Yun had to promise to make up a story as soon as he had time, and Evelin would let it go...
"Wait, why are you here so idle? Where is the disciple you are leading?" After bringing Evelin into the guest room, Xiao Yun suddenly realized something was wrong.
"I'm a master now. Teacher, don't you want me to be your apprentice? After that, it's just a matter of accumulating experience and improving mental strength. They are more familiar with the grassland than I am. I can't take them on a tour." The guest rooms in Philip Mansion are quite exquisite. Evelyn looked at the paintings on the wall curiously. "The painting skills of this painting are really bad! Is it okay to hang it like this? Does the owner of this house have a grudge against the painter?"
Xiao Yun quickly turned around and ran to the corridor to look... Fortunately, there was no one around.
"How can you talk like that? Wouldn't it be embarrassing if the host heard it? No wonder your tribe doesn't allow you to travel. If you run around like this, you will be beaten to death sooner or later!" Xiao Yun said angrily.
"I'm not wrong. The color matching and lines are all wrong. The color blocks are all blurred, and the composition is terrible. General Kleist's bad paintings are much better than this." Evelyn said dissatisfiedly, "Of course I wouldn't say this in front of the owner of the house. I'm not stupid."
“Okay…” Xiao Yun rolled his eyes and turned away, “You take a rest first, I still have things to do—wait.” He turned back again and looked at Evelin with a sharp gaze, “Evelin, I remember that you have a good aesthetic sense?”
“Of course.” Evelin immediately straightened her chest.
"That's perfect. You don't need to rest. Come and teach Laura." Xiao Yun immediately pulled Evelyn out. "Don't underestimate Laura. She is just a little human girl. She will become an earl soon and will do business with our tribe in the future. You should teach her some useless knowledge that is useless but high-end and can be used to show off, so that she won't be unable to mix in the human aristocratic circle..."
Evelyn: “…Teacher Ayun, it seems like you accidentally expressed your true feelings about art?”
"Don't worry about these details!"
After pairing the two female disciples together, Xiao Yun immediately became busy like a top - he didn't fool Evelyn on this point, there were just too many things that needed to be dealt with quickly.
The first thing is to collect crop seeds that can adapt to the high-latitude climate on the market in Valentine: Carlisle has enthusiastically sent countless seeds to the tribe in recent years, but the dimension of Saint Bridge is completely different from that of the grassland. Most of the seeds cannot survive on the grassland, and even if they can barely survive, the yield will be rotten... Xiao Yun doesn't have the time in America to slowly domesticate the crops, so of course it is faster to collect them from Valentine, which has a similar dimension.
By the way, we have to find a substitute for rubber. There are alchemical products similar to rubber in this world, but the rubber trees are not valued by the local people. Maybe they are still hidden in some primitive jungle and cut by the natives for fun. And any material that is stained with alchemy will be extremely expensive. Anyway, the poor Snow Wolf tribe can't afford it...
Then, I started buying dyes in large quantities.
That’s right, dye.
Kronin is also a country rich in mineral resources, and because of its large population base (five times that of the Dwarf Kingdom), its mining and smelting technologies are relatively advanced (Bloomfield ranks first in shipbuilding technology). Its mineral dye processing industry is mature, inexpensive and of high quality. If you don't try hard to purchase them, you'll be making a wasted trip.
We also need to purchase some of the things that Kroning produces in abundance, such as latex and metal adhesives. After all, the Snow Wolf Tribe can’t make these things…
I also bought some samples of the more expensive seawater corrosion-resistant alloys to see if I could reverse the formula...
Try to take some chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry with you. If you can raise them on the grassland, you won’t lack protein…
He led Isaac and Hannah to run through the commercial areas of the central and lower towns of Valentine, spending thousands of gold coins to buy more than a hundred tons of goods, and three days had passed; the next step was to quickly organize the workers who had signed the contract to board the ship - he had originally planned to recruit some people in the Bolton territory, but later he saw that the area was so vast and sparsely populated that he couldn't do it.
After a busy period, Laura had almost dealt with her family's business in Valentine. She bid farewell to this lovely little disciple in tears, and the snow wolves who had been away from their hometown for two months finally set out on the journey home.
Deep in the grassland.
Across a small lake, a group of tiger warriors were confronting a large group of snow wolf warriors.
Kun, a tiger warrior who had just been promoted to "leader of the account", never expected that he would encounter such a large group of snow wolves "invading" the tiger's grassland on his first patrol. The other side was numerous and powerful, and he only brought a account of twelve warriors. For a while, he was in a dilemma.
Across the water, a group of Snow Wolf warriors at the head did not transform into wolves. Kun knew that participating in battle as human beings was a characteristic of the Snow Wolf elite warriors, which made him even more afraid to act rashly.
After the two sides had been in a standoff for half an hour, Yaheng, the youngest soldier in the camp, could not help but speak out: "Kun, we are not really going to fight them, are we? There are too many of them."
"I know." Kun lowered his voice, "But if we turn around and leave, those guys will chase us, and that will be even worse."
"What should we do then?" Yaheng was a little nervous.
"We still have to fight before we can leave." Kun made up his mind, "Everyone get ready--"
"It's coming." Opposite Shuize, Yu squatted down, his arm holding the spear tilted slightly backward, the muscles in his arm became more relaxed, ready to exert force.
"Okay!" Xiaohua and Atian, who were standing on both sides of Yu, squatted down at the same time.
The tiger tribe is the darling of the wind element, and tiger warriors in any form can control wind magic that is no less than that of a mid-level magician; thirteen tiger warriors simultaneously transformed into thirteen gorgeous tigers with a length of more than ten meters from head to tail, and flew over a swamp that was more than thirty meters wide with a strong wind, and fell from the sky to kill into the team of snow wolf warriors.
Yu's eyes flashed with a gleam of light, and he suddenly jumped up, holding a spear in his hand and charging towards the strongest tiger; Xiaohua and A Tian quickly separated and attacked one each; the other elite warriors also picked a target each and went forward to fight each other.
"Roar--!!" The tiger warrior Kun instinctively knew that the snow wolf who blocked him was the strongest one. He did not use his body to block the spear. Instead, he used the wind to stop the spear suddenly in mid-air and slapped the feather arm holding the spear with a big palm.
Yu quickly bent his arm and used his elbow to strike forward. With a dull "bang", the tip of his elbow hit the pad of Kun's palm. The huge recoil force pushed the two men away.
Yu, whose fighting instinct was extremely strong, immediately switched the spear to his other hand and poked it towards the opponent's eyes!
“?!” Kun was shocked. He tilted his head and gritted his teeth to block the spear.
Due to the huge difference in size between the two sides, Yu was unable to change the angle of attack again, so he had to dodge, kick the opponent's shoulder, and jump back four or five meters.
"This guy... is very strong!" Kun & Yu had the same thought at the same time, and the next moment, the wolf and the tiger launched a charge again.
Yu can stop Kun alone, but it will be more difficult for the other elite warriors. Fortunately, there are more snow wolves, and when the outer teams see that someone can't hold on, they will step forward in teams of six to take over.
The "wolf pack tactics" of the six-member Snow Wolf Clan was not particularly advantageous against the Tiger Clan's natural wind magic ability and strong body, because... it was too difficult to encircle the Tiger Clan. Once someone attacked from behind, the Tiger Clan would use wind magic to move significantly, turning the encirclement efforts into vain.
However, it is a bit difficult for the Tiger Tribe to hit or even injure the Snow Wolf Tribe warriors... The offensive and defensive coordination between the Snow Wolf Tribe warriors is instinctive and there are almost no flaws.
After fighting for a while, Kun suddenly found something wrong... Why did his comrade Yaheng keep fighting against batches of snow wolves?
As his mind raced, Kun suddenly remembered a rumor circulating among the account owners - it seemed that several account owners had also encountered a large number of Snow Wolf warriors during their patrols, and then also repelled them? !
"What the hell are you trying to repel? I've been fooled!" Considering what happened today, Kun still didn't understand what was going on. He suddenly gathered up the wind power to repel the Snow Wolf warriors who were entangled with him, and roared, "Retreat! Everyone retreat!"
Thirteen tigers simultaneously unleashed wind, which was extremely powerful. For a moment, sand and rocks flew everywhere, and the sky and the earth were dark. By the time the strong wind died down, the tiger warriors had already run a long way away...
"How come these tigers are running so fast!" Xiaohua had just gone down to rest for a while and was about to go into battle again when all the tigers ran away.
"We have already found several groups of tigers to 'train' with. Maybe they all know what's going on." A Tian scratched his head and guessed.
Yu nodded: "That should be the case... Let's go, we've been around here long enough."
"Okay!" The soldiers who were happy with the fight and those who were still reluctant to leave responded one after another.
"It seems that it is still difficult for us to defeat the Tiger Tribe. If they want to escape, we can't stop them at all." Yu shook his aching arms and said to the soldiers while packing up, "We need to practice more to find the Tiger Tribe's weaknesses..."
"I didn't find their weakness, but I discovered that their heads are very hard and their tails hurt a lot." A Tian grinned and lifted up his clothes to rub his waist, which had a very conspicuous red mark on it.
"I told you to try to fight from the side. We are not as strong as Maomao." Xiaohua glared at his partner.
Kun led his soldiers to run for several kilometers before stopping. He looked back and found that the Snow Wolf Tribe did not chase him. He was immediately very annoyed...
"Kun, why did you suddenly shout and leave? Didn't you say you were worried about them chasing you?" Yaheng asked in a silly and cute way.
"What the hell are you chasing? They are using us to train their troops!" Kun said unhappily.
"Training?!" A soldier who had regained his human form looked over in surprise, "No way, do the Snow Wolf Tribe want to go to war with our Tiger Tribe?"
"Who knows what those barbarians are thinking!" Kun said angrily, "Everyone listen carefully, you must not tell anyone about this when you go back. If you have to say anything, it's us who fought off a group of snow werewolves, understand!"
The twelve soldiers stared at him blankly...
Yaheng slapped his head and said, "So that's what's going on. I was wondering why I always hear those patrol officers bragging about fighting off more than a hundred Snow Wolf warriors... Where are there so many Snow Wolf people?"
"Shut up! You're the only smart one!" Kun scolded.
Kun gave his soldiers some instructions, and after returning to the royal court, he immediately called two account owners with whom he had a good relationship, and formed three teams to rush to the place where they had encountered the Snow Wolf Tribe before; but it was already a day later, and the Snow Wolf Tribe had already walked hundreds of kilometers away. Kun and his companions searched for it in vain but still couldn't find it...
A few days later, beside a tributary of the Bulei River.
"Ah--!" Xiaohua climbed up the high rocks by the river and jumped into the water with joy. The splashing water attracted laughter and scolding from the soldiers.
"Those who have transformed into wolves before, please transform over here and wash yourself clean. This place is the east, but there aren't that many places to take a bath." Yu stood in the shallow water with his bare butt, brushing the fur of A'yan who was lying comfortably in the river with a big brush, while shouting to the people playing in the river.
"Who can help me brush it?" A soldier washed his body clean, walked to the shallow water area, and shouted with a brush in his hand.
"Come, let me help you!" A young soldier of the same age as Ayan ran over with a giggle.
"Be careful to brush gently, don't brush off a lot of my fur again." The soldier who shouted handed him the brush and squatted in the water, revealing his wolf form. "Ouch, it hurts! I told you to be gentle! Are you here to help or to make trouble?"
Yu couldn't bear to see it, so he raised his foot and kicked the little guy who was causing trouble...
Downwind, several naked and wounded cats were lying in the grass looking for edible rhizomes, when they suddenly heard bursts of laughter in the wind.
The cats quickly lay down and dared not move. After waiting for a while, they could hear laughter from time to time, as well as the unique howling sounds of the Snow Wolf Clan.
The cats looked at each other, and one of them with a missing ear whispered, "It sounds like the voice of the Snow Wolf Tribe... The Snow Wolf Tribe can't be with the Tiger Tribe, right?"
The other two nodded at the same time. After the incident of the Beast King borrowing troops fifteen years ago, the relationship between the Snow Wolf Tribe and the Tiger Tribe had become quite cold.
Of the major races on the grassland, the Centaurs are already dead, needless to say. The Tauren and Snow Wolf are both races that are likely to help outsiders, but the Tauren have the strength to help, while the Snow Wolf tribe is howling with hunger...
The cat with the missing ear said in a trembling voice: "Why don't we ask the Snow Wolf for help? Just a little bit of food, just a little bit, they will give it to us, right?"
The other two did not say anything, but swallowed their saliva to express their opinion.
It has been more than a month since they luckily escaped from the eastern camp of the tiger tribe. During this period of time, they were so hungry that they wished they could eat grass like cattle and sheep. Although they knew that the Snow Wolf Tribe might not be able to provide extra food, they were still unwilling to give up this glimmer of hope.
The cat with the missing ear took the lead, and the other two followed quickly.
The three cats cautiously walked out of the bushes that were more than a meter high and saw the snow werewolf from afar. They were stunned for a moment.
There were at least 200 snow wolves occupying an entire stretch of the river. Some were playing and fighting in the middle of the river, some were rolling around on the sand beside the river with their butts bare; some were transformed into wolves and lying in the shallow water by the river to let people brush their fur. The cleaned wolves were scattered and lying on rocks of varying heights to dry their fur...
Although the three cats were standing downwind, their scent was smelled by the snow wolves after they came out of the bushes. As they approached the river bank, several snow wolves stopped fighting and looked at them curiously.
"Oh, it's so dirty!" The young warrior said without restraint when he saw the three cats.
Ah Tian slapped the young warrior on the head to shut him up, and waved to the three cats: "Hello!"
One hour later.
The three cats who were half-forced to wash clean by the snow werewolves wore the snow werewolves' clothes (the clothes were enough for them to wear as robes) and sat obediently among a group of snow werewolves. The six eyes of the three people were fixed on the boiling pot.
"Don't be anxious. You can't eat hard food if you haven't eaten for a long time. Cook the noodles until they are softer before eating." Xiaohua said soothingly while stirring.
"You guys are so small, and I've never seen the shape of your ears before. What cat tribe are you from?" A Yan looked at the three cats for a long time and even reached out to pinch their ears.
"Ayan!" Xiaohua shouted.
"It's a mountain cat." A warrior who originally lived in the central grassland said, "It's a small species among the cats, a little smaller than the manuls of Qiuqiu's people." (Prototype: Andean tiger cat, similar in size to a domestic cat)
"There are cats smaller than the caracal. No wonder it's so small." Ah Yan rubbed the head of the mountain cat with a missing ear in amazement, making it almost unable to sit still.
"..." The mountain cat with a missing ear looked at him blankly.
"Ayan!" Xiaohua rushed over, kicked Ayan away, and then chased after her and stomped on her ...
Yu ignored A'yan who was screaming because of being stepped on, and went forward to continue stirring the pot of cooking noodles.
Three mountain cats: "..."
Because the bobcat is slightly smaller than the manul, and the human form is only about 1.3 or 1.4 meters tall, Yu thought about it and only gave them half the amount of powder that Thrall should eat. He waited for them to finish eating and rest for a while before questioning them.
"You escaped from the Tiger Tribe's eastern camp? What's going on over there?"
Although the bobcat is small in size, it has inherited the advantage of cats that size does not affect intelligence. The bobcat with a missing ear was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Are you planning to go to the east?"
"Yes, one of our Snow Wolf tribes that originally lived in the mangrove highlands was attacked by the Tiger tribe. All the survivors were captured. We have to go find them." Yu nodded calmly.
Shanmao shook his head and waved his hands quickly: "It's better not to. Every camp in the east is guarded by at least one middle-level tiger warrior, at least 130 or 14 people. You can't save anyone with just a few people."
"I know." Yu nodded again, "We are only planning to find their location and check the surrounding terrain. We will take action after the snow falls in winter."
The mountain cat was a little surprised. Going out in the winter on the grassland? When did the Snow Wolf Clan have the ability of the Snow Elves?
But he knew that these were not questions he should ask. After thinking for a while, the mountain cat said, "We have been enslaved by the tiger tribe in the east for several years. We only know that the tiger tribe has five camps in the east to store supplies. We only know the specific locations of these five camps. We have been to two of them... We have never heard of the Snow Wolf Tribe in these two camps."
Yu frowned. Hajime had just barely remembered the direction he was in when he escaped in such a hurry, but he couldn't confirm where his people were being held. After thinking for a while, Yu asked again, "So which camp are the centaurs usually held in?"
"The centaurs need to transport supplies to the tiger tribe. They can be found in every camp." said the mountain cat.
"Okay, then we can only look for them one by one." A Tian sighed beside him.
Seeing that he was unable to help, the mountain cat was worried that the Snow Wolf Tribe would ignore them, so he quickly said, "We know the patrol shifts at the Tiger Tribe's camp, and some of the routes they take when transporting supplies. We may be able to find the other three camps by following those roads, and maybe we can help you a little."
Yu's eyes lit up, and he exchanged glances with A Tian and Xiao Hua, and asked earnestly: "Then can you please go with us?"
The mountain cat with the missing ear breathed a sigh of relief: "Of course."
Yu thought for a moment, and then said, "You can also take us to the tribe where your people are imprisoned to find out the way. If there is a chance, we will try to rescue them."
Yu said this because he took into account that Ayun often complained that there were not enough cat tribes... In fact, there were quite a few cat tribes on the grassland, with twenty or thirty in the western part of the grassland. However, the cat tribe was very wary and had traded spices with the Snow Wolf Tribe for several years without showing any intention of migrating.
The three mountain cats did not show any excitement after hearing this, but became depressed instead.
Yu immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing and felt a little embarrassed.
"Our tribe was conquered by the tiger tribe... It was several years ago." The mountain cat with a missing ear said with a wry smile, "At first, the tribesmen were working on the same grassland, but later... some of them scattered and some died. We don't know where the tribesmen are or how many are still alive..."
It's uncomfortable to just hear about such things, let alone to see them happen to oneself. Yu remained silent, and reached out to gently pat the little guy's shoulder.
The surrounding Snow Wolf warriors quietly dispersed, some sorting their luggage and equipment, some taking out their weapons to clean and maintain them.
Xiaohua picked up Ah Yan, who had just been beaten up by her, and threw him far away on the grass, then began to roll up her sleeves: "I always tell you to train harder, but you never listen. See, if we don't have the strength to protect the tribe and the people, the cat tribe in front of us and Ah Yi's tribe behind us will be our fate in the future."
"Eh? Wait—"
"Ayun has said it so many times, if you fall behind you will be beaten, if you are weak you will be bullied, do you understand? Do you understand?"
“I understand, I understand, stop hitting me, it hurts, ahhhh!!”
"I will teach you a lesson on behalf of Chief Li!!"
"Ari won't hit me wah wah wah!!"
"Hongye and the others wanted to be warriors but failed and had to do other things for the tribe. You are a warrior but you don't appreciate it!"
The three cats turned their heads at the same time, staring blankly at the snow werewolf being beaten not far away.
A Tian said to the young soldiers who were the same age as A Yan and were usually very naughty: "See, if you don't train diligently, you will be punished like A Yan."
The young soldiers trembled and nodded in unison... Yu's hitting was a bit heavy, but Xiaohua hit wherever it hurt.
Three cats: "..."
The mountain cat with the missing ear admired sincerely, no wonder the Snow Wolf Clan was so strong... If they were not strong, they would probably be beaten to death by their own people.
