Volume 6: Helping the World Chapter 162 Snow Wolf Tribe News
On the frozen surface of the Jinjiang Canal, a six-legged lizard, the most common domesticated monster on the Bloomfield continent, about five meters long and covered with heavy scales, was pulling a huge sled and running fast on the ice.
"A-choo! A-choo! It's so cold! What the hell, is there such a big climate difference just across the inland sea? Even at its coldest, Valentine is not even half as cold as here!"
On the sled, in the windproof hut made of hasty wooden boards, the thief Alex was wrapped in three layers of fur, but he was still shivering from the cold.
The dwarf Arnold laughed. "Your physique is too weak, Alex. My hometown, Ironforge, is even colder than the Cursed Land. This kind of climate is nothing. As long as it doesn't snow, it's good weather for a walk."
"Don't brag. If you have the guts to throw away the wine in your arms, Arnold, I will believe you if you can sit still without shaking without the help of strong liquor."
"If you have so much energy to argue, how about someone drive the car for me?!" Hannah, who was sitting outside, shouted.
Alex and Arnold immediately shut their mouths...
The older brother of the knight brothers looked at the two of them with amusement, then stood up and said, "I'll go and get Captain Hannah to come in and rest."
"I'll go." Isaac, who was standing near the door, raised his hand to stop Edward, then got up and walked out.
The severe coldness of the winter on the grassland was somewhat beyond the adventurers' expectations, especially for the group of people who did not get supplies at the Elf Port... The elves closed the port and returned to the forest to spend the winter, taking all the vassal races with them. They finally sailed into the port by themselves, hoping to take a breath in the warm house, but in the end they saw only closed doors...
Fortunately, the canal opened by the Fire Flame Tribe did not dry up in the autumn, and the frozen river led directly to the Snow Wolf Tribe, so they did not get lost in this world of ice and snow.
The two team leaders took turns driving, and half a day later, the group of six met snow wolf cubs who had run out to play ice skating upstream of the canal.
"Human adventurers? Isaac and Hannah? They are indeed friends of our tribe." The grassroots chief volunteered to help in the earthworm shed. After hearing what the cub who came to report said, he washed his hands, left the earthworm shed, and hurried to the mobile home.
The explosive population growth led to housing shortage in the tribe. There was no empty room for the cubs to play in, and the mobile home originally allocated for Ayun and Sean to live in had to be separated in half for public use. The group of adventurers with cold hands and feet were brought here to keep warm.
"It's you guys." Seeing several familiar faces upon entering the room, the Grassroots Chief happily took off his shoes and sat over. "Hey, Isaac, why do you have so much hair on your face?"
"…It's Hu Zi, the grassroots patriarch." Isaac said awkwardly.
"It's not good to grow a beard. Ayun said that beards get dirty easily. The dwarves in our tribe all shave their chins cleanly. Arnold, do you still have your beard?"
Arnold said nothing. Beards were the romance of the dwarves, and he would not back down in this regard!
The Grassroots Chief laughed and looked at the others: "This weather must be very unpleasant for you humans, why are you in such a hurry to come to us at this time?"
"Something has happened." Isaac's face turned serious, "Grassroots Chief, isn't Ayun here?"
"Ayun went to the Ice and Snow King City to attend the Frank Feast hosted by the Elf King. What happened? Is it serious?" The grassroots patriarch was surprised.
Isaac smiled bitterly and nodded: "Yes... Grassroots Chief, there is indeed a big problem that we can't solve... The workers who returned to Valentine for the winter were arrested by the Valentine City Police Superintendent half a month ago."
"Huh?" The Grassroots Chief didn't react immediately. "Why?"
"We originally thought that the local union was making trouble because they didn't receive the money handed over by the workers. But after contacting the Valentine Union, we found out that it was the Lamia Chamber of Commerce that did it. The workers were framed for betraying Kronin and leaking the secrets of the Kronin Kingdom to aliens." Isaac explained with some embarrassment, "Although we bribed the city police, the city police didn't dare to release them, and we couldn't contact the new city lord... I'm sorry, Grassroots Chief, we didn't fulfill your commission and protect the workers."
The Grassroots Chief sorted out the information revealed in these words and became angry: "Why is the Lamia Chamber of Commerce so annoying!"
Isaac and Hannah exchanged glances, neither of them said a word... With the current MSG production of the factory jointly established by the Snow Wolf Tribe and the Sea Tribe, it has not yet impacted the traditional spice business of the Lamia Chamber of Commerce, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is only a matter of time.
"Grassroots Chief, there is a more important question. Will the Lamia Chamber of Commerce learn the secret of MSG manufacturing from the workers?" Hannah said.
The biggest sponsor of Hannah's team and Isaac's team is the MSG factory. If the MSG business is taken away by Lamia, their losses will be huge... Lamia Chamber of Commerce has plenty of people, it would be strange if they were willing to hire a team of adventurers like them that can be found everywhere.
“That won’t happen. The processing steps are carried out separately, and we have also done a good job of keeping the raw materials confidential. The workers only know that one of the raw materials is kelp, and we have not disclosed the fermentation process of the other batch of raw materials.” The grassroots chief shook his head.
The grassroots chief was in charge of the processing of sea sausages, which was the easiest to see through. The workers would only be allowed to touch it after it was crushed into foam and the original shape could no longer be seen. For the processing of kelp and fermented products, Xiao Yun had also instructed the grassroots chief to separate the processes and let the snow wolf people operate the key points only. After all, the technical content of this thing is not that high. The most troublesome fermentation process was worked out by Balke, who was reluctant to do it with half a bottle of water... Of course, it must be kept strictly confidential.
The two team leaders breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, even if all these workers were useless, as long as the secret of MSG was still in the hands of the Snow Wolf Tribe, they would not lose their jobs.
"We have to rescue the workers." The grassroots chief did not have the option of abandoning the workers. He thought about it with a stern face and gritted his teeth and said, "Ayun has been gone for more than ten days. He should be back soon. If Ayun has a way, we will listen to Ayun. If Ayun has no way--"
With a "crackling" sound, the grass-roots chief's arm muscles swelled and veins bulged on his knees. The chief, who was a warrior ten years ago, was murderous and fierce, "...Then our Snow Wolf warriors will go to Valentine to ask for the man."
Isaac, Hannah and others: "..."
"What about the female workers? Were they also arrested?" the grassroots chief asked again.
"Well... the female workers were only detained for two days before being released. This was probably because the people from Lamia made it clear to them that the female workers were not involved in the production of MSG." Hannah swallowed, paused, and added, "To prevent any accidents to the female workers, I left half of my team in the downtown area to protect them."
"That's good, otherwise Qiuqiu would have to worry too." The Grassroots Chief showed a kind smile, "It's not your fault this time, it's the Lamia Chamber of Commerce that was too mean. It's good that you can come and inform us, Ayun won't be angry with you for this. Take a good rest for two days first, and when Ayun comes back, we will discuss what to do."
"Yes, yes, yes." The adventurers nodded like chicks pecking at rice.
In the past, they had only seen the kind and friendly side of the grassroots chief. It was quite shocking to suddenly see his domineering side... The adventurers then remembered that the Snow Wolf Tribe was not only cute but also a fighting race among the Orcs...
"Well... there really is no empty house in the tribe right now, so we can only ask you to squeeze into this mobile home for now." The Grassroots Chief said apologetically, "You can live in this half of the room, and don't go to the other half separated by the cabinet. That's where Ayun and Xiao En live. No one is allowed to touch Ayun's things, otherwise he will be angry."
"It's good enough to have a place to live. We won't touch anything." Isaac & Hannah said in unison. Are you kidding? Who can afford to mess with Ayun?
The Grassroots Chief smiled and told the adventurers to take a rest first and she would send someone over later. When she left the room, the six adventurers who came from afar finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ayun should be able to solve this problem. It won't lead to the Snow Wolf tribe beating up Valentine, right?" Alex, who hadn't spoken a word the entire time, said tremblingly. It might be okay if others hadn't seen it, but he had seen with his own eyes the Snow Wolf tribe holding down an adult Chimera with one hand... If Valentine was beaten to a pulp, it would mean that half of their home would be gone for adventurers like them.
"That's not our concern." Hannah leaned against the wall and rubbed her stiff calves with her hands. "Isn't Mr. Sean with Ayun? With Mr. Sean's presence, even if Lamia doesn't buy it, the new city lord will have to give Mr. Sean face."
"That's right, Mr. Sean is from Kroning." Alex felt much more relieved.
"Well... I think Ayun must have a way..." Isaac thought of the cub who always solved all problems with a smile, and said from the bottom of his heart, "and it is a way that can easily solve the problem and leave no trouble."
Just as Hannah was about to say something, the Grassroots Chief came back.
"I forgot, Hannah, you are a female human, right? Then you can't live here. Come with me to where the female workers live." The grassroots chief waved anxiously.
Hannah: “…”
The others wanted to laugh but tried hard to hold it back.
Hannah stood up with a sullen look on her face, picked up her luggage and walked to the Grassroots Chief, only to see the Grassroots Chief looking seriously at the four human males except the dwarf Arnold: "Ayun said that human males are in heat all year round, and they are very aggressive when they are in heat. You can't be in heat in the tribe! Especially where the female workers live, you can't get close to them, is that okay?"
Isaac nearly choked on his own saliva, Alex was stunned, and the knight brothers looked dazed.
"Hahahaha! Ahahahaha!" Hannah pointed at her human friends and laughed wildly.
Leaving behind four stunned human men, Hannah followed the grassroots chief through several rows of dormitories and was taken to the female workers' quarters.
As soon as she entered the room, the great warrior Hannah was shocked - on the bed-shaped brick platform (kang) about half a meter above the ground and occupying half of the area of the entire room, more than a dozen human women were mixed among a group of big cats with different fur colors, brushing the fur of these big cats with special brushes!
Hannah: “?!”
"The female workers live in this room and the one next to it. Now there are not enough rooms, so the cat people will live with them. You can decide which room you want to live in." The grassroots chief introduced.
Hannah: "Uh..." She raised her hand and pointed at the kang. What was going on? She had never seen anything like this in her forty years of life?!
"You're staying in this room, right?" The Grassroots Chief nodded and raised his hand to greet him, "Shelda!"
"Grassroots chief." An older human female looked up and answered.
"Remember Hannah? She will live with you for a few days. Please take care of her." The Grassroots Chief pushed Hannah in.
"Okay." Sheldon quickly put on her shoes and got off the kang, bowing habitually, "Master Hannah."
"Just call me Hannah, I'm not a master." Hannah said quickly.
Sheldha smiled slightly and stood up immediately... If one can live with his head held high, who would be willing to bow down and scrape?
The Grassroots Chief was in a hurry to do something, so he sent Hannah off and left. Shelda politely took Shelda's luggage and asked her to sit on the warm kang to keep warm. Before Hannah could say anything polite, the snow leopard, who was lying on the kang with his paws in his hands enjoying the combing, turned his head and said, "Ugh - it stinks, go take a shower first!"
"Rosemary, can you still smell the bad smell? Aren't we used to the stinkiest rabbit poop?" the big cat next to him joked.
"Shut up!" Rosemary waved her claws angrily.
"Oh my!" A female worker rushed over and hugged Rosemary's front paws, her eyes shining and her hands grasping the big leopard paws, "Wow~ I finally touched Rosemary's paw~!"
"Hey hey hey let go——"
...Hannah followed Shelda to the bathroom next door with a shamefaced look on her face.
When Hannah came back from washing up, most of the big cats lying on the kang had left. Only some kittens about one meter long were left playing on the kang. Some of the women workers were playing with the kittens, while others were deftly straightening the hair combed by the big cats and twisting it into thread, which they then wound around the spindles...
"The weather here is too cold. You have to sit on the kang most of the time, otherwise you will be too cold to bear it." Sheldon asked Hannah to take off her shoes and sit on the kang. She also took a plate of fried beans and placed it on the table next to her, indicating that Hannah could do as she pleased. She smiled and said, "When you have nothing to do, help comb the hair of the cats and the snow werewolves. The yarn made from the combed hair is very strong and is perfect for sewing clothes. It is not easy to be torn."
Hannah had some impression of Sheldha. She remembered that this woman was the oldest and most haggard one among those who came to apply for the job. Later she found out that Sheldha was actually younger than her, but she was bent down prematurely by the hard life.
When she saw Sheldha again after almost ten months, Hannah noticed that this thin and old woman actually looked a lot younger. Her figure and cheeks were at least twice as round, and she looked much more energetic.
"It seems like you have adapted well to life on the grassland?" Hannah asked curiously.
Sheldha smiled radiantly: "How could I not adapt? Apart from the fact that it's quite cold in the winter and the mosquitoes are terribly big in the summer, there's nothing wrong with it."
“Sheldar, Sheldar.” A… uh, a caracal cub lazily crawled over and lay on Sheldar’s legs, opening its mouth wide. “My left side of the mouth hurts a little, help me.”
"Hmm..." Sheldon lowered her head and stared at the open mouth of the manul cub for a while. "There's a red blister. Huahua, are you being picky about vegetables again?"
"Hey, why are you up again?" The caracal cub tilted its head , belly up, and twisted back and forth.
"Because you don't eat vegetables. If you only eat meat, small red blisters will appear in your mouth, and it will be more painful after they ulcerate." Sheldon reached out and scratched Huahua's belly with a loving face.
"I don't want to eat vegetables~~" the caracal cub acted coquettishly.
Hannah accidentally put her hand on the belly...
Just as the big warrior was struggling to figure out whether it was impolite to stroke someone else's cub like that, someone walked in with his head lowered.
"Hey, Hannah?" Chief Li looked at the warrior curiously, "When did you get here?"
"Chief A Li." Hannah quickly took back her hand that was petting the caracal. "We just arrived. Something happened to the workers at Valentine's place. We came to find A Yun to find a solution."
"What happened? It's okay, it will be fine as long as Ayun comes back." Chief Li said nonchalantly, and started to... take off his clothes, "Comb my hair. I've been feeling a little uncomfortable these days, and my hair seems to be tangled."
"Okay, okay!" Several female workers immediately dropped their work and picked up brushing tools. Some jumped off the kang, took away everyone's shoes, and neatly picked up a roll of special blanket and spread it out beside the kang...
Hannah stared in amazement as Chief Li took off all his clothes and slid out of his bird without hesitation, while the female workers did not react at all...
The naked Li tribe leader bent his waist and turned into a giant white wolf with a total length of at least seven or eight meters from head to tail. With his body size, he definitely couldn't get on the kang. He lay down on the blanket skillfully and comfortably enjoyed several female workers combing his long hair...
"Chief Li, it is indeed a little tangled." A female worker said as she brushed, "Did you not brush the wolf shape for some time?"
"It's so cold, and I'm not one of those young people. How can I bear to get my fur wet?" Chief Li purred in satisfaction, "Please clean my ears and wipe the inside of them."
"Okay, I'll get a wet towel." Another female worker stood up and poured hot water on the big stove at the head of the kang.
"The hair is falling out a bit too much. Chief Li should make sure to get more sleep. Rosemary sheds a lot of hair, and the hair on the top of her head is not as thick as before." Another female worker said.
"I also want to sleep more, but there are still a lot of things waiting to be done. Does Rosemary shed a lot of hair? Which part is bald?" Chief Li suddenly became excited.
"I'm not bald, just a little thinner, hahaha, don't say it was me who said that."
"Rosemary is very stingy. If she knew you said he was losing hair, she might not come to our place to get it combed."
"Okay, you were the one who said he was stingy, I heard it all!"
"Hahaha……"
Hannah sat on the kang dumbfounded, "(o言o)..."
Hannah thought she had dealt with the Snow Wolf Tribe a lot and felt that she should be relatively familiar with the Snow Wolf People; but looking at this magical scene in front of her, the leader of the adventurer team doubted whether there was something wrong with her understanding of this world...
The skillful female workers spent more than 20 minutes combing the wolf hair of Chief Li until it was shiny and smooth. Chief Li left with great satisfaction. The female workers sorted out the combed wolf hair with great satisfaction, discussing which ones to use for spinning and which ones to save for weaving into woolen materials...
Shelda smiled and said, "The Snow Wolf Tribe is not easy either. In addition to the human form, there is also the wolf form that needs to be taken care of."
Hannah didn't know what expression to make: "..."
"You just said that something happened to Valentine's workers. What happened?" Sheldar asked a little nervously.
"There's some trouble with the workers at the MSG factory," Hannah said, "but there's no problem with the female workers."
"Is that so?" Sheldha was relieved. She barely knew the male workers at the MSG factory, so she certainly didn't care much. She just casually said, "It would be great if it can be resolved smoothly."
Not long after, another snow werewolf came to the female workers' dormitory.
"It's Lan Guo who's here." Sheldon took the initiative to get off the kang and spread the carpet that had just been put away. "Does Lan Guo's leg still hurt?"
"It's a little swollen." Lan Guo sat on the edge of the kang and rubbed his old injured leg. "Please apply it to me like you did last time. I felt relieved for a while after that."
"Okay. Maggie, get some hot water and the biggest towel."
"Okay." Sheldon's daughter Maggie jumped off the kang nimbly.
Lan Guo had just laid down and started combing her hair when someone else came in.
"Lan Guo is here too?" Ashu's face turned pale. He greeted Hannah, then took two steps inside and looked uncomfortable again.
"Clear the kang." Sheldah quickly called the other female workers and came forward to help Ah Shu. "Ah Shu, lie down for a while and take a breath."
The cat cubs obediently made room for them, and some of the naughty ones even jumped onto Lan Guo's back and lay down. After helping Ah Shu lie down, a female worker opened the box hidden under the windowsill, found the alchemical potion, poured out a little, mixed it with hot water, and fed it to Ah Shu.
Hannah shrank aside without even daring to breathe... Could it be that this Snow Wolf food store owner who could easily throw away a Level 3 warrior was really a patient with a long-term illness as the rumors said? !
Thinking of another rumor that was widely circulated in the Elf Port, Captain Hannah felt that she was in pain even without balls. The food store manager Ashu was first known to adventurers because he was the protagonist of the incident in which he subdued an adult Chimera with his bare hands in public...
Indistinctly, Captain Hannah felt a little sympathy for the Valentine branch of the Lamia Chamber of Commerce that had angered the Snow Wolf Tribe... It seemed that even without Ayun, those guys would not be able to get away with it...
While Hannah had a new perspective on the world, Isaac and the other five were not much better than her.
The Grassroots Chief was quite responsible and he did not forget to inform Qingcao and Yugu to take care of the adventurers who came to the tribe to report the news. Yugu was busy taking care of the newborn lamb and had no time to come, but Qingcao was free and came with his daughter in his arms (...).
In order to rush to report the news, Isaac and others had not taken care of their personal hygiene for more than half a month, so they naturally smelled bad... so they were taken away by Qingcao to be washed.
In the large public bathroom next to the dormitory area, five men lined up and rubbed each other's backs. Qingcao was not idle either. He squatted beside them and gave his daughter a bath, rubbing her so hard that the little wolf cub cried.
Isaac stared at the wolf cub After hesitating for a long time, he asked carefully, "What is this...?"
"My cub." Qingcao said casually, "It was born half a year ago and cannot transform into a human form yet."
"...Oh." Isaac was extremely glad that he didn't ask any nonsense questions. It turned out that the Snow Wolf Tribe also kept pets...
After rubbing Alex's back for a while, Isaac suddenly realized something was wrong. He turned his head in horror and looked at Qingcao who was squatting beside him washing the baby. He gasped, "Excuse me for asking...did you give birth to your cub? Did you give birth to it yourself?"
"Of course it's my son." Qingcao said puzzledly.
Isaac trembled and asked, "Are you a female?"
"Yeah." Qingcao was very surprised. "What's wrong?"
Alex screamed, and the knight brothers turned sideways in horror.
Isaac quickly covered the bird: "...get out."
