Volume 6: Helping the World Chapter 198 The Sugar Water Is Not Sweet Enough
On days with heavy snow, when the Snow Wolf warriors who stayed behind in the tribe were training in the snow, the Cat warriors who had no work would also run out and play around like they were training.
"roar--!"
Leopard Fishbone roared and ran wildly, stirring up countless snowflakes and rushing towards Leopard Xia.
Xia rolled his tail and knocked the fish bone crooked, and another snow leopard rushed over from the side... It was Chief Arthur!
"Hey, are you besieging me?" Xia laughed, leaned over and jumped, falling over the head of Chief Arthur.
Chief Arthur bumped into Fishbone... and then the two big cats didn't choose their opponents and started to fight each other.
"Look at my Xia!" Another big cat rushed towards the leopard.
The beast forms of the large cats are about three to four meters long (excluding the tail, approximately the same size as the wolf form of a snow wolf cub). They are strong and sturdy, agile and flexible, and they entangle with each other in guerrilla pursuit in the snow.
Manuls are the larger of the small cats, with a round and sturdy body, thick skin and fluffy fur. Qiu majestically led a group of small cats about two meters long (excluding tail length) onto the scene. He stared at the big cats fighting fiercely with his round eyes for a moment, then turned around and shouted, "Let's go together and kill them!"
More than twenty small cat warriors howled as they rushed into the battlefield... Whoever they caught would be surrounded by four or five of them, and even the strongest leopard would be in trouble if it ran into them.
The Snow Wolf warriors finished their training and found dozens of cats, big and small, still fighting and tearing each other apart. They laughed and said, "It's really lively!" "Yes!"
Suddenly, a large mass of ice cones flew out from the fighting cat tribe and flew towards the snow wolf warriors. Xiaohua quickly used her scabbard to knock the ice cones away: "Hey, hey, why are you using magic?"
"Who is it? Who is using magic?!" Chief Arthur suddenly looked up.
"I saw it, it's Xiaorui!" a big cat complained.
"Kill the one using magic first!"
"Hey, hey! Isn't magic also a part of strength?" Xiao Rui, who was named, quickly explained loudly.
Unfortunately, the explanation was useless. The next second, the black panther named Xiao Rui was pressed under the buttocks by several big cats...
Xiao Rui found that her companions in the applied magic team were all hitting her in the face with their butts, so she had to stretch out her claws to Qingyan, a member of the same tribe: "Qingyan, save me~~"
"If I don't save you, you'll die." Qingyan didn't even turn his head and continued to deal with Xia together with Yugu.
“Ahhhhhhhhhh~~~~~”
Xiao Hua simply didn't leave, and squatted beside to watch the fun with a smile, and even shouted to the big cats, "Hey, you have to protect the spellcaster! When there's a fight, you have to protect your own magician first!"
When the big cats who were on good terms with Xiao Rui heard this, they thought it made sense, so they stepped forward to rescue her...
"Why do you only scratch other people's faces? If you scratch my face again, I will use magic too!"
"Use it, idiot! Look, that bad boy Xiao Rui is using it!"
Wind blades, fireballs, indiscriminate lightning chains, and the like exploded immediately...
"I came to save you and you used lightning to shock me!!" This was Qingyan's furious voice.
"Who is it? Who threw the wind blade?" This was Qiu who jumped up and cursed after being cut on the butt.
“Stop attacking your own people!” I don’t know which unlucky guy’s voice came from…
The Snow Wolf Warriors who stayed behind to watch the fun were almost dying of laughter, rolling on the ground holding their stomachs...
By the afternoon, the snow had subsided a little, and Lan Guo, who had served as the tribe's housekeeper while Xiao Yun was away, organized people to deliver food and supplies to the new hilly area.
"Forty tons of wheat, twenty tons of rice, eighty tons of vermicelli, cabbage, radish, pickles, blankets, cloth... Where are the sweet potato leaves? The sweet potato leaves haven't been packed yet?"
In the open space north of the tribe, Lan Guo was counting the sleds loaded with supplies with a notebook, while the Snow Wolf warriors who were preparing to pull the sleds were doing warm-up exercises nearby.
"Here they come, the sweet potato leaves are coming!" Dashui led a group of people and dragged a sled full of sweet potato leaves over. "Wait a little longer for Lan Guo, the rabbit meat hasn't been loaded yet, and the sled over at Niu Jiao isn't ready yet either."
"The two trucks of rabbit meat haven't been loaded yet? What are they doing at the rabbit farm?" Lan Guo said dissatisfiedly.
"We did bring up the raw rabbit, but it takes time to slaughter and skin it." Dashui explained.
Rosemary and Ayun went to the underground world to rescue people. Lan Guo also knew that the rabbit farm was a bit overwhelmed without its leader, so he said to the soldiers: "Go to the human-rabbit farm to help."
Xiaohua looked at her partner A Tian, who stood up and asked half of the soldiers to follow him.
After checking other supplies and making sure there were no problems, Lan Guo tucked the account book under his arm and walked towards Xiao Hua: "There are many new gray dwarves in the new hilly area. I'm afraid Hong Ye won't be able to handle it. You don't have to rush back after you go. Stay there for a few days."
Xiaohua said: "No problem."
Lan Guo thought for a moment and said, "I think it would be better to bring the leader of the Huoyan tribe with him to help Hongye play the good guy role."
Xiaohua didn't respond, but showed a strange expression...
The square and serious face of the Fire Chief is indeed quite deceptive when people don't know him well, but after living together for a long time, his silly and cute aura can no longer be hidden - is it really okay to let the Fire Chief go?
Lan Guo moved closer to Xiao Hua: "The Fire Clan leader won't stay there for long anyway..."
Xiaohua understood and nodded with a smile: "Then I will go and ask the leader of the Fire Clan."
"Xia is quite free these days, so let's take him over too." Lan Guo said again.
Xiaohua made a gesture of understanding, this was the real role of the good guy.
"Actually, Qiu is more suitable... forget it." Lan Guo scratched his head. Xia's idea was, as Ayun said, "an unconventional one, not the right one." But considering that the others were also busy, he could only make do with it.
Out of the corner of his eye he noticed that the sled loaded with sweet potato leaves was not tied properly, so Lan Guo limped over to tie it up again.
A Tian stayed in the tribe to look after the house, while Xiao Hua led more than 40 Snow Wolf warriors, along with Chief Huo Yan and Xia, and pulled a large number of sleds to the new hilly area.
Before winter, the permanent population of the Hilly New District was less than two hundred, but the buildings were well built... After all, it was built with the goal of becoming a new district. Previously, Lan Guo's engineering team had been stationed here for more than half a year, and they had built more than fifty warehouses for storing ore, iron materials, and steel, and more than a hundred houses.
The convoy entered the new area, and Hongye, who had been waiting for a long time, came up to hand over the supplies to Xiaohua. She arranged for people to load the supplies into the warehouse, and Hongye led Xiaohua, Xia, and the chief of the Huoyan tribe to the meeting room in the new area.
In such a cold weather, the gray dwarves Baru, Xiaer, and Elba were sweating all over... Obviously they were very busy; when they saw the leader of the Fire Clan, they greeted him respectfully, and when shaking hands with Xia, Baru held Xia's paw for a long time...
...Obviously, everyone knows who is really here to deal with the matter.
The Fire Chief sat in the middle with a serious face, while the others sat down on both sides and began to discuss the placement of the new gray dwarves.
"The earliest one has been here for ten days, and the latest one has been here for three or four days." Baru wiped his sweat with a towel and grinned, "I haven't had time to work during this period. I've been busy with pest control. Each person needs to take at least three doses of the anthelmintic bought from St. Bridget to get rid of the parasites in their stomachs. Their heads need to be shaved, and less than 10% of the clothes they brought can still be used..."
Baru's nephew, Charles, the first gray dwarf "captured" by Hongye, added: "Many of them wanted to escape, but we didn't dare to distribute clothes to them. We just let them stay in the house to keep warm. By the way, we also have to count the number of blankets in each room every day to prevent them from running back to the underground world wrapped in blankets."
Xia was very surprised: "Our life here is much better than the underground world, why do so many people want to escape?"
The three gray dwarves had subtle expressions and strange smiles but did not speak rudely.
Hongye explained with a smile: "Except for the first village of gray dwarves, they came here on their own and are now following Baru and the others to do things. The other five villages... were all escorted here by Ayun's soldiers."
Xia & Xiaohua: "..."
The Fire Clan leader had a serious look on his face.
Hongye didn't need to worry about the wording. She spread her hands and said, "Ayun didn't have time to slowly persuade these gray dwarves to relocate. After the negotiation failed, he resorted to coercive means. He broke into the villages of these gray dwarves, destroyed their houses, blast furnaces, forging tables, and smelting tools, and then forcibly captured them... Naturally, they would not cooperate too much."
Xia & Xiaohua: "..."
The Fire Clan leader looked unfathomable.
"Well... in this case, if we want these gray dwarves to accept our arrangement, we can't just show kindness." Xia calmed down, "I have a suggestion. Since the snow wolf people have become bad guys, why not continue to be bad guys." He pointed at Hongye and Xiaohua, then at himself, "We are the oppressors." Then he pointed at Baru and others, "You are the rescuers."
"You have already settled them, provided them with food and lodging, and eliminated pests. Next, we will work together to put on a show to highlight the conflict between us and emphasize your reliability as a fellow tribesman..."
Xia revealed all his plans, and the three gray dwarves were stunned. Hongye and Xiaohua were so shocked that their mouths were crooked and their eyes were squinting...
The chief of the Mushroom Village, the old gray dwarf Baker, sat at the innermost part of the kang with his back against the wall, looking panic-stricken, with his left and right hands holding the youngest child in the village.
The houses of the Snow Wolf tribe were very large, and one house could accommodate more than 20 gray dwarves. When allocating houses, Old Baker was worried that the children in the village would be wronged, so he trembled and hoped to arrange all the children with him; fortunately, this small request did not anger the ferocious Snow Wolf people, and the younger children in the village came to him.
As the days passed, Old Baker began to feel confused...
The Cursed Land is even colder than the Western Continent, the former homeland of the Gray Dwarves that Old Baker had heard his grandfather mention. Every time those fellow tribesmen controlled by the Snow Wolf Tribe brought food, the door curtain was opened and the cold wind that rushed into the house would make people shiver all over.
The clothes and bedding were taken away and burned, leaving only a pullover and a pair of thin cotton trousers on Old Baker, and many of the children were naked; the blankets given by the Snow Wolf Tribe were closely watched and could not be hidden. How on earth was he going to lead his people to escape from this terrible devil's den? Old Baker had no idea...
The most important thing is that even if he could escape back, the village would be gone. Every time Old Baker thought of the ruins of the village that he saw for the last time when he was violently pushed away by the snow werewolves, he couldn't help but feel sad.
“Grandpa Village Chief…” The gray dwarf cub in his arms raised his head pitifully, holding his finger in his mouth, “Grandpa Village Chief, I want to eat that…” And pointed with his other hand to the plate on the big stove at the head of the kang.
On a wooden plate was a dish of chopped sweet potatoes coated with potato starch and syrup. Every day, the fellow tribesmen controlled by the Snow Wolf Tribe would deliver such a plate of "snacks" to each room.
"You can't eat it." Old Baker pressed the cub's head into his arms and said softly, "That's a tool used by the Snow Wolf Tribe to lure us into a trap. It looks delicious, but we don't know what's hidden inside... You forgot, little Harry, the yellow candy they gave us a few days ago. After eating it, everyone had a terrible stomachache and had a lot of worms."
"Oh..." Little Harry lowered his head in disappointment.
Old Baker sighed softly and touched little Harry's head with his hand... The bald scalp reminded him of the memory of being forced to have his head shaved. The humiliation at that time was still vivid in his mind, but at this moment, he really didn't have much energy to be angry.
With a creaky sound, the door that was locked from the outside was opened. As the heavy door curtain inside was lifted, the cold wind rushed into the house again.
A snow wolf with a face full of flesh lowered his head and walked into the house. He glanced at the gray dwarf cubs who were huddled in in fear, and his eyes fell on Old Baker: "Village Chief Baker, come out."
Little Harry and another gray dwarf child were so scared that they grabbed the clothes of the village chief. Old Baker patted their backs to comfort them and stood up with a tragic look on his face.
"Take the bed blanket and cover yourself with it." The snow werewolf said coldly.
Old Baker turned around, picked up the blanket, and wrapped it around himself without saying a word.
The shoes were straw sandals woven with rattan and came from the underworld. As soon as he walked out of the door, the whistling cold wind blew the snowflakes on his face. Old Baker felt his hands and feet were cold, and the exposed skin felt like it was cut by a knife.
The snow werewolf took a few steps forward, and seemed to think that old Baker was walking too slowly, so he stretched out his hand... and put old Baker under his arm, and strode forward.
Old Baker pursed his lips tightly. No humiliation, no humiliation! This little torture is nothing!
Being brought into an incredibly large room (actually a conference room), Old Baker had just put his feet to the ground when he looked up, and was met with an even more terrifyingly strong body and an even colder face.
Hongye pointed at the dirty rattan sandals on Old Baker's feet and said, "Take off your shoes."
I took off my shoes and walked into the room. There were two snow wolves and a cat sitting in the extremely spacious room.
The snow werewolf in the middle was drinking water from a cup with a slightly frowned brow and a stern look. Hearing the footsteps of Hongye and Old Baker, he tilted his head slightly and looked over. His eyes were fierce and violent, even more so than the dark elf monitors Old Baker had seen. Just one glance and Old Baker was so scared that he fell to the ground.
The Fire Clan leader put the cup down and frowned even deeper, with a square stepmother...er...stepfather...um...judge's face, so dark that it looked like he was about to sentence someone to death.
Xiaohua, who was sitting on the left of the Fire Clan leader, stared silently at the put-down cup and prepared to get up to get the freshly opened can of fruit - obviously, the freshly prepared cup of sugar water was not sweet enough.
Xia, who was sitting on the right side of the Fire Clan leader, quickly winked at Xiaohua and said, "No, this is exactly the kind of momentum we want!"
Xiaohua understood and sat back quietly.
The aura emanating from the Fire Chief suddenly became even more terrifying... The old gray dwarf, who was carried by Hongye to sit directly opposite, didn't even dare to raise his head, and his shoulders were shaking like nothing.
The five non-violent and non-cooperative gray dwarf village chiefs all arrived, but no one added sugar water to the cup of the Fire Chief...
Hongye sat cross-legged next to Xiaohua. The combined aura of the two Snow Wolf warriors was only a fraction of that of the Fire Chief...
Xia coughed lightly, imitated Harris' smile, and showed a villainous smile: "Village leaders, have you gotten used to the time you have been in our Fire Department?" (Harris in the distance:??)
The five gray dwarf village chiefs raised their heads reluctantly and with difficulty, trying their best to maintain their dignity and endure the fear as they looked at Xia without saying a word.
Xia turned his head and said respectfully: "Chief Huoyan, please drink some water."
Fire Clan Leader: “…”
Reluctantly and with difficulty, he picked up the cup and took a sip while suppressing his anger. The Fire Clan leader's square face became even more tense and his expression became even uglier.
Hongye & Xiaohua looked at Xia expressionlessly and asked, "Did you add something to his cup?"
Xia Villain smiled back and just added some ginger water.
Hongye&Xiaohua: "..."
After the Fire Chief put down his cup again, Xia Cai looked at the Gray Dwarf village chiefs with a smile: "Village chiefs, our Fire Chiefs have gone through great pains to invite you and your tribesmen to be our 'guests'. I'm sure you all know the purpose."
Without waiting for the gray dwarf village chiefs to show their bitter and resentful faces, Xia changed the subject and his face became cold: "Of course, our Fire Tribe has limited supplies and cannot afford to support too many idle people." He stared at the village chiefs for a few seconds, and pulled up a wicked smile, "People who are not needed are naturally not worth wasting food. I believe you can understand."
Old Baker was so angry that he was shaking all over. He shouted firmly, "Didn't you capture us by force? You also destroyed our village!"
Well... this roar is only slightly louder than a mosquito's buzz.
Xia Xie smiled and raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Aren't the weak allowed to be taken at the will of the strong? Have the dark elves ever asked you about your willingness to cooperate? The rules of the underground world, you, the residents of the underground world, need me to explain them to you?"
Old Baker immediately turned off the engine.
Xia looked at Hongye and Xiaohua, and spread his hands towards the gray dwarves: "I told you, these gray dwarves are stubborn because of these ignorant village chiefs. There is really no need to waste words on them."
Hongye cooperated reluctantly: "According to you, what should we do?"
"Just get rid of the disobedient ones and keep the obedient ones. Among so many gray dwarves, there will always be some who can understand human language." Xia Ji replied.
The gray dwarf village chiefs were stunned. Four of them looked at old Baker who had spoken earlier, with grief and anger on their faces... I'm going to be killed by you!
Hongye nodded and looked at the Fire Clan leader expressionlessly: "Clan leader, what do you think?"
The Fire Clan leader had a straight face and gave his standard answer: "That's it."
“No—!”
The five village chiefs had just opened their mouths and had not yet uttered a word when they were startled by a shout from behind them.
He turned around in horror and saw... his fellow tribesmen who were controlled by the Snow Wolf Tribe and had taken care of their food and lodging during this period stumbling in.
Baru, who was possessed by a sense of drama, rushed in with a tragic look on his face, and knelt down with a plop. The sound of his knees hitting the concrete floor made Hongye and Xiaohua's eyelids jump. Xia hid his hands at his sides and secretly gave Baru a thumbs up.
"Chief Fire, please listen to me!" Baru cried out sadly, "The smelting and forging technology of our gray dwarves has been passed down from generation to generation since our ancestors. The older the gray dwarves are, the more sophisticated their skills are. The loss of any older member of the tribe is a destruction of our gray dwarf smelting technology and a harm to the smelting industry in the new hilly area of the Fire Tribe~~"
Xia had a blank expression on his face, and the second half of his lines were wrong about Baru!
Baru paused, and quickly made amends: "Young gray dwarves rely on the elders to teach and teach skills, and the village chiefs are especially proficient in this. Without the village chiefs, young people would not grow up so quickly. Moreover, we are used to being ruled by dark elves when we lived in the underground world. Please give my people some time to let them adapt. They will fulfill the orders of the Fire Department diligently and conscientiously!"
Xia nodded slightly. This was a good remedy and a good temporary solution.
The five gray dwarf village chiefs looked at Baru gratefully...
Xia cooperated with a cold face: "Oh? When your tribe came to our Fire Tribe, there was no village chief, Baru, did you try to deceive the Fire Tribe leader?"
The five gray dwarf village chiefs were once again nervous, and sweat formed on their palms.
"It is precisely because our village chief died of illness during the migration that our smelting technology has not been improved and the alloy steel we smelt is always a little bit inferior." Baru said cleverly, "If we can have the strong assistance of these village chiefs, we will definitely be able to smelt the alloy steel required by the Fire Department."
Xia looked at Hongye and Xiaohua expressionlessly: "What do you think?"
"Maybe Baru didn't lie." Xiaohua said.
Xia nodded first, then shook his head: "Baru didn't lie, but he didn't tell the truth either. Of the six gray dwarf village chiefs our Fire Department obtained this time, only one obedient one will be enough. There is no need to keep the other five, it would be a waste of food."
The gray dwarf village chiefs stared at Xia angrily, you are a bad guy who is more evil than the dark elves~~! !
It was time for Baru to show off again. Baru knelt down a few steps and lay down in front of the Fire Chief. He said sincerely, "Fire Chief, we can save some of our tribe's food and give it to these village chiefs. They don't have to consume the Fire Chief's supplies before they adapt to the new hilly area. Is that okay? We will definitely try our best to persuade them!"
The Fire Clan leader hesitated for a moment, then gave his standard answer again: "Let's do it this way."
Baru turned around with a look of surprise and looked at his fellow tribesmen. He opened his arms and the five gray dwarf village chiefs who had "escaped" came forward to hug him excitedly...
Xia showed an unhappy expression and muttered for everyone to hear: "The Fire Clan leader is too kind."
The gray dwarf village chiefs glared at Xia hatefully and secretly.
Hongye and Xiaohua turned away silently, unable to bear to watch.
Xiao Yun led a large army of warriors and escorted more than sixty fresh goblins out of the exit of the underground world, happily sending them to the hilly new area. The snow wolves from the hilly new area who were waiting near the exit came up to meet them and reported on the resettlement of the gray dwarves in the hilly new area.
"Hahaha, this is a good idea. Xia really has some ideas." Xiao Yun laughed.
Yu, Rosemary, and the Goblin Baron: "..."
Rosemary turned around and whispered to Baron: "Look, the more evil a person is, the more Ayun likes him. Ayun is not a good person."
"I can hear it!" Xiao Yun turned around and shouted.
