Volume 8: The Sword Points to the Far East Chapter 248 Sympathy for One's Kind
Hall tribe.
Elder Saladin with black hair and red eyes and Patriarch Hall with yellow hair, yellow skin and black eyes sat cross-legged facing each other, and they had been exchanging eye contact for more than half an hour.
Saladin's wife Jean opened the canned fruit sent by the Snow Wolf Man, poured out the juice, added hot water, filled two large cups, and placed them on the low table in front of the two of them.
Patriarch Hall and Elder Saladin each picked up a glass of juice and drank it in one gulp.
"That's not how you drink juice... forget it." Qin put the plate with canned fruit pulp on the table and took away the cup.
The glass bottles for canned fruit are also good utensils for the minotaurs. Qin used hot water to soak out the remaining sweetness in the cans, filled a cup for herself, put the cans in the cabinet, sat at the table with the cup in her hand, and began to eat the fruit with the sweet hot water.
Patriarch Hall and Elder Saladin continued to stare at each other in silence.
After a long while, Qin couldn't help but speak out: "If the Snow Wolf People are doing the right thing, then why should we mind whether they have changed other people's living habits? Besides, habits are not necessarily good things."
Patriarch Hall and Elder Saladin turned their heads to look at her at the same time.
Qin spread her hands and said, "Isn't it true that if everyone's habits are indulged, life will be unbearable, right?" Looking at Saladin, "You also said that dozens of cat cubs were born in the Fire Tribe this year. If the cats have such a hard time after their habits are changed, how can their females be willing to go into heat and give birth?"
Saladin looked hesitant and nodded reluctantly.
Qin was satisfied with her husband's support and looked at Chief Hall: "Do you remember what happened seven or eight years ago when Snow Leopard Arthur came to us to ask for food? Snow Leopard Arthur gave his clothes to the tribe members and ran naked. He couldn't even carry 800 kilograms of food and could only carry 500 kilograms. Look at her spirit now, and think about the situation of Snow Leopard Arthur's tribe before. Shouldn't we support the transformation of the cat tribe?"
At the beginning, as soon as the Snow Wolves hooked up with the Arthur tribe, Chief Arthur abandoned the dignity of the big cats and dragged his people to seek refuge... A big reason for this was that life in Arthur tribe was indeed very difficult.
Patriarch Hall thought about it and nodded.
Qin smiled and said, "So, I really don't understand what you are struggling with. The Fire Tribe doesn't treat all cat tribe leaders badly or distrust them. Is Chief Arthur's status lower than that of a snow wolf leader? Since they have their own ideas and have chosen their own path, and they are indeed much better than before, why shouldn't we support them?"
Elder Saladin stared at Qin with a frown.
"There are many humans in the Fire Tribe, and they are too close to humans?" Qin Yi "heard" and laughed even louder, "Saladin, are the Snow Wolf people so easily bewitched by humans? If I remember correctly, we Tauren couldn't convince the Snow Wolf people before."
Elder Saladin looked embarrassed, he had overlooked this point... The Snow Wolf Tribe was also known as "barbarians" among the Orcs. Even in the era before the Beast King, the only one who could make the Snow Wolf Tribe obedient was the Tiger Tribe.
Chief Hall blinked and spoke for the first time, his words were extremely concise: "The Snow Wolf Tribe is different from the Tiger Tribe."
Elder Saladin was silent for a long time and nodded slowly.
Chief Hall was right. The Snow Wolf Tribe had indeed never used violence to force other tribes, which also proved their firm attitude of never interfering in the internal affairs of other tribes.
However, Elder Saladin simply could not accept the conclusion that the Snow Wolf Tribe was "kind and harmless". After staying in the Fire Tribe for half a month, he could not help but think of the seemingly gentle and innocent face of a Snow Wolf cub!
Elder Saladin was very confused and asked, "How did Ayun become like this?"
When he first saw Ayun, the skinny little cub following behind the Fire Chief was definitely not like this!
Patriarch Hall seemed to have thought of something, with a gleam in his eyes.
Qin put down the cup and said with some emotion: "Perhaps it is just as the tribe leader said, the Snow Wolf tribe that lost its heritage received compensation gifts from the gods they believed in... Just like our ancestors of the Tauren did not participate in the racial war and did not receive the heritage from the gods, but we also received the blessing of the Mother Earth."
Elder Saladin was silent for a moment and nodded solemnly.
If considered from this perspective, Elder Saladin could barely accept the "mutation" of the cub Ayun - unlike other races, the minotaurs who had inheritance had received many gifts from the Mother Earth; their cubs were born with strong physiques, they were never troubled by illness, their lives were stable and peaceful, and they were treated in a friendly manner by most races.
...If Xiao Yun knew that the Tauren used religious thinking to explain the changes in the Snow Wolf Tribe, I wonder what this materialist would think...
Qin was very happy that her husband and Chief Hall accepted her idea, so she stood up and opened another can for them.
Well... she spoke for the Snow Wolf Tribe, definitely not because the Snow Wolf warriors often sent supplies to her, allowing her to use delicious seasonings to cook simple food quite deliciously, and it was definitely not because the entire cabinet was filled with canned food, white sugar, soybean powder, fruit hard candies, and honey biscuits!
The Snow Wolf Tribe of the Fire Tribe, which has greatly enriched the kitchen supplies and snack reserves of the Tauren housewives, must surely receive the firm support of the Tauren women!
Chief Hall once again gulped down the sweet hot water juice, put down the cup, and said in a deep voice: "I'm going to the Harold tribe."
"I'll go too," said Elder Saladin.
Since they have decided to support the Fire Tribe, the Minotaur's support will naturally be more than just verbal lip service... Next year will be the time for the Frank Feast, and by then , the Minotaur who are qualified to attend and have a certain say will definitely express their support to the Snow Wolf Tribe.
At this time, Xiao Yun had no idea of the extent of sincerity that these true saints of the Minotaur would show. He was pulling his uncle Ashan, the only blood relative left in the world, to stand on the deck, pointing at the knight leader who appeared in his sight and introducing him to his uncle.
"That building with a pointy top is the Robbins Theater. Our Fire Department paid for its construction. With the current revenue flow, it will pay for itself in another year."
"Those small box-like houses are warehouses. They are filled with the goods of our Fire Department. Once the courier team of Sayre ships them out, it will be money."
"The dock here in Isaac is a little small, but it's enough for our own ships anyway..."
Uncle Ashan scratched the guardrail with his claws, and looked intently at the human territory he saw for the first time, as if there was an invisible tail swinging behind him.
"Ayun, can I go to the theater?"
"What's so good about it? Haven't you heard all the stories?" Xiao Yun said deliberately, "It takes at least three hours to watch a show. It's so boring."
"I want to go and see. Didn't you say you would listen to me?" Ashan said nervously.
"Hey, there's really no need to go and see it, it's very boring. It's better to go shopping and buy whatever you want. The things sold by the human race are actually quite good—"
When I become rich, I will take my family on a trip or something... ahem.
Xiao Yun is not just taking his family on an ordinary trip. The ship he is on and the knight's territory he is about to arrive at are all his own properties. It's very impressive!
Mr. Sean walked out of the cabin and came over with a look of disdain: "Don't tease him. Did you bring Ah Shan out to play or to entertain you?"
"I'm just worried that Uncle Ashan will get bored sitting in the theater for too long. He can't leave in the middle of the show. If he disturbs others watching the show, he will be scolded by the audience!" Xiao Yun deliberately threatened.
"I can only sit still for three hours!" Ashan said dissatisfiedly.
"When you sleep, your snoring is louder than a bull's horn..."
“Everyone said no!!”
The human sailors working on the deck chuckled quietly. If they hadn't lived on the ship together for almost ten days, they wouldn't have understood who was the elder between the relatively smaller Snow Wolf uncle and nephew.
Let the human seaman take the angry Ashan to eat some snacks. Xiao Yun leaned against the railing and winked at Xiao En: "They say that if you see through something, don't say it out loud. Don't always do the opposite because of your age. Now even Niu Jiao has become shrewd, only Uncle Ashan can be teased casually. How precious he is."
"So you still don't understand why Ruhua wants to come out so badly and doesn't want to come out with you?" Mr. Sean also leaned against the railing with an amused look on his face.
"It's not fun anymore when the children grow up." Xiao Yun sighed.
“…”
Mr. Sean rolled his eyes, turned his body, put his hands on the railing, and looked at Isaac's knight's territory from afar: "This wasteland has become so prosperous in just a few years. It's completely unrecognizable from the past."
"The world is always changing." Xiao Yun agreed casually, paused, and suddenly said, "Mr. Sean, you don't have much time left."
Sean turned his head and looked at Xiao Yun who had a calm expression.
"I can't hide it from you." Mr. Sean actually laughed.
"In the past few years since you came to the grassland, you have never suggested going somewhere else. Now you suddenly say you want to go back to Kroning's hometown to take a look. It's really hard for me not to think too much." A crack appeared on Xiao Yun's calm expression. He was actually hoping that he was wrong.
"Are you worried that no one can take over my job?" Mr. Sean said with a smile, "Don't worry about that. Adrian's apprentice is quite interested in mechanical power. Even if you ask him to find his teacher now, he won't be willing to leave."
Xiao Yun shook his head, seeming to be a little hesitant, but still spoke: "Mr. Sean, you should become a lich."
"... It sounds like something a devil cub like you would say..." Mr. Sean's face twitched, and he stared with dead fish eyes, "Not all spellcasters can extend their lives by turning into liches. If it were that simple, the world would have been full of immortal old monsters. Melville was able to successfully turn into a lich because he was the strongest black magician at the time, and he had to open a space gate to the demon world to succeed in the transformation - I'm not even a black magician, how can you expect me to turn into a lich."
Xiao Yun sighed heavily: "If I had known earlier, I would have advised you to study black magic a few years ago."
"Don't make it sound as easy as eating and drinking!" Mr. Sean shouted.
"Then how about trying to upgrade to the fourth level?"
"——Do you really think that a fourth-level spellcaster is just a cabbage?!"
"Mr. Sean, are you willing to close your eyes before you see any fundamental changes in Kronin? I haven't even made any effort to deal with Lamia." Xiao Yun said regretfully.
Ever since Xiao Yun accepted the prince of Saint Bridge as his disciple and the Snow Wolf tribe sold soy sauce to the forest elves, Xiao Yun has been digging the foundation of Lamia.
After so many years of secret operations, Lamia's business in the North Continent, the South Continent, and even the West Continent has been greatly affected; although the foundation of Lamia has not been shaken: the Far East trade route and the distant sea route to the neighboring Bradrick Continent, the shrinkage of Lamia's assets has become inevitable.
Judging from the intelligence gathered by Bolton and Valentine, Lamia's peripheral industries have shown signs of fatigue - the sugar beet cultivation industry has been impacted by Saint Bridge's white sugar, and the Western Continent and the Northern Continent are no longer dependent on Lamia's spices. It would be strange if a number of them did not go bankrupt.
If the six southern countries had not been rebelling against Lamia from within the human kingdom, Lamia would have sent people to the grassland without caring about anything... The Northern Continent is fine, but the spice industry in the Western Continent has been devastated by soy sauce and sauces. Xiao Yun also colluded with the Viscount of the Pope family and crazily exported sauces to Kronin and other federal countries in the past two years. The hatred is huge!
If the Fire Tribe was located in the southern continent instead of the cursed land with a "reliable" neighbor, Xiao Yun would have died without a trace left...
Xiao Yun himself was also very smart. Whenever he went out, he would always bring a lot of Snow Wolves with him. If he encountered an ambush, he could just run away...
Mr. Sean's smile was filled with a hint of regret, and he said softly, "There are always gains and losses in life, Ayun. Whether it's a mortal or a god, the only way to deal with it is to accept it calmly."
"Even gods cannot avoid dusk, let alone us insignificant beings."
Xiao Yun said nothing.
Perhaps sensing Xiao Yun's rare low mood, or perhaps because he really didn't have much time left, this legendary illusionist who was still quite temperamental even in his old age finally revealed his less open-minded side: "Of course I also want to see that day. I don't expect Kronin to change much, but at least it can be like Bolton County or Isaac's Knight County, where ordinary people can at least guarantee food and clothing by working hard, have food for the night before, and wear warm clothes when they go out..."
Sean, who was born in Cronin, naturally has deep feelings for this federal country.
When he jumped out of the narrow sky that ordinary people could see and became a recognized legendary illusionist, he did not abandon his hometown. When the current King Kronin shouted the slogan of reform in his youth, Sean immediately dropped the giant book he was studying and rushed to the capital with great enthusiasm, willing to be the pioneer for the king.
Unfortunately, King Cronin's passion for reform was not as long-lasting and thorough as Sean expected. After Lamia transferred some benefits and recognized King Cronin's authority, King Cronin was satisfied and stopped, only creating the port city of Valentine as a "deterrent" to Lamia... This was really ridiculous, and made Sean feel sad for being in it.
Mr. Sean's thoughts drifted to the depths of his distant memories. He found it somewhat amusing that the things he thought he had forgotten were actually still in his mind, such as the young King Kronen, who was full of vigor and vitality and made people admire him, and old Philip, who indulged in the beautiful fantasy of reform all his life and only let go before he died, considering future generations...
Mr. Sean turned his head away and looked up at the clear sky. With his back to Xiao Yun, he sighed, "I don't blame myself for having such a short life span. I just feel a little regretful... you showed up too late."
Xiao Yun closed his eyes.
As a visitor to the Earth and a new Chinese born in China after the Four Olds were destroyed, he has limited superstition about gods.
As a snow werewolf rejected by magic, his superstition about magic is also limited.
But at this moment, Xiao Yun couldn't help but pray. Whether it was the gods or magic, if there was something that could help Mr. prolong his life, even if it was just for a few years, then...!!
Sean, who is occasionally a bit sharp-tongued and looks like a shrewd young man, is indeed a wise, open-minded and amiable old man. After getting along with him for a few years, Xiao Yun is not without feelings for him.
How could he not feel sad when he lost a comrade in the same trench, a comrade with similar ideals and beliefs...and how could he accept it!
"Yes, it's my fault. I wish I had come earlier." Xiao Yun exhaled lightly and smiled reluctantly, "If I had come ten years earlier, the mother of this body wouldn't have died so easily..."
Sean, who didn't want Xiao Yun to find out that he was sad, turned around in surprise.
Xiao Yun shrugged. "I am not the original snow wolf cub 'Ayun', nor am I a snow wolf. I come from another world, a world without magic, where only humans are intelligent. My hometown has no gods, no magic, and none of my fellow humans have extraordinary powers. All of them are as weak as Thrall."
"When there are signs of natural storms in this world, you spellcasters in the ivory tower will rush over with joy and happily absorb the abundant wind elements in the atmosphere. Even the sea people can't stand you. But on the earth where I live, storms and tsunamis caused by storms will cause terrible disasters with countless deaths and injuries."
"When there are crustal movements in this world, or signs of earthquakes, you Ivory Tower spellcasters will happily rush to the junction of continental plates, find those erupting underground volcanoes, and happily collect the heat energy from the underground volcanoes... On Earth, this is also completely unimaginable. Whenever an earthquake occurs, everyone's heart is in tatters."
Mr. Sean was shocked and stuttered: "Didn't you say before that you had only been to the Kingdom of the Goddess of Knowledge?!"
Xiao Yun couldn't help but smile: "How is that possible? I was just worried that others would think I was a monster, so I made up a lie to fool them. Let alone gods or the kingdom of gods, if there was someone who could use magic, the whole world would be shocked, right? What about the Lich King or goddess? They are okay in games, but how could they exist in reality!"
Mr. Sean: “…”
Mr. Sean was too careless to be sad. He twitched his lips and said, "So that means you really haven't seen Melville or the Lich King?"
"The Lich King in our place is called Ah Sha Zi, and it takes twenty-five weaklings to defeat him!" Xiao Yun said firmly.
Mr. Sean: “???”
"Anyway, I'm a human from another world, and my soul entered this body for some reason." Xiao Yun said with emotion, "I went from being a good modern person to a raw-eating orc. At the time, I felt like I was raped by the three idiots on the sled. It was so fucking... But after accepting the reality, I found that the Snow Wolf Clan was okay. At least they only cared about whether they could live a good life. No one wanted to kill me, an alien."
Xiao Yun raised his hand and pointed at the land that was getting closer and closer: "If I had gone to the human world, then with the abnormality I showed, I should have been dead, right?"
Mr. Sean subconsciously wanted to refute, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't find the words for a while.
Hmm... If Xiao Yun, with his unique style of doing things, his innate knowledge, and his disrespect for the royal authority and divine authority, really appeared in the human kingdom, the grass on his grave would be taller than him by now...
"But..." Xiao Yun changed the subject and looked at Sean earnestly, "Although I have become a Snow Wolf and must sit on the side of the Snow Wolf, my soul is still a human after all. I do care whether the human race in this world is living well and is decent. This is not just a nice talk to achieve a goal, but the simplest and purest 'sympathy for one's own kind'."
"I advised Carlisle to change and treat the people of St. Bridge well, because I used to be an ordinary person in the human country. I advised Laura to crack down on human trafficking in Bolton Territory because I sympathize with those women and children who are treated as commodities and objects. On Earth, I also have a human mother and sister. We recruited human workers from Valentine because I hope that the lower-class humans we can contact can live a better life, at least they can get equivalent compensation for their labor."
Mr. Sean was so excited that he couldn't utter a word. He subconsciously took two steps forward and grabbed Xiao Yun's hand tightly.
"I am willing to help the descendants of 'J' because I think the rules of the human world are really rotten. I hope they can become the hope of the human world. Even if they can only be a little better than the current royal nobles, it will also make the entire human world develop in a better direction."
Xiao Yun did not despise the old man for holding his hand. He said earnestly with the greatest sincerity in his life, "Now that I have become a Snow Wolf, I will do my best to improve the living environment of the Snow Wolf Tribe. This is my natural responsibility since I came to this world and borrowed the body and life of 'Snow Wolf Tribe Ayun'."
"But my soul comes from the human race after all, and it is my duty to contribute to the human race."
"We all know that turning the tide of a group's fate cannot be achieved by relying on just one or two heroes. Instead, it requires the joint efforts of many people, who must speak out and mobilize and organize countless people to work in the same direction. The masses are indispensable, and so are the leading heroes."
"But heroes who are able to wake up first, who have a spirit of dedication and a sense of responsibility towards the entire tribe, are so rare."
"Mr. Sean, you are one of the heroes of the human race. In this important period before the human world is turned upside down, if even you abandon the human race and walk away, to whom are you going to hand over the responsibilities that belong to you?"
"Even if you are just a zombie, a summoned creature of a black magician, or even an undead creature, you must stay in this material plane and take responsibility for the future of the human race. Do you dare to have such determination, Mr. Sean?!"
Mr. Sean blurted out, "Yes!" without even thinking.
The legendary illusionist, with his blood boiling, had a red face, was filled with passion, and gnashed his teeth as he said, "You are right. Compared to the fate of the entire human race and the future of the human race, why should I care...what form my life exists in!"
