It’s the same old story, Lu Weixian thought disdainfully. Is this buying slaves? It’s more like recruiting soldiers. The Yuri siblings felt a little amused. I gave a half-hour long lecture, gesticulating and pointing, until the three people next to me were about to faint. Only then did I stop, but I still made a concluding speech: “In short, as long as you follow me, you will have whatever you want in the future. Of course, if you don’t want to work for me, that’s fine, but don’t even think about running away. Deserters never have a good end. Besides, if you do run away, you’ll just get caught again by the traffickers. Okay, now that I’ve finished lecturing you, let’s go for a walk.“
At that moment, the fat man leaned over to me and asked mysteriously, ‘There’s one more good catch. Do you want it?’
”What kind of catch?“
”This is an adult, incredibly strong. He can work for you non-stop for a whole minute.”
I need someone with this kind of strength. “Bring him up here, I want to see him.”
The person came up, but in a cage. When the Yuri siblings saw the person in the cage, their expressions changed. It was a demihuman, a lion man. The lion man roared in the cage, clutching the cage bars tightly. The bars were made of some kind of refined iron and blessed with Daoist methods, so the lion man’s powerful pulling did not move them at all.
“How much?“
”Forty silver coins!“
”You’re joking. Forty silver coins can buy you a dozen strong young men. Ten silver coins.“
”This is a lion man. One is worth ten. Thirty silver coins.“
”Ridiculous. This guy is so strong, I have to worry about him escaping and guard against him hurting me. This will cost me a lot of money and effort. Twenty silver coins.”
“No negotiation, 27.“
”No, that’s too much, 22.”
…
In the end, we settled on 24 silver coins. I took the key from the boss and handed it to Yuri, ‘Yuriko, open the cage.’
The boss, who was counting the silver coins nearby, was shocked. ‘No, you can’t let him out. This guy is too powerful. If you let him out, he’ll kill someone.’
I gave him a look and said, ”This is mine, not yours. I said open it, so open it.”
The boss fled in a panic, and even the rest of the people ran away. We were the only four people left here, along with the slave we just bought and the lion man.
Looking at the open metal door, the lion man obviously hesitated a bit.
“Come on out, don’t you want to stay in the cage,” I greeted him.
The lion stepped out of the cage and stood in the sunlight. He looked around, then looked up and roared, his roar shaking the heavens and terrifying everyone. As soon as the roar died down, the lion’s terrifying gaze swept over me.
Suddenly, the figure of the lion man swayed, and he delivered a simple kick to my legs. Yuri, who was standing next to me, raised his left hand and a cross-cut was aimed at the lion’s foot. With a “bang,” the energy collided, the lion’s foot retracted, and he suddenly stood still in place, growling, “Demons, do you want to betray the eternal covenant?”
“You can touch anyone, but not this person.”
“Why do you goblins have to protect someone?“
”He bears the hope of the future of our goblin clan.“
”I don’t understand,“ the orc’s eyes were full of confusion.
”I don’t understand either, but this is what our queen said.“
”In that case, forget it, I’m leaving.“
”Where can an orc go? As soon as you step out of this door, you will be caught again,” I said quickly.
The lion man hesitated.
“Young master, please do something, let him go,“ Yuli looked at me.
”Where do you live?” I had to agree to Yuli’s request, she was a beauty after all.
“In the depths of Changbai Mountain in the northeast.” The words had a bitter taste that made people feel sad. During the Third Territorial War, the orcs were completely defeated and driven by the humans into the deep mountains and deserts. The living environment was extremely difficult and survival was extremely difficult. Except for a few tribes that were more adapted to the environment, the population of the remaining tribes continued to decline.
“It’s so far away. How about this: You follow me for now, and I’ll see what I can do to find a reliable person to take you there. What do you say?“ I can’t let him just run away. I need someone like him.
”Okay,” the orc agreed readily. ”My name is Baku. Nice to meet you all.”
“My name is Qiulei, his name is Yuri, her name is Yuli, his name is Lu Weixian, and I don’t know the names of the rest of them yet. We’ll find out when we get to know each other better. But we still have a long way to go, so let’s go now.”
After saying this, I led the group out of the way. Before leaving, the lion man glared viciously at the fat man, who was scared and shrunk. After walking far away, Yuri and the lion man said almost at the same time, “That fat man is a master.” The two of them were stunned, looked at each other, and suddenly burst out laughing.
Eternal Covenant: The covenant made between the Goblin Clan and the Orc Clan, in which the two clans formed a permanent alliance to fight against the Human Clan together. It was reached during the Second Territory War.
Territorial War: A war between the races for control of the land. In the First Territorial War 5,000 years ago, the Human and God races gained control of the continent and brutally oppressed the remaining races. 500 years later, the Demon race united with the Goblin, Orc, Dwarf, Angel, and Winged races to the second territorial war completely defeated the combined forces of the human and god races and regained control of the continent. 2,500 years later, the demon race’s rule was extremely corrupt and tyrannical, and the remaining races united to overthrow the demon race’s rule and drove the demons back to the demon realm. After the demons were driven back to the demon realm, the third territorial war broke out. The human race united with the angel race to declare war on the goblin race, the half-orc race, and the winged race. The other races declared neutrality. As a result, the goblin race, the half-orc race, and the winged race were defeated and driven into the dense forests, deep mountains, and deserts.
I took the group to a farm on the outskirts of the capital city. The farm was located on the mountainside of Zhenlong Mountain in a very quiet environment. “This is where you will live and learn in the future,” I pointed at the farmhouse and said to the children and teenagers I had bought, “This is where you will live and learn your skills in the future.” The farmhouse was not very big, with only about ten households. I directed everyone to enter one of the houses and said, “You can rest for a while, and then eat later.” When I left the city, I had bought a lot of food, and each of them was holding something to eat in their hands. However, I also bought more than twenty axes. I instructed the three people who had just been bought to cook to go make dinner, while I dashed into the inner room, of course, followed by the three people behind me.
“Grandpa Qin,“ I jumped into the arms of an old man.
”Alas, Xiao Lei, why are you here to see Grandpa again, you just came a few days ago.“
”I miss you, of course I came to see you,“ I said sweetly.
”Really, then are the people outside here to see me too?“ Grandpa Qin’s eyes were full of laughter.
”I’m afraid you’re lonely, so I brought them here to keep you company,”
“My Ray is really understanding,“ said Grandpa Qin, kissing my little face.
”Grandpa Qin, can I stay with you for a few days!“ I snuggled into Grandpa Qin’s arms and pouted at him.
”Sure, it’s fine to stay here for a few days, but I’m afraid your mother will worry.“
”No, she doesn’t worry every time I’m here with you. Just say hello to her, and she’ll agree, right, Grandpa Qin?” I flashed a smile of innocence.
“You little imp, you’re always causing trouble. All right, I’ll talk to the Empress.”
This Grandpa Qin, whose name was Qin Tianquan, was a eunuch who served the late emperor (my grandfather) and possessed unfathomable supernatural powers. There were also four other eunuchs in the same village, all of whom also served the late emperor. According to my father, these five people were rare in their cultivation, and the rest of the people in the village were the nephews and descendants of these five people. Everyone had learned some martial arts, and there were quite a few masters among them. Therefore, my parents were not worried every time I spent the night here.
After waiting for a while for dinner, Grandpa Qin called the other four grandpas over. They didn’t look surprised when they saw the orc. The five of them were all old and wise, and even if they were surprised, no one would be able to tell. During dinner, everyone else ate quietly except for me, who was lively and grabbed food from everywhere. But that orc can really eat, he even ate more than me, ten times as much as me (in fact, everyone I bought for ate more than me). No wonder it’s hard for orcs to survive, can they survive eating like that? I guess this is an important reason for the decrease in orcs, but fortunately, he didn’t eat much vegetables.