Chapter Forty-Seven: The Jungle Eats the Jungle (Recommendation Vote Plus 2)
The number of apprentices in the fairy tale circus is huge, which is very unreasonable, the general circus will only retain the same number of apprentices as the senior members as the future backbone of the circus, but the apprentices of the fairy tale have a huge scale of nearly fifty people, and the number is not fixed, there will often be new blood like Goron to replenish it, and some people will die suddenly. The training camp is also managed more like training an army.
Each fairy tale apprentice has his or her own number, and from "one" onwards, there are as many numbers as there are. The number is not fixed, and the apprentice with the lower number can challenge the apprentice with the higher number, and the two sides will swap numbers after the challenge is successful. Or maybe the apprentice at the top of the row dies, and everyone at the back of the row can be promoted up one level.
It is worth mentioning that the apprentice with the high number can suppress or even order the apprentice with the low number, and the greater the numerical gap between the two, the greater the power authority, and the "first" can even directly order the "tail number" to commit suicide.
By all accounts, this is simply abnormal.
As the last newcomer to join, Goron was honored to receive his own number, "47", or ...... "tail number".
Although it is said that it is the apprentice of the circus, but this morning everyone is basically spent in heavy work, as said before, at this time the fairy tale circus is in short supply, especially the lack of labor at the bottom, a huge circus, like a castle-like main tent and dozens of large and small tents need someone to disassemble the bracket, fold and put away.
All kinds of wild beasts, which were even more numerous than people, had to be fed and cared for, and all kinds of large-scale acrobatic equipment had to be cleaned up, and nearly a hundred servants and temporary handymen were originally in charge of these tasks, but they all ran and died, but now they could only be completed by these apprentices. Goron even suspects that the dark forces in Tideport are planning to delay the Fairy Tale evacuation through this method.
As for the official members of the fairy tale, except for when they perform, they usually don't know where they are hiding.
Goron was assigned the task of disposing of the corpses, the large pile that had been placed in front of them in the morning, and he had to thoroughly examine the belongings of each person, sort out the relics of the deceased, pick out the useful things, record the cause of death of each person, and then burn all the corpses.
I'm afraid no one wants to deal with a bunch of corpses except for necromancers, not to mention that many corpses are miserable and hideous, and many people believe that staying with corpses for a long time will be cursed by resentful spirits, and will transform into undead creatures after death, and this has indeed been confirmed by some magisters' research that high concentration of death energy is the main reason for the formation of natural necromancers. So cleaning up a body has always been a job that no one wants to take on, no matter where it is.
As a slender newcomer, it was no surprise that Goron was thrown into this chore. Watching the other apprentices leave either with sympathy or with a gloating expression, Goron himself didn't care, now that there was no one around, he skillfully tore a corner from his clothes, dipped it in a nearby drinking place and wrapped it in his face, ruling the Black Hand Ogre Kitchen, and the corpses in front of him were not even a fraction of the amount of work he had to deal with every day.
Goron's work was very meticulous and conscientious, he carefully investigated each of the deceased, stripped them all naked, recorded their gender, race, physical characteristics, cause of death, the location of fatal wounds and other information with straw paper, and then gathered the equipment on the deceased's body, made a detailed record, and finally dug a shallow pit, piled firewood, and burned all the corpses and their clothes in one fire.
In the world of magic, death does not mean the end, and an experienced high-level necromancer can easily obtain more and more accurate information from a corpse than if the person was alive. So the disposal of corpses is necessary, and when there is no priest, flames are often a good choice.
In any case, these tasks were too simple for Golon, he had done what would have required three people to do the work for a whole day, and it was not even afternoon, but the pig-noodle instructor also strictly followed the rules he had set, and because he was late in the morning, Goron had not eaten for the whole day.
Although he wears a human skin, Goron is still an ogre in his bones, and for an ogre, although the stomach is very easy to get hungry, it is not difficult to find something to satisfy the stomach, after all, the ogre's recipes are extremely extensive.
But Goron didn't do this, he silently endured unbearable hunger, and after his work was over, Goron didn't wander around, but stayed quietly, not because he didn't want to look for clues about his family, but because Goron knew that during the initial time, there was probably a pair of eyes that were hiding in the dark and secretly watching him. During this time, he actually had a lot to do, such as studying the few gadgets on his body that he thought would be useless.
The day passed quickly, and as it was nearly dusk, when one of the apprentices came running to inform Goron to assemble, the little ogre, who was already hungry with Venus, got up with great difficulty and followed him to the meeting place.
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"Today's task was not ideal. Only 70 percent of the scheduled plans were reached. So I'm glad to tell you that everyone's share of dinner will be halved tonight, and then, when I'm done checking on the completion of my personal tasks, all the unqualified ones will be rewarded with a few lashes. ”
Harley Quinn rubbed her whip in her hand, her scarlet tongue licking her lips, and uttering words that would make all the children tremble: "Do you slackers, do you really think that you can stay in fairy tales by learning to somersaults and throwing knives?" ”
Harley Quinn looked at Goron, who lowered her head, and suddenly giggled: "You may not know yet, our fairy tale apprenticeship camp may not be the same as other circuses, everyone here is an orphan we picked up, or a slave we bought, and everyone here is a scum who is dead and no one cares about it, of course, including you." I can tell you very responsibly, no, it's all of you here, the guys who can survive in the end, and then become the official members of the fairy tale, at most only one percent of the total number of people standing here, and maybe even only one or two people, as for what will happen to those who are not qualified, I won't say more, anyway, everyone understands. So, you know, remember, that everyone around you is your potential rival, an enemy who has the potential to rob you of your right to exist. And what you have to do after that is to suppress everyone around you, defeat them, and ravage them, by any means, the only premise is to follow the rules of the game. Because only those who can stand at the end can live proudly. The last few words are indeed just my personal opinion, you can choose to listen to it, or you can choose not to listen, I will not punish you for this matter, but as your predecessors in the previous session, I can stand here alive, and I think my opinion is still very valuable for reference. ”
Before, even in countless stories, Goron had never heard such explicit admonitions encouraging apprentices to kill each other and suppress their opponents, which was like training a new circus acrobat, which was simply trying to train a unique metamorphosis in the most brutal and bloody way.
But
Isn't that exactly what Goron was hoping for?
Strength!
Power in its purest form!
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