Chapter 17: Between the Wolves

The daytime in the city is always full of enthusiasm and joy.

Whether it's the entertainers performing at street intersections, the hawkers carrying their burdens to the streets, or the artisans sitting at their workbenches on the streets, all of them have a vibrant atmosphere.

This is the opposite of the slums' smell of decay and decay – they are in the same city, but they seem to be separated by a world.

"Is it because of these that human beings live a colorful life?"

Before Grey Lu knew it, she had walked three streets with the gradually gathering crowd. When the sound of clanging metal clashing came from nearby, the air filled with the smell of fire and iron was brought to the nose by the morning breeze.

It's a long street dedicated to mercenaries.

"Miss Mercenary, the best cowhide shield, good quality and low price, let's take a look. ”

"Miss Mercenary, our store is on sale, let's pick up a weapon!"

"Hey, beautiful mercenary lady, your equipment looks like it's stained from the battle, come and get it in our armor shop so they can better reflect your heroism. ”

Walking in the streets with shouts and irons, passing by all kinds of mercenaries, the human wolf girl who came here for the first time could not suppress the excitement in her heart. Eventually, she walked to an armament shop with a sword, helmet, and hammer logo painted on the signboard.

"Welcome. ”

Greeted by the cute Lori Kanban lady at the door of the store, Gray Lu walked into the store and glanced at the neat equipment that was placed as if it was being reviewed. This shop, which is dominated by silver gray, is very fond of the toothed wolf - the human wolf is not a werewolf, and he is neither afraid of silverware nor hated silver.

It was early in the morning, and there were not many customers in the shop, except for a mercenary who looked like an archer carefully selecting the shelves of armor in front of the shelves, lest something go wrong.

"Miss looks pretty fresh, it's the first time I've come to the shop. Want to buy something?"

When a clerk wearing a leather apron and smelling of fire coals walked out from behind the side shelves with several sledgehammer tomahawks, Gray Lu was taken aback - the other party was a tiger man.

"I'd like to see if there's a claw-taking weapon...... I would venture to ask, you are an orc from the South Screaming Plains, right?"

Under the gaze of Gray Dew, the tiger man put the bundle of weapons, which combined with three hundred pounds, on an empty shelf, and wiped the sweat from the tip of his nose with the towel around his neck with his free hand. Unlike Gray Dew, this tiger man resembles a tiger that has been liberated from its forelimbs and stands up, rather than a human with a beastly body.

"Miss Wolf has good eyesight, I'm from Nanxiaoyuan, but don't look at me like this, I can only be regarded as a subhuman. ”

"Can't you also make a contract with the beast spirit?"

Raising his broad and powerful left palm, the tiger man looked at the severely degraded claws and shook his head, "As you said, I can't even feel their presence, let alone the contract." ”

"That's a pity. ”

"Haha, it's nothing, I'm not still a blessing in disguise, calm down, and walk out of my own spacious path in the matter of forging swords and armor. ”

Looking at the tiger man who was there with his hands on his hips, inspecting the soldiers in the store like inspecting his own army, Gray Dew nodded and let out a heartfelt admiration: "Sure enough, it is the king of our orcs, and your heart makes me admire." ”

"Ha, Miss Wolf is overrated. Being praised by the orcs in front of him who had the appearance of a human, the tiger man who was still exuding a momentum that looked at the world just now, arched his back and scratched his head embarrassedly, "My name is Ge Feng, and I am the adopted son of the owner of this weapons shop." Speaking of which, Miss Wolf, what weapons do you want to buy? I can give you some advice from the creator's point of view. ”

"Thank you, Ge Feng, my name is Lu Xue. Looking at the big cat with an interesting personality in front of him, Ash Lu untied the handguard sword hanging on his waist and handed it to the other party's claws, "I think this kind of sword is very easy to use, but this sword blade already has a lot of gaps, which may affect the use." ”

Ge Feng pulled out the half-hand sword, raised the blade of the sword horizontally to his ear, and struck it with his tiger claw. The soft sound of metal echoed between the swordsmith and the beast warrior, and when the aftermath dissipated, the tiger man, who had been smiling just a moment ago, put down his sword with a solemn expression.

Sensing the anomaly, Grey Lu stepped back half a step with her right foot without a trace.

"It's Dumbo's sword. ”

"Huh?"

"Where did you get this sword?"

Facing the tiger man Ge Feng, his gray eyes did not dodge, and he replied truthfully, "The night before yesterday, we were attacked by a walking ghost on the bank of the Wuhui River to the east of Yadi Town, which was obtained from a cat-walking ghost. ”

"Whew...... I had already advised him not to go too deep into Yunman. ”

"Your friend?"

Returning the handguard sword to the scabbard and handing it back to Gray Lu, Ge Feng shook his head, "It's my brother, one of my father's adopted sons, the third in line, the Amber Cat Clan. ”

"Uh-huh, sorry......"

"No, Luxue, you don't have to apologize, I want to thank you. Staring at Gray Lu's ears, Ge Feng's voice became slightly muffled, "If it weren't for you to bring this sword...... And this light helmet, we may not know about his death until much longer. ”

Just now when he saw Gray Lu approaching the store wearing the same helmet as his younger brother, Ge Feng already had some bad premonitions, but he told himself that maybe it was just the same styleβ€”β€”β€” but the ruthless reality, and gave him a punch.

"We have burned the remains of all the demons, this is his relic, you have to make him a garment......"

"Not necessarily. Even though he knew that the other party had good intentions, Ge Feng directly stretched out his right claw and swung it repeatedly, interrupting the words of the human wolf girl, "Weapons and armor can only be considered useful in the hands of warriors. Moreover, the best way for us orcs to be buried is to turn into nutrients and return to the land under our feet. ”

"What you say may be ......"

"Boss, I'm going to buy this fish scale armor. ”

The shouts of customers on the other side of the store came, and Ge Feng said to Gray Lu that he was out of company, and ran over directly. Glancing at his slightly lonely back, Gray Lu, who was also a beast warrior, raised her claws and stared at the tips of the claws, which symbolized her race and strength, and fell into thought.

Her specific understanding of death is still limited to the prey.

"My Death...... What will happen?"

"It's too early to think about this."

"Yes, after all, I haven't even performed the wolf ceremony, and I'm still too young. ”

The words of the beast spirit made the wolf girl stop thinking nonsense.

Rubbing her ears to calm her mind, she recalled the purpose of entering the shopβ€”β€”β€” the main purpose of the trip was not to buy weapons, but to find Gault and Rioat.

"Whew, I'm so confused. ”

"It's not bad compared to when I was a year old."

Ignoring the beast spirit's ridicule, Gray Lu tied the handguard sword back to his waist and shouted into the shop, "Ge Feng, I still have to leave beforehand, come back later to pick up weapons." ”

"Oh, okay, go slowly. ”

In the bright morning sunshine, the wolf girl stepped on the increasingly lively street and disappeared among all kinds of mercenariesβ€”β€”β€” Ge Feng, who sent customers out of the store, looked at the direction in which she disappeared, and his heart was mixed.

"Big brother, you look happy and sad at the same time. ”

Turning his head to look at the Kanban sister next to the signboard, Ge Feng shrugged his shoulders and stretched out his claws to pat her on the head, "Little sister, don't go all day to probe other people's thoughts - if you see too much, you will be very tired." ”

"But you're my big brother. ”

Looking at his little sister of the Tanuki clan, the tiger blacksmith smiled helplessly, turned around and walked back to the store. He had to think about how he could tactfully inform his father of his brother's deathβ€”even if it was something that happened all the time in the world, something very common.