Chapter 51: The Dwarves of the Deserted Hill
Elena also returned the salute with one hand: "I am the young master's bodyguard, so naturally I want to be with the young master." The dwarf looked at Fang Xiaoyu, who was standing beside Elena, with a pale face, and many Iron Blood Guard warriors and said, "For dirty and despicable humans, noble elves are not worthy of their company. ”
Elena looked at Fang Xiaoyu with a little meaning and said, "Young Master is different from ordinary humans, he is very sympathetic to subhumans, and he is willing to give us shelter. Elena's words caused a commotion in the ranks of the dwarves, for the hatred between humans and sub-humans has been a long time, if it weren't for the fact that humans have been intoxicated with infighting, there would have been no living space for sub-humans for a long time, and now I heard that there are humans willing to shelter them, which is undoubtedly a bombshell-like existence among dwarves.
The dwarf looked at Fang Xiaoyu beside Elena and said, "You are the young master in the mouth of the elf?" Do you give refuge to subhumans? Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "Yes, there is a group of dwarves in my territory who are living happily, and I will provide them with enough food and this wine." "The only way to seduce dwarves is wine, of course Fang Xiaoyu will not miss it, he immediately pretended to take it out of his arms, and secretly took out a can of five-year-old thyme wine from the light industry equipment warehouse.
When Fang Xiaoyu slapped the thyme wine seal, a rich aroma of wine quickly penetrated into the nostrils of every dwarf, causing another commotion among the dwarves, and many dwarves even closed their eyes and sniffed violently, with an intoxicated look on their faces.
Fang Xiaoyu smiled and handed the wine to the leading dwarf: "Give it to you, I hope you can like it." The dwarf carefully took the jug, put it to his lips and took a sip, his eyes lit up. He was pleasantly surprised to hand the jar to an old dwarf behind him, who took a sip of his own, then handed it to the next person, and passed it on one by one. After handing the wine to the old dwarf, the dwarf turned to Fang Xiaoyu and said, "The Patriarch of the Barren Hill Dwarves, Beretta, salutes you and thank you for the precious gift you have brought us. ”
"Badland dwarves?" Listening to Beretta's words, Fang Xiaoyu's face showed a smile, these dwarves were really too necessary for Fang Xiaoyu. As long as he can subdue this group of barren hill dwarves, he will have enough labor, once Fang Xiaoyu gets the land sovereignty of the Barbarian Continent, he can use these dwarves to build in advance, which will greatly speed up the construction of this area.
If you want to subdue these dwarves, you naturally have to be close, so Fang Xiaoyu invited with a smile: "It's so late, everyone is tired all night, let's camp here together." "Just got someone's good wine, Beretta Giant Hammer had a very good impression of Fang Xiaoyu, and when he heard that Fang Xiaoyu was about to rest, he hurriedly invited: "If you don't dislike it, you can go to our village." ”
Seeing that the other party took the bait, Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "If we don't cause trouble to you, we are honored." "No trouble, no trouble." Beretta's giant hammer waved his hand again and again, and at the same time, his eyes were still peeking into Fang Xiaoyu's arms, obviously unsatisfied with the thyme wine just now.
Under the leadership of the dwarves, Fang Xiaoyu and his party traveled a full five kilometers to arrive at a simple village, the terrain of this village is very dangerous, and the concealment is also very clever. The road was long, but fortunately, the dwarves were familiar with the terrain and the road was relatively flat, so they were able to quickly reach the dwarven village.
The dwarven village was large, with thousands of houses, all in a radial shape, building outwards around the large central square until near the wall. The houses in the village are all thatched houses with wooden walls and thatched roofs, but they are also very sturdy and well-lit in the face of the dwarves' exquisite craftsmanship.
As soon as he entered the village, Fang Xiaoyu saw a lot of dwarves, they were obviously old and young dwarves who stayed at home. It can be seen that the dwarves' nightlife is relatively rich, even if it is already the middle of the night, they still haven't fallen asleep, and when they see the appearance of Fang Xiaoyu and other humans, the dwarves who come in and out are curiously looking at them as uninvited guests, pointing and pointing from time to time.
Many of the accompanying dwarves dispersed after entering the village, apparently returning to their homes, with only a few dwarves still following behind Beretta's Hammer. With Fang Xiaoyu and his party, the Beretta Giant Hammer led them directly to the square in the center of the village, and the dwarves who followed quickly brought firewood from nearby houses and lit two large bonfires.
After digging trenches for half a day, fighting wolves for several hours, and then marching, the team members were already hungry. Now that they were settled, they took out their dry rations, roasted them over a campfire, and feasted on them, while the dwarves skinned the wolf carcasses that had been dragged back from the battlefield, cut off the wolf flesh, and skewered it on sticks.
The dwarves in the village soon all converged towards the square, and Fang Xiaoyu secretly took out a few large wine cans from the equipment library and gave them to Beretta Giant Hammer, which made him very happy. With enough wine, the thousands of dwarves gathered here soon received a little each, and although it was little, they drank merrily.
With the time of eating, Fang Xiaoyu and Beretta Giant Hammer talked, with thyme wine to open the way, Beretta Giant Hammer's attitude was much more friendly, almost knowing everything, after some talking, Fang Xiaoyu learned that in this season in the north of the Wild Continent, the temperature during the day is very high, so the dwarves sleep during the day and start working at night, so there are so many dwarves who have not slept until now.
After listening to the Beretta giant hammer Fang Xiaoyu, it suddenly dawned on him, no wonder he feels so hot these days, it turns out to be a seasonal problem. Through small talk, Fang Xiaoyu began to inquire about some of the situation in the Savage Continent: "Beretta Giant Hammer, do you have any other humans or sub-humans in this Savage Continent besides you?" Beretta Hammer shook her head: "No, there are only us dwarves here, and even we barren dwarves are not the natives here." Fang Xiaoyu said strangely: "How did you get to the Savage Continent?" ”
Fang Xiaoyu's question made Beretta Giant Hammer fall into memories: "In the classics of our race, it is recorded that we are a dwarf race on the continent. Thousands of years ago, our ancestors left the mainland in order to find better minerals, and set off on a sea ship. As a result, my ancestors strayed into the reefs around the wild continent, and the ships were lost, and they had to work hard to get to the mainland, but the coast of the mainland was desert and rocky shores, there were no trees for shipbuilding, and because the roads were difficult, large timber could not be transported to the sea, not to mention that even if they could be transported to the sea, they could not do anything about the dense reefs. Later, the ancestors gave up the idea of returning to the mainland, and they began to multiply here. ”
Fang Xiaoyu nodded, it turned out that the experience of the dwarves was so bumpy. However, Fang Xiaoyu felt strange, those dwarves were very hostile when they first saw him. Fang Xiaoyu asked, "Beretta Giant Hammer, why did you just see us so hostile?" Have you ever seen a human before? ”
Beretta Hammer nodded: "Decades ago, a team of human explorers came to us, and we received them warmly, but they showed unusual greed after seeing some of our metal objects, trying to destroy us by force and get those metals. Actually, the metal was of little use to us, and if they liked us, they could have given it to them, but they shot our people. At that time we only had bows and arrows, but we were familiar with the terrain and had a large number of people, so we killed most of them. In order to prevent them from sending any more people to find these people, we poisoned the remaining dozen or so people into madness with poison that could cause people to hallucinate, and released them back. ”
After listening to the introduction of the Beretta Giant Hammer, Fang Xiaoyu suddenly realized: "I see, I can't care if the governor would say that, they still thought that it was a poisonous snake or a harsh environment that caused them to lose so much, it turned out to be the effect of hallucinogens." Beretta said, "The muskets we use now are imitations of those people's weapons. ”
Fang Xiaoyu asked suspiciously: "I remember that animals should be afraid of fire, why did I light two big fires, but those wild wolves didn't react?" Beretta Hammer shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, probably because there are few human activities in the Wild Continent, and the animals don't react to the fire." What's more, there is not much food in this season in the Savage Continent, and the wolves with hungry and red eyes will not have any scruples. Fang Xiaoyu nodded, this made sense, although he didn't agree with Beretta's statement that the giant hammer said that the wild wolves did not react to the fire because of the lack of human activity, after all, the beasts began to fear fire because of forest fires and not for human use, but the beasts with hungry and red eyes were indeed very bold, and there were many such situations in other places.