Chapter 883: The Battle of the Mascots!
Chapter 883: The Battle of the Mascots!
The soldiers were right, the day came and went quickly, but in a short time, the dark clouds in the sky that were as thick as ink, which made people feel depressed and panicked, dissipated with the breeze, and the warm sunlight shone again, bringing the daily light and warmth to the whole camp.
They poked their heads out from house to house to look at the sky, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and walked out of the house one after another, cursing in their hearts for Farrah, who had done all the bad things, while repacking up the food guys, and going to work, and now it was not only a little more than noon, but by nightfall, there would be a lot more work to do.
So, the stall owners took out the big bags and small bags again, put the goods inside, shouted, and opened the windows and doors of the shops to welcome the customers, and the only ones that have not changed and have been open from beginning to end are those bars.
No way, it's not that the bar owner is bold, and he sees the sky like, but there are a lot of adventurers in it, and if he wants to close the door, he has to ask the old men who are loudly discussing this change if they are willing to do it.
A qiē seems to have returned to normal, but fortunately, the time of the change of heaven occurred at noon, when most of the civilians in the camp were working outside, grazing and cultivating, and less than half of the population remained in the camp, otherwise the panic caused by the change would be even more severe.
In the southern area of the camp, in the residential area, in a certain corner, there are large and small civilian cabins or tents, and this remote corner is everywhere in the whole camp, and there is nothing surprising at first glance.
However, today, this corner has welcomed a special guest, a guest who has fallen from the sky.
From the ground, a small black dot swayed from the north, and eventually, the black dot was pulled by gravity, gradually magnified, until it hit the high pile of ashes, the so-called ash heap, that is, the farmers eat the remaining yellowed dead grass and so on, piled together and burned, and then scattered the burned ashes in the vegetable field as fertilizer, it is conceivable that there must be soft black ash inside.
"Poof~~~~"
It smashed into it with a dull sound, and the black dots were planted into the ashes, leaving only half of the soles of the feet exposed, and they were also blackened by the raised black ashes, which seemed to be integrated with the entire pile of ashes.
After this qiē was finished, the black ash raised in the sky gradually drifted down, returning to the dirt, and the black dots that plunged into it seemed to have no movement, as if nothing had happened, and the qiē returned to calm.
"Dirk? Dirk? Stop playing, hurry up and get some fertilizer. ”
Moments later, near the ash heap, a small patched tent could be seen in a civilian area of the camp, and the stout voice of a woman and a woman of about thirty-four years old could be heard.
"Huh."
With a hint of reluctance, a thin child of about seven or eight years old with yellow-haired hair came over, and from the grass clippings and dust on his body, it was obvious that he had just returned from playing.
In a place like the Dark Continent, for ordinary civilians, the so-called carefree childhood is only between the first birth and the age of four or five, after which they will start to help the family.
Even Veras was the same, but her father was a mercenary, her grandfather was also an elder of Vitas Village, and she had a close friend who aspired to be a warrior, and she always called herself A-Lula, who was always serious, and would rush to do heavy work, so Veras's childhood was much easier than that of ordinary children.
By the way, according to the gossip that Ai-Lu-la accidentally revealed-revealed, the current Rogge singer, Lord Veras, who is loved by the entire Rogge people because of her kind, gentle, and amiable personality, occasionally bursts out with bear-like power when she gets angry, well!
As for Sarah, not to mention, she grew up in a privileged family without worrying about food and clothing, and her mother Lisa never had the heart to let her do heavy work, of course, there are pros and cons to this, this kind of doting guide Lisa's cooking skills are a must in the camp, and Sarah's craftsmanship ...... It can only be said that it is medium, but I heard that Lal, in addition to the basic skills of roast meat and stew meat in the field, seems to have a few hands, and the information comes from the big mouth Doug, so the authenticity is doubtful.
The little boy named Dirk was not so lucky, and at first glance he knew that he was poor and malnourished, and at this time he was carrying two large and bulky wooden barrels, each of which seemed to be about the same weight as himself, but Dirk was obviously accustomed to this kind of work, and he carried two large wooden barrels that were worn out and nailed, and he walked like a fly, and was not weak because of his thin body.
Lifting the two large wooden barrels next to the ash pile and lowering them, Dirk skillfully found a tattered shovel that was half the height of his head, and slammed it into the ash pile at an angle of about sixty degrees, and then jumped with the shovel handle, and hung his whole body on it.
With such effortless effort, Dirk quickly filled a bucket, but when he thrust the shovel in again, he noticed that the unusually sharp shovel head seemed to have hit some obstacle and failed to insert it all at once.
"Fuck it, which bastard threw the stone into it?"
After talking to himself, Dirk tilted his head and thought, no, if it was a stone, it should have made a "bang", and now it was obvious that he had touched some soft obstacle.
Dirk was amazed, and he didn't care about dirty In fact, a civilian child of this age didn't know what dirty was, he knelt on top of the ash heap with both knees, and his two little hands quickly pushed the ashes on it away, and after a while, he found the "obstacle".
"Oh my god!!"
Children who grow up in this environment are generally very bold, even if most of the decaying corpses are not shocked, Dirk is the best in his age, Rao is so, he was also taken aback, looking at the things that were lying on his stomach, he couldn't make a sound, and the story told by the decent adults who hid in the corner a few days ago and overheard came to his mind, and a few words learned from the story suddenly popped up.
Murder! Throw the corpse! Homicide case!
Wait, is this a person?
After getting through the initial shock, Dirk's courage grew, and then he took a closer look and found that the other party's appearance had nothing to do with the word "person" from beginning to end.
The careful shovel stabbed the other person, well, there was no movement, it seemed to be a dead thing.
Dirk relieved himself slightly, stood on tiptoe, and kicked lightly at what appeared to be the sole of his foot, and immediately hid in the pyre like a loach, and after a while, Dirk's head poked out of the pyre.
It's good, it's not like there's a scam.
I don't know if Dirk is vigilant or poisoned by the stories he overheard, but in short, he's now confirmed that this thing should be harmless, but the question is, what should he do with such a big guy?
"Mom!! Mom!! ”
Dirk's first thought was his mother, no way, he was still a child, even if he started the housework early, he was still only a seven or eight-year-old child, and the first thing that came to mind at this time was naturally his parents.
"You bear child, what are you making trouble again?"
Dirk's mother, a peasant-woman with a torn turban on her head and a hoe in her hand, lifted the tent and came out, scolding Dirk.
In the nearby civilian neighborhood, Dirk is the most mischievous, in the words of the child, the child king of the area.
"Mom, look at this thing."
Dirk pointed to the black thing he had dragged out of the ash heap, his face innocent.
"You kid...... Hey...... It's ......"
Dirk's mother was shocked when she saw it, what the hell was this, she had never seen it before.
However, she deserved to have lived decades longer than Dirk, and although it was far from being insightful, she soon saw something.
Since the monster attack on the village eight years ago, which is still fresh in people's minds, there has been no natural disaster in the camp**, plus the wise and great (?) Elder Wu Fan invented a simpler paper-making technique, and life in the camp has indeed been much better over the years, and I have never heard of anyone starving to death in winter.
This is the most profound experience of Dirk's mother, who lives in this class and whose husband is cutting trees at a paper mill on the other side of the misty forest.
"Thank you, Great Lord Akara, and Elder Wu Fan, for your great kindness, we will never forget."
Whenever she thought about it, she would learn from the nuns and paladins in the church, putting their fists to their lips, kneeling on the ground, muttering to herself, for these commoners, whoever brought them food and clothing was God.
As Mother Dirk fell to her knees and muttered prayers like this, the black mass lying beside her, her semicircular ears seemed to twitch slightly.
Uh, is it a delusion?
After doing this, Dirk's mother stood up and continued into memory mode.
As life improved, so did the out-of-town merchants who appeared in the camp, and they brought with them all sorts of new things that dazzled the campers, and Dirk's mother once saw in a merchant's stall something very similar to the black thing lying on the ground now, which seemed to be called ...... Uh, Ragdoll Bear or what?
Although I can't understand why this kind of thing that is close to a person, even with its feet upright, and its appearance is so different from a bear, why is it called a bear, is it a mutant bear? However, Dirk's mother's empty brain still gladly accepted the impact of this novelty, and the most memorable thing for her was that the ragdoll bear, which seemed to be only the size of two fists, actually bought 15 gold coins.
Oh my God, that's enough money to buy a new set of clothes for his whole family, and only those adventurers can buy it without care.
Originally, I thought that if it wasn't very expensive, I would buy it and give it to Dirk, after all, she hadn't given any gifts to her children since she was born, and the thing called the Ragdoll Bear, well, strange and strange, but it was really quite flattering, and the child would definitely be happy to receive such a beautiful gift.
Dirk's mother looked at it again and again, yes, this gray thing is indeed the ragdoll bear, but this size...... Oh my God, it's only the size of a fist and it costs 15 gold coins, which is a little bigger than yourself, isn't that ......
Dirk's mother's head was a little out of the way.
At this moment, something even more terrifying happened to her, the ragdoll bear, which was supposed to be a toy, suddenly moved, and sat up strangely and silently.
"Monsters!!!"
Dirk's mother exclaimed loudly, threw the hoe in her hand, pulled Dirk and ran away, she had to hurry up and report, monster invasion, yes, it must be a monster, you can't be deceived by cute appearances.
At this moment, Dirk's mother suddenly wondered, I said how can there be a bear in this world that looks like a human and can stand upright on both feet, if you use a monster to explain, it makes sense, what I saw at the merchant's stall that day turned out to be a ragdoll bear made of imitation of the shape of a monster!!
And now, there is an entity!!
This incident quickly caused a commotion, and the civilians who had just come to peace from the change in the sky couldn't help but panic again, could it be that the murderer was not Farah, the monster ragdoll bear was the real murderer?!!
Soon, the soldier came, and soon, Akara got the news, and after listening to it, she just smiled and said something.
That's not a monster, please be kind to it.
At the camp, Akara's words were authority, and when she said this, everyone was relieved, and when they looked back, it was true, such a hairy and cute thing, no matter how it looked, it didn't look like it would hurt people.
So the camera returns to Dirk and his mother, back to the ash heap, and the mother and son can't help but settle down a little when they see the bear still sitting there motionless.
"Mom, can I go talk to him?"
Dirk's newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and took advantage of his mother's inattention, so he came up.
"You kid......"
Dirk's mother screamed, but probably the Ragdoll bear's - touch - was indeed too harmless to humans and animals, she did not immediately pull her son back, but watched from the sidelines, and held the hoe in her hand, as long as the bear was a little malicious, even if she tried her best, she would protect her child.
"Mr. Xiong, Mr. Xiong, can you understand?"
After learning from his mother that it was a ragdoll bear, Dirk called it without permission.
In response, the bear raised his head and glanced at him, although his body was dirty and covered with black ash, as if it had come out of the stove, but those lovely black eyes still made Dirk's eyes sparkle.
"Mr. Xiong, you're dirty, let's take a shower first."
Talking to himself, Dirk felt good about himself and thought that everyone was already familiar, so he stretched out his hand and pulled, but he didn't expect the ragdoll bear to stand up, and Dirk was happy.
It's just that the ragdoll bear who stood up still looked like he was lost and depressed, hunched over, his head lowered, and listless.
Soon, Dekra took the Ragdoll to the nearby creek, rolled up his sleeves, and helped the other party wash it, this is a Ragdoll bear several times his size, and it is not easy to wash it.
"Little ones, today I'm going to introduce you to a new partner!!"
Standing on top of a pile of logs in high spirits, the child Wang Deke summoned his men and announced loudly.
"Everyone applauds and welcomes."
As he spoke, he pulled the Ragdoll bear out from behind the fence.
"Wow, it's so cute~~"
When more than a dozen little children saw it, they immediately cheered and pounced.
"Hey, listen to me."
Seeing that his subordinates ignored his leader, Dirk couldn't help but cry out angrily, but who cared about him now.
"Mr. Xiong, Mr. Xiong, why are you listless?"
The children gathered around the Ragdoll Bear and asked with concern.
"Ga~~oh~~"
A faint voice came out.
"Little ones, do you see? Our task today is to make Mr. Xiong happy. ”
Dirk finally found an opportunity to give the order and shouted loudly.
"Oh!!"
The children immediately cheered, flashing innocent eyes at the Ragdoll Bear, and it seemed that they really liked it.
"Hey, you guys, don't get everyone in trouble."
A large, shirtless man approached from a distance and shouted at the urchins, followed by the footsteps of giant beasts that shook the ground.
A giant beast in hideous iron armor, its huge and terrifying head suddenly rose from the wooden roof, it was a huge body that was at least five meters tall!!
The most striking thing is the huge basket it carries on its back, which is large enough for several adults to sit and chat comfortably.
Siege Beast, Mighty Siege Beast!! Adventurers returning from outside for the first time will probably cry out in horror when they see this giant beast. Draw your sword and wait.
At this time, those who knew the situation would immediately stop them and explain to them with a smile.
"This is Xiao Jia, the pet Xiao Jia that the elder brought back from outside."
That's right, this huge siege beast is Xiao Jia, the bitter baby Xiao Jia who has been forced to serve as a laborer for a long time since he was taken away by Kasha.
Although at the beginning, its huge size and hideous ironclad posture did make the whole camp panic, for fear that when this fierce beast would suddenly become fierce-sexual, however, I have to admire the strong adaptability of human beings, after a period of panic, people found that this giant beast is indeed very docile except for being a little bigger, - - a little more hideous.
Gradually, at first it was called by Kasha, and then it took the initiative, Xiao Jia used its huge size and strong strength to help countless camp people, and gradually became the mascot of the camp, and the children liked to climb on its back to play together, Xiao Jia seemed to be happy with this leisurely life.
Probably, it is precisely because of Xiao Jia's experience that people will accept the fact of the ragdoll bear in front of them so quickly.
"Yo, Xiao Jia, put things down, just get here, thank you."
The strong man waved his hand at Xiao Jia, signaling him to put down the bundle of logs on his back.
"Quack!!"
Xiao Jia, who had completed the task, raised his claws and screamed vigorously, and then walked towards the clearing.
According to the daily management, these children will cheer and hug up, climb on its body to play together, Xiao Jia is not small, quite like to do this kind of work.
But......
"Xiao Jia, I'm sorry, today we are going to accompany Mr. Xiong and make him happy."
The children stood there and said.
Xiao Jia's rushing movements suddenly froze, as if he was petrified, and he didn't move.
Then, with his big eyes, he turned to the ragdoll bear, which was full and burning.
Envy, jealousy, hatred!!