Chapter 731: Opportunity
Soon the next day, Linton and the church had moved away from Dosha City and headed east towards the target point. At this time, in the Longbridge Inn where Linton and the others had lived before, the orc slave Ziggy was dragging his body back to his residence in pain.
Ziggy's so-called lodging was at the back of the inn's stable, a small hut made of a few planks, a dirty, smelly little room that really didn't provide even basic shelter from the elements. The Longbridge Inn is actually a relatively large hotel, and it is already one of the largest hotels in Dosha City, so there are still places where the employees live, but Ziggy is only a slave, and he is still a slave of the orcs.
Yes, there was a chain of contempt among slaves, and the other human slaves didn't want to live with Ziggy, the orc slave, so he was driven to this dirty, smelly place, and he had found these planks for himself, otherwise he wouldn't even have a place to sleep.
Not only is the living environment bad, Ziggy faces the test of survival every day, as a slave, his life and death are in the mind of the owner of the inn, if the human slave is killed by the master, the master has to go to the garrison to report and pay a fine or something, and the slave of the orc, if he dies, he dies, and the garrison is too lazy to care, just throw it out of the city.
Because there are no human rights at all, Zigger's daily life is to work, be beaten, and work, and there is no hope in life, and he knows that one day he will be killed, and his body will be thrown out of the city at will, becoming the lunch of wild beasts in the woods outside the city, but what can he do? Escape? Just as he is a fifteen-year-old boy, he may be arrested by the city guards when he walks out of this courtyard, after all, this is a human city, it is completely unimaginable for an orc to walk on the street, and he can't eat enough every day, his whole body is injured, and the basic physical strength to escape is not enough.
Ziggy didn't know what he should do, and he lived like a walking corpse every day. I was also beaten today, because the guests who looked like knights who left in the morning were not satisfied with him, and last night he accidentally provoked one of the knights and was beaten, and before the other party could lose his anger, he lost his temper at the innkeeper, and the innkeeper naturally pulled him out and beat him to relieve himself.
To be honest, when he was beaten, Ziggy wanted to pounce on him several times and bite to death with his fangs to kill this hateful store manager who beat him every day, but he also knew that it was useless, his body was very weak, he couldn't do this at all, and resisting would only be beaten harder, he hadn't tried it before, but now he knew that he could only endure it.
In short, dragging his heavy body, Ziegy was about to go back to the cabin he had built to bandage his wounds a little, at least to stop the bleeding, but just as he was about to turn over the door panel, he suddenly heard a noise from inside his cabin, as if something was inside.
Ziggy was stunned, but he didn't panic, after all, no one would come to his hut, probably a kitten or a dog or something like that, so Ziggy also calmly opened the wooden door, but the next second he was not calm, because there was actually a figure in his hut.
"Uh-huh......" Ziggy almost cried out in surprise, but before he could speak, a hand suddenly grabbed his face and interrupted his shouting. Then he was picked up and slammed to the ground.
"Hmm......" The other party's hand was very heavy, and this smash affected Zigge's original injury, making him cry out in pain, of course, because he was covered in mouth, he didn't scream. Naturally, there were no lights or anything like that in his hut, and he could only see some by the moonlight outside, and he could see that the other party was an adult, probably a man, but he couldn't see his face clearly.
"Orcs?" At this time, Ziggy suddenly heard the other party's voice, and sure enough, it was a male voice. At the same time, he felt that he was squeezing his hand, as if he had given it a little.
"Don't scream, or I'll kill you, understand?" The other party said directly.
"Hmm......" Ziggy on this side nodded quickly, and the man opposite quickly let go of his hand.
"You're a slave?" The man across from him asked.
"Yes." Ziggy nodded, and as he spoke, he began to tremble.
"Don't be afraid, I'm an orc too." At this time, the man said suddenly.
As he spoke, the man came out a little, and by the moonlight shining in from outside, Ziggy also saw the appearance of some men clearly, and it was indeed an adult man, who looked like he was in his twenties, and the other party was wearing a very thick cloak, and the more obvious ones were the two orc ears on the other party's head.
Ziggy was stunned, he didn't expect to see his own kindred, yes, there are not many orc slaves in Dosha City, although it is close to the front line, most of the orc slaves are directly sold to cities in the south where the mines are concentrated, and there are not many orc slaves who come to the cities in the north like him.
At this time, Ziggy suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a lot of blood on the orc man opposite, and it seemed that he was also injured, and it was not light, after thinking about it, he immediately asked, "Are you injured?" Are you an escaped slave? Wounded by the City Guard? ”
"No, I'm not a slave." The man across from me said, "My name is ...... Thrall. ”
"Ziggy." Ziggy here said, "Wait, I have some herbs here, I made them myself, and they can stop the bleeding." ”
Of course, Ziggy didn't have the money to buy medicine, but he knew some pharmacological knowledge himself, so he made some hemostatic drugs by himself, and the effect could only be said to be a little better than not using it. Even so, he didn't have much inventory, but after all, seeing his kindred, Ziggy didn't think much about it and felt close to each other.
"I have medicine, you can help me bandage it." The man named Sal said immediately.
"Oh, okay." Ziggy nodded, and as a result, the potion handed over by the other party began to bandage Sal, and he looked at the injury on the other party's arm, and sure enough, it was a sword wound. Ziggy naturally cares about the identity of the other party, the other party said that he is not a slave, but this is the territory of the human race, the orcs in the territory of the human race, not the identity of the slave, what is that?
"Do you want to continue to be a slave?" Suddenly, the man on the other side spoke.
"Huh?" Ziggy was slightly stunned.
"I ask you if you want to continue being a slave?" The man asked again.
"Of course not...... But ......"
"I can help you, get out of here, but I need you to do something for me." Thrall here suddenly said, "But just like you think, once you fail, it is death." ”
"I'll do ......," Ziggy said without much thought. He's been waiting for an opportunity to survive as a slave here? Ziggy knew what his ending would be, he had always wanted to find a chance, and although the man in front of him didn't know who it was, Ziggy knew that this was the best opportunity he could encounter.
"Aren't you afraid?" The man asked.
"No......," Ziggy said earnestly.
"Okay, worthy of being the people of Genshin Impact." The man said, "I have something that I need your help to get out of the city, and there's a forest north of the city, you know." ”
"I know." Ziggy nodded.
"You send your things to the woods, and where my companion is, someone will pick you up." The man said, "The other party is also an orc, called Grom, as long as you report my name, he will know that you are my man." When the time comes, tell him to take you back to our land. ”
"What about you?" Ziggy asked, he wasn't going to assemble because he was listening to the man's words.
"I'm going to distract the guards in the city, and the knights of the Church of Light." The man said.
"Knights of the Church of Light?" Ziggy suddenly thought of the people who had stayed at the hotel yesterday.
"Yes, you're here to arrest me." "Anyway," said the man, "I'll distract them, and you'll be in charge of delivering them to my companions." ”
"Then you ......"
"I don't matter, it's this thing that matters." The man took out something wrapped in cloth from his bosom, "This thing must be sent back to the hands of the council." ”
"What is this?" Ziggy asked, of course, with some curiosity.
"You don't need to know what it is, you just need to know that this thing is very important to our orc race, and you must send it back." The man said.
"I ...... I see. Ziegy nodded, and was just about to take the thing in the man's hand, when suddenly the thing in his hand emitted a cyan light, directly penetrating the cloth that contained it. Seeing this light, the man's face changed, and then he quickly closed the door of the cabin.
Inside the cabin, the cyan light flickered, and at this time, the thing wrapped in cloth suddenly floated, and the outer cloth spread out automatically, and Ziggy saw a very strange-looking stone with a blue light floating in the air, and before he could react, a beam of light suddenly shot towards his forehead.
Ziggy panicked, and suddenly the whole person softened, and the man opposite hurriedly came up and grabbed his shoulders, "How can this be, it's actually ...... You? ”
"Hair ...... What happened? "Ziggy here is confused, what's going on?
"Raise your hand and say the 'Book of Seals'." The man hurriedly said.
"The Book of Seals?" Ziggy was stunned, but as soon as his words fell, a book appeared in front of him with a "bang", and it floated in the air, startling him.
"What is this?" Ziggy looked confused, of course.
"Okay, great, I didn't expect you to be the one chosen by the Book of Seals, and sure enough, all of this is arranged by Genshin Impact." The man said with some excitement, "Okay, this thing doesn't matter anymore, what matters now is to send you back to the council, and now it's the key for you to start on." ”
"That...... What the hell is this ......?"
Ziegy was just about to ask clearly, but the man here suddenly got up and looked outside: "It's too late to say anything, someone is coming, I'll go and lure them away, and at the same time create chaos, you go to the north gate and walk along the wall to the right, there is a hole in the ground where you can get out, you go out from there, go to the woods to the north to find my companion, he will explain everything to you, understand?" ”
"Good...... Good. Ziggy replied dumbfounded.