Chapter 52: Shepherding
Seeing someone emerge from the flock from afar, dressed in sackcloth, with a straw hat on his head and a shepherd's cane in his hand, Green's first impression was that he had found his target.
The so-called key person, of course, must have a person.
So Grimm immediately took the little fox to meet him.
"Hello!"
The two were still some distance apart, and Green couldn't help but wave hello to him when he saw the other person running out of breath.
As a result, the shepherd trotted until he stopped in front of Green, and then he replied a little breathlessly, "...... Wait, I've been waiting for you for a long time, Your Royal Highness the Prince-to-be. β
This title is strange enough, it is prince and quasi, Green opened his mouth and was about to laugh, but his brain suddenly twitched.
Wait, who's the prince?
The shepherd seemed to see Green's doubts, and quickly explained, "Yes, yes...... It's ......"
"You can rest for a while and take a breath." Green said quickly.
The shepherd was immediately grateful.
While the shepherds were resting, Green took a closer look. He still looks very young, about twenty years old, a little older than Green, he looks relatively weak, in the words of later generations, he is a beautiful man, with fine skin and tender flesh, he can't see that he has suffered much, probably the environmental conditions of this trial space are good, and shepherding sheep is naturally much easier than the outside world. However, Green was slightly surprised when he noticed the shepherd's golden eyes, this is a typical golden descendant characteristic, he didn't expect that even a shepherd in the trial space of the son of a military costume is a famous golden generation, but I don't know if he himself comes from that chaotic era, or is purely a golden descendant.
After a minute or two, when the shepherd's organs were calm from running, he took the water bag from his waist, and first politely asked Green to drink it first, and only when Green waved his hand to show that he was not thirsty, he opened the water bag, took a sip of water, and swallowed it slowly.
"Huh? Milk? Green asked, sniffing his nose in surprise.
"That's right, Your Highness the Prince-to-be," the shepherd smiled bitterly and subconsciously looked back at the sheep, "except for sheep and sheep here, they can only live on goat's milk. β
Green nodded, "That's still ...... It's hard work. "In fact, there are many people on the Cabez continent who can't afford to drink goat's milk, but Green thinks that the other party is in the golden generation, and he has lived in this trial space for some time, and he is accompanied by goat's milk all day long, and everyone is going to drink and vomit, not to mention that in addition to drinking water and eating, Green wisely chose to forget about this problem - this shepherd is not easy enough, and he still has to do less things to make people blocked.
"But thanks to Lord Zegor, you're finally here." The shepherd's expression of gratitude was echoed by Grimm's strange face.
Although it was for inheritance, he didn't have the habit of being slashed and turning his head to thank him.
"Well, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, but I think we can put the rest of the matter aside for now, and we might as well talk about this trial first?" Green is ready to get straight to the point.
"That's how it should be, but this isn't the place to talk, so why don't we go to the room and talk? His Royal Highness the Prince-to-be. The shepherd nodded, and as he spoke, he greeted the skeletal warriors in the distance, "Come with the dead over there." β
Green's face was slightly surprised, he deliberately didn't bring his displeasure over, just for fear that the other party would panic, but he was too careful.
Come to think of it, even though this person is dressed like a shepherd in appearance, and can be selected as a key person in the first stage of the trial space, how can he be a wild baby in a mountain village who spends his days messing with sheep?
He looked away, put unrealistic thoughts behind him, and then motioned for Unhappy to follow from behind.
"First of all, allow me to introduce myself belatedly, Your Royal Highness the Prince-to-be," said the shepherd, "I am Albert, and you may call me Albert, and I will be happy to serve you." With that, the shepherd stopped, put one hand on his shoulder, and bowed deeply to Grimm.
The young man was a little at a loss, but he quickly reacted.
"You're the key guy, aren't you?" Green asked.
"Exactly." The shepherd straightened up and walked on, replying solemnly.
When Green found out that the other party had promised, there was a natural pride in his tone, as if he was a great favor as a key person. The boy pouted secretly, if he was allowed to wait like an NPC in an enclosed space, he would not be happy when the guests would come.
"Before I ask about the Trials mission, explain what you just called." Green picks a question.
The young shepherd turned his head and stared at Green with a strange look.
"What?" The golden pupils are just not ordinary, and Green has only been looked at for three seconds, and he feels that his face is hot.
ββ¦β¦ You really don't know? β
"Of course, why don't I ask you."
"It's strange, Mr. Zegor wouldn't be so careless......" Shepherd Albert muttered quietly, suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and a thick malice came from beside him, and he looked back in horror and saw Grimm with a black face, so he wisely changed the topic back, "Ah, I suddenly remembered, it's such a Prince-to-be, Mr. Zegor is only responsible for the quota recommendation, and after being approved by the examiner, he is the real son of the uniform, so before that, I want to add the word 'quasi' before the title, please forgive me." β
Green frowned, the other party deliberately avoided his own question, and he was not good at getting to the bottom of it.
But the name sounded ugly enough that Green felt the need to correct it, "My full name is Greenfield, you can call me Greene." β
The shepherd was as good as a stream, "Yes, Your Highness Green. β
The boy slapped him on the forehead.
"Well, whatever you want." Green helplessly supported his forehead, said Ha kung fu, the two of them had approached the shack, Albert walked over and pushed open the door, Green looked into it curiously, the house was very simple, only a bed and a pair of tables and chairs. The table was clean, but it looked like something had been placed, and Green had a guess, but he didn't say it.
"Now, Al, can you tell us about the Trial?" Seeing that he was unhappy, Green also walked in, stood quietly in the corner, and turned around and asked.
The young shepherd bowed gracefully, "As gladly as it gets." β.
The trial space is also divided into day and night, and after a while, the sky is already a little dark, and Green walked out of the shed with a strange face.
The young man walked up to the sheep grazing with their heads bowed, and looked at the snow-white baating stars, and his mouth was full of slurp.
He was already aware of the task, and the request was to escort Shepherd Albert to the designated location at midnight the next day. The golden-eyed young man was clearly not a shepherd, and the meaning of adding a shepherd to his name was obviousβnot just to escort Albert, but also to take these bastards with him. This makes the mission a little difficult, because their enemy is none other than a small group of big bad wolves.
Fifty wilted sheep, five matched old wolves.
It seems to be a ratio of ten to one, but Green knows very well in his heart that once the wolves attack, fifty sheep is a matter of minutes, after all, there is natural suppression, the first thing he has to face is the problem of disobedience of the sheep, and the second is the problem that the Baxing people are not aggressive.
But well......
Green stared at the flock and suddenly thought of a question.
Fifty sheep, do you have to take them all?
No matter how high-level absolute strength the person who is pulled into the trial, he cannot directly attack the wolves at this stage, which means that it is almost impossible for the five wolves to be killed at the same time, so the loss of the sheep is inevitable......
"Looks like I have to give up a few......"
Green muttered to himself, and immediately determined the tactics of losing the car to protect the commander. Thinking about the specific method, Green suddenly thought of a few helps, and hurriedly opened the system backpack and checked the ring he had obtained from the old follower mage when he was in the Dragon Tyrant Triad. After checking the spells stored on it, Green blinked his eyes and suddenly had a plan.
But it's not enough.
After thinking about it, Green casually threw another spell whirlwind. He looked at the magic gauge gap on the system attributes, estimated the consumption, threw out another magic fist, calculated the consumption again, and finally came to the conclusion that according to his existing magic power, it can roughly support five wind whirls or ten magic fists.
Green turned around just in time to see Albert coming out of the shack.
"Al!" Green shouted, "Do you know which one is the goat?" β
The young shepherd was approaching, and when he heard Green's question, he suddenly showed an embarrassed expression, "That...... I'm sorry, Your Highness Green, I don't know ...... very well."
Green only asked casually, and he didn't expect this guy to be a qualified shepherd.
"Second question," Green said, staring at each of the sheep in the flock, trying to find the head, "do you have a specific number of sheep and wolves?" For example, power, speed, etc. β
"Yes, Yes, Your Highness Green," Albert said with some embarrassment, for fear that his would-be Highness would talk on paper, so he vaguely and kindly persuaded: "Several previous Highnesses have also tried theoretical research, but the actual situation is unpredictable after all......
Green gave him a funny look, knowing that he meant well, "Don't worry, I have my own opinions." β
Albert shrugged, since Green said so, he didn't have much to say, just do it.
"The third question...... Hey? Green was about to ask a question when he suddenly burst out in surprise.
"Your Highness?"
"Al, didn't you tell me that I have a total of fifty sheep?"
"That's right."
"But there are only forty-nine sheep here."
"I promise I didn't steal it!"
Albert subconsciously raised his hand and swore, and then his face turned red, but he also reacted with an embarrassed smile. Probably feeling a little embarrassed, the young shepherd did not answer directly.
"Your Highness Green, don't you think this shack is very beautiful?"
Green blinked, "Why are you asking this?" β
The young shepherd stepped back and led his hands to the roof of the shed, "I mean, it also looks good." β
Green looked up, the muscles in his face twitching involuntarily.
That damn fiftieth sheep was standing on the roof!
"That's right, Your Highness Green," the shepherd hastened to explain, noticing Green's puzzled look, "Assesis is a lively sheep, and often runs to some higher places. β
"More lively? Like high? Green was amazed.
"Yes, not only that," said the shepherd after a moment's hesitation, "the circumstances of trials change over time, and this place is not always so empty - the previous shepherd once told me that once he saw Assesis run into the **, and when he led it out, he somehow earned twenty dollars. β
"It's a ewe?"
Albert was even more embarrassed.
"No, it's a ram."
Green raised his eyebrows, it is worthy of being a trial space, and the taste of shopping ** is really not ordinary.
"We'll get it down in a moment, and now I have a third question."
After snickering for a while, Green said again.
"Tell me."
Green turned around, looked at Albert, cleared his throat, and asked very sternly.
"I remember that the mission required that I just couldn't attack the wolves myself, so Al, can I use your powers?"
"Huh?"