() As long as this continues, in three to five years, the Rock Collar will be a terrifying and terrifying beast.

Tianhao never doubted that the Rock Collar had a bright and brilliant future.

His only concern at the moment is the threat from within the cattle clan.

There has been no news from the direction of Pointe-Noire, which seems to him to be a good thing. There are only two situations: either the great master has successfully persuaded His Majesty, or His Majesty still trusts him. As long as the highest-level superior is unmoved, Tianhao doesn't take a fierce bull king in his eyes at all.

There are also Thunderhorn City to worry about.

Niu Weibang has not sent any orders. Liao Qiu and Gangdian left Rock City with a huge group of pig prisoners of war, as if they had completely disappeared, and everything sank to the bottom of the water, as silent as death.

Tian Hao admits that he has been afraid, he is an outsider after all, and with the strength within the Niu Clan, even if he can't bulldoze Rock City, at least he can make the territory he just established suffer heavy losses. As far as his heart is concerned, he is actually very willing to make compromises, as long as the conditions proposed by the other party are not very harsh, Tianhao is willing to pay part of the price in exchange for time.

It's unsettling to develop while waiting.

He really didn't have a second option.

……

Summer is coming.

Although the prisoner cow is underage, he already behaves like an adult. He left the group of children at an early age and participated in various work projects mainly for women and the elderly.

This is a spontaneous act, not an order from Tianhao.

People praised this, including the old priest, who praised the precocious behavior of the prisoner ox, saying, "This is what a lord's son should be." ”

Tianhao couldn't laugh or cry at this, he felt that it should be the genetics that played a role, and his subjective consciousness directly acted on the offspring. The core of the "Sleeper" project lies in the sleeper itself, and on the premise of ensuring that the subject, that is, the ideology of the sleeper himself, plays a decisive role, the direct blood relatives exist only as subordinate individuals. They can never change this state unless they are approved by the subject.

To put it simply, Tianhao's descendants, whether male or female, will bow down to his father and obey him absolutely.

It sounds scary, but as an important arrangement for the continuation of the human population, this brutal idea of biological design must exist.

In another month, Ayi will be able to give birth.

The very astonishing speed completely subverted Tianhao's logic of birth and cultivation from the era of civilization. He felt as if he had changed something...... Population, the terrible rate of reproduction, is also the self-regulation of humanity after the destruction of the planet. Five months pregnant, ten years old, although the rate of birth and rearing is half as short as in the past, the number of barbarians on the northern continent is still so scarce, only a few tens of millions.

Food is definitely the primary influence.

The Rock Collar's baby birth rate has always been high, and these children are born with surprisingly strong physiques. In the past, when he was in Panshi Village, Tianhao had seen the practice of directly soaking newborns in cold water to wash away blood stains. In civilized times, this would have been tantamount to murder, but now it is normal, and even in the cold early winter, children as young as two or three years old would strip naked, jump into the icy river to bathe, splash in the water, and have fun.

Bighorn Ranch has reduced its dairy production by 10 percent compared to the past, and Zhenhui has been looking for new plots suitable for growing mutant ryegrass. According to Tianhao's order, all women and children under the age of two after giving birth can receive a free copy of deer milk, which is a benefit given to them by the Rock Collar, even if there is no such thing as cheese from now on, Tianhao must carry out this policy.

A bowl of deer milk, plus a small piece of sugar the size of a fingernail. It was such a simple thing, and when the leaders of the ten first distributed it to the women in their respective jurisdictions after childbirth, they were completely stunned, and then they cried on the spot.

This is an invaluable gift. Whether it is the cattle or the pigs, or the deer, the commoners have never enjoyed this treatment. They didn't know what sugar was, only that honey was something that belonged to the nobility. Mare's milk and cow's milk are seen many times, but few people have tasted what they tasted. If you can't even get enough to eat, who has time to think about those?

On that day, thousands of women knelt down in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion. This scene shocked everyone who witnessed it.

The old priest stood in the blazing sun, put his right hand on his forehead, squinted his eyes at the city lord's mansion in the distance, and said with emotion: "Ah Hao has come a long way, he is the smartest child in our village. ”

The old man misses the old, and the old priest has gone through every link from the village to the city, and then upgraded to the territory, but he can't change his stubborn name, Rock Village, not Rock City.

A smile appeared on Yonggang's face: "He will become a noble king, I never doubt that." ”

……

A week later, a messenger was sent from the fishing village to deliver an urgent document to Tianhao. He skimmed it briefly, his gaze instantly sharpening.

Shattertooth immediately summoned the guards, and three hundred elite warriors followed Tianhao out of Rock City and towards the fishing village to the east.

In a heavily guarded room, Tianhao meets Zhengjiang.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on?" The opening remarks are simple and get straight to the point.

Masae's complexion is darker than before, and that's the case with people who have been running around the sea all year round. He had very short shaved hair and strong muscles, but he was not a well-defined block, but a strong type with smooth lines. He wears a sleeveless jacket on the top and a pair of shorts that don't reach the knee underneath. It was so hot that he wouldn't even want to wear this little bit of clothing if it weren't for the sake of meeting the lord.

The "Great Viper" has been traveling back and forth between the fishing village of Panseong and Jeju City, moving people and supplies.

In the early hours of this morning, the boat unloaded its supplies and left the Jeju wharf and turned around in the direction of the fishing village, and the lookout spotted a boat in the southern sea and immediately reported it to Jeonggang.

It was a brig, a style that Masae had never seen before. With intense curiosity, he turned around and drove in that direction.

"It was a white Southern ship." Zhengjiang's body was full of excitement, even if there was a lord sitting opposite him who could decide his life and death with a word, he still had some difficulty in suppressing his emotions: "At that time, the wind and ocean currents were on our side, the speed of the ship was very fast, and they rushed over at once, and they didn't have time to react at all, and they didn't even fire at us. Hahahaha, those damn white-skinned devils were scared silly one by one, engaged in broadside battles, we hooked the ship with a hitch, they couldn't cut the metal chains, the sailors jumped over one by one, all the white-skinned devils who resisted were beheaded, and the rest were frightened, they didn't dare to do anything like stupid quails, and honestly raised their hands in surrender. ”

"Quail?" Tianhao was amused by the metaphor.

Zhengjiang turned and walked to the shadows of the corner of the house, and dragged out a large rattan basket from there, and the light coming in from the window illuminated everything, and Tianhao saw that the basket was filled with football-sized human heads.

"This is the head of those who resisted." Zhengjiang smiled proudly, revealing the unique hideousness of barbarians: "Their brains are very fresh, and bone bowls made of these heads are very popular, as long as you peel off their skin and match them with bone bowls, they can be sold for a very high price." ”

After staying with the barbarian for a long time, I have heard a lot of similar words, and Tianhao is not so much a habit as a numbness. He smiled noncommittally and asked, "Where are the guys who surrendered?" ”

That's the crux of the matter.

Zhengjiang hurriedly put his feet together and replied seriously: "I'll bring them up now." ”

……

Thirty-three white men were escorted into the room by the guards, and they were huddled together, their eyes shining with horror and despair.

They are all male, they have pale skin, and most of their hair is thick, naturally frizzy, and soft-looking. The cheekbones are not high, and they are flat compared to the northern Manchus. The arch of the eyebrows was high, the eye sockets were deep, and the bridge of the nose was more erect than any barbarian Tianhao had ever seen. The most striking are their eyes, which are blue, pale green, or brown, and rarely see a deep black like that of a barbarian.

For these white people, whose average height is about one meter eight, the northern barbarians, who are more than two meters seven tall, are tantamount to giants. The racial wars between the north and south of the continent have lasted for thousands of years, and there are countless legends about the barbarians. The most well-known part of this is their cruel and barbaric eating habits.

Barbarians eat people, especially children.

The barbarian's sturdy teeth can chew even the bones, and they are more ferocious than the wild wolves in the southern wastelands.

Barbarians like to pry open the heads of living people with chisels and steel pliers and suck up brains......

It is impossible to determine exactly when these legends were born, and few people think about whether they are true. Taverns and inns often have bards telling stories, what warriors fought the northern ogres, the beautiful girl wittily escaped from the barbarian's crotch, and a group of northern demons gathered in groups, only to be struck down by a lightning bolt from the gods, and burned to ashes......

The statements from veterans are even more noteworthy, especially those who claim to have been on the battlefield and lack arms and legs, who always show off their wrecked bodies in front of everyone, patting their chests and pointing at their wounds: "Take a good look, this is the evidence that I escaped from the ogre caves of the north." They ate my arms (thighs) and used my bones as toothpicks. ”

Tian Hao swept over each one of them with a calm gaze.

There was a foul stench in the room.

From the moment they were caught, these people were terrified. About half of the sailors had urinary incontinence and did not have a replacement of pants.

"Who's the captain?" Tianhao's tone is peaceful, but with unquestionable majesty.

The accent of pure English, Broken Tooth, Zhengjiang, including all the guards around, were taken aback by Tianhao's "nonsense".

Surrounded by guards, the unarmed white sailors standing in the center of the hall looked at each other. After a long time, a middle-aged man in his forties mustered up the courage to stand up, pressed his right hand on his chest, saluted Tianhao, strengthened his courage, and said tremblingly: "Lord Hui, captain...... He's dead. ”

Tianhao was not surprised by this answer, he nodded slightly: "Then who is the first mate?" ”

"The first mate is also dead." The man's tone was a little calmer than before, at least not so frightened.

"Who's the second mate?" Tianhao's questions are one after another.

The middle-aged man finally didn't answer with a death message this time. He turned to look into the depths of the crowd, his gaze like a sign, and the white sailors gathered their gaze in that direction.

Tianhao looked at the guy who was shrinking and wanted to hide in the middle of the crowd, and asked lightly, "Are you the second mate?" ”

It was a thin, balding man. He really couldn't hide, so he could only step forward hard, trying to control the panic and fear, and not let his body tremble too much: "...... I...... Yes. ”

"What's the name of your ship?" It was a very simple question, and Tianhao stared at him with a scrutinizing gaze: "Don't be busy answering yet, I'm a reasonable person, but I don't have much patience." I only need the correct answer, so you only get one chance at a time. If you say something wrong, or deliberately lie, those who stand behind you can always correct it. They will be rewarded for it, as for you...... Hehe, I haven't had time to eat breakfast yet. ”

It feels good to look down from a high position, and the difference in height brings a strong visual difference. Tianhao deliberately grinned, stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, revealing a hungry look.

"Obsidian." The poor man opened his mouth and replied, "Our ship is called the Obsidian." ”

Tianhao waited patiently for a few seconds, and snapped his fingers with satisfaction: "Yes, it seems that you understand what I say, I like to deal with smart people." That's a good start, and I've decided to cross you off my menu for the time being. ”

A flash of surprise flashed on the second pair's face, and he hurriedly saluted again: "Thank you, sir." ”

"Don't be too busy thanking you just yet, my question isn't over yet." Tianhao returned to his indifferent and cold state again: "Next question, why did you come to this place?" ”

Masae had previously led people to carefully inspect the captured "Obsidian", a merchant ship that was not armed except for a small-caliber copper cannon arranged in the bow.

This was not a normal trade route, and it went far into the northern barbarian hinterland. If it was a warship with a special purpose, it would be fine, but a white merchant ship suddenly appeared in this position, no matter how you look at it, it feels weird.

"I don't know." The second mate's face was blank: "It's the captain's order." ”

Tianhao frowned and stared at him with an inquiring gaze: "How did the captain die?" ”

The second mate glanced at Zhengjiang, who was standing on Tianhao's left side, and opened his mouth, but did not make a sound.

"Say whatever you want!" Tianhao patiently relieved: "With me, he won't do anything to you." ”

The second mate swallowed his throat hard, and made a voice with difficulty: "...... He, he cut off the captain's head. ”

Tianhao was not satisfied with this answer. His eyes were gloomy, he turned around and glanced at Zhengjiang who was standing on the side, and casually ordered: "Go, bring those heads over and let them identify them one by one." ”