Chapter 243: The Beginning of Confusion
Although Andre vaguely felt that something was wrong, until Nanali's sister of the same clan, the fox girl named Lokia, was taken down by a dead fat man who combed his half-length golden curls into a big back for four hundred and twenty gold coins, the wolf girl beside the son of the abyss was still unmoved and assured.
On the contrary, the anxious little fox had already pulled out the sleeves of Andrei's clothes sewn from cheap fabric. Fat Larry is also silent with a face of shame because he failed to fulfill his promise. However, his nephew's beautiful blue eyes, who have always been very quiet, occasionally glance at the wolf girl and the little fox beside the son of the abyss, as if he was a little concerned, but he concealed his intentions with slightly immature acting skills, I don't know if it was because of shyness or his pride as a future lord.
The last auction of the day in the venue finally began, and the mustachioed master of ceremonies invited the noble girl with a starting price of a hundred times that of the Children of the Abyss after an impassioned introduction of thousands of words without repetition. Dressed in a gaudy pleated red dress, the girl with her head bowed looks like a character from another world, and it seems out of place in this place full of filthy desires.
As soon as Andro Nip appeared, the sanctimonious guys who had been lacking in the orc girls suddenly became like stimulant estrus males, competing with each other and shouting.
"Six hundred!"
"I'll give a thousand!"
"One thousand one!"
"One thousand and five!"
Seeing that these so-called lords and nobles did not think about spending a lot of money just for the sake of a kiss Fang Ze, the son of the abyss, who was once the lord of the town of the river valley, suddenly had a strange thought in his heart. Andrarui has the largest inland transit port in the east of Garlandia, where the monthly cargo throughput value has already exceeded hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and the annual income of Andrarui in taxes alone has exceeded 100,000 gold leaves, and the minting workshop works more than 18 hours a day in shifts to ensure the normal circulation of currency...... In addition, Andrarui also has a variety of popular and popular specialties, but even so, Andre will not spend more than 100 gold coins on his personal expenses in the past two years.
Thinking of this, the son of the abyss, who pretended to be a half-elf poet, suddenly felt as if he was living a little aggrieved...... Although this is not the time to think about such a thing at all, the sleeves of Andrei's shirt, the cost-saving and cost-cutting shirt provided by the slave traders, are almost torn off by the little fox with tears in the corners of his eyes.
Although his apparent status is still a slave, Andre, who claims to be a civilized person, is still more concerned about his appearance, although he once had an unbearable past - as a prince of the demon world, he only wore a vacuum leather skirt and gave orders under Bailai's subordinates......
"The fate of your compatriots has begun to go in a different direction from ours, why do you still seem so calm at this moment?" Your fox sister has fallen into the clutches of the fat man opposite, and your fox sister is almost sitting on the ground and crying, but at this moment you have such a heartless appearance, is it really appropriate?
Unable to think of anything to do for a moment, André had no choice but to verbally test the wolf girl beside him, who was as calm as if it was none of his business, this girl was the backbone of the three and was relied on by Nanali and Lokia, as a former lord, André knew that only trustworthy people would be relied upon.
If Volna wasn't trying to control her emotions, there should be some unknown reason for her calmness. In the gray left eye, the wolf girl's body was exuding hazy and indistinguishable fluctuations, which meant that she was not as calm as she appeared, and at the same time not as excited as André had guessed.
"I don't know what kind of suffering Logia will suffer, only that the humans who are about to inflict pain and humiliation on her will not escape the retribution they deserve...... It's not just the guy who bought Logia as a commodity. All those in this town who oppress other creatures for their own pleasure and for their own benefit cannot escape the wrath of our Talon Clan!!" Volna whispered in a muffled voice, the faint tremor in her throat that made the Children of the Abyss feel that a flame of anger had been ignited in the girl's heart, and the gray-white hairs that exploded on her ears and tail revealed the depression in her heart.
The werewolf girl's cruel words at the moment reminded André of the lynx barking at the brown bear, and in the absence of strong support, the more hideous Volna's expression became, the more like a defeated dog barking to hide her inner turmoil.
"Could it be that the ancestral spirits of your orcs will seek justice for you in the realm of the dead?" The idea of retribution before and after death is indispensable in any world, and this idea is like a poisoned wine for people who have suffered injustice - they expect fate to seek justice for themselves, and then gradually change from "powerless to resist" to "not to resist".
"This kind of thing will only dishonor the dignity of the Splittooth Clan by the hands of the ancestors!Without the intervention of the great and benevolent ancestors, we will personally stain our claws with the blood of the enemy!"
"You mean ......!?" Andre thought of something, and was about to ask, but was interrupted by the abrupt atmosphere in the auction room.
The sudden change in the hall attracted everyone's attention, and the steward of the auction house, who had just warned Larry, hurried up to the front desk with several heavily armed guards, and loudly announced to everyone: "In order to save time, the auction has been changed to a one-time secret bidding, and the reserve price is 2,700 gold coins quoted by Mr. Seven......"
The buyers in the guest seats were in an uproar, and many of them were loudly protesting that this was different from what had been agreed before, and then the middle-aged man who was the one who spoke only continued in a non-negotiable tone: "If no one is willing to participate in the secret auction or if everyone's secret auction bids are less than two thousand seven hundred gold coins, then Miss Androni belongs to Mr. Seven!"
More than fifty guards had appeared around the venue at some point, and at least twenty people had gathered at the exit. On the face of it, things are probably non-negotiable, and even in another world where business is developed, the so-called "seller's market" is nothing more than that.
Next, the guests who were willing to participate in the secret auction raised signs to summon the guards to come forward to collect the wooden chips with the amount and number plate written down, and the atmosphere in the venue suddenly became tense from the previous commotion, and the footsteps of the guards walking in a hurry in the dull atmosphere of the venue were endless.
Although it is the freedom of the other party whether it is open or covert, even if it is worthless for the proud and stubborn human girl, but at this moment, the son of the abyss has no ability or position to meddle with other people's affairs. Probably instinctively, André felt that the sudden change in the auction house meant that something might have happened, and that the contrast between the slave traders who were the "masters" in front of him was a little too abrupt.
"They're already moving......" Volna stared blankly at the blue sky to the west, not knowing what to think.
In less than five minutes, Androni's belongings had already been decided, and a previously inconspicuous Mr. "Nineteen" had taken down the coveted beauty on the stage for 4,250 gold coins. As soon as the deal ended, the organizers left in a hurry surrounded by nearly a hundred guards, leaving behind a slightly cluttered venue and overwhelmed guests.
"Please intercept Logia, Mister Mephistopheles!" Seeing that the guests were also starting to leave, Volna cautiously asked the half-elves beside her, not only was this the first time she had used an honorific to the children of the abyss, but André could even see the unconcealed anxiety in her amber eyes.
"You mean that I am going to rob the human territory of the 'goods' that they have just bought and have not yet used!?" The face of the Children of the Abyss clearly reads, "Whoever is a fool will go".
"At this moment, the only person Logia can rely on is you, Mr. Mephistopheles, didn't you say that protecting us is the will of the goddess to you?" Seeing that the curly-haired fat man was leaving the venue with the fox girl surrounded by his entourage, Volna became uncharacteristically very excited, as if she was calm just before in a blink of an eye, she was actually just in a state like "Oscar for Best Actress".
"That can't make me outnumbered!?" Although he didn't know what to do, Andrei still put his reluctance on the face, acting or not is one thing, showing his attitude is another.
"As long as they can't take Logia away now, they won't be able to take her away, please sir, you must stop them for the sake of her future fate!" Not only did the wolf girl put on a desperate attitude of pleading, but Nanali, who had been pulling the sleeve of the children of the abyss, was already in tears at this moment.
Fat Larry and his overly quiet nephew stared at Andre in silence, they didn't know much about the half-elf druid in front of them, and they didn't understand why the power that seemed to be able to "save the world" at this moment could be in the hands of this young man named Mephistopheles.
André was concerned about the changes in the auction hall and the strange haste of the slave traders, and the wolf girl's attitude meant that she clearly knew something that no one else knew.
"Please tell me what happened. Now that he has decided to go up, the son of the abyss has changed his previous embarrassment and corrected his attitude.
"They're already here!" The half-elf's change of attitude at the moment made Volna feel that something could be done, and the uneasiness in the wolf girl's heart began to fade quickly at the thought of him pinching the chestnut railing out of his fingers.
"Who are they?" asked Andrei.
"My people, warriors of the Splittooth Clan, they are attacking this town with the wrath of our Talons!Please be sure to hold off the humans who have taken Lokia, as soon as our warriors arrive, the town will no longer be left to the humans!" Volna exclaimed.
A human next to him, who had not yet left and was looking a little dazed, suddenly changed his face when he heard this, obviously he was also very concerned about the completely unreasonable behavior of the slave traders of the organizers, although ordinary people would not listen to what an orc slave said, but for the sake of their own lives, they would rather believe it and squeeze towards the exit of the venue.
"I promise you to bring her back intact, simply because of the promise I made to her and Her Majesty Garlandia. The Child of the Abyss gently rubbed Nanali's little head, then turned and burrowed into the panicked crowd, and the head was lost in a blink of an eye.
"The shackles on his hands have not yet been opened. The blonde boy tugged at his uncle's sleeve.
"Those guys didn't have time to give me the keys just now...... If it's him, it shouldn't matter, right?" replied Larry, who was already flustering.