The first thing I saw was a wolf's head. Not the wolf's head with a foul smell of gas in its nose and a ghostly fire in its eyes, but a sign of shame and sorrow that cannot return to the earth and the sky even if you die. In the steppes, people were only allowed to keep the skins of the domestic animals they raised or the bodies of prey they killed with their own hands, and no one was allowed to use the bodies of animals or people for decorative purposes except shamans. So, as the striped banner with the wolf's head slowly rose over the line of the hills, Batu and Kairaz knew the origin of what they had seen.

The team of the wolf lords, to be precise, appeared on the ground in the distance of them belonged to the team of the previous wolf lord who had been confirmed dead and had an obituary. According to steppe customs, when people die, they either give their bodies to wild beasts or return them to the earth, and the so-called return to the earth is not to find a place to build a cemetery like those in the plains, they have a more traditional practice. It is to tie the body to a pallet on the back of a horse or similar animal, and then a friend or relative drives the animal forward until the body falls to the ground, and the place where the fall becomes the burial place of the deceased. In the same way, the deceased who is so buried will not have a monument erected or a grave, and only those who participate in this farewell ceremony will be able to reach the true place where he is laid to rest. In this way, there will be no tomb robbers or enemies to disturb the peace of the deceased, and those who can get there and call his name must be those close to him.

"It seems that the wolf lord died earlier than the messenger said, otherwise the funeral procession would not have come here. Kailas narrowed his eyes slightly, the funeral ceremony of the wolf lord, this is a landscape that you can't see for how long you have lived on the grassland. Traditionally, the person at the head of the procession must be related to the deceased, and the deceased will inform him of the path they will take the next day in a dream or omen at night. In this way, the leader of this funeral should be the daughter or granddaughter of the previous wolf master.

"Do you know the girl, if it is the daughter of the wolf lord, it will be more or less famous among the surrounding tribes, especially a young lady like this, and men of the right age will always keep an eye on her adult years. The cat fairy turned to look at Batu with a bit of a joke, even if the water antelope tribe was a tribe that was more dependent on the blue lion, they were inseparable from the people in power on the grassland. In this case, it is likely that Batu will know the identity of the leader of the funeral procession in front of him, after all, the female offspring who can marry the wolf lord or Shan Yu is a symbol of warriors.

Somewhat to Kailas's surprise, in the face of this sarcasm, Batu's face was unusually calm, and even sad. The man's gaze was not on the woman at the front of the line, but at the lonely figure lying on a flatbed cart pulled by four horses in the center of the line. The man was dressed only in the most rudimentary garments, for he was about to return to the earth, and it would be of no benefit to him to be dressed in fine clothes. At this time, Batu clearly realized that the death of the so-called hero was nothing more than a stripe.

Lothar sensed the falconer's thoughts, so she reached out and gently pressed Kailas's head, "Let's go, it doesn't matter who that girl is." The important thing is that we should not be outside of this team. If that body falls here, we are desecrating the meaning of the ritual itself. ”

The cat fairy slapped the Count's hand away in displeasure, he didn't think that mortal traditions and beliefs deserved so much respect. But Kelas had experienced Lothar's rigidity in some ways, and he knew that this chivalrous guy wouldn't allow him to stay on the sidelines. And to be honest, the cat goblin is no match for the earl in terms of hand and foot kung fu without using weapons, so he can only complain dissatisfied, "Usually the problem only happens when you say something like this." ”

Exclamations, as the whining had not yet dissipated in the wind. The three men hiding in the grass looked towards the source of the exclamation, and they saw an unexpected scene, the imaginary scene of the corpse falling did not happen, but on the contrary, a group of about twenty or thirty people rushed out of the grass on the other side of the hill, judging from the fact that they were not riding horses and holding weapons, there was no doubt that they were in ambush. And just when the three of them thought they were about to see this ambush force clash with the wolf lord's funeral procession, some or most of the funeral procession drew their weapons and put them around the necks of their companions. This was not an ambush, but a mutiny that had been planned for a long time.

"It's starting to get interesting. Are you still going to leave?" a slight growl in the cat elf's voice was a testament to his excitement. And seeing such a scene, Lothar, who is a knight, and Batu, who is also a subordinate tribe of the wolf lord, really can't be regarded as not seeing it. Of course, this does not mean that they will expose themselves without any intention, but they still need to wait and see.

"Chirp!" the goshawk hovered in the air, providing Batu with more information, and the eyes from the air were especially important after spotting that there might be troops in ambush around.

"Let's guess what's going on, I think it's because of the Thread, and humans are always going to war because of the Thread. The thread in the mouth of the cat fairy does not refer to the real yarn ball, it is just his usual metaphor, the metaphor of the cat, the line ball can refer to money, status, power, in general, the line ball is profit.

Lothar's gaze swept across the plains below, and as a military lord from a noble family of greylions, he was all too familiar with this situation. Spies, ambushes, betrayals in the wilderness, any casualties can be attributed to accidents or even ghosts, "That girl is in trouble, and whoever she offends, it seems that these people are going to bury her with her father." ”

The situation was indeed as the Count had suggested, centered on the girl who carried the flag, with her cronies behind her in the midst of it, and beyond them were several times as many traitors and enemies. As for the poor servants who knew nothing about it, they had become the first to shed blood. That's why Lothar said that the people wanted the girl to die, and to silence the idlers, which meant that what was going to happen next should never be known to anyone who didn't know about it.

"What should we do?" Batuu's breathing was slightly short, and although he had seen far more magnificent and incredible images than wars between humans, he still felt helpless when such a conspiracy that ordinary people should not have been exposed to was unfolding before his eyes. Because he is not facing monsters that harm the world, the definition of right and wrong is even more blurred among his kind.

If it had been before, Lothar, who was protecting the weak in the knight's creed, would probably choose to rush to help the weaker side. But now, the Count no longer has that impulse in his eyes, there is always a struggle in this world, and the struggle will take place in the sea, in the sky, in the shadows, and the result of throwing limited power into an infinite struggle is the separation of his wife. This didn't mean that Lothar was selfish or timid, but after realizing that pointless fights were so frequent, he chose to decide more carefully when to wield his tomahawk.

"Let's see, we're all outsiders. ”

Nine Heavenly God Emperors