"Eldest sister, you actually asked them for thirty kilograms of food. Leaving the Patriarch of Chiron who was very grateful, the five men followed behind Barto and led the way, and on the way Vivien said to Catherine in surprise: "It really scared me. ”

"Well, we were taken aback. Lina and Freya nodded together and looked at Catherine in surprise.

"I'd like to give them all the skin and meat. Catherine said solemnly, "But that's not the right thing to do. Although these orcs have a difficult life, they still have their own pride and persistence, even if I really want to give it to them, they will not accept it, otherwise they will not need to be nomadic, just find a fixed tribe to join, there will always be someone to take them in. Sometimes it's like this, giving things directly to others is charity, which is likely to hurt the other party's self-esteem, in fact, in the long run, it is not good for the other party, but the exchange of goods is different, even if the value does not want to wait, it is also a voluntary transaction, both have to pay, and the dignity of the other party will not be harmed, so I am exchanging food with them. ”

"No, eldest sister, you misunderstood what I meant. Vivian turned her face and smiled weirdly and said, "I'm just surprised that you are willing to make an unfair transaction, which is a loss, and I am afraid that you will regret crying at night." ”

"Be careful that I beat you. Catherine raised her fist menacingly, but still explained, "I can't help it, but I can't help it." The meat of the severed tail dog is dry and hard, very untasty, and there are too many of them, and they have not been smoked, and there is no time to smoke, the weather is so hot during the day, it is estimated that it will spoil in one day, and we can't take it away at all. As for their skins, more than a hundred skins need to occupy a lot of space, and we may have to throw away some items in our bags to fit them, and these skins can only be sold for a dozen silver coins together, which items are not more expensive than them? In this case, it is better to use the useless waste that we can only throw away in our eyes to exchange for something really useful, and in general, we still make money. Hehe, I'm not willing to trade at a loss, or I'll probably regret it. ”

"Here we are, here it is. The girls who were chatting heard Bato's prompt, and looked up to see that Bato had led everyone to their tent, and was explaining to the only remaining subordinates: "You go back to the tent first, keep our goods, be sure to keep an eye out for those thieves, I will take them away for a while, and everything will be said when I come back." ”

When Bren had returned to the tent, Barto mysteriously beckoned to everyone, walked around his tent, and came to the back of the tent not far away, where two empty carriages were parked, one had been used as a tool to defend the camp, and it was covered with scratches from the dead-tailed dog, and the other was fine, still in its original appearance, and the four horses pulling the cart were leisurely nibbling on the grass in the trough.

Not long after approaching the two carriages, Pannis's ears suddenly moved, and he frowned and glanced at Bato, but did not speak, but concentrated as if he was listening to something, and the girls knew that Pannis's senses were sharp, and they did not speak. After a full minute, Pannis said in confusion, "How did I never know that your dwarf business also involved human trafficking?"

"You found out?" Barto was stunned, but this time he reacted fairly quickly to what Pennis meant, and said in surprise, "How did you find out?"

"The sound of a heartbeat. Pannis was still puzzled and said, "But the heartbeat is so slow that it's almost hard to believe that it's a heartbeat, only once a minute, not like a ...... at all Oh, I see, that's your Lord Serra, using your dwarven life-saving petrification secret method. It is said that this racial talent is very taxing on the body, and it takes several years to recover after using it once, and the longer it goes, the greater the burden, and I haven't heard of anyone using it for a long time. ”

"Petrification Secret Method?" Lina looked up in surprise and exclaimed, "You mean the skill that makes you infinitely close to a stone statue? ”

"Yes, it does. Pannis nodded, "After all, the dwarves are the children of the earth, at least half of them are the children of the earth, and they are also the only creation behavior that Denia participates in, so it is not surprising that this talent is given to the dwarves." I wonder why she is using this skill on herself, is it so bad?"

"Lord Sierra is wounded, and poisoned. Bato said gloomily: "If you are not injured, those poisons will not have much effect on adults, if you are not poisoned, those injuries can wait for you to heal, but the combination of the two is very troublesome, enough to threaten the lives of adults." So the adults have no choice but to use the petrification talent to protect themselves, and then I am responsible for bringing the adults back to the clan for treatment. ”

"Why don't you go to the nearest priest for treatment?" Lina asked, "I remember when I talked to the Chiron patriarch, they also returned from the human country, and there was always a priest there." ”

"We can't trust them. "The situation was so critical that there could be no more room for error," Bartow said. ”

"What the hell is going on?" Catherine asked with a frown, "It would make you so hostile to the humans around you." ”

"I'll explain it to you from the beginning. Barto sighed and whispered, "I'm a squadron leader of the Hill Dwarven Council Guard, and I'm responsible for keeping the Councillor safe. Some time ago, because the clan needed to establish a trade agreement with a duke of the Neville Federation, the name of the duke needed to be kept secret, and Lord Serra personally led a team to the duke to negotiate. Because the councillors traveled in person, the protection measures were very tight, and the team was led by the captain of our parliamentary guard, a legendary-level weapon master, and the members of the guard selected twenty gold-ranked, one hundred silver-ranked, and accompanied by a legendary-level human mage. In addition, Lord Serra himself is a Legend, and there are three Legendary, twenty Gold, and one hundred Silver in the entire team. ”

"What's wrong with you dwarves lately? Catherine asked directly: "Such a team can affect the outcome of a large-scale war, it is a powerful exaggeration in every way, if there is no problem, no one can want to use such a strong lineup as an escort." ”

"There's really nothing wrong with the clan. Barto shook his head and said, "But this guard was requested by Lord Serra herself, maybe she knows something, but I don't know much about it." ”

"Okay, I see, you go on. Catherine pondered for a moment and nodded, "What happened next?"

"The negotiations should go smoothly, and although I don't understand it, I can guess it from the mood of adults. After a total of ten days, we returned to Couran with two truckloads of precious samples. On the way back, nothing happened for the first two days, but on the third day, there was a lot of trouble, the axle of a car was broken, and it took a lot of time to repair it, and it did not reach the city that the captain had planned for his trip, so he could only spend the night in a small village of five or six hundred people nearby. ”

"The people in the village, men, women, and children, were very welcoming, and it would have been a lot of trouble for us to stay in the village, but they quickly made room for us, and the village chief entertained us. Originally, Serra-sama was reluctant for everyone to participate, but after seeing the enthusiastic villagers in person, he felt that there was no problem, so he agreed. ”

"Huh. Pannis let out a meaningless chuckle and shook his head slightly: "Even if she is a councilor, there are times when she is confused, maybe the smooth journey has made her let her guard down, she knows that there may be danger." But she can't be blamed entirely, who would have thought that people who don't know those guys. ”

"yes. Catherine agreed: "Now that we know that something happened, we can think that the problem must have been at the banquet, but they didn't have an accident at the time, so it's hard to predict." Mr. Barto, was it the Assassins who infiltrated the villagers and assassinated Councilor Serra at a banquet?"

"It's that simple. Panistibato replied: "The style of the Shadow Hand is not as simple as you think, it's not that the assassins will assassinate the villagers, I'm afraid that the whole village, all the villagers are disguised as assassins." ”

"Are ......," said Catherine, in disbelief, and with anger, "they killed hundreds of people in the village, and then disguised themselves as villagers? ”

"It doesn't have to be a slaughter village, if you want to slaughter a village, there needs to be a real village, if even that village is fake, there is no need to slaughter the village at all. Pannis's expression was normal, and he said leisurely: "The traces left by the slaughter village are very heavy, especially the smell of blood, if you don't deal with it, you will definitely find it with the sensitivity of the legendary level, but it is very troublesome to deal with, it is far better to directly build a fake village." With the level of those forgers in the hands of the shadows, you can build those wooden houses as if they had been used for decades. ”

"Is it really like what Pannis said?" Catherine still couldn't believe it.

"Definitely. Barto said bitterly, "All the villagers are Assassins, and all of them are high-ranking Assassins. They couldn't see it in disguise, and all the members of the guard, including the captain and Master Serra, as well as the Mr. Mage, thought they were just a bunch of ordinary people, until they suddenly made a move at the banquet. Ten seconds, only ten seconds, including that Mr. Mage, more than eighty brothers were killed almost simultaneously in ten seconds, and Lord Serra and the captain were seriously injured. ”

"Shhh Catherine felt chills all over her body, and it was hard to imagine that the Assassin in the shadows would have acted on such a large scale. (To be continued.) )