Chapter 9: Recruiting Townspeople
Lazer is an ambitious goblin whose biggest dream is to dominate the Goblin Forest. After taking out the original leader, Lazer has been working hard, and after a few years of development, he has more than 400 brothers under his command, becoming one of the largest forces here. If he can defeat his old rival Lucan, his dream of dominating the Goblin Forest will come true.
Lucan is a gnoll, although there are only more than two hundred men, half of them are gnolls, and they are very strong. Although Lazer has many subordinates, they are mainly goblins with weak combat effectiveness, and there are only eighty races with strong combat effectiveness such as goblins and bear goblins, and the overall strength is limited to those higher than the Luken Regiment.
Although there are other forces, they are all second-rate, and Lazer does not think they are worthy of being his opponents.
On this day, Lazer was practicing martial arts, and suddenly there was chaos outside, and then someone came running to report: "Oh no, the king, someone is calling." ”
"Luken again?" Lazer sheathed his sword and went with his men to check it.
"No, it's not. It was the dragon that flew in the sky, and led dozens of goblins. ”
"Hmph, just this little bit of people and horses, dare to come and spread wild. "That dragon suddenly appears frequently these days, and it will fly in the sky. Although the other party is a dragon, it is only a dragon with a body about the size of a horse, and Lazer is not afraid of him. Now that he took the initiative to send it to the door, Lazer felt that the title of Dragon Knight Lazer was very suitable for him.
In the short minute that Lazer walked over, the shouting turned into a cry, which made him feel not very good, and he quickly quickened his pace. When I got there, dozens of goblins armed with spears were in a half-circle, only one half-orc with a stick similar to a monkey was in action, his own people were either down or in the process of falling, and some cowards had already surrendered on their knees with their hands raised.
Enraged, Lazer drew his sword to slay the monkey.
The captain of the monkey stick struck at him, and Lazer raised his shield to parry and wait for an opportunity to fight back.
With a loud bang, although Lazer successfully defended, the planned back move could not be used.
"This guy is good, I wanted to be stunned with a stick. ”
These were the last words Lazer heard before he fell unconscious.
Then Lazer and his brothers were taken to a forest where there was nothing and were "educated in naturalization." He found that there was a goblin in charge there, and his speech was very distinctive. "Goblins, my name is Number One, Jurgen Number One, and I am Master Mike's most loyal servant. For the sake of my compatriots, I advise you to be honest and educated, so that you can eat bread and sleep in tents in the future. Don't think about resisting or running away, Mike's master can do anything, whoever wants to die, whoever wants to die!
Again, if anyone can't figure it out, run if they want to run at night, the guards won't stop it by force, but if anyone dares to attack the guards, there is only one way out!
Now, a whip for each of you, this is to help you mend your ways, and let you remember the kindness of Mike's master!"
Lazer thinks this guy probably has a burning brain. But no one ran immediately, dragons and orcs hadn't gone far yet, and if they wanted to, they would have to run at night.
In the evening, when everyone fled, Number 1 did as he said, and only persuaded the goblins to ignore anything else. Therefore, those who were not seriously injured basically ran away.
As a result, the next day, everyone found out why Number 1 was indifferent to the escaped captives. The dragon flew high and saw far away, and found everyone at once. Then, naturally, I returned to the "naturalization camp", and there were many new faces. Of course, some brothers escaped, but some brothers fell on the way to escape...... No. 1 is still yesterday's words, and whether it is a newcomer or a person who escaped and was caught, everyone was treated equally and given a whip.
Among the new faces is Lazer's old rival Luken. Lucan was an artistic gnoll who traveled and performed with a troubadour as a child, presumably as a pet and assistant. Later, he was caught by a bandit group near Sentia, so he joined the bandit group and continued to perform. Later, when the bandit group was defeated, Lucan and a group of brothers escaped, and with his magical power and extraordinary knowledge, Lucan became the leader of the new bandit group.
Knowing that Sentia was powerful, Lucan decided to stay away from it to be safer. So he led the crowd to migrate, preparing to find a suitable place to establish a foundation. Luken has a nimble mind and good strength, and can also disguise himself as an orc to find information, leading his subordinates to raid the pioneer camp and attack passers-by along the way, rarely missing. They came to the Gnoll Forest three years ago, thought it was a good place, and settled down, at that time, Luken's men only had about 30 gnolls and 50 goblins.
In the past three years, under the leadership of Lucan, the bandit group has grown and grown, and there are already two hundred and forty or fifty men, half of them each of jackals and goblins. For such a long time, except for the victory and defeat with his old rival Lazer, Lucan was almost undefeated, with only one exception, and the loss was quite large.
It was a few months ago when his men discovered a newly established fish-man village. Fish-people can't stay out of the water for too long, so under normal circumstances, their villages should be on the bottom of the sea, at least some distance from the shore, and at a certain depth of water. But these guys, not knowing what disease they were committing, actually built the village on the shore. So Lucan was glad to take fifty or sixty of his men and prepare to rob the fishmen.
At first, everything went smoothly until a crab bigger than a house suddenly appeared in the sea. Luken knew that the situation was going to be worse and immediately ordered a retreat, but still more than two dozen of his men were entangled by the fishmen and could not escape. Then, he never had the idea of the fish-man village again. However, for some unknown reason, the fish people seem to have abandoned the village on their own.
Since then, Lucan has been wary of unknown forces.
A few days ago, everyone frequently found that there was a little red dragon flying in the sky, and at first Luken was worried for a few days, but later found that the dragon just flew into the sea every day, not looking for their trouble, and slowly put his mind at ease. Unexpectedly, just yesterday, some of my subordinates reported that some humans and goblins came to the seaside, and they didn't know what to do, and they seemed to be in the same group as the little red dragon.
Lucan felt that something was wrong at the time, so he sent someone to monitor it. As a result, before the results of the monitoring came out, the little red dragon brought a half-orc, three humans, and seven dwarves, leading more than a hundred goblins and goblins, and came to the door.
"Lay down your arms and surrender immediately, I can give you a chance to join the Sanzang mercenary group and accept my wise leadership!" said the dragon.
The brothers are used to being at ease, and when they encounter such a thing, they immediately pick up the guys and prepare to give them some color to see.
But soon, everyone found out that this color is more comfortable to look at......
Then Lucan arrived at the naturalization camp and met his old rival, Lazer, who by this time had more than six hundred people in the camp.
Number 1 repeated what he had said yesterday and gave each of the newcomers a whip.
In the evening, Lucan wanted to run, but seeing that his old rival Lazer did not move, he felt a little strange, so he decided to wait and see.
On the third day, Lucan understood why Lazer had not run away, and many of those who had escaped the previous night had been captured. If you ask carefully, there are still some fish who escaped the night before yesterday and were not caught yesterday.
Luken got it! They're fishing. Fish out those who do not obey their rule, kill chickens and monkeys again and again, and slowly everyone will obey, or they will be killed by chickens who are used as monkeys. But even if Luken understood, he couldn't help it, and it was not easy to escape the dragon's pursuit. Later, Lucan and Lazer made another attempt, which only proved the dragon's ability to hunt down.
Mike didn't want to do anything like fishing, he was just practicing the truth discovered by the great sage Pavlov, and let these cats and dog-like creatures use their bodies to learn conditioning.
The villagers whom Sal recruited by force were first beaten with a killing whip and then locked up in a domestication camp in the woods. The guards of the campers there had nothing to do with the heavy security, and it was only slightly better than nothing. This level of guarding naturally could not prevent the campers from escaping. But run, run, Mike doesn't care, conditioning is like that, let them learn from their mistakes.
Those who didn't run every morning gave them magic bread to eat and be domesticated. Those who run away don't have to go out of their way to hunt them down, and they can't run far if they have nothing, and most of them go to other tribes. Thrall has to go out to catch people every day, and Mike and Goku often help out, as long as they don't move out of the area, they will always be caught.
The people who were captured every day, regardless of whether they were newly captured or fugitives, were all killed and whipped, and then thrown into the domestication camp for domestication.
The content of domestication was to teach the campers to bathe with whips, to use toilets, and to obey orders. The domestication camp is held every two days, and it is "closed" every morning on even days. No matter when you come, as long as you meet the standards at the end of the course, you can go to Sanzang Town to work as a construction worker, and the food standard will be much higher. If you can't finish your job, you'll have to be whipped and wait for the next opportunity. The so-called "graduation criteria" are naturally the three major items of bathing, using the toilet and obeying orders.
The "orders" in the so-called "obey orders" are "go this way", "go there", "stop", "run", "wait", "sit down", "stand up", "be quiet", "eat", and "move stones".
When I arrived in Sanzang Town, although the food standard was higher, it was now November, and the unsheltered seaside was much colder than in the forest. Based on the survival experience taught by Bei Ye, Mike asked the villagers to dig pits and lay dry grass and dead leaves to sleep in. It's certainly not very comfortable, but at least it doesn't freeze to death. After a while, when it was enough to freeze to death, the humble house was almost finished.
Sanzang Town's guarding of the townspeople is worse than nothing. First of all, the town guards are quite scarce, and secondly, even if you run away under the nose of the goblin guard, he may not care about you. The duty of the goblin guards is to prevent anyone from infiltrating the living quarters of Mike and the others in the middle of the town, regardless of the fugitives, it is all up to personal preference. Anyway, Sal has to go out every day to catch people, and those who have been caught have to go to the domestication camp to go again.
In order to compensate for the weakness of the guards, Mike organized the townspeople into groups of ten and introduced an advanced system of joint sitting. It's hard to say exactly how much of a contribution it took, but judging from the results, it is very rare for the townspeople to escape. After all, the level of vigilance of the domestication battalion is not much stronger, and if you want to run, you can run as far as you can. Those who have been "domesticated", whether they have been caught many times or for other reasons, have a rather low willingness to escape.