ACT045: Smile when you meet
Q: What should a 60-strong lizardfolk tribe do if they encounter four pawn owners?
Answer: Surrender!
When Weiss and the others rushed in and shot down with "fierce gods and evil spirits (lizardman perspective)", an old lizardman with two bundles of chicken feathers on his head and looked quite "leader-like" immediately rushed up, and then kowtowed in front of the four people in a clean and neat "tiger landing style", and shouted loudly in the common language of the words.
"A good man spares his life!"
“......”x4
There was no restraint at all, and the entire village of the lizardmen was taken down by the Wess without the slightest resistance. The boss of the other party, that is, the chief who had two bundles of chicken feathers on his head, because he had some "eyesight", so the first time he found that those who entered the village were "monsters" dressed in human skins, and the one who surrendered was called a simply!
"You're the boss here?" asked Weiss as he looked at the lizardman chief prostrate on the ground.
"Yes, I am. ”
"What's your name?"
"I—My name is Bloodhoof......"
"Hey, I don't think you're a minotaur either, is it really okay to call it that?" said that if you call it "Kita Village", then you are a god!
"Uh...... The small ones are indeed not minotaurs. ”
After that, Weiss and the others questioned the "Bloodhoof" chieftain, and filled in all the parts that were inferred before. Weiss had made many conjectures about the relationship between the lizard and the dragon, but when the truth was laid out in front of him, he was depressed to find that his previous conjectures were all wrong, and the relationship between the dragon and the lizardman was ...... It doesn't matter!
This tribe of lizardmen came here 50 years ago, when the dragon and the elf Shota (pseudo-mother?) Casper were still around, and the cave where they lived was the only way through the mountain. The lizardmen wanted to migrate to the southern part of the peninsula, but the dragon refused to let them pass because they feared they would harm the simple villagers of Dadio Village. The lizardmen, who couldn't move on, didn't turn around and leave, but stayed in the north of the mountain, and from time to time they would send something to "honor" the dragon master.
Unlike the itinerant bandits who make a living by robbing houses, this small tribe of lizardmen is actually not simple, they are all "breeding" lizardmen who escaped from a biological research institute in the Clancy Federation, and in a sense, they are not much different from domesticated domestic animals.
They were born from an organization in the Federation called the "Human Prestige Society", the full name of this organization is the "Human Dignity Protection Association", which aims to maintain and promote the dignity of the entire human race. Seventy years ago, this association came up with the idea of finding a "vassal race" for humanity so as not to fall in front of other highly intelligent races.
As we all know, in addition to the wanderers of the dragons, the elves have whale people, mermaids and goblins, the dwarves have goblins and goblins' vassal meows, and even the stupid black and coarse, and the orc race, which is still controversial, has two "brother races", one is a centaur and the other is a minotaur, but humans do not have their own "followers".
In view of this, the association has invested in a biological research institute in the hope that it can help domesticate a group of lizardmen, and then cultivate this race as vassals of the Chengren class.
Soon, the association obtained a batch of lizardman eggs according to the requirements of the research institute, and gave birth to a group of baby lizardmen through artificial incubation, and then directly trained these larvae, in order to produce results as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of the first test subjects showed an innate aggressiveness in their growth, and their learning ability was not satisfactory, with less than 30% of them being able to learn the lingua franca, and only half of them being able to meet the standards in all aspects, including the bloody hooves in front of Weiss.
Judging by the average level of intelligence displayed by the lizardmen, Bloodhoof is definitely the "genius" of this clan. Not only did he have a low wild surname, but he was also a good learner, being the first lizardman to learn the lingua franca of all the test subjects, and learned to grow and weave in other trainings, and even made a set of clothes out of his own cloth with the permission of the researcher.
Unlike fellow lizardfolk who are always bent on eating researchers, Bloodhoof is both in awe and awe of humans. Because the research institute is near a federal army artillery range, Bloodhoof can see humans firing through the window. From the complex and cumbersome magic cannon to the simple and convenient guide cannon, every time the humanoid target standing on the top of the mountain is wiped out under the bombardment, Bloody Hoof will pray in his heart that he will never become a target one day.
"Humans are really too powerful!"
Recalling that memory, the nearly 70-year-old Bloody Hoof couldn't help but shudder, and Weiss and others, who had entered the "listening to story mode", urged him to hurry up and continue, and they were listening to it!
Bloodhoof thought that he would spend his entire life in the institute, until one day, a careless guard was caught and killed by his superior counterparts because he was standing too close to the cage.
After snatching the keys from the guards, the violent men opened all the cage doors and led the human-hating lizardmen to wreak havoc on the institute, while Bloodhoof, after struggling for a while, chose to call the lizardmen who did not participate in the riot and fled. He was afraid that when the human cannon came, it would blow him up along with the rioters.
"Oh~!So, you guys ran all the way from the Clancy Federation in the north to get here?" Hearing this, Wess expressed doubts about their experience of crossing the entire Western Yan Continent, but Bloodhoof suddenly burst into tears.
"Five years! We fled from the Eastern Hiding Province for five whole years before we came to this place! Of the more than 40 companions, only the last 11 remained, and deceiving people was a last resort!"
30 years ago, the dragon was brought back by the family because of the cute Zhengtai, so after crying and flying away, the lizard people saw this and prepared to migrate to the south to live, but after the cave, they found that the opposite side had already been occupied by a human village of several hundred people, so in order to survive, Bloodhoof pretended to be the dragon's hand to deceive the villagers of Dadio Village, so that the other party thought that the dragon did not fly away, so that they could protect their village, and second, they could cheat some fish to eat.
At this point, the whole Longshan incident has basically been revealed! There are no dragons, no elves, just a group of poor lizardmen who cheat to eat and drink in order to survive. However, sympathy is sympathy, and Weiss still asks the lizardman chief Bloodhoof to go with them, and has deceived people for 28 years, and they have no right to say "forget it" for the deceived villagers.
When the next morning, when Weiss and his wife returned to the village with Bloodhoof and the lizardmen who had been responsible for carrying fish to the village, there was a small stir, and the passengers of the Laurel were stunned, and the sailors surrounded them with semi-automatic rifles and sailors' combat knives.
"What's going on? Didn't you go to the elves?"
"It's a little bit ...... It's hard to put into words!"
After summoning the village chief Wu Ke again, Weiss roughly explained the whole incident to him and the captain, who was amazed by the stain, and then went with Wei to see how Wu Ke would kill the lizardmen. After all, the fish they have been deceived in the past 28 years is not a small amount, and Weis, who has good mental arithmetic ability, is 438,000 kilograms in 28 years.
To the surprise of the indignant passengers around him, Wu Ke did not show the "due" anger of a deceived person, but squatted in front of Bloody Hoof and asked the other party with a solemn face.
"Brother, let me ask you, 8 years ago, we got a fever in our village, was it the medicine we gave me?"
"Yes, we have also had that kind of disease, and we can only get it by eating that kind of grass, so I have some picked and sent to you. I've lied to you for so many years...... I'm sorry!"
"I still want to say thank you, if you still want to eat fish in the future, just come and get it!"
In this way, the village chief Wu Ke forgave the lizardman so easily, and the other villagers, especially those who had a fever eight years ago, came to sincerely thank the bloody hooves who had saved them once, which surprised the passengers who thought they could see the "scene of anger", and sighed because of it.
After the crowd dispersed, Weiss approached the captain and reported back to them what they had found about the terrain.
"We have surveyed the terrain, and the cave is drilled through the mountain, and the other side is in the middle of the cliff about 120 meters above the ground, and as long as we can go down from there, we can walk to the Republic on our feet. ”
"But the problem is that from here into the inland, there are nearly 1,000 kilometers of primeval forest to cross, and these big men can't go so far by road!" pointed to the pot-bellied rich merchants behind him, and the captain who was over half a hundred years old but still had abdominal muscle contours cast a disdainful look.
"What do you think, then? My companion and I went out to report the news and contact the Republic's rescue, and you took the passengers here to stand by first. I swear by my personality that I will never abandon you. ”
Just now, Weiss had learned the "truth" about the communicator from the captain, and the technicians had only fixed the reception function, receiving the Imperial Navy's blockade notice from the public channel, and the distress signal had not been sent from the beginning to the end. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the captain said that the signal had been sent to stabilize the passengers' uneasiness.
"Now I can only ask you!"
Taking the initiative to take on the task of going out to ask for help, Weiss and Ling Lan and Adele immediately began to pack their backpacks and prepare to leave early the next morning, when Lena came to the door and asked to go with them. And Weiss saw that the other party jumped into the pit so actively, and unequivocally set his own conditions.
"Do you want to go together? Girl, sign a contract with me!"
ps: Regarding the place of "Dadio Village", I hope this is an "ideal place", some people may think that I write them very stupid, heartless, and simply "negative IQ", but I prefer to be with them than those ruthless characters who are wise and close to demons and decisive in killing, and then live a life without deceit.