170. Chapter 170: Hope
After successfully blasting the fourth-order sand leopard demons, Du Long dodged and rushed towards those sand leopard demons who were scared silly, and his palms covered with golden scale armor clenched the Red Flame Slash and launched a fierce attack on those sand leopard demons!
Every time the knife fell, it naturally carried the technique of Xuanyang Double Stacking Waves, those sand leopard demons only had the share of being divided in front of the Red Flame Slash, and the distance was far away, Du Long swung his knife and drew a flame blade, chopping the sand leopard demon in the distance into pieces!
"Kill!" the villagers of Nanshan Village, driven by him, once again burst out with terrifying combat power, thinking of the dozens of clansmen who died tragically in a few moments just now, and they began to hunt down these hateful sand leopard demons one by one with red eyes.
The fourth-order sand leopard king was killed, where did these low-level sand leopard demons still have the will to fight, and they had already had the idea of retreating, and no one would care about them, and some sand leopard demons on the periphery began to gradually withdraw from this battlefield.
With these sand leopard demons taking the lead, the other sand leopard demons are all desperately trying to escape from this place, but the villagers of Nanshan Village and Du Long don't want to let them go easily, and are still trying their best to strangle these hateful beasts!
Even Xiao Lie carried two beauties to join the chase, with its speed, it was not difficult to catch up with a few sand leopard demons and kill them, and even the two girls took advantage of the chaos to kill one or two sand leopard demons!
Since Du Long appeared, it only took a moment to disintegrate the powerful offensive of the sand leopard demon group, and the originally one-sided battle immediately reversed, evolving into a situation where the human team desperately pursued and killed the sand leopard demon, and after hundreds of sand leopard demons threw down at least one or two hundred corpses, they all fled to the great desert in the northeast!
The ensuing finishing work naturally didn't have to be busy with Du Long, and the village chief Hu Guo began to arrange for people to count the losses and collect the corpses of the sand leopard demons that had been successfully killed, which were all the trophies of the whole night!
By the bonfire, seeing Hu Yan carrying a bag, followed by more than a dozen villagers with grim faces, Du Long and the three of them immediately stood up and greeted him!
"Brother Hu, have we counted the casualties in Nanshan Village this time?!" Du Long looked at the northwest man with a concerned face, although he had a rough estimate of the loss in his heart, he still couldn't help but ask.
"Thirty-six people died, 15 were seriously injured and disabled, and 59 were seriously wounded!" Hu Yan said with a sinking face: "This is the biggest casualty I have suffered since I became the village head!"
"Alas, what I never understand is why so many sand leopard demons are attacking our camp?!" Du Long sighed softly.
"Sand Leopard Demons usually like to stay in the grasslands on the south bank of the Cangqiong River to hunt for all kinds of low-level demon beasts, and occasionally go north to the desert at night to look for food, among which the Sand Leopard Demon is one of their favorite foods! Usually the Sand Leopard Demons go north to the desert in groups of three or five, this time for some reason, there are hundreds of sand leopard demon groups, maybe our camp is just blocking their way!" Hu Guo replied with a gloomy face.
"This has come to this, you can only mourn!" Du Long could only comfort helplessly in the end.
The north wind howled, whining and wailing over the camp, and many of the surviving villagers were immersed in infinite grief in the camp where the hunting team of Nanshan Village was located.
For the Hu people of the Great Northwest Wasteland, this kind of painful experience happens once or twice every few years, and every time they go out to hunt, they are prepared for the worst that they can't go back!
Outside the camp, a new grave has emerged, where more than 30 villagers from Nanshan Village are buried together, for those who go out to hunt, they would rather be buried on the spot after death, rather than drag the living people down, and they don't want the corpse to return to the village to make it even more unbearable for their relatives to see!
Finally survived until dawn, the villagers of Nanshan Village don't have to hunt anymore today, the one or two hundred sand leopard demons killed last night are enough, and there is no need to continue to fight hard.
More than 100 Northwest Han people gathered in front of the new grave, silently seeing off the dead brothers, no one shed tears, in the minds of the Hu people, only the good men of the Hu people who shed blood and sweat, and there will never be a crying seed!
"%¥#%!%¥##@!%#¥!%@!#" The village head, Hu Guo, prayed for the deceased clansmen in the unique language of the Barbarian Hu Kingdom, and finally raised his head to the sky and let out a cry of sorrow, and all the Nanshan villagers immediately followed him and shouted loudly.
At this point, the farewell ceremony was finally over, Hu Guo took all the clansmen to turn around and come to Du Long and the three, this group of iron-blooded men in the northwest made a noise, all knelt on one knee, and performed the highest etiquette of the Hu clan on Du Long, and his right hand hit the left chest three times in a row!
"Brother Hu, what are you doing?!Hurry up!" Du Long hurriedly stepped forward to help them up.
"Little Brother Dulong, if it weren't for you, all of us would have been in the belly of the sand leopard demon last night! Thank you for your great kindness! If you need our help in the future, just ask! Our lives will be yours from now on!" Hu Guo shouted with great gratitude.
"Brother Hu Guo, all the brothers of Nanshan Village! Even if the camp of strange humans is attacked by a group of monsters, I will help if I can, not to mention that our camp in Nanshan Village is attacked, I Du Long have no reason to care?! Everyone get up!" Du Long looked at this group of simple men and said loudly.
"Let's all get up!" Hu Guo took the lead in standing up and waved to many Nanshan villagers: "The kindness of Dulong's little brother, we Nanshan Village will never forget!
Only then did all the villagers get up, then dispersed, and began to divide up to prepare for the relevant matters of going home, and when they passed by Du Long's side one by one, they would greet him with a sincere smile on their faces!
At this time, Hu Guo carried a bag and handed it to Du Long and said, "Little Brother Du Long! These are all the sand leopard demon pills that you hunted last night!
"No, no, Brother Hu Guo, these demon pills were exchanged for your life, and I absolutely can't accept them!" Du Long hurriedly shook his hand and refused.
"If it weren't for Brother Dulong's action, we would have already become the belly of the sand leopard demon, how could we still have the ability to hunt so many demon pills, therefore, these demon pills should all belong to you!" Hu Guo insisted.
"Let's put it this way!Brother Hu Guo, there are a lot of brothers in Nanshan Village who died this time, so I will sell these demon pills, and then distribute the money to the families of those brothers who died!" Du Long could only find an excuse to continue refusing.
"This ......" Hu Guo was obviously moved by Du Long's proposal, but he was still a little hesitant.
"Don't do this or that!Brother Hu Guo, do you think I look like a person who is short of money?!" Du Long interrupted with a smile.
"That's fine! Anyway, I owe a great favor for saving my life, and it doesn't hurt to receive more favors! I would like to thank Du Long's little brother for the bereaved family members in Nanshan Village!" Hu Guo finally accepted Du Long's proposal, there was no way, there were too many victims this time, and he, the poor village chief, really needed this money to settle those family members!
After a simple breakfast, Du Long followed the team of Nanshan Village on the way home, originally hunting one or two hundred sand leopard demons should be a very happy thing, but because of too many casualties, the atmosphere of the team going home seemed a little depressing.
"Brother Hu Guo! The living conditions in this area are so bad, haven't you considered moving your clansmen to live on a safe and rich land?!" On the way back to Nanshan Village, Du Long couldn't help but ask.
For us Hu people, we dream of living in a rich land like heaven, but unfortunately, the Haotian Empire rejects us Hu people very much, and will not give us a rich territory to live in!" Hu Guo sighed lightly.
"If I am willing to provide Brother Hu with rich land, are you willing to go back with me?!" Du Long said what he had thought for the past few days.
"Is this true?!" Hu Guo raised his voice in disbelief.
"I believe that Brother Hu Guo also knows a little about my person, do I seem to be a person who can talk about it?!" Du Long replied with a smile.
"Of course, there is no problem with Brother Dulong's behavior! As I said just now, you gave us the lives of these people, even if you want us to go up the Sword Mountain and go to the sea of fire, let alone let us go to live on the rich land!" Hu Guo said excitedly.
"In that case, then tell Brother Hu about my general situation!" Du Long made a decision after pondering for a while, and began to explain to this simple northwest man: "Presumably Brother Hu also knows that I am the lord of Fengli County, and in addition to owning a county, I also own a large area of land inside the Demon Beast Forest!"
"In recent years, the relationship between my Haotian Empire and the Blue Moon Empire has gradually become tense, and in the near future, there will definitely be a big war between the two empires! Therefore, in recent years, I have worked hard to develop my secret military force and establish a powerful demon beast army in my territory!"
"I found that your Hu people's physique is relatively strong, and they are very suitable for joining my heavy armor demon beast cavalry regiment, therefore, I want to collect a large number of Hu people who are willing to leave this great wasteland, and in my territory, I will give you the most fertile land to cultivate, if your prime men are willing to join my demon beast army, I will also give each of you a monthly gold coin!"
Hu Guo was stunned and said: "There are hardware coins every moonlight army?!"
"That's right!" Du Long nodded with great certainty.
"And fertile land for our people to cultivate?!" Hu Guo continued to ask stupidly.
"Exactly!" Du Long reconfirmed, somewhat amusedly.
Suddenly slapped his thigh, Hu Guo immediately said excitedly: "Haha, such a good thing, then do you still need to think about it?" Of course I'm a hundred willing!"
"Great!" Du Long also said excitedly: "Brother Hu Guo! I don't think there are many people in just one Nanshan Village, you see that with the conditions I offered, is there a way to contact more villages nearby to join?!"
"As long as the conditions you give are valid, little brother Dulong, then I dare to guarantee that it will be no problem to gather tens of thousands of people within a month!" Hu Guo patted his chest and promised.
"Then it's a deal! As long as you are willing to join, I promise that before leaving, each family will be given ten gold coins as a deposit!" Du Long obviously wanted to make it smoother for Hu Guo to gather people, and he actually offered such attractive conditions.
"Haha! That's even better! With your assurance, I'm sure all the villages in the vicinity will be willing to follow suit!" Hu Guo replied with an excited smile.
Du Long has known him for a long time, although it has not been long, but he has always been able to feel that this big brother Hu is hearty on the surface, but in fact he is under heavy pressure, the kind of pressure that can't see any hope and lives in danger all day long is the most terrifying.
Obviously, the current Hu State seems to have finally seen the hope of his people getting out of the sea of suffering, and this hope is completely pinned on Du Long, a young man!
It's April Fool's Day again, and when I wake up in the morning, I receive several strange messages, and I am inexplicably remembering what day it is