Chapter 172 None of your business!
Chapter 172 None of your business!
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This is not a dream!
This is not an illusion!
"Chief! I miss you so much!"
The strong goblin clung to Zi Yi's leg, crying and shouting with snot and tears streaming down its face.
Ziyi is completely exhausted.
What on earth happened to this guy?
"Alright, strong kid. Get up!"
He kicked and pulled, lifting the strong boy up.
Good guy.
He hadn't seen clearly in the dark inside the mud house, but now he noticed that the strong young man had lost weight!
The skin is practically glued to the flesh!
"Waaaah~ Leader, I...I...I..."
"It's so noisy!"
Who is crying?
The goblins and new tribesmen who had just fallen asleep were woken up again and looked up.
"Not an enemy."
"Going to sleep."
They glanced at it and then lay back down to sleep.
Li Mosi walked out of the empty earthen house and saw Zi Yi, Zi An, and Haji Sheng staring at the burly goblin who was crying.
He found that the strong goblin was still strong, but so thin that his skin covered his muscles, looking like a fitness athlete preparing for a competition.
Muscle mass does not appear to have decreased.
He felt something was off, but that wasn't the point right now.
"Ziyi, ask it what's happened recently?"
Li Mosi never understood why the nobles were at odds with goblins.
He wanted to try and see if he could understand anything.
Zi Yi didn't think that much about it and gave the order to the strong boy.
"Don't cry yet. Tell me what's happened lately."
He's disliked this guy for a long time.
But that's because the strong boy didn't obey him.
But he found that the guy's current crying and wailing appearance made him even more annoyed!
It reminded him of the time when he wasn't strong enough!
"It's a suck—it's a gurgle."
The strong young man sniffled back his snot and choked out his recent experience.
Once the blue light in the sky began to fade, Zi Yi looked up and began translating for Li Mosi.
"Master, this creature said that after it was captured, it was afraid of being killed by humans, so it voluntarily started farming. It said it learned to farm using the methods you taught us."
"Because the land it cultivated was good, humans kept it. But later, humans wanted to humiliate it by having women mate with it. They even fed it drugs to force it to mate."
"Later it was taken to another human, and then brought back the same day. Later it tried to escape but failed. It was then shackled by the humans, and its daily food consisted of only half a loaf of bread."
What is all this about?
and many more.
The land you've cultivated looks good.
Li Moss pressed on, "Which plot of land is it planting on? How's it doing?"
Zi Yi Translation.
The strong boy answered with a squeaking sound.
Zi Yi looked up at Li Mosi.
"It said there was a piece of land outside the wall, to the south, next to a river. The crops on that land were a finger's height taller than the crops in the other fields. It also said that these crops grew very slowly, and so far they were only two fingers' height tall."
Where is the river here?
Li Mosi zoomed in on the map again and again before discovering a ditch running from west to east to the south, and a small bridge made of stones at the southern end of the dirt road next to the ditch.
That piece of land over the ditch... is being cultivated.
Li Mosi turned off the map and looked at Zi Yi.
"It grows wheat, not the beans that the tribe grows."
He didn't see any composting area, so he could only reasonably suspect that the strong goblin was mixing manure with water to fertilize the fields.
This approach is incorrect.
However, it's important to know that the local method of fertilizing fields involves driving livestock into the fields to defecate, and incidentally letting them use their mouths to remove weeds.
Compared to local practices, the Strong Goblin's methods are considered advanced.
"Tsk."
Zi'an frowned.
"Could it be because they can farm that those nobles want to capture goblins and have them work the land?"
She remembered what the old man had said earlier.
The goal of the slave-catching team was to capture goblins, not to kill them.
"ah--?"
Upon hearing this, the saint narrowed her eyes and drew out a long syllable.
like……
No...
It's not impossible, is it?
"Very likely."
Li Mosi nodded.
"Otherwise, they should have been harassing and hunting people with crossbows from all directions ever since the slave-catching team was defeated."
It's not like I was acting like a fool the day before yesterday.
Although this tactic is even less useful to him since he has the [Leshanshui] map, it can still cause some trouble.
Zi Yi looked at the strong young man with an unfriendly expression.
So you're the one who brought the humans here?
"never mind."
Li Mosi waved his hand.
"Now that we've won, these things don't matter anymore..."
Thump—
Suddenly, a sound like wood colliding violently came from the direction of the main house.
ga-
The main gate of the house has been opened!
"I said lord... oh dear!"
An old man walked out of the gate, about to shout something, when he was startled by the scene outside.
Why are there so many people!
Why are there so many goblins?!
bang bang bang-
He immediately tried to close the door, but Zi'an had already rushed over.
"Old butler, wait a minute!"
Old butler?
Li Moss did see a glowing spot with the word "aging" in the main house, but why would Knight Valos leave a butler behind when he took the soldiers with him?
"Enlian?! This... what is this...?"
Before the old man could close the door, Zi'an rushed over and blocked it with his hand.
He had no idea what was going on!
Li Mosi pulled the saintess up and spoke to Zi Yi as they walked.
"Let's go over there too. Let's check out the warehouse first."
Correct!
Zi Yi, who had just been traveling all night, realized what was happening.
They're here for the warehouse!
Soon, the three masters and disciples met the saintess at the entrance of the main house.
"Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you."
Zi'an was trying to comfort the old man, but he still looked wary and confused.
He glanced at Zi'an's noble armor, then at Li Mosi and the saintess he was holding, and then at Zi Yi.
He didn't know where to look or what he was looking at.
I felt that the feeling of "doubt" had overwhelmed my mind.
Li Mosi spoke directly.
"This territory is now ours. Take me to see the warehouse."
"Oh, yes, yes, sir."
The old man didn't say much, he just nodded repeatedly and turned around.
What can he do?
He's just an old blacksmith who hasn't worked in a long time!
"My lord, Sir Valos's warehouse is down below. We need to light an oil lamp before we can go in and check it out."
As he spoke, he carefully picked up the already lit oil lamp from the side, deliberately exposing all his actions to Li Mosi's eyes.
The warehouse is underground?
No wonder he didn't see any warehouse-like buildings on the map.
The Knights' territory has a fairly high level of architectural integration.
Seeing his strong will to survive, Li Mosi asked him directly.
"Who are you? Knight Valos and his soldiers have all fled, why are you still here?"
"Him... Old butler, you tell me yourself."
Zi'an was about to speak, but then seemed unsure and shut his mouth.
"My lord, my name is Farol the Blacksmith. I am not the steward. It's just that because I am somewhat respected by the people, the steward asked this old fellow to help him manage some affairs of the territory."
"When Sir Valos left, he only took his cook, servants, soldiers, and family with him. But I'm just a blacksmith, so he asked me to stay behind and help look after the house."
There was no plan.
Li Moss has preliminarily confirmed the credibility of this Farol through the entry.
He then asked.
"Do you know Enlian?"
"Of course, my lord."
Farol nodded.
"I was impressed by how she ate for a whole day a dozen days ago. We've arrived; the warehouse entrance is right here."
He led everyone to the warehouse entrance at the bottom of the stairs, took out a key exactly the same as the one in Li Mosi's hand, unlocked the door, and went inside.
"Yesterday, Sir Valos had his servants move a lot of things out of here, and there are no problems inside yet."
He quickly walked down the stairs.
"Please be careful, the stairs here are very narrow and steep, especially for that lady who is tied up with vines."
"None of your business! I'm doing it because I want to!"
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