"Four, I think I have also shown you my sincerity." Yan Mo looked at the four dwarves.
Luo Gan, who was the loudest, also looked at the people in the audience speechless at this moment. This surprise was too great for him to bear.
Same goes for oppa and kati. Can you imagine? Just now, they were thinking of going all out to curse Jiuyuan with their lives, souls, and the health of the offspring of the two races, but when they walked up to the high platform with a feeling similar to offering sacrifices, they saw what they thought was dead. The clansmen with similar incomes are still alive and well.
Katie was even a little embarrassed to face Opa Zuwu, because the Momo tribe seemed to be in much better condition than the Lolo tribe.
The four dwarves looked at the two humans who were much taller than them with complex expressions. How much they hated before, how entangled they are now.
"I believe you can also see the difference between our Jiuyuan and other tribes. We don't like to kill indiscriminately, and we don't like to invade and attack other tribes, but we will never let our enemies go."
Every time Yan Mo paused, he would leave enough time for the dwarves to understand and ponder.
"Four, this is the last question. Do you choose to be friends with Jiuyuan and let your people use labor to repay the previous debts, or choose to be enemies with Jiuyuan?"
Katie's expression was still a little struggling, and Oppa had already looked at Yan Mo, as if she had made a decision, but before that, she needed to make another confirmation, "What will happen if we become enemies? Kill us all?"
"That depends on what our leader wants to do." As soon as Yan Mo's voice fell, Yuan Zhan's cold and cruel eyes swept over the four of them. This man did not hide his murderous intent at all.
Opa, "Then what does it mean to ask my people to use labor to pay off their debts? You want to turn all our people into slaves?"
"No, I think you and Katie have been together for so long, so you should be very clear about Jiuyuan's way of doing things. We don't like slaves in Jiuyuan, and we don't need slaves."
Oppa gasped secretly.
Yan Mo, "Jiuyuan has provided shelter and shelter for your two races, and you need to pay the corresponding price. Similarly, you have made trouble in Jiuyuan and caused great troubles to the life and development of Jiuyuan people, and you must pay correspondingly for this." During the repayment period, we will not restrict the freedom of your two races, you only need to complete what we need you to do according to the specified requirements and time."
"What if it can't be done?"
"If it can't be done, in order to recover our losses, we will exchange your clansmen for slaves of other clans, let them work on your behalf, and give them a free status."
"What's the difference between this and letting us be your slaves?" Opa Zuwu smiled bitterly.
"It's a big difference." Yan Mo said patiently: "First of all, except for repaying debts, anything you hunt, plant or other things belongs to you. Secondly, no one will beat you with a whip, only someone will check and accept As long as the results of your labor and the content of debt repayment are qualified, no one will care about you. Third, you will not be separated, and you can still live together with the same race and tribe, and the patriarch and ancestral witch will also be reserved for you. "
If it was said that Opa Zuwu felt that life was gloomy, then she began to doubt whether what the young priest said was true or not. If according to what he said, what is the difference between this and the ancestor worshiping clan living here, and then trading with Jiuyuan? It's just that they unilaterally give things in a short period of time as a price for repaying debts, but even so, they have a lot of freedom.
So Opa Zuwu couldn't help but asked tremblingly, "How much do we need to do?"
"Not much, it's equivalent to building three houses for one of you."
Opa Zuwu didn't think about it, and said pleasantly at the moment: "Really?"
Yan Mo nodded, "If you agree, we can swear to each other in the name of our ancestors and gods in front of all the clansmen."
The dwarves have no room for hesitation, and this is their best choice at present, if what Yan Mo said is true.
Together with Yan Mo, the four dwarves, Oppa, Katie, Logan and Lang Lang, swore an oath in the name of their ancestors and ancestor gods in front of the Momo, Lolo, Jiuyuan people and mermaids.
The matter seems to have been resolved so far, but the Jiuyuan people are not very happy, they always feel that Master Mo is too soft on the dwarves.
The mermaids are also not optimistic about Priest Jiuyuan's behavior. There is no control, no coercion, and no real deterrence. How can those dwarfs who have tasted the sweet taste of betrayal willingly and honestly work for Jiuyuan
It can be said that many people don't understand why Yan Mo did this, including Yuan Zhan who knows him best, because his priests don't even care that the dwarves will take this opportunity to escape from Jiuyuan.
Yan Mo didn't bother to explain any more, and he couldn't tell others which countries or nations had done the same thing, and he couldn't tell Yuan Zhan and others, because the dwarves didn't really kill a Jiuyuan person, and he couldn't either. Too cruel to dwarves. This was something he only realized after the few small punishments he received for taking action against the dwarves.
But others can let him go, Yuan Zhan won't. If he wants to know, he must know.
Yan Mo got annoyed by him, so he could only tell him: "It is impossible for more than 300 people to prosper this land. We need to trade and communicate. Mermaids, dwarves, and the primitive tribes that will come in the future, including those who are already here The more Granma people living in front of our house, the more people living on this land, the better, because only in this way can this land become alive in the shortest possible time.”
"They could also turn into enemies."
"But they're also full of life, and can strike a delicate balance with mutual vigilance. We have powerful neighbors, threats from the forest, and one more in the near future won't feel too good to us. In reality, the environment no longer allows us to develop slowly, and I don't want to fight the dwarves, not because we can't beat them, but because we have too few reliable allies and our own strength is too weak."
Yan Mo walked to the window of the tower and pointed to the edge of the big river in the distance, "It's only been a few days? There are already no less than two thousand dwarves outside. Tell me, what does this mean?"
"The group of little monsters that got into the forest are more numerous than the dwarves, and their force is stronger than the dwarves." When it comes to war, Yuanzhan always has the most accurate judgment.
"That's right! Do you think those little monsters will stay hidden in the forest forever?"
"You want the dwarves to be our first line of defense?" Yuan Zhan smiled sarcastically, "Don't count on them, these little dwarves might run farther away when they see those little monsters. "
"What if they are reluctant to run? What if we give them some military support? And tell them that we can help them take back the forest?"
Yuan Zhan always felt that it was very unreliable for Yan Mo to want to use this group of dwarfs.
Yan Mo is also very helpless. If he can choose, if he has better allies, he doesn't want to choose this group of races who don't have much gratitude, have low combat values, and have a history of betrayal as neighbors. A bad premonition—Jiuyuan is likely to be involved in a terrible storm.
With such a premonition of urgency, he could no longer be picky or slowly subdue the dwarves, so he had to make preparations as soon as possible.
Yuan Zhan didn't know whether he felt his sense of urgency, or he also had a premonition. This man was also more diligent in training soldiers and self-training, and took over the job of supervising the construction of the outer city by the dwarves.
And Yan Mo's premonition that made him uneasy soon became a reality, but before that, Jiuyuan maintained a slightly strange period of stability.
The people of Jiuyuan are busy hoarding as much food as possible from late summer to early autumn, and at the same time making weapons in large quantities.
Half of the dwarves were busy building cities to pay off their debts, and half were busy hunting and gathering.
Some of the dwarves outside the outer moat migrated to farther places, while some stayed by the river. These dwarves tried to talk to the two clans of dwarves living in Jiuyuanli, and expressed their desire to cross the river and enter the city. . This made the Momo and Luoluo people feel an indescribable sense of superiority, but at the same time, they were afraid that the ancestor worshipers would know the identity of their debtors, so they thought of ways to refuse.
Logan wanted to join forces with the dwarves outside to snatch Jiuyuan City again, but this time Wu Pazu directly beat him back with a scepter.
Opa Zuwu only gave Luo Gan and the other dwarves who were eager to try: "When we have a fifth-level blood warrior, you will talk about capturing Jiuyuan, or be honest with me! If you have that strength, it is better to go more!" Get some food and exchange for some red salt, winter is coming, do you want your people to starve to death?"
The Granma people also occupy a piece of land, and they interact more with the Jiuyuan people, but so far, no woman or man from the Granma tribe wants to join Jiuyuan.
Because the leader and the priest did not prohibit the two parties from interacting with each other, when the Jiuyuan people get along with the dwarves, the adults may be a little embarrassed and refuse to talk, but the children are easy to mix together, especially Yan Mo still allows the dwarf children to come. Listen to his class.
"Master Mo, Master Mo! Ye Xing was bitten by a black-threaded snake!" A few children broke into the classroom yelling regardless of whether they were still in class.
Yan Mo and the children who were in class looked at these reckless brats.
But these children didn't seem to feel the repulsive and uncomfortable atmosphere, they just kept shouting anxiously: "Lord Mo, go and see Ye Xing, he's going to die of pain!"
It was not the first time that a string of black lines hung on Yan Mo's face. "Didn't I already warn everyone who enters the Tuyuan pearl fruit forest that they must apply realgar powder before entering?"
"Ah? Yes."
"Also, the bite of a black-threaded snake won't kill you. At most, it will hurt you for a day and a night. I've already prepared the medicine and told Wu Lao and Cao Ding the prescription. Just send Ye Xing to the clinic."
"But… "
"Hurry up!" Yan Mo finally put on a serious face.
"Oh!" Only now did the little ghosts realize they were afraid, they all agreed and ran away in a swarm.
Yan Mo rubbed his forehead, when will he bring out a group of children who can take over his class? I don't know if it's because I can often see him and take his classes. Few of these brats in the tribe are afraid of him. They like to come to him for anything, and it annoys him to death.
Although these children are easy to learn, hardworking, and obedient, but...he will still be annoying!
God, why is it so difficult for him to be a hands-off shopkeeper who has devoted himself to research
Yan Mo slapped the table, startling all the kids in the class, thinking that the priest was angry.
"Gege, Dede, how long are you going to stand at the door? Come in for me!"
"Master Mo..." Ge Ge was still a little embarrassed, Dede pushed him from behind, and the two of them fell into the classroom holding the slate together. Behind them were a few dwarves who used to haunt Yan Mo's class.
"Go and sit in the back." Yan Mo watched several dwarves walk carefully to the back and find a place to sit down. The other children made faces at them but did not obviously reject them. Pearl fruit, then today we will talk about what this Tuyuan fruit is, what benefits it has for us, as well as its planting method and various ways to eat the fruit."
When Yan Mo was teaching the students, Yuan Zhan, who was supposed to train soldiers, was standing in the tuyuan fruit forest, frowning fiercely.
"What's going on? I remember that the fruit can be harvested in the past two days!" He was forced by his priest to come here to practice his hands every three days, and forced to help the earth element fruit forest to grow in a short period of time. To the extent that it can bear fruit.
Seeing the harvest in the past few days, Yan Mo didn't know how many times he had mentioned to him that he wanted to study the twenty ways to eat the Tu Yuan fruit, which made him look forward to it too, but now...!
Wu Chen, who is in charge of this fruit forest, trembled slightly under the pressure of the fifth-level fighters, but he still held the pressure and tried his best to speak calmly: "These days, Ye Xing, Sa Yu and I have been leading three teams Taking turns guarding the fruit grove, we can be sure that no one will steal the fruit."
"Not even at night?"
"No, we'll sleep here at night!"
"What about the fruit? You want to tell me that they all burrowed into the soil by themselves?"
Sa Yu on the side lowered his head, too scared to speak.
Wu Chen's face turned pale, but the child still told the truth firmly: "I don't know. Ye Xing was in charge of guarding the team last night. In the morning, he found that the almost ripe Tuyuan fruit was gone, and he even forgot to apply realgar powder. , and rushed straight into the forest, but...he found nothing. "
"Don't tell Mo this matter for the time being, from now on you will keep the rest of the fruits for me, if we don't see each other again..."
"Yes! We will be optimistic about the remaining fruits, and we will guarantee that there will be a lot of them!" Wu Chen, Sa Yu and others puffed up their chests and replied loudly.
Yuan Zhan nodded, but then he remembered something again, and his face changed: "Let Sa Yu guard here, you follow me to the cotton field!"
Hearing the word Mian Mian, Wu Chen was also surprised, "Could it be Mian Mian also..."
"I don't know, let's go and see first." Yuan Zhan turned around and left. Tuyuan fruit and cotton are the two plants that Mo asked him to mainly ripen, and they are also the two that Mo pays the most attention to. . But now one of them disappears inexplicably when it sets fruit, what will happen to the other one
Fortunately, when they rushed to the cotton field, they found that the plants that had begun to produce green fruits were all fine.
"Boom!" The dull thunder rolled over the head.
Yuan Zhan looked up at the sky. According to the mermaid, after the last heavy rain at the end of summer, a short autumn will come, followed by a long winter.
Hoping that the heavy rain would not wipe out all the freshly grown fruits, Yuan Zhan looked at the cotton field with a little worry.
There was lightning and thunder in the sky, and it was clearly noon, but the whole sky was as dark as evening.
"Daze said, you have something to do with me?" Yan Mo came out of the classroom and walked to the inner moat with two guards.
Ramon sighed before speaking.
Yan Mo folded his arms and looked at him.
"I really can't procrastinate any longer, Lord Mo, our great witch wants to see you."
Yan Mo looked up at the sky speechlessly, "In this weather?"
Ramon nodded. Mermaids like stormy weather, the heavier the rain, the more they like it, and Dawu is no exception. He didn't tell Yan Mo, Dawu also told him that such weather is most suitable for pressing soft humans under him. .
"I am very honored, but my water quality is not enough to allow me to swim to the depths of Qingyuan Lake, let alone meet your great witch there."
"Of course it's not at the bottom of Qingyuan Lake. It's on an island. If you agree, I can take you there right now. If you don't like swim bladder, you can use a raft."
"I need to let my leader know about this. You know, as a priest of Jiuyuan, I cannot leave the tribe at will."
"You can tell him, but..." Ramon said with great apology and difficulty: "Our Dawu doesn't want to see him, he just wants to see you."
A strange feeling floated in Yan Mo's heart, why did the great witch of the mermaid tribe suddenly want to see him? And from Ramon's tone, the other party seemed to want to see him a long time ago, but was dragged by Ramon until now? Moreover, the expression on Ramon's mention of the great witch seemed a bit subtle... Is there something in this that he should know but he doesn't know
At this moment, there was a distant and loud cry in the sky, but then there was a deafening thunderclap.
"boom!"
"Jie!" Momo, I'm back!
"Crack!" A flash of lightning pierced the sky, and also illuminated a nimble figure that bypassed the lightning.
Just now, the figure that was only one arm long had already flown to the top of Jiuyuan City after another thunderclap.
"Thunder!" Another flash of lightning illuminated the majestic Kunpeng in the sky. Even though this human-faced Kunpeng was still in its infancy, its huge body had already surpassed most birds.
Yan Mo raised his head and waved, Jiufeng is back, will the Yuanji tribe be far behind