That night, the poor worm really slept very alertly. In the middle of the night, she was awakened by a strange sound. A strange "click" sound came along the wind. When the poor worm turned over and sat up, she found that The turtle sleeping beside her had disappeared, and she immediately panicked, as if in this wilderness, the only safe place was to stay beside this turtle.
But soon she saw Xi Ya.
Xia Ya squatted by the river, facing the other side, when she heard the poor creature sitting up, Xia Ya turned her head and made a "don't shout" gesture to the poor creature, then lowered her voice and said with a smile: " There's something interesting, come and see."
The poor bastard crawled to Xia Ya's side, sat on the ground, leaned on Xia Ya's body, and looked in the direction that Xia Ya pointed across the river.
On the other side, the slaughtered goblin tribe could only vaguely see the outline of a broken earth wall in the darkness.
The stars are shining, and if you look at the dialect on this side of the river, you can vaguely see around the tribe, one by one towering shadows, as if standing like human beings, are gathered towards the tribe, and inside the earth wall, there are already long shadows. Some dark shadows gathered there, and those guys didn't know what they were. When walking, they straightened up, but they moved very slowly, and from a distance, it seemed that the upper body was long and the lower body was short.
Some of them are already kneeling or lying on the ground, not knowing what to hold, burying their bodies and shaking...
"Bear?" The poor man was a little puzzled.
"Ghouls." Xia Ya turned his head and grinned at the poor worm. He deliberately smiled terribly. The poor worm trembled and almost exclaimed. Xia covered her mouth. Whispered: "Don't disturb other people's dinner."
Ghoul...
As soon as he heard the name, the poor bastard knew what those things on the other side were doing without asking!
The gnawing sound that came from the wind was even reminiscent of the sound of teeth scraping on the bones. The poor worm only felt annoyed in his chest and vomited.
Xia Ya watched it with relish, and even sighed: "Alas, I've never seen a live ghoul, but today I've seen it for real."
In the distant wilderness, there are also wolves howling in twos and threes from time to time. They are wolves or jackals wandering in the wilderness. These guys are obviously also targeting the corpses of the goblins in this tribe, but they are just powerful food. The ghouls took the first step and occupied the place. The wolves and jackals could only wander around helplessly, hoping that these ghouls would leave some leftovers for themselves after they had eaten their fill and left.
The poor bastard almost vomited out his dinner, but Xia finally saw enough, picked up a stone, and threw it towards the opposite bank. His arms were extremely strong, and the stone was thrown into the earth wall of the tribe far away. At the same time, Xiaya stood up, put his hands to his mouth, and shouted at the opposite bank.
The poor bastard was so frightened that he could not wait to jump up and pinch Char's neck!
"You lunatic! What are you doing! Do you want to attract those monsters!!"
"Hahahaha." Xia Ya patted the poor man on the shoulder: "You are really an idiot, don't you know common sense? Ghouls are naturally most afraid of water. We are on the other side of the river, and they will never dare to come."
Sure enough, a group of ghouls were disturbed by the movement of Xia Ya, they rushed out of the tribe with angry roars, ran to the river, and shouted at Xia Ya on the other side, getting closer, The poor bastard even saw what these monsters looked like.
Their legs are slender and short, their upper body is thick and yellow, their arms hang down to the knees, a pointed triangular head, a mouth full of blood, and a mouth full of rotten teeth.
Let's put it this way, breaking a bear and a wolf into pieces, and then smashing them together, probably looks like a ghoul.
And Xiaya was right, a few ghouls had already rushed to the river, trying to cross the river to catch Xiaya, but when their feet touched the water, they immediately made a panicked sound and hurried back. . He could only vent and roar at Xiaya across the river.
Those goblins also all woke up. These goblins are much better than poor worms. They are obviously familiar with the characteristics of ghouls.
The two sides just yelled at each other across the river, and some goblins even picked up the stone and threw it towards the opposite bank. Although the goblin's strength was not strong enough to throw the stone across the hundred paces wide river, this unscrupulous behavior still made these timid The goblins find it interesting.
The two sides were noisy in the middle of the night, and when it was almost dawn, the ghouls finally dispersed unwillingly.
"Okay, ready to hit the road." Xia Ya took the poor man and thought about it: "But before hitting the road, there is one more important thing to do."
This important thing is...
bath! !
Uh... Don't get me wrong, it's not that Char is taking a bath by herself, let alone letting the poor worm take a bath (at this time, even if Xi Ya forced the poor worm with a knife, she would never jump into the river to take a bath in public.)
It's the goblins who need a bath!
Goblins have a very fine tradition, that is, their hygiene habits are considered to be the worst among all known intelligent and civilized races!
Even in goblin language, there is no word for "clean".
For goblins, under normal circumstances, most goblins may not take a bath once in their lives from birth to death. Their bodies are forever covered with dirt, dust, and even layers of suspiciously disgusting secretions. Over time, it's like a layer of armor sticking to the skin.
In the goblin racial group, only some prominent goblins have the habit of bathing.
Such as tribal leaders, or lords, and... princesses.
Yes, when Char asked Mr. Princess Oaks a question and asked him if he had the habit of taking a bath, Mr. Princess tilted his head and tried hard to think for a while before answering: it remembered that the last time it took a bath, it was with the lord. When the wedding...
And the previous time, I can't remember.
In short, you can't measure a goblin creature by human standards.
For goblins, those who are willing to wipe their buttocks after every excretion are already considered to be very few with cleanliness!
You can think about it, when you're standing next to a guy who hasn't bathed or even wiped his ass in years... What does he smell like
What's more, what if not one, but a group
Yesterday, handing over the task of escorting the prisoners to Mr. Wang Fei was really a last resort for Xia Ya—standing with a group of goblins for more than a meal, if you have not been smoked to death, then your respiratory system must have very serious problem.
But now that it has been decided to take all these goblins on the road, Xiaya must at least make some efforts for the safety of his nose.
The goblins all said they were lazy, and Xi Ya gestured for a while, but these guys shook their heads and refused to jump into the river. Xia Ya simply didn't say anything, went up and kicked a few goblins into the river one by one, and when the rest saw that the old man got angry, he simply threw a plop and jumped down.
And Mr. Wang Fei, who was promoted to the head of the cell, began to laugh happily, but then it found that Mr. Xia pointed his finger at himself and at the river, and it understood that he had no exceptional privilege.
In order to describe the bloody scenes of massacres in many legends, such a rhetorical device is used: blood dyes the river red...
And a group of goblins taking a bath can also achieve this effect!
A group of goblins who had never taken a bath in their entire lives fluttered in the river for half a morning. It wasn't that they didn't want to come up, but that Xia Ya was standing on the shore with an axe in his hand, the first guy who tried to go ashore. He had already smashed it back with an axe—of course, Xiaya used the back of an axe.
For half the morning, the goblins washed and almost lost several layers of skin...
What is terrifying is that the color of the river has turned into a dreadful black in a long stretch of water near the river...
"Fortunately, we went upstream... Otherwise, I wouldn't dare to drink the water in this river if I were killed." Xia Ya patted his chest in fear.
The poor bastard has already been hiding far away... Watching a group of naked male goblins take a bath is not something that a person like her can do.
Xia walked to the poor worm, who was dressing the wound on her leg.
"Hello." Xia said suddenly, and he looked down at the poor man: "I want to ask you something."
"What?" The poor worm subconsciously stopped the movement in his hand, and quickly lowered his trouser legs to cover his calf.
"Adeline, who is it?"
The poor worm trembled suddenly, staring at Xia with wide eyes in disbelief!
Xia Ya touched his chin and looked at the poor creature: "Hey, you know what? You have the habit of talking in your sleep, and when you were woken up by those ghouls last night, I happened to hear your voice. ."