"Devil... Devil?" The voice behind him said bitterly: "Devil! Hum, we are devils, then those guys are gods? Hahahaha... It really fits their usual practice!"
The laughter suddenly stopped, and his voice became cold: "Isn't there the so-called five deadly sins of the devil written in your scripture of the God of Light? Hum...cruelty, greed, deception, fear...ah, let me think about it. , what else... Huh. Who is the devil? How many so-called 'heretics' are burned at the stake every month? Isn't that cruel? What? How many so-called "atonement taxes" are collected from the common people every year? How many last pieces of bread and last copper coins are taken away from the common people while those so-called "servants of God" are sitting there? Carriage, wearing silk clothes, living in the biggest and best house, with a lot of gold coins in your pocket... Isn't that greed? There is also deception! That so-called scripture confuses right and wrong, and beautifies oneself as the purest and purest. The merciful servants of God, the spokespersons of God... Haha, they drink human blood, eat human flesh, and still call themselves merciful? Isn't that a lie? There is also fear... "
"Okay! Stop talking!" Rody shouted to stop. His tone was helpless. He vaguely felt that what this person said was right, but he couldn't say a word to refute it.
The voice behind him smiled: "Your Excellency, what else do you want to know now?"
Rody thought for a while and whispered: "That battle between gods and demons... what happened?"
After a moment of silence, the voice behind him said slowly: "I don't know much. There are many things that only the elders of the clan know. In fact, these things have nothing to do with you. How about we talk about cooperation? ?”
"Tell me, what do you want?"
"We, the Silver Moon clan, have been in this mountain for thousands of years, even older than the history of the mountain! It's just that we rarely interact with others. Our ancestors left a mission for us to survive in this mountain and wait for the return of the true god Kara. Arrival! The rise of the Mountain Clan has caused us to lose our tranquility... A thousand years... A thousand years is enough to change a lot... Outsiders see us as part of the Mountain Clan... Even the Mountain Clan themselves see us as one of them. A tribe... the largest tribe! We, the Silver Moon Tribe, have been guiding the advancement of the Mountain People, and we have made them gradually stronger... until... until this Wuya appeared!"
Rody smiled and said lightly: "I understand, you think that you are the Kara tribe, you are nobler than the mountain people, so you regard the mountain people as your servants, but now a smart man suddenly appears among this servant, so The other servants followed this wise man and stopped listening to you... Is that so?"
These words were extremely rude. The person behind him seemed to be choked by him for a long time without saying a word. After a long time, he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Your Excellency, please don't forget! We are the only ones now." People who can help your empire! When Wuya really unites Shanyue, there is no guarantee that Shanyue will not become the second Big Moon Kingdom!"
Rody shrugged his shoulders and said nothing, but secretly said: This is not necessarily the case.
After a long conversation with Wu Ya today, he already believed that Wu Ya did not have that ambition. And that prophecy weighed on his heart like a stone.
"Wu Ya doesn't seem to have the ambition you mentioned." Rody said cautiously.
"Your Majesty the Duke, maybe you think Shanyue is not to be feared, and you think Wuya has no ambition... But what about the future? What happens after Wuya dies? Shanyue united into a united race in Wuya's hands, so after ten years and twenty What will happen after 20 years? Will the mountain people still be content to be trapped in the mountains?”
Rody smiled: "Okay, so the mountains are in your hands, so there is no threat? After you control the mountains, will you be content to be trapped in the mountains? Don't you want to get out of the mountains? Restore the past glory of your Kara tribe?" "
"Won't!"
"What?"
A soft sigh came from behind: "I said we can't!"
Rody sneered and said nothing.
The man behind him said calmly: "You don't believe it? We can swear in Kara's name!"
Rody laughed and said: "Swear? I'll tell you the truth, I don't believe in gods, let alone devils!"
After being silent for a while again, the man behind him seemed to be hesitating, but he finally made up his mind and gritted his teeth and said: "Okay! We will never leave the mountain! Because our Silver Moon Clan has our own mission!" He took a deep breath. , the voice behind seemed to have a certain solemnity: "Our mission is to obey the will of the true god Kara and protect the 'Sinful Top'!!"
"What? What's the 'Top of Sin'?"
A chuckle came from behind: "It's the canyon you saw on the way here!"
Rody's heart sank. He remembered the chill that penetrated his heart and lungs when he stood at the mouth of the canyon that day. He couldn't help but shuddered and murmured: "The Peak of Sin? What an interesting name."
The voice behind said: "You are the Tulip Duke of the empire! As long as you can support our Silver Moon clan, we are willing to ally with you! As long as you help us defeat the Fire Tribe and defeat the Wuya, then... we will definitely keep our promise! The Mountain People will always No step beyond the mountain!”
After hearing these words, Rody felt a strange feeling in his heart.
When he came, he was thinking about how to make the mountains surrender and stop rebelling. But after he came, things developed completely beyond his expectation. The biggest problem was solved without any effort - Whether it was Wu Ya, the clan leader who was originally thought to be the most ambitious in Shanyue, or the representative of the Silver Moon clan behind him at this moment, they all promised themselves that "Shanyue will not take a step beyond the mountains."
The biggest problem can be solved so easily? !
With a thought in his mind, he suddenly thought of a question: "How many people do you have in the Silver Moon Clan? I heard that when you were against the Fire Tribe, Wu Ya killed them all by yourself..."
There was a sneer from behind: "Our Silver Moon Tribe is the largest among all the mountain tribes! The Silver Moon Tribe has four villages with a total of 150,000 people! Wuya destroyed one of our villages, killed one of our great elders, and three Ten thousand people! Now the entire Silver Moon clan has sworn in the name of Kara to kill Wuya!"
"Kill?" Rody couldn't help but said coldly: "Although I haven't seen Wuya's strength with my own eyes, I heard that he destroyed one of your villages by himself..."
There was a strong wind behind him, and the man waved his weapon and said fiercely: "Kala's tribe cannot be insulted! Even if we die to the last person in the battle, we must kill Wu Ya!" He grew again. He tried his best to calm down and said in a low voice: "And we now know that Wu Ya has been seriously injured! He no longer has much strength!"
"oh?"
"Yes! We once sent the best hermits from several tribes to assassinate Wuya! Although those warriors failed, one of them brought back an important message... Wuya is very weak now!"
Rody nodded: No wonder it is said that Wu Ya was seriously injured in an assassination. It turns out that the assassination was real, but the fact that he was seriously injured was not due to the assassination.
After thinking about it, Rody said: "I can't agree to you immediately for such an important matter. I need to talk to the leader of your clan."
The man behind him also said: "We are here tonight not to ask His Excellency the Duke to agree immediately. We just hope that you will not agree to cooperate with Wuya immediately! We will send someone to contact you."
Rody thought for a while and said coldly: "Very good, if I cooperate with Wuya, then you will kill me and prevent me from walking out of here alive, right?"
The man behind him seemed to smile: "Your Excellency, are you still dissatisfied with what happened just now? We always have to test your strength. We Silver Moon people only ally with the strong!"
After a moment of silence, a soft light curtain erupted from the man standing in front of Rody. Then the blood on his face gradually disappeared and his figure disappeared again. Rody's heart moved, and he suddenly turned around to look. There was nothing behind him. Where was there a figure
The two Silver Moon clan members seemed like ghosts. He came and went without a trace, and he was the only one left in the room again.
Roddy felt exhausted. Although the fight just now was not long, he had been hit by the opponent twice in a row and even vomited blood. In fact, he had suffered serious injuries. Then when he was talking to the person, in order not to hurt the opponent Showing weakness, he suppressed his injuries and pretended to be calm. As soon as the two people left, he felt his chest rolling, his body relaxed, and he couldn't help but sit on the ground.
At dawn, Wu Ya sent two mountain women to serve Rody. The two mountain men walked into the room and saw the Duke lying on the ground, sleeping soundly. The room was in a mess, and the table and wood were all broken. It was smashed to pieces, and there were signs of fighting everywhere.
Rody stood up, laughed, and said: "Don't be surprised, I have a habit. I always fight with people in my dreams at night."
When the two mountain women saw the wounds on his body and the blood stains on his clothes, they couldn't help but scream...
On this day, under the summons of Wuya, Rody met with the leaders of several other tribes in the mountains. These leaders were old or young. From the eyes, it could be seen that these mountain people looked at Rody with a certain look in their eyes. hostility. Rody secretly thought about what the Silver Moon man said: Although Wuya has no ambition, Wuya will not always be the leader of the mountain. After all, Wu Ya is just a person. When Wu Ya dies in the future, the mountain people will still rebel sooner or later based on their hatred towards the empire. The Silver Moon clan is different. As long as the Silver Moon clan survives, they can control the mountains...
Rody was thinking about it and couldn't help but look at Wu Ya again. I saw Wuya's pale face with a cold expression. He looked calmly at everyone sitting in the room. Rody suddenly felt something in his heart and shouted something bad: That Wuya knows how to read minds. What happened last night could probably not be hidden from him. He could tell what he was thinking at a glance... This is extremely bad.
People from various tribes in the field were noisy. People from various tribes were shouting, some were beating their chests, some were stamping their feet, and some were glaring at Roddy and Lant. They were shouting loudly, trying to say something bad, but Roddy couldn't understand what they were saying anyway, so he didn't care so much.
Wu Ya looked at the restless leaders of various tribes with cold eyes and finally stood up. When everyone saw the chief standing up, they all stopped talking and looked up at him.
Wuya's tone was very cold, and he spoke slowly in the mountain language.
Next to Rody sat the mountain warrior Wu Yu, who was the translator assigned to him by Wu Ya. Every time Wu Ya said something, Wu Yu immediately explained to him in Rody's ear.
"Everyone, calm down!"
"Since you all regard me as the chief, then you won't listen to what I say!"
"This is His Excellency Duke Tulip sent by the empire, the most powerful warrior in the empire! His arrival is not for war with us, but for peace talks!"
"I know that some of you don't want peace talks. You only want to fight the empire outside the mountains and fight to Ziye City! I also know that some of you are secretly contacting people outside the mountains behind my back to incite the empire. The mountain soldiers mutinied! I already know who did it! When I was the chief, everyone swore to obey my orders. Now if someone betrays me, he must be punished!"
There was an uproar, and several old guys stood up and shouted loudly. It was obvious that they didn't mean anything nice, and Wu Yu did not explain it to Rody.
Wuya said coldly: "Do you guys want to re-elect the chief? That's great! As long as someone can beat me, then you will be the chief!"
The shouting old guys immediately shut their mouths. You looked at me and I looked at you. Their expressions were not very good.
One of them seemed to be smarter and said something in a deep voice. Wu Yu said in Rody's ear: "What he said is: The land outside originally belonged to our mountains, but it was taken away by you a hundred years ago. Now that the mountain people are united, they must take back their land." Even the chief cannot object, otherwise he is not worthy of being a chief.”
Rody smiled coldly and said nothing.
Wuya glanced at Rody and smiled slightly: "You said I am not worthy of being the chief, so tell me who is worthy of being the chief?"
Although he was smiling, there was an astonishing aura about him, and his eyes were cold and murderous. The opponents trembled, and one of them couldn't help but sit down.
Wuya said slowly: "Now that the people of the mountain regard me as their chief, what I say is an order! I said war! Then fight! I said peace! Then peace! If anyone objects, ask us Flame Warriors first Short spear!"
Rody sighed in his heart. When talking to these mountain people, there was no use of any combination of grace and power or any strategy. It was purely about the strong being the king, and everything was based on strength. As long as you are stronger than others, you are the absolute master.
Seeing that the opponents were weakening, one of them suddenly shouted loudly. Wu Yu whispered in Rody's ear: "He said that our chief was bluffing. He said that the chief had been seriously injured and that everyone did not need to be afraid of him. He requested that the chief be re-elected and let the strongest warrior lead the mountain people." He paused. After a while, Wu Yu couldn't help but cursed: "This old bastard!"
Andy suddenly sneered in his mind: This guy is going to be in trouble!
Roddy also nodded, thinking that if according to Andy's statement, Wuya's strength would probably be at least no worse than that of the Black Veiled Saint Miaosi - then with such a strong strength, there is absolutely no way that the Mountain Man who only knows martial arts would be able to It belongs to his opponent.
Seeing Wu Ya's face gradually darken, and he was obviously angry, he said in a deep voice: "Okay! You can object to me becoming the chief, then you can go back to your tribe, and wait for everyone to have a good fight. Let’s talk after the show!”
The man who yelled the loudest immediately strode towards the door, then looked back at his two accomplices and shouted something loudly. But the two people seemed to be hesitant, probably thinking of Wu Ya's strength, and now they felt a little afraid. The man standing at the door spat hard and strode out.
The remaining people from the other tribes looked at each other in shock and lowered their heads when they looked at the angry chief.
Rody looked at everyone in the field, and suddenly a strange thought came to his mind:
Wuya is using me!
If according to Wu Ya, he has no ambitions for the land outside the mountains, then he doesn't need to negotiate with me at all! He is his chief in the mountains, and as long as he doesn't step out of the mountains, the empire can't do anything to him! But he wanted to come to me to negotiate some kind of peace... just to force those who opposed him in the mountain tribe to the table! Then deliberately intensify the contradiction so that you can take the opportunity to get rid of the opposing forces...
Thinking of this, Rody couldn't help but be a little surprised when he looked at Wu Ya.
Andy's voice in his mind said slowly: "Boy, you finally understand. You have to know that as a high-ranking person, personal strength is not enough. This Wuya is an outstanding leader! I dare say that if the Silver Moon Tribe hadn’t caused trouble, it would only be a matter of time before Wu Ya wiped out the entire mountain.”
A complicated feeling welled up in Rody's heart, and he suddenly felt that the toothy gaze was also sweeping towards him. His gaze stayed on Rody's face, and then he smiled...