A few days later.
Hu Jiaojiao followed the wolf orcs and trudged all the way until the team finally stopped.
Ever since Lang Shuo suffered a defeat, he believed that Hu Jiaojiao was a cunning and scheming female, and kept her by his side all the time.
Hu Jiaojiao and Lang Shuo were at the front of the team. When they went up the mountain, they saw a gate that looked like a bandit stockade. There were a few Canglang orcs standing at the door, and there were a dozen or so orcs patrolling back and forth inside and outside.
On both sides of the gate are walls about three meters high, which are as black as the gate.
It was already dark at this time, and the gate and the wall almost blended into the night, as if they were connected to the dark sky. They looked even taller and like an insurmountable barrier.
Hu Jiaojiao's inquiring gaze fell on the gate. It looked like it was made of black stone, but she always felt something was wrong.
Seeing Lang Shuo coming back, Canglang, the gatekeeper, was so excited that he went in to pass on the message:
"The leader is back!"
The loud voice spread throughout the entire Cangfeng Ridge. The Canglang orcs came out to greet it one after another. One after another, the heroic Cangwolves appeared in Hu Jiaojiao's sight.
Countless pairs of green eyes, coupled with the excited wolf howls one after another, Hu Jiaojiao truly felt that she had entered a wolf's den.
Seeing Hu Jiaojiao covering her ears, looking shocked by the scene, Lang Shuo curled his lips in contempt and waved his hand:
"Okay, everyone get off."
At Lang Shuo's command, the Canglang orcs stopped howling instantly.
As the number one lackey, Langmie naturally took on the task of clearing the passage. He stepped forward to drive away the group of annoying wolves and make way for Lang Shuo.
At the end of the team, Huang Yue had her hands tied with vines, and the other end of the vines was bitten by the last Canglang orc in the team. She was dragged all the way back and was almost tortured to pieces.
Seeing that they had finally arrived at the tribe, her forced consciousness finally gave way and she closed her heavy eyelids.
Before he fell into coma, the corners of his mouth, cracked from the cold, twitched into a relieved smile.
"I'm back alive again. I can see Tian'er again. It's great..."
A young Canglang orc nearby noticed that Huangyue had fainted, so he bumped into Canglang's elbow and asked:
"She fainted. What should we do? Should we tell the leader?"
"What are you looking for? This is your first time going out with us, right? Send her directly to the witch doctor. Don't let her die, or you'll be the next one to be tortured."
Canglang raised his chin, and it was obvious that this young Canglang was inexperienced.
When the young wolf heard this, his face turned pale and he hurriedly carried Huang Yue to find a witch doctor.
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Hu Jiaojiao sat on the back of a gray wolf and followed Lang Shuo into the tribe.
Behind the gate is a gravel road about four or five meters wide, with a black pillar standing on both sides of the road every ten meters or so.
A large black basin was placed on top, with flames constantly dancing in the basin, as if dancing with the other flames on the roadside.
It was the first time that Hu Jiaojiao saw such a bright night in the animal world.
She looked at the black pillars on the roadside curiously, muttering to herself: "This should be made of the same material as the gate and the fence just now..."
Are all the stones in this tribe black
Hu Jiaojiao was puzzled, and suddenly a thought flashed through her mind, so fast that it disappeared before she could catch it.
As he was thinking, a group of orcs suddenly came from the front.
The clinking sound like the collision of iron chains attracted Hu Jiaojiao's attention.
She looked up and saw that this group of orcs were only wearing thin, tattered animal skins, and were either carrying or shouldering large black stones, weighing them down so much that they could not straighten their backs. With every step they took, their feet sank deeply into the snow.
It was as if there was a quagmire under their feet and every step was extremely difficult.
Hu Jiaojiao's eyes flashed, and she stared at the feet of the orcs without blinking.
I saw that every orc had a black chain locked on his feet, and the clinking sound just now came from these orcs.
Hu Jiaojiao suddenly understood something.
It turns out that the gate and the wall were built not with stone, but iron!
This tribe actually owns iron mines!
Not only that, they also figured out how to refine and use iron ore on their own. Hu Jiaojiao finally understood what the Canglang orcs meant.
This group of wolves are able to control more beast slaves than themselves because of iron ore.
I'm afraid they attacked the tribe so aggressively and captured males as slaves just to make the slaves work hard for them.
"Hurry up! What are you dawdling for? You can't even move a stone. Do you think you'll eat tomorrow?"
The scolding from the Gray Wolf Orc brought Hu Jiaojiao back to her senses.
She looked in the direction of the sound and saw Canglang, the leader of the beast slave team, holding an iron chain and beating a teenage beast slave while cursing.
One end of the chain was black and red, which was the dried blood left by years of whipping the beast slaves.
Seeing the actions of the team leader Canglang, Hu Jiaojiao frowned inadvertently. The little beast slave was skinny, and although he wore an extra animal skin coat than others, his face was pale and he looked sick.
This whip may cost a life.
Just when the iron chain was about to fall on the little beast slave, a beast slave with his upper body naked suddenly rushed over and used his back to block the iron chain for him.
With a "swish" sound, the iron chain left a bloody mark on the beast slave's back.
"Man, Brother Manzi, are you okay?" The little beast slave looked pale. He dropped the ore in his hand and nervously grabbed his arm.
"It's okay, you go to the back, I'll handle this here." The beast slave called Barbarian calmly pushed the little beast slave to the back of the team and turned to face the leader Canglang.
"Boy, you are meddling in other people's business again." Team leader Canglang looked unhappy.
"I will help him move his stones. If you want to vent your anger, come to me." The barbarian looked at the leader Canglang with a determined face.
"Okay! You like helping, right? From today on, you will carry the loads for two... no, three people. If you don't finish, you won't be allowed to eat!"
The leader Canglang snorted coldly, retracted the chain, glanced at the barbarian's naked upper body, and said sarcastically:
"You want to be a hero, huh? If you give the animal skin to this kid, I won't give you any more animal skins. I wonder who will die of illness first, or you will freeze to death first."
The barbarian ignored him, turned around, picked up the little beast slave's piece of ore, and continued to move forward with the team.
Hu Jiaojiao's team did not stop and soon passed by the beast slaves.
Listening to the words of the team leader Canglang, she turned around and looked at the beaten beast slave with a deep gaze, then looked at the little beast slave, only to see that the animal skin he was wearing was loose and tattered, which should have been given to him by the beast slave who had no clothes on.
Her eyes flickered, as if she was thinking about something.
When Lang Shuo saw her looking back at the beast slave, he thought she was frightened by what had just happened and chuckled:
"As long as you give me what I want, I will naturally not let your people suffer such treatment."