Chapter 44 The Teacher and the Werewolf
The three of them easily won Conrad's commission without wasting much time. They went back to pack their belongings and planned to hit the road before dark.
At this moment, they are gathered in the fox's medicine shop, discussing related matters.
"Conrad involves a high-level clan elder like Fu Ze, and is vaguely related to things that happened many years ago. Here in Chen Qing, we cannot give up the investigation."
Wei Miao will give a He threw the grape into his mouth and said happily.
In fact, they all knew the weirdness of this matter.
The Night Watch is tight-lipped about Conrad's information, and he is deeply involved. His race is also very interesting. He is a pig-headed man who serves as the servant in the clan's old manor.
Fuze's information is not as tightly covered as Conrad's. A little inquiry can outline this person's image in his mind.
According to rumors, he has always had a contemptuous attitude towards the pig-headed people. He is a "hawk" and advocates the use of troops against orcs who disobey humans. Among them, the pig-headed people are particularly contemptuous and he once criticized the pig-headed people in public. Bloody, barbaric, and stubborn.
Such a person accepted Conrad and educated him?
It has to make people think about it.
The Night Watchman also noticed the hidden contradiction and paid special attention to it.
These secrets are buried in Conrad.
In the evening, a caravan mainly composed of rabbit-headed people left Chenqing and headed for the pig-headed tribe along the dense forest road.
What is strange is that there is also a fox and a deer-headed man mixed inside.
The three of them discussed it, and Wei Miao came to organize the caravan, while the other two were mixed in. On the one hand, the target is small and will not easily arouse Chen Qing's vigilance.
Fortunately, the gods of the fox and deer-headed people have no obvious characteristics. Otherwise, if the gods of the three tribes gathered together, Chen Qing would probably have some careful thoughts.
On the other hand, the divine favor held by Wei Miao is the most powerful and safe.
The rest of the gods stayed in Chen Qing to gather information, focusing on Fu Ze.
There are ten people in the team. Except for Conrad, the God's Favorite and the three others, the other two bunny-headed men are ordinary people.
The two merchants have rich experience. Without them, it would be a problem to control the horse, other than knowing the way.
Four black horses with shiny fur pulled a cart of moongrass, two ordinary bunny-headed men drove in front, and the remaining eight people crowded in the back compartment.
The four rabbit-headed warriors stared at Wei Miao with complicated eyes. After this day, they already knew that the number one in front of them was not a familiar partner, but an envoy who was somewhat confused about what he was doing.
There was light in Conrad's eyes. Ever since he left Chenqing, he had been looking far into the distance, feeling relaxed and happy looking at the distant scenery.
Chen Qing is located at the junction of Alfor Forest and William Plains, a long way from the Walker tribe of pig-headed men, and has to pass through several orc tribes to settle down.
At the normal speed of the caravan, this journey would take three days.
“Have you never been out of town before?”
There was an awkward silence in the car, and the fox began to talk to Conrad.
Conrad shook his head. His voice was not at all in line with the roughness of a pig-headed man, but rather the delicacy of a scholar: "No. I was in the teacher's house before, and I was afraid of causing trouble to the teacher, so I never came out."< br>
"Teacher?" Wei Miao chewed the word with interest.
"Did Brother Conrad grow up in Chenqing?"
Lu Lu started to exert her strength, and her delicate voice made Wei Miao and Fox feel chills. She didn't usually speak like this.
In order to get closer, the eldest brother came out.
The key is that she is very natural. Conrad looked at her with soft eyes and a bright smile: "Yes, I escaped from the tribe due to a disaster when I was a child. I was rescued by my teacher. Fortunately, I have been raised by her until now."
"Teacher? Which kind-hearted big shot from the human race is he?" Lulu's voice was full of expectation.
"Teacher has always kept a low profile. Adopting a pig-headed man is already risking his reputation. I can't cause trouble for him." Conrad euphemistically ignored Lulu's question.
When talking about this teacher, he was confident and respectful.
It’s just... Wei Miao and the other three looked at each other, and they all saw something meaningful in each other’s eyes.
"Your Excellency Conrad speaks generously and decently, and is quite elegant like a scholar. Is it because of 'Teacher'?" Wei Miao further probed.
"Yes. Teacher is proficient in astronomy and geography, and is knowledgeable. He doesn't care about my origin. He teaches me human knowledge and helps me integrate into human society. So I am used to calling him teacher. In fact, to me, he is more like a Father."
His tone was full of gratitude.
"Do you know what was the disaster when you were a child?" Wei Miao asked weakly, with a curious look on his face.
In order to extract more information from Conrad, the three of them tried their best to show their enemy's weakness and try not to let him notice.
"It's not clear, it seems like a certain orc tribe attacked the pig-headed tribe. The humans intervened midway and rescued us survivors who were robbed." Conrad said.
Northern Desert werewolves... Wei Miao remembered the information she got from the night watcher.
The three have officially reached a cooperation. There is an old saying, unity is strength. With no conflict of interest at hand, the three agreed that cooperation would be a better solution.
The North Desert werewolves were important information, and Wei Miao generously shared it, gaining a vague understanding of this race through various channels.
In William Plains, the weather becomes drier as you go north, forming a desert called the Northern Desert.
North Desert werewolves have struggled to survive in the oasis for generations. However, eighteen years ago, due to a severe drought that had not happened in a century, the living environment of the North Desert werewolves was further deteriorated. The sand gold used to trade living supplies with various ethnic groups suffered. When the treasure thief group was attacked and robbed, the entire tribe was on the verge of despair.
The North Desert werewolves did not sit still and wait for death. Instead, they moved south into the Alfor forest, burning, killing and looting along the way, and involved the tribes along the way in small-scale wars.
When they were still more than ten kilometers away from the pig-headed tribe, they chose to turn back, but no one expected that in the dead of night, they would attack the pig-headed tribe at night.
The pig-headed man, who was favored by the Tianluo Pig Mother, was naturally not someone to be trifled with, and he killed the North Desert werewolves.
But it suffered heavy losses, and a group of newborns were also captured and disappeared.
Here comes the most interesting thing for Wei Miao. The defeated and retreated Northern Desert werewolves did not return to the Northern Desert oasis. Instead, they took root at the junction of the plains and the desert and re-cultivated it. Even though it was very desolate, it was better than the environment in the Northern Desert.
The distance between Chen Qing and their tribe is only a dozen kilometers.
Chen Qing, who had always prohibited the orc tribe from taking root in the plains, was particularly easy to talk to this time. After plundering a North Desert werewolf, the two maintained a tacit peace.
In Wei Miao's eyes, this is a disguised recognition of the "legal status" of the North Desert werewolves.
The werewolf successfully survived the dry season and preserved the fire.
It’s not that no tribe wanted to take revenge on the werewolves, but they were warned by Chen Qing.
The presence of troops within ten kilometers of Chenqing was regarded as a declaration of war. Many tribes could only give up and compress the werewolves' living space from commercial and other aspects.
Miraculously, the werewolves finally survived and the tribe flourished.
Looking at Conrad's appearance, he didn't know about this, and even if he knew, he wouldn't think of it together with Wei Miao and others.
After all, he is now much closer to humans than to orcs.
(End of this chapter)