Chapter 323: Captives (2)
Translator: 549690339
After a while, the axes were collected and placed in the middle of the campsite. Zhao Hai glanced at Weyers and nodded, ” “That’s good. Big brother, I’ll go now.” After that, he pulled skoni to the center of the camp. He put away the axes, then wrapped the two of them in a black mist. When the black mist disappeared, the two of them had disappeared from the camp.
When they reappeared, they were not far from the bullfighting race’s camp. It was a large camp that stretched as far as the eye could see. To be exact, this wasn’t the bullfighting race’s wide land. It should be the old camp of the herculean divine bull race, but it was now occupied by the bullfighting race.
Skoni could finally see the situation outside. He realized that he was not far from the campsite. Looking at the campsite in the distance, skoni’s eyes glowed with a cold light. However, he did not say anything. Zhao Hai did not say anything either. He simply wrapped the two of them in the black fog again. When the black fog dispersed, skoni realized that there were countless of his tribesmen in tattered clothes standing beside him. All of them were moving their bodies around with blank expressions. They were practically all squeezed together tightly, without the slightest gap.
Zhao Hai had also used an earth spell to force his way in. His current location was where the herculean divine ox tribe captives were.
The prisoners of the Hercules ox tribe did not have anything to keep them warm. In order to survive this winter, all of them squeezed together to keep themselves warm. Furthermore, they kept moving around like penguins that were trying to get through the winter. The people outside could always stay outside for a short while before entering the crowd. This way, no one would freeze to death so quickly.
Although their method was correct, there was no other way. The weather was too cold, and with the snowstorm, the group of more than 300000 captives was now left with less than 200000.
Most of the dead were the elderly. In order to ensure the survival of the children of the Hercules bull tribe, they surrounded the children and stood outside to block the cold wind. If the bullfighting tribe sent food, they would give it to the children first. It was because of the cold and hunger that so many people had died.
When skoni saw the state his people were in, he gritted his teeth so hard that they almost broke. With tears in his eyes, he patted the old man beside him, who had a blank expression on his face as if he did not see them, and said in a deep voice, ” “Carrick, Carrick, I’m skoni. Can you recognize me?” he asked.
The herculean divine ox seemed to have woken up. His eyes began to move again. He looked at skoni, but he didn’t seem to see clearly. He closed his eyes and shook his head gently. When he opened his eyes again, he finally saw clearly. His eyes revealed a shocked expression. He looked around and said in a low voice,”Elder, what are you doing here? You’ve been captured by them?”
Their actions quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding people. However, the people standing here were all old men from the herculean divine ox tribe. Some of them were skoni’s subordinates when he conquered the world. So, when they saw skoni appear here, they were all stunned. However, they did not make a loud noise due to their rich experience. Instead, they moved as they did before, except that they surrounded Zhao Hai and skoni in the middle.
Skoni looked at Carrick and shook his head. With tears in his eyes, he said, ” “Old friends, you’ve suffered, but your suffering will soon be over. Seventh Prince Wells has returned to the clan and become the new patriarch. He has led us back to attack. You have to endure for two more days. In two days, we will launch a general attack on the bullfighting race. This is Zhao Hai, patriarch Wells ‘blood oath brother. He is also the Prince of our clan. He is a powerful magician. We are here today to bring you some food and weapons. You must endure for two more days.”
Carrick and the others all looked at skoni with excitement. Their tears were flowing. They had been living so hard for this day, and it had finally come.
At this time, the sky was completely dark. The bullfighting tribe’s camp was quiet. It seemed that the bullfighting tribe had fallen asleep. In such weather, even the White Bear tribe and the giant Tiger Tribe, who liked to start wars in winter, would not march to war. Therefore, they were sleeping very peacefully.
They weren’t afraid of the herculean divine ox tribesmen running away. In such weather, if the herculean divine ox tribesmen dared to run away without any warm clothes, they would definitely freeze to death on the grasslands. As such, they didn’t send anyone to watch over the herculean divine ox tribesmen’s captives. Instead, they only sent people to look after their own crouched sheeps and rations.
However, Carrick and the others were all old men who had been through hundreds of battles. Although they were old and caught, their calmness was much better than those young people, so the crowd quickly regained their calm as if nothing had happened.
Seeing that they had all calmed down, skoni turned to Carrick and said, ” “Pass down the news of our return to each and every one of them. Tell them not to make any noise and not to make any strange movements.”
Karik nodded and immediately began to pass on the message to the people around him. The message was simple: elder skoni had returned, and the people of the tribe had returned.
The news spread among the people like a wave stirred by a stone. Then, Zhao Hai and the others began to give out food, mutton soup and mutton. However, he didn’t give them much. Each of them was given a piece of mutton that weighed about half a catty and a bowl of mutton soup.
They didn’t dare to make too much noise in case the bullfighting tribe found them. Carrick and the others stopped following their tribesmen. Instead, they followed Zhao Hai and skoni, giving out things to their tribesmen.
Zhao Hai and the others started with the elderly. Some of the elderly could not hold on much longer, and they needed the food the most.
Carrick and the others finally understood Zhao Hai’s magic. Seeing the bowls of hot mutton soup and pieces of steaming mutton in Zhao Hai’s hands, they looked at Zhao Hai as if he was a beast God.
Zhao Hai didn’t give any weapons to the old men that day. He was afraid of being discovered by the bullfighting tribe. He only gave the old men some food. Then, under the cover of Carrick and the others, they walked into the center of the captives. There were many women and children who needed food.
It was much more difficult for Zhao Hai to deliver the food this time than at the campsite. At the campsite, he only needed to deliver the food to the tent. However, he had to hand it over to almost everyone here.
Zhao Hai and the others didn’t finish their work until dawn. Although it was winter, Zhao Hai and skoni were sweating. When the sun rose, everyone had the mutton soup and mutton. Skoni told Carrick and the others and disappeared into the crowd with Zhao Hai.
Although Carrick and the others still had to endure the destruction of the cold wind, there was a fire of hope burning in their hearts. Winter had come, but would spring be far away?
When Zhao Hai and skoni returned to the campsite, Weyers and the others were still awake. They had been waiting for the two of them. When they saw the two of them walk in with unsightly expressions, Weyers and the others stared at them.
Zhao Hai was so tired that he didn’t even want to talk. He just waved his hand and lay down on the side, not moving. Skoni was much stronger than Zhao Hai. After all, he was an orc, so his physical fitness was stronger than Zhao Hai’s. Besides, he didn’t have to hand over everything to those people like Zhao Hai, so he had a much easier time than Zhao Hai. He nodded at Wales and said,”The food has been delivered, but little hai didn’t give them any weapons for fear of being found out. He planned to give them the weapons tomorrow night when he delivered the food. I also think that this is feasible.”
“How are our people now?” Wales nodded.
&Quot; there are less than 200000 people left, ” skoni said in a deep voice. &Quot; among them, there should be about 150000 old men and women who can fight. It’s a force that can not be underestimated. The rest of the people have frozen to death and are still lying on the grasslands. &Quot;
“Bullfighting race,” said Wells,”I want you to become slaves for generations to come.”
Weyers and the others looked over and saw that Zhao Hai had already fallen asleep.