Chapter 415 - 140: [Monster Slave Master and Human Slaves]
Her action of pushing the door was as if she wanted to smash it open.
Fortunately, the wooden hut was made of wood from the Forest Monster, very sturdy, it made a loud noise but showed no signs of damage.
"Get up, work!"
The female monster shouted, then threw an axe toward Chen Yan.
The way she threw the axe, it didn’t seem like she was handing over a tool, it was more like she wanted to kill someone with it.
Chen Yan caught it steadily, without making a sound, nor trying to say anything, because he saw the impatience and eager anticipation in the female monster’s eyes.
Chen Yan got up and obediently walked out the wooden hut door.
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Outside, it was still pitch black, as if the sky here would never brighten?
Chen Yan frowned slightly.
However, the light in the village was much brighter, because in front of many wooden huts, lanterns were lit, roughly there were dozens of them.
Then, Chen Yan saw many monsters!
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The monsters were like this female monster — obviously from the same race.
With gray-black skin, their limbs were almost deformed, with large hands and feet.
But Chen Yan noticed a detail...
It seemed his "mistress" was the most frail among all the monsters?
The other monsters looked much more robust than her, some even had arms nearly as thick as her waist.
Even their heights were taller than hers.
Chen Yan’s gaze swept across, seeing a few monsters nearly three meters tall.
This female monster, nearly two meters tall, looked like a child compared to the others.
Most of the monsters coming out were wearing furry garments, holding various types of chopping tools.
What surprised Chen Yan the most was that besides these monsters emerging from the village, there were actually some humans!
They were humans, humans just like Chen Yan.
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Those people looked numb or even withered, their clothes tattered, some also wore furry clothes, holding axes or other tools.
Obviously, these humans held a very low status... each human had at least one or two tall monsters beside them, herding them like cattle or sheep.
The number of humans wasn’t large, only about twenty—including Chen Yan himself.
These humans were very quiet, no one spoke, or even exchanged glances, just lowering their heads, walking woodenly towards outside the village.
Their target was clear — that Forest Monster.
Chen Yan only glanced twice before the female monster beside him let out a dissatisfied snort: "Work! Work!"
She even pushed Chen Yan a bit.
Chen Yan didn’t get phased, holding the axe with both hands, slowly walking away, merging into the group of humans.
In the group of monsters, there seemed to be quite a bit of noisy chatter and shouting, these monsters were conversing, and loudly.
Even though he couldn’t understand their language, Chen Yan gradually realized there were monsters mocking the female monster who captured him.
The female monster retorted a few words, but was clearly irritated, looking displeased.
She even picked up a big iron hammer, baring her teeth at the surrounding monsters, like a threatened beast.
However, due to her excessively small stature and figure, this posture didn’t win her any respect, instead, it brought more ridicule.
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The work was chopping trees.
Chen Yan found that this monster village had divided the forest well.
The forest area assigned to the female monster was evidently not very good, it was somewhat far, on the western edge of the village — the trees seemed weaker, with the ground wet and muddy.
Speaking of which, Chen Yan never quite understood, how in such a cold place, the soil wasn’t frozen solid?
Clearly, the stream at the village entrance had already frozen over.
However, the downside of this location was, it was very cold, seemingly a wind passage, making the work here more susceptible to the wind.
Moreover, if you wanted to transport the felled trees back, you’d have to walk more than others.
Nevertheless, Chen Yan was still satisfied, because he quickly found the advantage of this location for himself.
The remote area was conducive to escape.
And even if not escaping, just chopping trees, the shorter and slender trees were easier to chop.
Hmm, the second advantage, Chen Yan concluded after chopping trees for half an hour.
His tree chopping skills were...
Terrible!
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Although he grew up in the countryside and knew how to do some farm work, Chen Yan never chopped trees before!
Under the female monster’s watch, after swinging the first axe, he immediately realized he had underestimated the task.
This monster, it was frighteningly hard!
An axe strike on the trunk felt like hitting an iron block, making Chen Yan’s hands somewhat numb.
Only a slight chip was raised on the tree trunk.
The female monster beside him was visibly dissatisfied, barking a few reprimands at Chen Yan, but when she realized Chen Yan looked at her blankly, she understood this human slave of hers didn’t understand.
However, her grasp of the human language didn’t seem to be very good either, unable to express overly complex meanings.
So she simply snatched the axe from Chen Yan’s hand, giving him a demonstration.
This time, Chen Yan understood her meaning: Learn from me!
The female monster swung the axe smoothly, cutting easily into the trunk of the Forest Monster!
Her strength and technique made Chen Yan’s eyes narrow.
The female monster swung the axe, and after a dozen strikes, the tree trunk of this Forest Monster was almost eighty to ninety percent cut through.