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Thales the Sheep was inexplicably elected as the card leader by his card. Other users avoided this so-called card leader like a snake or a scorpion, as if this card leader was something very scary.
Thales is just a shepherd who is only over 20 years old. He can only shepherd sheep. He can't even speak well. How can he be a card leader. He has no family, and the sheep he shepherds do not belong to him. His only companion is a pure Estalian sheepdog, which was brutally killed on the night of the Dark Elf raid.
The death of the shepherd dog did not help Thales get rid of this nightmare experience. Maybe he did not go to that village to exchange for things that day, or maybe he chose not to spend the night there, then he would not have encountered these things, and his shepherd dog would still be alive. He would also wander around the winding and steep mountains with his sheepdog. Although the life was hard, he was still very happy.
Thales also refused and fought, but he soon found that he was isolated. He is like a black sheep in a flock of sheep, isolated by a group of white sheep. He obviously has done nothing, but he seems very lonely among the sheep. Then he finally understood why those households were unwilling to be the card chief, because the card chief had to communicate and report with the vicious dark elves every day.
Thales, who served as card leader on his first day, went to report the day's situation to the dark elves in the evening. He truthfully reported the situation of his card, which added up to less than twenty people. When he came out of the tent, , there was a red slap mark on his cheek, because the dark elf said that his accent was strange and he stuttered when he spoke. Originally, he would have suffered a more tragic experience after being humiliated, but fortunately, a higher-level dark elf appeared in time and stopped him.
When Thales returned to his rest area, the residents under his management looked at him with a look that he could not express. In the dim light, he could see the smiles on the lips of those who were his compatriots. smile. He ignored it and didn't think about communicating with the residents. Although they were all from Estalia, they were not in the same village, let alone the same area. The languages they spoke were also very different. Sometimes they were confused. I had to keep gesticulating.
Just when Taylor was about to rest, he heard a heart-rending scream coming from the rest area next to him. He ignored it. He closed his eyes tightly, covered his ears with his hands, and curled up. In a ball, as if that way he could escape.
The screams were continuous, from near to far, and then the screams continued non-stop.
Thales knew what happened. The card leader next door reported to the dark elf that the guy who screamed secretly put a gold bead less than half the size of his little fingernail in his tongue while working today. Below, although his movements were very covert and careful, he was still discovered by other residents. The resident told the card leader about this, and the card leader then told the dark elf about it.
Thales fell asleep in that cautious posture as he was thinking about it. He did not get a good rest after spending his first night in Cowen Plain. Because the screams continued, until it was almost dawn, there was no movement.
The next morning, Taylors walked out of his resting area and saw the guy who was hanging on the flagpole and was no longer struggling. The days that followed went like this day by day, and he gradually adapted to the new role of the card leader. Although he is the head of the board, he still needs to work every day, wiping the moss stains on the stones that are difficult to remove. While working, he also takes time to assign and direct the work of the residents, but the residents ignore his orders. Fish when it's time to fish, paddle when it's time to paddle.
On the night of the fifth day, Telles had three more whip marks on his back because his cards were the slowest in progress. The dark elves warned him that they could help him solve any problems he encountered, and they were very willing to help. If it's still like this tomorrow, it won't be solved by him being whipped three times.
After some mental struggle, Thales decided to take this step. He cautiously asked the dark elves for help, and the dark elves readily accepted his request.
At night, there were endless screams in the rest area where Thales was. He closed his eyes that night, but did not sleep. It was not because of the moans and groans around him that kept him awake, nor was it because of the hot whip marks on his back that kept him awake. . It was because he was worried that he would be attacked by wolves while sleeping. He wanted to maintain the vigilance a shepherd should have. He just wanted to live well.
As a result, nothing happened that night. Thales, who was gradually transforming, discovered that his residents and compatriots were not a pack of wolves? But a flock of sheep! Although he walked upright on two legs, he was just like the sheep that grazed when he was tending sheep. He saw anger and hatred on the faces of these sheep, but more importantly, fear.
"Perhaps, I should find another shepherd dog of my own." Thales was thinking while working. As he was thinking about it, he thought about what those masters did. Maybe he could learn from it and try it. ?
Today, Thales did not experience a more terrifying experience than yesterday, because his households worked surprisingly hard, and he did not contribute much. All his work was done by his households.
As the days went by like this, Chapeiuto, which had been soaked in the sea for six thousand years, also restored some of the appearance of the original temple city, instead of looking like an undersea ruins.
Thales was already accustomed to a half-starved and half-fed life. He still had a certain bottom line in his heart and did not rob the food belonging to his household. Besides, he had no chance to rob it. Nowadays, food is distributed uniformly. The only thing he, as the leader, can receive more than the residents is a small piece of meat, half a piece of meat as long as his index finger, which is distributed every night. He doesn't know what kind of meat it is. It is very fragrant. It's very old, very bad, but very delicious. Every dinner time has become his expectation of the day.
Thales has become accustomed to the huge and terrifying beasts that pull stones from time to time and walks past him. He is accustomed to the malicious eyes of the lizards. He is accustomed to the pointing of the lizards holding plaques in their hands. He is accustomed to swooping down in the sky. The giant predator stopped moving again. He was also used to the dark elves patrolling from time to time, and even more accustomed to the lizards holding weapons and shields.
That night, after reporting the situation, Taylor received an order to stop work and go to a certain place tomorrow.
On the third day, a huge labor dispatch team came to a high hillside under the joint guard of Druchi and the lizardman army. Five rough giant maps pushed by four-wheeled carts kept circulating in the team. .
Thales and his residents stood in a scattered line, staring blankly at the endless jungle in the distance.
After a while, the giant map stopped in front of Thales, and a dark elf came over with a loudspeaker.
"Welcome to the New World! Welcome to Lustria! Welcome to the Cawchen Plain! Thank you, His Majesty the Witch King, for praising the generosity of the Witch King's hands!" After finishing speaking, the dark elf who looked like a senior officer held his arms. He used the loudspeaker and clapped to himself.
"Applause if you don't want to die!" Thales reminded his residents in a low voice, and his sheepdog repeated it to his residents in a low voice after hearing his words.
The applause was scattered and feeble at first, then gradually became neat and vigorous, and then became continuous for a long time.
No one among the labor dispatchers dared to stop unless the senior dark elf officers signaled to stop. They knew the consequences of stopping.
After a long time, the applause finally stopped at the signal of the senior military officer.
The senior dark elf officer is not a senior officer, he is just an ordinary Druch centurion. He is from Nagarond and has served for more than two hundred years. He retired after being injured. Sovereign, who had saved money from his service, could barely make ends meet.
Originally, the Centurion was going to be sacrificed to the God of Bloody Hands by his family at midnight of death, because there was not much Sovereign left in his savings. As a result, the benevolent Hand of the Witch-King ordered that all of Nagaron be destroyed. The old, weak, sick and disabled in Germany were gathered together, and his family members sent him to the gathering place like trash.
Not long ago, the centurion's broken leg grew back, and he transformed from an old, weak, sick, and disabled man into a veteran of hundreds of battles. Due to his previous qualifications, he was also promoted to a centurion to manage a team of drulu. Qi formed a hundred-man team and had to manage armor with a maximum number of monkeys of 5,000. However, his unit was not a field unit in the conventional sense, but more like a garrison unit?
"I am your commander..." the centurion said with great effort in the Old Esperanto he had been learning since taking up the Black Ark. It was not that he could not speak Old Esperanto, but that the word was too weird. He then continued Said in the Elvish language, "I won't introduce my name. You damn monkeys don't deserve to know my name!" The centurion was very satisfied with his A's performance. He believed that he would manage his centurion and A well. He may also try to attack the Dread Lord, just like the former Centurion Edmund, now the Dread Lord Edmund Hellscourge whose reputation spread throughout Naggaroth.
"This is where you are now!" the centurion said, taking out the baton next to the giant map. After speaking, he used the baton to tap the northern end of Chapeiuto on the map, near the northern jungle.
Then the centurion began to introduce the geographical location of the entire Kauchen Plain in accordance with the request of his superiors. He did not understand why he was telling these monkeys, and he did not understand the meaning of it, but this was an order and he had to obey it.
"If you want to escape, it is recommended to go here! There is a southern outpost. There is a road that leads to the south. If you walk on it, you will arrive at a fortress soon. If you are lucky, my cousins in the fortress will accept you. Maybe we will send a ship to take you back home?" the centurion said teasingly, pointing the baton at the position between the southern outpost and the Twilight Fortress.
Thales's expression became even more confused. He didn't know why his armor commander said this to them? Is this encouraging them to run away?
"Remember! Don't try to enter the jungle. The jungle here is a hundred times more terrifying than the forests and mountains in your hometown! Although there are no mutated beastmen in it, it is filled with poisonous insects, beasts and lizards, as well as countless giant beasts and man-eating beasts. If you are not careful, you will be buried in the jungle." Although the centurion did not know the meaning of this, he was very satisfied with the expressions of the monkeys in front of him, and he continued with a loudspeaker.
"Similarly, it is not recommended to cross the ridge here. The height of the ridge is more than 6,000 meters! You must prepare cold-proof clothing and fresh water. There is snow on it that has not melted for thousands of years. Even if you are lucky enough to cross it, you will not be able to cross it. There is an endless hot desert, and there is also a jungle below the desert.
This is not recommended. This is a vast grassland, and there is no way to hide people. On the way to escape, be careful of predators in the sky, and be careful of large animals running on the land. Birds, the beaks of those birds will easily crush your skulls, and they must always avoid our aerial pursuit. I recommend that the best way for you is to organize a large-scale riot! Beat Chapeiuto Come down, pick up supplies and ships and return to the old world.
Of course! The most important thing is not the escape route, but that you have to discuss it. For example, in a card, half of the households escape, and the remaining household will be imprisoned even if they do not escape. !Similarly, and so on!"
"Okay, next, I will take you to visit the jungle up close. Of course, if you want to run away, you can try it during the visit, although I strongly don't recommend you do this!"
This The three-day tour, which was not very clever and had some mental retardation, was the brainchild of Darkus. He remembered an experiment in which a group of monkeys were locked in a room with bananas placed in the room. If a monkey tried If you go to get a banana, the room will be discharged, and other monkeys who did not get the banana will also be shocked.
The monkeys who received electric shocks several times would beat up the monkeys who tried to take the banana. After a long time, no monkeys moved the banana. Later, one of the monkeys was replaced, and another monkey came in who didn't know the situation. The new monkeys will take bananas out of instinct, and as a result they will be beaten violently by the old monkeys. The new monkeys no longer dare to take bananas, and when faced with monkeys who want to take bananas, they have also learned to thwart them. Although the new monkeys The monkeys never received electric shocks.
The monkeys participating in the experiment will continue to iterate and replace, but the rules that have been formed will prevent the monkeys from getting the banana, even if there is no electric shock at this time.
This experiment seems to have a psychological term. As for what it is called, Darkus has forgotten it, but he thinks this experiment is good and social norms will be formed in the process.
Darkus doesn't understand left or right. He has always been pragmatic and uses whatever is good. Talking about human rights, equality, freedom, liberation, etc. in this cheating world is pure nonsense and divorced from reality. The evil gods of the Chaos Demon Realm will be amused by this operation.
Since this doesn't work, we have to learn from history, use both kindness and power, combine Chinese and Western skills, and start practicing backwards! Population restrictions, centralization of Wubao, bread and circuses, quantitative assessment, continuous sitting of the first league, etc., all of them will be sorted out!
Win over some dispatched laborers to become bosses and turn them into lackeys. In this way, even if the labor dispatch workers below have any complaints, they are still glaring at the lackeys. In order to fight for his own interests, the card leader will... forget it, let's not talk about it.
At the same time, we have to paint a picture, to make these labor dispatchers have the illusion that life in the New World is better than the old world, so that they feel that they have dignity and freedom, but in fact they do not...
Although the labor force is not enough now, we still need to limit the population. Darkus has already given Druchi a thumbs up. His previous service period has been reset. He doesn't care which city the previous Druchi came from, which Black Ark he held, or what position he held. After arriving at Kauchen Plains, you can start from scratch. After serving for three hundred years, you can obtain land or fixed shares, similar to what was done when tulip windmills were in their prime, just like a pension.
This three-hundred-year service period is very important. Darkus believes that he can rule Ulthuan within three hundred years, three hundred years! It's been 2300 years since the Capital Empire. If he hasn't succeeded by then, then he is really a piece of trash. After coming to Ulthuan, this land that belongs to him may usher in changes. Will labor dispatch be gradually replaced by then? Replaced with elves.
There are all kinds of historical lessons, and there are also them in this world. In just one hundred and sixty years after the switch, Lothern had more humans than Asur. This is not in line with Darkus' big plan, unless What kind of imperial association army does he have?
Of course, there will definitely still be incidents, there will definitely be uprisings and riots, and there will still be gods in this world, and by then the whole thing of eternal farmers blessed by the four gods will be normal.
Madhu, hold high the banner of Qingbao Tianzun and start an uprising! Enter the customs! Enter the elven realm of arrogance, luxury and lewdness! Pull down the Phoenix King, and the Phoenix King will come to my house next year!
There were countless labor dispatches standing at the edge of the jungle under the gaze of dark elves, lizards, and giant beasts. Soon, the labor dispatches who had made mistakes during this period were pushed out and driven into the jungle. .
After a while, a human wail resounded in the jungle. For the sake of show effect, skinks holding blowpipes and javelins had been waiting there for a long time.
Dorian nodded with satisfaction. He was very satisfied with the effect. Then he followed Darkus' previous instructions and ordered the army to disperse, leaving a passage into the jungle for the labor dispatches.
After a long time, Wuyangyang's tens of thousands of labor dispatches rushed into the jungle uncontrollably. However, the scene Dorian expected did not appear. He was a little nervous and worried about causing trouble before and waved his hand in boredom. Return to Chapeuto.
At first, Dorian did not understand what Darkus meant, and Darkus had no intention of explaining it. He just said lightly, asking him to think, read, and observe more during the execution. He understood vaguely now.
The father standing next to Dorian had a calm expression on his face. As a veteran fear lord, Sirsis certainly understood what Darkus meant. After seeing that his son understood, he nodded with satisfaction. Nodding, he said in a voice Dorian could hear.
"Welcome to Kauchen Plains!"
(End of Chapter)