In the past, thousands of soldiers were buried in the snowfields of the north, and the eldest prince narrowly escaped death. It would not be long before news of the imperial army gathering at the border came.
But today's empire is no longer the prosperous empire it was a year ago. One hundred thousand imperial-troops invaded the world on the other side of the "Gate" and were almost beaten to death by an army called the Knocking Squadron using magical continuous-fire fully automatic weapons. completely annihilated.
In order to ensure the stability of his rule, the emperor concealed his defeat and ordered the vassal states to send troops to attack the "Arnus Hill" that had been occupied by the troops. Three hundred thousand troops were killed and their corpses were scattered all over the field. No one escaped alive. Not one out of ten soldiers left.
Although this vicious plan made the empire's rule stable again, it weakened the entire country's military strength to the extreme. Apart from barely maintaining public order internally, it was no longer able to organize a decent crusade army.
Therefore, even though Luo Jie gave the Empire a resounding slap in the face of the Headhunting Rabbit Tribe, the Empire, which was so excited by the internal blossoming of the "Arnus Hill" Knock Team, could no longer care about this on its face. Xiao Pain, apart from ordering to strengthen the defense of the northern border and closing trade with the Headhunting Rabbit and other snowfield demihumans, he has no intention of mobilizing the army for retaliatory crusade.
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Ten days later.
The original "Tiure tribe" headhunting rabbit tribe has been renamed "Night tribe".
Two leaders from different headhunting rabbit tribes met on the road outside the tribe and greeted each other familiarly.
"Chief Delei, have you just arrived too?"
"There is no way, our tribe is the farthest from here... Chief Todo, what do you think Queen Tiurei summoned us to discuss this time?"
"It's probably something to do with the empire... I heard that the empire has been financially tight recently and plans to raise taxes on us demihuman races outside the border. The Tiurei tribe is closest to the empire's border, so it must be the first to bear the brunt."
"You mean, Queen Tiurei plans to summon all the ministries to send troops to fight against the empire together?"
"That's the greatest possibility."
"Is Queen Tiurei crazy? She really thinks that tens of thousands of us Headhunting Rabbits can resist the empire's heavily armed regular army? If the Empire is angered, we Headhunting Rabbits will probably be exterminated. !”
"It turns out I'm not the only one who thinks this way... Chief Delei, if Queen Tiurei really proposes to send troops from various ministries this time, I will never agree to it. At worst, I will withdraw from this alliance."
"No problem, Chief Dotuo, and I am one of them. I don't want my people to die in vain under the iron cavalry of the empire... Wait, what is that?"
The two teams of headhunting rabbit messengers pulled the reins and stopped to ride the beasts. Not far from the road ahead, they saw a dark conical tower piled up. If you look closely, it is actually made of human heads!
A sudden burst of cold air sent the soles of the two Headhunter Rabbit Chiefs' feet straight up to their heads, and their long pointed ears twitched and trembled uncontrollably.
Tower of heads!
The origin of the name of the Headhunting Rabbit Tribe is the tower of heads used to show off the powerful force of the tribe and deter those with ulterior motives!
A follower jumped off the yak and went to check. After a while, he came back and reported: "Master Patriarch, these heads are very fresh. It is estimated that the harvesting time will not exceed half a month. All the heads are of young and strong human men. There are so many heads." The number is unlikely to be civilians, but most likely imperial soldiers who died in battle."
What?!
The two heads of the Rabbit Hunting Tribe looked at each other subconsciously, their expressions filled with disbelief.
Although the "Tiure Tribe" is the most powerful headhunting rabbit tribe in the northern snowfields, there are only more than a thousand tribesmen in the whole group. How can they kill so many imperial soldiers? This pile of heads is probably no less than 2,000.
Bar?
"Chief Dotuo, I'm afraid there's something fishy going on here...I suddenly feel that something big might happen at today's tribal alliance meeting."
"Oh... I'm here now, let's take a look and talk."
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In the temporarily expanded meeting room, dozens of clan chiefs from different tribes gathered together, whispering to each other from time to time.
The tent door opened wide, and a beautiful headhunting rabbit woman with rare snow-white hair walked into the meeting tent.
What surprised everyone was that the white-haired woman did not go straight to the animal skin throne in the middle as before, but sideways made way for a man in black to welcome a man in black into the tent with a very respectful gesture.
.
A human male.
"Now that all the clan leaders are here, let me announce something starting today. Our "Tiure Tribe" will be officially renamed "Ye Tribe" and I will regard this Lord Night Dire as the co-leader of my tribe."
"Tiure"'s ups and downs speech immediately caused an uproar.
The heads of the Headhunting Rabbit tribes originally thought they were going to send troops to fight against the empire, but they didn't expect that the first thing they heard was such an even more explosive news.
A man with full body muscles, who was not as strong as a headhunting rabbit, but looked like a gray rabbit leader of the bear tribe, stood up and asked unceremoniously: "Tiurei, what do you want to do? Let's not talk about us headhunting rabbits for now.
The clan has never had a precedent of letting a man lead the whole clan, and besides, he is still a human! Could it be that you have secretly defected to the empire?"
The words of the Gray Rabbit Patriarch can almost represent the thoughts of all the Patriarchs present. Regardless of gender or race, they cannot accept a human man as their new king.
Of course, not many people believed that "Tiure" had defected to the empire.
After all, the bloodstains on the tower of thousands of human heads outside are still there. With the empire's strong military power, there is absolutely no need to spend such a large amount of money just to plant a traitor.
"Okay, don't be so angry. What our Queen wants to do is just her and her people's wishes. We have no right to interfere."
A plump figure, moles on the corners of his eyes, and a brown-haired Headhunter Rabbit leader with a dangerous hairstyle put his chin on one hand and stood up to break up the fight with a smile.
"However, Tiurei, what you want to do is your business, and you cannot force us all to agree with your decision... If you insist on taking this human man as your master, then we can only cancel your status as the Queen of the Alliance.
, choose a new queen."
As soon as the brown-haired Headhunter Rabbit Chief's words came out, they were immediately echoed by all the chiefs in the tent, and some people even started clamoring to elect a new queen immediately.
Luo Jie coughed lightly and forcibly interrupted the noisy and chaotic scene in the tent: "Fellow clan leaders, can I say a few words?"
"Shut up! What qualifications do you, a human, have to be on the territory of our Headhunting Rabbit Clan..."
The words of the leader of the Gray Rabbit clan, who was as strong as a bear, came to an abrupt end here. Six flying knives with orange-yellow hot wind flew over half of the camp like meteors. The tips of the knives were pointed at her vitals, hovering steadily.
in the air.
Luo Jie casually inserted the huge black sword like a door panel on the side of the animal skin throne, lifted up the back of his windbreaker and sat up high.
"With the tower of two thousand heads outside, who among you still wants to question whether I am qualified to sit here?"
The entire tent fell silent for an instant.
No one thought that this ordinary-looking human man could actually be a hidden magician.
Now they finally knew where the head tower at the entrance of the tribe came from.
Think about it, if this man is not strong enough, how can he make the arrogant Queen "Tiure" surrender so respectfully?
The custom of the Headhunting Rabbit Clan is to respect the strong. Luo Jie showed overwhelming strength at this moment. The eyes of the clan leaders in the tent immediately changed. Instead of the previous disgust and displeasure, they were replaced by awe and respect... It seemed that
Are there still a few deeply hidden fanatical desires?
The brown-haired girl with a dangerous hairstyle looked at the Headhunter Rabbit. She held her chest with one hand and bowed to salute. She only expressed her respect to Luo Jie in her own name and explained to the Gray Rabbit sister: "Dear Master, we are not
I am questioning your qualifications to lead the "Tiure tribe", but our Headhunting Rabbit tribe has our own rules. Even if you force us to use force to make you the new king of the alliance, our tribe will not agree with it.
Our decision.”
Luo Jie raised his hand slightly with admiration, and the six winged flying knives drew a brilliant stream of light in the air, flew over the heads of the clan leaders, and inserted them back into the knife slots of [Ingenious Doll·Lucifer·One Style] one after another.
.
"Chief Dotu, right? I still like to talk to smart people like you."
"I am honored to be praised by a strong man like you. Even though our "Duo Tuo Department" will withdraw from the alliance this time, if there is an opportunity, I very much welcome Master Master to visit our department. I look forward to meeting you
Let’s learn skills together.”
Luo Jie selectively ignored the subtle hints in the words of the brown-haired girl, the leader of the Yi clan. He crossed his hands and crossed his legs, and wrote lightly: "I have always convinced people with reason. If you are not willing to accept me as the master, I
It won’t be forced…”
"Thank you."
Hearing Luo Jie's assurance, all the clan leaders present here secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although they didn't know what "Hongmen Banquet" was, after all, this was their clan's territory. If the other party really risked the disdain of the world, they would give them a mess.
, with just the few guards they brought, they probably wouldn't be able to put up any decent resistance.
Luo Jie waved his hands indifferently and continued: "As far as I know, the empire should have ordered to stop trading with the demihuman tribes in the northern snowfield, right?"
The headhunter rabbit leader with colorful hair expressed regret: "The empire threatened to stop mutual trade and imposed taxes on all the demihuman tribes in our northern snowfield. Without paying enough taxes, we cannot buy the food and clothing needed for the winter in the market, and even
Even eating salt has become a problem..."
"That's right, the empire is too overbearing. It's clear that the northern snowfield is the land where our ancestors have lived for thousands of years. They haven't invested a single gold coin here, but now they want to tax us. This is a total robbery!"
"Is this useful? We can't defeat the empire's army..."
"Okay, let's stop complaining and let's show you something."
Luo Jie raised his hand to interrupt the excited headhunting rabbit clan leaders, and then nodded slightly to the hunting team leader "Delila" who was standing at the door.
The tent door opened again, and large boxes were carried into the tent by the strong Headhunting Rabbit tribesmen.
When they saw clearly what was inside the box, the clan leaders could no longer sit still and stood up one after another and rushed forward.
"This...is this fine sea salt? And various spices?"
"Wheat flour! And sugar and cheese!"
"Oh my God! There are actually cotton cloth and tea leaves? How did your tribe get these things? Did you start hoarding them before the market closed?"
The greedy eyes of the clan leaders shone brightly, wishing they could take these boxes back to their tribes. Fortunately, they finally remembered where they were. After the noisy crowding and pushing, they reluctantly sat back down one by one.
seats.
"Chief of the Night Dire, are you showing off to us by showing us this?" Sister Gray Rabbit gritted her teeth and stared at Luo Jie, obviously still resenting the embarrassing incident of being pointed at by a flying knife just now.
Luo Jie shook his finger and smiled lightly: "No, Chief Delei, you misunderstood. I am just using this method to remind you of a detail that may have been ignored by you. I am a human being."
The empire prohibits the sale of supplies to the demihumans in the northern snow plains, but there is no such restriction on humans.
Luo Jie just flew into the city, randomly found a chamber of commerce and ordered a large amount of supplies, then stuffed them into the fourth-dimensional belly of the dog "Xiao Ke" and transported them back by air. Not to mention the imperial ban, even normal supplies
No business tax was paid.
The heads of the Headhunting Rabbit Clan obviously also realized the meaning behind this sentence, and couldn't help but be surprised.
Although they couldn't figure out how Luo Jie managed to avoid the strict inspection of the city defense army and transport these sensitive materials out of the border, since they would appear here in large quantities, it was obvious that the other party definitely had a stable transportation channel.
As the man said he was human.
This identity alone is an absolute advantage that cannot be compared with the tens of thousands of their tribe members combined.
??Please vote... If Luo Jie wants to build a country, there will definitely not be only one demi-human race, the Headhunting Rabbit, but if you want to eat your food one bite at a time, you must at least get rid of these rabbits first.