In a daze, Albert dreamed of himself as a child. He was still just a child, and he seemed to have been following his brother around at that time.
"But I really don't want to take a shower," he said.
"No, you haven't showered in a few days, you're too dirty." Robert rubbed Albert's little head: "Look, you haven't showered in a few days and your body has become sticky. If you continue like this, you will become sticky."
It turned into little briquettes."
Orcs are different from beasts in that they have sweat glands under their hair. This allows the orc's body to have better heat dissipation capabilities and prevents it from heating itself to death during high-load exercise. However, sweating will also make the orc's body become dirty more easily.
Must be cleaned frequently.
Regardless of Albert's objections, the brother threw the little tiger directly into the bath. There are several such natural hot spring pools in the village. They are all pools dug out of the original springs and surrounded by additional polished rocks.
A place for people to rely on.
"It's so hot." Little Albert complained, "It's not comfortable at all. I'd rather wash myself with cold water."
"Don't be such a spoiled brat." Robert rubbed the hair on Albert's body vigorously, trying to rub the dirt out of the hair. The water in this hot spring is flowing, and there are special channels to drain away the excess sewage. Rub it off the little tiger's body
Some of the dirty oil and some of the fallen white hair flowed away along the sewage channels.
"So dirty, so dirty..." Robert complained: "How much fun do you have to make your body so dirty in just a few days?"
"Hehehehe." The little tiger stuck out his tongue and laughed.
Although orcs have sweat glands, their sweat is different from that of humans. Most of it is water, with very little oil and salt content. Excessive sweating can even have a certain washing effect on the hair on the body. The problem is that moxa
Albert, this naughty little boy, ran around and jumped around, and after sweating, all the dirt and dust on the ground stuck to his body. Within a few days, he was incredibly dirty.
Robert had blue veins on his forehead and complained: "So how do you sleep these days? Don't you feel itchy? If you're so dirty, dad won't really let you sleep in the stable, right? Brother, follow the adults.
I have only been out hunting for a few days, and when I come back, you look like this. If my brother is no longer here, are you afraid that if you don’t take a shower every day, the white tiger will directly turn into a black tiger?"
"Hehehehe~" the little tiger still stuck out his tongue and said with a smile: "Brother, where are you going to go? Just like mommy, go far away and don't come back for a long time?"
This sentence seemed to hit Robert's Achilles' heel, causing him to pause for a long time.
"No..." He wanted to say something to deny it, but after a second thought, he changed his words honestly: "It's not that my brother won't come back. It's that there will be a mission to guard the colony in the near future. If my brother participates, he may be separated.
It will take a long time to get home."
"colony?"
"Hmm? Haven't you heard from dad? This is good news. The Egyptian government has approved the immigration application and allowed some of the orc residents in the Underdark to live there. They promised us an undeveloped land
.As long as we help the Egyptian government develop that land and build new towns, they will allow us to have permanent residence rights there. This is a fantastic and generous condition. As long as we own our own land in the glorious region, we will not need to
If we continue to live in such a dark and ghostly place... there is no need for such... sad things to happen due to famine."
"[Sad thing]?" Little Tiger didn't understand anything and tilted his head to look at his brother.
"No, it's nothing..." Robert said in one sentence: "Anyway, I may delay my return for a few months. You have to be good when my brother is not here, and you have to take a shower frequently."
"But taking a bath is so troublesome, meow——"
"Don't be bothered. If you don't take a shower and get lice on your body, you will be in more trouble. The lice removal medicine sold by the human race is expensive and difficult to get. Besides, who is going to help you remove lice? If it really happens, my brother will ignore it.
You're welcome."
"Okay, okay, meow... Albert will bathe frequently, meow." The little tiger said, sticking out his tongue.
"That's good." The elder brother rubbed the little tiger's head again.
"Hehehe~" Albert smiled innocently.
"Brother," not long after, the tiger boy asked again: "The ruins of the big pool behind the village are also bathing pools? It looks like a pool, but no one uses such a big pool to bathe?"
"That? That one used to be a public bath. It was destroyed before you were born. Many years ago, the village was attacked by monsters. The villagers used food to lure the monsters into the bathhouse and kill them, and they barely won.
But the dirty blood and entrails of the monsters polluted the spring of the bath, and no matter how much it was cleaned, the smell of blood lingered. The adults in the village said that the pool was no longer clean, so they sealed it. They would rather develop a new spring pool.
I don’t want to rebuild that unlucky waste pond. Don’t run there at night. Maybe the ghost of a monster will come out and snatch a child like you and eat it.”
"Wow, it's so scary, meow~" the little tiger said, but he didn't show any fear at all.
"You brat, you're actually entertaining my brother." Robert pretended to be angry and tapped his brother's head gently: "Okay, finally the washing is done. Dry the dirty kitten yourself."
"But I still want to pick up cats."
"Be careful to soak you." Robert lifted his brother up from the hot spring water.
Albert suddenly woke up from his dream because he felt the water level drop. The treatment had been completed, and the medical cabin was removing the medical gel. The tiger-man young man touched his chest, and the wound on his chest had disappeared.
But it still left a terrible scar and a burning phantom pain.
"Are you awake?" As soon as he opened the door of the medical cabin, Mutt's kitten face appeared in front of Albert.
"How long have I slept?"
"About two hours." Mutt checked the time with the pocket watch in his hand: "This medical cabin is indeed a necessary condition for us to implement the plan. With this, no matter how injured you are, you can recover in a short time.
If it takes a long time to recuperate, a month is not enough."
"It seems to be based on the premise that I lose and get seriously injured..." Albert snorted.
"It's necessary." The cat boy said: "It's best to defeat the first three ancient warriors first, leaving the last ancient warrior to fight and deliberately lose to delay the time. Until we cooperate internally and externally to implement the plan."
That day."
"Can't we directly defeat the last ancient warrior, Meow?" the tiger man young man couldn't help but wonder.
"Well... don't." Mutt showed an expression mixed with sadness and worry: "You should know. Even if you win, the forces of the abyss will not simply stop this sacrifice plan. The ancients and the abyss had a history
Agreement, sacrifice the people of our world, and then resurrect the ancient people. If you want to invalidate the ancient people's agreement, you will definitely have to pay an equally huge price.
The Abyss has not asked you for a price yet, they are very cunning. But when you defeat the ancients and are qualified to negotiate terms with the Abyss on an equal footing with the ancients... they will start to ask you for a high price. At that time
At that time, you will be in trouble.
If you pay the price, you will lose something very important, maybe your life, maybe precious memories... maybe the person you cherish the most;
If the price is not paid, the Abyss will continue to fulfill the agreement made by the ancients. Then the world will be destroyed.
...No matter what choice you make, it will always end badly."
Albert was stunned for a long time. He wanted to say something to refute Mutt. But the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Mutt's conjecture was correct. Indeed, no matter what choice he made, it would have a bad ending. The abyss started from the beginning.
He kept this secret from Albert and did not ask him for any price. He just wanted Albert to walk step by step into the death trap set by the abyss.
The only way to a good ending is to destroy everything. Only by destroying this alien space and completely cutting off the connection between the real world and the abyss time realm can they survive this catastrophe.
"You're right, Mutt." Albert sighed: "You think further than me, but you are such a clever guy."
Even though he was praised by Albert, the cat boy still showed a sad expression: "I just want to help you. If you have to lose everything to save the world, this world is not even worth saving. Please, follow my plan
Do it well? I don’t want to see you lose anything important, such as...such as that woman..."
"Such as you." Albert reached out and touched Mutt's cheek.
Mutt was stunned for a moment, and then turned away with his red face: "...Stop teasing me. You are sticky and have a strange smell. Go and take a bath."
"Of course." Albert climbed out of the medical cabin.
Before Albert could fully crawl out of the medical cabin, Mutt had already run away as if he was running away.
Ten minutes later, in the large bathhouse behind the village.
"You have to come to me at this time, meow?" Albert looked at the strategist Eric sitting in front of the bath with caution, and tied the towel around his waist tighter: "Didn't you say [wearing clothes]
Just] Meow?"
"I am indeed wearing clothes." Eric pointed to the swimming trunks on his lower body. This guy came prepared.
"It seems that I am also a fool for believing your nonsense." Albert covered his face.
"Don't worry about the details. Don't you want to take a shower? Come and take a dip." Strategist Eric showed an evil smile: "By the way, activate [Transcendental Sainthood] so that I can absorb [Lesford Radiant Light]."
"I really have to be a meow on such an occasion..." Albert climbed into the pool and soaked his whole body in it, leaving only his head above the water: "Why is meow the bathtub? Why can't meow be anything else? It's not as embarrassing as that meow."
place."
"Let me tell you who are ignorant. Water is an excellent conductor of time, space and magic power. So are the metal minerals in the water." Eric said, "In order to make up for their lack of magic control, ancient magicians would create magic arrays.
Draw a pattern on the bottom of the water dish, and then fill the dish with water. Just such a simple mechanism can greatly increase the success rate of spell activation."
"So what does this have to do with my [transcendence]..." Albert complained.
"According to my speculation, [Lesford's radiated light] is also some kind of radioactive magic, or the distortion of space and time, or a kind of gravity wave. Just being illuminated by that light, the door to truth opened to me slightly.
The crack in the door. If we use the magic power of water and the conductor of space and time, let [Lesford Radiant Light] shine all over my body without blind spots——"
"Okay, okay, no need to talk about those meow theories." The tiger man's face elongated, and his eyes narrowed into two slits. He was too lazy to listen to the other party's description, and began to concentrate on it, entering the [Transcendental Saint] mode.
The black tiger stripes all over his body began to project an icy blue light, which was the [Lesford Radiant Light] - proof that his body and [Extraordinary Reason] were connected. In this state, he
It is the truth, and the truth is him. Even if he himself cannot understand the truth of the universe, no one can deny that he is the existence closely connected with the truth.
And what the strategist Eric said was right, the ice-blue light called [Lesford Radiation] did spread in the water, illuminating the entire bath. At first glance, the water in the bath seemed to be on its own
Glowing.
"Huh, huh?" Eric, who was lying in the same pool, let out a strange groan.
"What's wrong?" Albert asked urgently.
"It's just a...weird feeling." Eric blinked, not sure what he was feeling: "Don't worry. The body is still unable to move. I think this has nothing to do with the recovery of the nervous system.
"
"Is there any other cat that I can help with?"
"Give me some time. It was the same last time. Just after absorbing [Lesford Radiation Light], my body didn't change much. But after a while, my fingers will be able to move. If this time is like last time, then when
If I absorb enough [Lesford Radiation], my nervous system will be able to recover in a few hours. Probably."
"Just this simple operation can revive a paralyzed person..."
"Because my paralysis is not an ordinary paralysis. This disease has a deep relationship with [extraordinary principles]."
"Well," Albert was afraid that the other party would continue to talk about a bunch of theories that he didn't want to hear, so he immediately interrupted: "After you leave this place, give me a message by the way."
"Who did you pass it to and what did you say?"
"Send a message to that guy in Bedivere: If I can't come back alive this time, just open that [little jar] and let that [little guy] come into the world."
"Little jar? Little guy?"
"You don't need to know too many details. Tell him exactly what I said, and he will know what to do."
"That's fine. I'm not interested in asking too much." Eric glanced at Albert: "But, can I regard this as your will? I am in a hurry to make a will, but I don't have the confidence to deal with this incident.
Go back alive?"
"Well -" Albert showed a deep expression: "Just in case."