Azeroth Shadow Trail

Chapter 184 3. Old Garni is going to eat people

By the campfire in the middle of the ruins of the town.

Bu Laike raised his hand, and five or six candies landed in the arms of the three children with great precision.

With this thing as a gift, no matter how stupid the children are, they know that the pirates are teasing them, so they relax immediately.

Facing Bu Laike's gentle inquiry, the little girl with fruit candy in her mouth felt the sweetness from her taste buds that she hadn't felt for a long time.

Being held in Laike's arms again, the sense of security was overwhelming at this moment, and he laughed through tears, and replied in a timid voice:

"My name is Althea Eber Locke, sir."

"Eb Locke?"

Bu Laike blinked when he heard the surname.

He looked at the two little boys on the opposite side again, his eyes fell on the skinny boy with black hair, and said:

"Then you must be Kanrethad Eber Locke?"

"what?"

The skinny dark-haired boy who was tearing off the wrapper and putting the candy into his mouth looked up in surprise, looked at Bo Laike, and said:

"Sir, how do you know my name?"

"I want to say that I am a magician, do you believe me?"

Laike let go of the little girl in his arms, let her sit on the log next to him, and took out a few pieces of bread bought in Booty Bay from his luggage, and distributed them to the three hungry children.

He looked at the three of them and said softly:

"As for me, I just passed by here tonight, this is my first time in the territory of the Stormwind Kingdom.

But even if I am as ignorant as I am, I also know that the fertile land of Sunshine Forest and Raven Ridge is the fiefdom of Duke Aber Locke, a great nobleman of the Kingdom of Stormwind.

And you two are the sons and daughters of His Excellency the Duke.

But as far as I know, the duke is still in the northern border, assisting Varian Wrynn, Prince of Stormwind, in the court of Lordaeron. how?

Didn't your father take the two of you with him when he fled?

Is he actually such a cold-blooded person? "

"No, sir."

The little girl Althea is very good.

Although the long-term malnutrition made the child look very thin, but the black hair and black pupils gave her the embryo of a little beauty at the age of seven or eight.

As she wolfed down the bread, she explained to Bo Laike:

"My father probably thought that my big brother and I were dead. When the orcs rushed into my manor, my father was not there. It was the family knights who protected us and fled into the forest.

But at that time Stormwind City had already been occupied by the greenskins, and there was no way for my father to come back to us. "

"Sister, you don't have to defend the bad guy who abandoned us and our mother!"

Compared to Althea's well-behaved, her big brother Kanrethad is a bit aggressive and irritable. This thirteen or fourteen-year-old skinny boy said to Bu Laike while biting hard candies:

"My father is a cold-blooded person. When my mother was still alive, he had a lover outside. When he fled to northern Xinjiang, he always took his little lover with him, but he couldn't tell anyone to save us.

My mother died the night the manor was breached, he doesn't deserve to be my father! I will never forgive him in my life! "

"Ha, scandal among nobles, that's my favorite thing to hear, boys."

Bo Laike rubbed his hands together, showing a wide smile on his face.

He looked at the silent, older, perhaps fifteen or sixteen-year-old blond boy next to the Eb Locke brothers and sisters, and asked:

"What about you? Child, who are you?"

"My name is Morgan, sir."

Hearing the pirate's question, the boy who was eating bread immediately raised his head. He wiped the bread crumbs from the corner of his mouth and replied in a calm voice:

"Morgan Ladimore, my father was the captain of the Duchess's guard and died in the battle protecting the young master and young lady, and he left this duty to me before he died.

I am the guard of the young master and young lady! "

"But you can't even beat my weakest orc."

Bu Laike stared at the child, and he said softly:

"You little guard is not very competent."

"Sir, are those orcs your subordinates?"

Hearing Bu Laike's words, the three children stopped eating at the same time. Kanrethad, who had the most aggressive personality, stood up for a moment and said in a sharp voice:

"You, as a human being, how can you mix with orcs! You still accept them as your subordinates! Bah!"

He glanced at the bread in his hand, threw it into the fire, and said very dissatisfied:

"Fortunately, I thought you were a good person!"

The other two kids didn't make the same move though.

But they stopped eating the fragrant bread, and the little girl Althea moved her body quietly, a little further away from Bo Laike.

"Hey, you little fools who don't understand anything, staying with orcs means nothing."

Bu Laike ignored the actions of the three children.

He reached out to pick up the stick, poked the bonfire in front of him, and said slowly:

"The world is complex.

Those who yell to kill orcs are not necessarily the good people you think, and those who hang out with orcs like me are not necessarily heinous bastards.

My guys, uh... well, they're a bunch of out-and-out villains, but in my eyes, they're the 'good bad guys', and so am I.

But I don't want to talk about it with you because you can't understand it.

Say something happy.

You can all appear in the ruins, which means that there must be many refugees like you hiding nearby? There should be some on the other side of Crow Ridge. "

The pirate rubbed his chin and said:

"Since the darkness covered this forest, the orcs have not dared to come in, so for the past two years, although this place looks scary, it has been one of the safest places in the southern part of the war-torn continent.

There should be a lot of humans hidden in this forest.

But I can tell from the looks of you that you are having a miserable life. "

He glanced at the three children beside him, as if he was thinking about something. After a few seconds of silence, he put down the wooden stick in his hand, and patted the head of the stretched little murloc on his shoulder.

Say:

"As I said just now, I am a pirate and magician who passed by here, and I hold magical powers."

He fiddled with his fingers, and among the clusters of shadows, dancing shadows turned into patterns of various shapes at his fingertips, which quickly attracted the attention of the three children.

He said to them:

"The three of you, meeting me tonight may be driven by fate. The three of you have special powers, and you can make some small achievements in the next era.

I am very willing to help you and those refugees who are hiding in the dark forest and lingering to survive this difficult time. I will let you live more comfortably here, wait until the end of the war, and let more people survive .

But in exchange.

I will take one of you to serve me as my servant. "

"we do not need!"

Kanrethad, the thin boy, seemed to have a premonition that something was wrong. He grabbed his thin sister and protected the silent Morgan behind him.

He said to Bo Laike:

"We can survive on our own."

"yes?"

Bu Laike smiled, pointed to the dark night, and said:

"Then tell me, in the past few years, how many people who left your gathering place in the middle of the night can come back alive? You should know that there are some terrible things hidden in the darkness of this forest.

Scarier than orcs.

It is invisible and qualityless, just hiding in the darkness.

Watching each of you, popping up every time you let your guard down, dragging the hapless among you into darkness.

When you find those missing persons, all you can find are the skeletons that have been swallowed clean of all flesh and blood. Tsk tsk tsk, look at your expressions, you really should take a look for yourself.

Children, you really don't know how to keep secrets. "

The pirate spread his hands and said in a menacing tone:

"It's not that I'm scaring you, the power in the darkness is already hungry, if this continues, you and the kind-hearted people who have been sheltering you may not survive the day when the war ends.

You see, children, I'm here to help you.

Well, let me let you see the power of protection I promised you first, and then make a decision, okay?

Now, go to the ruins and collect some trash. Don't look at me that way, I'm not crazy, there's rubbish everywhere here, it shouldn't bother you, right?

go!

Don't expect me to help, I'm a respectable person. "

He waved his hand and drove the three children away, sat by the campfire by himself, teased the little murlocs to play, and let Ben Boerba dance and play in the shadow of the flames.

The three children left just like that.

But the thin Althea looked back at the pirate by the campfire, she held back the angry big brother, and whispered something in his ear.

The expression of the skinny boy Kanresad changed, and then he mustered up the courage to walk up to the heavily armed orc pirate guards patrolling outside the town, trembling his legs, and shouted to him:

"Hey! Your leader wants you to collect garbage!"

"Ok?"

The orc with the big ax turned his head, glared at the human cub who was bossing him around, and made a threatening expression, but Kanresad gritted his teeth, pointed to the pirate by the bonfire behind him, and said:

"If you don't believe me, ask him! He also said that if you don't do it quickly, he will beat you!"

Orc pirates aren't stupid either.

But he really didn't have the guts to offend his terrible captain because of such a trivial matter. He finally hesitated for a few seconds, and ran to the ruins dejectedly to pick up some old clothes, broken boots and the like.

He's pretty smart.

Knowing to pull three companions to do it with him.

As for Xieyan and Zarak, these two bad guys had already run away and didn't get involved in this matter at all.

With the help of four big and round orcs, the garbage dump that Laike needed was quickly built on the edge of the town, and he held the little murloc in his arms.

Glancing at Althea who was hiding behind the big brother, she shook her head, walked to the garbage dump, took out an old Gani's wooden idol from her arms, and threw it on the garbage dump without respect.

Then he waved to the three children and signaled them to come over.

"Read to me!"

The pirate said to the three children:

"I'll say one sentence, and you guys will say one more sentence. Don't make mistakes."

After finishing speaking, he elongated his voice, picked up a piece of garbage from the side, put it on the garbage dump in a gesture of offering, and called out in human language:

"Protector of the Scavengers, God of Trash, God of Forsaken, God of Secrets, King of Thieves, Lord of Slaves, Keeper of Secrets, God of Scavengers.

Old Garney!

We have paid tribute at the Scavenger's Holy Land, and we request your presence. "

The three children also followed Bu Laike's nagging movements, offering the garbage as a tribute, and recited the prayer in full with immature voices.

Then amidst their surprised gazes, there was a strange cry like a child's laughter, and misty smoke rose around the garbage dump.

In the blink of an eye, old Garni's strange and colorful figure gathered on the garbage dump in front of him.

There is also a sharp and weird greeting:

"Yo, stinky pirate, we meet again. Hey, why are these three human cubs here? Are you going to use them as sacrifices and sacrifice them to old Garni?

no no no!

Old Ghani is different from those savage loa, I just want sparkles, not human children.

However, they look delicious! "

The bad-natured slender jaw dragon Loa looked at the three terrified children behind Bu Laike with its very human eyes, and said in a long voice:

"It's not good to eat garbage too often, you have to change your taste once in a while.

Tsk tsk, that little girl looks good, thin and small, she just swallowed it in one gulp! "

Hearing these familiar words, Althea, who was hiding behind the big brother, pouted immediately.

Being frightened by the same trick three times in a row, no matter how stupid she is, she should be immune.

It's so vulgar to meet these weird guys tonight!

One by one, they all like to scare her.

(end of this chapter)