Chapter 68: A Day in the Life of the Kobold Tarr
The next year, autumn, it is the annual harvest season again.
In the early morning, the sun had just emerged from a corner of the mountain in the east, and crystal clear dewdrops were still hanging at the tips of the leaves.
In the broad-leaved forest of the Modo Peak Forest, a team of nearly a hundred people lined up in a long line, walking through the forest.
This team is complex, including goblins, werewolves, centaurs, and the most are kowtowers, including men and women, old and young. They are the collection teams from the Blood-Tooth Mining Cave.
In addition to ordinary monsters performing collection missions, the team is equipped with five fully armed, well-trained soldiers to prevent accidents.
"Hey! Hey! Little head! Keep up! Don't fall behind!" The dog-head guard - Tarr, with his spear, hit the shield and greeted the dog-head looking around behind the team.
It is probably the first time this little dog kowtower has participated in a collection mission and is curious about everything outside. Such a little guy occasionally causes some trouble.
What a happy trouble.
I don't know what other guards thought, but at least Taal thought so, the troubles of happiness.
If the puppy kobolds were not even full of food in the past, then they would be curious about this and that.
"Praise the great master!"
Taal said in secretly, and continued to walk while alerting the surroundings. His mission was to protect the uncombat tribe members.
In fact, Master Anna, the master’s consultant, communicated with the extraordinary beasts around the Blood Tooth Mine. Generally, there will be no wild beast attacks, but warning is still necessary.
There was nothing wrong along the way, and the collection team came to the target area. There was a mountain halfway up the mountain. There were large pine forests above the mountain, and heavy pine towers hung on the trees.
It was this thing that looked like a general's scale armor that allowed the Blood-Toothed Dogman tribe to spend an unprecedented warm winter last winter. Not only the Blood-Toothed Dogman tribe, but other Dogman tribes, goblins, werewolves, and even a few stray ogres to spend a dreamlike winter.
"Start collecting! Don't leave our sight!" After saying to the teammates, the leader of the leader faced the four soldiers: "Tar, Turk, you two go ahead and take a look, Shure..."
After assigning the task, the captain found a stone to sit down and looked at the monsters who were starting to be busy.
Taal and his companions walked up the mountain according to the task assigned by the captain. They had to go forward to explore the road to avoid sudden wild beasts from hurting people.
The journey of exploring the road was smooth and they did not encounter wild animals and turned back to the collection area.
Before they got close, they saw people busy in the forest from afar. The dog-headed man climbed up a tree and picked the pine tower and threw it down. Goblins, werewolves, dog-headed man and others bagged the pine tower below.
In order to avoid hitting people, the kobolds picked up a tree and other people came to pick up the pine towers that landed on the ground.
"Report to the captain, there is no danger ahead."
"Chicken and leopard eat whale stairs (continue to keep alert)," Captain Dog-Kowtz couldn't speak clearly because he was chewing things in his mouth.
Seeing the two subordinates looking at themselves with anticipation, the captain of the dog-headed captain took out the cloth bag with his cuffs, took out two pieces of jerky stained with peppers from the cloth bag and handed them to the two.
"Hahaha, thank you captain," Taal and his companions took it happily and put it in their mouths to chew. The fragrance and salty taste slowly spread in their mouths. The taste buds were stimulated and saliva flowed out unconsciously.
On the side, a puppy man saw this scene and his saliva flowed out.
Now, the monsters under the Red Dragon are not hungry, but meat is still a luxury, and only a small group of people can eat them frequently. Captain Kobster belongs to this little person, and he is a formal professional.
However, ordinary people can taste the meat and fish if they have saved up for half a month.
"Well... it's reindeer meat, with delicate meat and chewy after air drying," Taal usually gave his own judgment while chewing.
"No, it's yak meat..."
Seeing that the two were about to start arguing, the captain of the dog-headed man on the side smiled and said, "Stop fighting, you both are right. I have two different jerky meat in this bag."
"So that's how it is," Taal was surprised.
Last fall, the dog-headed people fought all their tribe to hunt and collect cubs, but because the species of cubs collected were too messy and the number was sparse, the animal husbandry industry failed to develop.
However, at the beginning of the winter, the gray-tailed Centaur was exterminated for his death, and their flocks of cattle and sheep became the trophy of the Red Dragon.
From then on, the meat began to enter the sight of the monsters.
In the cold winter, things changed again. The ice field reindeer that originally lived in the bitter and cold areas of the northern prairie, the northern yaks went south to spend the winter and came to the triangular plain.
This is a gift from God!
The Red Dragon was so happy that he personally took action to store all the gifts. Finally, under the persuasion of the Druid Consultant, he put half of the ecological balance. In return, the Druid Consultant took on the important task of taking care of the animals and taming the animal herds and developing the animal husbandry industry.
In this way, the animal husbandry industry has completely developed, greatly enriching the recipes of many monsters.
After half a day, the pine towers in the mission area were collected and everyone embarked on the way home.
At this time, the Centaur, who has always been playing the role of soy sauce, became the main force of transportation. The tall and strong pine towers they can transport are seven or eight times that of ordinary monsters.
Returning to the Blood Tooth Mine, the captain led everyone to send the collected pine towers to the designated weighing place.
After weighing, the manager who received the pine tower gave the captain a large amount of copper coins according to the weight of the pine tower. Unlike ordinary round currencies, these currencies are square, so they are called square coins. Because the dragon head emblem is printed on the front, they are also called dragon coins.
The red dragon designed the coins into squares, not a sudden idea, but to distinguish the dragon coins from ordinary currencies, because the dragon coins are the special currency for purchasing grain.
Holding dragon coins can buy food at any grain exchange site in Modofeng Forest. Generally speaking, two dragon coins can buy food for a family of eight for a day, and ten dragon coins can be exchanged for one pound of cheapest beef.
"Come on! I've sent the money!"
Everyone immediately surrounded him. According to the division of tasks and workload, the coins each person receives vary. For example, the salary for climbing trees is higher than picking up, and the salary for centaurs with the most transportation weight is higher than that of puppy kobolds.
This avoids the big pot of rice and maximizes the enthusiasm of the monsters to work.
The five dog-headed guards are also rewarded. Their reward for dispatching once is fixed. Ordinary dog-headed soldiers have ten dragon coins at a time, while the official warrior-level captain is twenty.
But as a formal soldier, Captain Kobster values most not money, but points earned from completing tasks.
This point has only one purpose, that is, to advance to the tribe level.
In early spring, Red Dragon announced a far-reaching policy, dividing all monster tribes into six levels, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and low-level.
The lowest level is the lowest level, and you must work voluntarily for four months every year and cannot refuse. Currently, only the gray-tailed centaur survivors are the lowest level.
For the monster tribes that actively surrender, level 5 is the starting point, and most tribes are level 5, and they work voluntarily for two months every year.
Chapter completed!