"you sure?"

Meng Chao frowned slightly, "I have to say, you are really disappointing, Mr. Big Buck, I thought the high-level orcs were made of steel and could last at least ten or twenty minutes!

"Speaking of which, are you really not prepared to hold on for another three to five minutes?"

"No! No! No!"

Big Buck let out a shrill scream, "Ask me questions quickly! I'll say anything, anything, ah!"

The last scream came from the blazing flames on his torn left leg.

Meng Chao used a secret medicine rich in flammable oil and fat to cauterize his wounds, temporarily sealing the broken blood vessels, and suspended the Tauren warrior on the dividing line between life and death.

"What's the name of that village?"

This is his first question.

This question completely stunned Big Buck, who was in pain.

He was ready to betray all his secrets.

Including the most shady inside story of the Bloodhoof family.

But he didn't expect that the monster with black hair and black eyes would ask an incomprehensible question: "What, what village?"

"That's the village where I was fished out of a tributary of the Tulan River and saved my life."

Meng Chao explained patiently, "That is the village that was later destroyed by your conscription team."

Big Buck was silent for a while.

An expression of confusion and surprise gradually appeared on the pale cow's face.

As if he couldn't believe it, Meng Chao didn't hesitate to offend the entire Bloodhoof family and went to great lengths to catch him here just for such an insignificant thing.

However, under the stimulation of the secret medicine, the stinging pain at the burnt wound continued.

And with every breath he took, it became more and more unbearable.

In order to get rid of the endless nightmare torture as soon as possible, he could only say honestly: "Cailuo Village, that village is called Cailuo Village."

"Cailuo Village..."

Meng Chao fell into memories and murmured, "Yes, I remember that in that village, every household lived along the river. The villagers liked to get colorful snails from the river. After eating the snail meat, they took the shells

String them together to make a translucent wind chime and hang it on the bedside or door frame.

"When I was struggling on the edge of the dark abyss, and the fire of my soul was about to go out at any time, I heard the jingle of the wind chimes, and the clear and sweet laughter of the children - the children in the village.

People like to play around the wind chimes, or puff up their cheeks and blow hard to make the wind chimes spin faster and faster, and all the colorful shells will fly up.

"It was the careful care of the villagers and the laughter of the children that pulled me back from the edge of death. Otherwise, I would have been at the bottom of the Tulan River, looking like I had been eaten away by fish and shrimps."

Skeletons.

“They are really a group of very kind villagers.

“It’s really a beautiful and peaceful little village.

"You really shouldn't have destroyed that place, Mr. Big Buck.

"When you were burning, killing, looting, destroying and enslaving people in Cailuo Village, I had just struggled from the edge of death and was still half-dead, unable to even lift a finger. I couldn't stop you.

I can only remember the appearance of you beasts, especially you, with the two horns on your head, one big and one small. I remember I told you at that time——"

Meng Chao said five words to Big Buck coldly.

Big Buck then remembered that when they destroyed Cailuo Village and dragged the black-haired and black-eyed monster back to Black Corner City, the monster once slightly opened its swollen eyes and said the same thing to him.

syllable.

At that time, Big Buck thought the monster was just moaning in pain meaninglessly.

But if he knew the language of Earth, he should have known by then that what Meng Chao said to him was:

"You will regret this."

Big Buck became more and more confused and frightened.

He really wanted to shout at the top of his lungs: "Are you crazy? They are just a group of rat people, a group of humble and weak rat people! It is worth provoking the most powerful Bloodhoof family within hundreds of miles for a bunch of untouchables, and even

The entire Bloodhoof clan?"

But Meng Chao's eyes, as deep as an ice cave, absorbed all his shouts, froze them and shattered them.

"Where are the villagers?"

Meng Chao continued to ask, "Many of the villagers who saved my life were caught by you. Where have they gone?"

"It's in Black Point City."

Big Buck said hurriedly, "A small number of them stayed in the Blood Skull Arena as servants, and most of them were sent to various places in Black Horn City to work as slave labor."

Meng Chao nodded thoughtfully: "Where are the children? Have you killed all the children?"

"No, no, we didn't kill the child!"

It seemed that he felt the doomsday aura emanating from Meng Chao, which was more terrifying than death. Big Buck was so frightened that he lost his mind and said in rapid succession, "We didn't kill the children, we brought them back to Black Corner City together. Believe me, we didn't kill the children."

, you should see, you should see many children running with the recruiting team!"

Meng Chao recalled carefully. When he was hanging in a fishing net and half-conscious, he seemed to have seen many rat children stumbling around and following the recruiting team under the threat of ox-tail whips and thorn spears.

"Why?"

Meng Chao asked, "When you carry out recruitment missions in many remote mountain villages, you will only take away the young and middle-aged people, kill all the old, weak, women and children, or leave them to fend for themselves in the devastated ruins.

"Why did you take away all the children when you arrived at Cailuo Village? Children are useless. They can't fight. Wouldn't they waste a lot of precious food?"

"Useful, rat children are also very useful."

Big Buck stammered and explained, "The remote mountain village is too far away from Black Point City. If we recruit everyone here, too much food will be wasted along the way, which is really not cost-effective."

"But Cailuo Village is not far from Black Corner City. Moreover, walking along the Tulan River is flat and there is no need to cross mountains. Sometimes you can also take a raft. The cost of transporting a soldier or slave is not too high.

It's high, so we can capture more people.

"If adults are captured, they can be used as servants or slave laborers. If children are captured, they can be used as garbage bugs!"

"Garbage bug?"

Meng Chao said, "What is that?"

"They are the slave workers who clean the septic tanks and sewage pipes in Noire City."

Big Buck said, "You know, the high-level orcs eat a lot and poop a lot. The nearest Black Horn City has a population of more than ten times influx. However, our sewers are the same as those of our ancestors thousands of years ago."

It was built by God, but many places have fallen into disrepair and have collapsed and become clogged.

"If we don't send people from time to time to drill into the deepest part of the sewer to clear and clean it, all kinds of garbage and filth will cause a volcanic eruption at any time!"

Meng Chao suddenly realized.

"Because rat children are petite and have soft bones, making it easy to crawl around in rugged and narrow pipes, so you let these children get into the deepest part of the sewer to perform such dirty work?"

Meng Chao said, "Wait a minute, it's not just dirty. Isn't there a lot of methane accumulated deep in the sewers, which could kill people at any time?"

"..."

Big Buck was silent for a long time, and then said with great grievance, "So, we can only let the rat people become garbage bugs - they are just rat people!"

Meng Chao sighed.

"Well, you have captured all the young adults and children to perform various dirty, dangerous, and desperate tasks in Noire City. The rest of the people, the old people, the sick, and the disabled, have all been killed by you.

Already?"

"No, we really didn't kill too many people that day. They were just rat people, and there was no point in killing them!"

Big Buck yelled, "We just burned their house down!"

"This is another thing that puzzles me. Why?"

Meng Chao said, "If your purpose is only to 'recruit' enough slaves and cannon fodder, and to confiscate all mandala fruits, then your purpose has been achieved.

"Why did you set a fire before leaving and burn the entire village to the ground?

"And, as far as I know, you don't just do this in Cailuo Village, you do it in almost all rat villages.

"This does not seem to be explained by the commander's brutality. It seems to be some kind of unified order."

"That's right, that's right, actually I don't want to burn down Cailuo Village!"

Big Buck nodded hurriedly, "Please believe that I just want to capture those young adults, no, I want to recruit them back, and lead them out of their mediocre life, and embark on a path of glory worthy of their ancestors!"

"Yes, it was Lord Kasava who gave the order. He asked us to destroy all the villages on the recruiting road. Even if I don't throw out the first torch, others will do the same!"

"The reason." Meng Chao said.

"To recruit more rat people!" Big Buck said quickly.

"Explain it." Meng Chao said.

"The recruitment team has limited manpower. It is impossible to bring all the rat people in the village to Noire City. We can only take away the young and middle-aged people with the strongest combat effectiveness and labor force first, but the remaining old, weak, women and children, if you pick and choose, say
To be continued...