Chapter 977
The next second.
Chen Dong swallowed the crumbled bun that Barbara had handed to his mouth in one gulp.
It was swallowed straight into his stomach before he could even chew it.
“Thanks, thanks ……”
Chen Dong said gratefully.
Barbara smiled and said, “Why is Uncle thanking Barbara? Barbara didn’t help anything.”
Chen Dong froze.
The only thing that remained in his burning gaze was Barbara’s appearance.
At the most desperate and helpless point, whenever a person could encounter a little sunlight, he would feel the warmth of the sun enveloping him.
And now, the feeling Barbara gave Chen Dong was just like that!
Even Chen Dong himself was not sure why Barbara’s words just now had such a strong motivation for him, making him snap out of his trance.
Just at the moment when Barbara had uttered those words just now, he felt as if the words had been violently etched into his blank mind.
That feeling of empathy made him steeply hardened for a moment.
“Uncle, go inside first to warm up, here, Barbara will do it.”
Barbara tugged at Chen Dong.
Chen Dong shook his head, “It’s alright, I can still hold on.”
But Barbara wrinkled her nose with an angry look and said firmly, “Uncle can’t try to be strong, the snow and wind in this great snow plain, not to mention freezing to death, even yaks and big bears can freeze to death.”
“Hey, come in.”
The boy then pushed his way through the group of children, pushing Chen Dong into the group while pushing Ah brutally into it.
Then he was the one who turned his back to the crowd, clasped his hands to his chest, sat on his end, closed his eyes and said indifferently, “Blocking the snow and wind that is what men do, Barbara why are you trying to be brave?”
“Brother ……”
Barbara froze.
The boy, however, said without looking back, “All right, let’s all alternate shifts to the periphery, my sister is right, even if you are a slave, at least you are alive, freezing to death, you are not even qualified to be a slave.”
The children themselves had been rotated from time to time at Barbara’s request, though.
But the words spoken by the boy at that moment still caused the group of children to rejoice, their eyes glowing with light.
The scene in the cage caused Chen Dong’s gaze to drift a little.
He slowly raised his head to look at the situation in the two cages at the back and frowned slightly.
The situation in the other two cages was not as harmonious as the one in this cage.
There was no mutual support, no huddling for warmth.
Rather, they were gathered in a group in a survival of the strongest stance.
The obviously stronger child occupies the centre, while the thinner child sits on the edge, taking the most direct and coldest battering from the snow and wind.
In the snowstorm.
The skinny children were shivering with cold, and even frost was forming on their hair and eyebrows, and they were all curled up in a ball, still clenching their teeth and suffering in silence.
This scene was an incomparably naked and undisguised rendition of the cruelest of the weak and the strong.
Looking into Chen Dong’s eyes, a look of disbelief pa*sed through him.
Compared to the situation in their cage, the other two cages were simply a different version of “life and death struggle”.
But soon, Chen Dong closed his eyes.
He was aware that he was now a prisoner and would not recover his strength.
There was no way he could do anything to save himself on this journey.
Apart from bearing it, apart from protecting Barbara and these children in the cage, it had really come to the point where there was nothing he could do.
No, even he, himself, had to rely on Barbara and Barbara’s brother for shelter.
……
Three days afterwards.
For three whole days, Bai Qi and the three Golden Guards led the 50,000 Great Snow Dragon Riding Army, and after receiving Huo Zhenxiao’s reply to their orders, they not only marched their army under the Qilian Mountains, but even along the southern part of the Qilian Mountains, pushing straight across in the other direction along the line.
The fierce snowstorm was enough to quickly cover the tracks.
The hope of finding Chen Dong grew slimmer and slimmer.
Both Bai Qi and the three golden guards were of one mind.
In the event that the first objective could not be completed.
They had to complete the second objective formulated by Huo Zhenxiao in a beautiful manner.
Both Bai Qi and the Three Golden Guards were clear about the Hundred Clans Order.
They also judged Huo Zhenxiao’s intentions as soon as his order was replied to.
Since they wanted to deter, they wanted to deter completely and utterly!
With the domineering iron hooves of the Great Snow Dragon Riding Army, the curse of the curmudgeonly clans would be deterred.
At the same time, it was also the four of them who were unwilling to return to the city and wanted to continue searching for Chen Dong.
“Chief Bai Wu, could Chen Dong have chased Commander Xiao into the Qilian Mountains?”
Pushing across the road, they searched along the way.
Yet still nothing was found.
It was important to know that Chen Dong had merely pursued and killed Commander Xiao.
Even if there had been an accident, the war horses would have kicked out the corpse with their iron hooves.
“I don’t think so, no one would dare to enter the Qilian Mountains at this season.”
Bai Qi shook his head, but his gaze flickered for a moment, hesitating, his tone suddenly becoming heavy: “If we do enter Qilian Mountain, then it will really be hopeless, it is the sky that will kill Chen Dong.”
When Chen Dong left after Commander Xiao, he was in a state of madness.
In such a state, there was no sanity to speak of.
And in order to be exhausted, Commander Xiao’s sanity would naturally be lost as well.
A chase and a rush, and the two of them rushing into the Qilian Mountain, was really something that could happen!
A single word made the faces of the three golden guards look heavier and heavier.
Bai Qi, however, rubbed a handful of snow on his face and sighed, “Keep pushing, if we still can’t find it, we have to give up for now, that kid …… shouldn’t die easily.”
The three Golden Guards could hear from anyone how helpless Bai Qi really was with this last sentence.
These words, just like in despair, hard to comfort themselves to give a glimmer of hope out.
As the Great Snow Dragon Riders roamed the frontiers of the various tribes, the Chen Clan and the Hong Society sent out their men.
The people sent by the Chen family and the Hong Society were like stars falling, scattering into the snowy plains, searching for Chen Dong’s whereabouts in a more secretive, yet more careful manner.
Not only did they search on the spot, but there were also merchant caravans snooping around in secret as they traded between clans.
But the information that came back to Chen Daolin and Yuan Yigang was …… clueless!
The night is late.
The first thing you need to do is to get some sleep, and lean back in your chair, full of fatigue.
Since Chen Dong’s disappearance, as a father, he hadn’t slept well.
While dealing with the affairs of the Chen family, he was anxiously waiting.
So much so that his sleep over the past few days had been a reluctant snooze after extreme exhaustion, but as soon as he closed his eyes, he soon woke up again with a start.
Looking at the computer, the messages sent back from the various teams sent out.
Chen Daolin had the feeling of falling step by step into the abyss: “Dong’er, where the hell are you?”
Across the ocean.
It was daytime.
Yuan Yigang was sitting in a chair, holding tea in his hand, which was already cold, but he did not take a sip.
On the side, Ye Yuanqiu, too, was doing the same.
Half a day.
Yuan Yigang said in a deep voice, “Elder Zu, how about …… continuing to increase the strength of the search?”
Ye Yuanqiu, however, smiled helplessly, “Fifty thousand people are running directly to the snowy plains, doing what they do every day, crawling across the ground, and this still can’t sweep Chen Dong, what’s the use of sending more people there?” |
The first time I saw him, I was able to find him. If nothing is found, withdraw immediately!”
Chapter 978
The royal court of the Huns.
Thirteen majestic cities stand above the vast snowy plains.
The thirteen cities of the royal court are a manifestation of the supreme power of the royal court of the hundred tribes.
It is also the most prosperous place among the hundred tribes in the snowy plains outside the realm.
Even in the course of time, the position of the King of the Huns has faded and weakened among the hundred tribes.
But today, the Xiongnu Royal Court is still the largest tribe in the Snowy Plains.
The thin camel is bigger than the horse, and this is evident in the Royal Court of the Huns and the Hundred Tribes.
The thirteen cities of the royal court, apart from the king’s city, which is held by the stars at the centre, the other twelve cities have become sacred places where the hundred tribes circulate and trade with each other!
In the twelve cities, everything was available.
Food, clothing, war horses, swords, slaves …… and so on.
In each of these cities, there was a great deal of activity.
In one of the cities, the streets were filled with stalls in front of the shops with all sorts of things on them, and the sound of shouting and shouting went on and on.
There was a constant stream of people and carts and horses.
There were also slaves clearing the snow from the streets, as well as patrol troops from the Hun royal court, weaving in and out.
“Hoo …… it’s been a long time since I’ve been out for a walk.”
The demon lady was wrapped in a beast skin robe, her extremely fine figure completely concealed under the thick, large beast skin robe.
In order to hide her identity, the demon lady even drew on a special makeup and dotted many freckles on her face, deliberately playing ugly.
It couldn’t be helped.
Ever since she turned sixteen, her beauty had been known to the entire Hun royal court.
Once on the streets, she was bound to cause a sensation in the city, drawing people from all the other clans in the rest of the city.
She was out for a break, not a disturbance.
“Demon Lady, you don’t have to wear ugly make-up, isn’t it a good feeling to be envied by the crowd?”
Behind her were the female guards who were responsible for protecting Demon Lady’s safety, and at this moment, they looked at her, somewhat puzzled.
She shook her head: “I don’t like to be a monkey and be watched by people.
Female escort: “……”
The demon lady walked up to a stall filled with all sorts of things.
She picked up a bottle of perfume and examined it for a moment before opening the cap and smelling it.
The stall was set up by a female owner, who at this point smiled attentively and said, “Girl, this is genuine Chanel perfume, I asked someone to go to a lot of trouble to get it, this fragrance ……”
A lengthy and detailed introduction.
The scene, however, seemed absurd and somewhat bizarre.
It was clearly a luxury item like Chanel, and it was clearly modern.
But the way it is sold is so primitive that it is comparable to ancient times, and the two are put together in a way that is out of place.
But this is the norm in the snowy plains outside the region.
Because of the extremely harsh environment, the snowfields outside the realm are almost closed off somewhat.
Because of the fierce snow storms, it makes many items that ordinary people would have to really struggle to get their hands on.
So much so that the luxury items that were obtained at great expense were only sold in the simplest of stalls.
What is indisputable, however, is that these items are absolutely sought-after in the snowy plains.
Of course, the stalls were only for ordinary people who had some capital to bring back items from the outside world.
The real top plutocrats of the major clans have been able to show the way of selling, which is no different from the outside world, shops, online auctions, auctions ……
Of course, these are also aimed at the true upper cla*s of the Hundred Clans, and the prices far exceed this type of stall.
But for the true upper cla*s among the Hundred Clans, the price doesn’t matter anymore, what they want is the feeling of being upper cla*s, they want that atmosphere.
“This should be worth a slave, right?”
The demon lady put down the Chanel perfume and asked curiously.
The lady boss shook her head, “Two slaves, but if the girl really likes it, I’m willing to be an adult and deal for one slave.”
The demon lady shook her head and was turning to leave.
Only when she was far away did she then say helplessly, “These tribes outside the domain, they just suffer from the environmental terrain, a bottle of Chanel perfume is sold for the sky-high price of a slave, this perfume, I can buy it much easier, while they, the ordinary people, have to pay a huge price.”
There was some pity in the words.
But her eyes, at that moment, were blooming with fire.
Pink fists clenched as if it was a vow: “One day, I will take the Hundred Clans and enjoy real life in the middle of that fertile wilderness to the south, and show the Hundred Clans the difference between living and surviving.”
The female escort behind her had a burning gaze.
Looking at the demon lady’s back, they were incomparably in awe.
Who would not want to take their clan south to find fertile fields and warm sunshine?
But the hundred tribes on the Great Snowy Plain, from ancient times to the present day, were used to fighting on their own and consuming each other internally. Even before the Demon Lady’s strike, the hundred tribes still expected to use the strength of one tribe to go south to defeat Zhenjiang City and the 300,000 Great Snow Dragon Riders, so as to achieve their goal of going south.
The selfishness of the tribes was evident.
But the appearance of the Demon Mother was a desire to change the gaping feud between the hundred tribes, to stop the internal conflict between the hundred tribes and to swing the whip south together.
“The Demon Lady’s pattern is worthy of the name of Heavenly Wolf, such a pattern has already surpa*sed all the chiefs of the Hundred Clans, right? Even the King is far behind.”
This was the thought in the female guard’s mind.
叮当……叮当……
In the distance, in the direction of the city gate, came the sound of horses’ hooves and bells.
“Hmm? There are newly arrived slaves?”
The demon lady raised her eyebrows, somewhat intrigued.
The female escort looked back and said with a smile, “Demon Lady, in the Twelve Cities, slaves come in every day, it’s indispensable.”
In the snowy plains outside the realm, slaves were an important thing.
It can be used as livestock, as currency, or for something else ……
“Forget it, go see something else.”
The demon lady shifted her gaze and shrugged, but pulled the female escort towards a nearby shop, “Walk me through the bags, I’ve been thinking about his family’s bags for a long time, I just don’t know if there’s that limited edition this time.”
In the distance, on the street.
Bells rang out as the caravan moved forward.
The pedestrians on the street retreated.
The caravan moved slowly forward.
In the middle of the caravan, three cages were filled with children, and in the frontmost cage, Chen Dong was sitting inside.
As the caravan moved along the street.
The crowds of people who stopped around did not show any sympathy for the children in the cages.
On the contrary, their eyes lit up with excitement.
“A young slave? Heavenly Wolf is above, finally we’ve waited for this batch, I wonder when the auction will take place?”
“Three whole carts of child slaves, oh my god, I must grab them this time, that little girl must be my slave!”
“Hahahahaha …… There must be a lot of activity in our auction house today, but why is there an adult in that cage at the very front?”
……
The chatter was loud and clear.
But soon, someone noticed Chen Dong in the cage.
After all, with children being held in all three cages, he, an adult, stood out from the rest!
“Chief, it looks like we’re going to make a fortune this time, just the way they look, they’ll be killing each other in the auction house later on!”
The caravan’s companion said excitedly to the leader of the caravan.
The leader of the caravan was glowing, “Of course, the child slaves are always in demand by the hundreds of tribes in the snowy plains.
His companion said, “We’ll sell one if we can, it’s a find anyway, we’ll make a profit if we sell it for a dollar.”
