Ride and Cut

"You...what do you call me?" Li Cha was like a rooster whose throat had been strangled, trying to suppress a hoarse rhetorical question from his throat, like the last struggle before dying.

"Father, you are the one who gave us wisdom." Huo Ha Erjiang showed a simple and simple smile on his face, and his clumsy facial features immediately wrinkled into a ball.

"Humph, the second general always said that you gave them wisdom, why?" Sister Melissa looked confused.

"How would I know."

The lord covered his heart, staggered back two steps and sat down on the chair. He hasn't married yet, and saying "father" is simply a burden that life cannot bear. Not to mention his age, even if he is half buried in the earth, it is absolutely impossible to have two good sons of this size.

"I still have something to do, let's go first!"

Li Cha escaped from the warm room in a trance, looking at the bright sun outside, he suddenly felt that the sun was shining.

"How does it feel to have two more sons?" Seeing Annie smiling like a flower, she must have known it a long time ago, but she didn't tell Richard, just waiting to see the joke, "I'm so envious, this may be a great achievement that I will never be able to achieve in my life."

"Then let's get married. When the time comes, what's mine will be yours." The lord resolutely chose to kill 800 enemies at the expense of 1000.

"Why don't you die!" The half-elf businessman rolled his eyes.

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About five days later, the Ripper's army finally returned to the Alpine Fort with the Tiger Spirit Tribe.

"Cousin, is that you!" Hurt ran fast on four horse legs, rushing ahead of the others like a whirlwind.

"It's me, Cousin Hutt!" There was also a centaur from the direction of Gaoshan Castle to meet him.

The two centaurs approached quickly, with their four arms connected and their chests heaving violently, looking very excited. They punched each other, gave each other a big hug, and then you and I started talking about the old days.

During the time when the lord was away, Anne recruited a group of centaurs back to Alpine Fort. The leader was named Abel. According to him, he was a relative of Hutt. Now this has been confirmed.

Gunther looked at the scene in front of him with a very strange expression. He pinched his thigh and endured it, but he still couldn't hold it back. He raised his head and smiled earth-shatteringly.

The contrast is really strong——

Hurt's size is also considered very strong, with two muscular arms, anyone who sees it will have to praise him for being a strong man.

But standing next to his cousin, he was as thin as a bean sprouts who hadn't had enough food since childhood. It's not because Hurt is losing weight recently, but this Abel's figure is too exaggerated!

Hurt is about two and a half blades tall, but Abel is taller than him, with a head and a whole neck, and his body length goes straight to three blades. And even if he is scaled down to the same height as Hurt, the width is still not the same, at least half more. When they hugged each other, it looked like a big man holding his own underage child.

Compared with ordinary centaurs, the group brought by Abel is obviously different, all of them are as strong as blowing. When Richard saw them, he immediately understood why Buckland cared so much about the food they consumed in entertaining them. After all, they definitely couldn't hold the food in the usual sense.

After inquiring, I found out that these big men came from the famous Shire clan among centaurs, and Shire centaurs have always been known for their majestic stature.

"My lord, this is my cousin Abel." He pulled the big black man to Li Cha and bowed slightly. "The civil strife in the half-orc kingdom has intensified, and they have also been excluded."

"Big man, can you play horse riding and shooting with your body?" The lord couldn't help being curious.

"We don't know how to shoot arrows very much. According to the tradition of the orc kingdom, the Shire centaur has always served as the guard charge." Although Abel had been here for a while, it was the first time he talked to the local owner. He kept staring curiously, as if trying to see the flowers on his face.

"Could it be that you can't find a strong bow that can withstand your strength?" Li Cha joked cheerfully.

"No." Abel obviously didn't have any talent for humor, and shook his head honestly, "Because if you are big, you can't be as flexible as your cousin, and if you are not flexible, you can't use bows and arrows well, so you can only charge."

"Abel is a very brave warrior. He also once served as the commander of the Orc Kingdom's imperial army. It is almost the highest position that a commoner can hold." Hurt was trying to impress his cousin.

"We are loyal to the old king, but since His Majesty died of illness, the two princes are fools who only know how to fight for power." Abel let out a cold snort of disdain from his nasal cavity.

"Let's work hard in Gaoshan Castle from now on." The lord snapped his fingers.

"Okay, but my lord baron, I have a condition." Abel scratched the top of his head unnaturally.

He was a little embarrassed to have eaten plain rice for so many days, but the things that he had discussed with his tribe before could not be changed just because of a few meals. For a former officer of the Imperial Army, it is undoubtedly very embarrassing to fight for a living, but he is helpless and has no other choice.

"Oh? Let's just say it, we are not talking about it." Li Cha immediately realized that things were not simple.

Although all the Shire warriors saluted him by rubbing their chests together, they looked very respectful. The system panel did not receive even a single application for joining the team, indicating that they did not join in good faith.

This is very abnormal - because the stronger the warrior, the more arrogant and arrogant they are, and a spit and a nail are the common traits they generally have.

Take the Ripper group of idiots as an example. Although they usually eat enough and just want to huddle at the base of the wall to bask in the sun, they all look harmless. But at critical moments, the blood in the chest is hotter than the magma, and "life and death with one word" is not a joke.

The Shire centaurs are all ruthless horns that are so powerful that they can't be more powerful. It's hard to imagine that they would be cautious about such a big issue as "loyalty".

"Can you see if this works—or, I will fight you on behalf of all the Shire warriors. If you win, our entire clan will become the people of Alpine Fort, and all adult warriors will also swear allegiance to you." Abel deliberately paused, puffed up his chest and took a deep breath, revealing his clear muscle lines and thick veins on his skin. Trying to make Li Cha fully understand the difficulty represented by the first half of the sentence, and then continued:

"Or, you pay us a fixed monthly salary, and my people and I will serve as mercenaries and fight for you until the end of life or the termination of the contract."

As soon as these words fell, there was a burst of suffocated laughter all around. After being swept around viciously by the lord, they were so quiet that a needle could be heard again, but everyone's expressions became gloating, which made the unfamiliar Shire warriors puzzled for a while.

Hurt tugged at Abel's sleeve, but the latter was as unmoved as a cast iron statue, obviously already made up his mind.

Li Cha looked at his square face with Chinese characters, and suddenly asked, "Have you not been in touch with Hurt for a long time?"

"Yes, but how do you know?" Abel blinked twice, not expecting the other party to ask this suddenly.

"Guess." The lord continued to ask: "In addition, in order to escape from the half-orc kingdom, did you have blocked information channels?"

"yes."

"No wonder." Li Cha suddenly realized.