Chapter 28 Bloodfang Castle
"The werewolf of Blood Tooth Castle?"
Lin Fan frowned.
He noticed Xingsha's expression changed, rubbed Xingsha's soft hair, and looked at Lu Han next to him: "Lu Han, what is going on? What are the werewolfs doing in our village?"
Although we know that there are many different races in the Tuk tribe, Lin Fan has only seen the Meimei as a rabbit man now. Although Apanda Village is close to the Luna Empire ruled by werewolfs, Lin Fan has never seen the werewolf because it is remote.
What Lin Fan cares about was the expressions of Xingsha, Lu Han and others when they heard the werewolf. It seems that it is not an easy thing for the werewolf to appear in the village.
The soldiers who had come out to hunt happily were silent at this moment. Lu Han's face was also a little low, and he looked at Lin Fan and said, "Sir Lin Fan, you haven't been to our village for a long time. I'm afraid you don't understand our village yet..."
Listening to Lu Han’s narrative, Lin Fan gradually knew what was going on.
Although Apanda Village belongs to the Qifeng Kingdom, because it is remote, it takes three months to travel back and forth to the nearest human city Fenghou City. In addition, the land here is barren, so Apanda Village belongs to the Qifeng Kingdom just like the villages near the Iron Ridge Mountains. It is just nominally owned by the Qifeng Kingdom and cannot be protected by the Qifeng Kingdom. The only benefit is that it does not have to pay taxes.
Although Apanda Village is barren, life can be achieved with a little surplus by hunting and gathering. But since a werewolf noble named Blood Teeth Basak became the lord of the nearby werewolf town of Mar, life in the village became tense.
Blood Teeth. Basak built Blood Teeth Castle outside Mar Town, and then forced the human village near the Iron Ridge Mountains to pay taxes in the name of protection.
Of course, the so-called protection is just an excuse. The villagers have never been protected by werewolf, but the annual taxes are very strict, and once the village cannot pay the tax, they will have very serious consequences.
After knowing the reason, Lin Fan understood why Lu Han and others looked so ugly. The food in the village is still very tight, and the strict taxes are simply worse for the current village.
"No one cares about these werewolfs?" Lin Fan frowned and looked at Lu Han and asked.
Lu Han was startled by Lin Fan's words and lowered his voice and smiled bitterly, "Sir Lin Fan, just say this here. Don't go outside to say it. Werewolf is not something we can offend. Even in the Kingdom, we have always been calm about the affairs of the Tuckers, not to mention that we werewolf nobles. There was a village that had contradicted the werewolf because one person contradicted the werewolf. Later, the entire village was thrown into the black prison vein, and they would never see the light of the sky and mine until they died."
As he spoke, he reached the Black Prison Mining Vein. When Lu Han, who did not frown even when he was in the bloody tiger, a pale look appeared on his face.
The Black Prisoner is the industry of the Blood Teeth Castle, located outside the Black and Evil Forest, where it is a living hell for humans.
As long as people enter the black prison vein, they will never come out again. They must work day and night in the cold and humid mine cave every day and night, and squeeze every trace of blood and flesh in their bodies by the Blood Tooth Family. Even the dead bodies are ignored and let them rot little by little in the mine vein...
For the villages near the Iron Ridge Mountains, the four words "Black Prisoner" and "Mine" are even more terrifying than hell.
Lin Fan felt the depressed atmosphere around him and fell silent.
He never took Xingsha seriously the words of the Tuckers and humans' status as unequal. After contacting Mumei, he did not take this matter seriously. Now it seems that the fact is worse than he imagined!
At this time, they had returned to the village. The village that was just full of vitality now seemed extremely deserted. Lin Fan felt that the villagers were all concentrated at the entrance of the village from afar.
Lu Han and others seemed to have known this would be the case, so they walked towards the entrance of the village with a familiarity. The soldiers put away their weapons. Xingsha leaned against Lin Fan, and the five fingers on his right hand pinched the collar. Because they tried too hard, they turned a little white.
Lin Fan rubbed Xingsha's hair and followed the entrance of Luhan Village.
The villagers of the entire village gathered at the entrance of the village at this moment. Lin Fan came to the entrance of the village and saw two huge figures in the middle of the crowd from afar.
After getting closer, Lin Fan finally saw the two figures clearly.
His facial features are no different from humans, except that his ears are gray triangles, and he is dragged by a wolf tail as thick as an arm behind him. His body is stronger than Taal. He is wearing leather armor and a two-foot-long scimitar is hung around his waist.
Wolf ears and wolf tails are far more powerful than humans, this is the werewolf!
Two werewolfs sat on the two giant wolf. The fur was dark gray-black, as strong as a horse, and a leather cover was tied. The blue and faint eyes were coldly staring at the crowd around him, and the body exuded a breath of bloodthirsty and death, giving people a feeling of suffocation.
"This is the wolf cavalry warrior in the Blood Tooth Castle. The weakest among the wolf cavalry warriors also have the strength of intermediate warriors. Those gray wolves are steppe wolves, with the strength of intermediate warriors, and are cruel and bloodthirsty." Lu Han stood beside Lin Fan and explained to Lin Fan in a low voice.
Lin Fan nodded. The pressure on these two werewolfs was indeed almost the same as that of Tar. Judging from the other party's smooth muscle lines, the explosive power was far greater than Tar. This should be the natural advantage of the Tucker clan.
The two werewolfs looked a bit similar, perhaps brothers, but there was a hideous scar on the face of the man on the left that stretched from the corner of his right eye to his chin, making him look like a wolf that could pounce on him at any time.
"ah!"
The werewolf with a scar on his face suddenly clamped the giant wolf under him. The giant wolf roared, and his huge body took a step forward. The villagers around him immediately retreated in horror.
The Scar werewolf looked at everyone condescendingly, looking at the crowd of people who were panicked in his mount, and he curled his lips slightly, showing a disdainful smile, his eyes as proud as if he was an omnipotent god.
Lin Fan frowned. The werewolf's gaze made him very upset. If he had to say the reason, it was the natural sense of superiority in the other party's eyes, and the look was like looking at a group of ants who could be trampled to death at any time.
The werewolf's eyes glanced in the crowd, and finally landed behind the village chief Singil, throwing a piece of parchment in front of Singil. "Look, this is the tax amount this year, and it must be prepared in ten days!"
Singer picked up the parchment paper on the ground and glanced at it. His face turned pale and her hunched body began to tremble slightly.
After carefully reading the parchment several times, Singil looked up at the werewolf and trembled with his lips: "Sir, why is the tax twice as high as in previous years?"
boom!
Hearing Singir's words, the villagers around him looked as if they were ashamed, and their eyes started to whisper in panic.
This time, due to the threat of the monster, the food in the village was still very tight, and it was a problem to survive the next severe winter. It was already very difficult to collect enough taxes, but now the tax amount has been doubled! This is simply an impossible task.
"How do I know that this is the order of Lord Xueyao?" The werewolf casually said perfunctorily.
As the corner of his eyes was raised, the scar on the werewolf's face twisted unnaturally, like a huge centipede climbing on his face. He swept the crowd around him with cold eyes, and a ferocious smile appeared on his face: "But there is one thing I can tell you. If you can't prepare these things within ten days, then in ten days, everyone in the village will be thrown into the black prison vein!"
Chapter completed!