Azeroth Shadow Trail

   Chapter 184 3. Old Gani is going to eat people

   By the bonfire in the middle of the ruined town.

  Black raised his hand, and five or six candies fell precisely into the arms of the three children.

   With this thing as a gift, the children, no matter how stupid, knew that the pirates were teasing them, so they relaxed all of a sudden.

   In the face of Blake's gentle inquiry, the little girl who was eating the fruit candy felt the sweetness from her taste buds that she had not felt for a long time.

   was hugged by Blake again. At this moment, he felt a sense of security, and he burst into laughter, and replied in a timid voice:

   "My name is Altea Eberlock, sir."

   "Eberlock?"

  Blake blinked when he heard the surname.

   He looked at the two little boys on the opposite side, his eyes fell on the thin black-haired boy, and said:

   "Then you must be Canrisad Eberlock?"

"what?"

   The skinny black-haired boy who was tearing apart the candy wrapper and putting the candy into his mouth raised his head in surprise, looked at Blake, and said:

   "Sir, how did you know my name?"

   "I'm going to say I'm a magician, do you believe it?"

  Black released the little girl in his arms, let her sit on the wood beside him, and took out a few pieces of bread bought in Booty Bay from his luggage and distributed them to the three hungry children.

   He looked at the three of them and said softly:

   "As for me, I just passed by here tonight, this is my first time in the territory of Stormwind Kingdom.

   But even as ignorant as I am, I know that the fertile land of Sunshine Forest and Raven Hill is the fiefdom of Duke Eberlock, the great noble of Stormwind Kingdom.

   And you two are the sons and daughters of His Excellency the Duke.

   But as far as I know, that duke is still in the North, assisting Varian Wrynn, the Crown Prince of Stormwind, in the court of Lordaeron. how?

   Didn't your father take the two of you with him when he fled?

   Was he so cold-blooded? "

   "No, sir."

  The little girl Altea is very well behaved.

  Although the long-term malnutrition made the child look thin, her black hair and black pupils gave her the embryo of a little beauty at the age of seven or eight.

   As she devoured the bread, she explained to Black:

   "My father probably thought my brother and I were dead. When the orcs rushed into my manor, my father was not there. The knights of the family protected us and escaped into the forest.

   But Stormwind City was already occupied by the Greenskins, and my father couldn't come back to us. "

   "Sister, you don't have to defend the bad guy who abandoned us and our mother!"

  Compared to Altea's cuteness, her brother Kanrisad was a bit aggressive and irritable. This thirteen or fourteen-year-old thin boy said to Blake while biting hard candy:

   "My father was a cold-blooded person. When my mother was alive, he had a lover outside. When he fled to the northern Xinjiang, he took his little lover with him, but he couldn't tell who would come to save us.

  My mother died the night the manor was breached, and he didn't deserve to be my father! I will never forgive him in my life! "

   "Ha, the scandal between nobles, I like to hear this the most, kids."

  Blake rubbed his hands together, showing an expression full of smiles.

   He looked at the silent, slightly older blond boy beside the Eberlocks, maybe fifteen or sixteen years old, and asked:

   "What about you? Child, who are you?"

   "My name is Morgan, sir."

   Hearing the pirate's question, the boy who was eating bread immediately raised his head, wiped the crumbs from the corner of his mouth, and replied in a calm voice:

   "Morgan Ladimore, my father, captain of the Duchess' Guard, died fighting to protect the young master and young lady, and he left this duty to me before he died.

  I am the guard of the young master and young lady! "

   "But you can't even beat my weakest orcs."

  Black stared at the boy, and he said softly:

   "You little guard is not very competent."

   "Sir, are those orcs your subordinates?"

   Hearing Blake’s words, the three children stopped eating at the same time, and Kanrisad, the most aggressive character, stood up in an instant, and he said in a sharp voice:

   "You are a human, how can you mix with orcs! You even accept them as subordinates! Bah!"

   He glanced at the bread in his hand, threw it into the fire, and said dissatisfiedly:

   "Too bad I thought you were a good person!"

   The other two children did not do the same thing though.

   But they also stopped eating the scented bread, the little girl Artea, and moved her body quietly to be farther away from Blake.

   "Alas, you little idiots who don't understand anything, being with orcs means nothing."

  Black ignored the actions of the three children.

   He stretched out his hand to pick up the wooden stick, poked the bonfire in front of him, and said slowly:

   "The world is complicated.

   Those who shout to kill orcs are not necessarily the good people you think, and those who mix with orcs like me are not necessarily evil bastards.

  My guys, uh. Well, they're a bunch of thugs, but in my eyes, they're 'good and bad', and so am I.

   But I don't want to talk to you about this because you don't understand.

   Say something happy.

   You can all appear in this ruin, which means that there must be many refugees like you hiding nearby? There should be some over there at Crow Hill. "

  The pirate rubbed his chin and said:

   "Ever since darkness enveloped this forest, the orcs dared not come in, so for the past two years, although it looks terrifying, it is one of the safest places in the southern part of the war-torn continent.

   There should be a lot of humans hiding in this forest.

   But from the looks of you, you know that you have had a very miserable life. "

   He glanced at the three children around him, as if he was thinking about something. After a few seconds of silence, he put down the wooden stick in his hand and patted the head of the little murloc who was stretched on his shoulders.

Say:

   "As I said earlier, I'm a pirate and magician passing by, and I hold magical powers."

   He thrashed his fingers, and the shadows gathered, dancing shadows turned into various shapes on his fingertips, which quickly attracted the attention of the three children.

   He said to them:

   "The three of you, meeting me tonight, may be driven by fate. All three of you have special powers, and you can make some small achievements in the next era.

I am very willing to help you and those refugees who are hiding in the dark forest and lingering, through this difficult time, I will make you live more comfortable here, wait for the end of the war, and let more people survive .

   but in exchange.

  I will take one of you and serve me as my squire. "

"we do not need!"

   This thin boy, Kanrisad, seemed to have a premonition that something was wrong. He grabbed his thin sister and shielded the silent Morgan behind him.

   He said to Black:

   "We can survive on our own."

"yes?"

  Black smiled, he pointed to the dark night, and said:

   "Then tell me, in the past few years, how many of the people who left your gathering place in the middle of the night came back alive? You should know that there are some terrible things hidden in the darkness of this forest.

   Worse than orcs.

  It has no form and substance, and it hides in the dark.

   peeps over each of you, and every time you let your guard down, it pops up and drags the hapless among you into the darkness.

   When you find those missing, all you can find is the skeletons that have been swallowed up with all their flesh and blood. Look at your expressions, you should really see for yourself.

   Children, you really won't keep secrets. "

  The pirate spread his hands and said in a threatening tone:

   "I didn't scare you, the power in the darkness is already a little hungry, and if it goes on like this, you and the kind-hearted people who have been protecting you will not survive the day when the war ends.

  Look, children, I'm here to help you.

   Well, well, I'll show you the power of protection I promise you before making a decision, okay?

   Now, go to the ruins and collect some garbage. Don't look at me with that kind of eyes, I'm not crazy, there is garbage everywhere, it shouldn't be hard for you, right?

   Go!

   Don't count on me for help, I'm an honorable person. "

   He waved his hand, drove the three children away, and sat by the bonfire himself, playing with the little murlocs, and making the Pembers dance in the shadow of the flames.

   The three children left just like that.

   But the skinny Althea looked back at the pirates by the campfire, she grabbed her angry brother and said a few words in his ear.

   Kanrisad's expression changed a bit, and then he gathered up his courage and walked to the orc pirate guards in full armor who were patrolling outside the town, shaking his legs, and shouted to him:

   "Hey! Your leader wants you to collect garbage!"

"Um?"

  The orc with the big axe turned back, glared at the human cub who was arrogantly instructing him, and made a threatening expression, but Kanrisad gritted his teeth, pointed to the pirates by the bonfire behind him, and said:

   "If you don't believe me, ask him! He also said that if you don't do it quickly, he will beat you up!"

   Orc pirates aren't stupid either.

   But he really didn't have the guts to offend his terrible captain because of such a trivial matter. Finally, after hesitating for a few seconds, he went to the ruins to pick up some tattered clothes, tattered boots and other things.

   He's pretty smart.

   Knowing to pull three companions and do it with him.

   As for Evil Eye and Zarak, these two bad guys have long run away, and they don't mix it up at all.

   With the help of four orcs with big arms and waists, the garbage heap that Black needed was quickly built on the edge of the town, and he held the little murloc in his arms.

   glanced at Altea, who was hiding behind her brother, shook her head, walked to the garbage heap, took out a wooden statue of old Gani from her arms, and threw it on the garbage heap without respect.

   Then he waved to the three children and motioned them to come over.

   "Read with me!"

  The pirate said to the three children:

   "I'll read one sentence, you can read the next sentence, don't read it wrong."

   After he finished speaking, he stretched his voice, picked up a piece of garbage from the side, placed it on the garbage heap in a gesture of offering, and called in human language:

   "The protector of the scavengers, the **** of garbage, the **** of abandonment, the **** of secrets, the king of thieves, the lord of slaves, the guardian of secrets, the **** of scavengers.

   Old Garni!

  We have made tributes at the scavenger sanctuary, and ask for your presence. "

  The three children also followed Blake's naughty movements, presented the garbage as a tribute, and recited the prayer completely in a tender voice.

   Then, under their astonished gazes, in a bizarre cry like a child's laughter, blurred smoke rose from around the garbage heap.

   In the blink of an eye, the strange and bright figure of Old Garni gathered on the garbage pile in front of him.

   and a shrill, eerie greeting:

   "Yo, stinky pirate, we meet again. Hey, why are these three human cubs here? Do you want to sacrifice them to old Gani?

  No no no!

  Old Gani is different from those savage loa, I just want sparkle, not human children.

   However, they look delicious! "

  The slender-jawed dragon Loa with a vicious character, with its very human eyes, looked at the three terrified children behind Black, and it stretched its voice and said:

   "It's not good to eat garbage all the time, you have to change your taste occasionally.

  Tsk tsk, that little girl looks good, thin and small, just to swallow it! "

   Hearing these familiar words, Altea, who was hiding behind her brother, twitched her lips.

   Being frightened by the same scene three times in a row, no matter how stupid she is, she should have immunity.

   It's so vulgar to meet these eccentric guys tonight!

   One by one, they all like to scare her.

   (end of this chapter)