Great time travel

Chapter 47, The Melancholy of the Headhunter Queen

When the traveler Rabbit Lord Ai Fan was indulging in a feast of joy in the imperial tent, and was "hard-working" by a group of estrous bunny girls, and was about to be squeezed into "medicine dregs", his white rich beauty My lord, the chief of the Candlestick Tribe, of course Queen Tiulai, who is also the owner of all the headhunters right now, is wearing a luxurious purple woolen cloak and riding a maroon pony, patrolling the bunny girls current settlement.

In general, even with the help of the Infinite Space Reincarnation Squad, defeating the crusade of the empire's great prince Sausal, the tribe of Tuyure is still living in poverty and embarrassment.The previous fortresses that had been painstakingly built by generations of ancestors had long been burned to the ground by the imperial crusade army, and they would not be able to be rebuilt for a while.Right now, the so-called settlement of the Candlestick Tribe is nothing but a dilapidated tent city.No matter whether it is a nobleman or a commoner, they can only curl up in the rough tent with air leakage everywhere, hug each other and shiver around the firepit or stove.

There are also quite a few of the poorest bunny girls who can't even afford tents, so they have to use their wild talents as rabbits to raise their paws and dig caves underground to avoid the severe cold and frost in the grassland winter. At the exit of the village, a straw shed was randomly erected to keep out the wind.

Among such dilapidated and messy tents and shacks, Queen Tuore's luxurious golden tent stands out from the crowd and is particularly eye-catching.

However, Queen Tuore didn't have any qualms about this: Whether it was the queen's golden tent made of double-layer cowhide in the distance, or the luxurious cloak she was wearing now, it was from the commander of the Empire's crusade army before, simply The spoils seized from Prince Shar... Since they belong to the royal family of the empire, no human chamber of commerce is willing to take over these items, and they cannot be sold at all, so naturally they have to keep them for their own use.

Besides, no matter how you say it, as the king of a country, you still have to have the necessary ostentation.Queen Tuyure's palace had already been destroyed in the war, if she couldn't even get out a luxurious royal tent, and even a queen like her had to live in a cave, I'm afraid it would be even more contemptible.

After inspecting around and confirming that no one's tent seemed to be crushed by the snow today, Queen Tuore came to the only solid stone house in the entire Candlestick Tribe settlement - storing 1 tents for the whole clan. Large storehouse of winter food and fuel for many rabbits.

Then, I hastily flipped through the account books handed over by the warehouse clerk, and Queen Tuyure, who recently neglected political affairs due to her pregnancy, couldn't help but lament: "... Alas, this year is another serious deficit... If this continues , I'm afraid they will eat grass next year!"

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Generally speaking, the headhunting rabbit tribe on the Farmat continent should be regarded as a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic people in a matrilineal clan society.But whether farming, nomadic, hunting, mining or war, these bunny-eared girls are actually doing a bad job-farming is not as good as humans, herding is not as good as orcs, and hunting is not as good as elves.In addition, although rabbit-eared women are as good at digging holes as rabbits, they basically don't know how to smelt them. Therefore, even if they dig out ores, they must find dwarves or humans to partner with them to develop mine veins, and endure their taps and exploits in order to barely make a profit. To a meager hard-earned money.

In small-scale armed conflicts, the fierce and bloodthirsty headhunter female warrior is certainly daunting.However, this is just the courage of the common man.Once the armed conflict rises to the level of a large-scale war, the headhunters who are scattered, lack discipline, and have a low degree of organization will quickly expose the weakness of successors: the entire headhunter group on the grassland has always been a tribe of tribes, attacking each other It goes on and on, and there is no unity and unity at all.Queen Tuyure was never the common leader of all the headhunters on the prairie, but only the queen of the largest candlestick tribe.Now, because the rest of the headhunting tribes on the grassland have been wiped out by the imperial crusade army and the human slave hunting team, only the queen's own tribe is left. The number of headhunting rabbits on the Internet dropped sharply to just over 1 during the war.

So, since the headhunting rabbits are actually such a half-baked ethnic group with a loose and backward social system, low productivity, and not very successful in all aspects, how did they become the overlord of the vast prairie, and even let this prairie be called the What about "Headhunting Grassland"?
The reason is simple, when the tiger is chasing you, you don't need to run faster than the tiger, as long as you run faster than your companions, you can survive to the end.

——Before the headhunters dominated the grassland, other competitors of these violent bunny girls on this grassland, such as tiger people, lion people, werewolves, dog people, cat people and barbarian nomads, etc. The human kingdoms once posed a serious threat, and as a result, they became the key targets of the empire one by one. In the past few hundred years, they have all been destroyed one after another in the bloody and retaliatory campaigns of the imperial expeditionary forces.

Then, just like what happened on the earth, even if the empire as an agricultural civilization defeated the nomads on the grasslands, it would not be able to establish a stable rule for a long time on the grasslands where it was difficult to grow crops. Therefore, after each successful expedition to the prairie, the rulers of the empire could only take members of the defeated tribes away as slaves, and at the same time leave the empty prairie behind.

In this way, the headhunter who was beaten to the crap in front of werewolves, tigers, lions, and barbarians and had to hide in Tibet, has been neglected by human regimes because he has not posed a threat to humans for a long time. It has gradually become the last ethnic group on the prairie that still retains its independence.So, as those former strongmen on the grassland were destroyed one by one by the human army, the headhunters who were once in a desperate situation and could only linger on their last legs, naturally turned around and filled the living space left by the disappearance of their old opponents. I enjoyed it very much. A golden age of "there are no tigers in the grassland, and the rabbit is the king"... until they once again attracted the attention of the empire and became the key target of the empire.

It can be seen that the current decline of the headhunting rabbit is certainly due to the conquest of the empire, but the previous prosperity of the headhunting rabbit also depends on the killing of the empire.

Just like the passenger pigeon that once inhabited North America on the earth, this kind of bird, which was originally not a large number, as the white colonists landed in North America, they relied on bullets and viruses to massacre the Indians, causing the rapid disappearance of indigenous hunters and gatherers , there is no longer any natural enemy hunting passenger pigeons, or competing with passenger pigeons for food acorns, so the number of passenger pigeons in North America soared by more than 1000 times in a short period of time, and even became the largest in the world in the eighteenth century one of the birds.Passenger pigeons once accounted for a quarter of all North American birds.Passenger pigeons fly in huge flocks, a mile wide and miles long, that can blot out the sun, and can strip a large forest of nuts in a few days.

But then, with the increasing number of white colonists and the continuous westward expansion, they hunted passenger pigeons for meat, and cut down and destroyed the forests that provided food for passenger pigeons. The North American passenger pigeon has declined sharply in a short period of time. By the end of the nineteenth century, it had become an endangered species. It was finally completely extinct in the early twentieth century, leaving humans stunned.

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Closer to home, during the previous cruel conquest by the empire, the headhunting rabbit tribe on the grassland suffered a devastating blow.By the time the infinite space reincarnation team intervened under the name of "God Envoy", the headhunting rabbit was actually at the end of his rope, almost to the point where he had only his last breath left.

Next, although relying on the mighty power of the infinite space reincarnation, the remaining female headhunters easily wiped out the imperial crusade army that went deep into the grassland, and even captured the imperial prince Sausal, forcing the imperial senate to apologize and pay Qian Ranren let out a bad breath.However, the clansmen who have been killed and taken away, and the city that has been burned and destroyed, will never come back.The dwarf artisans who used to cooperate with headhunters to develop mines to make money were also slaughtered and taken away by imperial soldiers, leaving only a devastated and barren land.

The house leak happened to rain all night, and finally forced the empire to retreat. Last winter, there was a serious white disaster on the grassland. Under the heavy snow and cold current, there were not many cattle, sheep and camels left in the headhunting rabbit tribe's enclosure. , nearly half of them were frozen to death, and many old and weak people also died of freezing or being crushed to death by heavy snow.By the time this year's spring is green and yellow, the headhunters have almost no income, and they have to rely on the empire's defeated indemnity to purchase food to survive.After being squeezed out by profiteers raising prices, that huge sum of money, which seemed to be a lot, soon became depleted.

"...There is no more bacon. If you want to eat meat, you have to slaughter animals. There is only enough wheat and barley for another month. The worst rye should be used up by next spring. The public Kuli of the clan , a total of 29 Sweeney gold coins, 180 five Singh gold coins, and a small amount of Dina silver coins and low-quality copper coins are left. With the asking price of those profiteers, I am afraid that they will not be able to buy much food. At that time, everyone will really want to eat grass It's day..."

Now Delilah, who is in charge of managing the accounts of the headhunting rabbit tribe's public treasury, reported to Queen Tuore with a mournful face——Different from pure-blooded rabbit ears like the queen, Delilah was born to a human male and a headhunting female Although the civilian mixed-race rabbit has a good mind because he often deals with foreign caravans, and his personal force is considered outstanding among the common people, but according to his status, he is definitely not in the position of being in charge of a warehouse.

However, after experiencing the catastrophe of the empire's crusade, the entire noble class of headhunting rabbits is in disarray, and there is not much left. There is no one available for Queen Tully's account for a while, especially the lack of clerks who are smart and good at numbers. And the accountant, so I had to promote Delilah first.

In the continent of Falmat, Sweeney gold coins are the most valuable currency.The gold content of a Sweeney gold coin is about [-] grams, but the amount of minting is quite rare, and it rarely appears in the market. People who get this kind of top-quality gold coin usually keep it in their collections and are reluctant to use it easily.If it hadn't been for capturing the eldest prince of the empire this time and extorting a ransom from the royal treasury, it would have been very difficult for the headhunters to obtain such a rare item.

The gold coins with a relatively large circulation in the Falmat mainland market are the Singh gold coins minted by the empire.Its volume is smaller than the Sweeney gold coin, and its gold content is about ten grams.As for the large coins used by ordinary people in their daily life, they are mainly dina silver coins.The salary of the soldiers of the empire is another kind of Soldan silver coin, which should be regarded as a military ticket strictly speaking, and the daily salary of each soldier is exactly one Soldan.

There are also some inferior silver coins and copper coins below, because on the Farmat continent, there are too many countries and cities that have issued coins, and the exchange rates between each other are extremely chaotic. The price comparisons vary widely and it is difficult to generalize.

Of course, no matter how the exchange rate and actual purchasing power of these messy currencies fluctuate, just relying on such a small amount of spare money is definitely a drop in the bucket for the more than 1 "rabbits" of the entire headhunting rabbit tribe—although Compared with the many "rabbit mouths" that the headhunting rabbit grassland had in its heyday before the war, the more than 1 "rabbit mouths" in this settlement are already dead among the dead species... …

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"...The number of livestock that was reduced due to the white disaster last year has not yet recovered. The remaining cattle, sheep and camels really cannot be slaughtered!"

Seeing this, another bunny girl aristocrat who was accompanying him hurriedly interjected and said, "... Otherwise, these limited food will be given priority to pregnant women and warriors. As for the old and weak in the clan, there are still guys who have not received errands , let them survive for a while by eating grass!"

——Different from human nomads, headhunting rabbits themselves are livestock, and can barely survive by grazing.But if this happens, she will not be able to take in enough nutrients for a long time, causing the bunny girl's physique to become extremely weak, not to mention fighting with enemies and beasts, and lacking physical strength even for normal work.As for the pregnant bunny girl, because of the body's self-protection mechanism, she will definitely have a miscarriage due to lack of nutrition...

"...My lords, this won't work! Don't forget, it's winter when everything is withered! Where can we get pasture in the field for us to eat? It will take several months until the spring grass sprouts! People of the clan The stored hay is used to feed the livestock."

Upon hearing this, Delila, the warehouse manager, immediately retorted, "...If the animals starve to death after eating hay, isn't that not worth the loss? Besides, this winter is also very cold, and it is difficult for people who are not strong enough to survive. If only If you eat hay, how many people in the whole tribe will die!"

Hearing this, the headhunting noblewomen who surrounded Queen Tiurea couldn't help but frown slightly, but they couldn't think of any more suitable way - the wise men and elders in the tribe had already been killed or injured in the war. After all, the rest are some muscular, simple-minded "violent hares".It is no problem for them to raise their short knives and warhammers to fight the enemy desperately, but it is too difficult for them to come up with an idea.

"...Why don't you let Master Ai Fan's breeding operation stop for a while, and don't add more pregnant women. Besides, I think Master Ai Fan is really tired these days, I'm afraid he needs to rest It will take a few days." After thinking hard for a long time, a bunny girl suggested that compared with the normal state, pregnant headhunting bunny girls need to consume more food, and as the only "male rabbit" in the group, Ai Fan was almost squeezed to the limit, no matter how many supplements he was given, the effect would get worse and worse.

"...This is possible...but I'm afraid it won't save a lot of food consumption... Alas, after so much tossing, only more than 200 sisters are pregnant in total. Let dear Ai Fan alone be responsible for the reproduction of our entire tribe, Is it really a bit too reluctant?"

Queen Tuyure nodded, then rubbed her temples and muttered - although Ivan has become her husband, she doesn't mind Ivan having babies with other headhunters.Because headhunters in a matrilineal clan society favor women over men, they don't really have the concept of marriage in the true sense.In Queen Tuyure's eyes, the actual status of Ai Fan's rare "Male Rabbit of God" is almost the same as that of her own pet.Since it is one's own pet, it is normal and even worth showing off to play with good friends to deepen the relationship.

Unless Ai Fan dared to cheat outside the tribe and mess with women of other races, then Queen Tuyure would feel betrayed.Among the more than 1 female rabbits in the headhunting rabbit tribe, it is reasonable for Ai Fan to choose which one he wants.

Even so, Master Rabbit Ai Fan's "hard work" in the past few months has still yielded very limited gains—although the pregnancy of the headhunter rabbit is very short, it can give birth to a baby in three months, and it can basically give birth to multiple births, but the bunny girl It is not easy for them to conceive.First of all, unlike human beings who can go into estrus and conceive at any time throughout the year, bunny girls can only get pregnant during the estrous period, and mating at other times is just a pure game, no matter how they do it, they will not be able to conceive a child.Secondly, even in the estrus period of headhunting rabbits, only a small number of well-nourished and very healthy bunny girls can conceive children. Therefore, the overall fertility rate of headhunting rabbits is not exaggerated. On the contrary, the death rate is Pretty scary.

——If bunny girls could live as easily as wild rabbits, the headhunters would have dominated the farmland continent by virtue of their population advantage.

"...Then...we don't want to hold another blood sacrifice. I believe that the old and weak in the clan will be willing to make sacrifices for the continuation of the clan..."

Next, in order to solve the tribe's plight, a muscular bunny girl warrior tentatively proposed, but was immediately angrily reprimanded by Queen Tuyure: "...absolutely not! The envoy has clearly warned us that our tribe The blood sacrifice must be stopped forever, so that there will be a possibility of revival!"

——Like any primitive tribe in the barbaric and ignorant era, blood sacrifices are also prevalent in the headhunting rabbit tribe, which is regarded as a generous gift to the gods.Among them are the cruel ritual of disembowelling foreign captives, and the life-and-death duel between the headhunters and their own warriors: the reasons for the duel are complex and diverse, and it may be for power, or for a spouse or reputation.Even between mothers, daughters and sisters, sometimes sharp knives confront each other.

Of course, this is a blood sacrifice under normal circumstances, and it is no different from the killing of captives, sacrificing flags and martial arts duels in ancient countries on the earth.But there is another kind of blood sacrifice, which is the practice of sacrificing some members when the whole group encounters a crisis of survival—when the headhunting rabbits encounter a severe famine, usually some old and weak members will stand up and volunteer to become sacrifice gods meat and livestock, so as to save food for the tribe... Just like in some impoverished mountain villages in ancient Japan, due to the long-term shortage of food, once the old man reached the age of 70, he would be carried to the mountain by his children to wait for death in order to worship the mountain god. .

However, since the "God Envoy" (Infinite Space Reincarnation Squad) who defeated the Empire Crusade Army learned of this, they insisted on asking the remaining headhunting rabbits to abolish this bad habit.According to them, the headhunters have already ruled such a vast grassland, and the survival resources are no longer a problem under normal circumstances. The only thing missing is the population to guard this land, which cannot be consumed by the empire...In this case, the headhunters And why do you want to kill yourself, wipe out the already very scarce population of your own group through blood sacrifices, and make room for the imperial invaders who are bound to come again?
For these words, the queen of headhunting rabbits, Tiyulei, also quite agrees-the once prosperous group of headhunting rabbits on the grasslands, now there are only more than 1 left, and it is too late to reproduce quickly. What about killing?Especially after the cruel test of war, there are almost no real old people among the headhunters, and the so-called old and weak who survived are actually a group of middle-aged women.Although a little older, fertility and physical strength have declined, but as long as the nutritional conditions can keep up, they can still conceive and have children.

However, everyone understands the truth, but the difficulties in front of us are really sad.Seeing every idea being rejected, not only the headshunting ladies are suffering from headaches, but even Her Majesty Queen Tuore is getting more and more depressed and irritable. She can't help thinking wildly while whispering to herself: "...Speaking of it, I don’t know if the two envoys and priests have arrived at Mount Arnus now, and how things are going... It is said that they can find humans from another world to help solve our tribe’s plight, but no matter what Think, it's all too whimsical!"

——Based on Queen Tiure's knowledge, of course she only knows that the empire once sent troops to expeditions to other worlds through the "gate" on the top of Arnus Hill, and captured a lot...In this case, those imperial expeditions behind the "gate" How can the defeated generals of the army provide any help to the headhunting rabbit?

What's more, Arnus Hill is far away from the Headhunter Grassland, almost at the two ends of the Farmat Continent.Even if the outsiders wanted to provide some assistance to the headhunting rabbit, it would be difficult to transport them across the core hinterland of the entire empire to the headhunting grassland in the northeast of the mainland, right?
However, at this moment, a female headhunter rushed over with a loud shout, interrupting Queen Tiuret's reverie: "...Report to Her Majesty Tiuret! Good news! Good news! Two priests My lord has returned from Mount Arnus! They also brought human envoys from another world!"

As a result, all the headhunters and noble female warriors suddenly changed their expressions: "...What? They really succeeded?!"

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PS: The last chapter has finally been released. The recent review is much stricter than when this book was first opened, and I dare not complain for the time being.