Witch Wind

Chapter 51: An unexpected encounter (Part )
The manor is not big, covering an area of ​​about fifty acres, occupying two gentle hills in a small hill.

The manor is full of grapes. It is the season, and at a glance, the grape racks are full of green leaves. Bunches of green bean-sized grapes hang under the leaves and sway in the wind, looking quite green and lovely.

What is eye-catching is that there are several extremely tall black cedars planted next to the main building in the middle of the manor.

This thing is not a native tree species of the Dayu Dynasty.

These days, Xing Tianli has been catching up on some information about the Hundred Countries in the Far West. Black cedar is a characteristic plant of some countries in the north of the Hundred Countries in the Far West. It is tough, dense, fire-resistant, has great buoyancy, and is a fast-growing tree species, making it a good material for building ships.

The ships built with this stuff are not very resistant to corrosion and cannot go out to sea for ocean voyages. However, in coastal areas, as long as they are well maintained, the ships built with black cedar can be used for decades.

If you are not picky, a fully grown black cedar can be carved into a single-hulled boat that can carry thirty or forty people. In the northern region of the Far West, the North Sea pirates, who once flooded the country, used this kind of boat to roam around, gathering and dispersing at random, harassing at will, and causing headaches for powerful countries such as England and Farus.

Gradually, over thousands of years, a very clear chain of contempt has been developed in the aristocratic circles of the hundreds of countries in the far west - truly respectable people with status will never plant black cedar in their own yards.

"The owner of this family is really interesting!" Xing Tianli stopped the car in front of the manor and looked at the pointed building on the top of the hill. There was a short flagpole on the top of the building, with a black flag lazily shaking in the morning breeze.

Occasionally, when the wind is stronger, the flag will flutter a little higher, and you can see on the flag a big fish with a ferocious face and a mouth full of fangs. Below the fish's head is a single-shot flintlock pistol and a scimitar crossed together.

There is no way to escape. The owner of this manor is from the North Sea region of the Far West, and his ancestors must be famous pirates.

With this kind of identity and origin, one would certainly be discriminated against by countless people in countries like England and France. However, in the North Sea region, in many countries whose origins were not very glorious, this kind of origin was simply "pure and legitimate". Many people became nobles in their country by virtue of their ancestors' achievements in plundering the world.

After getting out of the car and pushing open the unlocked iron gate at the entrance of the manor, two ugly tiger-headed dogs, which looked like they were covered with moss, quietly jumped out from under the grape trellis, opened their mouths wide and were about to attack Xing Tianli's calf.

Xing Tianli snorted coldly and tapped the ground lightly with Tongtian Miaozhu.

'Boom'!
The ground within a radius of thirty feet was shaking and undulating like water waves. The two tiger-headed dogs trembled and were knocked unconscious. They fell to the ground drooling and twitching all over.

Following a gravel road studded with pebbles in the vineyard, Xing Tianli headed straight for the small hill in front.

Along the way, vicious dogs kept jumping out silently from under the grape trellises, trying to use their teeth to establish an intimate relationship with Xing Tianli's calves, but without exception they were knocked unconscious by Xing Tianli.

There were also a few strong men wearing black vests and headscarves, sitting under the grape trellises smoking and drinking. When they saw Xing Tianli marching in without any notice, they drew their guns and shot without saying a word. Xing Tianli didn't tolerate them, and casually cast a "soul-calming spell" to knock these people unconscious, and they were treated like dogs.

He entered the core area of ​​the manor so easily. When he arrived at the gate of the house in the middle, Xing Tianli heard the big black dog yelling, "You bastard, keep these little bitches away from me. Although they all look like dogs, they are not of the same breed. Do you understand?"

"I'm not a dog!"

"Ah, bah, I am a dog, not an ordinary dog!"

"Get away from me! Don't force me to destroy you!"

Xing Tianli almost burst out laughing, and even blurted out words like "brutal and cruel", which showed how far this big black dog with a bad mouth had been pushed. However, looking at the appearance of those ugly-haired tiger-headed dogs along the way, Xing Tianli roughly guessed what the little bitches that were pestering this big black dog looked like!

Well, maybe in their dog circle, these tiger-headed dogs are also of the "beards as beautiful as flowers" level, right?

With a chill in his heart, Xing Tianli knocked on the door in front of him hurriedly: "Hello, is anyone there?"

With a "whoosh" sound, an evil wind blew from behind Xing Tianli.

He spun around lightly, avoiding the big bear paw from the old bear behind him, and took out the token of his weaving department and waved it at the old bear: "We are one, don't do anything. I am Li Li, the captain of the weaving department!"

The old bear's eyes widened, he retracted his paws, the skin on his face squirmed, and the long black hairs slowly retracted into the skin. He snatched the token from Xing Tianli's hand, weighed it, sniffed it, licked it with his tongue, put it in front of his little eyes and looked at it carefully, then threw it back to Xing Tianli.

"Xiaolong, the man from the weaving department, did you ask him to come?"

Old Bear put his hands on his hips, looking down at Xing Tianli who was much shorter than him, and asked in surprise: "Huh? You saw a monster, how come you are not afraid? You are much better than those high-ranking officials in the court. Many high-ranking officials of the second and third ranks were so scared that they peed when they saw me for the first time!"

The door was open and a large black dog with messy hair ran out.

Suddenly seeing Xing Tianli, the big black dog nodded: "It's you, boy. Tsk, why aren't you with the young lady from the Zhao family? Hey..."

The big black dog's face suddenly changed, and he shouted loudly: "Strange, how did you find this place? Boy, do you have this ability?"

Several big, fat, black dogs came out from the front and back of the house with their tails raised high. They looked at Xing Tianli curiously, and some dogs came up to him, sniffed him hard, and pressed their paws on Xing Tianli's boots.

"Weren't you looking for trouble with that big dog last night? I saw everything." Xing Tianli looked at the big black dog with a smile.

"You, saw it?" The big black dog howled angrily, "Why didn't you help me? Are you making fun of me?"

The old bear's black face turned slightly red.

Last night, their performance was not very good. Not only did they fail to capture Ilse alive, they also failed to deal with the two Great Danes. Facing Iris's reinforcements, they resisted for a while, but were "scared away" by the sound of silver bells from the Virgin Mary missionaries.

Yes, just scare them away.

They didn't even see how many people from the Holy Mother Church had come, and they just fled.

"I found their lair!" Xing Tianli smiled and looked at the big black dog: "I also overheard some of their conversations. Well, they have planted people in the Holy Mother Church."

The big black dog stood up.

He took out a pipe from somewhere, put it in his mouth and took two puffs, then blew out a mouthful of smoke and waved his paw at Xing Tianli: "You've got it. Tsk, is this the Secret Language Forest? Did you get in?"

Xing Tianli followed the big black dog into the house and asked in surprise, "Do you know that they are from the Secret Language Forest?"

The big black dog raised his head proudly.

The old bear gently patted Xing Tianli on the back with his paw: "Boy, don't underestimate us. If it weren't for the fact that the Secret Language Forest is a hornet's nest that can't be easily touched, damn it!"

The old bear bared his teeth fiercely and muttered, "If it weren't for that damn place with too many foreign devils who can't be touched, hey, these girls would have manipulated them long ago."

Xing Tianli was speechless for a while.

On their own turf, on the territory of the Dayu Dynasty, a group of monsters that were part of a secret spy agency directly under the royal family of the Dayu Dynasty and that knew the most core secrets of the Dayu Dynasty were actually so timid that they did not dare to take ruthless action against a group of foreign devils on their own turf!

Such a Great Yu Dynasty, let's destroy it quickly! Behind the short porch is a large living room with extremely hard decoration. Facing the porch, there are more than a dozen deer head specimens with eight or nine large forked antlers fixed on the wall. Above those deer head specimens, there are five bear head specimens. Above those bear heads as big as water tanks, there is a complete shark specimen about three meters long!
Xing Tianli had sharp eyes and saw that next to those specimens, there were small cards hanging, on which were labeled these specimens in fluent multi-language texts. They were all about the ancestors of a certain generation of this family, and how they were killed with their own hands at some time and on some special occasion, using such simple weapons, and how much honor they had won for themselves and their family.

The Dong people like to enshrine the deeds of their ancestors in ancestral halls and temples for only their descendants to worship.

The people of the Far West were more straightforward, or perhaps they lacked the accumulation and depth of history. They simply put the deeds of their ancestors in public for everyone to see, wishing that everyone in the world would know about it.

In addition to these wild specimens, the huge living room walls are covered with various swords and guns.

From the most primitive muzzle-loading matchlock gun to today's advanced magazine-fired striker rifle; from the ancient bronze one-handed sword to the two-handed horse-slaying sword forged from alloy steel; from the shield with worn oak boards inlaid with iron bars to the gorgeous shield made of round alloy, gilded and inlaid with various gems.

In the corner of the living room stood several sets of scarred heavy armor, and in front of the fireplace, there were even two old bronze cannons placed on the left and right!

The entire living room can almost be regarded as a small weapons museum of hundreds of Western countries.

Last night, the tiger demon that was hit hard by the wooden man has turned into its original form. The huge monster with a body length of nearly three meters is lazily lying on its back in front of the fireplace like a cat. Four fat and strong black dogs stand up and massage his chest and abdomen very skillfully.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of medicinal wine for traumatic injuries. The hair on the tiger demon's belly was wet. Too much dark brown medicinal wine had been used, and it had wet a large area of ​​the carpet beneath it!

In the corner of the room, on a semicircular sofa, three fox old ladies were sitting in a row, chewing soybeans. When they saw Xing Tianli, a tall, handsome, and heroic young man, walk in, the three fox old ladies' eyes lit up and they grabbed a handful of beans from their pockets and handed them over in unison.

"Handsome boy, you are so handsome, would you like some beans?"

"It's made with the finest wild herbs. It's a great boost to your vitality and good for boys!"

"Hehe, it's a good thing you met the three of us old guys. If you met those little girls from our family, I'm afraid they would have drained your bones dry, right?"

The corner of Xing Tianli's eye twitched.

She is indeed a vixen. Even at her old age, she is still crazy and indecent.

The big black dog blew a smoke ring at the three old fox ladies and cursed them, "You are already old, can you be more kind? You can eat your slutty beans if you want, but don't harm our family. Tsk, boy, these foxy women, no matter whether they are old or young, you can't touch anything they have in their hands."

The three fox ladies retracted their hands and looked at Xing Tianli with sparkling eyes, just like scholars appreciating the masterpieces of masters in a calligraphy and painting shop. Their eyes were hooked and swept up and down, making Xing Tianli feel uncomfortable, and he wanted to send a blast of Five Thunders at them.

The big black dog grumbled to the three fox old ladies, and took Xing Tianli to a circle of log chairs in the corner of the living room. A woman with black hair, gray eyes, a red headscarf, and extremely fair skin brought a huge tray and served Xing Tianli and others pots of boiling hot liquor with a strong aroma.

"Try it." Old Bear sat down next to Xing Tianli, picked up a large pot of wine and took a big gulp: "These foreign devils from the North Sea use the tuberous roots of perennial plants on the ice field to brew old wine. The taste is also unique, just like their women!"

Xing Tianli looked at the women who were busying around, and looked at the big black dog in surprise.

"They are considered family!" The big black dog puffed out smoke proudly. "This family has a weird last name, something like 'Herlongen'? Their ancestors were pirates who robbed houses and had a reputation, something like one of the Seven Kings of the North Sea. It is said that at their peak, they had more than 300,000 pirates and 5,000 pirate ships, running rampant in the North Sea."

"Now, the whole family has become good people, and he even earned the title of Grand Duke of Black Cliff?"

"They opened a shipping route from the Dayu Dynasty, specializing in getting some good goods such as tea and silk, and trafficking them to the hundreds of countries in the far west. The profit is much higher than robbery."

"But the best tea, silk, satin, porcelain, cloisonné, and all the rarest goods of the Great Yu Dynasty are controlled by our Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"So, now their family and our weaving department are flirting with each other. In many aspects, they can use us, and we can also use them." The big black dog blew a smoke ring and lowered his voice: "The current emperor has a concubine by his side, who is the legitimate daughter of their family. Hehe, isn't this a family?"

Xing Tianli also picked up a huge silver wine pot that was almost a foot high and as thick as an ordinary person's neck, and imitated the old bear and took a gulp. The wine was boiling hot, extremely hot, like a hurricane on the ice field that rolled up the ice and tore the body fiercely, bringing severe pain and great pleasure.

He wanted to say, the emperor of the Dayu Dynasty married a woman of a foreign race?
But think about it, according to the concept of the 'Shenzhou Land' where the Dayu Dynasty is located, the Fen Clan of the Dayu Dynasty royal family, for the main ethnic groups on this land, are also 'mountain slaves and barbarians who collect herbs and hunt' in the mountains and forests. Well, there is no problem with that.

A barbarian and a foreigner, they are truly a perfect match!
The big black dog lifted its tail, approached the wine jug, stuck out its long tongue, and licked a few gulps of the wine.

He began to talk about his behavior in the past few days.

After he found the Great Dane, he felt that the Great Dane and the person behind him were not ordinary. After all, the monsters of the Dayu Dynasty were only a few of their lineage, and a monster of a completely different species suddenly appeared, which made the big black dog feel extremely uneasy.

"How can I allow others to sleep peacefully beside my bed?"
The big black dog followed the traces of the Great Dane all the way to the International Concession in Pinghai City, and even sent out an emergency signal, asking the old bear, the tiger demon, and three old fox ladies who were stationed in the capital's Fentian City, and their cousins ​​to rush over.

They took a speedboat and sailed down the Jing River, traveling day and night. In a few days and nights, they covered thousands of miles. As soon as they arrived at the International Concession, before they had time to rest, Big Black Dog made an attack plan.

He didn't dare to go to the Dark Night Forest to cause trouble, so he thought about luring Ilse into the preset battlefield on the street in the manner of a dog fight, and then kidnapping Ilse under the excuse of "drunken trouble" and leaving.

In the end, things didn't go well.

Iris's aid was beyond their expectations; and the sound made by Sig shaking the silver bell made Big Black Dog and the others even more annoyed. They did not want to have a direct conflict with the Holy Mother Church, so they had to evacuate the scene.

“Although this little bitch is from the Dark Forest, the master of the Dark Forest is, after all, an old noblewoman who has been exiled after her country was destroyed. As long as we don’t attack the Dark Forest, kidnapping a few of her maids is not a big deal.” The big black dog sighed, “But as for the Holy Mother Church, to be honest, let alone us, even the current queen mother, tsk…”

The old bear stroked the coarse black hair on his head. "Hey, I heard that the Queen Mother changed all the Buddhist temples in her palace into temples dedicated to the Holy Mother Church. Tsk, if we have a conflict with these missionaries, no matter we are right or wrong, we will be punished!"

Xing Tianli coughed lightly and said, "You guys, are very respectful to the Queen Mother, right?"

The big black dog, the old bear, the tiger demon with its four legs facing the sky, a group of busy big black dogs, and three old fox ladies, all looked at the ceiling with wandering eyes at the same time.

Xing Tianli knew that this group of monsters were indeed extremely afraid of the queen mother.

Even in the depths of the eyes of the old bear and the tiger demon, Xing Tianli saw extremely strong dissatisfaction, and even a hint of murderous intent. These monsters behind the Fen Clan, for the Queen Mother of the Dayu Dynasty, haha!
Xing Tianli coughed lightly and said, "I came to see you today because I have already found out the reason why the Holy Mother Church and Yingjishi made such a big scene in Xiaolongqiu Town."

The eyes of the big black dog and his group suddenly lit up, and the big black dog even approached Xing Tianli with a drooling face and said, "Boy, when I first saw you, I knew you were smart and capable. Well, what did you find out?"

A quarter of an hour later, Xing Tianli finished telling the information he had obtained in the past few days.

The faces of the big black dog and his group turned ugly. The three old fox ladies immediately hurried out the door, obviously to report the information brought by Xing Tianli to higher-level bigwigs.

Tens of thousands of people in Shandefang were fooled by the Virgin Mary.

If the Holy Mother Church was so crazy that they used this method in Pinghai City? Or even Jieshi County? Millions or even tens of millions of monsters would surge out, which would be a disaster that could destroy the country!

(End of this chapter)