I Transmigrated Into A Fantasy World To Farm And Build Houses!-Chapter 301: The More I Hear, The Stranger It Gets
In the dining hall, everyone cooked with heavy hearts, and occasionally a burnt smell wafted up.
A Khac and A Ly looked at each other, seeing a mixture of luck and fear in each other’s eyes.
Although the situation of the Horned Goat tribe people was slightly better than that of the small beastmen, they were, after all, herbivores. By nature, they were already at a disadvantage compared to carnivores.
Their tribe had suffered a heavy attack, with only a little over fifty survivors left. If the Snow Wolves hadn’t taken them in, even if they weren’t eaten by demon beasts, they likely would have fallen into the hands of the Golden Kingdom sooner or later.
No one was stupid.
From the establishment of the Golden Kingdom to the enslavement of small beastmen, and now selling them to humans, the total time elapsed wasn’t that long.
Who knew which tribe they would target next? But ultimately, the first to bear the brunt would definitely be the weaker beastmen.
Beastmen had always revered strength and never bullied the weak, but the beastmen of this kingdom went against that ideal, betraying the millennia-old beliefs of their people.
It was no wonder that other beastmen on the Fantasy Dream Continent turned pale at the mere mention of the Golden Kingdom; not attacking them on sight was already a sign of a good temper.
Eric gently pulled Max’s sleeve, and the two of them walked out of the dining hall together.
Michael, who was silently helping beside the irritable Anna, glanced at their actions, and a glint of suspicion flashed in his eyes. What were these two up to now, sneaking out to discuss something again?
Sigh, young Eric was about to learn bad habits.
"Max, let’s go find Thomas."
Once outside, Eric looked up and said to Max.
Without asking much, Max nodded: "Okay."
Saying that, he held Eric’s hand and walked towards his home.
Today’s events hadn’t been told to his father in detail yet, and he didn’t know if the other warriors had mentioned it while setting up the tents. Max thought of Kevin, who had a loose tongue and couldn’t keep a secret; hmm, he had probably told him.
...
When Eric and Max arrived, Thomas was at home flying into a rage.
From a distance, they could hear him roaring and cursing the people of the Golden Kingdom. Luci would normally intervene a bit, but today, hearing this news, she was also extremely angry and joined her husband in the ceaseless cursing.
Thomas’s house wasn’t far from the temporary tents of the Tiger tribe. With the hearing of the Tiger beastmen, they must have heard it clearly...
Eric poked his head in from the door to observe the situation first.
He saw Thomas pacing back and forth in the house, cursing with spittle flying, and Luci’s face was also very unsightly.
He hesitated a bit. Should he let them vent for a while longer before going in?
While he was wavering, Max had already put his arm around his shoulder and led him in, speaking to his parents in front: "Father, Mother."
Thomas didn’t turn his head, scolding:
"You should have beaten the Tiger tribe up instead of discussing deals with them! Small beastmen have become things to be bought and sold, so the Tiger tribe’s turn is coming soon too!"
Hearing him scold their son, Luci was a bit unhappy:
"What nonsense are you saying? The Tiger tribe has so many warriors. How many people do we have? Can we beat them?"
Scolded by his wife, Thomas couldn’t conveniently talk back, so he vented all his anger on the Golden Kingdom:
"That bunch of damned traitors, associating every day with humans full of schemes and plots. Now they don’t look like beastmen anymore, and they aren’t afraid of having no face to meet their ancestors later!"
Eric peeked out from behind Max and called softly: "Thomas, Luci..."
"..." Thomas suddenly paused, smiling awkwardly: "Eric is here too?"
It seemed that parents all over the world didn’t want to curse in front of children. Thomas’s attitude immediately changed one hundred and eighty degrees, and he even squeezed out a smile on his face.
Luci smiled and walked around Thomas, saying: "Come in quickly, you haven’t come over to play for a long time."
Eric went in and sat down. Not long after, Luci brought him a cup of warm water and some snacks.
"What’s wrong? Is there something the matter?" Thomas also found a chair to sit down and asked.
Hesitating for a moment, Eric spoke up: "Thomas, I came to ask about the Kon tribe and the Queen tribe..."
Max’s face showed clear understanding.
Thomas asked somewhat strangely: "Why do you ask about them? The most difficult winter has passed. Food is plentiful right now..."
"Is there no winter this year?" Luci retorted unhappily.
Thomas didn’t react immediately, then suddenly realized, saying: "I understand, the boy has his eyes on the Kon tribe and the Queen tribe!"
"Pfft!" The water Eric had just drunk sprayed out.
What strange wording. He had his eyes on the "people" of the Kon tribe and the Queen tribe!
Wait, it didn’t seem much different...
Luci patted Thomas on the back:
"What nonsense are you talking about? Don’t you know the boy has long wanted to expand the tribe’s population? Speaking of the Kon tribe and the Queen tribe, it is indeed a good choice.
Inviting them over now means they can farm with us. Their two tribes combined have nearly two hundred people. If the Queen tribe hadn’t suffered personnel losses back then, there might have been more than two hundred people, which is not a small number."
With so many people, they could do so much work. Eric’s eyes grew brighter and brighter as he stared eagerly at Thomas.
Max also spoke up for his partner:
"That way, their two tribes won’t have to go hungry in the winter anymore, and Chief Karin won’t have to worry about his tribesmen being swallowed by demon beasts just for a bite of fish."
His last sentence made Thomas fall silent on the spot. After a long while, he sighed.
"You’re right. I originally planned to wait until the harvest season to find them, but seeing it now, it’s best to go earlier."
Thinking about it now, even if they waited until the harvest season to successfully convince Karin and Queen to lead their people to join the Hadu tribe, they would need to use the tribe’s food for the entire winter, and they would certainly feel guilty.
It seemed it really should be done earlier.
"But Eric, why did you suddenly mention this?" Thomas asked suspiciously.
Eric raised his head, his face heavy as he said:
"The fate of the small beastmen today could be the future of other beastmen on the continent. Sunflower only led a few dozen warriors, yet we couldn’t resist them. These warriors are only a very small part of the Golden Kingdom’s forces. If later they are truly not satisfied with the number of small beastmen in the kingdom, I’m afraid we will also be in danger."
"So you want to be like them and strengthen the tribe’s power?" Thomas already had the answer in his heart.
Luci clapped her hands happily and sat down next to Eric: "Eric is right. The sooner we increase the population, the safer we are, and we can also cultivate more land."
"That’s right, and we can also harvest more food." Eric and Luci looked at each other and smiled knowingly.
Although the Hadu tribe had cleared a lot of land, with the current manpower, they couldn’t manage so many fields.
Especially during the harvest season; mulberries, wheat, rice, and other crops all needed harvesting. Unless the Dwarves could make a harvester, that bit of manpower in the tribe simply wasn’t enough.
