Chapter 150: Connectivity
After talking to Aurelia, Carlos and Tulayan were rambling for a while, and then felt that the troll mercenary group had come to check on the situation.
The human soldiers who remained behind in the Northland Fortress looked at the trolls with doubt, apprehension, and curiosity as they took a shower.
"I'll go, what a big cock."
"How did these trolls grow, and they couldn't eat enough to be so big?"
"Generally speaking, when you come out to be a mercenary, you must choose a strong one."
"Back then, I fought with trolls in Hinterland, and I was big and a bird, so there was a big gap between practicing and not practicing."
"Can you compare with His Majesty Carlos? O beacon of human society! ”
"Poofhahahaha."
"Laugh, Your Majesty is also what you can laugh at?"
"Okay, I don't laugh, so who do you say is bigger between His Majesty's one and the troll?"
"Well, it's hard to say, but I think I'm big."
"Cut ......"
Carlos eavesdropped on the conversation of the onlookers with a black line, and couldn't help but snort twice.
"Your Majesty......."
"Your Majesty......."
"How about these trolls, if you're just going to be teammates."
Carlos walked up to the "big" brother and asked.
"Report to Your Majesty, it looks quite strong, but I don't know how the discipline is, I personally don't care, hundreds of trolls can't turn the sky upside down, and they can't save the world." The soldier raised his hand and saluted, then answered the king's question.
"Well, you go on, we spent money to hire them to fight, so we have to be picky."
Carlos spoke on the side of the humans, patting the "big" brother on the shoulder, signaling that he didn't mind the soldiers looking strange.
Communication and communication do not happen overnight, and the opinion of the general or leader will affect the opinion of the people below.
Although the soldiers can accept these trolls through the form of military orders, it will eventually make the hearts of human soldiers resigned. It's better to downplay the effect and just let it be.
Therefore, after consulting with Tulayan and his generals, Carlos gave the argument that these trolls were all new trolls who had been re-educated by human civilization, and that they were jungle warfare experts hired by King Carlos at his expense, and that during the employment period, any harm to these trolls would be criminalized as theft of royal property.
This statement. The treatment of the troll mercenaries has been raised, the status has been reduced, and the soldiers have not been so difficult to accept.
Oh, the king paid for it, no, hired it, something like a hound, an expert in jungle warfare, it seems to make sense. Aren't trolls just a bunch of things that burrow into the mountains and forests?
The soldiers, guided by the officers, knew that these trolls were mercenaries in the service of His Majesty, and they were less disgusted and hostile. It's rare to encounter a troll who fights without meeting, and you have to take a good look at the strangeness.
And that's exactly what Carlos wants.
Racial reconciliation has never been achieved by a piece of paper, and the first step is to let the two species meet without fighting, and it seems that the effect is not bad so far.
This bathing order was given by Hendrek, and the Grand Knight decided that the trolls were not clean and demanded that the trolls be thoroughly cleaned before entering the camp. Ymir agreed. The cavalry general, who had been in charge of guarding the fortress, did not want the trolls to stain the fortress he had worked so hard to maintain, so the first order the troll mercenaries received was to cut down trees and boil water.
These troll mercenaries have long been prepared to be abused by humans. But for every point he gives, Zumashal's compatriots will get an extra piece of food, and the noble victims of these moss trolls have long been prepared to be killed by humans, chopping wood and boiling water.
As a result, the water was boiled, and the trolls found that humans actually asked themselves to take a bath?
What do you do with hot water in a bath?
Bathing with boiling water, is it to eat boiled trolls?
The trolls are in a commotion!
But Aslan. Qi An didn't bother to explain to the troll. Directly unarmed, put on underwear, took a shower with cold water, and then dressed up and left, the whole process took less than five minutes.
The trolls were embarrassed by the mocking eyes of humans.
It turns out that you can still use hot water for bathing!
A moment later. Aslan. Qi'an sent someone to send a batch of soap and towels, and motioned for the soldiers who had delivered it to take a shower as well, which was a demonstration for the trolls.
The trolls finally understood that humans don't eat troll meat, and it turns out that boiling hot water is really for bathing.
Well, seeing that the sleek humans seem to be having a good time, let's try it too.
As a result, rumors of trolls taking a bath spread like a wind of fashion, and a large number of human soldiers who had nothing to do gathered around to watch the rumored trolls take a bath.
If it had been left in peacetime, the generals would have brought the military judges over to catch the unlucky guys, but at the behest of the higher-ups, the officers chose to ignore the soldiers' blind coaxing.
As a forest troll, the skin of the newborn will be infected and parasitized by a bryophyte from birth, so the skin of the entire troll is as green as a plant leaf. Such a skin helps the troll to hide its whereabouts in the forest. And the huge taste of trolls is not innate, but more because of their living habits. As predators, strong flavors help trolls mark hunting areas.
After washing, the trolls don't actually stink.
"What do you think?"
As more and more generals gathered around, Carlos asked the people around him.
"What a terrible race, look at this muscle, we were able to conquer Zumashar at such a small price, all thanks to His Majesty's wisdom and skill."
"A natural fighting race, even during the bath, did not relax the slightest vigilance, terrifying. But we have His Majesty Carlos, who is both wise and powerful, and trolls are not enough to justify. ”
"Your Majesty's talent, as long as you ......"
"It's empty talk, what do the soldiers think of these trolls about what I asked." Carlos decisively intercepted the topic, what he wanted to hear was not a bunch of rough men flattering.
"It's okay, Your Majesty's calculations are really good, you give preferential treatment to trolls, and suppress trolls in terms of status, and the soldiers know that these trolls are Your Majesty's private property, and they are more curious than disgusted."
"So we're driving well with this head, right?" Carlos was in a good mood after listening to it.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
At that moment, a washed troll suddenly left his people, wrapped a small towel around his waist, and walked among the crowd of human soldiers.
Although the troll hunched his back at any time and swayed his shoulders when he walked, the standing troll body had nothing to do with being small.
"Hey, friend."
The troll spat out the words in a skillful Alterac accent.
The human soldiers were startled at first, and then realized that they would not lose the battle, and they puffed up their chests one after another.
"Big man, what's the matter?"
The troll scratched his head and thought about what to say.
"Cigarettes, divide me?"
"This troll smokes, huh?"
"I'm going to tease them with tobacco leaves, because they smoke."
"Others just look stupid, but not really stupid."
After a few soldiers finished muttering, they divided one to the troll, and then the troll skillfully clamped it with his thick fingers, held it in his mouth, and leaned over with his big head to borrow fire.
"Thank you."
With a cigarette in his mouth, the troll returned to his people.
"Hey, he'll say thank you."
"Your Majesty bought something interesting, a troll who can speak human language, haha."
In the midst of laughter, the little accident ended successfully.
"Communication starts from the heart, you remember."
Carlos said this with a satisfied smile. (To be continued......)
PS: I send a big chapter, you say I don't update well, okay, I'll dismantle and develop, and the audience is the biggest.