"Mom! Mom!" A little orc girl shook her little ears on the top of her head, and the crowd of lovers hugged her mother tightly.
The female orc had a face full of vicissitudes of life, looking much older than her actual age. She picked up her child, with an uneasy look on her face.
It was so chaotic here. There were orcs everywhere, soldiers carrying weapons on their backs, stern scoldings everywhere, and the cries of children or women could be heard everywhere.
"Sir! Please! My child can also work!" At the front of the team, a woman hugged her child and begged the soldiers blocking the road in front of her with a tearful voice.
The orc soldier was obviously a little impatient. He saw too many women taking care of their families today.
"Go away! Look at the notice! Only adult men and women! Not children!" The soldier waved his arms and yelled loudly.
It's not that he doesn't want to be a good person and let this woman go, but the order he received does not allow him to do so.
If he really offends the human guests behind him, it will affect the number of recruits and harm the interests of the orc empire. Will he, a small soldier, be unable to survive?
Even if you kill him, he is not worth anything! To put it bluntly, killing tens of thousands of people would make those humans sitting in the shade eating watermelon happy. The Beast King wouldn't mind trying to kill them once.
In this place full of yellow sand, no one cares about the value of life. Living is a waste of water, breathing is a waste of materials! If this were not the case, the Orc Empire would not need to send soldiers to Qin's Western Wall Fortress to die every year.
Hot weather is the main theme here. It is really a luxury to eat fruits in the Orc Empire. In the past hundreds of years, the Beast King may not have been able to eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day.
However, in recent years, the railways built by the Tang Empire have plummeted the cost of transportation. Vegetables and fruits from Shu... now it should be said that they come from Qin can enter the desert, allowing the orc nobles to enjoy the benefits of technological progress. Come dividends.
In the Orc Empire, this kind of dividend cannot reach the poor. However, because the circulation of materials has become more frequent, some ordinary people will eventually benefit.
Looking at the humans eating watermelon in the shade, several orc children swallowed a mouthful of saliva. They really wanted to walk over and see the kind of sparkling water they had never seen in their lives!
That's right, the water in those glass bottles placed on human tables is actually sparkling! They are clear and transparent, completely different from the well water in the slums of the Orc Empire.
For the poor among the orcs, the water is not transparent. It is turbid and full of the smell of sand. Drinking this water is just to survive. It is an instinct of life.
"Please! Sir! My child can really work! He is very strong! He can carry things and wash clothes! He is really capable." The woman was still begging because she really didn't want to put herself in trouble. The children were left to the traffickers with malicious intentions in the distance.
Those people are waiting here, waiting for those men and women who have lost patience, have no family affection, and are indifferent to humanity, and throw their children to them in exchange for some food and coins.
Today is a good opportunity, a good opportunity to go to the beautiful human world. As long as they can get on the train waiting there at a distant station, they will live an unprecedentedly good life!
It’s just that…you need to pay a little price! They must abandon the elderly and children at home, treat them as commodities, go to a strange world, and work for ten years!
In these ten years, these young orcs were just an asset, a human asset of the Tang Empire. They had to engage in the most dangerous, complex and tiring work.
Ten years later, they will be eligible to go to a place called "Freedom Island" where they can enjoy a happy life! There is no yellow sand there, only woodland and farmland, only cities and beautiful sea views.
"Get out of the way! Next one!" The soldier did not dare to make the decision without authorization and shouted to the woman waiting behind her.
The woman who heard the shouting quickly stepped forward, and then the soldier responsible for the inspection looked even more disgusted. After lifting the rag around her face, the female orc looked like she might be 40 years old.
In the Orc Empire, women after the age of 40 are basically "negative assets". Their physical condition is extremely poor due to hard work and lack of materials, and they are unable to have children, so they have almost no role.
Obviously, the old woman, whom the Orc Empire looked down upon, could not stain the eyes of the human guests. Those young cat-eared girls can be sent to Chu or Tang to work as maids or directly sent to entertainment venues, but old ladies obviously cannot.
Moreover, such a slave obviously cannot work for the Tang Empire for ten years, and may die of illness in two or three years. Isn't that cheating the Tang Empire of its money?
The Tang Empire paid for munitions, advanced weapons, and shocking technology that cannot be bought with real money! If you use bad goods to deceive the Tang Empire and make the Tang Empire angry, it will be over.
"You..." Before the soldier carrying a Mauser 98K rifle scolded the old woman, he saw something terrifying out of the corner of his eye.
A few children, without knowing when, slipped under the shade of the only nearby tree and stood next to the table of the distinguished guests who had come from afar.
"Hey! Hey!" In desperation, the orc soldier quickly called to the captain next to him: "Sir, sir...hey!"
Low-level orcs have no names. Under normal circumstances, there will be two hundred "scum" and more than a hundred "sand tigers" in an army. Perhaps the biggest difference between the orcs in the Orc Empire and the orcs in the Tang Empire is that the orcs in the Tang Empire all have names...
The orc captain, who was dizzy under the vicious sun, squinted his eyes and looked impatiently at the men who called him. He quickly pulled out his pistol and beat the bastard to death for disturbing his sleep.
He finally found a rock that wasn't too hot to sit on for a while! A little annoyed, he glanced in the direction of his fingers, and then stood up from the stone as if his butt was burned by fire.
At almost a sprint speed of 100 meters, the ugly orc captain ran under the shade of the tree, lowered his head and bent down, preparing to drive away those children who dared to disturb the human guests.
But before he could speak, he saw the man, who even the elders of nearby tribes would call "sir" when they saw him, handing a piece of watermelon to a dirty-looking child.
"Big, big, big, sir..." The orc platoon leader was so frightened that he could hardly speak clearly. That piece of watermelon... is much more valuable here than a child.
"This child looks good." Looking at the child who devoured watermelon for the first time in his life, the man praised him with a smile.
To evaluate an orc, especially a male orc, the highest criterion is probably that he looks good. There's no way, humans are all naughty dogs.
To the Tang people, it didn't matter if an orc worked a little slower, but being too ugly would really make people uncomfortable. Most of the female orcs are good-looking, but the male orcs are the hardest hit.
"He, they..." The orc platoon leader did not feel the anger of the humans he could not offend, so he spoke more fluently.
"Don't talk yet." The man sitting at the head of the table under the shade of the tree uncorked a bottle of mineral water, took a sip and waved to the little orc girl who was looking at him intently.
After he waved, he poured the precious water in the bottle onto a white silk scarf. When the little girl approached timidly, he smiled and wiped the girl's face with the silk scarf to make her face clean. .
After wiping the girl's face, the man handed the glass bottle in his hand to the girl: "It's very thirst-quenching. You drink some first, and then you can leave the rest to your mother."
The little orc girl who looked like a porcelain doll took the bottle from the man's hand, but did not dare to drink the water inside.
In fact, the mineral water in the Tang Empire has begun to try to use plastic as a substitute for glass. But including the Tang Dynasty, glass bottles are obviously still the mainstream.
The difference is that Tang's beverages and mineral water already use metal caps with rubber gaskets. Other countries are not willing to use metal products and can only make do with wooden stoppers.
Of course, the mineral water on the table could not have been shipped from the Tang Empire. They were all produced in factories in Shu... and now they are factories in Qin.
"Drink!" The man smiled. In the little girl's eyes, this was probably the most beautiful smile she had ever seen. She felt that the man was even shining with light, like a god.
She gently placed her dry lips against the mouth of the bottle, carefully lifted the bottom of the bottle, and let the sweet water flow into her mouth... It turns out that water can taste so good!
"Go!" Another human guest threw a piece of fruit to each child, whether it was an orange or a pear, and then waved to the children.
"Get out of here!" Feeling that he finally had a chance to speak, the orc platoon leader, who was standing there with no intention of staying or walking, turned around and glared at the children. Under his lustful power, the children immediately ran away. Far.
"Let these children be considered dead. Also, that little girl just now... don't let anyone embarrass her." Without even looking at the ugly orc platoon leader, the man from the Tang Empire waved his hand and signaled The other party can retreat. There was no way, he really couldn't bear to look at that ugly face.
The person next to him was very generous and also gave the orc platoon leader a bottle of water. This was definitely a gift. After hearing the order, the orc platoon leader quickly retreated with his head bowed holding the bottle in his hand.
