Chapter 53 The Betrayer
What happened that night scared Carters Limestone. When I recalled that scene, I still couldn't stop being scared. Almost in an instant, the elite leopards in the Claws killed more than half of each other, and the blood rain was flying, like a hell on earth. At the same time, it scared the cat-man leader who was originally loyal to the Claws to betray his master for many years.
Like most orcs, Carters did not believe in Odylus. Can a happy life be obtained from work? The leopards do not believe, they only believe in the weapons and claws in their hands. The orcs' straightforward minds do not believe that the elves who used to face their swords would truly help them.
Odylus fought with the elders of the tribe at the banquet, not only knocking away the patriarchs of many vassal tribes, but also completely dismantled the loyalty of all the orcs of the Claw Tribe to the tribe.
The camp of the Limestone tribe is the farthest away from the main camp of the Limestone tribe. When Carters Limestone ran back to his tribe in a panic, he had already received the news that Odylus is still unknown to life and death, but to the west, there are several vassal tribes that also belong to the Limestone tribe.
Carters knew that the claws were finished.
The tribe used to be like a mirror and never rebelled. Odylus, the reformist orcs, never imagined what basis the loyalty of the orcs was based on. The hard planting career that had been hard for several years before was not achieved, which made his subordinates complain everywhere. But now, the people in power in the orcs have not received the greater benefits from Odylus' promise, so their loyalty to him will naturally be greatly reduced.
To be honest, it’s fine if the envoys of the Elf Royal Court is not taken seriously by everyone. But at that moment, all the things were added together, and the anger in the orcs’ hearts was a fuse. Nationalism and war have always been a good excuse for orcs to vent their emotions. Let everyone vent their dissatisfaction with Odylus for many years at once!
The elves with ulterior motives don’t even have to take action, and the turmoil in the claws has already begun.
As a relatively well-informed wise man in the orc group, Carters Limestone knew that this matter would not end so easily. The leopards and the elves were in contact with each other, so that two envoys from the elves' royal court came to the tribe, which was absolutely extraordinary for the orcs.
If it goes well, the people of Leopards can suppress such news, and if it doesn't go well, the news will be in the mouths of those who are interested, and the impact on the Leopards tribe will be too bad.
Orcs have always lacked too fine discernment. Although Odylus invited the elf messenger because he wanted to learn planting, he could have any conclusions in the mouth of the spreader. Things of this nature may easily be misinterpreted as claws in other orc tribes - it may even include the entire Leopard Tribe Alliance, which will collude with elves, betray orcs, and rebel from the wasteland. Otherwise, who can explain that the envoy of the elf royal court will appear in your main tent?
If the two royal tribes of Tiger and Ryan, who have always regarded the leopards as thorns in their eyes, would have a lot of fun. They would happily raise the banner of rebellion and call on the entire orc tribe on the wasteland to kill them and conquer the leopards once and for all.
With such reasoning, it is already obvious what will happen in the future. The Claws have no future, but the Limestone tribe cannot be buried with them. Carters Limestone quickly analyzed that now, the thing he should do is to save himself, and the method of self-rescue is undoubtedly to spread the rumor version of the news as quickly as possible, disrupting the situation of the Leopard tribe, causing the Leopard tribe alliance to undergo a larger-scale and complete unrest due to rumors, and there is no time to clean up the chaos, so that his tribe can escape in the chaos.
As for whether Ordelus really wants to collude with the Elf Royal Court, who would really care?
This is the fact that Zhang Quan, a tribe of the base mountain, finally faced. In panic, he spent several days sending his subordinates to inquire about the truth of the facts from the south. At this time, Zhang Quan realized that the so-called collusion between the leopard human tribe was purely a false alarm, but it was just a rumor that the head of the cat man's messenger in front of him wanted to rebel.
The original intention of the leopard people to connect with the elves was to learn advanced planting technology, but they were violently opposed by the inside and eventually led to a tragedy. However, the situation had developed to such a point, and the result was irreversible. I am afraid that if this continues, the leopard tribe alliance, such a powerful force, would probably collapse in an instant. The leopard people worked hard, slept with firewood and gall, and were determined to regain their past glory, which would turn into clouds and smoke.
After all, he is different from the orcs under him. With the historical experience and lessons accumulated over thousands of years of the earth, he deeply understands what the meaning hidden behind this series of events represents.
This is by no means a simple civil strife between brothers in the orc tribe, but a life-and-death struggle between radical reformers and corrupt conservatives among the orcs who think they have grasped the pulse of the times. The young reformers at the forefront of the times always show too optimistic and naive when facing the counterattack of conservative forces! So the reformers full of idealism were confused by the conspiracy and reversed by the more realistic and utilitarian old guys.
This is simply a live drama of orcs' history. But it also fully demonstrates how strong the desire for progress is even for orcs with simple minds.
He felt that after all, he was a little too contemptuous of the senses of the indigenous people in this world, and often he did not really understand what these orcs were thinking. After all, the orcs are a race of intelligent creatures with flesh and blood! They have enough history and wisdom, and they will also have the desire to pursue a better life and a path to progress. They are by no means stupid passers-by NPCs in the computer game.
Like the people on earth, there are people in the orc group who are eager to change the survival status of their own group.
Although the changes brought by pioneers are often naive and immature, and in most cases only bring greater chaos, this chaos is undoubtedly an opportunity for changes required for the progress of civilization and a nutrient needed in the early stages of a mature social evolution process.
There are also many such figures on earth who have left footprints in history.
If the orcs under Zhang Quan's current feelings are given to him as they are at the bottom of society for a long time, lack knowledge, lack self-awareness, lack of thinking about the future of their own society and nation, and lack of ownership of social responsibility, this leopard tribe leader named Odylus, to a certain extent, even the few elites among the indigenous peoples in this world, belong to the kind of person who looks up at the sky early when the ethnic group is still carrying the earth!
Of course, Zhang Quan knew where the future of the orc society was, and the history accumulated by thousands of years of evolutionary processes on Earth's society was able to see clearly the advantages and disadvantages of this racial civilization more clearly than the orcs.
Although until now, due to the lack of intelligence and information, Zhang Quan has not really seen the overall pattern of orcs on the wasteland and lacks the most comprehensive understanding of the reality of this society, overall, the strict living environment of the wasteland is indeed the biggest obstacle to the social progress of the orcs.
To change all this, the planting industry is undoubtedly the most suitable technological progress for the social needs of the orcs. Only by changing the backward form of productivity of their own communities and eating enough can we bring out the huge potential hidden among the orcs and move towards a comprehensive progress of unity and civilization.
Zhang Quan saw all this clearly and worked hard for it. He had always been nailed to his eyes on the fertile land on the West Coast. This land may be the most suitable place for agriculture on the wasteland. With it, Zhang Quan could teach his orcs to transform from herders to farmers with higher productivity forms, and thus ended his large-scale sales of food from the earth to the world. The orcs' local civilization will naturally benefit from the development of the base mountain tribe and achieve a milestone leap forward development.
So Odylus chose a good path. He did see the weakness of the orcs and tried to make changes, but unfortunately, the era and environment he and his ethnic group lived in did not allow him to make such changes.
Is it simple to change a tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years? No, Ruthus looked down on the dangers on this road too much. It would be easy to succeed, but if you take a wrong step, it would be a counterattack from the bottom of your heart. From the perspective of the orc tribe, no matter what kind of agreement he and the elves reached, Zhang Quan did not believe that the elves would sincerely help him. But when he took this step, he would make the situation of the tribe that was already struggling to make it even more star-length.
He had put himself and his tribe in an unsolvable situation, the danger of foreign enemies, the rising national sentiment of the orcs, and the benefits he promised but failed to achieve to his followers. These disadvantages were mixed together, making the situation of the Claw Division very dangerous. Once huge pressure hits, then the betrayal of the relatives will only be in an instant.
The movements of the cat human limestone part are a very obvious example.
"What do you need us to do for you?" he asked the cat man messengers in front of him. "Now we should be on the same side,"
After thinking through the causes and consequences, Zhang Quan decisively chose his position. Whatever he does is beneficial to the base mountain, then what he does. The important thing at present is that he must quickly stand in the orc internal turmoil.
Because the Base Mountain Tribe also has its own hidden worries, he has not forgotten that in the eyes of the orcs, he is also from an outsider human, and more importantly, it is not only limited to "collusion", but he has truly become the leader of an orc tribe. If the national sentiment of the orcs is really as strong as the legendary one, then the prospect of his Base Mountain Tribe on the wasteland will be equally bad!
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Chapter completed!