Chapter 17 Sleeping in the red wilderness (2/2)

“It’s the goblins. It’s obviously that only the goblins can manage to clean the meat so neatly.”Shaar conveniently pulled out a bone and weigh a couple of time: “It seems that the animal died ten days ago at most, the bone is still very hard since the water has not completely dried inside yet.”

“Why do I have the feeling that you understood about these things a bit too much?” The pitiful creature gave a somewhat suspicious look towards Shaar.

Shaar did not answer this question and instead took off his Bloodthirsty Great Wolf skin wolf and threw it over on the skeleton of the animal bones which in turn transformed into a natural small tent.

“Tonight we rest here.”Shaar announced his decision.

The supper was of course roasted wolf meat – the meat of that Bloodthirsty Great Wolf Shaar killed. Although the wolf meat was hard, a bit acid and very difficult to bite, nevertheless the pitiful creature endured it.

Since she could not complain about the bad tasting wolf meat, throughout the entire evening, she sat by the bonfire and continuously nipped on that meat. The surrounding wilderness gave a distinct feeling that countless eyes stared at them secretly. In their looks was a strong hint of greed filled with hunger, ferociousness and a bit cowardliness.

Listening closely, she could clearly hear a “gurgle gurgle” sound while they swallowed their saliva in the dark wilderness. Some sounds of teeth grinding was mixed in between – those sounds crept out the pitiful creature a bit.

“They ……They are peeping at us.”The pitiful creature was determined to remind this hillbilly about his casual negligent appearance while he seemed to show a terrible alertness.

“I know.” Lying down his head on the bones, Shaar closed his eyes and enjoyed the warmth coming from the fire: “Left one, right two, in front and at our back one and some sound of movements at the distance ……”

Talking about it, he rolled over and faced the pitiful creature: “Relax, they will not provoke us at the moment. Goblins are very cowardly and have a group mentality. They must reach a certain number before getting the courage to attack. According to goblin standards, to cope with two human warriors, they must reach at least over 20 goblin warriors to gain an overwhelming victory. Nevertheless, the intelligence of a goblin is generally speaking not very developed and they judge thing much simpler: Someone who has a weapon is a warrior and someone who doesn’t is a commoner. We are very lucky that you put on the leather armor while I am carrying the axe, therefore those fellows regards us as human warriors. This means, they will wait to increase their numbers over twenty before launching an attack.”

“How is this possible?”The pitiful creature did not believe him: “If they need to wait this long to cope with only two human warriors, then why did I heard that so many caravans were attacked by the goblins?”

“That is just a rumour.” Shaar gave a disdained look: “In Primal Wildfire, rumours will always be a popular thing. The actual goblin is not that fearful as you had imagined……Although they are very annoying, at the very least they are not as fearful as those legends describe them. Those legends about terrifying goblins were mostly made up by humans. I heard that some large business groups in Primal Wildfire deliberately like to spread those stories. Thus a lot of people are afraid to risk coming to Primal Wildfire and everybody is avoiding this trade route which makes them the only one to dare send caravans to trade! Hmpf ……”

“But ……I heard that those goblins will capture humans and eat them. The bones will be grinded to powder, the hair made into blankets and even the fat will be used as oil to cook ……” The pitiful creature’s teeth started clattering.

“These may be true, in any case for them, we humans are an alien race. Do we humans do not treat cattle and sheep the same way? So what is strange about it?”Shaar yawned: “The truth is goblins rarely attack a team of armed humans. Many people died indeed in the arms of goblins in Primal Wildfire, but the majority were those bold people who like to leave things to luck and wholeheartedly wanted to get rich by taking the risks and bringing a cargo through Primal Wildfire in a small caravan. These small business groups do not have the money to hire mercenaries to protect them and once they meet the goblin, naturally they would be out of luck.”

“But you said that the goblins would wait really long before attacking two people……”

“What I said was ‘warriors ‘, you idiot.” Shaar shook his head: “When goblins target commoners, they become very brave. However for them we look like human warriors! Understood? We are carrying weapons and therefore they regard us as adventurers and mercenaries. In Primal Wildfire, goblins had already suffered countless times under human adventurers and therefore learned to be cautious. If we did not carry weapons with us, they would have already swarmed us!”

“But ……”

“Relax, we are still at the edge of the goblin domain and the surroundings do not have any big goblin tribes. They must thus collect 20 goblin warriors to deal with us and I am certain it will take a while. Those hobo goblins do not dare to provoke us, so sleep in peace ……In the wilderness, I know more than you rest assure. Even I would not take my own life as joke.”Shaar rolled over and started to sleep.

“……” Laying down for a moment, the pitiful creature still heard those creepy sound brought by the cold dessert wind in this wilderness and could not help but to stay terrified in her heart. Enduring for a while, she could not bear and eventually whispered: “I ……Can I come closer to you? This ……Um, it’s somewhat cold.”

Not getting an answer from Shaar, the pitiful creature waited for a little while and finally took her own initiative to lie down beside Shaar. The body of this hillbilly still had the smell of earth on him, but a warm feeling calmed down the pitiful creature’s heart.

Certainly, the more important factor was his abnormal aesthetic standard, which gave the pitiful creature the reassurance that he would not assault her indecently during the night.