sbdcsierra Chapter 424 Everyone's Attitude
Chapter 424 Everyone's Attitude
Lin Baiyan was not crazy. His expression was very calm, but the determination in his tone was not fake.
"I know what I'm doing is a bit willful. The City of Ten Thousand Beasts is now on the right track. Even without me, the city can slowly continue to function..."
Before he could finish speaking, Tu Lin impatiently interrupted him, "What do you mean? If it weren't for you, where would the City of Ten Thousand Beasts be today?"
"Are you planning to abandon us now?" Tu Lin looked at Lin Baiyan with a serious expression.
Hearing Tu Lin's tone, Lin Baiyan's solemn demeanor vanished instantly. He looked at the surrounding beastmen with a mixture of amusement and exasperation, "What are you saying? I am just..."
"They just don't want to be a burden to us, but they can't abandon the city lord alone, right?" Yang Ye said incisively.
Seeing that even the usually gentle Yang Ye had become so sharp, Lin Baiyan nodded helplessly, "Yes, I was worried about implicating you."
The City of Beasts has finally grown into the massive and majestic city it is today, and it is located in the vast north.
It's freezing cold here, desolate and sparsely populated. They set up camp here, and few tribes come this way. Lin Baiyan looked up and said very seriously, "If anything happens to us, you will guard this city. With the weapons I left behind, you can be safe for the time being."
"If you really can't hold this place, you can also go to the snow mountain with the Silver Fox Clan. The snow mountain has unpredictable terrain and is the Silver Fox Clan's stronghold. It can protect you for several more decades."
Every word he uttered was a testament to the best plan for Wancheng.
"What you've said is all your own idea, High Priest. Can you please listen to our opinions?" At this moment, Hu Kuo's voice suddenly came from behind. Lin Baiyan turned around and saw that Elders Hu Xia and Hu Kuo, leaning on their canes, slowly stopped in front of them.
Lin Baiyan pursed his lips. "I just came up with a foolproof plan."
"Yes, the High Priest is right. The City of Ten Thousand Beasts is growing larger and larger. Even without you and the City Lord, the City of Ten Thousand Beasts will not collapse."
Upon hearing this, the surrounding beastmen became even more agitated, chattering amongst themselves, "Elder, what are you saying?!"
"Yes, Elder, how could we not need a High Priest and a City Lord?"
"Elder, why aren't you trying to persuade the High Priest to stop causing trouble here?!"
"High Priest, please don't listen to the elders! What will we do if you abandon Beast City?"
"That's right, Bai Yan, you can't abandon us!"
Fox Zhen smiled and didn't speak. After the surrounding noise subsided, she slowly tapped her cane. "Little Flame, look at them. They're all getting anxious and upset before we've even finished explaining."
"If they are like this, what would happen to the other ordinary orcs in the city?" They would probably be willing to risk their lives for the sake of their revered high priest.
Lin Baiyan clenched her fingers, as if she understood the meaning behind Hu Kuo's words—their opinions...
Fox Zhen stroked his beard and said earnestly, "High Priest, without you, there would be no City of Ten Thousand Beasts today. Even if you have made thorough preparations for us, if something happens to you in the north, can you really guarantee that those beastmen won't follow the trail to the north and exterminate us?"
Lin Baiyan remained silent. In fact, from the moment he made this decision, he had already placed the City of Ten Thousand Beasts in the spotlight.
He was being somewhat selfish by doing this. Lin Baiyan looked up at them with eyes full of guilt.
Hu Kuo understood his gaze, took a few steps forward, and gently patted Lin Bai's shoulder. "Child, Grandpa Hu Kuo knows what you're thinking. But our Beast City is now a unified whole, just like you taught us before, we share the same fate, and we share the same fate."
"Who cares about these demons and monsters? Are we old folks afraid of them?" Hu Kuo suddenly said, his voice full of arrogance.
The beastmen all nodded in agreement, "That's right, that's right, we're all one family!"
"Those cowardly bastards only dare to crawl around in the gutter. This time, we're going to drag them out!"
"Our City of Ten Thousand Beasts fears no tribe!"
Looking at the expressions of the beastmen around him, Lin Baiyan slowly loosened his clenched fingers and exhaled slowly, "Yes, I was wrong just now. Fortunately, the elder reminded me."
Hu Kuo waved his hand with a smile. He knew that Bai Yan was still young and impulsive, and didn't want to drag anyone down. But this group of people had gathered because of him. Without Lin Bai Yan, their Ten Thousand Beasts City probably wouldn't survive for long.
"But you should think this through. If you just come with me like this, the reward won't be as generous! After all, I can't afford to support so many people," Lin Baiyan said, seemingly jokingly.
"We don't care about that little bit of animal honey!"
"Exactly! We're all in it for that little bit of reward!"
Lin Baiyan nodded. "In that case, I'd like to tell everyone something." After saying that, he took the lead and walked into the office.
The orcs looked at each other in bewilderment and quickly followed in his footsteps.
Lin Baiyan sat in the middle of the office.
At this moment, the leaders of all the tribes in the City of Ten Thousand Beasts were gathered in this small room: Hu Kuo, Hu Luan, Hu Zhen, Hu Xia, Hu Bing, Tu Lin, Yang Ye, Hu Qiu, Lu Xiao, Xiong Fei, and Xiong Zhi, who had just joined.
As for the Dwarf Beast Clan and the Spirit Dog Clan, since both tribes were somewhat afraid of meeting unfamiliar beastmen, only two beastmen, Dwarf Red and Dog Fruit, came this time.
They all looked at each other, completely bewildered. Shouldn't they have just been discussing aiding the city lord? Why had the high priest suddenly summoned them here?
Ai Hong and Quan Guo, who were huddled together nearby, were also a little confused. They were doing their work just fine when they were suddenly notified to come here. Was something about to happen?
"You've followed me all this way, so you should know that I actually have many secrets hidden within me." Lin Baiyan looked up and around.
Lin Baiyan no longer wanted to hide. This time, either they would truly uncover the secret of the Holy Crystal and eliminate the person behind it, or they would perish halfway through and die at that person's hands.
Now that we're faced with this choice, it's time to tell them the truth.
The beastmen in the office all showed slight changes in expression upon hearing Lin Baiyan's words.
Among them, the one who changed the most was Tu Lin. He had been fleeing with Lin Baiyan until now, and if you were to ask what was unusual, he was the first to feel something was strange, although he had just forcibly suppressed it before.
Lin Baiyan also saw the expressions on the faces of the various beastmen. He smiled calmly and dropped a bombshell without changing his expression, "I don't actually belong here."