◎He saw a group of strange demons from afar◎
The sun is shining brightly, the breeze is blowing gently, and the peaceful days always pass by in the blink of an eye.
"The sun has just risen and the temperature is already so high."
The familiar Hulu walked out of the gate of the Demon King's Palace, looked at the rising sun in the sky, and sighed softly.
Bathed in the golden sunshine, he skipped towards the lava lake, collected the unique red mud on the shore of the lava lake, put it into a winnowing basket woven with vines, and shook it vigorously.
The soil falls back to the ground, and the dark red pebbles mixed in it remain in the dustpan. These pebbles are the favorite food of roasted chicken.
"Hey, snore!"
Along with the cheerful voices, two mud-covered heads suddenly appeared beside the lava lake.
The familiar Hulu looked up at the lava lake and greeted them happily: "Alec, Yul! Are you here to take a bath?"
"No, we're here to do homework," the two demon soldiers were visibly wilting. "The after-class thinking task assigned by the king yesterday was that there were eighteen fire weasel pigs in the lava lake, and they gave birth to thirteen piglets, but five of them died of illness, and one was eaten by a fire snake. How many were left? We didn't find any fire weasel pigs, so we decided to pretend to be pigs and count them."
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The Demon King's half-hour night class has been running for so long and has been very effective. At least even the dumbest demon can count from one to one hundred. However, many demons still cannot figure out the more complicated addition and subtraction.
As the gap between the demons has widened, the Demon King now seldom teaches mathematics in the night class. He only occasionally gives individual lessons to demons who like mathematics, such as the Dark Iron Dwarves, and often assigns a few math problems for students to think about on their own before get out of class ends.
Of course, although it is difficult to understand, counting and addition and subtraction are very practical in daily life. Moreover, they are taught by the king himself, so all the demons have a high enthusiasm for learning. Not only do they actively sign up for the individual advanced classes, they also get together to discuss the homework assigned by the demon king.
Hulu, the familiar who was a top student even in the advanced class, had already finished learning addition and subtraction and started to study multiplication and division, which were relatively simple for him. However, he did not look down on the demon soldiers because of this - the king said that every demon had his strengths and weaknesses, and he was not good at fighting.
But he was still curious: "How are you two going to pretend to be so many fire weasels?"
Before he finished speaking, heads popped out of the lava lake one after another.
"We are here too," one of the demon soldiers replied with a grin. "Alex said we should lie in the lava for a while and let him count. He will wash our fur coats today!"
Alex boasted: "It's because our team has achieved good results in the past few hunting competitions. I have never experienced the feeling of washing clothes for others, so I will treat it as an experience this time."
Other demon soldiers: "Hmph! Watch out!"
They played and fought, and their movements were much lighter than usual, in order to avoid splashing lava onto Hulu who was at the lakeside - the magic level of the demon clan was not enough to resist the erosion of the lava, and the lava bath that was very comfortable for the magic soldiers was dangerous enough to be fatal to the demon clan.
"Anyway, I've counted them all. There are still twenty-five left." Alex swam back to the shore, shaking off the mud on his body. "Hulu, let me help you!"
The demon soldiers came over one after another, all paying attention to cleaning up the remaining magma: "Let's do it too! It's really troublesome to pick up such small stones from the mud. Those roasted chickens are too delicate!"
"No, no, you still need to train," Hulu was a little embarrassed. He quickly raised the dustpan in his hand and showed the small stones inside to the magic soldiers. "Since the king taught us to weave a dustpan with vines,
It is much easier to sift redstone from the soil with a winnowing dustpan. "
Hulu was often seen collecting redstone by the lava lake. For a while, he even squatted at the door of the chicken coop all day counting eggs in order to do math problems. The magic soldiers had a rough idea of the daily appetite of roast chicken. They stretched their necks to take a look and knew that they had to collect another basket of stones. So without saying much, they rolled up their sleeves and started to help shovel the soil.
"This winnowing basket is really useful, the king is so powerful," some demon soldiers sighed while working, "There are also rattan baskets for holding earth fruits and rattan hats for sun protection. The large rattan basket can even hold a lot of prey and be carried on the back, which is very convenient."
"Of course, the king can do anything!" The demon soldiers all puffed out their chests proudly, and their eyes sparkled when they talked about the demon king. "We are so lucky to have such a good king."
Hearing the words of the demon soldiers, the demon Hulu could not help but nod. Before meeting the king, his best imagination of life was to eat two more pieces of raw meat that had not yet decayed at night. Such a happy and hopeful day was something he dared not even dream of.
"I wonder what story the king will tell tonight," he said expectantly, "The story of the tortoise and the hare last time was really interesting."
The demons nodded in agreement: "Yes! And there's also the fox who said the grapes were sour because he couldn't eat them!"
Alec sighed, "Oh, I want to taste the grapes too."
They chatted and laughed, and in less than ten minutes, they had sifted out a large bag full of red stone. Hulu, who was busy going back to feed the chickens, thanked them happily, waved goodbye to everyone, and walked back with the bag on his shoulder.
The demon soldiers also shook off the dirt on their hands, enthusiastically discussing what food would be for breakfast today, and walked towards the military camp in groups.
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Putting the bag against the wall, Hulu walked into the chicken pen, carefully walked through the flock of roasted chickens, picked up a roasted chicken with a fiery red comb, and observed its health. Seeing that its tail feathers had grown fully and its head was shaking proudly, he breathed a sigh of relief:
"You finally recovered. Next time, don't fight with other chickens. Your tail has been pecked off. It's really embarrassing for the chickens."
Completely unable to understand what the demon in front of him was mumbling, Zhiji crowed twice and urged the demon with his eyes: "Hurry up and serve the food! I'm hungry!"
Hulu put the roasted chicken back on the ground, brought a basin of red stones and poured it into the feed tray.
While the chickens were scrambling to peck at the food, he walked to the chicken coop and started picking up eggs: "One, two, three..."
He picked up more than 140 eggs in one breath, put the eggs with magical fluctuations and capable of hatching chicks back into the nest, and put the rest into a wicker basket and took it back to the Demon King's palace. Hulu couldn't help thinking that the reason he could always maintain good grades in the King's math class was because his daily job of picking eggs was like doing math problems.
After delivering the eggs to the kitchen of the Demon King's Palace, Hulu also took away his breakfast for the day - mashed potatoes with sauce, smoked fish and fragrant fried meat.
The sumptuous breakfast was placed on a tray. When he smelled the aroma, Hu Lu was so happy that he almost started singing. He found a place not far from the chicken coop and sat on the ground. He placed his breakfast on the big rock in front of him, picked up the chopsticks, and ate happily and solemnly.
When they were almost done eating, a dejected goblin passed by, followed by five equally dejected demon soldiers.
"Kanni? Barlow?" As students in the math improvement class, Hulu was familiar with them and waved to them from a distance, "How are you?"
"The potato planting experiment has failed again," the goblin Barlow sniffed, tears welling up in his eyes. "Even the potato stems have grown, so why aren't there any potatoes growing?"
Demon Soldier Canni was also sad: "After so long, there is no progress at all. There are already hundreds of roasted chickens in the roasted chicken flock."
In fact, the devil did not blame them, but comforted them and taught them to solve the problem through observation and experiment. However, the members of the potato collection team still did not understand why potatoes still did not grow in the field when their steps were no different from the germination process of wild potatoes.
They felt that they had betrayed the Demon King's trust and had hindered the Demons' future of having enough food and drink, so they all became listless, sad and anxious.
"Could it be the soil?" Hulu ate the last piece of smoked fish and smacked his lips with satisfaction. Based on his experience in raising roast chickens, he tried to help them think of a solution. "Roast chickens need red stone to lay eggs, and red stone can only be found in the red mud by the lava lake. Could it be that potatoes also need some kind of stone in the soil, and this kind of stone can only be found in specific soil?"
The members of the potato collection team looked at each other and felt that Hu Lu was right.
"Let's try it now!" Having found a breakthrough, the goblin Barlow jumped up happily and high-fived the demon soldiers. "Thank you, this suggestion is really useful!"
Watching them walk away in a hurry, Hulu smiled, picked up the stone bowl that he had eaten clean, and prepared to take it back to the kitchen and come back quickly. There were a few eggs that were about to hatch, and he had to keep an eye on them to prevent the reckless roast chicken from stepping on the newly born chicks to death - this had happened before, and Hulu was upset for many days.
He had just taken a few steps and had not yet reached the gate of the Demon King's Palace when he saw a group of unfamiliar demons in the distance.
The last rebellion of the Blood Wolf Clan was still fresh in his mind. Although this group of demons did not look like they would fight, Hu Lu still took a deep breath and hurriedly ran towards the Demon King's Palace.
He rushed to the hall at the fastest speed possible. He was already out of breath. When he looked up, he saw the Demon King talking to two demon soldiers.
If the Demon King's army still basks in the sun in the barracks every day like before, then the foreign demons may still be able to approach the Demon King's Palace, but the Demon King's army is no longer what it used to be. Not only have the demon soldiers become stronger, they also go out for training and patrol every day. Of course, this group of demons who are not very strong cannot escape their eyes.
"They said they came to pay tribute to the king," the demon soldier said, "and they also said they hope to meet you and explain to you in person why they didn't pay tribute on time before."
Warren raised his eyebrows slightly.
He sincerely hoped that these demons would come later, at least until he obtained a powerful ability card. After drawing Aesop's Fables last time, he had only obtained one system achievement of [Education through Entertainment] in all these days, and the number of magic crystals accumulated was not enough to draw cards again.
But as a demon king, he certainly couldn't say that, so he could only sneer with a cold face, pretending to be very disdainful: "I am a demon king, how could I do such a despicable thing as stealing food from other demons."
The demon soldiers, who were originally indignant because the demons did not pay tribute in time and felt that they looked down on their king, suddenly felt that it made sense when they heard it.
Although it was a nice name called tribute, it was either to give food or to exterminate the clan, which really seemed to be no different from robbery! Their wise and powerful king was not like the previous demon king who couldn't even hunt well. They only needed to rely on hunting to eat their fill, and even had enough to farm and raise chickens, so they didn't need to rely on robbery to make a living!
"However, since you are here, it won't hurt to meet them," Warren continued, "I am the king of the Demon Realm, and they are also my people. I have to ask them how their lives are going."
The demon soldier looked at his handsome and handsome king with admiration, nodded vigorously, and ran to convey the demon king's meaning.
After the demon soldiers left, Warren saw Hu Lu standing by the door, so he waved for him to come in.
"I just saw the slime clan approaching the Demon King's Palace and was about to report it to the king." Hulu scratched his head.
"Slime tribe?" Warren asked in surprise, and couldn't help but recall the round and delicious lava slime, "Isn't slime food?"
Plop.
The Slime Chief, who had not yet entered the hall, happened to hear these words. He was so frightened that his legs went weak and he fell to the ground, unable to get up.
Help! The previous demon king at least only exterminated the entire clan, why is this demon king still eating the demon clan! !
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Slime Chief: Scared, nervous, but dare not move.
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