Chapter 022 Snow Leopard Orc
The next morning, the sky was still hazy. Bai Su yawned, holding a kerosene lamp in his hand, and walked towards the field in a daze.
He came to a ridge of the field, squatted down, and looked carefully. Sure enough, he saw a few small white sprouts emerging from the brown-black soil.
Then I twisted my butt and changed direction, and when I looked again, there were still buds.
Bai Su was very happy, but just in case, he continued to walk further away and looked at several pieces of land in succession. The more he looked, the more satisfied he was - all the seeds had successfully taken root in the ground!
After a while, when these tender buds grow a little more, they will turn into a pleasant emerald green, which means the hybrid rice is growing vigorously.
After a rough inspection, Bai Su was completely refreshed. He raised his hands high, stretched his body, and was about to go back to pack his luggage. When he turned around, he saw a white leopard with black rose patterns squatting not far away.
"Oh my god!" Bai Su screamed in fright.
The snow leopard's large, light yellow eyes stared straight at Bai Su, and there seemed to be some kind of condemnation in them.
Bai Su calmed himself down and told himself that this was a magical world, and the possibility of encountering a wild beast was far less than that it was actually a half-orc.
So Bai Su took a tentative step forward, and the snow leopard just raised its paw and licked it gracefully, with no intention of attacking anyone.
Bai Su breathed a sigh of relief.
The black-haired young man cautiously walked to a position only half a meter away from the snow leopard and called softly, "Elai?"
The snow leopard's ears flew back, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a handsome man about the same height as Bai Su, with only a piece of animal skin wrapped around his lower body.
Eli suddenly put his face in front of Bai Su, wrinkled his nose and sniffed, then pulled away and asked him, "How do you know my name?"
Bai Su had heard from his senior in the animal department of the Agricultural College that when small animals come close to sniff, it means they are saying hello. They will use biological pheromones to evaluate whether they want to be friends with a person. So when Eli approached just now, Bai Su suppressed his awkwardness and did not move, for fear of scaring the half-orc man in front of him.
Eli's human form has a kind of wild beauty. He has a slender body, smooth but not exaggerated muscles, narrow and sharp eyes, and delicate facial features, like a European teenager.
Bai Su praised him: "You are so beautiful - Alan and Gabi told me that Uncle Eli is a very handsome snow leopard half-orc."
Cats generally like to be praised. Eli's aura softened considerably. He smiled softly and said, "Even if you say so, I won't mate with you."
"What?" Bai Su thought he had misheard. How did they suddenly talk about something strange?
Eli rolled his eyes at him and said, "I'm a female half-orc. You praised me for being beautiful. Aren't you trying to woo me?" He circled around Bai Su and said confidently, "I'm sure you're not my type, but we can be friends—since you're nice to those two fat guys."
The fat cubs he mentioned should be two little tigers.
Bai Su was embarrassed: "Okay."
He didn't tell Eli that although he was a human man, he was not the attacker in a certain small circle.
Seeing Bai Su being so obedient, and not at all like the arrogant and domineering male orcs in the tribe, Eli was very satisfied and felt even better about Bai Su. He blinked and said with a smile, "Haven't you noticed yet? You left something behind."
Dropped something? What?
Bai Su's first reaction was to touch the gold cake on his neck, and then his face changed drastically.
Seeing Bai Su's expression change, Yi Lai's smile became even bigger: "Look, who picked it up?"
He opened his palm, and inside it was the piece of rose gold with a diameter of five centimeters.
Bai Su breathed a sigh of relief. He took the gold cake from Eli's hand, which had fallen when he squatted down and was still covered in dirt. He wiped it off and put it back around his neck, thanking him sincerely: "Thank you. It means so much to me. I'm glad you found it. By the way, why are you here? Did you follow me?"
Eli walked side by side with him and replied lazily, "Yes. The high priest asked me to protect you secretly. I've been following the caravan all the way and I'm almost dead tired."
Snow leopards are not animals with strong endurance, and it is indeed very tiring for them to follow the convoy on a long journey.
After thinking for a while, Bai Su asked him: "Then do you want to go back with us? Take my carriage?"
"Great!" Eli struggled to pull out a sheepskin scroll from his fur skirt. Bai Su noticed with sharp eyes that it was almost identical to the temporary IDs of the two little tigers. "This is from the old man... The high priest gave it to me. He said it has the golden seal of the Holy See and is valid even outside Boeing Town."
Now, Bai Su finally understood what Keos had said before, that he suspected that there were other forces secretly helping the snow leopard orcs to hide.
Obviously, that other force is the Holy See, and the head of the Holy See.
The Vatican was just not far from the forest. That day, Eli must have gone around the forest to the Vatican to seek refuge.
Bai Su glanced at Eli, who was in a good mood, and couldn't help but gossip: This beautiful female orc has a very powerful background!
Eli asked him, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Bai Su replied, "I was thinking that since we are about the same height, you should be able to wear my clothes. Wearing so little in a town is always not a good idea."
He implicitly reminded Eli that it was a bit unrestrained for him to be naked except for a fur skirt.
"Trouble!" Eli muttered.
But he still followed Bai Su back to the room obediently.
Bai Su took out a complete set of clean clothes from his luggage, and took out a spare pair of shoes and socks, handed them to Eli, and motioned Eli to change into them.
"Excuse me," Eli raised an eyebrow, "Do you still remember that I am a female?"
Bai Su was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted. He opened the door and walked out, leaving the space for Eli.
Because there was almost no difference in sexual characteristics between Eli and himself, Bai Su subconsciously regarded Eli as a man like him, forgetting that in the orc society, Eli was actually considered a "lady".
The courtyard where Bai Su and his friends settled was a small, flat courtyard similar to a siheyuan, built next to a farmland. Each person had a single room, and the public area was in a separate large room.
It was still dark when Bai Su went out, but now it was already bright, so he ran into Keos, who also had the habit of getting up early.
Bai Su: “…”
Bai Su: "Good morning, Keos, did you just get up too?"
Keos was silent for a few seconds, then said speechlessly: "I saw it all. By the way, Bai Su, you really don't have any talent for lying."
Bai Su was extremely embarrassed. He trotted to Keos, pulled his arm and motioned him to bend down a little, then leaned close to the Centaur's ear and told him what happened in the morning.
Keos pondered for a moment, then said, "Since this is the Vatican's intention, I will assume he is harmless for now."
"Eli was pretty good. He helped me find the gold biscuit I dropped on the ground."
"That's because he hides in the dark all day long, secretly spying on you."
"I'm not hiding in the dark and spying all day long." Eli put on Bai Su's clothes and walked out of the room. He glanced at Keos unhappily, and then noticed that Keos leaned over to facilitate Bai Su's conversation, which was a bit too intimate. So he rolled his eyes and came over, holding Bai Su's hand affectionately, and said provocatively, "We are already good friends. I want to ride in Bai Su's carriage and go back to Boeing Town with him."
Keos straightened up, took a step back, and looked at Eli coldly.
Eli glared back without backing down.
The tall Centaur youth said calmly, "Bai Su's carriage is very small and can't accommodate two people. But you can go to the larger one. It's just unloaded, so you can serve as the returning cargo, although it won't be very useful."
What he meant was that Eli's secret protection was useless, Bai Su had been fine along the way, and there was no need for him to seek credit for it.
Eli bared his teeth. He felt that this centaur was really annoying, but when he thought of Keos's inexplicable actions, he chose to save the country in a roundabout way and make the centaur angry to death.
Eli rested his head on Bai Su's shoulder and said pitifully, "Don't put me on the truck. I'll be scared."
"I can turn into a snow leopard and hide in a corner. I won't take up too much space."
"Besides, my fur is very soft, even fluffier than that of a tiger orc. Don't you want to touch it?"
Several times, Eli secretly ran to Bai Su's window to peek, and saw that he seemed to be obsessed, either pulling the fur of the two fat boys frantically with his hands, or simply burying his face in their bellies.
From this, Eli concluded that Bai Su liked Maorongrong very much.
It just so happens that my original form is the most beautiful and cutest among all the furry creatures!
The light yellow snow leopard eyes and the deep square horse eyes stared at Bai Su at the same time, silently urging him to give an answer.
Bai Su suddenly felt a huge pressure.
but……
He glanced at Eli's proud and expectant expression, and felt that if he refused the little kitten, he would be struck by lightning. So he simply closed his eyes, made up his mind, and said very quickly: "Eli and I are in the same car."
Both of the orcs present were sharp-eyed and sharp-eared.
Bai Su's soft voice was heard clearly by them.
Bai Su lowered his head to look at his toes and did not notice the increasingly deep look in Keos's eyes.
Eli, on the other hand, felt that he had won a great victory in the war with Keos, and said proudly: "See, Bai Su likes me very much!"
…
After everyone got up, at breakfast time, Bai Su announced the good news that all the seeds in the ground had successfully taken root and sprouted, and told everyone that they could set off to return to the capital today.
Eli was also introduced by the way.
Eli took out his temporary ID with the golden seal of the Vatican and showed it to everyone. Now, the representative who had originally had doubts about this also agreed to let Eli go with them.
At nine o'clock in the morning, after Bai Su and his newly appointed professional manager John finished their work, they took Eli into the carriage.
At this point, the sowing of hybrid rice has been completed.
The convoy was ready to go. Bai Su took a deep breath. Next, new work was waiting for him.
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Eli's story is in the second unit, a mature old man and a tsundere beauty.
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