Chapter 317 Harold: It’s Good to Be Alive

Chapter 317 Harold: It’s Good to Be Alive

【Tianyi 3G, too fast! 】

Looking at Thea sliding down the cliff, Haroldt immediately thought of this sentence and the famous picture of the young man surfing.

As Theia approached, the cheers in the crowd became weaker. After the initial joy of surviving the disaster and the surprise of seeing an acquaintance, the caravan members regained their composure, but their eyes still could not move away from Theia.

This elder helped them a lot and left a deep impression on them. No matter who saw her, they would be reminded of the past and their hearts would be filled with the joy of revisiting an old place.

Theya's eyes quickly stopped at Harold. The news that Master Dolly's caravan had changed its leader had already reached Tanit along the trade route.

Both Barbelle and she felt very sorry about this. The previous two times, they had used their own means to win over the team leader, wanting to make this distinguished guest from the rainforest become their helper and increase the guarantee for their election as the next mistress.

Compared to Babel, Theia's loss is more obvious. Babel is just sad about the expensive gifts she gave away.

Thea also spent extra time and energy to make friends with the main person in charge of the caravan, and even kept in touch with them through letters after they returned to the rainforest.

But her plan was messed up with Harold's sudden appearance. It was hard for her not to vent her anger on this man. However, she still had to pretend to be hospitable in front of the caravan members.

At least the others still trust me. They will speak well of me in front of their team leader, and under the influence of the group, he will still favor me.

Thea thought about it in her mind, smiled heartily, and said in a surprised tone:

"Mr. Harold! The mercenaries brought your fame from far away via the trade route. It's a pleasure to meet you. I am Theya, one of the nine elders of the Tanit tribe. On behalf of the mistress, I welcome you!"

Can you speak Xumi Common Language? Harold raised his eyebrows in his heart.

I hope this reputation is not “Amirita God of War”.

Harold added in his mind, then smiled: "The last leader told me about you, Elder Theya. I want to thank you for your help, both in the past and just now."

While making polite remarks, Harold was also observing this "Elder Theia", one of the nine elders of Tanit and the leader of the hunting group. This shows Theia's status in the tribe.

But in the game, this elder died in the scheme of Madam Babel. Not to mention a portrait or a separate model, he didn't even have a straight face. Players can only learn about the story through Jade's retelling.

In Jade's words, Thea was "younger and more ambitious than Babel," and Jade thought she "liked me."

Therefore, players speculated that after Jade, who lost her father, defected to the Tanit tribe and made a big fuss to show her strength, Thea, like Babel, quickly recognized Jade's potential value and immediately took action, extending an olive branch to Jade, hoping that Jade would join their camp.

At that time, Jade did not hide the fact that she preferred women, so Theia tried to capture Jade with love. Compared with Babel, the younger and more beautiful Theia was indeed more attractive to Jade.

But at that time, Jade, who had never seen her mother since childhood and had just lost her father, needed the nourishment of family affection more than love to fill the emotional gap, so she finally chose Babel, who approached her as a "mother", to get rid of Thea for her.

The naive Jade still stubbornly believed that Thea "liked me" until the moment of negotiation with Babel. The reason she assassinated Thea was simply because Babel wanted her to do so, and she wanted to preserve the lost family affection.

Judging from the current plot, Theia is a woman who is very good at winning people's hearts. She has always coveted the position of Tanit's mistress and is a thorn in Babel's side.

These things can also be seen from the behavior of the caravan members. They are completely like Elder Theia, my stupid subordinates. Harold looked around and complained in his heart.

When Theya heard Harold's praise, the corners of her mouth rose: "Mr. Harold, you are too kind. If the sandworms hurt the guests, not only will the mistress blame me, but I will also be sad.

It's a pity that the falcon we released didn't bring the news of your arrival in time, otherwise we would have cleaned up the hunting grounds in advance and lured the sandworms away."

Harold turned to the patch of sand where the sandworm disappeared and asked with a curious look, "Thank you for your help. Why did it suddenly stop attacking? Did you use poison?"

"Hmm..." Thea tapped her lips with one hand, thinking, "This is a secret that only the leader of the hunting group has the right to know. I can only reveal a little bit. We fed it a special plant that will make it weak all over.

Now it has burrowed into the sand, and we will dig it out soon and expose it to the scorching sun. The sun will crack its "armor", and the "skin" that falls off will be the sandworm skin that you city people like. "

She can also use metaphors? She's learned it well.

Harold sighed inwardly.

The residents of the desert tribes he passed by along the way were all learning the Xumi common language, but their level was not as good as Thea's. In addition to her own good talent, it was probably because Tanit attached great importance to cultural education before they sold textbooks.

This is all thanks to Madam Babel. After becoming the matriarch, that woman promoted education in the tribe. In the game, Jade said that the matriarch would supervise them to read those obscure books, and Tanit's killers could even write poems, and their cultural level was far superior to other tribes in the desert.

In this respect, Babel is quite far-sighted, and her strategies are also interconnected. In the plot of the Desert Book, if Jade had not finally awakened the power in her blood and "Master" had not arrived in time, Babel would have been the one who had the last laugh.

But her upbringing and the tragic experiences she had as a child limited her vision. Although she knew what could make the tribe develop faster and made many attempts, such as establishing caravans, developing education, and planting fruits and vegetables... She can be said to be a pioneer in desert reform.

But once someone or something touches her interests, she will definitely strangle them in the cradle, even if they are helpful to the development of the tribe.

Therefore, the nine-elder system passed down from generation to generation in Tanit was in name only in the later period. All the nine elders who threatened Babel's rule were assassinated, and all the followers of the Red King were sent to explore the Red King's ruins. The strength of Tanit was not as strong as before, otherwise Jade would not have been so easy to massacre the entire Tanit clan.

Of course, for the caravan, it is better for the Tanit tribe to exist, because it is arguably the only tribe in the desert that has subordinate tribes.

To achieve this in the desert, force alone is not enough. Tanit relied on ancient heritage and the dream of "eternal oasis" to make those tribes dependent on him.

Through repeated explorations, these desert people found ways to hunt sandworms, collect red fruits and dates, and were happy to do business with the caravans in the city.

If Tanit were destroyed, these tribal members would most likely be recruited by Thutmose's mercenary group active nearby, becoming another unstable factor on the caravan's route.