Chapter 14: Stay? Leave?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Tian replied calmly, “Give them the farm tools and have them start working today. Their salary will be calculated from today.”

“Yes, Lord.”

Although it was a monthly salary, it was actually calculated on a daily basis.

As they did not have much money on hand, it was difficult for them to feed themselves.

In the past, Lin Tian used to pay them with biscuits, but now, he could use copper coins.

After he began building the city, Lin Tian had adjusted their treatments.

On top of their wages, everyone’s meals were provided, and would be given three biscuits and a small piece of meat a day. This was already a perfect treatment.

As a result, every worker was filled with energy.

A day passed, but Mary still did not wake up.

The next day, the vegetable seeds bought by Lin Tian arrived.

He gathered a group of women and asked them to plant vegetables.

Most of the vegetable seeds were cabbage because it was easier for cabbage to survive. The rest were corn, eggplant, and other vegetables of different seasons.

In the tribe, half of the arable land had been given to the residents.

However, it was only under a contract, and the residents had to pay taxes every season.

Lin Tian planned to slowly take back the land and turn all the residents into employees.

However, this operation required time.

He wanted to let the residents earn money and gradually improve their lives before he would start taking back the land.

This could reduce the resistance from the residents.

On this day, Lin Tian streamed the planting of vegetables, digging the foundation, and training soldiers.

The number of people in the livestream rose steadily. The viewers were still very interested in the infrastructure content. There were also many people who gave gifts. However, every day, there would be someone asking for the cat-eared lady.

On this day, when Lin Tian was still at the construction site, Mary finally woke up!

She opened her eyes and looked at the unfamiliar room in front of her. She was a little puzzled. Where was she now?

She had been unconscious for three days. During this time, she had minimal consciousness. She could only feel that someone had been cleaning her wound and feeding her bitter medicine every day.

Now, most of her strength had recovered, and she was in good spirits.

Mary sat up from the bed and looked around.

The room was clean, warm and bright, and the quilt was fluffy and soft.

Ah, she saw Jenny’s clothes.

She figured that she should be in Jenny’s room. That human treated Jenny pretty well.

Mary looked down at her wound, which was tied with white gauze.

She carefully removed the gauze and found that the wound had already closed!

An ordinary doctor could not have cured such a wound!

Although Mary did not know that the wound was infected, she knew that her injury was serious.

Her original plan was to look for a priest from the tribe to treat her wound after she had returned to the Beastmen Kingdom with her sister.

Who would have thought that she would fall into a coma the moment she saw Jenny.

At that time, she thought she was going to die.

Unexpectedly, she was well and lived to see another day.

She could not help but think of that human noble. Was he the one who saved her?

At this moment, the door opened. Jenny came in with a basin of hot water. She was joyed to see Mary awake.

“Sister, you’re finally awake!”

Mary was also very excited. “Jenny!”

However, her excitement caused her wound to hurt.

“Sister, don’t be too excited. Lie down first.”

Jenny placed two soft pillows behind her.

The pillows were naturally bought by Lin Tian from Moujing.

Mary leaned against the pillows and felt like she was lying on clouds.

‘Humans really know how to enjoy themselves,’ she thought.

Jenny asked, “Sister, why are you here?”

Mary said, “I heard the news of our tribe being attacked by goblins and you being captured by them. So, I came back quickly. Later, I followed the mark you left in the forest to catch up with you. Jenny, fortunately, we have a unique mark between us, otherwise, I would’ve lost you!”

Actually, Mary and Jenny were twins, and they were very close.

The Beastmen Kingdom had always been chaotic. Afraid of being separated, when they were young, they decided on a code that only the two of them knew.

After Jenny was captured, she used some leaves to leave a special code on the ground as she passed through the forest.

Moreover, wherever she passed, there would be a special fragrance. Mary had a sensitive nose. Even after more than ten days, with the smell faded, she could still track her.

Mary’s tracking ability was even better than the best hunter!

Jenny asked worriedly, “Why were you injured?”

Mary replied, “To ask about your whereabouts, I found the gnome’s camp and killed a few gnomes. The injury was a result of my fight with an earth gnome.”

Jenny was so touched that tears pooled in her eyes.

Mary said it casually, but it was a very dangerous thing to break into the gnome’s camp alone.

The two of them chatted for a while more. Mary said, “Jenny, come back with me.”

“Sister, I’m not leaving.”

“Why?” Mary looked at her in surprise.

She was not expecting Jenny to refuse after she came so far to rescue her.

Did she really like that human?

Jenny explained, “Sister, master saved me, and I want to repay him. Besides, the people in the tribe have escaped, and I have no way to go back.”

Mary said, “We can look for them together.”

Jenny shook her head. “Sister, I have a good life here. Master is a kind person, and he has many magical means. He gave me delicious food that I have never eaten before, and he even pays me! Sister, you should stay too, don’t go back!”

“You call him master…”

Only then did Mary realize how Jenny addressed him.

Having realized Jenny’s determination to stay, Mary sighed.

The Beastmen Kingdom was poor and chaotic. If Lin Tian was really good to Jenny, then perhaps it was more appropriate for her to stay here than to go back.

Moreover, she understood Jenny. She may look like a weak girl, but no one could easily change her decisions.

In other words, even if she wanted to kidnap Jenny and take her away, Jenny would not leave.

Jenny persuaded, “Sister, your injury was treated by master! All these years, your missions have been so dangerous. You have been walking on the edge of life and death. However, they treat you like a fighting machine. The beastmen can’t interfere here, so you should stay. Master will be good to you!”

Mary laid on the bed, her mind a mess.

She thought of the past, her life was only training and killing.

In fact, she was tired of it.

However… did she really have to stay here?

There was nothing left for her in the Beastmen Kingdom.

Because the only thing she cared about was Jenny, and Jenny was here.

However, this place was filled with humans.

Yet, Jenny’s master seemed to be a good person.

In the Beastmen Kingdom, the cat race only occupied a small population. To Jenny, the other races were no different from humans.

Moreover, the Beastmen Kingdom was packed with chaos and poverty. For the sake of food and resources, the different races often fought each other..