The cute pet of the empire

As soon as this sentence was said, the people in the chamber immediately murmured, some thought it was a rare good opportunity, El was rich in gold, precious stones, various spices and ores, and most importantly, they had a A large piece of very fertile land can produce enough food every year for the entire Luna Federation to eat for three years.

And more people think that the expedition is not advisable. It is a matter with almost no chance of winning. Not only will it not be able to take El, but it will anger King Shah and bring disaster to the Luna Federation.

Luo Huan listened to the discussion below with a calm expression, his eyes were very calm.

Regarding this matter, he already had a bottom line in his heart, and now he brought it up for discussion, just to know how big the resistance of the expedition would be.

Now it seems that most of the opposing voices are older, hope to have a stable life, and are unwilling to take risks.They came from three other countries in the federation, and they were not Luo Huan's direct descendants, so they naturally didn't want to travel through mountains and rivers.

The generals from Royce, including Llan Rada from Alanwei, and Luo Huan's younger uncle Perrylie from Pennesa, all supported Luo Huan's actions without exception.

"Today's discussion ends here, I will seriously consider this matter!" Luo Huan ended this discussion, and he had his own considerations in mind.

His own expedition has the support of the army and direct descendants, which has already laid the foundation for this expedition, but Luo Huan wants to do things better.Because although these veterans of the Federation were powerless to stop Luo Huan from doing anything, it would be troublesome enough to hold him back during the expedition.

Luo Huan understood very well that these people had no sense of trust in him, and were even more afraid of storms. All he needed to do was to create a miracle before leaving to convince them completely, then shut up and work hard.

But what kind of miracle should be created?Luo Huan thought about it for a while and put this matter aside, he was more concerned about another matter, that is, whether there is any legend about the leopard transforming into a human in El, and what exactly happened.

Luo Huan once again summoned Ma Tuo from El, and the place of summoning was in the back garden. The three leopards, Mao Xiaohua, Galen and Fufa, were lying at the feet of their masters, with curious eyes , looking at this strange person.

"I heard that El has many legends about the southern leopard?" Luo Huan asked the question he was most concerned about.In fact, when he received the slightly threatening letter from King Shah, he had already decided to send troops to El.Although he verbally talked about the benefits of sending troops to El, such as gold, gems, food, and getting a rich and stable vassal state, etc., in fact, there was only one reason for him to make a decision in a split second—— You can take Mao Xiaohua to El, uncover the mystery buried in it, and find a way to make the leopard live another day.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Ma Tuo saluted Luo Huan again, "There are thousands of stories about the legend of the Southern Leopard in El!"

Mao Xiaohua's ears pricked up all of a sudden, and her round eyes stared at Ma Tuo, expecting him to tell her something useful to her.

"Is there a story about a leopard turning into a human?" Luo Huan asked casually, but actually his palms were sweating nervously.

Ma Tuo was very honest: "Of course there are. There are more than a dozen stories of this kind alone. Some of the leopards in the paintings turned into human beings to harm one party, and were finally tamed by the priests; I lost someone, went to a wizard, exchanged my own tongue, became a mute, wanted to live with the person I liked, but unfortunately that person fell in love with another woman... Well, there is another hard-working The brave leopard becomes an adult to help the owner cook, wash clothes and clean up when the owner is away from home."

After hearing so many stories, Mao Xiaohua covered her face with her paws in pain.

To sum up the stories told by Ma Tuo, they are: the man in the painting, the cat's revenge, the daughter of the sea, the snail girl...

Do these fairy tales need to be so pitiful! !

Ma Tuo continued: "There are not only stories about leopards turning into humans, but also stories about people turning into leopards!"

Mao Xiaohua summed up the stories of those people who turned into leopards, respectively: modified versions of Thumbelina, Frog Prince, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Beauty and the Beast, etc.

The white leopard sighed in his heart. Facing all these unreliable and far-fetched myths and fairy tales, he could only explain it as: human beings always have the same preferences for stories, so the stories they make up are similar and are purely fictitious. ,Any similarity is purely coincidental.

However, Luo Huan was very surprised that Ma Tuo knew so many stories about leopards. He looked Ma Tuo up and down and asked, "I heard that you used to be the court animal trainer of El Palace?"

Ma Tuo took a step back, put his hands together, and answered seriously: "Yes, Your Majesty. Our Ma family has been domesticating southern leopards for the King of El for hundreds of years. My father Ma Munro is No. The 20th generation descendant, I am the No.20 generation. Just for me, I am very obsessed with this beautiful big cat. If possible, I even want to choose my life partner among these big cats .”

When he said this, Ma Tuo glanced at Mao Xiaohua intentionally or unintentionally.

Mao Xiaohua shuddered all over, feeling so innocent.

And Luo Huan also saw Ma Tuo's eyes, and felt a very strange feeling in his heart-do you want to compete with a beast trainer for jealousy?Absolutely not allowed! !

"Show me your skills, show me!" Luo Huan's voice was tinged with displeasure.

"Alright, Your Majesty! I'll establish a good relationship with them first." Ma Tuo waved at Mao Xiaohua: "Wow~!"

Mao Xiaohua looked at Luo Huan hesitantly. Luo Huan stared at her leopard with killing intent in her eyes. The meaning was obvious: If you dare to go over, you will die!

So Mao Xiaohua gave up, and he lay there motionless.

Ma Tuo smiled slightly, bent down, bent his forelimbs on the ground, and made the same movement with his legs, imitating the appearance of a leopard, crawling on the ground with both legs and feet.

Mao Xiaohua was stunned all of a sudden, and it wasn't until this moment that he understood what the pattern on Ma Tuo's body was for.

When he was crawling on the ground like this, the patterns on his body were no different from a real leopard when he moved.

Mao Xiaohua knew that this appearance of Ma Tuo must be ridiculous in the eyes of humans, but in the eyes of leopards, this is just a strange-looking leopard!

"Wow~!" Ma Tuo called out friendly to Mao Xiaohua again, and took out a small piece of solid from the metal tube of his necklace, and put it in his mouth.

As soon as the thing was taken out, it exuded a strange smell, like beef, like musk, and also had the smell of green grass, which the leopard couldn't resist.

Mao Xiaohua started to move, but when he raised his head slightly and saw Luo Huan's livid face, he still held back.

But Mao Xiaohua can hold back, but it doesn't mean that other leopards can hold back.

Ma Tuo kept making friendly calls, and with such wonderful spices, Galen and Foffa couldn't stand such a temptation at all. They walked up to Ma Tuo slowly, and looked around him.

Ma Tuo stretched out his hand, first gave his "paw" to the other two leopards, let them get familiar with his smell, and then scratched their ears.

This move proved to be successful, and the two leopards were scratched to the sensitive point at once. One rubbed his head frantically against Ma Tuo's head, while the other stuck out his tongue and licked his hair to express his friendliness.

In just an instant, these two well-trained leopards turned over in front of Ma Tuo, revealing their bellies, and let him ravage them.

"These two leopards have accepted me. The next thing we need to do is to make them submit to me and listen to me." Ma Tuo explained, "Although leopards are solitary animals, they will form alliances under certain circumstances. They will use their own methods to choose a leader. What I have to do is to make them think that I am the strongest leopard."

Luo Huan, Sid and Ferger were all stunned by the scene in front of them. The two leopards usually keep strangers away, but they didn't expect that they rolled with Ma Tuo in less than a minute. Together.

And Ma Tuo also boasted that he would be able to tame them soon?This is impossible!

You know, even their masters took a long time to make these two leopards truly surrender!

All three are looking forward to Ma Tuo's next performance.

"Sit down!" Ma Tuo gave a low password, and the two leopards seemed a little dissatisfied and did not intend to obey.

"Roar!" A roar came from Ma Tuo's mouth, his palms slapped the ground vigorously, his mouth was wide open, his eyes showed a fierce look, and the angry Ma Tuo startled the two leopards.

Fufa first entered the fighting state, and it roared back at Ma Tuo, but Ma Tuo's voice was more powerful than Fufa's, not to be outdone.And with such a roar, Galen also joined the fighting state.

The two leopards kept yelling at each other, competing to see who had the loudest voice, the strongest front paw, and the most vigorous breath.

"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"

No one has ever seen such a roar, but as time passed, the other two leopards were not as strong as Ma Tuo. Their breath gradually became shorter, and they finally lost the battle, and used their front paws to hook the horse. Tuo's hand, make some tentative attacks.

But Ma Tuo showed no mercy. For the leopard that tried to challenge him, he just slapped Galen on the nose, and never thought about it again.

At this moment, the other leopard, Fofa, completely gave up fighting for the leadership position. He whimpered in a low voice, expressing his submission.

"Sit down!" Ma Tuo issued the password again.

The two leopards sat down obediently.

"Stand up!" The two leopards obediently stood up.

"Turn around and run!" The leopards were very obedient. They formed a string and followed behind Ma Tuo, letting them go left and never going right, and letting them go right and never going left.

"You, go there! You, go to the other side!" Ma Tuo slapped his front paws at the leopard and growled.

The two leopards didn't object at all, and quickly ran away as Ma Tuo said.

It was only at this time that Ma Tuo stood up from the ground and saluted Luo Huan: "Your Majesty, these two leopards are basically obedient. Some difficult movements require further training."

The faces of Luo Huan, Sid and Ferger were all shocked.

To be honest, they had never seen those two leopards be as obedient as they are today!And it was listening to a stranger who had only known each other for less than a quarter of an hour.

"So... can you call them back?" Luo Huan asked, he was very concerned about this issue, because Mao Xiaohua often acted alone, and he couldn't call his name everywhere in the world.

Ma Tuo nodded, and he took off a piece of his necklace, which was in the shape of a whistle. He put the whistle in his mouth and blew it.

Luo Huan looked puzzled, the whistle made no sound at all!

But Mao Xiaohua's head immediately felt a pain, the whistle... the sound of the whistle was relatively sharp, and it sounded like an alarm.

Such a sharp, high-frequency sound has exceeded the hearing frequency of humans, and only leopards can hear it.

Mao Xiaohua tried her best to endure that voice, and controlled her footsteps not to move forward, for fear that she would offend Luo Huan and lead to the tragic treatment of the transformation night.

But obviously the other two leopards, who had already run away for a long time, didn't have such concerns. They quickly rushed out from the distant flowers and trees, and jumped to Ma Tuo's side.

Ma Tuo stretched out his hand and scratched the chins of the two leopards, and the two leopards immediately let out a groaning sound and circled around Ma Tuo, obviously treating him as a leopard god!

"Your Majesty, this is a leopard whistle. The sound it makes is inaudible to us humans, but leopards can hear it. Leopards have very keen hearing, even thousands of meters away, or even tens of thousands of meters away, they can still hear this sound And hurry back."

Ma Tuo held the whistle in his hand in front of Luo Huan, Luo Huan weighed the whistle, lowered his head and asked Mao Xiaohua: "Can you hear it?"

Mao Xiaohua flicked her tail aggrievedly, expressing that she was very determined, had already succumbed to her master's despotic power, and absolutely did not dare to mix with Ma Tuo and the others.

Luo Huan returned the whistle to Ma Tuo: "Very well, you really have a knack for leopards. Do you have any other skills?"

Ma Tuo nodded: "In our El, there is such an army of leopards. They can form a phalanx and even become a separate unit. My father is the leader of this leopard army, but it's a pity..."

"What a pity?" Luo Huan's voice was dignified, and he keenly grasped that the following words were what Ma Tuo really wanted to say.

Ma Tuo lowered his head slightly: "It's a pity that my father was imprisoned by Shah's governor, and he can no longer train the Leopard Army. If His Majesty can rescue him, he will surely see more miracles."

Luo Huan was completely unmoved by this set of rhetoric, and there was no expression on his face: "Your father's ability is also inherited from the Ma family?"

"No, he went deep into the desert wasteland on the west side of El for one year, and got the revelation in the Temple of the Leopard."

"The Temple of the Leopard? Where is it?" Luo Huan and Mao Xiaohua became nervous, especially Mao Xiaohua, whose tail was trembling slightly.

"It was an ancient fairy tale about a leopard who fell in love with the sun god, but couldn't wait for his lover after all, and finally turned into a boulder, letting the wind and sand dorm. The Leopard Temple is located on the boulder that the leopard turned into Underfoot, there is the real source of this story in the legend... It's a pity that it is now Shah's territory, and the environment is harsh, so no one can go in."

Luo Huan's lips trembled invisibly, and he turned around, not wanting others to see his emotional changes.

But Ma Tuo interpreted this action as a refusal.

With an anxious expression on his face, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Luo Huan: "Your Majesty! I have no intention of blackmailing you. I know that neither fairy tales nor the Leopard Army can move your heart. But Please, please, for the sake of the suffering of the people of El, and for the sake of my master, the little prince Garunel, send troops to rescue."

Luo Huan turned around slowly, the excitement in his heart had calmed down.He walked slowly in front of Ma Tuo, with his chin raised, looking down at the person kneeling in front of him.

"I just heard that your father was able to form a leopard army, but that's just your one-sided story. I'll give you ten days and thirty southern leopards. If you can really make them walk out of a neat phalanx like soldiers, And strictly observe discipline, then I think those domestic opposition voices will disappear after witnessing this miracle."

Hearing what Luo Huan said, Ma Tuo was extremely excited.Did you agree to your request and decide to send troops to rescue?

Ma Tuo raised his head and looked at the tall and handsome man standing in front of him. The man's expression was solemn and his lips were firm. His words were not negotiable: "As for Garuner, I can promise to save him. But the whole Egypt Erdu must submit to me. My footprints must cover every inch of El Er, including the Leopard Temple controlled by Governor Shah! In addition..." Luo Huan paused when he said this, "Take You just touched the leopard, teach me."