Chapter 263 Donald
The next day, shortly after the sun rose, there was a sudden knock on the door.
Gothe and Loic both became energetic instantly.
They knew no one else in Phoenix except Elder Grant.
But at this time, there must be some consequences for Elder Grant.
When I opened the door, I saw that it was indeed Elder Grant.
Beside him, stood Kathleen, who had been taken away by the Zhenbing tribe for many days.
Facts have proved that Elder Grant did not disappoint Gothe and Loitch.
In less than a day, he sent the person back in person.
“Saint, I will send you here.” Elder Grant said to Kathleen with a smile.
"Elder, just call me by my name," Kathleen seemed to be very sensitive to the title "Saint", and she said it specifically in this situation, and then expressed her gratitude to Elder Grant:
"Elder Grant, thank you for your help this time, otherwise I don't know how long I will have to bear the blame for this."
She, who had always been cold, her tone at this time also became extremely sincere.
"I really deserve your thanks." Hearing Kathleen's words, Elder Grant spread his hands. "To be honest, I have to bear some responsibility for you being framed. After all, it was my servant who led you into the trap."
He had already learned the details of Kathleen's frame-up on the way here, and it was indeed related to Thomas.
"Furthermore," Elder Grant paused, looked at Gothe and Loic, and added: "It's the two of them who really made the difference. I just did some things that were part of my job."
"I even have to thank you in turn. If he hadn't helped me, I wouldn't have been able to do this this time. It's going to be serious." Elder Grant pointed at Gothe and said seriously: "This group of people is planning to frame you, but they are also coming for me."
Kathleen, who had been detained for several days and knew nothing about the specific situation, heard what Elder Grant said, and was unable to react at once, and was immediately confused.
Here, Elder Grant solemnly took out a small bottle from his arms and handed it to Gothe: "Thanks to your help for the Golden Radiance Mai matter this time, I haven't been able to thank you. This is a small thank you. Don't refuse." Gothe glanced at the small bottle and saw at a glance that it contained the hard currency of the North, ice marrow.
Seeing that Gothe didn't answer the question at the first moment, Elder Grant couldn't help but put the bottle directly into Gothe's hand, and then said goodbye to the three people: "The people caught last night were very involved. This matter is far from over. I will go back and deal with it first. "
It wasn't until Elder Grant's back disappeared from sight that Luoiqi came back to his senses, and then he led Kathleen into the house as if he had a sudden realization, and at the same time asked with concern: "They haven't done anything to each other these days, have they?"
"Fortunately, people keep taking turns to interrogate me, but I deny them all. For the sake of the guardians of the snowfield, they haven't done anything to me yet, and it will be hard to say anything about it later. Fortunately, you found the murderer in time and helped me take off the blame."
Sit down at the stone table, Roic heard Catherine's thanks and shook his head quickly, "It's not me, it's us."
He pointed at Gothe and Flora sitting on Gothe's shoulders, and took credit for them: "This time I can It was Gothe and Flora who took the lead in rescuing you so quickly."
"What exactly happened?" Kathleen, who was already curious about Elder Grant's behavior at the door, reached the peak of her curiosity when she heard Loic's words.
Roic told Kathleen everything that had happened in the past two days in detail.
After hearing the specific story, Kathleen couldn't help but turn her eyes to Goude, who had been silent since just now.
There was an unspeakable brilliance in her eyes under the mask. She hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Thank you."
Gothe smiled back, without saying any polite words.
Since he did help with this favor and made a lot of efforts, then Kathleen owed him, and he would not be polite to Kathleen.
—If it weren’t for this girl, he was already on the road to planting trees at this moment. How would he have traveled thousands of miles to Phoenix and be forced to become a grasshopper on a rope with them.
"There is still her." Gothe even pointed to Flora on his shoulder without politeness.
Kathleen was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at Flora, only to see the little man looking straight at her.
She thought about it again and again, then she raised her hand and said, "Thank you very much."
The little man snorted, looked away, and looked at the scenery outside the house.
"Kathleen, this time, the people involved in this matter may be far bigger and wider than we expected, and even involve the Zhenbing Tribe." Loitch remembered what Elder Grant said just now, and reminded Kathleen again.
"Our purpose of going to Phoenix has most likely been exposed."
"How to say?" Kathleen frowned slightly, not understanding the internal affairs of the sect, and why she was inexplicably involved with the Zhenbing tribe.
At the same time, she glanced at Gothe who was still listening without trace, and finally did not say anything.
This is the meaning of acquiescence.
Loitch, who understood Katherine's thoughts very well, saw this and spoke out boldly: "I originally thought that the ice worm infestation in the Jinhui wheat field was just the person behind the scenes to make Elder Grant busy with himself, dragging down his energy and leaving him no time to help us."
"Until yesterday, I Only then did I realize that the matter was not that simple. "
"Before I went to capture the murderer last night, I heard the conversation of those people. One of them said that he wanted to use the ice worm to remove Grant from his position as elder."
"So, the main purpose of the ice worm is actually to take away Grant's position of elder."
"This doesn't mean that people from the Zhenbing Tribe are involved behind this matter."
"After all, apart from the people from the Zhenbing Tribe, what conflicts of interest would other people have with Elder Grant, who want to remove him as an elder?"
Kathleen and Gothe's eyes flickered when they heard this.
What Roic said is well founded.
"Is there still a dispute over factional interests within the Zhenbing tribe?" Gothe asked tentatively.
Under normal circumstances, where there are people, there will be conflicts of interest. This is an eternal truth.
But the northern tribes cannot even guarantee their basic survival. In this case, they will become more united - they must have enough to eat before they can talk about conflicts of interest.
Along the way, Gothe met the two northern tribes, namely the Snover clan and the Doerbian clan. They were very united internally, and there was no so-called factionalism.
「当然。」洛伊奇也是个聪明人，瞬间就从高德的问题中领会到了他的意思。
他想了想，索性是跟高德介绍起了臻冰部落内部的一些隐秘。
"Even the Zhenbing tribe almost fell apart due to factional disputes."
"What exactly happened?" Gothe became curious when he heard this, and at the same time it was a bit unbelievable. In a situation where survival is so difficult, internal fighting can reach this level?
「这就要从臻冰部落如今的战母苏奈法说起了。」洛伊奇组织了一下语言，与高德娓娓道来。
“Sunaifa’s mother, Glenn Boreas, was the previous War Mother of the Zhenbing Tribe.”
hip “So Sunaifa’s blood has been flowing with Boreas since birth, and she is destined to inherit the position of the Zhenbing Tribe’s War Mother and become the next leader of the Zhenbing Tribe.”
Zhenbing War Mother, one of the most powerful ice descendants, died like this, because all the hunters that Glenn brought out died, and no one survived. "When Glenn Boreas died, according to tradition, Sunaifa should succeed the War Mother and lead the Zhenbing Tribe."
"However, Sunaifa was only fourteen years old at the time, not yet a minor, and even the Ice blood in his body had not yet fully awakened."
"It's like a child whose parents died and suddenly inherited a large fortune. There will always be many relatives with ulterior motives who want to snatch the child's property and claim to help take care of it." Roic made an analogy.
It is a very vivid metaphor, and a sense of déjà vu immediately hits you.
"There is nothing new under the sun, and what Sunaifa encountered at that time was no exception."
"Speaking of which, we have to mention the high-level composition of the Zhenbing Tribe."
"The leader of the Zhenbing Tribe is undoubtedly the War Mother, and under the War Mother, there are many elders. A War Mother and an unlimited number of elders together form the top level of the Zhenbing Tribe."
A very extensive structure. Gothe commented in his heart. After all, in his previous life, the power structure had developed to an extremely complex and sophisticated level.
However, such an extensive power structure also has its unique advantages. The most prominent one is that it will make the decision-making process more efficient and avoid problems such as information distortion and slow decision-making that may be caused by multi-level management.
For the Phoenix, which is still similar to a primitive tribe, their social relations are relatively simple and their daily production activities are very simple. This kind of power structure is in line with the "national conditions."
"Among the unlimited number of elders, there is also a great elder, who is equivalent to the second-in-command of the entire tribe, with a status second only to War Mother."
"Donald, the great elder of the Zhenbing Tribe at that time and now, after the death of Glenn War Mother, argued that Sunaifa was too young, mentally immature, and too weak to take on the important task of leading the Zhenbing Tribe, and proposed that he should temporarily lead the Zhenbing Tribe. Zhenbing Tribe. "
"When Sunaifa becomes an adult and has sufficient strength and ability, she will take over the leadership position."
"Of course," Loic spread his hands, "This is just a statement on the surface. Everyone knows that as long as Donald takes the position of leader, he will definitely not return the position of leader to Sunaifa unless he dies."
"Although Sunaifa is the orthodox successor of the Zhenbing Tribe, her age and strength are indeed obstacles to her succession, so the entire tribe was divided into two factions at that time." People of the bloodline of Boreas. "
"The other faction is the reformist faction that supports Donald. They believe that Sunaifa is not capable of leading the Zhenbing tribe. If they follow the tradition forcibly and obey the orders of such a yellow-haired girl, it will only lead to the decline of the Zhenbing tribe."
"Donald has been the chief elder of the Zhenbing Tribe for hundreds of years, and he already has great prestige in the tribe. Only War Mother Glen can suppress him, and now War Mother Glen died so suddenly that no preparations were made for Sunaifa."
"So, after the death of Glenn Boreas, Donald's momentum in the Zhenbing tribe was far greater than that of Sunaifa, and the supporters and strength of the reformists crushed the conservative party."
"Seeing that the situation was over, the conservative party still refused to surrender to Donald. Seeing this, Donald had already planned to drive the conservative party out of Phoenix and deprive them of the Zhenbing tribe. "The Zhenbing tribe, which has been inherited for countless years, is about to be divided."
"The young Sunaifa stood up. She left Phoenix alone, following the guidance of the ancient map, and came to the central part of the North, where the ancient holy land of the Ice tribe was located, the ruins that had been abandoned for countless years, Gushuangkou."
"No one knows exactly what happened there. Everyone only knows that Sunaifa found the ice magic weapon [Blizzard] belonging to Boreas himself in Gushuangkou, and completely awakened the ice blood and ancient ice-perfecting spells in his body." Speaking of this, Loic showed admiration in his eyes.
A minor "girl" can show such responsibility and courage under such circumstances, and also successfully "change her life against the odds", which is enough to be called a legend.
"The strong should do the impossible, this is what Boreas himself said, and Sunaifa did it."
“Sunaifa, who returned to Phoenix with [Blizzard], used [Blizzard] to gain the support of more than 90% of the people of the Zhenbing Tribe. With overwhelming momentum, she took the position of War Mother and became the new War Mother of the Zhenbing Tribe. She was also the youngest War Mother in history. She was even underage at the time!”
"And the fully awakened Iceborn bloodline allowed her to quickly grow into one of the most powerful Iceborn in the North within two years, when she reached adulthood."
"Faced with this situation, Donald had no choice but to surrender to Sunaifa."
“But everyone knows that the rift between Sunaifa and Donald has been forged, and it is impossible to bury the hatchet.”
“It can only be said that Sunaifa takes Donald’s strength and prestige into consideration, and in order to avoid internal fighting and loss of tribal strength, he has not attacked Donald.”
"Of course, it's possible that the new war mother is really broad-minded and doesn't hold a grudge, but at least I don't think Donald is naive enough to believe this."
"As long as he doesn't believe it, it doesn't matter whether Sunaifa is ready to let Donald go or not."
"So the conflict between Sunaifa and Donald has always existed."
"And Elder Grant has always been a conservative party from beginning to end." After introducing the internal situation of the Zhenbing Tribe, Loic pointed out the key point.
"Therefore, there is a high probability that this matter also involves the great elder of the Zhenbing Tribe, Donald." Gothe concluded.
(End of this chapter)