Chu Tian saw that Inu Gorō was uneasy.
He said beside him, "Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Chu Tian.
And you... the Ming Quan clan, Inu Gorō?"
"Mhm... Yes!"
Inu Gorō looked at Chu Tian's harmless face.
He couldn't reconcile it with the killing god he had just seen, wielding a rhinoceros body ten meters long in battle.
"Relax... Don't be so formal.
From what that mule-faced fellow said earlier, your Ming Quan clan is quite close to humans?"
Chu Tian finally got to the main point.
Upon hearing this, Inu Gorō felt a sense of gratitude towards his long-time rival who had opposed him for countless years.
Could it be that this lord had targeted his life precisely because of that statement?
"Uh... It's alright, not too close. We just... exchange some supplies regularly!"
The police officer felt no killing intent from Chu Tian.
He still couldn't quite shake off the lingering fear from moments ago.
"Oh? Just exchanging supplies? Never thought about getting a few human girls as wives?"
Chu Tian examined him up and down.
When Inu Gorō heard this, he immediately shook his head like a rattle drum.
"No, no, no..."
"Really not?" Chu Tian's tone was filled with doubt.
"Really, really. We Ming Quan clan have never intermarried with humans!"
Inu Gorō was almost in tears from Chu Tian's questioning.
"Oh?" This statement surprised Chu Tian.
"He's not wrong. The Ming Quan clan is indeed one of the rare beast races!"
Qian Qian walked ahead, not far behind them.
She had naturally overheard their conversation.
Turning her head, she added this remark.
With Qian Qian's testimony, Chu Tian truly began to look upon the Ming Quan clan with new respect.
As for Inu Gorō, he cast a grateful glance at Qian Qian.
"Where are you looking with your eyes?" Chu Tian grunted.
Inu Gorō was startled, "Uh... I..."
"Haha... Just kidding!"
"You said you often exchange supplies with humans."
"I have a big deal here. Do you dare to take it?"
As soon as Chu Tian spoke, Inu Gorō examined him up and down.
"Deal?"
He thought to himself, this lord certainly didn't look like a local.
Could he be a human trafficker from out of town?
In the past, some people had approached their Ming Quan clan to help sell human pets within the beast race circles.
However, the clan leader had refused.
Not long after, the old clan leader mysteriously died.
Could it be...
He subconsciously glanced at Nie Yun and Qian Qian ahead.
Most importantly, his gaze lingered on Dian Dian.
Human cubs were quite sought after in the beast race circles.
Females, especially, commanded high prices.
However, the Myriad Beast City managed this trade very strictly.
Once discovered, experts would be dispatched to eliminate them.
At this moment, should he refuse or agree?
If he refused, and this perverted human flew into a rage, he might very well die on the spot.
Thinking of this, sweat trickled down Inu Gorō's temples.
However, in the pouring rain, Chu Tian didn't notice.
"Yes... a deal. What does your beast race lack the most?"
Chu Tian asked with a hint of excitement.
"Lack... Water!"
Inu Gorō said this while looking up at the dark clouds in the sky.
Despite the heavy downpour, the water wouldn't be retained in the desert. As soon as the clouds dispersed, it would revert to dryness within half a day, leaving not a drop.
Although their beast race occupied several ancient wells, it couldn't solve the water shortage.
During dry spells, the wells would dry up.
His transactions with Myriad Beast City mostly involved exchanging supplies for water for his clan.
Using captured monster carcasses, furs,
or even crystal cores.
However, the water obtained from exchanging these items was barely enough to ration and prevent them from dying of thirst.
"It's right that you lack water! You help me sell clean water within your beast race!"
Chu Tian slapped him hard on the shoulder.
The force of the blow made Inu Gorō stumble.
"Water? You have water? How much?" Inu Gorō's eyes widened upon hearing Chu Tian wanted to sell clean water.
"Not much, eight hundred million tons!" Chu Tian said nonchalantly.
As he spoke, he secretly watched the other party, worried that the measurement units from Blue Star wouldn't be applicable here.
Unexpectedly...
"Aowuu? Eight hundred million tons?" Inu Gorō almost leaped into the air and roared.
The sound was so loud that Chu Tian quickly covered his ears, "What the hell are you shouting for! You're howling like a wolf. Are you a dog or a wolf?"
"Yes... yes... sorry!"
"Brother Tian, are you selling all eight hundred million tons of water? What do you want to exchange for it?"
At this moment, Inu Gorō had forgotten his fear.
He blurted out calling him Brother Tian.
However, Chu Tian was suddenly stunned by his question.
Yeah... what should he exchange for?
He didn't know what he lacked, nor what were good things.
Seeing Chu Tian's daze, Inu Gorō assumed he was contemplating something.
With the amount of water he had, he guessed that within the beast race,
there was nothing he couldn't obtain in exchange.
"Never mind... I'll let you know when I figure out what to exchange for!"
Chu Tian, after a long pause, under Inu Gorō's expectant gaze,
casually uttered this sentence.
"Ah?" Inu Gorō, who was on a high, was doused with cold water by Chu Tian's words.
So, this lord hadn't even decided what he wanted before planning to make a deal.
This was just a whim!
His excitement was in vain. He had even hoped to get some commission out of it.
Chu Tian naturally saw Inu Gorō's disappointment.
Chu Tian casually tossed him something.
"Here... Remember to return the bag to me!"
With that, he started walking forward.
He swapped positions with Old Yang and took the lead.
This was because he noticed Old Yang was taking them down difficult paths.
The intention was to avoid other teams heading towards Myriad Beast City.
Soon, Inu Gorō caught up with Chu Tian.
Without a word, he followed behind him.
Chu Tian glanced at him from the corner of his eye.
The corner of his mouth curled up slightly. He had accepted this subordinate.
To make a horse run, one must feed it well.
These eight thousand tons of clean water must be a considerable amount, he reckoned.
However, he was unaware of the turmoil in Inu Gorō's heart.
Eight thousand cubic meters of clean water.
It should be known that the Ming Quan clan, after all, was a tribe of ten thousand.
The daily water allocation per person was only 500 milliliters.
Calculating the density of water, the daily water consumption for two thousand people was only one ton.
Their tribe had over ten thousand, less than twenty thousand people.
The daily drinking water consumption was around ten tons.
They never used clean water for washing or bathing, which was a luxury.
However, this pure-blooded beast race tribe,
occupying several wells, produced only five tons of water daily.
There was a significant shortfall, requiring them to trade for it, yet...
they still couldn't fully meet the demand.
And the monster carcasses, crystal cores... traded for water,
were obtained with the lives of their clansmen!
Of course, this was the situation of their Ming Quan clan.
They were naturally incomparable to the powerful beast races.
The man before him casually gave him eight thousand tons of clean water.
This alone would allow their tribe to not worry about water for a full four years, given their current consumption.
Chu Tian, on the other hand, merely thought it was a considerable amount.
This was because he hadn't yet grasped the severity of water scarcity in the Sea of Death.
Having grown up on Blue Star, he had just squandered water a few days ago.
He had used over twenty barrels of pure water to take a bath!
If the people here knew, they would probably want to kill him.
This was also why no one dared to provoke Clear Water City.
That place... was the largest water supply channel in the entire Sea of Death.
Even the beast races, upon seeing the Clear Water City caravans,
would eagerly offer escort, yet no one dared to rob them.
They feared that Clear Water City, in its anger, would stop sending water to the southwest direction.
Although the destination of the water delivery was Myriad Beast City,
the water supply within Myriad Beast City was sufficient for its inhabitants.
The surplus clean water was naturally exchanged for goods with people from the outside.
If Clear Water City stopped sending water this way, they wouldn't even have anyone to exchange with.
Snatching Clear Water City caravans was equivalent to digging their own graves.
Inu Gorō, however, was unaware that the leather bag he held in his arms originated from a Clear Water City caravan.
If he had known, he probably wouldn't have been so grateful to Chu Tian.
He might have been so terrified that he would have thrown the leather bag back.
Then he would have fled, putting as much distance as possible between himself and the demon Chu Tian.