novelslam Chapter 12: The New Broom Takes Office! The General's "Hellish" Shepherding Debut
Chapter 12: The New Broom Takes Office! The General's "Hellish" Shepherding Debut
The next day, Lin Ye was dressed early in the morning. Instead of riding a horse, he led a very incongruous "short leg" and strode towards the sheepfold.
"Brothers, the early bird catches the worm. Today is a great day for our new leader to take office!"
Lin Ye waved to the camera with great enthusiasm.
The general walking beside him, though only the size of a watermelon and with rather shabby gray-black fur, walked with an extremely arrogant gait.
It held its head high, its eyes sharp, like a king surveying his territory, exuding an innate sense of "wolf-like" oppression.
As soon as we approached the sheepfold, two flocks of sheep had been waiting for us for quite some time.
On the left are Lin Ye's own 300-plus "clear-headed and stupid" Kazakh sheep, crowding and gnawing at the fence without any regard for their image, their minds filled with nothing but dry food.
On the right are about a hundred experimental "Merino" sheep with red electronic tags around their necks.
When Lin Ye led the general to the entrance of the sheepfold, the flock of sheep instantly fell silent.
Lin Ye opened the fence and patted the general's backside:
"Go, General! Show the spirit you displayed last night when you bit the snow leopard, and let these good-for-nothings see who's the new boss of this grassland!"
The general darted out like a gray lightning bolt, blocking the path between the two flocks of sheep.
However, the expected scene of the sheep being frightened by the sheepdogs and running around in all directions did not occur.
The Kazakh sheep on the left just stared blankly at the tiny creature that wasn't even as tall as its knee, then continued to nibble on the dirt.
The Merino sheep on the right, which are "braided," react in a more anthropomorphic way.
Through [Listening to the Voices of All Things], Lin Ye's mind was instantly filled with a group of arrogant voices:
"Meow~ (Look, what's that two-legged creature leading? It's all grayish-brown and really ugly.)"
"Baa! (This is such a disgrace to our ecological observation station! We're a legitimate, top-breed sheep with a research quota, and this country bumpkin dog, who doesn't even have a pedigree certificate, dares to boss us around?)"
"Meow~ (Ignore it, everyone maintain the demeanor of department-level cadres, step over it, today we're going to eat the tenderest alfalfa tips.)"
Hearing these Versailles sentiments, Lin Ye couldn't help but cover his face.
These officials are more powerful than anyone else.
If even sheep can act like officials, then are they really officials?!
Viewers in the live stream burst into laughter upon seeing the awkward moment when the general was ignored.
[Hahaha! A major social media fiasco! Sheep: Who are you? Need a work ID?]
[“General: I’ve already struck a pose, you guys could at least run a few steps in coordination!”]
"It's all over, my prestige is completely gone. This is a classic case of seasoned veterans undermining newcomers in the workplace!"
Just as the barrage of comments was mocking them, a massive ram with thick, spiraling horns emerged from the flock of mountain Merino sheep.
This ram had a terrible temper. It walked up to the general, looked down at him, and exhaled a loud breath. Then it suddenly lowered its head and tried to use its horns to knock the little furball blocking its way away!
"General, be careful!"
Li Ming screamed in fright from a distance.
But at this critical moment...
The general did not flinch. Its already sharp eyes were instantly filled with an extremely cold and fierce light.
The ferocious blood belonging to the ancient wolf and the Mongolian mastiff boiled and awakened completely the moment it was provoked!
"Woof...woof—!"
The general did not bark like a normal dog.
It deftly rolled to avoid the ram's charge, and then, using a nearby mound of earth, leaped with remarkable agility onto a half-meter-high rock.
It stood on a high place, its limbs gripping the edge of the rock tightly, its gray-black hairs standing on end like steel needles!
It raised its head, facing the rising sun, and let out a sound that was extremely deep, long, and penetrating—
A pure wolf howl!
"Awooo!!!"
Although the howl was still a bit immature due to its size, it instantly swept through the entire sheepfold!
In an instant, the air seemed to freeze.
The more than one hundred mountain Merino sheep that had been so arrogant and even intended to trample over the general suddenly had their pupils constrict the moment they heard the wolf's howl!
The absolute fear etched deep within their herbivorous genes, hidden for hundreds and thousands of years, was completely awakened by this wolf howl!
"Meow... (Wolf... It's a wolf!!)"
"Meow!! (Help! The Emperor Emeritus has appeared! Bloodline suppression!)"
The arrogant lead ram was now trembling violently, its four legs shaking like a sieve. With a "thump," it was so frightened that its front legs went weak!
The remaining few hundred sheep displayed an unprecedented level of execution.
Without any generals to drive them away, they screamed in terror and, at an extremely frantic pace, tumbled and crawled to form a straight, long line on the open ground!
Those experimental sheep that usually pride themselves on being "department-level cadres" and even pick and choose their grass are now so quiet that they don't dare to breathe. Not only are they lined up in neat rows, but some of them are so frightened that they tuck their tails between their legs and even hold back the sheep droppings that are about to come out!
quiet!
Deathly silence!
On the vast grassland, only the sound of the wind blowing through the grass and the general's arrogant, high-flying breathing could be heard.
The tens of thousands of viewers in the live stream stared wide-eyed, and some even spat out their soy milk in shock.
After a few seconds of silence, the comments section exploded like a volcanic eruption!
"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!!! What did I just hear? Was that a wolf howling?!"
"Is that the kind of sound a two-month-old mixed-breed puppy can make? I was wearing headphones, and that scream just now scared my Golden Retriever so much it peed its pants!"
["God-level bloodline suppression! Fear etched into DNA! Sheep: You should have said you were a wolf earlier, or we would have stewed ourselves!"]
"I'm dying of laughter! Look at those sheep with their turbans, they're so scared they're even snapping their own droppings in their grip! What do you call this? This is hellish military training!"
Lin Ye stood to the side, looking at the imposing general on the rock, and then at the flock of sheep below, lined up as neatly as a military parade, and his lips curled up into a wild smile.
"We've struck gold... This is absolutely a legendary find!"
Just then, a series of extremely pleasant and crisp system notification sounds rang out in Lin Ye's mind, a sound he hadn't heard in a long time:
[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have successfully tamed a top-quality potential sheepdog (wolf/Mongolian mastiff mix)!]
[The sheep have been perfectly subdued. The farm's automated management has been significantly improved, and the host's hands are now largely free!]
[Congratulations, host, on achieving the achievement: "The Leisurely Rancher's Right-Hand Man"!]
[System reward issued: One [Beginner Spirit Beast Food Recipe]! (Can be used with Life Spring Water to significantly improve an animal's physique, intelligence, and growth rate, fully activating its ancient bloodline.)]
Hearing about the generous reward, Lin Ye's heart pounded.
With this food recipe, General and Lonely Elite, these two divine pets, will definitely evolve into incredibly powerful beings!
We've taken another big step closer to our ultimate goal of lying down and being a couch potato!
"General, well done! Retreat and take them to Pasture No. 1 for a meal!" Lin Ye waved his hand, exuding heroic spirit.
The general proudly raised his head and leaped off the rock.
This time, Lin Ye didn't need to ride a horse and use a whip at all. The general just barked casually from the side, and hundreds of sheep marched in unison towards the pasture like the most well-trained army, not daring to nibble on even a single extra blade of grass.
Everything seemed so perfect.
However, just as Lin Ye was leisurely following behind the flock of sheep, preparing to enjoy this rare moment of peace and quiet...
His keen hearing suddenly caught a very, very faint discordant note.
The sound came from the basin slope where he had planted 500 kilograms of genetically modified alpine ryegrass seeds the day before yesterday!
Sheep aren't even qualified to eat this! What are you eating?!
No!
Listen again!
"Click...click..."
"Smack smack..."
It was an extremely crisp, and extremely greedy, chewing sound.
Unlike ordinary insects, it looked more like some unknown creature of enormous size was frantically devouring the tender grass!
Lin Ye abruptly stopped, his smile vanished instantly, and his eyes became extremely serious.
"A blade of grass that moved me to tears?!"
He gestured for his general to keep the flock calm, while he quickly drew his hunting knife from his waist, tiptoed, and followed the chilling chewing sounds, silently approaching the waist-high green meadow...
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