Chapter 633 Preparing for a Long-distance Trade
There was another pile of corpses, but this time they were blue-skinned, slightly different from the red-poisoned ones before.
"You don't want to eat them, do you?" Seeing Guy standing in front of the pile of corpses, Sura came over and said casually.
"It's not impossible. After all, they are not red-poisoned and not deeply contaminated." Guy also answered casually.
"Don't do it. Although we are short of food now, we really won't go to this point." Sura sighed.
"Eating people is still too primitive. I know that some very poor settlements have to do such things to survive the winter, but at least we should not do it, otherwise I will go crazy." She looked at the bodies of the dead blue-skinned people, walked forward, and smashed them with the butt of the gun. It felt a little hard.
"It's already stiff. If you don't deal with it, I'm afraid it will stink and grow worms. That kind of scene is disgusting. If you have seen it once, you don't want to see it again."
"Have you seen it before?" Guy thought of something.
"I have seen it. I saw it in the first year after I came here. There were not many people in the settlement at that time. There were not enough people and energy to deal with the corpses. As a result, I saw a very crazy scene." Sura took a few steps back and shook his head.
"After that, I didn't want to eat meat for a long time. Later, Mimi came and cooked well and cured me."
"Mimi is a cat-tail species. Her fingers are also very dexterous. She is very good at making boring food look good and fragrant. If there were not so few good seasonings in the settlement, she would definitely be able to make luxurious food."
"What about Mimi later? Don't tell me she died too."
"That's not the case. Mimi went to other settlements because there are many cat-tail species there. Before leaving, the boss gave her an iron pot."
"A lot of things have happened recently. I feel that our intelligence is a little behind. I guess we have to go to Shilin Mountain Fort to see if there are any new things and information there." Sura thought for a while.
"Heshia wants to go too. She has been here for a long time. If we keep delaying her, she will probably be unhappy." Thinking of the powerful girl last night, even Sura, who had a certain understanding of Heshia's strength, was shocked.
"If it is a metaphor, Heshia should be a 'legend' level figure." The so-called legend refers to a special person with amazing strength or skills in this land. They often enjoy a very high reputation in their respective fields. "
It seems that we have to go. I see that Fran is also preparing to leave. It's a good opportunity to take him with us. It will be safer on the road." After getting along for this period of time, Fran has gradually been recognized by everyone. He was the first to find something wrong last night and woke everyone up.
"I will discuss with the boss and see how to arrange it." Sura nodded.
In the afternoon, after dealing with the corpses and messy objects in the col, several people gathered together again. It was rare that the moose boss was there today.
Tilan was kneeling on the grass at this time, with the sword box on his knees and his fingers slowly stroking it, thinking about what happened last night.
To be honest, this was probably her first time to kill someone. The time she was stabbed in high school, the other party was an unknown creature, probably not a human.
Although this time he had a human form, the blue-skinned species was still too different from normal people in terms of body shape, skin, appearance, etc., so it was difficult for her to have any deep feelings. But reason told her that the other party was an intelligent creature, and perhaps also had some human blood.
It was better not to dwell on this matter, Tilan secretly warned herself that in such a world environment, the moral laws of the federal society were not applicable.
Thoughts turned to the matters being discussed in the venue.
"There are several settlements on the way to the Stone Forest Fort, and we have good relations with two of them. When you go there, you can go to trade for some things and visit old friends." The moose boss asked Sura and Guy.
"I know, the boss is talking about the 'Red Pomegranate' settlement where the cat-tailed species gather and the 'Lake Wind' settlement where cattle are herded." Sura replied.
"That's right. The leader of the 'Red Pomegranate' is Chizhi. She is a wise and restrained person. The leader of the 'Lake Wind' settlement is Daozhang. I fought with him before and repelled the wild people who came to plunder." The moose boss slowly talked about the past, mainly telling Guy. Sura knew a lot.
"Hehe, Guy doesn't know, the boss has done such a great thing before. You should have seen the thick and long barbarian teeth hanging on the wall in the hall before. This is the boss's trophy back then." Sura shook his finger.
"That winter, a group of man-eating savages came to our land. They also had a huge mammoth covered with thick hair. With the help of the mammoth's brute force, they smashed the gates and walls of many settlements, and then went in to kill and rob crazily. Two settlements were destroyed that way." "
Speaking of which, Mimi was rescued by the boss from one of the lost settlements, and later went to the 'Red Pomegranate'."
"Later, several settlements living nearby had to unite, and finally killed and dispersed the group of savages. As for the mammoth, it was made into delicious food, although I had a poor appetite at that time and didn't eat much. Of the remaining mammoth tusks, one was given to the sword and stick of the Lake Wind settlement, and the other was hung by the boss."
After talking about the two friendly settlements they were going to visit on the way, the few people talked about what they wanted to buy.
"We had barely enough food for the winter, but yesterday those blue-skinned people took advantage of the night and cut away the unripe wheat short-sightedly, just to eat the rough root juice in it." Guy was a little speechless. The other party was just an ignorant barbarian.
"Without this harvest at the end of autumn, we must find other food to survive the winter."
"You can go to 'Red Pomegranate' on the way. If there is nothing there, go to Stone Forest Fort, but the food there must be expensive." The moose boss said, pressing his wound with his hand. His old wounds had not healed, and he had a lot of new wounds.
"But we also lack things to exchange." The settlement was attacked twice in a row, and many things were damaged.
At this point, several people present were a little embarrassed, and they couldn't think of any good exchange items for a while.
"Why don't you let Heshia make a few winter clothes and take them to the fort to sell. It just so happens that we seized some of their hunting furs from the blue-skinned people's camp yesterday." Fran sat next to him and explained the proposal while sharpening a pen.
"This..." This is indeed a good idea, but Heshia is currently the benefactor of the settlement and can be considered a distinguished guest. They can't give her orders and trouble her.
"Then let me do it." Heshia didn't care about such a small matter. Instead, she was slightly interested and wanted to try her hand with those furs. After all, she hadn't made many clothes since she learned the tailoring skills.
"Thank you for your help, Heshia. Half of the clothes will belong to you after they are made." Although the furs were captured by them, processing them is not a simple matter.
In this land, good tailors are very rare. In a general settlement, there are at most 1-2 tailors, and they can only do simple mending. If you want to make a piece of clothing from start to finish, you need a lot of learning. It is said that only the mountain fortress has tailors who can customize clothes for customers according to their body shapes. Their income is not low, and they are also upper-middle class in the mountain fortress.
Everything is in short supply, Tilan thought after listening to their explanation.
After coming to this settlement for more than half a month, she gradually learned a lot about this land from the stories and conversations of several people.
Because of the lack of various inheritances and the turmoil of the environment, people who truly master a craft are extremely rare. I heard from Sura before that it is estimated that only legendary tailors from super powers can make a long silver snow dress like Ores, so she was particularly surprised at the time and easily believed Tilan's words.
Legend, authority in a certain field. Currently, there are only two people who can be called legends in this land. One is the leader of Stone Forest Fortress, Gray Cape Scholar. He knows ten languages. When he was young, he went to the north of the continent and visited and learned a lot of classics and knowledge. After returning, he led the Gray Feathers to establish the Stone Forest Fortress according to what he learned. It became the core of this land. He also formulated detailed laws and taxes in the fortress. He is a recognized wise man in this land.
The other is the queen of the wolf blood species in the west of the grassland. She has long sharp claws and is wrapped in a black crow cloak. Those claws can easily tear even steel, so there are no war machines in the west of the grassland. It’s just that the strongholds under her rule are very loose and barbaric, far less orderly and powerful than Stone Forest Fortress.
Because it’s just heard, Tilan can’t be sure how strong these two are, but from the description of tearing steel, they are at least Sequence 4 Transcendents, and Sequence 5 Transcendents are more likely. After all, the strength of Sequence 5 will be a qualitative leap compared to Sequence 4, and can form a crushing dominance.
In her current state, she should have no rivals in this land, but it feels like going back to kindergarten to bully kids after going to college. Compared with the Federation's perfect training system, which has been iterated by generations of geniuses and masters, the extraordinary sequence training in this world is not only seriously broken, but also because of the chaos and lack of sufficient education, even some individuals with excellent talents are prone to go astray.
With the sense of security supported by her own strength, Tilan's long-standing worries were relieved. She was afraid that she would not be able to go back in a short time, but this period of time was just right for her to take a break and consolidate what she had learned in a hurry before.
In addition, she felt that there should be many things left over from the Fifth Era on this planet. Perhaps she could find some past events that the Federation had never recorded or known. From the perspective of the Dark Sun, she could understand how they viewed that chaotic and crazy era.
In the evening, Tilan sat on the mountain wall and watched the sunset in the distance. Orlesi was sitting beside her, resting her head on her knees and taking a nap with her eyes closed. After losing her memory, she became a little lazy, or maybe this was Orlesi's nature. In the past, it was because of her family education that she always paid attention to her manners and etiquette in front of outsiders.
Her fingers stroked Orlesi's hair slightly, entwining it around her fingertips, and occasionally thinking about whether to cut her hair, after all, it was a little long.
In the distance, the orange sunset and the blue-purple night sky slowly blended, and the sky gradually darkened.
The stones on the ground were rough and dry, and felt fine particles, probably the result of years of wind erosion. The sky and the earth here were particularly quiet. Even if you sit there for a whole day, there are no animals or chirping sounds.
To be honest, she quite likes this kind of quiet feeling. She can think about some things quietly in the wind alone, especially the evening wind, which is neither hot nor cold, and brushes against clothes and skin, which is particularly comfortable.
It would be nice if there were a few big trees, so that there would be shade and occasional sound of leaves swaying, which would be particularly leisurely and pleasant.
While it was not completely dark, Tilan lifted Orlesi up slowly. This guy was obviously awake, but he still rubbed against her body, and then sat up reluctantly.
"Go back." Tilan brushed Orlesi's bangs and tapped her eyebrows with her fingers.
"Woo." Orlesi covered her head with both hands, stood up slowly, then lifted her skirt and walked in front, and walked down the mountain wall with a little bounce. It can be seen that her instinctive steps are flexible, and she will not fall even on a complex and steep mountain wall.
"The talents of elves are really special." Tilan sighed slightly. Compared with humans, elves are really a very special species, although most of their genes are the same.
Tilan didn't have any particular aversion to the new races themselves, but the birth of many new races was a tragedy. They were not created as living beings, but as tools, and this tool attribute also contributed to the darkness and chaos of that era.
Back in the col, Tilan had dinner with everyone in the settlement, and then it was story time at night. The moose boss sat by the campfire and told everyone some past events and interesting stories about this land.
"By the way, does the moose leader have a name?" Fran held a pen in his hand, ready to write something in his diary.
"Name..." He looked up, with some nostalgia in his voice.
"You can call me Ori, this name was given to me by an old friend."
"I see." Fran wrote it down.
"Also, can I ask what race the moose boss is? This is the first time I've seen someone like you." Fran continued.
"I don't have a race." The other party shook his head.
"From the appearance, I have many characteristics of moose, such as curved horns, head, tall body, etc., but my body structure is closer to humans." He tried to clench his thick fingers into a fist.
"I must be a product of an experiment that was born abnormally." He thought for a moment.
"'She' should know something, but there's no point in thinking about it now." Ori talked about the past.
"My earliest memory was that I was in a closed laboratory. There were many technicians there. They wore white coats, had silver hair, and were beautiful. They would occasionally comment on our situation."
"Originally, I was one of the ignorant test subjects, but I was still young at the time, probably about the same size as Sura."
"The person responsible for recording my data and observing and interacting with me was a very young girl. She also had silver hair and silver eyes, just like the other technicians."
"Simply recording data could not meet her project requirements, so she began to teach me to speak, and also tried to make me learn how to manipulate the Aigeka particles to practice the extraordinary sequence."
"In this way, I slowly learned to read and some basic knowledge."
"Time passed so dully. One day, she had the laboratory mechanical servants put me in a box and took me out. At that time, I didn't know what had happened."
"When I walked out of the box again, I was already in the desolate wilderness. The girl told me the last few words, then flew into the sky and disappeared."
"Is it a silver-winged species?" Sura guessed after listening to the description.
"It should be, that is, their appearance description is the most consistent."
"But the Silver Wings are too rare, and I have never seen the same race again, so I can't be sure that they are the Silver Wings." Ori recalled.
"What did the girl say to you in the end?" Faran was particularly curious.
"She said I was free, and asked me to live well on the ground and forget the past."
"I didn't understand at the time. Later, as I got older, I guessed that the project she was responsible for that year should have been completed. I was originally a test subject, but she let me go."
"Wait a minute, do the Silver Wings have such a high level of culture and technology?" This was the first time Faran heard of this race.
"It should be, after all, it is a legendary superior race, different from us." Sura rubbed his hands beside the fire.
"The first time I saw Oris, I guessed that she might be a Silver Wing. Except for the lack of wings, the other descriptions are very similar."
"Oles shouldn't be." Moose Ori shook his head to deny.
"Her temperament is different from the silver-haired and silver-eyed races in my memory."
"Huh?" Sura was a little disappointed.
"It seems that only by seeing the real Silver Wings can we reveal the answer."
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In the next two days, Tilan used the captured furs in the settlement to sew a sturdy and tightly stitched winter coat. At first, she was still a little rusty, but as she made it, the knowledge she had learned in the past quickly emerged and she recalled it, and her speed became faster and faster.
Finally, it was time to set off.
(End of this chapter)
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