Chapter 279: Seafood Caravan
Another caravan.
It should be a caravan, or a courier or something?
Directly above the two of them, a group of wyverns were delivering supplies at full speed, looking at the scale, it didn't look like couriers, there were a total of seven bipedal wyverns.
The pure black scales are born to absorb the energy of the outside world, so they are born [Energy Ring Awakening] creatures, and their hard characteristics also allow them to be used as a layer of armor, and the wide leather wings with a wingspan of five times the length of the body fan under the push and pull of the strong pectoral muscles and six groups of respiratory organs, the hollow structure of the bones reduces excessive weight, and the sharp barbed claws can ensure that they will not miss the prey at all, and the food of these big creatures will only be large animals, or group creatures.
Otherwise, the harvest of a hunt will not be able to catch up with the consumption.
When the ocean currents bring food to the dragons, you can often see something like this:
The dragon swoops headlong into the water from an angle in the air, breathes in the water, heats the water, and then the fish rises to the surface with their bellies turned over, they swim leisurely while eating the harvest of the action, the damage effect of ordinary fire to the dragon is almost none, the scales will absorb the energy very well, as a reserve for the next breath, when the reserve is full, just spit out the excess.
The dragons didn't fly very high, they could see the chests strapped to the dragon's back and claws, and this kind of caravan was extremely efficient and expensive, and the cost of manually feeding the wyverns during the voyage was enough to hire a larger caravan of ground feet.
The food consumption during the voyage is usually paid for by the employer, and in any case, the flying dragon carries important items or urgently needed items, and the people who can deliver these things are not short of that little money.
Domesticated wyverns are very useful, but wild wyverns are pure pests to herders.
The high mobility makes it so that a lot of the time you don't know what's going on, and they grab the food.
A long time ago, when it was basically impossible for a transcendent person to defeat these large lizards with extremely high innate advantages and flying and fire-breathing, it was a great honor to defeat or domesticate a flying dragon, the former would get the title of [Dragon Slayer], and the latter would be honored as "Dragon Knight", but today, they are becoming less and less of a threat to people, and bipedal wyverns are at most pets of the rich and flying transporters.
By the time of the next magical revolution, its threat will be almost non-existent.
It is generally believed that the rune system was sorted out, and it was the first [Magical Revolution], after the exchange of information began, the practice of magic was simplified, everyone could learn, and the speed of progress increased exponentially, that is, what began to happen at the beginning of the establishment of Avaranga, it was the second [Magical Revolution], the third [Magical Revolution], and it would reach the [Technological Singularity], that is, the magical industrial revolution that Albert thought would inevitably occur.
"The direction of those dragons flying is Port City. "Uh-huh. "Why don't you tell the dragon to come down and take a ride?" he looked at the forest in front of him, there was not the slightest sign of the pure natural forest, except for the two towers where the rangers lived and the house that seemed to be a courier station, and that direction was the direction they were going, "Just a little way, you can earn it back by doing odd jobs every day." "Let's walk, it's not far. ”
Cecilia trotted over to the pile of rocks, fired a powerful volley at a stone the size of a soccer ball, and watched as the ball flew out and hit the trunk of a tree twenty meters away.
The whole tree shook with the powerful blow, and the leaves and dead branches fell, and the skin was broken, revealing white wounds.
She is still so carefree that she lacks heart, and she can always find a way to entertain herself.
Then they saw the others.
It's a group of people who are shipping seafood inland.
Those, is specialized in inland cities to resell seafood businessmen, reselling destinations, there are a little closer, some farther, reselling seafood species are also strange, in short, they earn is the price difference between the two places, the local home catch is not worth a few dollars of fish to the city may double the price, but, this line of competitors a little more, everyone knows that there is such a earning, no one is a fool, in their industry, efficiency is the third, word of mouth is the second, the market is the first, the newcomer does not know the way, still lose money.
"Hey, brother, ten copper coins to buy you two big cod, do you want to sell it?"
He didn't hesitate and leaned in immediately.
A group of young people around forty years old, led by a hundred-year-old middle-aged man, the number of wizard warriors and extraordinary professions was half divided, and it looked like a small caravan.
"Big cod? Oh, get the money. The young man he accosted didn't mind making some extra money.
He took the fish, paid the bill, and then froze for a moment as he threw the fish into space.
That is, the cry of the merfolk???
Yes, it can be determined that this is very similar to a human female, with a shrill cry similar to a dolphin's cry, and a low howl that only a mermaid can call, not like a cry for help, but more like a dream.
Belch... How to say it, this kind of close relatives who chose to stay in the sea at the fork in the road of human evolution are very much in line with human aesthetics in appearance.
The upper body is a human and the lower body is a fish, it is very similar to a human, but it has low intelligence.
They are able to survive in the ocean below a kilometer, with sharp teeth, omnivores, the staple food is coarse plant fibers, easy to domesticate, the excretory system and the external organs of the reproductive system are two separate holes, the former is in the back, the latter is in the front, people catch them, corona, put them in tanks, and then sell them to scholars and special lovers (sad wind), and send them to the former, everyone should know what will happen in the end, and in the hands of the latter, it is not more than to say.
Some otherworldly people "I suddenly had a bold idea" about these sea creatures and put them into action.
However, it is illegal to sell mermaids privately, although there are a lot of them, their survival ability is not weak, and their reproductive ability even exceeds that of humans, but because of their appearance, [mermaids] enjoy some kind of privilege far beyond other races, but they are unlikely to understand, and it is precisely because of their appearance that a large part of them end up very... In order to prevent the book from being harmonized, I will not say it.
On the other side, he also heard the cry of the mermaid, and unhurriedly took out a dark blue booklet and unfolded it in front of him———— it was the mermaid trading permit.
Albert nodded in understanding, stepped aside, and watched the transports pass in front of him.
He heard the calls of at least four different merfolks, one of which seemed to be from the underage merfolk Lori, if the creature's cubs could be called "Lori".
Cecilia's face was gloomy, and she frowned as the convoy slowly passed by.
She had heard him say such a thing, and the girl was not stupid, she knew exactly what was going to happen next, and eventually, she returned to her usual state, shaking her head self-deprecatingly: "If they don't look like people, I don't think I will sympathize." ”
She understood that no matter how human-like the creature was, it was not a human after all, but a group of humanoids who could nibble at the skeleton of the uncultivator in a season when food was scarce.
They chose a different path millions of years ago, and the consequences were devastating.