Chapter 574: The Pain of Losing a Son
However, the reason why the big sandworm is expensive is not only because of the upward and downward effect with the rich and the rulers of the desert empire, which makes the reason why the big sandworm is expensive, but also because of the quality of the big sandworm itself.
After all, the sandworm is extremely good in every aspect of the ingredient, both in terms of taste and the ability to choose the type and direction of the dish.
Therefore, it will cause the big sandworm to become popular as a high-end ingredient in the desert empire, and it will be extremely expensive and highly sought after in the future.
And after knowing the value of the big sandworm as a top ingredient, many people and many things have begun to focus on the big sandworm that they didn't pay attention to.
The most typical is those mercenary groups.
Originally, although they were also used to kill in times of war, as long as they survived, they were generally very wealthy.
But now after the unification of the Desert Empire, the wars of the Desert Empire are not as frequent as before.
This also directly led to a plummeting income for mercenaries.
Although they are also very fond of a peaceful era, they will be very safe.
But since they have chosen to be mercenaries who work hard for money, they basically prefer a life of wealth and danger.
Therefore, compared with the ordinary and comfortable life, they still prefer a combat life where danger and opportunity coexist.
After all, it is only in that special period in that state of war that they have the opportunity to turn over and break the class barrier.
There have been mercenary groups that helped the Desert Emperor unify the Desert Empire and deter various tribes before, and they were directly promoted from commoners to nobles by the Desert Emperor.
Although at that time, the promotion of those mercenaries who were commoners were suddenly promoted to nobles caused the dissatisfaction of many old nobles, but the desert emperor at that time still chose to continue to do so, and did not intend to change his approach because of the dissatisfaction of those old nobles.
After all, the reason why the Desert Emperor is the Desert Emperor is, of course, that he knows who is more useful to him between those pedantic old nobles and those warlike mercenary groups.
That's why they are the new aristocratic groups that will choose mercenary groups between the old aristocratic group and the new aristocratic group.
Again, this is for the sake of only those old nobles.
After all, although he is the emperor of the desert, in fact, in addition to being nominally superior, in many ways, he is afraid of those old nobles.
Therefore, the Desert Emperor also wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of this situation.
But after the war was over, the mercenaries who came after that didn't have that kind of opportunity.
So they can only make money by other means than war accidents.
And it happened that the price of the big sandworm meat at that time was rising because of the popularity of the rich and some people in the ruling class, and they began to catch the big sandworm.
It was also from that time that a large number of mercenary groups began to hunt and kill the big sandworms.
This has also led to a serious threat to the lives of large sandworms.
I don't know why, it's just that a large number of mercenaries with knives and swords are looking for trouble with them, which is also called the big sandworm also feels dangerous.
Although their large sandworms are very large in size, and their strength is also very terrifying.
But in the face of a large number of mercenaries with sophisticated methods, it is still difficult to escape.
It was also from that time on, although it may seem that humans have not discovered it all along, the frequency of large sandworms attacking humans also began when a large number of mercenary groups began to capture large sandworms.
Maybe there is a causal relationship in this, but it is just that human beings have not noticed this one thing until now.
However, although the big sandworm group at that time had already begun to take revenge on humans, it was limited to independent revenge between individuals, and it was far less crazy than the revenge of the current group.
And the formation of the current situation of revenge is also related to the sand king.
Originally, the Sand King was just an ordinary big sandworm.
It's not like the other big sandworms, but it's different.
But one day, he did see another big sandworm that had been used and caught.
And that big sandworm is not another big sandworm, but the son of the sand king.
After birth, the giant sandworm already has the ability to live independently.
Therefore, after the larvae are born, the parents of the big sandworm will already leave, so that the little sandworm can learn to live independently, but they don't pay attention to them, and they just come.
It's not that it's cold-blooded and ruthless, it's because the big sandworm is for the good of the little sandworm's future.
After all, in such a cruel environment as this desert, learning how to fight and survive is the first step for all living things.
And just by virtue of the hegemony of the big sandworm in the desert, even the newborn small sandworm can beat many adult species, so the sand king resolutely left the little sandworm at that time.
What he didn't expect was that the little sandworm, that is, his son, after leaving him, would directly encounter the mercenary group of human swarms, and then be caught.
Of course, seeing that his flesh and blood were caught by the mercenary group in this way, the Sand King of course also knew what would wait for his flesh and blood next.
That is, it was killed by the mercenary group, and then it was sold as an ingredient in the market.
It is better to be the sand king to see this scene, of course the sand king will not let his own flesh and blood be killed by humans in this way, and then sold as an ingredient, and finally made into a delicacy.
So at that time, the Sand King immediately took action, directly trying to catch which of his own bones were useful and launched an attack.
It's a pity that the sand king at that time was still the sand king, just an ordinary big sandworm.
This also led to the fact that even if the big sandworm made a move at that time, it was impossible to get rid of his son, who had been caught by a large number of mercenaries.
After all, the sand king at that time was still as powerful as he is here, and now of course he can destroy those mercenaries casually, but the sand king at that time not only failed to give off his son, but also almost put his own life into it.
In the end, although he had escaped, he was also seriously injured and almost died in time.
This experience of witnessing his own flesh and blood being captured and then unable to save it also changed the life of the Sand King.