At night, the Longshou Mountains meet the hilly terrain.

Ning Yuan maintained a timid look and squatted in a corner of the improvised camp surrounded by seven or eight wooden pack carts. While nibbling on the dry food that Scar had thrown at him, he watched Scar's gang drink wine and eat meat around the campfire, while listening to their high talk.

Although Ning Yuan's current identity is a prisoner of this group, perhaps because Ning Yuan is very honest, has a weak personality, and is an ordinary person who has not yet cultivated, they did not detain Ning Yuan, nor did they send someone to watch Ning Yuan, but on the contrary, they threw the short gun back to him.

Also, in Ning Yuan's eyes, it can only be regarded as a short gun that is better than nothing, and in terms of the strength of this group, it is not even a broken copper and iron. Even if they returned the short gun to Ning Yuan, they were not afraid of Ning Yuan's slippery head. Mo said that Ning Yuan was just a player who had not cultivated, even if Ning Yuan was a soldier-level cultivator, they were not at all worried that Ning Yuan would be able to escape under the noses of cultivators whose strength was in the military level in their twenties. What's more, two of the leaders are still in their city-state, and they are also well-known master-level masters.

Through the explanation of the cold-faced scout young man named Fine Scar during the day and the small talk between the group of people along the way, Ning Yuan had almost understood the information he needed.

This group of twenty-four people, led by the two people of Scar and Scar, who were cultivated at the master's level, were the mercenaries of a city-state called Koca City, about nine hundred miles northwest of the Great Forest of Dragonblood.

The so-called city-state mercenaries are idle cultivators who have not joined the city-state's military system, and most of them exchange their cultivation resources for serving as private soldiers or guards of the city-state nobles and chambers of commerce, undertaking jobs such as monster hunting issued by various forces in the city-state, and also undertaking some work under the surface.

The city-state mercenary team called the Scar Team, led by Scar Scar, belongs to the city-state mercenaries who specialize in monster hunting and gray business, and they are well-known in Koca City. After all, even if it is a medium-sized city-state with a population of one million, more than eighty percent of the high-level cultivators are basically concentrated in the city-state's military system as the backbone of all levels, and most of the cultivators outside the system are some low-level cultivators at the military level. Even if he is a second-level master-level cultivator, he can be regarded as a small master.

Oh yes. The population limit for a mid-tier city-state is one million, usually one million. Among them, the proportion of practitioners is about 20 to 30 percent, that is, about 20 to 300,000 people.

Among these 230,000 cultivators, the lowest level of cultivators basically accounted for 60 percent, that is, 12 to 180,000 people. Eighty percent of the remaining 80,000 to 120,000 cultivators and above were in the city-state army, so there were really not many idle cultivators at the middle and senior level and above. Moreover, according to the rules, there is an upper limit on the cultivators of each city-state, except for the city lord who is the owner of the city-state.

Generally speaking, in the city-state system of the Neno continent, a person with less than 1,000 people is called a village, a town with a population of more than 1,000 people and less than 100,000 people, and a city with more than 100,000 people. 500,000 of them are small city-states, 1 million are medium-sized city-states, 5 million are large city-states, and 10 million are giant city-states. The population cap of 10 million is also the final cap for a single city-state.

According to the rules, the upper limit of a village-level cultivator is the rank of soldier, which means that as long as a cultivator becomes a practitioner, any person theoretically has the qualifications to become the head of a village. In the same way, the upper limit of a town-level cultivator is the husband level, and theoretically, every cultivator who has reached the master level also has the qualifications to become the head of a town. Then there are small city-states with a maximum of captain, medium-sized city-states with a school level, large city-states with a general level, and a giant city-state with a handsome level.

That is to say, even if it is a giant city-state, with a population and resources of tens of millions, the cultivators who occupy thirty percent of the population can cultivate to the rank of handsome in addition to the city lord, and they will be stuck by the rules of the city if they go up.

Moreover, because of the city's affordability, there is a limit to the number of cultivators in each city. For example, in Koca City, which is a medium-sized city-state, the city lord Ziger is a ground level cultivator who is about to break through to the general level. In terms of rules, except for the city lord who is protected by the rules of the city's knot, there can only be three cultivators at the same time, and once they reach three, the other cultivators will be restricted by the rules of the city and cannot break through. And now in addition to the city lord who is about to break through in Koca City, the places of the three earth-level schools have been occupied by the first general of the city lord, Asa, and the great elder of the main family, the first family of Koca City. That is to say, there is only one place left in Koka City for the cultivation of the last rank school level for all the remaining cultivators who have reached the lieutenant level to break through, no matter who breaks through, the remaining lieutenant-level cultivators can only be stuck at the lieutenant level and cannot advance an inch.

So in addition to the quota for the top-level cultivators, is there a limit on the number of practitioners for the second-level cultivators or the lower ones?

Theoretically, yes. However, because each city-state occupies different resources, the quota will also fluctuate to a large extent. However, in general, according to the rules, the maximum amount of practitioners in a city, regardless of its size, is only 30% of the total population. If you exceed, you can only choose two options: diversion and upgrading the city.

Upgrading a city is easy to understand, it is to expand the upper limit of the population.

Diversion is actually a disguised expansion of the population ceiling by establishing subsidiary city-states.

The establishment of a subsidiary city-state is the prototype of the original city-state alliance in the Nino Continent, and it is also a method discovered by the cultivators of the Nino Continent to break through the upper limit and quota limit of the city's cultivation.

As the lord of the main city, the lord of the city-state can sacrifice resources to the city by consuming resources to make it separate from the sub-knots that are subordinate to the main knots, and through this knots, it is possible to establish a branch city directly under the main city.

As the owner of the Split Heart, that is, the Dividing City Lord, the cultivator will be protected by the rules of the Split Heart, no longer limited by the quota of the main city's rules, and enjoy the same unlimited authority to break through the cultivation as the main city lord.

To put it simply, as long as a cultivator becomes a city lord, he can ignore the restrictions on the upper limit of cultivation and the upper limit.

So as long as all the cultivators become city lords, isn't it okay? Anyway, the Nino Continent is infinitely large, with infinite resources, and everyone is like a dragon, so it's not too good.

Well. It's true. But it's also stupid and naïve.

In addition to understanding the basic situation of Koka City and this group of mercenary cultivators, Ning Yuan also knew the reason why he couldn't enter the forest during this time period in the mouth of the fine scar.

In fact, the reason is very simple, it's just that Ning Yuan's realm line is not in his memory, and Ning Yuan doesn't think in that direction.

However, this also explained what was going on with the abnormal distribution of demon beasts that Ning Yuan had seen in the last few days.

The beast tide is coming. To be precise, the spring tide is coming in the two large-scale animal tides every year.

During the two months from the end of the month to the end of the month of Chen, the monsters in various places will riot due to the arrival of the breeding season and the shortage of food, and the monsters will spontaneously or passively go out of the gathering place to attack the city-states and tribes where the "humans" are located.

Since the overall strength and number of demon beasts have always been above the "human" side, every time the large-scale beast tide in the spring and autumn seasons of the upper yin and lower yin is extremely difficult for the creatures of all races, basically except for the army, no cultivator will approach any large-scale demon beast gathering area at this time.

And Scar, they will appear here at this time, which can be said to be a typical example of "people die for money, birds die for food".

From the gossip of Scar's subordinates, Ning Yuan roughly understood the ins and outs of the matter:

Originally, for a city-state mercenary team like the Scar Team, the two months from Maoyue to Chenyue basically belonged to the two months when they were dedicated to internal affairs and did not go out of external affairs, which is usually called the off-season for mercenaries.

The work of fighting against the beast tide has always been dominated by high-level cultivators in the military and above the rank of lieutenant, and the idle cultivators at the bottom can only do the work of leftovers for the sake of beating and beating.

The same is true this time.

However, just when the Scar team was about to idle for two months, the nobles of Coca City sent a mission at a high price in the mercenary guild of the city-state.

Ning Yuan didn't hear the details of the task, it seemed that the tiger bones and tiger whips of the jungle tiger were needed, the task was not difficult, but the demand was very large.

It is not clear what the specific reward of the task is, but it seems to be enough for the team to pay a high price for one or two more husband-level cultivators.

Being able to pay one or two more husband-level cultivators is naturally enough to make one of the scars and fine scars go further.

So they came to the edge of the Dragon's Blood Forest three days ago.

According to Ning Yuan's understanding, in fact, up to today, they had hunted enough jungle tigers they needed, and if Ning Yuan came out in the evening for half an hour or an hour, maybe the two would not have encountered.

Thinking of this, Ning Yuan could only sigh silently and say, "Providence." ”

It can indeed be said that it is providential.

Who knew that the original chance encounter would turn into a hijacking because of Ning Yuan's identity as a player and the fact that he had no household registration.

And because of this abduction, Ning Yuan discovered a fact that had to be shocking. It is also a detail that is not in the memory of the boundary line.

The natives of Nino seem to be aware of the player's existence as well as they know themselves.

The natives are not only aware of the rules of the player's arrival city, but also the restrictions on the player's choice of self-descent, and even the mechanics of the player's resurrection are also clear.

Ning Yuan believes that only by knowing the player as well as he knows himself, can he deduce that he is a Huangsheng just based on the identity of his player and the fact that he has no household registration, and he has the information of a certain chance.

This can be seen from the fact that the other party directly asks for the opportunity after confirming that he is a player.

And after the other party said that the Nino Continent also existed in Huangsheng, Ning Yuan had an astonishing guess.

This speculation is confirmed by some overheard information, and may be closer to some kind of truth.

The natives of Nino are not so much aborigines, but more like players who entered Nino before the Star Creatures.