Chapter 36 The Oriental Desert in Reality (Ask for Subscription~Ask for Tickets~)
After Liu Zhen's incident, the next caravan's journey was finally smooth.
On the afternoon of the third day of entering the Rubble Wasteland, the caravan successfully arrived at the last checkpoint before Rugoin, Red River City (an Oasis Satellite City).
Varif and Kane threw Yoo Jin, who was still unconscious, to the checkpoint garrison and made up a casual excuse to prevaricate, and the local security forces of Rugoin did not dare to question their flawed explanations in the face of Kane's fame.
Liu Zhen dared to be so rude to Kane before, mainly because he had the support of the Lu Gaoin royal family behind him.
Can you change these minions......
How could they dare to question the "wise Kane"?
The caravan stayed in Red River City for a day, mainly to clean up the list of goods and various business orders.
Also, the two medium-sized caravans and a small caravan that had been following the Varif caravan also took their leave.
Variv didn't care, nodded and let them go, but Xue Hua on the side looked a little puzzled, this looks like they are about to reach their destination, isn't it good to go into the city together early tomorrow morning?
Variif saw his confusion and explained it to him with a smile.
It turned out that not all caravans went to the East with the ultimate goal of the giant city of Lugoin, who had many opportunities, but also high costs.
The business tax is two or three percent higher than that of other small cities in the surrounding area.
There were many small and medium-sized caravans that could not afford such a high cost, and sometimes the profits they made at a time were not enough to cover the living expenses of the caravans in the city of Lugoin.
Add to that the harsher commercial dumping in the city of Rugoyne, and so on.
All this led to the fact that small and medium-sized caravans did not have any competitive capital there at all.
Therefore, most of the targets of these small and medium-sized caravans were around the periphery of Lugoin, similar to the Oasis Satellite City of Red River where they were now located, where the costs were much lower and the taxes were lower, enough for these caravans to earn enough money to slowly develop themselves after selling their goods.
Varif's explanation made Xue Hua even more curious.
What is the situation? The Lugoin in the game seems to be a lonely city, huh?
How do you listen to Varif that the entire rubble wasteland has been overrun by human cities?
When he asked the question, Variif couldn't help but laugh.
When Xue Hua's face turned red and he was on the verge of becoming angry, the Arab drunkard with a blue turban slowly spoke, explaining to him how different there was between Lugoin, a city in the heart of the human race, and Rogue's camp, which was defending against Andariel's attempt to attack eastward.
In reality, Lugoin is a huge desert kingdom covering an area of more than 3,000 square kilometers and occupying the entire southeast corner of the Aranok Desert.
Due to its favorable geographical environment, with barrier mountains to the west to block demon invasions, the Nobil Sea to the east, and the endless twin seas to the south, the kingdom of Lugauin was very prosperous in trade and had a considerable population density.
Therefore, just a giant city of Lugoin can't hold so many people anyway.
As a result, the Rugoin royal family later began to build new oasis satellite towns throughout the rubble wasteland.
After the establishment of these small towns, they were all directly managed by Lu Gaoin sent administrative officials, these local administrative officials have the right to determine the amount of local taxes and form local guards to protect the satellite cities from monsters, this system is a bit like the federal governor system of M country in Xue Hua's previous life, but there are still big differences in rights, selection methods and management areas.
Each satellite city had to pay taxes to the royal family three times a year, either in the form of grain or gold coins.
Everything else is the responsibility of the administrative officer who manages the satellite city.
Of course, if the satellite city is attacked by an irresistible natural disaster, including but not limited to monster communities with more than 5,000 people, flying monster communities with more than 3,000 people, and the legendary black sandstorm, the government officials have the right and obligation to ask Lu Gaoin for help.
And Lu Gaoyin also has the right and obligation to immediately send appropriate rescue forces to the satellite city that is calling for help.
Under this system, the power of humans soon began to expand rapidly in the rubble wasteland, and this expansion even affected the law of rebirth of monsters.
Many monsters are now no longer respawning inside human cities that have been established for a long time, but instead choose to avoid areas with high human activity.
Even, on the edge of the Rubble Wasteland, some monsters have been forced to cross the border, leaving the Gravel Wasteland and moving to the more distant dry highlands.
Of course, the dry highlands here do not refer to the barren land above Kegistan, but to a large, extremely dry sand dune further south of the gravel heath.
The adventures of human professionals now begin in this sand dune.
After listening to Varif's description of Lu Gaoin's condition in reality, Xue Hua was in a trance for a long time before slowly getting out of that sense of unreality.
Originally, Xue Hua had already noticed some differences between this world and the shelter world in the game a long time ago, but he really didn't expect that his footsteps were only as far as Lu Gao, and this difference quickly magnified in front of his eyes.
Originally a lonely city in the game, Lugoin has now become a huge human kingdom, and it also has a federal governor system very similar to that of country M.
The Rubble Wasteland, which was originally the first map of Act II in the game, is now the realm of the Human Kingdom.
The power of hell is almost completely unmanifested here, and the forces of evil seem to have been completely cut off by the mountains of the west and the seas of the east and the south.
Before leaving Rog's camp, Acala had told him more than once that Rugoin was one of the heartlands of humanity and one of the few remaining bustling cities and trading hubs.
But Xue Hua never imagined that with the Hell Army pressing so closely, there was such a powerful power hidden in the hearts of human beings.
According to Varif, who had opened the conversation, there were no less than twenty large caravans at sea in Rugoin alone, and these caravans had traded with them as far south as the island of Sartra and as far north as Dhatta Dura, and even the mysterious mystics of the distant Sensai.
In addition to the north-south routes, these merchant fleets also established trade lanes along the western coastline and King's Harbor and Westmar, the only ones to the west that could now withstand the invasion of the Legions of Hell, and transported war supplies to Kurast and Ji Kuhl, who were in a difficult situation in the eastern wetlands.
They even made their way through inland waterways in the wetlands to the legendary "City of Uri", the fabled city that connects heaven and hell and the home of necromancers.
Of all the world's ports, only the wasteland-like Dreadlands and the fortresses built on the Dreadlands, the Fortresses, were areas that these caravans had never reached, and which had been transformed into a terrible no-man's land due to the contamination of the terrifying infernal energy.
In addition to the fortress, the only other human castle left in the area is the barbarian homeland, the fortress built on the sacred mountain of Arret - Harogas.