Wutong was speechless, probably because there were some relevant moral constraints in the druid's nature teachings, right?

But before Sharano finished speaking, a wanderer who was walking behind them, who was supposed to be an alien player, was suddenly entangled by the vines hanging from the rattan cart, and a little goblin the size of a palm flew out of the "coin box", holding a copper coin in his hand, and screamed angrily in a crisp voice, and suddenly broke the copper coin in half, and it was actually a [bad copper coin].

And the wanderer player quarreled with the goblin, and even struggled to run, but was snorted twice by the goblin angrily, and with a wave of his little hand, the vine that entwined the wanderer swayed, and as soon as it was released, the buddy with a long miserable scream, cut through the sky and fell, and everyone's heads moved with the buddy, and then slammed it.

Wutong looked at the little goblin with white butterfly wings and sweat, it turned out that there was a "ticket inspector"? It's not too high from the ground, that's seventy or eighty meters! There's a thick layer of humus down there, so theoretically you might not be able to fall to death, right?

Sharano spread his hands: "If you don't pay the fare, it will be like this, don't look at these ordinary [White Wing] goblins only have the strength of the 0th level, but their temper is not very good"

Wutong nodded violently, and decided to go to the fruit shop to exchange money in a cold sweat! Nima's place is so cruel, just to evade the ticket, you have to risk your life!

Only then did he suddenly realize that they had arrived at the edge of the Qiyun Forest by rattan cart! It should be said that it is the core area of Qiyun Forest, but because a huge super pine tree stands tall in the middle of the forest, and the canopy like a giant umbrella covers the sky, making it empty under its umbrella, and there are no trees!

If the big trees in the Qiyun Forest, which are generally more than 100 meters high, are already unimaginable towering giant trees for outsiders like Wutong, then these towering giant trees are as weak as the grass under the big trees compared to this tree whose crown is above the clouds, and the straight body of the tree below the clouds seems to be like a small grass under the big tree!

"Nima!"

Wutong looked at the giant tree in front of him with a few clouds around his waist, and involuntarily burst out with a foul sentence: "This is a tree?" ”

"That's not a tree"

Sharano beside Sycamore shook his head, causing Sycamore to turn his head to look at her in shock: "That's [Grand Master Druid] Lord Orion!" ”

Sycamore was even more surprised, and exclaimed in disbelief: "Your Excellency Orion is a big pine tree? ”

"You came to Qiyun Forest Blue Heart City to meet His Excellency Orion, don't you know?"

Sharano wondered, "Lord Orion was originally the oldest activated pine tree in the [Log Druid], and it is said that he is one of the [Guardian Trees] activated by the ancient druid master of the [Age of Monsters], and he is currently at least four thousand years old!" ”

(Chronology: [Ancient (-38000-4100)] - also called: [Age of Monsters] or [Age of Goblins]) Wutong took a breath, well, the old guy has seen a lot, nothing strange, right?

I was about to ask them how they were going to talk to a big pine tree, but they found that the Wizard of Ganlo and the Chief had left them and they didn't know where to go, and the Claw Druids who escorted them were long gone, leaving only Sharano and the black buddy Shafis who played soy sauce with them.

Sharano shrugged, "The wizard and the chief have gone to the headquarters of the Forest Watcher sect to ask for an audience with Lord Orion, let's go to [Daybreak Square] on the plains of [Ramania] and wait!" If Lord Orian is willing to meet us, he will send someone to meet us."

Saying that she was going to go down from the giant tree where she was, Wutong looked into the distance, well, although Lord Orion was "close at hand", but from the giant tree they were on to the feet of Lord Orion, there were still hundreds of kilometers!

And this distance is all made up of plains, and the [Plains of Ramania]-[Daybreak] that Sharano speaks of, between the two mountain-like roots of Lord Orion.

"Walk over there?"

Wutong was a little dumbfounded, Sharano turned his head, frowned, and said, "Do you want to ride the giant owl over?" I'm also a druid, and I can temporarily transform into [Owl Form], but I can't carry the four of you! Unless any of you are willing to pay for a couple of giant owls, I don't have the money. ”

Seeing Sharano looking at him, Chafis quickly shook his head: "Don't look at me, I never had that thing on me." ”

"Poor ghost" Wutong swallowed these two words into his stomach, and touched his body very depressedly, his money had already been mistaken by him in the [Endless Cabin] on the way, and then it had been bartering, and Wuhe Xiaoxiao didn't count on it, these two guys never brought money on them.

He was going to change some silver pine cones just now, but now that he thinks that he is penniless at all, it is easy for him to do it himself, just call Long Ying Ah Zi out and fly over, but he can't bring so many people at one time.

"Where is the market? Let's go get some silver pine cones. Sycamore looked around, trying to find a market where she could set up a stall.

"Don't look at it, just go down to the [Ramania] plain, the inhabitants of the Qiyun Forest are basically concentrated there to trade."

Sharano pointed to the small black dots on the plain that seemed to be moving like an ant colony, and Wutong looked at the dozen or so circles of giant vines wrapped around the giant tree, and he had to go around the dye to climb down from here, and to take the elevator called the "tree cage", he needed to use leaf coins, so he decided to use a faster way to go down and pick up the little Lori directly, and then jump down, no need to worry about him, this guy you can't fall to death even if you tie him up with a rope and push him down.

Seeing that Wutong "couldn't think of it", Sharano and Chapheis were startled, but immediately reacted, as long as a mage doesn't mix too badly, he can't even learn [Feather Falling Technique], and it is generally impossible to be killed by a fall.

"Ugh"

Chapheis held his tambourine, cautiously looked down, swallowed his saliva, and then turned his head to look at Sharano, looking like he wanted to say something and stopped, Sharano rolled his eyes angrily: "Don't think!" Climb down on your own! ”

After running a few steps, he rushed out of the mushroom platform, plunged down like a high platform diving, and transformed into a huge owl in the air, flapping his wings to cushion for a while, and then quickly gliding towards the Sycamore who jumped down first, and caught them before the Sycamore and Xiaoxiao landed, and flew them towards the market not far from the edge of the forest.

The market on the [Ramania Plain] in the middle of the Qiyun Forest does not have a specific name, but the residents in the Qiyun Forest spontaneously gather on this grassy plain to form a trade market, so it is collectively called "Rama Grass Market", which means "the market on the grass of the Ramania Plain", and for the convenience of trading, the grass market is basically gathered at the border between the Qiyun Forest and the [Ramania Plain].

After walking around under the leadership of Sharano, Wutong found that although the market on the "Rama Grass Market" had not been planned, and there were no large trade organizations or caravans, they were basically forest dwellers who gathered to set up stalls, but due to the large population, they still formed small circles according to the content of the items sold.

For example, there are those who sell all kinds of fruits produced in the forest, those who sell prey, and those who sell a small amount of animal, plant, and mineral materials, mostly in the form of barter, and there are also those who are willing to accept oak coins, pine coins, and leaf coins, and then use this unique circulating currency in the Qiyun Forest to buy what they need.

This circle turned down, Wutong looked at those rare animal and plant mineral materials, and his saliva was called a boom, but unfortunately in the headquarters of the Druid Sect, it is not allowed to buy and sell large quantities of natural materials, just to prevent people from being deceived and charmed by interests, so as to hunt and kill indiscriminately for profit.

The trade in a small amount of animal and plant mineral materials is not prohibited, after all, in order to survive, forest dwellers will still hunt and gather plants, and occasionally pick up some minerals, as long as they do not destroy the terrain and natural environment, the gentle "Forest Watcher" sect will not prohibit normal trade practices.

Because of this, some outside speculators often come here from thousands of miles to bring some outside materials needed by forest dwellers to exchange with them, and then bring the obtained materials back to the outside world to seek the difference.

It's just that the batch of items traded in this way is very small, and it is almost not a formal business practice, which in disguise has caused the price ratio in Qiyun Forest to be very high, and an ordinary commodity from the outside world can be sold at a very high price here, which is almost equivalent to about ten times that of the outside world.

The price of purchased materials is also high, which is also about ten times that of the outside world, that is, what can be bought in the outside world for only 1 gold coin can be bought in the local currency equivalent to 10 gold coins, which is more expensive than the outside world.

The Forest Watcher sect stipulates that only oak, pine and leaf coins are allowed to be used locally, and gold, silver and copper coins are not accepted, which makes it possible for merchants from outside to get what they need from the local area, so they must first bring various materials from the outside world, sell them locally, and exchange them for "druid coins", or "German coins" for short, before they can buy what they want locally.

Sycamore suspects that this was a deliberate effort by the Forest Watcher sect to obtain scarce supplies from outsiders, and to limit the extent of environmental damage, distances, and transportation, predestined for the scale of trade.

However, this is an opportunity for Wutong and them, when he was in the [Wolf Claw Tribe], he filled all the supplies and equipment of his body with materials adjusted according to local needs, so although there is no "Secret Shadow Caravan" to follow him for the time being, the goods he carries alone are enough to form a caravan.

Licking his lips, Wutong already knew the situation after turning around, but he didn't immediately pour out the materials in his several dimensional bags for dumping, but grabbed Sharano and asked in a careful whisper, intending to figure out the business rules here.

To his surprise, there was no commercial tax, and the druids did not regulate and restrict this kind of business at all, that is, this trade was completely spontaneous by the forest dwellers.

After thinking about it, Wutong understood that because of the environment, most of the forest residents' needs for "clothing, food, shelter and transportation" were self-sufficient, and they would only occasionally take out surplus materials or accumulated things in exchange for what they needed.

In terms of "clothing", most of the forest dwellers are wearing animal skin clothes, or coarse linen clothes hand-woven from the linen collected from the forest, and Wutong even saw that there are beautiful half-elf girls and beast girl girls, using the soft leaves to weave "leaf clothes", and decorated with various flowers and fruits as ornaments, wearing the style looks very beautiful, not worse than all kinds of fashion in the outside world.

Besides, living in the forest, there is no need for those gorgeous fashion clothes from the outside world, if you really wear silk clothes to the forest for a turn, it is estimated that when you come back, your clothes will become ragged, and no matter how gorgeous the clothes are, they are not as good as the sturdy and durable linen clothes.

Therefore, clothing should be strong, practical and durable for forest dwellers.

In terms of "food", the huge Qiyun Forest is generous to the creatures that live in its arms, fruits, nuts, and roots of various plants are readily available, and meat is also abundant, as long as it is not deliberately killed indiscriminately, it is only hunting for the purpose of survival, the Druid Sect is allowed.

Therefore, in the Qiyun Forest, both animals and humans do not need to be deliberately cultivated to obtain enough food.

(Although Eluden has a population of 500 million, it is concentrated in the northeastern plains, where one-tenth of the land is home to nine-tenths of the population, and nine-tenths of the forest is home to less than a tenth of the population.) In this case, forest dwellers naturally do not have a strong demand for food from the outside world (mainly food rations, not all kinds of processed food products).

And the aspect of "living" is even simpler, just passing through Bixin City, Wutong saw that there are forest dwellers who use the natural magic [soft stone] to make nests on the tree like swallows, use [hard clay] to build holes under the roots of the tree, use [bending wood] to twist the branches to make nests, and use [wood-plasticizing] to build whatever style of house you want on the huge tree, you don't need any building materials at all, and naturally there is no demand for living.

In terms of "walking", except for a pair of iron feet, there is no need for any transportation in the forest environment, and the rattan carts, tree cages, and giant owls with local characteristics are not available to outsiders, so they are not considered.

Therefore, what forest dwellers really need is only a small amount of processed goods such as salt, spices, ironware, etc.

Touching his chin, Wutong suddenly found that this kind of environment without commercial competitors was simply a huge treasure for him!

Speculators who could only carry a small amount of goods and traveled all the way to climb mountains and wade through rivers could not compete with him, and once he established a local trading post, he could almost monopolize the local economy, provided that he obtained permission from the Forest Watcher sect.

As the only large city in the Qiyun Forest, which occupies nine-tenths of the land area of the Eludon Field, the population of Bixin City is almost equivalent to the population of the entire Qiyun Forest, and the grass market on the [Ramania Plain] is the only trading location, even if the demand of the forest dwellers is small, it is a rather large demand market for him.

There is a saying among the merchants on the continent of Kovaré that "go to the bottom of the sea to sell matches, go to the desert to sell cotton clothes", which means that as long as you work hard, there is nothing that cannot be sold.

After thinking about it, Sycamore decided to test the market reaction before meeting with Lord Orion and obtaining permission, and he discussed it with Sharano and pulled out a large marching tent from the dimensional bag, and asked her werewolf warrior members to help set it up on the grass to store the various goods he had carried.

Then he discussed it with Chaphim, and asked him if he would like to join the "Secret Shadow Caravan", if he performed well, it would not be impossible to become the head of the Chamber of Commerce in Bixin City in the future, Chafes was immediately happy when he heard it, and threw the tambourine in despair, and joined in the work of setting up tents with great interest, the bard's good eloquence is used to sell goods, isn't that a perfect match?

Sycamore left everything to Sharano and Chafvis, but he smiled and stood by Kazuma to watch, thinking about how to get the license to operate "Forest Watcher".

If you want Bixin City to prosper, those great druids don't need to fake others at all, what he can do as a third-order mage, there is no reason why a huge druid sect can't do it, he has a dimensional bag, an endless hut, a half-plane, a teleportation point, and a teleportation array, and other druids are born to be the lord of life, and a [log druid] can live for thousands of years casually, who knows if they will have all kinds of strange things in their hands? Ancient broken jars are considered antiques in modern times, and there is no reason why the great druids don't have some private goods to treasure.

Therefore, opening up a small amount of local resources to attract speculators to bring in goods is only a means of control for them, not a necessary means, and this is probably done on the basis of maintaining the druid's natural teachings, and can meet the most basic material needs of the forest dwellers, after all, not everyone is like the druids, who can tolerate vegetarianism, poverty and other precepts.

But if he is like him, he has the ability to transport a large number of materials, I am afraid that the Druids will interfere, too rich materials will cause the demand of the forest dwellers to increase, and it is easy to change the living atmosphere of the entire region at that time, on the whole, the management of the Druid sect is not effective, the demand will increase, and the natural possessiveness will also increase, which will inevitably cause the forest dwellers to do something unfavorable to the natural teachings in order to satisfy their own desires, and it will be difficult to control it at that time.

(To be continued)