Chapter XVII: The Chessboard Nation 1
Medieval civilization?
Su Ziyu looked at the two people riding by next to him, his eyes fell on their weapons, the man on the right used a giant sword, which looked quite heavy, and the man on the right used a hybrid sword, a hybrid sword that can be one-handed and two-handed, not a one-handed sword or a two-handed sword, in the middle of the two, it is more suitable for chopping, and Ken usually uses such a weapon.
The man with the giant sword also wrapped a mace inside, and the weight was quite heavy.
The two people first glanced at Su Ziyu's face, their expressions were not surprised, as if they had seen yellow humans, but when their eyes fell on the anti-materiel sniper rifle behind Su Ziyu, their faces couldn't help but show strong curiosity and doubt, they should be guessing what kind of weapon this was.
It looks a bit like a gun, but it looks weird and has no blades.
Could it be that it is used to smash people?
Not far in front of him was a human town, which didn't look very big, with a wooden fence outside, and a lazy bearded man standing on the watchtower, just glanced at Su Ziyu and looked away. Su Ziyu thought for a moment to cover the anti-materiel sniper rifle with his clothes, and then slowly walked into the town.
All in front of me are wooden houses.
The town is as far as the eye can see, and the number of shops is pitiful, with only a grocery store, a blacksmith shop and a hotel.
There was a stout old man smoking a pipe at the blacksmith shop, and he looked Su Ziyu up and down before looking away. Inside the grocery store was a woman in her thirties, whose arms didn't look thinner than a man's, and was coming out to pick up a piece of wood to take back to burn firewood.
There were a lot of people watching from the hotel, and you could hear the noise from a long distance.
There were signs in front of the shops, a hammer and felt on the blacksmith's shop, a bag on the grocery store, a bed on the hotel, and the rest of the houses without signs were the townspeople's quarters.
The population is not large.
It is estimated that it is only one or two thousand people, which is not as good as the community where Su Ziyu lives.
Squeak.
Su Ziyu pushed the door and walked into the hotel, there were more than a dozen people sitting inside, all of them looked quite strong, and the two people on horseback that Su Ziyu met in front of him were sitting in the corner. When the others heard the sound of the door opening, they all turned their heads to look at Su Ziyu, and many of them lowered their heads and whispered in surprise.
There are actually yellow people in it, but they are the faces of the Eurasian race, and there is still a little difference.
Most of them were armed.
The innkeeper was a chubby old man with a little panicked expression, and as soon as he came in, he beckoned Su Ziyu to sit down and asked, "What do the guests want?" ”
Su Ziyu pointed to the things on the table next to him and did not speak.
Do you not like to talk?
Or is it a mute?
The innkeeper glanced at the black short blade on Su Ziyu's waist and said cautiously, "Do you want a copy according to that table?" ”
Su Ziyu nodded.
The human language was very different from the language of the elves, and it sounded a bit like Latin grammatically, and it would take him some time to master.
"I'll send it right away." The innkeeper quickly left.
The others lost interest in Su Ziyu after looking at it for a while, and they each lowered their heads and whispered, these people should be mercenaries or adventurers, they were discussing how to kill a flying dragon, this topic suddenly made Su Ziyu quite interested, he had never seen a real dragon when he was so old.
"Guests, please use it slowly." A waiter brought the food.
Wheat porridge, black sausage, mushroom soup, grey bread, plus a glass of beer. The beer has no foam, smells a little sour, and the brewing technique should be very primitive.
The food tastes average.
It's far worse than what the big goblins do, that is, to the point where they can barely eat.
After eating two bites, Suziyu had no appetite and simply listened to the others quietly. The whole thing is also very simple, that is, a wyvern has built a nest in this vicinity, which not only threatens the inhabitants here, but also alarms the lords of this area. Wyverns attack humans and livestock, and in the last month or two, more than a dozen people have been killed, and many livestock have been eaten. So the lord here issued a bounty mission, as long as anyone can kill the dragon, they can get a big reward. However, because the wyvern built its lair on top of a mountain surrounded by snow and ice, only mercenaries had the patience to hunt it.
Some people here have been here for a while.
They had seen the wyvern a few times, but there was nothing they could do with it, because the wyvern didn't fall at all, and flew away from the mercenary's head.
The most discussed among these people is where the dragon's lair will be.
After hearing those people say that the range of the bow and arrow could not threaten the flying dragon, Su Ziyu subconsciously reached out and touched his anti-materiel sniper rifle, and he didn't know how lethal modern weapons were against this legendary creature.
Wyverns are a type of wurm creature.
They have slender necks, no forelimbs, only strong hind legs, and no scales on their bodies, and can swallow half a cow in one bite, making them quite a dangerous beast. If it was the kind of dragon that Su Ziyu saw in the witch's tree house, I'm afraid that a mouthful of dragon breath would spew out and these people would have to be burned to ashes.
"Did you hear that?"
"It looks like there's another war on the border." A mercenary lowered his voice and said, "The Black Queen's minions have reappeared. ”
"A lot of monsters have escaped."
"That's why Wyverns are here."
The Black Queen?
Why is there still a Black Queen here?
Chessboard Country?
Is it as black and white as a chess piece? Su Ziyu listened attentively when he heard this, but it was a pity that those people didn't say a few words, and it seemed that they were quite taboo about it.
He only vaguely heard a title - "Dragon Witch." ”
Some of the mercenaries were checking out and leaving, and the currency they used was a copper coin with a portrait of a woman surrounded by flowers on the front and a budding flower on the back.
Is this the White Queen?
Is this woman so narcissistic? He actually printed his own portrait on the currency.
Su Ziyu beckoned to the innkeeper to come over, and then took out a whiteboard silver coin, which had no patterns on it, and said in a somewhat stiff tone: "Is it okay to pay with this?" ”
"Yes...... OK. The innkeeper looked at the black short blade on Su Ziyu's waist again, picked up the silver coin and bit it with his teeth.
Su Ziyu nodded and said, "Prepare another room for me." ”
The ability to understand the language is very strong, and by this time he has mastered some everyday language.
"Okay." The innkeeper quickly left.
After a while, he took a large bag of copper coins, and Su Ziyu swept his gaze, I am afraid that there are nearly a hundred, it seems that the silver coins from the wasteland world have a strong purchasing power in this world.
When leaving the wasteland world, Suziyu considered that he might need to use gold and silver coins in the future, so in addition to weapons, ammunition, food, and medicine, he also prepared an extra kilogram of silver coins and two kilograms of gold coins. In the wasteland world, these things are worthless, you can find a lot of them by scraping a city ruin, and when you see a gold necklace on the way to explore, it is too hard to even bend down to pick it up.
The most valuable thing on Suziyu is the gemstone, and this one was obtained by asking Pasha to find someone.
As long as it is a world that uses gold and silver currency, Su Ziyu does not dare to say how rich he is, but it is more than enough to be a local tyrant.
Unfortunately, the weight is limited.
Otherwise, the squid can carry more things.
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