Shadow of Davion Chapter 82 - Into the Village
The group finally crossed the final mountain pass, and in front of them was a huge basin. No, it's a plain, because the rest of Obsidian is mountainous, and the only plain looks like a basin.
"I saw the nearest village, and it was smoking." Zhang Chuanlan looked down with a telescope in his combat armor, and this plain was about hundreds of kilometers square. "Strange, is this cooking smoke? How is it yellow. ”
"Sulfur dust." Christina replied, "If they ignite the fire with large chunks of impure sulfur, it would be easy to produce such smoke." ”
"This thing, burning produces sulfur dioxide...... This is highly poisonous......" Zhang Chuanlan was a little strange.
"It's not the same for Davians."
"If you're referring to the yellow dough we use, it's for adding flavor to food." Carré seemed to know what they were talking about, but he didn't know what sulfur was. Davion has no chemistry at all.
"I suspect that the village of Davian is now full of sulphur dioxide." Christina pulled off her armored mask, "The only one of us who is afraid of this kind of thing is Parana. ”
"Then we can't throw him here, is there anything you can do?" In this regard, Zhang Chuanlan has confidence in Christina.
"Actually, I don't think people who stay in a vacuum for eight minutes without dying are not afraid of sulfur dioxide. When I rescued you, I just wanted to leave you a whole corpse, but I didn't expect you to be alive. Christina was clearly insincere. But she doesn't see Paraná as a human being anymore, "after all, it's a phenomenon that science can't explain." The only explanation is that you are not earthling. ”
"Okay, okay, I don't think it's a big deal."
"I hope so. If you don't feel comfortable walking close enough, you turn back a little bit and let Chan protect you. The three of us moved on. ”
In fact, the alien civilizations that humans have seen have their own characteristics, and it is not unheard of that there are races that are stranger than eating sulfur as food, so there is nothing to make a fuss about.
Ahead is a steep slope that leads to the nearest village. Halfway down, Barana smelled a pungent smell, and he couldn't help frowning, but there was nothing wrong with his body.
"Yes, Paraná, you're invincible." Christina said curiously, "The amount of sulfur dioxide in the air is enough to cause pulmonary edema." ”
"No......" Barana didn't even have a sore throat, "I've lost my sense of pain." ”
"No, your body is functioning completely." Christina is scanning him with her armor, her armor is specialized in detection, and she has no combat power, but she has all kinds of reconnaissance detection and analysis capabilities.
"That's good, that's good." Paraná breathed a sigh of relief.
"Guys, there seems to be a sentry at the entrance of the village in front of you." Zhang Chuanlan stopped, "Carley, look at which unit they are." ”
"Perception strengthened, eagle vision." Carré recited a spell and turned into clairvoyant, "It seems to be the village's own militia, and it has no combat effectiveness." ”
"If that's the case, maybe the enemy's forces are looking for us in the mountains, which is 99% of the entire planet." "They may not have thought that we would take the initiative to go to densely populated areas. ”
"You're thinking too much, didn't I say that they shouldn't have even noticed that we were here." Carré said helplessly. "They don't have any reason to detect our presence."
"I hope so. The five of us just walked through the mountains, have you figured out what to say? Seeing that this village is not big, it is impossible to pretend to be a member of the village. ”
"Let's just say that we came from the capital to go into the mountains to collect ore. Recently, there has been a shortage of warships, and it is normal to collect ore. ”
"And what about our ore?"
"It's also very common to get nothing. Not all obsidian can be used to make ships. ”
As the group approached the village, two sentries saw them from afar and came forward to question them.
The two sentries carried round shields made of unknown metal and swords of the same material in their hands, looking like ordinary infantrymen.
"Stop!" The first one shouted, "Who are you?" ”
"We are workers from the capital who came to the mountains to mine." Carré replied that his obsidian accent was more authentic and not easy to show.
"Nothing, you're really unqualified." Another said contemptuously, "Let's go, don't come to our village, martial law is being imposed now!" ”
"Martial law? Since when? We have proof from the Extractive Corps. "Forgery couldn't be easier for Carré.
"In order to prevent the enemy from infiltrating the city, we can only let people we know in, it's useless if you have a certificate, let's go." When he came up, he was going to drive a few people away.
"Yes, then we won't bother." Carré didn't force it, either.
The group pretended to go around the village, walked out of the sentry's line of sight, and began to deliberate.
"What to do? They didn't let us in at all. "Paraná doesn't know how to be good.
"There's one easiest way to do it." Zhang Chuanlan said seemingly unintentionally, "We can wait here, kill five people, and then let Carley turn us into their appearance." ”
"Nope." Christina was adamantly opposed, "We can arrest them and release them when we're done." We can't hurt civilians. ”
"There's still a lot of risk." Zhang Chuanlan sighed, "But this is indeed the best thing to do." ”
They were lucky, and soon a real team of miners seemed to be entering the village. There were about 14 or 5 of them. Carré hurriedly stepped forward and stopped them.
"I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to live from now on, leave to buy road wealth!" Parana, seeing that there was no danger, made a joke.
"What? Who are you? ”
The people of Obsidian have never seen robbers. The population here is not large, only about 20 million, of which there are about 5,000 mages, stationed in the capital and several surrounding villages. The mountainous areas, on the other hand, have no food source at all and are almost uninhabited. It can be said that this is a police state that does not have the opportunity to commit violent actions. Or rather, the only robber is the mage himself.
Carré turned all five of them into miners, so they didn't know what Paraná meant.
"We are earthlings, and we need your identity." Zhang Chuanlan decided to tell the truth and see how they reacted. Because he was sure that these people would never escape.
"Really?" These people will be skeptical.
"Carré, remove our disguise." Zhang Chuanlan wanted to see the attitude of the obsidian people towards the earthlings.
After removing the disguise, their true identities were revealed, and the miners really believed it.
"Earthlings, help us!"
Zhang Chuanlan didn't expect them to react like this, he asked, "How can I help you?" ”
"Down with Nethrian, and we won't have to continue this work." The miner at the head said, looking like an oppressed toiling masses.
Zhang Chuanlan needs to think about it. Could it be that there is no war propaganda at all for Neselian? You must know that it is not surprising to promote the enemy as a devil who kills people and drinks blood, let alone a civilization like Earth, which has no communication with Davian at all, and has no counter-propaganda means. How could these people expect them to overthrow their own king?
In fact, he was really worried. The technological and political level of the Davian civilization is equivalent to that of the Han Dynasty, and as for the war at that time, it was just to promote a "famous teacher". However, Davian does not have the same splendid culture as China, so it has about zero war propaganda. And Netherian's rule was indeed so brutal that the people at the bottom had the idea that "even enemies are better than their own kings". However, due to the Obsidian Kingdom's good treatment of mages, especially high-level mages, they are still more or less loyal to the Obsidian King.
"If that's the case, tell me your names, your identities, and stay here and don't go anywhere." Zhang Chuanlan was still a little suspicious, but as long as he sent someone to monitor them, there would be no problem, "Chen, you stay here, and the four of us go to the village." ”