Chapter 44: Worm Mouth Exchange
Chonglou asked, "Is Ma Taro okay?" Counting the time, its lifespan is coming to an end. ”
Depressed, Banbu said, "It didn't survive last year's winter......"
"Alas......" Chonglou sighed, was silent for a while, and said: "Everyone is here to survive, it's not easy, Ma Taro is too stubborn." ”
Banbu asked knowingly: "Lord Chonglou Mountain, do you know Ma Taro?" ”
"Yes, familiar." Chonglou said: "Its life was destroyed by a wolf warrior, and it once traveled with our caravan, and everyone got along very well at first, but when it entered the territory of the steppe wolf, it suddenly ......."
Chonglou said: "Because of the destruction of the life race, Ma Taro hates all wolf races, including the steppe wolf, and thinks that we should not trade with the steppe wolf. There was a lot of unpleasantness, and it broke away from the caravan and traveled alone. ”
Banbu suddenly, it turned out that there was such a story, no wonder Ma Taro was prejudiced against the traveling merchants.
Chonglou didn't like to mention this matter, and after being silent for a while, he changed the topic and said, "When I was young, I was also full of curiosity about this world, and I once followed another caravan to the Continent of Nations. ”
"It's a chaotic continent that you've been there once and don't want to go to again, ruled by various ant kingdoms, full of wars, killings, plunder, and death."
"You can't imagine how crazy ants can be, a dozen queens can form a large kingdom, and a single queen ant can dare to form a small kingdom. They fight for territory, food, rough stones, and even conflict for no reason. Every day new kingdoms are born, every day they fall, and wars never stop. ”
Banbu asked, "In such a chaotic place, won't the caravan walk be attacked?" ”
Chonglou said: "Yes, there will be ant colony attacks from time to time along the way, and only the strongest caravans will dare to go deep into the continent of all nations to trade." ”
Banbu asked, "With such a risk, the transaction must be very profitable, right?" What kind of goods do they handle? ”
Chong Lou said: "It's still Force food, all ants, the innate ability is strength, they are born strongmen, and the Force fruit produced by the ant life seed has the effect of increasing strength, and it sells well in all races in the continent." ”
"Of course, the Force food trade, with less than 30% of the profits, is not worth the risk. The main interest of the caravan is still derived from the exchange of worm mouths. ”
Banbu asked suspiciously, "Worm mouth exchange?" ”
Chonglou said: "It's very simple, Banbu, can you find that there are still various ants living in your territory?" ”
Banbu immediately came to his senses.
There is a certain chance that a Queen of Common Ants will give birth to a Queen of the Force at the level of a Force.
The business they engage in is called "worm mouth exchange" at best, and "worm traffickers" at worst, which is equivalent to the "human traffickers" of human society.
Chonglou said: "Banbu, if you find that there is a special queen ant in the territory, don't be in a hurry to kill it, you can keep it and sell it to our caravan, the price is easy to say." ”
"In the same way, in the future, you will become a mountain lord, a county lord, with a certain amount of wealth and capital, and if you want more warriors to strengthen your control over the territory, our caravan will also be happy to serve and send you young Red Cockroach tribal warriors."
Banbu asked, "Are there still red cockroaches living in the distant continent of all nations?" ”
Chonglou affirmed: "Yes, of course there is, and there are a lot of them." Ordinary red cockroaches need the protection of warriors of the same race in the Ten Thousand Races Continent to reproduce well, but in the Ten Thousand Nations Continent, without the protection of warriors, they reproduce better, and they all have the opportunity to transform into red cockroach warriors. ”
The common red cockroach has no combat effectiveness and is difficult to survive in nature.
Banbu thought for a moment and came to his senses.
Why do red cockroaches appear on the continent of all nations? I'm afraid it's the work of the wandering merchants of these Illusory Flame Spider tribes. The method is very simple, collect a batch of egg pods, secretly transport them, and throw them into the continent of all nations.
In unfamiliar places, in the absence of natural predators, the common red cockroach will reproduce more smoothly, which can probably be regarded as a "species invasion".
Banbu asked, "How many rough stones does a Red Cockroach Tribe warrior from the Continent of Nations need to pay to buy?" ”
"That's not a purchase, it's what everyone is used to calling a 'ransom'." Chonglou corrected Banbu's title first, and then said, "The specific amount of the ransom is uncertain, and the Lord of Chijian has been redeeming his clan for 200 rough stones. ”
"The Iron Knife Mountain Lord of the Iron Knife Mountain Range once ransomed a fellow warrior, and we only collected a ransom of 150 Primordial Stones from him. I heard that the warrior changed his name, and now it's called Wind Chime, you should have seen it, right? ”
"Oh, of course I did."
Madara was speechless for a while.
It turns out that the withdrawn, bitter wind chimes and the zigzag worms who have been trafficked.
Both Flame Cluster Spotted Mao and Pu Tao consciously or unintentionally reject the wind chimes, I am afraid that it is not only because of the character of the wind chimes, but also because they dislike the birth origin of the wind chimes.
Banbu asked tentatively, "What is the purchase price of a special queen?" ”
Chonglou said: "That depends on the race you belong to." ”
Madara preached: "Big-headed harvest ants? ”
Chonglou said: "Weak ants, there is no kingdom, and no worm pays a ransom for them." ”
Madara said, "What about the six-thorned cloud ant? ”
Chong Lou said: "Barely a strong ant race, there are several stable kingdoms established by the six-thorned cloud ants in the Ten Nations Continent, and we are willing to pay 10 primordial stones." ”
Banbu asked again, "What about the whip scorpion warriors?" ”
Chonglou said: "You merchants can't participate in the exchange of worm mouths within the Ten Thousand Races Continent. ”
Banbu asked, "What then?" ”
Chonglou said: "Our continent has a kingdom established by the whip scorpion tribe, if you find that the territory has given birth to whip scorpion warriors, you can directly hand it over to the iron knife lord, the iron knife lord will hand it over to the Chijian county lord, and the Chijian county lord will hand it over to the immortal cockroach king, and the immortal cockroach king will communicate with the scorpion king of the whip scorpion kingdom, and exchange the form of mutual exchange, redeem the warriors of your own clan, or pay a ransom." ”
Banbu asked, "I don't have any good to take?" ”
Chong Lou said: "There will be a Force Food reward equivalent to 10 primogems. ”
……
The sky is getting brighter.
In the one-night chat between Banbu and Chonglou, he gained a lot of useful information.
When the first rays of sunlight rose from the eastern sky, the caravan stopped its advance, picked an open field, and set up camp.
Banbu finally saw the fate of the Pyrom Spider tribe.
Chonglou spat out a spherical seed that was extremely full of force and vitality, with a diameter of more than 100 and a huge body.
This is the life of Chonglou!
The life seed landed, quickly took root, germinated, and pulled leaves, and grew into a grass plant with a height of more than 1000, a seven-leaf heavy building!
The seed oval of Luoshi is much smaller than that of Chonglou's life seed, and the force and vitality are also several grades worse.
The same is true for the other Flame Spider Warriors, who all choose the grass plant as their life species, and the grass plant type corresponds to the name. The stronger the strength, the larger the volume of the life seed spit out, and the more full of force and vitality it contains.
In the caravan, the smallest flame spider warrior, Snow Wheat, has a mutated species of finch grass with crystal white leaf veins. The growth pattern of grass plants is similar to that of the god-given seed of Zebra, each plant stops growing tall when it reaches a height of 40, and it grows in a continuous branching manner, and there are currently only 3 branches.
After the life seed landed, the flame spider warriors took out the original stone, crushed it into powder, and sprinkled it on the roots of the life plant.
Banbu sensed carefully, and ordered the plant to quickly absorb the force emitted by the rough stone powder, a small part of it was used for its own growth, and most of it was fed back and delivered to the Flame Spider Warrior.
The heavy building absorbed the force of 10 rough stones one after another.
The stone absorbed 2 rough stones.
4 Intermediate Warriors can barely absorb the Force of 1 Primogem.
The junior warrior's snow wheat can't even use up half of the original stone.
For the Phantom Flame Spider tribe, the use of the life plant is equivalent to a tool for transforming the Force of the Primordial Stone, similar to the Force equipment refined by creatures.
After completing the Force absorption, the high-level warrior Luo Shi led 4 mid-level warriors into the jungle to hunt for food.
The ordinary flame spiders climbed down from the back of the heavy building and began to move freely.
Satisfying the greatest curiosity in his heart, Banbu said goodbye to Chonglou: "Chonglou Mountain Lord, this place is not far from Iron Knife Peak, I should return to my territory." ”
Chonglou said: "Thank you for your send-off, the promising Banbu Mountain Lord." ”
Banbu spread his wings and was about to leave, when Xuemai suddenly shouted, "Banbu Mountain Lord, wait, gifts." ”
And gifts?
Banbu stopped, addicted to receiving the gift, and looked at Xuemai expectantly.
Xue Mai found a piece of flat ground, four hind legs stood on her own, two front legs reached into her abdomen, pulled forward, pulled out two colored silks, two poisonous limbs caught the colored silks, stretched forward, and then the two front legs probed into the abdomen again, and pulled out two colored silks.
Standing on four legs, the four legs constantly pull out the crystal silk from the spindle of the abdomen, swinging rapidly, and weaving.
Banbu's heart was shocked, and he was secretly surprised: Xuemai plans to weave a spider silk bag for herself!