Three creatures are awakened in their sleep by their sapient companions.

"At dawn, we have arrived in Mesopotamia, and we have seen a large castle, larger than the capital of Shu, but we cannot verify whether it is the city of Babylon. Our ship has been parked in a wooded area outside the city, and you can make a deal with Rag after a little more food, and if this city is not the city of Babylon, you will have to ask the locals about the location and distance of Babylon. Raco said to his fellow cybarians.

The image of the castle has been shown in the window of the engine room, this time not on video, but in multiple images, taken by the two sapient people at high altitude, at low altitude, and as the ship is approaching the ground.

The three biological people watched the picture of the castle while eating breakfast, and saw that the castle was very regular and rectangular, and the layout of the streets and buildings in the city was not much different from the capital of Shu, and the only thing that surprised the five observers was that there were more than a dozen step-shaped high-rise buildings distributed in the city.

"Rag and I judged that those special structures were temples of the native Mesopotamians, and the Russ intelligence said that there were thousands of temples in this area." Raco said.

Yang happily said to the bass: "There must be the most people coming and going around the temple, and if we want to sell silk, it is best to do business near the temple." ”

Daorong echoed: "Yes, we can go in and visit the temple on the way, and if we happen to meet the priest, we can communicate with him." ”

Both Bass and Rag agreed to the two female companions' proposal, had breakfast, and they packed their bags and left the ship for their first transaction.

Because the ship's navigation system was out of order to teleport photons, they had to step out of the ship and follow the directions they had observed from the air out of the woods, and soon onto a road leading to the castle.

Bass and Rag each carried a large cloth bag containing five horses of different colors of silk, and Raj was already a young man, and he and Bass looked like a pair of brothers with a little special appearance.

Yang and Rong'er are both dressed in casual clothes, each holding a bronze sword in their hands, and both of them wear a special language hat on their heads like the bass, but their hats are a little more feminine. The language cap had been typed into the Sumerian cuneiform script, and last night, bass had taught them both how to use it.

Soon after walking on the avenue, the four of them met the locals who were in and out of the city, and their appearance and characteristics were different from those of the Shu people, the locals were taller, with dark skin, long faces and hooked noses, and adult men with black beards on their faces.

The physiognomy and costumes of the four bass members are very unusual, which makes the locals on the road frequently pay attention, and in the eyes of passers-by, these are two rich Oriental women with two well-dressed male servants who have come to the Western Regions to do business or business.

Not long after walking on the road, Yang saw many locals carrying goods in ox carts, and said to his companions, "Let's buy an ox cart in the city with the gold we got from selling these silk horses, so that next time you don't have to carry silk into the city." When we have finished our business and left the city, we will sell the ox carts. ”

Bass had rarely done this kind of physical work before, and although he didn't carry a lot of silk and had just walked a few hundred meters, he already felt that the luggage on his back was getting heavier and heavier, and it was very difficult to take every step.

Hearing Yang's suggestion, he immediately agreed: "Good idea, maybe we can also earn gold by buying and selling ox carts."

Rag carried the same amount of silk on his back, but he felt relieved, and if it weren't for the fear that the package on his back would be too large, he could have carried more silk.

Rag laughed, "Bass, I think you're getting more and more businessmen's minds, so you can be inferred that you will soon become rich in this world." ”

All four laughed.

The sun had just risen in the east, but its glow was already radiating aggressively hot. Rag was already sweating and panting like a cow, and it was only at this moment that he deeply realized the difficulty of the survival of underdeveloped human beings.

Although the two female companions did not carry their luggage, they both felt that the climate in the Western Regions was much hotter than that of Shu. Rag is an intelligent man, and the short period of heat has little effect on him.

After about two miles, the castle was in sight, and the road beneath his feet led to an open gate.

Several tall soldiers with swords stood guard at the gate of the city, and Rag was the first to step forward and ask, "May I ask you that this is the city of Babylon?" ”

The soldiers looked at Rag and the three companions behind him in surprise, but it was clear that they were well-informed people and did not make a fuss about asking Rag questions or checking the bulging bags on his back.

One of the soldiers said politely: "We are the city-state of Assyria, and the city of Babylon is about ten hundred behs south of the city of Assyria. ”

Raga and Rako had already studied the units of measurement invented by the Sumerians, and the distance of ten hundred belus was almost a hundred kilometers. In addition, they calculated that the area of each horse of silk on their backs was equivalent to half of the local unit of measurement of area, the "sa", and that the unit of measurement of local gold, "minna", was equivalent to about 0.45 kilograms of gold.

The ship was loaded with a total of 500 pieces of silk this time, and in order to obtain about 180 kilograms of gold needed to repair the ship's hull, plus the cost of the activities required for the journey, the two sapient people suggested that each silk should be priced at one "minna" gold. If you find that this price is very easy to sell, you will increase the price appropriately, and if you can't sell it at this price, you will sell it at a lower price.

Rag didn't say anything to the doorman, thanked him, and walked into the gate with his companion.

When you enter the city gate, the streets in the city are paved with square cyan adobe bricks, and the pedestrians and ox carts on the road are bustling and lively, and when you raise your eyes, you can see that there is a temple at the intersection not far ahead, and the shape of this temple is also stepped type, with a total of four floors from the ground to the top, and the walls of the cube gradually shrink from the bottom to the top.

Bass had no interest in the temple itself, but longed for a towering tree growing in front of the temple, for his backpack was not only heavy but also unbearably hot on his back, and the shade of the tree in front of the temple was now the paradise he longed for the most.

He hurried to the foot of the tree, threw the large package on his back to the ground, and then impatiently took off his sweat-soaked coat, and he breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally freed himself from the torment.

His two female companions couldn't help but cover their mouths and snicker when they saw his embarrassment.

Rag walked unhurriedly to the bottom of the tree and put down the package on his back, and then opened the package to reveal the colorful silk, and the four silk merchants from the East began to buy and sell in the Western world.

There are really a lot of people coming in and out of the temple, and because it is located at the crossroads, the four bass members just came under the tree, which immediately attracted the attention of many pedestrians.

When Rag exposed the silk with a charming colorful glow, the locals who had been waiting to watch immediately gathered around to watch.

Rag wasted no time in shouting: "Oriental colored silk! One Sam two minna gold! ”

Rag's shouts attracted more passers-by, and within a few minutes, the four bass were surrounded by dozens of locals.

A few fanatical onlookers crowded to the front and haggled with Rag over the silk, but Rag's advertising words did not change in the slightest.

Bass and the two female companions were silent, their eyes gauging the reactions of the onlookers, wary of someone taking advantage of the chaos to grab silk. Although none of the four people have ever set up a street stall to do business, all three biological people have tacitly accepted that Rag is the leader of their trade, and Rag is the most rational intelligent person.

The buyer and seller stalemate for a while, and finally a middle-aged local man took out a piece of yellow gold from his arms to make the first deal with Rag, but before giving the money, he asked to check the size of a blue silk he liked.

The bass picked up the blue silk and opened it, and the buyer used his arm as a standard ruler to measure the width of the silk, and then meticulously measured the length one after the other.

Seeing that the first transaction was in sight, suddenly the onlookers spontaneously moved out of the way, and a big fat man walked in from the direction of the temple, followed by two young locals with a sword at their waists.

The fat man was richly dressed, his fat face was oily, his lips were large and thick, and he had a neatly trimmed black beard on each side of his mouth, and he looked like a rich man.

The man who was checking the size of the silk with the bass saw the comer, hurriedly threw down the silk in his hand and shouted respectfully: "High priest! Then flashed aside.

The onlookers were silently watching the big fat man's every move.

The fat man, who was called the high priest, looked at the four of the bass and then at the pile of silk on the ground, and said in a stern voice, "Where are you from the merchants?" To dare to buy and sell in front of the temple of this high priest is a great disrespect to the gods! It is by law that you are to confiscate goods as sacrifices to the gods as atonement for your sins. ”

After speaking, the priest waved to the two young men behind him to take the goods on the ground.

"Wait!" Rag shouted, startling everyone present, perhaps because Rag's volume was unexpectedly high, or perhaps because no one had ever dared to shout so loudly at the priest.

The two assistants behind the priest had just taken a step forward and stopped moving.

Annoyed that his first business had just been destroyed, Rag pointed to the priest and said, "Who are you?" If you dare to rob me of my silk in public, what law does it prohibit me from trading here?"

The priest lowered his face and said sharply: "This high priest is the law!" I say that if you are guilty, you are guilty, and that you dare to contradict this high priest is a crime on top of a sin, and not only will the goods be confiscated, but you yourself will be punished with scourging. ”

Rag's three companions were not nervous at this time, and with the priest and his two assistants, Rag could clean them up alone. However, the original good image of the Western priest in their hearts is gone.

Rag's tone became relaxed instead, and he sneered: "If you are the law, then I am the final judge of the law, and I declare your law illegal!" ”

The priest pointed his finger at the onlookers and said, "You have heard, this big-eared merchant who came out of nowhere should say that he is the judge of the law, which is a contempt for our gods, and on the basis of this crime, his goods must be confiscated, and he himself will face at least ten years in prison." ”

The onlookers nodded their heads in approval of the priest's words.

The priest waved to the two behind him again, and this time, the two young assistants stepped forward without hesitation.

Yang and Rong'er agreed, "Dangchang!" With a thud, he drew his sword to protect the silk on the ground, and one of Bass's hands was already in his pocket, holding the pistol.

Seeing this, the two priest's assistants immediately stopped, and they reached out and drew their swords from their waists.

Just as the onlookers were focusing all their attention on the four swordsmen who were about to start, one of Rag's fingers quietly stretched out, and just as the two men swung their swords to attack Yang and Rong'er respectively, the body parts of the two of them holding the swords flashed with a ball of fire almost at the same time, and the onlookers were startled by two creepy wails, and then both swords fell to the ground at the same time.

In the horrified eyes of the people, they saw that the hands of the two assistants of the priest holding the sword and the skin on their wrists were already charred black, and the air smelled of roasted meat, and the two men cried out to the priest in pain while holding their hands that were being roasted:

"Master, it's painful!"

"Master, save me!"

But this priest seemed to be greedy for money in the name of God and had no miraculous skills, and he was overwhelmed by the unbelievable scene in front of him, and his heart was extremely terrified, as if his words and deeds had aroused God's displeasure.

While the priests and onlookers were terrified, Rag's body rose upright, and then suspended under the canopy of a tree at least five meters above the ground, and he shouted: "I am the messenger of God, and this priest must be severely punished for robbing others in public!" ”

The priest stared at Rag in the air for a moment, then said, "Poof! Falling to his knees, his two apprentices, who had been frightened, followed him, and the onlookers also knelt down to Rag.

The priest's fat hands reached out to Ragah and reverently shouted, "Forgive the angel of God!" We have no eyes and no beads, but we don't know that the messenger has come down from heaven to do business here, and this priest is willing to buy all the silk at the messenger's price to make up for it!"