The trio returned to the ship, and Raco turned on the ship's observation system.

After a while, images of the outside of the spacecraft appeared in the window of the cabin, and rolling mountains, dense forests, and gloomy skies occupied the entire window. As the observation system automatically searches, the image in the window rotates slowly.

Larco controls the observation system, and Bass and Rag keep a close eye on the window, and their eyes light up after a large expanse of mountains disappears from the window, and the scenery in the window changes significantly, and at the end of a mountain field appears a plain, and the plain has the outline of a castle.

"The direction of that plain is the east side of the earth world, and that castle is seventy-three kilometers away from our current coordinates." Raco said.

"Raco, lock the castle and take a closer look!" Bass shouted happily.

The image in the window quickly moves closer to the viewer, and the castle in the distance soon occupies the center of the window, a castle built on the bank of a river, and the walls and buildings in the city are clearly recognizable.

"We were in luck! The fact that such a castle can be built shows that the locals already have considerable wisdom enough to attract the attention of the Rasxings. We have a high chance of learning more about this city from the intelligence of the Stolen Ruths. Rag said.

Bass immediately understood the meaning of the intelligent companion, Russ and Earth belong to the seventh space of the Dopp Alliance, and the two planets are very similar blue planets, so Russ people are extremely concerned about the development process of human beings on Earth, and the planetary government will send intelligence personnel to the Earth every once in a while to secretly investigate.

Their espionage operation was later detected by the counterintelligence department of the Russ government and attacked by them, but it was not for nothing that they paid a heavy price, and they successfully hacked into the information base of the Russ government, from which they obtained a lot of secret information.

Bass said happily, "I hope our ship's database is well preserved, Raco, please call up all the intelligence information of Russ and search this city in the Earth world." ”

The image in the window freezes at the castle, and Bass and Rag look at Raco hopefully.

Raco skillfully clicked on the control screen a few times, and then reported to his companion: "Good news, our database has not been damaged in any way, the information on the earth collected by the Russ people has been found, the latest information was recorded two years ago in Russ time, according to the space-time conversion between Russ and the earth world, about thirty years ago in Earth time. Not for long, it will be useful for us to get to know the castle.

However, since this information includes the six regional civilizations of the Earth world, I need a moment to confirm that the castles we are observing now are included. ”

Bass said: "Great, I think it should be inside, this city looks very big and the building layout is very planned, in a world like Earth, which is counted as the least developed planet, it must be a highly civilized area to be able to build such a city." Rako, please read it to Rag and me when you're sure, lest we're going to have to read those damn Russian languages. ”

After waiting for a while, Raco said: "According to the coordinates of this city on the earth's surface, it can be confirmed that it is a civilization called Shu Kingdom, and the overall layout of this city is a trapezoidal shape with irregular sides, with a maximum distance of six thousand meters from east to west and a maximum distance of three thousand meters from north to south. The castle was built in a basin that was large in size and had a warm and humid climate that was suitable for human habitation.

The layout of the buildings in the city was planned and designed in advance, and it was divided into four different functional areas: the sacrificial area, the residential area, the royal palace and the factory. The sacrificial area is the place where the Shu people use to hold various religious activities such as sacrifices, the residential area is the place where the people and the army in the city live and trade goods, the royal palace is the area where the king and sorcerers and other high-ranking officials work and activities, and the factory area has several original factories where the Shu people handmade copper products, jade products and pottery products.

To the northwest of the castle is a large mountainous area, and the northern end of the castle is close to a large river with a shipping dock, and there is a small river running through the city, so the residents of the castle do not have to worry about drought and lack of water, but because of the large number of rivers, there is a danger that the castle will be flooded.

This is a brief description of the city recorded by the Russians. ”

"Raco, what you just read doesn't matter to us, because it's easy for us to go into the city to scout, and we urgently need to know a little bit about the history of the Shu people, their current kings, and whether they are using gold as a medium of trade," said Bass. ”

"We need information on the local value of gold! I've just calculated that if we were to repair the holes in the spacecraft with gold plates, and to keep the strength of the spacecraft at low altitudes at least three millimeters thick, we would need at least two hundred kilograms of gold. But there are no items in our ship that can be exchanged for gold with the locals, except for two mountain bikes. ”

Raco said: "Rag, our mountain speed car is a life-saving product that the spaceship must have, and it cannot be exchanged, and selling high-tech products to earthlings is not only a serious violation of the law, but once earthlings have this kind of transportation, it will pose a threat to our safety." ”

Bass agrees with Raco's opinion and says to Ragh, "All the things we carry are necessities for our survival in this world, and none of them can be exchanged. As long as the locals have gold, with our strength, we will be able to get the 200 kilograms of gold we need. ”

Rag's tone became serious, and he said, "Bass, if we don't trade normally, it means that we must use force or other illegal means to obtain the gold we need. Aside from that, do you have a third option? ”

"Of course, I've read a lot of stories about interstellar travel, and many of them are about the experience of being forced into an underdeveloped world like ours, where the aliens not only survived but were revered as gods by the locals, even though they didn't carry anything to trade with the natives," Bass laughed. We can imitate the successful examples and use our own wisdom and talents to obtain the gold we need in this Shu castle. ”

Raco said happily: "I very much agree with Bass's plan, since we are now earthlings, we must establish a fair and just leadership image among earthlings, and thus achieve our goals." Now I will continue to tell you other information about this Shu civilization.

The first king of Shu was named Silkworm Cong, and it is said that he was the first person to turn the wild silkworms on the mountains into domestic silkworms. Originally, the silkworm tribe people have always used animal husbandry and hunting as their main way of survival, and they live in the mountains and use the rocks as caves.

The Silkworm Cong tribesmen began to collect wild silkworms for silk drawing and making silk fabrics very early, and the silkworm Cong led the tribesmen to plant mulberry trees along the river, using mulberry leaves to raise silkworms and grow crops.

Under the leadership of silkworm cong, Shu gradually became a prosperous land of agriculture and mulberry, and finally established the Shu Kingdom and opened the Shu civilization.

The Silkworm Kingdom lasted for more than three hundred years before being replaced by the current Kingdom of the Bai Guan Clan. The age of this investigation is the sixth generation of the Baiguan Kingdom, and the capital of the Shu Kingdom is the capital of the Bai Kingdom established by two generations of kings.

It is necessary to mention here the experience of the first king of the Bai Guan clan.

At the end of the Silkworm Kingdom, some of the Silkworm tribesmen entered the basin with a young man to escape the war, and they came to a cypress forest where a river flowed, and this area was rich in copper, jade, and clay for life. At the suggestion of the young man who led the group, the tribe was renamed 'Bai Guan Clan', and this brave and resourceful young man was elected as the leader of the tribe.

The Baiguan tribe inherited and developed sericulture and agriculture in this fertile land, and they also used copper ore resources to make a large number of bronze products for agricultural tools and swords, and jade and clay to make jade products and pottery products. With the increase in population and economic prosperity, the Baiguan tribe rebuilt the Shu kingdom and began to build large-scale cities.

The religion of the Shu people worships the sun, the sun is the eternal god in their hearts, and the worship of the gods is presided over by a sorcerer who is said to be able to communicate with the gods and people, and the sorcerer as a priest is second only to the king in the kingdom. ”

Raco paused when he read this, looked at the two companions and said, "There is only so much content about the Shu civilization recorded by the Russ Star people, and the back is the field interview records and video recordings of some Russ Star observers, do you still want to listen to it?"

Bass said: "There is no need for interview records, Rag and I will visit the city, however, there is no mention of gold in the information you just provided, so it can be inferred that gold is not commonly used in this Shu castle, and it is more likely that copper products are used." ”

"Bass, if your inference is true, then we'll have to use metal copper to tinker with the ship instead. If this is the case, the copper plate must be at least five centimeters to have sufficient strength, then we need nearly 200 kilograms of copper or copper alloy to make the plate. ”

"Both, as far as I know, the surface of copper products is prone to oxidation and is very difficult to process into plates. We should give preference to gold, which is not only easy to machine and shape, but also far superior to copper in all aspects.

Didn't the Russ people record six regional civilizations in the latest information about the Earth world? Perhaps gold was widely used by humans in the other five civilizations. I'll search again, and if it's not too far, we can go to another civilization kingdom in search of gold. ”

After speaking, Raco turned around to look for information, and after waiting for a while, he turned to his companion and said, "In the records of the Russians, the nearest other area of earthling civilization is in the west of the Shu Kingdom, called the Kingdom of Babylon, and it is also at the thirty degrees north latitude of the earth, where people generally use gold products, but the distance from our coordinates is four thousand kilometers. ”

Bass was disappointed when he heard this, "If there is no spaceship, 4,000 kilometers is too far, it seems that we can only enter the city in front of us first to get 200 kilograms of copper metal, and to make thin plates in the processing plant in the city, and when the shipship is repaired, we will drive the spaceship to that Babylon to find gold."

In addition, I just thought of an important issue, and that is language communication. What language do Shu people speak? Has the Russ people ever recorded? ”

"I'm going to look it up."

Raco turned around and continued his work, and after a while he reported to his companion: "The Russ people have a very detailed record of the language of the Shu people, the Shu people have no written language, but they have a common language, and this language has long been parsed by the Russ people. The observer recorded the language characteristics of the Shu people by interviewing them of different statuses, and I entered the video information into the video camera of the spacecraft, so you can experience it. ”

The image in the spaceship's window was switched, and what appeared inside was the video of the interview with the residents of the Shu capital by the Russ observer, and the language of the Shu people was equipped with a Russ interpreter, and the bass could understand the interview after wearing a language cap.

The trio listened carefully to the entire interview, and the window closed.

"The structure of the Shu language is very simple, and we only need to enter the decoded information provided by the Russ people into the language system, and we can communicate freely with the locals," Rag said. ”

Bass took off the language hat and handed it to Rako: "Rako, please help me enter the decoded information of the Russ people into the language cap, Rag and I need to dress up according to the appearance characteristics of the locals, and then go to the capital of Shu." ”

Rag said, "Bass, what do you think I need to change?" Disguise is an essential function of our spy officers. ”

Bass laughed, "Rag, I suggest you wear a wig, preferably one that is very white, and then put a long gray beard on the corners of your mouth and chin. ”

Rag looked surprised and asked, "Bass, you want me to dress up as an elderly creature?" Why? ”

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