Ancient Gaia 6, the home of the orcs, in the desolate northwest grasslands, is about to come to winter.

At this time in the grass sea on the grassland, it is difficult to have any living creatures in it, and the groups of wildebeest rhinoceros in the past seem to be all gone, and all of them are white and silver when they look at the past. A faint layer of frost domineeringly pressed Caohaizi under him, domineeringly announcing that the cold winter on the grassland was coming.

Winter in the wasteland, what a long, cruel and terrible winter!

There are more than 200 days in a winter, during which the snow is covered with snow and covers thousands of miles, the whole wasteland is dead and everything is withered, and the creatures in the wasteland, whether they are weeds, insects, birds, and beasts, will all die more than sixty or seventy percent, and the orcs, who are the masters of this wasteland, will also be reduced in a large area, the old, weak, sick and disabled will all be eliminated, and the young and strong will also freeze to death and starve to death, and countless weak and small races will be silently extinct in natural disasters, and all powerful races will also kill each other on the verge of starvation and freezing to death. In order to gain the power to continue the bloodline inheritance under this calamity.

For thousands of years, the orcs have survived like this, and the torment and beating under the natural disasters day after day** year after year have made the orcs even the highest fertility rate and the most adaptable body on the Gaia 6 never be able to reproduce and expand like other intelligent creatures in the south, but have become extinct a lot.

Suffering has made them the strongest and most determined race in Gaia, and the eugenics under the direction of nature's giant hand have already completely distinguished them from the delicate elves and cunning humans of the southern realm. Become a relatively independent civilization on the Big 6.

In the Great 6 history compiled by scholars of the southern human race, the orcs on the northwest plateau have always been called - "Northern Calamity"!

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In the lair of a group of wandering orcs where Zhang Quan is located.

Kate, a Gault, lazily leaned her body against the rubble next to her, and stretched out her legs, especially the stump leg that had been injured in the war, so that she could be ironed more comfortably in the winter sun. He squinted his eyes and looked at the prairie below—he was on a raised hill in the prairie, with a platform at the top, which made his gaze condescending even when he leaned against it.

Next to him was Zhang Quan, a human who was much thinner than the orcs. Yesterday, a group of elated orcs had already brought him and the food goods he brought in one go, and such a large number of goods made Zhang Quan's voice in this group of orcs once again stretched to the limit. It's gotten to the point where talking is more effective than the collar here.

Kate, the head of the wandering orcs who gathered together in order to survive together in the lair, because of his age, experience, and experience, following him, these orcs who are here together and want to try to survive may be able to grow longer.

But now, who knows, perhaps, the big guys can survive this winter, the winter on the grassland, the most terrible is of course the biting cold wind, covering a qiē ice and snow, but for the orcs of the intelligent species, the most deadly is food.

Yes, grain! Lack of food is the great enemy of the creatures on the grassland in winter, everything withers in the winter on the grassland, and the orcs can't find food everywhere, and they are starving to death, this is the most terrifying truth for the orcs in the winter on the grassland!

But now, with this mysterious human merchant Zhang Quan, perhaps, the big guy can really survive?

Kate looked at Zhang Quan, the human beside her. This mysterious and intelligent human businessman, who has only been in contact with them for a few days, and has learned the lingua franca of the Big 6 from their mouths, there is no doubt that he brings hope to everyone.

Zhang Quan said to Kate: "This time, I still want the kind of gold coins I used last time, the more the better, bring it, well, you know, exchange for money." ”

After many times of contact with Kate and their group of orcs, Zhang Quan thought that he had enough understanding of them, this world, the intelligent species civilization that called itself the orcs in the wasteland was obviously still in a very rudimentary state, and life was very difficult, and the civilization was about the same as the nomads on the Mongolian steppe during the feudal society.

The orcs of the fierce and warlike strong race on the grassland are extremely powerful, ruling this grassland, dividing each other's boundaries in the form of tribes, they are the noble races of the grassland, and the vast number of low-level orcs are silently suffering from the oppression and exploitation of the orc nobles, while surviving in the gap between ** and natural disasters.

Orc Wasteland. That is, the place where Zhang Quan is now is said to be located in the northwest of Gaia 6, the geographical environment is extremely harsh, the winter is long and cold, almost every time it comes is a disaster for the primitive civilization on this steppe, which is why his arrival is of great significance to this group of poor orcs, it can be said that the food he brought completely determines the lives of their survivors in this cold wasteland.

This, it can be seen from the happy joy on the faces of the orcs every time he arrives, the orcs in this small tribe are extremely enthusiastic about him, even if they know that he is "born with great frailty", and he does not have the strength that the orcs usually respect the most! So he's also very straightforward.

Who knew that for Zhang Quan's request this time, Kate, who was full of wrinkles, was stunned for a moment, and then her face showed embarrassment.

"Gold! Not really, the ones we gave you last time are all we've worked so hard to collect. We, we don't have it anymore. ”

What the? Zhang Quan's face immediately looked ugly.

When Kate saw it, she hurriedly continued to plead in a low voice,

"No, you don't know, we don't actually need that kind of thing in the wasteland, gold coins, very few, very difficult to get, most orc tribes never have."

Hearing this, Zhang Quan's heart immediately became cold, there are no gold coins, there are no gold coins, what do I have to trade with you, so much food, it is not for nothing, it is all bought by Zhang Quan with real money.

Old Kate saw that Zhang Quan's face was wrong, and she was also anxious about something.

"Gold coins, really, really not, it's all on your human side, we...... We are all poor, and there is nothing in this vicinity. ”

Old Kate explained to Zhang Quan while gesturing, looking very pitiful, for fear that Zhang Quan, a kind person, would leave without them at the next moment. Inevitably, there was no fear in his heart.

Zhang Quan, a stranger, although mysterious and secretive, but every time he came, he brought a lot of life-saving food to their group of poor people, as well as other extremely important salt and iron tools, so that their small group of stray orcs lived in a short period of time and instantly rose a notch, rice and white flour, this kind of food that looks extremely fine, that is not enjoyed by the nobles on the grassland, but they have almost everything, such a life, if it is lost all of a sudden, then the big guys are terrible, No one can stand it.

From thrift to luxury, from luxury to frugality, it is impossible for the orcs who have experienced this kind of life to accept the return to the precarious days of the past, even if the old Kate is well-informed, he subconsciously resists Zhang Quan's intention to control the fate of this group of orcs, but he can't accept such a result.

However, he explained, Zhang Quan was right when he thought about it, after all, gold is a rare metal, and I am afraid that the abundance is not very high in the entire universe, and it is impossible for him to come to this other world, and suddenly encounter the gold and silver sea.

He thought for a moment, and then asked, "There's no gold—what do you usually trade for?" ”

Old Kate, a Gault, replied honestly: "It's all barter, what to use, just exchange it!" ”

"Then why, how did you get that kind of gold for me last time,"

"That was the last time we hunted, well, a small tribe of minotaurs, and their tribe has survived. That kind of gold coin was the currency of their Minotaur Empire when it unified the steppe hundreds of years ago, and it was mainly minted for exchange with human merchants, and now that the empire is gone, where is it! ”

"Then, on the grassland now, there is really, there is no currency left?" Zhang Quan couldn't believe that the civilization of these orcs on the grassland could be so backward that the currency would have no value here.

"Well...... Now, if you talk about the equivalent of the general equivalent as you said, I'm afraid it's livestock or grain. These things, big guys, no one can do without them. Old Kate pondered and replied.

Oh, I see! Hearing this, Zhang Quan finally understood that the gold coin, that is, currency, was something that only existed after the commodity economy in a society had reached a certain level of prosperity, and it was still a rare thing in the orc wasteland at this time. The economic form of the orc natives living in this wasteland is extremely simple, most of them are bartering between tribes, only the most scarce food is considered a general equivalent, and livestock and grain are the main wealth that the orcs can have in their lifetime.

As for the currency, well! The kind of Minotaur gold coins traded by Zhang Quan last time were the currency left over from the Minotaur Empire during the previous period of great unification in the wasteland, and they were all hundreds of years old, and they were generally only held in large quantities by the large tribes of the orcs, and they were only used when they traded with the southern terrans outside the Hengduan Mountains.

And for Kate Gaskena and her group of wanderers on the steppe, even if they risked their lives and tried their best, they really couldn't get any gold coins in the most remote northwest of the wasteland. The dozens of gold coins that they brought back to Zhang Quan last time were already a little bit that they had only gathered by stealing and robbing them and patronizing all the surrounding tribes.

Zhang Quan frowned,

"If there are no gold coins, are there any other precious metals on the grassland, such as scattered gold, silver, precious stones, etc., and anything that looks shiny!" After thinking about it, Zhang Quan added again. In any case, Zhang Quan's goal is to quickly find a commodity that can be quickly cashed out in the earth world, gold is not available, and others can be used, and then go back to exchange for food and necessities, and then return to this world, so that the business will become bigger and bigger. Otherwise, Zhang Quan has only been in and out, so how can he hold on.

But he stopped old Kate now, and after thinking about it for a long time, this guy answered,

"I heard that there are gold mines in the grasslands, and some large tribes will mine gold and give it to human merchants in the south in exchange for food and iron tools in human hands. However, I didn't hear that there would be one in our neighborhood, otherwise, we would have been rich a long time ago. ”

Oh, Zhang Quan secretly shouted in his heart that he was unlucky, in this place he came to, this group of orcs is really poor enough, they are simply poor and white.

"Then what other valuable things do you have here besides grain and livestock, for the human merchants?" Zhang Quan thought to himself, a dead horse should be a live horse doctor! Since there is already a primitive form of trade between orcs and humans, there should be primitive goods, which should be of some use!

This time, Kate replied very simply,

"Then it's just livestock and population, wildebeests, rhinoceros and whatever, uh, the ones you see ourselves riding, oh, our warriors of the steppe, those are the famous mercenaries of the whole Big 6, those human merchants, but they are willing to pay a lot of money for them. But in our grassland, there is everything, and you can have as much as you want. ”

As she spoke, old Kate deliberately straightened her chest, as if she was honored.

But this posture made Zhang Quan really speechless, grandma, his brother was bought as a slave and was so happy, the morality of these orcs is really unacceptable.

Population and livestock, what use does this make Zhang Quan use, although those cattle and horses on the earth are quite valuable, but here, those monsters with strange shapes and huge sizes, does Zhang Quan dare to sell them to the earth? And these orc warriors, no matter how strong he is, can Zhang Quan take them back to Earth?

Doesn't this understand that Jurassic Park is more Jurassic Park than Jurassic Park? If you don't pay attention to it, it may cause chaos in the world, and his current exhibition strategy is to keep his head shut and make a lot of money, how dare he use these things to show off!

He said angrily: "Then, is it true that there is nothing left on your steppe except for the population and livestock?" ”

His tone naturally made the old Kate, who had a great sense of national pride, very unaccustomed to it, but there was no way, everyone was relying on Zhang Quan to eat at this time, and he didn't dare to talk back, so he lowered his head and thought about it for a long time.

"Oh, by the way, ore, and ore, although there is very little gold on our grassland, but the iron ore, it is everywhere! In the past, when the Minotaur Empire, I don't know how many Terran caravans came to our grassland to buy them, and after they were smelted into pig iron and weapons, they were sold back! ”

Oh!

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