Section 22 Stone Town of the Jackal

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Chen Yin sat comfortably on the back of the sand lizard, playing with the crystal-textured six-legged beetle, while listening to the adventurer leader tell him about the survival of the sand people.

That's right, these people are the sandmen.

The vast desert is desolate and barren, but after Heaven took away the richness of this place, it also left it with precious resources.

Chen Yin had only known that this place was rich in sunflower grass, which was used to craft blank cards below 3 stars, but he had never heard that such a precious resource was still hidden here......

For example, the white and tender thing in front of me, which is a bit like yogurt, is the material used to make healing magic cards. Chen Yin never thought that the origin of the original healing magic khaki material was here.

Chen Yin shook the bottle, and the "insect pulp" in the bottle also trembled. When I first saw this thing, I really thought it was yogurt, but I didn't expect it to be "produced" by the black four-legged beetle before.

Spit out, to be exact.

The social structure of the scarab beetle resembles that of a bee, while the common four-legged scarab beetle is the worker bee in the population. Not only are they responsible for building various facilities, but they are also feeding other higher-level bugs with their own efforts.

"Worm Pulp" is a kind of scarab used exclusively for combat scarabs, when they are injured, they will run to the "Worm Pulp" pool to soak, and after repairing the wound in a short time, they will set out on the journey again until they die in battle.

The "insect pulp" is that those four-legged scarabs collect the flowers of a plant called "white stone flowers", eat them, go through a special reaction in the body of the four-legged scarab, and then spit them back into the "insect slurry pool" for use by the scarab beetle.

"Shiraishi flower" is a flower called "Shiraishi" plant, which looks like a pebble with edges and corners sharpened, and it blooms all year round, but the place where they grow is only visited by scarab beetles, so it is even more rare than "insect pulp".

The job of the adventurers is to secretly dig a passage and use camouflaged metal pipes to extract the "worm slurry" from the pool. As long as they collected a bottle the size of a palm, it was enough for their group of adventurers to eat and wear for several weeks.

“…… It's a dangerous job. After listening to the leader's introduction, Chen Yin couldn't help but sigh.

"Alas, if we hadn't been forced to do so, we wouldn't have come to sit with the miners...... Every bottle is fighting for your life, if it weren't for you......" The adventurer's leader's voice was a little sneering, he wiped the corners of his eyes, and quickly adjusted.

"And where did you find this thing?" Chen Yin held up the crystal scarab beetle and asked, he always felt that this crystal scarab statue was a little strange, and even the true vision effect had no information about this beetle, which also made Chen Yin full of curiosity about it.

"Your Excellency, we fished it out of the pool of worm slurry, if it weren't for it, we wouldn't have been discovered......" The adventurer leader shook his head with a wry smile, "Actually, the time to steal the worm pulp is very, very short, you have to insert the tube in it at the moment when the scarab leaves and take a big suck, and then quickly pull the tube back......"

Chen Yin silently threw the small bottle back.

I didn't expect this thing to have their saliva in it...... Many people use healing techniques made from this "worm pulp" that looks like yogurt......

…… For some reason, Chen Yin seemed to smell a smell of saliva.

Next to the sand lizard, the leader of the adventurers who walked and followed the sand lizard continued to tell: "...... This time we missed, and suddenly sucked this thing, and we were surprised that it was a little slower than usual, and was discovered by the scarabs......"

"So you've been chased so far?" Chen Yin shook his head, "Those corpses are all your clansmen?" ”

"No, no, no, some of them are mercenaries of merchants, and the rest are some foot merchants, in fact, there are only more than 30 of us, and this time we have lost half of them...... Alas. As he spoke, the leader of the adventurers sighed and shook his head.

"The rest are your people?" Chen Yin was stunned for a moment, if this adventurer leader hadn't lied, then everyone else had obviously been sacrificed as cannon fodder by them.

"Of course, when there is danger, it is us adventurers who suffer the most, those merchants have long run away with their guards, they all have mounts, unlike us cannon fodder......" The adventurer leader shook his head sadly.

“…… Who are those who died? ”

"Most of them are mercenaries, and there are some spies who don't know who they belong to, and then it's us......" The adventurer's leader's voice was a little dim.

"It's just collecting insect pulp, why are so many people here?" Chen Yin said strangely, "Aren't you afraid of being discovered?" ”

"Hmph, those merchants all wanted to buy worm pulp as soon as possible, and they used those mercenaries to force us to collect more...... Hmph, it's good to die! These people rely on the strength of the crowd and always have to keep the price to the lowest before they are willing! ”

"Actually, we'd already picked a bottle, if it weren't for them...... Alas. ”

The leader of the adventurers sighed deeply.

"Look away, everything will pass." Chen Yin comforted softly.

In any case, people always have to look forward, the dead are gone, and the living must continue to live.

On Chen Yin's right, the witch was also sitting on the back of the sand lizard, but she didn't seem to be in the mood to chat, she sat there silently listening to Chen Yin chatting with the adventurer leader, but the expression on her face was a little wonderful, so that Chen Yin, who noticed this, couldn't help but look at her twice.

"What are you looking at?" The black-haired girl flicked her ponytail and glared at Chen Yin.

"Nothing." Chen Yin shook his head with a smile and was surprised, "It's just that I've never seen you have such an expression...... Are you sympathetic to them? ”

"What's so strange about that?" The black-haired girl sighed, "Where, it's hard to survive...... For the sake of stuttering, all the members are gambling with their lives, which ...... What a ......."

I can't go on anymore halfway through the words.

Chen Yin looked at the black-haired girl who was full of emotion, and couldn't help but say seriously: "Shocked, right? Life naturally finds a way to survive. Even in this barren desert, there are still people who have adapted to this place and are trying to survive here. ”

"Huh? What are you talking about? The witch was stunned.

Chen Yin shrugged: "I just want to tell you that even if the Holy Light Church gives them life, when the Church retrieves their souls, it is not natural, and no one is born a lamb to the slaughter. ”

"You ......," the brunette girl was speechless for a moment, "okay, okay, I see." ”

Chen Yin chatted a lot with the adventurer leader, and soon he shifted the topic to the "Great Wall".

Unfortunately, they don't know much about the "Great Wall", only that behind the wall are mountains and mountains, and many people have a legend that the insects in the desert, no matter how big or small, are likely to come from the side of the wall.

The information on this point is consistent with the information that Chen Yin obtained from the "Sleeping Place".

In the middle of talking, a little green suddenly appeared behind the sand dunes in the distance. Before they knew it, Chen Yin and the others had arrived in Stone Town.

“…… Your Excellency, the oasis in front of you is Stone Town, and our mayor is the jackal boss, and he is the most short-tempered and lustful person, so your family had better wear a veil and don't let him see it. ”

The adventurer leader reminded.

"Oh." Chen Yin looked at the black-haired girl and saw that she silently pulled up the veil, so he breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "This is the jackal...... Is it dangerous? ”

"Actually, the jackal boss is still fairer, otherwise he wouldn't make Stone Town more and more prosperous. During the monsoon season, a large number of caravans come to us to trade, and even attract people from other small towns to us, and in normal years it is enough to buy and sell a little food to support the family......"

Chen Yin felt that his words seemed to have some unfinished meaning, and couldn't help asking, "What about this year?" ”

"Alas, this year, the jackal boss doesn't know what is crazy, and he actually issued an order to restrict a few big merchant groups from replenishing water in Stone Town, and now those big merchant groups simply won't come, and even many small merchant groups won't come to us to do business......"

"That's why you're risking to collect worm pulp?"

"yes, alas...... Half of the people. The leader of the adventurers shook his head and sighed.

"......" Chen Yin listened, and he didn't know what to say.

The wind in the desert is not cool, but it carries an uncomfortable heat wave. The grains of sand always drill into the collar, cuffs, and even ears and nose. Every time the hot wind blows, the hair, nostrils, and mouth are filled with sand.

When the high canopy of the tree blocked the scorching sun, Chen Yin, who came to the shade of the tree, screamed comfortably, couldn't wait to take off all the thick cloth on his body, and didn't put it on after shaking off the yellow sand, just threw it on the back of the sand lizard.

Chen Yin is relaxed, but Vittoria can only wear heavy clothes - in order to be cool, this kind of sunscreen clothes is usually only underwear underneath, which can be known from Chen Yin's bare body What is the state under the witch's clothes. So Chen Yin can get rid of her, she can't.

Vittoria, who could only continue to endure the scorching heat and dust, glared at Chen Yin viciously, but unfortunately Chen Yin was chatting with the adventurer leader in a relaxed manner and didn't see her eyes at all.

Since Chen Yin and the others only had four sand lizards and three people, the guards did not mobilize the crowd, and after finding out that Chen Yin and Vittoria were both coming for the first time, they collected 1 silver coin from each of them to enter the city, and sent an invitation to let them enter the city.

As a resident adventurer, he was let in by the guards just after he first acquired his family's mark.

“…… Looks like the guards here are very loose, huh? Chen Yin looked at the lit soul crystal in his hand. If it was another city, someone would have come up to warn them a long time ago, right? Of course, the Golden Harbor kind of place is an alternative.

I will fix it in a moment.

Unfortunately, they don't know much about the "Great Wall", only that behind the wall are mountains and mountains, and many people have a legend that the insects in the desert, no matter how big or small, are likely to come from the side of the wall.

The information on this point is consistent with the information that Chen Yin obtained from the "Sleeping Place".

In the middle of talking, a little green suddenly appeared behind the sand dunes in the distance. Before they knew it, Chen Yin and the others had arrived in Stone Town.

“…… Your Excellency, the oasis in front of you is Stone Town, and our mayor is the jackal boss, and he is the most short-tempered and lustful person, so your family had better wear a veil and don't let him see it. ”

The adventurer leader reminded.

"Oh." Chen Yin looked at the black-haired girl and saw that she silently pulled up the veil, so he breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "This is the jackal...... Is it dangerous? ”

"Actually, the jackal boss is still fairer, otherwise he wouldn't make Stone Town more and more prosperous. During the monsoon season, a large number of caravans come to us to trade, and even attract people from other small towns to us, and in normal years it is enough to buy and sell a little food to support the family......"

Chen Yin felt that his words seemed to have some unfinished meaning, and couldn't help asking, "What about this year?" ”

"Alas, this year, the jackal boss doesn't know what is crazy, and he actually issued an order to restrict a few big merchant groups from replenishing water in Stone Town, and now those big merchant groups simply won't come, and even many small merchant groups won't come to us to do business......"

"That's why you're risking to collect worm pulp?"

"yes, alas...... Half of the people. The leader of the adventurers shook his head and sighed.

"......" Chen Yin listened, and he didn't know what to say.

The wind in the desert is not cool, but it carries an uncomfortable heat wave. The grains of sand always drill into the collar, cuffs, and even ears and nose. Every time the hot wind blows, the hair, nostrils, and mouth are filled with sand.

When the high canopy of the tree blocked the scorching sun, Chen Yin, who came to the shade of the tree, screamed comfortably, couldn't wait to take off all the thick cloth on his body, and didn't put it on after shaking off the yellow sand, just threw it on the back of the sand lizard.

Chen Yin is relaxed, but Vittoria can only wear heavy clothes - in order to be cool, this kind of sunscreen clothes is usually only underwear underneath, which can be known from Chen Yin's bare body What is the state under the witch's clothes. So Chen Yin can get rid of her, she can't.

Vittoria, who could only continue to endure the scorching heat and dust, glared at Chen Yin viciously, but unfortunately Chen Yin was chatting with the adventurer leader in a relaxed manner and didn't see her eyes at all.

Since Chen Yin and the others only had four sand lizards and three people, the guards did not mobilize the crowd, and after finding out that Chen Yin and Vittoria were both coming for the first time, they collected 1 silver coin from each of them to enter the city, and sent an invitation to let them enter the city.

As a resident adventurer, he was let in by the guards just after he first acquired his family's mark.

“…… Looks like the guards here are very loose, huh? Chen Yin looked at the lit soul crystal in his hand. If it was another city, someone would have come up to warn them a long time ago, right? Of course, the Golden Harbor kind of place is an alternative.

(To be continued.) )