Meng Qi remained in the cabin.

It didn't know that it had been selected by Su Hao to become a candidate for the new "worker bee". This position was originally prepared by Su Hao for the priest of Moli Zaka Village, Vila Tora. However, in terms of sincere worship and recognition of strength, Meng Qi is obviously much more direct than Villatora.

Meng Qi had been staring at the pile of charcoal fire that was lit in the center of the wooden house, and it was not until Su Hao walked into the room that it quickly stood up, put its hands on its chest, bowed respectfully, and waited for its order.

Su Hao nodded, pulled over a chair and sat down, and pointed to the wooden bench next to him: "Sit down!" ”

Meng Qi cautiously responded, sitting on the wooden bench with extreme caution, but the muscles in his legs and waist were tense all the time, maintaining a posture that could stand up at any time.

Su Hao glanced at him (after serious consideration, Meng Qi should also be "him", not "it"), and his face was almost black with the stimulation of the bowl of dirty broth, and slowly showed a smile: "Don't be so restrained." I'm not a person who likes to kill indiscriminately, and I'm not as scary as you think. ”

Without waiting for Meng Qi to answer, Su Hao continued: "Actually, I am very new to everything about Labangka. If you are willing to help me, I guarantee that you can get more and more generous rewards than you imagined. ”

This is a statement common to almost all wooers. Meng Qi didn't think that Su Hao was lying nonsense. As a warrior emerging from the tunnel, he was indeed qualified to say such things. What's more, just a few hours ago, Su Hao and his subordinates had already shown extremely strong strength. Including Su Hao, these eleven warriors are simply giant battering rams in action. Anything that dares to stand in their way will be crushed.

To be an enemy of such a person is to seek a dead end.

Putting away his chaotic thoughts, Meng Qi re-corrected his position and said seriously: "I have admitted that you are my master. You can do anything to me, give me any command. ”

Slavery is still practised on the continent of Rabangka. Meng Qi didn't feel any humiliation in turning from a free businessman into Su Hao's slave. "As a rich dog, you are not the head of a poor family" is the most famous maxim in the Labangka world, not to mention, Su Hao is also a powerful warrior from another world. Even the most honorable king has nothing but prostrate himself and licking his toes in front of him.

Su Hao cut straight to the point: "Tell me, how many indigenous villages are there around the Central Mountain Range?" ”

"I don't know what to do."

Meng Qi shook his head and said frankly: "No one knows the specific number. The lands that surround the entire mountain range belong to different kingdoms. Mutants and local armies are the caravan's worst enemies. I've been on this road for more than 20 years, and there are only 11 indigenous villages on the map. The route is remote and uninhabited. Directly south of the mountain range, there are several trade routes densely populated with villages. The villages were close to the plains, but were dominated by other noble merchants. I had no way to compete with them, so I had to go farther and more remote to find a source of slaves. As your host knows, this approach has its limitations, and I don't even know where the village of Moli Zaka is, let alone anywhere else. ”

Su Hao stared at Meng Qi carefully for a while, and nodded slowly: "Then, the second question: In every indigenous village you have visited, is there a pyramid with the same shape?" ”

"Yes!"

Meng Qi nodded respectfully: "This is not a secret in the Rabangka Continent. Each indigenous tribe has a pyramid in it. Many scholars have been puzzled by this, because with the ability of the local indigenous people, it would never have been possible to build such a complex structure. This involves the deepest arithmetic, and there is no stable source of stone in the surrounding area. The previous king of the Saffield was curious about this and ordered a survey of all the indigenous villages in the country. As a result, nothing was gained, and the existence and construction of the pyramids remained a mystery. ”

Su Hao understood what Meng Qi meant, but he was still puzzled: "Could it be that the investigation is only limited to construction methods and materials?" Isn't there anything about the specific role and effect of the pyramid itself? ”

"Absolutely."

Meng Qi smiled bitterly: "Actually, the previous king of Saphili was not the first person to be curious about the pyramids. I have read many records that the investigation of the pyramids scattered on the continent of Rabangka began more than 60,000 years ago. In order to thoroughly understand these secrets, which are obviously not part of human architecture, successive kings have tried every means to even tear down hundreds of pyramids to compare and study them from the inside. ”

Su Hao's eyes lit slightly: "Oh! What did they find? ”

Meng Qi took out a yellow spar from the pocket of his clothes, placed it flat in his palm, and said, "This is it." ”

"Isn't this the crystal nucleus in the mutant's brain?" Su Hao asked knowingly. He had just included Meng Qi in the transformation target, and he hadn't really accepted it yet. Naturally, it is impossible to highly level each other with more information.

"This little sparkling stone comes in yellow and white."

Meng Qi continued unfinished words: "Ancient texts record that this kind of spar was more or less found in those destroyed pyramids. There are hundreds of them, and there are more than a dozen of them. The local natives had no idea of the origin of the spars, and the priests of the village flatly denied that the spars were sent to the pyramids by the natives. These villages are isolated from the outside world, not that the natives like to be quiet, but that these villages are surrounded by mutants. Ranging from hundreds to thousands, they surrounded indigenous villages, harassing and plundering people from time to time. This phenomenon has made many people feel strange. The kings once sent armies to hunt down mutants on a large scale and bring the rescued indigenous villages under management. ”

Su Hao interrupted Meng Qi's words and asked strangely, "Bring the indigenous people into the management?" Why, want to integrate the barbarians into civilized society? ”

"The natives are recognized as the best source of warriors on the continent of Labanca."

Meng Qi explained: "They are inherently much stronger than civilians. Aristocrats of all countries liked to adopt native slaves, train them, and serve as personal guards. Kings have a long-term view. They sent troops to relieve the siege of the village, destroyed the pyramids, forcibly collected the natives, and escorted them to settle in designated plain areas. In order to obtain more and stronger young slaves, the nobles even demanded that commoners be forcibly bonded with indigenous women, or simply raped and conceived. But it is very strange that the children born to these indigenous women are no different from ordinary people, and they no longer have a strong physique far beyond ordinary people. ”

"This happened throughout the continent of Rabangka, and even spread to the slaves who were escorted down the mountain. Their strong constitution cannot be sustained, and even if there is a union between indigenous slaves and indigenous slaves, the children born are still ordinary constitutions. Initially, the nobles and kings were outraged by this, believing that it was the result of a deliberate deception by the natives and commoners in private to swap babies. Many slaves and civilians were killed as a result, and many more were kept under the watchful eye of the army, repeating the same mating work as those who were killed. A year later, the results remained the same, and the king and nobles felt that something was wrong. ”

Su Hao asked thoughtfully: "In other words, as long as you leave the village where you originally lived and leave the central mountain range, the natives will become normal people?" ”

"No, it's not."

Meng Qi corrected the mistake in Su Hao's words: "There is no change in themselves, only the descendants of slaves have changed." The strong combat power of the natives can be maintained until the day they die, but the bloodline in their bodies cannot continue. In the tens of thousands of years of civilization recorded on the continent of Labanca, there have been many times of slaughtering villages, besieging mutants, destroying pyramids, and then mass breeding. Although there are detailed records of previous generations, there are always some kings and nobles who are hungry for profit who refuse to believe it, and always repeat the same actions without results. No one has counted how many natives were killed as a result, and no one knows how many villages were destroyed in Langdao. It wasn't until the kings and nobles got tired of the game and gave up illusions about things like breeding that the natives were able to continue their quiet lives. This, of course, seems simply unbearable to us. They must face ferocious mutants, and they must live in an environment full of fear and hunger. They have no clothes, no supplies, no basic hygiene. As you can see, Suan Kacama Village is actually a big garbage dump. In a place like this, even a second longer can be tireless, let alone a long-term residence. However, it was so strange that the natives did not care about it, and never had the idea of migrating or leaving. ”

Su Hao didn't speak, completely lost in thought.

Meng Qi's words made Su Hao see more things that he hadn't noticed before.

Central Mountains, Mutants, Indigenous, Pyramids...... These things are obviously the result of being concatenated by some kind of force. They are interdependent and hostile to each other. The natives eat the mutants, and the mutants also feed on the natives. Mutants surround the indigenous villages in droves, constantly attacking, hunting and killing the natives for food. In this extremely dangerous environment, it is certainly impossible for the natives to expand their cultivated area, and can only kill more mutants in a constant counterattack to use as a supplementary source of food shortage.

It's a terrible vicious circle. As a result of the fighting, the number of mutants and natives is decreasing. However, judging from the situation that Meng Qi just introduced, it seems that there are still many villages around the Central Mountain Range, and the number of indigenous people is too large to be counted.

"Your wisdom, host, is beyond the beat. In fact, this is one of the most troublesome puzzles in the continent of Rabangka for a long time. ”

Meng Qi slapped Su Hao hard and replied respectfully: "Since the beginning of the era of recorded civilization, there have been kingdoms on the Rabangka Continent. They are always in constant scuffle, fighting each other again and again. Cities have been conquered and farmland has been abandoned. The war inevitably spread to the indigenous villages on the outskirts of the mountains. For example, the village of Fohamarakawa on the side of the South Carolina Pass has appeared 22 times in a row over the past tens of thousands of years, starting from the 196th year of the continental calendar. ”

Su Hao frowned: asked, "Appearing continuously?" What do you mean? ”

"The village of Forhamarakawa was once occupied by successive royal armies. According to the records of Volumes 1 to 389 of the History of Continental Civilization, the change of different countries caused a large number of deaths in the area around Nanka Mountain. The indigenous village has been massacred several times, with all the villagers taken captive, and there are several records that the village is uninhabited and all the indigenous people have been exterminated. Despite this, the village of Forha Malakawa still exists. The abandoned village seems to have a special attraction to the natives. Over the course of tens of thousands of years, every time it perished, new natives emerged as new inhabitants. This phenomenon has continued to this day, and no one can say exactly what it is. Even the wisest of the sages can only be explained by "population and tribal migration". ”

Su Hao fell silent again.

In his mind, a village similar to Molizaka had been captured by the army, with all the young and the young being taken away and the old men killed. Layers of corpses piled up throughout the village. Then the mutants appeared, and they ate all the corpses with a good appetite that they could never seem, leaving only a burned ruin. As the days go by, year after year, a faint figure appears on the mountain path overgrown with weeds and shrubs. Many indigenous people appeared, and they all went into the abandoned village of Fuhamarakawa to rebuild their homes from the rubble.

"Wait!"

Su Hao suddenly discovered the biggest problem in Meng Qi's words, and asked repeatedly: "What about the pyramid?" Didn't the wars destroy the pyramids in the villages? And what did the kings and nobles do with those hedrons? ”

"The annals of antiquity record that in those destroyed pyramids, kings have found the so-called passages."

Meng Qi responded: "It's just an ordinary arch, and it's in every pyramid. It is said to be a passage, but in fact it is just a dead end closed by a stone wall. Knock the stone wall open and you can walk to the outside of the pyramid. However, there are also some records that indicate that the stone wall is only a setting inside the passage. If you follow the instructions of the indigenous priests and put hedron in the stone chest on the third floor of the pyramid, the passage will be filled with a mysterious black substance. It had a powerful blocking ability, able to keep out any creature that wanted to enter it. The kings and nobles were curious about this, but did not get any research results. Tens of thousands of years have passed, and the debate about the pyramids continues, and the stone walls and black fog have become open secrets on the continent of Rabangka. Even ordinary civilians know that only after the hedron is placed in the pyramid will there be a black mist. But the specific role and effect, no one can say. ”

Su Hao continued to ask: "Then how do you know that there will be warriors in the passage of the Dao?" ”

"It's a legend that is widely circulated among the Aborigines."

Meng Qi's expression was a little helpless, and he replied with a wry smile: "Every village has priests, and they always keep preaching that there is a so-called main god in this world, and there will be warriors in the passage. Intrigued, many kings and nobles sent their armies to live in some of the villages near the plains. This monitoring has no effect. For tens of thousands of years, people have not seen any so-called "miracles", nor have they seen any warriors walking out of the passages. Some of the grumpy kings, believing that they had been fooled, ordered the slaughter of all the indigenous inhabitants of the village. The hedron obtained from the mutant human body was also used as a kind of ornament, scattered throughout the court and the people. Due to its unique appearance and good light transmittance, since the Rose Dynasty more than 30,000 years ago, spars have been used as a luxury collection by the ladies of the upper class. Jewellers polish the crystals and set them in rings or necklaces to decorate. This ethos continues to this day, and the ladies take pride in having the purest, lightest, and most tactile hedrons. The larger the volume, the more beautiful the spar, and it can fetch a high price in the market. This has also led to the attention of thieves and robbers to indigenous villages. They didn't dare to go directly to the mountains to hunt mutants, but only brought food to exchange with the natives. ”

Su Hao took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a deep breath, and asked in a rather strange tone: "According to what you said, shouldn't there be a lot of spars circulating in the Rabangka Continent now?" For tens of thousands of years, the indigenous villages that have been wiped out, and the mutants who have been killed, are simply countless. If you are a businessman, you should understand the truth that "scarcity is expensive". Since the number of hedrons has become so large that they are overflowing, how can it be expensive? ”

"Every word I say is true."

Meng Qi hurriedly explained: "Something like a spar is as mysterious as a pyramid. It disappears every once in a while, and no one knows what the road is for......"

Su Hao's eyes narrowed suddenly: "What did you say?" Disappear? ”

Meng Qi nodded seriously: "Yes, they will indeed disappear. This situation has existed since the earliest recorded period of the history of continental civilization. Whether yellow or white, as long as it is stored for more than a year, it will disappear automatically. They seem to melt into the air, and there is not the slightest trace of them. Initially, this situation went unnoticed. Because there are so many events of hedron disappearance, it is normal for food to rot naturally if it is left for a long time. However, from the Iris Dynasty onwards, a countess noticed that one of the yellow spars she kept in her jewelry box was actually well preserved, and this attracted attention. ”

Su Hao thought for a moment and asked, "That spar should have some specific conditions, right?" ”

"That's true."

Meng Qi nodded repeatedly: "It's big, it's heavy, it's extremely pure, and it doesn't have any flaws." This event caused a sensation at the time, and the reigning king even demanded that hedrons be collected throughout the country to be used for comparison. "This situation went unnoticed. Because there are so many events of hedron disappearance, it is normal for food to rot naturally if it is left for a long time. However, from the Iris Dynasty onwards, a countess noticed that one of the yellow spars she kept in her jewelry box was actually well preserved, and this attracted attention. ”

Su Hao thought for a moment and asked, "That spar should have some specific conditions, right?" ”

"That's true."

Meng Qi nodded repeatedly: "It's big, it's heavy, it's extremely pure, and it doesn't have any flaws." This event caused a sensation at the time, and the reigning king even demanded that hedrons be collected throughout the country to be used for comparison. ”