Chapter 32: Preparations
As Iron Hand had guessed, the Flame Tribe was a large tribe with a population of 8,000, and the people of this tribe had built a stone city in the wasteland out of boulders that had been moved from nowhere, and there was a huge archway where the Flame Tribe entered, and a dozen orc warriors in iron armor were standing on either side of the arch to examine everyone who walked into the Flame Tribe. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Recently, the wasteland has not been very safe, and many small and medium-sized tribes have been captured by human hunting parties."
"Isn't it, I've seen a small tribe of people all have their heads cut off by humans."
"These humans are so arrogant"
"It is"
Yang Xiu was mixed in the pile of orcs entering the city, eavesdropping on the chat of the nearby orcs, and from their conversation, Yang Xiu learned that it seemed that there was a great danger in the wasteland recently, thinking of this, Yang Xiu couldn't help but worry about the Black Iron Tribe who was far away and didn't know where.
"I hope they don't touch the human hunting party," Yang Xiu said in his heart.
The Flame Tribe seems to be an extremely well-developed tribe, and every orc warrior here is wearing armor, which is much taller than the orcs of the Black Iron Tribe.
"Duronda, why are the people here so advanced in equipment, didn't you say that iron is a scarce resource and expensive in the wasteland?" Yang Xiu turned around and asked.
"Chief, this place is close to the oasis, the oasis has the most iron ore, these people's armor should be purchased from the oasis, and this flame tribe is also a big tribe, usually the big tribe will occupy a few open-pit gold mines," Duronda said.
In the life of the orcs, in addition to the barter of this way of trading, the orcs of the big tribes prefer to use gold as a trading currency, not only because it is convenient to carry light things, but also because of the gold thing, the human beings outside the steel fortress are also very fond of it, after passing some human caravans sneak into the deserted plains, with some salt, tobacco, fruits, vegetables to trade gold with the orcs.
For this reason, the orc tribes of the Silent Plains will go to find those gold mines that are open or buried in the ground, and bring people to occupy them and then mine them.
"I see, then if we occupy that castle, won't it be able to exchange iron for gold externally," Yang Xiu said suddenly.
"Chief, you'd better think about it, the only ones who can hold the iron ore in the Deserted Plains are the three major tribes in the oasis" Iron Hand smiled softly: "Iron is more precious than gold on the Deserted Plains, if the current Black Iron Tribe dares to sell iron to the outside world, it is estimated that a large number of medium and large tribes will hit our tribe outside the next day."
"In this way, it seems that this matter is still too simple for me to think" Yang Xiu suddenly realized.
Each orc tribe does not allow foreign orcs to bring in mounts, and all mounts must be stored in a specially set up beast pen, Yang Xiu and the others entrusted the Kodo beast to a few orcs with a dung smell, and hurriedly walked away from this stinky place.
"The cactus sac is gone, so I don't need to replenish too much this time, and when I get to the oasis, I will have a water source that can be directly drunk," Iron Hand said.
Yang Xiu opened the animal skin map that Derek gave him, and after that encounter with the Wild Wolves, they had traveled long distances through most of the wasteland, and now they had finally reached the border of the wasteland.
The closest place to the wasteland border on the map is the closest place to the wasteland border of the "Flame Tribe...... there is a black dot representing the big tribes, and there are no tribes in this area except this black dot, which is particularly conspicuous.
Yang Xiu asked out loud: "There is a hunting party on the border of the wasteland, you said that you want to change the way, how to change it?"
Iron Hand poked his head over and scanned it, on the map given by Derek, there is a black line separating the wasteland and the oasis, which acts as a dividing line, and in the middle of this dividing line, there is a circular brown hollow circle, Iron Finger pointed to this circle and said: "Improve here, ground spider nest"
The barren resources of the Silent Plains have made the monsters living on this land gradually go to two extremes, either by being domesticated by the orcs to get daily food, or they have evolved the ability to survive perfectly in the harsh environment, and the ground spider is the second extreme race.
This monster has a huge spider body, twice the size of Kodomon, and its whole body is covered with purple fluff, which has a transparent slime that is invisible to the naked eye, and it is so poisonous that a single drop can poison ten orcs. The head of the ground spider resembles a fly, two huge eye bubbles, which are covered with countless eyeballs, which can allow it to see the surrounding landscape in all directions, and the pincer-like mouthparts allow it to grind any prey it catches.
"Earth spiders are so dangerous, you still want to walk into their lair?" Listening to Tie Shou say about the knowledge of the ground spider's nest, Yang Xiu looked at the other party incredulously, the back of a Kodo beast can carry three orc warriors, Yang Xiu can't imagine what kind of image two earth spiders as big as Kodo beasts are, and this kind of guy still has poisonous fluff on his body.
"That spider's nest was an underground tunnel leading to the oasis a long time ago, and it was the only way to reach the oasis except through the border through the wasteland, you don't have to worry about the spider's question, chieftain, the orc priests have already made a temporary antibody potion on the spider's venom, as long as we drink one before we go in, we don't have to worry about poisoning," Iron Hand said.
"Temporary antibody agents?"
"Yes, a time-sensitive potion, after drinking it, it will only work for a while, but it is enough for us to pass through the spider's nest, the only trouble now is that the spider likes to dig and dig rocks, I don't know if the terrain of the spider's nest has changed after so much time" Iron Hand thought as he touched his chin.
"What if there is a change?" Yang Xiu couldn't help but ask.
"It's a hassle to find an exit to the oasis, and each spider digs its nest like a labyrinth, and if you get lost, you can stay in the spider's nest for a long time," said Iron Hand.
The three of them followed the signs on both sides of the streets of the Flame Tribe to find an orc shop that sold potions, and the shopkeeper inside was sitting behind the counter wiping his glass tube potions.
"Boss, is there an antibody agent against the spider toxin?" Yang Xiu walked to the counter and asked.
"Of course, friend, do you want to sell permanent antibody potions or temporary antibody potions?" the orc boss put down the potions in his hand and inserted them one by one into the shelves they were used to place them.
"There is also a permanent antibody drug, how much is this" Yang Xiuxi said, permanent sounds better than a limited period of time is more attractive.
"Originally, this tube of permanent arachnotoxin antibody pill was sold for twelve golden beans, and today I will sell you ten golden beans to my friends" The orc boss quoted a price, and Yang Xiu's heart was half cold when he heard it.
His money bag was stolen by Lias in the Night Wolf Tribe before, but the group forgot to pick up the money bag when they left the Night Wolf Tribe, and now Yang Xiu only had the only golden bean hidden in his shoes left.
The short sword and whistle that were found from Lias's body looked like they could be exchanged for a lot of golden beans, but Yang Xiu didn't want to sell these two treasures just like that, after all, gold has a price, and treasures are priceless.
"That...... Boss, how to sell it temporarily, I can use it temporarily," Yang Xiu said embarrassedly.
"One tube of golden beans, how many tubes" The enthusiasm of the orc boss suddenly cooled, and he absentmindedly wiped the potion on the counter again.
"Buy six pipes, chief, we will have two pipes per person, and one will be kept for spare," Tie Shou whispered to Yang Xiu's ear and said.
"I still want to buy a hundred tubes, what about the money? I just have a golden bean on me" Yang Xiu glanced at the other party, and used his softest voice, for fear that the boss would hear and drive the three of them out.
"Chief, if you really can't do it, sell Ban'er's weapons, and you should be able to exchange them for some golden beans," Duronda said.
"Good idea" Yang Xiu nodded, turned his head and asked, "Boss, can you barter for something?"
Yang Xiu asked Duronda to lift the long axe used in front of Ban'er, this weapon that was bought with a lot of golden beans in the Night Wolf Tribe was going to contribute his body to Yang Xiu's and his party's trip to the coast today.
"I'll take a look" took the giant axe, the orc boss looked around from beginning to end, and praised with a satisfied expression: "Very good weapon, even if you have twenty golden beans, how many tubes of temporary antibody medicine do you want?"
"Six-pipe" Yang Xiu didn't care whether the price was hacked or not, he also grabbed it when he bought it, and Yang Xiu didn't know how many golden beans he spent.
"Okay, then I'll give you fourteen golden beans back," the orc boss nodded, and took out six slender glass tubes from the counter, filled with brown liquid, the mouths of which were firmly blocked by a shoddy wooden cork.
"Be careful, this glass tube is easy to be brittle, and it's your responsibility if something happens," the boss said unceremoniously, handing the six antibody pills to Yang Xiu.
"It's okay, I'm very careful" Yang Xiu smiled and stuffed the antibody potion into the breast pocket of his clothes, and at the same time took the fourteen golden beans that the orc boss was looking for.
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Leaving the orc shop, Yang Xiu immediately asked, "Do you need to buy anything?" I also bought this antibody potion, so it should be no problem to deal with the ground spider, right?"
"Almost, just go buy some flint, the spider's nest is dimly lit, and the spider is also afraid of fire, we have fire to save a lot of effort," said Iron Hand.