The mountains of the world of the dead are colorful, which is again an unexpected thing. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info When the adventure group bid farewell to the caravan of the corpse witch Kencer and hurried to the foot of the mountain, they finally saw the whole picture of the mountains by the faint moonlight. Unlike what everyone thinks, in a world where ordinary plants can't grow, the mountains are not barren, and many low, light-sheltering plants grow between rocks and dirt, covering most of the mountains. Unlike most of the mountain plants in the outside world, which are all green, the plants here have their own different colors, red, blue, gray, white, black, and the rich colors make people have to sigh in surprise, it turns out that in addition to green, the plants can have so many strange colors.

Follow the route drawn on Kense's map, through the rugged canyons between the mountains, flanked by towering cliffs, in the gaps of the cliffs, you can always see climbing plants stubbornly poking their heads out, showing their existence to the world, if you look closer, you can find that these plants that mainly absorb the energy of death grow very luxuriantly, under the lush and small leaves, there are full seeds, which can be seen that even in this dead and silent world, as long as there is a chance, life can still continue to reproduce tenaciously.

"Wait, what do I see?" said Catherine, who suddenly slowed down, pointing to an exposed cliff, "Have you noticed the color of that cliff?" ”

"Well, with a hint of dark red. Pannis nodded: "There is also a piece that I passed by just now, it is light blue, but because the light is too dim, it is too inconspicuous, so you didn't notice it." ”

"Colored rocks. Catherine said thoughtfully, "Don't you think of anything?"

"Minerals, by-products of metal ores. Pannis took it for granted: "Although I am not sure, it is very likely that there are rich mineral veins buried in this mountain." ”

"That's strange, I see that most of the tools in the lives of the undead are made of bone, and a few are made of the wooden part of the shell of the bone mushroom, but I have never seen a metal tool. Catherine said suspiciously, "So I always thought that there were no such minerals here." Now it seems that there are a lot of minerals, and since there are metals, why don't they make metal tools? Even copper tools are better than bone. ”

"How?" asked Pannis, "have you thought about it?"

"Of course it's forged ......" Catherine opened her mouth, but she couldn't say any more, indeed, the knight girl ignored the most important point, in this world of large trees, there is no coal under the strata, and there is no wood suitable for burning carbon on the surface, which means that even if there are minerals, they cannot be refined by high temperatures, let alone forged into shape. Catherine sighed, shook her head with a wry smile, and said, "Okay, I'm using the common sense of the Overworld to consider the problem here again, indeed, this world is indeed not suitable for making metal tools. ”

"No, someone made it. Eva, who was accustomed to keeping silent, suddenly took the initiative to speak: "Along the way, I saw two suspected ore veins, there have been traces of artificial mining, although it is only a small scale mining, which indicates that metal objects were also made here. ”

"Those who have the ability to do this are probably those corpse witches, and unless the skeleton mage is at the legendary level, it is unlikely that the control and sustain power will complete the refining and forging of minerals. "Vivien found a way to forge metal in this world at the first time, and only by using fire attribute magic can the entire forging process be completed without fuel. However, the mage girl finally shook her head: "Even with my current strength, it is very difficult to create a high-temperature environment for a long time, and I am afraid that the only ones who can do this smoothly are those demigod-level magic undead." ”

"The proportion of demigods and undead is quite high, even higher than the proportion of demigods in the elves, of course, not to the level of the guardian clan, but even if the proportion is high, the demigods are still a minority after all, and the demigod undead in the magic department are even less, they will not be bored enough to forge metal tools every day. Pannis shrugged and said, "So, if it can't be mass-produced, then metal tools can't be popularized, at most, it's just to make some for your own use, millions of undead, and it's definitely unrealistic to want most people to be able to use it." ”

"However, if someone mines it, it at least shows that the undead are not ignorant of metal tools. Her Royal Highness took out a small dagger from her waist, flicked the smooth metal surface, and said, "If the two sides can really sit down and negotiate and live in peace in the future, then in the early days, metal products and wood products are very good trade items." ”

"Why, it looks like you want a share too. Catherine said with a smirk, "I thought you didn't care." ”

"As a daughter, you always have to think about your father, how can I not care about this kind of thing if I can open up a stable income channel for the guild. Freya didn't care about Catherine's teasing at all, and also returned a meaningful smile, and said softly: "Don't forget, the Sigh Desert is not such an easy place to walk, and it is not so easy to pass through the Land of Sand, and it is even more dangerous to pass through the Orc Grassland, without the assistance of the Adventurer's Guild, I think it is not so simple to occupy most of this new trade route with the caravan of Lord Marquis." ”

"I said, are you thinking too far. Pannis rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, helpless against the two women who suddenly changed their roles into merchants and lords, so he could only sigh and say, "I can't be sure of anything now, isn't it too early to start studying how to trade at this time?"

"Very early? I don't see it that way. Catherine and Freya looked at each other for a moment, smiling brightly and holding their hands together, as if they had made an agreement to work together. After doing all this, the knight girl smiled and said to Pannis: "The deeper I go in this world, the more confident I feel in the coexistence of living beings and undead, and I believe that as long as the undead remain in their current state, then the probability of coexistence is at least more than seventy percent." ”

"But don't forget, what I'm here for. Pannis sighed, "Do you think that after killing the gods, their attitude towards living beings will still be the same as it is now?"

"That's not their god. Catherine shook her head and said, "As long as you bring out the corresponding evidence after you have completed your plan, they will only be grateful to you, not hateful, or will you not only prefer to throw us to the angry undead, but also put aside the comfort of the entire Yarra world and the efforts of Lord Nelly, and refuse to come back to join us?"

"Hey, don't make a fuss, come and see. Lina, who was pulling the two little ones as nannies, walked at the front of the line, suddenly turned around and said loudly: "Let's come out, look there, it turns out that this is the capital." ”

(To be continued.) )