Chapter 290: Shadow Island
The warden, who looked less than fifty years old, had a hooked nose and eagle eyes, and didn't look like a good person. But he has another side, indifferent, calm, silent, he is not arrogant, on the contrary, very restrained and low-key, the two had lunch in Xiaoyue City, and were slaughtered by the boss, he also paid without saying a word, and did not say anything afterwards, in his opinion, the boss is like an ant, there is really no need to waste his energy and worry about him.
The two of them went to sea from a hired boat from Dawn Moon City, a medium-sized open-sea fishing vessel with six sailors and a captain. Because it was not fishing, only three sailors followed the boat, which was not small and had a lot of room to move. In order to show his trust in Cui Ming, the warden has not used the shackles of the mercury force, and when the two sat together, they discussed many topics, and even discussed politics.
The warden has been living a semi-isolated life, he knows very limited things, and he also has a certain curiosity about some things in the Three Continents, except for reading the newspaper, he just listened to Cui Ming. In addition, the warden has to take a bath every day, and it can be seen that his waist injury is not light, and he often rubs his left hand on the back of his waist.
Although the two talked a lot, the few days of sailing did not make the two closer and more trusting. In the past few days, the two have also drawn up some plans to form a life-and-death alliance. Although both of them knew that the so-called alliance of life and death was completely illusory, the two of them were still very keen on the study of the details of the alliance of life and death, and it seemed that the more serious they were about the details, the more they could express their belief in the alliance of life and death. Overall, the trip to the warden was a very unpleasant one.
The ship docked in the southern part of the Western Continent, and the two of them had to cross the Western Continent to the northern part of the Western Continent, and then drive their own boat or travel more than a thousand kilometers on the sea surface before they reached Shadow Island. Shadow Island is located close to the North Pole. In recent years, the Arctic has been showing signs of migrating large creatures, and according to the warden, there have been several invasions of large creatures on Shadow Island. The result, of course, was taken out by the Lich.
According to the warden, the Arctic is a paradise for large creatures, not too cold and uninhabited, and at the same time there are abundant fish resources on the seabed, and the territory is vast, so they do not invade each other. However, as the large creatures had no natural predators and multiplied, the food supply gradually became unavailable, so the large creatures began to move southward, purely to forage for food.
When he arrived in the Western Continent, he hired a vehicle to set off for the northernmost town in the Western Continent, and it was easy to do things with money, and the traffic in the central and eastern parts of the Western Continent was still quite good, but with the warden in a car, Cui Ming didn't think that there was a joy in the journey.
So the journey was much simpler, and when he arrived in the town, the warden bought a small fishing boat, and after driving a hundred miles, the warden took out the mercury shackles. Although Cui Ming didn't think that the warden would endure to make trouble at this time, he still took a deep breath in the face of the mercury shackles.
Wearing the mercury shackles for the first time, Cui Ming was still a little curious, and after confirming that the warden did not show signs of anti-alliance, Cui Ming began to feel the shackles. The shackle is a chain, no more than three meters long, surrounds the person's body, the keyhole automatically fits, and the force is in a state of shackles, the person can still feel the flow of the force in the body, and the force still has the ability to protect the body, train the eyes, etc., but cannot use the hair. The mercury shackles are even better, and once locked, practitioners are no different from ordinary people. However, the cost of mercury shackles is very high, and the refining failure rate is very high, so people such as Aveline mostly use Force shackles.
At Cui Ming's request, the warden opened the mercury shackles, and Cui Ming felt as if he had just finished the extinguishing state, the Force equivalent was very low, and there were no other side effects. The Mercury Shackles and the Force Shackles are different, the Force Shackles are easy to be opened by a third person, as long as the third person is a practitioner, and then use the Force to touch the Force Shackles, it can be unlocked by the Force, and it only takes more than ten seconds if you are proficient. The mercury shackle is a treasure-level thing, which requires meditation and mercury shackles to be integrated, such as Cui Ming's mercury shackles, only the warden can open it, and external forces can also destroy it, but it takes a certain amount of time, and at the same time, the warden can know that someone has broken the shackles. There are also disadvantages, because the mercury shackles are treasures, so the owner can't leave one hundred and fifty meters away, otherwise the mercury shackles will automatically break away, and even if the Force shackles run to the ends of the earth, they are still Force shackles.
The northern ocean is Cui Ming's first visit, and there are more large animals in the northern ocean than the southern ocean, and the storm has been replaced by a blizzard. The closer you get to Shadow Island, the cooler the temperature becomes, and when you can see Shadow Island from afar, you can already see the icebergs floating around you.
But what Cui Ming didn't expect was that Shadow Island turned out to be such a beautiful place.
The area of Shadow Island is not large or small, more than ten square kilometers, close to a circle, in the center is an active volcano, the crater has snow, it looks very beautiful. Judging from the scenery of Shadow Island, the closer you get to the volcano, the higher the temperature, I don't know if it's because of the magic array, or because the volcano has created such a strange scenery. But anyway, Cui Ming wants to praise it, this is really a good place. Even in an instant, the idea of killing people and seizing the island came to mind. When encountering beautiful things, dark thoughts often arise in human nature.
Call at the port, disembark! Cui Ming saw a young and beautiful woman under the age of twenty, who was picking up food on the beach, and crabs and other things were her targets. She wore a green military uniform, which was the favorite clothing of the laborers, with thick compartments and good quality. The woman glanced at Cui Ming and them lightly, and continued her work.
As the warden had previously introduced, these were the concubines of the lich, and most of these women were plundered.
After the lich plundered the people, there was a special person to record the woman's ovulation period, and then arrange the order. At present, there are a total of twenty-five ordinary women living on Shadow Island, and they have their own gathering place, on the southeast side of the volcano, and they usually collect food and water from the island and the sea by themselves. Whenever ovulation comes, a female steward, a woman named Hua Gu, informs a woman to go to the southwest side of the volcano to receive the lich's presence. Hua Gu was originally the same identity as them, once she was over thirty-five years old and had no heirs, she would terminate her activities on the first day of the month. Of the twenty-five women, one is the chief Hua Gu, there are fifteen young women, and the other nine are women over the age of age, and they will still live on the island. It's just that women who are not needed for reproduction can't get material subsidies, and the rest is okay, sympathize with each other and help each other. But if they get sick, only fertile women will be treated, and non-fertile women will fend for themselves.
In addition to these women, there are also lichs, lich daughters, wardens, lich sons, and three female doctors on the island. A female doctor was born into a family of doctors, a famous obstetrician and gynecologist of the Dawning Empire, who was plundered here by the warden, and the other two female doctors were the assistants that the female doctor strongly requested, a pair of twins, who were only fourteen years old when they were plundered, and the female doctor forced the lich to give in to death, and the twins became the doctor's assistants.
This is a place where there is no law, the lich is the biggest demon king, and the people at the bottom can only fight for a little preferential treatment. Even if the Force knew there was a place, and even if the Eternal Alliance knew that the Lich was predating the population, they could do nothing about it, because in the absolute realm of the Lich, no one would be an opponent of the Lich.
Cui Ming and the warden walked forward, the road was a small road, Cui Ming saw bamboo houses, a row of bamboo houses, like a small tribe, there were many women in it. Some people are lighting fires, some are washing rice, some are washing their hair, and they can hear their laughter, obviously used to the way of life here, at least on the surface, they need laughter to support themselves. Soon someone saw Cui Ming and the warden, this was the first time I saw a man being plundered on Shadow Island, they walked out of the tribe and looked at Cui Ming on the side of the road, some people brought some gloating expressions, when they were unlucky, the best comfort was that others were as unlucky as themselves, and happiness was comparative. Some of the women looked at them with concern, hoping that no one would ever do the same thing as them. At the same time, there are also cold and ruthless people.
"Look at what, go back."
Cui Ming saw Hua Gu, the head of the harem, who is in her forties this year, even if she is in her forties, her facial features are still quite good, but her waist is gone. She drove the women back to her tribe.
Cui Ming continued to walk forward, it was about five kilometers away from the lich's residence, and he could see from a distance that the lich's residence was also a bamboo house, but it was built very imposingly. In front of the bamboo house is a small lake, you can tell if you look at the small lake, this is a hot spring lake, close to the volcano there is a small area of lake water bubbling, the other half is very quiet. Quite a good place, you can choose the temperature of the hot springs, and even the fish resources are very rich, you can think about killing people and taking the island.
There was a sound in the bamboo forest on the side of the road, Cui Ming turned his head to look, and saw a pair of fifteen or sixteen-year-old female twins squatting on the small hillside behind the bamboo forest looking at Cui Ming, more than ten meters away. Behind them was a twenty-seven-eighteen-year-old girl, also wearing a military uniform, carrying a bamboo basket behind her back, and holding a small pickaxe in her hand, apparently digging up plants. If you're not mistaken, this is the only doctor on Shadow Island. The doctor was very beautiful, and it was speculated that the lich had no interest in women, but purely for the sake of reproduction.
By the lake, there is a big sister who is taking her little brother to play in the water, the big sister is wearing a set of very expensive swimsuits in the three continents, and she finds that someone is coming, and she looks at it, there is no joy or sorrow in her eyes, it seems that she has seen two cabbages, but she is just a little curious about why the cabbages are walking.
The warden stepped forward to greet him: "Hello eldest lady, hello young master." ”
Paralyzed, you're a slave enough...... Cui Ming looked at the warden, you can bend and stretch, you have done it to the extreme.
The eldest lady went ashore barefoot and looked at Cui Ming: "He is Cui Ming?" ”
"Yes." The warden nodded in reply.
"There you go."
"Yes." The warden left and took Cui Ming towards the big bamboo house in the center.
Cui Ming walked a few steps, turned around, and saw the eldest lady gently hugging the ignorant young master, not knowing what he was thinking. My arrival heralded your death, and I didn't expect to be so calm. It seems that the people of Shadow Island are all extraordinary characters. (To be continued.) )