Chapter 313: The Great City of Yam
After feeling the strong xenophobia of the residents of Yam, Leo felt a trace of doubt in his heart.
It is common sense that a place has extreme xenophobia, either because the place itself has a strong culture of xenophobia, or because outsiders will touch the interests of the locals.
If it is an extreme xenophobic culture, Leo did not feel it from the previous sentinels, and from the sentinel's mention of the various arrangements made by the Yam Municipality for those shipwrecked survivors, all of them show that the Yam Municipality is very welcoming to outsiders, so the extreme xenophobic culture is not valid.
Since it is not a xenophobic culture, then it can only be that he or all the foreigners who come to Yam will infringe on the interests of the locals, but what this interest is, Leo can't speculate for the time being, and can only be sure that it has nothing to do with money. After all, Yam is just an isolated island city that cannot be connected with the outside world, and it is naturally impossible to form any economic system industrial chain, and even money does not necessarily exist, and it is likely to remain in a primitive economic system of public distribution and barter.
With a guess about the culture and economy of the city of Yam, Leo walked along the road that became wider and wider for about ten minutes, and after walking up a small hill, the town of Yam was in full view.
At first, Leo just thought that Yam was a small town like the other towns in the Valon Continent, but when the distant scene in front of him fell into his eyes, he realized that he had been wrong.
Yam was a huge city, and a very large ancient city, at least in terms of architecture alone, comparable to the city of Miria.
Behind the hill is a small basin next to the volcano, in which a city of black and white boulders stretches down from the middle of the volcano to the basin and then spreads out to form a huge fan-shaped city.
The city is black and white, the buildings on the volcanic hills are all black, and the form is grand, like a huge temple and church that has been magnified more than ten times, and you can feel an inexplicable sense of oppression from a distance.
The city at the foot of the mountain is as white as jade, shining in the sunlight, but compared to the magnificent black halls on the volcanic mountain, the buildings at the foot of the mountain are much smaller, but these buildings are just as majestic and huge for ordinary people.
All the houses here are neatly arranged in the shape of squares, and the wide streets divide these square buildings into small districts, and in the center of each community there is a minaret more than 100 meters high towering in the center, like a sharp sword arching the acropolis, exuding an invisible deterrent.
The only thing that Leo couldn't understand was that a huge wall more than fifty meters high was built around the white city on the basin plain, which not only protected the white city, but also divided the black giant city on the volcanic mountain, splitting a complete city into two parts.
The function of the city wall is to defend against external enemies, judging from the way Yam City is built now, it is obvious that the original builders treated the black giant city on the mountain as an enemy, and the defense object of the white city is not only the black giant city, but also other surrounding directions, that is to say, there are some enemies in other directions around.
It's not a surprise that a city is built to defend itself against foreign enemies, but it is worth speculating on how far Yam City will defend against them.
It stands to reason that the only enemies of the people who live here are those psionic creatures on the other side of the island, but it is impossible for those psionic creatures to enter the range of this island, otherwise, the repulsion effect here alone is enough to kill those psionic creatures.
It's just that if there is no repelling psionic power here, those psionic creatures can enter this half of the island, and the people who can attack Yam City, with the ability of psionic creatures, it is definitely not something that can be blocked by a wall tens of meters high, so this wall that does not have any power is not used to resist psionic creatures at all.
If it's not for psionic creatures, then for whom?
Leo thought about the problem as he walked towards the city of Yarms, and on the way he found that everyone here seemed to know each other, no matter how natural Leo's expression and movements were, everyone who saw Leo could easily recognize Leo as a foreigner, and then they all showed obvious disgust, as if he had a plague on him.
Just as Leo walked to the gate of Yam, he stood in front of the huge gate, looked at the Yam people who entered and exited the city, and a guess quickly appeared in his heart, this city was not built by the Yam people he saw in front of him, and these Yam people later found and moved here Outsiders, or these Yam people should be the descendants of the survivors of the previous shipwreck, and the huge city of Yam City has another owner, and the size of this master is probably very huge.
Leo thinks so because he realizes that the buildings here are not at all something that ordinary people can build.
Take the city wall as an example, when he saw the city wall from a distance, he thought that the city wall was made of stones, but after careful inspection, he found that the city wall was made of a complete boulder, that is to say, the circle of walls that enveloped the entire white city was actually a huge stone ring.
Such a huge stone ring, let alone transport, even if it is extremely difficult to manufacture, at least in terms of Leo of the current fifth-level psionic ability, it is still impossible to do, I am afraid that only when a ninth-level psionic person begins to come into contact with the primordial spiritual energy of the universe and can call on endless power from the subspace, it is possible to create such a stone ring with human power.
"New!" As Leo stood at the gate of the city, wondering who had built the city, an old man walked out of a simple wooden house outside the gate, he looked at Leo, and then waved his hand to signal Leo to come over.
"Interesting!" Leo smiled meaningfully when he saw this scene, and glanced thoughtfully at the people around him as he walked over.
Although Leo's spiritual network was suppressed, but now this old man happened to be within the scope of his spiritual network exploration, and when he was paying attention to the city wall just now, he also looked for the location of the registration office mentioned by the sentry through the spiritual network, and naturally quickly noticed the old man, and the spiritual network was also locked on the old man.
However, he found that the old man was obviously just an ordinary person, and the house he was in did not have a window to look out, so it was definitely impossible for the old man to see him coming.
But just now, when he had just stopped and stood in front of the city gate without any relief decoration, the old man in the wooden house stood up as if he sensed him, walked outside the house, and did not even look left and right, searching, as if he knew his location in advance, and greeted him directly, without the slightest hesitation or thinking.
This also shows that the old man knew that Leo was outside the door in advance, and knew Leo's exact location, which also made Leo think of the situation where the Yam people he had seen before easily recognized him as a shipwreck survivor, and it was obvious that the two must be related.
In other words, he must have a completely different quality from the Yam people in front of him, and this quality even makes him like a light in the night, even if it is through some blocking planks, it can be easily perceived by the people here, even if those people are just ordinary people.
"Register! After registering, I will take you to your residence, and someone will ask you tomorrow to arrange your work. When Leo came over, the old man introduced him as if it were a matter of routine, then turned and led Leo to the cabin, took out a form and a charcoal pen, handed Leo, and said, "Fill it out, it's better to fill in some details, such as what you know how to do, it is related to whether you can be assigned a good job." ”
Leo took the pen and looked at the form, but did not fill it out immediately, the format of this form is somewhat like the entry form of the Chamber of Commerce, there are many items, and most of them involve the ability of the person who fills it out.
"Is there anything you don't understand?" the old man couldn't help frowning when he saw that Leo didn't immediately start filling out the form.
Leo asked bluntly, "How do I fill in if I want to be assigned to the city library or library?"
"Library, why would you want to go to that hellish place, it's dangerous, there's not much pay. The old man muttered, and without waiting for Leo to explain, he directly pointed to a few options in the table and said, "Just check these options, you don't need any ability to assign them to the library." As he spoke, he said meaningfully: "As long as you are bold, you can do it." ”
Leo could hear that in the eyes of the old man, this library was probably not a good place, and there might be something scary in it, but he didn't ask carefully, but randomly checked the options pointed out by the old man, and filled in his identity casually, and handed the form back to the old man.
"The Kingdom of Inge is the Kingdom of Inge again?" the old man said with some surprise after taking the form, looking at what Leo had filled in.
Hearing this, Leo asked thoughtfully, "Could it be that besides me, there are other shipwreck survivors from the Kingdom of England who have also come to Yam today?"
The old man did not reply, but only smiled, then put the form in his hand into a pile of papers, took a bell and a cane on the table, gestured to Leo, and walked out of the wooden house, and walked towards the city.
Leo didn't ask, but followed the old man into the huge city.
Soon, he discovered that although the city was extremely large, with huge stone houses that could easily accommodate tens of millions of people, there were not many Yam people living here, and the number of people who came and went from the streets was estimated to be only a few hundred thousand at best.
In the whole area of the White City, these people occupy only a palm-sized piece of land, and the Yam people here occupy only a small piece of land, and they would rather a dozen families crammed into one house than go elsewhere to live in some spacious rooms.
In addition, he also found that there were also some sandbags that looked like fortifications arranged on the streets of the Yam people's residential area, neatly stacked together, but he passed by one of the sandbags and examined it through the spirit net, and found that the sandbags were not gravel at all, but some obsidian powder that had been polished into a very fine powder.
"Obsidian powder?" Leo thought about it carefully, he remembered that in a wizard's notebook, in addition to being used to refine a psionic substance, the biggest role of obsidian powder is to expel some evil spirits, such as in some summoning rituals involving evil spirits, most spellcasters will wear a gesture made of obsidian, and sprinkle obsidian powder on the ground to surround themselves, so as to resist the attacks of evil spirits.
The Yam people were undoubtedly doing this to prevent evil spirits from approaching, because not only were there a large number of cloth bags filled with obsidian powder piled up on the streets, but there were also traces of obsidian powder sprinkled on the doorways of the surrounding stone houses.
"You'll know what's going on with these things later?" Perhaps many people had asked what these obsidian powders were made of, so the old man thought that Leo must be asking similar questions, so he took the initiative to explain, and then quickened his pace.
Soon the two of them reached the edge of the Yam settlement, where an obsidian stone wall had been built to separate the Yam settlement from the rest of the city, and around the wall were a number of strong men with weapons on their bodies.
The old man nodded to one of the strong men guarding the stone wall, and then led Leo over the not-so-high obsidian wall into the rest of the city.
After entering the other towns, the old man began to shake the bell in his hand, and Leo behind him also tried to let go of the spirit net to check the situation here.
What Leo didn't expect was that the suppression of spiritual energy in Yam City was not only not weakened, but strengthened several times, and his spiritual network was almost immediately disintegrated after it was released, and he couldn't explore the surrounding situation at all, so he could only rely on his own sense organs to observe the surrounding movements.
He soon found that although there was no one on the street, there were many people in the surrounding houses, and these houses all blocked the doors with various objects, and after hearing the bell, they all came to the gap in the blockage and looked out, and when they saw Leo, they all showed gloating eyes, as if Leo was a condemned prisoner who was being sent to the execution ground.
Soon the two of them came to a very large vaulted stone house, large enough to have a horse race in it. There are some huge doors around the stone house, and these huge doors also confirm the speculation of the giants when the city was built.
It is clear that the stone gate was never opened, and the Yam only built some additional buildings out of timber on the inside of the stone house, which also made the stone house look more like a rural town.