The veteran kept his promise to drink his mother-in-law's sweet wine made from sugar cane, and after forcing off the walrus at the cost of the leader of the Broken Fang Clan, the young blue dragon became the hero of the rafters.

In the following days, he had to secretly refuse many secret gifts from the girls and young women in the ring base, and even recommended pillows.

It wasn't until the watchtower at the circular base had observed the coastline of the Camel Empire and found the "trade headland" that the women who had come to ask for children of their own free will or at the behest of the elders had to devote themselves to the sorting of the goods at the base.

"Well, the price of fame," said Quest, crouching on the top of the Zhanyuan's mast, sipping the juice of a coconut, secretly amused by the experience of the past few days, and thinking about how he could make contact with the camel man he was about to meet.

"You have to see what resources the camel people have first, and then look at what they lack and what they need. Let's just hope they don't be like the raft people, who simply don't have any valuable resources at all, except for manpower. ”

Like the rafters in the Ring Base, Quest has made some preparations for the upcoming market trade. He had prepared some goods and wanted to try to trade with the camels.

These include some of the products found in the islands' world's oceans: ornaments carved from the skulls of hard-headed trout similar to ivory, and leather armor made from the skin of swordfish and swordfish caught before coming to the ring base.

There are also products from the world of ashes: for example, a few pink cubes of lake salt crystals, and some sedge stalks that have been washed over and over for days, arranged in warp and weft, and then pressed to make papyrus paper ready for writing.

In order to prevent stranding, the annular base did not land directly, but chose a suitable anchor site, and then used a lifting machine to lift several huge stone anchors that had been polished and sank to the bottom of the sea.

The camel lookout post on the cliff along the coast saw the bunting raised in the ring base, indicating that they were coming to participate in the market, and sent several canoes to meet them. The young blue dragon was also able to observe the camel man up close for the first time.

The dromedaries who came in canoes were dromedaries - they belonged to the subordinate class of the two classes of the camel empire, and above them were the Bactrian hummeders, who were the equivalent of nobles.

They were all tall and muscular, with heads like camels and humps rising high behind them. Although he used to stand with his upper body slightly bent, he was more than two feet taller than the walrus man Quest had seen before.

According to Kos, who is familiar with the young blue dragon, the Bactrian hump is even taller and stronger than the dromedary, and the wisdom is much higher, so the Bactrian nobility is rich in priests or priests who can serve the camel god and are proficient in divine arts.

"Welcome to the frontiers of the Empire," said the camel man who led the leading team to the elders of the ring base, bowing slightly, his words polite but always tinged with a sense of alienation, "Remnants of ancient friends, you are about to set foot on the sacred land of the Empire. Please cherish the friendship of the Great Empire, and the landing traders are not allowed to carry any weapons, defecate in unauthorized places, maliciously inflate prices, and do not insult the Great Empire in any way or in substance...... Once discovered, it will not be tolerated. ”

As the dromedary captain spoke, he inadvertently spitted stars into the air. But the elders who looked up and listened in front of them spat on their faces, and the harsh prohibitions seemed to them to be like a glutton.

After experiencing the baptism of the dromedary captain Spit Xingzi, the elders of the ring base led by him took out a fish skin bag, took out many pearls with a diameter of half a finger, and respectfully presented the gifts prepared by the floating raft people to the camels who "came from afar".

"We will cherish this friendship, and we will take good care of my people who are about to land with Captain Grad. The elders, who pass by every year, apparently knew this "old acquaintance" and spoke to him.

Accepting the filial piety of the elders of the ring base, the dromedary captain Grad has obviously improved his attitude. Next, he not only quickly completed a series of goods inspections, but even kindly reminded the people who were about to log in to trade:

"The ring base that came to us before has already traded a lot of sea salt, so you'd better exchange for something else, otherwise you won't be able to sell it at a good price. That wakame and seaweed taste good, and there are nobles who have come to buy in bulk in the past two days. ”

"There was a batch of good materials on the timber exchange, but the price had increased by two and a half. When you buy it, you can bargain for it, and say that you are old friends of Grad, and the merchant will give you special discounts. ”

"The boss of the 'Gift of the Earth' Chamber of Commerce has recently become obsessed with collecting colored coral, and if you have one, you can exchange it directly from him for humus, which is much more cost-effective than buying it with steel coins. ”

......

Cannibalism is the shortest, taking people is short, and the ancients are honest and do not deceive me.

After completing the tedious pre-landing preparations, Grle the dromedary was the first to step into his canoe and lead the way, followed by the Zhanyuan and other cargo-laden sailboats—even though the boat-building skills required that the raft-men were much faster than the camel-man canoes, they still lowered their half-sails and followed honestly.

Led by the treasurer who had landed with the caravan, the raftmen sailing out of the ring base sang a hymn called "The Friendship of the Camel Empire" as they steered their boats.

The song pierced the cascading waves and reached the ears of the camel captain at the front of the line. The tall camel man listened to the raft man's praise of the empire, and stood up in the middle of the boat, brandishing his axe and halberd to cheer everyone on.

This can scare the dromedary humpians who operate the boats - although they stay in the canoes made of giant trees, they are real "landlubbers", for fear that a wave will crash and capsize.

"All we want is land and pasture, let the sea sleep on its bed, and I sleep on my bed......"

The dromedary, paddling hard to get to shore as quickly as possible, muttered as he recited the teachings of the camel priest and resented the captain who was so bold as to bounce on the canoe.

Finally, entering the outstretched arms of the headland, the camels who were docked on the edge of the pier were relieved. They quickly got up and jumped onto the dock, greedily feeling the steady earth with their thick toes, soothing the tension.

The marina doesn't provide enough mooring space for the boats of the rafters, so most of the captains of single-hull boats like the one driven by Quest simply drive the boats onto the beach.

Following the example of the others, the young blue dragon dug a pit further above the beach, buried the large wooden pegs with ropes deep into it, and then lifted a few reefs to hold them down.

Having made this improvised anchor to prevent the boat from being carried away by the sea at high tide, Quest climbed onto the beach and surveyed the strange land.

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