Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Town of Cardokava
Cardokava is a border town in north-west Kellon on the Yorkshire border, bordering Rainbow Forest. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The Info Forest is named for the variety of plants that can be used to make dyes, and is the main source of income for the town. Everywhere you look, those huge barrels of dye filled with colorful dyes, young girls in shorts with their snow-white thighs exposed, expertly trampling plant berries on wide barrels with thick soles, squeezing the juice.
The fabrics were dipped in a variety of bright and bright colours and transported to towns by caravans, and the fabrics were not only famous in Keloneshire, but also by Yorkshire merchants, who had come from far and wide to find business opportunities.
Unfortunately, the transportation around the town has limited its development, and to the northwest is a wilderness and mountains, and if it had not been for the road that opened the Echo Valley more than thirty years ago, it would not have been the only trade route to and from Yorkshire. To the east, too, it was a barren wasteland, but fortunately it was close to the city of Salos to the south, and most of the dyes and cloth were transported by the city to the towns of Keron County.
After a short half a month of trekking, Bai Huang finally came to the town that Vivien said, and the reason why it took so long was mainly because this guy who had no experience in wild survival went in the wrong direction several times intermittently, even if he had the guidance of the river.
Returning to the hustle and bustle of the town, without having to be accompanied by wind, frost, rain, dew, flowers, birds, fish and insects, Bai Huang couldn't help but feel a little surprised. The creaking waterwheels, the huge, old windmills, and the noisy bazaars are the symbols of civilization that remind him of what it was like to be human, and to forget for a moment the fact that he is now a cold dead.
With a sword at his waist, a shield and a leather backpack on his back, Bai Huang strolled through the streets of the town, curiously looking at this vibrant place. The small town of Cardokava was a foreign settlement a long time ago, and later with the increase in the foreign population, humans became the main permanent population here, and even so, there are many more foreign races here than other towns, accounting for 30% of the population.
Along the way, Bai Huang could meet many races that were different from humans, and based on the knowledge that the "Gift of the Dead" brought to him, he could barely recognize their origins. Dwarves and halflings needless to say, but mixing a dwarf in these two short races can confuse most unfamiliar people.
But these three are actually very easy to recognize, dwarves with big beards, half-length people with big feet, and dwarfs are ordinary short people. Those who are familiar with this type of song will be able to easily distinguish them.
When it comes to the gnome race, most people will always associate them with engineering and goblins, and then make an equation that ends up being an "explosion". In fact, just like the brave man in the biography of the novel has to take off his armor to eat, drink, and Lazar, after removing the veil of demonization, the dwarf also lives in harmony with ordinary people normally.
Not all gnomes are inventors and master mechanics, and the ordinary people among them are not much different from ordinary commoners, but due to their innate creativity and intelligence, most of them will serve as scholarly clerks or enter various artistic professions.
As for the notorious goblins of the short race, it is best to recognize them, with long ears, green skin, pointed beak monkey gills, and a lewd face, they can smell the smell of gold from hundreds of meters away, and their faces are either profiteers or high-risk signs such as explosive maniacs.
Following the crowded flow of people, Bai Huang slowly walked towards the noisy crowd not far away, and he could faintly hear loud shouting and noisy whispering.
Although Bai Huang's figure is not particularly tall, he still has a strong oppressive force wrapped in armor, and easily pushing away the crowd, Bai Huang can finally see the things that are being watched.
Bodies, guards, coroners.
It was clearly a crime scene, with a large amount of dried blood left on the side of the street, and a muscular corpse, a young female dwarf, lying on it, and the coroner on the side had finished examining and recovering the body with a white cloth.
From the whispers around him, Bai Huang roughly understood the situation of the incident, this was the third murder incident that had occurred in the past half a month, the victims were all young civilians of different races, and the criminal methods were all throat cuts without exception, and the methods were cruel, and their belongings were intact, and their bodies were not violated.
Not for money, not for sex, and the victim did not have a grudge against others.
"It's not a robber, it's a homicidal maniac!" the townspeople all show great anger at the murderer, and at the same time express their displeasure at the incompetence of the guards, especially the aliens.
Although in general, there is no estrangement and conflict between human beings and alien races such as racial discrimination, because from the perspective of various alien races, human beings are just a member of the "alien race", and the mixed living situation of various races in the Akalin Continent did not start in a day or two, but has a history of thousands of years, human beings are just one of the various races, and have never dominated the continent, except for the problems left over from history, generally speaking, there will be no inexplicable superiority and discrimination.
But locally, the humans of Cardokava do have estrangement and dislike with other races, after all, when an alien race swells over the local population, it is bound to unite the alien group and fight against it. Due to the large population base of human beings, the pressure on the survival of alien races has led to the opposite situation of alien races, which is the most common situation in human countries.
If this serial murder incident is not dealt with as soon as possible, it is easy to provoke contradictions between human beings and alien races, after all, there are many people who will fan the flames.
However, this kind of thing has nothing to do with Bai Huang, a passerby, although he is also very angry at this kind of murderous maniac, but he is not arrogant enough to rob other people's guards of jobs.
Hoping to see the murderer beheaded before he left, Bai Huang pushed through the crowd and continued to wander around the town, getting acquainted with the town and asking around - he wanted to buy a map of Ciron and Yorkshire.
This escort mission made him understand that there are accidents in everything, and if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, the road to the Holy Principality is still far away, and there may be many natural and man-made disasters, and he must be prepared to go on the road alone and be prepared.