The market is not on the beach, and the rafters have to travel about half an hourglass inland in a cart drawn by a split-hoof oxen. It wasn't a bumpy ride, but it wasn't easy.

"Cluck", "Cluck", "Cluck...... The Splithoof Ox tramples on the pavement paved with plastered gravel and makes a rhythmic tapping sound. Unlike the camel guides who sit on ox carts, most of the raft men follow the cart and help turn the wheels.

They used all the spare space to stack the goods brought ashore from the ring base, and each ox cart had to be full for fear of pulling something down. After all, it is a great ocean, and there is only one chance to land and trade with the camels once a year.

The wide sandy beach was clearly distinguished from the desert surrounding the Camel Empire—a dividing line that surprised Quis to the same as the "Pillar of Skull" he had seen in Batto's first layer of Avernath—a low wall stretched out from the dry bones of monsters.

Grad, who was sitting at the head of the convoy, jumped out of the car and pulled out a piece of deer wood made of the hard shell of the armor monster.

"It's really not a durable material," the dromedary captain pulled hard, and the deer firewood, which had become a little crunchy from the long exposure to the sun, fell into several pieces, and he quipped to the raft people, "next time you can bring some of that monster to trade, and you don't need to use it." ”

The treasurer elder and Captain Grad sent by the ring base to lead the team accompanied the smiling faces, but how could these camels who had lived on land for a long time know what a terrifying nightmare it would be if they encountered a group of armored monsters in the sea?

When the mountains on the west side of the convoy turned lion yellow in the setting sun, the convoy of floating rafters finally reached the end of the road that the camels had built to facilitate the transportation of goods, and a small oasis appeared in the desert.

The oasis is small in size, but it is divided into three main areas: an open-air market for trading, wooden houses for camel people, and thatched huts for floating raft people.

In addition, there are several wells in this oasis that are called "Hot" by the camel people, but they are only free of charge for the camel people themselves, and if the raft people want to drink the water here, they must pay a fee, which can also be replaced by the equivalent of goods.

A cauldron was set up on the periphery of the oasis, and two camels stood upright next to the cauldron, waiting for the caravan to arrive. Quest noticed that the two humps were a little more exaggerated than Captain Grad's, and on closer inspection, they both had two humps bulging from their backs.

One of the two camels was young, but they were as hard and sharp as obsidian. His name is Proud Twin Peaks, and he is an aristocrat who has come from the central oasis to this frontier market.

And his teacher, who was standing beside him at this time, no one could have imagined that Gelsang Twin Peaks, who had once moved the empire, would be patiently waiting for a group of floating raft merchants here as a priest favored by the camel god, the empire's first elemental shaman, and a powerful warlord.

"My lord," said Gree, the usher in the bullock cart at the front of the procession, noticing that the hoods of the two Bactrian humps were made of fine cloth with intricate embroidery on the edges. He hurriedly jumped out of the ox cart and strode over, and when he saw the face of the old camel under the hood, the camel captain quickly fell to his knees, crawled and licked the other man's toes, and said, "If you have any orders, don't dare to disobey them." ”

Stretching out his arm, which looked a little like a dead branch because of his old age, but still very strong, he pulled Captain Grad up from the ground and said in a gentle tone: "It's good that you didn't ask me where I came from, and it's good that you didn't come for what I came for." Now stay quietly on the sidelines, waiting for me to finish the traditional ritual. ”

After speaking, Gelsang took out a handful of ingredients mixed with yangsu grass, desert herbs, star anise and other spices from the bag on his waist, and threw it into the boiling cauldron beside him. With the boiling water, the large piece of tarbu mutton emits a slight gas, and the slightly egg-like fat is dotted on the white and tender tendons, which is very beautiful.

The treasurer of the raft man saw that Geler respected the camel elder so much, and naturally he did not dare to slack off, so he quickly pulled out some pickled whale meat, sea bass meat, and tuna meat from the cargo of the convoy, stacked them on his chest and ran to the cauldron, and threw all these ingredients from the sea into it.

Fish and sheep are fresh.

It is a ritual of the rafters and the camel people before the trade, and the ingredients from the land and sea are gathered in one pot to make a delicious broth with a unique taste, and it also symbolizes the friendship between the two peoples.

In the days to come, the tarbes and fish in this cauldron would be the common food of all the rafters and camels in the trading camp. Soup, firewood, and ingredients can be restocked, but if the flames are extinguished or no more ingredients are added to the pot, the bazaar will be terminated immediately, and the rafters must leave immediately and withdraw from the Empire.

Watch as the merchants of the Ring Base, assisted by the Hump Guard, unload the bullock carts and transport them little by little to the open-air trading bazaar in the oasis. Proud Shuangfeng asked suspiciously, "Teacher Kelsang, why did you deign to borrow from these floating rafters, they-"

"—weak and philistine, yes," said Gersan, lifting his hood and sniffing the aroma of the cauldron with the tip of his nose, "but in a way, how can we not be? Although my camel gods have not yet reacted, the elemental spirits of the older and more closely connected to this world have given me a sign that the opportunity to make the four seas clear is already hidden in these floating raft people. ”

For his teacher's words, Proud Shuangfeng could not comment. Although he instinctively did not believe that the elemental spirits could be more omniscient than the great camel god, in the face of such a respectable elder, he was never qualified to say the word "Shen Yan".

The young Bactrian could only bow his head respectfully, while his teacher now looked at the back of the raft caravan.

"When the earth boils, it shows great power. The smoke and waves are mighty, and they return with the wind. Pondering the words he had received a few days earlier from communicating with the elemental spirits, Gersang fell into a long period of thought.

It's just that he didn't know that among the rafters who came to trade, there was a pair of eyes that were also watching him.

"It's kind of interesting. The young blue dragon muttered to himself.

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