Chapter 111: Construction and Exploration
After a few moments, Mary ended the dinner with a translation: "It tastes good, dwarfs."
The people who have been vaccinated countless times by Flanders have been mentally prepared for this by "......".
After that, it was a big sleep, Ke Li and the others took turns to keep vigil, while the dragon people merchants slept very confidently.
After dawn, the Dragonman merchant woke up punctually and waved goodbye, and disappeared into the jungle.
Flanders then announced: "The first exchange was a success, very good, and today we have to continue to build the camp, which is the first step in the beginning of the long road of exploration."
"Sometimes we can improve our favorability by making the indigenous people feel that they have earned it by appropriately 'making profits), but if we don't control it properly, it will make the other side feel that we have a problem with the value judgment of the item, and it is easy to lose the favor and advantage in this regard."
Ke Li was busy with breakfast in the pot: "When we first contacted, we didn't choose to trade, will it leave a bad impression on the other party?"
Flanders wiped the dust off his armor: "No, unless, for example, a dying native, who gives us property in exchange for food and we don't agree, this kind of thing will affect the goodwill and prestige of the locals towards us."
"Under normal circumstances, if you don't want to do business, you can just refuse directly, otherwise it will definitely not work for a long time to exchange our limited resources for their almost infinite gadgets."
Colly stirred together the thick cheese and noodles, and poured the meat hot sauce on top: "Then listen to your meaning, our plan should be to collect their supplies from the local area and then trade them with the local materials?"
Flanders raised his index finger and waved it gently, "Not exactly, but the plan is correct."
"Hmm...... I mean, we'd better not indoctrinate the locals with that kind of concept."
"A group of strangers come to other people's homes and territories and collect resources within their territory to do business with them, causing them to suffer losses. In fact, the primitive indigenous people generally did not have a strong concept of national territory."
"The inhabitants of the primitive form don't care about these things, who owns them, who finds or picks them up, then the things belong to whom. As long as you don't go to their settlements and living quarters to steal, they won't think about that."
"Moreover, if we repeat these things repeatedly, it will attract their attention and suspicion, and eventually cause some unnecessary disputes and misunderstandings. So we need to maintain a tacit understanding in this regard and not provoke thinking."
The ship's supplies were limited, and everyone expressed understanding. If you have to spend years in the fog of history, you can't squander it or put yourself at a great disadvantage in trading.
As a primitive race, the dragon people are still relatively simple in terms of trade.
If they feel that it is valuable, they will increase it, and if they feel that it is not valuable or interested, those items cannot be traded, and the value and price system changes with demand.
Colley brought breakfast to the humble table, scraped the unshaved bark on the side of the table with a dagger, and threw the bark into the bonfire:
"Aside from building camps and building relationships, what's the first step in the plan?"
Flanders took out Mary's unfinished drawings: "Measuring the coordinates, exploring the map and landforms, we can find some items with a wide field of vision and obvious terrain landmarks as assembly points, and the initial work is all basic."
"On the one hand, it is to ensure the efficiency of the operation and reduce the possibility of getting lost, and on the other hand, it is to occupy the advantageous terrain in advance, and if there are other people who come to the same historical fog, we can also respond in time."
"Otherwise, if one of us gets lost and stumbles into the Dragonman village, but doesn't understand what the other person means because of the language barrier, things will go out of hand."
Colley thought to himself: Flanders and Mary must have been studying these things for a long time, and they must not worry about similar problems after they were lost, and the small team of 6 people will have to be divided later
The head action, the staffing arrangement is indeed very tight.
Enzo looked experienced: "Yes, get the groundwork done before you can be prepared."
"If we had unlimited resources and tolerance for error, it would be easy to explore the fog of history."
"But you may not know that many expedition ships and expeditions do not return every year, and the seemingly loose number of days is our worst enemy, and in a few months you will understand this deeply."
As he spoke, the kestrel returned, and he simply backed up the sketches on the map and drew some areas to be investigated:
"Here, I found the wreckage of a ship parked in the jungle on the island, the ship was large, similar to the large expedition ships that Mammoth Horn usually has, but it looks old, and I just came back after taking notes."
"Here, there's a ruin that I can't quite describe, I don't know if it's a shrine for sacrificial sacrifices, or something like the ruins of a temple, I didn't get close."
"There are also some smoking huts here, which are quite close to us, and because I don't know the language of the dragons, I didn't come forward to talk to them."
"Walking along the sea, there are a lot of fish here, but the dragons are also fishing nearby, so I didn't get close."
The kestrel successively draws valuable coordinates of the location, which in turn are assigned to each person as a reference.
"That's it, it's mainly a shortcut to collect fresh water, fuel, food, and some things can be brought back for transplantation and preservation, or air-dried and pickled."
Hearing this, Ke Li, who had finished making breakfast, took the initiative to say, "Then I can go and verify the safety of the food first, and I will come back on time to cook before noon, and I will not participate in your construction actions."
Everyone nodded, and Colley pulled away, heading a little farther into the jungle to find something of interest.
"Dig up a plant and stuff it in and see ......."
With no one around, Ke Li excavated a brightly colored seedling and took it into Inception.
In the next second, Colley felt that what he was holding was not a mass of plants, but a hard object heavier than a solid gold nugget.
"It's an inception that repels the fog of history, forbidding me to bring things into it."
Colley tucked the plants back into their place, and then approached the edge of the wall, approached the illusory and bright streets, and explored with a simple stick of beating.
"The misalignment obstacle feels very similar, and when I tripped before, I flew straight out, unlike ordinary irons that might bounce back."
(End of chapter)