Chapter 18: The Great Chapter on How to Blend in with the Crowd
Zhou Zhongmou is now messed up by his own temperament, and originally wanted to try to see if he could learn about the daily life, common sense, words and languages of this other world, and most importantly, the history or social organization of this world through daily life in this small town. Now it's basically over.
Zhou Zhongmou, who was running, scolded loudly, of course, scolding the damn idlers, while feeling the fullness in his stomach gradually digested, and the power was endlessly sent into the muscles and turned into the power to run. This guy ran so fast that the Self-Defense Force soldiers who came after hearing the news on horseback couldn't catch up. A town of more than 3,000 people is probably quite a big town in this world, but in Zhou Zhongmou's earth world, this broken place is just a village. The road leading to the city gate was about four hundred meters, and it only took Zhou Zhongmou, who rushed out of the path of the tavern, to the city gate in thirty seconds. The town's source of income was the consumption of the guests who came and went, as well as the taxes from the time of purchase, so it was generally impossible to close the city gate - after all, Zhou Zhongmou did not know that there was a real fortress on the border of the kingdom more than forty kilometers west of the town, which guarded the towns and villages on the mainland road behind it.
So this guy managed to escape, and after running for a few kilometers, he took advantage of the mountainous terrain to get rid of the pursuers on horseback, and then the soldiers who went into the mountains to pursue him on foot, Zhou Zhongmou, were not too afraid. The guy hummed the guerrilla's song and went deeper into the sparse hills. There are not many hills near this town, they are basically plains, and the rolling hills only extend in one direction, and finally fall into the majestic Eagle's Nest Mountain Range more than ten kilometers away. The Eagle's Nest Mountains are also a well-known monster colony and a hiding place for street bandits, and the most important task of the soldiers stationed on the mainland highway is to regularly clear the monsters and bandits there.
Now the bandits were joined by a reluctant newcomer, a lone thief - the kind of goods that were so numerous in the desolate places on the edge of the Continental Highway that fifty appeared in the morning and forty-nine of them died in the evening. Zhou Zhongmou scolded, found a place to sit down, now he had nothing but a sword in his hand, a set of clothes obtained from the corridor on his body, and a gold coin wrapped around his waist, it was time to find a way to live.
"First of all, I still have to check the tools for making a fortune, well, a strong man! It's not a powerful one-handed sword, damn it's still an ordinary iron sword, and it's actually rusty in a lot of places! I don't know what kind of material is made of clothes, and then there are ninety-nine gold coins, and then it's gone!" Zhou Zhongmou sat on the ground and muttered, saying that this dress should be a little strange, since Zhou Zhongmou got this complete set of clothes in the secret room after making a batch of slimes in the corridor, the height has grown from one meter four to one meter seven five, this dress always fits, and every time it is very dirty, it will be clean and refreshing after a night Zhou Zhongmou also knows that most of this clothes are so-called suits with magic attachment, but he still expressed a little dissatisfaction with the fact that this set of clothes has no other bonuses except for automatic fit and automatic cleaning: "No defense, no attack, not even agility, this kind of clothes that are cleaned every day are probably charming?"
Zhou Zhongmou, who messed things up, had no choice but to temporarily change jobs to become a robber, speaking of which, whether he was on Earth or crossed over here, he had never been a roadblock robber. If you are a bandit, you have to be careful of the wanted warrant, but Zhou Zhongmou himself estimates that one of the good things is that he is mediocre, and the black hair and black eyes are not special in this world, basically even if he kills a soldier of the Self-Defense Forces, the only one who can remember his face should be the big brother security guard - and as time goes by, after a week (I don't know if there is such a concept as a week in this place), this big brother will forget what his face looks like. "That's easy to do! Quickly carve a mask out of wood to cover your face, and then start being a robber - speaking of which, I have long wanted to try to see how cool the business will be without capital!" At this time, Zhou Zhongmou did not have any guilt about to embark on the road of crime, and he did not have any vomiting or fear after killing a person from another world before
The plan has been decided, Zhou Zhongmou according to the practice of robbery, the first thing is to find a good nest - he looked at the one-handed sword in his hand, it is difficult to build a wooden house with this thing, this thing is not bad for cutting people, but it will be too difficult to cut wood. And the problem is not only this, he also needs water and food, which makes Zhou Zhongmou start to scratch his head a little, fortunately, the tavern in the town is very full, and it is estimated that it can last a day or two
To say that his three years in the wilderness were not white, using the trick of tracking the footprints of animals, Zhou Zhongmou found a spring in the mountains of the Eagle's Nest Mountains. This hellish place is full of wild beasts, but fortunately, there are no large carnivores, and many herbivores can provide enough food for Zhou Zhongmou. Because the monsters were the focus of the clean-up work, there were few of them in this not deep mountain - at least Zhou Zhongmou had only seen the traces of goblins in a certain hill.
Relying on gritted teeth and carefully cutting down trees with a one-handed sword, Zhou Zhongmou set up a very rough, rough wooden house that the bark was not removed, all relying on the mud on it to prevent air leakage everywhere, the bottom of this simple shack was overhead by Zhou Zhongmou with wood at all costs, and the rough planks cut on the ground were more than thirty centimeters from the ground, so as to avoid insects and moisture on the ground from seeping into the shack. The small covered house was about 10 square meters in size and had no windows, but it had a curved ventilation tube hollowed out of wood, and the bottom of the pipe was through the floor, and the pipe had several large holes dug into the room. The door is a large wooden board, which is moved by manpower when entering and exiting, and Zhou Zhongmou can't make a door shaft, so this door panel can only be moved by manpower. Five or six days had passed since all the stopping, and Zhou Zhongmou had also practiced his swordsmanship skills when he was building a house - anyway, chopping wood with a one-handed sword, and then breaking some wood into planks with accurate chopping was also a very good way to exercise. Then he made a rudimentary mask out of cork and bark - that is, his eyes and mouth were exposed, and under his nose was a mask hollowed out, and then he began to walk down the road and start stepping on it.
Choosing the target of the robbery is very important, Zhou Zhongmou was lying on the hill looking at the road below, and at the same time he thought about these questions in his mind: "Whether it is to travel to another world, or to ancient times, why do they have no problems in language and living habits at all? It didn't take long for them to make a fortune, gain magical powers, and become a winner in life with many Bai Fumei -- obviously I was still a waste material before I crossed over? I was also a person who was about to succeed before I crossed over, why was my treatment so unlucky after crossing?" I can't understand the words, I can't understand the words, it's all thanks to the blessing of Bei Ye that I didn't pull the anus to prolapse and die in the first time due to eating unknown food, and finally got some gold coins and couldn't integrate into the society of this world, and I had to rely on roadblocks and robberies to have a chance to live, I don't understand! I don't understand! And! Damn, I haven't studied what the females in this world are like the earth! The sky is unfair! The sky is unfair!" While feeling sorry for himself, Zhou Zhongmou also knew that if he was allowed to go to the ancient earth, he would have to make a fortune by blocking roads and robbing - after all, people are not rich without windfalls, and ancient times were not so easy to mix.
As a promising profession, Zhou Zhongmou sadly found after spending two days counting the merchants passing by on the road below that it was very difficult for him to make a fortune by robbing caravans - this place is not far from the town, generally speaking, at this distance, the security forces in the town can already radiate their forces here, and most of the caravans have been gathered together to form a relatively large caravan. But if there were really hundreds of bandits, they should have been killed by the sweeping soldiers a long time ago, at least within this range.
So he had no choice but to move to the far end of the mainland road, according to his calculations, the usual caravan traveled at a speed of about thirty kilometers a day, some of the larger ones could be all horse-drawn carriages, and the caravan with sufficient guards might be able to reach fifty kilometers a day, but the ordinary small caravan and a few travelers would advance at most thirty kilometers a day. Because of this, most of the small caravans will automatically gather together to form larger caravans, and those travelers will follow the caravan to obtain safety and supplies. In this case, there are very few people left for Zhou Zhongmou to touch, "But?Maybe I can sneak in and start with thieves?, and I have gold coins on hand now, so I should be able to learn the language and writing here during this mixed process of the caravan." Zhou Zhongmou decisively decided to change jobs again, from bandits to thieves, and then after thinking about it for a while, he decided to start with the previous campsite and join the merchant group, and then go to the last campsite away from the town and follow the other merchant groups back to the previous one or even the first two campsites, and then repeat this way, learning the language and writing here in the process, and obtaining preliminary information about this world. "Hell, wouldn't all the houses built a few days ago be in vain!"
In this way, Zhou Zhongmou, who even made a mask in vain, began to practice his idea. With capital, this idea is quite successful. At first, he only used a gold coin to buy some food, and a lot of it was cheated, but the silver coins he recovered were enough for him to repeatedly blend into different merchants for the next month, stammering and learning the language of this damn place.
Then he felt lucky, "Creation! Creation and transformation! The grammar of the language in this place is actually similar to Chinese! Is it the Chinese that has been replaced with letters, and the pronunciation of the words composed of these letters is very phonetic and quite similar to Spanish--I have heard that it is completely different from the messy umlauts of the British, the French, the Russian, and the German! This is quite easy to learn! There are more words" These things were written by Zhou Zhongmou in Chinese in that heavy notebook. It's also a miracle that this thing never fell over.
Since it is very similar to Chinese grammar, it is much faster to learn. About half a year has passed, although Zhou Zhongmou, who does not have the language talent of Uncle Hei, can use the so-called "lingua franca" of the world to bargain with the small merchants in the merchant group with the help of comparisons, and the text can barely understand some simple documents - such as goods documents and menus. In the process of learning, Zhou Zhongmou also clearly noticed that there is an obvious gap between the learning ability of human beings in this world and that of people on earth - especially in analysis and association ability, there is not much gap in memory ability, but there is a considerable gap in association ability and reasoning and deduction ability. In the process of learning the language, he found that many merchants and travelers were semi-literate - they could read some documents and speak, but most of them could appreciate the singing around the bards, and it was absolutely impossible for them to read the heavy books. It was rare for Zhou Zhongmou to see someone holding a book to read during a break, and he also found that these people had a limited vocabulary in their daily conversations. "This should be the brain evolution caused by the education of earthlings over the years, in terms of IQ, earthlings should be able to crush the ordinary people here, and the IQ of these fools is about ninety" But low IQ does not mean that these businessmen are not cunning, their EQ is not much different from the profiteers of the earth.
In this way, Zhou Zhongmou spent a whole year in the practice of blending into the business group. In the past year, he has also moved away from the town of Manstow and followed the continental highway to another county of the Kingdom of Southern Yuktobania, which forms a triangle with the fortress of Uraf and the town of Manstow in front of him, which is dominated by plains and woods like Manstor, and is also one of the grain producing areas of the Kingdom of South Yuktobania. Now Zhou Zhongmou has a preliminary understanding of the world he is in, and under the high IQ of the earthlings in a year, Zhou Zhongmou is already a learned person in a group of people of this grade in the business group.
There is no name of this world, anyway, the continent under his feet is called Knos Continent, and according to what Zhou Zhongmou suddenly found when he stood on the mountain and looked at it - "Damn! This land has no curvature at all! The horizon in the distance is actually straight! Of course, it is possible that my eyes have deceived me, but if this curvature is so much that I can hardly distinguish it, then this planet is much larger than the earth! This gravity is not scientific!" and then he is in the geography and history books. By the way, this guy's gold coins are spent quite a bit on these miscellaneous books. This continent is flat, and the continent has an inland sea, an open sea, and other continents, but the whole world is flat. As for what's beyond the end? Travelers have already arrived, "There's chaos!"
According to the history books, or Zhou Zhongmou looks more like what is written in the mythological books, new earths are constantly being born, and every once in a while there will be a fire of order in a specific place on the continent, and if a warrior can take that fire into the chaos on the edge, the fire will spontaneously form a new earth, but order is not covered on it. The newborn land is still a wild land, and chaotic monsters roam the land, only when someone finds the fire of fusion in the new wild land and ignites it, will this land be gradually covered by order "What is this? The world of the Holy Sword Legend Mana?" Zhou Zhongmou, who was used to games, thought of this for the first time.
And the level of power in this world has also been known to Zhou Zhongmou, "Swordsmen or warriors, and then mages, these are the two major schools of power in this world." There is no absolute boundary among them, it's just that the number of people who cultivate both at the same time is very rare. The words of a mage have an absolute limit on the requirements for a perception of magic, and only a certain degree of sensitivity to magic can be learned. Anyway, I don't even have the slightest concept of magic power, and the ghost knows if I can learn it! Damn, this world belongs to the Fa Ye after all! And the power level of this world is too simple, black iron, bronze, silver, gold, and then beyond it is a title. In addition to the title, each level is also divided into upper, middle and lower levels, which are from small white to ancient power grading. I just express my contempt for the creator of this world!"
At this time, Zhou Zhongmou had already used a pseudonym, as for what this name was, this guy said that he sometimes couldn't remember it - after all, a name called "Dio Rajan, Yangkuku, Reinhardt Discator Agmudrum" may not be able to remember clearly, not to mention that sometimes this guy will add or delete the name in it, and the final result is that he himself can't figure out how many different names he has said to many people, and the result is that among people who are slightly more familiar, he is called " "Zod" - this is a name that he once rambled out of his mind, but was remembered very well, and then in a more formal setting he would be called "Mr. Agmudrum".