Chapter 1: The Town of Hamlet
The sound of the dragon turtle car driving is monotonous.
The rickeping carriage is like a classroom on a hot summer day.
As soon as the two were combined, the girl in the carriage became drowsy.
The most impressive thing about her petite figure is the almost overflowing talent on her chest, and the long black skirt on her body looks extraordinarily loose except for the overflowing talent, with a delicate and fragile feeling.
She has waist-length silver hair that is very troublesome to keep, a beautiful face that makes people feel good at the first time, and there are tear moles under the corners of her long eyes, and she is a beauty who will be very popular even in the royal capital.
The girl's name was Melina, and she was a traverser, her beautiful golden eyes were looking out of the car boredly, and her left hand was pressed on the handle of her lace parasol.
Outside the window a simple circular natural landscape, mountains, forests, grasslands, mountains...... and the dragon, nature's top predator that has been carefully stopping the dragon turtle cart dozens of times, gliding through the sky.
Roar β
The tortoise cart stopped again.
The tortoise is a very powerful animal, and it can brake sharply even when towing a heavy five-meter-long lower wide upper narrow carriage.
It's just that the passengers in the carriage are suffering.
The passengers were jolted forward by the sudden braking, and the few people sitting in the seats in the cramped carriage flew forward because there were no seat belts in this world.
Melina picked up the small lace parasol in her hand, and stepped aside, and a strong man with a frightened face like a tower was pushed back to his seat by the slender toothpick-like parasol compared to his size. Frightened, he turned his head and saw the picture of the girl sitting gracefully next to him putting the parasol back and gently holding it on the ground.
Click.
The tip of the umbrella touches the ground.
The strong man reacted, first showing a very grateful expression, but after his gaze moved down, his complexion directly turned red like a steamed hairy crab, and he shook his head vigorously:
"Thank you, girl."
"It's a gesture." Melina straightened her waist, this action was too exciting for the rustic locals, and the strong man looked into the empty space in front of him, his eyes straight, and he did not dare to move.
"You're from Hamlet?" Melina asked nonchalantly.
"Yes!" The strong man replied in the same way as stress.
"Explorer?" Melina's left index finger tapped lightly on the handle.
"I'm just a gatherer, but I'm an explorer, hahaha." The strong man smiled heartily, and scratched the back of his head embarrassedly.
Gatherers are one of the branches of the Explorer profession, and 99% of this world is uncharted territory for pure-bred humans, and the forest in front of you is inhabited by terrifying monsters. Fighting off or hunting these monsters, carving out areas where humans can live, and collecting the building blocks of civilization from these areas is called an explorer. The Gatherer is the most mundane of the Explorers, much like the basic resource gatherers in games like Age of Empires 2, with the ability to log, mine, collect berries, and hunt small herbivores.
The strong man in front of him is an ordinary gatherer.
However, even the most ordinary gatherer has the ability to collect more than a ton of food a day by a person, and can easily run with a ton of heavy loads on his back.
It's simply superhuman.
"What's your name, girl? My name is Cha. Leersde. Bennorm, everybody calls me Charlie. The simple man with some charming thoughts in his heart looked at her with blank eyes.
"Melina is my name." She played with the handle of the umbrella, "Gatherers are also explorers, so you should also have something that explorers have, [armed]." β
"Are you curious about this?" Charlie pulled out the knife on his waist as if offering a treasure.
Say it's a knife, but only for his size. For Melina, it was a one-handed sword of acceptable length.
It exudes a slightly yellowish color with the texture of bones, and the lower blade is unbladed, and the upper blade is cut and some azure glow is applied. This is armed.
A kind of equipment that injects magic factors into it through special processing, so that the user's physical fitness is strengthened.
Only those who are armed can become explorers.
Melina stared at the knife.
Charlie asked curiously:
"Aren't you an explorer? Plums... Miss Melina. β
"It's not." Melina withdrew her gaze.
"But your strengthβ" Charlie looked at the slender lace parasol in his left hand, he was an explorer, and could tell that the umbrella in the other's hand was not armed. It's not a magic factor enhancement device for ordinary people, it's just that this ordinary umbrella stops itself. That can only be explained by the girl's own strange powers.
"I'm a banshee." Melina said calmly.
"Oh!" Charlie, the strong man, couldn't help but let out a surprised sound, and even the other passengers in the carriage looked at it curiously.
There are many human races born with powerful magic factors, such as elves, blood clans, etc., and banshees are one of them, the full name of primates is the banshee species.
Many banshees are extremely strong explorers and even have the ability to hunt wyverns alone.
For the lowest explorer like Charlie, the banshee is like a blood and an elf, similar to a legend.
Charlie noticed that Melina was looking at her armament again, and said in an atmospheric manner:
"Girl, do you want to touch it?"
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Melina looked away, the corners of her mouth moving, "No." She said, "I'm afraid I'll break your knife." A nice knife, the design and processing of the mold are very good..."
"Hahaha! Of course! Charlie laughed heroically, "We lack everything in Hamlet, but ah, we don't lack weapons!" The old men in the blacksmith shop are an important reason why many people from the surrounding area come to visit Hamlet...... By the way, girl, you said you weren't an explorer, so why did you come to our town where dogs don't bark? β
Melina smiled and touched her face with her right hand:
"There's a reason why I have to come."
A few days ago, she received a letter from her senior sister. She didn't have a deep impression of this senior sister and had almost no friendship, so much so that when she received the letter, she wondered if it was sent to the wrong person, but when she removed the fire paint seal on the letter, took out the letterhead, and saw only one line on the letter, she knew that it was a letter to her.
"Hello time-traveler, I'm reborn."
The envelope also contained 50 gold lei (purchasing power of about 5,000 yuan), a map of the Weeping Peninsula with a small town called Hamlet Town circled in red, and an address in Hamlet Town.
An invitation.
The car continued to move again, and the strong man quickly forgot about his hometown, and muttered instead:
"Why do these dragon turtles stay where they are as soon as the dragon comes, like turtle grandchildren......"
"It's just the characteristics of a flying dragon." Melina's right index finger and thumb circle a circle around the eye socket, "They are predators of the sky, and the thick translucent corneal membrane that grows out of the eyes to prevent dryness causes their static vision to be very bad, but their dynamic vision is very good, because the animal moves like a puddle of special colors in their perspective, but the still life seems to blend in with the colors of the environment." β
Because of the previous incident, the strong man listened very patiently, and then nodded:
"Hahaha, although you said it very clearly, girl, I don't understand, what dynamic, what static, I don't understand."
Melina's right hand stiffened, and she quietly rested it back on her lap.
"Dragons can only see what moves, and they can't see clearly when they don't move. So when a dragon flies by, keep still... If you don't move, you can avoid being attacked. β
"Oh, I see!"
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The closer the tortoise car gets to the Weeping Peninsula, where the town of Hamlet is located, the more deserted it becomes.
The wild magic factor sprinkled in the untouched primeval forest, giving birth to hundreds of meters of giant trees juxtaposed, and on the huge branches separated from the towering trunks, there were some dragon's nests like bird's nests.
"Don't look at the danger here, but as long as you come at noon, those dragons won't show up, and you can collect a lot of good things here! I love it here! β
Melina's whim to help the local strong man, very lively as a tour guide.
Charlie not only acts as a gatherer, but also has a glorious past against the small size of the black dragon species with a body length of about four meters and a height of two meters, but more often he helps with the transportation and gathering of goods in several towns.
Just look at Charlie's stout size.
The height is about two meters four, and the muscle mass has reached a terrifying level, although the center of gravity is unstable, but it is more than enough to do some collecting work.
If Melina stood up straight, she would probably be about the same size as the other person sitting down.
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Passing through the primeval forest, there is a hilly grassland, and then the primitive road finally disappears, leaving only the desolate country grass path that cannot be identified without signs, and the grass path finally disappears into the volcanic mountains near the Weeping Peninsula, and the huge Weeping Peninsula can be seen through the huge rock face.
The topography of the peninsula is nearly 100 meters above sea level, and the island structure is a concave sea erosion structure, which is large at the top and narrow at the bottom.
The town of Hamlet is located in the first half of the Weeping Peninsula and is built on a huge mountain range called the Lonely Mountain. The vast majority of its buildings are located on hills of varying heights, with the lowest layer being a wall made of logs, enclosing a relatively flat plain. This plain in the town, known as West Hamlet, has the rudiments of animal husbandry and agro-processing. The world is rich in natural resources, and human beings have basically abandoned fixed animal husbandry and agriculture in favor of pure processing.
East Hamlet is attached to the Lonely Hill, which is the heart of the town and a residential area. The unruly-looking houses are all located at the foot of East Hamlet, while the slightly more modest houses are located halfway up the hill. From the outside, there is no place that looks like a shopping street, only a miscellaneous goods street that is dirty enough to look at it.
At the door, a patrol of rat-men guarded the gate.
They opened the door with no attitude, just a vigorous complaint, and let the dragon turtle cart in.
After entering the car, you can clearly feel the slowdown of the car, and you can feel the mood of the tortoises gradually entering a state of calm from the shaking of the car.
Most of the local residents got off the bus at the gate, and to be honest, it took a while to unload from the back of the car. The inhabitants of Hamlet exchanged wild wheat, potatoes, leeks and other crops from the Weeping Peninsula, as well as some small animals hunted by gatherers, with the port town of Innsmouth, just off the Weeping Peninsula. This kind of ordinary exchange of goods between two towns contains the basic principles of economics.
Gatherers like Charlie get off at the entrance to East Hamlet.
There's a rudimentary guild of gatherers who exchange information, exchange supplies, and provide the most basic forging systems.
Melina and a businessman were left in the car.
They alight at the post office stop, the official drop-off point in East Hamlet.
The station and the post office in this place have been combined, and as Melina saw when she got off the train, the combination of the station and the post office was a large tiled house, with a strong smell of wine emanating from the open windows, which was also used as a tavern.
After the merchant got out of the car, he ran towards the location of the grocery street in the same way as he fled.
Melina would like to follow the merchant's escape route, along the gravel road, which is barely a street, to travel the eastern part of Hamlet Town, to observe the ecology of this town established in a deserted land, and it would be great if she could observe the unique architectural style created by the [wisdom of survival]. The climate change on the Weeping Peninsula is more extreme, and when she got off the bus, it was exactly the time of day and night, and in just five minutes, Melina had already changed from using magic factors to make her body temperature low to resist heat to making her body temperature high and cold. Extremely cold and hot like a desert, the architectural style also began to tend to be ventilated during the day and closed at night.
She took the first step, and the luggage at her feet floated in the magic, and someone from inside the station stepped out.
The middle of the opponent's white segmented skirt should have exposed the abdomen with bright silver armor, steel armor was sewn on the long skirt, and long black hair was tied in a neat high ponytail. Her face is beautiful, but she has a more prominent delicacy than her beauty, she is a female knight who thinks of the princess for the first time, but she feels extremely sassy when she reacts, and her dark purple eyes are a little evil, making her look less like a righteous female knight.
This woman is Melina's senior sister.
She stretched out her hand, clenched her fist lightly, and smiled uninhibitedly:
"Yo, thick rice."
A greeting confesses the fact of being a traverser.