Section 714 - The Law of the Wasteland
The Blazing Tooth tribe was able to be indifferent to the fact that their own seat was kicked away by outsiders, not only because there was a vicious dragon next to the other party and dozens of tribal warriors who had beaten them down, but most of them were still in a bag of salt, spices, wine, pottery tableware and other gifts that were given casually, as long as there were enough materials, these barbarians could even give up the tribal seat capital. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The endless wasteland where barbarians have lived and multiplied for generations is notoriously barren, and although it also contains some minerals, due to the lack of mining and processing technology, barbarian tribes of all sizes can still only use limited animal and plant resources, live by animal husbandry and hunting, or raid other tribes to maintain their own survival.
In this wild land, salt, iron, spices, cloth, and all kinds of utensils are all important survival materials that the various tribes strive to fight, and sometimes just for a cheap and inferior iron pot, the two tribes will even come to a skirmish that costs dozens of casualties.
Although there will also be caravans that ask for money and die and risk great danger to go deep into the bitter cold wasteland, many tribes rarely encounter once a year, or even two or three years will not see a caravan, and even if they do, those merchants with fierce guards are very greedy, often accumulating fur and animal bones for a year or two can only be exchanged for a small amount of necessities.
This is the life of a barbarian, realistic and cruel, interpreting the cruel natural law of survival of the fittest to the extreme.
What she saw and heard, which was completely different from the civilized world she had seen before, completely subverted the worldview of this Holy Maiden of the Bright Divine Court.
Listening to the dragon knight read the encyclopedia about the barbarians according to the book, the strange singing and cheerful dancing made Melidore fall into a momentary distraction, and even staggered back, and the tribal leader who fell on the edge of the animal skin was drunk and unaware.
A loud noise will somehow return to the tent, and Melidore will wake up in a daze as she falls asleep again.
"Melidore, are you awake, it's time for us to go!"
As if sensing the change in the aura of this Holy Maiden of the Bright Divine Court, Lin Mo's voice came from outside the tent.
"Oh, wake up, wake up!"
Melidore quickly lifted the blanket and slipped out of the tent.
"Come on. Wash your face and brush your teeth, and breakfast is good. ”
Lin Mo stood at a wooden square table and beckoned to her, on which there were washbasins and towels and other toiletries, as well as a steaming breakfast.
Strangely enough, however, a light spell shield emitting a faint white light enveloped the two of them in their position, including the tent, and just as Melidore was wondering, an arrow shot from nowhere cleared the question.
Boom!~
The spell shield didn't even shake it, and it easily blocked the stray arrow.
Only then did Melidore realize that the whole camp seemed to be in some kind of chaos. All of them had weapons in their hands, shouting and running back and forth, and from time to time some people were knocked down by arrows falling from the sky, and those who did not hit the vital point were carelessly pulling out the arrows, and those who were shot directly to the ground, and those who were seriously injured and unable to get up rolled and let out desperate screams.
Near the tent, the golden dragon lying on the ground waiting for the departure was innocently bearing most of the arrow attacks, clanging and clanging. A lot of arrows fell around him, and they were quickly picked up by the people of the Burning Tooth Tribe.
The crude arrows with the tips of the fangs or sharp stones held in place by thin threads or glue were unattractive to the golden dragons, and meant nothing other than to hear them. Not even enough qualifications to tickle.
"What's going on?"
Melidore was shocked by the mess.
Lin Mo still said calmly: "It's nothing! Another tribe is attacking the Burning Tooth Tribe, and it has submitted a declaration of war before dawn. ”
The so-called declaration of war is nothing more than a bloody brute bull's head, and there is a war between barbarian tribes, and there will be very few sneak attacks without a declaration of war. I tend to send a freshly severed bull's head to the opponent before attacking, which means that I am about to cut off your head.
"What are they going to do?"
Melidore saw that the men of the Burning Tooth Tribe were rushing in the direction where the fighting was most intense, and most of them were elderly. Presumably, it is not only to kill the opponent, but even if it dies in battle, it can save a precious survival resource for the tribe.
Only women and children would retreat in the other direction, and almost no one cared about her and Lin Mo.
"Survive, or perish, this is a law that no one can change, hurry up and wash your face, and we will leave after breakfast. ”
Lin Mo didn't intend to give any friendship support, he just took Melidore for one night, and also provided gifts as a price, and he didn't owe anyone, so naturally there was no obligation to help.
Even if all the people of the Burning Tooth Tribe were killed in front of the two of them, he would still be indifferent.
"Will you help them?"
Melidore couldn't see anyone innocently killed, and as she spoke, she had already seen two barbarian children fall to the ground by arrows.
"No!"
The dragon knight shook his head, his heart hardened as iron.
Looking at the dynamics of the battle, this tribe of Burning Teeth, which has fallen into passivity due to the loss of the first opportunity, may not last long before the camp is breached, and the whole tribe is bloodied, and only those women and children may survive.
"Why?"
Melidore's stubbornness also came out of nowhere.
"There are man-eating wolves on both sides, which side are you going to help?"
Lin Mo's direct words made the girl's face turn pale, she seemed to remember the words that the head of the Burning Tooth Tribe said last night, if it weren't for the strength of the Dragon Knight and the Golden Dragon, maybe the heads of the two would have been cut off and concocted into witch sacrifice utensils.
The seemingly hospitable Tooth Tribe is not a good sin either.
Melidore stopped talking, seemed to accept the statement, and silently walked to the square table beside Lin Mo.
"Maureen! I need your help!"
The bloodied head of the Burning Tooth Tribe, Gu Qi, had several bloody heads hanging around his waist, and a spear with a sharp metal blade rushed over, but he accidentally hit his head on the spell shield, and fell to the sky with a strange scream, and soon turned over again, patted the spell shield that emitted white light, and shouted: "It's the dog cub of the Qinjia tribe, I can give you good things, this is a deal, a deal that guarantees your satisfaction." ”
The clumsy lingua franca with a strange accent had been learned from a troubled merchant, and after learning it, he gave the hapless merchant to the tribal wizard, and the next day he saw a fresh skeleton hanging outside the wizard's tent.
The rules of the trade were also learned by the Archie from the merchants, and it must be said that the seemingly rude head was a leader who was quite thoughtful, capable, and far-sighted.
"I'm sorry! I can't help you!"
Lin Mo shook his head, unmoved, he was not one of those merchants, and he was not interested in the furs of the barbarian tribe at all.
"No, no, I have something you like, I promise, Bagan, Bagan, take those things I have in your collection, anyway, I can't cheapen those damn merchants, and I can't let the Qinjia tribe get it for nothing. ”
The dove shouted a few times at the surroundings, and saw several barbarians carrying leather shields in one hand, and together they carried two large leather wraps.
"Huh?"
At the first glance of seeing these two leather wraps, Lin Mo noticed the strange fluctuations emanating from them.
It was not only the dragon knight who was surprised, but also the golden dragon, the gold coin looked at it with wide eyes, it seemed that there was also something in the package that interested it, and there were some methods in the barbarian witch festival that could still block the innate perception ability of the golden dragon clan.
With a bang, two packages large enough to hold an adult were opened, revealing the contents of the room.
Crystal clear, gems of different colors, magic crystals of different sizes, strange shapes, special textures of animal teeth, animal skins, feathers, bones and tendons, and some ugly stones and metals.
As a result of Lin Mo's request, the Burning Tooth Tribe took out a special collection that had been accumulated over the years and was ready to trade with the merchants who had gone deep into the wasteland.
Magic crystals, gems and so on, it was not very attractive to Lin Mo, who was rich in wealth, he was not an alchemist and a pharmacist, and his bones and fur were naturally not eye-catching, but the abnormal reaction of the golden dragon attracted his attention.
"Is there anything good?"
"There are really good things, Mithril, Celestial Star Gold, and even Iridium Liquid Magic Gold, Dysprosium Sand, and there seem to be good things in the two meteorites. ”
The golden dragon walked over with great interest, and its claws looked at money like dung, and pulled away those magic crystal gem beast bones and other things at will, and did not look at it much, but left behind a pile of metallic objects and a few strange things with gray heads, among which seemed to be the meteorite it said.
The Golden Dragons have always attached great importance to these rare extraterrestrial visitors, due to the thick atmosphere, it is extremely rare for many meteorites to be able to withstand the heat barrier and high temperature test for a long time, leaving some debris to successfully fall to the ground, and these little things left are often very rare or even rare essences.
"There are stars falling from the sky inside, and they are very precious treasures. ”
Despite their rudeness, the barbarians were quite knowledgeable and were able to collect some real gems, and perhaps it was because of this that the daring merchants dared to venture into the wasteland to make such a lucrative trade.
Click!~
All metal was a paper tiger in front of the minions of the golden dragon, and with a crisp sound, an ovoid meteorite the size of a basketball immediately cracked, and quickly shattered, revealing the metal part that seemed to be vein-like inside, the golden color was like gold, but it was more transparent, not only that, but directly emitting a golden light.
"Hmm, this thing oxidizes?"
The gold coin noticed that this strange metallic luster was rapidly dimming, and quickly closed its claws and devoured it directly.
- (To be continued.) )