Chapter 125: Beyond the City
In this world, because of the existence of desolate beasts and calamity plants, human beings are not the overlords who rule the world, but have been constantly resisting, defending, expanding, and clearing wasteland.
According to the security level, the Kyushu Alliance divides each area into four types: [Ruins Area], [Turbulent Area], [Stability Zone], and [Purification Zone].
Among them, the [Anding Zone], that is, where Shanhai City is located, belongs to the area occupied by humans, and can build a stable city, and the large desolate beasts and disaster plants in this area have been basically emptied, and the threat mainly comes from low-level creatures.
The so-called low-level creatures refer to the I. Bronze and II. Black Iron Rank Desolate Beasts and Calamity Plants, creatures of this level are not a big threat to humans in the city, but they reproduce very quickly, and if they are not cleaned up from time to time, they are likely to form a desolate beast disaster!
- Once the desolate beast plague appears, it will be hundreds of thousands, millions of low-level desolate beasts gathering together and attacking the human city, which is comparable to a natural disaster.
After all, there are at least a million humans in every city, and these are simply delicious snacks in the eyes of the beasts, can you not make them crazy?
Therefore, in a place occupied by humans like the [Stable Zone], the disaster tide formed by low-level desolate beasts is the only threatening problem, and the rest is that occasionally there are desolate beasts advancing to the III. Blue Steel level or the IV. silver level, which is not annoying.
In order to clean up the huge number of low-level desolate beasts that reproduce quickly, each city has an organization called [Hunting Place], and no one can set up their own [Hunting Group] in the Hunting Place.
Thousands of hunting groups, almost similar to the mercenary groups in fantasy novels, have individuals, chambers of commerce, and families, of different sizes, but they are mainly to leave the city and make money by hunting wild beasts.
Don't underestimate the low-level desolate beasts, their source crystals, leather, bones, and flesh and blood are all good things, it can be said that as long as it is a dead desolate beast, humans have no parts that they don't want, and even feces can disperse the beasts.
In a small city like Shanhai City, the [Hunting Group] usually does not fight, and most of them are groups of six or twelve people, and the largest hunting group is more than 100 people.
- No matter how big it is, you can't afford to raise it, although the low-level desolate beasts are full of treasures, but there are too many of them, and the price can't go up after all, you send out hundreds of people in a hunting group, and kill them all, even if you empty an area, in the end, on average, it is not as much as a small hunting group.
Therefore, those wilderness hunting groups with large numbers and large volumes disdained to kill low-level desolate beasts, and they were all looking for those desolate beasts that were accidentally promoted from the II. Black Iron Rank to the III. Blue Steel Rank.
Don't look at the difference of just one order, but the difference between the II. Black Iron Rank and the III. Blue Steel Rank, but the value of the low-level desolate beast to the mid-level desolate beast is several times higher.
As for the IV. Silver-rank desolate beasts, their size is about fifty meters, and basically no one can take the hunting group in Shanhai City, but Shanhai City is in the [Anding District] after all, and there is no IV. Silver-rank desolate beasts are indicative requirements, and they are usually handed over to the army stationed in the city to solve.
Of course, the hunting group is not allowed to enter the city when they return to the city with their prey, but directly at the entrance, they are sold to the [Hunting House], and after paying taxes, the money can reach everyone.
The city's hunting tax on the hunting regiment is not high, but it is not low, one-tenth of the total income.
Don't think that this 10% tax is a lot and unreasonable, in fact, this is a kind of protection fee, after all, the hunting group kills some wild beasts, sometimes it may lead to retaliation, causing the city to be attacked, and the army cannot clean up the trouble for people in vain.
However, there is actually a loophole in this rule - the hunting group kills the wild beast, and it must be brought back to the city, and only one-tenth of the tax is paid after it is sold in the city.
If I don't bring it back to the city, I'll sell it outside!
Because of this loophole, and because there is a certain degree of safety in the stable area, some large hunting groups, chambers of commerce, and families choose to build small villages and towns like satellite cities around the city, and the returning hunting groups will sell their prey in the villages and towns, even if it is cheaper, but because they do not need to pay taxes, they will be more profitable.
At the beginning, these hunting groups, chambers of commerce, and families that established towns did make a lot of money, but this kind of behavior, which was equivalent to seeking to seize the city's tax revenue, soon attracted the legal punishment of the alliance.
Today, in order to build a new satellite town around the city, it is not only necessary to have a huge deposit and land fees, but also to pay a certain amount of resources and taxes to the city every year.
However, even so, the number of satellite towns is still increasing every year, because most of the transactions of the various hunting groups are placed here - only need to pay one-twentieth of the tax, which is half less than entering the city, and the various chambers of commerce are bidding here, which is more expensive than selling directly to the [Hunting Place].
There are three satellite towns around Shanhai City, all of which have been established for decades, and because of the lower cost of living and the greater freedom, many people do not return to the city, but live in villages and towns.
The orphanage where Ji Luo used to live is in one of the villages and towns, and the children living in it are basically members of the hunting group, and among them, there are not many children who will really be adopted, or they don't really want others to adopt them.
- Because most of the children will grow up to join various hunting groups and become a brave and fearless hunter who fights the beasts.
"Ji Luo, what was your dream?"
"Become a realm warrior, join the wilderness hunting group, kill the beasts, and protect the city. ”
Ji Luo walked beside Jiang Yingluo, looking at the verdant scenery in the distance, and vaguely remembered what happened when he was a child.
"Oh, the wilderness hunting group~ It's a very interesting thing, I've seen a lot of great wilderness hunters, and the scene when they fight with the wilderness beasts is handsome. ”
Jiang Yingluo's past experience is much richer than Ji Luo's, she thinks of her career as a wilderness hunter, when she was running around hunting, although she was in danger all the time, but I have to say that it was really a very exciting and exciting journey.
Because they wanted to test the new equipment, Ji Luo and Jiang Yingluo did not choose to take a car to the village and town. Because of the city's defense and vision, the trees within ten kilometers around Shanhai City were cleared, and the two of them walked on the meadow as if they were stepping into the green.
"Ji Luo, now, have you given up your dreams?"
"Hah...... I don't know, although I have become a realm martial artist now, but ...... It's more about wanting to be stronger, and then live well, talking about dreams or something, it's a bit of a luxury. ”
Ji Luo didn't lie to Jiang Yingluo, he really thinks so now, but Ji Luo didn't say one thing - his dream of becoming a wilderness hunter in the past was not his, but a certain teenager's.