According to the map and the information obtained, the Crow Swamp is an area of about 200 million square kilometers of swampy terrain.

It is located on the border of the Principality of Chaoyang and the Principality of Tiehe, occupying the size of nearly two provinces of the two countries, and its main body stretches for more than 1,000 kilometers from north to south.

Although both countries claim that parts of the Crow Swamp are within their land, there is no government power in the Crow Swamp, and neither country has any de facto domination or occupation over the Crow Swamp.

As a result, almost everyone thinks that the Crow Swamp is a chaotic zone outside the two countries, and that the Crow Swamp border is the border between the two countries.

It is difficult for the government to gain a foothold in it, and even the two countries have never sent troops to fight and occupy it, so there are naturally corresponding reasons.

There are two main reasons for this.

First, there are a large number of top masters in the Crow Swamp.

As for the number of masters, partly because of the chaos and ease of hiding in the Crow Swamp, it attracts wanted people from all over the world, and many of them are the kind that will be besieged by martial arts people from all over the country as soon as they appear.

The other part is because the crow swamp is rich in all kinds of resources, attracting a large number of masters to enter.

These resources include snakes and beasts with abundant flesh, insects and ants with special functions, etc.

Although these resources cannot directly improve strength, they are extremely useful for speeding up the progress of martial arts training, or for practicing various strange martial arts.

For example, if you swallow a snake beast with sufficient blood and qi, your body will recover very quickly when practicing martial arts, and you will not feel the slightest fatigue even if you continue to practice, and there will be no physical sequelae like Wang Gou.

It is said that people who come here can make a lot of money even if they open a small shop, but the danger level is too high.

The second is that ninety percent of the area in the Crow Swamp is difficult to allow horse-drawn carriages or large bed crossbows to pass, and the siege crossbows of the principality army are naturally difficult to use.

The few roads that could pass through horses were already occupied by various forces, so it was difficult for the Duchy army to rely on numbers and large equipment to win the battle.

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The morning sun is like fire, and it is noon.

In the easternmost state city of the Principality of Chaoyang, the avenue is wide, people and horses gather, and horses and vehicles frequently enter and leave the city, and the city is full of people.

Looking at the scene in the city, most of them are martial arts people with martial arts, even the street vendors seem to be quite flexible with their hands and feet, and they seem to be a little skilled.

Wang Gou was in this warm atmosphere full of strong martial arts atmosphere, leading the horse and slowly walking into the city gate.

After nearly half a month, he finally arrived at the border city closest to the Black Crow Swamp, which was also the city where the official forces of the Principality of Chaoyang could actually swagger out.

The border city was originally a state city, but now there is no yamen in the city, and there is no sect, only a total of 8 city gates are distributed in all directions, and the city gate is unguarded.

There are hundreds of powerful stores in the city, as well as many small stores that are difficult to count, and the government controls several large stores.

In Wang Gou's eyes, this city is actually one of the large gathering places for resources in the Crow Swamp, which is for the purpose of selling and exchanging the resources produced in the Crow Swamp!

It is reported that there are a total of four large gathering points in the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions of the Crow Swamp, all of which were developed from the state cities before the rise of the Crow Swamp, and they are located in the territory of the two countries. Other small clusters often either establish or disappear, and there is no definite number.

According to unknown information, there are more than 100 forces in the Crow Swamp, and more than half of them have first-class masters!

There are all kinds of strange forces, some of them are wanted criminals, or there is no fixed location of the sect, or they are good at raising insects and beasts for sale, or they only steal things, and there are even those who only use hammers as weapons......

Along the way, Wang Gou got closer and closer to the Crow Swamp, the more masters there were, and the more peculiar and even non-mainstream people dressed up.

Wang Gou has seen second-rate masters with broken legs, second-rate masters dressed as beggars with erhu, hairless, flowers and so on......

Of course, more than half of them are still dressed normally, but Wang Gou breathed a sigh of relief in his heart:

"I finally won't be out of place with everyone here because I'm not perverted enough"

Wang Gou led the horse slowly down the roads of the city, and he was inconspicuous among the various horses and people that flowed on the road.

I found a street vendor's stall, and the stalls were mostly full of various creatures, a small number of stones, and herbs. After getting closer, Wang Gou pointed to an object and asked:

"How do you sell this?"

It was a creature resembling a conch, the size of a fist. Seeing that the questioner was a slightly sturdy young man with a lot of weapons on his back, his clothes were good, and the somewhat thin stall owner immediately turned to look at Wang Gou and said with a smile:

"The big river snail containing blood and gas, there is only such a snail in a small river snail group, only eight taels of silver, you see?"

After hearing this, Wang Gou said in his heart:

"This fist-sized thing is the price of a horse, it's so expensive!"

Then after asking for the price and information of several things, Wang Gou bought the big river snail.

After that, I continued to walk slowly around the streets, and I checked through various stalls and stores to see a lot of items and learned about the corresponding prices.

It wasn't until late in the evening that Wang Gou walked around the gathering point that he walked into a store where he planned to buy something, which was one of the necessary preparations before he entered the swamp.

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Fengyunlou is the largest intelligence organization in the Principality of Chaoyang and the Principality of Tiehe, and half of its masters are people from the official offices of the two countries.

Based on the government's extensive influence, Fengyun Tower recorded various events in and around the two countries, and sold some information for profit.

Fengyunlou compiled a catalogue of strange things, which recorded all kinds of information on plants, trees, insects and beasts that people had seen, as well as their approximate prices.

Most of the vendors in the Crow Swamp will have some pages of strange things in their hands, and Wang Gou naturally came to Fengyun Tower to buy the complete strange things record.

Fengyunlou store door iron, there are some hollow patterns as decoration, from the door to see the store has four floors, it is understood that the first floor is just the hall, the upper three floors are all selling desks.

After Wang Gou entered the door, he looked around, the hall was hundreds of square meters, and it was a top store in terms of area and power in the gathering point. There are some tables and chairs in many places in the hall on the first floor for entertaining guests, and there is only a large front desk by the door.

At this time, there were dozens of people in the hall, either talking to their buddies, or going up and down the stairs.

The old man at the front desk saw Wang Gou enter the door and said respectfully:

"Guest officer, if you need anything, we can arrange a subordinate to lead the way"

Wang Gou looked at the old man, and then saw the names and prices of some items hanging on the wall behind the old man.

After looking at the items that should be extremely commonly used, there is the name of the strange thing record on it, Wang Gou saw this and felt that the business of Fengyunlou was quite level.

Not to mention that this Fengyunlou first relied on the government with the most extensive influence to become the largest intelligence organization, it seems that the needs of customers are also considered a little carefully when doing business, and the price of people's standing things is placed here, which can not only quickly allow customers to complete the transaction, but also reduce the burden of customer flow during peak hours.

The price of the strange thing record is 300 taels of silver, and there are other things that are commonly used for home travel, such as several types of anti-mosquito and anti-ant drugs, some basic healing drugs, poisons, etc......

In addition, Wang Gou also saw the names of three objects, which were said by those shopkeepers with disdain when he inquired with some shopkeepers just now.

The three things are the Wonder List, the Talent List, and the Master List.

Wang Gou bought the strange record, the three lists and some standing medicines in Fengyun Building, and then went out to find an inn to rest first, and he was a little tired after galloping intermittently for many days.