Moonstone Mountain is a bald mountain in the western suburbs of Guruding Town, which is not very high, and there was originally a vein of Moon Stone here, but many years ago, it was hollowed out by the orcs of Guruding Town.Today, the only abandoned mines are scattered on top of the barren hills, and the entire Moonstone Mountain is the highest place in the area.Moon Stone, also known as Moonstone, is a low-level magic material, and although it is not valuable among magic materials, its value far exceeds that of gold.These abandoned mines are now inhabited by orc refugees gathered from all over the western wilderness, some of them waiting to return from the depths of the wasteland, and some of them are gathered here with other orc refugees, after all, there is a place to live.The closer you get to the town of Gurudin, the more orcs you meet on the road, they are covered with all kinds of hunted leather, horns, tendons, magical herbs, rare ores and a lot of meat, I think most people will carry a whole bag of raw jerky on their backs, I see raw jerky now, I feel sick to my stomach, maybe it is a food injury.These people with bows and arrows and scimitars on their backs often come in groups of three or five, and those who can have horses to ride on will carry much more supplies.The orcs who only carried things on their shoulders did not bring much back, and often preferred to roll up the leather and carry it behind them, walking silently all the way.There are also caravans composed of three or five thunder rhinos, and these thunder rhinos can often be seen on the human merchants, and these thunder rhinos have as many materials as a hill, and there is rarely too much food in these materials, all of which are very valuable things, the most of which are rolls of demon antelope skins.Our team was a bit abrupt in the midst of these orcs, as the mix of our team looked a little strange, with Viru and Jonbach at the forefront, their horses tall enough to be known without looking closely at the human adventurers, often warriors or magicians of individual strength.Under normal circumstances, few people dared to anger them, and Sister Guoguo wore a magician's robe, a cone hat and a face towel to cover her entire scale.She had a magic wand in her snow-white hand without pulling the reins, and as long as she saw the orcs with that magic wand, she would subconsciously take two steps back.Guborai's horse was followed by a fat Aguimon, which barely had much luggage on it, except for an orc boy and a human child lying in a leather saddle.Both of them looked around listlessly, and the eyes of the two children always fell on the refugee orcs on the side of the road.More than one hundred and seventy fat argali, with fifty orc women with short spears on their backs, did not carry too much of the goods, and the team did not have the fatigue of the long journey.The male orcs of the wolf clan usually look at the beast girls and rarely look too carefully to see whether their faces are exquisite, as long as they are not too ugly, they will not be too picky, they care more about whether the chests of the beast girls are full enough, whether the buttocks are round and fat enough, and whether the thighs are slender and powerful.Obviously, none of the beast girls among the refugees could meet these demands.Counting that they had been starving all spring, they had already been so hungry that their faces were yellow and thin, and even some of the beast girls had shriveled on their chests as if they were hanging in two pockets, and the joints of their bodies were highlighted.The fifty orc warriors who cared for the argali, but they were particularly conspicuous in the crowd, and there were obsessive eyes on the road from time to time.We also follow the tradition of the orcs, every time we camp at sunset, we will light three or five oil stoves, set up iron pots, and pour a whole pot of water into it to boil.At this time, I would take out the brick-like meat floss from my bag, cut off a corner with a dagger, and the meat floss would quickly melt into a pot of fragrant beef soup.Sometimes the broth is added with some wild vegetables.Eaten on dry pancakes, sometimes some brown bread is broken up and placed in a wooden bowl and topped with two spoonfuls of beef broth, which Kuz has been fond of lately.The beast girls in the back preferred to eat those made with flour, ox blood, offal, minced meat, tendons, and some spices and salt.A sausage that is cooked in the small intestine and then smoked.They would boil some wild vegetables in water, add some salt at most, and then eat the strange taste of smoked sausage and black bread in this clear soup.Often at this time, it will make the other orcs on the side of the road drool.There were still a lot of orcs gathered and took a sip of hot water from our fire, and Kuz, seeing that it was not too far from the town of Grudin, would give the remaining black bread and coarse grain cakes to the orc refugees who seemed to have eaten wild vegetables for a long time, and were already skinny and skinny.Often, at this time, Kuzi will symbolically pick a few fresh wild vegetables from their hands, and then hand over the dry cakes in the bag, which means to say: Look, I really want to eat some wild vegetables, can I exchange a piece of bread for a little wild vegetables?
Many times, our oil stoves would burn until the middle of the night, and in the wilderness near the town of Gurudin, not to mention the fuel of dry branches and cow dung, even edible wild vegetables were dug up and eaten by those hungry orcs.Therefore, if you can drink a bowl of hot water here at this time, it is also extremely rare for those orcs.Sister Guoguo and Jonbach don't know where to go, and these two people are becoming more and more shameless, and I think I should prepare another tent, which will be more convenient.Viru lay in the sleeping bag early, sleeping next to his Gubolaima, I think this is very good, my sleeping bag is obviously no worse than Viru's, the sleeping bag sewn by guinea pig skin itself is waterproof and breathable, there is no need to sleep in a tent with this kind of sleeping bag, I think I should find a chance to hint to Sister Guoguo, of course I can't bring it up directly, otherwise she will tear me.This night, destined not to be silent, the camp is full of orcs who can drink a bowl of hot water, even though Kuz has asked those orcs to move the three oil stoves outside the camp, but the whole camp outside is as noisy as a vegetable market, Kuzi and I have no sleep, these days, probably every day!
During the day, we could only hide on the back of the Aguimon to catch up on sleep, and at night we always couldn't sleep, so the cycle began to create a vicious circle, so Kuz and I decided to take advantage of the night to climb the Moon Stone Mountain.When even a piece of the bald mountain here was larger, it was moved back to Guruding Town by the orcs of the Blood Wolf Clan to build a house, not to mention the big trees, not even a decent shrub.Stand on the top of the mountain and feel the cold night breeze blowing in your face.Looking out into the distance to the town of Gurudin, it was brightly lit.A month ago, there was no such prosperity, when I lived in the castle of the Kuz family.Every night, I would take advantage of my free time to stand on the balcony of my room and watch the night view of this town.At that time, only the night watchman lit the street lamps on the main street, and as soon as it was dark, there were not many people on the street.But now, although we are too far away.I couldn't see what was going on in the streets, but just by looking at the brilliant lights, I knew that the night in Gurudin's was not peaceful.Kutz sighed: "In the past, for a period of time after the spring hunt, Gurudin was like this every night, and there were always some outsiders who, after earning money, would find a tavern and drink all night.At that time, there were not so many human merchants, and the streets were full of antelope skins, sheep's horns, and the like. ”There was a rare weakness in Kuz's eyes, and he rarely talked to me about the past.He looked at the lights of Guruding Town in the distance, and said to me excitedly: "I remember that once Grandma took me out to buy two magic antelope skins for Abba to make inner armor, and the leather seller gave me a mask made of demon antelope skulls!"
Because of this, I was happy for a long time.Many warriors made helmets out of the skulls of the Antelope, which were much lighter and stronger than those made of steel. ”I always thought that Kuz was a strong-charactered, cheerful and optimistic orc boy, he was usually a very self-reliant orc boy, no matter what problems he encountered, he liked to find a way to solve them by himself, and he never asked others for what he could.I think it's probably a habit that I developed after surviving alone in the wild.Although this habit gave him the ability to survive beyond the reach of ordinary people, it diluted his communication skills and made him not very good at communicating with people.I found a place with a good view, and brought two stones to sit down.I smiled and said to him, "Why didn't you mention the demon antelopes we hunted in the northern wilderness, the two of us made a sheep bone helmet, which is also very good!"
”"I didn't expect that!
They were all cooked and eaten by those greedy women, hey!
”I said with a rather regretful sigh.Kutz has been somewhat silent in recent days, always looking preoccupied.We sat side by side on the stones, and I looked up at the starry sky with my hands on my knees, but he buried his head deep in his legs, and stroked the grass on the ground with his hands, and was silent for a moment before he said, "Jia, what are you going to do when you say that these orcs are starving!"
Speaking of which, they are all members of our orcs, so I can't do this by watching them starve indifferently!
But what should I do?
”For a moment, his question made me fall into deep thought, I didn't know how to answer, I want to say that these things are not what your big brother Coote should think?
But I thought he would be annoyed if he said this, so I thought about it for a long time before I said, "Actually, you can actually help them!"
”When Kutz heard me say this, his eyes brightened, and in the dark night he looked at me like two sparks, and asked, "Jia, what do you say?"
”It dawned on me that this kid was pretending to be pitiful and annoyed just so that I could help him come up with an idea.It seems that he has really seen a lot of things and thought a lot about them since he entered the Western Wilderness, otherwise he would never be so upset, such troubles.So I asked him, "Do you want to sell those magic crystals and exchange them for some food to save these orcs?"
”"Yes!
I thought so at first, but then I thought it might not help them, and the drowning tribe was still waiting for me to bring food back!
It occurred to me, Jia, maybe I can hire them, I want to build a city, a very, very big mountain city, even if it is just a wall, it will take dozens of kilometers, and the stones needed can almost be piled up into a mountain!
I'm going to take them back to their drowning berth," Kuz said to me, his gloomy face finally cheerful.I thought about it for a while, and then said to him earnestly: "In fact, it doesn't take so many people to build a city wall, and those magic crystals in your money bag can't support tens of thousands of poor orcs in the wilderness, of course, you can recruit some people and bring them back to the drowning pool, but this number and scale must be well controlled." ”It is very realistic to say that two loaves of bread cannot save a group of hungry people, and our capacity is very limited.When Kuz heard me say this, he sighed again."
Actually, there are still ways!"
I said slowly."
In fact, in front of us, in addition to those demon antelopes living in the depths of the wasteland, there is also a natural treasure house, that is, the Death Swamp!
The Swamp of Death is our unique resource.There is untold wealth there, enough to feed these orcs in the wilderness. ”"Death Swamp?"
Kuz was covered by my words, and asked suspiciously, "You mean to let me take the orc warriors into the swamp and kill those swamp zombies?"
Sell corpses, fire oil, and magic crystals to feed these poor orcs?
”This guy is just brainless.One by one, he ran until it was dark and refused to turn back.I said to him, "Even if you want to, you have to think about your tribe, after all, it is still very dangerous to go to the death swamp!"
I don't want you to take risks, I mean we can actually take a longer view.Come and see" I took out a piece of moonstone the size of a small fingernail from my bosom, I remember this was the little material left when I made the moonshine ink, and when Kige smiled and threw it to me, I still remember that she said to me very angrily: "Take it and play, sister will reward you!"
”Her smile is still etched in my mind, and I can see her charming smile as I pinch the moonstone with two fingers.After a moment of wandering, I focused my mind on the moonstone glowing blue.It illuminates my skin with a faint blue glow.Squatting on the grass, he hastily drew the general outline of the Western Wilderness, and drew the entire hundreds of kilometers of fault zone, windmill hills, the North Gully Quarry, and finally of course the Drowning Anchor in the lower left corner, and put a small pebble in the center of the Drowned Lodge, and explained to him while drawing: "This is the Western Wilderness, this is Gurudin, this is Bangor Manor, this is the North Gully Quarry, you just think this is the Drowned Anchor, oh!"
This is the village of the Laitu tribe.What can you discern?
”Kuz followed the light of the moonstone, looked and looked around me, and said uncertainly, "Jia, I can see that you are drawing a simple map" I must admit.After I asked the question just now, I regretted it a little bit.I didn't expect Kutz to keep up with me, so I continued: "The key problem is the wall we built!"
”I motioned for Kuz to be quiet, and then said, "If we're here in the village of Laitu.After the construction of a strong fence, the entire drowning moor has one of the safest places to rest.Az, you see, all people who want to enter the Swamp of Death must pass through us.This is the closest camp to the Death Swamp before entering it. ”"The people on the Pai Plateau.Why didn't you want to come to the Death Swamp to hunt the swamp zombies before?
The answer is very simple, that is, the swamp is full of dangers, and people who walk alone are easily injured by the death sickle ambush, and the hunting mortality rate here is very high, so it is called the death swamp.And the living conditions in the swamp are extremely difficult, the fog is full all day long, there is no sunlight, if there is no fire in it, after a long time, soaked in the swamp for a long time, the legs and feet will begin to slowly grow poisonous sores, slowly decay, the body will also be invaded by the toxins in the swamp, and various discomforts will occur.Therefore, people know that those swamp zombies are rich in magic crystals, and they are not willing to set foot in the death swamp to kill them!
”"If we make this a small trading hub, or if we start out, it can also be a campsite for those people to rest.We can sell some food that is easy to carry, such as grilled sausages that do not spoil easily, salty wheat crackers, meat floss, and dried meat.Of course, there is also the most important antidote potion, you still have that recipe from Sister Guoguo, just according to that kind of herbal configuration, the poisonous mist of the Swamp Corpse King can still poison people, and other medicines suitable for use in the swamp.There are also those fishing tools, which can also be rented or bought and sold, anyway, those people must understand that ordinary weapons cannot cause damage to those zombies, and they need to use sharper wind wolf fangs or weapons made of demon antelope horns. ”"But the prerequisite is to have a strong wall!
In this way, a virtuous circle will slowly be formed, and people will keep coming, and successfully hunt the swamp zombies and make a lot of money.Bring the news to the other orcs, as long as they want to enter the Death Swamp, then they will definitely choose to repair in the safe village of Laitu, these people will come to the village, they will replenish, buy food, medicine, weapons and other things, and after being ready, they will go into the Death Swamp together to hunt, and finally come out of the Death Swamp with the spoils of war, and the things that are inconvenient to carry may be disposed of cheaply in the village!
”"In this way, maybe there will be businessmen who will see this business opportunity and open a trading house in our village!
Oh, to these merchants, Aziz you must not be polite in the future, collect taxes on them, and of course provide them with protection!
As long as it is within the scope of their hearts, the only thing to keep in mind is that our village must have our own rules, and anyone who comes to our territory must abide by our rules!
”Kutz was a little confused and asked me, "Jia, what you said is very good, but what does this have to do with the tens of thousands of poor orcs in the western wilderness that we are currently trying to help?"
”I continued: "Then your camp will have a large income, which will become more and more great as the place becomes more prosperous, and finally it may be so large that you may not even think of it.Add to that the fact that you sell fine salt and corpse oil, sell vermicelli and meat floss to human merchants, and hunt swamp zombies and demon antelopes with female warriors, and you have enough money to toss as much as you want!
”I stood up and pointed to the orc refugees below Moonstone Mountain, and said to Kuz, "You can hire more people to make the walls higher and wider!"
It takes a lot of manpower!
You can also consider building a large castle like a mountain castle, which also requires a lot of manpower!
Maybe more workshops can be opened, oh!
In short, you can't raise them in vain, let them pay a certain amount of labor, and maintain the bottom of life!
”I put my arm around Kuz's shoulders and comforted him, saying, "This will save more people and make more people eat!"
Of course, you're not going to sell all your possessions in order to give them a few full meals!
It will take some time to do so, and it may not be obvious at first, but it will definitely get better and better.