The Godsfall Chronicles
Chapter 144 Merchants
On the edge, the wind blows wild grass to dust and water is lost for 100 miles during the dry season.
At this time, a convoy slowly passed through the wilderness. The main means of transportation was a fine animal car, each of which was the same size and shape. The animals pulling the car were not ugly wilderness monsters, but a white horse with a unicorn and stature.
Every veterinary car has a flag, a red green background, floating with the wind, a flower pattern wrapped around thorns. The entire team has around thirty guards, the armor is hollowed out with a thorny flower pattern, and the weapons are mainly produced by the Divine Domain with continuous air crossbows and telescopic blades, which are very common ordinary equipment in the Divine Domain.
An elderly man with snow and white hair is the leader of the team. His face is full of traces of years engraving. A single piece of snow and white hair drops off his shoulder. Although he is old, he looks spirited. A silk robe with a beautiful thorny flower pattern is cut properly. He holds a black jade bracelet in his right hand. Each jade bead is rubbed for many years and shines brightly.
Unified family patterns, unified customized animal vehicles, unified weapons and equipment.
Vehicles are filled with ores, leather and herbs, not to mention their identities.
Thornflower Merchants, Sky Cloud Divine Domain is an ordinary small merchant team. Old Thornflower Merchants is the founder of the merchant team.
Sky Cloud City people are naturally proud. The wilderness in the eyes of the divine realm has long been demonized by demons into a land of murderous maniacs and monsters filled with filth and blood. Plus the prohibitions of Sky Cloud City, no one is willing to deal with the wilderness.
Old Jing originated from a civilian population, and he was a very commercially minded man, because there were many precious materials such as ore, leather, etc. in the wilderness that were unmastered. It would surely be profitable to collect them and transport them back to the Divine domain for processing. Although the Divine Domain did not allow easy access to the wilderness, it was not so strictly regulated in marginal areas.
Old Thornflower Businesses will become marginal merchants. Marginal merchants operate in a buffer zone between the divine domain and the wilderness. They have perfected relevant procedures and do not violate the Sky Cloud Code, but they inevitably deal with wildlings. Therefore, such people are not of a high status. Jing is already seventy years old, he figured it was time to find a chance to back down and become a serious businessman sooner.
“Hmm?” Jing suddenly stopped spinning the black jade bead. When he didn't see the familiar figure of the young man around, he asked the captain of the guard, “Where's the little wind? ”
The captain replied: "He seems to have said he was on a road trip. ”
“This kid is having fun again!” Old Jing has a merciful expression on his face. He has no children his whole life. Little wind is one of the orphans he adopted. Although he is an adopted son, he is extremely talented. Old Jing is a marginal merchant despised by the people of Tianyun City for half his life. Can he look at this son in the future? "The marginal land is no more peaceful than the Divine Realm. Lately, it is probably dangerous to run around alone. Take a few people to find him. ”
The captain of the guard gave a bitter smile and said: "Chairman, you don't know that Master Feng is a man selected through the hunter. Although he has not yet become a hunter, he is far above me. Do we need some protection? ”
This allows wrinkles on the old thorn's face to unfold, and each of these trenches is proud.
The hunter, what a glorious identity, how proud to call it, the businessman who travels in the grey zone like this, in the face of such a high-ranking presence, has never been able to worship but admire and worship. Now that his adopted son has been tested for the genius of a hunter, he is most likely to become a hunter in the future, and Jing is dead and meditating.
“Although Windy is very talented, after all, he doesn't have enough experience, so go check it out. ”
Suddenly there was a sound coming from the front.
“Father, come on! ”
A seventeen or eighteen year old hurried over, and his appearance looked refined and smart, and he was very smart, and his gray hair was long, standing up and putting a ponytail behind his head, probably running around outside for years, his skin appeared to have some traces of wind and sun, but it gave a lively and healthy feeling.
The teenager pointed to a rock not far away and saw only two people behind it.
A man and a woman.
The woman looked about thirteen years old, dressed in shattered clothes, covered in dirt, very lukewarm, but her eyes were very clear and she was looking at these suddenly appearing in a frightened panic.
A man can't see his age clearly in a mask, but he seems to be thinner, so he doesn't feel too old, but he's lying on a rock at the moment, and he looks unconscious.
The little girl grabbed the dagger and panicked: "Don't come near me! ”
The teenager gazed at the girl for a few moments, although she seemed luscious, but her eyebrows were clear and she should look pretty, and she felt a little good: “Don't be afraid, little girl, we are not bad people, this soldier brother seems to be hurt. ”
This unconscious man is wearing Tianyuncheng soldier armor. Tianyuncheng soldier armor is a military-style equipment whose materials and production techniques are beyond the control of ordinary people. Therefore, only regular Tianyuncheng soldiers are eligible to wear it. If civilians attempt to imitate or steal it, they will seriously violate the Tianyuncheng Code and will be most seriously exiled.
So when I saw this skinny man in a mask, Junior Wind and Jing and the captain of the guard thought he was a soldier in the realm of Sky Cloud, but how did the soldier show up here? The white jade was covered with dirt and dust, like a piece of art, indicating that he had walked at least a dozen or twenty days on foot and was definitely coming from the wilderness.
Little girls don't dress like people in the realm of Sky Cloud.
The old Jing and the captain of the guard also carefully observed the men dressed as Sky Cloud soldiers. Although the men had arrived, they also held a Divine Domain Soldier's weapon with several signs of wear and tear on its surface. Is it a soldier who was wounded while on mission and fled the wilderness?
Jing gave the captain a look: "Let the doctor see. ”
The teenage breeze walked directly towards the little girl, the little girl waved the dagger in panic. When the dagger split over, the teenage breeze gently pinched and pulled one finger at a time, and the dagger was snatched by him. He put the dagger in his hand and danced out a fancy sword, then smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you. ”
Little girl pulled aside.
She looked at the Divine Divine Divine Man shaking all over her face pale and seemingly pathetic.
At this time, the Thornflower Shop physician appeared, a woman with a long posture, who opened the mask of a man who could not fall. Nobody thought that the hole underneath the mask was a little younger than the breeze, probably fifteen or six years old.
How could this guy be so young?
Is he a Sky Cloud City soldier or not?
The doctor gave the eagle a physical examination and turned back to the others and said, "It's no big deal, it's just a long thirst, dehydrated coma. But this guy's very suspicious, and I think we should just leave it alone. ”
“Now that we've met, we need to figure it out, maybe we can have a good fortune.” Jing turned the black jade bracelet in his hand, and he lifted his hand to the left and right: “Get him in the car first. ”
Little girls in the wilderness looked at the gods in front of them, carrying people away, scared but still following. It's not hard to find people in the Thornflower Corps, including the good old ones.
This is a very normal phenomenon. The wilderness and the divine domain are different worlds. Wilderness people are purely synonymous with dirty evil in the eyes of the divine domain. Even marginal merchants have no fondness for everything in the wilderness.
Except for one.
Little Wind didn't seem concerned, and he walked over and the little girl was like, "What's your name? ”
The little girl was very alert, her eyes stared dead at the person in front of her and she was afraid to speak.
“Don't be nervous.” Windy saw the little girl's mouth cracked and blisters grew, which was obviously a symptom of dehydration, and he took the lumbar bag off and gave it to her, "Thirsty? Drink some water first. ”
The little girl was terrified of the Shinto, but she was really thirsty, so she didn't resist the temptation to take over the water bag, and she opened it and mumbled.
Windy smiled, “Can you tell me now? ”
The little girl didn't dare drink too much, and she hesitated for a few seconds: "Asha. ”
The teenager nodded: “Nice name. Who gave you the name? ”
The phrase stirred up Asha's sad past, as if she had seen the usual big, benign and devout adoptive father, and the scene of his incomplete skin being tortured and burned and hanged by wild mobs.
Windy seemed to see the sadness of the little girl, and he immediately pulled the question: “Is the soldier in the coma your friend? What's his name? ”
Asha was young and ignorant, but she was not dull. She knew that these people would save lives. She simply mistook him for a soldier. Of course, she would not deny her identity. She just said: "He said his name was Cloud Eagle and he was a good man! ”
That was heard by the rest of the merchants.
Cloudhawk? It's kind of a weird name, kind of like a wild man's name.
“Windy! Come here!”
Jing seems dissatisfied with the fact that the adopted son is too close to the wilderness girl. After all, Windy is going to become a hunter. How can a noble hunter contact a lowly wilderness man?
Little winds shrugged their shoulders to get over it.
Lao Jing, Xiaofeng, female physician, captain of the escort, four people began to discuss.
The female doctor was not in favour of leaving the person behind, and she was the first to say, “We have fed him water and his body should not be in the way, but it is not yet possible to determine his identity, and if his identity is false, it will cause us trouble. ”
Jing nodded: “What do you think? ”
The captain of the guard commented: “I think one more thing is worse than one less thing, not to mention that each of us has a fixed amount of food and water, and if we bring one more person, we may have to consume a little more, in case of accidental travel delays, which may affect us. ”
“Nevertheless, the people have been saved and cannot be thrown back.” Juvenile Wind has spoken, "we are only two days away from the sand battalion, I will take him with me for the time being, when he wakes up to verify his identity, if he is a soldier, we can still do a great job of saving him, if he is a deserter traitor, we can also do a great job of escorting him back. Even if you save the wrong people, it's a big deal to leave them in front of the sand camp. ”
Everybody look at it.
That makes sense, let's do it!
The merchants are back on track, but this time just begins every few minutes.
A thunderbolt burst from all sides, which is hundreds of iron hooves simultaneously rushing like a storm, the people of the Thornflower merchants show horror, they only know what that means.
“No, it's the Reckless! ”
Someone shouted.