There are no people coming from other places to trade, and the vendors waiting here seem to have been stationed for a long time. From all angles, this place does not match the characteristics of a market at all, and it does not even look like a place where living people gather.
.
The location where everyone is located is the Sulitang Empire, the last of the five empires to appear in the northern border of Lost Land.
This is a large empire with nomadic people as its main body. Its territory is larger than the other four empires, but its population is not larger than any of the other four empires. Its vast territory and sparse population make it
feature.
Investigating the reason, if a traveler were to analyze it, he would say that the entire territory of the Suritan Empire is located north of the temperate zone, and most of the country is in the cold zone, which is not suitable for human habitation. Pasture is limited, and food cultivation is also quite difficult.
, these all limit the speed of population growth.
According to the Midi people, it’s just too damn cold! Most of the year can be considered winter.
Although the main body is nomadic, the Khanate is constantly moving. However, after hundreds of years of development, it has absorbed many other ethnic groups and races and brought them under the jurisdiction of the Suritan Empire.
Its characteristic is that numerous large-scale Homo sapiens gathering places were built, such as cities and villages. And farming was also carried out in these places to supply the needs of the entire empire.
But in order to meet the trade needs of the more mobile nomads, there will be temporary markets like the one in front of you, which appear from time to time and at irregular locations. It may be that itinerant caravans come here, and there will also be nearby settlements.
Or herdsmen, they trade their surplus items here.
The market usually lasts for three to seven days. When the transaction volume drops to a certain level, the traders who organized the market will pack up the trading goods and go to the next place to open the market.
However, recently, a rumor about a ghost market appeared on the forum.
It is rumored that there is a market in the north, where rotten or damaged items are traded. The people in the market are not living people, nor do they look like the living dead of the undead tribe. They are a more unknown type.
state.
The market has existed for a while. Once you enter this ghost market, you will never come out alive.
...When he heard this information, Ezio wanted to complain. If no one alive came out, where did this news come from? Those guys who didn't know whether they were dead or alive posted it on the forum themselves?
For regional anomalies like this, the local Adventurer's Guild should have commissioned suitable adventurers to investigate.
However, the situation in the Sulitang Empire is difficult to describe. The result is that capable adventurers are reluctant to operate within the empire. Naturally, there are not enough professional and capable people to deal with the anomalies in the ghost market.
A country dominated by nomadic people is quite welcoming to outsiders and external resources, including food.
However, the biggest failure of the Suli Tang Empire is that there is a certain degree of contempt for human race within the empire, mainly in terms of official appointments and treatment. High-level official positions will not be open to non-subject ethnic groups; even if they hold the same official position,
People of different races will enjoy different benefits.
Although such a chain of contempt has not become a written law, it actually exists in every corner of the Suritan Empire and affects the attitude of the subjects of the empire. This is done to ensure that the main nation's control over the empire will not fall into the hands of different ethnic groups.
in hands.
Outsiders will not be treated differently just because they are not subjects of the empire. They will still be in a certain position in the contempt chain because of their own race. How can these experienced adventurers endure this?
Come on.
As long as they can survive life and death difficulties again and again, such adventurers are inevitably a little arrogant. Even if they are kind to others, it does not mean that anyone can look at them with contempt and disgust.
Of course, there are qualified adventurers within the Sulitang Empire, but the number of these people is too small, and they all have their own areas where they are accustomed to hanging out. The ghost market is a quite remote countryside, sparsely populated, and no one wants to come here. That's why.
It's the turn of Ezio, a group of outsiders who are just looking for trouble.
The location of the ghost market is in the south of the Sulitang Empire. It is full of hills and surrounded by hills, which is not an excellent pasture. Therefore, after the empire conquered this area, it did not pay special attention to this area and just threw away some small marginal tribes.
Make a living here to prove that this land belongs to the Sulitang Empire.
In fact, if you want to know the news about the ghost market, the leaders of these small tribes know best. However, one shortcoming of the forum is that its ability to clearly point to specific people is relatively weak.
If the person who sees the message knows that it is related to him, but does not come forward, no one can do anything to him. Unless the requester comes in person, there is no way to ask others to do something through the forum.
What's more...according to Sister Kaya's inference, whether those small tribes are still there or not is a problem in itself. Ezio thought so.
The two people following him were covered in heavy armor and carrying a huge shield. The one who was the most special person in the elementary school was Kish. His mother Vana is still working as a maid in that mansion. So it was with Ai that he
Like Gio, he is a person who receives special care in the eyes of others.
But in fact, Kish may be the most talented among that group of children, and he is also the hardest working one. The special care in the eyes of others is actually a manifestation of his own hard work, and it is not that someone really made a small fuss for him.
Let's just say that the heavy armor he wears is almost as heavy as an adult. Being able to carry an adult on his back at all times and still be able to move around freely shows how good his physical fitness is.
Such a young man with a promising future is a not uncommon guardian knight!
You must know that not everyone can hold the title of Guardian Knight. He must be able to recite the oath of the Lord of Guardians and strictly abide by his precepts. Only by receiving divine grace can he be qualified to call himself a Guardian Knight.
The threshold is not low. But in the Lost Lands, the belief in the Lord of Guardians is quite popular. Even if they have not obtained the grace and title of a Guardian Knight, there are still a large number of young people who keep the vows and strive towards the goal of becoming a Guardian Knight.
Move forward.
Another young woman who was dressed similarly to Ezio, but with different colors and an extra bow, was Rowan. When Ezio blended in with the children on the street, Rowan was the leader of the children at the time. But there was no one there at the time.
Once he knows her gender, he treats her like a big brother.
Compared to Ezio, who is nourished by dragon blood, or Gish, who is really talented, Rowan's talents in all aspects are mediocre and not particularly outstanding. But compared with other children in any of his abilities
, are all above average. In the eyes of others, he is considered an all-around outstanding talent.
Rowan is also good at organizing and commanding. After all, not everyone has the ability to pull together a group of children and take care of them at a young age. Brotherhoods in elementary schools can be organized, except for turtle dove allies like Uzov and Maier.
In addition to the help of his seniors, Luo Wen took the lead.
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And she follows Ezio, not so much because she wants to control the brotherhood, so she wants to control the leader of the brotherhood. But in fact, she is more like Ezio's nanny, who specializes in helping the professional troublemaker.
Cargo handling and aftermath.
In any case, these three people are the golden lineup that the Brotherhood can produce today, the sharp knife team.
But with such a sharp knife team standing in the ghost market, looking at the scene in front of them, they felt like they had no idea what to do.
There were many people passing by, but no one raised their heads to look at them. If Ezio was currently in a stealth operation, it would be a good thing to have no sense of presence, and he might even praise the results of his stealth.
But the three of them were standing in front of the market without any concealment, and they were still ignored by others. People coming and going did not even glance at themselves. Such an abnormal phenomenon had to be
It's a little weird.
"What's going on?" Ezio asked confusedly.
It's just that the three of them are all young men in their twenties. Even though Rowan was born on the street, he has never seen this kind of situation. Not to mention that the other two were at least cared for when they were young. Although they have been traveling for several years
, but I’m really not that well-informed.
Kish, who is said to have the best talent, is of no use in such a situation. In the past, all his talents were used to train himself. Although his mind was quick, he had no experience, and he didn't even think about it. Naturally,
I don't know how to deal with the situation at hand.
In the end, it was Ezio, a decisive and bright person, who made the decision and said: "Forget it, I can't think of an answer while standing here. Let's take a walk and see."
Rowan asked: "Are we going to separate?"
Hearing this, Ezio immediately objected and said: "No, this is not the Holy City. We are familiar with the top and bottom of the Holy City, and we know where to run when we want to run. If this place is separated, whoever has an accident will not say anything else.
It’s hard to support people, and maybe they don’t even know the situation. Let’s go together, maybe someone can see something that others haven’t noticed.”
The other two people agreed with Ezio's opinion. Moreover, when the three of them acted together, they could pay attention to more directions. The blind spots behind the scenes were watched over by friends who were traveling with them, which made it even more reassuring.
They first walked to the vendor closest to them. On the temporary shelf, there were some withered and rotten vegetable leaves, which could no longer be seen in their original appearance. There were also several baskets, wooden spoons, wooden bowls, etc. that would not rot.
The things were gathering dust and no one took care of them.
But it was obvious that the stall owner was standing aside, staring blankly into the distance.
His skin color does not look like the bloodless blue of a creature of the undead, nor does it look like the elastic ruddy color of a living person. His two eyeballs are normal, not dug out, leaving only two holes.
; But there is no emotion hidden in it, but it is empty.
The reason why we can confirm that the other party is not undead is because in that home, there is a real necromancer and an undead apprentice who work with corpses all day long. Even the life bishops in the Church of Three Holy Lights gather to study the inside of the human body.
secret.
Oh, the Bishops of Life have set up another mountain. Although they are still under the Church of Three Holy Lights, they have formed the Knights of the Hospital, an organization that can both heal and kill people.
Because there are these people messing around, Ezio knows very well what the real undead creations should look like. In short, they are not like the living people in front of him, who look alive, but are like empty shells without souls.
...No soul? Ezio felt as if he had grasped some key.