After playing around, their sleepiness completely dissipated, and Zhang Peng and Liu Xingxing sat side by side on the edge of the bone plate platform to rest.
Zhang Peng rummaged around on his body, took out two small sticks as long as his fingers, bumped Liu Xingxing with his arm, and handed one over, "Want one?"
Looking at the stick handed over to him, Liu Xingxing took it in surprise, "What is this? A cigarette?"
"Absolutely." Zhang Peng took out something similar to a fire stick, put the alien version of the cigarette in his mouth and lit it, took a deep breath, and sprayed out thick mist, "It is still different from the cigarettes in the previous life.
, What’s on the outside is not paper, it’s a kind of sun-dried plant bark, I don’t know if it’s tree bark, but what’s inside is a kind of herbal medicine.”
Looking at Zhang Peng puffing away smoke, Liu Xingxing rolled the cigarette on his finger without lighting it, "Can you smoke herbal medicine too?"
Looking up at the blue sky, Zhang Peng seemed very comfortable, "I can smoke it. I didn't discover this. I collected it from the aborigines to refresh my mind. If you don't smoke it, just give it back to me. This thing is
It’s quite expensive.”
Hearing that it was quite expensive, Liu Xingxing quickly put away the cigarette. He couldn't return it if he didn't smoke it. If there's an advantage, no one would take advantage of it. There's no reason to hand it over when you've got it. "It doesn't have any side effects? Don't smoke it and get lung cancer."
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Zhang Peng turned back and glared at Liu Xingxing angrily, "You have traveled through time, and you are afraid of Mao's lung cancer, and you can't die. Also, this thing is actually considered medicine, and the tribe I switched with is not for refreshing.
Xingnao is used to stop bleeding and heal injuries. I don’t know what the ingredients are, but it can indeed speed up wound healing. If you are injured, take one, it will save your life.”
"Damn it, you said such an important thing first!" Liu Xingxing screamed strangely, and quickly took out the cigarette again and put it close to his body.
He is a treasure hunter, and it is common for him to be injured outside. He was bitten by a snake before while hunting for treasure. This world is not the same as his previous life. There is no such fast rescue team, let alone a professional medical team. Medicines that can quickly heal injuries are
It's the best thing to have when saving your life.
After putting away the cigarette, Liu Xingxing looked at Zhang Peng again and said with a playful smile, "Is there any more? Give me some more. I'm going out into the wild, so I might encounter something."
Zhang Peng rolled his eyes and sprayed a mouthful of white smoke on Liu Xingxing's face, "I've gone too far, I'll give you one, it's not over yet, I'm a businessman, I want to use resources in exchange.
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"Ahem, stingy, so stingy." Liu Xingxing was choked and coughed, but he felt refreshed and his mind became much clearer. This otherworldly version of cigarettes can indeed improve the brain. "How can I have any resources?"
Ah, you have to rely on the boss to provide resources to build troops."
"Tsk, stupid, you sell the Cat Man to me. I can sell it to the aboriginal people as pets. That should work." Zhang Peng had a malicious smile on his face.
"Damn it, I don't know if cat people are human beings, but you are a real dog. There is no way that cat people will sell them to you. Just give up." Liu Xingxing seemed to have his tail stepped on.
He jumped up and cursed angrily, while Zhang Peng laughed happily.
After bickering for a while, Liu Xingxing sat down again and asked curiously, "Which tribe do you plan to contact first?"
When it came to business, Zhang Peng also became serious. He thought about it and shook his head, "I don't know. I don't know what tribes are around. I'll walk around first and have a look. If I encounter them, I'll make contact. If we can cooperate,
Then cooperate. If you can't cooperate, then change to another tribe and continue."
When he first came to the other world, he developed like this little by little, coming to visit with full goodwill and discussing cooperation with the other party.
Not all races like merchants, and some are more willing to steal his goods, but they all fail. After chasing them underground, they often get lost in caves.
Zhang Peng didn't know how long Li Ziyu would stay here. If he stayed here for a long time, he still had to prepare in advance. At least he had to know what tribes were around, which ones were cooperative and which ones were unsafe.
"What about you, where are you going with 200 pets?"
"Besides, cats are also capable of fighting. Believe it or not, I'll scratch your face!" Liu Xingxing glared at Zhang Peng and threatened, "I have explored many places with treasures, but I just didn't have the strength to go there before.
, now that I have enough manpower, I plan to go take a look, collect some materials, and upgrade the fortress. I can’t just wait for the boss to give me all the materials.”
After chatting for a while, the two went to have breakfast and were ready to set off.
The tauren knew that the two city lords were going out today, so they came to watch the fun.
The two castles started up, making a rumbling sound, and slowly broke away from the bone plate platform. The treasure-hunting cat-man mobile fortress shuddered, gradually accelerated, and headed towards the wilderness, while the gopher-man mobile fortress aimed its drill at the ground, and the soil flew up.
He took the carriage into the ground and saw the tauren in amazement.
After marveling for a while, it was time to go back to what we were doing. They were all allies. We would have the opportunity to see them in the future and we would get used to them.
Since joining the undead, the tauren have obviously felt a lot more ambitious. If this were the case before, they would not be calm all day long, but now, they are much calmer.
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"City Lord, where are we going now?" After the mobile fortress went underground, the gophers came to Zhang Peng and asked.
Zhang Peng opened the map panel, which was completely dark. This was a map belonging to the fortress. Different from the normal map, it showed the underground world. Only the places the fortress passed through would be recorded.
Zhang Peng didn't know much about the surrounding environment or what races there were, so he just pointed in a random direction, "Let's go this way."
"yes."
The Gopher Man immediately adjusted the angle of the fortress and moved in the direction pointed by Zhang Peng. A white line slowly appeared on the map, representing the passage they drilled.
Theoretically speaking, the Gopher Man Fortress can go all the way underground, but Zhang Peng did not let the fortress go too deep underground. He needed to monitor the information on the ground to know where the tribes were.
There is something similar to a sonar radar in the fortress, which constantly feeds back news from the ground. If there is a living thing, it will filter the reminder. However, if you go deep underground, this feedback will become weaker, and you will not even be able to know the news on the ground.
The gopher people under Zhang Peng are also a relatively easy race to feed. Although they are not as good as the undead under Li Ziyu who don’t need to eat at all, the gopher people can live by eating bugs. When digging holes underground, the fortress will automatically collect them.
The bugs dug up became the gopher people's rations.
Of course, bugs can only be used as rations and cannot be used as real food to increase the number of gopher people.
Constantly digging forward, various signals on the ground turned into information and fed back to the castle, allowing Zhang Peng to grasp the environment and what was there on the ground anytime and anywhere.
Maybe it was because of the Revenant Mountains, or maybe it was because I was digging in the wrong direction, but anyway, after walking for an hour or two, it was very uneventful, which also meant that there was no harvest.
I still don’t believe it, there really is nothing here, dig, keep digging!
The Gopher Man's Mobile Fortress does not move forward in a straight line. The Gopher Man is timid by nature. After digging for a certain distance, they will make several circles and make the underground passages look like a maze. Except for themselves, other people are very
It's hard to tell where the passage leads.
Just make a circle from time to time to expand the number and scope of the channels, and then continue to move in the original direction, digging until noon.
[Warm reminder: There are tribes on the ground ahead.]
Zhang Peng waited for the good news and finally waited for the tribe to arrive. He quickly ordered his gopher people to prepare to contact the new tribe. Of course, he couldn't do this kind of thing by himself. It would be too dangerous. Just let the gopher people go. Anyway
It's not the first time I've done something like this.
Another point is that he found that many of the tribes in the wasteland are from the orc tribe, and the gopher people also belong to the orc tribe, which makes communication easier. If he goes alone as a human, it will make the other party wary.
The five gopher men took the order and set off towards the direction of the explored tribe.
After waiting for about an hour, the Gopher Man finally came back and brought news about the tribe ahead. It was a small tribe of Cat Men who were extremely wary of strangers. They were not even able to enter the tribe and were captured outside.
I stopped him, and he looked quite poor, so he probably didn't have anything good.
While reporting, the gopher man handed a piece of bark paper to Zhang Peng, which recorded what they saw, heard, and thought, which seemed very clear.
This is also Zhang Peng's habit. He feels that doing business is just like math problems. It is better to be serious and accurate. Under his influence, the Gopher Man, who originally only lived underground and did not like to deal with other creatures,
He also gradually relaxed. Although he was still timid, he dared to speak when facing a strange race, and even adopted some business habits.
Taking the bark paper and looking at the information recorded on it, Zhang Peng touched his chin and suddenly thought of the cat people sisters he met before. Did I dig up their tribe?
If it is really their tribe, it would be a good thing. After all, they have acquaintances and it will be easier to do business!
The gopher man said that the tribe was very poor, but Zhang Peng didn't take it to heart at all. His subordinates were still too down-to-earth. To do business, you must have the spirit to sell combs to bald heads and pregnancy test sticks to men!
It takes a pair of discerning eyes.
There is no poverty, there is only invisibility.
As long as there are intelligent creatures, there is no such thing as poverty. After all, intelligent creatures themselves are a very good commodity. For example, Liu Xingxing's treasure-hunting cat man is great as a pet. It is furry, not only good, but also can talk.
"Bring food, plants and meat with you, as well as weapons that the undead don't need, and go again."
Zhang Peng read the bark paper and issued a second test request to his subordinates. The first time was a simple contact, asking each other, and no products were brought. The second time was a test, with the purpose of knowing the other party's true identity.
Condition.
Whether it is food or weapons, they are the most common commodities in the wasteland. Almost every tribe needs them. A lot of information can be judged from what they need.
For example, if it needs food, it means that the tribe's fighting power is not strong, it cannot hunt enough prey, and it cannot guarantee the food rations of the tribe. No matter how ferocious this kind of tribe appears, it is a strong external force, and it can be befriended or destroyed.
If weapons are needed, it means that this tribe has enough food, has a certain fighting capacity, and is not very good at production technology. For such a tribe, you must maintain a certain degree of vigilance to prevent the other party from taking advantage of others. But don’t go too far.
Worrying, after all, the weapons Zhang Peng sells are all scraps eliminated by the undead. Even if you want this kind of weapon, you can imagine the level of combat effectiveness.
Another world is a brand new world for those who travel through it, breaking the shackles that bind them. The name of this shackles is secular morality. Many moral codes that need to be observed in previous lives are not required in this world.
Zhang Peng felt like this. He wanted to live and live well, especially if he wanted to do business. His hands and feet were completely free. As long as the price was right, most things could be bought and sold.
He waited patiently in the fortress. This time it took a bit long. After about two hours, the gopher came back and brought back good news. The other party was very interested in food, but did not have enough resources to exchange it.
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"Haha, the fish bit the hook, let's go and have a look."
As Zhang Peng spoke, he straightened his clothes, stood up, and walked towards the gate of the fortress. 50 gopher men with weapons followed behind him, acting as guards to protect his safety.
Five gopher men led the way and took Zhang Peng to the cat tribe. From a distance, he saw a group of cat men waiting for him. After looking at it twice, Zhang Peng was basically sure that this should be where the cat men sisters were.
tribe.
The distance is not too far, and they are pure-blooded cat people. There are not many people in the tribe, which is consistent with his impression of the tribe where the cat people sisters belong.
Standing at the front was a cat man about 50 years old. He was wearing dirty clothes with holes in them. His hair was greasy and dusty. It hadn't been washed for an unknown amount of time. He was holding a stone spear in his hand.
Zhang Peng walked to a place 5 meters away from the cat man and stood there, with a smile on his face and bowed, "Good day, Your Excellency Cat Man."
The leader of the cat people was taken aback by Zhang Peng's politeness, but then he realized what he was doing and returned the courtesy quickly, "Hello, the original human businessman."
After greeting each other, Zhang Peng glanced around behind the cat-people leader casually, and the smile on his face suddenly became stronger. He saw the cat-people sisters who were trying to hide.
"I have seen the food that your men brought. We like it very much and would like to exchange it with you. What do you need?" The cat-people chief didn't notice Zhang Peng's eyes and said to himself.
He was actually very surprised. He originally thought that the leader of the other party should be a gopher man, but he didn't expect it to be a human. This caught him off guard. If he had known it was a human, he might not have agreed to the deal.
Gopher people are straightforward, silly, and easy to deceive, but humans are different. They are cunning and slippery, and it is good not to deceive others.
Zhang Peng withdrew his gaze, his smile unchanged, "It's not what I need, but what you can provide. I feel that everything is valuable, and I feel like I can talk about anything you want."
This sentence immediately put the leader of the cat people in a dilemma. What do they have? They have nothing, not even a house to live in. The tribesmen are still sleeping in holes in the ground.
To be honest, the leader of the cat people sometimes wonders what the meaning of their lives is. They go hungry every day and struggle to survive, seemingly just to suffer, like a group of walking zombies.
He turned to look at his tribesmen and saw that their faces were full of numbness and their eyes were empty. They were very hungry and wanted to eat meat, but they had nothing. What could they exchange for it? Since they couldn't exchange for food, why didn't they see the merchant?
It doesn't matter. If it weren't for the clan leader's request, they would even hide in the cave and not move. This saves energy and at least they can get hungry later.
"This... haha, as you can see, we are just a small race, and we really have nothing to exchange with you." The cat-people leader retracted his gaze and said with a wry smile.
"No, no, no, please don't say that. As you can see, I am a businessman. I think everything in the world has a price, for example, intelligence." Zhang Peng softly spit out the word intelligence.
When the cat sisters at the rear heard the information, their expressions suddenly became panicked.
Why, why did he come to the tribe!
Mengni and Meng couldn't make sense of their dreams. It was clear that the undead didn't send anyone last time.