"Don't underestimate them. The world of monsters and beasts can be regarded as early human society. It has everything it should have."
In the market, monsters are usually wandering around, while humans often stay in the bunks, waiting for the monsters to come to trade. However, this does not mean that there are no people walking on the street. Humans can move freely in the market.
Therefore, Xu Qian and Xiao Rui do not need any cover and can communicate freely.
It's not Xiao Rui's first time here, and he was about to leave just now. He just took Xu Qian around. Hanhan followed them, so naturally it wouldn't be his first time to visit the market.
city, but for it, there are still many things that can arouse its interest.
Xu Qian took a general look and found that the things these merchants sold were really all-inclusive. The most important thing was meat. Most of the monsters were carnivorous. In the past, when there was no trade with humans, they would eat humans.
, or the weak and the strong, now it's better to eat ordinary livestock raised by humans. As for the tens of thousands of death row prisoners sent by the Tang Dynasty every year, not all monsters have a chance to taste them. In addition, there are various
each
There are all kinds of biscuits, candies and other snacks available in supermarkets here, as well as carbonated drinks. Only clothes are not sold. Monsters don’t wear clothes, but there are shops selling fabrics.
There are accessories such as hats, jewelry and even sunglasses. There are also some electrical appliances, such as refrigerators, fans and lights. However, there is no power plant in the place where the monsters come from, so these appliances are all designed to use solar energy as energy.
Just looking at these products, Xu Qian has greatly changed the life of monsters. He originally thought that monsters are a group of animals with low IQ, but they are just more ferocious than ordinary animals. Now he feels that this
Wherever there are animals, there is a relatively backward human country.
"Don't think that these are all for retail. Retail goods are not allowed in this market." Xiao Rui added some knowledge points to Xu Qian in a timely manner.
"Retail is not allowed? How can there be such... regulations?" Xu Qian originally wanted to say, "How can there be such anti-human regulations?" But he also thought that the residents here are not human in the first place.
"Most human caravans can only enter here. This market serves as a distribution center. The main purpose is to allow humans to improve transaction efficiency. In retail, how many goods can a merchant sell in a day? And there is nothing that can be done in this place.
All monsters in need come in
Procurement. The monsters you see now are either merchants among monsters. They will transport the purchased goods to various areas and then sell them to other monsters at prices that are more than ten times higher. Or they are
The comprador sent by the big ethnic group bought it back and everyone divided it."
"Didn't it mean that humans with star stones can also enter the corresponding areas?"
"Yes, it is possible. This is the advantage of having high-grade star stones. Others can only sell goods in bulk here, and the price is naturally very low. The same thing will become more expensive the further you go. If you have a four-star stone, you can
You can enter the four-star domain and sell bulk goods at a price a hundred times higher than here. With the same time and goods, you can make a hundred times the money."
Xiao Rui glanced at Xu Qian intentionally or unintentionally, and Xu Qian's heart skipped a beat. It turned out that this guy was also looking at his reaction. What about the trust between people? Forget it, he himself was indeed concealing and deceiving the other person. This was also
Nothing to worry about.
Xu Qian borrowed the situation of Yu Hong's family when talking to Xiao Rui, saying that his grandfather received a four-star stone as a gift from a monster back then, but by their generation it had been reduced to a two-star stone. Since the family was lagging behind, he had no choice but to look for the monster from back then.
Seniors try their luck. A four-star monster is already a monster with a high status for most people.
In human society, the monster family in the four-star domain is equivalent to a powerful family in the city. If the other party is willing to help, their family may have a chance to turn over. So he has to find a way to enter the four-star domain no matter what.
Even if the two-star stones at home were not replaced, he would still have to use some means to break into the four-star domain.
Obviously Xiao Rui didn't completely believe Xu Qian's statement, so he deliberately mentioned the four-star domain to stimulate it and see Xu Qian's reaction.
Why is it the four-star domain? The four-star domain is actually the destination of Xu Qian's trip to the origin of monsters. The star stone in Yu Hong's hand was a six-star stone at the time, but it has been reduced to a four-star stone in his hand, so
It is easy to know that the scope of Yu Hong's activities is the Four-Star Territory. If he wants to contact his intelligence source, it should be in the Four-Star Territory. In other words, the answer Xu Qian is looking for is likely to be in the Four-Star Territory.
in the domain.
At this time, a businessman not far away took out a dozen photos and rummaged through them quickly, and finally settled on one of the photos. It was an ID photo, very clear. If Xu Qian saw it, he would definitely recognize it.
I was shocked because this photo turned out to be Xu Qian.
The businessman put the photo away with a sinister smile, and then watched Xu Qian walking by.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Rui saw Xu Qian suddenly turning his head, as if he had discovered something.
"No, it's nothing." Xu Qian felt that he was neurotic and there was nothing abnormal at all. The moment he turned around, he saw a businessman looking at him, but he didn't care too much. This businessman
It is normal for merchants to look at passers-by when they are not doing business, and Hanhan is followed behind him. Even in this source market, it is rare to see humans and monsters walking so close.
"You've seen what's going on here. If nothing happens, let's just enter the two-star domain."
Xu Qian nodded. He came to this market purely to experience it. The real purpose was to enter the four-star domain. "Let's go!"
Two people and one monster left the market and headed towards the Second Star Region.
The source of monsters was very large and impossible to travel, so they chose to fly.
"Hanhan, I didn't expect you to be able to fly." Xu Qian looked at the Kongkong Beast and said with a smile.
Hanhan responded with a trademark grin, revealing two rows of sharp teeth.
"Of course it can fly. It's no problem for other people to fly in the starry sky, let alone such an ordinary flight."
Xu Qian looked at Hanhan's flying movements, and the more he looked at them, the more comical he felt. Because Hanhan was not flying at all, it gave people the impression that he was walking, just walking in the high air.
"This is starry sky walking? Hanhan, can you still fly if you don't move your limbs?" Xiao Xu was amused, and suddenly wanted to restrain Hanhan's limbs for an experiment.
Xu Qian didn't need to do anything, Hanhan immediately stopped swinging his limbs, and with a swish, he fell down, obviously losing the ability to fly.
But soon, Hanhan "walked" up again swinging his limbs and followed Xu Qian again.
"Hahahaha, silly, you really can't fly if you don't move your limbs. Your limbs are not wings, so what's the point?"
"Speaking of which, we have been flying for such a long time and we haven't seen many places where monster beasts live in groups. Shouldn't the monster beasts be denser as we go to the outside? The higher the monster beasts are, the further in, there should be fewer of them!"
Xiao Rui shook his head and said: "That's not the case. The first-star domain is the most special and the freest. It is basically inhabited by low-class monsters, but there are also some monsters from other stars who don't like the control of the group and run out to live alone.
, like this."
Xu Qian glanced at Hanhan and expressed his understanding.
"Furthermore, there are many demon beast guards stationed in the First Star Region. After all, it borders the Tang Dynasty and is the first gateway to the origin of demon beasts. It is said that there are more than three million demon beast guards stationed all year round.
However, they are mainly composed of low-level monsters, and those sent to the beast tide are the monsters in the guard team of this star field."
"But I didn't even look at such a huge army!"
"The origin of monsters is so vast, and each area is distributed in concentric circles. How much area can your spiritual sense detect if we fly in a straight line like this? It would be strange if you could encounter it!"
Xu Qian thought that this was indeed the case.
"Actually, if calculated in terms of population, the First Star Region is naturally the largest. All the areas in it combined are probably about the same as the First Star Region. However, because this area is the largest, and the IQ of low-level monsters is about the same as that of ordinary animals, it is not at all
There is no need to live in a house, and there is no town, so the target is smaller and not so easy to detect."
"The monsters in the market just now all came from the area inside." Just think about it and you will understand. Since the monsters in the first star region have similar IQs to ordinary animals, they should not need the things sold by the merchants.
.
"Well, you can say that. Even the high-level monsters who live in the first star field actually live a very simple life, which is equivalent to living in seclusion, and they don't need so many items."
Xiao Rui suddenly pointed to the distance, "Fly about thirty kilometers over there, which is the checkpoint where the first star domain enters the second star domain. This guy knows the way, and he will take you there."
"Where are you going?" Xu Qian heard that Xiao Rui wanted to fly solo.