"Unlike the powerful Warcraft, in order to better continue the race, ordinary beasts will work hard to breed the next generation in a limited and short life cycle.
But among this group of ordinary creatures, there are always a few outliers.
Unfortunately, Chocobo is one of these outliers."
Zoro shrugged towards Peter, spread his hands, and slowly began to tell the story with his eyes full of curiosity:
"According to the records in the books that my ancestors got from who knows where.
A thousand years ago, before the empire was established, countless chocobos still lived in the eastern province of the empire.
It's just that with the passage of time, the establishment of the empire, and people's understanding and pursuit of beautiful things have changed.
The docile and beautiful female chocobo caught everyone's attention.
Coupled with their excellent endurance and strength, they have become a popular mount and are sought after by many people.
It only takes three years for them to grow from hatching to adulthood.
This made the merchants of the empire madly capture the chocobos like bloodthirsty sharks smelling blood."
Zoro swallowed a mouthful of saliva and continued sarcastically:
"Pete, do you think it's funny?
Humanity, which was once hunted to death by monsters, has now changed.
From prey to hunter.
As ordinary creatures, chocobos cannot resist capture by humans.
With the wanton killing of humans, there are fewer and fewer female chocobos suitable to serve as mounts.
The lack of female chocobos has resulted in fewer and fewer newborn chocobos.
So the merchants of the empire focused on artificial reproduction and cultivation.
But this time they miscalculated.
They discovered that female chocobos need to enter a specific state to reproduce.
This state is called the breeding period.
However, how to make female chocobos enter the breeding period was a question that no one could answer at the time.
Therefore, most of the captured female chocobos did not breed the next generation until they died of old age.
Even if they are forced to breed with male birds, they will ultimately fail.
Among them, there are many knowledgeable ability users who use various magical items to transform female chocobos.
But apart from creating a group of chocobo subspecies of monsters with violent personalities and extremely destructive power, nothing has been achieved.
But after catching so many chocobos, there are always some lucky ones who succeed.
After continuous research and exploration, someone finally discovered the secret that allows female chocobos to enter the breeding period."
Sauron's voice turned a little gloomy: "That's a scholar of unknown reputation.
But the learned man was found dead on his bed at home by his servants the next day."
After saying that, he made a gesture of wiping his throat towards Peter.
This made Peter, who was still listening to the story with great interest, feel a chill and couldn't help but take two steps back.
Seeing Peter's reaction, Zoro tried his best to resist the urge to laugh.
He could only turn his head and look at Alice in the stable, and threw a depth charge behind Pete's back:
"After the scholar who knew the secret died.
Although the death of the Erudite caused some riots and disturbances, it was eventually forgotten by people.
A few years after the turmoil subsided, a chamber of commerce called Chocobo appeared in the Eastern Province."
"Chocobo Chamber of Commerce!" Peter couldn't help but exclaimed.
As Chocobo Alice's real shit-sweeper, Peter had heard his grandfather mention this chamber of commerce more than once.
Because in the Arathor Empire, only the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce is engaged in all commercial activities related to chocobos.
They have almost a monopoly on all commercial activities related to chocobos.
From the breeding and selling of female chocobo mounts and chocobo meat to the daily rations of chocobos, everything is closely related to the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce.
"Ice dog!"
Zoro snapped his fingers towards Peter and continued to speak slowly:
"With the emergence of the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce, the already small population of chocobos has been declining at a rate visible to the naked eye in the Eastern Province.
Nowadays, hordes of chocobos in the past can no longer be seen in the areas where humans can move in the Eastern Province.
However, they can still be found in some inaccessible places.
However, the Chocobo Merchant Guild still sells a large number of chocobo babies and domesticated chocobo mounts every year.
These amounts now add up to an astronomical figure.
What is even more exaggerated is that the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce has been able to stand firm in the face of an environment surrounded by wolves for hundreds of years since its establishment.
Although I don't know if anyone else discovered the secret during this period.
But there has never been a company in the empire that can sell chocobos in large quantities like the Chocobo Merchant Guild."
Even he himself could not guarantee that some of the information Zoro told Peter was true or false.
Some of them he read in the library of the Isis family.
Others were completely made up by Zoro after reading the books.
As for the murdered scholar, he maliciously speculated on the history of the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce.
But what Sauron didn't know was that there really was something in the buried history.
It's just that in the history of the other world, the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce made more decisions.
They have spent hundreds of years to firmly control this inexhaustible gold mine.
The forces behind the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce not only secretly use shady and bloody methods to eliminate everyone who knows the secrets.
On the surface, they also sent out various hunting teams to capture wild chocobos and purchased various chocobos captured by individual individuals.
Then use the price to be lower than that of wild chocobos to control the market.
So ordinary people can't catch the chocobo that runs at full speed.
And those with abilities are too lazy to spend a lot of time catching things that are completely worthless to them.
If you have this time, you can make money as quickly as forming a team to kill a monster.
Especially during these hundreds of years, the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce has not rested on its laurels at all.
They also continue to try to use various bird monsters and even other races to continuously breed and improve chocobos.
Among them, there are many chocobo subspecies of monsters with outstanding abilities.
So much so that when the current wild chocobos face the ordinary chocobos from the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce.
No matter in terms of speed or physical strength, there is no competitiveness at all.
Wild chocobos have now completely lost their market in the empire, and even the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce stopped acquiring wild chocobos a hundred years ago.
After all, if you have to choose between low performance and high price or high performance and low price, anyone who is not a fool knows whose product to buy.
Chocobo Alice's mother was the predecessor's father who purchased ordinary chocobos from the Chocobo Merchant Guild.
Although it cannot be compared with Warcraft, its overall quality far exceeds that of wild chocobos.
Zoro glanced at Peter meaningfully.
"But besides the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce, there is one more person who knows the secret now."
Zoro deliberately pressed his ear to Peter's ear, as if it was the whisper of the abyss:
"That person is none other than you, Peter!"
Listening to Zoro whispering in his ear, Peter felt that his whole body was so stiff.
"What do you think would happen if someone from the Chocobo Chamber of Commerce knew about this?"
Zoro quickly distanced himself from Peter and asked him with a playful look on his face.
In fact, this was not Zoro's intention to scare the boy who looked like a little adult in front of him.
After all, in this world with extraordinary abilities, what could be easier to solve than humane destruction?
It's just that after Sauron traveled to this strange extraordinary world and found that there were no strange eyes on the Blue Star.
He completely liberated the Chuuni soul that was bound deep in his heart.
First it was Kahn, and now it's Pitt.
This makes Zoro unable to help but want to show off on certain occasions.
Boom~
It's just that this time it seems a bit too much
Peter seemed to be frightened after hearing what Sauron said.
So he knelt directly on the ground in front of Zoro.
Even though Pete looks more mature and steady than his peers.
After all, he is still just a fourteen-year-old child.
At this moment, Pete was feeling a little anxious and panicked: