The purpose is to conduct a simple exchange of goods with the new and foreign merchants here.
There are many tents here, which can give Mai Fan and others an understanding of the basic supplies and needs here.
When you enter here, you can at least know what the people here eat and what they can exchange for what they need.
Because these tents are used for trading at any time, they are basically open.
One or two people were sitting at the entrance of the tent, and the rest of the time they were either napping or chatting.
No one cares whether the customers here will take away one or two products when they pass by, because they have inexplicable confidence in their own strength.
It is precisely because these transactions are open that Mai Fan and others can see many strange and weird things that they have never seen before.
For example, there are some inexplicable bones that look like they were collected from the bodies of giant beasts. There are also some unknown medicinal herbs stalled there, some of which are sold by the pound, while some are placed on some with stones.
Or in a small box carved from wood, it looks very expensive.
Except for these grass roots, bark and bones, these are basically useless things.
Here, the largest transaction volume is probably physical goods.
There are foods that can be stored for a long time, such as some rhizomes and grains that look like wheat.
There are also some things that are time-sensitive at first glance and must be eaten within a short period of time, otherwise they will rot, such as some berries and some sticky fresh meat.
Seeing that such materials can be transported here shows that there are many living tribes on the border.
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Due to the underdevelopment of artificial and manufacturing industries, they can exchange some basic daily necessities here.
People here can't use magic, but they can use some basic tools.
However, purely handmade tools sometimes cannot meet some of the more delicate needs of life.
If you want cheap and fast basic life tools, simple bartering with outsiders is the easiest way.
Mai Fan was not interested in the things brought by the people in the fifth area, but he was very interested in the food collected in the sixth sentence.
I will not ask the other party again, but during the transaction I find that they do not have a common currency here, or that people here basically do not have a unified common currency.
Therefore, if they want to change something, they probably have to come up with something that the other party is also interested in.
Since they exchanged things in kind, if they exchanged food with each other, the other party would not be very interested.
So Mai Fan and the others took it out after some discussion. The most basic thing that will definitely be used here is a knife.
Because it was an exploratory transaction, what they brought out was only a kitchen knife that could be used for cutting fruit bones or dividing meat.
Its sharpness is probably equivalent to that of Wang Mazi.
However, after letting Mai Fan and the others take such an ordinary kitchen knife, they were able to exchange it for a basket of samples of various foods.
The other party's eagerness to exchange would make Mai Fan and others doubt the value of the products they exchanged.
It's not gold or silver in nature, so why don't you just shove it in and ignore it for fear of taking their sword away?
However, it was precisely because of their unusual generosity that the local man who successfully traded with them patiently answered a few questions from Mai Fan.
"Hiring warriors is impossible. Warriors are scarce items and no tribe will leave them to outsiders.
Ah, you are talking about these nuts in your hands. It actually requires experience to judge whether they are poisonous or not poisonous here, but the common fruits have basically covered the edible plants in thorn forests and bushes.
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When you are in the wild, you must first find a water source. There is such food around the water source.
If you want to know the basic map of this area, then you have asked the right question. After all the caravans who come here to do business arrive at the border, the first thing they do is to buy the most detailed map from me.
The price is not expensive. Do you have the food here? Or the kitchen knife just now? If there is another one, I will fold some more food and give it to you together with the map."
As for the terms of this deal, Mai Fan and the others did not immediately agree.
Instead, they got together to discuss and exchanged a map for the price of a small fruit knife.
Because to be honest, those foods look like fast-moving consumables that must be eaten on the same day and will inevitably go bad the next day.
All they have to do is get the map they want.
After just unfolding the map, Mai Fan knew that he shouldn't have any hopes for the creative level of primitive humans here.
Because the maps here are basically hand-drawn, and the subjective ideation of hand-drawing accounts for 80% of the entire map.
It can be seen that the entire sixth area depicted on this animal skin is quite large.
But just the dense distribution of tribal points on the map, as well as the cluster points where monsters may gather... are as dense as the sesame seeds on a sesame cake.
If the brown fuel he mentioned represents the living tribe of primitive people, then the red dots mark areas where dangerous objects may exist, and the two of them intersect too closely.
No wonder these tribes are reluctant to lend out their strongest warriors.
Just the staggered positions of a few red dots and brown dots made Mai Fan suspect that these giant beasts might have to pass through the middle of these primitive tribes when they go out to drink water.
The good news is that there are three huge, clearly identifiable water sources in this land.
As long as they encounter these three large water sources on the road, they are basically going in the right direction.
These three major water sources are connected by long and narrow streams that are cut off from time to time due to drought, forming a three-star chain.
In other words, they can reach their destination as long as they follow the path of the water source.
As for the sense of direction, if you touch this map and buy it, you won’t lose money.
At the same time, they also figured out why it is said that danger exists underground.
Because the bones of some creatures and insect fossils they traded here provide answers to this question.
The reason why this piece of red earth is relatively rare is that there is another group of strange creatures living in the deep soil beneath the surface.
People who live here call them sleeping red worms.
