Just as Lawrence and the others were on their way, the originally red sunset slowly sank into the horizon. Then a crescent moon slowly rose into the sky, covering the earth in a pale blue moonlight.
Under such blue moonlight, the breeze blew through the flat grassland, causing the grass to rise and fall, making it look like a real sea.
Because there is a long distance from the mountain pass to the village where the centaurs live, it took Lawrence and the others a while to get to the entrance of the village. Fortunately, because these centaurs are completely modernized centaurs, a good road was specially built.
A dirt road connected the mountain pass to his settlement, making it easier for Lawrence and the others to travel.
This village should be one of the villages left behind by the early pioneers, because Lawrence saw a fortress-style wall outside the village that was reinforced with red bricks and large stones. This kind of wall is often made of red bricks and large stones.
Only the strongholds established when civilized races first penetrated into the wilderness would have it.
However, under normal circumstances, early stronghold construction often only used rammed earth or wood to build a circle of bastion-style buildings that could maximize firepower. Like this method, the outer walls were covered with bricks and stones.
It is obviously the result of the reinforcements made by the immigrants after they established their foothold in this place.
"Stop, who are you?" Just when Lawrence and a group of others rode camels to the gate of this town, there was an obvious sound of bullets being loaded from the protective wall of the town, followed by a somewhat rough middleman.
The young man's voice came down from the five or six meter high city wall.
"We are a scientific expedition team to investigate the ecological environment and are preparing to conduct scientific research in the Death Gobi." Lawrence and the others naturally did not want to cause any conflict with the people here, so after hearing someone asking on the city wall, everyone immediately reined in the camels.
After stopping, Lawrence took two steps forward alone and shouted to the top of the city wall. "I heard that there is a shaman here who is very knowledgeable about the surrounding situation, so I wanted to come and visit."
"Inspection team?" It was obvious that this small town on the edge of civilization didn't understand things like inspection teams very well. So the guard on the city wall seemed a little hesitant. But he quickly made a decision and shouted
"Excuse me, do you have anything that can prove your identity? I'll ask the priest of the Church of Knowledge and Mr. Sheriff in our town to take a look."
"Yes, of course. I have badges and documents here to prove my identity." Lawrence shouted to the city wall, and then a hanging basket hung from the wall. Seeing this, Lawrence put the things that could prove his identity into it.
Then I watched the hanging basket being pulled back.
After waiting for a few minutes, there was movement inside the city gate. Following a creaking sound, the originally raised suspension bridge was slowly lowered and placed on the trench outside the town.
, then the iron-clad wooden door opened inwards little by little. Seeing this, Lawrence and the others led the camels in two rows and walked towards the town.
"Mr. August, welcome you and your team to Giant Wood Town." After Lawrence entered, a priest of the God of Knowledge wearing a sky-blue priest's robe bowed to Lawrence, and then gave them the identity Lawrence had just given them.
The documents and badge were handed back to him with both hands.
"Thank you for allowing us to come in." Lawrence said, and then pointed to the empty bags and empty water bladders on the camel caravan behind him, "Because I see that there are many settlements of intelligent creatures in this area.
So I didn’t bring much water or dry food. Who should I contact if I want to buy supplies?”
"If you only have this few people in your team, I think it would be more appropriate for you to go find the boss of Lucky Shoes." After looking at the size of Lawrence's camel team, the priest immediately pointed out a place. "That one.
There are often guests in the hotel who need to travel far, so the hotel also operates a supply business for various people and animals."
According to the priest's explanation, this small town called Giant Wood Town was originally the place where the great shaman of the first batch of immigrants was stationed. Then it slowly developed into an important local belief center. The so-called Giant Wood does not mean the surrounding area.
There is a forest, which refers to the huge totem pole that serves as the resident shaman here.
Also because of the shaman's military deterrence, this area became a pure land on the grassland when it was first developed. With the gathering and exchange of population, Jumu Town gradually became an important distribution center and attraction for this grassland.
With a large population, it eventually became one of the most important human gathering areas on this grassland.
For example, when ranchers on this land want to sell their livestock, they often choose to come to this town and stay with their companions for a night or two, and then they all form a team to come from Lawrence.
The road leads through the mountains to Heraklion, the nearest railway hub.
This was the case with the group of gray-maned horsemen that Lawrence and the others encountered before. They had gathered here before, and then drove thousands of cattle across the eastern mountains to the city to sell them. After all, although there was basically no wilderness on this road,
There are races, but some wild beasts like gray wolves or leopards are distributed in inaccessible places. If ranchers like them don't patrol around the herds to drive these beasts away, the herds will easily be frightened and die.
Run away.
Because the Great Shaman is no longer young, she usually goes to bed very early. In this case, Lawrence and the others simply went to the Lucky Shoes Inn to stay for a night on the advice of the priest of the Church of Knowledge.
, I will go to visit His Excellency the Great Shaman early tomorrow morning.
The Lucky Horse Hotel is a very unique hotel. For example, both the bar and the seats can be clearly divided into two types. Some of the seats with stools are for humans, while those that are higher have no seats.
The position was prepared for those centaurs who usually stood around. When Lawrence and the others entered, they happened to see several centaurs and human ranchers and ranch workers drinking wine, arm in arm.
Considering that they might need to meet the great shaman early tomorrow, Lawrence and the others quickly checked in and went back to their room to sleep. The next morning, he got up early to wash up and then brought gifts with Nora.
Follow the direction led by the priest last night and walk towards the center of the town.
In the center of the town is a flat square, but it is different from ordinary squares. In the middle of the square stands a giant totem pole more than ten meters high, carved from a huge tree. Any extraordinary person, or even an ordinary person, can
When people walk into this square, they can feel a sense of inner peace.
"It should be a totem related to plants." Looking at the large number of artistic plant patterns painted on the totem pole, and feeling the magic of tranquility and vitality around him, Lawrence spoke to Na through his soul connection.
La said, "And it is the most traditional kind of totem, which grows slowly but has a very high upper limit. It is possible to even become a god in the future."
"In other words, this shaman should be a transcendent from the good camp." Nora looked at Lawrence with a smile. "It seems that this is indeed good news. At least we should be able to get a lot of information from him.
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"I hope so." Lawrence said to Nora. After taking a deep breath, Lawrence held the two small jars as gifts in his hands. Then he and the little doll walked toward the building in front of them.
We walked into a one-story house built of roughly treated wood.