Chapter 141 About the Golden Ecology of Pelt Goblin
The Desolate Forest, although the name sounds impressive, is actually just a small forest in the far north with a small area. Compared with the place that Ryan is familiar with, it is about one-third of the city of Brica.
, which is about the same size as Vento Town.
However, this small forest is home to many rare jungle races. For example, the Crow Branch tree people only live in the barren forest.
The desolate forest itself is in a relatively cold area. When autumn and winter come, the temperature drops even more sharply. When the temperature drops to a certain level, the Crowzhi tree people will enter dormancy.
Originally, when the Crow Branch tree people were dormant, they would just find a place with fertile soil and shelter from the wind to take root. In recent years, due to the awakening of fashion consciousness, they would find their own neighbors in the same jungle before going dormant.
The satyrs of this race wrap themselves in what they consider to be beautiful cotton-padded clothes, which are both windproof and beautiful.
But not all Crowzhi Tree people like to wear this kind of thing. It’s just that when the temperature is extremely low and the trees may even freeze to death, they have no choice but to wear it. Therefore, the lower the temperature, the more Crowzhi Tree people wear cotton-padded clothes.
The more people there are.
This caused a problem. The desolate forest is also the residence of the white-maned bear people. These big guys have thick fur and can withstand the harshest cold wind. Therefore, even in the deep winter season when the temperature is the lowest, the white-maned bear people are still very strong.
active.
Although there is a person in their name, the white-maned bear people have many bear habits and are considered a race with a low level of civilization at this stage.
One of this bear's habits is that it likes to rub against things.
A long time ago, the relationship between the white-maned bears and the crowbranch treants was quite close, because in the winter when the crowbranch treants were dormant, they would also worry about being attacked.
, can scare away many natural enemies, including some insects that are very scary to tree people.
For the white-maned bear people, the crowbranch tree people are also their favorite, because the skin of these tree people will secrete a layer of resin, which is almost like an anti-itching agent for the white-maned bear people.
However, now, with the introduction of insect repellants and the acceptance of civilization by a large number of races, the Raven Branch tree people have fewer safety issues to consider when sleeping, and their dependence on the white-maned bear people is not so strong.
For Zhishu people, cold protection and beauty have become the first choices.
But their habits have changed, but the white-maned bear people have not. They are still used to rubbing against the crow-branch tree people in winter. However, many crow-branch tree people have begun to wear cotton-padded clothes. Those who wear cotton-padded clothes will not say anything when rubbing against them.
It doesn't relieve the itching, and the layer of resin can't be applied.
Although the white-maned bear people are not very advanced in civilization, they still know not to take off other people's clothes and rub them on them while they are sleeping.
So, someone acted as a middleman and made a deal to sell an anti-itching agent containing tree-man resin to the bears during the winter.
The things are good, but a little expensive, so under normal circumstances, the white-maned bear people will still go out to find the crow-branch tree people without cotton-padded clothes.
However, in recent years, the winter temperatures in desolate forests have become lower and lower. In the words of some scholars, this is a climate crisis! They even proposed that the fundamental reason for the climate problem is that people today use too little magic.
, destroying the energy cycle of the entire world.
So they suggested that one day every year, magicians get together and set off magic like fireworks for a whole day.
This is the origin of the modern magic competition, but the annual competition does not seem to be very effective.
Going a bit far, the reality is that the winter in the desolate forest is indeed much colder than in the past, so there are more and more Crow Branch Treants wearing cotton-padded clothes when sleeping, and there are more and more white-maned Bear Men who cannot be found in winter.
When I go to my favorite tree, I can only grit my teeth and buy the finished product of anti-itching agent.
It just so happens that the hairs dropped by the white-maned bears from rubbing against the trees are favored by a bird called the razorbill for nesting.
If the razorbill cannot save enough feathers, it will go to the Hyde meadow next to the desolate forest to steal the wool of the Hyde shepherd, resulting in a reduction in the shepherd's income.
As the income of Hyde Shepherds decreases, they will spend less money in the commercial town of Tida next door.
The Tida people cannot make money, so in winter they choose to fish in nearby Lake Ilo to supplement their family income.
In Lake Ilo, there is a kind of fish called red scale fish. These fish would have spent the winter in Lake Iro, and in the spring they would have flowed down the river to Tasu in the Kingdom of Yoles, thousands of miles away.
Lake. There is a very rare shell in the lake, which can produce a precious orb called the Light of Tasu, which is the favorite treasure of the noble lady Yoles.
The reason for the scarcity of Tasu Light is not only the small number of shells, but also because there is a kind of shrimp in Tasu Lake that feeds on all kinds of shells. Naturally, they don't understand whether shells are rare or not, so they eat them whenever they see them.
It is unknown how many of these Tasu's Light shells were eaten.
But these shrimps also have natural enemies, and that is the red-scaled fish that comes all the way from Lake Illo.
A conflict arose. The Tita people fished in their spare time, including red-scaled fish. If they caught more fish, fewer would survive to reach Tasu Lake. Those shrimps would have fewer natural enemies, and fewer shells would be eaten.
. Then the production of Tasu's Light decreased, and maybe only two or three could be found a year.
However, the largest local jewelry manufacturer often receives more than forty or fifty orders for Tasu Light in a year. After all, it is the favorite of all Yoles women.
The supply of Tasu's Light is unavailable, so when choosing jewelry, these Yoles women have no choice but to settle for second-tier jewelry, among which the most popular is Pocha gold produced in the Golden Cliffs.
Porcha gold is a slightly bluish gold, which is not very beautiful and not many people like it.
But probably due to the promotion of some businessmen, the Yoles people like it. The same people who like Bocha Gold are the goblins of Perte. It is said that they are the ones who propose to Bocha Gold there.
A must-have gift.
If the output of Light of Tasu decreases, more Yoles women will buy jewelry made of Porcha gold. However, the output of this kind of gold is not high. Normally, the supply to Yoles and Pert is quite tight.
, now that Yoles is buying more, and the ladies are more willing to pay than the goblins, the Golden Cliff provides less Boca gold to Pelt.
Without the necessary items for marriage proposal, the marriage prospects of goblins are worrying.
Generally speaking, the world is too peaceful and there are fewer people using magic, which has caused a series of problems including climate change, which ultimately made it impossible for the Pelt goblins to get married.
It took Ren a while to figure out the reason why the marriage rate of Pelt goblins had dropped as mentioned in this news article.
It sounds reasonable, but Ren always feels a little weird...