Chapter 664: Tribe Trade Road

The caravan that Leo joined was not a caravan of local tribes, but a mashup caravan formed by people from different tribes. Caravans like this are rarely seen in the city-states east of Savile. But the city-states in the west are everywhere.
In addition to the fact that the tribes in the west of Savile are mostly small tribes, it is more because the Saviles here often contact the Maris and Deliyats, and they will be more or less affected by their Due to some influences, that traditional tribal conception is also much weaker.
The caravans of these small tribes are willing to risk the dangers of sand thieves and anthropomorphism, and also take the dangerous business road of the Little Gus Desert, mainly because of interests, but also because of the conflict between the small tribes and the big tribes. .
The city-state region of the Western Savile Kingdom is jointly ruled by seven large tribes with extremely long traditions. Nearly 80% of government officials and military officers here come from these seven tribes. Seen as your own property, other newly-rising tribes will not be allowed to intervene to get a slice of it.
Therefore, these seven long-established tribes adopted the method of marriage with each other to fuse the seven major tribes into one body and jointly suppress the small tribes in this area. Among them, the most effective and obvious means of suppression is taxation.
When the caravans belonging to the large tribes enter the various city-states in the west, they only need to pay a very small amount of commercial tax to pass smoothly. However, the caravans of the small tribes need to pay several times the amount of commercial tax. There are many city-states, so there are more commercial taxes paid. Often the final commercial tax paid for a product exceeds the value of the product itself.
In this way, it is difficult for the products of the small tribe caravan to compare with the products of the big tribe caravan. If those who are not the big tribe are too greedy, they are always sub-optimal, and the quality cannot be compared with the goods of the small tribe. In contrast, perhaps the caravans of the big tribes have completely monopolized the commerce of the entire western city-state.
In order to survive, the small tribe can only find another way to find a reasonable and legal way to avoid business tax. Taking the dangerous business way of the Little Gus Desert is one of them.
After Leo joined this caravan composed of multiple tribes, the most heard words from the Savile population of these caravans were cursing the words of the seven tribes, and the people of these tribes had no scruples. Saying these words in front of a stranger like Leo shows that the battle between the big and small tribes in the western city-state has been put on the bright side.
As a condition of the transaction, the pack car hired by Leo was also used by the caravan to transport goods. These goods were blankets of some gold velvet weaving city. The gold velvet used for making the blanket came from a plant called velvet tree.
This plant is one of the few trees that can grow extremely tall in the desert. It is said that the highest gold velvet tree can grow to about 30 meters.
The bark of the velvet tree is very hard, even if it is cut with a sharp axe, it is difficult to break this layer of bark.
Only when the velvet tree grows and matures, the trunk part wrapped by the bark will expand rapidly, and then the whole tree will be crushed from the inside to the outside like a bomb. Those trunk fibers are composed of velvet wraps. Under the impact of a huge explosion, it flew far away. However, when the velvet fell, the seeds would drill into the sand and grow into a new velvet tree.
The velvet produced by the velvet tree is mostly white velvet and yellow velvet, and gold velvet is very little, and the thermal insulation is much better than the other two velvets. Plus the carpet woven by gold velvet will shine under the sun. Glowing, which makes this product very popular in cold regions like Deliyat, which has become one of the most important export commodities in the Kingdom of Savile.
So when Leo saw that his caravan was packed with a lot of velvet carpet by the caravan, he couldn't help but be curious about the goods that the caravan really transported. After all, no caravan would put its most important products on the way. The only explanation for the stranger car that was added is that this caravan is probably using Leo’s pack as a bait. If necessary, it can be discarded to attract sand thieves, so that the big caravan can escape.
Not only did Leo see the idea of ​​this caravan, but also the owner of the caravan he hired, so before leaving, he found Leo again and told Leo about his findings, asking if Leo still had Go with this caravan.
"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Leo responded calmly.
Seeing Leo has made a decision, the owner of the car did not say much and began to make preparations.
The caravan did not choose to leave during the day. After that, they set off to the edge of the Little Gus desert and then traveled along the edge towards the Little Gus river.
Leo found that he was not the only one to follow this caravan to the Dry Steel City, and counted more than twenty small teams following this tribal caravan, but these small teams did not join this The United Caravan, but followed from afar. It seems that these small teams just want to take advantage of this United Caravan to avoid the attack of Gus Sando.
I have to say that their approach makes some sense. Although the two teams are not together, they look like the same large caravan in the distance. The bluff is very real.
Perhaps it was because it was only on the edge of the desert, and the caravan was going very smoothly. There was no difficulty in the middle. Except for a pack-car when it was time to flip through the sand dunes and almost exposed the goods in the car, the rest of the time What anomalies happened.
However, although nothing unusual happened, the caring attitude of the caravan has never been relaxed, and the request to Leo also prevented him from getting off.
It can be seen that in addition to the sand thieves who have not yet appeared, the guards of this caravan also have the trailing small caravans.
Obviously, in the eyes of this caravan, the small caravan behind them is not a good generation. At some point, these seemingly promising small tribes will also change into a fierce sand thief, this kind of thing There have been more than one or two times in the desert of Savile.
However, those small teams may have the same idea. They are also guarding the joint caravan in front of them to guard against the other side turning their heads.
The caravan took about two hours to arrive at the Little Gus River, and then headed southwest along the Little Gus River to the Little Gus Desert.
Although it is called a desert, compared to the real desert like the Guga Desert, except for the floating sand or the floating sand, the Little Gus Desert is obviously somewhat ill-named.
Because of the Gugus River and the moist monsoon blowing from the snowy mountains of Quincys, the desertification of the Xiaogusi Desert is not very serious. Most areas still have a lot of soil and many plants have grown.
Because of this, walking through the Little Gus desert is not a difficult task for the Saviles.
The caravan traveled continuously for one night, and it was easy to walk nearly half of the small Gus desert. After the sun came out in the morning, the caravan did not go any more, but chose a river that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Dianying Zhaizhai, it seems that they are not going to hurry up in the hot day.
Seeing that the caravan in front stopped, the team in the back also stopped, but they did not have a very regular barracks like the caravan, set up fortifications or the like, they just surrounded the pack cars, simple Has built a fence.
After the convoy stopped, Leo’s owner of the caravan went to the United Caravan to ask for some food, which was also brought to Leo by the way. These foods are naturally not a gourmet, but are made of dry pancakes, cream and some minced meat. Dry food.
Leo is not picky eater, and soon after eating hard dry food, he picked up the metal ball he bought at Hewan Market and continued to study it.
When he first saw this metal ball, he subconsciously thought it was a part of the Veja spaceship, but after two days of research, he found that this thing did not seem to be a part, not even a Veja or any universe. The object created by civilization is just a metal ball.
So he put the metal ball aside and ignored it.
But when he was on the bumpy car yesterday, he felt a little bored. He took out some accompanying items and sorted it out again, but when he saw the metal ball, he found that the pattern on the surface of the metal ball became a little bit. It's different.
When Leo first got this metal ball, it was also because he saw the pattern on the surface of the metal ball like a pattern with mysterious power, but when researched, it was found that these patterns were formed by the forging of steel. There is nothing special about that metallic pattern.
But now he found that after a few days, the pattern on the surface of the metal ball has changed. This change has no trace at all. If Leo was not studying the mysterious power of the pattern on the surface of the metal ball, he specially wrote down the metal ball. I am afraid that the pattern on the surface cannot be changed a little.
Leo carefully recorded the pattern on the surface of the metal ball, then carefully compared the two patterns, and soon found that the two sudden changes are like natural changes when a certain fluid moves. This situation usually occurs in On a liquid such as a pigment, such a solid metal ball should not be the case.
It’s just that Leo couldn’t use any means to find out the reason for the change of this metal ball. In his view, this metal ball is a metal ball made of ordinary steel. To say something special, this metal ball is a Near perfect ball.
You have to know that in the industrial system of cosmic civilization, it is not too difficult to make a perfect sphere, but in such a primary industrial stage as the Velon world, it is obvious that you want to make a perfect sphere with such high precision. impossible things.
"Can I hide here?" At this time, a sudden rush of footsteps suddenly came outside the pack car, and the curtain of the tent on the pack car was lifted. A Savile child looked at Leo and asked timidly .
Although the Kingdom of Savile has set up various schools in each city, because of the high school fees, not every child can enroll, so the vast majority of Savile people still adhere to the tradition of the tribe, Take the children to do business together, nomad together, and teach the children of the tribe their own knowledge.
This is also true of this joint caravan, except that their walking routes and delivery of goods this time made the children who followed the caravan not much, only five or six. When the caravan was camping, these bumped in the car Overnight, the little guys were also released and moved their shivering bodies.
Leo nodded and said, "Don't mess things up."
"Well." The child quickly climbed into the carriage, then lowered the curtain, put it on the curtain again, removed a small gap, and looked out.
The child looked outside for a while and found no one came, then smiled smugly, and then turned to look at Leo, who was studying the metal ball, and he came up curiously.
"Huh, isn't this a map of the Little Gus Desert?" The child said in surprise immediately after seeing the pattern on the surface of the metal ball.
"Map?" Leo froze, looking at the child.
"Yes, the map!" The child stretched out his hand on the pattern on the surface of the metal ball and pointed, saying: "You see this is the Little Gus River, this is the bone mound, here is the sand wolf forest, here is the widow's Weeping Forest..."
The children pointed out the geographical names of the Little Gus Desert on the patterns on the surface of the metal one by one.
After seeing the location pointed out by the child, Leo also seemed to be inspired. He quickly compared the pattern he had previously recorded with the map of the area he passed, and found the initial pattern of the metal ball he recorded. This is a map of the area around Ethiopia.
At this moment~EbookFREE.me~ Leo felt more and more that this metal ball was unusual.
"You helped me a lot," Leo said to the kid: "I don't like to owe humanity," he said, he groped in his pocket and bought it at the Hewan market before taking it out Several other exquisite wood carvings were handed to the child and said, "Choose one!"
These woodcarvings are a set of wonders. Leo had already learned the power details and methods of use of this set of wonders the night they were bought. The use of this set of wonders is very simple, just grab the woodcarving and then feel Just release the most primitive battle and killing desire.
After using woodcarving, users can obtain a powerful power from woodcarving, which will be determined by the beast corresponding to woodcarving.
If it was just when he came to the world of Velon, this set of wood carving can definitely become Leo’s most useful set of extraordinary wonders, but now this set of wood carvings can no longer play any role in him, it is better to treat it as Make a gift to others.
Even if these wood carvings are not strange objects, their shapes are also very beautiful, and the carved beasts come alive, which is very attractive to children. After hearing Leo's words, the child was also polite, and looked at the wood carvings back and forth, and finally jumped off a wood carving of knives and beasts known for their fierceness.