Elven Survival Manual

Sam and the others took their camels and followed behind the elf and the devil. They were actually half happy and half worried in their hearts.

The joy is that I have finally arrived at a place with water, and I no longer have to face the severe test of water shortage.

But the people here gave them a really weird feeling.

As we all know, the environment of the current Viv Continent is very harsh. No matter where we go, we are always accompanied by wind, sand and scorching sun.

Therefore, no matter what kind of mutations the people on the Continent of Viv have become, they still have a common feature——they keep their original human skin, and they are all chocolate-colored or even darker.

But Sam found that the complexion of the two people covered in black cloaks was unbelievably white. Even the most pampered princess he had ever seen did not have such fair skin, not even a newborn baby.

It was as if the sun had never been seen before.

And the moment the slightly shorter - but still much taller - and slender man turned around, Sam was sure he saw a smear of gold in the chink of his hood.

Sam's eyesight is very good, and it's such a short distance, so he and you are sure that what you see is not some decoration, but hair?

But this discovery almost made Sam suspect that he was wrong, because since the catastrophe thousands of years ago, with the harsher environment and more and more human mutations, it has been a long time since there has been a person with light-colored hair up.

Especially this kind of golden color, like the sunlight flowing through the hair.

Suspecting that he mistook the sun for hair, Sam followed Luvita down the dune with such doubts.

They came to the Populus euphratica forest.

The tall crowns of the dense poplar trees completely cover the scorching sun. Once entering here, everyone feels a gust of cool wind blowing towards their faces.

This is really comfortable. After walking in the desert for so long, they have not been so comfortable for a long time, and they feel that they are alive.

But the merchants are still cautious, there may be some dangerous creatures living in such a place.

After eating and drinking enough, Huahua is lazily yawning on a very tall Populus euphratica tree and is about to go to bed. It is a nocturnal big cat, and it is still awake at this time because it wants to be with the elves. The reason for getting along.

But now the elf has been taken away by the terrifying Great Demon King, and they will never be seen again before nightfall.

So it's still sleep.

After a period of growth, the Populus euphratica forest has expanded a lot, and the elves are already considering whether to let Recdimon clean up another piece of sand dune to let these trees grow outwards, so as not to wait for the seeds of the Populus euphratica to mature and be blown away. everywhere.

But that's work for later.

He and the devil walked ahead and passed through the Populus euphratica forest first.

The scene outside the Populus euphratica forest made the merchants who came out afterward gasp.

Before they were on the sand dunes, they were far away, and there was a large tree more than ten meters high in front of them blocking their sight. All they could see was a large area of ​​poplar trees and the magic castle in the middle, even the moat outside the magic castle They only vaguely saw a corner. As for the other greens, they were too far away. Although they could see them, they didn't know what they were. They thought they were fields cultivated by people here.

But now, what appeared in front of them was a huge botanical garden that was even more beautiful than a desert oasis.

Desert plants with tenacious vitality appeared in patches around the Populus euphratica forest, which blocked the path for these trees to continue to extend inward. Those plants were not the withered yellow color they saw in the desert. Every tree here It seems that they are all shades of emerald green, blooming and blooming, and fruiting, completely contrary to the time of their own flowering and fruiting.

Looking further in, the ground is full of green vines and leaves, making the watermelons and cantaloupe lying quietly among them extremely conspicuous. Similarly, the grapes hanging on the fence also make the businessmen who see them He swallowed hard.

In places where water is scarce, fruits are also very rare, especially because they cannot be preserved for a long time, so many people in places with severe water shortage may have never seen a few kinds of fruits in their entire lives.

Usually, what everyone can eat are the fruits of desert plants, such as sandy dates, seabuckthorn fruits and white thorn fruits, which can grow well without being planted by humans.

But what they see now is different.

Neither watermelons, cantaloupe, nor grapes last long in this hot weather, and growing them requires a lot of water.

In a time when water is more precious than gold, it can be said that these fruits are only enjoyed by nobles and rich and powerful people.

Among them, grapes are the most precious, because not only are they the most difficult to store, but everyone knows that they can also be used to make wine.

Delicious wine, definitely one of the best-selling goods on the continent.

Unable to bear it, some people have already asked if there is any good wine here, and if possible, they want to buy some.

The elf only used the translation technique on Aqi, so he couldn't understand those people's words.

But the merchants were not stupid. After finding that his words did not attract the attention of the two masters, Sam was the first to go to Aqi, hoping that he would convey the meaning of his side.

Compared with the goods they brought, wine is obviously more popular, especially, the current season is not when the grapes are ripe, but the grapes here can be seen as having been picked.

After listening to Aqi's report, the elf remembered that Ansett Lodge said that the wine had been brewed, and the amount was enough for the monsters in the magic castle to drink for a year.

So he didn't ask Rick Dimon, and said directly to Aqi: "Tell them, if they want wine, after we look at the goods they brought, someone will talk to them."

Trust their chancellor would be happy to talk to these businessmen.

With Ansett Lodge's good habit of being comprehensive, I think Yvestal is already gearing up and waiting to bargain with these merchants.

The elf has now consciously considered himself a member of the Devil's Castle, and he doesn't feel guilty at all for instigating Rekdimon's subordinates—although he himself doesn't seem to realize it.

With the surprise in the fruit field, the farmland afterwards did not surprise the merchants so much.

However, they still noticed that those grain vegetables that shouldn't be ripe at this time have not been seen before, but they seem to be very good crops.

After that, before they came to the magic castle, the 30-meter-wide and ten-meter-deep moat was like treasures all over the ground in the eyes of the merchants, making their eyes bright and frightening.

When these merchants carefully asked if they could drink some water first, and they were willing to exchange money for it, and when they took out a bag of gold coins, the elves immediately: ...

"Tell them to drink as long as they want without paying."

He originally planned to take these people to the castle to drink cleaner water from the deep well, but since these people think the water here is fine, there is no need to waste firewood.

Hearing that there was no need to pay, Sam and the others couldn't help thanking them overjoyed, and then they all ran to the side of the moat, lowered their heads and began to drink water.

They didn't look confused, and no one made a move to jump into the water to take a bath-everyone knew that this would make the owner displeased-even the camels who came to drink water were driven back by them, and they were not allowed to take a bath. near.

They just took out their water sacs and filled them up after drinking enough water, and then used some tools to fill the water and went back to feed the camels.

Of course, Sam and the others were also careful before drinking the water - it's not that there have been cases of drugging merchants in the water and then robbing or even killing people. They have checked carefully before drinking the water.

And it was Sam's other servant, or rather a slave, who was in charge of the inspection.

Every time Sam went out to do business, in addition to bringing sufficient guards, he would also bring two servants, one of which was the servant with good eyes, who could help Sam pay attention to the situation in farther places.

And the other one was a Goberene slave.

The Geberenes have no obvious variation in appearance, but their senses of taste and smell are very strong, and they are good at identifying whether things are poisonous.

Because of this talent and the fact that they don't have much military force, the Geberenes were all reduced to a slave race a long time ago, and sold at high prices as special commodities.

This also makes their number less and less, and then more and more expensive.

Sam also spent a lot of money to buy this mixed-blood Geberene slave, and because he was a mixed-race slave, his ability was not as good as that of a pure-blood Geberene, so Sam could afford him.

But this slave's ability is still very useful, so every time he encounters water and food, Sam's slave will taste it first, and only after he is sure that there is no problem, others will put it in his mouth.

The elf didn't notice this, but His Majesty the Demon King did, but he just glanced out of the corner of his eye, and then turned his gaze back to the elf.

It took a lot of time for the merchants to drink water and feed the camels. Luvita patiently waited for them to finish, and then led the caravan into the magic castle.