King from scratch

Beyond the kingdom's borders, forests and seas stop here.

The overwhelming yellow sand is the only hue here, they devour all existence and maintain the dead silence here, but now, this scene has changed.

The soil full of vitality spreads in the yellow sand, the city rises from the ground, and a kingdom is established here.

Even though the dark age has passed thousands of years, the intelligent creatures in this world still have not forgotten all the disasters brought about by the fall of the Father God, and the eternal curse of the place where the Father God fell.

But today, miracles sprout from the most unlikely places.

So, Ai Zhijin came quietly, visited the master of the miracle, sent friendly greetings, and then obtained what they wanted, information, goods and friendship.

The caravan is stationed in the yellow sand, and the oasis is close at hand, but no one takes a step towards it.

The long team is neatly located, tents made of special materials are stationed on the sand, and the metal convoy is parked on the other side to block the strong wind from the yellow sand. The entire camp is extremely silent, without sound, and without traces of human activities.

The sun rises and sets, but the place is still quiet until the footsteps from the oasis break the silence.

He Xingwen's eyes first fell on the convoy.

The steam car with a metal structure almost already has the prototype of a car on earth. The tires, the steam engine and the metal casing constitute the shape of the fleet's driving tools.

But unlike cars, part of their power source is steam, and the other part is not, which allows them to evolve into another look under the premise of having the prototype of a car.

The metal covered the machinery, and the mechanical structure was covered with patterns. The combination of mechanical civilization and alchemy finally finalized the appearance of these vehicles—when they were half-suspended in the air, they retracted their tires, and when they were on the ground, steam And machinery became the main power, and when they entered the sea, the machinery and steam stopped working, and the ether became the main power.

That is an area that the earth on the technological side cannot reach.

He Xingwen stopped at the boundary line between the oasis and the yellow sand, and stopped moving forward. The invisible barrier stopped him again.

And the team that had been silent for a long time finally had a different movement.

The flickering mechanical body slid out of the tent and moved towards the place where the signs of life appeared.

Machine... robot?

He Xingwen quickly corrected this idea. It is not so much a robot, but some kind of mechanical product made of complex machinery and unidentifiable patterns.

It consists of two driving wheels that move forward. The driving wheels are connected to a retractable structure, and a complex core device is connected upwards. The core device is tightly covered under the metal, and the internal structure cannot be seen. On the top of the device is a fist-sized gemstone, which emits a warm light even in the sun, which makes people know its extraordinary value at a glance.

Apart from these obvious structures, every piece of metal in the mechanical body is covered with complex lines, and the lines emit a faint blue light, which is running—or in other words, it is the main driving force supporting the operation of the mechanical body.

This world has only revealed a small corner of its true face to He Xingwen until now. This is a miracle created by the combination of steam civilization and alchemy, rather than a piece of yellow sand and a few isolated magic races.

Unlike He Xingwen whose world view was forcibly developed by this scene, Zhe glanced at the convoy and the mechanical body, and calmly resolved his doubts: "No wonder they have the confidence to station outside the kingdom."

Nubida's eyes lingered on the mechanical body, reluctant to move away.

"It's worthy of the gold of Ai, a big deal. The sea dragon stone on the top of this mechanical structure costs at least a few thousand gold coins, plus the money for hiring a mystic to engrave the pattern... These mechanical bodies are like moving treasuries."

Nubida counted the number of mechanical bodies pouring out of the convoy, and expressed pure emotion: "Tm are really rich, no wonder everyone wants to steal money from them."

Zhe didn't answer his faults. Of course, for a civilization that has not yet had a currency system, it is indeed difficult to resonate with him.

"These things are not living things." Zhehe Xingwen explained: "The curse of the land of the gods takes effect on the existence of life, from plants to animals, without exception."

"But this kind of man-made machinery is not a living body."

"That's right." The mechanical body slid across the sand and stopped before the dividing line between the oasis and the desert, not entering the territory of the kingdom.

The voice of the other party came from the Sea Dragon Stone: "In order to enter the Land of God's Fall, we have thought of many ways, and finally came up with this solution temporarily. Although there are some flaws, at this stage, this is the only way to enter the Land of God's Fall." way."

The other party's tone was respectful but not humble: "Greetings to you, Your Majesty, please forgive us for not being able to come here in person, and offer you our most sincere greetings."

"Your legend is spread on the mainland, and the miracles you have created are amazing."

Sea Dragon Stone exuded a steady light, spreading the other party's words in a strange way.

"I don't know if you understand the race of demons, but I must tell you the truth. Demons are an evil, cunning, and cold-blooded existence. They are not welcome."

Nubida has no objection to the fact that everyone should educate He Xingwen about how bad the devil is, because it is the truth.

He just laughs at the stupidity of these ignorant people who advise kings to beware of demons.

"It seems that the curse of the land of the gods has interrupted your intelligence network." Nubida brazenly mocked the other party: "Your Majesty..."

"There is no need for such a warning."

Zhe took up the conversation: "We already know something about the nature of demons." He said calmly, "After all, there are not only demons in the kingdom."

Hai Longshi turned around slowly and turned towards Zhe.

"Forgive us for being behind in the news, but I really haven't heard of anyone other than the dwarves entering the kingdom."

Zhe has no interest in popular science, let alone sharing information about the kingdom with them. He dominates the conversation.

"It sounds like you are more interested in what happened in the kingdom?" Zhe raised a springy smile: "This doesn't fit my perception of businessmen."

"After all, if you know the customer well enough, you can know what the customer really needs." The other party's voice has always maintained a kindness that makes people feel good.

Just listening to their voices can even give people the illusion of harmony and harmony, while those undercurrents that come and go are hidden in the depths and are not easy to see.

"So for the first contact with a new civilization, we are more inclined to communicate and understand." The other party did not leak: "But we did make some preparations so that the contact can proceed more smoothly."

Hailongshi turned and stayed in He Xingwen's direction: "We heard that the exiled dwarf stayed in your kingdom, so I think you need a dwarf..."

System: "I'm starting to appreciate him."

He Xingwen reached out his hand to stop the other party's words, and he gestured to Zhe who was beside him: "Zhe is in charge of connecting with foreign races, you can talk to him."

He took a few steps outside, avoiding the conversation place, and said to the system: "What?"

"Businessmen are profit-seeking, but they are not just businessmen who can do what they do."

He Xingwen cast his gaze towards the distant dialogue scene.

"speak English."

"I guess they brought you dwarves, I mean, more dwarves."

He Xingwen glanced at the convoy and confirmed that it would be impossible to accommodate dozens of dwarves in the convoy, so he said objectively: "The kingdom really needs dwarves."

System: "They plan to use this brick to knock on the gate of the kingdom and get what they want."

"Then they might be disappointed."

"Because you don't like slaves?"

He Xingwen corrected his words: "Because I am against slavery."

Hai Longshi paused on the king who walked aside alone, and then landed on Zhe again.

"What I said just now offended the king?" The other party cautiously confirmed with Zhe.

"If you offended the king, you wouldn't still be standing here." Zhe lightly reminded the other party: "You haven't finished what you just said."

"I think you need more dwarves," said the other party. "Whether it is the start of civilization or the rebuilding of the kingdom, dwarves are indispensable."

"So, what do you want?" Zhe didn't express any opinion on the products he proposed, but asked the other party another more critical question.

"So, what do they want?"

System: "There are so many things they can get from you, goods from new civilizations, friendship from you, etc. After all, the bordering of a new world also means that a brand new world will appear in front of them."

"And they obviously have very rich experience in how to establish relationships with new civilizations and maintain friendly exchanges."

System: "Sometimes, just maintaining friendship with a powerful civilization is enough for them to reap rich rewards."

"We hope to gain friendship from the kingdom." The other party said spiritually: "We are willing to show our friendship for this, such as a group of displaced dwarves."

Nubida listened for a long time, lacking interest. Ai Zhijin is a country of wandering merchants. The two characteristics of vagabonds and merchants doomed them not to be strongly aggressive.

In fact, they are like bees everywhere, and they will exist wherever the flower of civilization blooms.

As Nubida said before, most intelligent creatures like them very much. This is not a lie, but a fact.

Because Ai Zhijin is generous enough to be willing to pay a small price to maintain friendship.

Guests who come with gifts are always welcome.

He Xingwen ended the conversation with the system and took over the conversation.

"Displaced dwarves?" He Xingwen: "Slaves?"

The light on the Sea Dragon Stone flickered for two seconds before answering He Xingwen's question: "I'm very sorry, we don't trade slaves."

Nubida was on the sidelines. He Xingwen Science Popularization: "When Aizhijin was first established, it was composed of slaves. Their world collapsed after they bordered us, and after they lost their homeland, because of their sensitivity to numbers. Sense became the slave trader's favorite commodity."

"This struggle for freedom and interests lasted for a long time, and finally came to an end with the establishment of the Ezhijin Wandering Caravan."

"I'm sorry." He Xingwen responded, "I don't know about this past."

"Your bearing is astonishing,"

The other party said: "It's nothing. Thousands of years have passed in this story. I'm afraid only the demon who has lived for so long still remembers it."

"Not necessarily." Nubida muttered, because he received the warning sight from Zhe, he slowly argued for the king: "The king doesn't like slaves."

"Because kings don't need slaves at all."

Nubida swears that he has never advised others so sincerely: "I'm afraid you need to update your established impressions of the kingdom system. Substituting other kingdoms into this kingdom will be very wrong."

"Advice from the devil." The businessman said with a smile: "It's surprising enough."

If you know what kind of life we've been living these days, you probably won't be surprised by such little things.

When a demon is forced to do nothing but sleep, he is no longer a pure demon. ——by Nubida.

He Xingwen objectively clarified for the devil: "Actually, the devil is not that bad, they just lack restraint."

Therefore, the law and the Holy Guard work together, and it is not incomprehensible for the devil to change his previous appearance and become a devil again.

This was the funniest joke the wandering trader had ever heard, comparable to the joke that the Ents actually liked intelligent creatures very much.

Of course, judging from He Xingwen's expression, maybe the young king really thinks so...

Then this is not a joke.

Perhaps this is the young king's veiled demonstration that he is powerful enough to make the devil bow his head?

Wandering traders treat any hints from each other cautiously, and every contact with a new civilization is an adventure.

Civilizations that can survive when the world is on the verge of destruction often have places beyond people's imagination.

His thoughts were rapidly diverging, but He Xingwen, who just mentioned it casually, took the initiative to bring the topic back.

"So, a bunch of displaced dwarves?"

He Xingwen didn't know much about the ecology of this world, but from what he knew about Adisseo King, the dwarves didn't seem like a race that would be displaced—their casting skills were enough to make them welcome in any kingdom.

The wandering merchant explained: "Since the dwarf kingdom fell apart and formed the Qiuyuan tribe, the Dongnulie family, and the dwarf elders, some dwarves wandered on the mainland because they did not recognize their legitimacy, so... there are always some The race will risk the wrath of the dwarves and have other ideas."

"Their current situation is not suitable for continuing to wander, but they don't plan to return to a certain group of dwarves, so I think, if the king is interested, maybe they will be willing to come to your kingdom?"

He Xingwen thought for a few seconds, then turned to look at Zhe.

Zhe understood his subtext, whispered something to Yan, and Yan quickly left the scene.

"Let the dwarves decide about the dwarves." He Xingwen said calmly, "Now let's talk about other things."

He Xingwen was very interested in this wandering caravan, and he extended an invitation to the other party: "Your performance has won my friendship, and the door of the kingdom is open to you..."

A slight rustling sound came from not far away, He Xingwen stopped talking, and looked sideways.

The system discovered this earlier than all the existences present: "Someone..." He quickly corrected: "A player is approaching."

He Xingwen has long been prepared for the unexpected event of meeting players - after all, it is very difficult to completely avoid players.

Players do not come from the direction of the forest and the sea - in terms of their current force value, choosing these two paths may never make it to the border of the kingdom alive.

The forest occupies a large space in the north of the kingdom, and the sea is next to the forest, occupying a large space in the east. The only remaining two directions are the southwest, which is a plain.

The wandering caravan chose the northwest of the desert and the southeast of the kingdom, and this player was lucky enough to choose the southeast of the kingdom.

This is the fundamental reason why the other party was able to reach the border of the kingdom smoothly and happened to meet them.

The scene froze for a few seconds.

As soon as the player appeared, he was directly watched by the crowd, and subconsciously stopped in place.

He Xingwen took the lead to look away, and continued what he hadn't finished: "The gate of the kingdom is open to you, you can step into my territory—accompanied by my people, and stay in the kingdom for a short time."

"This is our honor." The mechanical body slowly crossed the line and stopped on the land of the oasis.

The complex patterns on the mechanical body changed, some went out, while others lit up.

"Surprisingly, Mowen detected that the language barrier between us has disappeared." The wandering trader explained: "So the 'common term' stopped working."

"One of the king's little miracles."

Nubida stared straight at the two humans standing not far away: "King, what did you think about before?"

He swayed over, circling the two players, completely ignoring their tense state of stress.

"A new use of ether? Ether anthropomorphism?"

He stretched out his hand and poked the weak human being in front of him, very restrained, for fear of stabbing him to death in front of He Xingwen - then he could almost predict that he would die as badly as the tail of a snake.

"Finally no longer pretending to be a human being?" Nubida muttered in a low voice, "Does it look like it?"

"Nubida." Zhe warned the other party: "Your Majesty hasn't made a decision yet. If you don't want His Majesty to change his mind, I hope you can restrain yourself."

Nubida really hates this human being, always disturbing his interest - more importantly, every sentence can step on his dead spot, how annoying!

Nubida withdrew his hand, strolled back to He Xingwen, and said slanderously: "King, look, is Zhe getting more and more powerful? He even made decisions without you!"

"I don't think it's a good thing for you to hand over so much power to him. Human desires are always easy to expand, and checks and balances are needed to ensure that they are rational enough."

He Xingwen had to remind him: "Just a second ago you were saying that we are not human."

Nubida thought for a while, and agreed with his point of view: "Indeed, you cannot be human beings, no human being would maintain unshakable awe and restraint in the face of rights within reach, just as if he had no desire at all. Hope the same."

He talked to himself, negating his last second's slander - although he never thought from the beginning that this kind of clumsy slander could have any effect.

A king who can give all the power to others, if he can be shaken by a few words, then it is impossible for him to give the power to others.

"You shouldn't be here." He Xingwen changed the subject, pointing at the players who remained silent from beginning to end.

He Shu saw countless existences on this land that surpassed or even denied the knowledge he had learned, but he was not convinced of one thing until he faced the scene in front of him.

He is stepping on the ground of another world.

Because in front of him is a civilization belonging to another world.

Mechanics, steam, alchemy, magic.

Humans, demons, machines.

A magical world that is more colorful than imagined, rather than the so-called setting compiled from the template of the Middle Ages.