Moonstone Mountain is a bald mountain in the western suburbs of Guruding Town, which is not very high, and there was originally a vein of Moon Stone here, but many years ago, it was hollowed out by the orcs of Guruding Town. The only abandoned mines www.biquge.info are scattered all over the barren hills, and the entire Moon Stone Mountain is the highest place in this area. Moon Stone, also known as Moonstone, is a low-level magic material, and although it is not valuable among magic materials, its value far exceeds that of gold.

These abandoned mines are now inhabited by orc refugees gathered from all over the Western Wilderness, some of them hunters waiting to return from the depths of the wasteland, and others who have gathered here with other orc refugees, after all, there is a place to live.

The closer you get to the town of Gurudin, the more orc hunters you meet on the road, they are covered with all kinds of hunting and caught leather, horns, tendons, magical herbs, rare ores and a lot of meat, I think most hunters will carry a whole bag of raw jerky on their backs, I see raw jerky now, I feel sick to my stomach, maybe it is a food injury. These hunters, who carried bows and arrows and scimitars, often came in groups of three or five, and those who could have horses to ride on would carry much more supplies. The orcs who carried their prey on their shoulders did not bring much with them, and often preferred to roll up their leather and carry it behind their backs, walking silently along the way.

There are also caravans composed of three or five thunder rhinos, and these thunder rhinos can often be seen on the human merchants, and these thunder rhinos have a lot of materials like a small mountain, and there is rarely too much food in these materials, which are all very valuable things. The most numerous of these are rolls of demon antelope skins.

Our team is sandwiched between these orcs, and it's a bit abrupt. Because the combination of our team looks a little strange, at the front are Wilu and Jonbach. They are tall horses, so that people don't have to look closely to know that there are adventurers riding on them, they are often warriors or magicians with strong individual strength, under normal circumstances, few people dare to anger them, Sister Guoguo is dressed in a magician's robe, and her cone hat and face towel cover all her evens, and the snow-white hand she does not pull the reins holds a magic wand, as long as she sees the orc with that magic wand. will subconsciously take two steps back.

Gubolima's horse was followed by a fat Aguimon, which barely had much luggage on it, except for an orc boy and a human child lying in the leather saddle, both of whom looked around listlessly, and the eyes of the two children always fell on the refugee orc on the side of the road.

More than one hundred and seventy fat argali, with fifty orc women with short spears on their backs, did not carry too much of the goods, and the team did not have the fatigue of the long journey. The male orcs of the wolf clan usually look at the orcs and women, and they rarely look too carefully at whether their faces are exquisite, as long as they are not too ugly, they will not be too picky. What they care more about is whether the beast girls' breasts are full enough, whether the buttocks are round and fat, and whether the thighs are slender and powerful.

Obviously, none of the beast girls among the refugees could meet these demands. Counting that they had been starving all spring, they had already been starved to the point that their faces were yellow and thin, and even some of the beast girls had shriveled up on their chests as if they were hanging from two pockets. The joints of the whole body are highlighted. The fifty orc warriors who guarded the argali, but they were particularly conspicuous in the crowd. From time to time, there are obsessive eyes staring at the road.

We also follow the orc tradition of camping at sunset. I would light three or five oil stoves, set up an iron pot, pour a whole pot of water into it and boil it, then I would take out the brick-like meat floss from my bag, cut off a corner with a dagger, and the meat floss would quickly melt into the soup pot and turn into a pot of fragrant beef broth. Sometimes he eats it with some wild vegetables in the broth and on a dry pancake, and sometimes he breaks some brown bread and puts it in a wooden bowl and drizzles two spoonfuls of beef broth on top, which Kuz has been fond of lately.

The beast girls in the back preferred to eat sausages made of flour, ox blood, offal, minced meat, tendons, and mixed together, with some spices and salt, boiled in the small intestines, and then smoked and dried. They would boil some wild vegetables in water, add some salt at most, and then eat the strange taste of smoked sausage and black bread in this clear soup.

Often at this time, it will make the other orcs on the side of the road drool. There were still a lot of orcs gathered and took a sip of hot water from our fire, and Kuz, seeing that it was not too far from the town of Grudin, would give the remaining black bread and coarse grain cakes to the orc refugees who seemed to have eaten wild vegetables for a long time, and were already skinny and skinny. Often, at this time, Kuzi will symbolically pick a few fresh wild vegetables from their hands, and then hand over the dry cakes in the bag, which means to say: Look, I really want to eat some wild vegetables, can I exchange a piece of bread for a little wild vegetables?

Many times, our oil stoves would burn until the middle of the night, and in the wilderness near the town of Gurudin, not to mention the fuel of dry branches and cow dung, even edible wild vegetables were dug up and eaten by those hungry orcs. Therefore, if you can drink a bowl of hot water here at this time, it is also extremely rare for those orcs.

Sister Guoguo and Jonbach don't know where to go, and these two people are becoming more and more shameless, and I think I should prepare another tent, which will be more convenient. Viru lay in the sleeping bag early, sleeping next to his Gubolaima, I think this is very good, my sleeping bag is obviously no worse than Viru's, the sleeping bag sewn by guinea pig skin itself is waterproof and breathable, there is no need to sleep in a tent with this kind of sleeping bag, I think I should find a chance to hint to Sister Guoguo, of course I can't bring it up directly, otherwise she will tear me.

This night, destined not to be silent, the camp was full of orcs who could drink a bowl of hot water, even though Kuz had asked those orcs to move the three oil stoves outside the camp, but the whole camp was as noisy as a vegetable market, Kuz and I had no sleep, these days, probably every day! Hiding on the back of the Agui beast to make up for sleep, he always can't sleep at night. This cycle created a vicious circle, so Kuz and I decided to take advantage of the darkness to climb Moonstone Mountain.

It's a bald mountain, and it's a big one. All of them were moved back to Gurudin Town by the orcs of the Blood Wolf Clan to build a house, not to mention the big tree, not even a decent shrub. Standing on the top of the hill and feeling the cold night breeze blowing in your face, you can look out into the distance to the town of Gurudin, which is unexpectedly brightly lit.

A month ago, there was no such bustling scene, when I lived in the castle of the Kuz family, and every night I would stand on the balcony of my room at my leisure. Look at the night view of this town. At that time, only the night watchman lit the street lamps on the main street, and as soon as it was dark, there were not many people on the street.

But now, although we were too far away to see what was going on in the streets, we knew that the night in Gurudin, just by looking at the brilliant lights, was not peaceful. Kuz sighed: "In the past, for a period of time after the spring hunt, Gurudin was like this every night, and there were always some foreign hunters who would find a tavern after making money. Drink all night. At that time, there were not so many human merchants, and the streets were full of antelope skins, sheep's horns, and the like. ”

There was a rare weakness in Kuz's eyes, and he rarely talked to me about the past. He looked at the lights of Guruding Town in the distance, and said to me excitedly: "I remember once Grandma took me out to buy two demon antelope skins for Abba to make inner armor, and the hunter who sold the skins gave me a mask made of demon antelope skulls! I've been happy for a long time. Many warriors made helmets out of the skulls of the Antelope, which were much lighter than helmets forged from steel. And it's sturdy. ”

I always thought Kuz was a strong, cheerful and optimistic orc boy. He is usually a very self-reliant orc boy, no matter what problems he encounters, he likes to find a way to solve them by himself, and he never asks others for what he can do. I think this is probably a habit formed after surviving alone in the wild, and although this habit has given him the ability to survive beyond the reach of ordinary people, it has diluted his communication skills and made him not very good at communicating with people.

I found a place with a wide view, brought two stones and sat down, I smiled and said to him: "Why didn't you mention the demon antelope we hunted in the northern wilderness, the two of us made a sheep bone helmet, which is also very good!"

"I didn't expect it at the time! it was all cooked and eaten by those greedy women, hey!" I said with a rather regretful sigh.

Kuzi has been a little silent in recent days, always looking preoccupied, we sit side by side on the stones, I hold my hands on my knees and look up at the starry sky, but he buries his head deep in his legs, and strokes the grass on the ground with his hands, and is silent for a moment before he says: "Jia, you said that these orcs are starving, what the hell are you going to do! Speaking of which, they are all members of our orcs, let me watch them starving indifferently, I can't do this! But what should I do?"

For a while, his question made me ponder, I didn't know how to answer, I wanted to say that these things are not what your eldest brother Coote should think? But I thought he would be annoyed if I said this, so I thought for a long time before I said, "Actually...... In fact...... Actually, you can help them!"

When Kuz heard me say this, his eyes brightened, and in the dark night he looked at me like two sparks and asked, "Jia, what do you say!"

It dawned on me that this kid was pretending to be pitiful and annoyed just so that I could help him come up with an idea. It seems that he has really seen a lot of things and thought a lot about them since he entered the Western Wilderness, otherwise he would never be so upset, such troubles. So I asked him, "Do you want to sell those magic crystals and exchange them for some food to save these orcs?"

"Yes, I thought so at first, but then I thought that it might not help them, and the drowning tribesmen were still waiting for me to bring back the food...... Ah......h

I thought about it for a while, and then said to him earnestly: "Actually, it doesn't take so many people to build a city wall, and besides, those magic crystals in your money bag can't support tens of thousands of poor orcs in the wilderness, of course, you can recruit some people and bring them back to the drowning pool." But this quantity and scale must be well controlled. ”

It is very realistic to say that two loaves of bread cannot save a group of hungry people. Our capabilities are very limited. When Kuz heard me say this, he sighed again.

"Actually, there are still solutions!" I said slowly. "Actually, in front of us. In addition to the demon antelopes that live in the depths of the wasteland, there is also a natural treasure trove, which is the Death Swamp, which is our unique resource, and there is untold wealth enough to feed these orcs in the wilderness. ”

"Death Swamp?" Kuz asked suspiciously, "You mean to let me take the orc warriors into the swamp and hunt those swamp zombies?"

This guy is just brainless, and he won't turn back when he runs all the way to the dark. I said to him, "Even if you want to, you have to think about your tribe." After all, it's still very dangerous to go to the swamp of death! I don't want you to take risks, I mean we can actually take a longer view, you can come and see......"

I took out a piece of moonstone the size of a small fingernail from my bosom, I remember this was the little material left when I made the moonshine ink, and when Kige smiled and threw it to me, I remember that she said to me very angrily, "Take it and have fun, sister will reward you!" Her smile is still deeply engraved in my mind. I pinched the moonstone with two fingers, as if I could see her charming smile. After a moment of wandering, I focused my mind on the moonstone glowing blue. It illuminates my skin with a faint blue glow.

Squatting on the meadow, he hastily drew the outline of the western wilderness, and in the lower left corner, he drew the entire fault zone of hundreds of kilometers, the windmill hills, the quarries of the North Valley, and of course, the drowning moor. He also placed a pebble in the center of the drowning moor, and explained to him as he drew it: "This is the western wilderness...... This is Gurudin...... This is Bangor Manor...... This is the North Gully Quarry. You think this is a drowning moor, oh! This is the village of the Lai Tu tribe. What can you discern?"

Kuz followed the glow of the moonstone. After looking at it next to me, he said uncertainly, "Jia, I can see that you are drawing a simple map......"

I must admit that I regretted it a little bit after I asked the question. I didn't expect Kutz to keep up with me, so I continued, "The key problem is the wall we've built!"

I motioned for Kuz to be quiet, and then said, "If we build a strong fence here in the village of Laitu, there will be one of the safest places to live here. Az, you see, all hunters must pass through us if they want to enter the Death Swamp. This is the closest camp to the Death Swamp before entering it. ”

"Why didn't the hunters on the Pai Plateau come to the Death Swamp to hunt swamp zombies before? The answer is very simple, that is, the swamp is full of dangers, and the lone hunters are easily ambushed and injured by the death sickle, and the hunting mortality rate here is very high, so it is called the Death Swamp. And the living conditions in the swamp are extremely difficult, the fog is full all day long, there is no sunlight, if there is no fire in it, after a long time, soaked in the swamp for a long time, the legs and feet will begin to slowly grow poisonous sores, slowly decay, the body will also be invaded by the toxins in the swamp, and various discomforts will occur. Therefore, the hunters know that those swamp zombies are rich in magic crystals, and they are not willing to set foot in the death swamp to hunt them!"

"If we make this a small trading staging post, or if we start out, it can also be a camping place for those hunters to rest. We can sell some food that is easy to carry, such as grilled sausages that do not spoil easily, salty wheat crackers, meat floss, and dried meat. Of course, there is also the most important antidote potion, you still have that recipe from Sister Guoguo, just according to that kind of herbal configuration, the poisonous mist of the Swamp Corpse King can still poison people, and other medicines suitable for use in the swamp. There are also those hunting tools, which can also be rented or traded, anyway, those hunters must understand that ordinary weapons cannot cause damage to those zombies, and they need to use weapons made of sharper wind wolf fangs or demon antelope horns. ”

"But the prerequisite is to have a strong wall! This will slowly form a virtuous circle, with hunters coming and successfully hunting swamp zombies and making a lot of money. Bring the news to the other orc hunters, as long as they want to enter the Death Swamp, then they will definitely choose to repair in the safe village of Laitu, these hunters will come to the village, they will replenish, buy food, medicine, weapons and other things, and after being fully prepared, they will go into the Death Swamp to hunt together, and finally come out of the Death Swamp with the loot, and the things that are inconvenient to carry may be disposed of cheaply in the village!"

"In this way, there may be merchants who see this business opportunity and open a trading house in our village! Oh, for these merchants, you must not be polite in the future, Azi, you must collect taxes from them, and of course provide them with protection! As long as it is within the scope of their hearts, the only thing to keep in mind is that our village must have our own rules, and anyone who comes to our territory must abide by our rules!"

Kutz was a little confused and asked me, "Jia, what you said is very good, but what does this have to do with the tens of thousands of poor orcs in the western wilderness right now?"

I continued: "Then your camp will have a large income, which will become more and more great as the place becomes more prosperous, and finally it may be so large that you may not even think of it. Add to that the fact that you sell fine salt and corpse oil, sell vermicelli and meat floss to human merchants, and hunt swamp zombies and demon antelopes with female warriors, and you have enough money to toss as much as you want!"

I stood up and pointed to the orc refugees at the bottom of Moonstone Mountain, and said to Kuz, "You can hire more people and let them build the walls higher and wider! This will require a lot of manpower! You can also consider building a large castle like a mountain city, which will also require a lot of manpower! Maybe you can open more workshops, oh! In short, you can't raise them for nothing, let them pay a certain amount of labor, and maintain the minimum of life!"

I put my arm around Kutz's shoulders and comforted him, saying, "This will save more people and make more people able to eat! Of course, you won't sell all your possessions in order to give them a few full meal......s! )