93. The Tribe of the Winds
Many people have heard of the situation in the wilderness.
However, the truth of the facts, hearsay, is naturally not very clear.
Under Andre's leadership, everyone came to a world that was completely different from what they imagined.
The impression of the tribe should be slightly barren and dilapidated, even if this tribe is just a name, but the oasis land on the periphery of the wilderness is really very scarce, even if the predecessor of a tribe is used as a temporary base, it is impossible to be big.
But when he saw the Wind Chaser Tribe with his own eyes, Sean was still shocked.
His shock was different from the shock of others at the sheer size of the Windchaser Tribe.
There's no such thing in the game.
Sean remembers very well that in the game, there is a great deal of hatred and confrontation in the Savage Lands and outside of the Savage Lands, although there are several supply points or forward bases set up because of the game, but the scale is very small. And later, because of the involvement of some missions, many players chose to join the tribal camp of the Wild Lands, and in turn destroyed these supply points, at that time, foreign players who wanted to enter the Wild Lands to do tasks needed the relationship of "guides".
Those players who joined the Savage Lands tribe in the early stage were also specially allowed to become members of the Elders of the Tribal Alliance because of their outstanding contributions in such wars, and such an identity was the so-called "guide", and these people were worth immediately because of their outstanding contributions in such wars. Because only through their introduction and guarantee, other players can join the tribal camp of the Savage Lands, and such an introduction fee is as high as hundreds of thousands of game coins, which is also 30,000 credits when converted into cash.
Could it be that because there are no players in this world, these frontline bases can be developed?
Sean's face remained shocked.
The Tribe of the Winds is more appropriately a town than a tribe.
Of course, the walls here could not have been made of stones. Rather, there are some walls similar to dirt slopes, and the defense ability is naturally not to be counted on, and a bear man can trample on a piece with a casual kick. However, everyone knows very well that the role of these earthen walls is not for defense, but to clarify the scope of the territory, anyway, as long as the area of these earthen walls is under the jurisdiction of the Wind Chasing Tribe, everyone must abide by the rules here, as for the outside of the earthen wall, it is none of their business.
As for the houses, they are also not made of wood or stone, but tents. These tents range from large to small. The large one was two or three times larger than the main tent in the barracks outside the Void City, and the small one was obviously a little reluctant to live alone, and the construction of these tents was also irregular, which made the entire Wind Chasing Tribe look a lot more messy, but it was unexpectedly clean.
In the Wild Lands. Stone and wood are considered more valuable resources, so unless they are extremely large tribes. Otherwise, it would not be possible to use stone or wooden walls and houses.
"Your Excellency. This is the Windchaser Tribe. Before the people had even entered the tribe, Andrei pointed to the door of the Chasing Wind tribe and said, "There is a rule in any trade point, no slaves are allowed to be sold, and no wars are allowed in the trade point. It's okay to have a conflict or disagreement with each other, but if you want to fight, you must stay more than a mile away from the tribe. ”
"Aren't the slave hunters all unruly creatures? Will you be so obedient? Sean asked, a little puzzled.
"Every trade point. At least there is a strong man with a lower level of gold, which is a deterrent. "Slave hunters like us do the hardest and most tiring work. If you can't help it, who wants to be a slave hunter? Therefore, a gold powerhouse sitting in a trade point is enough to make any slave catcher dare not act rashly, not to mention that in addition to the gold powerhouse, each trade point also has an armed force, and those merchants are not stupid. ”
"Armed forces?" Cecilia was slightly interested, "How many people are in this armed force?" ”
"It's hard to say, it depends mainly on the size of the trade point." "But there are usually two or three hundred people, which is larger than any single slave catcher, and all of them are well-equipped, so no slave catcher would be so blind to provoke the managers here at the trade point." ”
"Can these trade points afford so many people?" Sean was a little curious.
According to his observations, the Chasing Wind tribe can rarely say that there are more than one or two thousand people, and in the wilderness, at this scale, whether it is a settled population or a floating population, it is considered a relatively large extent. The "small tribes" as Andrei put it are only one or two hundred or less, and even some of the larger tribes, usually with a population of four or five hundred, are actually only a hundred or so people.
This is also the reason why the slave catching team here is generally about 100 people in a wild land. On the one hand, it is easy to move, and on the other hand, because of the small number of people, the demand for materials is not enough, and it can be replenished at a very low cost at the trade point, and once the slave capture is successful, everyone will share enough money.
Tribes with a population of more than a thousand people are usually only encountered in the deeper parts of the Savage Lands, where the oases are much larger.
"There weren't so many people before, but they have only recently developed, but a small number of people is not a problem for Trade Points." Andrei shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently.
"For what?" Tini was a little dazed.
But Sean immediately captured the key: "No matter whether there are many people or few people, there are only so many resources, so you just need to raise the price of goods." ”
"Your Excellency is wise." Andre patted himself slightly, "In the past, five Pan-Continent Gold Coins could be exchanged for a water bag of water, but when we left with Lord Vivian, it had risen to twenty Pan-Continent Gold Coins, and now there are obviously more people in the Wind Chasing Tribe, I'm afraid it's more than that." ”
The water bags of the people who live here in the Wild Land are specially made, and each water bag can store the normal amount of drinking water for three days, and even last for more than five days if you save a little. Anyone who would normally be able to move around in the Savage Lands would carry at least three hydration bags, and the distance between each trade point would be about twenty days. Therefore, there are very few problems in terms of supply, whether it is a slave catcher or a caravan, it is obviously some people who are very budget-conscious.
Of course, even if you want to go deep into the wilderness, if the problem of drinking water is not solved, you will not easily get into danger.
With the current level of the slave capture team, it is already the limit to go deep into the wilderness for thousands of miles, and if you continue to go deeper, it is not only not easy to replenish resources, but also easy to encounter relatively large-scale tribes, and then it will not be a slave catching team to capture slaves. Rather, it is likely that the members of the slave catchers will become the rations of those tribes.
After all, there are still many ethnic groups here in the wilderness who don't mind eating human flesh at all.
"Storm Chasing Tribe, what kind of situation is it?" Cecilia asked.
"There is a powerhouse of the lower gold, although he is not a peak powerhouse. But it has also been famous for a long time. Andrei thought for a moment, then spoke. There is also an armed force of about 200 men. It seems to be an infantry cavalry, once faced with the joint operation of three slave catching teams, the strong man did not make a move, and the three slave catching teams were completely defeated, and the armed forces of the Wind Chasing tribe ...... Zero casualties. ”
"It's kind of interesting." Sean's brow furrowed.
The slave catchers were not armies.
At least the team that Sean put together didn't get his True Eye to recognize. In other words, most slave catchers could not have been armies. But after all, the slave catcher team is also a combat team that has cooperated tacitly for a long time, and if it is not an army, it should also be regarded as a mercenary group - at least Sean finds that his passive skills can take effect, so it should be judged by the system to be an existence such as a mercenary group and an adventure group.
With such a tacit team. Generally, it takes at least a regular army of the same size to be able to suppress it.
Sean silently calculated the combat effectiveness of the Chasing Wind Tribe's armed forces in his heart, and then quickly came up with the answer he wanted: a standard third-level army may be transforming in the direction of a fourth-level army.
"How long ago was this?" Sean asked.
"Two or three years ago." Andre thought for a moment and said with some uncertainty, "But at that time, our scope of activities was not here, so I just heard about it." Later, although the scope of activities was shifted to this side, this kind of thing is a secret of a trade point after all, and we dare not inquire about it, but it is true that those armed forces are very well equipped, and I have seen it with my own eyes. ”
Cecilia glanced at Sean, a little curious as to why Sean had inquired about these things.
"It's just a matter of knowing yourself and your opponent." Sean smiled, "If we want to develop here in the Savage Lands in the future, the Wind Chaser Tribe is the first trade point we face, and it never hurts to know more." ”
Cecilia sighed, but didn't react much, and Tini did the same, but Andre and his slave catchers were startled.
"My lord, attacking a trade point is tantamount to fighting the Pan-Continental Chamber of Commerce Alliance." Andre hurriedly reminded, "Although the Wind Chasing Tribe is only a joint operation of a few small chambers of commerce, this is also one of the trade routes in the Savage Lands to ensure the supply of supplies, and there are shadows of the ten major chambers of commerce in it. ”
"Businessmen are profit-seeking, and as long as the profits are sufficient, there is nothing that cannot be sold." Sean said softly, but as he approached the gate of the Wind Chaser Tribe, his eyes were quickly attracted by the bustle at the gate, "What's that?" ”
"Oh, the slave trade." Andrei glanced at it, then spoke, "Slave trading is not allowed in the trade point, after all, there are occasionally tribal people from the Wild Lands who come to buy things, so the blatant slave trade is not good for this trade route. …… It's just that free trade doesn't matter at the trade point, and whatever happens anyway is the responsibility of those people, as long as it doesn't involve the trade point. However, if the general slave catchers were not really desperate, they would not trade slaves outside the trade points. ”
"For what?"
"Because the asking price is not high, it is at least half cheaper than the normal slave market, let alone auctioned through the underground slave black market." Andre replied, "Like an ordinary gray elf, you can normally sell two or three hundred Pan-Continent gold coins in the slave market, but here a hundred gold coins can reach the sky, and you can even bargain." ”
Sean and the others nodded knowingly, but then he let out a soft sigh. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )
PS: Yesterday the network was inexplicably broken, and I don't know the reason at all, so there is no update, sorry. I got up this morning, and the network was ready, so I posted this chapter first.