A subjugated princess will never die a vagabond

However, her words were taken to heart by Cloris.

A peek at the stars.

The girl raised her face, and there were only sour clouds floating in the sky, and the brilliance penetrating from the Pillar of Hong Ye.

What did Ruopaya really see, does it mean that the man behind the scenes can see everything that happened below through starlight?

Those starlights come from the Sea of ​​Floating Stars.

"People from the Star Church?" Cloris became more and more confused, "Or do they just have relevant characteristics?"

Just like her chimeric doctor puppet does not mean that she belongs to the Church of Evernight, and being able to use starlight as "eyes" does not explain the other party's position.

Cloris remained vigilant and returned to the port above from the Pillar of Hong Ye. Everyone in the Big Bear Expedition Team had already checked their bags and waited for the airship to depart.

"Where did you go?" The one-horned lizard Waylon sniffed at the girl. "Although it's impolite to say that, Miss Ke, you seem to have lived in a trash can all night."

"Is there? I didn't smell anything..." Cloris shook her head slightly.

"The one-horned lizard has a good sense of smell." Brito patted the girl on the shoulder. He was carrying a small mountain-like bag. Cloris told him where he had gone before, so she didn't ask further, "Let's get on the boat first. Another hour to go."

407. Outpost Watch

Hong Ye is more than 80 kilometers away from the natural good port of the brave front line. After arriving at the good port after a two-and-a-half-hour voyage, there will be a winding mountain road of more than a hundred miles.

Fortunately, this area is a safe area that the Explorers' Guild has repeatedly inspected, and there will be no dangerous species that attack humans. At the same time, a railway winds into the dark depths, and it takes two hours to go back and forth.

The plateau is divided by a series of uprooted mountains. The steep mountains seem to be able to plunge into the deep caves of floating gravel on the sky. Between the relatively flat terraces, there are thousands of zhang gullies that seem to be cut by blades.

Except for a lighthouse every ten miles, there are almost no other light sources along the way.The light permeated the quiet atmosphere, not glaring, as if adding a layer of cold gray-blue to the world, and even the passengers in the carriage lost their normal colors under the light.

However, under the protection of this light, everyone is in peace of mind.

This is a technique from the Church of Evernight.Strong light tends to attract monsters in the dark, and this gray-blue hue hides human beings under the eyes of dangerous things, allowing explorers to avoid anxiety under the black sky, just like its core teaching— — soothe fear.

When the whistle of the train blew, the light in front of it suddenly opened up the sight, and a high wall of more than [-] meters stood across the majestic mountain pass——

[Watching Outpost], relying on the wonders built on the ruins of the border cities of the ancient kingdom.

If you pass through the pass to the other end, you can see the mist and plains that are silent under the night, and in the depths where the searchlights can't reach, there are crumbling walls and sinister creatures crawling in corners.

The train enters through the side gate of the city wall and stops at the platform. Explorers and businessmen from all over the world gather here, and it is very crowded.

Everyone in the Big Bear Expedition Team walked out of the platform. The bustling market made Cloris feel that she had entered a commercial city with developed trade, rather than a border fortress set up to penetrate into dangerous situations.

The fortress is a huge city.The ancient-style vaulted square buildings are covered with layers of "light windows" like shrines, in which ever-bright fireworks burn silently. Below are vendors and shops. Magic props, mysterious materials, and unknown uses There are many fake products, there are street lamps connected to energy pipelines on the road, advertisements for spiritual vein transplant clinics, alchemy and enchanting workshops, slave consumption places are posted all over the street, smoke and dust from energy stations float into the sky, there are flocks of strange-looking flat-billed birds Hovering in groups in the smoke, inhaling fully burned source crystal particles.

Half of the population of Muye Plateau is gathered here, and various commercial firms set up shops and warehouses here, equipped with restaurants, casinos, brothels, alchemy workshops, hospitals and other facilities.

Most of the practitioners are slaves, and the proportion of slaves exceeds [-]% of the population. This is considered to be the best in all airspaces. A large number of slave intermediaries and slave traders work in this industry, and the slave business is very hot.

Cheap slaves used as consumables mined rare metals in dangerous mining areas, and they were precarious. The slaves in the city were slightly better, and some life guarantees were given by the local unwritten laws.

After all, in this place where the birds don't shit, except for the slaves who "work hard and bear no complaints", basically no one will live here all their lives, and the slaves are not inexhaustible.

Except for the slaves, the rest of the resident population is mostly free people who come here to make a living, and they hold technical positions in hospitals, factories, magic workshops, and slave intermediaries.

The defenders in the city are from the Star Church, the Explorers Guild, and the Gulingting troops. Right now, [Outpost] has not been demigod, and the spectacle is controlled by more than 300 mages and technicians of various professions.

Theoretically, with Spectacle's current degree of completion, the demigod can make a contract, but so far, there is not even a list of confirmed candidates.

On the one hand, it will take three to five years for [Outpost Watch] to be completed perfectly, and the strange monsters cannot threaten this city, so there is not much demand for demigods. On the other hand——

The environment of the night plateau is indeed too depressing.

The entire city has a population of more than 80, including Hong Ye, which does not exceed 10. The conditions may be better than the primitive life of the natives, but any city with a population of more than [-] in the Floating Star Sea may be able to crush this in terms of quality of life. Looking into a barren ghost place.

With the current technology, a demigod contract is equivalent to being tied to this throne for life. If it is in a safe area, it is a spectacle that is completely your own.But this kind of spectacle funded by the government, demigod is equivalent to "appointment", and must sit on this broken toilet for hundreds of years.

No matter how strong it is, what can it do?

Therefore, those pampered and proud god-endowed people in Gu Ling Ting are probably not very happy to come to this bitter cold place.

"I'm curious about where the main body of this spectacle is." Cloris looked for a long time, but could only see old-style buildings and some new buildings, but could not find the shadow of the main body of the spectacle.

"Under our feet." Brito pointed out of the station.

On the neatly arranged stone paths, words that she has never seen are engraved. Strange energy flows on the flickering words, interacts between the surface and the underground, and shines as passers-by walk.

"When we entered, [Watching Outpost] will record the information of each of us according to the identity star emblem, so that we can quickly identify the enemy when the strange monster invades." Yati said, "We happened to encounter a heavy fog last year, and we were lucky to see The massacre of a beast by a spectacle."

"massacre?"

"All the flying ones fell directly, and all the crawling ones crawled on the ground," Mirmo said in a tone of palpitations. "The invisible weight crushed them into slag, leaving a source core for the explorers to snap up."

That must be an extremely wide field, and extremely easy to kill.Cloris just thought about it, and felt the shock from that light description.

Cloris asked: "Does this mean that the spectacle can easily kill us?"

"That's right," Brito nodded and smiled, "But this kind of question does not need to be worried, or even thought about. We are already vulnerable in the face of spectacle, and there is no need to beware that it will be against us."

As long as you step into the spectacle, it's useless to be on guard.

Cloris knew that she was worrying unnecessarily, she just didn't like the feeling that her life could be taken away at any time, even if the spectacle or the person who manipulated the spectacle didn't intend it.

In fact, there is basically no need to worry about personal safety in [Outpost Watch]. This is the place where the Church of the Stars and the Explorers' Guild dominate the order. Even the revenge of killing the father must be kept in the stomach and go to the outside world to solve it.

Similarly, the personality and surveillance of spectacle will also make it hard for some people who like to create coincidences.

"I'm going to meet with Moran, Miss Ke, please accompany Bophia to make preliminary preparations," Brito said to the team members, "Six hours later, at [-]:[-] Gulingting time, we will gather at the city gate. "

408. Bought a Pack Beast

For most explorers, "adventure" is for making a living and making a fortune, not for unreliable ideals or impulses such as unraveling the unknown, seeking excitement, and making people's lives more fulfilling.

Most of the ruins that have been explored can only earn a small amount of money, and they have to pay the entrance fee to the local guild every time they enter, while the exploration rate of Muye Plateau is less than one-tenth, the death rate is more than [-]%, and the casualty rate is more than [-]%. Not only will the Explorers' Guild not monopolize the relics, but it will also encourage explorers to open up wasteland, dig, and build forward strongholds one by one.

Although the guild will still take the majority in the end, explorers who risk their lives to earn their lives can find one of the few opportunities to change their lives here.

Not to mention bringing any treasure, even drawing a map of relatively detailed unknown areas and submitting it to the guild can ensure a comfortable life of a rich man for the rest of his life.

The process of reclaiming the ruins is step-by-step. You may have to stay inside for several months, and you have to bring a lot of supplies every time you enter.

This is also the importance of carrying a "beast of pack".

[Watching Outpost] There are car dealerships that sell transport vehicles, but that kind of machinery is bulky, heavy, and consumes fuel, and can only be driven on flat roads, so Maijiaduo is a businessman who travels to and from the safe zone.

Pack animals can adapt to a wider field, and there are wild beasts living in the ruins, so it is easy to be self-sufficient in feeding, and there is no need to consider fuel consumption.

"This one is not bad." In the smelly pack animal enclosure, Bophia walked to a pen and asked the administrator, "Let me go in and have a look."

A big black bear was sleeping in the pen, with a bulky body over five meters tall. It was sitting on the haystack and snoring, snotting its nose.

Bophia walked over and patted Big Bear on the head.

"Hu-hu-"

"Are you sure you want to buy it?" Cloris asked.

"Shadow Chaser wombats, also called sleepy bears, are found on islands in the wasteland layer of forest landforms, and sleep eighteen hours a day in caves."

"Then you still buy it?" Cloris raised her eyebrows and said, "Listen, although I don't care about such a small amount of money, I'm not just being slaughtered casually."

"Hey, Miss Ke, I really don't like your attitude, but you really underestimate me." Bophia took out a medicine bottle from her waist and brought it to Sleepy Bear's nose. In other places, the wombat has a strong sense of crisis, it is used to sleeping eighteen hours a day, but it is not necessary to sleep."

"Huh?" The snot bubbles shattered, and Sleepy Bear opened his eyes blankly.

"We can give it a refreshing peppermint scent or add strong coffee to its food," said Bophia. She patted Sleepy Bear's face and asked, "Hey, are you awake?"

"Aww." Sleepy Bear waved his hands impatiently, turned his buttocks and continued to lie down.

This virtue reminds Cloris of the ghost fish on the desert island.

Sleepy Bear squinted for a while, and found that he couldn't find the sleepiness that made the bear comfortable before, and at this time, a large collar was also tied around its neck.

This behavior meant that the breeder was going to take it out to cook. Although the strong man who usually feeds had somehow become slimmer, it still followed in a daze.

"Did it come out like this?" Cloris chased after paying the bill at the front desk, but she couldn't believe that it was a beast worth four thousand stars.

Geographical factors will indeed increase the transportation cost of this bear, but Cloris still thinks it is very expensive.

The girl made up her mind to resell it when she came back from the ruins... But would there really be a second idiot buyer for this dozing thing?

"Pofia is [Beast Tamer]," Waylon the One-horned Lizard said from the side, seeing Cloris' suspicion, "Trust her eyes, and Shadowchaser Wombat has very good curse resistance And awareness, if you encounter a trap, you can push it out first to test the water."

Sleepy Bear, who was so absorbed in waiting for the food to be fed, didn't know that it had been clearly arranged by someone, and followed Bophia to walk one street after another. When the bags of goods on his body gradually increased, he finally noticed something unusual.

"Wow!" Its stomach growled.

"Awake?" Bophia patted the head of the big bear under her crotch with a smile, "You have been bought by us, and you must pack your goods well, otherwise there will be no food, understand?"

Pack animals usually do not need any contract to control them. They are either artificially bred or domesticated by hunters since they were young. They are not very aggressive to humans. Even if there is a slight threat, the explorers who lick blood on the knife edge Will be afraid of pack animals rebelling.

Not even Bophia.

She has the skills of [Beast Tamer], can communicate across species and languages, give non-hostile creatures a sense of affinity, maintain soul contracts with a certain number of individuals, and even use some of the characteristics of the contracted objects .

The female explorer jumped down and stuffed buckets of drinking water into Sleepy Bear's pouch.

Cloris was thoughtful. She went forward and sewed a close-fitting vest for the big black bear. The back of the vest was fastened with a button with a belt, and the other end was fastened to a cart, which contained tents, torches, and medical supplies. Utensils and various basic magic props.

"Wow? (You won't feed me two regular meals a day?)"

"That's right." Bophia nodded.

"Wow! (Will you not find me a safe cave to sleep comfortably?)"

"No, how come?" Bophia smiled gently, "When you want to sleep, I will let you sleep comfortably." She handed over a large piece of lamb ribs, but it was not enough Sleepy Bear gritted his teeth, "Eat, since you have been trained to be a pack animal, you should be good at pulling things, right?"

"Woo..." I don't know how to pull things, and I am really good at pulling things.

But it didn't dare to express it that way, after all, the human beings in front of it could communicate with it normally.

Cloris, who has been bankrupted one after another, has no intention of asking what the bear said. The girl only hopes that it can show its due value, so that it can be bought at a good price when it changes hands.

"call--"

A gust of cool wind blew past, which lowered the temperature of the already cold Muye plateau.

"It's foggy." Naina looked curiously at the hazy mist that scattered the light.

"This is a normal periodic phenomenon on the night plateau. Although it is not a fog, strange monsters and beasts will still be more active than usual in this weather." Cloris recalled Sasha's teaching, and said to Naina, "Don't get close The mist is too vague, but there will be..."

Suddenly, Cloris' voice stopped.

Ahead, a mighty guard of honor came from the northern city wall. Tall orc slaves carried chariots on their shoulders, as if they were carrying a palace. The throne on the palace was occupied by tiger-like men, served by female slaves. There were no fewer than a hundred slave guards in front and back.

When the young girl approached, the man on the seat glanced down casually, and his eyes only collided for a moment, then passed by with the movement of the team.

Cloris looked towards their destination, which was a grand palace building - "Titan's Flower".

"What a majesty." The thin old Mirmo snorted coldly.

"Hehe, if you control a third of the slave trade on the Curtain Night Plateau, you can be so majestic." The horned lizard Waylon's "hissing" sound was full of hostility, "Kathon Rapofield..."

409. The Great Beauty Arista

Cloris was shocked by the unreasonable hostility of the one-horned lizard Waylon—could you also come to kill Kaisan?

Mirmo noticed that Cloris was looking at the one-horned lizard Waylon strangely, and explained: "The people of Waylon were once trafficked by Kaisan's slave hunting team."

This is very reasonable, the slave owner is simply evil.

However, Waylon is a rational lizardman, and he will not bring tribal hatred to the expedition team. Even if he hates it, he has no ability to compete with the great slave owner of the Nightfall Plateau.

Controlling one-third of the slave trade sounds less than half, but the other one-third of the market is dominated by more than a dozen slave firms, most of which are low-level slave labor with relatively meager profits. The last third comes from There are countless small slave owners and slave brokers here and there. On the whole, Kaisan can be regarded as the dominant family here.

There are guilds in all walks of life, and Kaisan is definitely the one with the most right to speak in the slave guild on the Muye plateau.But all slave traders knew that Kaisan's right to speak did not come entirely from his own strength, but from the support of the forces behind him, the Gu Lingting and the financial groups related to it.

"Kaissan is connected to Gu Lingting's consortium?" Cloris was shocked, "Isn't Floating Star Sea abolishing slaves?"

"It's just a rumor," Mirmo said. "Besides, Kaisan's slave business has shrunk a lot in the past year, and he himself is very low-key, but somehow it has expanded again today..."

"Bah!" Bophia was equally indignant, "I hate these slave owners the most, especially the arrogant and superior bastards."

I don't know if it is referring to Sang and scolding Huai.

Sleepy Bear can understand human language, so it howled: "(Yes, yes, can you help me untie the collar on my neck first?)"

"You are not a slave." Bophia touched the bear's head, "You are the beast of burden of our Big Bear Expedition."

"!" At this moment, Cloris really doubted Bophia's intention to buy Sleepy Bear.