On the way to the camp, there was no more attack.
However, mercenaries with sharp eyes can often find several invisible black spots hovering on their heads and in the gray sky.
"How far is it?" Leonard is a little strange. Isn't it a few kilometers away from the broken bridge? It's over 100 kilometers now!
"Because of the attack on the road, we were delayed for a while, but it doesn't matter. We'll be there in another ten kilometers." Zeppesh says the camp is right ahead.
I walked for more than an hour.
There is a huge building shadow in front of the team.
A little closer, the mercenaries found that this was a camp made of wood and stone, which was polygonal, and each side was more than 500 meters long. At each corner of the camp, there are 20 meter high stone towers, on which there are small awnings made of wood. Under the stone wall, there are a lot of thorns, and the sharp end of the spear will defend against the impact of beasts. I don't know whether it's the reason for digging stones to build the parapet, or the trap that was deliberately dug out. The ground was hollowed out outside the camp.
Some of the pits are still very deep. The mercenaries have to be careful when they walk on them. If they don't pay attention, they are easy to fall in.
"Oh, Ho! GOLLY Zeppesh shouts to the guard of the tower on one side of the camp, and the guard who draws his bow and arrow at it looses his guard.
It's outside the main gate of the camp.
A wide and deep pit was dug beside the parapet.
It's full of dirty sewage, and it stinks. On top of the stinky puddle, the suspended suspension bridge is slowly landing under the loud cry of zeppesh. It seems that it is impatient to put it on the back. With a "boom", the whole suspension bridge falls down and is directly erected on the stinky puddle, which makes people feel vomit when they smell it.
Zeppesh introduced to Archbishop Nero: "our camp has just been established, only 14 or 5 years ago, and the moat has not been perfected. The main problem is the shortage of manpower. If we can have a few hundred more people, let alone the moat, there will be no problem in setting up a small town. Dear guests, you should pay attention when you enter the camp. If you see people of different races or races, don't stare at other people's faces. It's not very polite. Although the races in our camp are very friendly, some of them are taboo. "
"Yes, we'll pay attention to it!" Leonard naturally didn't want to make trouble. After all, he was in someone else's territory.
The leaders of various forces will give orders.
The mercenaries naturally nodded yes.
Standing at the gate of the camp gate, there are four guards.
They are the alien and humanoid in zeppesh's words. On the left are two alien and on the right are two humanoid.
Alien and humanoid, according to the division of purgatory camp here, are formed by human gene mutation, which are called alien. No matter what shape they become, they all feel that they are human. The other, which is composed of other races but similar to human beings, is called humanoid.
Human beings are willing to live with human beings and even intermarry.
But they no longer recognize themselves as human in their hearts.
The opposite is true for foreigners.
No matter whether they can maintain human form, or whether they can be accepted by human beings, or whether they can continue to intermarry, alien people all claim to be human.
Zeppesh had explained it to the mercenaries before, but when people walked across the suspension bridge, walked into the city gate and witnessed these strange intelligent creatures, they were shocked.
The two strangers on the left are not human at all. The shorter one is as thin as firewood, but his eyes are as big as fists, occupying almost half of his thin face. The big eyed thin man's head is covered with thorny hair, which is even more exaggerated than a hedgehog's. his long and thin arms are close to the vertical floor, and his surprisingly large fingers have hooked nails.
If this is human, then none of the mercenaries can agree with it.
But.
Compared with his companion, the big eyed thin hedgehog is much better.
Another tall and strong man is full of muscles. No matter where he should or shouldn't grow meat, he is full of muscles. He looks more like a monster than a human. The mouth is surprisingly big, but the eyes and nose are so small that there is no such decoration in the ears. What makes Lin Dong pay special attention to is that the eyes of this tall and strange man are similar to the compound eyes of insects rather than human eyes. In addition to looking like a monster, the tall man also had a huge steel arm on his right arm.
That huge steel arm, almost equal to his own body.
Compared with the big eyed thin hedgehog.
The steel arm can fit three or four easily.
"Captain Bob, and dear little chuck, it turns out that you are on duty today, and then this is the good wine given to me by the guests!" Zeppesh came forward to the tall man with steel arms and handed him a bottle of whisky as a gift to enter the camp.
"What about us? Zeppesh, do you only see Captain Bob and little chuck in your eyes? " The humanoid guards nearby are very dissatisfied.
"Stan and York, this is your share!" Zeppesh also gave them a bottle of wine.
Zeppesh turned around and introduced to Renard: "these two are Stan the goat and York the boar. In our camp, there are many humanoid races, but despite the different races, they are very friendly and worthy of making friends. In life, humanoid brothers are not very different from us. They hunt and eat meat. If they don't insist on their race, you can treat them as human beings! "
In the eyes of Renard and other mercenaries.
Human beings are closer to human beings than non human beings, at least in appearance.
Standing on the right side of the camp gate, the sheep man Stan and the boar man York are closer to the level of human appreciation than the steel arm Babu and the big eyed skinny little chuck.
Stan, the sheep man, is almost the same as human beings in other places.
Except for his long, drooping ears.
Other places are just like humans.
Yorke the boar is uglier.
There are two curved tusks in his lower lip, which are higher than his nose, and his skin is very rough. His face looks like a wrinkled leather shoe. But other than that, there are not many similarities and differences between the boar man York and humans.
The mercenaries thought that it would be more reasonable to exchange the alien with the similar.
The alien is not human at all, but a human like monster.
Humanoid is a bit like mutant human.
of course.
Such words can never be said in person.
Into the camp, it was dirty and messy, just like a garbage dump. Low huts are built everywhere, in a mess, with a lot of domestic waste and dirty smelly sewage everywhere. There are almost no streets in it, but there are also tall buildings, and some of them are pure stone buildings, which are shaped like medieval fortresses to defend the enemy. They stand in the shack area, with an indescribable disharmony.
In the center is an open space similar to a square, where all people place their goods and trade with those in need.
There are stalls full of goods, and there are also stalls placed directly on the ground.
"If you are interested, you can go and have a look. People who are well-dressed are usually businessmen from other places. You should be careful of being cheated when dealing with them. It's better to barter with them to reduce losses. Most of the people who put them on the ground or have only one stall are local hunters. The best products to trade with them are salt, sugar, wine and spices. If you are willing to trade with them, I believe they will be very happy! Pay attention, don't pick up the goods before confirming the transaction. Some unscrupulous businessmen will use this to swindle people. They will slander you and damage their things. If you want to see something, you can ask the other party to pick it up and then observe it carefully! " Caipeishi advised the mercenaries to shine their eyes and not fall into the pit easily.
"Is there a place to trade blood nuclei?" Leonard is most interested in blood nuclei.
"Of course, there are, but it's better to find a businessman with credit, otherwise there is a great possibility of being cheated." Zeppesh pointed to the stone houses on the side of the square, which were obviously bigger than the shacks. He pointed out that these places were the shops of merchants, usually with valuable trading goods in them.
"It looks like there are more than a few hundred people here!" Thomas remembers that zeppesh said that there were only two or three hundred people in the camp, but it seemed that there were at least seven or eight hundred people here, even thousands of people.
"As you can see, most of them are the resident residents of the camp, some of them are businessmen, and some of them are hunters from other camps. Because it is very dangerous in the wild, they will stay in our camp for a short time, wait until they have enough food, and then return to their camp with their partners. Our camp is not rich in materials, and there are no valuable minerals worth digging, so there are not many permanent residents in the camp. However, because we have water here, they are willing to stay for a short time when they are hunting. That's why there seems to be a lot of people's illusion! If the tide of animals comes, they will all run away. There are only two or three hundred people who can garrison our camp! " Zeppesh explains.
"Well, where are you, Mr. zeppesh? If there is not enough room to rest, we may need to find some hotels to stay Rennard said everyone was tired.
"Although I'm not the camp leader, the camp leader has gone to the meeting of the Lord of Ozzie. It's no problem for us to stay at his house for a few days. In addition, next to the stone house of the camp owner, another lower stone house is my home, and there is a large shed area around it. It is also the house I usually rent to the business hunters. You can make any arrangement. As a matter of fact, if you see any vacant rooms around my house, you can just live there. Our camp has always had enough houses, and the resources we lack are people... Leaders, knights and quasi knights, please follow me. Although the power of zeppesh is limited, we will try our best to give you a satisfactory arrangement! " Zeppesh reached out and made a plea.
It's different from Leonard and them.
Lin Dong didn't keep up.
He was very interested in visiting the stalls on the square, looking left and right, like a countryman coming to the city.
The Griffin saw a fruit stall, on which there was a kind of strange fruit with big red fists. He immediately became greedy and suggested to Lin Dong, "Lord God, what do you think of this kind of fruit? Shall we each have one? "
Fox suddenly began to scare him: "Mr. Griffin, have you ever heard of the law of Hades?"
"What law of Hades?" The Griffin was stunned.
"The story seems to be like this: the goddess of harvest has a beautiful daughter. One day, she was captured by Hades, who lives in Hades. Hades likes this goddess very much, but she doesn't want to stay in Hades at all and returns to her mother. Her mother, harvest goddess, ran to the God King Zeus and cried. Zeus had no choice but to let Hades release people. Hades didn't want to let his beloved goddess go, so he used a trick. When he saw her off, he gave her a plate of beautiful and attractive fruit. As a result, the goddess couldn't help eating a grape... The price of this grape was that the goddess had to stay in Hades for three months every year! Because she ate from the underworld, according to the law of the underworld, she must stay, even if there is Zeus's order, she will not be spared! At the same time, because of the sad daughter's leaving, the harvest goddess has no intention to manage the earth, so we have the arrival of winter. Have you never heard of the story of winter and the law of Hades in it? " Fox asked with a smile.
"Of course I have! When I was a child, I heard the most fairy tales! " The Griffin is calm on the surface, but trembles in the heart. Mom, I dare not eat any more!