Chapter 204： Magical change

Holm is a serf but he was not a serf from birth. Earlier, he was a miner in the mine.

Miners, not slave laborers.

There are two kinds of people working in the mines. Miners with free bodies and slave workers without freedom. The former are free people. They voluntarily go to dangerous mines to “dig stones” in order to support their families. The latter It is the private property of the mine slave owner, which is equivalent to the tools and livestock in the mine, but there is no difference in some respects. They are all dead in the mine at any time, and there are no consumables after death.

The process of Holm’s loss of freedom is dramatic: he is not a “safe” miner, he prefers to find new things, no matter whether it is a new ore or a plant, rather than mining stones in the mine. In short, as long as it is a fresh thing. At this point, people often make fun of the dwarf ancestry on his ancestors, but Holm has always accepted this kind of teasing. He worked in the mine, thinking all day long about whether he could dig up the baby in the ground, and finally one day, he really "digging" out "baby."

He bumped into the scene of the mine owner's wife and a supervisor on the mine.

It is very simple for the supervisor to kill one or two miners or slave workers. As long as they are fooled by the reasons such as mine collapse, Homem has even seen such a scene, so he chose it for the first time. After fleeing this escape, I never returned home.

After a year of refugees, he was in the old Cecil, and the previous generation of Viscount did not expel him, but he had to rely on selling as a serf to seek survival.

Under normal circumstances, this is the whole content of his short and miserable life. After the lock on the land, the life of the serf Holm will not change again, and there will be no new opportunities and hopes. He will bear the heavy pressure exerted by the landlord. Lifelong squatting between the soil, living as a serf for the remaining ten years of life, or fifteen years, and if he can be lucky (or unfortunately) with a son in this process, then his son will inherit The identity of the serfs lived under the whips of the landlords, and the experience of being a miner in his early years and the little, restless curiosity of his youth would one day disappear into his memory.

But after that disaster, everything changed.

The old Cecil was gone, the landlord was gone, the land was gone, the new lord came out of the legend and led the survivors to build a new home at the foot of the dark mountains, facing the new land and full of secrets. In the dark mountains, the lord promulgated an incredible new decree, and the serf Homm was rewarded for participating in the trap in the "defense battle" in the fall. He regained the freedom and even more than Free people are more free.

The lord allows the people to perform various kinds of work in accordance with the personal director, and rewards anyone who works hard. On the bulletin board of the town center, new recruitment revelations are posted almost every day, and any subsidies in the territory are needed. A family member can respond to the call of the lord through this channel. For the people of this era, it is an incredible reward for the lord to open so many jobs and pay the rewards, not to mention the past. You can only go hungry at home and die in the winter. So whenever a new recruitment revelation is posted, there will be countless people waiting to work (or waiting to support their families) to flock to find a job that suits them.

The vast majority of people on the territory were originally illiterate. They could only listen to the soldiers standing in front of the bulletin board to read the contents for themselves, but the soldiers would only read the above things after the new revelation was posted for six hours. In order to understand the recruitment content a few hours earlier, Homem has learned thousands of words in this short period of time, so that he can read the contents of the bulletin board.

At night school, there are not a few people like him who try to literate with similar motives: literate people can know the details of the recruitment a few hours in advance, and go to the personnel department of the Ministry of the Interior to find the clerk to register, and wait until those When illiterate people sign up, often all positions are full, and those who did not work hard to literate at the beginning are now regretting.

And Holm was glad that he had learned the words in time. When the lord announced the organization of a new group of mountain exploration teams, he first signed up for the name: the number of people required by this team is small, although there is a little risk, But the reward is higher than the technical workers in the factory. Besides, there is a small team of magic guide infantry to protect, how much risk can it be?

The newly-organized mountain exploration team entered a dark mountain range from a newly discovered mountain road, and saw many incredible mutant animals, plants and stones along the way. Holm relied on his experience in the mine, the flexible brain and the best. The level of literacy has become the leader of this team (of course, another important reason for him to be the leader is that he has received personal recognition from the lord, which is a rare honor), and under his leadership, the team is loose from a piece of texture. The strange, lavender-colored "raw stone" was found in the weathered rock.

In the process, the curiosity that Holm was once smoothed by life gradually recovered.

Under the leadership of the soldiers, Gao Wen and Amber found the “Exploration Team Stronghold” in the Dark Mountain Range. Several simple tents were supported on a small open space in the mountains, while the heavily armed Cecil Warriors were in this small area. Vigilance around the small camp, Gao Wen saw the head of the expedition team, a middle-aged man who was not tall but strong.

Looking at the dark face of the other side and the slightly awkward body, Gao Wen felt a familiar familiarity. The memory of the satellite fine played a good role at this time. He remembered that he really knew this person: the confrontation in the fall. In the battle of Cecil, the deformed body, a serf named Hom was awarded for his outstanding performance, and in order to establish a model, he also made a public commendation to prove that he did not read the wrong person.

"I remember you called Holm," Gao Wen nodded to the leader of the serf. "You participated in this expedition?"

"Yes... is an adult!" Holm didn't expect Gao Wen to remember his name. He was sincere and fearful. "You personally gave me a... a medal!"

"You are a little fatter than that at the time, very good," Gao Wen smiled and nodded. "Is the ore discovered?"

"Yes, adults," Holm tried to control his nervousness. He was already on the stage of the podium. He was finally calmer than the average person. "The original place of discovery is not far from here, I Refers to you..."

On an open-air rock formation not far from the camp, Gao Wen saw several collection points excavated by the expedition team.

This potentially valuable ore is actually "buried" in such a shallow place.

Gao Wen came to the collection point. He saw that the ore surface was covered with a thick layer of gray-white porous rock that seemed to be weathered, and some ore with lavender or light blue luster was “inlaid” in it. It seems to be a certain kind of condensation.

“The surface layer is a small piece of ore. The more the material is dug, the more the quality and volume of the ore will be. The mine with real mining value should still need to be dug,” Holm explained. The soft weathered rock formation is not suitable for mining, and it is easy to collapse. Therefore, it should be better to open the mine directly. If there is Rebecca crystal, it is not difficult to blast the rock."

Gao Wen nodded. "I saw the report you sent back. You found a lot of things that you have never seen before, and there are signs of variation in animals and plants."

"Yes adults," Holm replied. "But the minerals like this are the first to be discovered."

Gao Wen "hmm", a slight look up to observe the surrounding terrain 700 years ago, Gao Wen Cecil had led the army to find the road in the dark mountains, and at that time there was no influence by the magic tide, in Gaowen · In Cecil’s memory, there are no such strange things here.

They all appeared after the magic tide.

Amber took out the dagger and curiously picked out a piece of blue-purple-glossy piece of rock that had been dug in one of the collection points. He placed it under the sun and observed: "So strange things, old... ...Gao Wen, this is what you said, the changes in natural matter under the influence of the magic tide?"

"The essence of the magic tide is an extremely powerful magical surging. Although this part of the magic can not be used by mortals, it can still have a profound impact on the natural environment," Gao Wen said casually. "You believe it or not, in the ancient dark blue well." There are many more magic materials that can be found in the ruins."

Amber's eyes widened: "The much more talented people dare to go there to mine!"

Gao Wen shook her head but did not answer her question.

He looked at the ore in front of him, but he thought more than the ore in front of him.

He once guessed that the magic tide may not have only erupted once.

The surveillance satellite left in the sky is obviously an early warning facility for the magic tide (or similar phenomenon). The disaster that happened before Cecil led to the sign that the magic tide is about to make a comeback, and in the past he hangs in the sky. In the monitoring records, it was also observed that the civilizations on the earth suddenly disappeared inexplicably, and the entire ecosystem reshuffles from scratch.

In the "satellite era", his observations on the earth were not coherent due to serious "jumping", so many times he couldn't understand how the earth-shaking changes in the earth's surface were caused by the savvy, the primitive people made Out of the magic cannon, and then blinked again, they lived in the tree hole again, and also wore a skin around the bonfire to dance the square dance, the geological features and plant distribution in the field of vision also turned upside down, There may be decades of devastating wars in the middle, or seven or seventy-nine days of floods and tsunami, but for a satellite such as the millennium, this "quick and short" disaster is really Hard to capture.

But there must be something that leads to this "shuffling". If there is no other answer, then the only answer is the magic tide.

Magical waves can cause changes in the properties of matter in nature, and these things that are seen elsewhere in the dark mountains are enough to prove this.

And even if the magic tide fades, these changes will not return to the original, but will solidify into a new material material. The ore found in the dark mountains can also prove this.

Then, if there has been more than one magic wave in the world, Gao Wen has reason to believe that most of the things in this world are probably affected by the magic tide.

He produced one of the most daring conjectures of all time:

Those magical materials, magical creatures, or ordinary soils and rocks that seem to have nothing to do with magic are gradually shaped into the present in the baptism of the magic tide.

The magic tide is a "world shaping phenomenon" that will continue to occur and still does not stop the signs to this day.