The sound of the dragon turtle driving is monotonous.
The swaying carriage is like a classroom on a hot summer day.
The combination of the two made the girl in the carriage drowsy.
The most impressive thing about her petite figure is the talent that is almost overflowing from her chest. The black and complicated long skirt looks particularly loose on her body except where the talent is overflowing, giving her a delicate and fragile feeling. .
She has silver waist-length hair that is very troublesome to take care of. Her face is so beautiful that people will immediately fall in love with her. There are tear moles under the corners of her long and beautiful eyes. She is a beauty who will be well-received even in the royal capital.
The girl's name is Melina, and she is a time traveler. Her beautiful golden eyes are looking out of the car boredly, and her left hand is pressed on the handle of her lace parasol.
The simple cycle of natural scenery outside the window includes mountains, forests, grasslands, mountains... and the top predator of nature, the dragon, that has made the dragon turtle car stop cautiously dozens of times.
Roar--
The dragon turtle stopped again.
The Dragon Turtle is an animal with very strong legs. It can brake suddenly even if it is dragging a five-meter-long heavy carriage with a lower width and a narrow upper part.
It's just a pain for the passengers in the carriage.
The passengers were jolted forward by the sudden braking, and the few people sitting in the narrow carriage were also thrown forward because there were no seat belts in this world.
Melina picked up the small lace parasol at hand and moved to the side. A frightened man with an iron tower shape was pushed back to his seat by the parasol, which was as slender as a toothpick compared to his body. . Shocked, he turned his head and saw the girl sitting elegantly beside him, putting her parasol back and gently leaning on the ground.
clatter.
The tip of the umbrella touches the ground.
The strong man reacted and showed a very grateful expression at first. However, after his eyes moved down, his face turned as red as a steamed hairy crab, and he shook his head vigorously:
"Thank you, girl."
"It takes a little effort." Melina straightened her back. This action was too exciting for the simple locals. The strong man looked at the empty space in front of him, his eyes straight, and he did not dare to move.
"Are you from Hamlet?" Melina asked casually.
"Yes!" The strong man responded in a panic.
"Explorer?" Melina tapped the umbrella handle with her left index finger.
"I'm just a collector, but I can also be considered an explorer, hahaha." The strong man smiled heartily and scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.
Gatherers are one of the branches of the explorer profession. Ninety-nine percent of this world is unknown to pure humans. Just like the forest in front of you, it is inhabited by all kinds of terrifying monsters. To repel or hunt these monsters, open up areas for human survival, and collect the cornerstones from these areas that can be used to build civilization, this profession is called an explorer. Gatherers are the most ordinary type of explorers. They are quite similar to the basic resource collectors in games like Age of Empires 2 who have the ability to cut trees, mine, collect berries, and hunt small herbivorous animals.
The strong man in front of me is just an ordinary collector.
However, even the most ordinary gatherer has the ability to collect more than a ton of grain in one day, and can easily run with a ton of weight on his back.
Simply super human.
"Girl, what's your name? My name is Charlie Lilsted Bennom, and everyone calls me Charlie." The simple man with some charming thoughts in his heart looked at her eagerly.
"Melina is my name." She played with the umbrella handle, "Collectors are also explorers, so you should also have what explorers have, [arms]."
"Are you curious about this?" Charlie pulled out the knife on his waist like a treasure.
Said it was a pocket knife, but only for his size. For Melina, it is a one-handed sword of acceptable length.
It exudes a slightly yellowish color with a bone texture. The lower blade is unsharpened, and the upper blade is bladed with some azure light. This is [armed].
A kind of equipment that is specially processed and infused with magic factors to enhance the user's physical fitness.
Only those who are armed can become explorers.
Melina stared at the knife.
Charlie asked curiously:
"Aren't you an explorer? Mei...Melina."
"No." Melina looked away.
"But your strength..." Charlie looked at the slender lace parasol held in the other person's left hand. He was an explorer after all, and could tell that the umbrella in the other person's hand was not a weapon. It wasn't a magic factor strengthening device for ordinary people, it was just this ordinary umbrella that stopped him. That can only be explained by the girl's own strange power.
"I am a banshee." Melina said calmly.
"Oh!" The strong man Charlie couldn't help but make a sound of surprise, and even the other passengers in the carriage looked over curiously.
There are many human races that are born with powerful magic factors, such as elves, vampires, etc., and banshees are one of them. The full name is the banshee species.
Many banshees are powerful explorers and even have the ability to hunt dragons alone.
For the lowest explorers like Charlie, banshees are like vampires and elves, and are similar to legends.
Charlie noticed that Melina was focusing on her own weapons again, and said grandly:
"Girl, do you want to touch it?"
"..."
Melina looked away and moved the corner of her mouth, "No." She said, "I'm afraid of damaging your knife. It's a good knife, and the design and processing of the mold are very good..."
"Hahaha! This is a matter of course!" Charlie laughed boldly, "We in Hamlet Town are short of everything, but there is no shortage of weapons! The old men in the iron shop are the important reason why many people from the surrounding area come to visit Hamlet Town. The reason... Right, girl, you said you are not an explorer, then why are you in our town where dogs don’t bark when they come?”
Melina smiled and touched her face with her right hand:
"There is a reason to come."
A few days ago, she received a letter from her senior sister. She didn't have a deep impression of this senior sister and had almost no friendship. When she received the letter, she even doubted whether it was sent to the wrong person. But when she removed the lacquer seal on the letter and took out the letter paper, she saw When there was only one line of words on the letter, she knew it was a letter to her.
"Hello time traveler, I am reborn."
The envelope also contained 50 gold lei (purchasing power of about 5,000 yuan), a map of the Weeping Peninsula with a small town named [Hamlet Town] circled in red, and an address in Hamlet Town.
A letter of invitation.
The car continued to drive, and the strong man quickly forgot about his hometown and muttered instead:
"Why do these dragon turtles stay where they are as soon as the dragon arrives..."
"It's just the characteristics of a flying dragon." Melina made a circle around the eye socket with the index finger and thumb of her right hand. "They are predators in the sky. In order to prevent dryness, thick translucent cuticles grow in the eyes. This results in their static vision being very bad, but their dynamic vision being very good, because the animal appears to be a moving pool of specific colors from their perspective, but the still life appears to blend in with the colors of the environment."
Because of what happened before, the strong man listened very patiently and then nodded:
"Hahaha, although what you said is very clear, girl, I don't understand. What's dynamic and what's static, I don't understand."
Melina's right hand froze for a moment and she put it back on her lap calmly.
"Dragons can only see things that move, not things that don't move. So when a dragon flies by, stay still... to avoid being attacked."
"Oh, now I understand!"
…
The closer the dragon turtle car gets to the Weeping Peninsula where Hamlet Town is located, the more deserted it becomes along the way...[original ecology].
The rude magical factors scattered in the undeveloped virgin forest, spawning giant trees hundreds of meters high, and there were some dragon nests like bird's nests on the huge branches separated from the towering trunks.
"Don't think it's dangerous here, but as long as you come here at noon, those dragons won't appear. You can collect a lot of good things here! I always like it here!"
The strong local man whom Melina helped on a whim acted very flexibly like a tour guide.
Charlie not only acts as a collector, but also has a glorious past of dealing with small black dragon species, which are about four meters long and two meters high. However, more often than not, he helps transport goods and collect in several towns.
Just look at Charlie's stocky build.
He is about 2.4 meters tall and has a terrifying amount of muscle mass. Although his center of gravity is unstable, he is more than enough to do some collecting work.
If Melina stood up straight, she would probably be about the same size as the other person sitting down.
…
Passing through the original forest, you will find a hilly grassland. After that, the original road finally disappeared, leaving only a desolate rural grass path that could not be identified without signboards. The grass path finally disappeared among the volcanic mountains near the Weeping Peninsula. In the middle, after passing the huge rock wall, you can see the huge Weeping Peninsula.
The terrain of the peninsula is nearly 100 meters above sea level. The structure of the island is a concave sea erosion structure, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
The town of Hamlet is located in the first half of the Weeping Peninsula and is built on a huge mountain called the Lonely Mountain. Most of its buildings are located on mountains of different heights. The lowest level is a city wall made of logs, wrapping a relatively flat plain. This plain in the town called West Hamlet has the prototype of the livestock processing industry and the agricultural product processing industry. This world is rich in products, and humans have basically given up on fixed animal husbandry and agriculture, and instead engaged in pure processing.
East Hamlet is attached to a lone mountain, which is the center of the town and a residential area. The shabby-looking houses are all located at the foot of East Hamlet, while the more decent-looking houses are located halfway up the mountain. From the outside, there is nothing that looks like a shopping street, only a groceries street that looks messy at first glance.
At the door was a patrol of ratmen guarding the door.
They opened the door with no sign of attitude and just kept complaining, and let the dragon turtle car in.
After the Dragon Turtle Car enters here, you can clearly feel the speed slowing down, and you can feel the Dragon Turtles' mood gradually entering a calm state from the shaking of the car body.
Most of the local residents got off the bus at the gate, and to be honest, it took a while to unload the goods from the back of the carriage. The residents of Hamlet Town exchanged the wild wheat, potatoes, leeks and other crops on the Weeping Peninsula, plus some small animals hunted by the gatherers, with the port town of Innsmouth outside the Weeping Peninsula. This ordinary exchange of goods between two towns contains the basic principles of economics.
Foragers like Charlie were dropped off at the entrance to East Hamlet.
There is a rudimentary collectors' guild here, where they exchange information and materials, and the most basic forging system is also provided here.
Melina and a businessman were left in the car.
They got off at Post Office Station, the official drop-off point in East Hamlet.
The station and post office in this place have been combined, and as Melina saw after getting off the bus, the combination of the station and post office was a large tiled house, with a strong smell of alcohol spreading through the open windows—— This is also used as a tavern.
After the businessman got out of the car, he ran towards the grocery street in the same way as he fled.
Melina wanted to follow the merchant's escape route and travel along the gravel road, which could barely be regarded as a street, to the east of Hamlet Town, and observe the structure of this small town established in an uninhabited alien land. Ecology, it would be great if we could observe the unique architectural style created due to the "wisdom of survival". The climate change on the Weeping Peninsula is relatively extreme. When she got off the bus, it happened to be the time when day and night changed. In just five minutes, Melina had gone from using magic factors to lower her body temperature to resist the heat, to increasing her body temperature to resist the cold. . Extreme cold and heat are like deserts, and architectural styles have begun to tend to be ventilated during the day and closed at night.
She took the first step, and the luggage placed at her feet levitated due to magic, and someone walked out of the station.
The opponent's white segmented skirt was equipped with bright silver armor in the middle where the abdomen should be exposed. Steel armor was sewn on the long skirt, and her long black hair was tied into a neat high ponytail. Her face is beautiful, but she has an exquisiteness that is more prominent than her beauty. She is a female knight who makes people think of a princess at first, but then reacts to an extremely sassy female knight. Her dark purple eyes are a little evil, which makes her look... She doesn't look like a proper female knight.
This woman is Melina's senior sister.
She stretched out her hand, clenched her fist gently, and smiled uninhibitedly:
"Yo, Houmi."
With just a greeting, he confessed the fact that he was a time traveler.
