"The monster still organizes mining?"
"Don't underestimate them. The world of monsters and beasts can be regarded as an early human society. It has everything it needs."
In the market, monsters are usually wandering around, while humans often stay in their bunks, waiting for the monsters to come to trade. However, this does not mean that there are no people walking on the street. Humans can move freely in the market. Therefore, Xu Qian and Xiao Rui do not need any cover and can communicate freely.
It's not Xiao Rui's first time here, and he was already leaving just now. He was just taking Xu Qian around. Hanhan followed them. Naturally, this would not be his first time visiting the market, but for him, there were still many things that could arouse his interest.
Xu Qian took a general look and found that these merchants sold everything. The most important thing was meat. Most of the monsters were carnivores. In the past, when there was no trade with humans, they would eat humans. , or the weak and the strong, now it's better to eat ordinary livestock raised by humans. As for the tens of thousands of death row prisoners sent by the Tang Dynasty every year, not all monsters have a chance to taste it. In addition, there are all kinds of biscuits, candies and other snacks. You can find all kinds of snacks here, including carbonated drinks, found in supermarkets. Only clothes are not for sale. Monsters don't wear clothes, but there are sellers of fabrics, hats, jewelry, and even sunglasses and other accessories. There are also some electrical appliances, such as refrigerators, fans and lights, but there is no power plant in the monster origin area, so these appliances are all designed to use solar energy as energy.
Just looking at these products, Xu Qian had a great change in the life of monsters. He originally thought that monsters were a group of animals with low IQs, but they were just more ferocious than ordinary animals. Now he feels that instead of being an animal, this is a relatively backward human country.
"Don't think that these are all for retail. Retail goods are not allowed in this market." Xiao Rui added knowledge points to Xu Qian in a timely manner.
"Retail is not allowed? How can there be such... regulations?" Xu Qian originally wanted to say, "How can there be such anti-human regulations?" But he also thought that the residents here are not human in the first place.
"Most human caravans can only enter here. This market serves as a distribution center. The main purpose is to allow humans to improve transaction efficiency. In retail, how many goods can a merchant sell in a day? And there is nothing that can be done in this place. All monsters in need come in to purchase. The monsters you see now are either merchants among the monsters. They will transport the purchased goods to various areas and then sell them at prices that are more than ten times higher. Other monsters. Or they are compradors sent by the big tribe to buy them back and share them among everyone."
"Didn't it mean that humans with star stones can also enter the corresponding areas?"
"Yes, it is possible. This is the advantage of having high-grade star stones. Others can only sell goods in bulk here, and the price is naturally very low. The same thing will become more expensive the further you go. If you have a four-star stone, you can You can enter the four-star domain and sell bulk goods at a price a hundred times higher than here, and with the same time and goods, you can make a hundred times the money."
Xiao Rui glanced at Xu Qian intentionally or unintentionally, and Xu Qian's heart skipped a beat. It turned out that this guy was also looking at his own reaction. What about trust between people? Forget it, I was indeed concealing and deceiving the other party, so there was nothing to worry about.
Xu Qian borrowed the situation of Yu Hong's family in his words to Xiao Rui, saying that his grandfather received a four-star stone as a gift from a monster back then, but by their generation it had been reduced to a two-star stone. Since the family was lagging behind, he could only look for the monster from back then. Seniors try their luck. A four-star monster beast is already a monster with a high status for most people. In human society, a four-star monster family is equivalent to some powerful forces in a city. If the other party is willing to help, their family may have a chance to turn around. That's why he had to find a way to enter the Four-Star Realm no matter what. Even if the two-star stones at home were not exchanged, he would still have to use some means to break into the Four-Star Realm.
Obviously Xiao Rui didn't completely believe Xu Qian's statement, so he deliberately mentioned the four-star domain to stimulate it and see Xu Qian's reaction.
Why four-star domain? The Four Star Region is actually Xu Qian's destination for this trip to the origin of monsters. The star stone in Yu Hong's hand was a six-star stone at the time, but now it has been reduced to a four-star stone in his hand, so it is easy to know that Yu Hong's range of activities is the four-star domain. If he wants to contact his intelligence source, it should be in the four-star region. In other words, the answer Xu Qian is looking for is likely to be in the four-star domain.
At this time, a businessman not far away took out a dozen photos and quickly searched through them, and finally settled on one of the photos. It was an ID photo. It was very clear. Xu Qian would be shocked if he saw it, because this photo was clearly that of Xu Qian.
The businessman put the photo away with a sinister smile, and then watched Xu Qian walking by.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Rui saw Xu Qian suddenly turning his head, as if he had discovered something.
"No, it's nothing." Xu Qian felt that he was neurotic and there was nothing abnormal at all. The moment he turned around, he saw a businessman looking at him, but he didn't care too much. It was normal for a businessman to look at passers-by when he was not doing business, and he was followed behind him. Hanhan, even in this source market, it is rare to see humans and monsters getting so close.
"You've seen what's going on here. If nothing happens, let's just enter the two-star domain."
Xu Qian nodded. He came to this market purely to experience it. The real purpose was to enter the four-star domain. "Let's go!"
Two people and one monster left the market and headed towards the Second Star Region.
The source of monsters was very large and impossible to travel, so they chose to fly.
"Hanhan, I didn't expect you to be able to fly." Xu Qian looked at the Kongkong Beast and smiled.
Hanhan responded with a trademark grin, showing two rows of sharp teeth.
"Of course it can fly. It's no problem for other people to fly in the starry sky, let alone such an ordinary flight."
Xu Qian looked at Hanhan's flying movements, and the more he looked at them, the more funny he found them. Because Hanhan is not flying at all, it feels like walking, just walking high in the air.
"Is this walking in the stars? Hanhan, can you still fly if you don't move your limbs?" Xiao Xu was amused and suddenly wanted to restrain Hanhan's limbs for an experiment.
Xu Qian didn't need to do anything, Hanhan immediately stopped swinging his limbs, and with a swish, he fell down, obviously losing the ability to fly.
But soon, Hanhan "walked" up again swinging his limbs and followed Xu Qian again.
"Hahahaha, silly, you really can't fly if you don't move your limbs. Your limbs are not wings, so what's the point?"
"Speaking of which, we have been flying for so long and haven't seen many places where monster beasts live in groups. Shouldn't the monster beasts be denser as we go to the outside? The higher the monster beasts are, the further in we go, so there should be fewer of them!"
Xiao Rui shook his head and said: "That's not the case. The first-star domain is the most special and freest. It is basically inhabited by low-class monsters, but there are also some monsters from other stars who don't like the control of the group and run out to live alone. , like this."
Xu Qian glanced at Hanhan and expressed his understanding.
"Furthermore, there are many demon beast guards stationed in the First Star Region. After all, it borders the Tang Dynasty and is the first gateway to the origin of demon beasts. It is said that there are more than three million demon beast guards stationed all year round. However, they are mainly composed of low-level monsters, and those sent to the beast tide are the monsters in the guard team of this star field."
"But I didn't even look at such a huge army!"
"The origin of monsters is so vast, and each area is distributed in concentric circles. How much area can your spiritual sense detect if we fly in a straight line like this? If you can encounter it, that will be strange!"
Xu Qian thought about it and that was indeed the case.
"Actually, if calculated in terms of population, the First Star Region is naturally the largest. All the areas in it combined are probably about the same as the First Star Region. However, because this area is the largest, and the IQ of low-level monsters is about the same as that of ordinary animals, it is not possible at all. There is no need to live in a house, and there are no towns, so the target is smaller and not so easy to detect."
"The monsters in the market just now all came from the area inside." Just think about it and you will understand. Since the monsters in the first star region have similar IQs to ordinary animals, they should not need the things sold by the merchants. .
"Well, you can say that. Even the high-level monsters who live in the first star field actually live a very simple life, which is equivalent to living in seclusion, and they don't need so many items."
Xiao Rui suddenly pointed to the distance, "Fly about thirty kilometers over there, which is the checkpoint where the first star domain enters the second star domain. This guy knows the way, and he will take you there."
"Where are you going?" Xu Qian heard that Xiao Rui wanted to fly solo.
