The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 281 Strange Customs

Not long after, Demps flew in.

“We found several dead humans in the northern desert. They must have escaped from the Golden Empire. However, they were not as lucky as this little goblin. They died in the desert and their bodies dried up.

I'll stay on the reconnaissance airship ahead. If there's anything, I can go out and take a look, so I don't have to go through the trouble of passing on the message." Old man Dempsey said as he flew out.

In terms of personality alone, Feng Yujue's Mr. Demps is more like the melee wizard Gandalf. Unlike the slow-paced Mr. Anthony, he is a decisive and action-oriented person.

According to the information in the telegram, in the second half of the day's journey, some humans from the Golden Empire who had died in the desert were sporadically found in the desert.

But what is strange is that the coastline is just a few miles away. There are many fresh water sources that seep out of the desert and food that is washed ashore by the waves near the coastline. However, these desert people all died of thirst in the desert. Don’t they know that the coastline is to the south?

"Lord Darren, you don't know that in the Golden Empire in the desert, the residents there believe that the seaside is very dangerous. Not only are there crocodiles in the muddy bushes on the alluvial plains, but there are also fishmen.

The coastline from the Desert Empire to Cattail City is where a warm ocean current flows. There are many reefs here, and fishmen are very active. "

Oh my god, I actually got some science education from the goblins.

"How do you know this?" Feng Yu asked Clark.

"Because whenever the trade winds are just the right size, the goblin caravan will fly over the desert near the coastline and return to the Great Wasteland like it is doing now. This will be much faster and save magic crystals.

Sometimes we are carried by the trade winds directly above the coastline or even out to sea nearby.

The water here is very clear. Looking down from the air, you can sometimes see the reefs and fish below. We have spotted fishmen many times.

In the Desert Empire, murlocs are considered minions of the devil, and people killed by murlocs usually have their bodies dragged away.

In the Golden Empire, after a person dies, the body will be treated with potions, dried, coated with resin, and stuffed into the hollowed-out trunk of the golden tree that is unique to their area. The trunk is then stuffed into a dry cave dug out of the rocky cliff.

They preserve the corpses in this way so that they will not decay for many years. They believe that by doing so, the body of the dead person will become a home for wandering souls, allowing the souls to rest in peace.

If a person is killed by a fishman who occasionally comes to the seashore, his body will be eaten by the fishman. In that case, the person's soul will have nowhere to rest. The sea will be contaminated by the evil of the fishman and he will become a vengeful spirit that harms the living."

"So they would rather die of thirst in the desert than be eaten by the fishmen that might appear, right?"

“Yes, the people of the Golden Empire have a very strict attitude towards death. After they have money and property, the first thing they spend is resin, golden tree wood and other things to deal with corpses.

These things are usually prepared by the people there for themselves when they are alive, so that their relatives and friends can use them after they die.

Even the most despicable thief in the Golden Empire would not steal such things from residents' homes.

A golden tree that dies of old age and has a hollow core can even be exchanged for an equal weight of gold in the Desert Empire.

The golden trees of the Golden Empire had long been cut down, and naturally the gum and resin and the like were also gone. The golden tree takes a very long time to grow into timber, and it is said to take a thousand years to grow into timber and be a thousand years old.

The Desert Empire now uses tree coffins made from boards made from golden trees that are not old enough, and this is still the patent of the great nobles.

The civilians there now generally wrap the bodies in linen. As for the gum, it is all the resin with natural fragrance from the Snow-Top Mountains sold by our goblin caravan.

Now, the linen cloth from Cattail City has also become the choice of the Golden Empire, and we always bring some with us every time we come here for trade."

"Every ten miles apart, the world is different. The customs of the Golden Empire are really weird."

During the chat, the young goblin Clark told Feng Yu a lot about the customs and habits of the Golden Empire, which made Feng Yu very emotional and he sighed that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.

In fact, this is the fundamental reason why Feng Yu wants to recruit goblin navigators.

It's not that they can't find the way. No matter which road they take, as long as they go in the right direction and head east, they will definitely encounter the Nemo River in the desert. The river originates on the plateau in the northernmost part of the desert and flows directly into the sea in the south.

If you find the Nemo River, you will be able to find the Golden City located downstream of the Nemo River.

But when they arrived in the Golden City, they couldn't be completely in the dark and not even know which street was used for what.

At this time, the most observant goblins who travel all over the continent are needed.

These guys' business includes intelligence trading, and their favorite thing to do is to inquire and observe wherever they go.

The goblins never leave the Cattail City Trade Zone, but if you ask the goblins in the trade zone about the current situation of Cattail City, they know it in more detail than the residents of Cattail City.

If Feng Yu had not led the team into the desert this time, it could be considered as revenge for Clark. Otherwise, according to the nature of the goblins, Clark would have to collect intelligence fees from him for such news.

As the sun set, the team stopped as planned and found a place to camp near the coast with water.

As for the murlocs that the residents of the Golden Empire feared, the soldiers of the Iron Army of Cattail City did not cause trouble for them. They were lucky. If they really came to attack the camp, it would not be enough for the soldiers to practice.

According to the itinerary, their current location is not far from the Golden City. It is impossible for them to enter the city in the dark, so they can only rest here for one night.

Every time Dempsey thought he understood Cattail City, Cattail City always gave him something surprising.

The Iron Army soldiers set up camp and cooked, and Dempsey was surprised again because he saw the soldiers taking pieces of food and putting them into the pot to cook.

That’s not all, they also put a lot of strange things like dried plant leaves into the pot.

Nitia smiled and whispered to Demps, "Those leaves are cooked vegetable leaves that have been dehydrated and dried, and the cubes are compressed dry food, so a small piece is enough for a soldier to have a full meal.

These things were also proposed by Darren, and I participated in the production, but not the whole process, I only participated in the vegetable drying research. "

Demps was stunned and said: "You...are you not afraid of trouble?!"

“Fortunately, the compressed dry food is only prepared for use in case of expeditions, and not much is produced.

But there are more dried vegetables, because there are too many vegetables produced in Cattail City, and there is a lot of heat wasted at the power station, so we used it to make this kind of dried vegetables. "

(End of this chapter)