Rebirth of the Viking King

Chapter 538 56 Poisonous Scorpion Tribe (4)

The caravan members who entered the city were extremely excited. ReadМ

If you have the most basic understanding of caravan merchants, it is not difficult to find that their lives are very similar to pirates.

Every time a pirate sails out of port, no one knows whether he will get a chance to land again. Therefore, everyone among the pirates knows how to enjoy themselves in time, and the gold coins in their pockets must be spent cleanly every time they dock at a port.

There are too many accidents that can happen on the ocean.

If the person dies, the money has not been spent.

This is such a loss.

The same goes for caravan members.

Walking in the extremely risky black desert, every time they enter a city, the caravan boss will advance a part of their salary. Although the amount is not large, it is enough to give the caravan members a moment of happiness after entering the city.

No boss will save gold coins until the end of the journey, because the average attrition rate of the caravan walking on this route is about 50%. 10 people set out from Alexandria, and they were lucky to get 6 back.

It is normal for 5 to come back.

It’s not surprising that everyone died in the desert.

If someone dies on the way back, it means that he spent most of his journey making wedding clothes for others.

This outcome is unacceptable to the vast majority of members.

The reason why the caravan members were so excited to see the oasis was not only because they were about to receive part of the reward, but more importantly because of the enthusiastic freedmen women.

They solve physiological problems here without spending any gold or silver.

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According to statistics made by the Arab governor, the free people in the Black Desert are divided into five major tribes. The larger tribes are the Anubis tribe located in the "Mbia Oasis" and the "Salt Water River". The tribe of Amon.

The five major tribes together have a total population of about 150,000 to 200,000.

They are spread out across this vast sea of ​​sand, which is as large as the Mediterranean Sea.

It is not difficult to find that this land can be called "deserted".

The sparse population brings many problems to the reproduction of future generations.

Thousands of years ago, when the rule of the Pharaohs continued, marriage between close relatives was the royal family's first choice.

Mutual mating between people of the same species and surname can indeed give birth to extremely powerful individuals such as "Nefertiti" and "Ramses", but it is undeniable that this is an extremely unlikely event.

In most cases, the offspring of inbreeding have serious defects in intelligence and health.

The ancient Egyptian kingdom was able to quickly decline from a world hegemon to a mediocre kingdom, and was later completely destroyed by Rome. One of the important driving forces was that the pharaohs always wanted to gamble with "inbred marriages".

Entering the Middle Ages, the prosperous trade activities in the Mediterranean business circle also brought new ideas to this blocked land. The free people were surprised to find that if they mated with foreign caravan members, the offspring they would produce would not only be taller and stronger, but also more powerful. Or the lifespan will be much better than that of a combination from the same village.

Driven by Darwin's law, more and more free women would choose to keep the seeds of the caravan members, hoping that they would blossom and bear fruit in their own bodies.

You know, these women are not prostitutes in a brothel.

Most of them are married and have families of their own. However, even so, the population of desert residents is so small that most people have some part of the same blood in their bodies.

Compared with a handful of green grass above the head, a healthy offspring with a strong body is undoubtedly more important.

On the other side, the caravan members who have been at the bottom of society for a long time have no gold coins and no fixed residence.

Most people are addicted to cigarettes and drugs to some degree, and no innocent woman will ever fall in love with them.

If they want to solve their physical problems without committing a crime, their only choice is the group of elderly prostitutes around the slums who may not be able to take a bath once in three months.

To a certain extent, these porters at the bottom of society want to "enjoy" a good woman, and walking into the black desert is their only chance.

The Scorpion Tribe is not the crowded city of Memphis. There are hardly more than 1,000 travelers in and out of the town throughout the year, so there is no hotel dedicated to resting here.

The usual method of the Hash Caravan is to distribute a certain amount of goods to the subordinates before entering the city, and then let the subordinates find a place to spend the night on their own. Most people (unless they are extremely ugly or physically disabled) can find a place to spend the night by themselves in small groups.

As for whether you can encounter an affair, it depends on your ability.

Although most of the caravan members are desperadoes with their hands stained with blood, in the villages of the Poisonous Scorpion tribe, no one dares to mess around.

In this village, even a dying old man has more than 20 ways to disappear without anyone noticing.

The residents near the oasis are all experts in using poisons.

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Not long after entering the city, the porters and laborers took away bags of grain and cloth from the secretary "Gujar".

The newcomer followed the old man, and they each walked into the city to find a campsite for the night.

The bachelors gathered together, and after a short discussion, they decided to go to the Poisonous Scorpion Farm first to find out whether there were any ancient books about the scorpion herders. As for the key members of Lao Ha City and the caravan, what they were most concerned about was how to use these more than a hundred people. Cars of goods sold.

Therefore, they stored the carriage in the only hotel in Lante Oasis and exchanged three batches of golden cloth for charter service.

The place that Heath Brancher needed to go to was the next target point of the caravan, the "Mbia Oasis". He had no interest in the withered freemen women with dark yellow skin, so he led his guards to stay and wait.

Old Harsh, security captain Sahe, and the clerk in charge of recording the books in the caravan went to the market by the lake together.

Loki, who had nothing to do, scratched his hair and finally decided to follow them.

The missing memory in his mind made him unsure whether he had ever entered this village.

But for some reason, every plant and tree here, and even the buildings scattered around the lake, gave him a feeling of déjà vu.

It seemed like I had seen it somewhere before.