Rebirth of the Viking King

Chapter 544 62 Cultural Barriers

Three days later, the Hash Caravan walked out of the Lante Oasis where the Poisonous Scorpion Tribe was located. ReadМ

The caravan stayed in the city for three full days, partly to allow the members who were suffering from the wind and sand to have a moment of rest.

Enjoy exquisite food and wine, and at the same time get the opportunity to be affectionate with a free woman.

On the other hand, it is Lao Hash's distribution of goods.

This journey made him feel richer than ever before. But entering the desert and reaching the oasis does not mean that you have obtained a lot of gold and silver.

He needed to exchange the food, weapons, silk, cotton and other materials brought by the caravans for goods in the hands of free people. Then he would transport this batch of goods out of the desert and put them in his store in Constantinople before they could be exchanged for shiny gold coins.

This process involves the issue of how much to purchase.

The various magic spirits produced by the "Poison Masters" in the Poisonous Scorpion Tribe have a large audience in Constantinople, but on the other hand, transporting bottles of liquids contained in glass is inherently risky. .

Cotton and silk were all valuable items in this era. After all the goods were sold off and cleared, all the members of the caravan together did not have a few changes of clothes.

Therefore, there will not be any shock-absorbing materials in the fleet.

Caravan traders mostly use wooden boxes made of nailed wood. It may be okay to use this kind of wooden box to hold potions while walking on flat ground, but it will break if you are not careful when climbing over sand dunes in the black desert.

Breaking a few bottles of magic spirits may only result in the loss of gold coins, but if the breath of the magic spirits attracts sleeping ancient monsters, the caravan will be in huge trouble.

After thinking about it again and again, Old Hash only sold one-third of the goods in the caravan in Lante Oasis. There are already 4 carts full of all kinds of glassware. When the horses are walking, the sound of tinkling glass can be heard from time to time.

The reduction of goods often means the shortening of the convoy. However, the Hash Caravan still left the Lante Oasis in more than a hundred carriages. The reason was that there were thirty or forty fully armed free people in the caravan.

Most of them are children who are only twelve or thirteen years old.

"What happened in this desert that they needed to send these young kids to war?"

Faced with this matter, the bachelor, who was the least humane and worldly person, expressed his confusion.

Entering the Lante Oasis this time, in stark contrast to the happy porters and workers, was this group of Byzantine bachelors.

Their request to enter the tomb of the Poisonous Scorpion Emperor was neatly rejected by the high-level priest. No matter whether they took out the letter of introduction from the chief bachelor or the customs clearance document from the Byzantine King "Mikhail III", it didn't work.

The Poisonous Scorpion tribe has lived in the Lante Oasis for generations. The only meaning of their existence is to guard the tomb of the Poisonous Scorpion Emperor. Regardless of the "Chief Bachelor" or the "Byzantine King", the high-level priests have no interest in knowing who they are.

After a whole afternoon of talking, it had no effect. Before the temple priests were about to release a swarm of scorpions to drive them away, the bachelors could only return in frustration.

After sleeping all night with a sulky stomach, the bachelors' luck did not improve in any way the next day.

They wanted to enter the Poisonous Scorpion Ranch to check whether they had any ancient books on "Poisonous Scorpion Breeding", but they did not expect to be rejected again.

Free citizens and residents of city-states around the Mediterranean held completely opposite attitudes toward the word "science."

The transfer of information between all countries connected by the Mediterranean waterways is very fast.

In recent years, with the rise of academic cities, a large number of businessmen and ordinary people have truly realized the changes that "science" has made in their lives.

The status of bachelors has been rising, and by AD810, in many prosperous towns, they were no less than the priests of the Holy Episcopal Church.

No matter which family bachelors just knock on the door, the residents will most likely agree to any request after seeing the bachelor badges they wear on their chests.

But no one in the Poisonous Scorpion tribe deep in the Black Desert knew this group of bachelors.

The word "science" doesn't even exist in their language. The bachelors and several translators danced and gestured for a long time.

They first tried to make the old man believe in the power of science on the grounds that "our research can allow you to increase the production of scorpion venom", but the old freedman, who was illiterate, scorned their proposal.

Without the protection of the Poisonous Scorpion Emperor, you know nothing about raising scorpions.

Old man, do you still need to teach me? !

Seeing that their plan failed, the bachelors used "we have many exquisite small objects in our hands that can significantly improve your quality of life" as bait.

The bachelors brought out the ingenious inventions of the city in recent years, including solar corona, compass needle, and quill pen, etc. The old free folk looked down upon these frivolous things.

So at the last moment, when the bachelors took out the silk tea leaves and tried to bribe him, the old guy had already firmly believed that these were a group of thieves who wanted to steal the scorpions.

The door slammed shut and never opened again.

After pushing and pulling for a whole day, the bachelors finally gave up.

Among all the bachelors, only Hans Welsh, who was born in a noble family, knew clearly that what happened in the Black Desert at this time was beyond their comprehension.

Because there are huge cognitive barriers between different cultures.

When he was young, a Celtic riot in Wales left a deep impression on him.

When Hans Wells was 7 years old, a big event happened in Wells County.

Hans' eldest brother "Charles Welsh" accidentally encountered a Celtic pregnant woman who was about to give birth in a village while patrolling his territory. The pregnant woman encountered dystocia during childbirth, and the midwife was helpless while waiting for the Celtic druid.

Charles, the holy bishop priest under the "Holy Light Pathway", knew clearly that the situation of pregnant women could not be delayed at all.

Charles believed in the Holy Light all his life. When he saw the people in the territory in danger, he had only one thought in his mind, and that was that these two lives must be saved.

Ignoring her husband's obstruction, Charles broke into the pregnant woman's home, cast a holy light spell to preserve her vitality, and then carried her onto a horse with one hand.

The soul fire in the pregnant woman's body was too weak at this time. If he wanted to preserve the life of her and the fetus in her belly, he had to transport her to the nearest Holy Bishop's Church and bathe her in holy water to complete the subsequent delivery ceremony.

What he didn't expect, however, was what all this would look like in the eyes of the Celtics.

While Charles was trying his best to save the life of the pregnant woman in the church, the Celtic Druids surrounded the church with a large number of armed villagers.

They didn't know what kind of rituals Charles was performing inside. They only knew that he broke into his village and robbed his people.

The bloody war broke out without warning, and it seemed that both sides had reasons to draw their weapons and fight bloody battles.

So a strange scene took place outside this rural church. Inside the church, Prince Charles, who was under the "Holy Light Pathway", tried his best to save the lives of the pregnant woman and the child.

Outside the church, hordes of guardsmen succumbed to the clubs of Celtic druids.

In just one morning, dozens of innocent lives were lost.

And in the end, was the life of the pregnant woman saved?

nor.

The pregnant woman and young child whom Prince Charles risked his life to save were hanged from a tree at the entrance of the village the day after they returned to the village because she and the newly born baby were unclean.

"Life with death" was the most terrifying oracle in Celtic culture, which believed in the power of nature.

Their souls must perish to appease the wrath of nature.