The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Beibeilante is the junction of the northern and southern tribal alliances. Although the northern and southern tribal alliances do not have clear borders like outside countries, the northern and southern tribal alliances have established seventeen border cities, and Beiberante is one of the border cities. city.

Beberant itself is not a city with special characteristics. Just like most other cities in the wasteland, Beberante was also a city established by early colonists. There are several large tribes with a population of tens of thousands. The colonists at that time took advantage of the contradictions between these large tribes to provoke their wars, and then seized the wealth accumulated in their tribes for countless years by means of both sides. , and even after each tribal war ended, the warriors of those tribes were turned into slaves by buying prisoners of war.

In less than ten years, these large tribes with a history of thousands of years have completely disappeared, and the people of the tribes have also become slaves. Only the ruins of the tribes tell the people who came and went here about the prosperity of the past. .

After those big tribes were annexed by the colonists, there was no value here, and the city of Beberant was abandoned by the colonists at that time.

Afterwards, because there were no mineral resources around it and it deviated from the main road, Beberant had been abandoned until the construction of the North-South Highway, and it was rebuilt and became one of the border cities.

People at the time didn't quite understand why the originally straight North-South Road had to make a bend at Beberante, which simply increased the difficulty of construction and cost a lot of money. Some information revealed the answer to this mystery. It was actually very simple. One of the people responsible for designing the route of the North-South Highway was a descendant of a tribe near Beberant. He hoped that the land of his ancestors could be prosperous again, so he decided to Modified the route a bit and made a detour here.

However, this kind of selfish approach actually led to the discovery of a huge treasure that had been hidden in Beberante for many years and had not been discovered. This treasure was the blood orchid that grew in the valley near Beberante.

This kind of blood orchid is the material needed to make some kind of high-level shaman potion. This kind of flower is extremely harsh on the growth environment. If it is slightly unsatisfactory, it will stop growing, or even wither and die.

In the past, when the great shaman of the holy mountain needed to make this kind of shaman potion, they could only exchange it from the hermit tribe on the other side of the Dajiao River. There were some losses due to accidents, and several ceremonies that required the use of this shaman potion had to be postponed or canceled due to the lack of blood orchids.

After a large number of blood orchids were found in the valley near Beberant, the Sacred Mountain immediately paid special attention and care to them. Not only the northern Sacred Mountain sent people here, but even the southern Sacred Mountain sent several large The shaman resides here, and because of the behavior of the North and South Sacred Mountains, many idle warriors from the tribes also come here to seek a living, which makes the place gradually prosperous, which is a disguised form. Boulevard designer's wish.

When the civilized society in the outside world completely banned any slave trade, there was still a legal slave trade in this city that was deeply affected by the slave trade of the colonists, but the slaves here were not limited to tribal people. Most of them are people from other countries who became slaves because of debts, prisoners of war or criminals.

After the smog disaster, many systems in civilized society have changed, and the system that has changed the most is the criminal imprisonment system. Governments are naturally unwilling to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to support a group of criminals, so these criminals only have two There are two ways to go, one is to go directly to the battlefield and become a member of the vanguard army that directly faces the first wave of mutant monster attacks, and the other is to be sent to the wasteland to be sold to the tribe as slaves.

Although the slave trade has been banned within and between countries, some legal loopholes can still be used to trade slaves with wilderness tribes. At first, only some death row prisoners were traded here as slaves, but later debtors, prisoners of war Petty criminals such as thieves, thieves, etc. were also traded here.

Those who have been traded as slaves are naturally extremely angry at their situation, but they are also very helpless, because becoming a slave is their own choice. In their view, joining the Vanguard Corps can be said to be a must-death Undoubtedly, basically no prisoner can live in the Vanguard Corps until the end of his sentence, and become a slave to the nobles of the wasteland tribes. Naturally, the security is much better than those who joined the Vanguard Corps. A bad master will also make his own life very difficult, but compared to the vanguard army that is bound to die, this kind of difficulty in life is not worth mentioning.

Henry Jones is an Englishman, and also a wanted criminal. He is also a wanted criminal in thirteen countries including the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of America, and the Kingdom of Daliat. The bounty has reached an astonishing height. Every year, countless hunters hope to get all the bounty in the bounty pool by hunting him, but in the end, these hunters all become a decoration in his manor.

The reason why he is wanted by so many countries is mainly because of the career he built all his life, the largest slave trading network that almost covered the entire Velen civilization world.

Although after the fog disaster, the slave trading organization he controlled was out of control due to the barriers of various continents, causing his business to fall apart, but with the wealth and manpower accumulated over the years, he was still able to stabilize the business in the Mozambique continent. Even in this age of mutated monsters, his slave trade can still be maintained.

However, as countries in the Mozambique continent began to implement extremely strict military control in order to fight against the tide of mutant monsters, Henry Jones' hiding place was dug out one by one, and his forged identities were exposed one by one. Betrayed by a traitor, he had to abandon most of his career and fled to the wilderness.

However, even after escaping to the wasteland, he still did not give up on the slave business. On the contrary, he started a new career in Beberant, a wilderness border city, although this career is not as good as the one he created in the past. The difference is not a star and a half, but it is also the foundation for him to gain a foothold in the wasteland. If he loses this career, his fate will not be much better than the decorations made of hunter skins in his manor.

In the eyes of others, because the people who first colonized the wasteland were the English people, and the people who later engaged in the slave trade in Mosang were mainly the English people, a large number of tribes that have existed in the wasteland for thousands of years are all because of the English Therefore, the entire wilderness tribe is extremely disgusted and hostile to the English people.

Therefore, an Englishman engaged in slave trading in the Mosang wasteland, and the slaves traded were mainly tribal people, which would definitely arouse the hostility of the wilderness tribes, and even be targeted by the wilderness tribes.

This is a universal thought that almost everyone who knows Henry Jones and knows that his business is the slave trade.

But in the eyes of Henry Jones, this kind of thinking is very superficial and even completely wrong, because only a very small number of tribes in the Mosang Wasteland really hate the Kingdom of England and the people of England, and the vast majority of other tribes will only be like this People from other kingdoms treat the Kingdom of England and the people of England the same way, and there will be no particularly prominent hatred.

This is mainly because people in the outside world who do not understand the tribes of the wasteland always regard all the tribes of the wasteland as a whole, and the actual situation is completely different. The reason for such misunderstandings is not only because of conventional cognition errors In addition, what is more important is that the holy mountain in the wasteland gave an illusion to the civilization of the outside world.

The tribes in the wilderness are to a large extent a separate city-state, equal to other tribes, without belonging, and not one.

The relationship between tribes is far from being as close as outsiders see. In fact, many tribes in the wilderness are like deadly enemies. The reason why they can go to the holy mountain together to participate in various ceremonies of the holy mountain , not only because of the influence of the holy mountain shaman, but more importantly, they are incapable of swallowing their mortal enemy in one go.

Some of these tribes who are mortal enemies have been fighting for thousands of years. For these tribes, the damage caused by the Kingdom of England during the colonial period was nothing to mention, so they did not treat English people like Henry Jones too much. If there is too much hatred, at best, they will only use this kind of hatred rumors to lower the price when trading with Henry Jones.

Moreover, the emergence of slave merchants like Henry Jones also solved the problem of some prisoners of war for these tribes, allowing them to sell prisoners of war in a short period of time after a battle to obtain huge benefits enough to compensate for the loss of war.

Therefore, after Henry Jones gained a firm foothold and became one of the largest slave traders in Beberant, he almost didn't need to find the source of the goods himself. Some tribes would come to him directly and hand over a group of prisoners of war to him for trading. .

After the news of the conflict between the Silvermoon Tribe and the Tinder Tribe in the southern tribal alliance spread to Beberant, Henry Jones immediately paid attention to this matter because he saw a huge business opportunity from this matter. For this reason, he even used one of his long-stored tokens to contact the mixed-blood tribe, another participant in the conflict, and planned to start the post-war prisoner trade from the mixed-blood tribe.

The relationship between Henry Jones' slave trading house and the mixed-blood tribe has always been very good. The mixed-blood tribe used Henry Jones to buy the mixed-blood tribesmen who appeared in the slave market a long time ago, so as to grow their own ethnic group, and Henry Jones Through the conflict between the mixed-blood tribe and other tribes, they bought prisoners of war slaves and sold them to other tribes. The cooperation between the two can be said to be extremely close. He believed that this time he could also get good news from the mixed-blood tribe.

However, what surprised him was that he received a very formal letter of refusal from a mixed-race tribe. After removing the polite words in this letter, there was only one actual content in the end, which was to ask him not to interfere in any Regarding this prisoner transaction between the Silvermoon Tribe and the Tinder Tribe.

This formal letter of refusal surprised Henry Jones, because it had never happened to him before. Although he felt that it was a bit strange, he did not intend to go into it, but chose to follow the letter He proposed not to intervene in the prisoner-of-war trade between the Yinyue tribe and Huorong tribe. This was one of the reasons why he was able to survive until now, to control his curiosity and desire.

However, although he is not prepared to intervene in the prisoner-of-war transactions of the two protagonists of the conflict war, this does not mean that he will completely give up other benefits that this conflict can create. For example, other small tribes attached to the two tribes do not seem to be restricting Among them, the prisoners of war produced among these small tribes are the targets he is considering now, and the spoils of war are also a source of profit. earned a lot.

Just when Henry Jones was considering whether he should go to the southern tribal alliance in person, he arranged for a supervisor in the trading house to rush to his manor and tell him that someone wanted to see him.

Henry Jones was a little puzzled, because the supervisor was well aware of his temper and would not bother him with trivial matters, so the person who wanted to see him must be an important person.

So Henry Jones inquired about the identity of the person, and after the supervisor said the name of the person, Henry Jones immediately showed a serious and disgusted expression, because countless past experiences reminded him that the person It is definitely not a good thing for him to appear. After the few times we met in the past, he would encounter some unlucky things inexplicably.

According to Henry Jones' idea, he will definitely not go to see this person, but he is very clear about how much he will lose if he really follows this idea. After all, he has a second point of interest now. Need to rely on each other to support.

Henry Jones wore a relatively authentic dress, hurried to the VIP room of the trading house, then pushed the door and walked in. After seeing the person standing by the window sill, he immediately stepped forward to greet him respectfully: "Ma'am , I didn't expect you to come to Beberant in person. Your arrival made this dark corner of mine shine bright. Although this is not my city, I am familiar with it, and I am very willing to bring Ma'am, let me take you on a tour of this beautiful city."

"Beautiful?" The other party pointed to the slaves waiting to be sold outside the window sill, and said slightly mockingly: "Are you talking about this scene? Maybe this is beautiful to you."

Facing the other party's ridicule, Henry Jones could only respond with a smile and did not refute. Instead, as if he changed the subject, he looked at the other person aside and said, "This must be that gentleman, right?"

"Leo Dodd!" The other party nodded towards Henry Jones, and then said abruptly, "Are you a wizard?"