106 The first encounter with a mercenary
Ten days later.
When Daren swung his sword and cut down a clump of tall shrubs in front of him, he finally saw a relatively flat dirt road ahead.
There are also chaos of horseshoe prints and ruts on the road!
This shows that not long ago, there were human carriages or knights passing by here, and there were probably more than a group of people. Obviously, this place is no longer a deserted suburb, but a place where people often visit...
"Haha, I just said that the general direction must be correct, right?"
A smug voice came from behind Delen, and an old savage man with a bone stick wrapped in a thick cotton coat shook his head and walked out.
"The predecessor of Belita is a trade fair! There are many human villages nearby. Since this path is often walked, it should be the path between a certain village and Belita Town... Human boy, have you noticed that the ruts matching the hoof prints to my right are generally deeper, and the ruts in the opposite direction are generally shallower. What does it mean? It means that the direction on my right is the correct direction to the Belita Market!"
Old Remitt was rumored.
"Why?" Daren was puzzled.
Even though he asked this, he believed most of the time.
After all, during the recent trip to the wild, the old cave savage has indeed shown rich knowledge and experience. The words "I am the wisest of the clan" he said are not completely bragging! But a lot of his knowledge comes from "records of the clan", and it is not always so reliable...
"You think, the village is simple and the town is developed! What can be traded in human villages are probably crude products, even original products such as fruit, grain, beast and meat, and the original products will be heavy! They are replaced by fine work items, such as salt candy, candles, tsk, tsk, exquisite and lightweight! And the prices are not equal. It would be good if a cart of goods in the village can be exchanged for half a cart of goods in the town? So the cart of the cart of the Belita must be heavier, and the cart of the village must be lighter!"
Remitt shook his head and analyzed.
"It seems to make sense..." Deren nodded, thinking, but immediately took a big step towards the left.
"Hey! Human! You're going back!" Remitt shouted, waving his bones and sticks.
"I must be here." Daren's voice came from afar.
"Hey, still stubborn?" The old savage hummed twice, as if he was a little dissatisfied, but he still followed slowly, "After walking along this road to the village, I'll see how you're still stubborn..."
But at this time, at the end of the direction Daren chose, a carriage was coming towards him shakingly.
"Someone?" The brunette boy's eyes lit up, and he quickly inserted his sword to the ground, with a shield standing beside him, jumping from afar and waved, "Hello, I'm disturbing! We are passers-by. Is it the Belita Market ahead?"
When I got closer, I saw that there were several men holding shields and weapons sitting on each side of the carriage.
Seeing someone blocking the road, they seemed a little nervous and jumped down to unfold the formation. However, when they saw Daren's age and the sword and shield standing beside them, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and even showed a kind expression of "traveling together" on the road, and greeted him in a familiar way: "That's right, little brother, just walk forward!"
Then they jumped back to the carriage and followed the carriage.
As for the old Remitt, who was wrapped in a cotton coat next to Delen, they regarded it as a younger child, and they didn't care much.
I'm even afraid that when they think about it, this "young colleague" holding an iron sword and a shield is probably hired to protect the "mercenary" who wears thick clothes...
The first impression these men holding shields left on Deren was quite good.
However, Remitt didn't like them very much and hummed: "Nothing is the direction of Belita... They must have lie to you on purpose."
"Did you notice the sound in the carriage?" said the brunette boy shook his head.
"Voice?" The old cave savage was stunned for a moment and recalled, "It seems to be the sound of metal collision...ah! Oh! Oh my God! I understand! I know why you said that this is the direction of Bailita!"
"Those are metal weapons and armor, right? Could it be that most of the things the residents of the village bought from the town are made of metal? Because they are metal, they are very heavy? Ah... Another new knowledge, it's not bad. I must record this in the clan classics when I go back!"
"...It's almost the same." Deren was speechless, "but it's not entirely true. It may be a finished weapon and armor, but it may also be metal ore or iron ingots! The key is to see if there are blacksmiths in that village and how good the blacksmith is."
"Fruits and wild beasts are prone to rot, and grain cannot be sold too expensively. The things that the villages transported to trade are actually not very much, but cotton thread, linen, twisted wool, or handmade clothes and carpets, etc.... These things can be sold at a good price in the town, and the money saved is usually used to buy metal or metal products. The reason is that compared to the town, the village faces a greater threat and needs these things to defend the village more..."
"How do you know so much?" Remittz said.
"It was a girl named Lydia who told me... She has always dreamed of becoming a carriage merchant and knows this very well."
"Okay, I admit that I don't know much about human society." Old Remitt seemed to see Deren's mood was low and shrugged a little bit, "I'd better say something else, such as the terrain. These things are clearly recorded in the classics of the clan and will not change for hundreds of years!"
"It's afternoon now, the sun is on the right, and in front of the Belita, I roughly know where we are... We are currently on the south side of the Belita Market! Behind us, there should be several small villages of humanity, which were the first villages to make a deal in Belita. They created this market... and to our left, there is a strange sea of pine forests and trees!"
"There are only pine trees in this forest! Isn't it strange that God knows why so many pine trees grow in the same place and there are almost no other kinds of trees?"
"According to records, there are also human magicians who have built a high tower in that sea of pine forests. However, my tribesmen never dared to approach that tower, and the specific situation has not been recorded in the classics... I heard that some human magicians can catch animals and sub-wisdom races to conduct perverted experiments. It's too cruel..."
The old savage is shaking his head and showing off his profound knowledge.
Suddenly, something rushed over from a tree beside the road, and it was very fast, like a afterimage.
"Who?" Old Remitt screamed strangely, waving his bones and sticks, but he failed to stop them in time. The shadow suddenly pounced on the back of Deren's neck, then quickly turned around and crawled into his arms from the neckline.
Daren himself was also shocked!
But after the thing got into the clothes, it stopped moving. Daren easily reached in, grabbed a big furry tail and lifted it out.
When I got closer, I found it was a little brown squirrel!
Chapter completed!