The Black Earth City is a city beyond Yan Mo's expectations.
He thought he would see a castle or an ancient city pool, but in fact he saw a closed giant city like the end of the world film.
There is no patrol guard on the wall, but there is a high-rise monitoring tower in four directions in the city. There is also a spire like building in the center of the city which is much higher than the four monitoring towers.
The reason is that it is a huge city, because its walls are much higher and thicker than the Jiu Yuan. It may not have the Jiu Yuan city walls, which stretch to a large area, but its compactness and firmness are absolutely not below it, and its wall material is very peculiar, the whole wall was as black, matte, like covering the whole walls.
"It's a hard city to attack." Yuan Zhan, standing on a sled, looking out at the Black Earth City.
This is the nearest heights to The Black Earth City and the foothold of The Obscuri Tribesmen before entering The Black Earth City.
The snowstorm has ended and the snow had buried all the roads, but on the road you can see wild animals that are good at running in the snow pulling sledges.
The warriors and their Tribesmen, who came from the lower cities and tribes to partic.i.p.ate in the selection, converged like black ants on the road in front of the East City of The Black Earth City in a broken black line.
There's no need for sledges to go down and for the people to clear their own path. The Black Earth City has cleared the only way into the East Side.
Yan Mo got down from the sled, moved his body, walked up to the sled-pulling beast, and gently touches its back.
The gentle beast turned and arched into his hand.
Yan Mo smiled and took out the fresh gra.s.s to feed it.
Although sledges and beasts are not the specialty of The Weise Tribe, the sledges made by The Weise Tribe and the beasts they have trained are best used by the common sense of most nearby tribes.
The two sledges and beasts used by Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo now were traded with captive Weise and The Weise Tribesmen.
Compared with the Jiu Yuan, which has a bit of rough sled and no suitable animal pulling sled, the Weise Tribe is obviously better, and Yan Mo intends to bring both sleds and beasts back to the Jiu Yuan.
Especially long-billed animals, this kind of animal is a bit like wild donkeys, but the temperament is like mules, hard-working and only grazing, in the summer they can be pulling carts, in the winter pulling sledges, but also carrying people and goods, is simply the best labor animal.
To this end, Yan Mo specifically exchanged with The Great Obscuri Clan to ensure that the eight beasts that pulled their sledges were exactly four males and four females, and were all young.
"Mo?" Yuan Zhan walked up to him.
Yan Mo touched the beast with one hand and pointed an empty finger at the Black Earth City. "What do you think the Black Earth City looks like?"
"Good?" Yuan Zhan looked again.
With The Obscuri Tribesmen, Ding Ning, who was unloading the sleigh for the beast, looked up and said, "Like a basin?"
"No, like an urn, with a small belly." Yuan Zhan affirmed.
"For the first time I saw someone make the city look like this. The lighting in this city must not be very good." Yan Mo couldn't figure it out.
Zi Ming, who helped him, peeped at Ding Ning and coughed. "It is said that the Black Earth City was not built by their slaves and warriors, but by G.o.d's blood vessel artifact"
"Artifact?" Yan Mo is here for the first time to hear the word.
"Yes, G.o.d's weapons and implements. Mo DRen, haven't you heard of it? Zi Ming was surprised.
"Witch Mo certainly heard of it. But maybe we have different views on both sides. Can you tell us about the legend of the Black Earth City?” Ding Ning grabbed the conversation.
Zi Ming stammered in an instant, "When, of course, the legend is known to all the tribes affiliated to the Black Earth City and the lower cities."
Elder Hao laughed as he listened. The kid didn't know what he had eaten wrong these days. When he sees these Jiu Yuan Peoples, he couldn't speak.
"Witch Mo, let me tell you about it." Elder Hao took this break to spread the legend about The Black Earth City and the Wu Shang family that ruled her.
Dda, who likes to listen to stories, and Ding Fei surrounded him, and Jiu Feng jumped curiously onto Dda's head.
"Legend has it that in the vicinity of the Black Water River, the dark waters we saw two days ago, and many tribes lived a long time ago. Everyone lived on the river, but one day the G.o.d of the Black Water River became angry and took all the tribes into the river and ate them. Only one woman survived."
"What a pity." Ding Fei, the most compa.s.sionate, lamented.
Elder Hao nodded and continued, "The woman had nothing to eat, so she had to pick up a black stone washed ash.o.r.e by the flood."
"Legend has it that the black stone was actually the blood dripping from the battle between the G.o.d of Earth and the G.o.d of Wind." Zi Ming stammered to add.
The G.o.d of the Earth, ha? Yan Mo aimed at Yuan Zhan with a smile.
Yuan Zhan rubbed the dust without comment.
"Ou!" Dda disagreed.
Ding Fei somehow understood and helped Dda translate: "Why didn't she catch fish in the river? Gra.s.s and fruit are all right. Why eat stones?”
"It was winter, and the river was so rough that she could neither fish nor find water." Zhi Zhen, one of the warriors selected by The Great Obscuri, interrupted.
Elder Hao laughed. “It's a legend. Maybe the woman didn't have any food at that time. In short, she ate a lot of black stones, that is, the blood of the earth G.o.d. Seven days later, she gave birth to a child born with great strength. "
"Ou!"
"Hey-!"
"Impossible!"
Even Bing said, "A woman can't give birth to a child in seven days unless she is a witch."
Yan Mo scanned the group of troubling children who listened to stories and said, "Shut up. Whoever interrupts next I will kick their b.u.t.ts!"
Ding Ning put a hand over his brother's mouth.
Ding Fei covered Dda, who then raised his hand to cover Jiu Feng and was pecked by Jiu Feng.
Elder Hao ha ha, laughed, then continued, "This son inherited the G.o.d of the Earth, G.o.d's blood was not only powerful, but also able to turn himself into a huge rock man. This rock man is the ancestor of Kings of Wu Shang."
"What about the artifact? Where are the artifacts?" Yuan Zhan asked.
The troubling children squint at him together, Mo DRen. He interrupted please spanks his a.s.s!
"I'm just going to say that. Because the rock-man was so powerful that the tribes living near the Black Water River could not beat him, he gradually accepted the tribes and became their Chief. The rock-man married his mother and gave birth to a boy and a girl only those two children. The boy had only a lot of strength, but the girl could become a rock-man just like her father. For this reason, the rock-man's mother did not like her second son, but only her daughter. She wanted the rock-man to pa.s.s chief's position to their daughter, but their other son did not want to.
Yuan Zhan, "There's still no mention of artifacts."
The quiet boys and girls: Mo DRen please!
Yan Mo looked back and pinched Yuan Zhan mouth.
Elder Hao then finally talked about artifacts: "The brother wanted to kill his sister, but he couldn't beat his sister, so he traded with the son of a venomous snake and traded his immortality for a poison. The poison prevented his sister from becoming a rock-man, but when he killed his sister, his father, the rock-man, discovered it and threw him into the fire in anger. Later, the rock-man put his daughter's body into the fire. Unexpectedly, after seven days and seven nights, the brother and sister were burned by the fire, they became a big black urn."
Yan Mo, "The Great Urn is the artifact. The Black Earth City is the Great Urn?"
Elder Hao nodded. “The rock-man was sad to see the two children turned into giant urns and went away and never came back. It is said that he was taken back to the world of G.o.d of the Earth. The eldest son left no offspring, but his daughter left two children, who were also the ancestors of Kings of Wu Shang. Since then, the first child of each generation in King Wu Shang's family will be a son and the second child will be a daughter. The huge urn, which was transformed from the original brother and sister, became a magic weapon to protect the younger sister's offspring. No matter what danger they encounter, they will be okay as long as they go to hide in the big urn. Later they simply lived in the big urn, which grew bigger with the number of people inside.
"Is that true? The Black Earth City is giant urn that will grow larger?" Bing doesn't believe it.
"That's true!" Zhi Zhen saw that some people did not believe the legend of the Black Earth City. He was angry at the moment. "And every thirty years, a brother and sister of Wu Shang's oldest generation will burn themselves in the fire. Wu Shang's blood will smear their ashes on the wall, so that the Black Earth City can be indestructible forever!"
Yan Mo grasps the key point, "That is to say, the oldest son and oldest daughter of Wu Shang's bloodline cannot live to be 30 years old?"
"Well, Mo DRen, they're so pitiful." Ding Fei again expressed sympathy.
Zhi Zhen took it for granted: "What's so pitiful about it? It's their destiny. Only in this way can we ensure that the blood of King Wu Shang's G.o.ds will not be cut off and that the Black Earth City will be strong."
Yan Mo hasn't entered The Black Earth City yet, but The Black Earth City has left a mysterious and cruel impression on him.
At the end of the short rest, Yan Mo put two sledges in his pocket. The Obscuri Tribesmen saw his hiding them. They were surprised, but not that surprised. The witches and the priest were the most mysterious people.
Everyone mounted the beast, including Dda.
Bing was somewhat disgusted with the fact that the beasts are not powerful enough in appearance and fast enough to run, he would rather having too many wildebeest partners.
At the same time, they changed their clothes and shoes into the same dress as the local people, but Yuan Zhan disagreed with Yan Mo's dress change.
"As you get older, can't you pay attention to your health? Do you want to get sick all the time if you wear this kind of cloth and change these rough cloth? You don't need to change! "
Yan Mo didn't want to change, but: "Hey, don't forget the ident.i.ty we're playing now. We're now ordinary tribes from afar who want to benefit for their tribes. Only in this way can we not attract the attention of the Black Earth City, and only in this way can we enter Tucheng-Earth City smoothly and steadily."
"Get dirty. You can't see it clearly." He can wear anything himself, but he really doesn't want to wrong his priest, especially for him.
So do Bing and Ding Ning Ding Fei, neither of whom is willing to suffer their own Priest DRen.
"No, you can't go in. In fact, I'll just go in alone, and I'll come back to you when the result comes out."
Yan Mo grabbed him and said, "Do you want me to let go of such a good chance to visit a middle city or a legendary city made of artifacts?"
Eventually, Yan Mo changed into a long cotton-padded clothes made of herbal medicines and covered it with an untailored hide. In order to walk in the snow, he got a bone stick necklace and hung it around his neck, which could increase his spiritual strength and shield other people from spiritual exploration.
Yan Mo's disguise, coupled with his deliberately messy silver hair, he looked more like a tribal witch, let alone a poor tribal witch.
Yuan Zhan and others have all finished their cross-dressing. They look just like the Obscuri Tribesmen in appearance, with their simple leather boots, rough linen clothes, poor fur, unclean faces, necks and hands, and stone axes inserted in their waists.
Bing's bow and arrow were not retracted, because The Obscuri Tribesmen said that there were also several lower-city warriors who were particularly good at using bows and arrows.
An hour later, Yan Mo and his party, riding on a beast with The Obscuri Tribesmen, arrived at the East Gate of The Black Earth City and waited in line to enter the city.
The Obscuri Tribesmen line is not very impressive, Yan Mo and others mixed in the Obscuri Tribesmen also trying to reduce the sense of existence, and even Jiu Feng shrewdly hid into the arms of Yan Mo.
Few people in the team spoke, mainly because it was too cold and everyone did not have the nature of speaking in the cold.
There are two teams. On the right is obviously the very important guest road. From time to time, some war beasts' teams ride across them.
Elder Hao whispered to Yan Mo, "Those are all the selected warriors coming down town. I thought they would come a little later, but they were not slow either. I know that several adults are very strong, so it's better to not provoke them. Those who can send the next city warriors are the weakest and 6th rank.”
"Zhi Zhen has not yet reached 5th rank, so you couldn't send him here without fear that he will not go back?" Yan Mo has long wanted to ask this question.
"It's possible, but as long as he survives, if he can't enter the Temple of the Black Earth City or become a moat warrior, he can at least enter the training camp for the Black Earth warriors, so that he can become stronger in the future. Fortunately, it would be good if the masters in the city took a fancy to him and let him follow them.”
Elder Hao sighed, "There are too few blood ability warriors, and the most powerful one is only the 5th rank of blood ability. Because of him, The Weise Tribe dares not become too aggressive on us, but he is old, and the most promising thing for the tribe is Zhi Zhen, and two other children who have entered training camp."
In fact, the Jiu Yuan also has such a problem, that is, the lack of high-level and middle-level warriors, but fortunately their blood ability warriors are quite large in number, and very young, coupled with the primary training method, the future is visible, will not be as hard and struggling as the Great Obscuri.
"By the way, during the selection period, do all the warriors who partic.i.p.ated in the selection have a place to live?"
"Yes, but the others who follow in have to find their own place to live. Mo DRen, you don't have to worry about that. Although our Great Obscuri is weak, it's safe because we have a fixed foothold in The Black Earth City.
"I'm not worried about that. I want to ask if we follow-up people are free to act and can we trade with others?"
"Of course, there is a special market for outsiders in The Black Earth City. A little yuan-crystal coins is enough to enter. If you are rich, you can rent a fixed booth."
Yan Mo asked a few more questions, and finally it was their turn.
The guards seemed to know The Obscuri Tribesmen, but they still checked them carefully.
"Who are you?" Watching Yuan Zhan's tattoos on several faces representing the tribe was strange to the guards.
This tattoo is different from the mark that expresses the rank of a warrior. It is the mark that each tribe gives itself.
Yuan Zhan had the means to hide the tribal mark, but he did not.
"We are The Jiu Yuan Tribesmen, who lives at the end of the Black River. We heard from guests from afar that The Black Earth City is selecting temple warriors. We want to try them out." Yuan Zhan raised his head and said slowly.
The warrior looked up and down at him and then at Yan Mo, who was leaning on a stick, with a cloth towel wrapped around his head and face, and bowing his head. "Who is he?"
Yuan Zhan screamed lightly: "Warrior, respect! He is our witch."
The warrior's face changed slightly and his spear stood upright. He saluted Yan Mo. Then he asked Yuan Zhan with a cold face: "This is the selection of warriors. Why did you bring your witches? You are not allowed to use witchcraft to help yourself in the battlefield. If you are found, you will be killed by the temple! “
"Because fighting can hurt, our witches don't want us to be hurt and no one can heal us other than our witch."
"He must go with us. Every witch who enters the Black Earth City must visit the temple. Only the permitted witch can stay in the Black Earth City."
Yuan Zhan subconsciously frowned and blocked the movements from Yan Mo, Bing and others.
The warrior immediately became nervous and the other warriors around him quickly drew closer.
The Obscuri Tribesmen, who had already entered, remained in place, looking anxiously at Yuan Zhan and others.
Yan Mo gently pushed Yuan Zhan aside, pulled down his cloth towel and smiled at the warrior. "Don't be nervous, son. They're just too worried about me. Where's the temple? You can take me there."