"Then what good is that to me?"
"Well... didn't you hear what she said just now? You are in a bad situation now, right? Let me go, and I will protect you!"
"Shelter?" Xia Yibing sneered, "I think you plan to devour us first."
Even though this thing appears to be a bit stupid, it has never forgotten the corpses it saw in the palace pipes, nor the cunning it displayed when it was in its complete form.
Its current slowness may not necessarily be its true face, it may also be a disguise... In short, it is impossible to let it out.
"I ask you questions and you answer them." She sat down on the table, her two white legs crossed under her tattered pants. "Since it is so difficult to escape from here and go outside, what about you... and that floating city?"
The floating city of the Mechanical Kingdom gave her a great shock, because the moment she saw it, she was thinking: If a bunch of such floating cities ran to Wayne Port, it would not take much effort to blow up the city.
After waking up and knowing so much, she gradually came to her senses... It is very likely that this lost world is Aisha Continent... The gray fog is not just an invasion as simple as it appears to the naked eye. It is devouring, devouring the entire Namiia world, and incorporating part of it into the areas protected by those evil gods.
That is why it is so difficult to transcend. The reason why there has been no floating city to go to Sara may not be because they don’t want to go, but because they can’t go and cannot leave this world.
This seemed like it should be bad news, because it meant that she and Hitzfeld were trapped, probably until they died of old age, and she should be panicking.
But she had a miracle in her hands.
Since the people from the floating city, the Mechanical Kingdom, and Alessia were all able to get out, she felt that there might be some loopholes or channels, and as long as she could master them, she could return to her homeland.
"I don't know!" Alessia shouted, "Actually it was just an accident... I had just finished eating the blood river, and suddenly a will invaded my head, ordering me to go outside to do something... and then kicked me out directly!"
"Kick you?"
"I know it's hard for you to understand that feeling... but it really is... it really is a 'kick'!" Alessia said, "It's like... a gap opened in the other dimension, someone kicked me in the ass, and when I came to my senses, I was already in Goli!"
Could it be an evil god?
Xia Yibing feels cold.
This is really bad news...
"What about the Mechanical Kingdom?"
"I don't know... I really don't know... God knows how they got out... Theoretically, they definitely can't get out, because they are split and rebel! Machines... Who believes that kind of thing has supernatural power?"
"So this is indeed Aisha Continent? The Corrupted Blood Kingdom is fighting a group of mechanical rebels in another world?"
"You know it well enough, so don't waste your time asking me!"
Xia Yibing frowned and fell into deep thought.
"Hey! Do you think about what I just suggested?"
Alessia bumped around in the bottle.
"I'll protect you... I promise to only eat them, not you!"
Xia Yibing ignored this guy. She noticed some movement on the bed, so she put the test tube on the table and trotted towards it.
Madeline, who was lying on the ground, suddenly felt a foot stepping on her chest. She woke up with a start: "Ouch!???"
"I'm sorry Madeline..."
Without having time to pay attention to her, Xia Yibing rushed to the bedside and saw Hitzfeld open his eyes.
The girl still looked a little weak, so she quickly took out a fern root from her arms and broke off a little to feed her.
This was what she had hidden on purpose just now.
"I'm serious!"
Alessia was still yelling.
"This is the only way for you!"
"Not really." Xia Yibing looked at it coldly.
"No?" Alessia didn't believe it at all. "Huh? I get it... You want to be someone's concubine!"
"I think you don't understand at all..."
Xia Yibing really couldn't stand it anymore, she stood up and spread her hands towards Hitzfeld who was still in a daze.
"Come and see for yourself."
"This damn place is about to welcome the first serious—"
"Master of Incense Making."
Chapter 5: Incense Tax k
Through the hero's bones given to her by Billy, Xia Yibing spontaneously accepted a lot of knowledge in her nightmares that theoretically should not be mastered by outsiders.
In addition to some intermittent adventure stories, it also included the most basic local customs and practices. One thing quickly caught her attention - perfume is very expensive in the local area.
The Kingdom of Corrupted Blood does indeed live in purgatory. The people here may have to live with pus, rotten blood, and smelly meat all day long, and their bodies are inevitably stained with the smell, but they have not lost their passion for life - they do not think that the smell is something to be praised, and their yearning for beauty has not changed.
So naturally, here, much like early Sara, all means of removing bad odors were very expensive, and perfumes that could cover up bad odors, no matter what the quality, could be exchanged for about ten slaves for a small bottle anywhere.
Xia Yibing quickly connected this common sense with Billie's yearning for fragrance. She remembered that Hitzfeld knew how to make perfume. If she was given the corresponding materials, she might be able to make better perfumes than those local perfumers.
"It's not impossible..." After listening to Xia Yibing's description, Hitzfeld finally understood his current situation. Simply put, his personal freedom is restricted, and if he doesn't want to be sold as a slave, he has to show his value in exchange for his freedom.
She does have some talent in making incense. Of course, she is not so arrogant as to think that she can surpass local scholars in this area just because she has been educated by the true master of incense making, Pusiangsi. But don't forget that she is the Lord of Mystery... She understands and masters all the forbidden knowledge that can only be mastered after upgrading to the 10th level in the evil system... In other words, although she has just arrived in this land, she knows almost all the local materials, which is a huge advantage that even Pusiangsi does not have.
If you give her the materials, she will be able to identify them, and then prepare them into potions through substitution, some of which can indeed be sold as perfume... Yes, there is nothing wrong with this idea.
While chewing the potato-flavored food in small bites, Hitzfeld looked at the woman and felt very happy.
She slept long enough and had a lot of messy dreams, with this person dying and that person coming back to life. After waking up, someone gave her a suitable plan without her having to think, so she naturally enjoyed it.
Xia is still very reliable...she thought so.
At first, Xia protected me... then I protected Xia... now Xia protects me again...
Although it is an adventure, it feels really good.
Xia Yibing had no idea that her random inspiration had stirred up waves in the girl's heart, so she continued to analyze it in a low voice: "... This way you can get away without attracting too much attention. I think you shouldn't rush to show off your abilities before you gain a firm foothold here."
Is she talking about the occult?
Hitzfeld reacted quickly. That's right... the mysterious master was not given to her willingly by the evil god, but she ate the mysterious 10 of the earth's time and space during a period of time travel - she ate that consciousness and realized it herself.
In other words, she, the mysterious lord, has not been "officially" recognized, and this piece of land is under the jurisdiction of the "official". There must be local mysterious 10 playing a supervisory role here. The sudden appearance of a mysterious lord Hitzfeld may not necessarily be good news.
She will be targeted.
She would be targeted and tracked... and considering the special circumstances here, she would even directly attract those Void Outer Gods.
Then you really have to stay hidden first and not use those mysterious methods for the time being.
Meanwhile, Billie had taken the plate back to the kitchen and successfully tossed the stinking fish to an old dog curled up on the deck.
“Billy—” On the way back, her father, Captain Shude, called her and pulled her over: “How are the three people in your room?”
He was well-informed and experienced, and he could tell at a glance that they were three outsiders. Outsiders, because they did not have the blood of salvation, were usually weak and sickly. Most importantly, their physical strength might not be able to overwhelm Billie.
This was why he felt confident in letting Billie take them in. After all, their weapons had been confiscated. Even if something really happened and there was any noise in the room, Billie would be able to hold on until they came to rescue her.
Billie was still thinking about the nuns. She was a little absent-minded at this time. She said a few perfunctorily, saying that she could definitely control them.
"You were the first to discover the people. According to the rules at sea, it's not impossible to claim them as yours." Captain Xiude reached out and tapped her forehead. "Let's consider them slaves... three slaves... Sell them when we get back to Inian Harbor, and you'll have a place to get your bone bagpipe."
Captain Shude, who was counting on his daughter to take over his job in the future, certainly didn't want Billie to become a nun. Logically, he should have suppressed all of Billie's thoughts on this path, including the bone bagpipe - many candidates for nuns raised their status through their musical talents.
But this is the Blood Sea, it is full of weirdness and strangeness, anything can happen. When Captain Xiude was young, he once saw an extremely powerful fleet of corpse retrievers. He followed them sailing on the Blood Sea for three years, and finally witnessed them die in a weird, hazy ballad coming from the sea fog.
After returning by chance, he found out that it was the brain-eating demon singing on the reef. The brain-eating demon is a disgusting monster similar to an octopus, but with many more tentacles. Its fighting ability is not strong, but it can sing beautiful songs and easily kill its prey in its sleep.
The demon-killing crossbow was useless against such a monster. He heard from the old sailors that "it would be best to master an instrument made of blood and bones" and use strange rhythms to fight against rhythms.
So from this perspective, Billie's desire for a bone bagpipe is no longer so unbearable. Although she probably wants to learn this thing to improve her chances of winning the election, I will stop her anyway. Learning it will give her an extra skill, which is not a bad thing.
"I don't want to sell them!" Billie got so angry and dodged away like a ghost.
"Billie?" Xiude frowned, "Don't tell me you want to raise them."
Outsiders are contradictory creatures. They are experimental materials in the eyes of blood mages, delicacies in the eyes of some blood butchers, and the favorites of most nobles. But to corpse lifters... they are of no use except to make money.
Xiu De was already past that age, and he did see their beauty, but it was of no value to him.
In particular, the fleet he commanded had recently encountered some troubles. If his mortal enemy found out that he had kept three foreign women on board, he would be in grave danger.
But Billie just wouldn't listen. She covered her ears with her hands and shook her head continuously, then disappeared in a flash.
"When will people be able to feel at ease if you are so willful?"
Captain Xiu De shook his head, untied the water bag from his waist and took a sip, then moved his prosthetic limbs and walked towards his daughter's room with a thump, thump, thump.
It's understandable that children don't know much, but those three strangers are adults, so they should be able to make sense, right?
It doesn’t matter if your explanation doesn’t make sense. Anyway, you are there to inform them, not to ask for their opinions.
With this thought in mind, Captain Xiu De pushed open the wooden door without hesitation, and saw two people lying on the bed opposite him, and another person sitting next to them to look after them.
Why does it smell so good here?
Before he had time to figure out who they were, Captain Xiu De sniffed and smelled a faint fragrance.
Coming from them?
He didn't care... because they were good-looking. Women with this kind of appearance and temperament usually came from a good family and might have used the legendary perfume, so it was not surprising for them to have a fragrance.
This in turn made me more resolute to sell them, because as time goes by, the fragrance on them will become weaker and weaker, and this fragrance is also of considerable value. Besides, the price they can be sold for when they still have fragrance may be several times more than in the future.
"I am Captain Xiu De, and I am here to inform you of your situation."
He didn't say much nonsense, and stood at the door and began to read: "Since you can communicate with Billie, you must be able to understand what I say... Listen carefully, we will return to the port in about three days, and then I will sell you - yes, sell you. I can't take in three foreigners here, it will bring me a lot of trouble."
He waited a moment after saying this, preparing himself mentally to witness their screams of protest.
But no, the longer he stood there, the longer the three of them stared at him as if he were a fool. It was as if he was a madman who had just finished speaking nonsense, and they were the normal people, watching his performance silently from the audience.
What the hell?
Captain Xiu De became annoyed. It was the first time he met a stranger who was so calm and composed after waking up. Although he was surprised, he couldn't stand their looks.
So he planned to intimidate them: "It's useless even if you don't like it... Um... Who told you to enter the gray fog? No one who enters can leave, so you'd better behave yourself... If nothing happens to you when you get to Inian Harbor, I might take care of you and let you choose the buyer based on a small price range."
"Do you know who will buy you?" He used one hand to support the hilt of his sword as a walking stick, and gestured to them with the other hand: "There are those wealthy businessmen and nobles... They just want something new."
"The most likely person to buy you is a blood mage... They really have no interest in that kind of thing, but you will be tortured to death, and you may die in a few days from the flesh and blood experiment."
"The most terrifying thing is that it falls into the hands of some blood slaughterers. Don't you know? Some blood slaughterers gain strength by eating human flesh. Flesh that does not contain the blood of salvation is particularly sweet to them. You'd better pray that there will be no such buyers..."
As he spoke, he was looking forward to their reactions. He wanted to see them panic, just like all the strangers he had met before.
But he was disappointed again. The three men were indeed staring at him with a somewhat curious look... but that was all they were allowed to do. The way they looked at him was almost like looking at an ape-man.
"Silly bird..."
Suddenly, a faint curse was heard in the room.
"Who?" Captain Xiu De was stunned for a moment, and quickly fell into a state of rage, "How dare you scold me?"
They are two stupid birds...
Xia Yibing hurriedly walked to the table to block the glass test tube, then reached behind her back to grab it and shook it hard.
"xpx..." Alessia had just finished cursing, but before she could say anything else she was dizzy and could no longer be a troublemaker.
"Is it you?" Because of her actions, Captain Xiu De naturally turned his eyes to the woman.
"This...Captain."
Madeline was still lying there in a daze. Hitzfeld knew he had to speak up. She interrupted the atmosphere and said, "Actually, it's not money you're short of... I guess you're in trouble?"
Luckily, everyone in this damn place speaks Sara.
Although the accent is a bit strange and a little different from the real Sara and the Sara spoken by the Golians, it is still Sara and basic communication is not a problem.
"This is not something a slave is qualified to care about..." Captain Xiu De was still angry, and when he heard her speak, he took the opportunity to transfer his hatred to her, "Why do you think I'm in trouble?"
He thought this girl...well, girl, she was really interesting. It was obvious that they were the ones in trouble now, so how dare she...who gave her the courage?
"It's very simple." Hitzfeld took a breath and tried to make his words clear and in line with the local people's speaking habits. "Although we are unconscious and have been stripped of basic weapons, we are still adults after all. Even if we are captives or slaves... It is not wise to let three strange adults get along with your daughter privately. So I guess you are confident and think that we can't cause her any trouble with our abilities."
"Huh?" Captain Xiu De widened his eyes.
"Go on." He suddenly felt that things were getting interesting. "How did you guess that I was in trouble?"
"You should have some methods." Hitzfeld nodded, "Some methods that we don't know much about, but they are very basic...so you are not afraid of us at all..."
