Chapter Thirteen: The Holy Healing City and the White Witch
The Central Plains of the Dark Crow Continent can be said to be like spring all year round. It is different from the west where Su Xiao was before. It has a rainy season all year round and the climate is relatively humid and cold.
According to what Su Xiao saw along the way, more than 60% of the land in the Dark Crow Continent is undeveloped, overgrown with grass, but the land is fertile.
This continent does not lack resources, but it lacks civilization. As long as more than 10% of the land is planted, it can solve the food and clothing problem of most civilians. Unfortunately, the war has reduced the cultivated area of the world's land to less than 4%. It is such an exaggeration.
Witches, lords entrenched in various places, slave manors, and indigenous tribes, if these problems are not solved, the civilians of the Dark Crow Continent can only starve and freeze. The popularization of information is too backward, so that the civilians are not aware of this at all. In their view,
, most of the causes of starvation are caused by climate.
Don't think this is stupid. Information is blocked in most areas. Even if the leading organization of the Holy Healing Church is destroyed one day, except for civilians outside the Central Plains area, it will take at least a month or even half a year for other areas to receive the news. As for those who
The indigenous tribes who are still living rough and drinking blood don't care about this at all.
On the way, Su Xiao had already finished reading the books obtained from the palace. Among them, "A Brief History of the Dark Crow Continent" and "The Age of Witches" were the two most valuable. "A Brief History of the Dark Crow Continent" was written by a certain prophecy witch.
Written 7 years ago, with the speed of development in this world, this thing is similar to the newspaper from a few months ago. The news is not new, but it can be used.
According to the description of the witch named Celia, the Dark Crow Continent can actually be divided into three large areas. The two large areas of the Central Plains and the west are both under the control of the Holy Healing Church and have relatively perfect laws. The eastern part is dominated by indigenous forces.
Most of the time, when traveling somewhere, you will accidentally become a native kebab, which is extremely exciting. However, there are the largest number of witches here, and it is a lawless place.
The north is covered with ice sheets and frozen soil. The civilians here mainly hunt. The folk customs are extremely tough, even if they are not tough. The north with long winters does not produce food. The civilians compete with wild beasts for survival territory every day, even if they are breastfeeding.
Women are also fierce women. One moment they may be breastfeeding their children, and the next moment they must pick up weapons and fight off wolves with their husbands.
The King of the North in Winter City is very good at fighting, but unfortunately he is not good at strategy. In addition, the resources in the territory are poor, so he can only stay in the north. There are very few witches here. It is not that the witches are afraid of the tough folk customs here, but that it is too cold here.
, if you don’t understand the environment, even witches may freeze to death. In other words, there are many witches who freeze to death here. Blizzards are no joke.
To put it simply, the central and western parts are stable, the eastern part is wild and has basically no laws, the north is cold, and the south is the territory of witches and a forbidden area for humans.
Su Xiao had a preliminary understanding of the Dark Crow Continent, and he gradually passed the exploration stage. Now he is located in the Central Plains area, only about five kilometers away from Shengyu City.
After arriving under the direct jurisdiction of Shengyu City, Su Xiao rarely saw thieves and primitive natives wandering around. He killed at least dozens of thieves along the way. Every few kilometers he traveled, he would encounter one or two groups.
Thieves, these thieves did not open this road for themselves, leaving behind the style of buying money for the road. They would not negotiate with travelers at all, they would kill them directly and plunder the corpses for property.
Arriving at the edge of Shengyu City, Su Xiao saw many villages. These villages were mainly engaged in animal husbandry and were not very enthusiastic towards travelers. However, they did not mind travelers staying overnight if they were willing to pay money.
After the team of one person, one dog and one cow continued to move forward for 20 minutes, a magnificent city wall appeared in the field of vision. This city wall was about a hundred meters high. There were faint traces of filling on it. Judging from the extent of the damage, it was probably caused by a witch.
for.
Before entering the city, Su Xiao saw pairs of patrolling soldiers. They were not wearing heavy armor, but more advanced and lighter scale armor.
When you look at the city wall of Shengyu City from a distance, it feels like you are looking at a big mountain. When you look up at a close distance, it looks like a sky wall.
It is unimaginable that with the level of technology in this world, how they could build a city wall that was 100 meters high and over 20 meters thick. In other words, this was not done by humans at all.
As soon as Su Xiao approached the city gate, he heard the bustle of people. After some observation, he found that it was much easier to enter Shengyu City than he thought. There was no need to pay a fee or undergo interrogation. Those people were armed with old-fashioned shotguns.
Soldiers stood on both sides of the city gate. Their eyes were like hawks, scanning every civilian who entered the city. Once a suspicious target was found, these people would conduct further inspections.
"stop."
As soon as Su Xiao and his party arrived in front of the city gate, five soldiers armed with shotguns came forward. It was Eminem who aroused their suspicion.
A soldier took out a yellow crystal the size of an egg from his arms. Inside the crystal was a mercury-like fluid. The soldier brought the yellow crystal close to Amu, but there was no change in the crystal.
"Excuse me, come into town. Have a nice day."
The soldier was unexpectedly polite. He smiled politely at Eminem and then returned to his original serious expression.
Just as Su Xiao was about to enter the city, there was a commotion from behind.
"Slowly raise your hands above your head. Don't think we can't notice your incarnation."
The soldier stopped drinking and attracted Su Xiao's attention.
"This little brother, don't be so scary."
A lazy female voice came, and Su Xiao looked closely. She was a plump woman wearing a strapless dress and black gloves. She was holding a thin pipe in her hand and had long wavy purple hair.
"5,4,3..."
Dozens of soldiers in front of the city gate counted down in unison. When the countdown reached 3 o'clock, they simultaneously pulled the firing pins of the shotguns in their hands. After a neat crisp sound, dozens of muzzles were pointed at the purple-haired woman.
"Ah ah ah, surrendered."
The purple-haired woman breathed out green smoke, slowly raised her hands, and breathed softly.
A soldier raised his right arm, indicating that he didn't need to shoot yet. He threw a yellow crystal into his mouth and slowly approached the purple-haired woman.
"Origin, life, age, whether he is wanted, I will give you one minute to describe it."
It was obvious that this woman was a witch.
"Ani Claudia, the White Witch, as for age, of course it is a secret. If it is wanted, I seem to be wanted for tax issues. This time I came to Holy Healing City for this matter, but the scenery here
Youmei, I suddenly want to settle here.”
"Wanted for tax issues?"
The soldier captain was obviously a little confused. This was the first time he heard that witches also pay taxes.
"Of course, I invented the armor you are wearing, and the tax issues give me a headache."
"Are you Ms. Aine Claudia Frederica Saxton?"
This time the soldier captain was even more shocked.
"Thank you for remembering my full name. That's amazing. Sometimes I forget it too~"
"Ms. Aini, please show your identification."
The soldier captain's attitude changed 180°.
"I almost forgot, I have the identification certificate given by your Anglican Church, and I still carried it with me when I came here."
As she spoke, the purple-haired woman inserted her hands into her breasts. Her black silk gloves contrasted sharply with her fair skin, which made all the men who stood and watched swallow their saliva.
Su Xiao was also looking at the purple-haired woman. His thought was that she seemed to have encountered a big fish.
