Chapter 1173 Walking on the Road (Part 1)
Just like mustard seeds are sumeru, the size of the turtle back world is far beyond the size of the giant turtle. The distance between each city is more than a thousand miles. When Li Tiangong built these cities, it had already paved a series of spacious roads for them. These roads were at least twice as wide as the widest part of the Yangtze River in the world.
Except for a few escorts and deserters who believe in traveling thousands of miles with two feet, almost all the other creatures walking on these roads are giant beasts that act as pack beasts.
These giant beasts are very large in shape. Although each of them has different shapes, they are like a hill. If they are measured by such a wide road, if three giant beasts stand in parallel, they should be able to almost fill the entire road.
The caravan that Xu Changqing and Bo Ji now join is a caravan named Yi Shuzi. Yi Shuzi is a very famous wise man in Yongzhou. He once preached in a Tiangong Temple in a Tiangong Temple for ten years. After that, for some unknown reason, he resigned from all his positions in Litian Palace and returned to Yongzhou. He founded a chamber of commerce that mainly wandered in various cities in the lower realm of Jiuzhou. He used his relationship in Litian Palace to quickly make the Chamber of Commerce the largest chamber of commerce in Yongzhou.
It is hard to say about other lower realms Jiuzhou, but in Yongzhou, the Yishuzi Chamber of Commerce can be said to be the largest merchant. Each caravan consists of three giant beasts named mountain turtles and several caravan guards. The strength of each caravan is enough to compete with the wild soldiers, to ensure the safety of the caravan and deter any dangers encountered on the road. It is precisely because the Yishuzi Caravan is extremely deterrent that many small caravans will follow behind and take a ride. Therefore, every time the Yishuzi Caravan takes action, the entire caravan team is stretched very long, and the longest time is nearly a hundred miles.
Although the master of the turtle-backed world is a giant like Bo Ji, this does not mean that there is no danger here. In fact, except for various cities and small surrounding areas, the rest of the land is all primeval forests. There are a large number of strange beasts living in these forests, and some of the power of strange beasts can even threaten some small cities.
In fact, Li Tiangong was fully capable of cleaning up these alien beasts at its peak, but it did not do so in the end. Instead, when certain types of alien beasts showed signs of extinction, it would issue a divine law to protect such alien beasts until their number fully recovered.
According to the official statement, the reason for Li Tiangong to do this is to keep the people of the lower realm Jiuzhou to maintain combat power so as not to corrupt the overly comfortable and peaceful life. However, according to Xu Changqing's idea, these strange beasts, known for their physical strength, are more like families in the lower realm Jiuzhou, because judging from the law of the dying of the strange beasts, every time the dying outbursts seems to be the strongest time for the various aristocratic families in the lower realm Jiuzhou. After each beast tide, members of these aristocratic families will suffer heavy casualties and suffer great energy. The most strange thing is that some of the casualties and injuries have not even been on the front line of the battlefield.
Over the past decade, with the decline of Litian Palace and the weakening of control over the lower realm, these strange beasts living in the forest have also lost control, and the more strange beasts attacks encountered by the villages around the city have increased, and the more strange beasts encountered by caravans on the road have also increased.
Although the families of various cities in the lower realm of Jiuzhou also wanted to take advantage of the decline of Litian Palace to solve these annoying and dangerous alien beasts in one go, as Litian Palace lowered the standards for selecting wasteland and literati, and pulled away a large number of living forces in the lower realm of Jiuzhou, making it difficult for these families to completely eliminate these alien beasts unless they use their core power. Only after using the core power, there will be huge casualties in the end. Once the casualties are too large, the survival of the aristocratic families will be in danger, and the power that has gradually been controlled will be lost again. In the end, these families chose the most conservative method to strengthen the safety of the surrounding areas of each city, but gave up the removal of other alien beasts in remote forests, so that most of these alien beasts targeted the attacks at caravans walking on remote roads.
Before leaving the Mucheng, Xu Changqing had collected a lot of information from various channels, and was very clear about what might happen on the road, and beast disasters were naturally indispensable. However, after he actually set out on the road, he realized that he had underestimated these beast disasters. Less than half a day passed, the caravan had just passed two cities and encountered three attacks of strange beasts. The largest of them was a siege of nearly a thousand wolf-shaped strange beasts. During this siege, let alone the small caravans following behind Yi Shuzi's caravan, even Yi Shuzi's caravan itself had three wild soldiers who were definitely comparable to the Heavenly Palace Divine Guard.
"These strange beasts are attacking too frequently!" Sitting in the cockpit transformed from the back of the mountain turtle, Xu Changqing looked at the members of the caravans below who were cleaning the battlefield, and listened to someone on the side muttering in a low voice: "It is simply unheard of for such a large-scale caravan to be attacked. Are these beasts crazy?"
Another person responded: "I heard that the strange beasts have just passed the breeding period recently, and it is estimated that there is not enough food in the forest."
The people sitting in the cabin watched the battle between humans and beasts just now, and most of them were completely out of the matter. They would not have any thoughts about the casualties and injured people below and the battle just now, but just gave themselves more talk.
This kind of mountain turtle should have some blood relationship with the giant turtle that forms the turtle's back, because after some transformation, the turtle's back has a little power similar to the cave heaven. This power can not only allow the turtle's back to accommodate more people, but also form a force to protect the people on the turtle's back. As long as the mountain turtle does not die, it will be difficult to break through the turtle's back.
Bo Ji was able to join the Yi Shuzi caravan and also brought Xu Changqing with him, mainly because he helped Yi Shuzi a very important job for a long time, and this time he happened to use this favor. He and Xu Changqing could go directly from Mucheng under the arrangement of the caravan.
Other peers who watched the fun in the same cabin were different. Bo Ji felt some abnormal qi and blood power from those strange beasts, and he also felt these qi and blood power in the Mucheng family. For this reason, he pulled Xu Changqing aside and whispered to Xu Changqing.
After hearing Bo Ji's words, Xu Changqing couldn't help but look at him with a strange look and asked, "Do you think the reason why those strange beasts siege the caravans so frequently is that they are controlled?"
"You think so too!" Bo Ji obviously didn't see Xu Changqing's strange eyes. Instead, some heroes said in a similar way.
Xu Changqing opened his mouth to deny Bo Ji's words, but in the end he didn't say it. He didn't expect that his influence on Bo Ji had completely brought him into the ditch and could not get up, which made Bo Ji completely in a state of being full of plants and trees. Any abnormality would cause some unnecessary suspicion.
Xu Changqing also felt the qi and blood power of the wolf-shaped beasts just now, and it felt deeper than Bo Ji. Although these qi and blood power can be considered abnormal in the giants in this world, it is not a big fuss about putting them on these strange beasts.
As someone standing next to Xu Changqing said just now, the main reason why these strange beasts frequently attack the caravan is that the clan has expanded too much and there is not enough food. Because these strange beasts that besieged the caravan are all old beasts that have already entered the decline, and the attack on the caravan is more like using the caravan's hands to clean up the part that needs to be eliminated among the various strange beast groups.
In the battle just now, the only thing worthy of Xu Changqing's attention was that after the strange beasts were defeated, they did not take away the bodies of the companions who died in battle, but instead tried their best to snatch the bodies of the caravan guards, especially the most fierce corpses of the caravan guards of the caravan guards. Even the same kind who had just worked sincerely began to kill each other.
In this case, the people around Xu Changqing, including Bo Ji, did not show any abnormalities, because they were already accustomed to such things, just like eating and sleeping every day, they were ordinary things that were not worth paying attention to.
There is no saying that the giant society with the turtle-backed heaven and earth is buried. After their death, their bodies will be discarded in the forest and allowed to be swallowed by the strange beasts in the forest. The remaining corpses will be completely digested by the world. Therefore, in their opinion, it is normal for the strange beasts to devour the dead guard corpses.
However, as an outsider, Xu Changqing would have more different ideas when he saw the same thing without a custom.
These strange beasts on the turtle-backed world have developed the habit of devouring the corpses of giants when they see them because they eat the corpses of giants all year round, but rather the giants here have the power to covet these strange beasts. Devouring these corpses can more or less allow them to gain some of this power, thus allowing them to transform into a stronger state.
The reason why Xu Changqing thinks so is not a random guess without evidence, but a rational guess after seeing it with his own eyes.
Just now, Xu Changqing noticed that more than one wolf-shaped beast took advantage of the war to swallow a few caravan guards behind. The blood and energy on the beasts after swallowing had changed more or less. The biggest change even doubled the power. He led the remaining group of beasts back to the forest directly from the siege of Yi Shuzi's caravan guards.
Chapter completed!