Planeswalker My Plane War

Chapter 433 Adventure 3
Zhang Cheng summoned the Xuyu Flying Eagle, and spent a little time observing the surroundings as a whole.

There are no hardened roads, no mechanical equipment, no vehicles and pedestrians, no... anything that looks like a creation of technological civilization.

But this is not the ruins of an abandoned village. Xuyu Xiangying reminded it that it saw something moving within the village, especially near the river.

After all, Xu Yu Xiangying only has "elementary intelligence", in other words, it is the IQ of orangutans or dolphins, and some things are not fully expressed.It can only be said that it can be judged that there is biological activity in the village, but it cannot be sure what kind of creature it is.

Zhang Cheng remembers very clearly that his predecessor called this world structure as: there is a group of "half gods" who rule over human beings.

It is very clear, that is to say, the intelligent race in this world is the same as the earth, only human beings.At least human beings are the main body, and there are no other intelligent races such as dog Rong, Dongyi and Nanman that can compete with humans in terms of numbers and civilization.

He changed some clothes for himself first, and put on a collarless T-shirt that is more suitable for this tropical rainforest environment. This kind of clothes is very simple, but because of its simplicity, no matter where it appears, it is suitable for ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries.Wear a pair of knee-length denim shorts, which is also a classic, but timeless clothing.I don't care about the sneakers under my feet for the time being, they are very practical after all.

This kind of attire, even if it is different from the aboriginal clothes here, but it will not make people feel that they are visitors from another world.

But it turns out that Zhang Cheng was wrong.

When he came to the edge of the village, he met a fisherman.

Instead of using a fishing net or a fishing rod, he took a sharpened wooden stick and speared a fish in a shallow river bend.

His clothes were really simple, with nothing on his upper body, that is, shirtless.There are some rough sun hats made of weeds or vines on the head, and a grass skirt on the lower body.

Yes, hula skirts... exist on Earth too.It is a relatively famous kind of clothing that has been used from primitive society to today.It's just that on the earth, it is usually a slim girl who wears this thing, but in front of Zhang Cheng is a man with a beard.

Before seeing Zhang Cheng, the fisherman had just successfully stabbed a big fish that was as long as an arm with his pointed wooden stick. At this moment, he was holding up the wooden stick in a bragging manner, as if he was holding a flag, he was excitedly planning to go ashore Go back to the village.But when he looked up, he saw Zhang Cheng just coming out of the jungle.

The two sides stared wide-eyed, and were stunned by the other's clothes for a moment.

Ma Dan, this is wrong!Doesn't it mean that this is a civilized world with a level of technology higher than that of the earth?But looking at the other party's outfit, it's okay to say that this is a primitive society.

Zhang Cheng was still wondering, but the other party had already let out a scream, and fled in the direction of the village, even losing the wooden stick that caught a big fish.

Just for a moment, the man ran away.

Zhang Cheng picked up the wooden stick from the water conservancy. It can be seen that the wooden stick has been simply processed.Specifically, it is roasted in the fire-sharpening the stick and roasting it with fire can make the stick hard and strong. This is the most primitive wooden spear manufacturing technology.It can be regarded as the origin of civilization and one of the simplest technologies.

Zhang Cheng took out the cards he needed.As for Ao Guang and Xiaoxiong, let them stand by.After all, this is a rare opportunity, and he decided to try to get in touch with these people who seemed to be primitive society.

In fact, although this is unexpected, it is not outrageous.

Even the earth, known as the information society, also has human groups living in the primitive way of slash-and-burn farming.Especially in Africa, there are even primitive tribes who don't even understand agriculture and only know how to fish and hunt.

Maybe he was just unlucky enough to meet primitive tribes.The technological level of this tribe does not represent the technological level of this world.

Of course, another possibility is that civilization has perished—as for how it perished, humans on Earth have deduced it countless times.War, disease, nuclear weapons, AI uprisings, meteorites, volcanoes, solar activity, ice ages, and more are all possible.

From a scientific point of view, human civilization is actually very fragile, and it is normal for it to really perish.

But Zhang Cheng knew that even those isolated primitive tribes in Africa and America were actually being continuously influenced by modern civilization.The invasion of civilization is actually everywhere.If there is a high-tech civilization in this world, then these primitive tribes must have heard of it.So even primitive tribes have high contact value.He walked slowly in the direction in which the man fled.

With Ao Guang and Xiaoxiong on standby, and with all kinds of weapon cards and spell cards on him, he has nothing to be afraid of.Just treat it as a rare encounter of the third kind.From a certain point of view, it is far better to meet a group of barbarians in primitive society than to meet a group of civilized people with high technology.

He hadn't gone far when a shout came from ahead.Then, a group of people emerged from the shade of the trees—dozens of primitive tribal men dressed in animal skins and grass skirts, with various oil paints on their bodies and faces, and holding stone spears and axes in their hands appeared in front of him.

If Zhang Cheng still had a glimmer of expectation before, then this glimmer of expectation can be given up.

Stone spears... stone axes... This level of technological civilization is one level lower than that of the dog world, maybe two levels.Not to mention the comparison with the earth.

He has no expectations for this group of members of the primitive society, and the next thing is to ask them how they became a primitive society.But it may not be possible to ask.

The two sides faced off temporarily, Zhang Cheng did not move, and the other party did not rush over.They looked at each other like this.Zhang Cheng holds a pistol in his hand, and if there is a conflict, he can fire a shot to scare people.Of course, this is an ideal state... If there is a bloody conflict, Zhang Cheng can be sure that it will not be his own blood.

After a while, a commotion suddenly appeared behind the group of primitive people. An old man with a cane slowly pushed aside the crowd and appeared in front of Zhang Cheng.He yelled something loudly.Thanks to the translator that came with his body, Zhang Cheng could understand what they said.This old man was obviously someone like an elder in the village, and he was ordering these young people to lay down their weapons and not to be rude to guests.After scolding, he walked slowly all the way to Zhang Cheng.

The old man saluted Zhang Cheng very respectfully. "Sorry, the young people are not sensible. I am the village head here," he looked at Zhang Cheng, his clothes, and the pistol in his hand in awe. "Excuse me, are you a nobleman?"

"I am...a traveler from a very far away place." Zhang Cheng said.Far enough indeed. "May I ask where is..."

"This is called Riverside Village, and it belongs to Lord Dia..." the old man said.

No, this is a primitive society, how could the concept of "someone's territory" appear?Zhang Cheng remembers that related concepts did not appear until at least a slavery society.

But looking at the stone spear and stone axe, Zhang Cheng didn't feel that this was a slavery society - it hadn't developed to such a high stage.

"Who is this Lord Dia?" Zhang Cheng couldn't help asking.

"Master Dia is a subordinate of Prince Apo," he brought up another concept to let Zhang Cheng understand that the situation in this world may not be as simple as he expected. "A nobleman... the owner and protector of this land..." the old man said cautiously, observing Zhang Cheng's expression along the way.

"That... I'm not very familiar with the situation here." Zhang Cheng said.

"Ah, this, I'm taking the liberty. Guests, please come to the village first." The old man replied.

Zhang Cheng was invited to the village and taken into a house.

The whole house was empty, except for the firepit in the center, no other furniture was seen, and it was unknown whether the owner of the house deliberately removed all the things, or it was just a barren house—in fact, this house didn’t even have a real meaning. There are no walls on the roof, except for the pillars, beams and thatched roof, there are only reed mats hanging from the eaves, which can barely replace the curtains or walls.

It is better to say that this is a pavilion than a house.

Living in such a large and spacious pavilion, you can definitely feel the wind from any direction in all seasons.But on the other hand, only in this hot and humid climate can people live in this kind of big pavilion.

At this time, many villagers heard the sound and gathered here to watch this external visitor.

Looking closely at the residents here, you can see that they are all tanned by the sun, with disheveled hair like a chicken coop, weird tattoos on their arms, and some oil paint smeared on their faces and bodies.In short, it is easy to think of the indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia on earth.

The indigenous villagers are basically bare upper body, shirtless, revealing a large area of ​​bronze skin.The lower body is covered with a straw skirt or a piece of animal skin.Even the women are no exception, all of them bare their round and firm breasts to their chests indifferently.

Regardless of gender, they all have some feathers, bone vessels, jade pendants and other decorations on their bodies.All are handmade by the villagers themselves.

No matter from which point of view, this is a small village in a primitive society with extremely underdeveloped productivity.Obviously implement the original communist system, the kind that doesn't even have currency.

But in the communication with the natives, they obviously possess a lot of knowledge that is completely inconsistent with this productivity.

For example, this elder knows that his lord is a character called "Lord Dia".Although this "Master Dia" has never been to this village.

"So, does this village have little contact with the outside world?" Zhang Cheng asked. "When will Lord Dia's subordinates come?"

With the concept of territory and lord, there are naturally the resident of the lord, as well as the officials and soldiers under the lord.These are all simultaneous things.

"Master Dia's subordinate?" The elder was a little puzzled. "Oh, we occasionally get young people to work for him here. But that's it. Generally speaking, there are no opportunities, and most of them are repatriated. It's been a long time since no one has been on work."

"Volunteer to work as an errand?" Zhang Cheng was a little confused.What kind of inexplicable pattern is this? "So he won't come to collect taxes?"

"Taxation?"

"Taxes." Zhang Cheng asked. "That's...you want a part of your income..." He felt awkward saying this, because you can tell from the situation of this village that this place is a primitive society, a fishing and hunting industry that doesn't even have surplus products society.To collect taxes from above?What tax?Are you pulling a bunch of fish back?

There are valuable hard currencies such as fur in the temperate and frigid zones, but the tropics... it's hard to say.

The elder turned around and whispered with the others for a while before turning back to explain. "Occasionally, the prince asked us to pay tribute to some special products, usually fruits and the like. But very few. Many, many years ago, a prince once came to our side, and we offered some fruits for this. But It was a long time ago, when I was a child. At that time, Prince Awa hadn’t come here yet, it was another prince. But I don’t remember the name of that prince.”

Does this place still produce fruit?Looking at the appearance of this tropical rainforest, it is not unusual to produce fruits, but what is strange is how the fruits are transported out.Be aware that almost all tropical fruits are perishable.This is the result of the evolution of the natural environment.

Unless artificially cultivated, otherwise the natural fruit is like this.Of course, if you want to say that this level of productivity can also cultivate special fruits or something, it is impossible to kill them.

Zhang Cheng still doesn't quite understand it, but he already vaguely knows that these primitive tribes don't need to pay taxes, and there is no such thing as manpower collection (that is, corvee service, military service).

This is very similar to the current situation on the earth-on the earth, those ethnic minorities who still live a relatively primitive life are almost all protected by the state.Instead of taxing military service, there are various subsidies.

But the grade of this village... I guess there is no subsidy.But there is no doubt that it is definitely a loss-making business for the lord to own this territory, he will only lose money, not make money.

Is this really the "XXX Cultural Reserve"?
At this time, someone brought some fruit up.These are things that Zhang Cheng has never heard of.However, based on the politeness of the people on Earth, he still ate some.I think the taste is okay, very novel.But don't ask, there are limited quantities of these fruits.

That is to say, it can feed hundreds of people in a village.

The village itself...even from the point of view of a plane merchant, I know that it has almost no value.

In short, the biggest gain in this tribe is knowing that Lord Dia, or the existence of a superior like Prince Apo.Zhang Cheng also quickly understood that if he wanted to get in touch with other angles of this world, especially this technological civilization, he might need to go to that Lord Dia, or even Prince Apo.

"Well, since Master Dia didn't come here, how do you contact them?" Zhang Cheng asked this key question again.

"Well, we have already reported the situation of the distinguished guest to Lord Dia." The elder said, also sneaking a glance at Zhang Cheng.

(End of this chapter)