Lux's Farewell

360 Source of Shurima [0356]

Narima Jie, a city that cannot be bypassed when talking about the history of Shurima.

This city located at the eastern foot of Mount Targon is the source of the entire Shurima Empire. The small tribe headed by Setaka rose, developed, and expanded from here, and eventually became a city that almost occupied the entire Shurima continent. huge empire.

Although due to the conflict between theocracy and imperial power, the administrative center of the Shurima Empire finally moved away from Narima Jie and moved to the newly built Shurima City in the Shurima River Basin, but in any case, Narima Jie is the same The birthplace of a great empire is the root of the entire empire.

And today, Narima Jie is about to welcome two special new guests, and an old guy who has revisited his old place.

Just went through a devil training, and now they can see people again. When they saw the smoke rising from Narima Jie in the distance, Lux and Ino felt as if they had passed through the desert at this time. The traveler is more like an unlucky guy who has gone through hell.

"Is it real?" Ino asked tremblingly, "The smoke...is it real?"

"Really, really!" Lux rubbed her eyes, "It's not a mirage, it's not a distant view, but real cooking smoke, real human smoke!"

After getting an affirmative answer, Ino let go of the camel's reins and rolled over from the ridge of the dune.

And behind her, Lux could no longer restrain the smile on her face, and rolled directly down the sand dune.

Behind them, the two camels seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then they finally took a slow pace, circled along the ridge of the dune, and followed their owner who was rolling in the yellow sand.

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The hot gravel scorched by the sun stuck to the robe, making the robe hot from ironing.

The flying gravel fluttered and landed in the middle of the hair, making the scalp itchy slightly.

But at this moment, Lacus and Ino didn't care at all.

After confirming that Narima Jie was in front of them, confirming that they had finally walked out of the Dasai Desert, and confirming that they had finally passed the devil training that was scary even to say the least, they felt only joy in their hearts.

From Uzeris to Narima Jie, the straight-line distance is almost five thousand miles!

Even though Lux and Ino had to trek through the wind and sand for more than 18 hours a day, they still walked the five thousand miles for more than three months.

After one stage after another of training, Lacus and Ino squeezed their bodies to the limit, and as the magic power shortage training began, their mental load was fully loaded.

At the very beginning, they would complain that the "big tonic" purchased by Kalya's guidance was too strong, but with the start of the training on lack of magic power, they didn't even have the energy to complain.

Like two rubber bands stretched infinitely, Lacus and Ino approached their limits step by step and expanded their limits step by step under Kalya's request.

On a clear afternoon after the sandstorm dissipated a month ago, Lacus and Ino saw Lamer Targon from a distance. The two little girls looked at the mountain peak that seemed to support the sky in disbelief. Can't help bursting with ecstasy.

After confirming that it was not a mirage, Lacus and Ino led the camel and ran wildly for a while, but after three days at full speed, they finally understood what it meant to "Watch the Mountain and Run the Dead Horse".

Targon is so high and so big that even thousands of miles away, you can see its majestic figure.

"The star vault is far bigger than Mount Targon. Don't be impatient when climbing." When Lux and Ino finally couldn't run anymore and finally returned to their normal pace, Kalya's reminder came long after Chi, "Don't be too excited because you think you're about to climb to the top. Only when you really stand on the top, can you climb successfully."

It was precisely because of this lesson that Lacus and Ino finally felt relieved when they actually came outside the city of Nerimajie and touched the city wall that seemed to be engraved with ancient times.

I... have really come to Narima Jie!

After looking at each other, both of them smiled at the same time, as if all their strength had been taken away, their whole bodies leaned against the hot city wall.

"Would you like a piece of ice?" Yinuo leaned against the wall and slid down to sit on the floor little by little. "Come on, we have to enter the city!"

"No need, no need." Lux licked the dry corner of her mouth, "Go to the city, go to the city, I don't want to wait any longer!"

"Then, give me a hand!" Ino stretched out his arm, "My lower back is numb..."

Lux grabbed Ino's arm and pulled it hard, but Ino got up, but Lax lost her balance and fell directly with her - the two of them tumbled again in the yellow sand.

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After a lot of tossing, Lacus and Ino finally found the east gate of Nerima Jie along the city wall.

Unlike those port cities near the sea in Northern Shurima, the city walls of Narimajie are not too tall, and the entrance of the city gate is amphibious.

To the west of Narimaja's city, the snow-capped mountains turned into trickles, converging into several rivers connected to the underground water system. Some of them passed through the city, some came around the city, and finally converged into a big river. The east gate of Nerima Jie roared and galloped away—her name was the Shurima River, the mother river that nurtured countless people in Shurima.

This river not only nourishes the most fertile Shurima River Basin in Shurima, but also undertakes the most important inland water transport task in this continent. As the source of the Shurima River, Narima Jie is the mother's Nursing first child.

Although the Shurima River is so fast that sailing against the current is almost impossible, at the entrance of Narima Jie, countless shirtless trackers are still shouting chant and pulling the ropes, dragging one boat after another. To the entrance of the city gate sluice.

On the other side, one ship after another full of cargo went down the river, and after passing through the narrow entrance area, they headed east along the wide river.

Between the incoming and outgoing cargo ships, there are many shuttle-like small rafts passing through them. The raft supporter only needs a long pole to let the small rafts swim flexibly between the gaps between the cargo ships—entering and exiting the city gate. It took a lot of time to check and pay taxes. During the queuing of the cargo ship, these small rafts sold them some dry food.

Among them, the number of people buying and selling lamb legs is the largest. The large half of the leg is connected to a sheep's hoof. It seems to have been specially marinated.

Seeing how the buyer eats it without ignoring the dripping juice, it must taste quite good-this kind of situation of selling food on the main road of traffic is quite a bit like a roasted chicken at the crossing.

The land gate where Lacus and Ino are located is actually not full of people, and there is no need to queue up, and they can come and go freely.

But the two little girls, who hadn't seen outsiders for a long time, were involuntarily attracted to this scene of heavy traffic, and they became a little crazy for a while.

"Don't look at it, your saliva is about to flow out!" Let them watch stupidly for a quarter of an hour before Kalya reminded, "Let's go, let's go to the city - that's the rock on Mount Targon. Lamb shank, it tastes very good, but you can't eat it now."

"Why?" Lux, who was almost drooling just now, raised her eyebrows when she heard that she couldn't eat it, "Why don't you let us eat it?"

"Because you have to continue to stick to the high-energy diet." Kalya's words made her instantly discouraged, "I have persisted all the way, and now I can't give up just because I am greedy for a while!"

Hearing this, Lacus and Ino grinned at the same time.

"However, let me tell you some good news." Kalya continued with a smile, "Although you can't eat pan sheep, there is a high-energy food in Narima Jie that tastes better than pan sheep!"

"Is there something delicious about high-energy food?"

"Of course there is!" Kalya didn't give a damn, "Hui sheep, one of the ancestors of pan sheep, is the most delicious. The wild Hui sheep living on Mount Targon are magical creatures."

"Bright Sheep?" Hearing what Kalya said, Lacus and Ino couldn't help being stunned for a moment, "Star Sheep? What is that?"

"A group of magical animals that live on the cliffs of Mount Targon and bathe in the starlight." Carya introduced, "Their meat is delicious, their fur has strong magic resistance, and their bones are even better materials. Pan Yang is them offspring."

"The descendant of Huiyang is Panyang?"

"Yeah, domesticated and hybridized." Kalya seemed to know them very well, "Hui sheep can be domesticated, but it is troublesome to raise, and the meat output is still very low-so after domestication, let it be compared with the local sheep. common goats, and you will get the Pan-sheep."

When Lacus and Ino heard this, their expressions were a little subtle.

"However, pan sheep will degenerate from the third generation and become ordinary goats, so to breed pan sheep, you must breed Hui sheep at the same time, or breed once in two generations." Carya said with a slightly nostalgic tone, "I don't know Has the people of Nerima Jie solved this problem now? It took us a long time to catch Hui sheep and breed them after domestication. I remember it was Aatrox. At that time, it seemed that Hui sheep pushed a Come on, I insist on chopping sheep with a sword... Hahaha, let's go, let's go to the city, I will teach you how to cook Huiyang specialties, stewed whole lamb is my specialty!"

Facing the dark history about this senior named Aatrox that Kalya inadvertently revealed, Lacus and Ino had subtle expressions—they looked at each other, and then realized that they seemed to be Also some gaffes.

Although Greedy Panyang's behavior was not as embarrassing as being humiliated by Huiyang, but what he said afterwards was somewhat embarrassing!

Thinking of this, Lacus and Ino decisively grabbed the reins of the camel and quickly entered the city gate.

Forget it, let's try Huiyang!
　Karya's Small Classroom Shurima Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Transformation:
　　The paternal parent of the pan sheep is the domesticated Hui sheep, which can absorb the celestial energy dissipated from Mount Targon and store it in the body.

　　The female parent of pan sheep is a carefully cultivated local high-yield meat goat, which is a kind of livestock with an excellent feed-to-meat ratio.

　　The offspring of the hybrid inherited some of the advantages of both sides. Although they were not magical animals, they could crazily grow flesh by absorbing the dissipated celestial energy. They were the most important source of meat for the residents near Mount Targon.

　　Pan sheep, a special product of Nerima Jie, is just one of the results of the transformation of agriculture and animal husbandry during the Shurima Empire. At that time, in order to enrich the material conditions, the Shurima Empire adopted the method of domestication and hybridization under the leadership of Karya. , to cultivate all kinds of dairy animals, meat animals, egg poultry, as well as large pack animals and economic animals.

　　The Ascenders personally went out to capture those powerful magical animals, domesticated them and cultivated them for the second generation, and then after comprehensively considering the cost of cultivation, they chose whether to continue to hybridize or continue to domesticate...

　　Pan sheep are hybridized after domestication, and the silkworms that produce silk in Nashilame are cultivated by A Zhi from a kind of poisonous moth from generation to generation.

　　In this way, the Shurima Empire spent hundreds of years cultivating a large number of high-quality livestock breeds, greatly enriching its diet and living conditions at a relatively small cost.

　　Even today, there are still legends circulating in many places in Shurima that "the Ascendant bestowed some special economic animals/cash crops". This is one of the main reasons why Shurima people still miss that great empire even after thousands of years .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)