Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Town gate
"Brother Jiatu, she has been following us..."

"Well...I see."

In the forest, Wei Wei and Jiatu were whispering.

Jiatu has been observing the distant town.

For the girl behind him, his idea is "follow me", unlike the man with glasses or Xu Xiu who only have one person, he and Wei Wei have two people, and they can still firmly surpass the girl in terms of combat power.

Although he has never seen a girl fighting, both Jiatu and Wei Wei can pass the second round of tests in the lower area, and the appearance of the brain has greatly shortened the distance between ordinary people and geniuses, so he doesn't think girls are alone. One person can threaten both of them.

"It's not so much a 'threat', but rather a 'want to form a group'?"

Cato thought silently.

Even if the lone wolf is out of the pack, he knows that it is safer to be with his companions, especially since the girl is still a thin girl, who is more vulnerable to attacks than teenagers like Jia Tu and Wei Wei.

Not to mention other things, just being targeted by human traffickers, the possibility of being lured into prostitution is not low.

So he simply said a few words to Wei Wei, and acquiesced in the existence of the girl.

When this slightly distant trio gradually formed, Jiatu's attention returned to the small town.

To be honest, Jiatu was not very interested in the town in the distance.

Not only is the rammed earth road covered with gravel and ruts from the rainy season, but the houses inside the town and the wooden fences around it are also dilapidated, exuding a stench, much like the rumored medieval town.

But considering that they still have to learn the language of the other world, even though Jiatu was very conflicted in his heart, he still thought about the requirements of this task.

"If you want to learn the language of another world, you must find a place where you can listen to a large number of residents' conversations and collect conversation samples."

"Secondly, we must not be discovered that we are from another world, otherwise we may be arrested and tortured."

"Finally, there are Wei Wei and the girl, the two oil bottles. We must be careful not to conflict with the local local snakes..."

As Jiatu was thinking, he glanced at the young man beside him.

Although Wei Wei himself may not know it, in Jiatu's view, his goal is bigger than a girl.

If you compare them casually, you can feel that compared with the locals, even if Wei Wei is not a small nobleman, he is still a child of a well-to-do wealthy businessman.

Such a child, alone on the street, could easily be spotted by the local gang and kidnapped.

"I don't know why Sun Simiao chose him... Maybe it's because he's close to me?"

Jiatu thought silently, and then told Wei Wei:
"You and her are waiting for me here. I will go over to see the situation first. If the problem is not serious, I will take you there."

"Ok."

Wei Wei nodded, and then asked nervously: "Boss Jiatu, you won't leave us and run away?"

Jiatu was a little dumbfounded:

"Run? In this different world? Where can I go if I want to run?"

"That's right..."

Wei Wei smiled foolishly, then watched Jiatu turn over and slide down the forest.

Jiatu looked at the pedestrians on both sides of the road.

They were dressed in shabby and dirty linen clothes than Jiatu, and they looked at him in surprise.

Then he said something out loud.

"Probably 'Who are you?' or 'How did you get out of there?'?"

Jiatu silently remembered the words of these people in his heart, lowered his hood, nodded to them, and walked towards the town leaning on a thick branch.

He imitated the appearance of the others, hunched his head down, and blended in the crowd without saying a word.

Listening to other people's conversations.

It's a pity that most of these people are ordinary people carrying farm goods on their backs, and they just said those few words over and over again.

Garto suspected they were talking about topics like "How's the weather?" "How's your harvest?" or "How's your wife and kids?"

"The vocabulary of ordinary people is too small... I still have to find some merchants..."

Jiatu thought silently, and slowly approached the town.

He noticed two guards in tattered leather armor in front of the town gate surrounded by wooden fences, and a yellow-clothed civil servant wearing a long-feathered three-cornered hat.

They shouted loudly and asked the villagers to hand over some small rusty copper coins. On the road beside the city gate, there were still some disheveled beggars lying on their faces. Some of them were still kneeling on the ground, begging. Words, more people have been lying on the ground lost their voices.

"Famine? Or land annexation?"

Jiatu thought silently, keeping the words of those beggars in his heart.

When he got close to the city gate to about 100 meters, he pretended to get sand in the soles of his shoes, squatted down and retreated from the queue.

"It is definitely impossible to 'collect enough samples' at the gate of the city, but to enter the gate of the town, you need copper coins... Fortunately, there is no such thing as a customs clearance document, as long as you give money, the guards and tax officials will let you in..."

Jiatu summed up the collected information and returned to the forest.

Almost the moment he climbed up the hillside behind the road, Wei Wei couldn't wait to meet him:
"How is it? Boss Jiatu, did you find anything?"

"Prepare the goods."

Jiatu replied succinctly: "We need to prepare some commodities that can be traded before we can mix in."

"So... want to steal some pumpkins or something?"

Wei Wei asked hesitantly.

On their way to the city gate, they met a family living in the mountains and forests, and opened up some farmland on a gentler hillside.

Wei Wei only recognized pumpkins, and Jiatu could also identify some other leguminous plants.

But Jiatu just shook his head:
"No, if we want to pass through the city gate, we must exchange for copper coins, but the farmers outside the city gate hardly need agricultural products, so if we want to exchange copper coins from them, we must bargain and have a long conversation."

"But in this way, we have to master the language of the local people... Is it an endless loop of 'which came first, the chicken or the egg'..."

Wei Wei nodded, and gradually understood Jiatu's meaning.

"Correct."

Jiatu confirmed: "However, we passed a water pool, right? Going back there, we should be able to find a way to hunt some wild animals in the dark."

"Selling wild game... This is indeed a good way!"

Wei Wei affirmed with some excitement.

For them, whether it is hunting elk or hare, it is not a big problem.

However, long-term consumption of rice and potatoes will make it more troublesome for chronically malnourished farmers to eat wild game.

Either use traps, or buy them at a high price from hunters.

If Jiatu's purpose was to enter towns rather than to make a lot of money, killing a moose and cutting off two thighs would be enough for them to get enough "tolls".

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(End of this chapter)