Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

Rotten Town is located between the border and Shem.

It can be said that it is the outermost of all the large towns in the swamp.

Even the remote Skinning Town is closer to Shark Village in a straight line.

Being far away from the center of the swamp and the prosperous internal trade... It also means that in the past, the status of Rotten Town has always been at most a vassal of others, like a dispensable satellite town.

This is the case for all the gangs that came out of the local area, big and small.

Even if they can shine, they are like a meteor passing by, and they are soon swallowed up by the big faction of Shark Village.

However, people from Rotten Town.

They often become tough guys in the eyes of people from other regions.

This may be due to its poor living environment - it can be seen from the name of the town that even in the swamp, the natural environment around Rotten Town is even worse: black swamps are everywhere and miasma is rampant.

The only industry is to produce the stone with the lowest cost-effectiveness.

The stonemasons had to go to a nearby mountain range in the midst of miasma and rainstorms, cut the rocks into usable bricks, and then carry them back with manpower in the absence of pack animals... You can imagine how hard it was.

As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people.

If you want to get out of it, you can only try your best.

For this reason, although the major gangs do not like Rotten Town, they are quite interested in absorbing talents here - and Rotten Town has lost more and more young and strong people, and has less hope of rising.

This situation was not changed until someone walked out of Rotten Town.

She trekked through the swamp, walked out of her hometown, and joined the prosperous Stoke Tribe.

Soon after, she was called "Hound".

And those people in Rotten Town who followed her also became the prototype of the original Hound Gang.

When Big Green became the overlord of Shark Village, she did not choose to accept the flattery of Big Black Eyebrow and share with him the Mud Town, a place where coins were exchanged like water and was decadent and luxurious, but insisted on placing the headquarters in Rotten Town. And despite Ilse's opposition, he used manpower to prospect for minerals, and finally found another copper and iron ore area on the east side of Rotten Town, at the border between the swamp and Shem. Although it was far from the center of Rotten Town, it at least alleviated the living difficulties of some townspeople.

Afterwards, even Ilse had to admit it.

This move was also extremely important for the consolidation of Big Green's position in Shark Village: because of her attention to Rotten Town, some merchants and smugglers spontaneously linked Shark Village with it, and showed goodwill to it while grabbing profits; and the industry of Rotten Town complemented that of Shark Village, greatly improving the armament level of the Hound Gang, indirectly undermining the competitor of Skinning Town, which also produced iron, so that the smugglers of Skinning could only continue to maintain their advantages in fur, leather and armor; Rotten Town also became the most solid base of the Hound Gang.

As for rejecting Big Black Eyebrow.

Now it seems even wiser, otherwise most of the forces are in the enemy's hometown of Mud Town, and they may all become turtles in a jar.

What a pity...

Achi on the top of the city sighed.

"Chief Chi, you don't have to do this," said a masked man in black beside him, "Rotten Town is far away from Shark Village after all. Even if we rushed there at that time, it would be too late."

"I said, you don't have to call me chief. I never thought of inheriting her position..." Ah Chi leaned on the solid battlement and looked into the distance, but his sight was blocked by the giant trees and the misty miasma, and no one knew what he was looking at, "Besides, the Hound Gang has been disbanded."

The news of the Iron Dome battle came.

Ah Chi sat in silence at the headquarters all night, and made this decision the next day.

"Okay," the man in black shrugged, "but I call you Lord Chi... It's not wrong."

Ah Chi did not refute.

Even if the Hound Gang is gone, the status of the people inside will not change.

The current Rotten Town is still under their jurisdiction.

"I just thought that Big Green might have done something wrong." He suddenly said, "No matter how you run Rotten Town, it's fine when it's prosperous, and everyone will count it as your strength... But when something unexpected happens, these investments will go down the drain." From Rotten Town to Shark Village. It's almost equivalent to crossing half of the swamp. When Achi learned about the news of the Iron Dome, although the shocking things on the letter read as if they had just happened, he knew that the messenger of the Hound Gang had been on the road for more than a month, and only had time to hold on to the outside of the wall of Rotten Town before he fell unconscious. Even if there was really a moment, the winner of Shark Village was still unstable. They were powerless to save the situation. Now everything has been settled - and as expected, the letter of surrender signed by "Beiyou" soon followed. The coalition forces don't have to hide. If they didn't need to rest normally, they might have caught up with the hound who reported the news. "I don't know whether Lord Green is wrong or not," the man in black said slowly, "but maybe, it's your entire swamp that is wrong?"

Achi glanced at him.

The other party covered his face, and only a hint of cunning could be seen from his exposed eyes.

Achi: "Are you still talking about the thing you mentioned before?"

"That's right, Lord Chi." The man in black lowered his head, "Perhaps, Rotten Town should not belong to the swamp."

"Instead, it should join the border land."

"Although we are almost the same in terms of distance, the difficulty of traveling on the road is not at the same level - Shark Village is located in the center of the swamp, and Daze is densely covered with jungles. Starting from Rotten Town, let alone marching, even if the native swamp people are experienced Under the leadership of a team leader, you may lose your way;"

"On the other hand, the journey from here to the border is the transition period to the arid zone. No matter how heavy the heavy rain penetrates into the gravel, it will disappear without a trace. The rainforest gradually becomes sparse along the way. Even without the need for a guide, you can easily reach here... "The man in black pointed at himself, "Isn't it better for me to see City Lord Chi earlier than those messengers who persuaded me to surrender?"

"No matter how you look at it, Rotten Town's relationship can be closer to the outside world."

"You are right." Achi responded without nodding, "But from another perspective, Rotten Town is also the gateway to the swamp."

"The origin of the name Border Land...isn't it because the Three Kingdoms are in constant disputes and wars here?" He pointed to the city wall at his feet. It was as tall as a giant tree, but its width allowed cattle to walk side by side. Every stone brick was covered with bricks. Traces etched by wind and rain, "and in order to resist the bandits from the outside world, Rotten Town was established."

Compared to the war in the border areas.

Even the swamp is considered peaceful.

Even if it is more convenient to travel from Rotten Town to the border area, it is also convenient for defeated soldiers and refugees to attack here. The people of Rotten Town are brave and good at fighting, and this may not be without this factor - they are all forced out.

It is simply ridiculous to say that Rotten Town belongs to the border land.

The man in black heard the irony in Achi's words and was not angry. He just smiled and said, "That was before. The border land now is..."

"Boss..." A gang member in yellow clothes ran up the city wall. When he saw the man in black beside him, he hesitated for a moment and said, "An envoy from Shark Village has been sent again."

"City Lord Chi." The man in black whispered from the side.

There was a hint of warning in his tone.

"Sorry, I haven't made up my mind yet." Achi said, "They have been here so many times. Rotten Town also has its own hospitality... take me to meet them."

The second half of his sentence was addressed to the crowd.

After saying these words, Achi walked down the stairs and down the city wall, leaving only the visitors from the borderland standing on top. A breeze lifted his black clothes, revealing the shriveled skin underneath, as if he had been dehydrated by the sun for a long time.

The man in black looked down from the shooting hole in the battlement.

In the mist, a figure wearing a metal hat and a long coat could be seen faintly... It should be the so-called envoy from Shark Village.

He didn't take it seriously, nor was he angry at Achi's attitude.

After laughing pitifully for a few times, he followed them and went down to the city together.