Chapter 753 - You’ll be Sleeping Here Tonight (1/2)

Chapter 753

You’ll be Sleeping Here Tonight

The six Gongjia members were shown around along the trading area’s streets to familiarize themselves with the atmosphere here.

Though the scale here could not be compared to the famous cities lining the coast, it was still much bigger than the newer cities. It was obvious that the Flaming Horn tribe had placed in a lot of effort in the trading point’s construction.

However, this was not all to the trading point’s size. According to the other Flaming Horns, the expansion would come in due time and the location had already been pinpointed. It would be difficult to tell how large the Flaming River Trading Point would grow to be when that happens.

Despite its similarities to the cities elsewhere, the feeling it gave off was very different from the coastal region. The shops here were simple and there wasn’t much variety in their items, drenched heavily in their tribal lifestyle. Aside from the rest inns, shops that sold fearsome beast flesh, horns, fangs and bones had received the most traffic. Places outside these establishments were filled with a very rustic breath of the wild.

“This is amazing. I can’t believe this place actually looks like this.” The eldest out of the six Gongjia members, Gongjia Kan, commented.

Though the Flaming Horns that came to receive them at the edge of the desert had already supplied them more information on the Flaming River Trading Point, seeing really was believing. Everything had come as a pleasant surprise to them.

It really was different from all the stories!

“Looks like we made the right choice,” uttered Gongjia Ren.

The other Gongjia members nodded in unison. This place was indeed much better than expected. They were all very willing to start anew in a wonderful place like this.

“I can’t believe they don’t have a uniform currency here. But I guess it does make sense. Metal wares are scarce here and the barter system would be a better fit for their lifestyle.” Gongjia Kan studied his surroundings carefully.

One of the Flaming Horn warriors who were showing them around couldn’t help but respond, “Actually, the Grand Elder did think of introducing a uniform currency. However, the idea couldn’t be realized due to certain reasons.”

“Oh?” Gongjia Ren’s interest was piqued. He pressed, “Did your Grand Elder mention what kind of material it’ll be? Will it shells? Or bones? Or maybe even fangs?”

The Flaming Horn warrior went silent. Before the Grand Elder’s official announcement, they wouldn’t provide too much insight.

Noticing that he had no way of prying more answers, Gongjia Ren could only give up on the thought. The Flaming Horn warrior was stubborn. If they didn’t wish to say more, it would be absolutely difficult to extract more answers. Gongjia Ren could only swallow his questions back down.

While the Gongjia members strolled around the trading point, Shao Xuan brought the coffin-like wooden box into the underground basement.

He refused to bring something with unknown danger to the headquarters. Hence, he could only store it here.

“This looks like the monsters we encountered in the desert,” said Zheng Luo after taking a good look into the opened box.

It was similar but it was still very much different. Zheng Luo could remember the monster that was brought back to the tribe’s headquarters back then. While the corpse had looked similar to those shrivelled monsters, there were many contrasts.

“Are they complete?” Zheng Luo asked.

While the body laid inside was shrivelled up, there was no scar on its body. Its stomach had sunken down deeply but it was not left with just a layer of skin over bones as seen in the monsters. There was clearly something left within, presumably dried organs. As shrivelled as its skin could be, its organs were probably in a similar fashion too.

“Has it not been reanimated? Could there be other reasons tied to this?” Zheng Luo was perplexed. “According to what you’ve said, there must be a good reason why the desert slave master had brought it along.”

“I think the corpse’s reanimator might not be able to control this particular body.” Shao Xuan wouldn’t bring this body into the Flaming River Trading Point if he hadn’t conducted a few probes on the way over.

“This person was probably really strong when alive. He wouldn’t be any weaker than you and Ao. His bones are really strong. I’m sure you’re aware of this. Among totemic warriors, the stronger you are, the tougher your bones will become.”