Chapter 544 8.62 Cultural Barriers

Chapter 544 62 Cultural Barriers

Three days later, the Hash Caravan walked out of the Langte Oasis where the Scorpion Tribe was located. Read М

The caravan stayed in the city for three days, on the one hand, to allow the members who suffered from the wind and sand to get a moment of rest.

Enjoy exquisite food and fine wine, and at the same time get a chance to be intimate with the free women.

On the other hand, it was the distribution of goods by old Hash.

This journey made him feel unprecedented wealth. But entering the desert and reaching the oasis does not mean that a lot of gold and silver has been obtained.

He needs to exchange the food, weapons, silk, cotton and other materials brought by the caravan for goods in the hands of the free people. Then transport this batch of goods out of the desert and put them in his shop in Constantinople to exchange for shiny gold coins.

In this process, the question of how much to purchase is involved.

The various magic essences made by the "poison masters" in the Scorpion Tribe have a lot of audiences in Constantinople, but on the other hand, transporting bottles of liquids in glass is inherently very risky.

Cotton and silk were both valuable items in this era. After selling off all the goods, all the members of the caravan had only a few sets of clothes to change.

Therefore, no shock-absorbing materials were prepared in the caravan.

Most caravan merchants used wooden boxes made of wood. It might be okay to carry magic potions on flat ground with such wooden boxes, but they would break if you were not careful when crossing sand dunes in the Black Desert.

Breaking a few bottles of magic essence might only result in the loss of gold coins, but if the breath of magic essence attracted sleeping ancient monsters, the caravan would be in great trouble.

After thinking again and again, Old Hash only sold one-third of the goods in the caravan in Langte Oasis. This was already 4 full carts of various glassware. When the horses walked, the sound of glass colliding could be heard from time to time.

The reduction of goods often means the shortening of the caravan, but the Hash caravan still had more than 100 carriages out of Langte Oasis. The reason was that there were 30 or 40 more fully armed free people in the caravan.

Most of them were half-grown children of only twelve or thirteen years old.

"What happened in this desert that required them to send these young children to the battlefield?"

In the face of this, the scholar who was the least acquainted with human relations expressed his confusion.

This time, entering the Langte Oasis, the Byzantine scholars formed a sharp contrast with the happy porters.

Their request to enter the tomb of the Venomous Scorpion Emperor for a look was rejected neatly by the high-level priests. Whether they took out the letter of introduction from the chief scholar or the pass from the Byzantine King "Mikhail III", it was useless.

The Venomous Scorpion Tribe has lived in the Langte Oasis for generations. The only meaning of their existence is to guard the tomb of the Venomous Scorpion Emperor. Whether it is the "chief scholar" or the "Byzantine King", the high-level priests have no interest in knowing who they are.

After talking for an afternoon without any effect, the scholars could only return in disappointment before the temple priests were about to release the scorpions to drive them away.

After sleeping for a night with a lot of sullenness, the luck of the scholars did not improve the next day.

They wanted to enter the scorpion ranch to find out whether there were any ancient books on "scorpion breeding", but they were turned away again.

Free people and residents living in the city-states around the Mediterranean have completely opposite attitudes towards the word "science".

Information is transmitted very quickly between all countries connected by the Mediterranean waterway.

In recent years, with the rise of the city, a large number of businessmen and ordinary people have truly experienced the changes that "science" has made in their lives.

The status of scholars has risen rapidly. By AD810, they were no less than the priests of the Holy Episcopal Church in many prosperous towns.

No matter which family, the scholars only need to knock on the door, and the residents will most likely agree to any of their requests after seeing the bachelor's badge on their chests.

But no one in the scorpion tribe deep in the black desert knows this group of scholars.

There is not even the word "science" in their language. The scholars danced and gestured for a long time with several translators.

They first tried to convince the old man of the power of science by saying, "Our research can help you increase the production of scorpion venom," but the illiterate freeman scoffed at their proposal.

Without the blessing of the Scorpion King, you know nothing about raising scorpions

Do I need you to teach me? !

Seeing that the plan failed, the scholars used "We have many exquisite gadgets that can significantly improve your quality of life" as bait.

The scholars took out the exquisite inventions of the Citadel in recent years, including the corona, the compass needle, and the feather pen, etc. The freeman old man disdained all these useless things.

So much so that at the last moment, when the scholars took out silk tea leaves to try to bribe him, the old man had already firmly believed that this was a group of thieves who wanted to steal scorpions.

After closing the door with a "bang", it was never opened again.

After a whole day of repeated arguing, the scholars finally had to give up.

Among all the scholars, only Hans Wales, who was born into a noble family, knew clearly that what was happening in the Black Desert was simply beyond their comprehension.

Because there was a huge cognitive barrier between different cultures.

When he was young, a Celtic riot in Wales left a deep impression on him.

When Hans Wales was 7 years old, a big event happened in Wales County.

Hans's elder brother "Charles Wales" accidentally met a Celtic pregnant woman who was about to give birth in a village while patrolling the territory. The pregnant woman encountered a difficult birth during the birth process, and when the midwife was helpless and waiting for the Celtic druid.

Charles, the Holy Bishop priest under the "Holy Light Path", knew in his heart that the pregnant woman's situation could not be delayed at all.

Charles believed in the Holy Light all his life. When he saw the people in the territory in danger, he had only one thought in his mind, that is, he must save these two lives.

Ignoring her husband's obstruction, Charles broke into the pregnant woman's home, cast a holy light spell to preserve her life characteristics, and then carried her on the horse with one hand.

At this time, the soul fire in the pregnant woman's body was too weak. In order to save her and the life of her fetus in her belly, he had to transport her to the nearest Holy Bishop Church and bathe in holy water to complete the subsequent delivery ceremony.

However, he did not expect what all this would look like in the eyes of the Celts.

When Charles was trying his best to save the life of the pregnant woman in the church, the Celtic Druids surrounded the church with a large number of armed villagers.

They didn't know what kind of ritual Charles was performing inside, they only knew that he rushed into his village and robbed his people.

The bloody war broke out without warning, and it seemed that both sides had reasons to draw their weapons and fight bloody battles.

So a strange scene took place outside this rural church. Inside the church, Prince Charles, who was in the "Holy Light Path", tried his best to save the lives of the pregnant woman and the child.

Outside the church, groups of guards died under the sticks of the Celtic Druids.

It took only one morning to cause the innocent loss of dozens of lives.

And did the pregnant woman's life save in the end?

No.

The pregnant woman and the child that Prince Charles saved with his life were hanged on a big tree at the entrance of the village the next day after returning to the village, because she and the newborn baby were unclean.

"Born with death" is the most terrible oracle in the Celtic culture that believes in the power of nature.

Their souls must perish to appease nature's wrath.