Chapter 40: On the Road
Evelyn nodded and did not ask why Chu Xiaocheng was so anxious to help Xiaoyue City, which was directly related to the Fire Cult. The Fire Cult took Xiaoyue City as the base and began to send people to the remote mountainous areas of Chu Xiaocheng to preach. Fortunately, Chu Xiaocheng's cultural city, poor people were subsidized by the city hall, and no one was bewitched. But there were always some barefoot speculators who wanted to do things. The so-called barefoot is people with nothing, and these people were willing to take risks to do something with great returns. Assuming that Xiaoyue City could list the Fire Cult as a cult, then Chu Xiaocheng would not be affected by the Fire Cult. This is also an important reason why Chu Xiaocheng showed goodwill and did not want to be messed with by the Fire Cult.
Because the Fire Cult in Xiaoyue City is legal, the Force Alliance rejects Xiaoyue City's application to join the alliance. With the principle of alliance trade priority, Xiaoyue City's food reserves have always been balanced, which is also a political consideration. Considering that if the Fire Cult is in charge and curbing the food in Xiaoyue City, the Fire Cult can prevent the Fire Cult from launching a war. The Fire Cult has always advocated the threat of Dusk City west of Xiaoyue City in Xiaoyue City. The two cities have a history of grievances for hundreds of years, and the distance is less than 300 kilometers and there is a direct road. Once the Fire Cult obtains the Chu Xiaocheng regime, it is very likely that the fungi teams will be sent to the border of Dusk City for territorial disputes. The war has a butterfly effect, so the Alliance countries have always paid close attention to Xiaoyue City. Xiaoyue City can be said to have been suppressed by the Alliance because of the Fire Cult's legal reason, which gives the Fire Cult's reason to provoke Xiaoyue City's hostility to the Alliance.
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The train arrived, and everyone boarded the train together. The means of transportation and logistics had been transported to Linshi Village yesterday. The maximum sentence of this group of prisoners was seven years and the minimum sentence was three years. The possibility of escaping or making trouble was relatively low. But even so, dozens of security guards and multiple policemen were responsible. Although there were so many people, the food transported in the past was a drop in the bucket, but it could achieve a stable effect. Then, as soon as the sea ship arrived, it could solve the situation of winter and food shortage.
On the train, everyone talked about Xiaoyue City and the Fire Cult. Xiaoyue City has been suppressed by alliance countries for decades because of the large number of Fire Cult believers and the Fire Cult is legalized. This alliance country is not the Force Alliance. The alliance country is called the Eternal Alliance, which is a major alliance in politics, fungi, commerce, agriculture and other aspects. The member states of the Force Alliance are also members of the Eternal Alliance. However, the Force Alliance does not interfere in diplomacy and politics, and is not led by the Eternal Alliance. Unless a dispute arises in the alliance countries and cannot be resolved, and the impact is serious, the Force Alliance will come forward and hold a competition and the winner will get favorable conditions. It seems unfair to the loser, but when both sides make sense, this method is used to avoid the occurrence of war is a relatively appropriate means.
The core concept of the Fire Cult is that the power of the gods is higher than that of the regime, and it was very marketable in the early feudal situation. However, with the development of planetary civilization, most countries no longer had emperors, but instead ordinary people elected leaders and abolished the privileged class, which greatly reduced the influence of the Fire Cult. In this way, countries such as Chu Xiaocheng with medical and sound social welfare protection have almost no opportunity to take advantage of. But no matter how developed the civilization is, there will always be gods and monsters, and there will always be believers, such as the God Cult, the largest religion in the Eternal Planet, which also supports theism. The difference is that you may not believe in the God Cult, and you will not be unlucky, and you may regard everyone as equals. If you do not believe in the God Cult, you will be unlucky and treat people who are not the Fire Cult as pagans.
The core countries dominated by the Fire Cult are all in the Central Continent, which is the holy land of the Fire Cult. There are no Fire Cult countries in the East Continent, but there are still several countries who believe that Fire Cult is legal. The Eternal Alliance has been communicating and negotiating with these countries. These countries also hope that their own freedom of belief will not be a reason for discrimination for the alliance.
Xiaoyue City has a total population of 12 million, and it is a famous mining country on the Eternal Planet. It has rich resources such as coal mines, gold mines, diamonds, jade, etc. Especially coal mines are the main supply site for the East Continent. The civil strife in Xiaoyue City is definitely not a good thing for the East Continent. Apart from strict grain transportation, there are no restrictions on other commodities, so Xiaoyue City is still a very rich country. However, the gap between the rich and the poor is very large, and the lives of the mine owners are luxurious and corruption, and the lives of the lower class are difficult to be guaranteed. Although the government has methods such as increasing taxes and increasing welfare, it is difficult to reverse the gap between the rich and the poor in the short term.
The train arrived at Caishi Township at 5 pm, and had prepared the mini-Pakistan and transported personnel to Linshi Village, the most border. Linshi Village, with less than 100 residents, was very lively and all work was in full swing. The next morning, a long horse team set foot on the ancient road and headed to Xiaoyue City.
As the forefront, the four Beiyue and the other four had already set off last night. They first walked on the ancient road, and then followed Shanbo's map to the southwest to enter the highway. The road was filled with various rocks, most of which were basalt stones. Small gravels were scattered everywhere by the wind for many years. There were more than 50 kilograms of rocks on the road, and even tons of rocks were found.
You can see three craters at the entrance of the road, ranging from ten kilometers to forty kilometers. These are all small and medium-sized volcanoes. If they are super volcanoes, Linshi Village will be affected. The entrance of the road is fine. Although it is covered with stones, the horse team can also walk normally except in some places. After fifty kilometers, it is a complete rocky area, which is also the most difficult distance for the horse team to cross.
Beiyue and the others were not here to consider whether the road was smooth by the horse team, but to find out whether there were Force animals. The four of them separated and conducted a comprehensive search of five kilometers in diameter on the route. The search method is very simple. Using the Nether method, the Force is covered as much as possible on the ground. As long as they are exposed to the abnormal Force, they can be discovered.
This ability is related to the equivalent of the Force. Cui Ming and Li Qing are in the same group. Cui Ming's Force can only expand into a range of 60 meters in the underworld state. Ding Ze is a range of 90 meters, and Beiyue reaches 180 meters, and Li Qing is as high as 230 meters. Everyone drives the Force, and then jumps around the stones left and right, and searches. At first, Cui Ming does it very regularly according to Evelyn's requirements, but later it becomes distorted. After all, it is very boring and the propulsion speed is very slow.
Chapter completed!