Chapter 227 Intelligence

When night comes again.

Alka and others had already arrived at this place called Broken Town.

In the northeast corner of the town, there is a group of idle triangular houses.

This area was designated by the ruler of the Broken Town as a place for outsiders to live when they arrived.

One silver snake per house per week.

Such rent, compared with the surrounding environment and the size of the house, would be no different from robbery if it were placed in Jiayuhai.

But this is the vast ocean.

What Alka didn't expect was that even the people on this island would use silver snakes to trade.

Just as what is said in the book, these three currencies are used for transactions almost everywhere, and they have almost reached the level of universal currency.

Of course, we are talking about the town’s leadership here.

For the residents of the town itself, it is more about barter and unified distribution.

This is what Alka gained in the small town today.

They rented four rooms in total, which was enough for all of them.

"Poloro, this biggest house is for the two of us." Alka said as he looked at the house in front of him, which was more than twice as tall as the surrounding ones.

This room costs two silver snakes a week.

There is no way, mainly because Porro's body size is much larger than that of normal humans.

It's like a small giant.

4 houses, a large house specially provided for inhabitation by Polo and Alka.

Xia Deti, Julia and Mathilda lived in one room.

Jason, Simon and Juanlu live in one room.

Four dolls live in one room.

Alka looked around and saw that this area was reserved for houses rented out to outsiders.

But now there are only four of them here.

And perhaps considering that they were acting together, the townspeople thoughtfully built a bonfire in the open space in the middle of their four houses.

At this time, the crackling sound of burning wood and sparks were heard.

After a quick look around the room, Alka and Pororo sat down by the campfire.

Pororo sat further away and used the water stream to moisten his skin.

The daylight hours were longer today, so he hadn't been in contact with sea water for a while.

One after another, everyone packed up their temporary shelter and sat down by the campfire.

"Everyone has separated today and has been wandering around this town for most of the day. Did you gain anything?"

Alka asked, looking at everyone.

After they were brought to the Broken Town by Bai Shi's patrol team today, they were allowed to roam freely in the town.

Just as they had said in their dreams, there was nothing strange about outsiders. As long as they did not disturb the residents here and did not cause conflicts, no one would care about them.

By the way, I also told them where to rent a house if they wanted to rest here temporarily.

Alka had previously thought that there would be such a thing as a hotel in their town.

"All residents here have magic power in their bodies, and their magic power has reached at least one spiral."

Jason looked at the campfire in front of him, fiddled with it twice and then said.

However, Alka had already received this news in his dream yesterday and briefly told everyone about it.

Although I was still prepared, I was still a little shocked.

They had never seen so many magical people gathered together in their lives.

Jason continued, "These people whose magic power is active because of the high magic environment around them are completely different from those who touch the treasure and become the touchers."

“These ordinary people become magically active due to the environment, and the survival rate of newborns is not high.

Even if they have lived in such a high-magic environment for generations and their physical constitutions have long since changed, the children they give birth to will not be born able to withstand the surge of magic power in their bodies.

The probability of neonatal death is not low, but the exact probability is unknown.

And in the subsequent growth, the damage caused by magic will make these children face certain dangers before the age of 5, and some of the children who survive will die of illness due to weak constitutions. "

When Jason finished speaking, everyone looked at him.

Juanlu scratched his head, somewhat confused.

"Did we really enter this town at the same time?"

Why does it feel like Jason has been in this town for a while? Is this news that can be obtained in such a short time?

Don't understand.

"Humph, I'm not finished yet." Jason snorted arrogantly.

"I found that I don't know who is the leader or whoever in this town, he must be in control of the treasure."

"Oh, why do you say that?" Alka asked curiously.

He had asked about it in his dream, but no one told him, so he didn't know if anyone on the island had the treasure.

"You said that the means by which they gain power are the tattoos on their bodies, right?" Jason asked, looking at Alka.

Alka nodded. This was indeed the news he had received in his dream and he had told everyone about it before.

"But I discovered today that the man named Bai Shi is definitely stronger than me, right?"

Julia beside him nodded and said, "He gives me a dangerous feeling. He should be on the same level as me."

Okay, that means he is around the sixth spiral, or even a little higher.

Hearing Julia's answer, Jason clapped his hands: "Yes, he is very strong, but he has very few tattoos on his body, only one."

"How do you know this?" Simon asked curiously.

He didn't stay on the ship for long.

So in his impression, Jason was a clown-type character on the ship, probably someone who used a gun to perform long-range attacks.

The impression given was that he was not very reliable. Not only him, but Mathilda, who had only been on the ship for a few days, felt the same way.

This even includes Juanlu.

They didn't know that Jason's real strength was in gathering intelligence.

"I asked one of his subordinates, a man who got a new tattoo a few days ago."

"He told you just that?" Simon asked puzzledly.

He felt that things like this should be considered confidential and no one would tell an outsider about such things.

Even for this small town, being outsider is not strange.

But necessary vigilance should not be absent, especially for these hunters patrolling the town.

Hearing this, Jason looked at him in surprise, came to his side, patted him and said, "Friend, he doesn't know that he has told me. He and I were just chatting."

As he said this he winked at Simon.

I see. It’s the power of language, expressed using some kind of rhetoric.

He felt that he definitely couldn't do it.

Jason continued, "I've also learned about other patrol teams, and most of the leaders have very few tattoos, while ordinary hunters have a lot of tattoos.

This is possible, but I can’t guarantee it.”

"I even followed them outside for a walk and saw how they fought."

"Those with fewer tattoos are obviously using the power of the spell, while those with more tattoos are using the power of the tattoos on their bodies."

“Those with fewer tattoos are very obvious. They have very fine control over their magic power, just like us. They can use magic power precisely to make their attacks more powerful.

Those with many tattoos are not good at this. They can only use tattoos in a simple way and simply integrate magic into tattoos. If you want them to wrap magic in their hands and let it flow out and attach to weapons, they can't do it."

Jason observed carefully and found that even the old hunters who seemed to have a lot of experience couldn't do it.

This is obviously unreasonable, unless they are born with poor control over magic.

This is a problem caused by rigid conditions and cannot be compensated by experience.

"Then I walked around the town a few times and got to know those with fewer tattoos. They should be the ones who were enlightened by the treasures, and they are all very powerful."

"As for those with many tattoos, their magic control is very poor. Without exception, they are all ordinary hunters, and their magic is activated because of this high magic environment."

After listening to Jason's entire collection of intelligence, Alka understood.

He was thinking before.

If the people of the Infinite Sea are all magically active due to their environment, then wouldn't an important feature of the treasure, the ability to enlighten people to become touchers, be meaningless?

This will inevitably lead to a significant reduction in the importance of the treasure.

For some large forces, the number of people who can be enlightened may at some point be more important than the power brought by the treasure itself.

But in "Dream Land", we can know that treasure is still the core of a force, which is obviously inconsistent with what we know.

And now this is explained.

For ordinary people whose magic power is active due to the environment, although the magic power in their bodies can make their physique stronger, it is difficult for them to control the magic power in their bodies.

Magic power is difficult to control, so basically you can say goodbye to using meditation to improve your strength, and you can only rely on natural improvement.

This is definitely much slower than the speed at which they are improving in their home sea.

In the Home Sea, he can also control the magic power in his body, spiraling it in a circuit to speed up the absorption of magic power.

It is obviously impossible for ordinary people to do this here.

Although it is not logically reasonable, after all, how can the ability to control magic power be low since childhood, but it is indeed the fact.

But from some information in the dream, we can learn that as the number of tattoos on their bodies increases, their strength will naturally increase.

Apparently, in addition to granting them the power to cast certain spells, the tattoos also increased the amount of magic power they held.

How that was done was obviously not something they could peek into now.

However, Alka still wanted to know the nature of these tattoos, so that he might be able to carve a more useful spell on the puppet.

Alka felt that there was a commonality between the two.

The residents of this island choose to use tattoos that can cast spells to enhance their fighting power.

To make up the gap between normal touchers.

But this obviously has its limits.

However, those who were enlightened by treasures did not have such shortcomings. And because of the high magic environment, their strength increased very quickly.

Just simple speculation.

Class division of town power.

Ordinary tattoo hunters are at the foundation of the power class, that is, the bottom level, while experienced tattoo hunters can probably reach the middle level.

The Touchers are clearly the middle and upper levels of power on this island.

I just don't know exactly how many people have touched it.

If we knew the exact number, we might be able to calculate how many treasures they have.

Even in the dream, Alka couldn't have figured it out completely.

Alka then looked at the others.

I want to see if they have any other information.

"So does it count if the crabs are really delicious?" Juanlu thought for a moment and replied awkwardly.

Obviously not everyone obtained useful information, especially among them, only Alka, Xiadaiti and Jason had experience in treasure hunting before.

Xia Daiti thought for a moment and said, "Due to the language barrier, it is very difficult to get some information from these people."

She also tried to gather some information , but the language barrier made it difficult for her to move forward.

Especially the residents here, who have almost never left the island. Even if there are outsiders, no one has the patience to teach them foreign languages.

And obviously they are not in the mood to learn.

After hearing this, Jason added, "Yes, I've noticed this problem as well. Those who can speak the language of the Home Sea are basically hunters, and even among hunters, only a small number of them can speak it."

If it weren't for the language barrier, Jason would have been able to obtain more information.

"And these hunters who can speak the common language are very proficient in answering questions."

But at this time, Xia Daiti smiled and said: "Fortunately, Lucilia is with me, so I also gained something."

"The residents of this island actually have a regular trading fleet that comes every 30 to 50 days and nights."

"A day and night is their means of timekeeping, which can be simply understood as a day, but the time of each day is not equal, and the length of day and night varies."

Hearing this, Simon next to him nodded.

They wandered around this small town for a long time today.

There are a total of 18 hours of daylight today, which is actually less than last night.

I only heard Xia Daiti continue to say: "Most of the materials they traded were daily necessities that were not available on the island, and what they traded out were materials from the island, especially the bones, furs and other spell materials of the prey.

The large number of magical beasts on this island seems to be a specialty of this island? There are a lot of them."

She wasn't quite sure either.

Alka nodded and continued, "The reason why there are so many strange monsters on this island is because ."

After all, he is the leader of this team, so he met with the leaders of this town today.

Just by looking at him, Alka could sense the sense of danger that man posed to him.

The strength is definitely beyond the second stage.

Those who communicated with him were all the leaders of this island, and they were very relaxed and at ease with his questions.

They knew that this was Alka's first visit to the island.

"It has been 36 days and nights since the last team arrived. It may not be long before a trading ship arrives." Xia Daiti said that this was all the information he had.

Then Alka looked at everyone. When they saw Alka coming out, they all shook their heads slightly to indicate that they did not get any useful information.

Even if there was, it was already said by the two people before.

"Well, tell me what I know."

"This island is very dangerous. You all knew this before. If you want to go out and explore, you can't go to those dangerous ruins that they have fenced off."

These ruins are patrolled and guarded, but it is unknown whether they are really dangerous.

"Don't speak their language outside. It's dangerous at night. It's best not to go out. That's about it."

Then Alka got down to business: "I'll have the Voice of Dawn come directly to the port behind the town after daybreak. The ships that normally arrive will basically stop there."

"Then let's talk about what we're going to do after daybreak."

Hearing this, Xia Daiti smiled and said, "Draw a map?"

"That's right, but this island is quite large. We don't necessarily have to paint it all at once. We can find a guide to take us around in a safer place when the time comes."

Alka had tried this before. A map doesn't necessarily have to include the entire island. It would also be feasible to just draw one area.

It's just because if you draw the island directly, you can know where the treasure is intuitively and avoid wasting time.

"Then send another team to wait for us in the town, guard the ship, and get more intelligence."

As if afraid that the crowd might not understand, Alka pointed to the houses around them.

"See the number of houses? It means outsiders often come to this island. A group of people just left the day before yesterday."

Not to mention that there are houses specially prepared for larger people like Porro.

While it's considerate, it also shows that there are enough strangers coming to this island.

And to be honest, they had only just arrived at the Vast Ocean, so they knew very little about the entire Vast Ocean.

However, the problem is that the ordinary residents of this island have never left the island, and there are also very few hunters who have left the island and traveled outside.

But it is not impossible.

These people are also the source of Alka and his team's general intelligence about the entire Infinite Ocean.

For them now, the overall intelligence of the vast ocean is countless times more important than the intelligence within this small island.

All of these require someone to operate.

This island also needs to be mapped because it actually has ruins.

Although he didn't know how much the islanders knew about these ruins, he could tell from the ruins they had left before.

There are still many ruins that have not been opened, and they are afraid to open them.

The ancient ruins can also be opened using a special language.

It's hard not to associate them with treasure.

Now that we have come to this island, we naturally have to go treasure hunting.

So a map is also essential.

Although their number is small, it is enough for them to be divided into two teams and fight on two lines.