Chapter 421 Beast Forest
Chapter 421 Beast Forest
Bai Hao had been planning for a whole week to raid the Scott Orc slave market. He wanted to buy back almost all the inferior orcs that were below market price within one day.
Today, you can buy a sick orc slave for only 1 gold coin. If you buy more, you can get a % discount and some other things for free. This is the normal market price. Those slave traders hawking their goods on the street won't even bargain with you.
If you buy in batches day by day, it won't be long before those black-hearted slave traders who value money more than anything else will raise the price on the spot, and then the price of orc slaves of the same quality will start to increase, and Scott's orc slave market as a whole will also increase in price.
After all, Bai Hao single-handedly turned low-quality promotional products into best-sellers, so the price would surely increase, and those cunning slave traders would become much more difficult to deal with.
Therefore, Bai Hao wanted to clean up Scott's slave market before it could react, and obtain a large number of sick and weak orcs at the lowest normal price. By the time those slave traders reacted, he had achieved his goal.
The underground slave market in the northern part of Scott is not very large. After all, the cost of renting a warehouse in Scott, where every inch of land is valuable, is much more expensive than anywhere else. Therefore, this place can only be regarded as a commodity distribution center.
No slave owner dared to store his orc goods here for a long time, otherwise the rent alone would be higher than the price of the slaves themselves. However, despite this, as a super-large human city, Scott still has a huge demand for orc slaves.
This underground slave market in the north of Scott sees many orc slaves brought in from neighboring nobles almost every day, and at the same time, many orc slaves are also sold, so the throughput of commercial goods is very astonishing.
In stark contrast to the dullness of the underground slave market in the Krey Territory, Bai Hao heard all kinds of noisy sounds as soon as he entered, with cursing, wailing, and laughter coming one after another.
But like all other underground orc slave markets, this place is full of stains of excrement, sweat and blood, and the ventilation conditions are extremely poor, which makes the smell of the air here unbearable.
Bai Hao and Xing Lili were fine, as they didn't care too much about such an environment. However, Olmia, who was accompanying them, couldn't stand it. She retched several times when she passed by the cage, but soon she seemed like a different person, looking around with interest.
It's not that Olmia has a strong adaptability. Her obsession with cleanliness that is deeply rooted in her bones is definitely not easy to cure. It should be that Olmia was very smart to let her sister come out to "take over". Compared with her own sister, Olmia is obviously not so particular.
Due to the particularity of the market, most of the orc slaves imprisoned in this underground market were just brought in not long ago, and the longest time they stayed here would not exceed one month. However, in the market over in Kled, most of the orc slaves were imprisoned for several years, and some even grew up there.
Therefore, most of the orcs here have not yet become accustomed to the small and closed environment. Many orc slaves even quarrel and fight in cages. Their innate savagery and territorial awareness make them extremely manic.
This also made Bai Hao realize that the orc slaves here did not seem to be the type raised by slave traders since childhood. Most of them were recently plundered by slave owners from the orc villages and towns in the "Beast Forest" in the northern Central Plains. This is also the main "procurement channel" for most slave traders and slave owners.
Bai Hao had learned about the Beast Forest from some adventurers' biographies. This primitive jungle in the northern part of the Central Plains adjacent to the Seth Empire was not suitable for human survival. The harsh environment and mountainous and rugged terrain made it impossible to build villages or towns.
But this is a rare paradise for the orcs. There are many orc villages in the depths of the beast forest. They rely on the complex terrain to survive with difficulty. Poisonous insects, fog, marsh gas and various extremely aggressive plants have become their protectors.
Despite this, there are still many greedy slave owners who regularly recruit wandering knights to form a temporary knight order of low rank, and then march deep into the beast forest to attack those orc villages and plunder as many orcs as possible to become new slaves.
Orcs are violent by nature, and most of them have a strong sense of territory, so they will only unite with people of the same race. Furthermore, they will only form alliances with orcs of different races who have no reproductive isolation.
This makes it almost impossible for the orcs to form a large settlement, and there are often villages of hundreds or thousands of people scattered throughout the beast forest.
This gave the slave owners the opportunity to break through one by one. In addition, the orcs did not know magic, so some low- and medium-level attack magic could easily defeat the strong orcs who could only use cold weapons. Many insidious and cunning magics made it difficult for the orcs to defend themselves.
For example, there are poisonous fog magic that can make people drowsy, psychedelic charm magic, earth-binding magic that can paralyze the whole body... These are long-range and large-scale magic using non-physical means, which make the orcs suffer for their lack of magical talent.
In addition, the Seth Empire has also encouraged the development of the slave industry in the past hundred years, and many policies to support the slave trade have emerged one after another. This has directly led to the almost complete clearing of the orc villages and towns outside the Beast Forest.
Suddenly, a charming moan and a weak growl interrupted Bai Hao's thoughts. The strange sound came intermittently from a larger cage on the right. The three of them looked subconsciously and saw an extremely obscene scene.
I saw several fair-skinned and plump female orcs lying on the wall with their legs spread apart, doing unspeakable things with several fat and big-eared male orcs, and behind them there were even several teams lined up in an orderly manner.
Bai Hao recognized that this was a tribe of pigmen. The characteristic of this tribe, apart from their plump and fair bodies, was their incomprehensible desires. Ethics and morals did not exist among them at all. Regardless of the occasion or location, even now that they had been captured and enslaved, they still wanted to...
A rosy-faced sow in the cage shouted even harder when she saw Bai Hao and the other two standing still in the aisle. She even threw coquettish glances at Bai Hao. That extremely ecstatic look was something Bai Hao had never seen before.
"Let's go quickly. The slave owner we had an appointment to discuss business with is not on this floor!" Xing Lili pulled Bai Hao forward with an unnatural look on her face.
Olmia was still standing in front of the cage, curiously watching the pigmen's violent movements, looking like a tourist on a sightseeing tour. Some male pigmen in the cage obviously noticed this curious human woman and approached her with obscene smiles.
"What are you looking at?!" Bai Hao had already walked away, but when he found that Olmya didn't follow him, he immediately turned around, took her hand and walked forward quickly, and said in the same tone as Du Xinglili before: "The slave owner we agreed to meet before is not on this floor!"
Olmia looked at the somewhat embarrassed Bai Hao and chuckled, "Hey, are you jealous?"
Bai Hao curled his lips when he heard this and said, "I'm going to complain to your sister."
"Hey, don't, don't!" Olmia hurriedly hugged Bai Hao's arm and said tenderly: "I promise I will be very gentle next time. I will stop if you say stop!"
"Humph, if my sister doesn't teach me, it's my fault!"
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