Five Frozen Centuries

Chapter 121: Catch Those Sheep!

The Camp Roll was updated at the same time. Apart from the Camp Roll, there was also a Traveling Merchant Roll. The Bandit Roll was also updated.

There were only six camps on the Camp Roll. Zhou Yi’s Dark Dragon Camp only ranked sixth. Three of the top five camps were Chinese, one was English, and the other was Korean.

Wei Huo instantly guessed that there were five humans with a Legendary Mode!

It seemed like I underestimated humans too much. The Legendary Mode is indeed legendary.

Wei Huo looked at the ranking and realized that the highest-ranking player was Zhou Yi, who was at level 20. The other players were stuck at level 19. Wei Huo immediately understood that level 20 was a quest related to the camp!

Wei Huo increased his quest-completing speed. These quests were not difficult for him. Soon, he reached level 19 and received a Decision Quest.

“Please choose the player’s route.”

“Guardian: Create or Join a Camp.”

“Bandit: Create or Join a Bandit Team.”

“Adventurer: Create or Join a Traveling Merchant Band.”

“Note: If the player chooses to create a Camp, Bandit Team, or Traveling Merchant Band, their level will increase after they succeed. If the player chooses to join a Camp, Bandit Team, or Traveling Merchant Band, they will maintain their status as members of the Camp, Bandit Team, or Traveling Merchant Band. Their level will increase after 24 hours.”

Wei Huo had thought that the camp-building quest was only a level-20 quest. He had not expected to be presented with three routes.

Due to System Number Two’s advice, Wei Huo only planned to create a Traveling Merchant Band. However, that did not stop him from checking the conditions for the other two paths.

There were detailed conditions for setting up a Camp, a Bandit Team, and a Traveling Merchant Band. There were many conditions. Wei Huo’s camp already had a lot of conditions, but it had yet to be reclaimed. There were no warehouses, defensive measures, or hearths.

However, Wei Huo did not plan to build a Camp. He wanted to build a Traveling Merchant Band. The Traveling Merchant Caravan needed a creature that could transport more than 1,000 goods. Most importantly, there was a product display platform. This display platform was not ordinary. It was similar to a mini-version of the trading platform.

The Traveling Merchant Caravan could place its goods inside and label their value. The other players could trade as long as they were near the product display platform. After the processing fee was collected, the Magical Stones would automatically be transferred to the player’s account.

In that case, a Traveling Merchant Caravan could have multiple players and a product display and satisfy more players at the same time. There was no need for them to trade one by one.

Wei Huo checked the conditions to build a Bandit Team. The conditions necessary for the Bandit Team were similar to those of the Camp. A resurrection altar was also required, but the players did not need to farm or hunt. They only needed manpower and weapons.

The Traveling Merchant Caravan was the most profitable option but also the riskiest one. If any goods were lost or stolen, they needed to be returned so the player would be liberated.

Of course, although there were only three routes in the game, the gameplay was diverse. Bandits could choose to farm, Adventurers could choose to plunder, and Guardians could choose to have an adventure anywhere.

Wei Huo called the rhinoceros over and started building a Traveling Merchant Band. As it was the only creature that could transport goods, many things were placed on it.

However, the goods and handmade shelves could be removed. Wei Huo bought a display and installed it on the rhinoceros’ back. The display was huge, so no one could sit on the creature.

The product display platform was similar to a holographic projection device. One could put an advertisement on it. The display platform could be installed on the back of the rhinoceros or placed on the ground. Any players who walked nearby could open a small commodity panel and trade directly.

The product display platform that Wei Huo bought had 99 slots, and each slot could only contain 99 similar items. Wei Huo threw in the bronze items and weird creatures that he could not use.

After he did all this, Wei Huo’s camp option emitted a white light and transformed into a traveling caravan that contained some settings for traveling merchants. If there were NPCs in the caravan, they would have to issue orders through this setting. They could also set up automatic advances, trades, and counterattacks. The characters would regain their freedom after players went offline, but they would still follow the orders set by players.

At the same time, the Tech Tree’s option was turned on. Wei Huo looked at it. It was a Tech Tree related to the traveling merchants. It was a very healthy, huge Tech Tree that had been carrying animals right from the beginning.

At that moment, a notification popped up. “Please name your Traveling Merchant Band.”

Wei Huo was stunned. He looked at the night sky, saw the two moons falling, then looked at the camp, and finally named the Traveling Merchant Caravan ‘Double-Moon Night’.

This was the first double-moon night since the time halt, the first double-moon night since the game’s launch, and the first double-moon night since mankind’s rise.

After he named it, Wei Huo’s Double-Moon Night appeared on the fifth spot of the Traveling Merchant Roll. The Traveling Merchant Band, which had appeared out of nowhere, must have attracted a lot of attention. However, a few seconds after Wei Huo’s Double-Moon Night group appeared, other Traveling Merchant Caravans appeared like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. Other than the Chinese Traveling Merchant Caravan, there was an English one, a Korean one, and a Latin one. A series of Traveling Merchant Caravans appeared and occupied the top 100 spots.

Apart from this roll, the top 100 of the Bandit Roll was also immediately occupied.

After the Traveling Merchant Caravan was built, Wei Huo received another system notification. “Please have your Traveling Merchant Caravan move forward by at least 30 kilometers in 24 hours. If it does not, the Traveling Merchant Caravan will be forcibly dissolved. Level -1.”

At that moment, the moons fell completely. The players’ timers displayed the first day of the First Epoch: 47 hours, 50 minutes, First Day of Spring.

Soon, 10 minutes passed. A new day began, and the sky lit up.

The date had also changed from the First Epoch to the Second Day of Spring.

It turned out that there were 48 hours in a day!

Spring was a good season for planting. Wei Huo had brought back a lot of rare plants from the Magical Beast Space in the Divine Realm. He wanted to plant them, but he did not know the rules of each season. It would be better to observe everything during the first year.

Besides, Wei Huo had another quest. He had to walk 30 kilometers within 24 hours.

Although this quest was not difficult for Wei Huo, time was of the essence for players. At that moment, a Traveling Merchant Caravan was slowly leaving the safe zone. Many players saw this scene. The observers of the Bandit Team immediately sent a message to their captain, as there was no Friend System in the game. One could only purchase a communicator to communicate with others.

The merchant players were very confident. Their captain was a skinny man wearing glasses who chuckled and made the team speed up.

There were no animals in his caravan. He could not buy any creatures from the mall, so he had some players transport the goods.

In order to build a merchant caravan, one needed creatures that could transport goods. Players were also biological creatures. Besides, this was only an early-stage merchant caravan. If one had the money, one could buy a mechanical horse or a hover car. Of course, an airplane could do the same job. One could just rely on technology.

However, if technology could not be accessed, one could not use it even if one had the money to buy it. What was the use of buying a black-hole-manufacturing device?

The leader made a hand gesture and the players in that team immediately understood that they would not be carrying any goods. They were the guards of the team who would be in charge of protecting the caravan.

“How naïve. Anyone who dares steal the stuff of mine, Ma Tianling, will have to pay the price!”

As soon as Ma Tianling finished his sentence, three ordinary-looking sheep appeared in the jungle in front of the group.

Ma Tianling was stunned for a moment before shouting, “Catch those sheep!”