Chapter 9, First Visit to Kahn Village
In general, cats are small nocturnal carnivores.
Although domestic cats have been domesticated to a large extent, they still maintain the original nature of cats, such as work and rest schedules, hunting skills, etc. And then there is the most important night vision ability - cat eyes can usually see more clearly at night than during the day!
Therefore, whether they are domestic cats or wild cats, whether they are catching mice outdoors or playing with mouse toys at home, they are accustomed to sleeping lazily during the day and only start to move around energetically at dusk. When you bring a cat home for the first time, you may be intimidated by its day-and-night routine. Because cats will try their best to cause trouble in your house while you are sleeping. When they have had breakfast in the morning, the world begins to slowly wake up, and the cat will curl up back into his den and begin a long day of sleep...
Ahem, back to the topic, in short, after sleeping lazily throughout the day and eating a lot of dried fish, the cat knight Rachel was really refreshed and energetic at dusk, and her whole body was filled with joy. Vitality, I feel like I can fight ten with one!
——Especially when she learned that a certain tabby cat named Wang could turn her into a level 100 player again through a certain golden finger...
So, when night fell, the cat knight Rachel's level soared to level 100, and she happily embarked on a team adventure.
——Although, this is just an excursion that should not encounter any danger in theory and is purely for exploration and training.
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The bright moonlight fell on the ground through thin clouds, coating the vast grassland with a faint silvery edge, and also illuminated the figures of the three kittens running very fast in the grassland. Although the dark night in the grassland is not safe and full of predators of all kinds, the three kittens encountered no obstacles in their journey. The wild wolves and foxes wandering along the way were all frightened into silence by the terrifying pressure of this group of cats, and even retreated.
——Don’t be fooled by their cuteness! You know, these are three super cats with levels as high as LV100. In theory, together they can be a terrifying entity that can destroy an army! Strictly speaking, even if the legendary dragon comes in front of them, it may not be able to get benefits!
The only thing that can hinder their journey is their own physical strength, or endurance - even the most ordinary domestic cat can reach an astonishing speed of fifty kilometers per hour when sprinting towards a mouse at full speed. As a fully leveled cat player, it is easy to reach a speed of 100 kilometers per hour in the wild. But the problem is that, like tigers and lions, cats are only sprint champions. When it comes to endurance over long distances, they are far inferior to cows, horses and antelopes. Usually after running at full speed for two or three minutes, you have to stop and take a break to catch your breath.
Taking advantage of the break, as the leader of this temporary reconnaissance team, Wang Qiu, a level 100 tabby cat mage, began to explain tonight's general action plan to the temporary cat knight Rachel: "...Tonight, tonight During the reconnaissance operation, the three of us went to the village of Karn in the southwest to determine the location of the village and the road leading to the village from the Great Tomb of Nazarick. This is a relatively simple task. The other team goes to the more distant fortress city of Ye Lantel. They are all professional scouts. Even if they use the body of a cat, they can determine the location of the city and remember the way back. What's wrong with that "meow" sound just now? "
"...Don't pay too much attention to trivial matters, meow! It seems that after using the cat character for a period of time, you will automatically develop this mouth habit, meow!"
Seeing the tabby cat mage Wang Qiu looking a little crazy, the last member of the three-cat team, the thief Ma Tong, the tabby cat, waved his paws disapprovingly, and at the same time used small stones to lay out a rough map on the ground, "... ...According to the description in the original work of "Overlord, King of the Undead", Kahn The village is located about ten kilometers southwest of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and is the closest human settlement to the Lich King's residence. However, this ten kilometers refers to the straight-line distance, and the actual distance is much longer, because we don't know. Possibly walking in a straight line through the forest rashly..."
"...Why can't you walk in a straight line through the forest, meow? Everyone has night vision, meow?" Rachel asked, raising a paw.
“…Because we don’t know the road at all, and we don’t even have a rudimentary compass. If we rashly walk into a forest with poor visibility and complex terrain, we may get lost very quickly. More importantly, we still have I don’t know where Kaen Village is, meow!” Wang Qiu replied with a sigh.
"...I don't know where Kahn Village is?! So how should we go?!" Rachel was dumbfounded.
"...Go west along the boundary line between the forest and the grassland!" Wang Qiu raised the cat's paw and waved it, "...Kahn Village is located at the junction of the forest and the grassland. Although the villagers rely on the forest to obtain wood, herbs and prey, But he didn't dare to go deep into the forest for fear of being attacked by monsters. Just entering more than a hundred meters into the forest just to collect medicine was already frightening. Meow... So, even though the straight-line distance from the Great Tomb of Nazarick is only ten kilometers, the villagers of Karn Village have never discovered the existence of the Great Tomb because their sight and range of activities are restricted by the forest. , as long as we keep heading west along the boundary line of the forest and grassland, we will definitely be able to find the village..."
——In the end, they made a large circle along the edge of the forest and walked for more than 20 kilometers before discovering what seemed to be the village of Kahn.
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Kahn Village, belonging to the Kingdom of Li Yestije, is located on the natural border between the Bahas Empire and the Kingdom - the southernmost foothills of the Angeliya Mountains. There is a vast forest called the Duwu Forest. . Karn Village is a small village built near the forest, about fifty kilometers away from the nearest large city in the kingdom, the fortress city of E-Rantel. It is equivalent to two days of walking for a traveler.
Although Kahn Village has been established for a hundred years, there are still only about 120 permanent residents in the village, consisting of 25 families. Judging from the conditions of the border villages in the Kingdom of Yestije, such mini-sized villages are not unusual.
To the north of the village is a large dark forest, to the south are farmland and vegetable gardens cultivated by villagers, and on the outside are grasslands that maintain their original style. In addition to cultivated land, the village's economic source mainly relies on the blessings given by the forest. Except for the occasional merchants who come to collect or purchase medicinal herbs, the royal tax collector only comes once a year. Living in a village where there are almost no outsiders, time seems to have stopped.
The villagers basically live a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset, without the bright lights of big cities.
Therefore, when the three little kittens arrived outside the village of Kahn, it was no surprise that the place was already in darkness and silence.
"...Well, it's located on the edge of the forest, with a size of about twenty or thirty households, without walls or fences...this is probably where it is!"
King Qiu, a tabby cat who had learned tree climbing skills without any teacher, stood on a big tree outside the village, looked at it carefully for a moment, then jumped to the ground and said to the other two cats, "... Now, let’s go into the village to collect information! Meow!”
Obviously, the small movement of a few "wild cats" entering the village at night did not alert anyone.
——Although Wang Qiu’s full-level cat mage alone is enough to kill this village and bleed it into a river...
Wandering in the central square of this border village, Wang Qiu, the level 100 tabby cat mage, couldn't help but be surprised by the lack of defense here: "...There are no fences, trenches, bunkers... there are no defensive facilities at all! Not even the houses. They are sparsely built in the east and west, and their awareness of war preparation is inferior to that of those rural villages in southern China! Do they really realize that they are living on a border with frequent wars? "
——At first glance, in terms of architectural layout, Kahn Village does not look like a medieval village at all, but more like a modern Japanese or Chinese village: a circle of sparse houses, surrounding an empty grain drying field, and some The houses are built on the roadside in the distance, separated by a long distance from each other. What's more terrible is that the terrain of the village itself is extremely flat - this means that any intruder on horseback can rush into the village from a distance and burn and kill. They couldn't "form a stronghold to protect themselves", so they had no choice but to flee in all directions into the forest.
(For what a real modern border village looks like, you can refer to the Alamo Battle site in Texas, USA. At that time, 200 American settlers relied on this fortress-like reclamation stronghold to fight 3,000 Mexican regular troops for thirteen days. Although in the end Destroyed, but left a name in history)
In short, looking at the defenseless layout of Kaen Village, Wang Qiu couldn't help but be impressed by the "good public security" here.
Although the loose layout of Kahn Village is completely different from the compact villages in the Middle Ages. But some aspects are consistent with the usual settings of fantasy medieval novels. For example, the largest house in the village is the barn shared by the whole village, and the best house is the village chief's residence.
After determining the target, Ma Tong, a level 100 civet cat thief, easily activated the [Stealth] skill, quietly touched the window sill of the village chief's house, and opened a window that was not tightly closed. Then, the two cats, Wang Qiu and Rachel, followed suit and jumped into the house from the window. Just in case, Wang Qiu, the cat mage, also released a [Group Sleeping Technique] so that the village chief and his family would never wake up tonight.
The only trouble is that since Wang Qiu is still a newly promoted mage and is just a beginner with no actual combat experience, Rachel and Ma Tong were also unfortunately knocked out by his spells on the spot, so they still need a lot of help. It took a lot of effort to wake them up again...
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At the same time, in modern China's "Command Center for Warfare Against Alien Worlds", a group of senior experts from all walks of life who were urgently summoned followed the eyes of Wang Qiu and Ma Tong and looked at what they were looking at attentively. All the information received - just as Wang Qiu and Ma Tong were walking on catwalks among farmhouses in a different world, several large screens in the command center also simultaneously played the different world seen through the eyes of the two pairs of cats. .
——Since the fortress city of E-Rantel is far away from the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the cat scout team heading there is still on its way...
Based on what they saw on the screen, sociology and history experts all started talking about it:
"...Every household in the entire village is actually a tile-roofed house, and there is not even a thatched house. The only building with a roof covered with hay is a watchtower with a big bell hanging on it. The walls of the houses are all made of very solid stone. The walls and brick walls are also painted with a layer of lime-like coating. Oh, such a good home. The living conditions in most rural areas in China would not be comparable even in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China! This shows that this village must be quite wealthy! Perhaps the construction technology there is very advanced, and the cost of building such a house is not high, even for ordinary farmers. We can all afford it..."
"...The head of a small village can have so many exquisite furniture in his home! Although the floor inside the house is just rammed earth, which is a little shabby, the wall is decorated with an oil painting! All kinds of furniture Metal cooking utensils and household tools are also hanging everywhere on the walls. Well, they are actually still in use. With iron teapots and iron pipe chimneys? It can be seen that the metallurgical industry in that world must have been very developed, and the price of metal should be quite low... In the real European Middle Ages, and even in relatively backward modern Russia, Western serfs still had to Plowing the land with a wooden plow!”
"...Furthermore, have you noticed that there is a cabinet full of porcelain in the cabinet of the village chief's house! Although it is just some large porcelain bowls and plates without any pattern decoration, but they are replaced by In medieval Europe on Earth, I am afraid that at least one would have to be a nobleman or above a baron. You can afford it! If you want to find a similar example in the history of the West... then the wealthy squire family in England at the end of the 18th century described in the British masterpiece "Pride and Prejudice" is probably like this. The standard of living has improved..."
"...No, no, no, we can't compare it like this. The eighteenth-century British squire described in "Pride and Prejudice" was a completely out-of-work landed aristocracy! There were many servants at home, and the master didn't have to do anything! And here on the screen The village chief’s family obviously doesn’t even have a servant, they are just a relatively well-off family of farmers... Their living standard is equivalent to that of American farmers in the mid-19th century, but that’s not bad!”
"...In other words, the world over there has the productivity level of Europe and the United States in the 19th century, coupled with the social and political system of the Middle Ages? This is really awkward! However, right now we are only observing such a village, and the survey sample is too If it’s less, I’m afraid we can’t draw any conclusions arbitrarily.”
"...Well, that's true. It's possible that this village of Karn is just a special case. Ordinary farmers in other places may not be so wealthy... Oh! The map of the continent that appeared in the novel has finally been found! It turns out that Being thrown on top of the cupboard in the village chief's house! Great! The primary mission in Karn Village has been completed! Let Comrade Xiao Wang and the others quickly take the map and retreat to the starting point of the Great Tomb of Nazarick!" br>
"...No! Only one person is needed to bring the map back! The remaining two team members must stay in the village!"
Political Commissar Guo shook his head and vetoed, "...In our part of the world in medieval Europe, there was a long time when European country people regarded cats as evil as devils. Therefore, we must find out how the natives there actually treated cats. Only with attitude can we plan the next action plan..."
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So, after successfully stealing the mainland map from the village chief's home, the cat thief Ma Tong took the loot alone and retreated out of the village. Then, the next morning after the Great Tomb of Nazarick traveled to another world, the Lich King Momonga, who had not yet completely sorted out the thoughts in his mind, was surprised to learn that those "21st century demons" stationed in the entrance temple on the surface "The ancients" have discovered the settlements of human civilization in this world!
On the other side of Kahn Village, Wang Qiu and Rachel, who were transformed into cats, also had their first contact with the indigenous humans of this world...