Chapter 369 27. Old Stories on Montreal Mountain
Annan is from the North, and the Vice-President is from Syltovis. Together, they are not as good as the locals.
As a guest of the ancestors, the groom respectfully told the story of the bottom nest.
Long before the Elven Calendar, the world outside the Island was still a no-man’s land composed of purgatory, swamp, savagery, and danger. The Golden Family left Wilhelm and chose the north. The pioneering path of the Montreal Family was not smooth sailing. They suffered heavy losses and wanted to return to the World Island several times. This is not a fabrication, but is directly recorded in the "Chronicle of the Empire" superior.
But the golden families in the south are not much better. Over there is the territory of rats and vampires.
But the Golden Family left Wilhelm to open up territory for humans. Therefore, the ancestor of the Montreal family, Adel I, built a fortress on "Montreal Mountain" to resist the flooding tide of magic and greenskins in the north.
This fortress is the predecessor of the imperial capital.
With the settlement and reproduction, and with some families leaving Wilhelm, where resources were increasingly depleted, to join the fortress, this mountain of meteors that seemed to have fallen from the void in ancient times gradually became an area where humans gathered.
The fortress that became a city-state has a problem that should arise in a city-state: domestic garbage.
City Breeze and Bethal City have mature garbage disposal methods, and the cold winter that takes up half of the year also makes the excrement less scary and polluting, but it does not work here. The Montreal Mountains are just a little further north. .
Sltoves doesn't start to freeze until December, and Mont-Montreal a little earlier, entering the freeze period in mid-November.
The Montreal family, which had no experience in governing a city-state at that time, usually sent their excrement down the mountain, but as the excrement froze, they lazily piled it in the cesspit - this was what they had done before, without incident. occur.
But they forgot the previous population and the current population.
So when spring comes, the frost melts, and the excrement that has been frozen throughout the winter also melts. They resurrected from the nest of filth, roaring and howling, gathering into a tide of shit from top to bottom.
The groom lamented that he and his ancestors had no chance to see that scenery. Only a few words passed down said that the Montreal Mountain was covered with a disgusting color that day.
After cleaning up the mess, the Montreal family began to think of a way. They first issued a "Poop Restriction Order", which limited the number of defecation times for all residents, but told them not to poop? How is it possible. The "Poop Restriction Order" was changed to "Don't poop in the city," but who would go so far just to poop?
The "Shit Restriction Order" aroused resentment just a few days after it was implemented. Residents stood up and shouted: "Our ancestors pooped with the Montreal family! Our fathers pooped with the Montreal family, and we also followed the Montreal family. The family shits, and in the future our sons and grandsons will also shit like the Montreal family!”
The Montreal family’s final solution was to have a group of alchemists create alchemy creatures that swallow mud monsters. They feed on dirt but are afraid of sunlight.
They put the mud-swallowing monster underground. But because the entire Montreal Mountain is made of hard meteorite, it was replaced by the underground.
A Wilhelm-style underground city took shape.
From then on, the Montreal family began to raise mud-eating monsters underground that fed on filth, and then exiled them to the void when they could no longer survive.
The proud groom said that the mud-swallowing monster has since been widely spread among other gold families.
"Siltovis also has a few mud-eating monsters." The vice-president whispered to the stunned Annan.
This is the predecessor of the Imperial Capital and Dichao.
After the Elven Calendar ended and the Saint Laurent Calendar began, the Montreal family established the Tatooine Empire, and Montreal Mountain became the imperial capital. As the center of the empire, the surrounding residents could not help but gather here.
But the Imperial Capital cannot accommodate so many people, and there are not that many jobs. People without jobs and money bring unrest. After cleaning up several times, a group of refugees accidentally discover the underground city of the Imperial Capital, and the guards will not come here. More and more refugees are living underground.
When the upper levels realized that the underground city was occupied by refugees, the guards went underground to clean up. It was just that in order to prevent the Montreal Mountains from being flooded with shit again, underground cities were spread in all directions. Except for some unlucky ones wandering near the surface, the refugees could not even find the mages.
Originally they had a chance to drive out these refugees, but there were some problems with the Montreal Gold Family at that time... When they solved the problem and finally turned their attention to the ground, it was too late. The Golden Houses of Montreal had no choice but to acquiesce to their existence, and the underground city gradually developed into a hive over hundreds of years.
There are new systems and rules there. Those who cannot survive on the ground will run to the hive capital, those who are not tolerated on the ground will run to the hive capital, those who want to make a fortune but have no chance will run to the hive capital, and wanted criminals will run to the hive capital - but they Usually you will be targeted as soon as you arrive in the hive.
After all, the upper echelons of the hive city maintain contact with the nobles on the ground.
From the beginning of the Saint Laurent calendar to the present, the bottom nest is almost equivalent to a city-state.
Those who live in the bottom nest are called rat people by the locals - they are not rat people, they are just humans who live like rats.
After talking for a long time, Annan no longer had any new questions.
“You don’t want to visit the bottom nest, do you?” The groom couldn’t help but ask.
"There are indeed some."
Underground cities are like floating cities, in line with Annan's fantasy of the magical world. If necessary, they can be made residents of New Star Moon Bay in the name of salvation.
"Don't." The groom quickly stopped him, "Some of them are going to turn into real mice..."
"How can humans turn into mice?" Vice Dean said.
"How can humans not see the sun for a lifetime? But the rat people have not seen the sun for several generations..."
Annan was deep in thought, while the groom continued to talk about the rumors he heard from somewhere: "Do you know about the dark elves? They just hide underground for too long and become so dark..."
Vice Dean Low Laugh a few times: "Shouldn't it turn white if you don't get the sun?"
"Then...then I don't know."
Even the groom of the Montreal family is still The groom, he could only remind Annan not to go to Dichao: "You don't think they are very simple, do you? There is no law in Dichao, they can do anything."
"People who have nothing don't care about anything. .”
"Your words remind me of a 'wise man.'" Annan began to miss Martin.
Looking down, I saw the cat hair stuck to the mage's robe.
Who is Martin?
"When we set out, the dean said he could visit a few people. Do you think we should go there first?" At this time, the vice dean asked Annan for instructions.
"I have no objection, but...have we delayed it for too long?"
After so long, the Empire Contest has not started...some people should be anxious.
(End of this chapter)