Chapter 121 Heroes Have Difficulty with "Beauty" Gate
The Crimson Great City secretly carried out the smelting of weapons and purchased giant beast eggs.
There were already some weapons, considered prototypes. In the future, they would continue to be crafted according to these styles, but the most common weapon to be crafted was still the iron spear. Because adults had been using stone spears for a lifetime, they had already become accustomed to the combat style of spears. It was not very realistic to switch to other weapons temporarily.
However, the iron spear had already satisfied them greatly. Compared to the previous stone spears, it was unknown how much better it was. Stone spears used to break too easily, so they had to be extremely cautious during combat and couldn't use full force. Now with iron spears, it wasn't a problem at all. Even if they exerted too much force, the iron spear would only bend under immense pressure; it wouldn't break. They could straighten it with their hands and continue using it, which was extremely convenient.
In addition to the appearance of bows, their combat style became more diverse. Even from a distance, without using magic, they could launch powerful attacks.
The other styles of weapons produced by Zhuang Yu were more popular among young people and children. Their acceptance was particularly strong. They were getting familiar with these new weapons and finding the ones that suited them best. Everyone's combat style was different, so having so many styles of weapons to choose from was excellent.
As for the acquisition of giant beast eggs, it wasn't so smooth. Each Tribe also needed giant beast eggs, even if the probability of hatching was very low. They couldn't give up the opportunity to sell giant beast eggs. Plus, the Crimson Great City's acquisition was done secretly, so even though they received some sporadically, it was insignificant for the vast Crimson Great City.
Of course, all of this was happening behind the scenes. On the surface, the Crimson Great City remained as usual, without much change. Every day, there were carefree children laughing like the morning sun.
For example, at this moment, Little Mushroom was playing with Ant and Feng Wen, teasing those little dinosaurs.
They took a tree trunk and hung a piece of meat on it with a rope, laughing as they fished for dinosaurs.
Underneath the meat, a group of little dinosaurs surrounded it, jumping high to grab the meat from the sky. At this time, the ants would raise the pole, not letting the group of little dinosaurs bite the meat. Then they would laugh heartily, having a great time.
The group of little dinosaurs kept calling out but couldn't reach the meat. Little Mushroom was already rolling on the ground, mischievous.
"How about we give the meat to them? Look, they're drooling." Feng Wen saw the little dinosaurs looking at the meat pitifully for a long time, so he suggested.
Before he could finish, he was pointed at by Little Mushroom with a twig, hands on hips. "Dare you give them meat, Little Mushroom wants them to see they can't eat it. Hmph, Little Mushroom is a heartless villain."
Feng Wen couldn't argue with Little Mushroom and had to continue playing with a group of little dinosaurs according to Little Mushroom's wishes.
The two little guys carried the tree trunk, and the group of little dinosaurs followed them, or rather, followed the meat, attracting a lot of children to watch and follow behind in the Crimson Great City.
Zhuang Yu also glanced at Little Mushroom who was enjoying himself. He didn't know where the fun was in all of this. Seeing how anxious they made these little dinosaurs, Little Mushroom seemed to be having too much fun to stop.
After watching for a while, Zhuang Yu chuckled and left. He was busy figuring out how to acquire giant beast eggs now.
They now had the ability to hatch giant beast eggs, but they were hindered by not having enough giant beast eggs to hatch. Currently, the hatchery was incubating only eggs of the Chicken bird.
Giant beast eggs, others wouldn't easily exchange them for them.
Zhuang Yu blinked his eyes. In fact, there was still a way to obtain giant beast eggs, that is... White Great City. The hunting grounds of White Great City were vast, which meant the output of giant beast eggs was very rich.
But to have White Great City provide giant beast eggs to Crimson Great City, they needed Shao Hao's help.
Zhuang Yu walked and thought, not paying attention until he arrived at the city wall. Standing on the wall, he could clearly see a tall giant outside the city, patrolling on a bear-like creature with a three-meter stone spear in hand. The bear-like creature was also carrying a large bamboo tube in its arms, drinking water from it from time to time, with a silly expression on its face, precisely Shao Hao's bear.
Nowadays, every household in the Crimson Great City raised a box of bees, and honey was harvested more. Whenever Zhuang Yu had time, he would cook a large bamboo tube of honey water for this bear-like creature.
Not giving it honey water was not an option. This guy could run to his eaves by himself and then point at the beehive under his eaves, staring at Zhuang Yu with big eyes, pretending to be pitiful.
Shao Hao is now the cornerstone of the alliance between the Crimson Great City and the White Great City, representing the key to the friendship between the Crimson Great City and the White Great City, so no one stopped his giant beast, and he was very free in the Crimson Great City.
At this moment, the bear-like creature was holding a large bamboo tube in front of Shao Hao, then quickly pulled it back into its arms. This was the sweet water from the bear, not giving you a drink.
Shao Hao: "..."
In fact, he also particularly liked drinking honey water with a sweet taste.
Zhuang Yu almost burst into laughter watching these two.
Zhuang Yu jumped down from the city wall and headed straight for Shao Hao's position.
The bear-like creature, seeing Zhuang Yu approaching, was ecstatic. Its sweet water was here, so it grabbed Zhuang Yu and placed him on its other shoulder.
Of course, it was happy. Zhuang Yu was now its provider of food and clothing, always giving it sweet water to drink. It couldn't bear to leave here.
Zhuang Yu leisurely sat on the bear-like creature's shoulder.
Shao Hao glanced at the sun. "It's such a big sun, why did you come out? It's much better to stay at school."
The school had that towering tree, so even if the sun was blazing, it was still very cool.
Shao Hao simply sat down next to Zhuang Yu.
A huge bear-like creature, with a strong man and a young boy sitting on its shoulders, walking in the desert, was a beautiful sight.
Zhuang Yu didn't answer but took out a water bag from his waist and handed it to Shao Hao. "Do you want some?"
Shao Hao licked his thirsty lips and took the water bag, tilting his head back to drink. "So sweet." His eyes narrowed with sweetness.
Zhuang Yu was taken aback. He didn't particularly like drinking water that was too sweet. It must be that Little Mushroom sneakily added a lot of honey inside.
Little Mushroom liked sweet things, especially pure honey without water. So it always put a lot of honey in Zhuang Yu's water bag. Usually, it didn't carry a water bag itself. When it was thirsty, it would look for Zhuang Yu everywhere for water. If it couldn't find Zhuang Yu, it would threaten other kids to give it water to drink. This little rascal wasn't easy to deal with when thirsty.
Shao Hao seemed to also enjoy the sweetness and took several more sips.
Zhuang Yu spoke up, "It's too sweet to quench thirst."
"It's okay, I can go without water for a few days. Besides, I brought clean water with me."
Shao Hao finished and said again, "It's too hot here. You should go back first. I'll come find you after I finish patrolling."
Zhuang Yu laughed, "I grew up here since I was little. This place is like my backyard. I'm not afraid of a little heat."
Shao Hao was taken aback. He realized that was true. Despite Zhuang Yu's slender build, he had good resilience. Maybe he was even more heat-resistant than him.
The bear-like creature walked slowly, and as it walked, it took a sip from the bamboo tube filled with water.
On its shoulder, Zhuang Yu swung his legs. To be honest, developing the Crimson Great City, he hadn't had such leisure in a long time.
Shao Hao also squinted his eyes and looked at Zhuang Yu. Zhuang Yu's hair was naturally flowing in the dry wind. This feeling was really good. Even if he kept looking like this, he felt very satisfied.
Sometimes, Shao Hao wondered if staying in the Crimson Great City like this, living such a peaceful life, wouldn't be bad. The unity and friendliness of the Crimson Great City even made people forget that this was a world full of war and hatred.
Of course, he also knew that this was just wishful thinking. War would eventually break out.
Whether it was for the Crimson Great City or the White Great City, they couldn't forget their responsibilities.
Shao Hao couldn't help but sigh, "When the war breaks out, I don't know how many people will die. Perhaps only when the Land is unified can the hatred between Tribes be eliminated and peace achieved. This was actually the original intention of the White Great City."
Through the ages, the White Great had its own mission: to bring peace to the Land through unification. However, after so many years, this original intention had been somewhat distorted. The White Great City began to desire to unify the Land and forgot their ultimate goal was to bring peace to the Land.
The talk of unifying the Land sounded nice, but everyone knew it would be filled with war and bloodshed.
Zhuang Yu also sighed. Wanting peace in the world wasn't so easy. Zhuang Yu smiled, "Actually, unifying the Land doesn't necessarily require war. Another form of peaceful unification is not impossible. It's just that now, the Red Great City is too powerful. They believe more in unifying the Land through war. In front of the Red Great City, we can only go with the flow. We're not yet strong enough to influence their thoughts."
Shao Hao was stunned. "Unify the Land peacefully without war?"
Zhuang Yu shook his head with a smile. It was too early to talk about these things now. Just as he said earlier, if you want peaceful unification, you have to cross the huge mountain that is the Crimson Great City. But crossing this mountain isn't easy. Even if their Crimson Great City, White Great City, Dark Great City, and Cyan Great City join forces, they can only barely constrain the Red Great City, this behemoth. The power gap is too large.
In the past, they dared to confront the Crimson Great City because of the vigorous local customs and the isolation of the Ten Thousand Miles of Yellow Sand. But once this geographical advantage was gone, they would just be at the mercy of others.
The unification of the Land by the Crimson Great City required the slaughter of the other four major powers, leaving only the Crimson Great City. This was what they called unifying the Land. This was something Zhuang Yu couldn't agree with no matter what.
A moment of silence passed.
As young Masterrepresenting the Crimson Great City and the White Great City, they bore many similar burdens.
Zhuang Yu changed the subject and asked, "By the way, did your brother Shao Yu release the youngest son of the Dark Great City?"
Speaking of this, Shao Hao also felt a bit troubled and his mouth turned bitter. "Not yet."
Zhuang Yu was stunned, "Not yet? What's going on with your brother?"
In fact, Zhuang Yu probably guessed what was going on with Shao Yu and his childhood friend. Logically, he should have advised his friend, but matters of the heart were not clear to those involved. Moreover, this wasn't the modern world where moral standards could restrain them. Take the Red Great City, for example, he had many wives. Take the ancient Greats City, could you say they were wrong? It's just that the times and rules were different, and they were just following their own rules.
Shao Hao said, "Actually, my father has secretly sent a message, asking me to go back and take charge of the situation. But if I go back, I'm afraid..."
Zhuang Yu's eyes narrowed. Once Shao Hao went back, his brother Shao Yu would likely be deposed, and he might lose his position as heir to the White Great City.
Shao Hao continued, "The Dark Great City has already sent troops close to our White Great City. If my brother remains obstinate, my White Great City is likely to go to war with the Dark Great City."
Zhuang Yu sighed, not expecting things outside to have developed to this point.
Once the White Great City and the Dark Great City went to war, the Crimson Great City would surely be watching closely.
Zhuang Yu originally thought that it would be his Crimson Great City that would break this balance of power, but now it seemed that the White Great City was more inclined to cause trouble.
This Shao Yu, as the young master of the White Great City, doing such things, was actually not a responsible young prince.
But since ancient times, how many could sacrifice everything for one person and be willing to go to war with other powers?
Zhuang Yu couldn't judge Shao Yu anymore, but he secretly labeled him as a troublemaker.
Zhuang Yu asked, "So what are your plans?"
Shao Hao fell silent for a moment. "If things really can't be changed, I will go back to the White Great City. Currently, the White Great City cannot go to war with the Dark Great City, otherwise..."
Otherwise... the alliance between the White Great City, the Dark Great City, the Crimson Great City, and the Cyan Great City would collapse, and no one would be able to restrain the ambitions of the Crimson Great City anymore. The Land would fall into chaos, and perhaps these powers would all disappear under the iron cavalry of the Crimson Great City.
Zhuang Yu thought to himself that it seemed like Shao Hao had already made up his mind.
As for his brother Shao Yu's choice and whether he would plunge the Land into chaos for his own sake, no one knew.
A seemingly small matter might become the fuse for chaos on Land.
Zhuang Yu said, "Regardless, please ensure the safety of my friend."
Speaking of which, it seemed that the youngest son of the Dark Great City had provoked Shao Yu in order to ease tensions between the White Great City and the Crimson Great City, but this move backfired.
In other words, this matter was somewhat related to Zhuang Yu. People got involved to help him, and now they were trapped in such a dilemma. When the crucial moment arrived, Zhuang Yu might have to get involved as well.
At least he had to figure out what his friend meant, whether he was forced or really wanted to be in a bitter relationship with Shao Yu.
Zhuang Yu couldn't control others' feelings, he just wanted to ensure the safety of his friend. As for the rest, let them choose for themselves.
Shao Hao nodded, "The White Great City won't harm the youngest son of the Dark Great City. There are no issues with safety."
Zhuang Yu smirked. Of course, the White Great City wouldn't touch his friend. It was all because of his brother's troublemaking that this happened. The youngest son of the Dark Great City even fled to their Crimson Great City and was secretly captured back.
Zhuang Yu frowned. How this matter would end was really troublesome. Fortunately, the people of their Crimson Great City seemed to have relatively simple emotions, without all these messy things.
Zhuang Yu seemed to have forgotten that his father was still in a predicament because of his past affair with a concubine, which had been going on for over ten years.
And at the gates of the Crimson Great City...
Shuang Tong looked surprised as he stared at a peach-eyed man walking towards him. Behind the man, a woman from the Withered Tree Tribe, they both stared at them without blinking.
The woman looked at the two with a puzzled expression, as if she had misunderstood something before.