Chapter 20: Limitations of Rules The iron pitchforks left behind after killing the little devils were thrown randomly in the wheat field outside. They were just put together when cleaning the battlefield. "that's it." Nalot picked up an iron fork, which was still stained with some dark red blood and emitted a strong smell of sulfur. But he didn't care at all. Instead, he weighed the heavy weight of the iron fork and nodded with satisfaction, "Lord Shen Mu, according to the purchase price of iron products and iron ingots by the Kingdom of Swadia, this iron fork can be exchanged for 20 dinars!" Shen Mu was standing next to them. Five Swadian light infantrymen were protecting the surroundings. The two new members of the Lake Rat Gang who followed along also held a torch in their hands, lighting up the wheat field.
"Twenty dinars and a fork." Shen Mu raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at the nearly 30 iron forks under his feet, estimated in his mind, and said with a little surprise: "Then all these iron forks can be sold for about 600 dinars?!" "Yes, that's it." Nalot's face was filled with excitement, and he said with longing: "If a war breaks out between the Kingdom of Swadia and the Kingdom of Vikia, and the iron ore trade from the Kulau region is blocked, then the trade prices related to iron in the Kingdom of Swadia will rise sharply. If we are lucky, these can be sold for 1000 dinars!" "That's really good." Shen Mu nodded. It is indeed possible. After all, in the background of Mount and Blade, the Kingdom of Swadia is basically a place of war. Add to that the wise King Harlaus, who is well-known throughout the Mount and Blade series. What a great success. He was still hesitant. He also likes to claim all the occupied towns, castles and villages as his own. Basically, the Kingdom of Swadia, a top power with a prosperous economy, abundant food production, and invincible heavy cavalry, was plunged into years of war and a situation where peace was difficult to achieve. Even in the original warband, among the five kingdoms, the first kingdom to be destroyed was often the Kingdom of Swadia. Nalot's business failed due to years of fighting, and he became a homeless man after bankruptcy. "So, you plan to take these iron forks back to Dehrim and sell them as ironware?" Shen Mu asked. "Yes." Nalot expressed his thoughts. Basically, it is the one that makes money from the price difference. Moreover, for the Kingdom of Swadia, ironware and iron products are in short supply. In times of war, this kind of iron could be melted down and turned into iron ingots, which could then be made into weapons or armor again.
Iron is a strategic resource in itself. "Do you want to see other things?" Shen Mu thought about it and took Nalot back to the main house of the base. But at this time, Shen Mu took out a bag of table salt. "Lord Shen Mu, what is this?" Nalot frowned slightly, looking at the things in the translucent package with a puzzled look on his face. "Salt." Shen Mu opened it, and snow-white refined salt appeared inside, each grain distinct, just like the softest sand. "Salt?" Nalot's eyes lit up, and he subconsciously reached out to take some. After putting it in his mouth, his expression changed: "This..." "What's wrong?" Shen Mu saw his frown. "Is this... table salt?!" Nalot took a sip, with a very strange expression on his face: "Indeed, this is table salt, and it has a very strong salty taste, but... why does it feel so strange?" "Weird?" Shen Mu also frowned slightly: "What makes you feel weird?" "Master Shen Mu, this edible salt is indeed real, but I feel that it is a little different from the salt I usually eat." Nalot spoke hesitantly. As if he was choosing his words carefully, he said, "I feel like this kind of edible salt is... lacking a soul." This metaphor made Shen Mu frown even more. "Lack of soul? You mean these salts lack soul?" Shen Mu felt it was quite ridiculous. When did salt have a soul? "Yes, Lord Shen Mu, maybe you don't believe me, but this salt really makes me feel like I'm missing some kind of the most important soul." Nalot continued hesitantly, "I don't quite understand why, but in my heart, I feel this way." As he spoke, he seemed to have thought of something and pointed to the cabbage, rice, flour and canned food still on the shelf in the kitchen next to him. His tone became more complicated: "These things give me the feeling that they are soulless." "Huh?" Shen Mu frowned even more, because he found that the ingredients pointed out by Nalot were all native ingredients of Blue Star. "What about the wheat?!" Shen Mu pointed to the bags of wheat piled together. These are rewards from the Mount and Blade system. "There's nothing wrong with these wheats." Nalot spoke hesitantly, as if he had noticed something was wrong. But I really don't understand why this is happening. "Xiaomi is fine," Shen Mu repeated, paused thoughtfully, raised his hand and pointed at the worn-out books and clothes piled up with the firewood next to the fireplace and asked, "What about these?" "These... give me the same feeling of being soulless." Nalot's tone was much lower. But Shen Mu didn't say much. Touched his chin. Shen Mu has come to a conclusion: "Could it be because of the rules?" Blue Star has no rules of its own.
After all, it is a world of technology. The Mount & Blade world and the Undead world both have their own special rules, and perhaps some of these rules are interchangeable. After all, the world of Mount and Blade is nominally a historical rule-based world. But after Shen Mu integrated countless DLCs and MODs. Fundamental changes have already taken place. Infinite convergence to fantasy rules. "So for this reason, the items of the two can be exchanged, but Blue Star's own items cannot." Shen Mu thought so. At the same time, Shen Mu also thought of something that was happening now. Those are the cold weapons made on Blue Star themselves, which have extremely limited killing power against undead monsters, and are even weakened a lot. Including the indigenous humans on Blue Planet. When facing even the lowest level of skeletons or zombies, if you don't rely on fire, you will face a life-and-death crisis. This is also the reason why, in the three years since the advent of the undead rules, 70 to 80 percent of the Blue Planet's population of tens of billions disappeared. Even if there are still humans left, as long as they have not obtained the mark of the spiritual world and have not inherited the spiritual world. Then they can only huddle around the fire and use the rising bonfire to avoid and resist the undead monsters. "Then, if that's the case, then the local resources of Blue Star can't bring me any help." Shen Mu pondered: "If I can exchange for supplies and dinars in the Mount and Blade world, I need the outputs in the Undead World?" This gets a little tricky. [Ding! The temporary task system detected an event! ] [Mission released: The invasion of the demon army. ] [Mission Summary: Not far from your base, there is another demon base. They came from the abyss, slaughtered the human base, took it for themselves, and began to wreak havoc on the surroundings. Now, they seem to have sensed the presence of living people here and began to attack here. ] [Mission requirements: Resist the demon's attack and kill the demon commander.] 【任务奖励：①前来投奔的逃兵×20名；②前来投奔的难民×30名；③运送军粮的拖车×5辆；④1亩小麦田（收割季）；⑤1000枚第纳尔。】 [Hint: Three days later at night, this army composed of a large number of low-level demons will launch an attack.] Just as Shen Mu was thinking, a dialog box suddenly appeared in front of him. "Hmm?" Shen Mu was slightly stunned. Looking at the contents in the dialog box, he raised his eyebrows slightly. "The invasion of the demon army? The demon army in the previous spirit world scene will come to fight me in three days?!" This really surprised Shen Mu. "However, if it's a demon, he will be able to obtain a lot of iron tools, right?" Shen Mu's mind moved slightly at this time and he thought of something.
After all, according to the memory of my predecessor, monsters like demons are much more likely to be armed with weapons than those undead monsters! (End of this chapter)