When talking about the issue that hunters of exotic beasts are not as pure as in the past, Balon sighed, obviously disgusted by this situation.

Zhou Jing suddenly rolled his eyes, "Speaking of which, is it necessary for the lord to recruit warriors of different blood? If he wants them to be his bodyguards, who are he guarding against?"

"Who knows." Balon scratched his head, and then his face became serious: "Don't even think about accepting the lord's recruitment. If you are bribed for a little money, I will look down on you."

"That won't happen."

Zhou Jing waved his hand and analyzed it secretly in his mind.

When a lord recruits extraordinary people as bodyguards, he will definitely not spend money collecting stamps.

It seems that there are only a few reasons, fearing exotic beast hunters, fearing other lords, guarding against someone taking risks to assassinate, strengthening one's own armed forces, etc...

He was quite suspicious that one of the lords had recruited different-blood warriors first. The other lords took a look, and they recruited an extraordinary person. What do you mean, do you want to mess with us?

So all the lords followed suit, recruited different-blood warriors, and started an "arms race", and it just started!

'Well, although the world environment is united, in the forty years since the founding of Terra, there should be signs of internal strife.'

Zhou Jing secretly speculated.

He inquired about the fact that the lords of the Terra Empire generally only have jurisdiction over a town and surrounding villages, but the sources of lords are divided into two types... If the town was rebuilt from a tribal settlement, then the lord is most likely a member of the tribe.

Blood relatives of the tribe; if the town was newly built after the establishment of the empire, then the lord was probably an appointed imperial official.

There were shadows of enfeoffment and counties. When he first learned about it, he thought it was a bit strange, but now that he thought about it, there seemed to be some kind of game involved.

When the Terra Empire was first established, it was in the form of an alliance of various tribes, not a unified one. Therefore, the tribal forces still remained within the empire and became regions with certain autonomy, only obeying the orders of the "royal family".

The lord of White Plains City, Root Crow, was a blood relative of the tribe, and the predecessor of White Plains City was also a tribe's settlement. To a certain extent, this city and surrounding villages first belonged to Root's tribe.

Then there are the imperial cities.

Zhou Jing has also figured out the meaning of tribal blood relatives in these days.

In the past, human beings multiplied in the form of tribes. During the long development, some tribesmen spread out and formed large families within the tribe, so they took surnames and passed them on to make it easier for each other to identify each other. This is the origin of blood relatives of the tribe.

Each surname represents a large family in a certain tribe. It has a large number of people and generally has a higher status in the tribe, which is equivalent to a faction branch in the tribe. However, in the wilderness era, because of the difficulty of survival, everyone focused on staying together to keep warm.

, there is not much difference between tribal blood relatives and other tribe members.

However, after the founding of Terra, the major tribes formed an alliance and merged into the country, and the living environment gradually stabilized. Some tribal blood relatives began to be active in various fields such as politics, business, and military.

With the advantages of having a large number of family members, support from connections, and mastering tribal resources, they gradually accumulated power and wealth, gradually distinguishing themselves from ordinary people... In Zhou Jing's view, this was the early origin stage of the nobility in this world.

Balon doesn't care much about politics and only knows a little bit about it, but based on the analysis of the known situation, Zhou Jing feels that these tribal blood relatives who have gradually formed aristocratic interest groups will most likely be one of the governance problems faced by the Terra Empire.

‘So this mixed lordship system with enfeoffments and counties is probably a deliberate countermeasure by the rulers of the Terra Empire...’ Zhou Jing wondered in his mind.

Although alien beasts are the main threat to humans in this world, and the general environment is consistent with the outside world... But he does not believe that after multiple tribes establish a country, there will be no internal strife. This is not consistent with the laws of history.

"Don't think about these things for now..." Zhou Jing shook his head. He was just used to analyzing and felt that these things were a bit far away from him. Now he just wanted to obtain extraordinary power.

…

The town was quite lively. The three of them turned around a few streets and soon came to a building. There was a wooden sign with an animal head hanging on the door, and there were two guards beside the door.

This is the hunter's workshop in White Plains City.

Compared with other lively streets, this place is much deserted, and ordinary residents in the city generally do not come here.

At this moment, a cart was parked in front of the hunter's workshop, with the body of a giant silver-gray wolf tied to the cart. An exotic beast hunter carrying a spear was bargaining with a workshop employee.

When he noticed Zhou Jing and the others approaching, the exotic beast hunter subconsciously turned his head and took a look, then suddenly smiled and raised his hand to say hello.

"Hey, Baron, we meet again."

"Haha, it's you, Weiss."

Baron laughed, the two of them were obviously familiar with each other.

Walking to the cart, Baron looked at the giant wolf's body and said:

"Have you harvested anything again? Crescent wolf... a good prey."

The exotic beast hunter known as Weiss laughed when he heard this: "I'm lucky, this monster wanted to kill me, but I ducked over and shot it in the balls, so I easily captured it."

With that said, Weiss glanced at Zhou Jing again and asked curiously: "Who is this? Is he the new beast hunter from White Plains City?"

Baron shook his head: "His name is Jason Wood. He is a genius I met. He has been training with me in the past few months. I am going to the city this time to take him to strengthen with different blood."

"genius?"

Weiss was very interested and looked at Zhou Jing.

"I..." Zhou Jing opened his mouth to say hello.

However, suddenly, Weiss in front of him dwarfed and disappeared from sight.

The next moment, Zhou Jing felt that a pair of muscular arms wrapped around his waist and abdomen from behind, and a strong force erupted, trying to uproot him and throw him out.

Want to give me a kick? Is this how hunters greet each other?

Almost subconsciously, Zhou Jing immediately pressed down the arm around his waist with both hands, then diverged his legs and got into a horse stance. One of his legs pinned Weiss's foot behind him to prevent him from being lifted up.

The two suddenly fell into a wrestling position.

Weiss couldn't help but laugh: "Oh boy, do you have the courage to compete with me, a serious hunter of exotic beasts, you..."

Halfway through his words, his expression suddenly changed.

He suddenly realized that with his strength, he could not move Zhou Jing.

Although I am not in the direction of strength enhancement, my strength is at an extraordinary level. How could I not be able to suppress even an ordinary person?!

Zhou Jing held Weiss's arm tightly and slowly but steadily opened it from his waist and abdomen.

As soon as he broke free from the hug, he suddenly let go, his body exploded and he pushed back, hitting Weiss's chest hard with his shoulder.

Bang!

The thick muscles collided, making a muffled sound.

Weiss stepped back several steps before standing still, bared his teeth, and looked at Zhou Jing in surprise.

Balon had been watching without stopping, and only now did he gloat and laugh:

"What's going on, Weiss? You're exhausted. Even if Jason doesn't have the blood to strengthen him, you may not be as strong as him."

"...What's going on with this guy?"

Weiss rubbed her chest and sounded surprised.

He originally wanted to try the physical fitness that Baron called a "genius". It would be best to knock him down, then shake his head and educate him, and say some encouragement like "the future is yours", but he didn't expect this to happen.

result.

An ordinary person is almost stronger than him, which is outrageous!

If a person with such extraordinary talent is strengthened by different blood, wouldn't he be able to catch up with the twice-enhanced combat effectiveness?

Weiss's scalp was a little numb, and then he understood what Baron meant by "genius".

At this time, Zhou Jing waved his hand and stared at Weiss: "The way you say hello is quite unique."

He didn't mind that much. Most of the exotic beast hunters were martial artists. Although it was a bit strange for him, an interstellar citizen, to test them as soon as they met, but in the relatively primitive hunter culture of this world, it might be a common situation.

In the past few months, Zhou Jing has learned to do as the Romans do, and try not to use the concepts of the interstellar era to evaluate their behavior.

Weiss rubbed his chest muscles and grinned: "Haha, don't mind, I just want to see how strong you are and whether you can withstand the enhancement of the alien blood... It seems that you must be fine, you almost flattened my chest muscles

Already."

After saying that, he paused, pushed his thumb on his chest, and said cheerfully:

"I'm Weiss, an old friend of Balon's. I've also been active around White Plains City for a long time. Maybe we can hunt side by side in the future."

"Maybe."

Zhou Jing nodded.

Baron raised his chin: "We will stay in the city these days. See you at the Hunter Tavern then."

"Okay, then you can do your business, I will continue to sell my prey."

Weiss nodded and turned back to continue bargaining with the workshop staff.

"Let's go in."

Baron patted Zhou Jing and walked towards the hunter's workshop.

…

The two entered the workshop and entered a hall. Specimens of exotic beasts were hung on the walls, and pieces of equipment made of different exotic beast materials were placed on the shelves.

The responsibility of the hunter workshop is to process the prey submitted by the exotic beast hunters, create exotic blood potions, make various equipment, and then provide them to the exotic beast hunters.

According to the laws of the Terra Empire, each town must have a hunter workshop. The central empire will allocate funds, but the lord is also responsible for maintaining it and is responsible for part of the funds.

The empire's most important support for the workshop is actually the provision of technicians.

Because not every town can recruit qualified alien-blood pharmacists and craftsmen, the important technical personnel in each workshop are trained by the empire or transferred from large tribe craftsmen, and assigned by air... In other words, the level is guaranteed to a certain extent.

When someone came to the door, the workshop staff behind the counter immediately came up and greeted him with a smile:
To be continued...