Chapter 417: Treasure Land Lan Lan and Tacitus did not slack off, and conveyed the warning of the cold night very seriously, telling everyone in the team.
Tacitus even went so far as to tell everyone that no one should have any contact with the local natives without his permission As the leaves of the boat descended the river and gradually approached the canyon, several figures appeared on the observation deck at the mouth of the canyon, which was piled up with stones.
Lan Lan, Tacitus and the others immediately recognized it: orcs These are the orcs of the Hoofland, and they are dressed in very rough clothes, the fabric is probably similar to some kind of linen, and they look very shabby.
The few orcs crowded on the lookout are probably all guards, so they have at least some additional equipment, such as protective gear.
Lan Lan and Tacitus recognized a minotaur orc standing at the front, wearing a piece of wooden armor.
It was strange to them.
Because this kind of protective gear made of wood chips is almost impossible to see in the Roland Continent.
Armor made of wood is not excellent in terms of defense, and it is very troublesome to preserve.
Even leather armor is far superior to wooden armor.
As for the weapons they use, they're pretty good.
It looked a little shabby, but it was still made of metal, with axes and hammers.
It's obviously very shoddy, but it's a decent weapon.
As the blades slowly approached the canyon, the orcs standing at the mouth of the canyon visibly began to tense.
Some orcs quickly ran back into the canyon and yelled for something, while the rest of the orcs were at the mouth of the canyon, obviously making a very vigilant posture.
From their appearance, Tacitus recognized, they were ready to fight.
At this time, the cold night came forward.
She leaped and leaped, gliding lightly through the air before landing lightly on the front of the blade of the river.
Hanye took something out of his bosom that seemed to be a whistle, took it in his mouth and blew it.
The strange whistle was heard, and the orcs standing at the mouth of the canyon were noticeably relaxed.
Some orcs clearly saw the cold night standing on the bow of the ship, so they directly put down the weapons in their hands, waved their arms vigorously in the direction of the cold night, and shouted loudly.
It is not known what they are shouting, but at least from the tone of voice, it should be a welcoming attitude.
When the human team came to the mouth of the canyon, the river happened to pass through the canyon, and at least twenty orcs had already run to the river at the mouth of the canyon.
These were strong, male orcs, and although they were all poorly dressed, at least each of them had a weapon in their hands.
Tacitus found that the orcs were not having a good time as they could tell from their equipment.
Only a few orcs hold iron weapons and look rather crude.
Most of the orcs hold no more weapons than crude sticks, and some even hold the bones of unknown beasts, but they have sharpened one of them.
He even saw that the weapon in the hand of an orc was just a wooden stick with a sharpened stone tied to the top Even the orc kingdom on the Roland continent has always been ridiculed by humans as a backward civilization. can be compared with the orc group in the Roland Continent, these orcs in front of them are simply a group of people called Hanako.
But this contempt in his heart was not on his face, and Tacitus had quickly let his subordinates pass on the word again, reiterating his discipline.
Because of the cold night as a guide, when the leaves of the boat were docking, these orcs did not stop the scalp of Tacitus and the others from tingling, they clearly saw some strong orcs, standing on the shore, holding something like a slingshot in their hands, and a pile of large and small stones.
It is conceivable that if there was no cold night, my group of people would rush here and suffer the baptism of these orcs' stone bullets before they could go ashore.
The smallest of those stone bullets was the size of a fist, and the largest was probably the size of a basin.
After the boat landed, Cold Night had already jumped ashore first, and then she quickly walked up to the orc, nodded to one of the strongest orcs, saluted each other, and then began to talk quickly.
After talking a few words, Han Ye turned around and shouted a few words to Lan Lan, signaling to her that humans could go ashore and land.
The team went ashore one after another, and the leaves were properly stowed.
It's just that when the human beings were busy, those orcs stood far away, more than ten meters away, in a circle, obviously not giving up their guard posture, observing these humans in front of them with a puzzled attitude.
According to what Cold Night said, for these orcs, this human team is the first time in their lives that they have seen a living human.
"I've talked to them."
Cold Night returned to Lan Lan's side and said slowly: "The orc leaders here agree to let you land and allow you to enter this canyon, but they require that you can only rest in the designated place and are not allowed to move around.
As for the supplies you need, I will continue to negotiate with them, if that is not possible."
"I'm not in a hurry to resupply or anything."
Lan Lan replied that she also saw that these orcs should be living in embarrassment, so she didn't plan to get any supplies from these orcs at all.
It is enough to ask for a place to rest.
The negotiations between the two sides were all carried out on the cold night.
From beginning to end, these orcs gathered together, watching these strange humans from a distance.
Many orcs showed a strong curiosity about these humans, especially the members of the Knights of the Church who saw these humans, and the orcs showed strong envy for the equipment of the Holy Knights.
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The equipment of these knights, in the eyes of the orcs, is simply unimaginably extravagant Each member of the Knights is wearing very sophisticated protective gear, the kind of half-body metal armor, although it can only be regarded as light armor in the Roland Continent, it is only used when fighting on foot.
But for orcs, it's already a good thing that you can't even dream of.
What's more, the weapons equipped by the members of these knights are also the envy of the orcs: each knight is equipped with a long sword, and a short sword hangs from his waist, and many people have a dagger tied to the hem of their trousers or on it Even those sailors who can only be regarded as ragtags or burdensome sailors in the ranks are armed with sophisticated equipment from the Roland Empire, such as axes or swords.
And this tribe, even the tall orc leader, with an ax in his hand, is not as good as a sailor.
Not to mention the clothes these humans wear.
At the entrance to the canyon, on both sides of the river, a ditch about seven or eight meters wide was dug.
This probably acts as a moat.
The river was brought in, and a rope bridge was made of something that resembled a tree vine.
There are stone piles in the middle to hold them in place.
The human team was allowed into the canyon, and when they walked through the ravine, it was the whole of the settlement.
The area of this valley is a bit larger than expected.
It's not as narrow as you might think.
In fact, the space inside is still quite large.
At the mouth of the canyon, on the side of the mountain wall, several caves had been dug out of the mountain wall, and as he walked through these caves, Tacitus clearly saw several orc heads peeking out of them.
From the equipment and appearance, these orcs are all powerful and strong.
Obviously, these caves near the mouth of the canyon have a military role, probably similar to the function of the Tibetan Cave.
The further you go into the canyon, the more open the terrain becomes.
Here are some large and small houses made of stone piles.
Most of the houses are built on the ground, but occasionally can be seen, and there are stone houses halfway up the hill on some gentle slopes on either side of the hill.
Most of the people who live here are orcs.
Along the way, Tacitus and Lan Lan made a rough estimate in their hearts, and estimated from the number of stone houses, and the number of orcs here was at least one or two thousand.
Originally, there were some young orcs in the canyon, just like children in the human world, frolicking and running around, but when they saw such a group of humans walking in from a distance, they immediately heard the shouts and ran away.
From beginning to end, Tacitus's team was supervised by a dozen orcs with weapons in front of and behind them.
The canyon is not in the shape of a long strip.
Rather, it is a terrain similar to a chain hoist.
After walking through the first canyon, leading to the inside is a slightly narrower area, and when passing through this narrow area, Tacitus saw that beside the mountain walls on both sides, there are many stones piled up on the slopes of the hills, which can be expected, once attacked, if the first valley misses, then the orcs here can push down the stones on the hillside, blocking the passage, which can effectively protect the inner part of the valley.
When they came to the second valley, the scene in front of them suddenly made the humans exclaim It's far better than it is Throughout the Abandoned Continent, most of the wilderness is barren, and the occasional vegetation is sparse and weak.
But in this second valley, there is a surprise glimpse of a large area of dense and luxuriant greenery The valley is about 200 acres of land, planted with large tracts of trees, and has been reclaimed for a lot of farmland.
Surprisingly, when the Surumbi River of Hope passes through the valley, it forms a natural source of irrigation.
At least it seems that the dealers and trees here are growing quite well.
Especially the thick trees, which made the crew and sailors very greedy A captain walked over and quickly communicated with Tacitus, who calculated that if all the trees were cut down here, about three hundred or so, he might be able to barely make a small sea boat.
Tacitus just glanced at the captain coldly: "Don't think about this kind of thought. ” Because judging by the attitude of these orcs, it is clear that they take the protection here very seriously.
The woods and the dealer's house are guarded by orcs, and they are armed with weapons Passing through the valley of this farmland, there is a narrow mountain road in front of you, and you can see that the terrain is open up again along the Surumbi River It's a residential area again.
"It seems that the population here is much larger than we expected."
Looking at the large and small stone houses here, Tacitus said to Lan Lan.
The further you go inside, the greater the surprise.
A total of six valleys were crossed.
Four valleys are inhabited, one is dedicated to trees and crops, and one is amazing to humans because of the many livestock that are raised The most common things are naturally pigs, cows, and sheep, which were probably brought by the ancestors of orcs in ancient times.
And there are also some strange-looking livestock, probably a specialty of this continent.
At least Lan Lan saw a kind of bulging animal like a ball of meat, with a short nose, thick limbs, and huge ears.
"It's called Garomon."
Cold Night was very understanding on the side to solve Lan Lan's curiosity: "This is the only local specialty on this continent that our ancestors have harvested.
This Garamon is omnivores, they eat everything, and they grow quickly and reproduce slowly.
Our ancestors tamed and bred a large number of these garatins, which could provide us with a large amount of meat.
And the dung of Garamon can be used to make fires. ” The settlement of the four valleys, this gathering place, has a total population of about five or six thousand.
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In addition to the orcs, Lan Lan also saw a small number of dwarves.
These dwarves apparently have a worse attitude towards humans.
The dwarves all lived in the third valley, near the mountain, and instead of living in the stone houses, they made one cave after another in the mountain wall.
The number of dwarves is not very large, there are only two or three hundred in total, according to the introduction of Cold Night, because of the characteristics of the dwarf race, their breeding speed is not fast.
But the dwarves have brought many benefits to this gathering place.
The dwarves are good at mining and burrowing, and almost all the caves here are made by the dwarves, and the dwarves are good at mining.
To Lan Lan and Tacitus' surprise, according to Cold Night, there was a not too big vein of iron ore in the mountains next to this valley Therefore, all the weapons and equipment used by the warriors in this gathering point are from the handiwork of the dwarves.
"But they still have a big problem."
Han Ye smiled bitterly: "Iron ore will not be directly turned into iron, nor will it be directly turned into swords and weapons.
Smelting requires a lot of fuel, which is indeed the most scarce.
The dung of the Garomon can only be used for ordinary life, burning stoves and whatnot, but it is not enough to smelt iron.
The inhabitants here can only use firewood, but as you can see, the trees in the planting area are very valuable, and there are not many of them, and far from this valley, there is a special place where there is charcoal, but that place is too dangerous, and there will be monsters that will attack the charcoal mining team.
So this has always been a bottleneck that has limited the development of this agglomeration. ” Lan Lan listened to it and secretly remembered it in her heart.
In addition to dwarves and orcs, what surprised Lan Lan was that there were also elves in this gathering place This is a surprise Because the elves are recognized as the most conservative and xenophobic race, although they don't like to kill, but they don't like to deal with other races very much, all elves, proud surnames are innate.
But there are also elves in this valley Less than a hundred grass spirits appeared on the slope of one of the innermost settlements.
There are several excavated cave houses, and some vegetation that looks like it has been transplanted, albeit very sparsely.
At first, these grass and tree spirits just stood on the hillside, looking at the group of humans who had run into the valley from afar with curious and puzzled eyes.
But when they saw the cold night walking in the middle of the group, walking beside Lan Lan, the elves burst into cheers.
The grass spirits immediately vibrated their wings behind them, flew down the hillside, and then gathered around the cold night.
Obviously, Cold Night has a high status and prestige among these grass and wood elves.
These grass and tree elves flew to the side of the cold night, and they all folded their wings one after another, and bent down to salute the cold night with the most reverent posture.
Their faces were filled with warm and reverent smiles, and some of the elves chirped loudly for something in the cold night.
Because they spoke so fast, Lan Lan could barely hear a few words.
The approximate meaning is that these grass and wood elves expressed a very strong gratitude to Cold Night, and used a lot of elven slang to praise Cold Night as a great warrior who made a great contribution to the peace of this continent In particular, a sentence from a grass and tree elf made Lan Lan pay extra attention The grass elf cheered loudly, and said that he thought that Cold Night should be qualified to be the king of the elves King of the Elves "The soil and water here are much more fertile than in other places."
Han Ye looked at Lan Lan, but his face was a little regretful: "But unfortunately, in the entire abandoned continent, like here, there are too few places suitable for ethnic groups to live and reproduce.
Moreover, we still can't figure out the reason for this special fertile water and soil.
Moreover, the land here can only accommodate so many ethnic groups to reproduce here, and if there are more, they will not be able to feed them, so they can only migrate to other places. ” The place where they are at the moment, the tribes of the canyon have been designated as an area for humans to live temporarily.
This is in the sixth valley, and it is inhabited entirely by orcs.
The human beings were placed in the southeast corner near the mountain wall, and seven or eight stone houses were divided for them.
Tacitus could be sure that this sixth valley should be the most militarily powerful place in the entire gathering point.
There is a huge stone house here, which is probably the core of this place, and it is also the administrative center of the entire settlement, so there are at least two hundred orc warriors around.
Placing humans here, it is obvious that the orcs deliberately placed these strange outsiders in the place where their military defense is the strongest, which naturally means supervision.
And, obviously, in this temporary settlement, the orcs have placed more than a dozen warriors outside in the open space outside the gate, and other orc residents are forbidden to approach it.
Even the grass elves were told not to come in and visit the cold night.
"Here, because the land can only support a limited number of people, the system here has always been very strict.
Like the dwarves and the grass elves.
It's not that the orcs want to share this valley treasure with these dwarves.
It's just that the orcs need the skills of the dwarves to burrow and mine, and they can't do without the help of the dwarves.
And the grass and wood elves, because they have the ability to fly, so the grass and wood elves are the orc tribe's charcoal mining team far away from the valley, when they go to the distant charcoal mines to collect resources, the best candidates and vigilant sentinels, the grass and wood elves who can fly in the air, can minimize the danger, and can run fast in case of danger. ” Cold Night's tone was a little mocking: "The elves are such a proud race, but they have to live in caves with orcs just because, on this continent, there are too few forests suitable for elves to live" to be continued.
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