Wood Spirits:

This is not a wood elf, but a species between plants and animals, they have both plant and animal characteristics, it can be understood that they eat meat, grow grass, in fact, everyone in this wood spirit team has some bark attached to their arms, although the overall body is closer to the human form, but their hair is all removed by vines, and their foreheads are all slender vines with green leaves.

Wood Spirits are a bit similar to the distant relatives of elves, after all, it is said that the earliest elves were also born from the sacred tree, but now this is the same way of reproduction as humans, Wood Spirits should be regarded as the backbone of the Gray Swamp Aboriginal Alliance, they are the most numerous, both men and women can be soldiers, and the combat effectiveness is strong, the wooden physique Yes, they have far more tenacity and endurance than ordinary people, as long as they are not directly beheaded, the wood spirit will not die in theory, and every wood spirit is almost an excellent archer, in terms of archery, the elf is the first, the centaur is the second, and the wood spirit is the third。

And the wood spirit has one of the most anti-heaven talents, that is, the wood spirit can survive like an ordinary plant, even if the body dies, the reproductive part of the body is put down in the land, and a new wood spirit can be hatched, although the life cycle of the wood spirit is longer, but over time, the number of wood spirits is also extremely terrifying.

It's just that in the face of the more violent beastmen, the physique of the wood spirit is still too cowardly, and the first savage and strong species in Middle-earth is not something that the wood spirit can compete with.

So when the Terrans provided them with a batch of experimental muskets, they soon discovered the power of these weapons on the battlefield, the powerful archery of the wood spirits coupled with the terrifying destructive power of the muskets, the combination of the two finally made the aboriginal coalition of the gray swamp see the hope of defeating the beastmen, so, regardless of whether the aborigines are willing or not, in the past six months, the aborigines have used land and various scarce materials from the Terran colony in exchange for a large number of muskets and ammunition, and it is precisely by relying on the muskets that the aboriginal coalition army can block the violent attack of the beastmen when the central area is about to be lost。

The current situation is that no matter how heavy the price is paid, it is difficult for the beastmen to push it over, and the gunpowder weapons of the aboriginal coalition can only barely maintain their own defenses, and they are also unable to attack, so the two sides are deadlocked, and then in the continuous battle between the two sides, the Terran colony continues to encroach on the land of the ash swamp.

The trade party of the Wood Elves walked out of the dense jungle, but almost every Wood Elf frowned after walking out of the forest, because around the cities close to the Terran colonies, the traces of gray swamps were decreasing, and the traces of human activity were constantly superimposed on the land.

The team of wood spirits finally embarked on the road of colony, on both sides of the rather simple road is a continuous reclamation world, human beings have adopted the most brutal development mode, directly cut down the wood and set fire to the mountain, still by the flame will evaporate the water vapor, wood burning as the nourishment of the land, although there is still a unique fog of the gray swamp, but the wood spirit can clearly feel that the fog here no longer has the aura of the fog in the depths of the ash swamp, the fog here is just a very simple water vapor.

The destruction of the jungle by humans was extremely disgusting to the Wood Spirits, and if it weren't for the existence of the Beastmen and the Human Muskets, the first people the Wood Spirits would definitely be humans, not the beastmen who seemed to be all crazy.

Although the attitude of human beings towards the aborigines is very friendly, but the attitude towards the jungle is too bad, who can imagine that this piece of land within a radius of fifty miles was all dense jungle nearly half a year ago, but now, it has become a plain full of dense villages and fields, and even those swamps have been cleaned up in an instant under the huge machines of human beings emitting white mist.

The land here is becoming more and more like a plain than a jungle.

"It takes less than half a year to clear these lands, but it will take less than ten years for them to grow again!"

A wood spirit whispered resentfully, his words made the other wood spirits deeply convinced, but these lands themselves are not within the scope of wood spirits, and the Terrans do own these lands, and the wood spirits dare not offend the Terrans, and they now seem to have no other way to vent except complain.

"Okay, everyone, cheer up, don't delay the things arranged by the elders, we used up two more bases of ammunition in the last attack of the beastmen, if we don't replenish it immediately, we may have to lose the central area in the next attack. ”

The captain's words made the other wood spirits sigh helplessly, they all closed their mouths, and walked towards the majestic castle in the distance of the road, the castle that 150,000 people spent half a year to build is also magnificent, especially in front of these wood spirits who have hardly seen the market, this city that covers an area of five miles and has a ten-meter-high city wall is indeed extremely grand.

At this time, at the gate of the castle, two garrison soldiers were on duty in front of the gate with shields and halberds, and they also carried a musket with good ammunition on their backs, and there were many humans entering and exiting at the door, and there were many other Ash Swamp natives wandering at the gate of the city.

Perhaps their strengths are in some non-combatant aspects, but in this cruel gray swamp, or even in the Middle Ages, their very existence is a sadness, and a small cat man saw the approaching wood spirit trade party, and hurriedly walked up:

"Venerable Lord Wood Spirit, you must have brought a lot of good things to buy, do you want to find the best merchant for you to sell the goods?"

Captain Wood Spirit saw the attentive cat man, this is only less than a meter, cute looking species, shook his head, and resolutely let this cat man leave, the cat man smiled and wanted to say something, but saw the wood spirit behind him with the bow and arrow in his hand and looked at him with some ill will, the cat man had no choice but to retreat, although it is not allowed to kill people casually in the land of the human race, but this does not mean that in the place where humans cannot see, human beings will go to the death of a race other than humans.

Wood Spirits actually want these cat people who are mixed in human territory to guide, but although their Wood Spirits seem to be strong, they are actually very poor, he has the money to invite this cat man, you can buy more five magic ammunition, for the poor wood spirits, the price of these five magic ammunition is still very reluctant, in fact, half a year ago, wood spirits or the entire ash swamp of various species did not know that there was such a thing as money, their trade was still at the point of bartering, wood spirits have a relatively vast land and rich products, so half a year ago the wood spirit was actually very good economic strength, but after the human beings came, with the concept of money, so that the wood spirit unknowingly, turned into a poor egg, and what is even more terrifying is that the wood spirit has not figured out how a rich clan half a year ago has become the current poor and destitute state.

Captain Wood Spirit walked to the city gate, a colonial official sat behind a table and waited for them to pass, and Captain Wood Spirit walked alone:

"Hello my lord, let's exchange some supplies, please make it convenient. ”

"Well, register it, hand in your weapons, and you're ready to go!"

Captain Mu Jing honestly stood in front of the city gate officer, pressed a finger print with his own hand, and handed over his own weapon, while calling for the weapon, he also gave a very vague sum of money to the city gate officer, and the city gate official was a quiet subordinate:

"Well, okay, don't worry, your things are stored with me, and there will definitely be no problems. ”

The city gate official meant to say something to the elf captain, and after finishing speaking, he glanced at the two garrisons in front of him without squinting, the army actually doesn't care about this kind of thing, but the army will definitely not participate, in addition to the sense of glory of the soldiers themselves, there is also the treatment of soldiers that is really good, and soldiers like them stationed in the gray swamp still have special subsidies, but they are not greedy for that income.

The captain of the wood spirit handed over his weapon, and the wood spirit behind him also handed in his weapon, it seems that it is not the first time they have come, and there is no discomfort and disgust in handing in the weapon, and then they can enter the central city of the colony built by the human race in the outermost part of the gray swamp.

The prosperity of the interior of the city is completely incomparable to the camp of the Mu Jing and their clan, the interior of the city is built of masonry and cement, there are still a large number of steam engines inside, the sound of steam gears is permeated in the city, and the general three-story buildings make almost every room on the first floor of the shop is a shop, where they sell all kinds of specialties from the central province and even the land of heaven, and some of the aborigines who come to trade will more or less buy something in these shops.

The team of wood elves has made all the storefronts not give a good face, because for such a long time, almost all the Terran bosses have a consensus, that is, the largest wood elves in the aboriginal alliance, almost the poorest of all races, they are not even willing to eat food on the road, and they can also root in the ground for a night when they sleep, and no longer waste a mouthful of dry food during the day.

"Boy, hurry up and move things, or you won't want to eat tonight. ”

A shopkeeper shouted at a cat man who was angrily carrying goods at the door, and the wood spirit and his party also looked at the boss coldly after seeing it, and the cat man hurriedly moved things harder, and he didn't know how the small body and bones carried so many heavy goods.

The cat-man was wearing a simple miniature one-piece jean, which seemed to be the Terran boss who had thrown the clothes of one of the children in his family to him.

The living conditions of cat people in the gray swamp are actually particularly miserable, almost every race does not treat cat people very well, because cat people are almost useless, people goblins and goblins still have the advantage of being able to give birth and be easy to feed, cat people have nothing, and the physique is almost equal to the goblin goblins, and the food should not be too bad, otherwise they are easy to get sick, and the lack of force makes them almost no land of their own, and there is no way to produce without land, and cat people have always played the role of beggars in the gray swamp.

Although the human race is not very good to these cat people now, but the cat people are extremely grateful to humans, because the cat people are in the territory of the human race, almost as long as they are willing to be angry, they can definitely find a job, not to mention the salary, at least the boss has to take care of these cat people two meals a day, if the cat people save a little, they can also bring back their old snacks, and sometimes the boss will give them a few dollars when he is happy, which is better.

So almost the entire gray swamp of cat people are coming to the Terran colony, at least, compared to other races, the Terran is the kindest to the cat people, plus the women of the Terran race, almost naturally have an indelible good impression of these cat people, although the cat people work very hard here in the Terran, but the overall life is still relatively good.

Many cat people have taken on the bottom work of the Terran colony, coolies, cleaners, low-level workers, cat people can be seen almost everywhere in the Terran colony, and even many cat people are still asking if they can migrate to the central province of the Terran, in recent years, the attitude of the Terran towards foreign races has changed greatly, almost except for a few humanoid races can enter the core land of the Terran, other species are rejected.

Cat people are naturally no exception, wood spirits can see the existence of these cat people along the way, and even in some dark corners, you can see some extremely simple shacks, there are a few cat people children playing at the door, at least it seems, cat people seem to be relatively close to humans.

"Get close to you, at least the cat people still have a good place to go for the time being. ”

Captain Wood Spirit shook his head and walked towards the center of the city, only where there will be ammunition to sell, after all, this kind of thing will only exist in the official camp, there are a large number of shops selling along the way, most of the customers are humans, but there are also some other Ash Swamp aborigines, seeing the Terran Wood Spirits are not angry, and seeing these other aborigines who can shop are still angry.

"Okay, we wood spirits are working hard in front, and we don't even want to eat a mouthful of dry food after walking so far, you people can still shop here, it's really CNM!"

All the wood spirits were bubbling with sour breath in their hearts, and with this sour gas, they came to their destination, the most central urban area, the buildings here are much better than the periphery, there is at least a little bit of the feeling of the core city of the human race, atmospheric, neat, and exquisite, and on the side of a square, a huge warehouse, where the huge volume of the store stands proudly, with a few big characters written on it:

"Imperial Grey Swamp Exchange!"

(End of chapter)