The Ruins of Magic and Industry Chapter 44: The Secret of the Goblins
The city of Shago is mainly made up of large open spaces hollowed out of the mountains to build goblin living quarters, which occupy about two-thirds of the town, while the remaining third is the sprawling goblin laboratory behind the chieftain mansion of Cockel, and for some reason, the passage connecting the town to the goblin lab is particularly huge.
The goblins called this passage the road of glory, and when they first heard it, Liu Bai and his gang were still puzzled, and Coker explained that because the goblin laboratory connected to the passage was the basis for their goblin clan to return to the ancient glory, and the short goblins were inferior to most creatures in terms of ontological combat effectiveness, and only technology was their only advantage.
Hearing this explanation, Liu Bai just smiled noncommittally, in his eyes, if you want to talk about technology, it can't be the turn of goblins?
In fact, Liu Bai is not the only one who thinks so, but also the older and experienced old Jill who thinks so. Although the goblins have some surprising creativity and productivity, their technological level is only partial in some aspects, and it is not comparable to the comprehensive and systematic technology of human beings.
And under what old Jill has seen and heard in the past few decades, the most famous technology of the goblin is - explosion!
That's right, goblin technology has always been aimed at the extreme, such as emphasizing air-to-ground high-altitude suppression, and their ingenious concept of floating boats led to the birth of large human floating boats. For another example, the powerful three-wheeled goblin motorcycle of the goblin also led to the birth of a wave of "rampage" with motorcycle as the main combat unit, and the ultimate instantaneous burst speed is synonymous with the goblin three-wheeled motorcycle.
However, in order to pursue the ultimate, the technical level of the goblins is too one-sided, and they are always unable to balance the various components and stability in the machine, which will naturally cause more or less defects in the finished products produced by the goblins, which will cause failures and explosions!
Of course, even so, it cannot be denied that the only thing goblins can rely on is technology, and their ingenuity and amazing imagination are the foundation of their existence, which is undeniable. Their existence has given mankind an indispensable lesson for survival in this last age.
And these goblins in Shago City are also a typical example! Because when they were building this Shago City, they found a huge broken chariot under Shago City! The chariot came from ancient times, and its tall body was 30 meters high, and its length and width were 50 meters and 40 meters respectively!
Although the chariot was dilapidated and could not be activated, the goblins found the chariot buried deep under the shargo, and they instinctively thought that it was the favor of the goblin god! They had spent decades repairing the chariot and strengthening it to make it more suitable for the goblins' combat habits.
As long as the vehicle is repaired, it will be reborn. Then they can return to the world without having to be trapped in this Shago, and Cockel has a great goal.
He wants to return to the former land of the goblins, Arsha, with this chariot, to defeat the feuding trolls and reclaim the glory that belonged to the goblins!
The tough, leather-armored Iron Eaters are simply their goblins' number one enemy, and on the path of glory, which is 60 meters high and only 10 meters wide, the goblins cannot expel the sharp floatboats, so they can only appoint the goblin knight to fight it on a goblin tricycle, and the other goblin armies cannot rely on their weapons to inflict too much damage on the iron-eating beast.
The strength and size limitations of the goblin body, as well as the terrain limitations, caused them to be delayed for more than two weeks because of this iron-eating beast. But they didn't dare to issue a mission to ask the Hunters' Guild to exterminate them, they were afraid that the greedy humans would covet the great chariot given to them by their gods, the goblin chariot, as another identity of the goblins in the human world - merchants!
Goblins have always regarded humans as a symbol of greed, and humans have always copied the "secret" technology of goblins through goblin products, which has alerted goblins, and there have been many cases where human legions have exterminated goblin cities and plundered goblin wealth. Therefore, goblins have always been neutral in the human world, and their cities are completely secret from humans. They can roam the human world as merchants, but they have no foothold as equal beings in the human world.
So this time, the Shago goblins could only try to drive away the iron-eating beasts through constant attacks, but the effect was not very good.
However, this time they encountered the "powerful" heavy hunting group, since they could defeat the steppe rattlesnake, they must also be able to defeat the iron-eating beasts of the same rank, and their goblin chariot had also entered the end, and this hunting group was at least 2 weeks away from the nearest human city.
Coker also intended to lead them further south to the dwarven cities after they had helped defeat the Ironeaters, so that they could delay them for some time. In this way, even if Liu Bai wanted to contact the Hunting Guild and come to this Shago City to loot, it would be 20 days later! However, before that, Cocker had already set out on the road to defeat the trolls and regain the goblin homeland in a goblin chariot!
Therefore, Coker was still very "friendly" to attract Liu Bai and his gang to his own city, and "kindly" allowed motorcycles in order to dispel the vigilance of this group of young hunters. It stands to reason that Coker, as a big businessman, is also a well-known profiteer in the human world, how can he politely let go of the nature of a profiteer and trade fairly with Liu Bai?
So until last night, after successfully making the promise of Liu Bai, who was still a child, to help them, Cocker couldn't wait for them in front of the road of glory today. He brought with him 500 goblin musketeers and 500 goblin knights, hoping to drive the iron-eaters away and even kill them in one goblin.
Speaking of which, this iron-eating beast is also hateful, originally this kind of demonic beast was a demonic beast that dominated the mine, this time I don't know how to "smell" their goblin chariot, and actually occupied the chariot alive, using the chariot as their own food, if you can't kill the iron-eating beast this time, the chariot doesn't know how long it can last.
Thinking of this, Coker also sighed, on the one hand, he was afraid that the iron beast would eat too much, and if the chariot was seriously damaged, then their plan would probably be delayed for a long time, and on the other hand, his suspicion and worry about Liu Bai and his gang scratched his heart.
"Maybe you shouldn't have deceived Liu Bai yesterday, you should have made friends with Liu Bai directly, seeing that Liu Bai is not as greedy as those seasoned adults in the ordinary human race, as Liu Bai and his gang in the plains may not have to worry about them leaking the location of their Shage City. "As a big businessman, Cocker also has a lot of experience in the art of recognizing people in the human world, which will think of this, and he is a little concerned in his heart, but as the essence of a profiteer, he also habitually wanted to get Liu Bai's help at the minimum cost yesterday, and it was also due to inertia, which would start to be a little entangled.
He called his son, who was originally behind him, "Koksha, do you think Commander Liu Bai can be trusted, will they betray the location of our town in the future?"
Coksha is Coker's only son, and he is also the heir that Coker focuses on cultivating, and he has been by his side when he went out to trade with Liu Bai yesterday, so he has also seen Liu Bai and his gang.
"Dad, I don't think Captain Liu Bai is a greedy person, he has the same eyes as Tatu, the way he looks at the members of the group, the same way Tatu looks at me. Such people have their own bottom line. "Tatu was his childhood friend's bodyguard, and Koksha had always been a brother and sister to him.
The difference between Koksha and Koker is that Koksha, who trained Koksha as the heir to the city lord, did not teach him the skills of a merchant. Coker wanted to raise his son to be a "king" of the reconquest, not a treacherous and treacherous merchant, so Cocquesha's eyes on people were intuitive, unlike Coker himself, who was always naturally wary of humans.
Hearing Coksha's words, Coker was thoughtful.
"Hmm!" Coker immediately decided, since his own son felt the same way, he should take a gamble, and the current damage of the tank is unknown, and it may take longer to repair. If Liu Bai and his gang are really people with a bottom line as their son said, then their plans can be more calm.
"So, Liu Bai can make a friend, and I must also make it with my heart!" Coker secretly decided in his heart.