Volume 2: The Shadow of the Wailing Cave (Remastered) Chapter 6: The Adventures of the Wailing Cave (2)

This vast wasteland dotted with oases and mountain peaks was once a fertile land, the sea breeze of the Tatila Sea brought rain to moisten the land, and the rich plains were home to a variety of creatures, such as boar people, gnolls, minotaurs, kobolds, centaurs, etc., the origins of these races can be traced back here.

But the first faction war at the beginning of the Second Age ruined it all. Elves and demons fight each other in this land, and the power of magic destroys the balance of nature, leaving serious damage on this rich land. Due to the chaos of the magical elements, a terrible tornado formed in the Sea of Tatila, and the raging storm destroyed almost everything, forcing the indigenous people who lived in the land to leave their homes and find a new place to live.

Throughout the Second Age, the elves tried to restore the natural balance to the area, while still using it as a forward base for attacking the demons, and the repeated faction wars left the land deserted and the rivers dried up, eventually turning it into a vast wasteland. Only a few oases are fed by underground water veins that sustain their fragile lives, giving shelter to the indigenous people who are reluctant to give up on the area.

The Sweet Water Oasis that Yu Bin and the others are going to is one of the largest oases in the Barrens, and the Centaur Girgyz tribe occupies this oasis and uses it as a base to plunder caravans passing through the Barren Lands to obtain various supplies. To reach this oasis, Yu Bin and his party from Orgrimmar must pass through silt swamps, waterless ridges, and ghost fog peaks, which are inhabited by a large number of gnolls and wild boar people, who, like centaurs, are forced to play the role of bandits for their livelihood. Almost once a year, Orgrimmar's orcs raided the trade routes to prevent these murderous raiders from cutting them off with impunity.

In just a distance of more than 100 kilometers, Yu Bin and them took nearly two days to complete, the wind with gravel often appears without warning, obscuring their vision, after the wind and sand, there will always be natives out of nowhere shouting slogans of unknown meaning to attack them, although these fools who block the road and rob end up with experience points, but at the same time waste a lot of their time.

"Don't these guys have a long memory?" Chen Tao pulled the dagger out of a gnoll, and the gnoll who had lost his breath fell to the ground, and bright red blood slowly flowed out from the wound in his abdomen. The jackal, who was less than Chen Tao's chest tall, was only wearing a pair of rotten leather boots with holes everywhere, and the weapon in his hand was also a short knife that had been rusted, and his not strong body made this jackal man unable to stop the call of death at all.

There was a wild boar man lying not far away, this guy was killed by Lei Fatzi, and he suffered three death shocks on the way to charge, Yu Bin was sure that this wild boar man died very aggrieved. Compared to the gnolll, the boar man had an extra rudimentary piece of leather armor that looked like it had been made of bighorn sheep's skin, a herbivore that was more common in the barren lands and was the main source of food for the gnolls and boar men.

More corpses were lying in the distance, those were directly killed by Yu Bin and them with their mounts, there were jackals, wild boar people, and even two kobolds, the most obvious common thing of these corpses was that they were poorly equipped and thin.

"These are simply the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled!" Chen Tao wiped the blood stains off the dagger, inserted it back into his belt, stepped on the skeleton horse again, and said disdainfully, I don't know how many times this scene happened along the way, and the result was similar each time, which made Chen Tao very difficult to understand.

"You're right, they're all old, weak, sick and disabled!" Yu Bin rode his horse to Chen Tao's side, "In the eyes of these guys, the old, weak, sick and disabled who have lost their combat effectiveness must use their own hands to gain the right to survive, only strong individuals are qualified to enjoy delicious food and recharge for the next attack on the caravan, as for them, it is already very good to be able to send a knife to let them fend for themselves." ”

The law of the jungle is so taken for granted in this land that it is even enshrined as the most reasonable.

"How far is it? I'm tired of this kind of thing all the time! Chen Tao asked helplessly, and Lei Fatzi and Yang Xu on the side also nodded in agreement.

Yu Bin looked up at the sun in the sky: "It's not far, you should be able to see the sweet water oasis in a quarter of an hour!" Alan, dispose of those corpses! ”

Ailan is the name of Chen Tao's character, the full name is Alan Shadow Song, this guy's basic template is an elf, born with the surname Shadow Song, which makes Yu Bin sigh that his luck is good, because it means that Chen Tao's character is likely to come from a certain family of elves during his lifetime.

The template of the fat man is the same as Yu Bin, he is a human being, he gave him a name of thunder, this guy wants to pray in this way that he can use thunder and lightning magic to shine on the battlefield in the future, for the unrealistic fantasy of the fat man, Yu Bin can only mourn for him in the bottom of his heart.

Yang Xu's template is a dark elf, originally named Keldila Philen, and now it is Keldila Weaver, the weaver is the surname given by the Temple of Death after believing in the god of death, which means that this undead has been converted to the name of the god of death, which once made Yang Xu very unhappy, because he couldn't take a name he liked, Yu Bin can only say that he doesn't know the blessing in the blessing, whether it is Philen or the weaver, being able to get a surname means that Yang Xu's character has a corresponding family relationship. Commoners like Fat Man and Yu Bin are not eligible to have a surname, and Yu Bin's so-called "dry bones" surname is also a self-title that is not recognized by the undead, and is not a title that can be recorded.

Out of caution, Yu Bin asked them to call each other by their respective character names in normal times to avoid revealing their true identities.

Alan (who would later use his character name in the world of Ntagre) shrugged his shoulders and took Thunderlight and Keldila to dispose of the corpses, which they didn't feel the need to do at first, until they were chased by a large group of gnolls and boarmen who smelled blood for half an hour, and then had to accept the cruel reality and obediently bury the corpses after each battle, so as not to attract more pursuers due to the strong smell of blood.

The four people who re-embarked on the road soon saw the green at the end of their sight, which made the people who had been tormented by this wilderness for a long time feel comfortable, and as the green became more and more, the Sweet Water Oasis finally appeared in front of them.

Six or seven meters tall jujube trees are the most common plants, poplar and sycamore are also quite numerous, as for the wood willow, bell wood, ironwood and other tree species mostly grow in the center of the oasis, white thorn bushes, smoke shrubs, licorice, wild chrysanthemum and other low plants are mixed in, making the scenery here completely different from the surrounding desert Gobi.

Yu Bin jumped off his horse, put away his mount, and motioned to the other three to do the same: "The centaurs here are not easy to mess with, if you don't want to be unlucky, follow me." ”

The Centaur Gilgis tribe is the leader of the bandits in the barrens, these guys not only rob the passing caravans, but also attack the orc patrols, and when they are short of food, these daring creatures will even roar through the barren half of the barren land in droves, rushing into the neighboring Mogore to rob the minotaurs, which makes the minotaurs often enter the barren lands and clash with the orcs in pursuit of these robbers.

Compared to the Jackals and Boar Men, who generally only have about the first order, the strength of the centaurs is generally around the third order, and coupled with their characteristics of coming and going like the wind, it is no wonder that Orgrimmar has been unable to eliminate these guys for a long time.

Not far from stepping into the Sweetwater Oasis, Yu Bin found a group of centaur patrols from a distance, consisting of a centaur scout and a centaur wanderer, the former holding a long knife and belonging to the melee class, and the latter using bows and arrows and belonging to the ranged class. Their strength is not very strong, they are all Tier 2 monsters, but the headache is that each Centaur Wanderer will carry a warning horn on their body, and once the horn is blown, the other centaurs patrolling nearby will hear about it. Players who don't know this often find themselves surrounded by a large number of centaurs at some point, which ultimately leads to death.

"I'll deal with that centaur wanderer, Alan, you take Thunderlight and Keldila against the other, watch out for his horse's hooves, if you get hit, there is a good chance that there will be a fracture, there is no doctor here to help you get the bones back!" Yu Bin pulled out the rune sword, lowered his body and hid behind a bush, and said in a low voice.

The two centaurs came one after the other towards the bushes where Yu Bin and the four were hiding, and when they came within ten meters, Yu Bin had already launched a charge, rushing towards the centaur wanderer who was two positions behind, and his task was to kill the opponent as quickly as possible, preventing the centaur wanderer from blowing the horn to attract more enemies.

The centaur scout who was suddenly attacked subconsciously wanted to stop Yu Bin who rushed towards his companion, but there was a sharp pain in the back of his head, and then he fell into dizziness, it turned out that at the same time as Yu Bin launched an attack, Alan had used his stealth skill to get closer to the centaur scout, and successfully put the guy to the ground with a chisel blow.

Seeing that Elan's sneak attack was successful, Raylight and Keldila immediately jumped out of the bushes and greeted the centaur scout who fell to the ground with the weapons in their hands, although the two of them were legal professions, but in this case it was obvious that using a knife was more effective than standing still and chanting a spell stupidly.

Less than two seconds of stun time was enough for the centaur scout to suffer fatal damage, and the centaur scout, whose throat had been sliced, struggled to spit out a large amount of blood, kicking and kicking four of the horse's legs into a corpse. As for Yu Bin's side, it was even easier, carrying the power bonus provided by the charge, the rune sword in Yu Bin's hand had already pierced deep into the chest of the centaur wanderer, piercing the heart inside, and the fatal point was attacked, so that the centaur wanderer died without even pulling the bowstring.

"Quick, peel off the useful stuff and bury the body!" Yu Bin said as he took off the equipment from the centaur wanderer, and so did Alan. As the biggest bandit leaders in the Barrens, these Kyrgyz centaurs were undoubtedly much richer than the robbers they had encountered before, as evidenced by their equipment. The leather helmet, a piece of heart armor attached by a belt, and a skin to protect the abdomen, plus the weapons in their hands, even the centaurs responsible for patrolling the perimeter can have such equipment, which shows the wealth of the entire Kyrgyz tribe.

Took off the horn and a small leather bag from the belt that the centaur wanderer hung on his body, the helmet was picked up by Yu Bin and looked at it before putting it back, the white ordinary level equipment was useless to Bin and them, and it was troublesome to put on his body. The small leather bag contained a few pieces of silverleaf grass and licorice, as well as a few pieces of jerky that could be chewed to stop the bleeding, and the latter as rations for the centaur wanderer.

Yu Bin disgusted put the silver leaf grass and licorice into his space bag, and then hung the small leather bag back on the centaur wanderer, this thing has a strong centaur body odor, leaving it on himself is simply torture, and it will attract more centaurs.

Ailan's side is similar, the centaur scout has no equipment to enter the eyes of the three people except for the long knife, and in the small leather bag is a small piece of ore except for a few licorice, Yu Bin stuffed these things into the space bag in one go, and helped Ailan and them dig a pit and bury the two corpses hastily.

That's why Sweetwater Oasis is known as a training ground for newbies. Players who are new to combat will be able to learn how to spot enemies in advance, how to launch a successful sneak attack, how to choose the right combat method for the situation, and how to handle the battlefield, which is something that is never needed in ordinary online games, but in the world of Entagre, these are important factors that matter between life and death.

The old birds in the previous life often bring the rookies who have not yet grown up here, and then watch these novices make all kinds of mistakes, the strength of the centaurs is neither too low for the rookies to gain experience, nor too high for the old birds to guarantee safety, I don't know how many advanced players take their first steps from here.

"Quick, move now!" After hastily disposing of the corpse, Yu Bin immediately took the three of them to leave here under the cover of the surrounding bushes, or it wouldn't be long before the centaurs who discovered the abnormality would send a search team, and staying here was simply looking for death.

This oasis will provide Yu Bin with a lot of experience points, equipment, materials and raw materials for a long time, and it will be used to train Ailan and their combat abilities while leveling up, and only when they can survive here smoothly will Yu Bin consider letting them undergo further training.