Chapter 280: Orcs in the Jungle
Hengduan Mountains
The Orc King Sorg has returned from the North, bringing back a baby dragon to use to connect with the island of Fix.
He now knew that the fleet had set off from Fix Island and was heading south, and it was estimated that in five or six days, it would reach the agreed cape of the South China Sea.
This was good news, of course, but Sorg found himself and his clan facing a great challenge.
Undead!
The ordinary undead are not to be feared, the news reported by the scouts said that those fools would not search their current gathering place for at least half a month, and that what kept the orcs in trouble were the gargoyles that flew in the sky from time to time.
Gargoyles are high-level undead, although they can't speak, but their brains are not stupid, they have been patrolling the skies above the dense forest, and if they are spotted by gargoyles, the orcs will either move immediately or kill the gargoyle with all their might.
There are now more than 70,000 orc tribes, a small half of whom are women and children, and it is unrealistic to move quickly, so there is only one way to go, and that is to kill the gargoyles.
But the gargoyle is so fast and powerful that even Sorg can't guarantee that he will be able to keep the gargoyle behind again and again.
In order to avoid the dogs, the orcs had to huddle under the dense forest, not daring to make fires, not to speak loudly, not to walk around, or even to hunt, because the screams and smell of blood of the prey during hunting might attract gargoyles.
In this way, food becomes a problem.
In the beginning, there were orc warriors who killed Terran women to satisfy their hunger, and although the orc king had an explicit decree to respect the child's mother, but now in such a difficult time, the savage orc nature is difficult to change.
As soon as Sorg heard this. Immediately furious, in front of all the orc warriors, he split the orc warriors who disobeyed his orders in half, and among the orcs killed, even one of his cronies. With such harsh means. Coupled with the majesty of the orc king, this momentum can be stopped.
The bodies of the slain orcs were also buried, not eaten as before, and although the orc warriors wanted to do so, Sorg strictly forbade it.
Sorg did this for a reason.
This time, he went north to the Lion City in the Duchy of Lehman. He was deeply touched by the fact that he had personally experienced the prosperity of the human city, and that he had laid down all his dignity and groveled to ask for help from his former enemies.
Why? How could a weak human race build such a glorious city?
Why? His strong clansmen can only hide in the deep mountains and old forests and live like wild beasts?
All the way, he thought all the way. If I have an understanding in my heart, I have a personal experience of the two words barbarism that have been spoken in the mouth of the human race, compared with the human race, they are indeed very barbaric, and the most terrible thing is that they do not respect their own people, whoever dies, who will be eaten.
This was a last resort in the original dark plane. Because there is a lack of food and can't afford to waste it, but here. In this dense forest, they have not yet reached the final point.
Sorge decided to quit his people's bad habit of cannibalism.
However, food is still a problem, what to do?
The orcs began to eat leaves, bark, grass roots, insects, and earthworms, as long as they were not poisonous. Whoever can stuff it in his mouth eats anything. And not only they eat. He also forced the Terran women to eat too, and everyone ate it!
They cautiously moved towards the cape of the South China Sea. Scraping the ground all the way, like locusts, they cut everything they could eat along the way.
The days were extremely hard, very difficult, time passed very slowly, and in this torment, three days passed slowly.
The orc tribe is still less than forty kilometers away from the cape of the South China Sea, and if they keep hurrying, it is estimated that they will be able to reach it tonight.
But they had to rest for a while, because everyone was tired, and even the tough brute warriors couldn't hold it out.
Sorge was also exhausted, he sat at the root of a large tree, holding a leaf in his hand, wrapped in a dozen white and fat insects, which his Terran wife had pulled out of a dead wood bored hole, each one a palm long, with a thick thumb, and it tasted good.
Speaking of his Terran wife, well, according to the Terran point of view, she is definitely not beautiful, but she is tall and strong, with a height of 1.85 meters, and the whole person is big and round.
In the eyes of the orcs, only such a woman can give birth to the strongest warriors, so this Terran woman can barely be called beautiful.
Of a dozen bugs, Sorge ate a small half, and handed the rest to his wife: "I'm full, you can take it and eat it." β
"Your Majesty, I'm not hungry." The woman shook her head, unkempt and haggard.
It is said that this woman was born in a noble family, of course, her family has been wiped out, not by the orcs, but by the undead, this woman escaped alone, and then was captured by the orcs, when she was captured, she was still wearing battle armor, and she also injured several orc warriors, she was a strong woman.
Well, the Terran commoners can't raise such a strong person, so Sorge believes in his wife's aristocratic origin. He looked down at the woman's slightly bulging belly, which was his child, who couldn't be hungry, so he straightened his face: "I tell you to eat!" β
The woman eventually took the worm, and she ate it very hard, wrapped in leaves, and almost swallowed it.
Sorge found himself feeling a little distressed, recalling the food he ate in the Duchy of Lehman, especially the cup of wine he drank in the mansion, presumably those were the things that the nobles ate, and now this woman followed him, and actually ate this disgusting worm, which really made her miserable.
Stretched out his hand to comb the messy hair between his sideburns for his Terran wife, and comforted softly: "Hold on for a few more days, and it will be good to get to the boat." β
The woman's body stiffened, and then she answered softly: "Hmm." β
At this time, the scout came to report: "Your Majesty, there is no way to go ahead." β
Sorge frowned: "What do you say?" β
The scout grimaced: "The gargoyle patrols on the coastline are very dense, half an hour is a group, so many of us have passed, there is no way to hide traces." β
"Damn it!" Sorge gritted his teeth. The little elf dragon has sent news that the fleet will arrive around noon tomorrow. This was their only hope of escape, and they had to get to the cape before they did.
"Have you found the location of the army of the undead?" Sorg asked again.
"Found it. It's only a hundred and fifty kilometers from us, and even less than a hundred kilometers from the cape, if the gargoyles find us, at their speed. You can get over in half a day! The scout said.
"Half a day? How many of them are there? β
"There are too many ordinary undead, there are too many to count, and there are at least thirty thousand high-level undead!" Scout said, his face visibly desperate.
Thirty thousand high-level undead, countless ordinary undead, and their tribe has not eaten enough for many days. I don't have much strength at all, and I still have so much drag, if I am really blocked by them, the only end is that the whole clan will be wiped out!
Solg was silent for a long time, beside him. An orc who had just become a high priest spoke: "Your Majesty, the warriors are hungry. β
Food? Where does the food come from? The answer is self-evident, orc children can't eat it, this is their hope for the future, but the Terran women in the team don't need so much.
Sorg remained silent.
Another orc cronie named Antlers said cautiously: "Your Majesty, you don't have the strength to fight by eating tree roots and grass leaves, you have to eat meat." β
Sorg remained silent.
The cronies called Antlers thought he had acquiesced, and got up to do it.
"No!" Solg finally spoke. The voice is not heavy, but it reveals an unshakable will.
"Majesty!" Antlers raise the volume to persuade.
Sorg looked at him and asked, "We killed these Terran women. Eating their flesh, do you think the Terran fleet will let us aboard? β
Antlers was dumbfounded.
The high priest said: "Yes, they will, they need our strength, since they are here, they will definitely not give up on us because we killed a few Terran women." β
"Oh?" Sorge narrowed his eyes and looked at the new high priest: "Who do you think is the person who came with the ship this time?" It's Rollin. That Terran warrior of VendΓ΄me. I'm sure we did. Even if he let us on the ship, he would definitely take revenge on our people tenfold in the future. Can you afford it? β
The high priest's face turned pale, and he said for a long time: "What can I do then?" β
"I will take the warriors to hunt, and the herd of elephants we have seen on the road, there are at least thirty, and I will kill them all, and their meat will be enough for each of our warriors to eat."
Now that it was the last moment, they were facing such a desperate situation, they didn't care if they would be discovered by the gargoyles, and when they were full, they would fight the undead!
Sorge is the Orc King, the Martial Saint, and the unparalleled force in the Orc Clan, since he has decided so, everyone will obey.
After a while, a hunting party of 500 people was organized, led by Sorg, and rushed towards the herd of elephants he had encountered before.
Along the way, Sorge was very careful, more than thirty elephants, although huge, but for Sorg, it was not a problem at all, he could kill them all by rushing in alone, and brought five hundred people, just in case, to carry the meat at the same time.
The elephant herd is huge and very obvious, and Sorg has already prepared for it, so he has the scouts to keep an eye on it early in the morning, so there is no need to look for it at all, just go all the way.
Sorg and his warriors did not rush to attack, they waited for the patrolling gargoyle to pass before they began to move.
They had a plan, and some of the orcs were guarding around the elephant herd, carrying giant crossbows, which was used to deal with the gargoyles, and in case of any situation, they had to shoot the gargoyles down with all their might.
Perhaps it was the favor of the god of war, and the hunt went very smoothly until the elephants were killed, and the gargoyles did not appear.
Thirty elephants, all but a few baby elephants, were like a mountain of meat, and five hundred orc warriors threw themselves on the elephant on the spot and drank the elephant's blood until they were full, and then they carried the mountain back to the camp.
After arriving at the camp, the meat was divided as soon as possible, and each orc warrior was given at least two catties of meat, and the strong brute orcs were a little more, with five catties each.
The orcs knew that a great war was coming, and they were all silent, shoving meat in their mouths with one hand and clutching their weapons with the other.
In the dense forest, the aura of bloody slaughter spread.
Soon, more than 30 elephants were all broken to bones, and they were eaten by the orc warriors, and there were no internal organs and bone marrow left.
Sorge also ate a full stomach, as the leader of the orcs, he ate a whole elephant trunk, and also ate the heart of the leader of the elephant herd, the meat is a little thick, and the skin is also very tough, but he eats with relish, his stomach is full, the previous fatigue is swept away, and his whole body is full of strength.
At this time, it was already night, and Sorg gave an order: "Rest in the middle of the night, and set off in the early morning!" β
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Almost at the same moment, Marshal Innocent also issued an order: "Go, Cape of the South Sea!" β
He hadn't spotted any orcs, but his gargoyles had been patrolling the coastline, so he knew the topography of the South China Sea coast well.
In this area, only the cape of the South China Sea can be used to moor large ships, and the location of the next natural harbor is 300 kilometers away.
And the gargoyles who were staring at the Terran fleet from afar also came with the news that the fleet was getting closer and closer to the cape.
Therefore, Innocent bets that the cape of the South China Sea is the embarkation point of the orcs! (To be continued)
ps: Two more today