Chapter 555: The Disappearance of the Orc Tribe
This is of course completely unimaginable...... Even this group of people would have been unimaginable three years ago.
The vast majority of the powerhouses in this world are after the age of forty when they enter the golden level. is already a peerless genius in his thirties.
Moreover, most of these geniuses showed amazing talent when they were young, and at the age of entering the academy, they had reached at least the silver intermediate level or above. When you graduate and leave the academy, you are basically about to enter the golden level.
And from the time they are about to enter the Golden Tier to the real Golden Tier, they need a long time to accumulate - just like Rice.
Geniuses who have really been promoted to the Golden Rank at the age of graduation have been rare for thousands of years. There are also only a handful of people who have entered the golden level before the age of thirty. And now, Ji Ran has a vote on his side that has the hope of being promoted to the gold rank before the age of thirty!
Erin, Lydia, Baker, Ben, Alice...... They are all at the threshold of the Golden Order. Even Ji Ran himself is too, but Ji Ran knows that his situation is different from others.
He needs to pass through the Guò Heavenly Tribulation to advance to the Golden Rank, and there is also a stage to open up the Great Zhou Tian in the middle. This difficulty is completely different from the promotion ceremony, and it is also very dangerous for him. It's just that now that he has reached level sixty-nine and his experience is full, the Heavenly Tribulation is delayed.
He didn't know why, maybe it was because of the different laws of heaven and earth. But Ji Ran could feel that he was indeed accumulating energy in his body. Sooner or later, this energy will burst out, allowing him to break through the golden level!
In fact, Ji Ran had been preparing for Baker and the others to break through for a long time, but he didn't expect this day to come so quickly. Baker and the others were basically silver high-level after reuniting with him. There is still a little time left to advance to the Gold Tier. So Ji Ran made preparations. But the preparation was not sufficient...... After all, the materials for advancing to the gold rank are not so easy to get.
Who would have thought. The Tree of Life has given them a collective boost...... Ji Ran has no level improvement, but the others are different!
It didn't take long for almost all of them to reach the silver pinnacle. At this time, it is not too early to prepare for the promotion to the gold rank.
Thanks to Ji Ran's peculiar mental technique, the accumulation of a group of people is now much higher than the peak of ordinary silver. Although it can't catch up with Rice's accumulation of more than ten years, it is not hopeless to be promoted to the gold rank.
Everyone can see that the world is facing a catastrophe right now. If there was no catastrophe. Ji Ran will definitely let everyone accumulate a few more days, so that the promotion to the golden rank will be smoother, and the starting point will be higher. But now, I'm afraid I can't wait.
So, he started to collect materials. But it is not easy to gather the materials for the promotion of so many people.
Moreover, among these people, Erin is an elven ranger, and her promotion is different from that of humans. Alice has the blood of Warcraft...... It's even harder to grasp. The only one who can be promoted through rituals is Lydia. Baker and Ban too.
With three people, the pressure is reduced a lot. But Ji Ran still wants to be perfect. Therefore, he did not rashly arrange the promotion circle, but still planned to wait a little longer.
After a period of travel, the group finally arrived in the middle of the Western Plateau, where the great tribes gathered.
It's much more lively than the Giant Tooth tribe, with human caravans coming and going, shops bustling, and even many adventurers setting up stalls on the spot to sell some of the spoils of their adventures.
The orc guards were still patrolling the area, and they didn't look like they had been brainwashed. This made Ji Ran and the others breathe a sigh of relief, if these big tribes have not been controlled by the True God Sect, then things are not too strict.
Following the flow of people and paying the entrance fee, everyone entered the orc tribe with the name of Bloody Fall. The orcs here have a special characteristic, dyeing the top of their heads red...... It seems to be obvious at a glance.
This tribe, from the outside, except that it is more lively and larger than the Giant Tooth tribe, does not look special. But Ji Ran and the others did not let down their guard because of this...... This kind of place is so lively, there is no reason why it should not be looked upon by the True God Order.
If it is in the human world, the more lively the place, the more they dare not go...... Because the more lively the place, the greater the power of the Holy Light Church, and the more people guard against the True God Order. But the orcs are different, they have almost no concept of the True God Order!
In this case, it would be very easy for the True God Order to take down these tribes...... It's just that it's not so easy to hide from the adventurers and merchants who come and go in the tribe.
Ji Ran and the others still followed the old rules, came to the tavern opened by the largest human in the tribe, asked for some wine, sat and drank slowly, and asked Baker to find out the news by the way, and the others also listened to the chat of the adventurers sitting next to them.
"Another adventurer disappeared yesterday, did you hear that?"
"I've heard that, in recent months, this orc tribe has often gone missing! Either the adventurers, or the ones who came with the caravan...... If you do the math, there are hundreds of people, right? ”
"yes...... But no one can say for sure what those people did. Maybe they went out on an adventure in the middle of the night? ”
"Just kidding! This is the Western Plateau, how dare you walk outside in the middle of the night? Don't talk about those monsters, it's those orcs......"
"Yes, yes, I heard that there are rumors that those orcs secretly captured those people and ate them......"
"Nonsense, although orcs are called orcs, they are not beasts, and they can't eat people. But those people are really missing, so we have to be careful and don't be left alone at night! ”
Ji Ran's ears were extremely sensitive, and even in a noisy tavern, he still sensitively heard the information he wanted.
Someone missing? More than a hundred people have been missing for a few months? This is no ordinary event...... That is, this is the orc tribe, if it was in a big city of human society, a panic would have been formed a long time ago.
But looking at the appearance of those adventurers who are also silent, it may not be that they are not afraid. But if the orcs are silent, what can you do? Maybe the orcs did it?
Although the orcs of the big tribe are much more disciplined, when they are alone in the middle of the night, they are attacked, robbed and killed by orcs, which is too normal...... The chief shaman of the orcs didn't say anything, most likely, the orcs did it themselves!
It's just that they can't offend the strong among those big caravans and adventurers, so they don't dare to do this kind of thing blatantly. But those big caravans and adventurers can only turn a blind eye to this matter because they can't afford to mess with the orc chieftains.
Anyway, the missing people are adventurers, and some unimportant people in the small caravan, which is not a big deal. What's more, it wasn't necessarily the orcs who did it, maybe they sneaked away in the middle of the night?
In this kind of mentality, the adventurers who take risks here also adhere to the principle that more is better than less, and no one stands up to speak. And even if you stand up, it's useless, the orcs say we're investigating, what can you do?
But when this news reached the ears of Ji Ran and others, it was different. Why did those people disappear? If it's a robbery, there's no need to rob everyone, right?
It's even more strange that there is no one alive or dead. Orcs don't eat human corpses, and the intelligent races of this world don't eat the corpses of other intelligent races, even savage orcs can't do so. If you are in danger of starvation, you may be in danger of starvation, but this is a big tribe! Orcs don't say that they are all rich, at least the most basic life is definitely fine. Even if there is a single pervert, it is impossible to kill hundreds of people in a row in a few months, right? He can't even eat that much......
"Hey, I've got the news. Over the past few months, more than a hundred humans have disappeared from the bloodshed......" Baker ran back, whispering mysterious news to the crowd.
“…… Among these human beings, there are no ordinary people, and the worst ones are also silver-level professionals. Most of them are adventurers, the kind of lone rangers who basically have few friends. There are also some small caravan guards or something, the strength is not too strong, but it is not weak either......"
These news made Ji Ran and the others frown. This is unusual to hear, but it is not good to say that it has something to do with the Order of the True God. It's not just the Order of the True God that does those crazy things...... Although they are a little crazier than the average madman.
But the problem is that when they don't want to go crazy, they all look like normal people. Unless they are professionally qualified people - such as the Church of Light - it is difficult for others to distinguish them.
"Why don't we try fishing." Les pondered for a moment and spoke.
"Fishing? Well, it's a good idea......" Ji Ran's eyes also lit up.
In any case, there must be something problematic about this matter. If someone sneaks out in the middle of the night to go out on adventures or something, it can't be so frequent...... Those who have disappeared have probably been killed or kidnapped by some people.
They have not stopped, and until now they have scared the hearts of adventurers. Now no one dares to travel alone at night, because most of the missing people disappear like this.
If you want to go fishing, you just need to go outside in the middle of the night.
Although the orc tribe also has orcs patrolling at night, it is not very frequent. And, what too much discipline can you expect from those orcs? It's normal to find a place to be lazy or something from time to time.
Most of the places are completely undefended. At this time, if someone travels alone and his strength is not so strong, it is too easy to be targeted by the murderer of the missing case.
"Among those who are missing, there is a silver high-level ...... at the highest," Ban interjected on the side. This shows that the murderers of those missing cases may be stronger than they imagined.
"So, bait, I'll do it." Ji Ran smiled and looked at the others. (To be continued......)