Chapter 30: Loclas
Eight vulture chariots, mixed with more than a thousand wolf cavalry, galloped away in the direction where the ship had landed.
Yes, only eight. Because Xue Qiong and Volembo had already left the large team, together with the three wolf cavalry, in the opposite direction to the large army... The three cavalrymen who served as guides were the old orcs who had spoken to Hesuo before, the highest-ranking mid-level officer in the cavalry team after the death of the highest commander besides Hesuo, and a goblin who had been unnoticed before and rode the same wolf as the orcs.
In fact, excluding Hesso, this is the only one on the team who knows both orc and lingua franca (English)... Kakritz - Mr. Hydraulic Rod too. The direct reason for his survival was that he did not attack his boss when Hesso was being held hostage, and Hesso and himself made it clear that Kakritz was Hesuo's nephew.
This explanation is quite reasonable, but Rao is Xue Qiong still subconsciously put the social relations of human beings on it, forgetting that one of the most famous characteristics of goblins in World of Warcraft is that they will sell their most important relatives and friends for a bag of gold coins...
However, this is not within the scope of Xue Qiong's attention and consideration, originally Hei Suo sent Kakritz to him, and it was just used as an ordinary translator.
Previously, after three of Xue Qiong's side made a move, the orcs believed that the remaining seven of them also had this kind of strength... If that's the case, these ten people do have the ability to threaten fifteen hundred hoplite wolf cavalry.
And Xue Qiong's attitude has always been to solve the so-called "misunderstanding", plus the orc commander of the cavalry team has died under the tail of the alien, and the actual commander has become Helix Hesuo, who has been held hostage by Fu Shuai once, his IQ is much higher than the average of most orcs, his brain turns fast enough and he is mercenary... In this way, the premise of the negotiation finally exists.
After a brief exchange, Xue Qiong and Hei Suo quickly reached some of the most basic verbal agreements... For example, the cavalry continued to rush to the Auriga, but the main purpose was changed from the original plunder and tentative attack to rescue the victims from the mouth of the alien.
And Xue Qiong, now, must take Dr. Warren, who originally had a high level of authority on the ship, to have a good talk with the characters who can really make decisions on the orc side.
Following the trail trampled by a large number of cavalrymen as they passed, a group of five people... No, to be honest, Dr. Warren was the only one in this group who could be considered a human in the strict sense of the word, and what they saw was finally no longer just grasslands, trees, and scattered wild animals.
As far as the eye can see, a straight line appears at the end of the grassland, which is a high wall of wooden-clad iron. There are also more than a dozen red canopies on the wall, decorated with long fanged watchtowers, in the watchtower and on the wall, there are orcs in iron armor and carrying bows and arrows patrolling back and forth, and there is a hidden smoke rising from behind the wall, but it is not just cooking smoke, because in a farther position, Xue Qiong also saw four or five chimneys that are taller than the wall...
Just from the tip of the iceberg, the city is already many times larger than any orc city in the game.
But this is also a very normal phenomenon, after all, although the World of Warcraft is also known for its vast enough map, but after all, it doesn't take a day for players to walk from south to north, and the number of any of these races, not counting players, add up all the NPCs and monsters, and it can't form a complete population in a biological sense, let alone evolve and develop advanced intelligence, and what's even more wonderful is that the various lords and knights are estimated to add up to more than farmers... And this Draenor is a whole planet, and it makes sense that the population base and city size of the orcs will far exceed that of the original under the natural evolution necessary to achieve these inevitable needs.
"I'm not very good at this, Dr. Warren." Xue Qiong explained her shortcomings very honestly, "Do you think this... How many people can live in this city? ”
Dr. Warren was silent for a moment before replying, "There are no buildings taller than the walls except the chimneys... Up to 20,000 people, it seems that these natives are no more than that. ”
"Wait..."Xue Qiong suddenly felt a little wrong. Because before, he could sense hundreds of targets that could use energy in a cavalry team, but now that he was almost at the edge of the city, how could he not even sense an energy reaction except for the old shaman who was traveling with him?!
As the car continued to move forward, Xue Qiong was also refocusing all his energy on energy perception. And it took him a long time to finally discover an extremely shocking fact.
The sky above that city was all shrouded in a thin layer of magic that was strange in nature and extremely difficult to detect, and... This layer of magic seems to have a distorting effect on the light, and can definitely block out the energy reaction within it.
But this is just Xue Qiong's speculation. In fact, after discovering the existence of this barrier, he was willing to believe even if he was told that all he had seen before was an illusion.
Sure enough, the two cars and three wolves kept moving forward until they were about to "crash" into the wall, and the three guides had no intention of slowing down... Xue Qiong was a bachelor, and rushed over as soon as he stepped on the accelerator, and then "penetrated" into the wall with the three guides.
Dr. Warren, who braked the car before, had no choice, he was unfamiliar with the people here, and it would be a dead end not to follow them, so he unscrewed the accelerator with his right hand...
Dr. Warren felt that his soul was shocked, and his worldview was shocked again, and Xue Qiong only experienced a brief moment of surprise after passing through the "wall", that is, through the magic barrier, and the next thought became "This design is really insidious enough, regardless of the cost, but on the other hand, there must be enough value here."
The refractive effect of the barrier only brought the distant wall closer, and after passing through the illusory city wall, Xue Qiong's location was still nearly a kilometer away from the real wall, and the area enclosed by the wall was only a quarter of the size of the outside.
But outside this wall, at this time, there were red tents that could not be seen at a glance, as well as countless orc warriors armed to the teeth, and Xue Qiong felt it for the first time, more than two thousand humanoid energy reactions, and these orcs who could use energy could not reach one-fifth of the whole!
The sentries on the wall are just decorations, they only carry bows, but many of the orcs outside the wall are armed with rifles, and there are also artillery, tanks and other war monsters parked near the tents, and even formed bipedal wyvern air cavalry...
In addition, Xue Qiong and Dr. Warren even saw that there was actually a two-lane track extending farther in the wall, even Xue Qiong's eyesight could not see the end at all, and at this time, there was also a fifteen-car black train, which was stopping outside the wall for loading and unloading operations.
"Welcome to Loclas, welcome to the Iron Tribe, my friend." Kakritz said with some smugness, apparently pleased with the expression on Warren's face, "Your luck is very good, the chief happens to be here today, but please..."
Before Kakritz could finish his words, a female orc officer with a smaller armor and a domineering long gray cloak on the outside "ran forward" towards this side, glancing at Xue Qiong and Dr. Warren and the car they were riding, and then muttered to Kakritz and the old shaman in orc language, and then turned her gaze to look twice.
In fact, many of the rest of the orcs in the camp also looked at this side, and they all went through the process from curiosity to vigilance, and then to ill intentions, but their sense of discipline seems to be very well trained, and under the constraints of the commander, at most, it is a whisper among their comrades, and none of them really dare to come over to find fault or anything.
Xue Qiong didn't care, she pointed at the distance, and chatted with Warren: "According to your judgment, compared with the earth civilization, what is the level of industry here?" ”
Warren really admired his attitude of not taking people seriously and not taking his own safety seriously, but he still replied cautiously: "Just look at the completion of the second industrial revolution, the extent before and after World War II... But I can't say for sure, after all, our earth doesn't have you 'magicians'. ”
Xue Qiong pretended to be stupid: "World War II? The Second Industrial Revolution? I'm sorry, but I don't know much about the trajectory of your civilization, can you elaborate on that? ”
However, Xue Qiong still couldn't continue to pull it off here. After not knowing what to talk about, the female officer walked to Xue Qiong's car, and finally looked at this short human with disdain - her height of two meters and two is also considered to stand out among orcs, and Xue Qiong is still calmly sitting in the vulture's driver's seat until now.
"Alliance, you guys, aren't you?"
She spoke English, but the confused grammar and weird accent completely betrayed her, obviously she had not learned it systematically, only a few words... The specific situation can be compared to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, many devils may really not understand the "surrender the gun and don't kill" shouted by Balu in Japanese.
Therefore, Xue Qiong tried her best to be concise and to the point, and did not just use YES and NO, which are easy to cause misunderstandings in this context, but almost repeated her words: "We are not an alliance. ”
"Get out of the car and hand over your weapons."
Xue Qiong did so, and took back the two vultures with the universal capsules and handed them over to Kakritz for safekeeping. However, when the officer called two smiling orcs to search her body, the old shaman whispered two more words to her.
"One of them is a magician, and he has spatial abilities, so there's no point in confiscating weapons... Besides, no matter what their true strength is, just because they dare to come here alone, they are already admirable warriors, aren't they? ”
The female officer bared her fangs and did not continue to let her subordinates search her body, but she still half-hurried and half-escorted the two to the direction of the wall.
"Let's go!"
Both Xue Qiong and Warren nodded slightly to the old shaman in gratitude. Their powers of observation can see that this is someone helping, and their self-cultivation, at least on the surface, will not be lacking.