Chapter 5: The Racial Mystery of the Gnolls
While Jemurray went to take in those gnolls, Yang Xiu left a few orcs to guard the place and walked to the place agreed with Duronda before. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
By this time, the gray-haired gnolls had been firmly tied up by Duronda with ropes, and a protest-style argument was going on in his mouth.
"Orcs, you can't do this to me! your enemies are humans," said the gray-skinned gnolls.
"Shut up" Duronda slapped the gnolls in the face, and the other party immediately quieted down under the pain, the gnolls' coat color is mostly the earth's yellow complexion, which is the protective color that this race has evolved over thousands of years of living on the deserted plains, so that enemies or prey can not easily detect them during the day. But the leader of the gnoll in front of Yang Xiu was dressed in a supple gray skin, which looked particularly conspicuous.
"Duronda" Yang Xiu walked over, maybe he hadn't seen a human for too long, the gray-skinned jackal stared at Yang Xiu with big eyes, as an old resident living on the desolate plain, he had never seen an orc standing with a human in peace.
"Chief, are you going to kill this guy, or those gnolls Jemrey will not be able to take them in," Duronda asked.
"Don't, don't kill me, I have a lot of secrets in me, you must be hungry," the gray-skinned gnoll snapped.
Yang Xiu was about to let Duronda do it, but when he suddenly heard this guy say this, he couldn't help but be a little curious: "You have a secret on you?"
"Yes, human, I ......" Before the gray-skinned gnolls could finish speaking, they were punched by Duronda from the side.
"He's the chief of our Black Iron Tribe!"
"Yes, yes, chief," said the gray-skinned gnoll, shaking his head in a daze.
"What's your name?" Yang Xiu asked as he walked up to the gnoll.
"My name is Lange, the noble chief of the Black Iron Tribe, I know a huge secret, these orcs can't detect the value of this secret, you are a human being, I believe you must be able to feel the value of this secret, I only hope to exchange this secret for your own life now" Lange looked at Yang Xiu, his eyes were full of sincerity.
"Oh, then let's talk about it, if it's really important, it's not impossible to let you go," Yang Xiu said with a serious face.
Lange glanced at Yang Xiu in disbelief, but at this moment he had no room for bargaining, so he had to speak slowly: "Don't look at the lack of resources in the Deserted Plains, but the underground mineral sources are very rich, two months ago, a human army drove out of the steel fortress, and they walked into the Deserted Plains with three carts of weapons and goods, this matter happened to be discovered by my men, and he followed these troops until he saw that they had built a castle three kilometers away from the north."
Yang Xiu didn't hear a reason for listening for a long time, and plucked out his ears boredly: "This is the secret you said? I don't feel that the value in this can make me spare you."
"The humans built a mining plant in that castle, and they dug up ...... Iron" Lange looked at Yang Xiu meaningfully.
The discovery of iron is a major leap forward in human history, because of iron, people can give up the bulky stone weapons, give up the bronze weapons that are difficult to smelt, and develop sharp, easy to form, light iron weapons, people rely on the technology of iron smelting, the civilization of backward orcs driven out of their hometown, locked into the prison-like barren plain.
It can be said that it is impossible for orcs to escape from the blockade of the steel fortress established by humans with the current technology tree, according to Yang Xiu's understanding, muskets have appeared in the human technology trees of this world, and with this kind of secondary thermal weapons that are hundreds of times more than cold weapons, a weak human can kill dozens of orcs with muskets.
Therefore, in this era, if the orcs still want to fight a war of resistance, there is only one end, and they will definitely lose.
When Yang Xiu heard from the mouth of Lange, a jackal, that iron had appeared on the deserted plain, his heart was inexplicably excited, as long as there were materials, maybe he could create a set of full-body equipment for these orcs of the Black Iron Tribe, what iron weapons, iron armor and the like, it was absolutely easy to do those small orc tribes.
"Very good, this secret is really valuable, you tell me the location of the mining factory, and when I find it, I will let you go" Yang Xiu came back to his senses and nodded and said.
"Then can I go back and talk to my men first, I'm afraid they'll think I'm dead," Lange glanced in the direction of the Gnoll's cave.
The orcs present immediately laughed, Yang Xiu looked at Lange with a puzzled face and said, "I'm sorry, they are no longer your subordinates, if nothing else, the Black Iron Tribe will add some new gnolls."
"This ......"
"You just stay here honestly first, and when we are sure of what you said, we will let you go" After speaking, two orcs were sent to take care of Lange in place, Yang Xiu took Duronda and walked towards Jamurry, after such a long time, the matter should have been done.
On the sand-strewn earth, forty-nine gnolls walked out of the cave in a neat row, and Jamrey stood at the front with his palms rubbed, reviewing his newly recruited subordinates. Most of the gnoll people lack self-assertion, if they don't have a gnolls to stand up and guide them, I'm afraid they won't even be able to do daily predation, after losing the leader of Lange, the appearance of Jemrey just stabilized these gnolls who had just lost their leaders, and easily absorbed the entire gnoll cave.
"Chief, according to the agreement, I am now a member of the Black Iron Tribe," Jemri shouted convincingly to Yang Xiu, who was walking towards him not far away.
"It's good that you keep the agreement," Yang Xiu nodded with satisfaction.
"Hehe, look what I found" Jemri saw Yang Xiu coming over, reached out and immediately picked up a two-meter-long black spear from the ground and ran over.
"What, you've reaped the spoils?" Yang Xiu said with a smile, the black spear shimmering in the sunlight and didn't look like it was made of stone.
"Chief, it's over, it's an iron spear," Jamury laughed excitedly.
"Iron?" Yang Xiu took the black spear from his hand, sure enough, it was slightly heavy in his hand, and most importantly, it really had the feel of iron products, the whole iron spear stood taller than Yang Xiu, and the spearhead was very exquisite, not like a work created by a craftsman at all.
"This spear is so long, how do you gnolls use it, chief, give it to me" Duronda took the iron spear from Yang Xiu's hand, waved it casually, and returned it to Yang Xiu very dissatisfied: "It's too light, it can't exert the power of orcs at all"
"Fool" Jamurray replied with disdain, "You don't know what a spear is really for, in the hands of a jackal, a spear can produce great power"
"Haha, you gnolls like to brag, such a light spear, the orc will break it with an axe," Duronda laughed.
At this time, an eagle flying in the sky was spreading its wings, and Jamrey asked Yang Xiu, "Chief, give me the iron spear, and I will show you the skills that the gnolls are most proud of."
Yang Xiu was also very curious when he heard Duronda and Jemry tear up, and handed the iron spear to the other party, only to see Jamrey holding the spear, and the pair of cunning eyes instantly narrowed into two thin slits, and he didn't see him make any big moves, stretched out one arm and probed, and directly projected the spear.
Fast, very fast.
Before everyone present could react, the eagle in the sky had let out a miserable howl and fell directly from the sky, and in its body was sticking the iron spear that Duronda had disliked not long ago.
Jamrry's face was full of confidence: "Two hundred meters, as long as it is within two hundred meters, no matter what, I can shoot him to pieces, not only me, all jackals can do it"
Already the gnolls had already run out and picked up the unlucky eagle with the iron spear, and for the first time, the orcs including Duronda looked at the nearby group of gnolls with approving eyes, and these weak races that they could fight twenty people in their eyes suddenly became a little dangerous.
Yang Xiu looked at Jamurray with a look of surprise: "You have this ability, why have you never seen it used?
"Chief, throwing is the natural ability of every jackal, but ordinary materials can't withstand our throwing, I have made some wooden spears for hunting before, but they have been blown up just after shooting, except for iron spears and stone spears, there are no materials that can make us have fun throwing" Jamry said regretfully.
Yang Xiu looked excitedly at the more than fifty gnolls present, originally Yang Xiu wanted to use them as cannon fodder, in order to let the orcs of the Black Iron Tribe lose a few less when they invaded other tribes in the future. Now it seems that these gnolls are what kind of cannon fodder, this is clearly a high-lethality long-range sniper, damn, it's too much, if you match each jackal with two or three iron spears, where are those small tribes the opponents of the Black Iron Tribe.