In the Baiyue Forest lived three powerful and strange old fellows, the first resembling a wood carved by a goblin, the second resembling a stone broken by a dwarf, and the third resembling a gnome discarded gear. They were called Elder Woodman, Elder Rockbreaker, and Elder Robot Cat.

-- Baiyue indigenous legends

Although this is the edge of the Baiyue Forest, generally speaking, there will be no powerful Warcraft to occupy territory here, but there are still some Warcraft Forest edges from time to time, such as dragons, these are located at the top of the Warcraft Pyramid, driven by their nature, will always go outside the forest to loot some shiny gold coins and beautiful accessories.

Some forest natives will also leave their habitat in certain seasons and travel long distances in the forest to obtain some resources that are not available near their habitat, such as mountain giants who will cross the forest every autumn to the wasteland to collect some artemisia grass that is not found in the forest, the juice of these artemisia grass growing on the wasteland is bitter and difficult to eat, these tall giants will take some back to make medicine to disperse the annoying insects that are all over the forest. Of course, they don't mind picking up something extra from the natives outside the forest.

The insects around the fire were silent, but the trees swayed without the wind and made a rustling sound, as if to indicate that something was approaching.

This oppressive atmosphere alerted Ouyang, and he stood up and looked around vigilantly.

There was a rumbling of footsteps in the distance, mixed with the sound of ropes as branches were pulled apart and bouncing back, as if a huge beast was approaching in the distance.

"Lukey, what's wrong?"

Mirien, who was holding a bird humming and waiting for it to be cooked, asked. Ever since she came to land, the mermaid princess has loved the feeling of being on a barbecue.

"Something is approaching, and it's going to be a nuisance. Ouyang reminded.

"Well, the bugs around are quiet, they're full of fear!" added Ranger Lalandia.

Huo Jiasi hurriedly beckoned the dragon eagle on the tree to be on guard through the spiritual contract.

In the midst of the suppressed waiting, a tall figure appeared in the firelight.

When they saw this figure clearly, everyone was surprised.

The visitor was a seven-meter-tall giant, dressed in clothes woven of leaves and vines, with a war skirt made of tree bark around his lower body, revealing two pillar-like thighs, and a pair of bare feet covered with moss. His massive head resembled that of a crappy carpenter, wrinkled, a high nose, and his hair hung down like wicker. But his bare limbs were high, protruding muscles, and his skin was covered with rings of tree-ring-like patterns.

At this moment, the giant appeared in front of everyone with a large hand to remove the branch that was covering him.

"The goddess is above!

Lalandia exclaimed that although she lived in the forest, the mountain giants had only appeared in her legends, and this was the first time she had seen her neighbor who also lived in the forest.

"The God of War is on top!"

Ouyang also sighed, looking at the size comparable to the King Kong Storm Ape, how much strength it takes to defeat it, the giant in front of him is one point higher than the sea giant he defeated last time.

"This is it...... Hello, travelers!"

The savage-looking giant sniffed vigorously and spoke, letting go of the branch in his hand and approaching the road, his voice rumbling like summer thunder.

"Lao Ke is not a mountain giant, Lao Ke is an Ente shepherd, the master of this forest, I specially visited you tonight!"

"Wait!"

Ouyang stopped the giant from continuing to approach, and at the same time escorted the four girls to the other side of the fire, he didn't dare to guarantee that the giant could stop it with a slap or a kick.

As if hearing the unkindness in Ouyang's tone, the giant stopped his steps and did not approach the fire again, but sat down next to a big tree.

The five of them watched the giant sit down in front of them, and they clearly felt the ground shake under their feet, but they couldn't even tell what the giant wanted to do.

There was silence on both sides for a moment, and all that remained was the crackling of flames roasting the branches and the stench of burnt meat.

The giant sat down and took out a huge wooden pot from his waist, uncorked it, brought it to his lips and took a sip, and suddenly a sweet aroma of wine wafted away, dispelling the stench of burning.

The giant put down the wooden kettle, looked at the fire in the field, looked at the pile of crystal crystals scattered next to him, and finally looked at the five people.

"Don't be nervous, traveler, the old man has no ill intentions. His voice was still rumbling, "The old man has come to meet you guests!"

"You say you're a tree shepherd? What is a tree herder?"

Ouyang replied, as if asking the giant, and as if asking the four women behind him.

The four women of different races behind him did not give Ouyang the answer he expected, and they also looked at the giant with puzzled faces.

"Your question is very rude, traveler! This is not the way to talk to an elder, sit down, traveler! The old man is indeed a shepherd, not a giant, but the master of this forest, and it is impossible to imagine that ten thousand years later, the people of the world have long forgotten us Ente. ”

The giant raised the jug again, and took a sip of wine, full of amazement, and he sighed, and the air rushed out of his large mouth, as if the wind had poured into the cave, and the smell of wine in the air became stronger.

"The world has forgotten us Ente, dragons, elves, sea tribes, Beamons, and humans, all of whom have forgotten me and our ents. Traveler, Entre is the shepherd who grazes the forest, I am the owner of this forest, and I have spent 10,000 years grazing this forest. ”

This giant could see the identity of the four girls at a glance, but the strong dragon aura on Ouyang's body made him mistakenly think that Ouyang was a dragon.

"Ten thousand years? So you're an elder. ”

Ouyang motioned for the four girls to sit down with him, and he said to the shepherd through the firelight that he could believe it after living for 10,000 years, but he still couldn't understand what "grazing the forest" meant.

"Shepherd"?

What is the difference with the "shepherd".

In fact, this can't blame Ouyang for their ignorance, after all, it was 10,000 years since the Shepherds appeared on the Lothema continent, and there were four races other than Ouyang present: the elves have experienced two splits and are now scattered all over the place, and the history is not complete at all; before the "Sea and Land War", the Sea Clan did not know much about the races on land; Beamon experienced three major wars and was even expelled from their homeland, and the historical record is missing; human beings are in the "Sea and Land War" It was only later that it developed, and there was unification, which also experienced several cultural revolutions.

There may be records of this in Estes City, where the Night Elves live, but Ouyang has only stayed for a month, and he has no time to contact this aspect at all.

The Shepherd sensed that the Traveler didn't understand what the Shepherd was, but he didn't care about it this time.

"The fish of the ocean evolved the sea tribe, the animals of the land evolved the Beamon, and the trees of the forest evolved our Ent. The Sea Tribes explore the vast oceans, Beamon carves out the vast lands, and we Ente graze the dense forests. The old man grazes the forest and is the owner of the forest. ”

The shepherd explained poetically to the five ignorant young men.

What the Shepherd Elder said is indeed a well-established fact on the mainland.

Among the major races on the continent of Lothima, in addition to the elves who claim to be the sons of the moon gods, the dwarves and giants have the blood of Titans, and the human beings have the "Divine Creation Theory", Beamon and the Sea Clan are indeed evolved from animals on land and sea respectively, which can be seen in the "beast relatives" and animals in these two races.

"Beast relatives" is an atavistic phenomenon shared by the Beamon and the Sea Tribe, and when pregnant women of these two tribes give birth to babies, they may give birth to wild beasts or fish that have no wisdom or only simple wisdom, and these beast relatives who do not have wisdom also belong to the family members.

"So the Ents evolved from the trees and graze the forests with a race similar to our Beamons. ”

"Clever girl!"

The Elder Shepherd did not hesitate to praise the little ferret.

When Miriam heard the giant praise the little ferret, she immediately pursed her lips, very disdainful, but her eyes were full of regret for the roast bird that had fallen into the fire, and it was rare that she could cook something for the first time.

As if sensing the mermaid's eyes, the shepherd said apologetically:

"I'm sorry, beautiful lady mermaid, my presence has disturbed your dinner, and I have some 'monkey wine' here, as compensation for it, it's the old wine made by the old monkeys in the forest. And let the little one in the tree come down, don't be so nervous, its flames will always make the trees suffer. ”

As he spoke, he handed over the huge wooden pot.

Huo Jiasi stuck out her tongue when she heard this, and hurriedly summoned the dragon eagle from the tree in her heart.

Ouyang took the wooden pot the size of a water tank and carefully poured it into the coconut scoop handed over by Lalandia.

Six scoops of "monkey wine", five people plus Kaka came to their mouths and tasted it.

The wine is fruity, sweet in the mouth and full of forest notes on the lower throat.

Ouyang drank a scoop of wine in one gulp.

"Good wine!" Ouyang sighed.

"It's better than 'fruit wine'. ”

Mirien pursed her lips and said in the same way, the mermaid princess has drunk these two wines in her life, and it is natural to compare them.

"'Fruit wine' is only made from fruit, but 'monkey wine' is a rare treasure that can only be added to the forest, of course, it can't be compared!" Lalandia put down the wine in her hand and said to Mirien.

"When I was a child, I drank this wine, and I stole my grandfather's wine to drink, and my grandfather was angry for a long time, and heard that his wine was finally obtained from the forest. Denise said in a daze.

"This 'monkey wine' is a gift from the forest, but more than ten years ago, there were indeed humans who snatched a lot of wine from the old monkeys, and these monkeys jumped around in the forest, haha!" the shepherd laughed heartily as he clattered the wooden pot.

Denise suddenly had the feeling of taking out the stolen goods to show off but meeting the original owner, and her little face turned red with shame.

"Hehe, I don't know what the elder is doing when he comes to us, it won't be as simple as inviting us to drink. ”

"Don't be nervous, young and powerful dragons! In the past few days, the old man heard the trees talking about a group of powerful travelers coming to the forest and slaughtering a lot of demonic beasts, so the old man came over to take a look. However, when the old man finds your traces, the old man is on a different matter. ”

This time it was Ouyang's turn to be embarrassed, he was hunting demonic beasts in the forest, but he met the owner of the forest. He looked at the pile of magic crystals on the ground, and said cheekily, "We did this on a whim, and we hurt so many lives. I wonder what the elders are looking for us for?"

This big guy asked and asked, what else is going on with us?