Passing through the Gale Canyon and heading west along the still bare mountains, about half a day's walk, the three finally found the temporary camp of the Tauren tribe.
This is a mountain col, probably untouched by the venture capital company's logging team. There are towering trees, and a winding stream collects the water in the woods and flows into the mountain col.
The camp of the Minotaur tribe where Antana is located is located in the middle of the mountain. According to Antana, there were traces of intelligent life activities here, but it has been abandoned for a long time, so it was chosen by the Minotaur as a temporary camp.
location.
On the low grassy hillside, the Tauren's totem pole has been erected, and large and small leather tents are scattered around the huge wooden totem pole full of carved patterns.
Seeing Antana running towards her with joy, two minotaurs holding spears immediately came forward to meet her. When they saw the two kobolds trotting after them, the two minotaurs were obviously stunned.
Antana explained a few words, and the two tauren immediately put down their spears, touched their chests as a sign, and then let them enter the camp.
Around the camp, there are still weeds that have not yet been cleared. The newly cut wood has been cut into sharp tips and inserted side by side on the ground at an angle. It serves as a fence around the camp. There are several wooden watchtowers with simple structures built against the big trees.
, this style looked very familiar to Prell.
Then he and Belga's eyes widened. Behind the hillside, there were at least nearly a hundred huge creatures scattered around, eating green grass leisurely under the guard of tauren herdsmen.
The body shape of this creature is very similar to the Thunder Lizard that Player and the others saw, but it has no scales on its back, and its skin is mainly dark brown or black in color. It has four thick legs and huge curved horns on its head. It looks full of danger and dominance.
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But their short fleshy tails swaying back and forth and the green grass they kept rejecting in their mouths destroyed this domineering attitude in an instant.
"Kodos!" Prell murmured, and Antana said proudly: "These are the kodos of our tribe, the best and most loyal companions of the tauren!"
A female tauren who was washing clothes by the creek at the foot of the hillside looked up and saw Antana. She immediately came up to her with joy and hugged the little tauren: "Ah, Antana, my daughter, this
Where have you been in the past two days? Your father and I are worried to death. Is this your coming-of-age prey? My daughter has really grown up, and lo and behold, this is a deep-moss spider!"
Antana was a little shy in front of outsiders. She said coyly: "Mom, I have a friend I want to introduce to you!" Then she broke away from her mother's arms and pointed to the two kobolds standing behind her: "
This is Prell, he saved me! Mom, I must repay him!"
So poor Belga was deliberately forgotten by the heifer tauren again. The female tauren put their hands together and saluted Prell: "Thank you for extending a helping hand to my daughter. I am Shalom.
Star Eyes, the Tauren will remember your kindness! May Mother Earth protect you forever!"
Prell also quickly pulled Belga to return the favor, and Shalom said enthusiastically: "Please come with me, two distinguished guests. Please be sure to stay here tonight and accept our meager hospitality!"
So Antana and her mother took Prell and Belga all the way to the depths of the camp. As Antana walked, she told her mother about her experience, so Shalom expressed her love to Preel again.
grateful.
This made Prell a little embarrassed, and the two intruding kobolds also aroused the curiosity of other tauren. They were surrounded by a group of giant men with an average height of more than two meters, which made the two average heights barely reach 1 meter.
Kobolds are under great pressure.
When Antana handed over her prey to the tribe's guard captain and was attracted by her story. When the guard captain who came to observe the two kobolds appeared in front of him, Belga timidly finally said what he had heard from the goblins.
Something I said: "Oh my God, you are so tall!"
Seeing a group of bull-eyed tauren looking at him and waiting for translation, Prell couldn't help but shrink his shoulders and translated the sentence.
Then the guard captain Elias Hardhoof, who was at least 2.2 meters tall, laughed loudly. This man had black skin, a pair of curved light brown horns, and huge hands about the same width as a kobold on his waist.
The tauren with the sword said enthusiastically: "As outsiders, in order to survive, we have no choice but to pass through the Stone Claw Mountains. We hope that we will not arouse the hostility of the owners of this place. We tauren respect nature and love peace!"
He didn't know the details of the two Prells, but the appearance of kobolds on the migration route of his tribe meant that they might have entered the kobolds' inherent territory and sphere of influence in this huge mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles.
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When the summer sun sets to the west, smoke rises from the tauren tents all over the col. Prell and Belga are sitting in the open space outside Antana's family's tent, Antana's relatives, and nearby tents
The tauren, including those who had not lost their sense of freshness, gathered together, arranging dinner and talking to Prell.
The tauren have a tradition of hospitality, and they also like to listen to Prell tell some stories, such as what happened at the venture capital company in the Gale Valley, and how the kobolds in the Gale Mine migrated away.
From the afternoon's contact, Prell discovered that these tauren are very simple and honest. They like to listen to him talk. They are not necessarily inquiring about information, but simply want to understand the outside world, or a world they have never understood.
A male tauren with a long gray mane who had one eye blind and one arm broken said in an old voice: "About ten years ago, I once had a meeting with the kobolds in this mountain range, that is, in Gao Ge Cave.
We have made contacts, used the furs we produced to make leather, and exchanged some minerals with them. Gao Ge Cave is very exclusive. I didn’t expect that your tribe separated from there. Time flies so fast!"
Prell just smiled. He knew very little about the mother race of his tribe, the Gogo Kobolds, so he didn't have much say. Belga might know some, but he was tricked by Antana intentionally or unintentionally.
It hurt his heart to ignore it, and at this moment, his attention was attracted by the smell of the unknown creatures that the tauren set up on the huge bonfire to barbecue. In addition, he could not understand the tauren language, so he never participated in the chat.
At the beginning of the night, more than ten torches came back from the camp through the woods. Shalom said happily: "Your father should be back too, Antana. He has been really anxious these past two days. But tradition does not
If he is allowed to violate it, he cannot look for you without authorization. Your father will be happy to see you return safe and sound!"
Prell also stood up from the blanket and stood on tiptoes to look around. He saw more than twenty tall black figures coming indistinctly, leading several kodo beasts behind them. The kodo beasts carried their weapons on their backs.
prey.
In order to explain the situation, Antana said that his father was a member of the hunting team, and it was under his influence that she determined to become a hunter.
Kobolds generally have good night vision. Prell noticed from a distance that behind this group of strong men over 2 meters tall, there was a figure that was almost half a head shorter, but extremely majestic, dragging a "Kodo"
"Beast" walked at the end of the team.
When he got closer, Prell's eyes widened. This strong man in a black cloak, whose face could not be seen clearly, was actually dragging a thunder lizard!
All the tauren, including Shalom and Antana, stood up and cheered: "Look, Rexxar actually hunted a Thunder Lizard this time!"
Prell was shocked, so he followed Antana up to meet him. Then he walked back and forth between the long legs of the tauren, but was unlucky to be kicked back by a male tauren's hoof.
The tauren who kicked Prell away was still unaware of it and was still cheering loudly among the crowd.
Prell was so angry that he wanted to curse, but he held it back for a moment and thought about it before he let it go. He touched his bruised face and called out bad luck.
Standing outside the crowd, looking straight ahead, all they saw were the Minotaur's thighs and the big dangling tail. When he saw a male Minotaur with colorful skin touching Antana's head happily, Prell looked at it.
Seeing the happy gathering of a family of three, I couldn't help but sigh.
Antana's father is a calf, while her mother, Shalom, is a white calf. Antana obviously inherited stronger genes from her father, because she is also a calf.
When the crowd gradually dispersed, Prell finally saw clearly the man who hunted the Thunder Lizard. He had taken off his black cloak, but underneath the hat was actually a wolf-head mask, with only the nose below exposed.
He took out an ax from his waist, chopped off one of the Thunder Lizard's hind legs, put it on his shoulder, and then walked towards the open space behind the hillside.
Prell, who was following behind, noticed that every tauren who saw him approaching greeted him warmly and saluted him respectfully, while he silently waved his hands in response.
"Leok!" He placed the lizard's hind legs on a clean stone slab and shouted into the dark night sky. A huge bipedal flying dragon flew out from the distant woods and landed.
On the ground.
With the help of a faint light, Prell discovered that this was exactly the one he saw when crossing the mouth of the canyon during the day. This bipedal flying dragon named "Leok" made Prell even more convinced.
The man with a wolf head and mask in front of me is the warrior of the tribe, the orc Rexxar Rema!
While he was watching intently, there was a loud roar and a gust of wind mixed with a dangerous aura rushed towards Prell. Before Preyer could dodge or resist, he was pinned to the ground by a huge bear paw.
A bloody mouth passed through the grass where Prell was hiding, and it put its sharp teeth in front of Prell's face threateningly. This was a huge brown bear, with a necklace wrapped around its neck.
A round iron-rimmed wooden plate interspersed among the beads hung just in front of Prell's eyes.
"Misha, relax! The tauren will not let enemies into the camp at will!" Lexa, who was half-crouching and caressing the wyvern devouring the lizard leg meat, stood up. He took two steps forward and bent down.
Yao, asked in pure goblin language: "Tell me, kobold, what do you want to find out from me?"