In just two months, the venture capital company's logging team has turned the mouth of the Gale Canyon into a land barren of grass, and even the common wyverns in the past have disappeared.
Before this, Prell and Belga often encountered thunder lizards and deep moss spiders along the way. However, this time on the way home, they only saw two weak thunder lizards. The deep moss spider's nest was basically
Can't see it anymore.
On the path in the forest, the grass had turned yellow, there were no birds or insects, and the forest seemed dead. When they approached the Gale Mine, the two kobolds looked at everything in front of them in surprise.
Less than ten miles outside the mine, closer to Black Wolf Lake, there was an open space with newly cut wood piled up like a mountain. A group of simple tents were set up at random, and there was an uncomfortable smell in the air.
"The goblins actually moved a whole tribe of gnolls!" Prell stared, looking at a group of little gnolls running back and forth among the piled wood, while more gnolls drove the goblins from the cow head earlier.
The kodo beasts traded from the people were transported back to this camp, dragging the large tree whose branches and leaves had not been completely cleared away.
When the two kobolds bypassed the gnoll camp, they found that the changes in the Gale Wind Mine were even greater. The gravel and soil that were originally piled around the wooden wall became larger in size and extended outward. There were several natural tunnels.
On the rails branching out from the mine exit, the kobolds were working hard to push the mine cart loaded with gravel, and under the loud scolding of the jackal supervisor, they unloaded the mine cart farther away.
Beside the countless gravel fields and coarse ore piles piled up like hills, there were countless short figures busy. The sharp-eyed Belga shouted in a low voice: "It's mothers and brothers!"
Seeing that the goblins were even forcing kobold women and children to work for them, Prell was furious. Then he noticed that wooden watchtowers were also built around the ore field, as well as other wooden watchtowers.
The structure is being built, and crude human-powered lifting machinery is being used to lift timber and rails.
Prell suppressed Belga's impulse and waited patiently until nightfall before quietly sneaking into the cave where the kobolds were resting.
There were many unfamiliar faces in the cave, but these kobolds, without exception, all had numb expressions on their faces. They ignored the two strangers who suddenly broke in, and just lay or sat tiredly.
rest.
Prell finally found one of his subordinates, a former patrolman. Now his clothes were in tatters and dirty, and there was an obvious bloody mark on his face from being whipped by a whip.
And Belga also found his brother, another member of the elders, Snu, who could only throw ice arrows and rub fireballs. Then several more kobolds who recognized them came over.
Prell made some inquiries, and through the kobold's garbled narration, he understood what had happened in the mine during this period.
A few months ago, after learning that the tauren tribe that had migrated into the Stonetalon Mountains was preparing to continue marching to the Barrens, they were discovered by the wandering Kokar clan centaurs and a fierce battle broke out. Gresu and Fizzix
He was keenly aware that the continent of Kalimdor would cause a huge turmoil.
So the two goblins put aside their prejudices against each other, jointly submitted a letter to the headquarters of the venture capital company, and successfully obtained permission to open a smelting plant and weapons production in the Gale Valley.
Although the management of the smelter and blacksmith shop eventually fell into the hands of another goblin, Laxman, Gresu relied on the goblin's extraordinary business ability and business sense to send his men around to contact other races.
Then they first sold the weapons to the Witchwing Harpies, and then to the Bloodfury and Dustwind clans. After completing the sale of the Harpies, the goblins also took the initiative to fight with the Kokar clan centaurs entrenched in the backwater oasis.
We got in touch, and although we didn't negotiate a weapons deal, we negotiated a long-term food trade contract.
Although the goblins have always had a good relationship with the navy of the Kingdom of Kul Tiras, Gresu still sold a batch of inferior weapons to the steel-bristle quilboars in the Razor Hill area on the east bank of the Wrathwater River.
Now the Kingdom of Kul Tiras is building Tiragard, a castle on the east coast of Razor Ridge, in preparation to expand the kingdom's sphere of influence to the continent of Kalimdor. The arrival of humans has caused the northern part of Razor Ridge to wither.
The Dustwind Harpies are based in Water Valley and Gale Canyon.
Of course, the quilboars of the Steelmane clan who have lived in the Razor Ridge area for generations are also dissatisfied, but the Dustwind Harpies have not had much contact with humans yet, and the quilboars believe that their living space has been invaded.
So Gresu personally conducted secret negotiations with Jiolod Zabana, the chief of the wild boar tribe of the Razor Ridge Steelmane clan, and then completed a large arms deal.
As for the quilboars using the weapons provided by the goblins to deal with the Kul Tiran sailors in Tiragarde Castle, Gresu didn't care at all.
Even after several trade negotiations with the tauren were rejected, Gresu got some information and learned that the final destination of the tauren's migration was Mulgore, so he sent a caravan again.
Mogoulei dominates another harpy clan - the Windfury clan. This is a harpy clan that was separated from the Bloodfury clan. They originally had no enmity with the tauren, but were influenced by the goblins' rhetoric and alarmism.
Intimidated, he actually placed an order with Gresu.
As a result, Gresu relied on trade with several races and clans to bring huge profits to the venture capital company headquarters. Originally, the arms sales were under Laxman's control, but Laxman first arrived in the Gale Valley.
He was putting all his energy into the construction of the camp, but Gresu took advantage of him.
Gresu relied on this opportunity to successfully gain the support of the majority shareholders of the company headquarters, and then squeezed out Laxman, successfully becoming the most influential figure in the entire Gale Valley. Even Fitzkus was squeezed out by him.
There is only one vacant "supervisor" position left.
After Gresu, who was satisfied and took control of the power, first hired an entire tribe of gnolls from the Elwynn Forest in the Kingdom of Stormwind through the company headquarters, migrated to the Gale Valley, and hired a large number of humans and
dwarf.
Moreover, after he learned that the Fizzix family was connected to the ogres in the Dusk Forest, he hired more than 200 ogres through various relationships to join the logging team and mine management.
In order to expand the scale of the Gale Mine, in addition to the company asking Gazrouin to hire a group of kobolds from the Gogo clan in Rolling Rock Canyon again, Gresu also led the caravan to Rolling Rock Canyon again more than half a month ago.
, and successfully tricked more than 500 kobolds from 20 families into coming to the mine.
In other words, the current total number of kobolds in the Gale Mine is close to 2,000. This number seems huge, but Gresu also has an entire tribe of about 600 gnolls, more than 200 ogres, plus humans.
and dwarf hirelings were enough for him to suppress the kobolds.
With the power of the three major industries of logging teams, mines, and smelting plants concentrated in one hand, and with enough employees and guards under his command, Gresu shamelessly tore up the agreement with the kobolds and remade the contract.
According to the new contract, the status of the kobolds is inferior to that of jackals and ogres, and they have completely become Gresu's personal slaves. The kobolds also tried to resist, but Gresu killed all the more than 40 kobolds who were causing trouble in one go.
It was hoisted and hung outside the mine.
He used extreme violence and force to suppress the kobolds to the point where they no longer dared to resist and could only silently endure their new status as slaves.
Most of the more than 40 kobolds who were hanged were Prell's men and adventurous patrol members.
After listening to the cries of the kobolds, Prell was so angry that he was shaking all over. But as that sentence said, a weak race does not have the right to choose a way of survival. For the kobolds, being oppressed seems to be the most tragic fate of the entire race.
.
Belga was also shocked by Gresu's crazy behavior. He looked at Prell painfully: "Brother Preel, what should we do?"
Prell did not speak. He was silently observing his attributes. Since the last battle with the tauren army and the harpies, he upgraded to level 18. In the following month, he fought with the harpies in the jungle.
He was fighting guerrillas, and he barely reached level 20.
The "Great Lord System" can digitize his own attributes, but it seems unable to digitize the attributes of other people. Obviously, this system can only affect the host, but its intervention and influence on the outside world is not enough.
After all, this is an extremely real world, not a game where you fight monsters and do quests to upgrade. Prell sighed. He had already worked hard to upgrade. He had even considered that once he reached level 20,
Just leave the mine.
But under the current situation, Prell would have uneasy conscience if he left like this. No matter what, he himself has been deeply branded as a kobold, which may not be eradicated in his lifetime.
"Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance!" Prell said in a low voice, and then comforted the kobolds who gathered: "Everyone, go and have a rest. I will find a way."
As soon as these words were spoken, many kobolds became discouraged. In fact, they did not expect Prell and Belga to change everything. Although they firmly believed that heroic figures would appear to save them, it was obvious that Prell
And Belga is not that hero.
When the crowd dispersed, Prell noticed that there seemed to be a gaze watching him in the distance, so he looked around and saw his mother.
There is not much difference between female kobolds and men. They all have the same ugly rat-like dog heads, but they are smaller in stature, have no beards, and their hair is much longer, and the hair color changes slightly.
Prior forced a smile and opened his mouth to shout something, but his mother just returned the smile and left quietly.