Prell didn't know the specific location of the Silt Swamp. He led the way according to his memory of the game. The real world of Azeroth is different from the one in the game. The Barrens is a vast area and is a huge grassland.
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Pursuing wild animals that could provide experience, Prell and his party gradually turned to the northwest of the Barrens, and then they came to the eastern mountains of Waterless Ridge.
Then they discovered a small forest extending from Wushuiling. There were traces of being cut down and traces left after being burned by fire. A tree trunk was scorched but still survived tenaciously.
In front of the tree, Prell looked up.
Hanging on the trunk of the big tree was a half-destroyed harpy's nest. Prell therefore guessed that perhaps it was after the goblins discovered oil in the silt swamp that they sent a logging team here, but they were offended.
Harpy, leading to a fierce battle between the two sides.
Perhaps after the goblins found that the Witchwing clan was difficult to deal with, they headed towards the Windswept Valley in the Stonetalon Mountains, choosing to cut down trees and process the wood there.
After walking around the forest, Prell was more certain of his guess, because he found more signs that harpies had once lived, such as a circle of intermittent trees covered in low weeds.
The piles are obviously not naturally formed.
So Prell and his team members turned eastward again, where there were more plains chocobos and red-scaled sickle-clawed velociraptors.
In particular, plains chocobos are more aggressive than their counterparts in the Forgotten Pond area. These birds, whose wings have degraded and have lost the ability to fly, can run extremely fast on the ground.
Even though Prell saw them first through the map system several times, the warning range of plains chocobos is very large, and they often rush forward before Prell and others can attack first. There is no way, little one
The bright green feathers of the harpy Lestalen are so bright.
Although Lestalen wore a cloak, it was sleeveless, and her fluffy wings with both arms needed to be exposed, which was very conspicuous on the grasslands in the dry season.
After killing nearly ten more plains chocobos and red-scaled sickleclaws, Prell finally reached level 21. Although the "Great Lord System" defaulted to him being in a team state, the experience he gained was not affected by this.
Teammates divide evenly.
When hunting deep moss spiders, each one provided Prell with about 200 experience points. Now, the plains chocobos and red-scaled sickle-clawed raptors provide him with 300~400 experience points.
Following the traces of the red-scaled sickle-clawed velociraptor, Prell and his party discovered a low hill that appeared in the plains. According to his visual inspection, the highest point of this hill was estimated to be only about 200 meters, and the ridge was bare.
There are only sparse large trees at the foot of the mountain.
Continuing to move along the foot of the mountain, Prell suddenly discovered that the large wild animals in this area suddenly disappeared, whether it was plains chocobos, red-scaled sickle-clawed velociraptors, or prairie lions and coyotes that like to live in groups, they were all gone.
Only occasionally one or two giraffes wandered under the trees and ate some withered leaves.
When they turned around a hill, the view suddenly opened up. Player looked at it from a distance and finally understood why there were no wild animals here.
On the plain in the distance, a row of oil wells appeared, with large black chimneys towering straight up, and several of them were still spewing black smoke. Due to the distance, Player could not see clearly or understand these.
How oil wells work and what these chimneys are used for is unknown.
After all, the world of Azeroth is a high-demon plane, where magic and elemental power dominate. The world-famous goblin and dwarf technology has a primitive and rough taste of neat punk.
On the periphery of this oil well, there is a row of sharpened wooden fences extending diagonally outward. For at least two to three hundred meters from the wooden fence, all the grass and trees on the ground have been cleared away.
There are shadowy figures walking back and forth in this construction site. Judging from their body shape and skin color, there seem to be goblins, gnolls, humans, dwarves and one-headed ogres.
After looking at the sky, Prell decided to camp nearby for the night. He asked Belga and the others to stay behind the hillock, and continued to move forward quietly alone.
Perhaps it was because the goblins had no other forces that could threaten their existence in the northern part of the Barrens, so the goblins did not even spread sentries or guards. Prell lay down among the weeds and watched from a distance.
Returning to the back of the mountain, Snu had already skillfully started to process the meat of a plains chocobo, which they had carved and carried after hunting yesterday. Fortunately, the weather was not too hot, and the raw meat could still be stored for about a day.
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After a simple dinner, Prell finally told Berga and Snoo about the purpose and reason of his trip. He planned to investigate the power distribution of venture capital companies in the Barrens.
Belga vaguely guessed Preel's true thoughts. Like Preel, he had no good impression of the goblins headed by Gresu and the other employees of the venture capital company. No matter what thoughts Preel had or what big things he planned, he
Everyone is willing to follow as always.
There was no talking all night, and early the next morning, after covering up the traces of sleeping rough, Prell led the team and continued walking northeast along the hill. After walking for another day and a half, they finally saw the silt swamp.
This time they were traveling along the mountainside. Viewed from a high place, the silt swamp could barely be seen as an oasis. There were dozens of large and small ponds scattered around, and between about three to four ponds, the venture capital
The company has built complexes of wooden buildings around oil wells.
This place has obviously been cleaned up by humans. A low wooden fence surrounds the pond. Near the intermittently unconnected wooden fence, there are several small camps composed of wooden houses and tents.
Prell did not dare to get too close and led the team to crawl on the mountainside. Even Lestalen obediently put on a cloak and retracted her wings under the cloak.
At dusk, a ringing of bells came from this bustling large construction site, which seemed to be the bell ringing for get off work. Soon the workers stopped working and went to their respective camps.
Only then did Prell notice that the gnolls and single-headed ogres lived outside the wooden fence, and they might have to take on guard and defense duties.
As for the goblins, humans and dwarves, they are obviously the middle-level leaders and senior employees of the venture capital company. Even their living areas for rest and accommodation are separated from other races.
Then Prell's eyes suddenly widened, because he saw a dwarf walking out of a house that looked like a control room, walked to the wooden fence and peed, and outside the wooden fence, there was a
In the living area of the jackals.
It was a black-skinned dwarf with a thick beard. Then not far away, a human male stuck his head out of the window and said something, and then the two of them laughed.
It's actually a Dark Iron dwarf! As a World of Warcraft player who mainly plays the Alliance, Prell is quite familiar with the history of the world of Azeroth. The dwarves have had the War of Three Hammers, and the three major tribes Bronzebeard, Wildhammer, and Dark Iron have fought for
A long-lasting and large-scale civil war broke out to compete for the throne left by the death of the Mountain King Modimus Anvilmar.
Eventually the dwarven kingdom Ironforge fell into the hands of the Bronzebeard tribe, and the Wildhammers and Dark Iron were driven out by their brothers.
Now the venture capital company actually hired Dark Iron dwarves to work for them, and they were not afraid of offending the powerful Kingdom of Ironforge. After thinking about it carefully, Prell noticed that it seemed that the plain oil drilling camp he had seen a few days ago was there.
, what appeared was another group of dwarves with completely different skin colors.
It seems that the goblins of the Venture Capital Company still knew about the grudges between the two dwarf tribes, Bronzebeard and Dark Iron, so they separated the two hired dwarf tribes.
After staying in the silt swamp for two full days, Prell took his team members and secretly continued to walk in a large circle along the mountainside. They did not go too deep, but just observed from a distance. Prell simply made statistics and calculations.
After a while, the number of workers employed by venture capital companies here was not much less than the number of workers in the logging teams, mines, and Black Wolf Lake in the Windy Valley.
He couldn't help but frown and prepared to continue towards the pumice mine in his memory, but found that the way forward was blocked because the venture capital company had set up a lookout point on a hilltop east of the swamp.
So Player had to take the team back to the original route, and then outside the plain oil drilling camp, they saw another scene.
In the open space outside the wooden fence, the goblins set up a temporary tent, divided the area, and placed goods brought by goblin merchants from all over the world.
Then the first wave of races that came to trade appeared, the Kokar clan centaurs. These centaurs brought animal skins, dried meat, and various looted items to exchange for what they needed.
of various things.
The goblins dispatched a guard force led by goblins and humans and mainly composed of jackals and ogres. Prell guessed that this was a mutual trade that was open during a specific period of time, so regardless of the danger, he stayed nearby to observe.
Then he saw the wild boar men driving the pigs, and even a group of South Sea pirates wearing three-cornered hats.
The centaurs, wild boars, and pirates seemed to have made some kind of arrangement. After they arrived, they were stationed in separate camps, and when each race traded with the goblins, other races would never participate.
In other words, goblins trade with each race individually, and then trade with other races again in the form of middlemen.
Even on the last day, Prell discovered a convoy of night elves coming from the north. It was obvious that the elves were coming from Ashenvale.
Prell did not watch until the end. Before the Centaur trading team could leave, he left with his friends.