"Guest, what kind of guest?" Lawrence thought with some confusion, because on the other side of the passage was the wilderness inside the island, and the various dangers there made Lawrence not intend to solve the wilderness and various problems in the wilderness in a short time.
So he couldn't imagine what kind of intelligent creatures other than monsters would come from that direction.
It is true that there are human aborigines on the island, but this does not make the defenders describe them as strange guests. And whether they are goblins or other monsters, they cannot be regarded as guests. As for the colonists who want to come here, they must be
Take a boat instead of walking through the dangerous virgin jungle.
With such doubts in mind, on the afternoon of the next day, Lawrence finally met the so-called strange guest in the restaurant of his temporary office building. What he didn't expect was that the guest turned out to be a cow... Well,
A tauren. To be precise, a very young female tauren.
This tauren was covered in brown and white hair, and it looked like he would be nearly three meters tall if he stood up. Fortunately, the ceiling of the restaurant in the temporary room was high enough, so she didn't have to put the big horns on her head when she came in.
Hit the ceiling.
The clothes she wore were very simple, with only a small vest similar to the one Lawrence had seen in his previous life for women's sports and a short skirt that was less than knee high. On her feet, to be precise, her cow hooves were as big as bowls.
Wearing a pair of tattered-looking straw sandals. After getting closer, Lawrence found that these clothes were made of a very rough plant fiber, which looked more like medical gauze than cloth.
In addition to clothes, this female tauren also has a necklace made of bones and teeth of various animals hanging around her neck, and a bracelet of the same texture on her wrist. Most of them are made of goblin skulls.
They were made into flat beads, mixed with the teeth of some beasts that were difficult to deal with at first sight, and some of them still had a faint scent of magic lingering on them.
When the tauren was sent over, Lawrence was looking for the location of the future granary with several engineers in the city of Nola. So when he chose the location and returned home, he saw that the tauren was already there between his father and
Dinner was served here accompanied by the future hostess Saphire.
There are all kinds of food piled on the table, from dried meat, dried fish to food cooked with fresh ingredients taken from the canteen downstairs. I heard Butler Bayer who accompanied Lawrence in just now said that this is because Lambert just
The reason why my husband ordered everyone to take a portion of all the food on hand and serve it together.
"Father must have developed a research addiction again." Upon hearing the butler's words, Lawrence immediately guessed what his father was thinking. After all, he had expressed his curiosity like Lawrence before about a tauren who looked so innocent.
Why are herbivorous organisms omnivorous?
Fortunately, this tauren didn't think anything was wrong. Instead, she was very satisfied with the various dishes on the table. In her eyes, this group of humans can be said to be very enthusiastic, and they can actually come up with so many varieties.
Let her choose the food.
"Hello, Mr. Lord!" After seeing Lawrence walk in, the tauren swallowed the food in his mouth and glanced at Mr. Lambert to confirm Lawrence's identity, then stood up and greeted him. "Intern of the Iron Hoof Tribe.
Shaman, Orchid. Ironhoof pays tribute to Mr. Earl."
"Sit down, sit down, let's eat first." Looking at the tauren who stood up and almost pushed his horns to the ceiling beams, Lawrence quickly made a downward movement with his hands to make him sit down. Otherwise, he would look at such a plush man.
Standing in front of such a huge velvet creature is a bit stressful.
There is no so-called lingua franca in this world, and most ethnic groups have their own languages. However, for the convenience of communication, Flemish is often chosen as the medium of communication when ethnic groups in the western part of the Old World cannot understand each other.
However, the language spoken by this Minotaur is a strange mixture, mainly Visby, with Brythonic, Flemish and some of the Minotaur's dialect mixed in.
Lawrence thinks this may be because the Tauren on this island first came into contact with immigrants from the Holy Visby Empire, so they learned part of the Visby language. However, after the immigrants were forced to leave, they were naturally separated from humans.
Due to the lack of contact, it is normal for the circulating language to change.
Fortunately, several people present can speak Visby, Brythonic, and Fransian, especially Mr. Lambert, a clergyman who has received training from the church on how to interact with intelligent beings who do not understand the language. So everyone
Also able to communicate.
After saying hello, Lawrence also sat at the table and started eating. On the one hand, it was because he was really hungry after running around several construction sites in the port area all afternoon. On the other hand, he discovered that this was called an orchid.
The iron-hoofed tauren was a little nervous, so he simply chose to eat and chat to ease the tension.
Sure enough, after seeing Lawrence, the lord, eating his dinner, the young tauren also relaxed. And Lawrence also completely understood the cause and effect of the matter from him.
More than 30 kilometers east of the entrance to this plain, there is a large hilly area, where the hometown of Orchid, Ironhoof and other tauren are. They used to live on the plain where Lawrence is located, but later on
The goblins were forced to move eastward.
"Actually, those hilly areas are more suitable for us." Orchid Tiedhoe said, "After all, the hilly areas are drier and cooler than the coast. Unlike here, although we can get more food, we stay here
Over time, you will suffer from various diseases due to dampness and heat."
After a brief conversation, Lawrence finally understood what this group of tauren did after humans left: after humans withdrew, the tauren who could not trade their necessities from humans chose to leave here and return to the island.
Inside. This is not only due to the constant harassment of goblins, but also the problem of being more susceptible to diseases.
After returning to the interior of the island, this group of tauren divided into multiple tribes and occupied the hilly areas deep in the island. They used the complex local terrain to block the invasion of the goblins.
Different from the Niujiao Bay Plain, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend, this hilly area has a large number of places where one man can guard the gate and ten thousand people can't open it. And in this place that pays more attention to the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the tauren far exceeds that of the goblins.
Only a few people are needed to block the goblins' attack.
"When we retreated into the hilly area, there were more than 2,000 people and 17 tribes. Now we have reached more than 3,700 people and 22 tribes." Orchid Ironhoof said in his final summary of the Minotaur situation.
"So that's it!" Lawrence nodded seriously, and then asked a question. "I'm very curious about one thing, why did you faint in front of our fortress."
"Because I am a trainee shaman, I need to spend a lot of time in the wild to understand nature and the various souls that exist in nature. So every year I stay in the wild for more than four months." Orchid Tiedhoe said.
Here, there was an embarrassed look on his face. "But I didn't expect that many goblins suddenly appeared in places where there shouldn't be many goblins."
"At first I thought it was just a small group of goblins, but when I took down two teams and killed more than 20 goblins, I found that the way back to the tribe was full of goblins, and at that time they also discovered me. So I could only look on.
Fight with them while running to a place where there are fewer goblins. Finally, after seeing your human guardians, I passed out due to fatigue and hunger."