"Of course, my lord." After Lawrence asked, the elderly tauren saluted him and then turned around and said to everyone.
"This location actually involves the most shameful scene in the history of our tauren. I think the humans and young tauren present may not know what's going on here, because we consciously want to forget this history, but now, I
Guess we can tell you what happened-"
Following the old shaman's explanation, Lawrence finally understood why the older Tauren were so excited. It turned out that this meadow was one of the earliest hometowns of the Tauren on the island. According to them, they
The tribes came here from the west of the Old World a long time ago.
According to the legend of the Minotaurs and the information Lawrence had read before, the earliest settlement of their branch of the Minotaurs was on a small island in the eastern part of the Earth Sea between the western part of the Old World and the Flame Continent. It was famous for its complex labyrinth architecture.
Later, a large-scale eruption of an undersea volcano caused by a divine war caused a tsunami that destroyed most of the civilization on the island. So after the tsunami, the surviving tauren left the island in search of safer homes.
Fortunately, the god who won the battle between gods was a good god. After realizing the harm he had caused to the tauren, the god and his friends protected the scattered tauren and allowed them to die.
Most of them were able to cross the dangerous sea and find their new homes with simple means of transportation.
According to the current distribution, the places where the tauren mainly go are the places they have been to that are relatively close to their hometown, such as the south of the western part of the Old Continent, and the north of Yanzhou. Until now, there are still some tauren in those places.
A cluster of villages or even small towns.
The current group of tauren on Sauer Island should be the ones who traveled the furthest in that era, as they were the tribe with a sailing tradition among the group of tauren in the past.
Originally, according to their plan, they took a big ship to the westernmost part of the Earth Sea and found a place to settle ashore. But unfortunately, they encountered a strong wind for half a month on the way, so that they completely rushed out of the Earth Sea and walked out of the old world.
The farthest point where the power of mainland gods can radiate.
As a race that believes in the power of nature, the Tauren believed that this was a revelation given to them by nature. So they did not return, but just set sail in the direction of the unknown ocean.
Relying on the experience accumulated in previous voyages, their strong bodies, and the ships they specially built for remote colonization, they finally crossed the ocean and arrived here, becoming the ancestors of the tauren in the New World.
In other words, the other tauren in the New World basically followed the footsteps of humans colonizing the New World. Only the tauren on Sauer Island and the tauren population in the northern Vinland Republic of the White Eagle Federation belong to the New World.
There are two native tauren societies.
After landing on the island, the tauren were divided into three groups. Some stayed at the landing site to continue their work related to the sea, while some went deep into the island and camped beside the ruins left by the elves, and then slowly
spread throughout the hilly areas.
The larger group of tauren continued to penetrate deeper into the island, and finally brought their four-horned oxen to the meadow under the Blue Mountain and settled there.
If everything develops according to plan, this island will probably eventually become a small island dominated by tauren. But the problem is that just more than a hundred years after the tauren settled here, a group of goblins took up a few quilts.
Floating garbage, which they called boats, also came to the island.
This is the most common nest-splitting behavior of goblins. Because goblins only know how to destroy but not build, coupled with their high fertility rate, they will expand outward when the number of goblins exceeds the upper limit of the local ecological carrying capacity.
For other civilized races, if they cannot detect these expanding goblin colonies in time, a large group of these disgusting creatures will soon appear on their own territory.
Unfortunately, because the number of tauren was too small at that time, they did not discover the goblin community that landed from a secret place on the island. As a result, when the tauren discovered the goblin invasion, the size of the goblins on the island had become
A huge disaster that the tauren can no longer handle.
Under such circumstances, the tauren tribe that originally stayed on the seaside first retreated to the interior of the island and the two tribes on the island merged? Then they and the goblins started a tug-of-war for the territory located on the alpine meadow.
Because the terrain of the meadow was flat and there were not many metal ores on the island? So the tauren, who lacked weapons and equipment, were finally defeated by the goblins' goblin sea tactics, and finally retreated back to the most barren of the three territories.
Hilly areas.
Because of the rugged terrain in the hilly areas, the tauren's individual combat effectiveness was fully utilized here. The goblins were basically unable to exert their numerical advantage due to the terrain. So after several years of testing, the goblin army gave up on this area.
The territory was turned elsewhere, allowing these tauren to thrive in this hilly area.
The mangrove beach where Lawrence and the others went to colonize was the place where the Tauren first landed on this island? According to the Tauren, the land there used to be very fertile. Unfortunately, after the goblins multiplied there on a large scale, the local ecological environment was completely destroyed.
Destroyed? So when Lawrence and the others landed on that beach, they discovered that the vegetation on that beach was not as lush as those in the surrounding areas? The land had even become salinized.
According to the tauren shaman, they lost almost all their navigation knowledge after arriving here in the early years. This is why they gave up that land so easily.
However, unlike the mangrove beach, the alpine meadow at the foot of the Blue Mountain is very important to them now, and it can even be said to be related to the future of the entire population. This is why these elders will talk about the alpine meadow.
The reason for such excitement.
"Then why did you hide this history from us?" After the old shaman finished speaking, a young tauren shaman stood up and asked. "There is no shame in being defeated? You can tell us.
These things remind us that one day we will be able to regain that land."
After listening to the words of the young tauren shaman, Lawrence also nodded slightly. Because in his impression, tauren are not the kind of creatures who dare not face their past. So what the old shaman said just now is because
Shame and so on should not be the real reason why they chose to hide this history.
"Actually, it's because of the ideas of you young people that we hid it." The old shaman said with a long sigh. "We did this before, but as a result, your fathers decades ago were the same as they were at that time.
The group of humans on the island organized a battle to regain the Blue Mountain Meadow——"
"I remember this incident." A younger tauren shaman said. "Because of the arrival of human allies? We ushered in an era of expansion. On the one hand, we established branch tribes on the seaside plains? And
On the other hand, branch tribes were established on the alpine grass mats at the same time. Unfortunately, after humans left, we shrank back due to various reasons."
"Yeah? But because of this story, many people refused to retreat from the Blue Mountain Meadow. In the end, almost all of them died there." At this point, the tauren shaman let out a long sigh.
After all, the reproductive capacity of the tauren population is not even as good as that of humans, and the loss of each individual is heartbreaking. "So since then, we have begun to hide this history to avoid more similar tragedies."