Chapter 426 [Miners and Murlocs who can speak human words]
Gam Shatterfin had a cold face.
Although as a fishman, its face is always cold most of the time as it wants to live in the sea water, so heating the face will have no effect!
But now he is very unhappy.
Because the kids told it, those hairless bipedal monkeys who don’t know how to behave are here again!
"Gah! It's all your fault!" As the chief of the Shatterfin fishmen, Gamu Shatterfin shouted loudly at his brother.
Ga Bang Broken Fin, the younger brother of the Chief of the Broken Fin Murlocs, is a famous cultural person among the Broken Fin Murlocs, and is even a mage.
The sharp teeth were grinding together, and the voice was sharp and unhappy: "I didn't expect that they would be like this! Human beings, human beings, these human beings are very unfriendly!"
Garm Shatterfin: "I told you before. These humans are never friendly! See, you told us not to disturb them. But they don't want to stay in the cave. They want to drive us all away! Drive us away!
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"My fault……"
Ga Bang·Broken Fin chirped and spoke in the language of the fish people: "I thought humans were all like her..."
"Ha~" Garm Shatterfin said. "They will only kill us, steal our pearls, and drive us into the sea! Ah, if you didn't know how to use Ice Arrow, I would have thrown you on the land to feed the spiders!
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"Drive them away." Ga Bang whined. "Drive them away! There are not many of them, only a few dozen. We have many, many murlocs, so we are not afraid of them!"
"I'm doing it!" Gam Shatterfin muttered.
Then it waved the spear made from the bones of an unknown sea animal in its hand, and screamed:
"Little ones of the Broken Fin Clan, Gamu is calling you! Come with me and drive away those land creatures! The beach is ours, it's ours!"
It was answered with a roar, and behind it and its brother, the Broken Fin, were thousands of Broken Fin Murlocs.
"Let's drive them away!" Gam Brokenfin was high-spirited and majestic as he led the murlocs towards the land.
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Hillsbrad Foothills.
To the southwest, a building suddenly appeared in a plain valley.
Dozens of human miners gathered together tremblingly, looking at the foreman surrounded by them.
"What's there to be afraid of? They're just some murlocs! On land, one of us can kill two of them! What's there to be afraid of?!" Jack, the foreman, shouted loudly.
"Jack! I'm just here to mine, not to fight! Those are murlocs, and those monsters can eat people!"
"That's right! Jack, you tricked us here just to feed those fishmen!"
"Holy Light! I can already smell the smell of fish! Holy Light, aren't those monsters coming over already?"
"I want to go back! I want to go back to my home. I don't want any more silver coins! I would rather go mining in the cold Alterac Mountains than be eaten by those fishmen here!"
"..."
The constant shouting and screaming made Jack, the foreman entrusted by others, feel angry.
Jack is from the Kingdom of Alterac. He is a foreman, the foreman of the miners.
In the past, he served the great nobles of the Kingdom of Alterac, mining in the cold Alterac Mountains.
Years ago, he received a big deal.
Nobles and businessmen hired him to lead a group of miners south, away from the safe zone where humans gather.
Go to the valley southwest of the dangerous Hillsbrad Foothills and dig a newly discovered mine.
The location of the mine is very unfriendly.
Although it is close to the main road, it would take three days to walk to the nearest human village.
It also takes a day and a half using a horse-drawn carriage.
It would take almost a day for the cavalry to arrive.
The key is not that it is too far away from civilization, but that wild beasts are very prosperous near that valley.
There are all kinds of huge mountain bears, spiders as big as houses, terrifying wolves, and even more terrifying hill lynxes.
These beasts are everywhere.
Moreover, the valley is too close to the coastline. Directly in front is the location of a large fishman tribe, and the straight-line distance is too close.
It's so close that even at the speed of the fishmen traveling on land, it only takes an hour to reach the valley.
The big nobles and big businessmen want to mine in the mines in the valley.
The reason was that a respected mage passed by and discovered some mineral deposits and gems in the valley.
To be honest, Jack thought this was a very dangerous job.
At first, he was unwilling to work in such a wilderness area.
However……
They gave too much!
Not only was the reward generous, the nobleman he originally served even promised to do it once it was accomplished.
He will be given the status of a minor noble and become a minor noble under the big noble.
Noble status!
Even the lowest level knight can have his own territory and servants. Although the territory may only be a village, the people under it can only be one or two hundred grams at most.
However, for most human civilians, the attraction of noble status even exceeds the attraction of 1,000 gold coins.
Risks were not considered at all.
Jack took the job without hesitation.
He took dozens of miners recruited by the investors, protected by more than a dozen nobles' private armed forces.
Going all the way south, taking great risks, we arrived at a place where wild beasts were everywhere and there were also threats from terrifying murloc monsters.
They began to work, taking risks for the nobles and merchants, exploring the mineral deposits in the valley, and searching for mines worth investing in.
At first, the work of the human foremen and miners went smoothly.
They number more than 50 people and have a certain amount of armed forces.
In addition to the large number of wolves, nearby wild animals will not consider these humans as food.
They came nearby, quickly found a mine, and tried to dig.
Facts have proved that those nobles and businessmen had good vision.
Jack led the miners and indeed found gold and brass deposits here, as well as a large amount of emeralds and rubies.
What is even more enviable is that this mine has a huge output, with dozens of miners digging out minerals every day.
Its value even exceeds the output dug out by hundreds of miners every day in the mine where Jack worked in Alterac Valley.
The intelligence and information was quickly passed back to the nobles, and Jack excitedly led the miners to work hard.
Everything was going smoothly.
However, bad things eventually happened.
Among the more than a dozen nobles' private armed forces, a few got bored when they had no missions and ran to a beach not far away.
At first they may just want to go swimming, or just want to see the ocean.
There, they discovered the huge murloc tribe.
This is nothing.
Although the fishmen are savage, they don't like to go inland.
The valley where the minerals are located is neither far nor close to the coastline.
It won't be so far away that the fishmen have no ability to reach it, and it won't be so close that the fishmen can come whenever they want.
Originally, even if both parties knew each other's existence, it would be enough to be wary of each other at this stage.
But when the elite of these noble private armies saw these fishmen on the beach digging out many pearls from many shells...
Things have changed.
Those few elite human warriors attacked the nearest fishman village and robbed many pearls.
When news of the incident spread back to the mine, the miners and the remaining nobles' private militia were all excited.
Pearls are hard currency in the human world, and are even called "gold coins traded by nobles."
So...
The fishman villages on the seaside soon suffered disaster, and five or six villages were destroyed in a row, eventually leading to the Broken Fin Clan tribe.
The tribe sent an elite who spoke human language, Garbang Broken Fin, and a dozen low-level murloc mages from the murloc tribe to go to the mines to threaten humans.
What makes humans find it strange is that this fish-man who can speak the common language of humans is surprisingly easy to talk to and is simply reasonable.
It just wants them to give an explanation and hand over the humans who killed the fishmen, so that other humans should continue to do what they did.
Forced by the magical power of the murloc mage, there are also a large number of murlocs behind him.
The humans immediately surrendered, and Jack surrendered on behalf of the humans, saying that they would investigate immediately and give the fishmen an explanation.
As a result, after looking back, the fishmen evacuated.
A dozen nobles' private militiamen immediately abandoned the miners and fled on their own.
Seeing that the fishman is about to cause trouble, Jack can't hand over the murderer at all, which is why the miners are so anxious.
