Azeroth Shadow Trail

Chapter 448 1. Trolls and furbolgs are good neighbors when they are not attacking

Amber Pine Town, the second colony of the Kingdom of Lordaeron in Northrend.

It is said to be a town, but it is about the same size as a small city. It is built on the mountain, and its location is excellent. Except that it is impossible to build a city because it is located in the forest, it is almost a perfect colonial territory.

The town is next to a large river with plenty of water.

Because the environment has not been damaged at all, the catch in this river is amazing. The fishermen in the town only need to go out for an hour or two every morning to get a lot of fresh big bass.

And in the big forest nearby, there are enough prey for the hunters to show their skills. Once they come and go, Amber Pine Town has become a fur distribution center on the Northrend continent.

The various furs produced here are of excellent quality, and as long as they are sent back to the Eastern Continent, they can earn a lot of money.

Because of this, many hunters from the Eastern Continent gather here to "seek gold". Every year during the hunting season, Amber Pine Town becomes very lively.

The people here are also very hospitable.

For any non-malicious outsiders, they will enthusiastically send a large glass of home-brewed Amber secret wine to introduce travelers to this rich and beautiful land and their not-so-distant colonial history.

If the visitor has malicious intentions, then the hunks from outside the town will have to act.

The Kingdom of Lordaeron stationed a small but very elite legion here, and their station was in an open area north of Pinewood Town.

As long as the signal is given, the cavalry can rush over in only thirty minutes.

"But when you are really in danger, don't expect those soldiers to save your life. Everything is good in Grizzly Hills, but there will always be trolls, bearmen and other scary things coming out of the forest.

That is completely different from the kobolds and murlocs in the Old World. "

In the tavern in Pinewood Town, the local sheriff, who was drunk, was smoking a pipe, and boasted to the traveler sitting opposite him:

"Every time a newcomer like you comes over, I will take the trouble to remind you. Don't leave the town too far at night, and don't go deep into the woods without being accompanied.

Especially the place close to the big tree on the gray and white hill in the northeast, you can't go!

That is the territory of the crazy bears, they are not the same as the angry claw bears in the snow mountain. They're a bunch of depraved lunatics, the kind that scare the shit out of you.

And the north side.

When the weather is fine, you can follow the hunting team to visit the Gilnean town of Silverbrook, where the girls are very enthusiastic.

But going to Silver Creek is the limit of the hike, no further north. "

The magistrate grabbed the big wine glass and drank down half a glass of secret wine. His face turned even redder. He opened his collar to show the old wound on his chest to the traveler opposite.

And said in a threatening tone:

"North of Silverstream Town is the damn Frost Troll's faction.

Those trolls are brutal, and they eat people. I like young people with thin skin and tender flesh like you the most. I will grab you and roast you on the fire.

Eat the limbs first, then the trunk.

Do you see my injury?

This was left when I took the militiamen to rescue a few swingers from the old continent a few years ago. The damn troll's knife was only a few centimeters from my heart.

Those adrenaline-seeking bastards were freaking out, but guess what?

Ha, I keep a dwarven musket in my hand.

When the troll's knife pierced my chest, my gun also blasted off half of his head. Afterwards, those young people planned to hire me back to the Old Continent to be their housekeeper or something.

But I like the freedom of this land, so I am too lazy to serve those nobles who don't know the so-called. "

After talking about his heroic deeds in the past, the thoroughly drunk magistrate complained again. Like all old men, he began to criticize the young people now.

He scolded:

"Now there is a new earl in Silver Brook Town, who is a coward who likes to mess with men. His soldiers are also a group of cowards, and they can't stop the frost troll at all.

Pooh!

They can't even stop pirates.

Some time ago, pirates from the North Sea traveled upstream along the Dragon Bone River and rushed into Yinxi Town to plunder. If our Lordaeron soldiers hadn't arrived in time, those pirates would have burned down the town of the Gilnean jerks.

Pooh!

Shame, Gilneans are the worst!

All of them can only talk about it, saying that they are like wolves, they are very good at doing small business, and they have a way of making money, but if they really fight, they will die if they pull their hips. "

"Yes, yes, I also think Gilneans are only bragging, not as brave as us Kul Tirans, and certainly not as tough and unyielding as you people of Lordaeron."

Bu Laike Shaw, who was also drunk and listened to several stories for free, grabbed the wine glass at hand, took off his dwarf pipe, and said to the old sheriff in front of him:

"Come on, take one, don't be afraid, drink hard, I've invited you for today's drink."

"Hahaha, young people who respect the old like you are too rare now."

When the old magistrate heard that there was no need to pay for the drink, he was immediately satisfied. While praising the generosity of the young man in front of him, he yelled at the tavern waitress for some more good wine.

Xin said that the young man in front of him is really polite and knows how to get wisdom from old people, but it is a pity that he is blind at a young age and wears a strange red cloth strip.

It's miserable.

"I grew up in Kul Tiras, we don't have trolls there, but I also killed trolls when I fought in the Eastern Continent. These barbarians have nothing to say.

Tell me about bear people.

There are no bear people in the Eastern Continent, and this is the first time I have seen those weird guys. "

Bu Laike took a sip of his wine, put his pipe in his mouth again, and while he was puffing, he asked softly to the old snake in Grizzly Hills:

"To tell you the truth, I'm actually a troubadour, and I came to Northrend to collect some good stories. I heard that the local bearmen have gods they worship?

And that god had appeared by the river near Amber Pine? The Ursines called it Arcturus, but the native humans called it Big Horn.

You say you have lived here for decades, have you seen it? "

"Ah, Big Horn, of course I've seen it! But the gods of the bear people are called Ursoc and Usor, and Arcturus is just the son of God? There seems to be such a saying."

The old magistrate, who knows how to drink, has entered the state where he is most likely to be clichéd. Hearing Bu Laike's question, he was drunk and said with great interest:

"That was when I left my hometown and came here from Andorhal. I'm not bragging. When I first came, how could Pinewood Town be as prosperous as it is now?

It's just a dilapidated town, with less than a hundred people in total.

And I am the hunter with the best marksmanship among them. Many girls have a crush on me, but unfortunately, I have already married in my hometown.

But hey, man. "

The old man smiled smugly, and gave Bo Laike an ambiguous look that you understand, but then thought that the young man in front of him was a poor blind man, and he couldn't share the little secrets between men with him.

He could only shrug his shoulders helplessly, and then talked about his experience back then.

He said to the pirates:

"At that time, we had just come here, and the Gilneans hadn't come here yet, and in the entire Grizzly Hills, only bearmen and trolls were fighting for control of this forest.

We sent gifts to the local tribe of Ragingpaw, and they allowed us to live here.

It was at that time that I would occasionally hear weird roars by the river at night, just like the roar of a bear, but weirder.

No one else can hear it, only me. "

The old magistrate touched the wine stains on his mouth, he also put on a nostalgic expression, and said:

"At that time I thought I was bewitched.

You know, people who have contact with trolls, there are always problems like this, those bastards will use barbaric witchcraft to harm people.

During that time, I was very scared. Whenever the roar of the bear sounded in my mind at night, I would hold the gun tightly in my hand. I could feel that the bear seemed to be calling me.

I was terrified.

Finally one night, I couldn't stand the torture of fear in my heart anymore, I rushed out of the town with a gun in hand, and I followed the sound of the roar to the river.

There I saw it.

big horn.

It really exists.

Many idiots don't believe it, but I swear, I read it right that night. It was like a real god thing, huge, bigger than any bear I've ever seen.

But it is full of stars, so beautiful and divine.

It sees me too. "

When the old man said this, he shook his head regretfully, and said:

"I was overwhelmed by it, and it seemed surprised by my appearance, so it walked towards me curiously, the closer it was to me, the more frightened I was.

I was so young at the time, I thought it was going to hurt me, so I stupidly raised the gun and pulled the trigger.

Then it disappears.

After that, I never heard the roar of the giant bear that sounded in my heart, until a few years ago, when I was ordered to go back to the Old Continent to support the war against the orcs, I happened to meet a dwarf hunter.

I told him about it.

The dwarf told me that I missed the opportunity that all high-ranking hunters longed for in their lives but couldn't get it. I was also qualified to be one of the best hunters in the world.

The dwarf was with me when I returned to Pinewood after my service.

He waited here for a full year, and in the end he just took away a giant toothed bear that he had tamed on the snow mountain, and left here feeling disappointed. "

"Then do you regret it?"

Bu Laike "looked" at the old sheriff in front of him, he took a sip of his wine and said:

"You missed that opportunity after all."

"It's definitely impossible to say you don't regret it."

The old man shrugged, touched his red nose, and said:

"However, I am very satisfied to see the gods in the mouth of the alien race once with my own eyes. The bears didn't kill me just because I collided with their gods, let alone slaughtered the village.

So, I've been lucky.

I have told this story to many hunters, and they thought I was bragging, and those who had heard it all would sneak away to the riverside at night to watch.

I've made enough money selling them tents, too.

So, there is nothing to regret. "

Having said that, the old man hesitated for a moment, lowered his voice, and said to Bu Laike in front of him:

"Actually, I've already saved enough money, and my son and daughter have been urging me to go back to the Old Continent for retirement. Isn't this the end of the war? I really want to go back, but I can't let go of this place.

The most important thing is that I want to see if there is a second hunter who can hear its roar and accomplish what I failed to do.

I want to see it again and apologize for my stupidity.

I definitely freaked out about it.

Maybe it was because of my stupid shot that it never appeared in this place again, maybe it appeared, but I couldn't hear its call.

you.

Although you are blind, I always feel that you have an aura that other people don't have. Are you also a hunter? You also came for the legend of Arcturus? "

"Hey, you are too impolite, how can you say that someone is blind in person?"

Bu Laike said dissatisfied:

"As for my identity, I am indeed a hunter, and I am indeed here for the big horn, but I have been here for three days, but I have not sensed any traces of spirit beast activities nearby.

According to you, it hasn't been seen in many years, and I now suspect that it is in trouble. "

"Ok?"

The old magistrate was taken aback for a moment, and said:

"Why do you have such thoughts?"

"Because the local bears are weird."

Bu Laike put down his wine glass, lay down on the table, and said to the old man:

"Think about it carefully, have the behavior of those bear people become more and more strange in these years?"

"Well, they've been weird.

Because I met Dajiao, I had contact with some local bear priests. They are actually not as stupid as ordinary people think, on the contrary, they are very smart.

Especially those priests, they can easily learn our language.

I've also been to their temple of Rageclaw.

But the bear people are actually divided into two factions. The bear people living in the big tree in the northeast are not the same as the bear people in the temple.

They often go to war with each other, as if the tree-dwelling bearmen stole a relic from the Temple of Ragepaw years ago.

They don't want to say much to me. "

The old man scratched his thinning hair and said:

"The bears are actually good neighbors.

As long as you understand their taboos and don't offend them, they won't take the initiative to hurt you. We give homemade mead to the bears on the snowy mountains every year, and they occasionally help us when trolls strike.

Those idiots in Gilneas want to imitate us, too.

But they got the wrong guy.

I heard that the envoys they sent to the big tree were all eaten by the lunatic bears there. The bears living in the big trees are bad guys who cannibalize people, and our white bear friends here are good. "

"Well, the bad things that the fallen bears of Greythroat have done aren't just as simple as stealing the relics of Ursoc, the god of the wilderness, or eating people casually.

Talking about it will scare you off to sleep tonight. "

Bo Laike shook his head, stopped talking, and said to the old sheriff who had drunk almost:

"Anyway, thanks for the story, I don't need to waste my time waiting here. I have to go to the bear people, if I can find Arcturus.

I'll bring it to meet your 'old friend'. "

"boast."

The old magistrate laughed and poured the last glass of wine into his mouth. He drunkenly said to Bo Laike who stood up:

"So many good hunters have failed to find it, you alone. Ahem, anyway, don't go, I'm afraid you won't know the way, and it would be bad if you get lost in the snow-capped mountains."

"Don't be afraid, I don't use eyes when I find my way."

The pirate stood up, threw a gold coin on the bar counter of the tavern, put on his hood, walked out of the tavern quickly, and easily found the little star outside.

There is a group of young people around her, giving her various small gifts, making people feel that the charm of the little star is really powerful.

"Hey, let's go."

Bu Laike called out, and Little Xingxing responded, happily ran over with gifts, and helped the captain walk out of the town. The innocent young people behind them were surprised.

what!

These days, do beauties like to look for something like this? Could it be the legendary sugar daddy? But the blind man also looked poor and old.

(end of this chapter)