Chapter 1650 Savage Highlands
Savage Highlands (perfect question ↑) is located on the westernmost side of the northwest continent in the game, and borders the Endless Sea, Dragon’s End, Cassello Grassland, and Barbarian Fang Wilderness. It is said that there are also There is a path that can lead directly to the Valley of Embers, but not many people know where it is or how to get there. The reason... Mainly because few people would go there with nothing to do. Although it is not a life restricted area, it is not too far off. activities in high-risk areas.
Speaking of the Savage Highlands, this place is not large, but it is not much smaller. It is about the size of two duchies in the Violet Empire, and is not much different from the Principality of Skarlan. But it is a vast area with few people.
The history of the Savage Highlands is not that long. About one thousand seven hundred years ago, it was the western frontier of the Sun Dynasty. It was just a frontier, but this desolate land was not affected by Under at that time. Scheer attaches great importance to it. Although there are some symbolic garrisons, there are almost no towns and populations. Except for the fact that it is divided into the territory of the dynasty, it is a barren land.
You must know that at that time, even the 'Yao Riyuan' in the east, which is now the 'Manya Wilderness', was intensively developed because of the Biling Mine vein underground, and it was also because of that vein. 'Yaoriyuan' became the place where the Sun Dynasty raised monsters. To put it simply, It is said to be a collection of large [mines] + [animal pens]. It was a key construction place until the fall of the Sun Dynasty. The budget invested there every year was astronomical, and the Savage Highlands was similar. Compared with The astronomical number is missing the word 'number of days'...that is, 'mosquito'.
Today, more than a thousand years after the fall of the Sun Dynasty, the Barbarian Fang Wilderness is still very popular among adventurers, mercenaries, and merchants because of the large number of active Warcraft. After all, the Innocence Realm is not one of those places where people appear every few seconds. A game where a bunch of monsters come out will be played. This place is very logical. Although Warcraft is a relatively dangerous thing, it also has a considerable degree of value and rarity. Take Cole's lifelong enemy, who once gave For example, the 'Red Ridge Beast' that his crush, Lorna Moonlight, hit with a headshot. Although this thing is quite threatening to ordinary people and even middle- and low-level professionals, its skin is a very good fire element enchanting material and is strong and tough. And the tongue that can be retracted at will is a powerful medicine in the eyes of pharmacists. Even the eyes that have degraded to the point of seeing are very popular in the alchemist circle because they can make [Blind Torch].
In the past 'Yao Riyuan' and the current 'Manya Wilderness', various magical beasts ranging from Nikachu to Nikaqiu are active. Even if the Sun Dynasty is destroyed, they will still inhabit it. In this piece of soil there are still traces of [Banling Mine] On the ground, because of this, there is an endless stream of gold diggers here. Some want to make a fortune through Warcraft, some want to make a fortune through the Banling Mine, and some even come to hone their skills and challenge themselves, so they are called risks. A place where opportunities coexist.
As for the Savage Highlands, which was not even given a name and was only given the cold number [C21 Region] by the Sun Dynasty, it was ignored by people as always until the seventh day after the fall of the Sun Dynasty. century, one day about nine hundred years ago, under the leadership of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce When Crotty Alexandros, a map surveyor from the [Ministry of Geology], and his team went to investigate here to draw the latest version of the continent map, they made an amazing discovery -
This land even The area that has no name and is generally known as the Wild West is actually inhabited!
It is a kind of 'creature' that is similar in appearance to 'human beings', but has abnormally developed body and skeleton. The general height of adult individuals is basically between 230 centimeters and 270 centimeters. They have The body proportions are similar to humans and the appearance conforms to the mainstream aesthetics. They live in groups of 20 to 200 people and do not have a complete language system. The social form is still in the bartering stage, and the means of survival are more primitive. --hunting.
Hunt some magical beasts that probably lost control after the fall of the Sun Dynasty and fled to the west, and have continued to multiply in the past few hundred years.
Note, this is hunting monsters, not wild beasts.
And the monsters that can solve the problem of food and clothing are naturally not gadgets like Nikaqiu that may not be enough for three or four of them, but those that put aside the taste and texture, at least in A large monster with a generous portion of meat.
By the way, in most cases, the size of Warcraft is generally proportional to its combat power. In this regard, you can refer to Behemoth and Dragon.
By the way, after the Sun Dynasty had just defeated the Pride of the Dragon Clan and the Dragon Clan fell apart, many unhappy experts and scholars on the mainland who had been looking at this stuff for a long time came out and declared that the dragon should be classified as Warcraft. After that...the Sun Dynasty was quickly wiped out, and all the so-called experts and scholars were killed by the dragons whose pride was offended.
Well, let’s get back to the point——
In short, the geologist named Crotty Alexandros and his friends were all stunned after a few days of observation. They couldn't help but be stunned. Although the average strength of these people was not weak, and Crotty himself was a half-legendary shaman, this did not conflict with the shock they felt.
We can give a simple example. For example, it is not unusual for a heavily armed soldier to kill a tiger with a machine gun within five seconds, but if it is replaced by a soldier who does not have a machine gun, Even a macho man wearing only a layer of animal skin or a grass skirt beat the king of beasts to death in two seconds with his big mouth. The impact on his three views was only slightly less severe.
It is true that there are no machine guns in the Innocence Realm, but the power system here can be understood as something similar.
Take Crotty himself at that time as an example. He could easily use the elemental spirit to kill the same type of Warcraft in one piece, because of the 'shaman' professional system and the many characters derived from this system. The power is the 'machine gun' in his hand.
In the World of Innocence, whether it is low-level or epic, these are all used to describe the 'professional level'. We can understand the 'low-level profession' as a pistol, and the 'legendary profession' as a nuclear bomb. The main difference from the weapons and equipment outside the game is that your 'career' is just like your 'knowledge' and cannot be snatched or stolen under normal circumstances.
But on that day nearly a thousand years ago, what Crotty Alexandros and others saw was a group of people with no 'professional' who used their physical fitness and brute force to Hunt for monsters!
This is not the same level of impact as Wu Song fighting a tiger. Wu Song fighting a Decepticon is about the same.
In short, after some observations, Crotty's team came to a horrifying conclusion, that is, these 'humanoid creatures' that appear from God knows where have extremely powerful physical qualities. Even the most basic training is not required. As long as you reach adulthood, you can have strength comparable to the peak of the middle level. You must know that except for giant dragons and other outer-level creatures, even ogres and ogres who are outstanding in physical fitness among intelligent races. Orcs, without any training, are at most an elementary level.
The gap between the ordinary beginner and the intermediate peak... is almost equivalent to the gap between an ordinary adult and a young child. If nothing else, the latter can easily defeat ten of the former. !
What a tough creature!
This is the conclusion Crotty came to after seeing and analyzing those ‘people’.
After that, he did not hesitate at all, and chose to contact the group of ‘people’ he observed that day, trying to gain a more in-depth and detailed understanding of them.
This is not a hasty choice. Although those humanoid creatures are indeed very strong and impactful, it is only relative after all. It is true that their basic physical fitness can crush almost any dragon. Intelligent creatures are known to outsiders, but they only have "basic physical fitness".
For Crotty, the amazing thing about these guys is that ‘adulthood is the peak of the middle level’, but they are never simply the ‘peak of the middle level’.
So as a half-legendary shaman, Crotty has no reason to be afraid, because objectively speaking, even if hundreds of these 'powerful' and 'sturdy' creatures come together, they will be able to kill them in an instant. Slaughtered to death by himself.
Of course, although Crotty is not a saint, his character is not bad, so he decided from the beginning that even if the other party was completely unable to communicate with the beast, there was no need for him to hurt them. At most, he would just scare them a little. Just take a moment and then think of a solution.
The result was beyond his expectation——
After discovering Crotty, after a brief commotion, those creatures actually made extremely friendly actions, such as killing him The people in the middle were jumping up and down with expressions of excitement, making weird noises while doing body movements with unknown meanings, and stuffing prepared food into his hands as if they were treasures.
If the previous two actions still failed to allow Crotty to determine the thoughts and intentions of these creatures, then when the other party handed the food that was quite precious to them in front of him, he no longer had the ability to determine the thoughts and intentions of these creatures. No doubt left. These creatures are undoubtedly 'friendly' and can 'communicate'.
After that, Crotty immediately asked his entourage to rush back to the Chamber of Commerce headquarters to report the situation, while he stayed to mingle with the humanoid creatures. In the initial report, as the top responsible person of the team As a human being, he calls these creatures 'savages'.
Yes, he is a savage in the literal sense, concise and vivid.
In the half month before the Chamber of Commerce sent support, Crotty also collected a lot of intelligence through his unremitting efforts. For example, he found that although these 'savages' had a very primitive social form, they were intellectually weak. But it is not inferior. To put it simply, except for the lack of knowledge inheritance, these people are no different from other intelligent races in terms of evolutionary perfection.
In terms of distance, there is no difference between a gorilla who grew up among gorillas and Tarzan who was raised by gorillas. Although there is no difference in living habits between the two, Tarzan, the ape, can learn through Make yourself talk, brag, and fall in love like normal humans, but real apes can't do that.
This is because their upper limits are 'ape level' and 'human level' respectively, so even if Brother Taishan played wilder than a monkey when he was young and frivolous, as long as he gets an opportunity, he can directly integrate into human society.
And these ‘savages’ are a lot of genuine ‘Tarzan’.
After only a few days of contact with them, Crotty discovered this. He believed that if a savage newborn was placed in the human world, after a few years, in addition to being bigger than ordinary people, Aside from being older, it doesn't make any difference which human being the child is.
All in all, Crotty was very excited by this discovery, and he took the initiative to teach the savages knowledge. In the process, although he used the power of the shaman several times, he was respected, but he was not recognized. Treating them like gods, he couldn't help but think highly of these savages again.
However, while making many discoveries, Crotty also had a lot of doubts.
That is, when did these savages appear?
You must know that although this area is inaccessible, it is not a restricted area for life. Although there are basically no people who have nothing to do, they will wander around in such a place where birds do not poop. There are many mercenaries and adventurers who occasionally come here every year due to the magical beasts in the Fang Wilderness. Even if they basically don’t explore in depth, it would definitely be a big deal if these savages have been living here and have not been discovered until now. Something impossible.
Not only that, neutral organizations such as the Geology Department of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to which he belongs, or the Archaeologists Association will occasionally come over for exploration, so in Crotty's opinion, as long as these savages have stopped here, For more than five years, there is no chance that I will be the first to discover them.
However, judging from the current situation, he might actually be the first to discover it.
This...
"What on earth is going on?"
Ji Xiaoge, who had been completely immersed in the story, wrinkled his nose in dissatisfaction and glared at Jadeka who suddenly started to show off during the middle of the story: "Old Jia Hurry up and tell me what the reason is!”
“I don’t know.”
In the end, Jadeka shrugged and said, “More than nine hundred years have passed. , this matter is still an unsolved mystery. Those highlanders, yes, those people who came from the Savage Highlands and were first called savages themselves didn’t know it. It was like... they grew out of the ground inexplicably. "
Except for Yaya who was chasing fireflies, Mo Tan, Lu Jiang and Ji Xiaoge all opened their eyes, obviously very surprised by this conclusion.
"Well, I heard it from the elders in my family back then."
Jadeka chuckled, turned to look at the night sky in the west, and smiled: "There are too many unsolved mysteries in this world. There are so many things that are weirder than the origin of the savages."
"Really?"
"What about it?" br>
"For example, you people from other worlds."
"..."
Chapter 1641: The End
(End of this chapter)