Chapter 137: First Exploration of the Deep Sea

Yang Yi returned to Ratchet Village from the water forging house on the seaside. Although the water forger Kagumoji promised to work hard to forge the clam shell shield, he was the only water forger in the village and he had to forge enough equipment for a murloc brigade. The clamshell shield took too long to wait.

Yang Yi came to the village level 3 tannery holding a clam shell shield.

The tannery is a general-purpose building. After being upgraded to village level 3, it is already a large earth and stone house of more than 200 square meters.

Yang Yi walked in. There were more than twenty murloc leatherworkers and leathermaking apprentices busy in the tannery.

The talent of the murlocs in leathermaking is also very average. Fortunately, many murlocs have the expertise of dexterous hands, so Ratchet Village has trained many level 1 and 2 leatherworkers.

None of the murloc leathermakers in the village has yet been upgraded to an intermediate level leathermaker, and the current level 2 murloc leathermakers are not very talented.

When Yang Yi, the village chief, walked in, the fishman tanners and apprentices in the tannery immediately stopped what they were doing to say hello to the village chief.

Yang Yi let the murlocs continue with their work and only called one of the level 2 murloc leatherworkers over.

This level 2 murloc leatherworker is a D-qualified murloc with "Dexterous Hands" and "Details" specialties respectively. He is currently the best murloc leathermaker in Ratchet Village.

"There is a clam shell shield here. Let's see if we can add a layer of armor to this shield." Yang Yi told the fishman leatherworker, and he handed the clam shell shield he brought to him.

"Village Chief, the armor piece is not suitable for being embedded in a shield."

"Try it. The village is in urgent need of a good shield."

Seeing Yang Yi's persistence, the fishman tanner didn't say much and took the clam shell shield with both hands.

Putting the shield on a large table, the Murloc Leatherworker took out a large pile of medium-sized armor pieces.

Armor pieces are usually used to embed defensive equipment on breastplates, legs, hands and feet to improve the defense of the equipment. This installation does not require too complicated skills.

The murloc leatherworker took out his leatherworking tools and began to try to add a layer of armor to the clam shell shield.

Yang Yi, who had nothing to do, took a tour of the tannery. The murloc leatherworkers here were basically producing armor pieces and some low-level leather equipment.

Because there are no excellent murloc leatherworkers, the tannery in Ratchet Village cannot take the high-end route. It has always been mainly producing leather armor pieces and low-grade leather suits of ordinary quality. These armor pieces and leather suits are generally rarely used by the murlocs in the village. They are mainly used for selling to outsiders, relying entirely on small profits but quick turnover to make money.

Nearly an hour later, Yang Yi's idea of ​​using armor pieces to strengthen the clam shell shield came to nothing. The instructions for using the armor pieces did not indicate that they could be used on shields. No matter how hard the fishman leatherworker worked, it was in vain.

Yang Yi left the tannery.

"Currently, relying solely on the murlocs in the village to make clam shell shields is far from enough in quantity, and even the quality needs to be improved. The Kokar Centaur will come again at any time, and it is still necessary to spend some money to buy some shields and equip a team first. Only the fighting fish can do it.”

Yang Yi thought that for the time being, he would have to rely on external purchases of equipment for emergencies.

The tannery was built next to the central square of the town. When Yang Yi walked out of the tannery, the old blind man happened to come to the square with the murlocs who were cleaning up the battlefield.

The fishmen responsible for cleaning up the battlefield each held several pieces of equipment, which were all trophies captured on the battlefield.

"Lord." The old blind man ran over after seeing Yang Yi. He reported: "Lord, a total of 150 longbows were seized, as well as nearly 200 long spears, axes and other melee weapons."

"Very good, put away the unused equipment first and sell it to a goblin merchant someday." Yang Yi said.

"Lord, what to do with those centaur prisoners?" the old blind man asked.

"Kill them all, and then cut off their left legs." Yang Yi said harshly.

The centaur race is cruel and fearless, even to their own tribesmen. To them, the captured tribesmen are no different from being killed in battle. There was no use keeping these centaur prisoners in Ratchet Village, so Yang Yi directly ordered them all to be killed.

There are still bounties on Kokar centaurs at the crossroads, and the left ears of these centaurs are proof of receiving the bounty.

The old blind man went to arrange for the fishmen to deal with the captured centaurs, and the tauren Bain and Jerrick also came over at this time.

"Chief of the Ratchet Murloc Village, taking advantage of the centaur's defeat, we plan to take another trip to Thunder Peak with a soothing potion." Jerrick said.

Bain continued: "After appeasing the kodo beast, I will go directly to the crossroads. This time we are here to say goodbye."

"Are you leaving now?" Yang Yi thought that the mission of retaining the two tauren was indeed unreliable. He said: "These violent Kodo beasts have something to do with our Ratchet Village. Let me take Ratchet with me." The village fishmen should accompany you to Thunder Peak, lest those centaurs come out to cause trouble again."

Yang Yi wanted to go to Thunder Peak with two tauren. The two tauren knew that Yang Yi was worried that they would be attacked by centaurs again, so they did not refuse.

There are six kodo egg-laying valleys on Thunder Peak, and the kodo eggs have been hatching for more than two months now. Originally, the kodos gathered here at this time were leaving with their cubs, but at this time, the irritable adult kodos were still lingering under Thunder Peak.

Jerrick seems to have a natural affinity for kodos. He can slowly walk up to the irritable kodos and feed them a soothing potion.

Jerrick stroked the heads of the kodo beasts with his hand, and these calmed down kodo beasts began to take their cubs out of the egg-laying valley of Thunder Peak and began their long journey.

After the defeat of the Kokar centaurs, they seemed to hide in their camp. At the end of the day, the murlocs of Ratchet Village followed the two tauren to walk through the Kodo beast egg-laying valley. They successfully appeased all the irritable adult kodo beasts, and Thunder Peak was temporarily calmed down.

Bain and Jerrick left, and Yang Yi and the murlocs of Ratchet Village returned to the murloc village.

This trip to Thunder Peak was still a big gain for Ratchet Village. Kodo beast cubs need to stay with their parents until they grow up. Those kodo beast cubs whose parents were hunted by centaurs could not survive. Yang Yi asked the murlocs in the village to take them all back to the Kodo beast valley of Ratchet Village.

The two tauren left, and the Kokar centaurs had just suffered a defeat and calmed down. Yang Yi began to arrange for the murlocs in the village to dig copper mines.

For safety reasons, Yang Yi did not plan to build a mine on land to mine now. He decided to send fishmen to mine copper in the deep sea like the canyon fishman village.

Yang Yi asked the fishmen in the village to take the captured fishman slaves to the trench.

Previously, Yang Yi had only scouted the situation under the trench from a distance and had not really seen the copper mine veins, so he followed them this time to see the details.

This copper mine vein on the seabed is in the deep sea trench under the Tidus Stairs. Yang Yi followed the fishman slave miners who had mined in the trench and dived for a while before reaching the mining site.

At this depth, it was almost pitch black nearby.

The fishman's big eyeballs are like two small round lanterns in this environment. This is the light reflected by the fishman's big eyeballs. Although the fishman has night vision, he can only see a blurry image more than ten meters in front of him here.

The experienced murloc slave miners immediately started to mine with pickaxes. The copper ore in the vicinity was basically exposed on the sea stones, so it was relatively easy to collect.

The murloc slave miners started to work, and Yang Yi led the combat murlocs to patrol around the mining site.

It was very quiet around here, and basically nothing was found after a patrol.

"Legend has it that the stepped terrain of the Tidus Stairs extends all the way to the bottom of the sea, even directly to the sunken Kaldorei city, but this rumor has never been confirmed."

Yang Yi recalled the legend of the Tidus Stairs in the deep sea trench. According to the legend, the Kaldorei city sank into the deep sea after the Well of Eternity exploded.

According to records, 10,000 years before the war between humans and orcs broke out, there was only one huge land surrounded by endless oceans in the world of Azeroth, and the name of this land was Kalimdor. At that time, many different races and creatures lived on the land of Kalimdor and struggled with the harsh natural environment.

At that time, the center of Kalimdor was a lake full of mysterious energy. This lake was called the Well of Eternity. This Well of Eternity was the source of magic and natural energy for the entire world of Azeroth.

The Well of Eternity draws energy from the boundless darkness outside the world of Azeroth and continuously releases energy to the entire world of Azeroth. These energies provide nutrition for all kinds of creatures in the world of Azeroth.

Kaldorei is the ancient name of the night elves. At that time, Kaldorei built a magnificent city near the Well of Eternity.

Later, the leader of the Kaldorei, Queen Azshara, caused the destruction of the Well of Eternity for some reason.

The destruction of the Well of Eternity caused a huge explosion, and this devastating and terrible result tore the whole world apart.

The strong earthquake caused by the explosion of the Well of Eternity completely changed the world of Azeroth. The sea water roared into the cracks of the Kalimdor continent. Most of the land of the Kalimdor continent was torn apart, leaving only a few fragmented continents surrounding the newly formed ocean.

In the center of the new ocean, where the Well of Eternity once existed, it is now a huge vortex of chaotic energy. This terrible vortex is spinning madly and non-stop. It is the relic of the catastrophe and the end of an ideal era.

This newly formed ocean is called the Endless Sea. It has been more than 10,000 years since the catastrophe, but even now it is not a simple matter to cross the Endless Sea.

"Since we are here, we have to dive down and give it a try. It should be much easier for fishmen to find the city that has sunk to the bottom of the sea."

Yang Yi decided to dive deep to take a look. He didn't know where the legendary sunken Kaldorei city was, so he left the other fighting fishmen behind and took a small team of fighting fishmen to dive directly at the mining site.

The deep sea was pitch black and silent all around.

Yang Yi and a team of fishmen kept diving down, and he felt as if he was in endless silence and darkness.

Because there was no reference around, Yang Yi and his team seemed to have no effect no matter how hard they tried to swim down.

"This feeling is really terrible."

Yang Yi felt uneasy. He didn't know how long he had been swimming. He only knew that the deeper he went, the greater the water pressure he felt. It was so great that even a fishman like him found it difficult to move.

Yang Yi stopped and looked up and down and left and right. He found that it was dark everywhere.

"We can't dive any further. Some of the fighting fishmen can't stand the pressure of the sea water and even have difficulty breathing."

Yang Yi called the fighting fishmen to a halt, and he gave up the idea of ​​continuing to dive.

Although the sunken city of Kaldorei is tempting, it would be a waste of life to lose your life for it.

Yang Yi and a team of fishmen began to swim upwards. As time went by, a hazy light gradually appeared above their heads. Only then did Yang Yi feel at ease.

"No wonder no one can find the sunken city of Kaldorei. It is difficult for fishmen, a race that can live in the deep sea, to dive down, let alone people of other races."

Yang Yi gradually felt relieved after seeing the light on the sea. At this time, a ball of blue light suddenly emerged from the sea in the distance. This ball of light was not big, and it was far away from Yang Yi and his group, but it was extremely obvious in the dark sea.

"Village chief, there is something coming over there." The fishmen who followed Yang Yi also found the blue light ball in the deep sea, and they immediately reported to Yang Yi.

Yang Yi stopped and looked at the direction of the lightning.

The blue light in the deep sea lasted for a few seconds and then disappeared. After watching for a while, Yang Yi and his team still did not find the electric light appear again.

Not daring to stay any longer, Yang Yi continued to swim with the fishmen.

"Village chief, the light appeared again!"

After swimming for a while, a fishman suddenly shouted.

Yang Yi turned his head and found that the blue light had indeed appeared again, and it seemed a little bigger.

"Well, there is something strange, it seems to be coming towards us." Yang Yi realized that it was not the light that became bigger, but the light was approaching them.

"Swim at full speed!" Yang Yi ordered immediately.

Yang Yi remained cautious about this unknown light that appeared deep in the sea.

Yang Yi swam at full speed with the fishmen, and the light appeared again, becoming bigger and bigger.

The closer to the sea surface, the brighter the light in the sea water became. Yang Yi finally used the Eagle Eye Technique to see the true face of the light when he was about to approach the mining point.

It was emitted by a creature the size of a three-year-old child, and it looked like a combination of a human upper body and a giant python's lower body.

"This is a naga!"

Yang Yi recognized it. This was a small naga, and a female naga.

The naga tribe is a powerful aquatic tribe in the ocean. They often enslave fishmen as slaves, and have domesticated many powerful creatures such as dragon turtles and flying snakes for them to drive.

It is said that the naga tribe used to be elves. They were distorted and deformed by the energy of the explosion of the Well of Eternity and became the snake-like creatures they are now.

The little naga seemed to be avoiding something, and this naga's vision was much stronger than Yang Yi and his group. She seemed to have seen Yang Yi and his group in the dark deep sea from the beginning.

The little naga was not afraid after seeing the fishmen, but was very happy. She swam quickly towards Yang Yi and his group of fishmen.

After a few breaths, Yang Yi found that more than a dozen small red bright spots appeared behind the little naga. These small red bright spots were two in a pair, moving close together in pairs, which looked very strange.

"That's the lobster man." A fishman said.

Those red bright spots are actually the small eyeballs on the vertical eyes of the lobster people. These lobster people who live in the sea also have night vision, so their eyeballs will reflect red light in the dark.

Yang Yi also understood after hearing the reminder from the fish man.

"It turned out to be lobster people. There seemed to be only seven or eight of them. I don't know why they are chasing this little Naga. Did they riot because they don't want to be a delicious meal for the Naga?"

The Naga enslaved the fish people mainly for hard labor, while the Naga kept the lobster people mainly for shrimp meat. The lobster people hate the Naga.

The little Naga swam over quickly, and Yang Yi gathered all the fighting fish people to be on the safe side.

"You Mugers, stop those lobster people for me!" The little Naga suddenly shouted at Yang Yi and the others after approaching them, sounding like he was giving orders to the fish people.

Yang Yi was stunned when he heard the words. The little guy was full of momentum and spoke in a rather domineering manner.

It's just that the little girl didn't seem to be very smart, and she probably didn't understand the situation in front of her.