Chapter 164: Fishman Sailor
Gremby, the goblin captain, accepted the 50 gold coins with a smile on his face. He immediately put the gold coins into the thick money bag on his waist, and only raised his head after patting the money bag to confirm that the money would not fly away again.
"Gremby has another message." The goblin captain showed two sharp yellow teeth and made a gesture of counting money.
"As long as the message is useful." Yang Yi was calm on the surface, but he cursed in his heart. The ability of these green-skinned dwarves to make money is definitely at the level of plucking feathers from passing geese.
"Grimby learned from the intelligence of the Hot Sand Group that the pirate group of Jiaweiyi attacked a large murloc village a month ago. Originally, the South China Sea pirates had no interest in murlocs. The strange thing is that the pirate group of Jiaweiyi has bombarded and looted many murloc villages one after another."
"Is there such a thing? Pirates use cannons to bombard murlocs. Do they think it's too much money?"
"Yes, in Grimby's opinion, this is definitely a loss-making business. Jiaweiyi conducts pirate activities on the high seas and commits crimes such as kidnapping, extortion, arson, and illegal slavery. It can be said that they have committed many crimes and have been wanted. But I have never heard that they are interested in attacking murlocs. There are countless pirates on the high seas. At present, I have only heard that the pirate group of Jiaweiyi is attacking murlocs. Who knows if those pirates have been soaked in the brains by the storm."
Grimby spread his hands, saying that he couldn't understand it either.
As Grimby said, the pirates of the South China Sea have never been interested in murlocs. Now, Jiawei and his group of South Sea pirates seem to have changed their nature and started to attack the Murloc Village. This is really hard to understand.
Although Yang Yi was puzzled, he decided to pay for the news. "This is indeed useful news. If there is any other useful news for the Murloc Village in the future, don't forget to sell it to us."
Yang Yi asked the Murloc to give 10 gold coins to Grimby. He knew that this goblin ship owner actually worked for the Steam Sand Group, one of the goblin consortiums. The Steam Sand Group's business spread all over Azeroth. They have various news channels, so Yang Yi is still willing to spend some money so that he can get any important news from Grimby in the future.
Finally, the goblin ship owner Grimby had 10 more golden coins in his big purse, and then he left the Ratchet Bay on the boat with satisfaction.
Yang Yi threw the ogre slaves he had just bought from the goblin ship owner to the four young murlocs with leadership skills, and then he stayed at the dock with the murloc captain Mojitov to watch the murloc sailors in the town continue to operate the newly acquired sailboat.
"Mayor, there are cannons on these pirate ships, but the murlocs in our Ratchet Village don't know how to use them." Mojitov said to Yang Yi.
"Even you and the two gnolls don't know how to use cannons?"
"Yes, mayor, we haven't learned to be gunners."
"There should be gunners among those pirate captives, let them teach the murlocs, and if it doesn't work, we can find a way."
Yang Yi doesn't have much hope for the learning ability of these adult murlocs, especially those related to fire.
The new generation of murlocs in the town has grown up rapidly. These murlocs who have been trained since childhood are smarter and have stronger learning abilities. Yang Yi hopes that they can grow up quickly and replace the first generation of murlocs.
"Mayor, we don't have enough sailors to operate so many ships, and warship naval battles require command training, and there are no fishmen in the town who understand this." Mojitov said.
"Well, I will find a way to deal with these things. You can practice as transport ships first. After a while, you may have to transport a large amount of construction materials to Warrior Island, and then you can use these ships." Yang Yi said.
Yang Yi plans to occupy Warrior Island. In addition to the requirements of the mission, there are also practical considerations. Warrior Island is not far from the entrance of Ratchet Bay. It can be said that it is the gateway for the sea ships of Ratchet Village to enter and exit Ratchet Bay. It must be controlled in their own hands.
At present, the fighting fishmen of Ratchet Village have trapped the pirate Lang Shaoer's men on Warrior Island. These pirates are numerous, but they have been cut off from supplies, so Yang Yi is not in a hurry to capture it.
The problem is that another South Sea pirate group, the Jiaweiyi Pirates, will appear near the Ratchet Bay at some point. If the goblin captain Grimby's news is correct, this Jiaweiyi Pirates is not only involved with Longshaw's Pirates, but is also very interested in attacking the fishman village, which is totally intolerable.
Yang Yi doesn't want the Ratchet Village that he built with great effort to be bombarded, but the problem now is that he doesn't know when the Jiaweiyi Pirates will come.
Waiting for others to attack him is like a thorn in his throat.
"Go offline and take a look at the forum. These South Sea pirates are making a lot of noise. With the great powers of adventurers, maybe someone knows some inside information."
Yang Yi quickly logged off and logged into the forum.
Sure enough, Yang Yi's guess was right. There are always some strange people among adventurers.
Some adventurers don't like to fight and kill in the world of Azeroth, but like to climb mountains and wade around to travel, and some people specialize in exploring remote places.
Although the areas where murlocs are active are usually visited by few adventurers, after searching the forum for more than an hour, Yang Yi finally found an adventure travelogue that had just been published.
This middle-aged man who named himself Hong Xiake is said to be a famous traveler. He also established an organization called "Mountain Climbing Party" in Azeroth. The main purpose of this organization is to explore new things in the world of Azeroth. For this reason, they often organize members to explore dangerous or unknown places.
In order to share their adventure experiences and advertise their organizations, mountain climbers will regularly post their adventure travel notes on the forum.
According to Hong Xiake's adventure travel notes found by Yang Yi on the forum, about two days ago, Hong Xiake finally climbed a high mountain at the southern end of Tanaris after much difficulty. This mountain is said to be the highest peak of a large mountain range at the southernmost end of the entire Kalimdor continent.
According to Hong Xiake's account, after he climbed to the top, he soon discovered the southern end of the Kalimdor continent that was suspected to be rumored by the indigenous people - Tianya Beach. This is a large beach blocked by a large mountain range and can only be reached by a secret road.
When Hong Xiake discovered this large beach and admired its beauty, he found a fleet of ships landing on the beach from afar on the top of the mountain. Soon after, a large group of sailors came down from the ships and rushed to the shore.
It turned out that a group of pirates were looting, and the target of the looting was a fishman village on the beach!
Hong Xiake was on the top of a high mountain, far away from Tianya Beach below, but with his rich travel experience and the information he got from other members of the climbing party, he still recognized from the style of the pirate ship's sails that the South China Sea pirates attacked the fishman village.
Hong Xiake's adventure travel notes mainly describe his experience and experience of climbing mountains. The South China Sea pirates only mentioned a few words about the attack on the fishman village, but this was a major news in Yang Yi's eyes.
If the news from the goblin captain Grimby is correct, the only one who will take the initiative to cause trouble for the fishman is Jiawei's pirate group. So it can be confirmed that the South China Sea pirates who appeared on Tianya Beach two days ago were Jiawei's pirate group.
"As expected, this lord is wise. He found the whereabouts of the Jiawei Pirates in no time."
Yang Yi calculated the distance. Tianya Beach is at the southernmost end of Tanaris. After passing Tanaris from Tianya Beach to the north, you have to pass the Cliff Coast of the Shimmering Plains of the Thousand Needles and the Terror Coast of the Dustwallow Marsh before you can reach the Merchant Coast of Ratchet Bay.
Two days ago, this group of pirates was still at Tianya Beach, the southernmost end of Kalimdor, so they definitely didn't come to Ratchet Bay so soon.
Of course, it's not certain whether this group of pirates will come to Ratchet Bay.
After coming out of the forum, Yang Yi quickly connected to the world of Azeroth.
Of course, Yang Yi hopes that Jiawei's pirate group will not come to cause trouble. If this group of pirates really wants to come, then they have to find a way to keep the pirates out of Ratchet Bay.
Ratchet Town is Yang Yi's base. It's hard to develop to this point. He doesn't want Ratchet Town to be hit by a round of pirate artillery.
As soon as Yang Yi went online, he ran to the dock of Ratchet Village.
Before, the Ratchet Village could only rely on the murlocs to deal with the pirate ships. I heard from the goblin ship owner Grimby that the bottom of the Gavi pirate ships was equipped with a layer of armor. It seems that it will take a lot of effort to rely on the murlocs to sink these pirate ships.
The world of Azeroth not only has magic and combat skills, but also has intelligent life such as murlocs, lobster people, naga, and sea giants living in the water, so some ships sailing on the water have also added various protections to resist attacks.
Standing on the dock and looking at the several pirate ships equipped with cannons that the Ratchet Village had just captured, Yang Yi wanted to put these cannons to use as soon as possible.
These ships need to be trained quickly. With the help of these warships, they will have more confidence when dealing with the Gavi pirate group.
Seeing Yang Yi coming to the dock, the murloc Mojitov, the captain of Ratchet No. 1, who had been staying at the dock, hurried over.
"Mojitov, these ships are very important to us Ratchet murlocs. How are the murloc sailors training?" Yang Yi asked.
"Mayor, the murloc sailors are completely useless." Mojitov shook his head and answered directly. It seems that in the eyes of the only murloc captain in Ratchet Town, the murloc sailors in Ratchet Town are completely useless.
"It's true." Yang Yi nodded as he looked at the Heartless and another ship sailing on the sea.
The two ships were swaying in the waves. It was better to say that they were drifting in the sea with the waves and the sea breeze than sailing.
The murloc sailors on the board were running around in a mess, and the two rotten-skinned jackals who served as instructors roared but did not have any effect.
Yang Yi knew that the IQ of the murlocs has always been a flaw in the development of the thorny murlocs, so the murlocs are still only a semi-civilized society so far.
At present, no matter how much these murloc sailors are trained, they can never become excellent sailors or helmsmen. At most, they can be trained as rowers or coolies on the ship.
"When the second generation of murlocs in Ratchet Village graduate from school, maybe we can find some murlocs with good qualifications to train them into excellent murloc sailors. Now these adult murlocs can't be counted on." Yang Yi can only hope that the new generation of murlocs growing up in Ratchet Village can produce more talents, so that the development of the murloc village will not be restricted.
However, the South China Sea pirates have not been resolved, and the Jiawei Pirates Group does not know when they will come. Now there is no time to wait. For safety reasons, we have to find another way.
Yang Yi thought about it, and then he took Mojitov to the prison in Ratchet Town.
The prison in Ratchet Town was built by Yang Yi using the general construction blueprints bought from the goblin merchant Rizarex. It is a level 1 building in a small town. The building layout is four cells in each of the front and back rows, with a total of only eight cells.
There are more than 40 pirates in the prison. Yang Yi plans to select some experienced pirates to serve as trainers for the murloc sailors, and try to throw the others back to the ship as slave laborers.
In the world of Azeroth, the South Sea Pirates are the weakest pirate group among the major pirates, and the strength of the Longshore Pirates is the bottom among the South Sea Pirates.
From the fact that only the flagship Careless of the Longshore Pirates is a three-masted sailing ship, and other pirate ships are easily sunk by the murlocs, it can be seen that the strength of the Longshore Pirates is indeed not very good.
Although the strength of the Longshore Pirates is a bit weak, the members are at least "professional" pirates. The sailing experience and level of these captured pirates are much better than the murloc sailors in Ratchet Village.
There are not many cells in the town's Level 1 prison, and each cell is not large. More than 40 pirate captives were imprisoned in four adjacent cells, and the small cells were overcrowded.
Yang Yi brought Mojitov and a team of patrol fishmen guarding the prison to the first row of cells where the pirate captives were imprisoned. When they saw a team of fishmen appear, the pirate captives grabbed the bars of the cells and shouted, hoping that the fishmen would let them out.
Yang Yi glanced around. There seemed to be a lot of pirates in the four cells, but judging from their performance alone, there were probably not many talented people.
"It's okay to let you out." Yang Yi said loudly to these shouting pirates.
The pirates also saw that Yang Yi, the fishman, was the leader, and they gradually quieted down after hearing Yang Yi's words.
"However, since you attacked our Thorntooth fishmen first, you must be slaves for a period of time and work on our Thorntooth fishmen's ship to compensate for the losses."
Yang Yi said slowly, although this group of pirates did not cause any damage to the town of Thorntooth.
Being a slave of the fishmen? Working for the murlocs?
A group of pirates looked at each other, but no one spoke.
In the world of Azeroth, murlocs are a semi-civilized race, and they have always been synonymous with weak, stupid, and dirty.
The murlocs imprisoned in the cells are mainly humans, and there are also a few trolls, dwarves, and goblins, all of which are civilized races.
It has always been the civilized races that enslaved the semi-civilized races. Where have you ever heard of a civilized race being a slave to a semi-civilized race? .