Chapter 173 Never Cooperate

The humans who came to Dead Water Oasis were adventurers, led by Mu Xiaolan of Qin Kunhui, and next to her was Blood Blade, the leader of the Blood Blade Mercenary Group.

It turned out that this time, Lu Xiaoming and his team told the Kokar Centaur about the construction progress of the village in Dead Water Oasis, and Lu Xiaoming was always outspoken, so Mu Xiaolan, who was also a member of Qin Kunhui, soon learned the news.

Mu Xiaolan knew that the Centaur was coming to Dead Water Oasis, and she knew that the Tauren Bain was still here, so she began to organize the people of Qin Kunhui.

However, at present, the people of Qin Kunhui were not enough to fight against the Centaur in terms of number or individual strength, so she contacted the people of the Blood Blade Mercenary Group. The Blood Blade Mercenary Group was very close to the orcs, and knew that Serage Blackthorn was with the orcs in Dead Water Oasis, so the people from both sides united and came to Dead Water Oasis.

When Mu Xiaolan and his team arrived, they happened to see the Centaur surrounding the Tauren Bain and the orc Serage and shooting arrows at them.

"Sister Blood Blade, the situation with the Tauren and the Orcs is not good. What do you think we should do?" Mu Xiaolan was the first to speak.

The majority of the adventurers who came here were from Qin Kunhui, and this operation was also initiated by Mu Xiaolan. Logically, she should be the one to lead it. However, the members of the Blood Blade Mercenary Group are stronger individually, so Mu Xiaolan asked Blood Blade's opinion first.

"You and I both know the speed of the Centaurs. Once they get close to us, it will be difficult for us to escape. With our current strength and equipment, we can't gain any advantage in fighting the Centaurs."

Blood Blade made a simple analysis and did not give any direct opinion.

"If we rush over together, casualties are inevitable. I just don't know if it's worth dying and whether we can save people."

Mu Xiaolan expressed her thoughts. She wanted to save the Tauren Bain and others. The only consideration was whether the price she paid was worth it.

Blood Blade was silent after hearing this. She actually wanted to save people too.

Blood Blade named his organization the Mercenary Group, so of course he would take the mercenary route. Therefore, Blood Blade is very familiar with the details of the tribe's mercenary recruitment in the Barrens. The female orc Serage Blackthorn, who is currently besieged by the Centaurs, is the main person in charge of the tribe's recruitment of new soldiers and mercenaries.

Blood Blade learned from a drinking session with an orc sergeant that Serage Blackthorn is very powerful, and even the chief of the tribe, Thrall, thinks she is a talent.

In addition, in the mouths of drunk orcs, Serage Blackthorn also has derogatory names such as "disgusting shaman" and "small-minded female orc".

This is an orc who is even seen by the chief of the tribe. Blood Blade is a target of great value.

Seeing that Blood Blade didn't speak, Mu Xiaolan was not in a hurry, but just stood quietly.

"Xiaolan, what do you think will happen if we take the team and rush to the Tauren village on the mountain with all our strength?" Blood Blade waited for a while and asked Mu Xiaolan instead.

"If we can rush to the mountain, it will be relatively safe. But if we rush all the way, half of our people will die." Mu Xiaolan answered calmly.

"Well, I guess so too, about half of them will die." Xue Ren nodded in agreement.

Listening to the two women casually saying that half of the team members would die here, Scarface Ajie, who was following beside them, looked indifferent, he listened to Mu Xiaolan.

The female thief Angelina on the other side raised her mouth: "Sister, the last time we rushed into the wild boar dungeon to rescue the orcs, many brothers and sisters in the group died, and some just resurrected. I'm afraid they will have opinions."

"Tell them that the mercenary group will double their compensation this time." Xue Ren said.

"Sister, what about me?"

"Stinky girl, I will help you get the [Swift Dagger] you want."

"Hehe, it's a deal, sister, you are not allowed to regret it."

After getting Xue Ren's promise, Angelina ran to the back to explain the situation to the members of the Xue Ren Mercenary Group. On the other side, Scarface Ajie also received Mu Xiaolan's instructions to explain to the people of Qin Kunhui.

The death penalty for adventurers in the world of Azeroth is that everything is reset to zero, and it is not certain when they can be resurrected again. It doesn't matter for adventurers of lower levels, but it will be a great loss for those who have invested a lot of energy to be resurrected and start over.

After all, the guilds and groups of adventurers are different from the Centaur or Orc army. At present, they have not reached the point where they can issue an order and the people below will execute it unconditionally. Many times, communication is needed to strive to reach the greatest consensus, otherwise there will be constant internal complaints and the team may fall apart at any time.

Yang Yi also discovered the arrival of the adventurers at the first time. While commanding the fishmen to contain the Centaur, he observed the movements of the adventurers. When he saw that the people coming were from Qin Kunhui and the Blood Blade Mercenary Group, he understood the purpose of these adventurers.

He saw that the adventurers did not move immediately after they came, but stopped in the distance to discuss for a while before making a decision.

The adventurer team began to move quickly in the direction where the Centaur besieged Bain and the Tauren, and did not run at the beginning.

It was not until the adventurer in the front was shot by the Centaur's arrow that the adventurers started running forward with all kinds of shields or blocking objects.

These adventurers were also strange. When facing the shooting of the Centaur, they basically did not fight back, but rushed forward regardless of everything.

The adventurers did not cause any damage to the Centaur, but effectively disrupted the Centaur's attack formation and attracted a large number of Centaur's arrows.

Bain and Serrag saw that the Centaur's formation was loose and the attack on them was weakened, so they accelerated their breakout.

Jerrick Gaoshan and Mur Leijiao on the hillside took this opportunity to put more pressure on the centaurs who were blocking them.

Yang Yi saw that the adventurers were willing to sacrifice themselves to save people, so it seemed that there was hope this time.

"Raise your shields, pick up your weapons, and rush forward with this lord."

The fighting fishmen in Ratchet Town also began to rush forward.

The centaur leader Shibi found that there were enemies in several directions. He saw that things in the fishman village had been robbed, fires had been set, and many orcs had been killed. The destination of this trip was almost reached.

Shibi was not reluctant to fight. He blew the Kodo Horn again and asked the centaurs to prepare to retreat.

Under the command of Shibi, the centaurs had kept a distance from their opponents. Now they began to withdraw from the battle in an orderly manner and began to regroup.

No one on the scene intended to delay the centaurs, and the centaurs evacuated smoothly.

After the centaurs left, the dust rising above the battlefield was blown away by the strong wind of the grassland, and the dead water oasis slowly quieted down.

The Kokar centaurs withdrew from the Dead Water Oasis. Yang Yi led the murlocs to join the tauren Bain and the orcs. The surviving adventurers also came over.

Bain the tauren was the strongest. Although his mane was messy and he looked exhausted, his burly body was still straight. He was covered in blood, but most of it was left by the centaurs killed by his halberd. His kodo beast mount was seriously injured and now lay on the ground in a listless state.

The orcs were in a much worse situation. Serrag Blackthorn was injured in many places, but she was not in danger of life. She began to use the shaman's healing surge skill to treat other injured orcs.

The orcs who came with them suffered heavy casualties, especially the weakest orc farmers. Only a few farmers such as Lardon were still alive.

The orc Sayuk fell to the ground. This orc veteran who had been injured by Brak in the duel had just rushed to the front to fight the centaurs like other orc warriors. The orc veteran's heroic performance left him with multiple injuries, and now he still has a sharp centaur arrow stuck in his body.

Orc hunter Una Wolf Claw squatted beside the veteran Sayuk, bandaging the veteran's wound with a first aid bandage and trying to pull out the arrow for him.

On the Qin Kunhui and Blood Blade Mercenary Group side, due to the later joining of the fighting fishmen and the fact that the centaurs' fighting determination was not that strong, the casualties of the adventurers were not as high as Mu Xiaolan and Blood Blade estimated at the beginning.

Even so, more than 80 adventurers were killed by the dense bows and arrows of the centaurs, which was two-fifths of the total number of adventurers.

On the other hand, the thorny fishmen were only injured by stray arrows in this battle, and no fishmen died.

On the other side of the Dead Water Fishman Village, the buildings burned by the centaurs were still emitting black smoke, and the old blind man was taking the fishmen to fetch water from the lake to put out the fire.

Seeing this situation, Yang Yi called the fishman ambusher Swat to come to him.

"Swat, take out some first aid bandages and healing potions and distribute them to the injured people present."

Brack was also injured during the duel and was unable to move, so Yang Yi asked Swat to do the work.

"Yes."

Swat took some low-level first aid bandages and healing potions from the thorny fishmen. He didn't say much, but just walked in front of Mu Xiaolan and Xue Ren and put the things on the ground.

After that, Swat went to send some healing supplies to the orcs.

These healing potions and first aid bandages are now very important for the orcs who have suffered serious casualties. The orc farmer Lardon wanted to take the healing supplies sent by the fishmen, but the orcs behind her firmly opposed it.

"Sayuk will never use the fishmen's things and will never cooperate with the fishmen." Veteran Sayuk lay on the ground and shouted loudly, which tore the wound on his body again.

"These fishmen are cowards and don't deserve to be warriors." The orc warrior was angry.

"The murlocs don't know what honor is, so they can't be called 'warriors'." Orc hunter Una Wolfclaw said bluntly.

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The orcs ridiculed the murlocs, blaming their own and their companions' casualties on the murlocs' desertion. They grumbled that the murlocs were cowards and would never cooperate with them. Yang Yi was also stubborn, and he was even more furious after hearing such words. He thought to himself, you orcs shouldn't cooperate with the murlocs, and we murlocs are not willing to cooperate with you orcs.

Swat was delivering things to the orcs. He had already put the healing potion and first aid bandage on the ground. Hearing what the orcs said, Swat silently picked up all the things on the ground, turned around and returned to Yang Yi, without giving anything to the orcs.

Yang Yi looked in the direction of the crossroads, where there was dust flying, and it should be the arrival of the tribal reinforcements.

Yang Yi saw the orcs' reaction. He didn't like to do something that would only benefit others. He said hello to the Tauren Baine and Gao Shan, and then took the murlocs back to the Dead Water Murloc Village.

Although the Thorntooth Murlocs did not die in this battle, the losses were not small.

The buildings in the Murloc Village were mainly made of flammable plants and wood. The buildings in the Dead Water Murloc Village were basically burned down by the fire set by the Kokar Centaur.

Looking around, within the damaged walls of the entire Murloc Village, the warehouse had been burned down to ruins, the hotel was still burning in the fire, and only a few scattered Murloc huts were left standing intact.

The old blind man was busy organizing the murlocs to put out the fire in the hotel and began to count the material losses.

"Lord, the food in the warehouse has been taken away by the centaurs. What should we do?" The old blind man reported to Yang Yi anxiously.

"It's okay. As long as the fishmen are still there, it's fine. We can transfer more food from the ratchet town." Yang Yi comforted him.

Although Yang Yi said that verbally, he was very unwilling in his heart.

The fishmen were too hasty when they evacuated before, and most of the food was not taken away from the warehouse in time. Now it was all taken away by the centaurs.

The food in the warehouse is the rations of 300 fighting fishmen, fishmen laborers and kobold slaves. The centaurs returned with a full load this time. However, the staple food of the ratchet fishmen is seaweed, and I don't know if the centaurs can swallow it.

"Lord, what should we do next? Will the Dead Water Fishman Village continue to be built?" asked the old blind man.

"Build, continue to build. Next time, build the warehouse for storing food by the lake. When you encounter danger and have to hide in the water, remember to bring all the food with you." Yang Yi was determined.

Yang Yi knew that the old blind man was worried that the centaurs would come to destroy it again, but he valued the importance of the geographical location of the Dead Water Oasis. Whenever possible, this place must be controlled by the Thorntooth Fishmen.

The fishmen were busy putting out fires and rescuing supplies, and Yang Yi walked around the destroyed Dead Water Fishmen Village.

Because Yang Yi had asked the fishmen to spend most of their manpower and resources on the rush construction of the wall, there were not many buildings in the fishmen village.

After the centaurs robbed things, they set fire everywhere, and most of the buildings in the fishmen village were burned. What Yang Yi cared about most were the two rows of walls that were built with great effort.

The village level 3 wall is composed of closely arranged logs deeply inserted into the ground and diagonal supporting wood on the inner side of the wall. The wooden structure cannot withstand the long-term burning of the fire, but the fire on the village level 3 wall is not as easy to spread as quickly as on other buildings. The centaurs deliberately set fire to the wall in many places, but because it did not last long, the wall was not completely burned.

Yang Yi observed carefully. Even if the walls that had been built before the centaurs came were set on fire, at least some logs were preserved, while the unfinished walls were all burned to charcoal ash, leaving nothing behind.

It is obvious that the built walls have good defensive power, while the walls under construction cannot withstand damage, even if some walls are about to be completed.

"It is really not easy to occupy the land of Dead Water Oasis. It is not too difficult to rebuild the fishman village, but what if the centaurs come again?" Yang Yi is very troubled by the Kokar centaurs.

If Ratchet Town also has a cavalry team, there will be a chance to have a head-on confrontation with the centaurs. Now the establishment of the cavalry team in Ratchet Town is still a long way off, and it can only rely on defending fortifications to resist the attack of the centaurs. This situation of being able to defend but not attack is the most uncomfortable.

Yang Yi was inspecting the Dead Water Murloc Village. Not long after he separated from the Tauren Bain and his companions, the tribal coalition arrived. Many adventurers also got the news and followed the tribal coalition to the Dead Water Oasis.