Chapter 188 The Clue Is Interrupted
Before leaving Ratchet Town for Okaz Island, Yang Yi still had one thing to do, which was to urge the town's construction workers to complete the finishing work of the coral reefs and the fishman underwater mount training ground.
At the beginning of the month, Yang Yi was lucky enough to win the triple prize and got three construction drawings, so he had three scroll tasks in hand. Among them, the occupation of Warrior Island has been completed, and the remaining two tasks are to kill 300 South China Sea pirates and kill Baron Longshaw. These two tasks cannot be completed or are not planned to be completed now, so you need to complete the construction tasks to get the opportunity to continue the lottery.
In fact, the fishmen in Ratchet Town have already completed the construction of 7 coral reefs, and the 8th coral reef is also close to completion. Similarly, the underwater mount training ground is almost completed.
This time was deliberately arranged by Yang Yi. His primary purpose is to complete the scroll task, but sometimes the scroll task may not be completed. At this time, it is necessary to complete the construction task within the 20-day task time limit.
Now, the time is almost 20 days, and the two scroll tasks will definitely not be completed. Yang Yi is waiting for the fishman construction workers to complete the construction tasks.
Everything was under control. Before dark, Yang Yi heard two system prompts.
"Ding!"
"The town's level 1 fishman underwater mount training ground is completed. Complete the task of building a town's level 1 fishman underwater mount training ground within 20 days, reward: one chance to draw a lottery."
"Ding!"
"The 8th town's level 1 coral reef is completed. Complete the task of building 8 town's level 1 coral reefs within 20 days, reward: one chance to draw a lottery."
"Yes, this is the feeling I want. Everything is under the control of this lord, hahaha."
Yang Yi was proud for a while before entering the mysterious space.
Start the lottery immediately.
After two consecutive draws, Yang Yi came out of the mysterious space. The fish scales on his fishman face were jumping, and he was in a bad mood.
It seems that Yang Yi's luck ran out when he got the triple prize at the beginning of the month. This time he drew two skill books, and these two skill books are currently useless.
[Scroll-Life Blossom] and [Scroll-Group Entanglement] are two skill books. One restores life and the other controls the group. The effects of both skills are pretty good. But the sad thing is that these are two skill books for druid professions, but there is no murloc druid in Ratchet.
"With the previous [Scroll-Barkskin], I have already drawn three druid skill books! Mother Earth, are you fooling me?" Yang Yi was about to curse.
"Do murloc druids exist in the world of Azeroth?" Yang Yi wanted to ask this question.
Not only is there no murloc druid in Ratchet, but Yang Yi has never even heard of a murloc becoming a druid.
"It seems that there are two more unfinished skill learning tasks. I can only see what the corresponding scroll tasks are."
Yang Yi opened the corresponding task scrolls. One was to leave murloc cookies, and the other was to occupy Okaz Island.
"As expected, this system is lazy enough to issue tasks, and it doesn't make up some other fancy tasks."
Yang Yi complained for a while, and then thought about it.
"Yang Yi really wants to keep Cookie, the Murloc, in Ratchet Town, but given the relationship between Cookie and Van Cleef, it must be very difficult for him to stay, especially since Cookie calls Van Cleef his master. As for the task of occupying Okaz Island, it depends on whether Dr. Vivier on the island, the nearby Nagas, and the black dragons agree."
If these two scroll tasks cannot be completed, then Yang Yi can only look forward to the [Engineering Notes] obtained when occupying Warrior Island, and the corresponding task of building Warrior Island.
Tomorrow, Yang Yi will leave for Okaz Island. He took a tour of Ratchet Town and then went to sleep.
The next morning, the departure team was ready.
Mr. Heavy Punch, the minotaur, did not leave with the team. He said he wanted to stay to take care of the little girl Vanessa. Obviously, this big black bull was worried about leaving the little girl alone in Murloc Ratchet Town.
This time, Yang Yi set off with Marisa and Cookie, and also brought two little Murloc sisters Guji Gudong.
Okaz Island is not close to Ratchet Town, and it would be a waste of time to sail there. Even if you take a big turtle and travel day and night, it will take two or three days, not to mention that the big turtle needs to rest.
So Yang Yi asked the two sisters Guji and Gudong to bring their plesiosaurs to help carry Marisa and the fishman Cookie, and even if they succeed in rescuing Van Cleef, they can carry them back to Ratchet Town together.
The two plesiosaurs, the Sons of Ishawak, have been born for nearly a year. Now they have grown to five meters long and can easily carry two people.
Yang Yi explained to Slark, who was in charge of guarding the house, and asked him to arrange the construction of Warrior Island, and then set off with everyone.
Yang Yi sat on the back of the big turtle alone, and the two sisters Guji and Gudong rode on the back of the plesiosaur Sons of Ishawak, carrying Marisa and Cookie respectively.
A big turtle and two plesiosaurs swam quickly towards the mouth of the Ratchet Bay.
A few days later in the afternoon, Yang Yi and his team came to the vicinity of Okaz Island again.
As soon as they arrived near Okaz Island, Yang Yi and his team found two black smokes faintly visible in the distance on the sea surface, which seemed to be a sign of human activity there.
Yang Yi didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but Marisa, who came with him, spoke up.
"Those two puffs of smoke seem to be the signal smoke of our Defias Brotherhood. Perhaps there are still surviving members of the Defias Brotherhood there."
After hearing what Marisa said, Yang Yi also decided to go over and take a look, so the sea turtle and the plesiosaur turned around and swam towards the black smoke.
The black smoke rose from a small island on the Dread Coast, which is not far from the land of Dustwallow Marsh, and the human city of Theramore can be seen in the south.
"There is a sailing ship on the island. It is the ship of our Defias Brotherhood."
Marisa's judgment was correct. When she got closer and closer to the island, she found a sailing ship on the island. This ship belonged to the Defias Brotherhood.
Yang Yi also saw the ship. He had used Eagle Eye to observe the island earlier. He found that the ship had run aground and was severely damaged. More importantly, a group of murlocs were now besieging the humans and goblins on the island.
Those murlocs had black fins on their bodies. They were the murlocs of the Blackfin Clan. The Dread Coast was also the activity area of the Blackfin Clan. The humans and goblins besieged by the murlocs all wore red masks, and were obviously from the Defias Brotherhood.
"Hurry up, a group of blackfin murlocs have appeared, and the people on the island are in danger."
Yang Yi observed that the number of blackfin murlocs that climbed onto the island was not large, and it did not seem to be a premeditated attack.
The Defias Brotherhood on the island organized a defense line with the sailboat to resist the sudden attack of the murlocs. These murlocs attacked fiercely, making them exhausted. Especially the lurkers among the blackfin murlocs - the murloc ambushers, always appeared behind them unexpectedly and gave people a fatal blow.
However, the Defias Brotherhood who were trapped in the battle soon welcomed reinforcements.
Marisa was the first to launch an attack. First, a fireball whistled and hit the big head of the blackfin murloc, and the flames were scattered. Then an ice shackle rose from the ground and locked a blackfin murloc who was holding a long fork and wanted to kill humans.
What followed was a barrage of water arrows, which hit the blackfin murlocs one after another. The impact of the water arrows knocked the murlocs away.
The water arrow skill can be said to be the most basic skill common to the murloc magic profession. The first skill of most murloc prophets and murloc tidecallers is water arrows.
The Guji Gudong sisters can use water arrows, Cookie can also use water arrows, and even the two sons of Ishawak are good at water arrows. They fired water arrows one after another, knocking away all the blackfin murlocs who were in the front.
Facing the newly appeared enemies, some blackfin murlocs changed the direction of attack and rushed towards Yang Yi and his team.
Yang Yi jumped off the sea turtle, and with a sonic spear and a shock wave, he easily solved all the problems.
The remaining blackfin murlocs saw Yang Yi, the murloc, showing his power, and all fled in all directions with a scream.
Bullying the weak and fearing the strong, running away when you can't beat them, this is the basic tactic of murlocs.
The threat of the blackfin murlocs was lifted. The Defias Brotherhood on the island found that Marisa and Cookie were among the people who came, and they all cheered and welcomed them.
"Garn, how come you are here and attacked by murlocs?" Marisa asked.
"Our fleet escorted Chief Van Cleef to Okaz Island. After the chief landed on the island, our fleet was attacked by a group of multi-headed snakes. In the end, only our ship escaped, but the hull was severely damaged and eventually ran aground on this island. The food on the ship was exhausted in the past few days, and we went to look for food nearby, which attracted these murlocs."
The speaker was a middle-aged male human with a Mediterranean haircut. His name was Garn Mathers, and he was the captain of the stranded sailboat.
"We are going to Okaz Island to rescue Chief Van Cleef. We can't stay on this island for long. Can you repair this sailboat?" Marisa asked.
"Repairing the ship is not a problem for us, but the problem is the lack of suitable materials. Our fleet was destroyed by the Hydra on the beach of Okaz Island before. I think there should be wreckage of sailboats on the coast there. I hope you can find some. With those wreckage as repair materials, although the sailboat cannot cross the Endless Sea, it is enough to cope with short-distance sailing."
Garn Mathers and other members of the Defias Brotherhood are very confident in their craftsmanship. Most of them are excellent craftsmen, including several goblin craftsmen. Carpentry is not a problem for them at all.
Okaz Island is still some distance away from this small island. The Defias Brotherhood members cannot swim over. They can only rely on Yang Yi and others who have water mounts to help find materials for repairing the ship.
Yang Yi and his team returned to Okaz Island again. The task of finding the wreckage of the sailboat and transporting the repair materials was given to Cookie and Guji Gudong sisters. Yang Yi and Marisa found a remote place and boarded Okaz Island.
Marisa is a dual-class mage and stealth player. She and Yang Yi both have stealth skills, so Yang Yi decided that the two of them would use stealth skills to sneak into Okaz Island to find Van Cleef.
Yang Yi and Marisa boarded Okaz Island. They thought no one had noticed their actions, but someone was watching them from a distance.
On the top of an abandoned lighthouse outside the dock of Theramore Port, Meng Fan, the president of the Rumeng Guild, slowly put down the engineering telescope on her eyes. She kept watching Yang Yi and Marisa riding a big turtle to the direction of Okaz Island through the telescope until the two finally disappeared in the observation lens of the telescope, and then she stopped.
Meng Fan was not the only one on the top of the lighthouse, but also a heroic woman stood behind her. The woman looked about 27 or 28 years old, with delicate features and heroic spirit. She was Meng Fan's personal bodyguard and fighting teacher.
"Sister Yanan, they went to Okaz Island. Could this be related to the missing envoy?" Meng Fan asked.
"Xiao Fan, all the clues we have been investigating have been cut off before. These Defias thieves have a great relationship with the disappearance of the envoy this time. We should continue to investigate on Okaz Island, and perhaps we can find new clues."
Meng Fan nodded in agreement.
The Rumeng Guild wanted to capture Theramore, so the Dustwallow Marsh where Theramore was located became the main activity place for the guild members.
Several members of the Rumeng Guild passed by the Shady Inn in Dustwallow Marsh more than two months ago and found that the inn was burned down by fire. So they began to investigate the burning of the Shady Inn. At first, they thought it was just an isolated incident.
The members of the Rumeng Guild started their investigation from a black shield and suspicious hoof prints left at the scene, and found that the burning of the Shade Inn unexpectedly involved multiple forces. Until the last clue actually pointed to some officers of Theramore who were secretly involved, the members of the Rumeng Guild quickly passed the news to the top leaders of the guild.
Meng Fan and the Rumeng Guild have always wanted to build a good relationship with the humans of Theramore. This time, the members accidentally discovered that there was a suspected rebellion of officers of Theramore, and Meng Fan immediately took over the investigation personally.
This investigation, Meng Fan found that there was a huge secret hidden behind the whole incident. Behind the burning of the Shade Inn was a mysterious Alliance envoy who disappeared in the accident of this inn.
Meng Fan investigated all the way and found that the disappearance of this mysterious envoy was very complicated. The forces known to be involved included the Grimtotem Tauren, the Forsaken Undead, the Stonemaul Ogre, the Defias Brotherhood, and the human officers who betrayed Theramore.
In order to find out the truth about the missing envoy, Meng Fan even took a boat to the Port of Menethil in the Eastern Kingdom. Meng Fan found the informant who beat up the officer who betrayed Theramore in the Port of Menethil, and after beating him violently, he got the follow-up clues.
Starting from this informant in the Port of Menethil, Meng Fan traced the identity of the Theramore officer involved in the incident. When Meng Fan and his team wanted to subdue the rebellious officer, Jaina, the leader of Theramore, appeared and stopped them.
Jaina said that she would try the rebellious officer, and Meng Fan and his team had no choice but to let Jaina take the man away.
Finally, Jaina praised Meng Fan's efforts and gave him a [Jaina's emblem ring], which can be worn to enter and exit Theramore Island freely.
On the lighthouse, Meng Fan recalled the whole process of the incident, which she had worked hard to investigate for more than two months. After the traitorous officer was taken away by Jaina, no new news came out, and all clues were completely cut off. After that, she and the people from the Rumeng Guild could not find any new progress no matter how they investigated.