Chapter 212 Black
Brack led the fighting murlocs to patrol outside and keep an eye on the movements of the centaurs.
The nights in the Barrens were cold, but the days were hot and dry. Whenever the wind blew from the grassland, the sand and gravel that rolled up would hit people's faces and make people feel unbearable pain.
As an amphibious race, murlocs are more dependent on water than humans. Murlocs are not suitable for staying in the inland environment of the Barrens for a long time.
Brak stood on a small earth slope. His blue-purple fish scales were covered with green spots, which looked colorful and funny.
However, Brak didn't care about the color on his body. He stood up with his spear and observed the situation in the distance like a mongoose on the lookout.
A string of animal skin bags hung on Brak's belt. In addition to some food, these animal skin bags were mostly used for water storage. In addition to these animal skin water bags, he also hung a linen bag for storage, a conch horn for blowing the horn, and seashells, corals and pearls for decoration on his waist.
Since fishmen have no habit of wearing clothes, Blake hung all the things he needed, used, decorated, and represented on his belt, which made him look like he was wearing a big flowery skirt.
There was a small patch of bushes growing under the small earth slope where Blake stood. Several fishmen hid in the shade of the bushes to avoid the scorching sun. The fishmen in the team took turns to go out to stand guard to avoid being exposed to the scorching sun. Like Blake, they all carried water bags to store water, and their fish scales were also painted with green patches.
The green color painted on the fishmen was not camouflage for concealment, but because they dug grass roots in the bushes, crushed them, and applied them on their bodies. In the dry land, grass roots are the organs of plants to store water, and this is also done to moisturize the fish scales.
The consequence of fishmen not being in contact with water for a long time is dry and cracked skin, severe pain, and even death. Therefore, the fishmen's body surface will secrete a layer of mucus to protect the body, and the sticky scales can keep the skin moist.
Under the strong wind and scorching sun of the Barren Land, the fish-scale skin of the murloc will quickly become dry even with mucus protection. In order to prevent the skin from losing water, the murloc must constantly sprinkle water on himself.
This time, Brak brought a large group of 100 fighting murlocs out. The Barren Land is too vast, and the 100 fighting murlocs are divided into ten teams for separate patrols. Each team is responsible for guarding an area, and each area has a simple beacon tower built with rubble, which is prepared by each team to transmit signals.
There is also such a simple rubble pile beacon tower on the top of the small earth slope where Brak is located. The shrub grass stems and grass roots piled in the rubble pile are prepared by the Holy Sword Knights. Brak accepted these things as Yang Yi requested, but he did not like these foreign humans.
In fact, Brak does not like other races except murlocs, especially those on land.
For example, at this time, Brak found that several foreign humans passed by not far away. After seeing the murlocs appear here, they stayed like curious babies and wanted to see what the murlocs were doing.
Brak clenched his spear and wanted to rush up to drive these people away, but before he set out, Yang Yi had specifically told him not to cause trouble. Thinking of Yang Yi's words, he resisted the urge.
The Murloc Lord is the Murloc that Brak admires the most. This can be seen from his attribute information. His attitude towards the Murloc Lord is "fanaticism".
Brak has been following the Murloc Lord from the beginning, watching the Murloc Lord lead the Murlocs to build a Murloc Village on a ruin. At the beginning, there were only a dozen Murlocs, starting from nothing to build a small Murloc Village. Gradually, there were more and more Murloc huts in the Murloc Village, and various buildings were built one by one. The small Murloc Village continued to develop and became the current Murloc Town. It even began to expand its power and built a Deadwater Murloc Village in the Deadwater Oasis.
What touched Brak the most was the word "Ratchet". Originally, this word had no connection with the Murlocs. This word only represented the Ratchet Bay and the Goblin Mall Ratchet City built in the bay. But now the word "Ratchet" represents the Ratchet Town and the Ratchet Fishmen of the fishmen. It is a symbol of all the fishmen who follow the fishman lord, including himself.
Just like the white clam shell and the crossed harpoon flag, although it is only the simplest pattern, it represents identity, belonging, and the direction of progress.
In the Ratchet Town, under the flag of the Ratchet Fishmen, the Ratchet Fishmen can finally stop starving. As long as they follow the arrangements of the fishman lord to do things, they can get enough food to fill their stomachs, have fishman huts to sleep at night, and even do many things that they couldn't do before, and think of many things that they didn't dare to think of before.
Just like Brak himself, he is a naturally strong fishman, which he knew when he was still a little fishman. So he survived the cruel competition in the sea and became a fishman beach walker after adulthood.
But as a fishman, he had to forage for food every day to fill his stomach, and there was not much extra time for combat training, so his level of fishman beach walker remained at the beginner level until the Ratchet Village was established.
Now, as long as Black works hard to train his combat skills every day, there will be special fishmen who will deliver delicious and sufficient food, and countless female fishmen will come to him on their own initiative. This makes Black feel that he is living in what humans often call paradise.
"Especially those strong female murlocs." Brack couldn't help but lick his dry fish lips with his scarlet tongue when he thought of those strong female murlocs.
Brack was one of the strongest murlocs in Ratchet Town, so he was naturally favored by female murlocs, but sometimes the female murlocs in Ratchet Town were too enthusiastic, and Brack felt that he couldn't resist.
"Recently, several naturally strong little murlocs appeared in the town's nursery pond. After seeing them, the lord said that they might be my offspring. The lord said that according to the time, the seeds I planted before should grow as big as those strong little murlocs."
Brack Zhiqiang never cared about his offspring. Every time he chased with female murlocs in the sea, he only wanted to have a moment of happiness. He never thought about what would happen to the murloc eggs fertilized by him in the future, because the murlocs have always lived like this.
However, Brack was a little different from other murlocs. Other murlocs had no relatives, but he at least had a brother.
Slark was Brack's brother, but in fact no one knew whether they were born by the same parents. Brak only knew that when he was still a murloc seedling, he and Slark had been dependent on each other, foraging together, defeating other murloc seedlings that competed for food together, driving away crabs and fish that preyed on them together, and growing up together to become adult murlocs.
Brak actually didn't care about the meaning of the word "brother". He didn't care whether he and Slark had the same parents. He only knew that as long as there were difficulties, he and Slark would work together to face them, and that was enough.
It's good to have brothers, Brak always thinks so, but what does it feel like to have children?
For this reason, Brak had gone to the nursery several times to see the little murlocs that the murloc lord said were born very strong. He didn't have the eye of the murloc lord, so he couldn't see the attribute information of the little murlocs, so he had no way of knowing whether the expertise of these little murlocs was very similar to his own.
But Brak could see with his eyes that these little murlocs did have his own shadow. These little murlocs were not only stronger than other little murlocs, but also taller than other little murlocs, which was very similar to Brak. Moreover, the scales of these little fishmen are mainly blue-purple, which is the same as Brak, but the scales of the little fishmen are not as pure as Brak, and there are many mixed colors in the scales.
The scales of the little fishmen have different colors, including red, yellow, cyan, white, etc. It seems that if their father is Brak, then their mother is not the same female fishman.
Brak thought about it and indeed even he himself forgot that he had played chase with several female fishmen in the sea, so he couldn't tell who the mother of these little fishmen was.
"It would be great if it could be confirmed. In that case, these little murlocs are my 'sons' and 'daughters'?" Brack scratched his head, as if the orcs and humans were the same. "But the children of orcs and humans need to be taken care of from a young age, which takes a lot of time. Wouldn't that mean I have less time to train?"
Brack remembered the father-daughter interaction between Van Cleef and his daughter Vanessa that he had seen before. The human Van Cleef treated his only child like a treasure and wanted to take him with him every day. If he gave birth to a lot of little murlocs, he would have to take care of them every day in the future.
Brack imagined that scene, with the little murlocs he gave birth to crowded together all over the ground, each of them opened their mouths and cried loudly, waiting for him to feed them, and he could only throw the harpoon aside and feed the little murlocs in a hurry.
"That won't work." Brack shook his head in fear, thinking that it would be better to be a normal murloc.
Brak ended his fantastic fantasy. He had never thought about this before. When he came to his senses, he found a column of black smoke rising from the distant horizon.
Brak watched the situation where the black smoke rose. That was the range of another fishman patrol team. The location where the black smoke rose was also the location of the temporary beacon tower over there.
This was the alarm of the appearance of the Centaur team!
"Everyone come out! Light the fire immediately!" Brak immediately ordered loudly to the fishman hiding in the bushes. .