Chapter 251: Capture the Thief and the King

After escorting the Blackfin Clan Sage to the prison, Yang Yi immediately went to the barracks. This time he would personally select a team of fighting murlocs to go to Dustwallow Marsh.

Because he had to guard Ratchet Town, Deadwater Village and Warrior Island at the same time, Ratchet Town was currently short of troops, and Yang Yi could not take too many fighting murlocs at once.

This time Yang Yi's main purpose of going to Dustwallow Marsh was to find out the situation of the Blackfin Clan and to verify whether what the Blackfin Clan Sage said was true.

The Blackfin Clan Sage had been imprisoned in Ratchet Town for a long time, and the situation he knew might have changed.

In addition, Yang Yi did not intend to have a large-scale direct conflict with the Blackfin Clan this time, so he only planned to bring fifty fighting murlocs.

There were not many fighting murlocs brought on this trip, but it was necessary to ensure that each murloc had enough combat power, so Yang Yi came to select them personally this time.

Yang Yi walked around the barracks and finally selected fifty fighting murlocs to line up in five rows at the door of the barracks.

These fifty murlocs are all murloc tidewalkers, and each murloc carries a wave crab.

Among the murlocs, crabs are more popular with murloc tidewalkers than turtles.

When Yang Yi selected them, he used the Lord's Eye to see that these fifty murloc tidewalkers are proficient in throwing and have learned the skill of [Murloc Net Throwing].

Such personnel configuration is to maximize the power of the team's long-range attack.

After the team was selected, Yang Yi took the team to the armory.

Each murloc tidewalker received five level 2 ordinary quality [short spears].

[Short spears] are suitable for throwing and can also be used as melee weapons.

Five [short spears], plus a murloc net, will be the standard equipment for murloc tidewalkers in Ratchet Town in the future.

After equipping the murloc tidewalkers, Yang Yi did not set off with the team immediately, but found Brak and asked him to lead the team to train collective throwing.

Yang Yi was still waiting for one thing, waiting for Mojimus to learn the skill [Secret Record - Murloc Stun].

Mojimus really lived up to Yang Yi's expectations, and Yang Yi heard the system prompt half a day later.

"Ding!"

"A Murloc successfully learned the Murloc Stun skill through [Secret Record - Murloc Stun]. Complete the task of letting a Murloc learn the Murloc Stun skill within 20 days. Reward: One chance to draw a lottery."

Yang Yi immediately drew a lottery.

This time he was lucky, and Yang Yi got a new Murloc special building blueprint.

[Building blueprint: Murloc Water Forging Room (Town Level 1)]

[Murloc Special Building]

[Construction materials: Stone 2500, Wood 2000]

[Construction requirements: 1 Level 4 Builder]

[Building function: Water forge stone, bones, shells, metals, etc. to make tools and equipment. ]

[System special effect (unique): Increase the speed of water forging and increase the success rate of water forging. 】

[Requirement: Rapid Water Flow]

"The water forge used by the water forger is exactly what Ratchet Town needs now. It is too difficult for fishmen to learn forging and become blacksmiths, so the water forger has become the only hope for Ratchet Town to manufacture weapons and equipment."

"At present, the water forgers in Ratchet Town are mainly making hard-shell clam shields, but because the water forging speed is too slow, the output is far from meeting the demand. With this water forge, this problem can be solved well."

Yang Yi handed the construction drawings of the water forge to the old blind eye, and asked him to find a place with rapid water flow with the water forger Kagumoji to build a water forge.

After telling the old blind eye about the water forge, Yang Yi set off with the team.

This time, the old blind eye still stayed to guard Ratchet Town. Yang Yi brought two little followers, Benbol Ba and Mojimus, and also tied up the wise man of the Blackfin Clan.

In addition, Yang Yi also called the sisters Guji Gudong and asked them to bring the plesiosaur.

Brak led fifty murloc tiderunners and fifty lobsterman slaves on the two-masted sailing ship.

Ratchet I was sunk by the Darkspear trolls, and now this ship is called Ratchet II.

Ratchet II, like Ratchet I, was repaired and rebuilt from the wreck of the Theramore transport ship that was salvaged from the seabed.

Ratchet II set sail and set anchor, and its destination was Warrior Island outside Ratchet Bay.

After a period of construction, Warrior Island now has a murloc village built on the island, which looks like a level 2 village.

There are not many murlocs living on the island. Except for a hundred-man battalion of combat murlocs stationed here, the other murlocs are mainly construction murlocs.

There is a village level 3 pier built in the northwest of Warrior Island, facing the entrance of Ratchet Bay. This pier is the highest-level building on Warrior Island, mainly used to load and unload construction materials and food transported from Ratchet Town.

Yang Yi stepped onto the pier, and the murloc ambusher Swat had been waiting here for a long time.

"Swat, have you found out the strength and deployment of the Blackfin Clan?" Yang Yi asked as soon as he arrived.

"Mayor, Swat has already found out."

Swat took out a simple coastline map of Dustwallow Marsh, which Yang Yi drew based on the Dustwallow Marsh part of the map of Kalimdor.

"The Blackfin Clan's fighting murlocs are mainly distributed on five islands."

Swat pointed to the five islands in the Fear Bay of Dustwallow Marsh on the map. Each of these five islands was as big as Warrior Island.

"There are at least three hundred fighting murlocs on each island, but the number of murloc beachwalkers and murloc tidewalkers does not exceed 30. They are mainly beach patrolling murlocs."

"The island with the largest number of murlocs is this large island near the coast. The murloc ambushers of the Blackfin murlocs are mainly trained on this island. There are about two hundred murloc ambushers of the Blackfin clan."

The murlocs rarely engage in intrigues, so most murlocs are usually very vigilant against infiltration.

In addition, Swart himself was born in the Blackfin Clan, so he could easily blend in with the murlocs of the Blackfin Clan, which allowed him to easily find out the information about the Blackfin Clan in a short period of time.

"Swat, have you discovered the fish-man called Thieving Eye?" Yang Yi asked.

"The whereabouts of this fish-man called Thief Eye are secretive. Swart has not discovered this fish-man." Swart shook his head and pointed to one of the islands on the map. "This island is now the most heavily guarded. That Thief Eye has Maybe on this island."

Yang Yi took a look and found that the island Swart pointed to was the largest of the five islands.

"Very good, your information is very important." Yang Yi praised.

Swart roughly figured out the deployment of the Blackfin clan, but did not find the murloc named Thief Eye, which made Yang Yi a little worried.

Yang Yi had seen the attribute information of Thief Eye before. The female murloc was a level 5 murloc triggerman.

Except for Yang Yi, only Brak can fight against him here. In addition, this fish man is extremely cunning, so he is a huge threat.

"The wise man of the Blackfin Clan said that the murloc named Thief Eye is the leader of the Blackfin Clan. If Thief Eye can be found and killed first, with the generally low loyalty of the murlocs, the remaining murlocs of the Blackfin Clan will be in chaos. Once the situation is established, it will be easy to handle.”

Yang Yi wanted to capture the thief first, so he escorted the wise men of the Blackfin clan over this time.

The wise man of the Blackfin Clan is the second-in-command of the Blackfin Fishmen and the right-hand man of Thief Eye. He knows the whereabouts of Thief Eye very well.

Yang Yiran Brak first took fifty fish-man tidewalkers to rest on Warrior Island.

Then he rode on the turtle mount, and asked the sisters Guji Gudong to ride the plesiosaurs and take the wise men of the Blackfin clan, Ben Bolba and Mojimus, and together they went to the Dread Bay where the Blackfin clan was located.

Departing from Warrior Island, it takes about a day to reach the closest of the five islands in Dread Bay, riding on aquatic mounts like sea turtles and plesiosaurs.

Yang Yi asked the big turtle to stop on the far side of the island, and observed it with the eagle eye technique. He found that the island was densely covered with murloc huts, and it was obvious that there were many murlocs living on the island.

"Which island is the Thief Eye on?" Yang Yi asked the bound wise man of the Black Fin Clan.

"Our clan leader does not usually live in a fixed place. Her whereabouts are unpredictable, and she will change her residence on another island every once in a while." The wise man of the Blackfin clan replied.

"As a fish-man, your clan leader has quite a lot of tricks up his sleeve." Yang Yi said, "Even if she is no longer whereabouts, at least she has a fixed residence on every island. We just need to find these residences one by one. , it’s very possible to discover her whereabouts, right.”

The wise man of the Blackfin Clan did not answer. It seemed that he still had some loyalty to Thief Eye.

However, Ben Bol Ba quickly made the loyalty in the hearts of the wise men of the Blackfin Clan disappear. Under Ben Bol Ba's intimidation, he quickly pointed out the location of Thief Eye's residence on each island on the map. .

"You guys wait here, I'll go to the island first to check out the situation."

Yang Yi jumped off the turtle mount and swam to the island closest to Warrior Island alone.

Still some distance away from the island, Yang Yi discovered several blackfin murlocs foraging near the island.

To be cautious, Yang Yi activated his stealth skills, slowly bypassed the blackfin murlocs, and swam to the island little by little.

There are fishmen everywhere on the island. It can be seen that the Blackfin Clan is much more powerful than the ordinary small fishman village.

Many of the murlocs wore bracers, belts, and necklaces, most of which were made of shells, bones, teeth, and a bit of stone and metal.

There are also a few murlocs who use seaweed, hemp ropes or leather straps to hold sharp thorns, carapace and stones on their heads. These are mainly decorations for distinguished murlocs.

Judging from the decoration of the murlocs on the island, the life of the Blackfin clan is indeed much better than that of ordinary murlocs in small murloc villages, but the lives of most blackfin murlocs are still difficult.

Adult fishmen have to be busy to survive and go out to collect food unremittingly. Therefore, most of the people who stay on the island during the day are young fishmen and elderly fishmen.

Yang Yi found that the young fishmen and old fishmen who stayed on the island were also busy preparing food and making various daily necessities, and several old fishmen were preparing sacrifices for some kind of religious ceremony.

In the distance, several strong murlocs with crude weapons were monitoring a group of murlocs repairing the murloc hut. Those murlocs should be slaves of the Blackfin clan.

This is the daily life of a large fishman village, which is different from the life of the fishmen in Ratchet Town.

After Yang Yi landed on the island, he continued to maintain a sneaking state. He moved slowly towards the island's Thieving Eye's residence.

The Blackfin Clan is good at training murloc ambushers. In order to avoid accidentally encountering murloc ambushers who are also sneaking, Yang Yi also drank a bottle of [Detection of Secondary Invisibility Potion].

Yang Yi sneaked and observed all the way.

He found that most of the young and old blackfin murlocs on the island were in groups of three or five, and most of them were busy removing mud and weeds from piles of blue-green plants that looked like water plants.

Many murloc huts on the island were hung with such plants, and there were even open spaces specially designated for drying such plants.

Yang Yi took a look with the Lord's Eye and found that this green plant was called [Mud Grass].

"It seems that these mud grasses are the main food of the murlocs of the Blackfin Clan. I wonder how they taste."

Yang Yi was very curious about this plant called mud grass. He quietly approached a pile of mud grass, grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his linen bag.

Next, Yang Yi came all the way to a murloc hut with its back against a cliff.

This murloc hut is hidden, and the surroundings of the hut are decorated with all kinds of strange shells and water grass weavings. It is obvious that it belongs to a murloc with status.

This murloc hut is the residence of the thief eye on the island mentioned by the wise man of the Blackfin Clan.

Yang Yi looked around the fishman's hut, but didn't find Thief Eyes. It seemed that she was probably not on the island.

Yang Yi didn't find Thief Eyes on the island, so he could only retreat carefully from the island and swim back the same way.

"Boss, have you found the fishman named Thief Eyes?" Benbolba asked.

"No, Thief Eyes should not be on the island now." Yang Yi said.

Yang Yi took out a handful of mud grass from the linen bag, and asked the wise man of the Blackfin Clan: "Do you blackfin fishmen usually mainly eat this plant as the staple food?"

"This is mud grass, which is our most common food." The wise man of the Blackfin Clan nodded.

"Where does this mud grass grow? With the number of your blackfin fishmen, the amount of mud grass eaten every day is not a small number. Is it planted by you blackfin fishmen?" Yang Yi asked, he was very concerned about the issue of food.

"There are no murlocs in our Blackfin Clan who know how to plant, so mud grass grows naturally."

"Mud grass usually grows in wet depressions. You can sometimes find some on the beaches of the Gulf of Terror, but most of them live in the Dustwallow Marsh. We have a special team of murloc hunters who are responsible for entering the Dustwallow Marsh every day to collect mud grass." said the wise man of the Blackfin Clan.

The swamp is a dangerous place for humans, but murlocs can come and go freely.

"You mean that the plants that you blackfin murlocs use as staple food are all collected by you in the Dustwallow Marsh, not planted intentionally by you?" Yang Yi was surprised.

There are as many as 35,000 blackfin murlocs. As the mayor of Ratchet Town, Yang Yi knows very well that it is not an easy task to feed so many murlocs.

The amount of algae eaten by so many murlocs every day is absolutely amazing. I didn't expect that all of them were collected. .

"Yes, there are mud grass growing in many places in Dustwallow Marsh. In addition to sea turtles and plesiosaurs, only our murlocs feed on this mud grass, so it is easy to collect it in large quantities." The wise man of the Blackfin Clan explained.

Yang Yi's big murloc eyes lit up after hearing this. According to the wise man of the Blackfin Clan, this Dustwallow Marsh is a natural granary for the murlocs.

The Blackfin Clan living here has become so powerful, and it seems that a large part of the reason is this Dustwallow Marsh and the large amount of mud grass growing in the swamp.

Dustwallow Marsh is a low-lying swamp. Most of the area will be submerged by sea water when the tide rises. The entire swamp covers an area of ​​about one-third of the size of the Barren Land.

The overly humid air in the swamp, the wet swamp plants growing on the surface, the humus mud accumulated on the ground, and the terrifying number of various mosquitoes.

In such an environment, humans cannot survive for a long time, but it is a paradise for murlocs.

The extremely high humidity environment is just right to keep the fish scales of murlocs moist.

There are various wet plants growing in the swamp, many of which are food for the murlocs.

The webbed feet on the murlocs' big feet allow the murlocs to walk through the swamp mud that is big enough to trap humans.

Various mosquitoes are blocked by the fish scales on the surface of the murlocs. The murlocs have long adapted to this living environment of mosquito infestation and are not afraid at all.

"From the map, the Dustwallow Marsh is thirty or forty times larger than the Ratchet Bay."

"Only a small part of the dry highlands and coasts in the entire Dustwallow Marsh are inhabited. Most of the area is uninhabited, and there is only a small path that passes through the middle of the swamp and leads to the barren land."

"If Ratchet Town can occupy the uninhabited area of ​​​​Dustwallow Marsh and plant sludge grass and other edible plants for murlocs on it, then this place will become a big granary for Ratchet Town."

Thinking of this, Yang Yi became more eager to deal with the blackfin murlocs.

So next, Yang Yi quickly searched the remaining four large islands one by one.

As a result, until Yang Yi searched the island closest to Theramore, he did not find the thief's eye on any island.

"The Thief's Eye is not on these five islands. Where did she go? Are you lying to us?" Benbolba rushed to ask the Blackfin Clan's wise man.

"The clan leader's whereabouts are uncertain. He may be on other small islands or on the coast." The Blackfin Clan's wise man was timid and did not dare to answer loudly.

The Fear Bay is full of small islands and the coastline is long.

It would be very time-consuming to search all of them. Yang Yi could not spend time aimlessly looking for a fishman like this.

If the Thief's Eye cannot be found, and the leader cannot be captured first, then the only way is to find a way to lure the Blackfin fishmen out little by little and slowly deal with them.

Further south is the human Theramore, Yang Yi decided to return to Warrior Island.

At this time, several sailboats appeared on the sea in the south, and Mojimus, who had been on alert, discovered them at the first time.

"Boss, there are several ships coming towards us." Mojimus immediately reported to Yang Yi.

Yang Yi looked over and also found the silhouettes of ships in the distance. He used the Eagle Eye Technique to look over and found that the hulls of these ships were not large, all of them were sloops.

What is special is that a large harpoon launcher is installed on the side of the sailboat, which looks like it is used to hunt large marine creatures.

"Boss, should we swim over to take a look?" Benbolba was very curious, and he asked.

"No, those ships are probably out hunting, and have nothing to do with our trip." Yang Yi said.

These ships are indeed out hunting as Yang Yi expected.

Yang Yi observed through the Eagle Eye Technique, and soon found that the humans on the sailboat suddenly became nervous and busy, and the harpoon launcher quickly turned around and began to continuously launch harpoons into the sea water.

"They are hunting plesiosaurs."

Yang Yi saw a black plesiosaur that appeared and disappeared in the waves.

The plesiosaur was attracted by the piece of meat hanging on a sailboat. As soon as it surfaced, it was immediately shot by harpoons from three ships.

The plesiosaur was seriously injured and struggled. The blood gushing out of the wound instantly dyed the sea surface bright red.

This scene of luring and killing the plesiosaur made Yang Yi feel very familiar. The Rumeng Guild used to use food to lure the plesiosaur Ishawak to the surface of the sea to hunt the powerful aquatic beast.

"Could the people on the boat also be members of the Rumeng Guild?" Yang Yi guessed.

Yang Yi's guess was correct. The humans on these sailboats were indeed members of the Rumeng Guild.

The people of the Rumeng Guild sailed out to sea just to hunt the black plesiosaur.

It can be seen that these sailboats did not cooperate with each other, but were divided into two teams competing with each other.

Wu Tianyun sat at the stern of a ship, and the three ships behind it followed closely.

The wind was strong and the waves were high on the sea. Wu Tianyun had to lower his body to avoid the wind, and he shrunk his head into his neck.

"I don't know what's wrong with that damn female dwarf. She wants to relight the lighthouse." Wu Tianyun kept complaining while hiding at the stern.

The old lighthouse on the island east of Theramore has been broken for a long time. Because there are murlocs nearby, these lighthouses have not been repaired for a long time.

Recently, a female dwarf named Babu Fizzstock insisted on repairing the lighthouse.

Although it is unknown what the female dwarf is going to do, because the female dwarf claims that after the lighthouse is repaired, ships and cargo can be docked at the dock of Theramore more quickly, her proposal persuaded Sergeant Emmeline of Theramore.

The female dwarf Babu Fizzstock found an ancient log in the lighthouse and found that the log recorded that the fuel for the lighthouse oil lamp was the oil of the plesiosaur living on the nearby coast.

This is an outdated technology and can only be regarded as a local method, but it is still very practical.

So the dwarf Babu Fizzstock and Sergeant Emmeline began to think of ways to get some plesiosaur oil as fuel for lighting the lighthouse.

But these two people are only good at talking and not doing anything.

Now, the task of hunting the black plesiosaur fell on the hands of the Rumeng Guild, which was bent on brushing up the reputation of Theramore.

A few days ago, the Rumeng Guild organized several ships to go out to sea to hunt plesiosaurs, but they were attacked by fishmen and all the members were destroyed. This hunting of plesiosaurs is the second action of the Rumeng Guild.

"Young Master, Chu Yu has already caught a young black plesiosaur."

In front of Wu Tianyun, a middle-aged man was using his body to block the sea breeze for him. He saw that the four sailboats in front had successfully killed a plesiosaur through cooperation, and he made a suggestion.

"Let our ship speed up and drive to the front. We can't let Chu Yu, that bastard, get ahead." Wu Tianyun stuck his head out and said fiercely.

Wu Tianyun's four boats received instructions, and the people on the boats paddled with all their might, and soon caught up with the boat in front.

"Wu Tianyun, you are stupid! The sea is so big, why do you have to follow my boat?"

Chu Yu stood on the bow of the boat in the front, facing the wind, and saw the boat behind him following, and started to curse.

"Chu Yu, this sea is not yours, I just want to go in front of you, what can you do to me."

"You idiot!"

"You bastard!"

...

The two people cursed each other on the sea.

The middle-aged man who stood in front of Wu Tianyun to block the wind heard that the two people quarreled again, and he was also helpless. He knew that the two were enemies, and once they quarreled, there would be no end.

The middle-aged man inadvertently lowered his head, and suddenly let go of the shadows under the sea, which quickly surrounded the ships on the sea.

"Everyone be careful, the fish people are coming!" The middle-aged man shouted. .