134. The biggest takeaway
It's a huge dirt pit.
There are some wattles on the top of the pit, this very special wood will only grow in some barren places, which is manifested as having strong toughness and thickness, but generally few people use this kind of wattle wood as a bow, the main reason is that it is not easy to polish, and the longbow made of this material can only be pulled away by people with great strength, and in the same case, the archers often choose to make fine iron, so the actual value is not high.
But now, these wattles are piled up into a house-like structure, and at the junction of each wattle wood there is a very unique kind of clay, which can ensure that even the strongest wind in the wilderness will not blow the wattle trees down. Outside the house made of wattle wood, there are more than a dozen earthy yellow wolf-like creatures lying on their stomachs, walking or standing, although they seem to be a little scattered, but if you look closely, you can find an amazing pattern: each wolf is about ten meters away from each other, and the distance from the house made of wattle wood is also ten meters away.
There is no doubt that this dirt pit is the sand wolf's lair!
The dozen or so sand wolves surrounding the wolf's den are the elite-level sand wolves directly under the command of the wolf king. These sand wolves are not suitable for use as mounts, and their value is naturally very low in the eyes of goblins or other races that can control sand wolves, but in fact, their combat effectiveness is not inferior at all, after all, the creatures that can be called elites are definitely stronger than other similar creatures in terms of health, attack power and other aspects.
In particular, these elite sand wolves are not individuals who have just reached adulthood, but have already reached adulthood and survived after a long bloody battle, and their combat effectiveness is naturally extremely high. However, their longevity is also an issue. I'm afraid it won't be long before this batch of elite sand wolves will be replaced.
A little further away from the wolf's den, a pack of sand wolves was galloping.
The number of these sand wolves is not much, probably less than a hundred, and the size is also smaller than these elite sand wolves near the wolf's den, and they are obviously some ordinary sand wolves. But if those elite sand wolves are the elite combat power of the entire wolf den, then these sand wolves are the cornerstone of the entire wolf den, because they are not only responsible for hunting, providing the captured food to those elite sand wolves and wolf kings and queens, and even responsible for protecting the wolf den from attack. This also includes fighting other wolves in the den if necessary.
And amazingly, the size of this wolf pack is not determined by the amount of food in the wolf pack's territory like the earth, but by the size of the wolf's den. Whenever the size of the sand wolf population expands to a certain extent, the wolf queen will stop giving birth. And at this time, the wolf king will not stay in the wolf's den, most of the time it will start to join the wolf pack to participate in the hunt. If another wolf's den is found in the hunting field. Then at this time, an act of war similar to an expedition will break out.
Of course, that doesn't mean sand wolves don't need to look for food. It's just that monsters and creatures are very different in nature, so even if food is scarce in a short period of time, they will not perish, but when food can no longer be found in the territory, the entire wolf pack begins to migrate. And with the process of migration. The size of the pack will begin to gradually decrease - it is not difficult to imagine that the old, weak, sick and disabled individuals will most likely become food for the other sand wolves in the pack, but the real danger for the wolf pack is after migrating to a new territory. The size of the community is likely to decrease dramatically.
Only in rare cases will there be greater expansion and expansion.
With the limited thinking of Warcraft, it is naturally impossible to figure out the reason for this, but for humans who have studied this aspect, or players, it is not a secret at all.
Of course, in the current world, Sean is the only one who can understand this secret.
It will take at least ten years before the secret of the expansion limit of the wolf's lair or other magical beast lairs is truly discovered. In other words, after the third expansion in the game is opened, when demons and demons become common creatures in this worldly continent, and when magic technology officially enters the field of vision of all races, the entire group development system and growth system of Warcraft will begin to be truly perfected.
So now, Sean is tantamount to mastering a unique technique!
The pit is about 10 meters deep from the surface.
And what is surprising is that this pit is not damp and cold, on the contrary, it has a warm and comfortable feeling, and it does not even look dirty at all, but very dry. Walking through this pit doesn't feel like an underground cave or anything else, but more like a heated underground research institute.
The area of the pit is large, at least much larger than the thornwood house on the surface that symbolizes the entrance.
According to Sean's speculation, at least the area will reach about 300 square meters.
Perhaps because this wolf den is directly under the jurisdiction of the goblins, there are several single rooms in the pit, the largest of which is the main nest of the wolf king and the wolf queen, and the slightly smaller one is inhabited by four other female sand wolves, which gives Sean a bit like the harem of an ancient Chinese emperor. In addition, there is one of the smallest of the other rooms, but it is the hottest, and there are even many upholstery and a whole row of recesses.
But now, there is no liquid in this row of recesses, and the whole space looks like it is clean and tidy.
This room is the nursery used by the goblins to care for the sand wolf cubs.
Because the wolf's lair is directly manipulated, most of the food in this wolf's den will be provided by the goblins, but of course these supplies are only for the wolf king, the wolf queen, and the female wolves and elite sand wolves. The average sand wolf is no longer as fortunate as this, and they have to be responsible for their own food sources, but at least in some ways, their burden is much lighter.
It's just that in the eyes of the goblins, the sand wolves are worthless creatures. When necessary, the goblins will even slaughter the common sand wolves to reduce the size of the entire wolf den, so that the wolf queen and the female wolves can continue to give birth to sand wolf cubs. But it's incomprehensible. When a sand wolf that can be trained as a mount is out of the den, it will be "dead" by default and will not take the share of the den size.
It's a bit like playing a limited game like Interstellar and Empire, if you don't build a living space, you can't continue to produce, but in fact, this living space has a limit, and once you reach the limit, then no matter how many living space buildings are built, you can't continue to produce.
And outsiders may not understand, but for Sean, who has skills ten years ahead of this era. But it's very clear how it works.
What really depends on whether the sand wolf group is strong or not is the wolf's den and the wolf king.
These two are a kind of relationship similar to that of association.
Resting in the wolf's den, the wolf king can get an increase effect similar to a buff, and the wolf's den also comes with an aura effect. This allows sand wolves that are within range of the wolf's den to have stronger combat power. This is also the reason why once the wolf king abandons the wolf's den, they will continue to lose their numbers in the process of migration. And the cause of the war in the wolf's den in the same area. It's simple, it's nothing more than the principle that one mountain can't accommodate two tigers.
And the wolf king with this effect of increasing his holdings, his soul will become very powerful, and he can even control the entire wolf pack remotely, and produce an effect similar to the wolf's den when fighting in a group, giving the entire wolf pack an increase in combat power. But there is a strong connection between this ability to control and the strengthening of the soul. Without the blessing effect of the wolf's den, the wolf king would not be able to produce such a powerful effect, but this increase naturally has a limit, once it exceeds this limit. Then the wolf king will not be able to control so many sand wolves, and it will even cause the entire group to become chaotic.
Of course, if the powerful wolf king is also able to feed back the wolf's den, the scale of the wolf's den will naturally gradually become stronger and larger. But this situation is a minority after all, and the vast majority of wolf kings are unlikely to have the effect of feeding back the wolf's den, which is also the reason why once they are relocated, few wolves can retain their original size, because with the decline of the wolf king's strength, the scale of the rebuilt wolf's den will naturally become smaller.
Therefore, this is also the reason why the size of the wolf's den is directly determined by the size of the wolf pack, and even the reason why the queen wolf and the female wolf give birth to cubs.
At this moment in the crypt, Sean is directing a group of goblins to continuously excavate and expand the scale of the entire wolf's den.
Things went even more smoothly than Sean expected.
The Great Red Fire Tribe is now completely in Carlos' possession - he will not make a fuss to get the other two Wallgrass Clans to accept his advice, and the four clans will unite to launch a "mutiny" against the chief and high priest, and easily annex the entire Great Red Fire Tribe. But what really surprised Sean about Carlos's shrewd goblin was Carlos's ruthlessness.
He directly slaughtered all the clans belonging to the lineage of the former chief and high priest of the Great Red Fire Tribe, leaving not even a single descendant, and this extremely cold-blooded method undoubtedly deeply shocked the other two Wallgrass tribes. Therefore, it was naturally a matter of no objection for Carlos to become the chief of the Great Red Fire Tribe, and the subsequent high priest appointed by Carlos was a female blood-eyed goblin from the Vinci clan, an alliance of his clan.
It is said that this female blood-eyed goblin is Carlos's fiancée.
But in Sean's eyes, the female goblin and Carlos really looked no different - except that the goblin had two more green balls of flesh on its chest, of course. From Sean's perspective as a normal human, he really couldn't believe that this female goblin was the most famous beauty in the entire Great Red Fire Tribe, and it was also the reason why Carlos had always wanted to become the chief of the Great Red Fire Tribe.
Just because the goblin said, "I will only marry the next chief." ”
And in this battle, it was not André, Krummah, Cruz or Carlos who commanded the best, but the rupee.
This apprentice, who had just embarked on the path of an assassin before his departure, single-handedly eliminated the priests of the Great Red Fire Tribe in this assassination attempt against the old factions of the Great Red Fire Tribe. The sharp cut was on the carotid artery of the priest of the Great Red Fire Tribe, and according to Im, this knife was not only stable, but also fully embodied the essence of the words "fast", "ruthless", and "accurate", and it was impossible to tell that it was the hand of a newcomer who had just learned the methods of assassins.
But what is really remarkable is that Ruby's infiltration is unusually smooth, without alerting any of the guards, not even the sleeping High Priest. According to the evaluation of Yimu's mentor, Ruby's assassination is not luck, but a manifestation of real strength - of course, in Sean's eyes, that is, Ruby has officially entered the strength of the upper bronze: advanced to the profession of assassin.
However, considering that Ruby's upper bronze, with the blessing of Tiny, he does have the strength of the lower silver, and then uses assassination to face the high priest of the Great Red Fire Tribe who has regressed to only the strength of the upper silver, which does still have a certain element of luck. If it was replaced by a young high priest, not to mention the upper rank gold, it would be the lower rank gold, if it was an assassin who did not have the peak strength of the upper rank silver, he would have been discovered long ago when he approached a certain range.
Therefore, Sean was noncommittal about Yimu's statement, and of course, on the surface, he naturally commended and praised Ruby.
And, Sean also got what he wanted most: Ruby already had a sense of belonging to his team.
This is the second biggest gain that Sean got after attacking the Great Red Fire Tribe.
As for the first one, there is no doubt that it is the wolf's den in front of you. (To be continued......)
PS: There is one more chapter.