World of Warcraft Murloc City Guide

After seeing off the Defias Brotherhood's sailboat, Yang Yi returned to the center of Ratchet Town.

There was a large low table on the platform in the center of the town, with three maps spread out on it.

These three maps are all Yang Yi’s gains some time ago.

The first two maps are the Kalimdor continent map and the Barrens map. Both maps were drawn by Baoyu who "had a powerful uncle".

These two maps look a bit rough, and Baoyu's painter, Yang Yi, cannot praise them.

The third map is a plan of the future Ratchet City drawn by Van Cleef.

The former leader of the Stonemason Association of Stormwind City was different. In Yang Yi's opinion, the level of detail of this picture was basically the same as that printed by a precision machine.

It can be seen from the planning map of Ratchet City that Van Cleef really put his heart into it when he stayed in Ratchet Town for more than a month to inspect.

According to Van Cleef, if the Ratchet fishmen can complete most of the construction on this plan, then Ratchet City in the future will never be much inferior to Stormwind City.

Regardless of the construction plan of Ratchet City on the drawings, the peripheral planning alone made Yang Yi feel that Van Cleef's idea was very bold and forward-looking.

Combining the actual situation of Ratchet Town, Van Cleef designed three satellite towns for the future Ratchet City on the planning map.

Three satellite towns are built on the Backwater Oasis in the west, Warrior Island in the southeast and Thorn Ridge in the north.

The towns in the Backwater Oasis guard Ratchet City's main access to the inland, the towns on Warrior Island guard Ratchet City's chokepoint to the sea, and the towns in Thorn Ridge guard the northern highlands of Ratchet City and overlook the Raging River.

Not only that, Van Cleef also designed transportation connections for the three towns.

On the planning map, the Backwater Oasis will have a subway leading to Ratchet City, the Thorn Ridge Highlands will have an elevator connected to Ratchet City, and Warrior Island will mainly rely on ship transportation.

According to Van Cleef's idea, Ratchet Town first occupied three strongholds and built murloc villages, and then the three murloc villages slowly developed along with Ratchet Town in the center, expanding outward little by little.

Yang Yi first put aside the future plans of Ratchet Town.

The reason why he looked at these three maps together was because he was considering something, an important thing related to the future direction of the Ratchet fish people.

To put it simply, Yang Yi decided to set a direction for the future of the Ratchet fish people.

Whether they want to embrace the tribe, join the alliance, or remain neutral, in short, the Ratchet fish people must have a clear direction.

After the conflict between the backwater oasis and the orcs, Yang Yi had this idea in his mind.

Should the murlocs of Ratchet Town befriend the orcs?

Yang Yi had never made up his mind, and had never told Lao Blind Eye and the others, so Lao Blind Eye and the others started fighting with the orcs when they disagreed.

Set a direction first. Whether it can succeed is another matter, but at least the entire fishmen in Ratchet Town can work hard in this direction.

For this, Yang Yi has really worked hard these days. He has read the maps on the table over and over again, and he can almost imprint the maps in his mind.

Yang Yi took out a piece of parchment and laid it flat on the low table. There was a large row of names listed vertically on it.

What is written on the top of the parchment is "Horde", "Alliance" and "Neutral". This is the general direction that Yang Yi needs to choose.

Also below are "Thunder Bluff", "Theramore", "Ratchet", "Sen'jin Village", "Undercity", "Stonemaul Ogre", "Grimtotem Tauren", "Kokar Centaur" , "Steel-maned Boar Man"...

Yang Yi listed all the races, forces and organizations in the world of Azeroth that he had encountered, heard, and thought about. The reason why he listed these names on the parchment was to use these forces as a reference.

Yang Yi's idea is very simple. Instead of relying on your own random thinking, it is better to refer to the path that others have taken.

If others fail to take this path, the Ratchet fish man should take a detour as soon as possible; if others succeed, the Ratchet fish man should quickly see if there is still a chance to follow in their footsteps.

The first is a simple elimination method:

"The steel-bristle boar man eats and drinks, and robs people on the road. If you mess around too badly, I'll kill him first."

"The Kokar centaur is an enemy of everyone, and in the end he has become a public enemy, so he will be crossed off."

"The Stonemaul Ogres, as one of the few ogre clans that still belong to the tribal camp, are doing pretty well. Then let's draw a circle and wait for it to be determined."

"The Horrible Totem Tauren has a bad reputation, but if he hugs the Thunder Bluff Tauren's thigh, he seems to be living well. Let's also draw a circle."

Yang Yi looked at the names one by one and circled the ones he couldn't decide immediately.

As a result, after one round, the entire parchment paper is basically full of circles.

"It's really hard to choose." Yang Yi was helpless.

"We still need to find a military advisor." Yang Yi thought for a while, "A big chin is suitable."

Although Big Chin lost his memory, he did not lose his IQ. As the king of Stormwind City, he should be very good at analysis in this area.

Big Chin did not return to the Eastern Kingdom with the Defias Brotherhood's sailboat. After all, the two parties had a holiday and it was not suitable to stay on a ship to avoid unnecessary accidents.

Yang Yi received news that a ship would sail from Durotar to Treasure Bay in the Eastern Kingdom in a while. He had discussed with Big Chin to let Big Chin take that ship to the Eastern Kingdom, so Big Chin would set off later.

In view of the previous "kidnapping of envoys" incident, it seemed that some high-level officials in Stormwind City had betrayed the king, so Big Chin felt that it was not appropriate to reveal his identity at this time.

He planned to hide his identity and return to Stormwind City first, and then make plans after finding out the situation.

Yang Yi ran to find Big Chin, and then told Big Chin his problem.

"You want me to help you analyze it?" Big Chin carefully read all the words on the parchment before asking.

Yang Yi nodded. Currently, the only one who can rely on Ratchet Town is Big Chin.

"Let me tell you my opinion. It's up to you to decide." Big Chin said.

Big Chin first put the parchment on the table. He pointed at the map of Kalimdor and analyzed: "The Barrens where Ratchet Town is located is in the middle of Kalimdor, and Kalimdor is currently Dominated by tribal forces."

“The tribe is mainly composed of the orcs from Orgrimmar, the tauren from Thunder Bluff, the Darkspear trolls from Sen’jin Village, and the Forsaken from the Undercity. Except for the Undercity in the Eastern Kingdom, the other three are all in Kalimdor. "

"Thunder Bluff is in Mulgore, which borders the Barrens to the west. Orgrimmar and Senjin Village are both in Durotar, which borders the Barrens to the east. In other words, the Barrens where Ratchet Town is located In fact, it is surrounded by the three main forces of the tribe. "

"Look at this map of the Barrens again." The big chin pointed at the map of the Barrens again, "Ratchet Town is located in Ratchet Bay. Leaving aside the wild boars, centaurs and other forces that are difficult to achieve, Ratchet Town In addition to the human forces in the south, the north, east, and west are also controlled by tribal forces. "

Yang Yi heard Big Chin's analysis and roughly understood what Big Chin wanted to express. He asked: "So, the current situation is that Ratchet Town is surrounded by tribal forces. Is it possible for the fishmen not to surrender to the tribe?"

"The Northern Castle in the south of Ratchet Town is surrounded by tribal forces just like the humans in Theramore. They have no time to take care of themselves." Big Chin said.

"Since humans are unreliable, is there any hope for Ratchet Town to take a neutral route?" Yang Yi asked again.

"Given Ratchet Town's location, if you want to be neutral, unless Ratchet Town is strong enough to not be afraid of the tribe's advance, or Ratchet Town has been so weak that its tribe has no interest in you at all, it will be extremely difficult."

The Ratchet fishman naturally does not have enough strength at the moment, but Yang Yi doesn't want to remain weak, so it is really difficult to be neutral.

"this……"

Yang Yi was speechless. After such analysis, the only option left was to seek refuge with the tribe.

Big Chin also saw his thoughts from Yang Yi's expression: "Speaking of it, due to the bad reputation of the fishmen and the past behavior style of the major forces in the alliance, it is basically certain that they will not accept the ratchet fishmen. "

"It is true that the tribe has accepted the Darkspear trolls and the Forsaken before. You must know that the reputations of trolls and undead are much more infamous than fishmen."

"But Ratchet Town just had a battle with the orcs of the tribe, and the tribe is now led by the orc chief." Big Chin said.

"Then..." Yang Yi was stunned, "So Ratchet Town has no choice but to learn from Centaur and become the enemy of the whole world?"

Big Chin waved his hand: "I'm just telling you my opinion. As for how Ratchet Town will proceed, it depends on you."

"You still have to rely on yourself."

Yang Yi kept mumbling the same sentence. He looked at the map a few more times and found that apart from confirming that Big Chin's analysis was correct, he couldn't see any other way.

In the end, he could only pick up the parchment on the table and re-mark it one by one with charcoal.

"If you don't join the tribe or the alliance, you will still be as weak as the Ratchet fishman in the beginning..."

Yang Yi crossed out each name according to this principle, and finally found that only a few names were left.

"The rest are all miserable races like wild boars, kobolds, lobster men, and jackals."

Yang Yi looked at the remaining names and smiled bitterly, but when he scanned the last name, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Folbolg."

As far as Yang Yi knows, some furbolg tribes have alliances with the night elves, and they once joined forces with the night elves to fight against the Burning Legion.

Furbolgs have not joined the Alliance camp, but other races in the Alliance camp will not take the initiative to make enemies of the furbolgs for the sake of the night elves.

In fact, races such as dryads and ancient trees are in a similar situation to the furbolgs. Although they have not joined the alliance, they maintain friendly relations with the alliance because they are allies with the night elves.

It can be seen that in the world of Azeroth, if weak races want to have a good living environment, hugging others is an effective strategy.

"The furbolgs are a semi-civilized and weak race just like the murlocs. If the ratchet murlocs want to follow the furbolgs' route, then the one who can form an alliance with them is..."

"Tauren of Thunder Bluff!"

Yang Yi immediately thought of the tauren. Most tauren advocate peace, and Bain Bloodhoof, the son of the Thunder Bluff tauren chief, has always had a good attitude towards the Ratchet fishmen.

"But we can work hard. Ratchet Town can use the Tauren Bain or the Backwater Tauren Village as a breakthrough to further build a good relationship with the Tauren. The Tauren's flag is still very useful. The last incident at the Backwater Oasis was also because of Baine arrived in time and the orcs finally decided to withdraw. "

Thinking of this, Yang Yi murmured: "If the furbolgs are replaced by murlocs, the night elves are replaced by tauren, and the alliance is replaced by the tribe..."

Big Chin's eyes lit up, but he didn't speak. He let Yang Yi make his own decision.

"It seems like a good idea for the Ratchets to become allies with the Minotaurs, but not join the Horde."

"Ok, deal!".