Chapter 214: Run

The speed of the centaur charge was faster than the last time, but the fishman Brak also ran faster.

So a fishman led a hundred centaurs and ran quickly across the plain, rolling up a long yellow-brown dust that stretched for three or four kilometers and stopped only when it reached another large bush.

When Brak saw the leader of the centaur team, Stone Lance, he vaguely felt that the situation was not good. Although his fishman brain was not smart enough, but thinking of the fact that Stone Lance had fought with the thorny fishman many times before, Brak's fishman brain told him that Stone Lance might take the centaur team to the Dead Water Village in the Dead Water Oasis.

So when Brak hid in the bushes and found that Stone Lance and his men were heading east after gathering, he ran out immediately.

The east is the location of the Dead Water Village in the Dead Water Oasis, and Brak can't just watch Stone Lance take the centaur team there.

Brak knew that the fishmen in the Dead Water Village could stop the hundred centaurs, but he was absolutely not sure that he could keep all the hundred centaurs. If a centaur escapes back to the Sweetwater Oasis and tells the centaur chieftain about the real construction of the city wall of Deadwater Village, it will be a disaster.

So Bak didn't take time to rest and ran out immediately to lead the centaur away again.

After running three or four kilometers, he hid in the bushes again, panting heavily. Even though he has the expertise of running fast, he is a two-legged fishman after all. Facing the centaur who is born with four legs and is good at running, Bak can only maintain the advantage in speed for a short time. He does not have the upper hand in endurance when running long distances.

While panting heavily, Bak took a water bag from his waist. He opened the water bag and carefully poured the water on his head, and then used both hands to apply the water to the fish scales all over his body.

The fish scales of the fishman will not sweat. When the fishman exercises vigorously, the mucus on the surface of the body will evaporate and take away the heat from the body to cool the body. This means that the more intense the fishman's movements, the faster the mucus on the surface of the body evaporates, and the more water is needed to keep the fish scales moist.

"This is all the water left."

Brack tied the water bag with only half a bag of water left on his belt again. He must use this water sparingly.

...&...

Brack's only idea was to lead this team of centaurs in the opposite direction of the Dead Water Village.

However, the centaurs were not so stubborn. After chasing Brack several times, they found that this fishman ran faster than the centaurs, and every time they chased for a long distance, the fishman would hide in the bushes.

Shi Qiang found that this fishman behaved strangely and seemed to have other intentions. He didn't want to be led by a fishman like this, so he led the centaur team to the predetermined goal - the Dead Water Oasis.

The stone spear gave up. No matter how Brak slapped his butt, made faces, and threw stones to provoke, the centaur no longer paid attention to the fishman.

Brak looked at the centaur going west and knew that his plan to delay the centaur team had failed.

Brak could not think of any other way, so he could only run with the centaur team again.

So a strange scene appeared on the wasteland of the Barren Land. A fishman was running tirelessly with his spear raised high, and in front of the fishman was the rapidly moving Kokar centaur team.

A fishman actually chased a hundred centaurs around. People who saw this wonder from afar were so shocked that their eyes dropped to the ground.

Brak ran on the wasteland of the Barren Land with a pair of bare fishman feet. As a fishman, he always walked barefoot. This is not surprising. Brak has never even thought of wrapping his feet with a pair of shoes because it is too cumbersome.

However, at this moment, a strange idea first popped up in Brak's fishman's head - it would be nice if he could wear a pair of shoes that covered his feet. Because Brak felt the pain from his feet getting stronger and stronger. There were gravels of all sizes everywhere on the barren land. He ran too fast and for too long, and the flippers on the fishman's big feet had already been cut by the gravel.

While running, Brak looked back and found that there were faint red spots extending all the way back on the ground where his feet had stepped. That was the bloodstains left by his feet because of the injury.

Brak's heart became more anxious, he knew that the injury to his feet would affect his running speed.

Brak could bear the pain in his feet, if only he could catch up with and surpass the centaur team in front.

Brak knew that the lord must have seen the black smoke signal set off by the patrol team, and perhaps the Dead Water Village had already organized a defense line to defend against the centaur team. But the black smoke signal could convey too little information, and the lord must not know that there were only 100 centaurs coming this time.

Brak wanted to return to Deadwater Village before the Centaur team, so that he could report the actual situation of the Centaur team to the lord, so that the lord could find a way to get rid of the Centaur and prevent any Centaur from returning to Sweetwater Oasis to report the news.

The Thornfish had no cavalry and could not catch up with the Centaur. Brak could not figure out how to keep all the Centaur team of 100 people.

Brak believed in the lord. The lord was so wise and awesome that he would definitely be able to eliminate all the Centaur team.

But the premise of all this is that Brak must return to the Deadwater Village earlier than the Centaur team, so that he can inform the lord to deal with this team of Centaurs.

Brak took off the water bag on his waist. This was the last water bag he carried, and there was less than half a bag of water left in the bag.

Brak raised the water bag while running. He did not choose to pour the water in the water bag on the dried and cracked fish scales, but opened his big mouth and poured the water in the water bag into his mouth.

It is easy to waste water when pouring it on the body while running, so Brak drank all the water into his stomach. Then he threw the water bag away, and then took off all the things on his body and threw them away, leaving only the alchemy potion and the [Mud Fishman Spear] in his hand.

However, Brak found that the Centaur team in front of him was running faster and faster, and the distance between him and the Centaur team was getting farther and farther.

It has to be admitted that the four-legged centaurs are naturally better at running than the two-legged fishmen. Even though Brak has the expertise of "running fast", he still cannot outrun the centaurs in long-distance running.

Brak looked forward with some despair. The team of 100 centaurs gradually turned into a blurred black dot. He could only confirm their position through the dust raised by the centaurs.

"I can't catch up with the centaurs, let alone get back to Deadwater Village before the centaurs."

Brak thought so in his mind, but he didn't slow down. He didn't know how long he had been running, but he felt that the pain was getting more and more unbearable every time his feet stepped on the ground.

What made Brak even more unbearable was the tearing feeling from his fish-scale skin all over his body, as if there were thousands of sharp blades cutting his body, and every movement of his would cause his skin to have a longer wound. Running under the scorching sun for a long time completely dried the mucus on Brak's fish-scale skin, and the moisture on his body surface was completely lost. Now his skin looks like a dried dead fish. What's more terrible is that the torn wound has begun to ooze out bright red blood.

Shi Qiang led the Centaur team to stop under the shade of a big crooked tree. It was still half a day's journey to the dead water oasis here. Even if the Centaur is good at running, they can't keep running at high speed for a long time. The Centaur must save his physical strength before approaching the enemy, so that he can burst out the fastest charge or retreat when the battle begins.

After the Centaur team stopped, Shi Qiang asked the Centaur in charge of logistics to distribute food and water so that the team could use this time to eat and rest fully.

After the food and water were distributed, the Centaur under his command was about to start eating, and Shi Qiang also gnawed a piece of Kodo dried meat and ate it with water. This kind of Kodo meat jerky is very hard, and Shi Qiang doesn't like it. He didn't bite it hard and had to drink several sips of water to swallow the jerky.

After swallowing all the Kodo meat jerky in his hand, Shi Qiang found that the little tail had followed him. The annoying fishman had not given up and appeared in the distance.

"Let's move on. You take two centaur warriors and use bows and arrows to get rid of the fishman!"

Shi Qiang didn't want to pay attention to the fishman, but the fishman followed him again, which made Shi Qiang feel extremely disgusted, so he asked the centaurs around him to deal with the tail.

The centaur team rushed out of the shade of the trees and went east. Only three centaurs left the team and rushed towards the fishman in the distance to the west.

They were disturbed at the beginning of their meal and were sent out to perform tasks. The three centaurs were indignant and decided to vent their anger on the fishman and then come back early to join the team.

Shi Qiang led the team to run away again, but the three centaurs he sent out did not come back.

At first, Shi Qiang was not worried. The centaurs attacked a fishman with bows and arrows in the open field, which seemed to Shi Qiang a foolproof thing. But when Shi Qiang remembered that the fishman following the team ran very fast, his confidence began to waver, so he sent a team of ten centaurs to meet the three centaurs in front.

When the ten-man team of centaurs ran back to the vicinity of the big tree where they had rested, they only found that the fishman was running towards them, and the three centaurs who had gone out earlier were nowhere to be seen.

Where did the three companions go? Did they lose the fishman?

The murloc was not far ahead. The Centaur leader did not suspect anything and decisively ordered: "Shoot, don't let this murloc get close."

Brack killed the three centaurs. As a level 5 murloc beach walker, a high-level combat professional, it was not difficult to kill three low-level centaurs. He was only shot by two arrows while approaching the three centaurs. If it weren't for the long-distance running in front that almost exhausted his physical strength, and if it weren't for the dehydration and cracking of the fish scales that seriously affected his movements, Brack was confident that he could make the battle more clean and neat.

When the ten centaurs ran over, two bows and arrows were still stuck in Brack's shoulders and abdomen. He had to catch up with the centaur team, so he had no time to clean the arrows on his body.

Brack had no intention of stopping his running. He ran directly in the direction of the centaurs.

The centaurs began to bend their bows and arrows from a distance, ready to attack. As long as Brack entered the opponent's range, all the sharp arrows on the centaur longbows would be shot at him.

Black took out the last two bottles of alchemical potions from the [Linen Bag]. The red one was [Strong Healing Potion], which he drank first.

As soon as the alchemical potion was drunk, it flowed through his dry throat, and Brak immediately felt that he had recovered. This was not because the healing potion recovered so quickly, but because Brak's body was too dehydrated.

Brak's fish scale skin had long been dry and cracked, and the blood flowing from the fish scale wounds was moisturizing his skin.

The other green bottle was [Swiftness Potion], which allowed the user to increase his running speed by 50% within 15 seconds.

Brak did not hesitate at all. When he stepped into the attack range of the Centaur Longbow and saw the Centaur's hand loosen the tightly held bowstring, he immediately poured the [Swiftness Potion] into his mouth. He rushed towards the ten sharp arrows shot at him.

...&...

Stone Spear stopped running, and the four horse hooves kicked the weeds and gravel on the ground, showing his inner anxiety.

The centaurs following closely saw their leader Shi Qiang stop, and they also stopped one by one.

"Has any of the centaurs who went out come back?"

Shi Qiang couldn't help wondering, could they have all been killed by the fishman?

Shi Qiang didn't know why he had such an absurd premonition at this moment. Could it be because of the shadow left by the defeat at the hands of the fishman before?

"Everyone, go back with me!"

Shi Qiang didn't want to continue to suspect, and didn't want the shadow of the fishman to linger in his mind. He decided to take everyone back and kill the fishman.

When Shi Qiang and his friends returned to the crooked tree where they had rested, they immediately found the bodies of ten centaurs lying on the ground. Those were their companions.

The fishman who had been following them was still standing. At this time, this fishman was no longer the blue-purple color seen before. The fishman's whole body was as bright red as blood, as if he had just crawled out of the blood pool of the abyss demon.

Brak stood there, he couldn't count how many iron arrows were stuck in his body, at this time he could only rely on the harpoon in his hand to support his body to avoid falling.

The bright red on Brak's body was indeed stained with blood, part of which was the blood that flowed from his body, and more was left by the centaurs he killed.

Brak used his hands to smear the blood splashed on his body all over his body, and his fish-scale skin had long been dryer than his throat. When the blood was smeared on his body, Brak felt as if he had regained his strength again, but he couldn't even take a small step.

"Quick! Kill that fishman! Kill the fishman quickly!"

Shi Qiang suddenly shouted hysterically, he ordered all the centaurs to rush towards the fishman, but he stayed where he was.

Originally, Shi Qiang wanted to charge with his centaurs, more than 80 centaurs killed a lonely fishman, everyone knew that the centaurs were sure to win.

However, for some reason, this time, when Shiqiang saw the bloody fishman standing there, he was shocked to find that the spear in his hand was shaking constantly, and he couldn't control his hand holding the spear.

Brak didn't hide, he didn't even have the strength to pick up the spear, he just thought that at least he had delayed the centaur team for a while.

Brak suddenly remembered a scene he saw on a rainy night before. At that time, he didn't understand why only twenty orcs dared to shout slogans and rush into the wild boar's cave to save people. Now he seems to understand a little.

At that time, those orcs seemed to have been shouting "for the tribe", "strength and glory", so why am I standing here now facing the tide of centaurs?

Thinking of this, Brak suddenly felt a force rising from his body, and he miraculously raised the [Mud Fishman Spear] on the ground again, he straightened his fishman body and pointed the spear at the rushing centaur.

"For Ratchet!"

"For the Murloc Lord!"

"Ulla wala la la la la la!".