After discovering Onyxia arriving with support personnel, Azoregus, who was hiding nearby to fish, immediately came over.
The two giant dragons landed on the ground one after another, and the nearby nerubians shivered in fear.
Some of the bug-men who could still react screamed and fled back to the burrow, while the other timid ones just stood there and didn't dare to move, their whole bodies shaking like a sieve.
While landing, Sarlayan took the time to observe the status of these insect-men.
Although the appearance of the nerubians is very ferocious, it can be seen from the panicked expressions and movements of these refugees that they are actually not aggressive.
Valeela has always served as a temporary diplomat in Sarlayan's team, and Sarlayan and others habitually let her be in charge of negotiations.
While Sharlayan and Azoregus were exchanging information, Valeera changed several languages to try to communicate with the trembling bugs.
To survive in the multi-racial world of Azeroth, it is not enough to speak only one native language. If you encounter foreign enemies, those who can't even say surrender will definitely be killed first.
The nerubians have taken root in Northrend for more than fifteen thousand years.
Although they have always lived underground and have little contact with the races on the surface, the upper elves are an exception.
When Old Shandalar was still there, upper elf scholars had studied the abnormal rhythms under the earth's surface, and therefore had some contact with the underground kingdom of Azjol-Nerub.
The Thalassian language of the high elves evolved from the language of the upper elves. When Valeela took a turn and returned to the Thalassian language, a relatively slender insect man finally plucked up the courage to lift one of the Hairy front legs.
"I... can understand Elvish language."
This bug-man's Thalassian...or rather the High-Elf language is rather poor, and the grammar is all reversed, but at least he can communicate. It doesn't matter if the grammar is weird, as long as he can understand the meaning.
After some difficult communication with this insect-man, Valeela finally figured out the reason why they fled here.
This female nerubian is named Vesina, and she is a commoner of the Kingdom of Azjol Nerub.
Her father was a scholar who had studied the history and culture of the ancient High Elves, and she learned a little of the High Elves language from her father.
As Sharlayan expected, Vesina and others fled to the surface to avoid the war in the underground world.
The nerubians who fled with Vesina came from different villages and towns, but their experiences were all very similar.
Including Vesina, the hometowns of all the refugees were destroyed by the undead natural disasters that madly attacked.
Their relatives and friends were even resurrected by psychics as undead monsters, who then turned around and dealt cruel blows to their former relatives and friends.
This scene broke down the psychological defenses of many nerubians.
Unfortunately, Vesina's father was also affected by the war and was killed by the undead to cover her escape.
When Vesina ran away from her hometown town in panic, she glanced back, just in time to see her dead father getting up from the ground stiffly.
At first, Vesina thought her father had survived by luck, but when she saw that her father, who made her extremely proud, her once wise eyes had long lost their sparkle, Vesina realized the reality with despair.
Her father, like countless neighborhood friends, was resurrected and turned into enemies by the terrifying Scourge.
Vesina is just an ordinary Nerub civilian, not as brave as the warriors fighting on the front lines.
Seeing her father turned into a zombie and resurrected with her own eyes, her mentality completely collapsed. She followed the refugees and fled everywhere. Not long ago, she dug a hole and came to the "safe" surface world.
However, the surface that I thought was safe was completely different from what my father told me.
As the daughter of a historian, Vesina learned a lot from what she saw and heard.
She had heard her father mention it a long time ago that there was a group of upper elf scholars living on the surface of Northrend who had friendly exchanges with the nerubians.
Under the guidance of Vesina, the refugees worked hard to dig holes underground, and finally broke out of the ground southeast of Ice Mist Village.
The nerubians were very happy when they saw the yak people mentioned by Vesina. They waved their front legs in a friendly way and tried to say hello to these rumored to be honest and friendly yak people.
But from the perspective of the yak people in Bingwu Village, this is not the case at all.
A group of ferocious-looking large insects suddenly sprang out of the ground, baring their teeth and claws and making threatening hissing sounds, obviously wanting to launch an attack.
Tragedy caused by the language barrier happened, and more than once. The Walrus people I met later were in a similar situation.
"Ah this..."
After learning the cause and effect, Sarlayan rubbed his brows speechlessly.
'It turns out there's something wrong with looking ferocious...'
Vesina's father's research records were not wrong, but the time was not right. There was indeed an upper elf town near the tunnel entrance dug by the refugees.
With the destruction of the old city of Shandalar, the upper elf towns across Northrend were successively destroyed due to a large-scale outbreak of magic addiction. The dragon clan cleaned up these poor people who had lost their minds afterwards.
The high elf town south of Ice Mist Village naturally could not escape the fate of destruction. The ruins of the town are called the Tomb of the Stars by the locals, and there are still a small number of crazy high elf ghosts wandering in the town.
The Nerub refugees who were pushed away like a ball were very frustrated. Just as they gathered to discuss whether to go back underground, Azoregus, who was ordered to check the situation, arrived just in time.
Some of the refugees were so frightened that they fled back to the caves and followed the tunnels back to the underground capital of Azjol-Nerub.
There were also many Nerub refugees who had been homeless for a long time and stayed at a loss. They unexpectedly discovered that this ferocious beast had no intention of attacking, but was just hovering in the sky and observing them with a strange look on its face.
When Onyxia, who had transformed into a black dragon prototype, also flew over, the more assertive nerubians headed by Vesina were already a little numb.
They were still afraid, but they decided to lie down and see the situation.
Anyway, it's just death, and it's death when you go back, and you might be pulled up to continue working overtime after death. Rather than that, it would be better to die at the hands of the dragon, which at least sounds more honorable.
"You...hey~"
Valeera couldn't laugh or cry after hearing Vesina's aggrieved description.
"Vesina, your father's research information is out of date. The upper elves in Shandalara City and Northrend perished thousands of years ago."
"ah?"
Vesina jumped on the spot in surprise: "No more? Then you..."
Valeela explained patiently: "We come from another continent across the sea. Although we are also descendants of the high-level elves, we have little blood relationship with the high-level elves of old Shandara."
Even during the Dark Night Empire when the Highborne were at the height of their power, the circle of Highborne was only that large. Highborne in various cities could always find distant relatives in other cities.
But Shandalar has been extinct for thousands of years. Even if Quel'Thalas still has related distant bloodline inheritance, after several generations of dilution, it has nothing to do with the upper elf of Shandalar.
However, now that Quel'Thalas has rebuilt the city of New Shandalara, Sharlayan plans to inherit the legacy of Old Shandalar as well.
For example...the network resources they left behind.
What? Has Shandara ever offended the blue dragon?
That was done by the high elves of Shandalar. What does it have to do with our high elves in Quel'Thalas?
[It’s an old double standard, only the useful ones are inherited, and the useless ones have three consecutive question marks, right? 】
[One thing to say, this is also human nature. Will you keep in mind the things your ancestors have done to offend other families? 】
[On the other hand, if your ancestors were related to a wealthy family, how could you resist visiting relatives? 】
[Grass, the world is real. 】
Sarlayan originally planned to close the relationship with the Nerub bug people and conduct an on-site investigation to see if these bug people were still secretly connected with Yogg-Saron.
Vesina took the initiative to find a relationship with the upper elf, which was exactly what she wanted.
Under Sarlayan's secret instruction using the soul link channel, Valeela quickly changed the topic and expressed her willingness to continue the connections left in the old Shandara City and resettle Vesina and other Nerub refugees.
But Quel'Thalas' good intentions did not come out of thin air. Sharlayan hoped that Vesina could serve as a middleman and introduce the high elves to the capital of Azjol-Nerub to meet with King Anub'arak and establish an official relationship between the two countries. of diplomatic relations.
"If Azjol-Nerub can show enough sincerity..."
Valeera said seductively: "Quel'Thalas can also help you solve the imminent undead invasion crisis."
