He often cursed inwardly: Damn it, four legs really did run fast, especially when they were running for their lives! The High Elves' Gryphon Rider Flying Forces and Sylvanas's Frostwolf Clan Regiment had been taking turns hunting them down! How the hell had those centaurs kept running for three days and nights without dropping dead?
At noon on the fourth day, a Gryphon Rider Bodyguard finally returned. He told Yu Lin Bloodhawk that the Frostwolf Clan Regiment had discovered an oasis while pursuing the centaurs. Reconnaissance revealed that it was actually the tribal settlement of the very centaurs they were chasing. Sylvanas had gathered her troops and launched a surprise attack on the settlement, killing many centaurs. The survivors had now hidden inside an enormous cave. Sylvanas wanted Yu Lin Bloodhawk to pick up the pace and join her, then storm the cave and wipe out the remaining centaurs in one decisive push.
An oasis and an enormous cave? Yu Lin Bloodhawk frowned slightly. The Barrens was a vast savanna with sparse vegetation. Though called a plain, it was really more like a semidesert wasteland. There were few mountains, and even fewer enormous caves. The only place with both an enormous cave and an oasis was probably the Wailing Caverns.
"Was the oasis very large?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked another question to be safe.
"Very large!" the Gryphon Rider Bodyguard confirmed.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk was a little startled. Had Sylvanas and her troops already reached Sweetwater Oasis near Cross Intersection and found the Wailing Caverns? That was hardly good news for the High Elves! Cross Intersection lay at the very center of the Barrens, which meant that after days and nights of pursuit, they had unknowingly penetrated deep into the heart of centaur territory.
Advancing so far without support was