Chapter 82 Gnolls are also afraid of horror stories
"Squee, Spurlin has gone crazy!"
The ferocious gnolls gathered under a big tree. Their thick black fur almost blended into the night in the forest. Their ten pairs of green eyes were like eerie fires, shining with hunger in the darkness.
They haven't eaten meat for three days. All the birds and mice in the forest have long been eaten, and the entire Bone Collector gang has fallen into a food shortage. Goblins and goatheads can still rely on plant tubers, wild vegetables, and tree buds to satisfy their hunger.
But the gnolls' intestines and stomachs can only digest flesh and blood, so it would be better to kill them than to let them imitate the stupid sheep-headed monsters in chewing tree bark.
Fortunately, a few days ago, they snatched the carcass of a goat-headed monster. The ten jackals were afraid that they would miss a bite. They gnawed the 400-pound goat-headed monster until even the bones were left. Although no one ate it.
They are full, but as the blood descendants of the ancient behemoth King of Gluttony, jackals have the talent of gluttony, and they can persist without eating for several days.
The problem is that the hobgoblin Squee and the Spurling brothers have gone crazy. They don’t care about anything and insist on killing all the half-elf adventurers in the Dwarf Hill camp. Every time the Bone Collector attacks the Dwarf Hill, they clearly have an absolute advantage.
They can rush into the half-elf camp, but they always get defeated inexplicably.
Now, more than half of the clawed goblins have been lost. According to the usual caution of the Squee and Splin brothers, they should have given up attacking the low hill camp and moved as soon as possible. However, the eyes of the two hobgoblins became red, and they could not
I'm willing to let those half-elves go.
Not throwing dozens of goathead bodyguards into the battle may be the hobgoblin's only remaining sanity. This is also to guard against the gnolls in the gang.
The cunning and selfish gnolls always hide behind when attacking, so the hobgoblins cannot send goathead bodyguards to join the battle; the strong goatheads do not charge into the battle, and the claw goblins and bugbears cannot attack the half-elf's low hill camp.
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This is an endless cycle that has no solution, causing Squee and the Siblin brothers to become increasingly impatient with the gnolls. Especially when the claw goblins have reduced their numbers by more than half, the balance of power within the Bone Collector gang is on the verge of collapse, and the hobgoblins have already
The idea came up to deal with the ferocious jackals first.
The hyena brains of the gnolls cannot yet understand what is power and what is balance. They sense the malice from the hobgoblin brothers with their keen intuition.
If they were wild gnolls, they would not hesitate to launch a rebellion at this time. However, the gnoll thugs in the goblin kingdom are all selected from cubs by the goblin nobles and raised in captivity, just like domesticated livestock. Their ferocity is also through
The Mysteries of the Goblin Kingdom are completed.
The ferocious gnolls in the Bone Collector gang are not loyal to the hobgoblin leader. They can only be said to have the habit of obedience. The development of this habit is inseparable from the goblin secret ritual, but it is not the most critical reason.
Hobgoblins holding parties can make slaves feel happy and satisfied, and they can become addicted and unable to extricate themselves. However, hobgoblins cannot change their nature by enslaving animals, just like the unshakable principle of elemental bodies, they cannot let meat-eating animals eat grass, nor can they let the animals eat grass.
Grass-eating animals cannot be allowed to eat meat. Therefore, the prerequisite for hobgoblins to enslave gnolls is to first satisfy their survival needs, such as their instinctive desire for gluttony.
It's hard to imagine hungry gnolls feeling happy. When they are very hungry, the goblin arcana's effect on them is almost zero.
The behavior and habits of the Bone Collector Gnolls conform to a simple and effective relationship: they work for the hobgoblin master, and the master is responsible for filling their stomachs, and then they will discuss whether they are happy or not addicted.
Preying in the wild is not easy. When there is no prey, the Dire Gnolls sent representatives to ask the hobgoblin master for a goathead to satisfy their hunger. Clawed goblins can also do it.
However, Squee and the Siblin brothers decisively rejected the reasonable request of the gnolls. They claimed that if the gnolls wanted to eat meat, they would have to take over the low hill camp of the half-elf adventurers. There were many goblin corpses there, which could make the gnolls eat meat.
Eat till you vomit!
Obviously, the leader of the hobgoblins destroyed the breeding relationship with the ferocious gnolls, so they were sure that Squee and Spurlin were crazy!
The scar-faced jackal stuck out his scarlet tongue, licked the sharp canine teeth, and asked: "Have you told Squee, Spurin, that in addition to the sheep-headed monster and the clawed goblin, the two half-elf female captives can also be eaten?
.Their thin skin and tender meat are more delicious than the sheep-headed monster."
The gnoll responsible for negotiating with the hobgoblins turned around and said, "Scarface, those two half-elf captives are goods, you'd better not take advantage of them!"
"goods?"
"Well, they are goods sold to half-elves. There is a group of mysterious half-elves who pay a large price to buy young, strong, female half-elves who have not given birth to cubs from the Squie brothers. Squee said that these two half-elves
The female is worth thirty Claw Goblins, and we cannot eat the goods."
Scarface said in confusion: "Half-elves buy half-elves from the Bone Collector?"
Another jackal stuck out his tongue and smiled: "Scarface, you haven't joined the gang for a long time. We have traded with those half-elves many times. Squee, Spurin should have gone to find those guys before ten sunsets.
.But we were held back by this group of adventurers."
The scar-faced gnoll originally did not belong to this gang of bone collectors, but it is the strongest and the smartest, and other gnolls are afraid of it. Now the leader of the hobgoblin is insane, and the ferocious gnolls in the gang have other ideas.
Naturally, he moved closer to Scarface.
"My name is not Scarface." The fourth-level ferocious jackal stretched out his paws and touched the scars on his face. The criss-crossing scars made him look tough and cold, "My name is Wolofei." He put down his paws.
, said in a rough voice.
"Scarface has a name?!"
"Wolofei..."
The jackals were surprised and envious, chattering non-stop. Scarface was very proud, he didn't know why, he only knew that the name he gave himself made him superior to "wolf".
In fact, jackals don't appear out of thin air. Of course they should have their own names. Even if they don't have names, they can dig out their true names in their bloodline memories.
Wolofey is far from being able to dig out his true name from his bloodline memory, but being able to name himself is an important sign of awakening self-awareness and getting rid of slavery and dwarfing.
In a sense, a named Wolofer can become the leader of a certain group of gnolls, and then it is his turn to dwarf the members of the group by naming them.
As a leader, you must not only have strong strength, but also show your unique insights.
In front of the new owner, Wolofei always acts like a wolf with his tail between his legs. Since the new owner has gone crazy, he believes that he must stand up, otherwise they will all be led to death by the crazy hobgoblin.
"I'm not interested in half-elves buying half-elves!" Wolofor said viciously: "Squee, Siblin is crazy, and we are going to be doomed, just like the spirit that my previous master encountered. Dwarf Hill
There are spirits in the camp, I know, I’ve seen them!”
Spirits, all visible and invisible phenomena that are beyond the recognition of orcs and pose harm to them.
The orcs in the Goblin Kingdom are afraid of spirits, just like the Disa half-elves are afraid of ghosts. In fact, they are all superstitions, but they always arouse everyone's curiosity.
"Wolover, have you ever encountered a spirit?"
"Spirit, where are the monsters?"
"What does it look like?"
Wolover raised his paw and pointed at his face and said: "The scar on my face was left by her. My former master and his gang were also wiped out by her."
"It was two years ago. My former master took us to search for treasures in the mountains and forests upstream of the Shrimp River. At noon that day, several jackal brothers and I accidentally searched for two half-elf females who were out hunting."
"They are not the kind of soft-bodied half-elf females. I can smell the scent of dragon veins from them from a long distance away. The strange thing is that they have round ears that are different from the dragon-veined half-elves, but they are very powerful.
, is very fast, uses a very sharp long sword, and cuts the weapon and body of a jackal brother into two pieces with just one sword..."
The other gnolls shouted, "We have seen those two swords."
"You gave them to Squee, Master Sbreen."
"The master said those two swords are treasures and can be presented to the Dragon King."
"You also said that the sword was snatched from the hands of a half-elf adventure group..."
"Shut up! Listen to me!" Wolfe growled threateningly and said, "I deceived Squie and Spurin. What I tell you now is the truth!"
When the jackals saw that Wolofei was angry, they all lowered their heads and backed away to show their submission.
Satisfied with the obedient attitude of his kind, Wolofei continued: "They are also wearing tough leather armor. Our claws and weapons are ineffective against their leather armor. I thought at the time that they were the most terrifying semi-human beings I have ever seen.
The elves are more ferocious than the half-elves I have killed."
"But they were only two dragon-blooded half-elves, and we had eight gnolls... We killed two brothers, injured another one, and finally captured them all."
Wolofor was silent for a moment, and unconsciously raised the mane on his neck, chattering his teeth and said: "The skin of the two dragon-veined half-elves is as white and smooth as milk, but their meat is very strong and their bones are extremely hard.
, I have to use a lot of strength to bite them into pieces... When I ate them, they didn't whine, they never screamed..."
The jackals couldn't help but gasped, and one of the jackals shouted: "Sprites, they must be sprites!"
Wolofor shook his hyena head and said: "They are not spirits, they are servants of spirits... My former master got the news and asked us to track their scent and find the spirits' campsite."
"It was a cave, and there was a huge dragon-veined lizard lying next to the cave entrance. It was seriously injured, and half of its body was chewed off by something. But it didn't die, and wriggling granules sprouted from the wound."
"If the monitor lizard is well, we will definitely not dare to touch it. The former owner said that the severely injured dragon vein monitor lizard's whole body is the most valuable treasure. The former owner ordered us to kill the dragon vein monitor lizard and make it out of the dragon vein monitor lizard's skin
A lot of armor, we also want to eat the meat of the Dragon Vein Monitor..."
"When we were about to take action, the spirit hiding in the cave came out."
Wolofor gasped, his eyes were blank, and he said in horror: "With long black hair, black eyes, and pointed ears, she looks like a fresh and delicious half-elf girl, with a white stripe beside her.
A ferocious giant wolf... She has actually been possessed by the most ferocious spirit. I saw the spirit appear on her body with my own eyes... Just under her forehead, there was a black spider."
The night wind howled in the forest, and a group of ferocious gnolls closed their mouths, pricked their ears, and trembled their manes, listening to Wolofor tell its terrifying experience, a legend about a black spider and a half-elf girl.