Half an hour later, Ranger Christine ran out of the forest. As soon as he returned to the outside of the forest, he ran straight towards Lawrence and the others where they were resting. Then he reported to the team members who stayed there waiting for him, especially the leader of the team, the priest, who had just investigated.
arrival situation.
"I touched the edge of their tribe." After taking the water bag and taking a sip of water, ranger Christine said while drawing pictures on the sand with her fingers, "This is not easy, because there are several tribes on the road.
A patrol of three or four goblins."
"After bypassing the blockade of several patrols and walking a little further, I discovered a goblin tribe through the bushes. This tribe has fourteen or five goblin huts built with branches, leaves and vines.
.There is a simple fire made of stones in the middle of the shack, and a dozen goblins are active around the fire."
"What are the characteristics of the goblins you saw?" As the leader of this temporary team, the priest asked. "The key points are the age ratio of the goblins in that tribe, and the equipment of the goblins you found."
"I only saw adult goblins along the way." Kristen thought for a moment and said seriously. "The equipment of these goblins is also very confusing. For example, some goblins are wearing leather armor inlaid with metal plates, and there are also
There are daggers or spears made of metal that are the same size as those of goblins, but most goblins just wear whatever they can on their bodies, and their weapons are only some wood that has been sharpened at one end and roasted black in the fire.
stick."
"By the way, there's one more thing." After describing the goblins, Christine suddenly added. "Those goblin shacks vary in size, and the largest one is more than three times the size of the smallest one."
"Thank you for your hard work, Christine." After listening to Christine's words, the leading priest patted the ranger on the shoulder and said to everyone. "Now the situation is very clear. What we encountered is someone
Part of the collapsed goblin horde."
Lawrence nodded. As someone who has dealt with goblins a lot, he knew that leather armor and metal weapons were exclusive to goblins in large tribes. It was impossible for small goblins to have these things. At the same time, there were more than 100 normal goblins.
The goblin tribe is very chaotic and does not even have a leader. There are no hut patrols of different sizes representing different classes. All of this shows that there is a shaman or a high-level goblin warrior in charge of this tribe.
In addition, a normal goblin tribe has no elders except priests, but there will be many underage little goblins. Those disgusting little guys will not stay in the shack obediently, but will run around everywhere
.The ranger just now did not find any little goblins moving outside, which only proves that this tribe is not a naturally formed tribe.
While Lawrence was thinking, the priest of the Agricultural Church, who was the leader of the team, simply assigned the task. Soon, the ranger caught a fat wild boar from the surrounding woods.
After he returned with the tied wild boar, the priest stepped forward and poured the green liquid from a bottle on his body into the wild boar's mouth. When he closed the wild boar's mouth, the wild boar was completely motionless.
.
"This is a chronic and powerful anesthetic commonly used by our agricultural church. It is generally used to subdue some violent animals. Of course, the wild boar passed out because I poured too much medicine at once." The priest finished everything.
Later he explained, "We only have five people. It's not a good idea to go head-to-head with the goblin tribe of more than 100 people. So I want to use these powerful anesthetics to make a trap to weaken the goblin tribe as much as possible."
"Then why not use poison?" The retired warrior in the team asked while inspecting his huge iron-clad tower shield. "I have seen rogues using poison before when I was adventuring. Just put a little on the knife.
You can kill all kinds of monsters easily."
"Poison is indeed useful if you are dealing with a small number of enemies." The leading priest shook his head and said, "But we are facing a tribe of goblins. It is impossible for the goblins to eat our bait at the same time. Although the goblins
It has always been known for its low IQ, but if a companion is poisoned to death, other goblins will definitely not continue to eat our bait."
"As for the top-notch poison that can control the time of poisoning, it is too expensive, and I don't have that kind of thing." At this point, the priest shrugged. "Even if I had it, I wouldn't use it on the goblins."
During this period, the anesthetic spread throughout the body through the wild boar's internal circulation, causing the wild boar's heart to stop beating. After discovering that the wild boar was dead, the priest of the Agricultural Church immediately stopped explaining and asked everyone to prepare for action. "Okay, potion.
It has spread and we can start taking action."
Because there were many people in this operation and not all of them were good at activities in the forest, Lawrence and the others did not advance straight to the location of the goblin tribe. Instead, after entering the forest, they made a large circle and walked through the forest full of shrubs and other trees.
The direction of the hills is quite close to the location of the goblin tribe.
"I just discovered that the group of goblins was short of manpower, so they focused on the direction closer to the road. Now we will go around the other side where they have less patrols." The ranger in front just entered the forest.
He said to the others following him, "I hope you can completely obey my orders and follow my footsteps. If you don't pay attention in a place like this where you are not used to staying, you may disturb those things."
Lawrence nodded silently and seriously after listening to the ranger's words, then took out a metal test tube from his belt, unscrewed the lid and filled it with a test tube full of withered yellow powder. He sprinkled some on himself first,
Then he said to the others, "There is deodorizing powder in the test tube. Let's all sprinkle a little on ourselves."
"The stuff is pretty good." After taking the test tube and smelling it, the priest praised Lawrence and poured some powder out of the test tube and sprinkled it on himself. Then he turned to the others and said, "Everyone, please go.
Sprinkle a little on your body, not too much, just a handful is enough."
After making preparations, the five people walked deep into the forest together. More than 40 minutes later, after everyone quietly passed through a path patrolled by goblins, the ranger at the front raised his hand.
He motioned with his right hand for everyone to stop.
"This is enough." Ranger Christine stopped and pointed to an open space in front of her with many footprints. "If we go further, the group of goblins have set up a lot of traps. It will be difficult for us to escape without being alarmed."
Walk over without them.”
"Then let's find a place to hide nearby." The priest nodded, then turned to the former soldier carrying the wild boar and said, "Just put the wild boar here."
"No problem." The soldier followed the ranger's instructions and placed the wild boar in a place with traces of goblin activity. Then he pulled out a dagger from his belt and stabbed the wild boar several times deeply.
The smell of fast blood spread around the wild boar carcass.
"We should stay away now. The smell of blood will soon attract the goblins." The soldier said to everyone after retreating.
The five men immediately moved away from the dead wild boar and hid in the bushes behind a big rock. Along the way, Lawrence discovered that this soldier was also an expert. He had stabbed the wild boar so many times at close range without even a drop of blood on his body.
"Will goblins be fooled by this?" the retired soldier asked, looking at the wild boar on the ground. "A dead pig appeared out of thin air on the ground, with stab wounds on its body. I think this is suspicious."
"Don't worry, it's no problem." Lawrence explained in a low voice, "These greedy guys stuff their mouths like locusts. I've even seen hungry goblins eating dirt. So they shouldn't give up. A pig’s.”
"And except for shamans and some goblins with extraordinary powers, ordinary goblins have horribly low IQs, even lower than human children of five or six years old, so they will not doubt the origin of the meat. According to the internal hierarchy of the goblins, When this pig appears in front of the smarter guys among the goblins, it will be in the form of a cooked dish, so there is no need to worry that they will find something wrong."
"So that's it..." The former soldier shut his mouth before he finished his emotion and signaled everyone to hide. Soon, two goblins jumped out from behind a bush.