Chapter 2: The Hogg Redemption
At this time, the Fargodi Mine was very crowded with people, and it was obvious that the Fargodi Mine had not been abandoned during this time period. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 In fact, although the Fargodi Mine has been mined for many years, it is far from being abandoned, and it was only abandoned when the Dark Gate was opened due to the orc invasion of Stormwind, and it was occupied by kobolds as a lair. However, the dark door had not yet been opened, and the orcs were still in love with the draenei, so there was not a single kobold in the mine at this time, and to make matters worse, Hogg felt even more hungry because of running.
There are now two paths in front of Hogg, the first is to hunt, but there is not enough prey here, after all, this is the passage between Shining Gold Town and the Fargo Mine Cave, and there are often guards from Stormwind patrolling here, even if there are any small animals will be scared away by these tin-covered cans that clatter when walking, it seems that the first way is no fun. The second way is to go to the mine and steal some food, but if it is found - it doesn't seem to matter, right? It had already surveyed the area around the mine, the miners were weak humans, and the guards were two iron-clad Stormwind infantry standing at the entrance of the mine, and the smell of food came from a small cabin two hundred yards away from the main gate of the mine, and it was obvious that even if these guards found the gnolls, it would be difficult to stop the gnolls from escaping.
Hogg made up his mind, and snuck to the door of the cabin, and cautiously peeked to see that there was no one else in the cabin except a white and fat cook, who was concentrating on a pot of western wilderness stew. It was a good time to steal food, Hogg only had a large amount of bread baked on the table on the side of the shed, so he sneaked up to the fat chef, and with an elbow blow he put the fat chef who was still concentrating on cooking to the ground, and then he couldn't wait to come to the table and start feasting, the freshly baked bread was hot and hard, but for a jackal who was hungry to the limit, it was already a supreme delicacy.
After eating a half-full, the gnolls looked at the boiling cauldron on the stove and decided to eat some more stew and take a break, but this idea was shattered in the next second: a middle-aged miner suddenly appeared in front of the door, looking at the mess inside the wooden house, and the fat cook lying on the ground who did not know whether he was alive or dead, and the culprit of all this - a tall gnoll. So the frightened miner just shook for a moment, and let out a scream no less than that of a soprano, which also announced the end of Hogg's lunchtime, and Hogg, who was interrupted from lunch, was about to teach the screaming human a lesson, but the frightened miner had already run out of the cabin.
Hogg regretfully looked at the back of the miner who had run quite far, and entered the stealth again, anyway, it also achieved its original purpose, and naturally it could leave satisfied, and then while moving forward, he could find some rabbits or some prey to eat, but it was a pity that he didn't eat the pot of Western Wilderness stew, but he couldn't afford to risk being wanted by Stormwind City for a meal, anyway, Hogg himself felt that he had taken a big advantage. In this way, Hogg happily embarked on the journey to Red Ridge Mountain again.
However, the development of things was not expected by Hogg at all, the middle-aged miner called the guards of the cave, only to find that the wooden house was already empty, if it were not for the huge tooth marks left by Hogg and the footprints of the jackal, the guards would even think that the middle-aged miner had stolen the food himself, but now there is no explanation why such a large gnoll would have disappeared from the wooden house, and the fat chef who woke up also said that he was stunned without seeing any figures, As for the possibility that the gnolls will have the profession of stalker, no one would have thought of it, after all, no one will associate the five big and three thick races of the jackals with the stalker, not to mention that most of these miners and infantry don't even know that there is such a profession as a stalker, so this strange case has spread in Shining Gold Town, along with the rituals of orphans, the skull by the crystal lake, and the supernatural stories such as the face of the man who inexplicably appeared on the surface of the barrel on the second floor of the inn. It has become one of the new supernatural stories in Shining Gold Town.
Of course, if it was just like that, it would have nothing to do with Hogg, but a week later, things went again to everyone's expectations, and a little dwarf girl came to Shining Gold, she showed great interest in the supernatural event of the jackal's stealing, and invited the miner who had had a third type of contact with Hogg to a meal at the Lion King's Pride Inn, and went to the cabin next to the Fargordi mine to meet the fat chef, and even tasted the fat chef's own Western Wilderness stew, and then disappeared. However, no one can recall the appearance of this dwarf girl afterwards, and no one remembers what he said to this dwarf girl, and even the sudden disappearance of the giant gnoll was inexplicably forgotten by the residents of Shining Gold, and Hogg's stealing of food ended up with a legend about a ghost who would steal good food.
Of course, these things have nothing to do with Hogg for the time being, this gnoll has come to the junction of Alwyn Forest and Red Ridge Mountain after a long journey, which is divided by a slow-flowing river, the east of the river is the emerald green Elwin Forest, and the west is the brownish-red Red Ridge Mountain, looking at the rolling red mountains, so majestic, not to mention that it still represents their own freedom and new utopia, even the jackal can't suppress his excitement, it slowly opens its arms in the sun, Raise your head and close your eyes, as if embracing this hard-won freedom.
But before the excitement had calmed down a bit, it heard the laughter of someone or some other animal. It was startled, and quickly opened its eyes to follow the sound, but saw a young jackal standing on the opposite bank of the river, laughing out of breath, Hogg then went into the river and swam towards the little cub, it seemed that he thought Hogg was its people, and the little jackal was not afraid of life, so he stood on the bank of the river and watched Hogg approach, and saw Hogg looking at it, and while sticking out his tongue (jackals and dogs do the same by sticking out their tongues to dissipate heat), he said intermittently, "Big man, it looks like ...... It's stupid...... It's weird," he laughed again, and Hogg had climbed ashore and shook off his dripping hair, and walked up to the little gnoll, looking down at it.