Chapter 12: Hogg the Strange Thief vs. Shore III

There have been some unrest in Shining Gold Town recently, first in the swamp to the east, I heard that there is a green-skinned orc army, they burn and loot all evil, but after all, it is still far away, so for the townspeople in Shining Gold Town, it just feels a nervous atmosphere in the air, but in the past few weeks, there are often news of pedestrians being attacked by wild beasts or other things outside Shining Gold Town. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

It was even rumored that this was due to the fact that the defensive line on the eastern side of the Dark Swamp had been infiltrated by small orc forces, so MI7 sent elite agents from Stormwind to investigate the matter.

Madias Shore is a member of this investigation team, this young man is the grandson of Pasonia Shore, the founder of MI7 and the current leader, and his colleagues in the team often jokingly call him Shore III, of course, Madias himself does not like this nickname, because no young man wants others to think that he can only make achievements in the shadow of his elders, but there is one person in the team who has never called Madias the nickname, He was Edwin Van Cleef, a good friend of Matthias.

At this time, Edwin was learning from the people who had escaped from the attack about the appearance of the attacker, but as the townspeople told, his expression gradually became more and more serious, according to what the townspeople said, the attacker who attacked the town of Shining Gold, in addition to being nearly twice as tall as an adult male, and acting like the wind, was infinitely powerful, was a particularly large gnoll? But when did the gnolls start to have the courage to attack towns? Although the gnolls did not enter the town of Shining Gold, it was completely different from the bandits that could only intercept the road before, and the size of the gnolls was simply too large, which was likely a new subspecies of gnolls that had never been recorded before.

So Edwin told his colleagues about his speculation, but his colleagues felt that he was just making a fuss, these MI7 agents didn't think that an oversized gnoll would be a big problem at all, after all, no matter how powerful the gnolls were, if there was only one, it would not be a climate at all, and the main purpose of Stormwind to send them to investigate was to confirm whether the attack was related to the orcs, and now it was known that it had nothing to do with the orcs, so the investigation team decided to stay in Shining Gold Town for a few more days, The next time the gnoll commits another crime, catch or kill him and bring him back to Stormwind to close the case.

The sheriff of Shining Gold Town, Old Hope, showed great enthusiasm for this matter, he had already led his vigilantes to fight the attacker before, but the attacker was very cunning, not only did he fail to catch the attacker, but he was also injured by the attacker, but fortunately, most of them were fine, except for a stick boy named Duhan (Hogg's old enemy), who was particularly unlucky and was completely torn apart by the attacker. So it is only reasonable that Old Hope attached great importance to catching the attacker who had killed his own men.

But Edwin heard something different from Hope's story, and he asked Hope, "Did you see the true face of this attacker when you acted, and was it indeed a gnoll?" ”

Old Hope shook his head and replied, "I haven't seen the beast with my own eyes, but the victims who have seen the attackers say it's a very large gnoll." ”

"However, even if this is a gnoll, you can't treat it as an ordinary gnoll, it's much more difficult to deal with than those simple-minded guys!" Old Hope earnestly admonished the agents from MI7.

However, the agents have long been experienced in many battles, so no one believes the advice of Old Hope, and most of them laugh at it, but because they still need the assistance of Old Hope's security team, it is not too obvious.

As soon as the MI7 agents had finished discussing the precautions for coordinated action with Old Hope, they heard a guard outside shouting "Someone has been attacked at the gate of the town again", so the agents and Old Hope ran towards the gate of the town, and as soon as they arrived at the gate of the town, the agents saw a particularly strong jackal snatching a bag of apples from the fruit merchant, grabbing the apples and stuffing them into his mouth as if he had never eaten apples in his previous life.

And as soon as he saw someone coming, the gnoll man obviously sped up his speed, well, it was to speed up the speed of eating apples, this reaction obviously made the agents feel a strong feeling of being slighted, the agents were just about to step forward, but saw old Hope stop in front of them, and said to the agents: "Beware of this cunning gnoll, he deliberately put on such a look to deceive you, our security team was deceived by this cunning villain before, please don't be careless!" When the agents heard Old Hope say this, they went into stealth and surrounded the daring gnoll.

The gnoll seemed to sense something, glanced at the shadows around him, and then unhurriedly put the bag in his hand on his shoulder, and then smeared oil on the soles of his feet, and slipped away quickly, and before the MI7 agents could close the circle, they saw the gnoll running out of the encirclement and hiding in the woods.

Watching the gnoll disappear into the forest, the agents revealed their figures, looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and they also found themselves teased by this cunning gnoll. Rather than the agents' wry smiles, Old Hope laughed happily and said to Matthias and Edwin, who were standing next to him and had not gone into the stealth, "Catch this pup's tail." ”

Looking at Matthias's puzzled gaze, Old Hope was just about to speak, but saw Edwin's thoughtful look, so Old Hope smiled slightly and motioned for Edwin to speak first, so Edwin said a little uncertainly: "I guess, these apples, Mr. Hope has done something in these apples, right?" But I don't know how you know that this attacker must be interested in these apples? ”

Matthias looked at his good friend and old Mr. Hope even more suspiciously, and when he saw his puzzled gaze, old Hope smiled and said to him, "Edwin is right, I did put some paralyzing poison in these apples, and not only apples, but also other goods that this jackal likes to eat." No matter how clever this gnoll is, it is only a beast, and it can never think of our schemes, let alone how determined we are to catch it! ”