The village chief, an old man in his fifties, held Captain Havic's hand tightly when he saw him, and his eyes were filled with tears.

"Why did you say you guys came here?" the village chief spoke with an accent peculiar to the north of the continent, and Alan didn't react to what he was talking about at all.

"Uncle, don't get excited, after we received the task, we rushed all the way from the south of the empire. You see, in order to successfully complete this mission, we specially hired a magician to come to help. ”

Alan was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at Captain Harditch with admiration, thinking that no matter what his ability to be the captain is, at least he has to have a good mouth.

The village chief blinked with teary eyes, looked in the direction the captain was pointing, and sure enough, he saw a magician wearing a magician's hat and holding a wand looking straight at him.

The village chief wiped his tears, and a relieved smile finally appeared on his old face.

"Great! If you don't come again, we'll have to leave the land where we've lived for decades. ”

"Don't worry, sir. Since we are here, no matter what difficulties are left to us. Captain Hackic continued to comfort the village chief.

That night, the group was arranged by the old village chief to live in his own house, and the village chief's family moved to the neighbor's house, and dinner was also eaten at the village chief's house, and there were several hunters at the same table, all of whom had dealt with the wind wolf. At the dinner table, the village chief and a few hunters gave a detailed introduction to the mercenary team about the wind wolf, and the team members also asked some questions, basically grasping the first-hand information.

Before going to bed at night, Captain Hardic called Sterling and Durant to his side and made work arrangements for tomorrow morning.

"You two will go up the mountain tomorrow morning and scout the traces of the wind wolf first. Judging from the situation we have today, the back mountain is the intersection of the three mountain ranges, so we must first determine which mountain the wind wolf may be hiding on, and then act, if there are traces of the wind wolf in the process, no matter how many they are, do not fight with them, just retreat. Curry and James and I went to the scene of the attack on the cattle and sheepfold to see if we would find anything. ”

"Captain, where am I?" Alan found that the task was assigned, but he didn't mention himself.

"You follow us!"

"Alright, let's rest!"

After breakfast the next day, Captain Havech asked Stirling and the others to pay attention to safety, and Sterling agreed, and then left with James, and under the leadership of a hunter, they went to the back mountain to reconnoiter the whereabouts of the wind wolf according to the arrangement of last night, and then the rest of the people went to the sheepfold and cattle pen in the village under the guidance of the village chief.

At this time, the sheep pen and cattle pen were already empty, the adult cattle and sheep had been sold by the villagers, and some of the remaining cubs were also kept in the house, and they did not dare to put them outside.

Captain Harditch led Curry and James around the first sheepfold, turned around twice, carefully observed the wall of the sheepfold, and the traces of the wind wolf entering and exiting on it, and then squatted down to carefully observe the footprints left by the wind wolf, and sometimes communicated with the owner of the sheepfold, especially some scenes on the night of the attack.

In this way, several people used more than three hours to walk through all the cattle and sheep pens that were attacked in the village, Alan has been following a few mercenaries, curiously observing the actions of several mercenary brothers, as the investigation deepened, Alan found that Captain Hardich's face became more and more gloomy, and in the end it was so gloomy that it could almost rain.

"Captain, judging from the results of this morning's investigation, the situation is not very optimistic, inferred from the footprints found at the scene, there are at least 6 or more adult wind wolves, and according to the villagers said that the time of the attack is very regular, it shows that the actions of the wind wolves are organized, and we are afraid that this time we encountered a pack of wind wolves. Curry reported the morning's findings to Havech.

"Well, let's go back to the village chief's house first, and wait for Sterling to come back and hear the results of their investigation. ”

As soon as Allen arrived at the village chief's house on his front feet, Sterling and the others walked in on their back feet.

"Boss, we reconnoitred in the back mountain for a while, and found the footprints left by the wind wolf, and then we followed the footprints to a ridge in the northwest direction, and found a mountain peak about two miles away, when we lurked near the peak waist, we found that there was an adult wind wolf activity, if I guessed wrong, it should be a wind wolf sentry patrolling the periphery, and the mountain peak should be the wind wolf's nest, from the sentry's body I guess this is an organized wind wolf pack, by no means as simple as we guessed that there were only a few stragglers. ”

Captain Havech listened to Sterling's report and nodded, saying, "As with the results of our morning reconnaissance analysis, this task has exceeded the difficulty we expected. Curry, you go and call the village chief in, we need to talk to him. ”――

"Uncle, I'm afraid we won't be able to continue this mission, because he has exceeded the difficulty set before, and it is not a few wind wolves that have infested you, but an organized wind wolf pack, and if we want to destroy them, we will bring danger to ourselves. "Captain Havech got straight to the point and said his thoughts truthfully.

As a mercenary, it's not embarrassing to give up the task, the mercenary is supposed to do things with money, and how much money to do, not to mention that the current situation is not just a matter of commission, but a matter of risk, Harditch doesn't want to let the wives and children of these good brothers become orphans and widows.

"Captain Havech, I knew when I was with you this morning that things could be more difficult than we expected, so I found everyone today and scraped together some money, just ask you to help us this time in the face of my old man, we have no other hope but you, so please, please, we really don't want to leave our hometown. ”

The old village chief suddenly knelt down in front of several people, pleaded, and then stretched out his right hand, which was a little trembling, and when the palm of his hand was extended, several gold and silver coins stained with sweat were revealed.

Captain Havech and Allen, who rushed up, helped up the old village chief, who was already in tears.

"Captain, they're really pitiful, see if you can—" Alan looked at Havic with pleading eyes in his eyes.

Captain Havech didn't take the coin from the old man's hand, and he didn't pay attention to Allen's gaze, of course he knew what Allen really thought in his heart. He turned his head and looked at the brothers, as if to ask for their opinion.

"Boss, the difficulty of this mission is indeed beyond expectations, but according to the strength of our brothers and the tacit understanding of cooperation, as long as we are careful, we can still complete it. Sterling hesitated, then gave Alan one last look.