A few days later, Count Pollock's army withdrew from the Norma Line and returned to Pollock City to garrison.

The panda was chasing down a dangerous monster in the forest outside the city with his apprentices, whose race is unknown, except that it attacked a passenger carriage, and the driver, passengers, and horses pulling the cart were all eaten to the ground.

Senior adventurers from the Adventurers' Guild surveyed the scene carefully, but were still unsure what it was. It must have been huge, probably larger than a buffalo in terms of the shape of its footprints - a monster of this size is already surprising for such a forest adjacent to a human settlement. But strangely, its weight was not heavy, the depth of its footprints was slightly shallow, and even if it ate three large living people and a horse, it did not gain much weight.

This is the key evidence why veteran adventurers judged that this was a monster and not a beast.

The means of quickly digesting food and converting it into energy in the body is unique to Warcraft, and no beast has such an ability to defy the sky.

Having determined this, the veteran adventurer led the party back to the city—he was almost seventy years old, and his eyesight and experience were fine, but it was too much for him to swing his sword and fight like he had done twenty years ago.

The "Novice on the Road" team took the task and searched in the forest for three days before they found the guy. It has a lion-like body, but has a goat's head and a poisonous snake's tail, and is the famous synthetic beast Chimera.

For this famous synthetic beast, the panda is not very eye-catching. The so-called not afraid of not knowing the goods, afraid of comparing goods, everyone is a synthetic beast, but the synthetic beasts made by the cold wind are better looking, and more obedient, as long as there is an order, there will be no hesitation to go to the soup and fire, and they will never attack the creatures outside the target indiscriminately - in order to prove how safe the synthetic beasts he made, the cold wind once ordered them to hunt in the grassland near the castle, telling them to only attack the goblins. A few days later, the synthesizers returned, and after magic determination, they only had goblin blood on their bodies, and neither rabbits nor wolves had killed a single one.

In contrast, the Chimera is not good. They have a fierce and rebellious personality, and they think about running away all day long, and if they are not careful, they will escape from the laboratory and do evil. And all Chimeras have varying degrees of schizophrenia, ranging from good and bad personalities to several personalities, which brings great trouble to the controller.

If the Chimera has any advantage, it is probably that it can fight. The combat power of this kind of thing is indeed extraordinary, a mature Chimera can probably fight against about five senior adventurers, compared to those wolf-shaped synthetic beasts of Cold Wind, they are much weaker.

However, if you choose between these two synthetic beasts, Panda feels that as long as it is not a neurotic, it will choose Cold Wind products.

In the face of this Chimera, the panda was cautiously on guard, watching the apprentices' battle with it. The battle lasted for a long time, from dawn to midday, and finally the Chimera was exhausted and lost in endurance.

Because the apprentices were almost out of strength, they dragged it out of the forest, and it was almost the panda who did it alone. They stopped a passing wagon and carried it back to Pollock, and by the time they got back to the city, it was almost dinner time.

The one-legged president of the Adventurers' Association deeply appreciated the achievements of the "Novice on the Road" team and praised them greatly. Seeing that they were tired and hungry, he invited them to have dinner here.

At dinner, the president said happily, "The army of Pollock City has returned in the morning, and we are much more at ease now. ”

The panda was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise, "Aren't they guarding the Norma Line?

"There are so many troops in the Norma Line, there are not many of us, and there are many of us. "Besides, the Thracian assassins are all in the city, who has the heart to fight on the Norma Line!"

The panda thought about it the same way, so he didn't say anything anymore, but he was still a little uneasy in his heart.

After dinner, when he returned to the hotel to rest, he told him about it on the chat channel.

There was a lot of discussion among the traversers, most of whom had the same opinion as the one-legged leader, and a few people felt that Count Pollock did not understand the overall situation, and only had no knowledge in his age, and he was really inadequate.

As they spoke, everyone quarreled - this kind of quarrel is the norm of the chat channel, and it is also one of the spices of everyone's daily life.

After the quarrel, Wang Tuhao contacted Panda privately.

"Perhaps I am unfounded, or perhaps my mind is dark," he said, "but, in the course of the discussion, I thought of the possibility that if Thrace sent Assassins to other cities, would the lords of those cities also withdraw their troops? ”

The panda's face changed drastically, although he also felt that Wang Tuhao was a little worried, but when he thought of this possibility, he couldn't help but worry.

"So...... What should we do?" he asked hurriedly.

Wang Tuhao's answer made him a little frustrated: "No way, for the lords, the security of their own territory is definitely more important than the security of the Federation." It's like in an economic crisis, when big capitalists try to move their assets instead of going to the country with generosity. Human nature is like this, and you can't expect people to choose to benefit themselves and others without external coercion. ”

"But...... Wouldn't they be out of luck if the Federation was finished?"

"A few core forces may be unlucky, but not those who are not core enough, such as Count Pollock. The Federation is finished, they are nothing more than surrendering and changing countries, and it makes no difference to them whether it is Molai or Thrace on the top of their heads, what kind of bad luck will it be?"

The panda's eyes widened: "This ...... How can this work!

How do you explain this kind of thing...... Let me take myself as an example, our family has invested in all major countries in the world, with tens of billions of dollars and billions and 800 million. A large part of these investments have been financially independent through funds, regardless of what happened to the father's group. I, along with a few of my legal and illegal siblings, are the sole beneficiaries and top managers of these funds. My father once told us that no matter what happened, we should not go back to China together, nor should we gather together...... You see, our family is just a merchant family, and there is a state above us that governs us. The country of the Molai Commercial Federation is not strong at all, and it has almost no binding force on the big nobles, so isn't it clear how they will choose?"

The panda sighed deeply, still unable to let go.

Early the next morning, he set out with his apprentices, leaving Pollock City and heading towards the Norma Line.