84. Collusion and pollution
The adventurers who were almost killed by the ogre were just one of the many teams Zhang Li helped, and during this time he had been helping the people of the Twilight Forest, including the flat-headed people, the adventurer squad, the local garrison, and even some merchants from other places.
In just two weeks, the reputation of the Great Assassin of Defiya had spread through the Twilight Forest, and even some of Defia's higher-ups knew about it, and they had made cruel words to kill this hateful "traitor", but they couldn't even catch his shadow.
In many places, there is a phenomenon that a good person will be criticized for doing a bad deed, and a bad person will be praised for doing a good deed, and people are more willing to listen to the story of the prodigal son than those who are silently dedicated.
This may have something to do with the selfish nature of human beings, because good people are always good people, they will not harm your interests, and bad people are different, bad people will threaten your life, will peep into your wealth, you will always be afraid of facing bad people, so when a bad person becomes good, it means that you don't have to worry about losing anything in the face of him, which is equivalent to earning from a certain point of view, so people will be happy with this good change.
So, Zhang Li, the "Difia thief" who "changed his mind" It caused a lot of turmoil, and everywhere he could hear people talking about him, some people liked him, some people doubted him, but as he helped more and more people, his reputation would only get better and better, and now he could appear openly in some small villages and human settlements without attracting attacks, he could exchange some food supplies there, and little by little he sold the gems he earned from the Ethereal Spirits in exchange for a large bag of gold coins, although he knew that he would get more if he traded in a more prosperous area, but those gems were too heavy and inconvenient to hold, plus he always had some loot for killing, that was more occupied, so just sell it out.
"Hey, have you heard?" Old John's house came a few days ago with some night watchmen, and one of them was caught in the trap of the beast, and if it hadn't been delivered in time, he might not have been able to save his leg. ”
"Ahaha, Old John is the best herbalist I've ever met, and it's good that he's willing to stay all these years. ”
Two peasant women with big shoulders and round waists were talking there, and they didn't notice that just around the corner of them, a man in black was drinking some kind of drink and listening to them gossip about these things.
"Yes, yes, but do you know why those night watchmen are hanging out in the forest?"
"Why?"
"According to old John, it was because they were going to cut down trees in the forest, as if they were going to build some kind of trap, and it is said that Miss Althea decided to get rid of the ogres in Mount Vaugur once and for all, if only they could succeed, and we wouldn't have to be so scared all day......"
Balabala, the two of them talked a lot, and then began to be all kinds of meaningless parents, the man in black who was hiding in the corner and eavesdropping, smiled, and then instantly turned into a puddle of black water and disappeared here.
It was still this village, a house in a remote corner, that was old John's house, and it was the dead of night for most of the night, and a somewhat hunchbacked fellow suddenly sneaked out of the house, and he looked around like a thief, and then crept to the wall and shoved something out of a gap in the wall.
After doing all this, he quickly turned around and ran back to his room, and just as he got inside and closed the door, about to take a breath, a sudden sound almost scared his heart attack.
"It's so late, where has our Great Pharmacist gone?"
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"Captain Jordan, the trap has been set, and now it's time to lure the ogre here. "This is a woodland, in front of Jordan and the others is a seemingly ordinary meadow, but it is not ordinary, this place has actually been dug by the industrious night watch soldiers for two days and two nights, and finally dug a huge pit, and a large number of wooden spikes are buried in the pit, as long as something steps on it, and then they pull the rope that holds the trap, the live buckle will be released instantly, and the whole trap will be activated, if nothing else, all the creatures that step on the trap will fall, and then they will die.
The night watchman chief named Jordan nodded, and said with a satisfied smile: "Then let the warriors rest for a day, by the way, check the traps more so that there are no accidents, tomorrow we will go to attract those ogres, they will be excited to pounce on us when they see us, if we can successfully solve the problem of ogres, we will be the heroes of Nightlight Town." The soldier stepped back excitedly, and Jordan looked at his back, his smile fading.
He still didn't say a word, if the ogres were not fooled, they would become food for the ogre's mouth, and if they couldn't attract more than half of the ogres in Mount Vogour, Miss Althea, who was ready to lead the army to attack Mount Vogour, would be in a very difficult situation.
In short, it can only be left to fate.
The next day, the night passed uneventfully, the warriors slept well, no one could sleep because of nervousness, perhaps they were too tired from digging traps, and they fell asleep on their heads, which was good, which meant that they would be energetic today.
"Brothers, there's a good chance we're going to die here today!!" Hundreds of warriors of the Night's Watch are gearing up as Jordan makes its final mobilization.
"Don't be afraid!" the voices of the fighters were deafening and very loud.
"Very well! Whether we succeed today or not, the people of Nightshade will remember us! General Althea will remember us! We will be remembered forever as heroes of the entire Stormwind Kingdom, but!" Jordan yelled, "but I don't want to be written in stone, at least not now! I want to be a living hero! To be praised by the people! And this requires us to succeed, do you have confidence!?"
"Yes!"
"Then go! to meet our glory!"
They were still some distance from Vogul, so Jordan thought they could shout, and he thought no ogre would hear him, but on a hill not far from them, several two-headed ogres and a group of humans, all wearing red masks, were standing peeping.
"That's exactly what you said! these stupid humans want to ambush us!" the two-headed ogre's left head spoke angrily.
"Yes, but their stupid counterparts have already betrayed their plans. The head on the right said, and the Difia humans next to it all had black lines in their heads.
"Ahem!" one of them spoke, "Remember, after the war is over, you can dispose of the corpses, and there is one person, a woman, who must be handed over to us alive." ”