Alendor crouched on the grass. Move your body carefully and try not to make noises because of your movements. Ryan followed closely behind Allendo, keeping a distance of about five meters from him. A few hundred meters away, Xiaobai pressed his body to the ground, using his sensitive hearing to alert Ryan and Allendo.

After spending two hours and crawling a distance of more than forty meters, Alendor managed to cross an open field and come to a small hillside. A few minutes later, Ryan also came to the hillside and lay down beside Elendo. It is a very low hillside, it is more than a person tall at most, and if it is not on the northern prairie, even the name "hillside" is reluctant.

Allendo raised his head slightly, looked around to make sure that no one had noticed, and then leaned out of the hillside to carefully examine the camp about 20 meters below the hillside. It was a very rudimentary camp, built on the south side of the hillside, which barely kept out the cold air from the north.

The camp was surrounded only by wooden sticks of varying lengths, no more than an adult's waist, all of which were rotten in appearance. Between the sticks, although connected by ropes, the gap between them was still large enough to pass through a thin person.

Several old orcs were busy around the campfire in the center of the camp, on the bonfire was a cleaned and skinned Talon ox, and the two young orcs were almost using their whole body strength to push a nearby wheel, through the rotation of the wheel, the Tallon cow kept rolling on the campfire.

Alan said a lot, there were a total of six cowhide tents in the camp, and according to the calculation of 8 people living in one tent, the number of people in this camp should not exceed 50 people, which is probably the strength of a reinforced squad. It was noon, but there was no one in the orc camp, and Ryan and Alendor waited for a while, and found that the seven or eight orcs were basically coming and going in the camp. These orcs were constantly busy, and they did not relax for a moment, but outside the camp, they did not even do basic vigilance, as if they were very assured of the safety here.

Ryan and Allendo didn't dare to be careless, and waited in place for a long time, but still didn't find any other orcs, which made Ryan and Allendo very disappointed, and it seemed that those orcs might have gone out on patrol. This is the area where the orc wolf cavalry is active, and this camp is probably where one of the wolf cavalry units rests at night.

Ten days ago, Ryan and Allendo set out from Thor's Fortress and began to go north for the mission of "intelligence gathering". They first carefully reconnoitred the area forty kilometers north of Thor's Fortress, selected a few places that could be concealed to conceal their whereabouts, and then found out the general route of the orcs patrol, and then used the early morning and other times when the orcs were most likely to let down their vigilance and pass through their blockade line.

These methods have not been used by other mercenary groups, but only Ryan and Allendo have completed the most beautiful. The reason is quite simple, because there are only two of them, while the other mercenary groups have as few as seven or eight people, and most as twenty or thirty people. In addition, as a druid, Alendor has a unique advantage in the natural environment, and he can even find the enemy's traces from a distance, thus avoiding the fate of discovering his whereabouts.

After Ryan and his party left Thor, they drew a rough topographical map based on what they saw along the way, but even Ryan himself understood that this rough and rudimentary thing might not do much good. After such a long adventure, Ryan spent some time with General Orlando and others in the imperial capital, and understood that the real purpose of the "intelligence collection" mission issued by the Thor Fortress garrison was to be able to obtain detailed information about the orcs, focusing on the deployment of orc troops or similar information, otherwise the detailed topographic map would only be a reference, because it was impossible for the garrison of Thor Fortress to leave the fortress and go to Northern Talon to fight.

But Ryan also understands the concerns of the Thor Fortress garrison, and if they make this clear in their mission, it is estimated that few people will dare to come. Mercenaries can risk their lives to complete tasks as long as they are well paid, as this is what they do best. But if they want to go directly to find out the movements of the beast ** army, then it is better to let them hunt and kill a powerful demonic beast. Even the well-trained scouts of Thor's Fortress have never returned, let alone the mercenaries who are not good at these things themselves?

In the orc camp, the young orc said a few words in a loud voice, and immediately two old orcs came up and carried down the Talon oxen from the campfire, and then the two old orcs worked together to carry another washed and skinned Talon sheep and put it on the campfire.

Ryan then remembered that he had been here for a short time, and that the Talen cow had been roasted on the fire when he first arrived. Thinking of this, Ryan withdrew his thoughts and wandered his gaze across the orc camp. Soon, Ryan's eyes fell on a corner of the camp, where the large pile of firewood more than a person tall was piled up, attracting Ryan's attention.

It stands to reason that the orcs should fetch the firewood when they barbecue beef, but the orcs did not move, preferring to use the fresh branches and blades of grass that were still a little moist with more effort, as if they did not exist.

Ryan's heart suddenly moved, and he remembered that when he was in Thor's Fortress the other day, he heard Bart talk about the method of transmitting signals on the grassland, that is, "smoke during the day, fire at night".

The dry pyre in front of him, Ryan had reason to believe that it was a tool for the orcs to transmit signals. As long as this camp is attacked by the enemy, there will be orcs who will light the pile of firewood as soon as possible, then the orc wolf cavalry and other camps patrolling nearby can immediately send personnel to support here. Even if the enemy is strong and all the orcs in this camp are killed, it can leave enough clues for the other orcs to continue to hunt down the human scouts who have infiltrated, which should be the reason why several other mercenary groups have been wiped out.

Ryan shook his head slightly, in a camp like the one in front of him, they have already scouted four in the past two days, almost one every ten kilometers, which also means that there is a wolf cavalry squad patrolling about every ten kilometers. This kind of patrol density, in Ryan's impression, is afraid that even during the Royal Athletic Competition, the human imperial capital Fernando City is not as good as it, what do the orcs want to hide?

"How's that?" Alendor asked in a small voice in Ryan's ear, "This is the smallest number of people in these camps, should we take the plunge?" ”

Ryan said with some hesitation: "It's all old people and children, I can't do it!"

"Alas!" Alendor shook his head, why wasn't he?

"Well," Ryan came up with a compromise, and whispered to Allendo, "let's find a place to rest and see if it's possible to sneak a little farther in the evening, maybe a little further north, and find anything." ”

"That's all there is to it. Allendo agreed to Ryan's offer.

Although the war is brutal, neither Ryan nor Allendo are willing to slaughter civilians, even if it is a race facing non-humans. They observed their surroundings and prepared to quietly leave the place, looking for a safe place to wait for dark.

At this moment, a young orc in the orc camp suddenly shouted a few words, which startled Ryan and Elendo, who thought that their whereabouts had been discovered, and hurriedly pressed their bodies tightly to the ground, paying attention to the movements around them, while watching the screaming orc vigilantly.

I saw that the other three young orcs in the orc camp shouted together, and they all left what they were doing and ran out of the camp, and the orc who was the first to shout got into a tent. Allendo already has the weapon "Sharp Claw" in his hand, ready to transform into an attack, and Ryan is ready to fight.

Unexpectedly, the orcs didn't look at Ryan's hiding place, but ran to the open space outside the camp and waited, and less than a minute later, the orc who had gotten into the tent ran out with a round object and came to the other young orcs. The orc dropped the round object at his feet, and kicked his companion.

With cheers one after another, the four young orcs happily kicked the round thing and played happily in the open space outside the camp. Ryan and Alendor were relieved, it turned out that it was not their whereabouts exposed, but that these orcs couldn't bear the hard work and began to play some kind of game.

Ryan was even a little curious, what were those orcs kicking? He used his eyes to look carefully in the direction of the young orcs, but when he saw clearly what the orcs were kicking, his whole body immediately became stiff, and his body began to tremble slightly, Ryan closed his mouth tightly, even if he had bitten his lip, he didn't feel a little pain.

Alendor lying beside Ryan was startled, it was the first time he saw Ryan's appearance, what made him so angry? Alendor followed Ryan's gaze and found that the round thing that the young orcs were kicking was a bloody human head! Although the face of the human head could no longer be seen clearly, its very obvious appearance still showed that it was a human head!

(It's almost the National Day, and work is getting busy, and the update may no longer be stable at 7 p.m. every day during this time, but there will definitely be an update every day.) Thank you for your understanding. ）