Chapter 39 Road Reconnaissance
In the woods south of Dead Leaf Town, Giggs and the others listened carefully to Baggio's introduction.
"My lord, please come with me, enter from the seventh tree here, this is the shortcut left by the woodcutters in Dead Leaf Town to pass through this wood, from the outside this place is covered by branches, in fact, as long as you pull these soft branches in front of you, there will be a space for one person to enter and exit. Baggio pulled a few branches in front of him to the side, and suddenly a space for a person to slip through appeared.
Giggs's eyes lit up, and he personally opened the branches and drilled inside, and found that, as Baggio said, there was a hole in it, and he walked around it, and Giggs turned his head and asked, "Where does this road lead?"
"My lord, walk all the way from this path to the forest we just came from, that is, to the west of Dead Leaf Town~" Baggio replied quickly.
"Oh, can go around so far, let's walk this road ourselves~" Giggs said excitedly, a hidden and detouring path long enough, this is simply a natural retreat route prepared for a small force like the garrison.
Gibson and the others glanced at each other, and they also admired the captain's exuberant energy, but they could also guess that Giggs's thoughts were nothing more than happy to find such a passage.
After passing the forest path and returning to the road near the west, Giggs looked at the familiar terrain in front of him, "That means that after this path, and then through this gravel road, we can enter this wood, and then we can follow the road we just reconnoitred, and we can carry out a large-scale roundabout guerrilla operation in the southwest part of Withered Leaf Town~ It's just amazing!!"
"Let's go~Let's move on to the next location~," Giggs said, turning to Baggio eagerly.
"Yes, my lord~" Baggio replied very dryly~
Gibson tugged at Giggs' sleeve, and when Giggs looked at him, he raised his finger and pointed to the darkened sky.
"Then let's go back to the place we came over just now and get ready to rest~" Giggs instantly understood what Gibson meant, and said in a calm tone.
"Yes!"
As with last night's rest, the Giggs found a thicker tree and climbed it.
Giggs, who had stretched his limbs slightly on the tree and was about to fix himself with a rope, was suddenly in the spotlight, and on the trunk less than two meters away from him, there was a small brown snake about fifty or sixty centimeters prostrate on the branch, and Giggs lightly drew a dagger from the gaiters he called, and his right eye was slightly small, and then threw the dagger violently.
"Touch~~~" The handle of the dagger trembled continuously, echoing the brown snake whose head was tightly connected to the trunk of the tree and constantly twisted.
Giggs quickly crawled over, and used the arrow of the arrow to cut a little below the snake's head, and two fingers reached into the cut position, and with a hard pull, the fingers went inside, and a thumb-sized snake gall was pulled out.
"Suck~slip~" Giggs frowned and put the snake gall into his mouth, ignoring the little snake that was still struggling, fixed himself with a rope, and closed his eyes to rest.
Early in the morning, when everyone woke up and had breakfast, Giggs and the others began to explore the roads on the outskirts of Withered Leaf Town.
In the process of constantly noting down the path pointed out by Baggio, the time had come to the afternoon, and Giggs and the others were walking quietly on the road, carrying out reconnaissance missions for a long time, and everyone who was always vigilant was already a little tired in their hearts, and they were trying to save their physical strength as much as possible at this time.
"Wow~Woo~"
At the moment of hearing the voice, the guards hurried to the woodland not far away, and Gibson pulled Baggio, who was still a little stunned, and motioned for him to follow.
Dozens of seconds later, Giggs and the others had already taken refuge in the woods.
"Hehe, I didn't expect to meet the main owner so soon~" Giggs licked his lips and muttered to himself.
"Boss, do you want to do a vote~" Gibson said eagerly.
"My lord, what was that sound just now?, wolf?" Baggio still didn't react.
"Didn't you hear this sound when the gnolls invaded Dead Leaf Town~" Gibson asked with a strange face.
"I was out hunting when those damn gnolls invaded Dead Leaves, so~" Baggio said with a slightly embarrassed expression, and it was really hard for him to make an embarrassed expression on his paralyzed face.
A strange thought popped up in Giggs's mind.
"Don't startle the snakes now, let's wait and see what these gnolls are going to do, and after we find out what they're doing, we'll them when we get back!" said Giggs.
As the minutes ticked by, Giggs waited patiently. When the gnolls on the road entered the sight of Giggs and the others through the gap in the forest, Giggs and the others couldn't help but hold their breath.
"One, two, three, twelve, thirteen, a total of thirteen gnolls~" Giggs whispered.
"Look at them with sticks and ropes in their hands, are they going out to catch food?"
"It should be~ These long-billed beasts are still carnivores after all, and it is also their daily life to go out to hunt. ”
"Gibson, that's why these gnolls died, you know?" said Giggs, turning his head to Gibson and whispering.
"Hey, hey~ These stupid gnolls have met you, the boss, and their fate is doomed from the beginning~" Gibson's sycophant said it instantly~
Giggs looked at this living treasure speechlessly, he really wanted to ask, Gibson didn't remember the breakthrough he said before to deal with these jackals, he didn't expect this guy to take advantage of the situation, but looking at him, he should also have a bottom in his heart.
The people of Giggs waited patiently for the jackals to go away, and when they could no longer see the gnolls, several people came out of the woods and continued their unfinished road reconnaissance work.
In the next few days, Baggio led Giggs and his men around the corners of Withered Leaf Town, and the gnoll hunting team that appeared from time to time made Gigg and the others cautious.
Baggio, after confirming to Giggs that his mission was complete, received his reward from Giggs, a gold coin that only human nobles were qualified to mint, as a reward for the honest man's hard work these days.
After getting such a good pay, Baggio was reluctant to be tempted by the golden soldiers, and felt that his work was not worthy of the remuneration he received, so Baggio stayed in the admiring eyes of Giggs.
"Baggio, you're a very nice guy, really~" Giggs said seriously to this honest man~