Chapter 40: The Spoils of War
In the vicinity of Withered Leaf Town, Giggs and the others are carefully conducting reconnaissance.
At this time, the Giggs had already entered a place very close to Dead Leaf Town, and some gnolls could be seen moving around from time to time.
Giggs tugged at his disguise and whispered, "No, this is not at all, these gnolls are too annoying to move around during the day, let's retreat first." ”
"Yes~"
After retreating to a small forest slightly away from Dead Leaf Town, Giggs ripped off the disguise on his body, "There are too many gnolls active in the area of Dead Leaf Town during the day, so let's do it, let's rest now, recuperate our spirits, and then go to scout at night~"
The group that was dismantling their disguises looked at Giggs and paused, and Joe spoke, "Captain, can you check the surrounding terrain at night?"
"It's okay, we just need to roughly figure out the roads around Dead Leaf Town, don't be too careful, and then our battle will definitely not be carried out under the noses of these gnolls, and the current reconnaissance is just prepared. Giggs said with a wave of his hand.
"Now, rest, and we'll go out again in the evening!" Giggs suddenly raised his voice.
Several members of the garrison stood up sharply, puffed up their chests, and replied in a loud voice,
"Yes!!"
With a soft ray of sunlight shining on Giggs's face, Giggs frowned, slowly opened his eyes, and after a few seconds of sluggishness, Giggs propped up his upper body, blocked the sun with his hands, and looked at the sky.
"Ah~ The sun is about to set, and it hasn't been dark yet, so I'm awake at this time~" Giggs couldn't help but mutter.
Relaxed again, leaning lazily against the trunk of the tree, twisting his body, trying to find a comfortable position, and sleeping again.
Half an hour later, Giggs, who had tried to fall asleep to no avail, struggled to get up, untied the rope around his waist, pulled out dry food, and ate with water.
As he chewed down on the hard dry food in his mouth, Giggs couldn't help but think about his next steps.
"I'll set out to scout the surrounding situation around Dead Leaf Town as soon as it gets dark, and I expect to get a rough idea of this area in two to three nights. ”
"Then hide and record the departure time of the gnolls' hunting party, and then you can go back and prepare for battle~"
"Hehe~ When you leave, you can do what Gibson said, do a vote, destroy a hunting team of jackals, bring their heads back, and give a wake-up call to the noise that may appear. ”
"The garrison is not a toy in his hands~ I, Giggs, am not a child who doesn't know killing~"
When night fell, Giggs's dexterous figure slipped down from the trees, and soon there was movement in several nearby trees.
"Are you ready? Our operation is just to roughly reconnoiter the situation around Withered Leaf Town, everything is mainly hidden, or in a few days, we can go back and gather the guards. Giggs said as he looked at the crowd by the moonlight.
"Baggio, I have to trouble you to lead the way~" Giggs turned to Baggio and said.
"It's not troublesome, my lord~" Baggio replied with some kind words from Giggs very awkwardly.
Giggs also stopped talking, and motioned for Baggio to lead the way.
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A few days later, in the morning, after scouting the last place the night before, the Giggs had gone to sleep much earlier than the previous two days, and when the group gathered again, Giggs smiled mysteriously.
"We have one last mission~" Giggs lengthened his voice.
"Boss, what other tasks do you have~ I can't wait to go back to take a shower~" Gibson jumped out and said anxiously.
"This task is still what you said~" Giggs looked very provocative at this time, Xu was that the investigation work was completed, and Giggs, who had quit the work state, couldn't help but play with it.
"When did I say that? How did I not know?" Gibson patted his head and meditated.
Giggs looked at several people and stopped selling it.
"Let's do a ticket and go back~"
"Oh yes~" The guards were stunned for a moment, and then cheered, God knows that during this time, they always watched the gnolls pass by in front of them, and they had to be careful, Gibson and the others still held a fire in their hearts.
Giggs finished telling the guards about his plan, and then everyone's faces laughed strangely, leaving Gibson crying, his mouth kept muttering, "Why me~Why me~"
Gibson was wandering aimlessly back and forth on a gravel road outside Dead Leaf Town, and in previous reconnaissance, Giggs had found that there were the largest number of gnoll hunting teams passing through this road, and at least one team would hunt in the direction of this road every day.
And Gibson's job now is to take the bait.
Giggs and the others can actually just stand on the road and wait for the gnoll team to come, and then shoot a few gnolls with the bow and arrow in their hands, but it is inevitable that there will be gnolls who will run away when the situation is not good, so it is undoubtedly a good idea to let a bait lure these gnolls to a slightly open place, so that they cannot hide in the woods to avoid the arrows of the guard.
In fact, the work of decoys is not dangerous, after all, from the time they find the gnolls, attract their attention and then run away, even if the speed of the gnolls is relatively fast, it will take a while to catch up, and this time is the last survival time of these gnolls.
When the bored Gibson found the figure of this jackal hunting team, his spirit was shocked, and he ran behind him, and the jackal hunting team in the distance saw that the tender and delicious humans who had not appeared for a long time appeared in front of them, and immediately chased Gibson excitedly.
When Gibson ran to the predetermined place out of breath, with his hands on his knees, he gasped for breath, picked up the bow and arrow he had placed here in advance, and quietly waited for the arrival of the jackal.
The gnoll man behind him saw that the delicious food in front of him could no longer run, and he accelerated even more excitedly.
When these gnolls were less than fifty meters away from Gibson, Gibson had already drawn his bow and arrows, and "whoosh~" a feathered arrow accurately hit the head of the fastest running gnoll, and the speed of the arrow collided with the running gnoll, ending with the gnoll falling to the ground.
Giggs and the others who had been ambushed in advance also appeared at this time, stretching their bows and shooting arrows, and these gnolls had not yet considered that the identity of the prey and the hunter had been changed, and half of them had already fallen, and the rest was just a matter of two more rounds of shooting by the guards.
Baggio was dumbfounded, and in his eyes, the ferocious gnolls were wiped out at once, and he couldn't help but be even more in awe of Giggs.
Giggs beckoned the guards to mend the gnolls who were not yet dead, and said, "Chop off their heads and take them back to Licorice as our trophies, and hang them at the guard barracks!"
"Yes!!"