Chapter 208: The Trickster and the Egg Thief
Just two or three steps behind Rogge, a little Lori wearing a black feather coat and red dancing shoes was lying in the pile of gold coins, happily grabbing the gold coins under her feet with her little hands and stuffing them into a small black money bag with lace.
Rogge hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the small money bag, and the startled little Lori turned to look at him, and saw that he turned the money bag upside down and poured all the gold coins inside to the ground.
"What are you doing!" exclaimed Lilith anxiously.
"What are you doing?" Rogge said with a frown, "Do you know what this place is, stealing gold coins in front of the Golden Dragon King?"
"I just took a few, there are so many of them, and they are not bad for those few!" Little Lori shouted vigorously, turned around and rummaged on the ground in front of Rogge, and shouted anxiously while looking for it: "Besides, there is still money I saved in there, I have saved it for a long time!"
Rogge watched her rummag in the gold coins on the ground for a long time, and finally raised his head with a bitter face, looked at him with a look of resentment and grievance, and shouted: "No, I can't find it, you compensate me!"
Rogge sighed helplessly, so he had to kneel down in front of her and coax her, Lilith refused to agree, and insisted that Rogge pay him the money, but the money on Rogge was not enough for the amount she wanted, so the dispute continued, and the little Lori cried incessantly.
At this moment, the Golden Dragon King spoke slowly: "Enough, don't make noise here!"
As soon as his voice came out, the quarrel between Rogge and Lilith came to an abrupt end, and both of them looked back at the Golden Dragon King at the same time, and heard it say, "Isn't it just a little money, if you can retrieve the dragon egg, as a reward I can let you take the gold coins as you like until the money bag is filled, and at the same time forgive you for stealing my gold coins!"
Rogge and Lilith glanced at each other, Rogge quietly glanced at her, and asked her to accept it when she saw it and stop making trouble, Lilith bit her little lip, wiped her tears and stood up from the ground and said to the Golden Dragon King: "Thank you, Your Majesty, but the money must be given to me, not to the bad wolf!"
Rogge listened to the amusement and shook his head slightly, but heard the dragon king say: "How to distribute it is your business, but I have a request: you must find the lost dragon eggs within three days, otherwise, I will send you to make a meal for the young dragon, do you understand?"
Hearing that she was going to be fed to the young dragon, Lilith became a little panicked, she looked back at Rogge, and saw that he nodded confidently, so she carefully agreed, and hid behind Rogge to wipe her tear-stained little face.
Rogge got up and reopened his request to the Golden Dragon King, who agreed to his request and asked the green dragon who had brought Rog to take Rog to inspect all the places he wanted.
Rog led Lilith out of the Golden Dragon King's lair and back to the towering cliff outside the cave, where the green dragon had heard the Golden Dragon King's order and was waiting for Rog on the edge of the cliff, grabbing Rog with its dragon claws and flying around the edge of the Dragon's Nest.
Rogge carefully observed the situation along the way, and found that on the towering cliffs at the edge of the valley, there was a green dragon entrenched every few meters, and there was a green dragon flying around in the air.
"It seems that it is very difficult to climb the mountains from the outskirts of the valley into the valley, and the mountain is so steep that it seems that it will not be easy to take a dragon egg under the watchful eye of so many dragons. Thinking of this, Rog called out to the green dragon and asked him to take him to the cub nursery to have a look.
The green dragon turned and flew in the direction of the Dragon Cliff, and descended from a cliff opposite the Dragon Cliff, and Rog looked around and found that this place was very close to the lair of the Golden Dragon King, and the guards nearby were even denser, and there were a large number of powerful golden dragons patrolling back and forth, and it was difficult for the thieves to avoid the surveillance of many dragons if they were not stealth.
"Could it be William's man?" Rogge frowned and secretly guessed, but he denied this conjecture, he couldn't figure out what the use of William taking such a big risk to steal a dragon egg, if he could really easily infiltrate and steal, then he should have attacked the holy weapon directly, instead of stealing the egg and scaring the dragon to make the opponent more vigilant.
Thinking to himself, Rog's steps did not stop, he followed the green dragon into the nursery of the young dragons under the strict guard of the dragon guards, this huge cave is divided into two rooms, the outer cave has a large number of hatched young dragons active, and the inner is the storage room for dragon eggs.
"Is this the little dragon?" Seeing the young dragons crawling everywhere in the outer hole, the little owl looked around curiously, looking at this, looking at that, and was deeply curious about these cute young dragons, she asked in Rog's ear, "How can these little ones grow into those big ugly dragons?"
"I'm also surprised that when you first hatched out of your eggs, you must not have been as greedy and greedy for money as you are now. Rogge smiled nonchalantly, and Lilith glared at him in annoyance, pouting and looking around.
Following the green dragon through the cub area, Rog came to the inner dragon egg storage room, he saw a large number of half-human dragon eggs being placed on the dirt mound every few meters, a female dragon was lying on the mound in the center of the cave, and saw the green dragon coming in with a human, and the female dragon looked at them vigilantly.
The green dragon told the mother dragon of the Golden Dragon King's orders, and Rog immediately went up to inquire about the situation of the mother dragon, and the mother dragon told him that she had found that the egg had been lost just after midnight, so she took a nap on the mound, and woke up to find that one of the dragon eggs in the last row of the cave was missing.
"So the thieves didn't have much time," Rogge thought as he walked over to the place where the eggs had been lost, and he walked past the rows of eggs, thinking to himself, "In such a short period of time, the thieves even risked being discovered, and chose eggs away from the hole?"
He stopped in front of the mound where the dragon egg was lost, looked at the dragon eggs on the left and right sides, stepped forward and tried to push the dragon egg, but found that the dragon egg was very heavy, he stared at the dragon egg and thought: "The dragon egg is so big and heavy, the thief finally avoided the surveillance of the outer cave and entered here, he should choose the dragon egg closest to the entrance of the cave!"
"But why should they risk the near and far away?"
Thinking to himself, Rog looked around at the dragon eggs around him and found that they were arranged in an irregular manner, he turned back to the mother dragon to ask if there was anything particular about the arrangement of these eggs, and the mother dragon told him that the dragon eggs placed on the outside were about to hatch, and the closer to the outer hole, the shorter the remaining incubation period.
"I see!" Rogge nodded in realization, looking down at the mound beneath his feet, and he noticed that the mound had been made a mess, and a large amount of dirt was scattered around, as if it had been turned over from top to bottom.
Rog looked up and asked about the she-dragon's mound, who told him that the mound had been the same when the eggs were found missing, and that they had not been disposed of for the time being because no new eggs had been delivered.
"The thieves want eggs, why are they breaking up the mound?" Rogge straightened up and pondered, suddenly feeling a breeze blowing from the depths of the cavern, he looked back at the stone wall not far away, curious as to why the wind was blowing there.
He walked to the stone wall at the end of the cave, faintly heard the sound of waves coming from behind the stone wall, Rogge followed the sound of the stone wall, and accidentally found a path hidden behind the stone wall, the entrance was very hidden, the width was only one person wide, Rogge carefully walked to the end of the passage, and found that there was an endless sea of Darcy outside.
"I see, this is how to transport the dragon egg!" Rogge whispered to himself as he looked down at the surging tide beneath the straight cliff with a mysterious smile on his lips.
He returned to the nursery and told the green dragon that there was nothing to see here, so the green dragon led him out of the cave and came out of the outer cave, when he suddenly stopped and turned back to the two dragon guards guarding the outside of the nursery cave: "Excuse me, have anyone other than the dragon entered or approached this place recently?"
"No, the nursery is strictly forbidden to outsiders, and you're the first foreigner to be allowed in decades. The dragon stared at Rogge with a hostile gaze and said in a majestic tone.
The dragon's answer was unexpected, and he was once again confused, and the speculation that had been formed in his mind lost its basis in an instant, and he had to comb through all the veins and clues again to find the thief's traces.
He didn't go to see the Golden Dragon King again, only let the green dragon help him wear a message, and then let it send him back to the prison, listening to the sound of the dragon bone cell door closing behind him, Rogge walked into the cave while looking down and meditating, and bumped into Antonio and the others who had been waiting for a long time.
The crowd gathered around Rogge and asked him about the progress of the case, but Rogge just shook his head silently and said nothing, lit a cigar and walked away from the crowd to the corner of the cave, Lilith quietly flew away from him and landed on Tali's shoulder, complaining to her and the others that Rogge had lost her money.
"This is really strange," Rogge sat down in the corner of the cavern, lowered his head and took a few puffs of his cigar, frowning and muttering to himself, "If the thieves are outsiders, then there are only two possibilities, one is to climb over the mountains from the dragon valley to enter the nursery, and avoid the mother dragon and baby dragon in the outer cave to enter the inner cave." ”
"But at present, it is even more difficult to infiltrate the Dragon Valley itself, not to mention that the theft must be repeatedly stepped on in advance, and once discovered, it will definitely die! Taking such a big risk just to steal a dragon egg is obviously not worth it!"
He took a long puff of his cigar and continued, "Another possibility is to enter directly through the cliff hole in the nursery, but the cliffs over there are so steep that the unfathomable Darcy Sea is below them, and it is impossible to climb them with bare hands, unless thieves can fly ......"
Thinking of this, he sighed in annoyance, and the question seemed to return to square one, William and his dark wizards could indeed fly in here, but they had no motive to steal the dragon egg, and there was no evidence at the scene that pointed to them or other people who could fly.
"If the thieves are from two groups, then how can they easily avoid the surveillance of the dragon clan, make a choice for the dragon eggs with a target, and arrange such a way to smuggle without knowing the dangers of the dragon without entering the nursery, knowing the internal situation, or even being unfamiliar with the terrain and topography of the dragon valley?"
Thinking of this, Rogge raised his head and looked at the two regiments in the cave, the knights of the Knights gathered on one side of the cave, while the priests of the Priesthood Regiment stayed on the other side, not interacting with each other, Rogge stared at them for a long time, and a strange smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.