CHAPTER XLIII
"There is good news and bad news, Lord Shi Junjun, which one do you want to listen to first?"
"Bad news."
"As you feared, there appear to be a varying number of human guards at the major intersections, and there are soldiers who seem to have taken paper with portraits of people, compared them with young and beautiful human women among the passers-by, and searched the passing carriages."
"Broccoli, when did you learn to pat on the back...... The good news? ”
"The vast majority of human soldiers at major intersections are neglecting their duties or simply sleeping ......"
As the goblin broccoli said, almost every road in front of them was guarded by human soldiers.
Moreover, the human nobleman seemed to use his memory to ask the painters in the territory under his jurisdiction to draw the portrait of Lord Shi Junjun, and ordered the soldiers to hold the portrait and compare it with the passers-by.
In the abandoned wooden house next to the road, the girl who had returned to the greenskin dwarf's report looked a little solemn.
Judging from the accurate location and attack of Goblin Village by sending his subordinates, as well as the road traffic control measures carried out in the territory, that otherworldly color embryo aristocrat is by no means a waste who only thinks with his lower body.
If the former had been a complete success, she would have lost her freedom and even her life by now, and the latter measure would have been fully implemented to minimize the possibility of her absconding in South Lysyphus.
It's a pity that there are policies and countermeasures, and the laziness of the soldiers makes this seemingly tight and tenacious net quietly expose the flaws that symbolize the way of escape.
Two hours ago, Junjun handed over the leaves of that specific plant to the soldier captain of Santan Town, saying that he had completed the entrusted task of going to the forest to explore the traces of monsters, and found several traces of common monsters along the way, but they were all common species that were not very harmful, and there were no traces of large-scale monster activities in addition, but it was not ruled out that they might be deeper in the forest.
In Fernando's Tavern, the captain of the soldier who took the blade thanked the adventurer in front of him who seemed unharmed, raised the agreed reward of two gold coins to three, and implied vaguely that if Shi Junjun and the leader of the Reberion Adventurer's Guild met, could he seem to inadvertently mention his hard work in taking care of the leader some time ago.
Shi Junjun didn't want to agree, but this guy couldn't help but stuff her with a bulging money bag full of silver and copper coins.
"The position of captain is good, but you have to have a life to sit on."
The captain of the soldier who handed out the money bag held his hand and said stupidly, "Santan Town is really too close to the forest, if there is really a large-scale monster attack, the death rate of the front-line soldiers is terrifyingly high, if you can temporarily transfer back to the relatively safe Ray Belion......"
Looking at this soldier captain who was frightened by the large-scale monster attack in her fantasy, Shi Junjun wanted to say something, but after seeing his eyes, she gave up her original thoughts, and just seriously told the restless middle-aged man that if she saw the leader of the Adventurer's Guild, she would definitely remember his entrustment, and then insisted on returning the money bag.
"So there's really going to be a massive monster attack?" The tavernkeeper asked worriedly.
Thiago Fernando, who thinks about closing the tavern every day to take refuge, still chooses to open business today, and after being sure that he will no longer be able to be drawn to the forest to investigate the traces of monsters, he begins to have the courage to refuse the unreasonable requests of the captain of the soldiers, such as opening a bottle of ten-year-old wine at half price after Shi Junjun is promised.
The girl, who knew the truth, could not bear to deceive the chubby tavernkeeper, but she could not tell him in a grand manner that it was a claim made up by their lord, Viscount Robinette, in order to save face.
So the girl comforted him and the Soldier Captain as a well-informed adventurer, and according to the traces in the forest, the probability of a large-scale monster attack should be extremely small, in other words, the tavern owner can open his doors every day, and the Soldier Captain can continue to drink and rot in broad daylight (the girl said that this is not good).
In the end, Junjun bought back her permanent half-price privilege in Fernando's Tavern from the Soldier Captain at the original price, because the tavern owner complained to her that if the Soldier Captain was allowed to drink at half price again, the tavern would close down in a short time, but he would not let the adventurer suffer in vain, and the girl who repurchased the permanent half-price privilege would have a permanent free order (only for herself) unprecedented in the history of Fernando's Tavern.
Knowing that she probably wouldn't be back again, the girl set out on the road to Reberion, resting in the hut after a two-hour trek.
"We've probably walked 10 kilometers." The girl, who glanced at the pedometer on her phone and calculated the approximate distance, continued, "There are still about thirty kilometers to get to Reberion, and at this speed, we can't get there before dark. ”
After that, she looked enviously at the goblinsy blue flower, who had walked a lot more than she and was not blushing or breathing, this otherworldly race seemed to be much stronger than ordinary humans in terms of endurance.
Even if he has learned a little magic from another world and can initially jump out of the category of ordinary humans, he will still be completely crushed by broccoli in this regard.
As humanoids, goblins are obviously better than humans in terms of physical strength and endurance, but the shortcomings of learning ability, intelligence and productivity levels, and body size are far from each other, which in some ways determines why this race can only survive as a small tribe in the uninhabited forest.
How to help the goblins make up for their shortcomings and wrestle with humans in another world is not something that Shi Junjun has to think about now.
It is now impossible to reach Reberion before dark, and it is very likely that the locals and pedestrians on the road will find it by the locals and pedestrians who are traveling near the increasing population density, and it is impossible to enter the human hotel with the goblins......
Judging from the situation after arriving at the scout, she could have swaggered through the path guarded by human soldiers, but the broccoli, who is a goblin, will undoubtedly not be able to do so.
If he is allowed to take a detour in the same way that he used to scout for intelligence...... This may avoid the sight of the human guards, but it will be difficult to enter a densely populated otherworldly town like Reberion, and the possibility of being detected by the drone to open the god's perspective will be exponentially increased.