Guild Boss's Ambition

46. ​​Catch the Dog (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

It was now about eight o'clock in the evening, and there were still ten hours until dawn.

After experiencing a series of unexpected events, our mission objective has changed from defeating the marching wolves to finding that mysterious treasure. In order to achieve this goal, we must first capture a marching wolf and find out the whereabouts of the marching wolf leader.

According to Bai Ye, marching wolves are actually not difficult to find.

Their traces can be found everywhere in this Wawville Forest. For example, not far from the entrance of the cave where we are staying, there are already several marching wolves watching us. They will be our first target.

When it comes to hunting wolfhounds, using hounds is one of the most primitive methods used by humans.

At this time, Little Spot went into the cypress forest, using his keen sense of smell and hearing to track the marching wolves in the dark. However, the three of us waited at the cave entrance for a long time, but he still did not return.

"Ahhh, looks like that stupid dog is in trouble."

Bai Ye has two ways to control the dead geese. One is to read the memories of the dead geese, and the other is to share vision with the dead geese. The former has the limitation of time but no limit on quantity, while the latter can only connect to one of the dead geese, but the advantage is that the image information transmitted back is real-time. At this time, Bai Ye seems to see something through the eyes of the dead goose.

"What happened to Little Spot?"

"Follow me and you will find out."

Bai Ye smiled easily and led us into the depths of the cypress forest. The forest had fewer branches and leaves in winter, and there were not many visual obstructions. There were only gray tree trunks. The whole picture was clean and full of the laws of nature.

Finally, we found the little speck five minutes away.

The stitched dog was lying on the ground aggrieved, with its right hind leg tightly bitten by a huge claw. Judging from the wound so deep that the bone was visible, it must have tried hard to struggle but in vain.

“How miserable…”

Seeing the bloody right hind leg, I couldn't help but feel heartbroken. When Raftan untied the trap for Little Spot and completed the treatment for him, I immediately hugged our big dog's neck, hoping to reduce his fear.

"How did Little Spot step into the trap? Is there any other human being besides us in the Wawville Forest?"

Raftan checked the trap and replied, "No, this one is very old. The base is covered with grass roots. It was probably left there by a hunter. However, in such a large cypress forest, traps like this should not be densely packed. It was really unlucky for Little Spot to step into it."

At one side, Bai Ye looked at the snowy ground around him. There were a number of wild animal footprints on the ground. He disagreed and said, "Hmm? This time it definitely has nothing to do with luck. Xiaoban didn't fall into the trap by accident. He was actually chasing the marching wolves before he was trapped. Based on the habits of the marching wolves, they may have discovered the existence of this trap a long time ago and deliberately led Xiaoban to this area."

Transform human's malice towards nature into one's own strength?

Those marching wolves are really smart!

I was a little frightened, but more than that, I felt amazed by this pack of wolves from another world.

Holding the newly shrunk Stitched Dog lovingly in my arms, I asked Bai Ye and Raftan, "Since the marching wolves understand the terrain better than Little Spot, what should we do next?"

Raftan was also puzzled: "According to the situation, the marching wolves will not take the initiative to fight us, and there is indeed some kind of intelligence network between them, which can communicate with each other, making our position exposed."

Bang bang! Bang bang!

A dead goose faintly descended from the sky onto Bai Ye's shoulder.

Bai Ye smiled brightly: "It seems that we don't have to stay here and worry. No matter how smart those marching dogs are, they still have the idiot blood of puppies. When they see something strange, they will just walk over and sniff it."

In fact, Bai Ye had placed a ghost doll trap at the entrance of the cave long before we left. She poured a lot of sleeping powder, which was said to be odorless, on the surface of the ghost doll. What I didn't expect was that the terrifying and rotten thing actually attracted the attention of a marching wolf, and even made it fall down on the spot due to the sleeping powder.

"..."

When we returned to the cave entrance, we saw another marching wolf dragging its unconscious companion.

When it spotted us, it immediately let go of its companion's hind leg and quickly rushed back into the cypress forest. In just a few seconds, it completely disappeared without a trace.

However, this was just a small episode.

Its companion eventually fell into our hands.

Bai Ye read its memory on the spot without saying a word.

Then, she raised her arm and pointed to a hill in the forest. "Their wolf head is right there. I don't think they will expect us to read their memories in the short term. But as long as we get close to the area where the wolf head is, I believe it will move its location. In other words, we must come up with a way to escape the eyes and ears of the marching wolves."

"What do you think, Bai Ye?" I asked.

"No, this time, I really have no way to sneak up to the wolf leader." Bai Ye replied.

But Raftan thought of another direction: "If the Chamber of Commerce and we have no way to find the treasure by skipping the marching wolves, then why don't the marching wolves find a place to bury the treasure and then leave in a group? Once they leave this forest, won't we treasure hunters lose all clues?"

Following Raftan's line of thought, I proposed a hypothesis: "Maybe, just maybe, the thing that the marching wolves are guarding is not something that can be collected, but something that can be discovered. Therefore, they are scattered throughout the forest and work together to move the treasure to other places before the enemy approaches it. The Chamber of Commerce was tripped up by this strategy."

Raftan nodded in agreement and added, "For this reason, the Chamber of Commerce has also been reducing the number of marching wolves just now. As long as the number of marching wolves is reduced, their efficiency in transferring treasures will be reduced. When the transfer efficiency is lower than the Chamber of Commerce's search ability, the Chamber of Commerce's mercenaries will be able to find the hidden location of the treasure."

Bai Ye interrupted and said, "But time does not allow us to use the same method as the North Sea Chamber of Commerce."

Raftan nodded and said, "Besides, if possible, I would like to avoid hurting these marching wolves. They stay here because of the item. If we take away the item, I think as long as we put a little more pressure on them, they will leave the Wawville Forest on their own. Then, the people of Mount Town can use the resources of this forest again."

"But how can we successfully approach the leader of the marching wolves?" I repeated the old tune, raising my hand and asked.

Hearing this, Raftan's eyes lit up with a strange look. "No, we don't have to avoid the eyes and ears of the marching wolves to get close to their leader. As long as we make their leader unconscious first, then we can go to the leader's hiding place. Without a leader, the marching wolves may not know how to move the treasures they are guarding."

Bai Ye raised his eyebrows in appreciation and added, "Also, even if they moved the treasure, we can at least understand the nature of the treasure through the memory of their leader. Once the intelligence of the target item is determined, it will be much easier to find it."

"But how are you going to knock down the marching wolves from a long distance? Even archery can't shoot that far!" I continued to play the role of questioning.

Raftan looked at Bai Ye and offered a suggestion: "All living things need to eat and drink. We can hunt some animals and have Miss Bai Ye process them. Then, we can pretend they are alive and send them to the mouth of the marching wolf leader. When the marching wolf eats the medicine, it will fall into a coma, and we can go there to reap the rewards."

"So what if the wolf leader happens to have no appetite?" I asked.

This time, Bai Ye interrupted and answered my question on behalf of Raftan.

"If Raftan's plan fails, then we can think of another plan. We have a whole night anyway, and even I haven't been able to come up with a method that will be 100% successful at this stage. However, the current time is around 8 o'clock in the evening, which is exactly the time when the marching wolves are most active in foraging. If we are lucky, Raftan's plan may really succeed."

Since Bai Ye agrees, then I naturally have no objection.

"But if we return empty-handed this time, wouldn't it be a big loss for us to have offended the North Sea Chamber of Commerce for no reason?"

"Also, although Bai Ye said that she could handle the North Sea Chamber of Commerce by herself, she was recently made an idiot by the system and was poisoned by the tonic she developed. With her terrible luck, is she really a man?"

However, there is no regret medicine in life. Now that I have come, I will make the best of it. For now, I will just be a good guest adventurer and find the treasure that the North Sea Chamber of Commerce can't find! That's right, we must find it! Then we will show it off in front of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce and make them angry to death! Then let Bai Ye deal with them! They will never be able to turn over a new leaf!

In my heart, I vented all my frustration about working in vain on the North Sea Chamber of Commerce, and followed silently behind Raftan and Bai Ye. They were heading for a small river near the Marching Wolf Head, while Little Spot had turned back into Big Spot, and was following Bai Ye's instructions, running into the cypress forest to hunt animals needed to set traps and prepare ingredients for our dinner tonight.

I have to say that the uses of small spots are quite wide.

In addition to being brave and loyal, it also knows how to act cute and please its owners. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the best pet of the year.

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47. Stars in the Sky (White Night)

(white night)

In Wauville Forest, half past nine, the snow has melted.

Ulu and I huddled together by the campfire to keep warm.

At the same time, I also divided my thoughts into two parts. On the one hand, I was chatting and laughing with Ulu and the others, and on the other hand, I was carefully controlling the dead goose to fly high in the sky, overlooking everything on the land through its eyes.

The marching wolves were unaware of the pair of prying eyes.

Even the leader of the marching wolves is like this.

As a leader, the wolf leader's fur color and body shape are unique. He has two cool tails and a lion-like fluffy mane on his neck. These characteristics only evolved slowly after he officially became the leader. It is said that the commander-in-chief among the wolf leaders will have six tails and more than 100,000 wolves under his command, making him a terrifying army.

But in Siyan's eyes, this marching wolf leader was just a young rookie.

He is not even older than Raftan, so he is limited in terms of experience.

Without knowing puppetry and memory reading, his strategic thinking had a fatal blind spot.

For example, right now, I am controlling two undead boars to fight frantically on the cliff opposite them. During the fight, one of the undead boars pretends to be accidentally pushed off the cliff and falls to death in front of the marching wolf pack.

In the cruel nature, there are many animals that die because of fighting among their own kind.

Among the wolves, a marching wolf ran to the wild boar's corpse and sniffed around. After checking it several times, it called other companions to bite the wild boar's limbs together and carried it back to their settlement.

It was the dead of winter, and the number of living creatures was already scarce. Even if there was a team to replenish their strength, the wolves in combat mode would hardly have a chance to eat their fill. When hungry, animals would instinctively lower their guard and make filling their stomachs their top priority. So, the adult wolves that had returned to the settlement immediately began to eat.

However, the leader of the marching wolves on the side just watched his men eat calmly.

If I set the sleeping powder to take effect immediately, then Miss Paladin's battle plan would be ruined, but would an experienced, mature and elegant woman like me really make such a low-level mistake? Impossible.

The sleeping powder is set to take effect after thirty minutes.

About fifteen minutes into the meal, their leader finally let down his guard and joined in the feast. Upon seeing the leader appear, the younger wolves automatically stepped aside to let their general enjoy dinner first. They also formed a guard formation to keep watch for their leader.

On the other hand, the campfire of the three of us was burning brightly, so warm that my half-dead body seemed to have regained the temperature of a living person, but I knew in my heart that it was only an illusion.

I smiled like a human and said to Uru and Raftan, "The wolf pack leader has started eating. They are hungrier and younger than I thought. We only need to wait here for half an hour and then we can go harvest the prey that has fallen into the trap. However, judging by the current situation, we may still have to fight the wolves later."

"What do you mean?" Raftan asked.

I guessed based on past experience and answered, "The wolf leader eats fifteen minutes later than his subordinates. So, when he finds his subordinates fainting after eating wild boar meat, he will start to plan his own funeral. He will probably arrange heavy troops to guard the treasure or himself, so that we, who have unknown intentions, cannot approach them smoothly."

“Is that so—”

Raftan responded sullenly, then lowered his head again to continue wiping and oiling his cross sword. Judging from her performance along the way, this paladin obviously did not like unnecessary killing. Every time she swung her sword was accompanied by great awareness, and her will was extremely firm and strong. She could withstand the devil's temptation and was not shaken by reality.

To put it bluntly, people like her are the ideal cannon fodder for those in power.

For them, dying in battle is just a great honor.

crackling...

crackling...

Because of my report, the scene became silent, with only the bursting of sparks remaining.

Ulu quietly nestled in the belly of Big Spot (the nickname given to the stitched dog by the poster lady) to keep warm. Since dinner, the little girl started to have a runny nose, probably because she had a cold. I prescribed some medicine for her to suppress her symptoms, but bacterial infections ultimately have to rely on her own immune system to heal.

Because of Ulu's condition, I began to want to end this trip as soon as possible.

About thirteen minutes later, bursts of wolf howls were heard from the sky.

Those wolf howls were not ordinary animal language, but a secret code set by the marching wolves themselves. Therefore, even if I learned Drus's animal language, I could not understand the content. However, judging from the images sent back by the dead geese, the marching wolf leader did not surprisingly follow my script...

The wolves began to gather around their leader.

Their vigilance instantly reached its peak. Of the three dead geese I controlled, except for the one I controlled in the secondary perspective, all the others were shot down on tree branches by the wolves using long-range attacks. Besides the dead geese, the rest of the creatures, big and small, in the cypress forest also suffered badly because of this ruthless army, and they all swarmed and fled towards their hills.

The restlessness in the hilly area was so intense that even though we were several kilometers away, we could still feel it a little bit.

Zheng──

Raftan sheathed his sword and stood up.

Seeing this, Ulu stretched lazily in a half-asleep state.

Vi──Wu──Vi──

I blew the whistle and called two horses.

These two horses are not the ones we rode to the Wovell Forest. Considering the dangers in the forest, Raftan had already let them return to the town of Root on their own. The two horses now belong to those idiots from the North Sea Chamber of Commerce. They sent us information about the marching wolves and left us horses and all kinds of supplies. I really don’t know how to thank them best.

How about this, when Uru and the others return to Mopolis, I will personally make a coffin tailor-made for each of them?

Haha, that must be another very interesting game.

With Raftan as the vanguard, the three of us, two horses and one dog, began the assault.

At this time, the marching wolf leader had not fallen yet, and it seemed to have realized that we were the mastermind behind it.

As we got a little closer to the edge of the hill, a few wolf soldiers blocked our way.

However, after just one encounter, Raftan knocked them aside with his unsheathed cross sword. In the process of clearing obstacles, we did not even reduce our speed of advancement, and we were unstoppable.

However, those wolfhounds were just abandoned pawns used for testing.

Through the howling of wolves, the wolfhounds quickly reported the outcome of the battle back to the leader of the marching wolves.

Unfortunately……

Their leader is now sleeping on the hill.

The marching wolves were vulnerable without their leader, so I didn't need to take any action. With Raftan and Little Spot leading the way, we successfully arrived at the hill where the marching wolf leader was. The hill was already densely packed with marching wolves.

"One corpse explosion will kill dozens of wolves." I said to Raftan calmly.

"This is a formation for a last-ditch fight." Raftan expressed the thoughts of the marching wolf leader.

Either you keep the treasure or you are completely wiped out.

Our abnormality frightened their leader, and he took an unconventional approach.

After hesitating for a while, Raftan also came up with a decisive action plan: "I will be the spearhead. We will directly charge into their encirclement, and then set up a temporary defense line next to their leader, so that you can read his memory on the spot."