Chapter 86: Wolf Tracks
When Yaqis heard what Levi said, he was stunned for a moment, and then shouted excitedly: "Boss! I-" "
Hurry up and go ahead to scout the way, I don't recognize the people in Hewan Village. Road." Levi waved his hand seemingly impatiently.
Yaqis nodded heavily, and then continued to walk in front of the group of people to clear the way.
To be honest, after these few days of contact, Levi became more and more fond of this boy.
Yaqis has great talent and potential, and his character is also very suitable for Levi. He is very suitable to cultivate into an independent and loyal follower.
If the subordinate relationship is maintained only by money and interests, Levi will worry about whether his subordinates may betray for the sake of interests when facing greater interests.
Therefore, his employment principle is to provide sufficient benefits to his subordinates while also establishing a solid emotional bond. Only such subordinates will be loyal enough.
Just like Harland and Bellam, the treatment he usually gives is above the quota, and at the same time, he always maintains respect in private. He calls each other uncle like the original person did when he was a child, and he has never acted like a lord.
For these two people, Levi really dared to trust each other with his back.
Of course, the prerequisite for establishing an emotional bond is that the other person is not a completely mercenary person.
Yaqis is a very good candidate in Levi's mind.
First of all, Yaqis loves money. Maybe it was because he had gone through a period of hard times before and he was very keen on making money. Even this time when he said he would take Li Wei to Hewan Village for a delicious meal, it was because of Li Wei's wallet.
However, although Yaqis loves money, he is quite principled and has a bottom line.
When Li Wei asked him to save Harland and the two, Li Wei gave him four medium-purity magic crystals, equivalent to 200 gold coins. This was money that Yaqis could not earn after a year of hard work.
But although Yaqis loved money, he only wanted one medium-purity magic crystal and threw the remaining three directly back to Li Wei. This was the first time that Li Wei was very satisfied with this 16-year-old boy. .
Later on, Yaqis also showed his value in personal abilities.
For example, his superb archery skills, his ability to navigate the complex terrain of the Evernight Forest, and his intimate knowledge of the distribution of various high-level monsters in the Evernight Forest
all made Levi want to acquire this talented ranger.
Until just now, Yaqis actually wanted to terminate the contract with the villagers and hunters of Hebend Village who were familiar with him and took the risk to explore the situation in Hebend Village himself.
This made Levi completely determined to conquer Yaqis. If this young man can be trained properly, he can definitely become his right-hand man in the near future.
After walking for a while, Yaqis in front sent a signal, asking several people to quickly come forward to join them.
Levi and the other three did not dare to neglect, and soon arrived under a giant spruce tree where Aqis was.
"Boss, look, this should be the hunter from Hebend Village who left a secret mark before."
Levi and the other three squatted down and carefully examined the corpse in front of them.
This hunter was wearing an animal skin hunting suit and had no other weapons except a hunting knife in his hand, not even a common hunting bow.
There were not many injuries on the body, except for a fatal wound on the neck - three parallel wounds that cut the carotid artery. It was the massive blood loss that caused the hunter's death.
"He must have been dead for two or three days. I didn't recognize what kind of monster it was for a while.
The scar looked a bit like a wolf's scratch, but there were no powerful wolf monsters nearby, and generally wolves Monsters also bite their necks with their mouths, not their claws." Just as Yaqis was puzzled, Beram suddenly spoke.
"It's a werewolf. This is a werewolf's attack method. And looking at the gaps between the three scratches and the width of the scratches themselves, I guess this should be the work of a fourth-level werewolf." "
Werewolf?" Yaqis felt a little confused. Incredible, "This is the Evernight Forest. Why are werewolves here? Aren't the kingdom's army confronting the orc army on the front line?" "
It is indeed a werewolf. We have dealt with orcs a lot, and we are very familiar with werewolves."
Harland on the side also nodded and said: "Yes, I also feel that it looks like the handiwork of a werewolf. This group of beasts is like this when they kill targets weaker than them."
Yaqis once again carefully observed the surrounding environment. , he really found a clue.
"Maybe it really is a werewolf. I only saw the footprints of the hind paws, not the footprints left by the front paws." Yaqisu asked again: "Did the front line collapse? How come the werewolves sneaked in here?"
"No, the front line can't collapse so early," Levi said with determination. After thinking for a moment, he added: "It should be a small group of elite orcs coming from the Evernight Forest."
Bellam took a sip. He pursed his lips and said: "It is indeed possible. When the battle situation reaches a stalemate, the orcs, who have the advantage in strength, are likely to divide their forces to open up a second battlefield, forcing the kingdom's army to retreat.
Or send a small number of elites to harass the kingdom's army's retreat. Use this to destabilize the frontline army."
"Boss, what should we do?"
"This shouldn't be far from Hebang Village, right?"
"It's not far, it'll be there in another hour's walk."
"Since this hunter is roughly two or three He was killed by a werewolf here a few days ago, and it is so close to Hewan Village, so Hewan Village is most likely in trouble."
Yaqis couldn't help but feel a little depressed when he heard these words, but he knew that Levi said is the truth.
"But it stands to reason that werewolves will not stay in Hebend Village for too long. Since they came here two or three days ago, I think they should have left long ago. Why don't
we go to Hebend Village and look for possible Maybe we can get some useful information from the survivors."
Aqis' face just showed joy, but Beram next to him directly refuted Levi's idea.
"Lord Baron, I think this is inappropriate. The werewolves must have killed all the villagers in Hebend Village.
Even if there are survivors, they should have escaped early. The probability of us going to Hebend Village to find survivors is too small. .
And this kind of orc army sent to penetrate the back is basically elite, and the strength is definitely not weak. If we go to Hebend Village, we may fall into the trap ourselves." "
Uncle Beram, it's not that bad, the orcs There is no reason to stay in Hewan Village for so long, and we have Fat Zi. As long as we are careful and if we feel something is wrong, we can immediately let Fat Zi fly away with us."
In the past few days, Levi's Fat Zi has been emblazoned high in the sky. Behind the clouds, Fat Zi helped carry luggage and other items.
In the end, under Levi's insistence, Beram had no choice but to follow Levi and walk cautiously towards Hebend Village.
Harland: Bellam, you make me look stupid!
(End of chapter)