Following the footprints, Feng Chou headed northwest for another seven or eight kilometers. He was already at the foot of Veron Ridge. A low ridge extended from Veron Ridge into the forest, blocking Feng Chou's way.
He followed Qiankun Pagoda's guidance and sneaked up the ridge. A large goblin camp appeared in front of him.
The location of this goblin camp was very good. It was located on the flat top of the ridge. There was a small spring in the camp, forming a trickling stream that flowed down the mountain through the wooden fence on the side of the camp.
Within about 50 meters of the camp, the trees were cleared. Even the shrubs and tall weeds were eradicated, forming a 50-meter-wide open space around the camp.
Judging from the size of the camp, this tribe should be between one or two hundred people.
This size could only be regarded as medium for a goblin tribe.
Feng Chou carefully sneaked closer to the goblin camp.
There were a lot of strange things around the goblin camp. Tripwires with bells were the most common thing.
Feng Chou carefully approached the camp. He avoided no less than ten tripwires along the way. These tripwires were made of very common vines. Some of the tripwires were even living vines, which were difficult to identify. The main purpose of these tripwires was not to make the intruder fall, but to connect some bells, firecrackers, and the like. They were excellent warning traps.
Sneaking closer to the camp, Feng Chou looked inside through the gap of the camp fence and was shocked. Inside the wooden fence of the camp, there was a gray wolf tied up at intervals.
The gray wolf was a small wolf. Although its combat power was far less than that of a warg, its sense of smell was far sharper than a warg's.
Fortunately, he used invisibility magic, which could block the emission of smell very well. If it was an ordinary Rogue, he would have been discovered by the gray wolf's sensitive sense of smell at such a close distance.
The Rogue's "Shadow Sneak" skill could also form a shadow barrier around the body to help with invisibility. Although this barrier could also block smell, it was far less effective than Invisibility. Only when the Rogue's profession level reached the higher level would the effect of this skill surpass that of Invisibility.
The advantage of Shadow Sneak was that its energy fluctuations were very weak and obscure. It was not easy to be detected by detection spells such as "Arcane Eye."
Feng Chou carefully observed around the camp. He soon found the target of this operation. It was two Troll tied up in a large hut deep in the camp.
Troll was a large creature slightly taller than an ogre and slightly thinner than an ogre. This creature was born with a higher creature level than an ogre. When it reached adulthood, it was a level six creature, but its intelligence was lower than that of an ogre's, with an average of six to seven.
Compared to an ogre, a Troll's strength advantage, this creature was very agile.
Another characteristic of Troll was that they had a strong regenerative ability. Even if their limbs were cut off, if they could press the limbs back to their original place, they could regrow in a few minutes. Even if their heads were cut off or their waists were cut off, they could still regrow.
If a Troll's limbs were not put back in place after being cut off, the Troll would also regrow new limbs within a few days. However, if a Troll's head was cut off or its body was not put back in time after being cut off, it would die.
This powerful regenerative characteristic made Troll almost unafraid of injury and very difficult to deal with in battle.
Because of their low intelligence and strong combat power, Troll were often kept as thugs by the goblins.
Under the large hut in the center of the camp, there was a simple forging workshop. A dozen strong goblins were busy in the workshop.
In the camp, there were several teams of goblins patrolling. Most of them were wearing rough inlaid leather armor, and some were holding simple flintlocks in their hands.
Compared to the inlaid leather armor commonly used by human Rogues, the inlaid leather armor made by the goblins was very rough.
The excellent inlaid leather armor of humans was made by embedding hexagonal metal plates in the middle of two layers of leather armor that had been processed by alchemy. The plates were fixed to the inner and outer layers of leather armor with copper nails. There was a gap between the plates, and the gap was filled with an alchemy material that had excellent toughness, elasticity, viscosity, and magic conductivity.
Finally, the two layers of leather armor filled with alchemy material were fused into one by alchemy, tightly binding the hexagonal metal plates and separating them from each other.
Wearing this inlaid leather armor, the flexibility was not much worse than ordinary leather armor, but the defense was comparable to metal armor of the same level. Moreover, because the plates were separated by leather and alchemy glue, they would not make the collision noise of ordinary iron armor. It was especially suitable for Rogues.
This inlaid leather armor was the perfect combination of human leather, forging, and alchemy. It was the pinnacle of human craftsmanship.
The inlaid leather armor of the goblins in the camp was simply nailed to the outside of the leather armor with copper nails or iron nails. It was completely different from the excellent inlaid leather armor of humans.
The guns in the hands of the goblins also looked very rough, but the caliber was very large.
Obviously, although the goblin camp was not large in scale, it had a very good heritage.
This kind of goblin tribe with a good heritage might even have the existence of a priest. Feng Chou could not deal with it alone.
After circling around the camp, Qiankun Pagoda had already thoroughly explored the entire camp.
Feng Chou carefully withdrew from the open space around the goblin camp and retreated into the forest.
Lurking in the forest and looking at the goblin camp not far away, Feng Chou's face showed a somewhat proud smile. He thought for a moment and began to set up monitoring equipment on some of the big trees around the open space around the camp. He installed a signal relay device on the top of a big tree that stood out from the crowd.
Feng Chou used more than ten surveillance devices to surround the entire campsite. Only then did he leave satisfied.
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The sky was getting dark. When the lanterns were just lit, Chorre came to the tavern and replaced the old cripple who had been busy for the day. The four workers who had been busy for the day were also replaced by the other four workers who had rested for the day.
From now until late at night, the tavern's business was at its best.
Feng Chou staggered from the corner of the tavern to the bar counter and put the wooden wine glass in his hand on the bar counter.
The sound of the wine glass hitting the bar counter was somewhat ear-piercing even in the noisy tavern. It attracted some of the nearby drinkers to look at Feng Chou.
Chorre stopped wiping the glass in his hand and frowned at Feng Chou.
The fat and kind Chorre looked harmless, but if someone really thought that he was harmless and easy to bully, he would definitely regret it.
This guy was once the deputy leader of the Red Lion and had the strength of a level-8 warrior and a level-4 rogue.