For some reason, Hogan felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it. It was a beast-like instinct that made him vaguely feel that he was in some kind of danger.
Hogan's intuition was very accurate, and it had even saved his life a few times.
Logically speaking, with this feeling, he should immediately give up on this kidnapping and run far away, but he couldn't let it go!
That was two hundred and fifty thousand crowns!
This dilemma filled Hogan's heart with anxiety.
Hogan, who was pacing back and forth, inadvertently glanced at Cizé, who was lying on the ground. He suddenly stopped in his tracks, as if he had thought of something.
Looking at the unconscious Cizé, Hogan muttered, "There's a rank 4 wizard in Baron's house. If he has a tracking scroll … Wouldn't he be able to locate this guy through magic? Then wouldn't I …"
At this thought, Hogan suddenly clapped his hands. "No wonder that bastard Allen insisted on going to the Fishtail Mountains, which looked even more dangerous. That guy used to serve a wizard, so he must have thought of this long ago, that bastard!"
At this thought, Hogan flew up a large tree and looked down at the plains below the mountain.
As he looked, he muttered, "Five knights, two squads of soldiers. Me and that bastard Allen, plus that dwarven gun in his hand, should be enough to deal with these people …"
Jumping down from the tree, Hogan walked to Cizé's side and lowered his head to look at him for a while. As if he had made up his mind, he pulled out the longsword at his waist and aimed it at Cizé's heart, ruthlessly stabbing it down …
The unconscious Cizé twitched slightly for a while before losing all signs of life.
This scene left Feng Chou dumbfounded. Was Hogan crazy?
Why did he kill Cizé now?
This wasn't part of his script at all!
After killing Cizé, Hogan grabbed the corpse and ran into the dense forest to the west without hesitation.
Even though he didn't know what was wrong with Hogan, Feng Chou was certain that the ogre Magus had already located Cizé's location. His subordinates were most likely on their way here.
According to Feng Chou's calculations, it wouldn't take long for the Ogre Magus' subordinates to arrive if they used Flight.
Feng Chou thought for a moment and let the Green Owl fly to a big tree beside Cizé's place of death. He let it rest on a stable branch and then switched places with the Green Owl.
After switching places with the Green Owl, Feng Chou appeared on the branch and took out a surveillance device. He placed it on the branch and aimed it at the spot where Cizé died.
After setting up the surveillance device, Feng Chou switched places with the Green Owl. The Green Owl flapped its wings and flew towards Fishtail Mountain.
After arriving at Fishtail Mountain, the Green Owl landed in the bush from before. After activating the Invisibility Ring, Feng Chou and the Green Owl switched places.
Half an hour later, Qiankun Pagoda's scan detected someone approaching him in stealth. Feng Chou flipped his hand and took out the rifle on his back. He turned around and aimed at the empty space behind him.
Hogan canceled his stealth and appeared in front of Feng Chou's muzzle.
Feng Chou was shocked. "Why are you here?"
Then he looked at the bloody Cizé in Hogan's hand and asked in surprise, "What happened?"
Hogan sneered. "If I didn't come, would I have stayed at the top of the mountain to be besieged?"
Feng Chou said, "I don't understand what you're talking about."
Hogan pointed at the bloody Cizé and said, "Did you already think that Baron Amborite could use magic to locate this guy?"
Feng Chou heard this and instantly understood why the other party suddenly went crazy and killed Cizé.
He shrugged and said, "Of course, I thought of this possibility, but the probability of it happening is very low. You have to know that Biolocation is a rarely used spell. I thought that the probability of a Baron preparing such an uncommon spell scroll was very low, so I didn't remind you."
Hogan said, "If the probability is very low, then why didn't you want to stay behind to guard the hostage?"
Feng Chou laughed and said, "The probability is very low, but it doesn't mean that it's impossible, right?"
Hogan was suddenly angry, feeling that this guy was even more shameless than himself.
Ignoring the other party's righteous indignation, Feng Chou pointed at the corpse and asked, "Do you know what you did?
You killed my 100,000 crowns, you bastard! "
Hogan looked at Feng Chou, who was full of dissatisfaction and doubt, with a cold glint in his eyes, but he quickly suppressed the killing intent in his heart and said, "The Baron only sent five knights and twenty squires to make a deal with us. We can totally kill this group of people and take the ransom."
Hearing Hogan's idea, Feng Chou was stunned and questioned, "What if these people didn't bring the ransom?"
Hogan said, "That's impossible. Five knights and twenty squires are not enough to rescue Cizé from our hands by force. Since they don't have enough force, they must have brought the ransom, unless Baron Amborite doesn't want his genius successor anymore."
Feng Chou heard this and thought that Hogan did not know how terrifying the power behind Baron Amborite was, but of course, he would not remind him. He pretended to think for a while, then shrugged and said, "Well, I hope you're right, otherwise …"
After reluctantly coming to an agreement, the two of them put Cizé's body in the grass and hid in the bushes thirty meters away from the body.
Hogan looked at the bushes where Feng Chou was hiding forty meters away, and a trace of anxiety flashed across his face. The other party had already refused to lie in ambush with him and had begun to blatantly show that he had ulterior motives, but he could not figure out what the other party was trying to do.
After the two of them lay in ambush for a while, Feng Chou's expression suddenly changed.
In the image transmitted from the monitor on the mountain peak to the east, three people suddenly appeared on the screen.
Of these three people, one was wearing medium-sized armor and holding a mace with a hammer covered with spikes in his hand. His armor was covered with a loose robe and a cloak embroidered with a black fist holding a white light.
The other two were wearing black inlaid leather armor. One of them held a pair of heavy short swords in his hand, and the other held a pair of light daggers in his hand.
These three people appeared out of thin air, apparently using Shadow Sneak and Invisibility. After getting close, they found that the target was not there, so they revealed themselves.
Feng Chou was extremely familiar with the Art of Invisibility, and was no stranger to Shadow Stealth. Hence, he could easily tell that the man in the chainmail had used the Art of Invisibility.
On the cloak behind this person, the black fist holding a white light was exactly the same as the mark on the ogre priest at Avon Lake.
The two people wearing inlaid leather armor appeared from the shadows, which meant that they were Rogues, and Feng Chou judged that their levels were definitely not low.
Among the three people, the priest in the medium-sized armor was obviously the leader. The two Rogues wearing inlaid leather armor turned their eyes to him, waiting for him to make the next decision.