Chapter 275 – 274 Searching for Code Name “Pangolin”

Chapter 275: 274. Searching for the Code Name “Pangolin”

“Alas, the always reliable Woo Meow Brother made a rare miss, letting us miss a big treasure chest, I see that this copy is estimated to be just a bottom BOSS Kenpot Bite Bone, but it is very cunning with all kinds of means in subtracting, as long as there is a slight mistake, it will let the rewards that come to hand slip away.

This mode can be too thievish!
It seems like if you want to take the full reward, then the requirement for teamwork is very high indeed.”

While Happy Stick and Brother Woo Meow’s teams were anxious and on fire over each other’s duties, the pace on the side of Silver Moon’s Pride Corps was more or less unhurried. Orchid was still in the mood to discuss the copy fight with Lumina beside her, and the waist-thin and leggy Shieldbearer looked around vigilantly with her Iris Shield as she said:
“No wonder it’s labeled as a ‘limited time copy’, I’m guessing that the development team might be making an attempt, and might have to modify it later on.”

The girls led a bunch of administrative players through the dangerous jackal camp, under the protection of the elite guards towards the meeting place that the Blood Rat Gang had arranged with the mysterious guy codenamed “Mountain Piercing Armor”, they also suffered from the attack of the crazy jackal barbarians, but they didn’t have any difficulty in coping with it.

The pressure was on the other two teams, and the Sisters were the T1 team in the game, so they were able to handle it with ease.

But unlike the calm sisters, the executive players traveling with them were very excited.

They usually rarely had such an exciting experience of fighting monsters, not to mention participating in this kind of super-large team activity. Although what they were good at was not quite the same as most of the players, they also had a heart that wanted to become a DPS.

For example.
“Old Chen Tou ah, don’t rush so fast!”

Heaven’s Chosen Fighting Gray Man and Bricklayer would be holding onto their mentor’s arm for dear life, preventing Old Chen Tou from rushing up to fight the Jackal Man in a physical fight, which was clearly protecting their old man.

But the problem was, even the old man had a fighting heart!
Although he was already dying in the real world, his physical strength was no worse than that of a youngster in the game.

“Let go! You two let go! I’m still a little short of upgrading this sword art.”

The old man of the construction site, Professor Chen, chided his two apprentices with an irritated face:
“When I was young, I was also a militia organized training, than you two this will be much more powerful, besides in the game will not really die, you are afraid of what ah?”

“I am afraid of the development team to call me again ah, the last time you made a sudden drop are fast to scare people to death.”

Playing the gray man spat out a sentence.

But looking at his old Chen Tou’s face that was eager to try, he sighed and winked at the bricklayer to release the old professor again from his own arms and took out the trinket of the heart of the gargoyle that he had opened in a treasure chest after the last time he fought the group, poured out the prepared stone from the specialized psychic energy bag, and let it fly and fuse into a head of a glowing black body with a cool appearance of the battle-type gargoyle.

“You! Protect my mentor! Carry him as he flies away from here when his life is in danger.”

The gray-fighting man pushed up his decorative glasses and gave the order to his gargoyle, and slipped the battle gargoyle’s maneuvering stick into Old Chentou’s hand, looking like he wasn’t going to ask for it back.

In other words, it is natural for students to pay tribute to their mentors, with Old Chen Tou’s “battle fanaticism”, he will probably encounter a lot of trouble in the future, with this thing to protect themselves and the bricklayer can also feel a little more at ease.

This kind of high-level alchemy creature has a certain intelligence, it can understand the orders of the ash-beater, so it flapped its sturdy stone wings and moved its sharp stone claws to protect the side of Professor Chen.

And the old professor curiously reached out and touched this stone life, then turned back with an odd expression and said to the gray man:
“The sturdiness of this summon’s body of yours depends on what kind of stone you used for it, right? Why did you use ordinary granite? Can’t you find diamond in Transylvania? If you can’t, corundum or topaz will do, and you call yourself a designer?

How did you pass geology in undergrad?”

“Enemy attack!”

The small reed name that was flapping its wings in front of it to scout the air suddenly shouted, and the crowd was immediately alerted.

The grey-hitting man copied the large caliber finely crafted dwarven shotgun gifted to him by his beautiful assistant and fired a shot towards the jackal pouncing beside him.

As the low sound of the shot echoed, he spat at his old man as he stepped back to reload under the cover of two shield-bearing guards:
“Crap, Professor, what time is this, can you not point out my mistakes at this point? The stones used in this thing need to have psychic aptitude, I can’t tell you in a sentence or two.

You back off!

Don’t get hurt.”

“Yes, yes, yes, master hurry over to our side, don’t add to the chaos, that said, your thinking is full value 8, right? Why don’t you turn into a Spiritualist?”

Next to the living whole quite good to reach out and pull the old man back.

He, a Trickster, waved his cool Soul Snatching Scythe and threw several curse and damage-deepening ranged spells on the surrounding monsters, the Trickster’s fighting style was rarely frontal, they were better at weakening and toying with the enemy with their evil psychic energy.

Old Huo had obviously gained the essence of this profession, after throwing the spells and brushing up his proficiency, he didn’t continue to fight himself, and backed up behind the crowd, leaving the jackals to the other brothers to deal with.

Facing the doubt of living a whole quite well, Old Chen Tou squeezed his eyes and said:
“It always feels like this psychic energy thing is not very scientific compared to this kind of metaphysical power, I think it’s safer to hold a gun. I’m not like you young people who accept new things easily, I’m old and don’t want to toss the worldview I spent decades molding.”

“Then wouldn’t it be a shame for your full-valued mind?”

Live whole quite well some regrets.

Compared to this professor, his thinking was only 7, and he always felt outclassed.

“Thinking is just an attribute, it also represents not only the manipulation of psychic energy, there is also learning power, this thing is quite complicated in detail, I also specifically asked Mrs. Tris. She clearly told me that it’s not that a high thinking is necessarily suitable to be a psychic master.

But thinking below 5 is definitely not something you can be.”

Next to the mud truck Gühe end of an oversized caliber dwarven trench gun came over to return the sentence, and measured the living whole quite good hand of the Soul Taking Scythe, he explained:

“This attribute put just means you can perceive psychic energy, but perceiving and manipulating are two different things, you can understand that, right?”

“Yes, I just think it’s a pity, after all, in our real world there aren’t any of these explicitly existing gods and ghosts. Since we’re playing a game, why don’t we try something that doesn’t exist in reality?

Hey guys, beat that jackal to near death and leave it to me, I’m going to try extracting the Grudge Charm.”

Live Whole Pretty Good grinned.

There was some sort of bright light flickering in his narrowed eyes, the light of a leap of faith.

“Buzz.”

After the executive players wailed and cleared the group of jackals that had pounced on them, Frosttooth’s Claw, who had scouted the way first, jumped out of the shadows next to him in his trademark nightclothes, and he shook off the blood on the bone dagger in his hand, gestured a few times to his mates, and said:

“It’s up ahead! I found it, follow me.”

Sister Pomegranate at the forefront gave a greeting, and the other administrative players immediately followed.

They all had the team mission of “Finding the Pangolin Armor”, and everyone was interested in the true nature of this mysterious senior agent under the vampire’s command.

Until they saw Hogg, who was anxiously waiting at the border area affected by the spiritual energy of the astral world, this curiosity in their hearts was immediately satisfied in a strange way.

“Why is this jackal this skinny and small?”

The Shoveler exclaimed:

“Don’t they feed it? Why is it so hungry?”

“Guess it was born handicapped?”

The fully-insured semi next to him scratched his chin, surveying Hogg’s size and physique that was out of place with the other jackals, and he said:

“The way this guy is cloaked in a hood reminds me of those guys who are always shouting ‘yesyes’, no wonder it can vampire hitchhiking, this kind of cunning is not something other jackals can possess at first glance.”

“It’s called ‘Hogg’ ugh! It’s an egg, isn’t it, it’s definitely an official egg, isn’t it?”

The living whole quite well in the crowd exclaimed in surprise, then laughed strangely and nudged Knight of Honor Tepal, who was wearing a full suit of armor beside him, as he said:
“Hey, you ‘homie’.”

“The Jackal Lord Hogg in my humble memory was by no means such a weak thing, it was just fate that gave birth to the same evil spirit with the same name in both worlds.

It probably does represent some kind of higher-dimensional will as well.”

Tepal, who was wearing a full-coverage helmet Cos Knight, looked Hogg up and down.

With a stern face, he refused to recognize the skinny jackal who was not as tall as his shoulders as the tough “King of the Woodland Glades” he remembered.

But no matter what, meeting a familiar name in the “other world” is still worth a little bit of joy.

“Hey, Hoggle, what’s up?”

Little Vikrama, who was on good terms with Hogg in the Scarlet Fortress because of his size, flapped his wings and landed beside the jackal, patting Hogg’s shoulder with a big grin and circling around him a few times.

She said: “Why are you here alone? Where are your people?”

“They can’t be made aware of Lord Murphy’s plans just yet, they can’t understand that what I’m doing is a rescue.”

Hogg draped his hood over his body, and after seeing Lord Murphy’s warriors arrive as they were supposed to, he let out a long breath as well, addressing the members of the sisterhood who approached him in the Jackal’s quaint accent:

“Kenport Bitebone is dead for tonight, that fool will be a sad supporting character in the story of Lord Murphy’s great quest, I have no doubt of that.

The problem, however, is that its death will bring chaos to the entire camp, and tens of thousands of jackals running around will make your previous hard work of expelling the bandits from Transylvania useless.

And I’ve been thinking about this for the last few days, and I think I can offer my small, insignificant wisdom to Lord Murphy on this matter.”

“Ding!”

The Arithmetic Pearl popped up with a sound signifying a quest update.

The crowd lowered their heads to see that the plot quest “Finding the Pangolin Armor” had advanced to the second step, and the content was quite concise to only one sentence:

[Hidden Plot Quest – ‘The Birth of a Clan’ has been updated!

Quest content: Listen to the ‘Pangolin’ and decide whether or not you want to help it.

Hints!

This quest has a large impact on certain important subsequent plots, so please make your choices carefully].

The hint attached to this quest caused the administrators in the entire team to start exchanging glances, although players with administrator specialties weren’t necessarily smart, it was safe to assume that idiots were definitely not good at doing admin posts.

It could be said that one of the people here all belonged to the quick-thinking category.

They easily judged from the name and hints of this quest, what kind of ripples this quest would subsequently bring to the already complicated situation in Transylvania.

“This Jackal Clan formed by Hogg will most likely become a friendly force for the players after this copy!”

Live Whole Quite Well flew up a private chat, pulling in the entire team of administrative players as he narrowed his eyes at the others:
“This may represent some sort of attempt at Lord Murphy’s administration of his territory, but the development team gave us the option of whether or not to establish this alien power!
It’s like veteran players saying they’ve encountered similar plot branches before.

It was they who made the choice to save Miss Phemis, and it was they who chose to stay when the city of Cadman was destroyed to make Transylvania what it is now.

The problems we face are of the same nature.”

“That is to say, if we choose to refuse to help this Jackal here, then there is a whole subsequent plot line about it that will be cut right out?”

Moving Man said:

“Crap, this feels like losing five million dollars out of nowhere.”

“Yeah, new plot, new powers and new prestige, and maybe new rewards.”

Old Dirt Truck said as he leaned on his shotgun:

“I don’t know what everyone thinks, but I don’t think we should miss out on all this.

Transylvania deserves some interactable jackals as well, they were born on this earth as well, and according to Lord Murphy, they are part of this earth as well.

What do you say?”

“Hey! You officials aren’t really planning to finish off Hogg, are you?”

Little Vikrama was a bit anxious as she argued her case:
“All you guys can harvest by finishing it off here is a few pieces of broken leather armor, but keep it and keep raising it! It can give us more quests, more money, and more equipment after it has a clan ah. Who would take out an NPC that gives them quests?
Hogg is smart and we were the first to raise it, I don’t care, if you guys don’t want to do this quest, I can make it up to you.

But this Jackal I have to keep!”

“Hold your horses, isn’t this a discussion between everyone?”

Shovel Bro pacified Little Reed Name and then said to the others in the private chat:
“Little Reed Name is right, even if we want to slaughter a pig, we have to wait until the pig is fat, this Hog is obviously out of gas right now, so I suggest we all leave it behind and finish this hidden quest first?”

“I’m worried about the plot aspect.”

The sophisticated Old Chen Tou hadn’t entered the game for a short period of time, and because of his frequent chats with Professor Malcolm, he knew more about the history of this land than anyone else.

He said:

“Jackals don’t have a good reputation in Transylvania, and I heard from Professor Malcolm that a disaster called the ‘Black Plague’ was related to these Jackals.

It was quite a terrible continent-wide scourge.

Do you know what that means?

If we were to leave this Jackal behind and also help it support its forces, then we would most likely be on the opposite side of the other camps on the continent.

I mean, a little bit of bad maneuvering could easily go wrong.

Lord Murphy and Lady Tris may not care, but it won’t be that easy to convince the witch hunters and the blood league knights.”

“Professor Chen is right, this aspect also has to be considered.”

Live Whole Quite Well nodded, but then the guy turned his words around and said:
“However we are players ah, gentlemen! We are all nominally Blood Servants of the Blood Vulture Clan right now, and Transylvania is another last remaining ruined land of a recently dismembered nation.

It is no exaggeration to say that with or without this jackal, our relations with the other powers of the continent are not necessarily as good as they could be.

It would be a bit of a shame to give up this opportunity to cultivate our own power just for the sake of those ‘friends’ we haven’t met yet.

More importantly, I don’t think it’s such a bad thing to have enemies all over the world, if only for the sake of gameplay.
In a situation where you can’t tell who is your friend and who is your enemy, treating them all as enemies is a simple, brutal and effective solution.

If they want to treat us as friends, they’ll pretend they don’t see a jackal clan as a vassal.

If they don’t think of us as friends, they can still declare war even without Hogg and his clan!

What do you say?”

These words made the other small players nod their heads, while Honor Knight Tepal, who had been silent, stepped forward, leaning on his sword and shield, and said in a hushed tone that mimicked the NPC’s exquisitely:

“I have seen the noblest of foreigners, and I have also witnessed the most despicable of humans…”

“Hey, don’t repeat the old Foe’s words ow! Speak your opinion straight.”

“Ahem, what my humble servant means is that it’s all called ‘Hogg’, right? Perhaps it was fate that dropped the hint to raise a ‘King of the Woodland Hollow’ with our own hands.

What I mean, my humble servant, is that we, the Knights of the Riptide, are willing to give this foreign race a chance!”

Though Tepal didn’t utter any valuable comments, after he finished speaking, the other administrative players strangely agreed.

They took on the quest, and it also made Little Reed Name, who had been a bit worried, let out a long breath.

She gave Hogg a wink, and the cunning and clever Jackal immediately stepped forward and nodded his head:

“In order to control the jackals of Transylvania, that brute Ken Potter, it has placed the chiefs of all the big and small clans of this land in its own guard, and those chiefs are the backbone of the jackals of this land, so…”

“So, you mean for us to rescue them?”

The beaten gray man asked curiously, and Hogg shook his head as it whispered:
“No, I would ask you to kill them all! The ones with an alpha are the wolves, the chaotic ones can only be called dogs that run away with their tails between their legs Lord Murphy wants to tame them, and Scarlet Castle has no need for dangerous wolves.

What you want is a pack of dogs, so you need to get rid of those ‘wolf leaders’!”

Ps: Thanks to “Orchid Eyes” brother’s alliance reward, the current owed plus more 30 chapters ~ next month is absolutely fixed! I’m sure you’ll be able to get it done next month! I’ll be back next month.
(End of chapter)