Chapter 417: Hunter and Prey (1)
Malin turned his head to look in the direction they had come from.
Far in the distance, gunshots rang out, but neither Faye nor Jessica could hear anything.
"Let’s change our plan, don’t look for the ogre anymore, let’s find the battlefield first. But don’t just barge into the scene, scout the surroundings first." After some thought, Malin decided to change the course of action; otherwise, their plan would have been to look for the ogres first, searching their camp to see if they could find anything.
"Why?" Faye asked, puzzled.
"I heard gunshots from the direction we came from..." Malin could clearly hear the sound of the gunshots; it was the distinctive sound of the old-fashioned revolvers used by the Northern troops.
To the North, military weapons, Malin first asked himself if he had friends from the Northern army—the 17th Division couldn’t possibly be it, as they had already completed restructuring their equipment.
Military weapons aren’t easily available everywhere.
So, the only possibility... that Lord had come.
Even though Malin had no evidence, his intuition told him that there was only one answer.
In the Capital, the two hadn’t met immediately; Malin only knew from the newspapers that he had been to the Capital and faced questioning.