Jiang Hao and the others quickly followed.

Once outside the gnoll camp gates, Yun Xinghe had already put away what he was carrying, put his hands behind his back, and swaggered forward with the gnoll vanguard army.

Surprisingly, no gnolls bothered them along the way.

After walking about two hundred meters, he began to intentionally or unintentionally distance himself from the gnoll army.

After walking about 200 meters more, and seeing no trace of the gnoll army in the snowstorm, Yun Xinghe whispered, "Run!"

Then he dashed off to the left front.

Jiang Hao and his companions dared not linger and quickly followed behind him.

Suddenly, a loud drumbeat erupted from the gnoll camp behind them. The deafening sound seemed to affect the wind and snow in the area. When the group turned around, they saw that the entire sky over the gnoll camp was illuminated, and the swirling snow could not block out the light.

Yun Xinghe jumped high and said urgently, "Oh no, the gnoll army is here! Quick, quick, carry me away! If we're any slower, we won't be able to escape!"

Jiang Hao picked up Yun Xinghe in one go, but there was an oval-shaped magic shield around his body, which was slippery to hold. Jiang Hao had to wrap his arms around the bottom of the magic shield, as if he were holding an egg.

However, this meant that Shu Si couldn't be carried. With his average player stats, he couldn't run fast at all. Jiang Hao looked around and saw that Sun Zhi had the highest stats, so he had Sun Zhi carry Qiu Si while they ran.

The group hurried towards the northwest of the territory, and Jiang Hao finally had a chance to ask, "What was that thing you just took out? Why did those jackal people call you 'Secret Envoy' as soon as they saw it? You wouldn't happen to be a jackal people's secret envoy, would you?"

Yun Xinghe found standing uncomfortable, so he simply lay down inside the magic shield. As a result, the magic shield outside changed shape according to his body shape. What was originally a vertical egg became a horizontal egg, which made Jiang Hao extremely embarrassed. He wished he could just throw him out.

However, Jiang Hao was worried that the jackal army behind him might catch up at any time, so he could only think about it bitterly in his heart.

Yun Xinghe found a comfortable position to lie down, then took out a hexagonal cylinder with a hexagonal seal on each side. Jiang Hao saw that an old jackal's head was engraved on the cylinder, and the seals on both sides were sealed with red wax. There was also a strange patterned stamp mark on the wax seals.

Jiang Hao, of course, didn't recognize the thing and asked, "What is this?"

Yun Xinghe said, "When you did that special mission with the gnolls, there was a gnoll named Ryan, do you remember him?"

Jiang Hao nodded.

He remembered it perfectly! It was standing at the crossroads outside the forest in the beginner village, its attributes and skills were ridiculously powerful for Jiang Hao at the time. It was also the first world boss Jiang Hao had ever killed. But what did it have to do with this cylinder?

Yun Xinghe said, "It was because of its betrayal that our Lingxu Management Committee learned of Aorong's plot. And this cylinder was used to hold Aorong's letters. It's just that the seal on this bamboo tube was opened at the time."

"Later, when I was bored, I made a new seal based on the pattern on the other side, resealed it with red wax, and then stamped it with the seal to restore the bamboo tube."

Yun Xinghe pointed to the patterns on both sides of the seal and said, "How about it? Aren't they exactly the same?"

Jiang Hao's eye twitched. He wondered how idle this man was to even think of doing something like this.

Fortunately, he restored the other side; otherwise, those few people would definitely have been dragged into the gnoll army as a suicide squad today.

Jiang Hao couldn't help but give Yun Xinghe a mental thumbs up, saying, "Damn, it has to be my brother Yun, ruthless and taciturn!"

Yun Xinghe wanted to pat Jiang Hao's head, but the magic shield would deform with his movements and always cover his body, so Yun Xinghe had to give up. Then he whispered, "Alright, alright, we've escaped the encirclement of the gnoll vanguard. We should just change direction and run north."

Jiang Hao was startled and turned sharply to look back. He saw a line of dark figures weaving towards his left rear in the snowstorm. As the group continued running forward, the line of dark figures finally disappeared into the snowstorm.

Jiang Hao was just feeling relieved that he had brought him along when a jackal's voice suddenly came from behind: "Who goes there? Stop!"

Jiang Hao was so startled that he almost threw Yun Xinghe off, and he quickened his pace.

Then another voice came: "What's wrong?"

"Reporting, Captain, I think I smelled the scent of humans. I wasn't sure if there was anyone there, so I called out."

"Can you smell it too?"

Jiang Hao's heart was in his throat. The faint sound of chasing footsteps came from behind, and the group didn't dare to breathe. Each step they took was on their tiptoes, but their speed unconsciously increased.

After running for about ten minutes, the footsteps chasing from behind finally stopped.

"Is there some mistake? I can smell it occasionally, but it's always very faint. Or are there a large number of humans ahead? Never mind, let's go back first. When the general's army arrives, we'll just sweep through, and they'll all be doomed!"

The voices grew softer and softer until they could no longer be heard. The group continued to run on tiptoe, holding their breath. After another ten minutes or so, the man behind Jiang Hao, whose real name was Li Duofu, finally tugged at Jiang Hao's robe.

Jiang Hao turned his head and saw that Li Duofu's face was flushed red. He was running around gesturing wildly and asking if he could breathe.

Jiang Hao looked at Yun Xinghe and then realized that he was looking at everyone with a nonchalant attitude, looking like he deserved a beating.

Yun Xinghe then smiled and said, "Alright, alright, you can breathe now! The jackal has been thrown several miles away."

The group stopped, each of them clutching their knees and panting heavily. Zhu Lin's face was flushed red, and her forehead was covered in a fine layer of sweat. She glared at Yun Xinghe with her large eyes, her expression suggesting she wanted nothing more than to beat him up.

The others didn't look very friendly either. Yun Xinghe touched his nose and said, "Actually, you can't blame me. Gnolls are always very cunning. I was just afraid they would catch up with us."

Jiang Hao had the highest attributes among the group; even after running for so long, he wasn't even out of breath or red-faced. He asked, "Have the jackals caught up?"

Yun Xinghe's face suddenly turned deathly pale. He jumped out of Jiang Hao's arms and said urgently, "Holy crap, what happened to my talent?"

Jiang Hao was startled and quickly looked at him closely. He saw that the man was trembling all over and did not seem to be joking.

Jiang Hao's heart sank to the bottom.

A voice drifted from behind Jiang Hao: "Holy crap, awesome. Ha...ha...this talent is incredible! Ha...ha...to be able to ignore the wind and snow, ha...to see all the gnolls dozens of miles away! Ha...ha...holy crap, this is definitely a fountain commander!"

Jiang Hao and Yun Xinghe exchanged a glance and immediately looked in the direction of the sound. They saw the mage, Shen Zhi Yin Yang, whose real name was Zuo Ming, panting heavily as he turned his head to look in the direction of the gnoll camp.

Jiang Hao and Yun Xinghe exchanged another glance.

Holy crap, this guy can steal other people's talents?