As Pan Liang looked at the goblin thief with a smile, an idea struck him.
When the goblin thief saw the young man, it was not concerned about him at all since he did not have any magic power. It even threatened him with its teeth bared.
Pan Liang instantly rushed to the goblin thief and teased, "Who are you baring your teeth to? Do you want to be beaten up?"
Seeing that the situation was not right, the goblin thief immediately prepared to escape. However, when it turned around, Pan Liang appeared in front of it again.
The moment it saw Pan Liang again, it knew that he was an expert.
The goblin thief cleverly threw down its backpack from its body and prepared to escape.
It had used this trick before as most people attacked it because of the backpack. In fact, the backpack was not of much use to it.
The goblin thief simply had the peculiar hobby of stealing things. The things in the backpack were not useful to him. He probably had to remake another backpack in the future.
Pan Liang continued to chase after the goblin thief without paying attention to the backpack.
"Go on running. I'll see where you can run to. With your speed, you're not even as fast as the snail in front of me."
At the realization that it could not escape, the goblin thief wrapped its hands around its head and squatted down to beg for mercy. "Don't kill me. I can help you steal things. I'm very useful."
"It depends whether my contract owner wants to kill you. But if you cooperate well, I can let you go when the time comes."
Hearing that he had a chance of survival, the goblin thief hurriedly nodded. "I'll cooperate well as long as you keep me alive."
By the time everything was ready here, Shirley still had not arrived.
Having lost track of where the goblin thief was, she walked back slowly with her head lowered.
When she was close to the carriage, she was surprised to find the goblin thief waiting near the carriage.
"Excellent! This goblin thief is really stupid. It seems that I'm going to become rich today."
Pan Liang snickered at the side. "Rich? That's not possible. I've already searched through this goblin thief's backpack. How could I leave the good stuff for you?"
However, this did not stop Shirley from being excited. Even if there was only one gold coin, she would probably be happy for a long time.
"Don't run, goblin thief!"
The goblin thief felt a wave of bitterness in his heart. "I won't run. If I dare to run, this big boss behind me might directly kill me."
When Shirley was about to attack the goblin, she saw Pan Liang sitting beside the carriage.
"Pan Liang, help me, and I'll share the items in the goblin thief's backpack with you."
Pan Liang smiled and said, "If you can't even catch this goblin thief, you'd better not go on the mission."
"Ah, I'm so pissed. You're actually not helping me. If you weren't my familiar, I would..."
"Oh, how dare you be pissed. If I weren't your familiar, what would you do?"
Shirley snorted. "Hmph, I'm going to ignore you. Let me catch this goblin thief first."
Because of Pan Liang, the goblin thief did not run away. Instead, it took the initiative to attack Shirley.
Pan Liang had told it that he would let it go as long as it successfully defeated Shirley.
Clearly, he cheated the goblin thief. How could it defeat Shirley? He simply made it a target for Shirley.
Although Shirley's magic talent was great, she had very limited actual combat experience. In fact, she hardly had any experience.
Her Fireball Skill might be very powerful, but she could only throw it without being able to judge the situation in advance.
At this point, she did not dare to apply the Fireball Skill. She was afraid that she would break the backpack of the goblin thief and consequently fail to get the things inside.
Shirley currently used icicles the most. There were five or six icicles floating around her, and she shot them out one by one.
As the goblin thief dodged the icicles nimbly, it kept approaching Shirley.
Shirley's speed was slower than the goblin thief. Once the goblin thief got close to her, she would be in danger.
Pan Liang, who was beside her, could not stand it any longer. "Can't you use those icicles consecutively?
"Just give it a hailstorm and see how it can dodge."
"Do you think I don't want to do that? I can't do it."
The goblin thief was getting closer to Shirley. If it took another step forward, it would be able to hit Shirley.
At this moment, Shirley smirked. As soon as Pan Liang made sense of what was going on, he nodded in satisfaction.
"Well, it's not bad, but the trap is mediocre."
A vine suddenly appeared under the feet of the goblin thief, who took another step forward, and wrapped around its feet.
Shirley took a few steps back and said with a laugh, "Hahaha. Pan Liang, did you see that? I can still catch this goblin thief even without your help. You won't get any of the treasures in this backpack later."
Pan Liang shook his head. "Hurry up and deal with your prey, or it'll run away later."
Shirley turned around, only to see the goblin thief cutting the vine on his leg with a small knife.
"Ahhhhh. You're planning to run away, huh? Watch how I'll be dealing with you."
As a mage, Shirley subconsciously cast the fastest spell.
A fireball whizzed past and hit the empty space beside the goblin thief. A loud explosion rang out and the goblin thief was rooted to the ground.
Shirley easily snatched the backpack from the goblin thief. Then, she emptied the backpack before returning it to the goblin thief.
"You can go. Come and find me after you steal more things."
The goblin thief did not dare to leave right away. It turned around and looked at Pan Liang. Only after he nodded did it leave.
Shirley rummaged through the items on the ground, but she could not find anything valuable.
"What? It's a piece of meat and a seasoning bottle. Wow, the seasoning is not bad. It's very expensive."
Shirley then realized something was wrong. The seasoning bottle was the same as the one Pan Liang took out earlier.
"What's going on? Did you put this in?"
Pan Liang shook his head with an innocent expression. "How would I know? All these items belong to the goblin thief."
Shirley was not deceived. She said in exasperation, "You b*stard, you've already taken all the good stuff and even made me beat the goblin thief up. What else do you want?"
"I'm trying to train you." Pan Liang waved his hand. "If you don't fight more, how can you deal with monsters that appear during your mission?"
Shirley was furious. "You'll be around when I encounter monsters, won't you? You're my familiar. As a familiar, how can you be so lazy? I'm really pissed."