Time flies, time flies, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day.

Two days before Charles's birthday this year, a heavy rainstorm that lasted for five days finally stopped.

It was as if all the moisture in the sky had been drained, and the overcast sky a few days ago was suddenly cloudless, and the scorching sun was in the sky.

The woods were extremely hot after the rain, and there was not a hint of wind.

All kinds of insects are flying in the forest, some looking for food, some looking for mates to reproduce.

Some bugs use up the last bit of their life after mating, falling from branches or the air to the ground.

A slime jumped out of the grass and pressed its whole body against the insect corpse, and the mouthparts under it swallowed the insect corpse along with the surrounding fallen leaves and weeds.

A ray of sunlight shone through the gaps in the leaves, and when the slime jumped to the spot where the pillar of light passed, the transparent body emitted a grass-green glow.

At this point, the slime suddenly stopped, and then jumped in the other direction.

Searching for the smell of food, the slime burrowed into a black crevice, and its soft, watery body allowed it to move through the narrow space and then to the place where the meal was located.

A fish-man who had been ambushed in the woods had been in ambush for three days, dressed in clothes full of bush branches.

During these three days, he could only eat two seaweed dumplings a day and drink a small pot of water.

Thirst and hunger weren't his worst enemies, the bugs and other critters in the woods were the biggest threats.

Now that they have learned to use the juice of some herbs to repel the bugs, this is what makes him feel better.

It's just that the previous rain soaked his seaweed dumplings, which made him have diarrhea today after eating the dumplings last night.

He can't do much during the incubation period, and he can only lie on the spot to solve the problem.

However, a soft, cold slime burrowed into his pants and came to the crotch.

Now he could only pray that his companions around him did not see this, otherwise he would lose face.

By noon, the sun was at its highest point of the day, and several fishmen who had been ambushed in the forest breathed a sigh of relief. They had been ambushed from the east, and it was not pleasant to be exposed to the sunlight shining on their faces through the woods.

This is the eastern edge of the Durian City area, where the fishmen are tasked with ambushing a terrifying being.

Beginning in late May, rumors began to spread about elves summoning giant green tentacle monsters on a mountain.

The fishmen of the Crystal City region swore that they had seen countless tentacles suddenly grow on the top of a mountain, and at first the elves tried to storm the mountain and failed, and then they summoned the green monster on the full moon night and slaughtered their comrades on the mountain.

Immediately afterward, another rumor about monsters began to spread among the fishmen of the west.

Not long after the tentacle monster was summoned, an unidentified creature with the nickname "The Tireless Golden Ghost" appeared.

The monster was not tall, with a white face devoid of any facial features and golden spikes on its head.

At the beginning, several patrols in the west of the Crystal City area disappeared one after another, and there were no dead or dead people.

At first, the fishmen thought it was the elves who had attacked and captured the captives, so they strengthened the front patrols.

But within two days, a baggage detachment carrying supplies from the rear to the front-line stronghold suddenly disappeared.

From the convoy and the people to the carts and supplies, all disappeared without a trace, only the bloodstains and traces of the battle left on a section of the road indicated that there had been a battle here, and the convoy and the people did not see anyone alive or dead.

The fear of the unknown began to sprout quietly among the fishmen.

Reinforcements were sent from above to search the area, and even demons were sent to help.

After three days of calm, another shocking piece of news came.

A reinforced baggage detachment was scheduled to transport supplies to the two westernmost strongholds in the area, but they did not return to their rear bases on time.

So a large number of fishmen rushed to the west, ready to encircle the arrogant enemy.

What they didn't expect was that the defenders in those two strongholds, along with the baggage team, were all missing.

Especially in the vicinity of and inside the strongholds, there was not a trace of a fight, and the vegetables being washed in one of the stronghold's kitchens were even soaked in buckets full of water.

Finally, this time, the fishmen found a living place to witness everything, and he was the man of the baggage team.

He escaped when he went to the grass in the distance while the baggage team was resting, but he later stepped on a poisonous snake when he fled in a panic, and then was bitten and found dying.

"I saw only a golden shadow......"

"Finally a white mist came out......"

"Everything is gone......"

After saying a few words, the man died, leaving the surrounding fishmen to look at each other.

Next, the fish people caught nothing.

It seems that the "golden monster" left the area, because a few days later, the same disappearance was reported from the eastern defense area.

Fear began to spread at the fish-man level, and rumors continued to spread.

Eventually, the fishmen came to an agreement that the golden shadow was a monster summoned by the elves on that full moon night.

Disappearances continue to occur and tend to move from east to west.

The high-level of the fish-man organized several encirclement and suppression, but not even the slightest useful clue was found, and even the encirclement team had an inexplicable disappearance.

There was even a patrol that went out at night, and the last few fish-man soldiers disappeared mysteriously, and there was no trace of a battle on the patrol route.

For a while, panic spread to the west with the disappearance.

Eventually, the golden monster showed its feet.

One day in mid-June, a demon patrolling the air noticed a white mist inexplicably appearing on the ground, so he immediately sent a signal to call for reinforcements.

When three patrols of fifty people arrived from three directions, they saw that the demon who had just signaled in the air was falling, and the patrol immediately launched a magical attack towards the white mist.

The mist was blown away, and only a small figure with a golden glow stood on the ground, and the ground was empty, and even the demon who had just fallen into the white mist was nowhere to be seen.

Three patrols simultaneously attacked the eerie shadow.

What the fish people didn't expect was that the golden shadow suddenly raised the silver broadsword in his hand and charged towards them without retreating.

That's how one patrol survivor described the battle afterwards.

"Magical attacks were ineffective against him, whether it was the magic attacks we unleashed or the magic shields, they all failed under his weapons, and some icicles were even cut in half by him. ”

"Physical attacks are not much better, the sword can't break through the golden armor on his body, and even if it does, it will be blocked by the second layer of armor inside. ”

"And his attack was too sharp, and every knife he swung was a magic attack, and I was stunned when I was slashed in the left waist. ”

"You said you forced him to death with a wheel war?"

"What can't be done, really can't be done. ”

"When we lost most of our troops, reinforcements came, five hundreds. ”

"At that time, they went up to consume each other as if they were dead, but he showed no sign of being consumed at all. ”

On the contrary, the commander who rushed up later was consumed by him. ”

"You ask the last, in the end, there are more and more reinforcements, but everyone doesn't dare to go up, so they can only surround him. ”

"Then a large white mist suddenly appeared around him, and I was rescued and was outside the encirclement, and I watched the magicians and archers attack the white mist together. ”

"The white mist has cleared, and the ground is full of corpses, but the golden enemy is gone, and there is no trace left, and we still haven't figured out how he ran away. ”

"Alas......"

From that day on, the "tireless golden ghost" became the nickname for the existence of this unknown creature.

Only two days later, news of another attack came from the west of the crime site, this time a large stronghold with demonic support had been attacked.

The colony was burned down, and all the fishmen and demons stationed there were gone.

As the unidentified enemy was heading west, the fishmen set up one blockade and ambush after another along the way.

But none of these blockades or ambush circles worked, and the golden figure could always be avoided like a ghost.

Eventually, the fishmen made a desperate gamble and set up a thick defensive line in the Durian City area to wait for the golden figure to appear, hoping to kill him before he entered the forest sea.

As night fell, Charles, who had been hiding from the rain in a tree hollow, woke up.

He stretched, then took out the cans and drinks and ate them.

He will then have to cross a two-kilometer-deep mountain blockade before returning to the 168th Brigade.

After not getting enough rest for a long time, his spirit has reached its limit, like a taut bowstring that will break at any moment.

Under the effect of the "Soul Vision", the fish-man who had been ambushed around the tree for three days was nowhere to be found, and he had long been able to see it clearly, and when he got up in the morning, he even saw a slime jump into the pants of a fish-man.

After eating and drinking, Charles left the hollow and used his shadows to sneak through the night woods.

A fish-man lurking in the bushes became his first target, suddenly emerging from the shadows, first using a soul shock to stun them, then slashing their necks, and finally teleporting the corpse along with the slime to a depth of several meters.

After eliminating the first target, he dived into the shadows again.

Early the next morning, Elizabeth, who was far away in Osmanthus City, received an unsigned report.

The report said, "I have arrived at home, and the debt has been paid off." ”

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