Tents are the kind often used by merchants and mercenaries, and they are usually made of two layers of materials, the outer layer is waterproof and sheltered linoleum, and the inner lining, which is some soft and strong fibers-

It could be animal skin, cotton or flax.

A few people moved the tent and the rope to the flat clearing in the forest one by one, and quickly began to move.

The Gross and the others, as well as Stewart, who used to be a mercenary, are familiar with this kind of thing, splicing and combining the brackets, laying fixed stake feet, and then tying them firmly with ropes, and the tarpaulin is unfolded on the bracket, and after a while, a tent is propped up—

There are two tents in total.

The space inside the tent was not too large, it could only accommodate four people at most, and for the sake of taking care of the lady and the children, the mother and daughter of Lacey and Lorna and Miss Mage were allocated one, while the other six men had other arrangements.

Camping in the wilderness, vigil is a must.

Without any argument or anything, the men were divided into two teams, Gross, Oliver, and Cameron were in charge of the first half of the night, and the second half after midnight was handed over to Stewart, Scott, and Levine.

"Mr. Gross, don't you really need my help?"

Although the ride was tiring, Miss Mage made some suggestions for this arrangement, and Gross put his palms on the girl's shoulders almost subconsciously, and said in a serious tone:

"Lack of sleep is the enemy of a lady's appearance, so please get some rest!"

Speaking of "appearance", no woman dared not to care, not even this girl who had always been plain-faced, she stared at Gross's face, saw that this man looked extremely serious, but hesitated slightly, and there was no refusal -

Gross rested his two gray paws on her shoulders, and he didn't seem to meet substantial resistance.

After the group settled down, they began to prepare dinner after dark.

An orange bonfire was lit in the middle of the clearing, and dinner consisted of some dry food with them, pickled jerky, dried fruit, and hard black bread, and Gross and Scott brought water from a nearby babbling stream with buckets, and boiled a pot of hot soup in a small iron pot—

As the heat rose in the pot, the jerky was cut into thumb-sized pieces with a sharp knife and thrown into the hot soup, and the salt was crumpled into a fine powder by his fingertips and sprinkled evenly.

It's a simple dinner, but camping in the wilderness with such a combination of meat and vegetables is not too bad.

Half an hour passed, and dinner time was spent in intermittent conversation.

Levine got up, patted his mouth, yawned, and slipped into another tent. Miss Mage patted her little belly, blinked her eyes, and looked at Gross—

"Well, Gross, let's go and rest first. If there's any movement, remember to let me know. ”

Stewart said that his daughter Rhona had just been woken up by Lacey, and after eating a little something, her spirits were instantly lively again, but the wild in winter was obviously not suitable for little girls to run around, and Stewart took his daughter's little hand with pity and handed it over to his wife Lacey.

Vigil.

Gross sat down on the ground, half-reclining against a thick piece of dead wood; Oliver crouched beside him, holding a dead twig and stirring the wood from the campfire from time to time to keep the flame steady and steady; Cameron stood across from Gross, looking at the forest in the distance, as if he was thinking—

For the time being, none of the three spoke, falling into a brief silence.

The night of January 15 is the time when the moon shines.

The eye stretches from the leaping orange campfires to the vast secluded wilderness, and in the distance is a vast silver-leaf forest, with trees of varying heights and formations, and behind the clumps of branches, the moonlight shines like frost, shimmering silver on the woodland, streams, and trunks of tall trees.

It was quiet, and because of the season, there were no crickets lurking in the grass at this time.

It was only after a moment that Cameron suddenly noticed that something was wrong-

It was so quiet that there was no movement except for the whimpering wind in the forest and the soft sound of firewood burning in the campfire in front of him, as if it were near the forest, and the birds that were usually everywhere seemed to have disappeared without a trace.

"Mr. Gross, we seem to have encountered something unusual."

The man was wearing a shabby leather armor and a warm brown cotton jacket on the outside, and after he said this, he took a few steps in the direction of the Silver Leaf Forest—

Gross stood up, and Oliver followed Cameron's line of sight, casting his attention to the forest in the distance.

Under the shadows of countless branches, the scenery in the forest was a little blurry, but as he approached step by step, suddenly, Gross's nose twitched slightly, and he smelled a trace of burnt smell in the air—

At the same time, he and Cameron also saw the scene in the forest.

Large swaths of trees were pitch black, and there were a lot of charred dead branches on the ground, and under the shade of those trees, the whole woodland was covered with a black powder and some strange shapes—

Dead animals were charred by the flames, and it was difficult to distinguish the exact shape.

The Silver Leaf Forest has survived a fire!

Oliver stayed where he was, and he saw Gross stop after walking some distance.

"It seems that in the last two days, something bad has happened in the Silver Leaf Forest."

"A bad fire, maybe just an accident, it's too dry in this season, and every year there is a winter in Nogo."

Cameron looked at the picture in front of him and came to a conclusion-

However, Gross froze his brow, he could fully imagine the fire in the forest that day, and at this time, he could probably be sure that it was the "sunset" that he and Ladia had seen in the Gray Rabbit Village in the evening two days ago.

The Great Fire of the Silver Leaf Forest.

In his memory, this forest did suffer a fire with a wide range in the year of the Red Moon, but it was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster deliberately committed by some guys-

And the culprit is none other than the "Black Blade Warrior" Sask!

Gross quickly came up with the name—

After experiencing the "Rebellion of Ambition", the skeletal Sask rose to fame in the land of the dead, Dill. In the years that followed, he quickly became one of Diel's main generals, and he set a fire in the Silver Leaf Forest just to stop Talon's knights-

Such a crazy move speaks to this guy's combat style, ruthless, decisive, and unscrupulous for the sake of the end.

Just then, Gross took a few steps further and noticed traces of horse droppings along the road.