The group marched at full speed in battle formation. Although Chen Lina and Fan Li are young and have little actual combat experience, they have both received a full set of formal and complete training as witchers, including squad operations. So he easily integrated into the team, and with everyone marched towards the temporary base of the expeditionary force.

Halfway through, Jing Yuanming and the team he led separated from the others and ran in the other direction.

Fan Li noticed that the team members behind Jing Yuanming were extremely agile and dexterous, and after the two teams separated, they saw a few of them sprinting and changing direction, and they actually disappeared from the sight and even perception of others within a short hundred meters! If they hadn't known in advance that such a group of people existed, I'm afraid Fan Li and they wouldn't even notice the slightest anomaly.

These team members are the main demon hunters of the Forest of Thorns, as well as the top assassin-type talents of several other big studios, and at this moment, they are all concentrated under the command of Jing Iris, the "King of Assassins", and they are going to the nearby demon city to reconnoiter and find a target.

The rest continued on their way, finally returning to base after two hours.

"What is this? It feels familiar. Van Li looked at the grand complex in front of him...... Or is it more appropriate to call it a city or a fortress, "This is the base camp of the expeditionary force?" ”

"How's that, isn't it?" Someone in the team asked, "It's all our territory, so don't worry." ”

"Isn't that good? It's crazy, I can't imagine it! Van Li made no secret of his surprise because he knew a complex of buildings of this style and specification.

Just over ten days ago, after they and Wox came out of the Flame Gate, when they looked back, they saw a similar scene!

"Gate of Dawn......" Fan Li spat out a few words, he had long known that this expeditionary force was coming to the Remnant Sun Realm from the golden gate guarded by the Dawn Knights, "This is the military camp on the side of the Remnant Sun Realm outside the Dawn Gate!" ”

"What about the demon legions stationed here?" Fan Lizhi couldn't help but ask.

"Ran!" The Axe King spat out two words.

"Ran away?" Fan Li couldn't believe it, "What a joke!" ”

"That's true, when we rushed into the Remnant Sun Realm, we organized a death squad, which was specifically responsible for opening up the situation and stabilizing a landing space...... The result was not used at all, because there was not the slightest resistance. The whole fortress is empty! ”

"Have you found out why?" Fan Li couldn't help but ask, after all, such an inexplicable and undefended fortress was easily reminiscent of trap schemes such as the empty city plan.

The Axe King patiently explained, "No anomalies were found...... Except that there are no demons stationed here! Jing Yuanming led his men to search the entire fortress, but the final result was that the demon legion originally stationed here had been evacuated in an orderly manner. ”

"Is there any emergency that needs to be dispatched by them?" Fan Li speculated, "Uncle Gatekeeper said that the Remnant Sun Realm has not been peaceful recently, because of the Demon King Army that attacked our Human Realm......"

Such speculation is not unreasonable, after all, they already know that the legions guarding the Golden Gate are basically about to forget their original duties - no one has really broken into the Demon Realm through the gate behind them for hundreds of years, who cares about such a "legend"?

If there is a real emergency, it makes sense to mobilize the legions here to attack.

"Perhaps, we have similar speculations, but we can't be sure yet." The Axe King was noncommittal.

Because even if the whole army attacks, it is impossible to really not even want their own nest and pour out of the nest, right? The logistics staff, as well as the recruits and the like, will still be left behind, right?

However, in the face of overwhelming facts, the top leaders of the expeditionary force also put aside these meaningless speculations. Now that you have a great opportunity in front of you, what do you want to do so much?

Hurry up and occupy this bridgehead! It's a big deal to arrange more people to conduct inspections and set up large-scale ceremonies to eliminate all threats.

Originally, the expeditionary force had the consciousness of sacrificing at least a quarter of its personnel first, and it was also necessary to storm and seize this vanguard position, opening a passage for the follow-up troops to enter the demon realm.

Now that the first steps of the plan can be completed without a single soldier, and even a whole military base can be picked up for nothing, what is there to complain about?

The current situation is extremely favorable to the expeditionary force, so the high-level adjusted their strategy in time, choosing to take advantage of the time when the demon did not find out, seize the time to send more supplies in, make sufficient strategic reserves, and even prepare to rely on the fortress to fight a protracted war, and completely bring this fortress and the Gate of Dawn into the control of the human realm!

If they could, the king and the top of the alliance would not even want to rush into the attack, as long as they firmly occupied this base, the results achieved could fully compensate for the loss of the Knights of the Flame.

But......

"We've gotten to the point where we have to fight." The Axe King's face turned pale, and he said with great solemnity, "Even if you don't hesitate to expose your own existence, you must also take the initiative to attack and start a decisive battle with the demons!" ”

"Why?" Chen Lina couldn't help but ask, "Why do you have to risk going out of the city to take the initiative to attack when you can defend the city?" ”

The Axe King and the other witchers could only smile bitterly.

Because the society in the country is already in turmoil - the Knights of the Torch, one of the pillars that have guarded mankind for generations, have been wiped out, which is no less than the tip of the sky falling for ordinary people!

Even if the Star Alliance is still there, the Kingdom is still there, the Knights of the Dawn and the Banner Brigade are still there, on the whole, the human world is far from being broken!

But that's not the case for ordinary people...... In their concept, the Knights are the patron saints of the entire human world, not to mention sacrosanct, but labels such as "invincible" and "invincible" have always been firmly attached to them.

Such an existence was suddenly defeated by a demon and blocked in the house, and the door was destroyed! The impact of slaughtering one city is even greater than the slaughter of ten other cities!

The feeling to the world is that "the sky is falling"!

Speaking of which, the kingdom and the alliance also feel a bit of a bitter fruit of their own suffering. In the Dark Ages, in order to stabilize the social order and improve people's morale, they gave a special meaning to the two remaining knights, giving them a majesty and connotation far beyond that of ordinary witcher workshops.

The effect is naturally good, but the side effects that come with it also occur.

Once the existence endowed with "divinity" in this way fails, the evil consequences will be far beyond the normal level.

For example, if they were the ones who were destroyed, they would cause an earthquake far greater than the destruction of the Knights of the Flames, but in the eyes of ordinary humans, the shock would be even slighter!

All in all, because the news of the fall of the Knights of the Flame has gradually spread. Even if the kingdom and the alliance tried to block the information, the Knights of the Flame were the largest force of witchers after all, how could it not attract people's attention when they suddenly disappeared out of thin air?

Being able to delay the outbreak of public opinion by nearly twenty days is already the limit.

Coupled with the betrayers of the Dark Star Alliance, an atmosphere of panic and despair swept through the kingdom like a typhoon. A heavy haze weighed down on people's heads.

The kingdom was able to survive the two hundred years of darkness, and social stability was an absolutely important factor.

At that time, human beings were so desperate that they forgot their fears, struggled almost instinctively, and unconsciously carried through the dark ages and ushered in the dawn again.

The upper echelons of the kingdom know that this is the last darkness before dawn, and it will be extremely difficult, but after that there will be bright sunshine!

Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, and any negligence at this juncture may lead to a tragic end that falls short.

So no matter what, it can't collapse! This is the consensus of all the high-ranking and wise men of mankind.

That's why this "extremely unwise" expedition can be called a gamble to use the stability of the human world for the next 50 years!