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Then, on this frantic day, I was forced to go on a blind date again, and I had the urge to go to the newspaper, so I came and grabbed me.

……

"This way."

Covered by a magical canopy, dimly lit and identical, dry and silent, Loria corrected her direction from time to time, she had already memorized the route map of the Scarlet Crusaders' patrols, and because of the blessing of the black dragon, she could easily distinguish the direction in the wilderness.

"They may have been delayed by some trivial matter......

Anne, who was a little nervous, said something that even she didn't believe, and she naturally knew that if it wasn't for a very serious situation, the patrol would never dare to change the reserved route and time without permission.

The valley south of the Scarlet Abbey was also plagued by the plague of the undead, but the area that was de facto under the control of the Scarlet Crusaders rarely saw the Scourge or the Forsaken on a regular basis - the dense patrols even cleaned up the animals that had been infected by the plague and gone berserk.

"Eighty percent of them are the good deeds of the weirdos who will be resurrected."

Alice had her own opinion, and she pouted, unwilling to pay attention to the adventurers, because they couldn't kill them anyway...... If Loria hadn't come with her, Alice would never have wanted to do something that seemed pointless to her, beating up the adventurer.

Loria, who was at the forefront, held Ahri with one hand and didn't say a word, she subconsciously tugged at the fur of the big fox, speculating on the few possibilities that the patrol would be late: the best case scenario was that the trip was delayed by the adventurers; She might also see a dozen corpses...... The kind that really died.

In the war-torn era, no one cared about the lives and deaths of a dozen unknown people in a remote corner of the continent, but at some point, Loria's attitude towards the Scarlet Crusaders underwent a subtle change - not like-minded partners, but a little bit of compatriotism.

Moving forward mechanically, the monotonous and eerie environment made them depressed, and even the adventurers were extinct in the dimly lit valley, except for a few twisted and hideous remains of dead wood. Several times, Anne couldn't even figure out if she was really moving forward, and the whole world seemed to be dead except for her silent friends.

This is the norm in the plague-stricken lands.

It's understandable to be crazy after being in such an environment for a long time...... As Anne thought this, Loria suddenly stopped.

"Have you seen anything?"

Loria asked, and after Anne, Alice, and Ahri all shook their heads in the negative, she frowned and pointed to a hillock and said, "We've been walking for an hour, and this is where the patrol ends its route westward." ”

A dozen people just disappeared.

It is not without precedent in the past: a small team encounters a large number of natural disasters and undead gathered by chance, and the whole army is destroyed; Or the whole team defected.

However, these instances never happened so close to the monastery.

"They may have gone off course and ran into the undead cruising outside the valley."

Renault did not have time to spend on the disappearance of a dozen patrolmen, and after Loria reported the situation to him, he gave this reply, and then gave the order to arrest the squad.

"Why are they wanted? Shouldn't we search for them? ”

When Loria questioned, Renault suddenly stared at her with scrutinizing eyes, and after a moment he shook his head and sighed, "You are so kind...... Loria, it's time to face up to the things you don't want to see, and to mature quickly. ”

Loria didn't know why, and she seemed inexplicable.

Kind and naïve? Feeling completely disconnected from these two words, she suddenly became puzzled, and she thought that her uncle should know her very well.

"You know, they're either dead or they've defected." Looking at Loria with a puzzled expression, Renault said in a flat tone: "Wanted and hunting down is the right way to deal with traitors, and if they die, they will not be killed one more time because they are wanted." ”

……

Loria and several other well-connected centurions spoke of the patrol's disappearance, but they all took the same attitude as Renault, believing that the centurion had either defected with his men or had strayed into undead-controlled territory.

She finally knew that in the eyes of these people who had been in war for a long time, it was inconceivable that they would care about the life and death of more than a dozen people.

"Don't they feel suspicious?" Loria complained to Anne in private, "How could the Scourge that remained in the Tirisfarh Glades, often defeated by the Forsaken of the Undercity, suddenly gather and silently extinguish an entire team when King Meow is long since he was far away from the Eastern Continent?" And the Forsaken, who have long had no time to distract themselves from the North, and have always adopted a passive and defensive attitude towards the Crusaders, how could they suddenly come here for no reason to trouble a squad? ”

"It's really weird." Anne nodded in agreement, and she continued, "There must be some anomaly we don't know about...... What does Alice think? ”

"As long as you're happy." Alice, who was shrunk in a chair, said lazily: "Anyway, whoever likes to beat has nothing to do with me." I still have the confidence to protect you two from being caught doing strange things. ”

"I won't be caught doing strange things!" "Because I can't catch a pet, you look down on my strength, damn it!" ”

What was once again a serious conversation suddenly turned into a daily bickering.

Alice was puzzled why she was besieged when she was clearly expressing kindness.

Loria's mind was visibly unfocused, she was thinking about strange things.

Annie, Blazing.

……

For the next few days, there was no further movement from Loria's fears—no one suddenly disappeared, but the adventurer's strategy was in full swing—and she began to wonder if she was really making a fuss.

A few hours ago, the adventurers finally saw the Scarlet Monastery standing on the mountainside, and they were encouraged to rush into it, but they were once again blocked at the most critical moment.

It was only a matter of time before the defense, which consisted entirely of new recruits, was breached, and no one cared too much, as the Crusaders, who had become more familiar with the adventurers, saw them as mobile sparring, and the Scarlet Crusaders had a considerable number of elites deployed in the monastery, and even if the adventurers rushed in, there was no possibility of penetrating and destroying them.

Standing in the entrance hall, Loria, who had come out for a walk at noon, watched the adventurers in the distance gather and once again attack the monastery.