The night was dreamless, and in the early morning of the next day, the morning sun was hidden by a light mist, and a group of people set off quietly.

Among the several baggage carriages behind, Zhong Junxiu occupied one of them, and was driving the horse, Emma put on a robe and wrapped in a turban and a face cloth, just like the women of some Middle Eastern countries in the original world, only showed a pair of eyes, and covered her slightly blue skin and elf ears.

After walking for more than three days, the team finally reached a circle of forest on the edge of the lizard swamp before dusk.

Once here, the convoy slowed down, and in a short time it was in an open field with more than a dozen tents.

In the clearing, you can see a number of broken stumps, which are still alive, and these stumps are hundreds, enclosing this open space the size of a football field, and it is obvious that the trees have been cut down with swords, axes and other sharp weapons not long ago.

Zhong Junxiu commanded his two men, and began to move the things on the truck to the warehouse tents designated by these Tiger Mercenary Regiments, commanded by Emma, and he himself took the money and wine, and among the hundreds of mercenaries stationed here, he found a squad leader in charge and chatted.

With some psychic energy in the conversation, coupled with Zhong Junxiu's eloquence honed by his own rich knowledge and experience, it was only a quarter of an hour for him to set out the information he wanted and gain a deeper understanding of this place.

Let's start with the terrain.

The terrain of the lizard swamp seems to be the cause of the upwelling of the underground river at the same time after the ruins of the ancient temple inexplicably rose from the ground, causing the terrain to become more muddy, and only light and agile guys such as short people, elves, professional thieves, and mages can move freely in the swamp, like knights and warriors in full body armor, in this place they are simply like tigers with teeth and claws pulled out, and they have no effect.

The terrain has become more harsh, restricting the entry of some people, but for a mercenary group like the Tiger Mercenary Group, which has a lot of elite members, with the blessings of mages and many members of various professions, there are only some members of the front row who were originally used as charges and meat shields, and the exploration operation may lose more people, but they can still pick out dozens of people to go to the ruins of the ancient temple with the hundreds of people stationed here, and the remaining part of them are guarding this camp plus responding.

Except for this clearing of the Tiger Mercenary Regiment, this circle of woods surrounding the entrance to the Lizard Swamp; There is also another force of the Dragon Witch Cult, who mysteriously toss some things that others can't understand all day long; The men sent by Luskan were stationed on a ship, near the entrance to another swamp on the coast.

These three great forces did not break into the swamp in a big way, but because the name of this swamp is Lizard Swamp.

This swamp was originally the base camp of the lizardmen, more than a dozen lizardmen tribes, large and small, with a total population of nearly a thousand, after the appearance of the ruins of the ancient temple, they were affected by some strange influences, and their tempers became violent and warlike, and the first batch of people sent into the swamp by the three major forces at the beginning are now buried under the swamp, and nine out of ten have been ground into the weak corrosive swamp.

"The ruins of this ancient temple are like some kind of evil spirit, those lizardmen tribes are guarding it in a circle, we have sent several squads several times, tossing back and forth and killing and wounding more than a dozen brothers, but there is no way to break through these bedbugs in the swamp at once, now only a few powerful assassins and thieves in the mercenary group mixed with some archers, forming a team of three or three, a total of more than twenty people, using guerrilla methods, around the lizardmen periphery patrol members slowly kill, the progress is very slow......"

The team leader was drinking wine and eating animal meat, his heart was very comfortable, and his mouth naturally leaked, so that Zhong Junxiu knew the details here.

The other two forces are similar, due to the drastic changes in the terrain, some guys who weigh more than 100 pounds will not be able to walk comfortably in the swamp, and it will be difficult to walk an inch if they weigh dozens of pounds, and they can only rely on some light body occupations, and it is difficult to get those lizardmen.

After all, this is the home of these lizardmen, and the Tiger Mercenary Group has been grinding here for nearly half a month, sacrificing more than a dozen people to kill almost eighty lizardmen, which is only about one-tenth of the total number of lizardmen.

On the other hand, Luskan's Arcane Brotherhood and the Dragon Witch Cult both have more mage classes, and the number of lizardmen they have killed in the past half month has increased to nearly three hundred.

The number of lizardmen here is still more than half of what it was at the beginning, and after this whole month, the three major forces will probably be ready to send all the manpower here to go straight to the ruins of the ancient temple.

It turned out that Zhong Junxiu was still a little worried about competing against these people, and after he didn't know the situation here more clearly, he felt a little more sure of himself.

It would have been much easier for Emma to sneak in on his own if he had left him here to pick it up, and if he had been careful during the adventure, he should have been able to find out more important information, and if the ruins of this ancient temple really had anything to do with the elves, maybe he would be able to get some things that could be exchanged for exploits in the Sword of Nature.

You must know that Zhong Junxiu borrowed Emma's way to enter the Sword of Nature, originally he was bent on mixing with the decision-making level of the sect, and after he had the right to speak, he would use his means to intervene in affairs, so that the elves of Yongju Island would decide to start a war with the mainland as soon as possible.

Zhong Junxiu's incarnation was also very helpless about being warned by Ai Ou that he could not forcibly influence Faeron with great force, and he also knew that the jade dragon Haas was still monitoring nearby, which was also no way.

If he wants to do what the ontology wants to do, he can only provoke the war in the world of Torel as soon as possible, and then seek the best in the chaos.

And the fact that the elves of Yongju Island assassinated their king by the dark elves can be used as an important fuse for the elves to take the lead in provoking a war.

However, due to the nature and prudence of the elves, this fire is very slow, so Zhong Junxiu wants to secretly add fuel to the fire after gaining enough power in the Sword of Nature, pouring a large barrel of fuel on this fuse and detonating the war.

Zhong Junxiu made an excuse to stay in the camp here for a few days, although it felt a little strange, but he didn't ask too much.

Every night, Zhong Junxiu sneaked into the tent where they slept, of course, with his skills, it was impossible to be detected, and then took advantage of the wide open mental portal of these mercenaries while they were sleeping, slipped in one by one, and then secretly modified their memories and planted obedience orders.