After leaving the old man, we did not enter the village, but walked directly through the sea of flowers to the temple.

In that mossy forest, we met the people left behind by the tribe. They have already transported all the materials in the ancestral hall to a safe place and hid them. To be on the safe side, these people did not put all the supplies together, but divided them into several parts and hid them separately. They told me that they had completed the transfer of supplies after dark and returned to the area. In this forest, they found the bodies of several mercenaries. Obviously, the mercenaries who made it all the way into the mountains did not expect that someone would set up traps and traps behind them. The dead mercenaries were lightly armed, not like fugitives, but more like they had been sent to the back to warn or inform them. But the way to come, starting from the sea of flowers, all the way to the outside of this forest, there were no traps or traps that were touched, and no traces of people walking. It is almost certain that no mercenaries passed through this forest alive.

After listening to what these people said, I asked them to leave the weapons and equipment of the dead mercenaries and dispose of the bodies properly. Then rearrange the traps in the forest to prevent any more mercenaries from retreating. Then, with Dole and Agmar, I moved on.

At this time, the moon rose. The bright crescent moon shone coldly in the washy sky. I took Dore and Agmar with me to the meadows of the valley. Under the cold moonlight, the meadow was empty. We saw the traces of the explosion in the place where the mercenaries were stationed the day before. Not far from the explosion, there was a new pile of graves, which seemed to be the burial place of the mercenaries who died in the explosion. I just don't know how many mercenary bones are buried in this grave.

The rest of the mercenaries have already left the camp.

At the end of the creek by the meadow, we found two bodies dressed in mercenary attire. Agma looked at the two bodies and told me that they had died of poison. Agma said that the two men were poisoned not because they drank the water from the river, but more like they were poisoned when they washed their hands or faces with the water from the river, and then they fell headlong into the river, causing their whole body to die of poison.

Further on, the corpses of mercenaries can be seen from time to time. Some of the corpses were covered in flesh and blood, and they were hung from tall trees. Some were smashed into a pile of flesh by rocks, some were pierced by wooden stakes, and some had their legs or heads cut off by sharp objects.

We found more corpses outside that silent forest not far from the lake of the gods. Judging by the reasons for the death of these corpses, it is more like there was a fierce battle here. I looked at the situation in front of me and imagined what it was like. I followed the distribution of the corpses all the way into the silent forest. There was a silence in the emptiness of the forest, and in the faint light, I looked closely, and I saw a few scattered objects that had been discarded on the ground. There are mercenary weapons and equipment, and there are also long-force shotguns of the tribesmen. Apparently both sides died in the battle. And the corpses of the dead in the forest naturally become food for the man-eating trees.

I exited the forest and went on again with Dorh and Agma. Approaching the lake, Doler contacts the three men who are rearranging the traps and traps. This is also the only three people left in this area by the tribe, and two of them are injured and have some difficulty moving. I couldn't bear it, so I rehabilitated the two wounded. While I was recovering from the wounded, another man who was not injured told us about the cause and circumstances of the battle. This battle was basically the same as I guessed.

After we left the first day, the tribe sent more than a dozen more people here to strengthen the area. Later, the people left by the tribe and the people who were added were combined. When sniping at the liaison team sent by the mercenaries by the lake of the gods, the mercenaries on the meadow arrived ahead of schedule. The people left behind by the tribe could not resist and had to lead these mercenaries into the silent forest. Fierce fighting ensued between the two sides, with heavy casualties among the mercenaries and almost all of the people left behind by the tribe wiped out. These three people were able to escape because of their familiarity with the silent forest.

I quickly recovered the two wounded. The two wounded men watched in disbelief as their pain suddenly faded, and for a moment, they could not even say words of gratitude. Agma looked at the two people in a daze and said, "You can only be in a daze, and you can't even bow to the gift?" ”

I stopped Agmar's seizure and said, "Let's not talk about that, let them continue to set up traps and traps, and we need to get to the temple as soon as possible." ”

When we arrived at the lake, we saw that under the cold moonlight, the lake water was sparkling and surging in layers. On one side of the lake, the mercenary camp was brightly lit. They did not even pull out the camp and march forward, but joined forces in one place. This was a bit of a surprise to me. I decided to re-enter the camp to see what was going on.

I had Dole and Agma go around one side of the lake to meet me at the pass where they had entered the temple, and I approached the mercenary's camp from the other side of the lake. As soon as I approached the mercenary's camp, I was strange again. I saw that the camp was brightly lit, but it was silent. There were no patrol posts moving around, not even a single sentry. Could it be that everyone is sleeping peacefully in the dead of night? Could they still be careless after being attacked? It's not like these mercenaries. I wonder what kind of medicine are being sold in the gourds of these mercenaries?

I decided not to hide my whereabouts and walked into the mercenary camp with such a swagger. As soon as I walked into the camp, I saw that it was an empty camp. I walked into the first tent, and when I lifted the curtains, I saw that the lights were on, and the huge tent was empty. Look at another tent, the same is true. In order to prevent another sneak attack, these mercenaries actually sang the Tale of the Empty City? Or is it used as bait to set a trap for sneak attackers, an ambush? I instinctively became alert.

Further down the camp, I finally saw a mercenary on the side of the road, a mercenary who had fallen to the ground and died. The mercenary was heavily armed and armed with a gun in both hands. It appears that he was attacked while on patrol, but because the attacker was moving too quickly, he could not react before he fell to the ground and died. I got closer and couldn't help but smile when I saw the wounds on the dead mercenary's body. The mercenary's head was blurred, and a bloody hole in his chest was the work of the Thousand-Faced Beast.

I went further, and in and out of several tents, I found several more bodies in the same condition.