Greenwood City is a large city in the southwestern part of the kingdom.

Although the Chinese controlled Arano and Alvita, for Greenwood, after all, it did not reach the point of soldiers coming to the city, and even the Duke's Palace did not conclude whether the Chinese wanted to invade some places or attack Greenwood.

However, no matter how the Chinese act, Greenforest City cannot take the initiative. Due to the previous series of defeats in Arano Town, none of the vassals under the Duke of Greenwood City were willing to fight the Chinese.

It usually takes at least four days for the army to march from Alvita, so many people feel that there is still time, except for a few who choose to take refuge, but most choose to stay and watch.

Located close to the Elven Kingdom, Greenwood City is the most important trading city between the Iberian Kingdom and the Elven Kingdom, through which a large number of goods from the Elven Kingdom spread to various areas of the kingdom. As a result, the city is inhabited by a small number of elves and many more half-elves. Most of them gathered on the western side of the city, forming a community of elves and half-elves. The architectural style here is quaint and has a lot of elven atmosphere, which is very different from the style of houses in other areas of Green Forest City.

Although Parsa, the Duke of Greenwood, is an insatiable and rough and simple man, his attitude towards elves is very good. Because he knew that if he offended these elves, he would lose the source of wealth of the entire Green Forest City, and his city would be in trouble. So the elven community is mostly self-governing and quite isolated from the rest of the city.

However, the elves are not too opposed to humans living in this community, and most of the time, they can live in peace with the human inhabitants here. Therefore, this state is valued by some humans, who choose to live in this area to avoid a lot of probing and trouble.

Recently, due to the tense situation, there have been many elven warriors and mages in the elven community, and most of them have the identity of patrol envoys. Come and protect the elven inhabitants of the community, and lead them to evacuate if necessary.

According to the intelligence, Julio now lives in this elven community.

Two days after talking to Luo Ling, Akle, Anar, and Glade, dressed as merchants, infiltrated Greenwood. There was little difficulty in getting into the city, and the three of Aclare were all dressed in the clothes of local merchants, and they walked inconspicuously in the streets of Greenwood City, and they found a house with a single courtyard according to the intelligence, and this two-story house was supposed to be where Julio lived.

"Julio was originally a knight's squire of Hurieta, the son of the Duke of Greenwood, and should have lived in the Duke's Palace. Moving here, the Duke of Greenwood City is probably still trying to protect him. Glade said as he looked at the house across the street.

"Parsa Solanas, Duke of Greenwood, has always been an ambitious man, and he will not give up the chance to take back the town of Arano if he can, so he will naturally hide Julio. Aclair said.

"Let's go. There's not much to see about it. Anal said.

The three of them crossed the street to the door of the house and found that the gate was not locked.

Aclay went inside, but when he entered the door, he found the courtyard empty, and he listened intently, but found no movement in the courtyard.

"Nobody?" Aclair wondered.

Not only was there no one in the yard, but there were not even horses, and the stables on one side of the yard were empty, and the horse manure that had not been cleaned up was still on the ground.

Anal's eyes swept over the windowsills, and there seemed to be silence in the room, and she said, "Open the door, if my guess is correct, there is probably no one inside." ”

Glade walked to the door and climbed the stairs, the door of the house was a wooden-clad iron-edged door. He focused his attention on the door lock, and his mental power seeped into the door lock like mercury.

After more than a year of cultivation and experience, he has stepped onto the steps of a high-level mage, and the structure of the door lock is extremely simple in front of his spiritual power. A few seconds later, with a click, the lock was cracked.

The three of them walked into the house, and Glade reflexively closed the door, and the room looked like it was empty.

At the entrance point, there were many footprints back and forth, as if many people had gone back and forth between the room and the courtyard before.

Aclay followed the footprints into the dining room and saw a lot of leftover food on the table: uneaten bread, vegetable soup and bacon, and overturned wine glasses that dripped from the table to the ground, trampled everywhere along with the footprints.

Judging by where the food was being laid down, the men were halfway through eating when they were interrupted by something and left the table.

Based on the dryness of the residual wine in the glass, and the degree of spoilage of the food, Aclair said, "All this food must have been left over from last night, could it be that the Shadow Troupe has been here, and they have taken them all away?"

"No way. You're overly worried, there's no trace of a fight here. There are a total of eight plates on the table, which means that there are eight people eating here at the same time, and even if there are no particularly powerful masters among them, it is impossible for anyone to resist after being attacked. Anar looked around and said, "I guess the people here got the evacuation instructions in a hurry, and left the house before they had time to pack up. ”

"Yes. It's that I'm not thinking it through. Aclay said with a sigh of relief.

"You're just a little too worried about your brother. Anal reassured.

"In this way, the person who came to inform them should be of high status, otherwise it would not be so busy. "If they had left here at dinner yesterday, it would have been more than ten hours by now." If we want to catch up with them, we have to hurry. ”

Aclay thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go and see if there is anything of value left in the room." Go around and ask the people in the neighborhood if they see where these people have gone. ”

A few people split up and walked around the room, but with nothing new to discover, they prepared to look around for clues.

But just as they were about to leave the house, the lock turned on its own.

Aclair gave the other two a look. The three of them stepped back lightly, each taking out their weapons and finding cover to hide.

As soon as the door opened, ten people walked in from the outside, all dressed in the usual costumes of the locals. But all with various weapons in their hands, they formed a tight and complete formation. The first one was holding a long knife, although this time he was not dressed in black. But Barclay recognized him at a glance by his form: the archer in black.