Bandit-like adventurers and slave catcher leaders get together to engage in meaningless conversations, belittling others and boasting that they are the most discussed "topics". The hourglass "council" spent its time in a noisy environment with nothing to do, until the leader of the newly joined team revealed that at least a dozen more teams were currently in the wasteland towards the entrance to the forest, and that they would join the large army stationed by the river in a few days, and by that time, even if Andrarui had its impressively tall walls, the cleansing of the demon-polluted city would only be a matter of time before everyone could work together.

Although Crane has no real sense of the future that his "peers" proclaim, he does not express his thoughts in his face at all. Maintaining a bold smile similar to that of his "peers", the young leader with considerable potential in Enric's house secretly estimated in his mind the approximate number of people who would join in the next few days. Finally getting the news he wanted in the midst of a false exchange of pleasantries, Crane was able to get out of the leaders' meeting under the pretext that he needed to count the team's food reserves.

The clouds on the horizon stained the dilapidated and dirty tent, the misty setting sun cast a dreamlike camouflage on the messy camp, and the expression on Crane's face, which had left the hustle and bustle, was like a stage set that had lost its support, becoming empty and hypocritical, and the smile that had been impressive a moment ago had completely collapsed. Crane's eyes were cold and serious, although it would not take long for the "troops" gathered on the river bank to exceed three thousand, but the more this happened, the more uneasy Crane felt in his heart.

The march was different from the debauchery that adventurers had to live, and although the forest was rich in produce, if the crowd gathered beyond a threshold that he could not identify, the rabble might be overwhelmed by the problem of supplies. Counting food reserves was an excuse, but it was also a matter of real concern to Crane, and perhaps he and his soldiers should go into the forest to make more necessary food reserves while the camp was not yet overcrowded?

Thinking about future countermeasures in his heart, Crane, who returned to his own territory, began to look for his younger brother as soon as possible, and Chris's overall calculation level was unanimously praised by the elders even in the entire Enric family. The young leader of the party urgently needed his good brother to plan for his warriors enough food to last them until the end of the farce. In the short part, the good hunters in the team will naturally be able to find a satisfactory supplement from the abundant forest.

Not finding him in Chris's solo tent, Crane began questioning his men who were walking around the camp idly.

"Boss, Chris seems to have gone to the forest to catch rabbits. A middle-aged soldier on duty replied.

"Did he just go?" Crane continued to ask disapprehantly, of course he knew what Chris was about "catching rabbits", his "cousin's" life in this camp did have many inconveniences, but fortunately, Chris was always able to endure and overcome these trivial and annoying difficulties.

"No, sir. He's been in for quite some time now, and I think Chris should be able to find a good catch today. The fighters on duty smiled genuinely.

Crane's face quickly turned ugly: "Call a few brothers to come with me!

......

It didn't take long for Crane to spot the "traces" left by Chris, and the bushes next to him still hung with leaves that he had used to wipe the filth afterwards.

The team's former veteran hunters were also familiar with the traces of human feces after turning adventurers, and the bearded hunter used twigs to ruffle the excrement that was beginning to become dry, and then deduced the not-so-optimistic conclusion: "It seems that one or two hourglass hours have passed." ”

Immediately afterward, they found the footprints of beasts of astonishing size on the moss next to the roots of nearby trees.

"Such a large footprint seems to be larger than an ordinary lion and tiger, but fortunately no traces of blood have been found...... the hunter reassures the young leader with a blue face, in fact, large predators sometimes do not leave more obvious signs of fight unless they are faced with prey of equal or even superior size. Powerful beasts can crush the spine of their weak prey with a single pounce or even a slap, and in such a situation, it is often difficult to find a trace of blood even at the hunting site. The vigilant predator will take the carcass of its prey away and choose a place it thinks is safe to stop and eat.

"This forest shouldn't be such a dangerous big thing!, could it be some elf's animal companion?" It is precisely because the wild beasts of the forest have been driven out of this area that the people stationed by the river will let their guard down when entering and leaving the forest. This is a reasonable and close to the truth, but the hunters regret not to find any trace that can actually prove that the matter is related to the elves.

Andrari's rangers wear "stealth shoes" with thick velvet soles and silent walking, leaving no suspicious mark unless they make a low-level mistake like stepping into a puddle of mud. The fluff on the soles of those special shoes is all from the fur of forest animals that have grown by the magic of free life, and even if some are left over during walking, it will only make people mistake it for the dehairing of the animals in this season.

It wasn't until it got dark that the hunters couldn't find any more traces of the beast. Even if he is unwilling, Crane can only force it in his heart, not only is it difficult to find any clues in the forest at night, but it may put the searcher himself in danger.

......

It was bumpy until the night, and after several "hands", Chris, who was tossed so badly, was finally settled in a heavily guarded tent.

"The body is delicate and the skin is delicate. It should be a young lady who rarely sleeps outside the wind, and a large group of scruffy human adventurers have mixed in with this little girl, and her identity is very strange. The sturdy demon warrior who sent Chris into the tent confessed to the succubus who seemed to be in charge of the interrogation.

"Just received word from the scout team ahead, a group of humans entered the forest in the evening, seemingly to search for her traces. Another voice added from outside the tent, "That relatively alert group is one of the few people in the camp who have a sentry. ”

The succubus, dressed in a neat black suit, squinted her gray eyes that made people feel cold and ruthless, and asked in a low and hoarse voice, "Such a lovely noble lady, can you let me know your name?"

"Chrissy Enric. The pretty human girl's face turned a little pale, and she felt that the elves who had captured her had deliberately given themselves to these demons. Chrissy didn't know if this meant that the elves had completely surrendered her life to the demons, but given the reputation of these feared alien races on the continent, she felt that it would be wisest for her to cooperate with them as much as possible.

......

Tabby is a very strange cat.

As far as Hero knows, most of the other short-snouted (feline) beasts other than lions are very withdrawn solitary hunters. Like the wild cats that can be seen everywhere in Andrari today, although the competition between their own species is not as fierce as in the wild because of the abundance of food here, most of the time they still prefer to stay alone in a place where no one disturbs them, enjoying a quiet rest.

Tabby is one of the outliers. On the way to and home every day, the little hunter, once known as the tiger lynx, follows its young owner like a heartfelt invisible guard. It is only when Hiro is working at a kindergarten or staying at home that Tabby chooses to take the time to put down the "surveillance" of its owner, choosing to find a place to bask in the sun on his own, or to find his own kind to play in the street.

Lately Hiro has been feeling that the tabby has become too fat for him to find unbearable, so the cat owner decides to take the tabby for a walk around the city every day after dinner.

In the night with limited vision, a cat hanging far behind it is not an easy target to spot. Always suspect that the tabby didn't keep up with Hiro, who was hiding somewhere and was lazy, he would turn back from time to time to determine the existence of the "tail", and he couldn't help but look back at the human being who walked a few steps and looked back at what kind of strange picture he had on the street at night, only Hiro, who was the person concerned, was unaware.

Just as he looked back again to confirm the existence of the tabby, the young man who was walking in an arc but still unconscious collided inadvertently with a delicate body walking on the opposite side.

It was a familiar elven girl, though Hero couldn't remember where he had seen her.

"Why don't you walk well, what do you look back at!?" Elvia rubbed her reddish nose slightly, the delicate part of her face that had just made an unexpected intimate contact with the hard jaw of someone who was walking and spinning.

Someone who can't walk well thinks that the girl in front of him is enough to make people shine even among the generally handsome elves, but his knocking over the food box in the other's hand is a very obvious failure in this encounter.

Packed up the scattered snack boxes in a panic, and the faint light in the night made Hiro distinguish what those scattered "dim sum" were!

The strange sight was imprinted on the pupils of young humans at nightfall, and Hiro never imagined that he would see such a hellish scene in his lifetime!!

-- Scattered all over the ground were dozens of pale, blood-stained ears!!

"Ahhh!!h

A bloated tiger lynx suddenly burst out of the night, stopping between elves and humans and letting out a long and strange cry at Elvia: "Meow, whoa!!"

"Ahh

Several shops in the food court were about to close, and several of them were lit up with magic lights in front of the store, and people who were packing up in the store gathered curiously on the street, looking at this very strange scene in front of them.

"This is a serious and vicious case!!" Before Hero could regain his composure from his bloody ears, he immediately thought of the snake demon who had taught him the law of Andrarui, and the young human shouted in panic to the onlookers, "Who is going to inform the sheriff! There are vicious perverted criminals here!!"

However, Hiro's cry was met with only skeptical and critical glances, and the people reacted indifferently to the hellish scene before them.

If the lord of Andrari had happened to be present, the young son of the abyss would have described the crowd of onlookers in the same way that it was as if they had seen a nervous disorder.