Team building is not that easy.

Especially when trust has not yet been established between each other, it is not only the interests that need to be taken into account, but also the hearts and minds of the people.

The few Lone Wanderers who had nowhere else to go like Neil were relatively easy to deal with, and the trouble was the ones who remained—both the first Regana team to defect to him as a role model, and the spies who had been deliberately infiltrated by other teams.

It took three hours for Amy to put together a rough list.

Attack team, support group, logistics team - the people in charge of the attack team are him, Neil, Hansen, who have the strongest combat effectiveness, and a few "ill-intentioned" people who obviously join his team with a certain purpose On the one hand, this intelligent and bold woman is enough to take on this heavy responsibility, and on the other hand, as the first contributor or collaborator, he must give enough respect, even if she herself does not seem to care about it, but as the core of a small group, there will always be someone who cares about her, and in order not to plant the seeds of division while forming a team, he must set an example accordingly. In the end, because the logistics team has the right to redeem points, the Glory One entrusts the leadership to Corbock, and the rest of the personnel are matched according to the three types of people who can be trusted, can be trusted to a limited extent, and cannot be trusted, so as to ensure that the team that transports the demon wreckage can be firmly grasped in his hands every time it rotates.

Frankly, the list was compiled in a hurry, and there are many flaws.

But Amy didn't have the time to say a word about it—it was too early to discuss the cooperation with Rigana, and with the purchase of crossbows and other materials needed to build the corps, time passed little by little, and when the hour and minute hands coincided at the top of the quartz watch, he barely finished the day, and then fell asleep in the dimming candlelight.

At seven o'clock the next morning, I woke up naturally.

He has no time to waste in the warm bed, and although there is no day or night in the depths of the night, life will always follow the trajectory of the past.

Eight o'clock in the morning is the time to book a meeting.

Even the reserve sword bearers who were able to graduate from the training academy with the top three grades, before they had gone through the corresponding run-in training, the glorious ones would not dare to just casually and without explaining anything to the battlefields where the slightest negligence could lead to the annihilation of the regiment, and then let themselves destroy themselves.

There are things that he has to explain, and he has to explain clearly.

It's a responsibility to yourself and to others.

Amy Ulysses was thinking about what to say to these new entrants with complex compositions after the collection, and sorting out the messy placket, but at this moment-

The tent's curtains were rudely torn open.

"What's going on?" said the young Gloryman finally tugging at the hem of his shirt and smoothing it out, "It feels like it's going to be a big bad news." ”

It is a person's instinct to observe words and looks, and Corbock's movements are very impatient and flustered, so something extremely bad must have happened - almost the first time she saw him, Amy realized this, but at the same time as he realized this, he knew even more that anyone could panic and even panic, but he couldn't, because ...... His identity has changed, he is no longer a lone traveler who only needs to take care of himself, but the leader of a small team, the pillar of a small team.

No matter what happens, he can't be shaken.

"Neil, Neil......" Cow Burke ignored the Glory's words, he just gasped for breath that he would not have gasped with his physical fitness, his eyes flustered and unfocused, "Neil, he ...... He disappeared. ”

"Gone?" was the answer Amy's expectation.

"Yes," the short boy nodded heavily, "yes, he's gone." ”

"Vanishing ......," the Gloryer frowned, chewing on the somewhat inexplicable word over and over again before looking up after a moment, "Tell me what you've learned. ”

"Neil's tent was across from me. Seemingly infected by Amy's composure and calmness, Corbock's mood stabilized a lot, but there was still a little unnatural pause when he spoke, "When I woke up this morning...... I found out that he was no longer there......"

"Could it be a little bit of a walk?" asked the young Gloryman, not believing that Corbock would not take into account the obvious reason, but simply to make the conversation flow more smoothly through the form of questioning.

"That's what I thought at first. His voice unconsciously put on a trill, "Although I made an appointment with him to meet this morning, how can people calculate the time so accurately, and it is normal to miss a little once in a while, until as time passed, I vaguely felt that something was wrong, so I forcibly opened his door curtain...... And then...... Then ......"

He couldn't lift it in one breath.

"And then what?" Amy could only ask.

"I saw the clothes," because he was too focused, too engaged, and what Corbck said was a little bit inconsistent, but fortunately they were connected but not without a beginning or an end," Neil's clothes, and his shoes, the empty, human-shaped clothes and shoes. ”

"Is the 'man' gone?" the Glory One keenly grasped the crux of the matter.

"That's right," Cockcock tried to find a suitable word to describe the scene, but in the end he could only describe what he saw, "everything was fine except for Neil, and only Neil disappeared naked, and even the way he slept was seen in the arrangement of his clothes." ”

"It's kind of weird. Amy narrowed her eyes, no, it should be said that it was very weird - she looked at the young man in front of her with blue eyes, "Do you have any guesses?"

"It doesn't feel like a demon. It was a long time before Corbock gave his answer, a worthless one.

"Take me to see it. ”

The scene of the crime had to be preserved, and it had to be looked at—though he personally felt that there would be no clues left.

Sure enough, when he arrived at Neil's tent, he once again verified the accuracy of his intuition, the silver-haired boy's disappearance was quite abrupt and complete, not only could not see any traces of the intruder in the small tent, but there was not even a trace of struggle and resistance.

"Did you find anything?" asked the young man from Ramsden hopefully.

Amy just shook her head.

Neil's disappearance is indeed full of suspicions, although there are only two factors that cause him to disappear - either he actively leaves to play missing, or he passively disappears under the action of some external force, but the actual situation may be far more complicated than expected.

The reason for his departure is easier to understand - it is quite possible that he did something extremely detrimental to the team or one of them, and fled for fear of the consequences, or it is possible that he noticed that something was wrong with the camp and had no time or opportunity to warn them, so he had to flee this land full of temptations alone.

The situation of passive disappearance is not complicated to analyze, in fact, it is a list of different external factors that may cause him to disappear - demons, strange things, possible dangers in the camp itself, and ...... The king in yellow, it's a pity that there are too many possibilities, and there is too little evidence, and if you really want to compare the truth, I'm afraid you won't get anything but let yourself fall into mania.

"Look again. ”

In the end, that's all he can say.

Having woken up Hansen and Aina, the four of them searched the camp and its vicinity, however, after a day-long search...... Nothing is deserved.

Neil –

Missing.

This obvious fact was laid out in front of them, and all of them had a sense of urgency and crisis that they could empathize with.

After all, if Neil's disappearance was the interference of some external force, the next one to disappear ...... Probably any of them.

"Such a big person," Hansen also became rare anxious, "how can you say that if you don't see it, you're gone?"

"Could it have something to do with that altar?" offered his opinion, and after an hour of calming down, his mind finally calmed down, "Although we have to live on it, it is strange after all, it is strange in the depths of the night, and who knows if it is a man-eating monster." ”

Moreover...... The demon doesn't have the intelligence to sneak into the camp and kidnap or kill a person without a word.

The only thing that could have done this was the mysterious altar in the center of the camp, which had been living in the confines of its position for the past few nights, and it was normal for it to be able to silently disappear one of them in the depths of the night.

All that is lacking is motivation – but there really isn't such a thing as motivation for the inexplicable oddity of its very existence.

"It's possible," said Aina, the dark-skinned girl, to analyze further, "I remember that Neil was one of the first people to settle near the altar, and it makes perfect sense if certain conditions were met, such as five days or a certain number of hours before he would disappear—but for now, Neil's affairs are an isolated case, and it is necessary to know the whereabouts of the same group of people who arrived at the altar as him. ”

"But who to turn to? We know almost nothing about this place. Corbock sighed, "Wait—maybe we shouldn't be thinking about it." ”

There was a sudden light in his eyes: "Other people can do the same, such as ...... That Regana. ”

"It's not the time to bother her, the trust between us is sensitive and fragile. Amy unexpectedly rejected the proposal, "I'll ask her to learn more about the situation after the day's fighting, after the initial friendship has been established that is not based on the situation - but not right now, the priority now is to put together the forces at hand and prove that we have enough power to change the status quo in today's battle." ”

The Glory's fist clenched, this strange thing that could exchange demonic materials for water and food was indeed suspicious, but he never forgot the existence of the yellow-clothed king that had been hidden in the eons and had dominated the old days.

"Only then will there be power in what we say—"