"Because there's a much stronger, more terrifying monster entrenched here. Just when Bran and the other high-ranking caravan were puzzled by the abnormal situation in the forest, Leo's voice came from the small room behind Bushan, and he was puzzled.

Listening to Leo's words, everyone who had fallen into a dead end of their thinking also came back to their senses, and it was indeed as Leo said, for those monsters who used instinctual beastliness as the basis for their actions, it was only possible to escape from the chassis they had occupied when they encountered more powerful and terrifying monsters.

"You'd better count the number of people. Before the attention had been turned back from the news of the existence of a terrifying monster here, Leo reminded again.

Although Leo was only a stranger who joined the caravan temporarily, his outstanding temperament had already left a deep impression on the hearts of the caravan leaders, just like Bran, everyone else subconsciously thought that Leo was not an ordinary person, either a noble nobleman, or a transcendent person with great power.

Unlike Bran, who thinks that Leo is a big man with status, the captain of the guard and the leader of the hunters in the caravan believe that Leo is a transcendent with great power, because only those with great strength have the courage and ability to travel alone in this age of monsters.

No matter what image Leo had in the minds of these caravan leaders, his words would be taken seriously by these people.

So when they heard Leo's reminder, even if they didn't understand what Leo meant, they still chose to follow Leo's advice.

So a team more than 500 meters long stopped advancing and stood by under the order, and the caravan guards took out their weapons and entered a state of alert according to the previous rules and experience, and the hunters who were pathfinders also quickly returned to the caravan after hearing the indicative whistle of the hunter leader.

Subsequently, the captain and the junior steward in charge of each detachment began to check the number of caravans according to the roster in their hands, and although everyone in the caravan was puzzled by this order, they still stayed in place according to the instructions, waiting for the next order, and the atmosphere of the whole caravan changed from a relaxed atmosphere that had not encountered any monster attacks to a little tense.

Although the Fire Dancer Caravan was a large caravan, and there were thousands of people including logistics, because of the proper organization and careful division of duties, the efficiency of doing any work was very efficient, and soon the total number of caravans was asked to be pointed out, but the final result was not what everyone wanted, so that everyone's faces showed a worried look.

Five people were missing in the entire caravan, two of them were members of the hunter team, two were caravan guards, and one was a servant in charge of logistics, and the fact that someone was missing was not the reason for the caravan hierarchy to be worried, what really worried them was that these missing people did not exist in the memories of everyone in the caravan, only in the roster.

The Fire Dancer Caravan has been out for many years, and the caravan leaders are naturally experienced old men, and they soon realized that the caravan people are missing and there is a supernatural force involved, and the unknown existence that silently abducted the caravan members is erasing the captives from the memories of everyone in the caravan at the same time, which makes the caravan leaders realize that they have disappeared until just now.

Because nothing like this had happened before, the caravan's higher-ups had no choice but to adjust the caravan's marching queue according to the response plan sorted out with past experience.

The serpentine formation, which was originally based on fast travel, was retracted, the non-combatants in the caravan were arranged in the middle of the group, the caravan escorts were all arranged around in a state of readiness, and the hunter team was also called back to the team, all arranged on the roof of the hut on Bushan, equipped with mechanical bows and crossbows, which served as temporary watchtowers and long-range strike forces.

In addition, Bran also activated several shamanic spells placed on Bushan's body for reconnaissance and vigilance, and distributed the matching fruits to everyone in the caravan.

The effect of these shamanic spells is the same, that is, to create a warning field, as long as there is no fruit on the body, it can be perceived by this warning field, and if the creature with the fruit leaves the warning field, the field will immediately sound an alarm, and the fruit will also burst, producing an extremely pungent smell and a fluorescent fog that can be seen clearly in the dark night.

This shamanic spell is arguably the most popular shamanic spell on the Moisan continent, and because it is so simple and effective to cast, there will be people willing to use this shamanic spell to protect themselves even in places like the Holy City of the Lord of the Sky.

After arranging the caravan's vigilance and defense plan, Bran also asked Leo's opinion, but Leo could not help but demoralize the other party, and did not say what he really thought, but let Bran continue on his way.

Leo didn't hide his thoughts, so Bran could easily see that Leo didn't seem to be optimistic about the caravan's arrangement, but although he saw Leo's true thoughts, he didn't ask much, not only because he didn't think there was anything wrong with his arrangement, but also because he also had a little doubt about Leo.

This is not to say that Bran really suspects that Leo is the unknown being who caused the caravan members to disappear, but because when something happens to the caravan, as the caravan director, he will instinctively suspect everything that can be suspected, even if Leo joined the caravan because he invited him.

Under Bran's order, the caravan restarted, and traveled along the winding mountain road towards its destination, but the speed of the caravan was now reduced by nearly half compared to the speed of the previous caravan, so those with a little experience in the caravan knew that it would be difficult for them to reach the camp of the Kata tribe before dark.

In the dark night, staying in the wilderness, even if you are not alone, there are many people around you, it still makes people instinctively feel fear, this fear quickly spreads in the caravan, and the scene of talking and laughing on the road before is gone, replaced by faces with solemn expressions.

Leo, who was in the small house, could naturally see that Bran had a little suspicion of him, and he didn't mind it, because if he were in Bran's current position, he would make the same suspicions, and even more excessive.

He was more concerned about the unknown being who could still silently kidnap the caravan members and even modify his memories under the surveillance of his spiritual network.

As the caravan began to depart, Leo's spiritual web had spread to the surrounding area, and he had not noticed anything wrong until he had noticed something wrong when Bran had mentioned that the surrounding forests were free of monsters and ferocious beasts.

Because unlike Bran and other high-level caravans who only put the object of vigilance on those ferocious beasts and monsters, Leo's spiritual network targets almost all living things, including plants and insects, because if the mutation of the world affects humans and animals, then plants and insects will definitely not be spared, and compared to the Veron continent and the Minsk continent, the number of dangerous insects and plants hidden in the Moisan continent, where most of the land is still in the state of primeval forest, is absolutely amazing.

According to the bioencyclopedia published by the medical school, almost all of the world's most dangerous insects and plants are on the continent of Mozambique, and the entire world of Velon, only the mysterious Black Forest can compare with it.

However, Leo followed the caravan all the way and found that not only was there not a single dangerous mutant insect in the surrounding primeval forest, but even the mutated plants hidden in the normal trees in the forest were shrinking and did not dare to show anything abnormal.

This also made Leo make the previous judgment, thinking that there may be a powerful and terrifying unknown existence hidden in the forest in this area, which frightened all the mutant creatures in the forest, and those who could escape escaped from this forest, including insects, and those who could not escape could only curl up to avoid being discovered by this mutated creature.

And then Leo suggested counting the number of people, also because he found that there were fewer people in the caravan, and when he set off, he asked for the number of people through the spirit network, and when he asked for the number of people again just now, he found that there were five people missing, and like Bran and others, he also found that he did not have the relevant memory of these five people, just judging from the numbers, there were fewer people, which also showed that he was also attacked by unknown forces in silence.

This is undoubtedly an incredible thing for Leo, because he knows very well that under the influence of various special forces in his body, even omega-level high-level life forms or gods cannot silently tamper with his memories, and the current facts tell him that an unknown existence has done it, which also makes him guess that this unknown existence is an existence beyond the gods.

It's just that this conjecture was immediately denied by Leo, because it was obvious that if the other party was an existence beyond the gods, then there would definitely be a place in the churches of the world in the world of Viron, especially the fanatical believers of the cult of evil gods would be willing to be the food for their belief in the gods, because it made them think that they and the gods had become one, and the other party did not need to sneak in the forest like this, hunting humans who broke into its domain.

Aroused by this unknown existence, Leo did not feel that he would encounter any danger, but instead created some star areas like playing games, just in time to pass the boring time on the road.

So, when Bran and other high-level caravans began to arrange the caravan's guards and fortifications, Leo also arranged some psionic energy around the caravan, and also left a psionic mark on everyone in the caravan, so that if anyone in the caravan was missing, he could find the location of the other party with the psionic sigil.

In addition, he didn't think that the unknown existence was still hiding in the forest to watch the caravan, waiting for the next attack, like Bran and the others, but he felt that the unknown existence was probably hidden inside the caravan now, or became someone in the caravan, or hid in the caravan's goods, in short, this unknown existence deceived Bran and other caravan executives at the same time, but also made his spiritual network invalid, so all his arrangements were aimed at the caravan.

However, I don't know if it's because the unknown existence already knows that the caravan has discovered an anomaly, or if the caravan's various alert fortifications have an effect, or Leo's arrangement makes the unknown existence have no chance to start, in short, in the next journey, the caravan has never had any missing people, nor has it encountered any danger, but it is the action of stopping several times on the road to ask for a count of people that makes everyone's nerves tense, and after a long time, everyone shows a tired look.

Although the hidden unknown existence made the spirit of the entire caravan exhausted, but at the same time, the caravan was not attacked, and even in the forest after dark, there were still no monsters attacking them, this abnormal situation even the most dull people felt that something was wrong, so the atmosphere in the caravan was more tense than during the day.

Because the caravan had slowed down, they were still a long way from the Kata tribe camp until dark, as Bran and the others had predicted, but instead of stopping their advance as they normally would, they camped in place and continued to march through the more dangerous forest trails in the darkness of the night.

This decision was actually suggested by Leo, and the senior management of the caravan discussed whether he should stop and camp after dark, and although Bran was a little suspicious of Leo, because it was the anomaly discovered by Leo before, he also attached great importance to Leo's suggestion, and the advice given by Leo was completely different from the decision made by the caravan higher-ups, that is, to move on.

As for the explanation given by Leo, it is also very simple, after the caravan stops and camps, the vigilance and fortifications arranged will not be much better than now, and because it is going to camp, the current inherent formation and the entire arrangement will also be scattered, and those shaman spells will naturally be temporarily withdrawn, which will expose the entire caravan to danger.

Instead of doing this thankless task, it is better to continue on the road and go to the camp of the Kata tribe, as for the only danger that may be encountered on the way, that is, the mountain road is difficult, and the monster attack that the caravan needs to worry about the most has been threatened by the influence of the unknown existence, and it will no longer pose a threat to the caravan walking in the forest at night.

After that, as Leo said, the caravan only encountered a few small accidents in a few narrow mountain paths, and there was no major danger until the caravan reached the camp of the Kata tribe without being attacked by monsters, and the unknown being did not appear.

It's just that for the people in the caravan, after arriving at their scheduled resting point, their tense nerves did not relax, but became more tense, and the original panic penetrated into everyone's hearts at a stronger and faster speed.