The next morning, Ron woke up from his sleep in a daze, and the members of the adventurer's team had already packed their sleeping bags one after another and were ready to go.

Ron's eyes scanned around the camp to find Caesar's figure, but the latter didn't appear in the camp as if he was deliberately trying to avoid him, only Brooks and a few strong men came to see him off at the front door, Ron quietly looked around, these people were all wearing animal skin clothes and a full set of weapons and equipment.

Apparently, what Caesar said was completely true.

"Mr. Jack, do you want to think about the conditions I said?"

"No need, I already communicated with the other members of the team in detail yesterday. Jack kept a smile on his face: "Thank you, sir, for your hospitality." ”

"Then I wish you all the best of luck in reaching your destination. Brooks said as he opened the front door to the camp and made a gesture of please.

Jack left the exile camp with the adventure team, in front of them, not far from the front door of the camp, there was a path that seemed to be stepped out by humans themselves, leading to the depths of the woods, because it was already winter, the branches and leaves on some vegetation had already fallen off, leaving only bare branches, and some coniferous plants, the gloomy atmosphere made the mood of the whole team become solemn.

Soon, the exile's camp vanished into the woods behind them, surrounded only by the slight whistling of the cold wind and the crackling of deerskin boots on dead branches.

"Boss, I suddenly thought of a question, and I didn't know whether to say it or not. Delansco suddenly spoke up and broke the silence.

"There's something to say, there's fart. The white wolf said without looking back.

"We just left, what about our ships? The exiles seem to know that we're here by boat, and we seem to have eliminated all the zombies along the way, in case—"

"You're trying to say, what if these exiles take our big ship away, right?" Jack chuckled, "You can ask Mr. Ron this question, if it were him, he would never ask such a question." ”

Ron was stunned, he didn't expect Jack to throw this question directly to himself, facing Drasko's gaze, Ron shrugged his shoulders slightly: "This is just my guess, I don't think these exiles will leave, not to mention that so many people can't be transferred on the ship, even their supplies are not enough for a long journey." ”

"That's what I'm trying to say. The white wolf glanced at Deranko: "This issue has been discussed with Jack and I yesterday, so don't worry about it at all." ”

"Mr. White Wolf, I don't think this concern is unnecessary. Ron said in a deep voice, "Brooks, the leader of the exiles, may also abandon his gray board and leave with his cronies. ”

"Why? this can't be, right?" said the white wolf in surprise.

Ron realized that he was a little abrupt, and if Caesar hadn't found him yesterday, he wouldn't have known about the situation inside the adventurer's camp, which seemed quite ridiculous to others, even when he got the news, it was unbelievable.

"That's right, when I was leaving today, I found out that this Brooks, as well as several of his cronies, all have leather clothes to protect themselves from the cold, as well as weapons and equipment, but the rest of the camp is still wearing shabby linen clothes, and I noticed yesterday when Sylvie and I were giving them treatment and help, that the vast majority of civilians are likely to starve to death and freeze to death. Ron paused slightly: "Mr. Jack, you should have gone to that cave yesterday to negotiate with Brooks, the temperature in that cave is definitely much higher than outside, but Brooks should be the only one living inside, right?"

"That's right. Jack said in a deep voice, "You mean, this leader, there is a problem?"

"The size of this cave is not small, he can let some people who don't have warm clothes go inside to take shelter from the cold, women, old people or babies, but he didn't do that, so I think this leader, should be the more selfish type, with such a chance to leave the camp, maybe she will do it?"

Ron's words silenced Jack and White Wolf, and they stopped moving forward.

"Shall we go back and have a look?" one of the crew whispered.

"You don't need to go back, you've come here, don't go back. Jack said in a deep voice: "Even if the fax lets her go, after our operation is over, this princess should provide us with quite good revenge, a ship that can sail to the sea, I don't think there is a problem." ”

"Boss Jack, this is a boat I've been driving for many years, just let the family drive away, you, why don't you ask for my opinion. Sefera symbolically lodged her own protest.

"Protests are ineffective. Jack touched the female captain's head: "It's not on the ship now, now we're a team of adventurers, and the team's decisions are up to me." Don't worry, even if you really let the boat go away in the end, I will compensate you for a better and bigger ship. ”

After such a small episode, everyone embarked on the journey again, and after leaving the camp, the path in the woods began to zigzag towards the interior, because of the information obtained from the exile camp before, in this woods, there are a large number of beasts, so the adventurer team has maintained a high level of concentration.

Ron is still in the middle of the pack, and since the last time he showed his strength on the beach, Ron's position in this team has also risen. At least no one questioned Jack's decision anymore.

"How's your mana recovery, Mr. Ron?" asked Jack suddenly.

"It's been restored to seventy or eighty percent. Ron paused for a moment, then replied quickly.

"Well, until you're fully recovered, we'll try to find a way not to fight or argue. ”

In fact, Ron's state has long been back to its peak, and in his talent system, the speed of chakra's energy recovery is quite fast, not to mention the recovery potion that Jack gave him.

"I'm sorry, I may need to interrupt your tender conversation. The white wolf suddenly stopped his progress, and Sefera, who was walking behind him, almost crashed into it.

"What's going on?" asked Jack.

"I smell blood and killing. The white wolf's nose twitched slightly, and a hand was already pressed to the hilt of the sword at his waist: "I can even hear the call of the beast." ”

"Everyone be ready to fight. The white wolf's perception is still very strong. Jack also entered the battle state for the first time: "Do you know what direction it is?"

"Follow this path and go northwest, about five hundred meters. The white wolf said in a deep voice.

Ron looked at this white-haired young man with some surprise, in the world view setting of Naruto, there is indeed such a thing as a perceptual ninja, but this kind of person uses perceptual ninjutsu to find the chakra flowing in the distant target's body through various means, and then confirm the opponent's location, but this white wolf, can it really detect the location of the target with his sense of smell and hearing? This is completely beyond the scope of the human body.

The squad cautiously followed the path, and Ron was ready for battle.

The distance of five hundred meters was not a long time, and after about five minutes, the rest of the team also smelled a strong smell of blood.

There was a slight turn in the path, and everyone looked beyond the branches of the trees that were obscuring them to see the source of the strong smell of blood.

The target is not on the road, but in the woods not far from the road, the target is not a human corpse, but the corpse of a horse, in addition to the head and upper body, the lower body of the horse was directly cut off from the middle, the internal organs and torn flesh pieces were scattered all over the ground, the bones in the body were hairy, it was already dead and could not die anymore, not far behind the horse, there was also a car that had overturned on its side, and there were many sacks on the car, which were also stained with blood at the moment。

Sylvie let out an exclamation and quickly grabbed the corner of Ron's coat and buried her head in Ron's back.

Indeed, such a scene is still too shocking for a young girl.

"What is this?" exclaimed Delansco.

Ron's eyelids also moved twice in a hurry, and he was able to cut off a horse at the waist, and there were many lacerations on his body, which was definitely not done by humans. Ron's first thought was a demon.

He had dealt with demons more than once, and this terrifying prehistoric creature did have such physical qualities.

The white wolf reached out to stop Jack's progress, and walked briskly to the horse's carcass alone, crouched there and began to investigate.

"The white wolf has a lot of experience in autopsy, so we'll just wait here. Jack explained to the crowd.

"Autopsy?" Ron thought of a profession called forensic medicine in his previous life, which also dissected and analyzed various corpses.

"It's a griffon. ”

The white wolf was very fast and quickly spoke his own answer.

"It's pretty much what I guessed. ”

"Griffons, there are griffons in the Naga Islands as well?" Sefera was surprised.

"It's not surprising, it's just as human as the Naga Islands. The white wolf said coldly: "This horse is not strong, but it is by no means thin, it is a horse used by the caravan to transport goods, this unlucky merchant should just pass by here, most of the wounds of the horse are sharp lacerations from top to bottom, attacking from above, and having so much strength to cut a horse in half, which shows that the strength of the other party is quite large, and ordinary birds cannot make this kind of wound." All I can think of is griffins. ”

When it comes to griffins, Ron immediately conjures up descriptions of this kind of existence and mythical and otherworldly monsters in some video and written works from his past life—a legendary creature. It has the body and talons of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle, and because lions and eagles dominate the land and the sky respectively, griffons are considered to be very powerful animals. This kind of creature generally appears in various fantasy worlds, but I didn't expect that in this world, there are also species with the same name.

"It's a problem. Sefera frowned, "Griffons are the most fond of attacking humans and livestock, they are typical carnivores, and this creature is quite cunning, and generally chooses to act at night. ”

"But this corpse, this horse, doesn't have much time to die. A crew member raised his own questions.

"That's against such a non-threatening enemy, and once the griffon senses danger, he will give up the opportunity to rush directly and hunt it. The white wolf took over: "If we are targeted, this ghost thing will fall from the sky at night when we all go to sleep and begin to rest, and let the prey become his food." ”

The crew member immediately shut his mouth.

"But don't be too afraid, this monster may have left. Jack smiled: "Don't be pessimistic, according to what you said, isn't there a better target near here?"

The better target Jack was referring to, of course, the exile camp.

"Mr. White Wolf, what kind of creature is this griffon, or rather, how was it born?" Ron suddenly asked, "There is an old saying in my hometown, only by knowing yourself and knowing your enemies can you always win and not lose." ”

"Know yourself, know your enemy?" The white wolf said in a deep voice: "Griffin, strictly speaking, did not exist on our continent at the earliest. After the demon spirit invaded the continent, because the demon spirit itself had a relatively poor reproductive ability, in order to ensure that their troops were sufficient, the demon spirit would even find some creatures on the continent to breed, thus giving birth to a lot of hybrid demon spirits- This griffin is one of them, belonging to a creature with half of the demon bloodline, because this bloodline has always existed, so we humans have no way to completely seal these breeding creatures, the griffin inherits the strong physical ability of the demon spirit, the feathers on the wings are as hard and sharp as a steel knife, it is difficult for ordinary weapons to hurt it through the wings, and the griffin also has a sharp claw of more than ten centimeters, once it is attacked by the claws formed by this beast using the speed of high-altitude rappelling, the end is similar to this horse。 ”

"However, this beast also has weaknesses, although his physical fitness is very strong, but he does not have the ability to use magic from the demon spirit, and the magic resistance is also much weaker, so against the griffon, the mage is the best choice. ”

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