"Report, Captain Bartlett, the group of demons in the northwest direction is approaching our side, the number is about 200, and the leader is a mid-rank demon, a three-headed dog. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The biting demons in the lower position of info are about 40, and the rest are inferior demons. Picole, who was in charge of the sentry, jumped off the wall and rushed to the center of the camp, reporting to Bartlett who was looking down at the map.

"How long do you expect to be in contact with us?" Bartley asked, nodding his head.

"About half an hour. ”

"What about the movements of the demons in several other directions?"

"Last night, there was a fight between two groups of demons in the southeast, and the demons in the other directions were still wandering aimlessly, and they did not approach this side. Picole reported.

"Good. Bartlett nodded and commanded his subordinates behind him.

"Picole, you go back and continue your search. ”

"Charlie, you go and strengthen the concealment of the camp. ”

"Reese, you tell them to dig faster. ”

"Pullman, Esther, and Betsy, go to the northwest to keep watch, and if those demons are indeed coming at us, you will deal with them, and try not to alarm the other wandering demons. ”

"Yes, Captain Bartlett!"

The few people who received the order quickly dispersed and headed to their posts, leaving Bartlett looking at the map and frowning.

"Hey, Bartlett, why are you still here, come and help, Charlie's mind doesn't seem to work as well as yours. It wasn't long before the grizzled Master Clark ran over at a loud voice, grabbed Bartlett's arm and tried to drag him away. The excavation site is short of manpower, so you can't let a capable person of the earth control type rest on the side.

"Wait, Master Clark. Bartlett stopped, "I always felt something wasn't right. ”

"Not quite right, what's not quite right?" Clark asked rhetorically.

"This is the middle of the Purgatory Wasteland. Bartlett frowned and reminded, "A few years ago, when I was a member of the Overseas Exploration Team, I came here once, and at that time, one or two big demons could be seen in this area almost every day. But this time, we've set up camp here and started digging for 3 days. I didn't see a single shadow of a big demon in my field of vision, not even a few mid-level demons. ”

"Overseas exploration team?" The old man frowned, let go of the hand holding the middle-aged man: "That's not a group of ...... who like to race horses around the wall" Speaking of this, the old man suddenly realized that the middle-aged man in front of him was not really one of the "wretched people" he said, so he stopped his mouth at once, and quickly covered up the past with a cough.

"You're right, it's a bunch of kids. Bartlett laughed bitterly: "I used to be ridiculous, but fortunately, I woke up early and applied for a transfer there." ”

"Okay, okay, everybody has a bad past. The old man laughed twice and turned the subject back to the subject: "I've never been outside the circle, and I don't know what this area is supposed to be like. But even if the situation is different from what you've experienced, all we can do is step up our precautions, get the job done as soon as possible, and go home as soon as possible, right?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand again, grabbed Bartlett's arm and pulled it into the digging ground, with so much force that it did not resemble that of an old man.

"Maybe you're right. Bartlett smiled wryly, and hurriedly took a few steps forward, for fear that the scholar, who had no scholarly demeanor, would accidentally fall in order to pull him.

......

As Bartlett thought, the area was certainly not that safe. And the reason why there was not even a shadow of a big demon in the vicinity of the investigation team's camp for the past three or four days was naturally because there was a person secretly working hard.

From the moment he stepped into the area, Ian had heightened his vigilance.

The walls that the team had erected around the camp did work wonders against the attacks of ordinary demons. In the last few days alone, Ian has found that they have easily coped with several sieges by small demon hordes.

It's just that such a facility doesn't mean much to the big demons, so Xiang Fei'er made a proposal to clean up the surrounding big demons, and after getting the same "um", the two began to split up.

Phil is tasked with monitoring the mysterious man's movements, while Ian is tasked with searching for and clearing the area of all the archdemons in an attempt to improve his fledgling swordsmanship.

At this moment, in a place that the investigation team could not see, he was "walking" at the feet of a human-faced demon spider queen.

The upper body of this demon is a human woman, but its arms have been replaced by two long knives. Its lower body is a black spider with eight standing legs slender and sharp, with countless barbs. What's even more amazing is that it has two heads, one is a humanoid head with an upper body, and the other is a spider head below the junction between the human body and the spider body.

The whole demon shape seems to be a patchwork of half a person and a spider.

This demon is on the small side of the Great Demon, but it is close to three people tall. Compared to the power type of demons, it is more focused on speed. However, although its strength is not great, the sharp double knives on its arms and the sharp thorns at the tips of its eight long feet are enough to pose a great threat to the enemy.

After Ian slaughtered dozens of spider demons around him in the middle of the walk, the spider emperor went crazy and pestered Ian, waving his knife arm so that he could barely see the shadow, and the first two of the eight sharp feet were like piledrivers, stabbing into the ground along the direction of Ian's wandering, nailing out circular holes one after another.

Right now, Ian, who was constantly dodging at the feet of the Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen, although he seemed to be at ease in the past, he was really in good spirits and didn't dare to relax in the slightest.

The Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen's blade arms and toes were extremely sharp, and it could easily cut through steel, and then strike at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye here, and suddenly there was a "hiss" sound of the air being torn apart all around.

It's no joke if it takes any hit.

If Fei'er was here, then she would definitely hide in the shadows, find the fatal point of the Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen, and then suddenly attack, killing with one blow.

But Ian can't kill the Great Demon with one blow, and he doesn't plan to use assassination-style swordsmanship.

The reason why he chose to clean up the surrounding big demons was that he came with the idea of perfecting his swordsmanship. And in the past few days with many big demons, he already has some clues.