After Gerhiya's detailed explanation, Lin Jue and the three of them had already understood the situation clearly.

The vast land of the Southern Forest supports a large number of mercenaries.

Originally, under normal circumstances, the Southern Forest was definitely the place with the largest flow of mercenaries, and a large number of mercenaries would enter and exit every day, not only mercenaries who had just undertaken the entrusted task entered, but also mercenaries who completed the task and returned with a full load.

But just over a month ago, the mercenaries discovered a very strange phenomenon, perhaps from a day that is not easy to remember, no matter who it is, whether it is a mercenary or not, as long as they enter the hinterland of the southern forest, no one has ever returned to human territory.

Not to mention the mercenaries in the hinterland of the forest, even on the outskirts of the relatively safe forest, whether it is mercenaries or ordinary people, there are more people who go in and fewer people who come back.

At first, no one paid attention to this situation at all, although the mercenaries were more or less connected with each other, after all, it was normal for some people to occasionally not return on the scheduled day.

There are many reasons for this to happen, maybe on the way to the mission, some things were delayed, or these people encountered some dangerous things in the forest, so they died and did not come back, and the mercenary line is often accompanied by a very high mortality rate, which is a normal thing, and no one cares.

If you can come back, wait a few more days, and you will be back.

If you can't come back, unless you are familiar relatives and friends, no mercenary will care about the death of a companion who has nothing to do with you in the mission.

The Mercenary Guild is a very idle organization, they don't count how many mercenaries are active in their own territory, and they don't conduct a census, they just publish customer commissions, undertake commissions for mercenaries, deal with commissions completed by mercenaries, and only exist as an active platform for mercenaries.

Most of the mercenaries are idle people who work alone, although they know each other, occasionally meet in bars, and will have a glass of wine together and brag, but this friendship is only for the purpose of carrying out certain tasks that need to be completed by the team in the future, and building a good relationship with other mercenaries to facilitate the formation of a team.

Even if the mercenaries they know all die in the mission, these people will only think strange, but they will not think about other things because of this, how to live their lives, soak in bars when they have money, and run to the mercenary guild to play their lives when they have no money.

Only a small number of mercenaries will form a fixed mercenary group to undertake tasks as a mercenary group, and in the Eastern Continent, the Wild Dragon Mercenary Group is the representative of this type of mercenary.

The Wild Dragon Mercenary Group, one of the few in the world, is also the only A-level mercenary group in the Eastern Continent, with 103 resident mercenaries under its command, that is, core mercenaries, and hundreds of uncounted registered mercenaries.

Unlike mercenaries who fight alone, a large mercenary group like the Wild Dragon Mercenary Group, there is a very precise arrangement for what each resident mercenary should do and when to complete what tasks, such an arrangement is not only reflected in the time, when and where each mercenary is, the mercenary group has the obligation to understand these situations, because it is convenient for them to arrange tasks.

The organization of the mercenary group is much stronger than that of the mercenary who fights alone, and due to the precise arrangement of time and place, it is much more sensitive than ordinary mercenaries for some strange phenomena, not to mention a large mercenary group such as the dragon mercenary group.

February 14th, this is the exact time given by Gerthia, and from that day on, the Wild Dragon Mercenary Group discovered that something was wrong with the Southern Forest, because from that day on, several mercenary squads that were scheduled to return to human territory in the three days from the 14th to the 17th, a total of 22 people, did not return.

For four days, there was no news in the Southern Forest, which made them start to mumble, could it be that something really happened in the Southern Forest that they didn't know?

It's better to say that there is no one alive or dead, after all, this is just a disappearance, but the most uncomfortable thing for them is that there is no news to pass back.

According to the tradition of the Dragon Mercenary Regiment, if something really happens and you can't return in a short time, then you must pass the news back and explain the reason.

Whether it's a traditional carrier pigeon or a magic prop message messenger for emergency contact, if there is really something that delays time, you should always send a message back to report it.

Since there is no news from the Dragon Mercenary Regiment, there should be someone from the other scattered mercenaries who have returned, right? Maybe ask the others to find out what is going on in the forest.

So the Dragon Mercenary Group proposed to the Mercenary Guild to investigate the recent completion of the commission, trying to learn something from the mercenaries who had recently entered the Southern Forest.

After all, the Wild Dragon Mercenary Group is the largest and most powerful mercenary group in the entire Eastern Continent, and their leader, deputy leader, and the mercenary guild all have the position of honorary president, although it is an idle position, but it is still easy to investigate these situations.

After an investigation, it was found that the problem was that in the past few days, there was no single commission related to the depths of the southern forest to complete the handover, and even the commissions on the periphery of the southern forest had a handover rate of more than half of the usual.

After discovering this problem, the Dragon Mercenary Group immediately made an adjustment to the task arrangement, and from the 17th, no missions related to the Southern Forest will be arranged.

Originally, according to the arrangement of the Crazy Dragon Mercenary Group, this news needed to be tightly sealed and not leaked.

But in this world, there is no impermeable wall, and it didn't take long for the news to spread.

Maybe it was a drunken mercenary who leaked his mouth, and the news spread quickly throughout the mercenary circles of the Eastern Continent.

At the beginning, the mercenaries who were fighting alone naturally didn't care about this baseless news.

In their opinion, this is just gossip, maybe some drunken mercenary is afraid to go deep into the forest, so he makes up such a deceptive nonsense, trying to get more people to be like him, the obedient cat to drink with him in the bar.

Even if it is gossip, no matter how true it is, many mercenaries who heard the news still kept an eye on it in their hearts.

As time passed, people found that this news did not seem to be chasing after the wind, and there were indeed many mercenary friends they knew well, and once they entered the southern forest, they never returned.

Moreover, the performance of the Crazy Dragon Mercenary Group seems to confirm the authenticity of this news.

In this way, the Southern Forest is in danger, and news like this is like a virus, spreading rapidly throughout the mercenary world of the Eastern Continent.

Don't look at what the mercenaries are doing to live with their lives, if you don't know in advance that you will die if you carry out this mission, it's okay to say, after all, everyone has a fluke mentality.

But once you know in advance that you are likely to die while carrying out this mission, then these mercenaries who cherish their lives will naturally not rush up to find death recklessly, although the mercenaries who go to the southern forest are not necessarily dead, but no one dares to gamble with their lives.

As a result, the mercenaries, who were originally like flowing water, flowed in an orderly and alternating manner between the southern forest and the human city, instantly turned into a pool of stagnant water, and all the mercenaries took root in the human city and did not dare to go to the southern forest easily.

Of course, there are also people who don't believe in evil, or some people who have to gamble because they don't have any money on hand, so these people finally walked into the southern forest under the eyes of other mercenaries.

As expected, none of them came back.

If people were still lucky before, thinking that this incident was just a coincidence, then under the appearance of these people, everyone naturally determined the authenticity of the news:

"The southern forests are dangerous, and once you enter them, there is no life or death. ”