Last night's events have been haunting Lin Jue's mind, and he only feels that his whole person is in a mess today, almost just by instinct, and his heart is so heavy that he is like a walking corpse walking aimlessly, and has been following the team aimlessly.

This group of dark-skinned guys, regardless of whether they are jungle goblins or not, first of all, how did they appear? Secondly, the two of the elven Tulips and Elrod, the two of them, are strangely similar to these guys, according to their words, these guys can't appear here, but what these things are, they can't say why.

Moreover, even Agnes, who can simulate all the mermaids vividly, doesn't even know what these things are.

The logical contradiction made Lin Jue's heart suddenly pop up with an idea: These guys can't be the dead spirits of the jungle goblins, right? Only in this way can this matter be explained clearly, they don't exist, but they are not jungle goblins.

But soon, he shook his head with a self-deprecating smile: "Didn't I see it with my own eyes?

In the sky, the sun hangs high, and the sunlight is sifted through the dense leaves, and finally only a little white light is scattered on the ground.

According to the previous plan, they had to rush to the Bluestone Valley tonight, so the speed of the team's march also sped up a lot, and the rapid march made everyone's energy consume extremely quickly.

Hardly anyone noticed that a thin layer of mist was rising very slowly all around, and because of being in the middle of the jungle, there was hardly a trace of air currents, and the fog condensed very slowly, but people's vision narrowed quickly.

The first to notice the fog was Elrod, who had been in and out of the forest for many years, giving him a much better grasp of the situation around him than anyone else.

At this time, he began to wonder a little in his heart, has this place usually been foggy?

No one knows exactly where the fog came from, as if it appeared out of thin air.

In the southern forests, it cannot be said that there is no fog, but at least the jungle in the north has never been foggy, and there is neither a nearby terrain that can support the fog, nor an environment that can produce fog.

This fog is so strange to appear.

Alrod gradually felt that something was wrong with this fog, so he told everyone to gather a little bit and not to disperse.

The fog is condensed, and this kind of weather change is not something that humans or elves can interfere with, and even if they can, it won't do much.

Among the fire magic, there is a category that specializes in the dispersion of fog, and if there is a magician of this type to assist, it can disperse the fog within a range of more than ten meters nearby, so that the field of vision can be slightly increased.

But in the escort team, not to mention that such a magician does not exist, even if it exists, it will not help.

When the church went to the Sea of Mist, it brought this group of scholars from the Academy of Magic with him, and at that time, Lin Jue also wondered why the church didn't bring more magicians or magic props that could dispel the mist.

Most of these scholars were brought in by the church, and they don't know much about this matter.

The surviving captain of the Salvation had no idea what was going on.

So Lin Jue once asked Agnes, and the final result was: there is no meaning.

Even if you bring a great mage, the dense fog that can be dispelled is only within a kilometer at most, and it requires a lot of mana. But how vast is the fog on the sea? What really traps the sea of mist is the merfolk army, the chaotic magnetic field, and the elusive Leviathan. Even if it is useless to disperse the dense fog nearby, it will only outweigh the losses in the end.

And once this situation is changed to the forest, it is even more meaningless, the dense branches and leaves in the forest will limit the conduction of magicians to a certain range, magicians are like radio transmitters, and trees, like electromagnetic interference, dispel dense fog and other non-offensive magic, completely useless in the forest.

In this regard, Elrod could not do anything other than give a reminder.

Approaching noon, the fog around him had condensed a lot, and his vision had been greatly reduced, coupled with the original trunks and branches of the forest, even if he was an elf with a wide field of vision, he could only see within twenty or thirty meters of his side.

Alrod looked at the vague outline of the sun in the sky, counted the time, and told everyone to stop and rest for a while, and replenish food and water in place.

Lin Jue, Elrod, and Werther were sitting on the ground, with an open forest map in front of them, and they were calculating where they were at this time and the next route plan.

At this moment, a mercenary ran to Werther in a panic and said something in a low voice.

Witt frowned, and waved his hand to let the mercenary leave.

"What's wrong?" Lin Jue asked.

Werther shook his head and said, "On this morning's march, seven men were left behind. ”

Hearing this, Alrod frowned and said, "Hell, it must have been lost in the fog." ”

"Probably not. Werther frowned, revealing a disapproving look, and said after a moment of silence: "We are walking on the road in the forest, and every distance we walk, there are marks on the road, and it is difficult to get lost. Besides, our team is very close, and the fog is not yet so thick that it is unlikely that there will be an accident. ”

"Moreover, for us humans, the difference between the field of vision of twenty or thirty meters under the cover of dense fog and the field of vision of twenty or thirty meters in the forest is not too big. ”

Elrod thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement and didn't say anything to refute it.

Witt said to Lin Jue: "Your Excellency, I suggest that the team be separated, one part of the team will stay where it is, search and rescue the stragglers, and protect the supplies, and the other part will go to the Bluestone Valley to find and replenish the water source. ”

Lin Jue waved his hand and said, "You two are experienced and are also the leaders of the escort team, I just accompany you, you can call everything in charge, you don't need to ask me." ”

Alrod agreed to the suggestion.

So after lunch, the whole team was split into two parts, the dwarves and ten mercenaries followed Vielode to the front to find Bluestone Valley, a total of more than thirty people, and the rest stayed in place and camped, searching for and rescuing the team members who had stragged nearby.

The team members who stayed in place set up camp while traveling to look for the missing team members, and searched for them until night, until a mercenary told Werther and Lin Jue the results of the search and rescue.

The bright light of the fire shone on Werther's face, and his surprised expression was clearly visible.

"What? Not only has not a single person been found, but twelve people have disappeared?"