Lloyd's team is the second group to go out of the city, they pack up and gather in front of the city gate, and after the city gate slowly opens, they light the torch in their hands, and the cloth belt wrapped around the torch is not only smeared with pine oil, but also an alchemical substance called white branding, which can make the burning flame more vigorous and durable, and it is not easy to be blown out by the wind, and ordinary torches may not be able to support long in the cold wave.

After entering the dense forest, the large army out of the city will gradually disperse and go to the designated position, where the advance team will answer, and after completing the handover task, the advance force will go deep into the dense forest, and they will wait until the third team comes to complete the handover and then gradually march deeper into the dense forest.

"That's how it should be. "This is the place assigned by the above, and if nothing happens, there should be a team of the same twelve men stationed here, setting up tents for us, and even waiting for us with pork legs on the grill." ”

"I didn't smell the pork. Marjery pricked his nose, his blacksmith's shop was so close to the pork stall next door, and his sense of smell for meat was probably second only to that of the cook, "and I didn't see anybody." ”

He looked around: "There's nothing here. ”

Oliver left the group at this moment, stepped on the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, walked around a full circle, and called out to his companions in the distance: "Come, come and see, there's something here." ”

It was near the camphor tree, and the hunter slapped the snow chips off his face with his hands, revealing a pile of wood in a circle, the inside of which had been burned to black coal, apparently a campfire that had been used by man.

"It seems that the party that received us had set up campfire here, but for some unknown reason, they left before we arrived, and removed the tent. ”

Oliver scooped out a log from the campfire, twisted the charred part with his fingers, and took out a knife to cut it out and observe the burning.

"The log was soaking wet, and it was clearly not just gone, at least a full day had passed. And they should have taken the initiative to leave, not like fleeing, you look at this section, if you meet a monster and flee in a hurry, then it is impossible for the wood to burn only to such a shallow outer layer and extinguish, this is soaked in white wood, even if the snow falls, it should burn to the position of the wood core. ”

Parker hugged his clothes and muttered with some dissatisfaction: "Why did they leave before we arrived, and even more hateful was to tear down the tent, is this to make us freeze to death?"

"You won't freeze to death, we have our own tent in our package, it just takes some effort to set it up. Oliver took out the snow and rubbed it into water, washing off the charcoal marks on his hands, "But it's not yet time to set up camp, and we'll have to find out where the previous team has gone." ”

The team did not disperse, there were only twelve people, and it was tantamount to killing themselves to find it, and under the leadership of Lloyd, the team groped around the dense forest along the flocks of sylvestris trees.

"Village?"

The dense sylvestris forest suddenly disappeared, and several scattered huts appeared in front of me, connected by a flat road, like a village in the forest.

This is a very unreasonable thing, this dense forest is very close to the stone fort, even if the forest itself is relatively large, if there are small villages in the forest that live in the forest, they must contact the surrounding villages to exchange necessities, but they have never heard of the establishment of villages in the dense forest.

"That's not right!" Hodge frowned, reached out to stop the team members behind him, and said, "Retreat first......"

What he wanted to say was to quit first, but the sweet smell floating in the air made him stop talking, the taste was similar to the taste of gardenia nectar, but there were some differences, there was more unpleasant fishiness in the sweetness, something like-

He suddenly couldn't remember, and even forgot what he hadn't finished speaking.

"Did you just say that?" asked Oliver, turning his head.

Hodge looked down and recalled, "Did I say anything?" He felt a little headache and tapped his head, "I can't remember, I should just say casually, there is nothing unusual around here, why the hell am I talking?"

Marjery put his arms around his neck and laughed, "You are so busy that you are dizzy, you should take some medicine that you boiled yourself to wake up your mind, preferably the one you fed me the day before yesterday, hey—not to mention how bitter it is." ”

"Roll the edges. Hodge scolded, shoving Marjery to the side, "I won't use constipation medicine to wake me up until I'm crazy." ”

The team burst into laughter and joked about Marjry.

"Alright, let's go check in first, maybe the enthusiastic villagers will entertain the guests with a hot meal. Lloyd proposed, waving his arm.

No one else made an opinion, and all the members, including Hodge, agreed with this approach, since there were ready-made huts, what reason was there to go out into the wild and squeeze into the cramped space of the tent?

As for the appearance of an unknown village in the dense forest.

What's so strange about this, it couldn't be more normal.

......

The first impression of entering the village is that it is spacious, and there are hardly any particularly tall camphor trees nearby, except for extremely thick wooden stakes and a row of small camphor trees that must have only grown for a few years.

"Anyone?"

They knocked on all the houses in the village one by one, and there was no response, and no white smoke came out of the chimneys of the houses.

"It's weird. Lloyd tried to push the door, but the wooden door of the house was not locked from the inside, but simply stuck in the door frame and easily pushed open.

When the team members walked into the house, their faces gradually lost their color when they saw the scene in front of them.

"I'll go over there and have a look. ”

"I'll go to the opposite room. ”

"I'll go to the biggest one. ”

The twelve scattered and pushed every hut in the village open, and sure enough, it was unlocked, and the scene inside was exactly the same as the original one.

"We're late. Lloyd's face turned gloomy and he clenched his fists, "I should have come earlier." ”

The houses in the village were full of the corpses of the villagers, as well as hoes and pitchforks that had fallen on the ground, and large patches of blood covered the floor of the houses, and finally a mutant wolf was finally found in the village's grain warehouse.

Apparently the village has been slaughtered clean by the rampaging mutants.

"Uh......h Woo......"

Oliver's ears twitched, "Did you hear that?" ”

He listened more closely, pointing to a place on the north side of the village: "It's coming from that direction." ”

The crowd ran to the source of the sound, and behind the thick bushes, the ragged girl was holding her legs that had broken her knees and whimpering quietly.

"It's a survivor. Oliver said as he unfastened his cloak and placed it on the girl's thin body.